The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 December 1912 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journal y GEO. O. SNYDER, Publisher. Syracuse, ' - - - ZndianA A SEETHING HELL” SAYS GOVERNOR DONAGHEY OF THE ARKANSAS PRISON. PARDONS FOR 316 CONVICTS Sharp Criticism of the Governor's Action From State Officials and Citizens Brings Forth the StatementOther News of the Day. Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 21. —Characterizing the Arkansas penitentiary “under the lease system as a burning, seething hell, consuming human beings” whocare “being fed into it in a manner, which results in nothing but making fortunes for contratcors,” Governor George W. Donaghey issued a statement in defense of his action last Monday in issuing pardons to 316 state convicts. Sharp criticism of the governor’s action from state officials and citizens previously had, drawn from the executive the statement-that “all those who oppose the abolishment of the inhuman, convict system, which we now have in Arkansas, are, in my opinion, bound in the direction of that place spoken of by Governor Blease in connection with the constitution and it is my belief they are going to land there in spite of every effort of mine to prevent them doing so." Again the governor was sharply assailed, and his statement of yesterday followed. According to a newspaper complication, nased on the state records, 43 of 'hose pardoned by Governor Donaghey I were convicted of murder or man- j slaughter, 111 grand larceny, four as- | sault, five robbery, nineteen forgery, ' thirty-two burglary, twenty-six assault j to kill and seventy-six crimes, ranging from hog stealing to bigamy. Food Rotted: the Poor Starved, Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 21. —The committee on food supply of the Pittsburg chamber of commerce has started an investigation into the high cost of I living as a result of information received to the effect that train loads of vegetables have rotted in local produce 0 yards. A week ago 125 car loads of cabbage reached the Pittsburg produce market. The wholesale price rapidly tumbled and finally car loads, were offered for the freight charges, -amounting to SB. Cabbage. was sold wholesale for $1 a.wagon load and the allowed to pile the wagon as , I high as he could. Notwithstanding | jbut six car loads were sold and the I balance lotted. Gen. Sickles Fails to Make Good. Albany, N, Y., Dec. 21. —Although j General Daniel R. Sickles, of New I York, was given until yesterday to I make an accounting to the state for | funds amounting to about $28,000 paid him as. chairman of the New York State Monuments Commission, no word has been received from him by ; Attorney General Carmody or State . Comptroller Sohmer. No Vouchers j for the money have been filed and ’ Mr. Carmody says he will now look to I the members of the commission to ; restore the amount to the state treas- ; ury. He has so informed the com- I missioners. t Mrs. Gunness Lives? Laporte, Ind., Dee. 18. —The story ; that Mrs. Belle Gunness, on whose j farm the bodies of thirteen persons i believed to have been murdered, were found, did not die in the fire which destroyed her home early in 1908, was revived yesterday. Charles Meyers, alias Reed, a paroled convict from the Michigan City state prison, said that Ray Lamphere, now dead, who was a prison mate of his and who was convicted of burning the Gunness residence, told him Mrs. Gunness escaped in an automobile, which headed for Chicago, and carried a tin box filled vlth money. But One Blackmailer Held. Newark, N. J„ Dec. 19. —Jacop Dunn done of the three mountaineers •barged with having sent threatening etters to President-elect Wilson was veld for the grand jury at the concluiion of his preliminary hearing. Heely □avenport was discharged and Dunn’s ' jail was reduced from $2,000 to ’I,OOO. Distillers Suspend Dividend. New York, Dec. 21.—Directors of the Distillery Securtities Corporation decided to defer action on the quaYterly dividend of one-half of one per cent. -The corporation has been paying an annual dividend of 2 per cent since 1908. & .3 Greeks Use Airships. Athens, Dec. 19- —A violent cannonade occurred between the Greks attacking and the Turks defending Bizani fort. A Greek rviator flew over Bizani and Janina. The Turkish fire slightly damaged bls planes and he replied by dropping bombs. Aged Indian Woman Dead. Bay City, Ore., Dec. 21.—Mrs. Maggie Adains, widow of the famous Indian Chief Adams, is dead at Garribaldi. She was reputed to be 113 .. years old. Soldier a Suicide. Leavenworth, Kas., Dec. 20. —Serge nt B. T. Cox, company L, Seventh Infantry, IT. s. A., committed suicide here by shooting himself with an army rifle. He had served fourteen years In the army. His relatives live at Maysville. Ky.

"CMNDT COO MONET’-MORMH New York Financier Io Impossible.. BARES STORY OF BILLIONS Declares All Banks In Christendom Would Not Have Power to Control This Nation’s Finances. Washington, Dec. 21. —Modestly disclaiming any control of any American industry or any desire to control anything whatever, J. Pierpont Morgan on Thursday made the most illuminating public declarations regarding 1 himself and his enormous business enterprises that have come from him in the course of his long career. He occuped the witness chair at the money trust investigation for nearly four hours. Morgan denied the possibility of a money trust. "There could be no money trust.” he said. "All the banks and all the money in Christendom could not control money. The question of control is personal as to money and credits.” Does Not “Feel Vast Power.” The big financier was led up to his answer by the questioning of ; Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the i committee, who asked jir. Morgan if i "he did not feel his'vast power.” Mr. Morgan answered that he did not admit he had vast power and did not feel it. Mr. Morgan said he did not believe there was any great combination among bankers in the United States. “Do you know of any railroad financed independently in recent years?” asked Mr. Untermyer. Mr. Morgan said he did not know of any, but did not think that either the domination of railroads by bankers or the unity of interest of bankers had anything to do with it. “Don't you and other bankers control the Reading road?” asked Mr. Untermyer. “No, sir; if we do I don’t know It,” said Mr. Morgan. “You don’t think you have any power in any line of industry in this country?” “No. I do not,” said Mr. Morgan. Mr. Morgan testified that he bought control of the Equitable Life Assurance society from "Mr. Ryan and Mr. Harriman.” He secured, he said, about $51,000 worth of stock for which he paid about $3,000,000. “The company pays seven per cent, dividends?” “Yes.” ’ “That is about one-eighth or oneninth of one per cent, on the investment?” “Yes.” Mr. Untermyer wanted to know if James Stillman and George F. Baker were interested in the purchase of the Equitable. Mr. Morgan conferred with his counsel about answering that question, and finally said Mr. Baker and Mr. Stillman had agreed to take one-half of the investment off his hands if at any time he wanted them to. Mr. Untermyer insisted on knowing why Mr. Morgan had thought it good business to buy the Equitable stock at a price that paid only oneninth of one per cent, interest. "I think it should be turned over--that is, the stock-.—to the policy holders,” he said. “That has always been my idea.” "You mean sell it to the policy holders for $3,000,000?” "For just the price I paid for it.” “Then I don’t understand why you bought the stock.” "Only because I thought it was '.he thing to do.” “I am ready to stand before the community on that,” he declared. Mr. Morgan testified that he had approved the prices at which the subsidiaries of the United States Steel corporation were taken into the big corporation and had passed on the board of directors. “Can’t you give the committee a statement of the deposits of your banking firm in New York, as of November 1?” asked Mr. Untermyer. Mr. Morgan approximated it at about $100,000,000. OPPOSE COMPENSATION BILL. Railway Workers’ Nonpartisan Association Sends Protest Petition. Washington, Dec. 20. —A petition bearing 25,000 signatures in protest against the passage by the house of the so-called Brantley workmen’s compensation bill, will be presented to that body after the holidays, according to W. J. Pinkerton of Blue Island, 111., national chairman of the Railway Workers’ Nonpartisan association. The measure passed the senate at the last session of congress, and the Railway Workers’ Nonpartisan association was formed afterward to oppose the enactment offfne bill into a law. House Adjourns to January 2. Washington, Dec. 21. —The house adjourned for the Christmas holiday recess until January 2 without receiving President Taft’s message Thursday. The message was sent also to the senate, which remained in session. Police Kill a Slayer. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 21.—Adam J, Roehler, who killed his wife here Wednesday, held a squad of 50 policemen and detectives at bay for eight hours Thursday before he was shot and killed by the officers. Aged Man Dies of Fright. Wabash, Ind., Dec. 20.—Bert Jackson, aged eighty-five, an inmate of/JJ“ county infirmary here, died Wedn OS . day from fright due to the sud^ en death of two other inmates. J&tkson had a mortal fear of a corps&A $6,000 ip Bills Dec. #M_when secret men arrive(^ ere Wednesday, it bsame knOW jF that 56.000 in bills the subtreasury in NjMK’’ork to a X an k jn Marietta, O. h*?' <

WALTER F. FREAR Wilt? " & Walter F. Frear, ■'"governor of Hawaii, haa been* reappointed by Preaident Taft. Charges made against him by the Hawaiian delegate In congress fell through on Investigation by Secretary Fisher. HEARST TELLS SENATE BODY WHERE HE GOT LETTERS Publisher Testifies He Procured Photographs of Originals From John Eddy of London. Washington, Dec. 19.—William Randolph Hearst on Tuesday told the Clapp investigating committee all he knew of the famous Standard Oil letters made public by him in his speeches in the campaign of 1908. Mr. Hearst produced all the unpublished letters that came within the scope of the senate resolution directing the committee to investigate the matter of campaign expenditures. He brought with him the published letters, but these, with one exception, he was not asked to produce. Chairman Clapp asked Mr. Hearst if he ever saw the originals of the letters published in his magazine. He said he was not certain, but he believed he had only seen the photographic facsimile copies, “Os whom did you get them?" asked Senator Clapp. After members of the committee had insisted upon the information, Mr. Hearst responded that he got the copies of John Eddy of London, author of four of the articles published in a magazine. He testified he did not know of whom Eddy procured the letters. "Mr. Hearst said Tuesday that he did not know ’ how the letters were procured,” declared the former senator. “Such a preposterous story as that you might tell to the marines, but to no one else.” A statement prepared by Gilchrist Stewart, describing how W. W. Winkfield and Charles Stump took the “John Archbold letters” from the office of the Standard Oil company and sold them for $34,000 to a representative of William Randolph Hearst, was submitted to the senate campaign expenditures investigating committee on Wednesday by former Senator Joseph B. Foraker. TAFT TO BE PROFESSOR. President Will Take Yale Law Chair Probably in Spring. Washington, Dec. 20.—1 t was stated here that President Taft had accepted the Kent professorship of law at Yale and will probably assume the chair next spring. The president, it is understood, will not be restricted to lectures at Yale, but will be permitted to lecture in other law schools or on the platform, or to engage in any other occupation he may desire. The president, in accepting the chair at Yale, thus sets aside the idea that has prevailed for some time that he would practice law. WOMAN JURY CONVICTS MAN. All Members of Body Workers in Suffrage Cause. Clay Center, Kan., Dec. 21. —Clay county’s first woman jury served in Justice Guy R. Martin’s court. They found a Mexican laborer, who had been caught with a number of pairs of stolen shoes, guilty of receiving stolen goods. The courtroom strongly resembled a woman’s club quarters when the case was called. The jurors were all prominent workers in. the woman’s suffrage cause. Suffrage Defeated in Michigan. Lansing, Mich., Dec. 21.—Equal suffrage was defeated in Michigan by a majority of 760. That is the result of the canvass made by the state board of canvassers. The vote was 247,375 for, and 248,135 against. Find Man With Head Blown Off. Mason City. la., Dec. 21. —Irvin Huckins was found dead by the side of the road four miles northwest of here Thursday, with the back of his head blown off and a shotgun with empty shell near him. German Baron Killed. A&priin Dec. 20.—Baron Von Zuylen Va n iiy v ®lt was killed in an automobile accident - a near Antwerp Wednesiay- With the baron were Baron Gwhnet, Mile. Debassomplerre and a MijßWoods. All were injured. —— l 1 — Two Found Dead. Colombia. Mo., Dec. 20.—Mrs. Georg*: Moore, sixty-one years old, and ter mother, Mrs. Mary J. Wilson,; eighty-two years old, were found dead in tjieir home here Wednesday, their heafs f"”’ b ”d with an ax. 1 ’ /

PRESIDENT sends IN THIRD MESSAGE Asks Cabinet Members Be Given Seats in Senate. WANTS LAND LAWS REVISED Reviews Work of Post Office, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor Departments and District of Columbia. Washington, Dec. 21. —Work in the post office, interior and commerce and j labor departments and affairs in the District of Columbia were reviewed in a special message, the third since the j short session of congress began, was submitted to the two houses on Thursday by President Taft. Transcending in interest what the president has to say about the work of the departments mentioned, is his direct recommendation in a sort of preface to his message that heads of departments should be given seats on ! the floor of congress. On this matter the president says: i “I recommend the adoption of legislation which shall make it the duty of i heads of departments, the members of i the president’s cabinet, at convenient ■ times to attend the sessions of the house and the senate, which shall ; provide seats for them in each house, and give them the opportunity to take ! part in all discussions and to answer questions of which they have had due Notice. The rigid holding apart of the executive and the legislative i branches of this government has not ! worked for the great advantage of ; either. There has been much lost ' motion in the machinery due to the ! lack of co-operation and interchange of views face to face between the representatives of the executive and the members of the two legislative branches of the government.” In the departmental section of his message President Taft speaks of the recent placing of 36,000 postmasters on a civil service basis and says that nothing could be further from the truth than the charge that the change was made for political purposes. The president recommends revision of the land laws so that the interior department can work to the ends of proper conservation of the natural resources of the country. In discussing the Sherman anti-trust law in connection with the department of commerce and labor, he says: “The trust question in the enforcement of the Sherman anti-trust law is gradually solving itself, is maintaining the principle and restoring the practice of competition, and if the law Is quietly but firmly enforced, business will adjust itself to the statutory requirements, and unrest in commercial circles provoked by the trust discussion will disappear.” In writing of the work of the agricultural the . president discusses "agricultural credits.” He say«: “The secretary of agriculture has made an investigation into the matter of credits in this country, and I commend a consideration of the information which through his agents he has been able to collect. It does not in any way minimize the importance of the proposal, but it gives more accurate information upon some of the phases of the question than we have heretofore had.” BOMC EVIDENCE IS ALL IN. Argument in the “Dynamite Corik spiracy” Cases Is Begun. / Indianapolis Dec. 19. —Both sides in the “dynamite conspiracy” cases have closed so far as the taking of evidence is concerned, and counsel for the government began their argument on Wednesday and will close after the defense has finished Its addresses to the jury. Four days ar allowed for each side for argument. The preliminary motions for dismissal of all defendants followed and Chester Krum, of counsel for the defense, made a motion that the government be made to elect on what charges the case against the two defendants he represented should'go to the jury. Judge Albert B. Anderson took the motion under advisement to report during the argument. Olaf ’A. Tveitmoe, the San Francisco labor leader, was charged with being the man who directed the Los Angeles Times explosion by Special District Attorney James W. Noel in his in the “dynamite conspiracy” case before Judge Anderson, In the federal court here on Wednesday. Pardons Slocum’s Captain. Washington, Dec. 21. —The president granted a pardon to Capt. William H. Van Schaick, who commanded the steamboat General Slocum, which burned in 1904 in East river, off NewYork city, resulting in the loss of 1,030 lives, mostly women and children. The pardon became effective Christmas day. Van Schaick has been out of prison on parole for some time. Taft Frees Moonshiner. Washington, Dec. 21.—President Taft on Thursday pardoned Henry Nelson of Owensboro, Ky., recently sentenced to the penitentiary for moonshine distilling in the mountains of Kentucky. Inmate of Poorhouse Is Rich. Middletown, N. Y., Dec. 21.—Word believed by the authorities to be authentic came to Charles Drake, an inmate of the county poorhouse, Thursflay, that he is heir to half a million dollars. Fifty Die in Chinese Fight. Amoy, China, Dec. 19.—Fifty persons were killed in severe fighting among the clans composing the population of this city Tuesday. Government troops were .called out, but only partially restored order. J — Indict Little Palls Strike Leaders. Little Falls, N. Y., Dec. 19.—The grand jury at Herkimer returned indictments Tuesday against several Little Falls strikb leaders arrested in the riot here October 30, when two police officers wero shot

JESSE C. ADKINS I Mr. Adkins Is the attorney of the | United States department of justice i who has charge of the inquiry into the alleged illegal traffic agreement between the Grand Trunk and the New Haven railroad companies. i WILSON WARNS AGAINST A PANIC OF RETRIBUTION G-vernor Promises Gibbet of Disgrace to Any Man Starting Trouble in Business Interests. New York, Dec. 19. —In a speech at the banquet of the Southern Society on Tuesday at New York. Presidentelect Wilson held up a warning finger to any man who might deliberately start a panic in the United States in order to show that intended legislative policies were wrong. The president-elect was talking about reports that had reached his ears that his assumption of the office of president would disturb the business of the country and cause a panic. "A panic,” he continued, "according to the authorities, is a condition of the mind. As a matter of fact there is just as much money the day after as there was ,the day before. There is another kind of panic tjiat is precipitated by unfriendly interests. “If any man undertakes to precipitate a panic I promise him a gibbet as high as Hamen. I don’t mean a literal gibbet, because there would be no pain after it were applied, but I will put upon him a mark that will be felt as long as there are members of his family surviving.” Governor Wilson urged his hearers io forget they ever were partisans, declaring that if they did not go away i purposing to put more force into the best , things in the nation they had wasted their evening. MEXICO IS WARNED BY TAFT. Taft Sends Ultimatum to MaderoUnited States Ready for Invasion. Washington, Dec. 21. —Occupation of Mexico by the United States is a possibility, and oven a probability. Stirred by the defiant and evasive attitude of President Madero toward demands by the United States, that Mexican murderers of Americans be punished and that indemnity be given for the loss of American lite and property, President Taft, before starting' for Panama on Thursday, sent an Ultimatum to Madero under which he must act or suffer- the downfall of his government. / The crisis with Mexico has come at the end of a long series of diplomatic exchanges between this government and Mexico which taxed the patience of President Taft and Secretary of State Knox. The conclusion has been reached that the Madero government is hopelessly impotent and the time has come when the United States must cease temporizing with the situation. BODIES OF AIRMEN FOUND. Remains of Kearney and Lawrence Taken From Ocean Near Redondo. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 21. —The mystery surrounding the fate of Aviator Horace Kearney and his companion, Chester Lawrence, a young Los Angeles newpaper man, who started last Saturday in the hydroplane "Snookums” on an over-ocean journe.from Newport bay to San Francisco, was solved when the bodies of the unfortunate voyagers were recovered from the ocean. The body so Lawrence was tossed up by the sea near Point of Rocks, nine miles south of Rodondo. Kearney’s body was taken from the water at Rodondo. The remainder of the wreckage of the “Snookums” has not been found. Dr. Drachman to Be Honored. London, Dec. 20.—The Jewish World bays that in all probability Dr. Bernard Drachman of New York will be invited to become chief rabbi of the British empire. Goethals to Accept Post. Washington, Dec. 20.—President Taft received assurances Wednesday that Col. George Goethals, builder of the Panama canal, will accept the post of governor of the Panama canal zone. — Coal Mine Blast Kills Thirty-One. Dortmund, Germany, Dec. 20. — ty-one coal miners were killed by an explosion of black damp in the Achenbach mine Wednesday. Six bodies have been recovered and twenty-five miners are still missing. Katsura in as Premier. Tokyo, Dec. 19. —The emperor of Japan issued a rescript Tuesday ordering Prince Taro Katsura to form a cabinet to take the place of the ministry under the Marquis Saionji, which resigned on December 4. Starved Himself to Death. Wabash, Ind., Dec. 19. —After having steadfastly refused to eat or drink for ten days, William Colbert, aged fifty and blind, died a.c his home here Tuesday, having starved himself to death. z

FOR ETHEL’S LOVE Lover Dreams He Killed Rival and Surrenders to Marshal. By LOUISE PARKS BELL. Bailey banged the door behind him ! viciously, and slung his hat into the I farthest corner of the room. Up and i down the narrow floor he paced nervi ausly. his mind going over and over ! the irritating events of the evening. I It was a sultry night in mid-August, ’ and when he had lounged down to the ; saloon on the corner he had been in Ino pleasant frame of mind. It had ' been a long day, and tha« whole heat of the town had seemed Concentrated in the tiny- dry goods store. All the most tiresome and exacting customers in the county had come in. it seemed j to Bailey; a never ending stream of fretful women, worn out by the beat- ! ing rays of the sun. Supper had not been an enjoyable meal; Mrs. Wilson’s baby had cried ; ill the time, the flies had buzzed more ■ persistently than ever, and never had ; food looked more uninviting. A dense pall of suffocating heat hung over the • town as Bailey drifted to the bar. He was not a drinking man erdinar ily, but Ethel was out of town, and , he felt a restless craving for compan- , ionship. Os course he drank too much; at the time it seemed to be I the only way of cooling off. It failed i if its effect, however, and before he knew it he and Calvert were engaged i in a bitter quarrel. The original cause j was trifling, but it was soon lost sight i jf, and the long-smoldering enmity bes tween the two suitors for the same i girl broke forth unrestrained. Calvert’s final taunt was fresh in his aars as he paced tlie flcor, that sutble assurance of success and peer at his pretensions. Bailey clenched his fists again, impotent hatred raged within him, and his thoughts were black. Presently he calmed down a little.; i and the eJose atmosphere began to op/ ; press him. He undressed languidly. Ilnging his clothes here and there. ; md breathing heavily. He went put j in the hall when he had donned his I pajamas and brought in a pitcluy.’ of water, which he put down on the jiable beside his bed. He poured som/e out tn a glass and took a sip, grirhacing at its tepid taste. Setting it dpwn, he lay down on the bed and 'tried to sleep. The heat-laden air pressed down on him, he turned restlessly from one side to the other, vainly seeking comfort. After an Interminable time he fell asleep, an uneasy, broken slumber that was words’ than wakefulness. At last he gave up the attempt to rest, and got up to see if it was cooler by the window He stood there for a few seconds, breathing the same suffocating a-ir. Not a leaf stirred anywhere, t-fi® very moon loomed red and mot 10-w in the sk YFootsteps sounded down the deserted street. Bailey leaned out to see who the nocturnal wanderer could ; be. WRtr a start 'he recognized Cal'Vert, Calvert jauntily, whistling the wedding march con fldeJHlyThat\ was the final straw. All the pent-up the evening rushed to the ' almost Involuntarily BaiW opened his door and stealthily crept down the stairs. The : front door stood ajar, only the screen was hooked Hurriedly he unfastened i that, and hastened up the street after the unconscious Calvert. As he went his n.ind was busy, j Calvert lived on the other side of the river, and would have to cross the rickety old bridge that spanned it. If he went fast he could overtake him there, and it would look like, an acci dent. Bailey quickened his pace until he was almost running. His victim never turned his head, but went on wh.stling to his doom. < At the bridge Bailey was but a step or two behind. In the middle of the bridge he made up that distance, and dealt Calvert a crashing blow behind the ear. He dropped like a log. a Bailey looked all around cautiously. The moon had gone behind a cloud, and the placid little village lay on the river bank undisturbed. Not a sound broke the silence, not a murmur attested that his crime had been witnessed. He had to force himself to touch that limp figure lying there so still, but the fear that the moon might come out made him hurry. He gathered it up gingerly, gnd with a mighty effort flung It over\the railing. With a splash tlfip body disappeared, and as it sank the moon came out three times brighter than before. Bailey leaned on the rail and watched the ripples, sick at heart. He knew Calvert could not swim, and even if he recovered from his swoon at once he could not make his way to the shore. Yet somehow that knowledge did not cheer Bailey. He shuddered as he stared at the ripples, slowly dying away. His thoughts drifted into a new; channel. How would Ethel take the news, ho wondered. A sudden pang smote his heart. He had pretended to love her —and yet, if she had cared for Calvert he had destroyed her future happiness. And if Calvert’s words had not been true he had ruined his own chances. He could not go to her with his hands stained crimson with human blood. Realization of what he had done swept over hirn like a flood. Suppose Calvert had lied —and it was possible —why had he not questioned Ethel, instead of letting his passions rule him? His love seemed a selfish and unholy thing He clung to the railing, half determined to end it all, to sink to rest beside his victim. Somewhere within him a nobler , feeling stirred. Since he had done this thing he were a coward to shirk tho consequences, he must bear his punishment. He would go and give himself up to the law. His decision made, he cast one parting glance at the river beneath him. lying calm and motionless in the clear moonlight. With steady steps he pursued his way to the home of the town marshal, in whose portly person was embodied tjie majesty of the village law. He rang the bell with a determined

hand, and as its deep tones died away a fluttering night-shirt appeared ir the door. “Well, what is it?” boomed cut the I massive figure adding in a lower rum- ! ble, “It's a good thing it's so hot 1 ! can’t sleep, with people coming this time of night.” Bailey felt a sense of something strange creeping over him. He had to make a mighty effort to recall his purpose in coming hither. But after a moment his memory and resolution returned, and he spoke clearly and firmly. "I have come,” he announced, "to give myself up for the murder of Roy Calvert.” "Well, I’ll be dinged!" ejaculated the marshal. “Well, I’ll be dinged! He sat weakly down on the door step. “It’s Tom Bailey, as I live," he murmured huskily. Then he turned his head and called, “Wes, you and Roy come down here right away.’’ Bailey brushed aside these inter- o ruptions. "I’m ready to go to jail.” he declared. The marshal rose and surveyed hiri from head to toe. “Heat, I guess,” he remarked, slowly shaking his head. “Light, the lamp in there,” he directed to some oue in the hall. The light flared up brightly. ' Bailey gasped. Standing beside the table, arrayed in brilliant Wesley Stevens, the marshal’s' son —and behind him was Roy Calvert! He knew it could not be true, and strove to tear Ips fascinated gaze from the hallucination. The elder Stevens spoke. "It’s lucky you stayed here with Wes tonight, Roy,” he rumbled, "otj I'd have been Socking Tom up. He says he’s murdered you.” The specter broke into strangely human laughter. “It must be the heat,” it declared in earthly tones, “or else —Tom. what xre you carrying in your left hand?” For the first time Bailey realized thiat he held something. He looked >down. In his left hand he was carrying a glass of water, full to the brim. "Wh —what!” he gasped. “You’ve been dreaming, old fellow!’’ cried Calvert, coming forward and clapping Bailey on the shoulder with a force that dispelled all doubts as to his reality, “and you walked down here in your sleep, carrying that water. Don’t you remember, Wes, how he used to walk in his sleep when we were kids, and carry anything that was by his bed along with him?” Wes corroborated this with an emphatic nod. “I was teasing you down at Moore’s tonight,” continued Calvert, “and I guess I went a little too far. This heat has made us all bughcuse. So that and the heat made you dream you killed me.” “Yes, the heat,” echoed Bailey, not quite recovered from the shock of his awakening. “Well, go on homo and get soma sleep now,” said the marshal. “You can sleep now —see, it’s beginning to rain. This hot spell’s over.” Office That Nobody Wanted. Viscount Haldane, the , lord chan- i cellor, has just told how he came to be * appointed British minister of war, an I office he held till recently. When the late Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was forming his ministry nearly seven years ago he suggested one or two offices to Lord Haldane. “I replied,” Lord Haldane continued: ‘“There is another office I should like. I do not know much about it, but it is full of most fascinating problems.’ “Sir Henry asked: ‘What is that?’ I answered: ’The war office. Is it full?’ “Sir Henry exclaimed: ‘Full? No one will touch it with a pole? “I went to the war office, and really had a very easy time there. I found a number of young generals, with minds full of our shortcomings because they had come fresh from South Africa with its evidence of unpreparedness. We all sat down to think together, and that was how the imperial general staff grew up? London’s Viiater Supply. The eighth annual report of the metropolitan water board states that the total amount of water supplied by that body during the year ended March 31, 1911» was 82,170,000,900 gallons, representing a weight of 366,800,000 tons and a daily average of 225,000,000 gallons. The total volume of water abstracted from the Thames was 49,962.000,000 gallons, the remainder being obtained from the Lea and from gravel beds, natural springs and wells. The supply from the last named source amounted to 14,484,000,000 gallons. The month In which most water was supplied was June, the difference between the daily average of that month and that for January being 35,000,000 gallons, or five gallons per head of the estimated population of the board’s area, which is 7,099,871. The average dally supply per head throughout the year was 31.57 gallons, a decrease from 1131.98 gallons in 1909-10. —London Globe. Every One Knew It. The newly married pair had escaped from theiri".demonstrative friends and were on the way to the depot when the carriage stopped. The bridegroom looked out of the window impatiently. ““What’s the matter, driver?” he called. "The horse has thrown a shoe sir,” was the reply. “Great Scott!” groaned the bride groom; “even the horse knows we’re just married.” —Ladies’ Home Journal Tractable. “How did you break that boy of his practice of breaking windows?” “Easily. I told him nobody did such things except little who were learning to be milifshiKsuffiragettes.” Stopped Barking. Bacon—Did you hear my dog was dead? Egbert —No, I hadn t heard anything from him for two days, so I sup. posed that he was dead." First One. j {e __And are you quite sure, dear, my arm is the very first to go about waist? J ghe—oh, yes, George; I never wore this waist before in my life!”