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CHAPTER XIU Continued —tilt was her assurances that quieted him. She had known from the first he would tell as she hud; known from the first he had done it. He relaxed and sank back. his eyes closing. ami the doctor motioned them to go. Flora followed them to the door and held • hem there a moment to repeat what ■he had said —as if. like him. wanting to.rid her mind of ail its secret agony It wasn't surmise; she hs., seen him. When she had turned from the water after her attempt to catch the body . site had hai a ciear view of him stealing through the pine brood, moving noiselessly and watching the house. “He never knew It/ she said. “That nlg\ t when you. .Mr. Williams, nearly caugnt me oh the s'airs. I was going to see him; say ! knew what he'd done ■nd that I’d help him and He for him and stand by him. Oh. yes -I don’t -care what I tell now. He was my husband. I'd loved him and he'd been cursed —cqrsed and destroyed.” The men closed the door softly a* upon the dead. What they had heard and left behind them had taken the zest from |their accomplishment and In the glow, of the hall lights their face* looked drawn and hollowed with fatigue. Rawson drew out hlj< watch — half past two. The best thing they eould do was to get a little sleep, end sivppiug gvii'iy. .1- to-fitted a place where so dark a do<in had fallen, he and liVil’uu.is i . into the library. Sleep was far from Bassett. He would like to have seen Anne, but it would -bare been Inhuman to rouse iter, and he went toward the living room where he could think iu quiet. He dropped into a chair, his breath expelled with a groaning note, then heard Anne’s voke item the gallery •Oov e: [ “I've been waiting for you. May 1 come <h>«u?” There she was, dressed, leaning ■gainst the railing. “Come!,” he beckoned, his heart expanding. his depression lightened, and .** she disappeared be pulled up a chair for her. She came in. softfooted across the rugs, with the whispering words: “1 couldn't rest till I’d seen you and ■eard. He's told?*' “Everything." They sat. facing each other, close together. “It’s solved and ended—the Hull Island murder." “Is It all right for you to teil me?" It was ail right and he told her. “So, *s it turns out. Anne dearest, •>! that misery you and 1 went through was unnecessary." "Yes.*' she’ said slowly. “It wasn’t Jive, he Wasn't in it at all. But I don’t understand. I've been sitting In toy room while you were with Stokes thinking about it and 1 can’t make' It out. Hugh"—site leaned forward and rested her hand on his knee, dropping her voice though no one was there to hear—“this Is what 1 can’t explain—who did I see in here last night?** Bassett's answer was prompt, delivered in the brisk tone of common •ense: "I can. It's very simple. You didn't •ee anybody." “You think 1 imagined It?" “1 know you did. Just consider: You were in a wrought-up condition, you expected to see him. came down for that purpoae. The room was almost dark, quiet durk under the gallery where you say he came from. After what you'd gone through—first a murder, then a suspicion that would have undermined the strongest nerves —you were to a state to see anything." She continued to stare at the light, her face set in troubled thought "1 suppose tint could be." “Why, Aune dear. It must have been. It could have happened to anyone. And there'* another point—ls it had own Joe. wouldn't he have spoken to you. one question even to find out wluH was going on. what we were do tag?'’ ‘ Yes. yes. I’ve thought of that It didn't occur to.me at the time. But he would have said something.” “Os course he would. You never saw anything more substantial than u •hadow lu the moonlight” She was silent for a moment then •aid: “Well, where Is Joe? What's he doing?” •Gone off on some business of his own. You were telliug the truth when yoi told Rawson and Williams that Joe's actions weren't always calculable. weren't you?” He saw her answering nod. “Well. he's evidently cbo«en the occasion of his leaving the Island to tight out in some new direction. You can’t tell what may have been In his head —a Joke on Jimmy Travers, on us. any sort of lark or tomfoolery. We’ll find it all out •oon.” “Come.” he said, rising and drawing her to her feet. There’s no good l»o*hvrlug al»out that any more. Leave It to me and when we've got through the rest of this horrible business I'll look around for him. And anyway. * hell see it in the papers, and If he wants to show up. he’ll do It himself wit bin the next few days. Now you must go to bed and let your poor tired brain .eat." Tiiey walked to the door and there be caagot her against his breast and looked Into her free: “Its ail over—that fighting and struggling alone, Anne. After this we’ll be together, as soon as we can get away from here and find a clergyukb io marry w. Taev kissed and parted, Bassett go-

Ing to his room—he could sleep now — and Aune faring slowly up the stairs to hers. CHAPTER XIV Anyone watching Gull Island from the shore would have seen the yellow shape of one bright window set like a small golden square in the darkness. The bright window was Anne's and over airainM it Anne sat on the side of the bed looking at the floor. She sat perfectly still, held in a staring concentration of thought, reviewilia: th* happenings of.the night. “* While Bassett had talked to her she had accepted his theory. His belief in It had been so absolute and it was so plausible. Os course a person In her state might have imagined anything. Ami as she dwelt on the sentence to (tersuade herself, the vision of the dim shadowy room rose before her with the figure coming toward her from the darkness of the gallery, moving spiritlike as an hallucination might move. But as the memory grew j£ Panic Had Ssixed Him and Hs Had Made a Rush From ths Plac*. in vividness the shape took form and solidity, the slim boy’s shape; She ■aw again its rapid advance, its sudden stoppage at her words, its tighl-ning-quh k turn ami soundless flight. The snap of the closing door eta me to her mind as a last confirmation and she knew it was no delusion. “I diil.” she said In a whisper, aud raised her eyes as If confronting a doubter with the truth. “I knew it— I did see somebody.” Somebody I The word struck her ear with a startling effect, an effect of discovery, of Impending disclosures. Her body shrank together as if in fear of them, her riveted glance grew fixed as a sleep-walkers. She lost all sense of heKeqrroundings» her entire being cttfitraetod; tu a point of inner activity. Befor* that intensified mental Ytafem a series of pictures passed like the aiMto in a magic lantern—Shine's jihotograph. the worn, wide-eyed face of Sybil: Joe playing Sebastian, his costume, his movements, a replica of Viola’s; the living room as they heard the sliot. dnsk falling outside; In the summer house—with Its shrouding vines*—ll would have been almost dark. Suddenly ■ recollection flashed up. clalrvoyantly distinct—Joe at the flat trying to make Hassett give him Hie part of Sebastian, imitating Sybil's o.ilk. TltatZpicture brought her to her

Only Way Little Gray Man Could Figure It

The big blue car. driven by the ble red man with the big black cigar, hurtled round the turn at a dizxy clip The little gray car was meanderinz along in the hands of the little gray man. who glanced around only In time to shrink from the menacing radiator and a great windshield sticker which bellowed genially: “Howdy: Half the road's yours I* Wildly he spun the wheel, but too late. With a neat, crunching “swish" the big blue car sliced off his rear w heel, mudguards and running boards. The poor remains floundered craxily to a dusty flop The little gray man crept forth, peering after the rapidly vanishing Juggernaut. Shading hi* eyes, he made out another cordial sticker which flaunted Its message of cheer from the shining rear window. This. too. beamed: “Howdy! Half the road's yours!" The little gray man pondered as he — "Overhead” Expenses Speaking In general terms, by overhead is meant those Items of general expense of a manufacturing plant (for instance) which are additional to the cost of the labor and material actually entering Into the production of the plant. For example, under overhead it i« usual to group salaries ot officials and clerical and other employees not directly concerned In producing. office expenses, all Indirect labor, traveling expenses of salesmen, interest, insurance, legal excuses, care of plant; depreciation also frequently U Included under such head.

feet, brought a snsothereti cry to he lips. The spots of light had Jofnen run together in a leaping iiluminattor On the bureau lay the key of Jo* trunk that she had brought from b*-s room after their last interview. SAe snatched it up and ran t;p the d»«r. out of it, along the gallery. In Jve - room she turned on the lljght and un locked his trunk. She wept throngh it to the bottom looking for* his Sebas tian costume. It was gonje. e»ery ap pointment of it She bad not needed tbp proof, she knew that she would not find it. that it was Joe. dressed th that costume. Stokes had killed. The rest of it—Sybil 'Alive, hiding somewhere! She saw th? gray dawn on the window —the night was over the house would soon be spiTing. She locked tfee trunk, turned off the light and stole out on the gallery. She did not go back to her room but kept on down the hall to the top floor staircase. Half way up she 1 beard from the floor above a sound.' so faint. s> furtive, that it would only have i»een audible in the dead dawn hush. She made a rush upward sending her voice. h>w-keye<l but passionately urgent, ahead of her: “Sybij. Sybil, if it’s yoib. wait. It's Anne, il’m coming to heljp you." The floor of the bedrpom opposite the stair-head was open. l Against the pale light of the window], poised with one hand resting on the raised sash, was a laiy’s figure—surely the figure she hafl seen in the living room tw< nights ’before. It was £o completely boyish, the cropped rotund head, tin knickertaa-kers aud belted jacket, that she cohid not yet be sure and went forward with slackened gait, peering aud murmuring fearfully: “Sybil, it is you?” The figure left the window, came nearer, silently, creepimgiy. with a hand raised for caution.! She saw the face then, pinched and haggard, strangely altered with the curling frame of hair clipped close, but sti Syidi's. It whs so extraordinary’—such a gulf of unknown happenings lay' between them--that at .first they said nothing Anne spoke first. “Jop,” she said. ’“K's Joe that’s dead.’] i “Yes. Do they know?” “They know nothing]; They think It wak you. It’s all over, Stokes has told. But. oh. what is it?. 1 can't un derstqnd—it's like a fearful dream.” The words "diet! away and a Middei violerit trembling shook, her. With th* joints] of her knees liike water she sank on the. side of thte bed, gripping the other with her shaking hands pulling her down tieside her. “Tell me, tell me.” she Implored. "Why Is he dead? W;hy did he pre tend he was you? What was he doing?"! They sat, clinging together, two small huddled figures in the gray light. Though the house bekiw was as silent As the tomb they sppke in subdue*! voices, question, answer, surmise Eacl} knew a different aspect of the story, brought her owfn knowledge of Joe'S motives and actions. In that whisi>ered exchange they pieced together the separate ]facts, combine*', them In coherent sequence and came to a tiual enlightenment. Joe had met his death in his last effort as a police spy. his last effort to get the Parkinson reward. Leaving his room to come down and make ready for his departure, he had heard the Voices of Stokes and Sybil in the living room. Sybil remembered Stokes’ upward look and question about someone moving in the gallery— Joe! creeping to concealment behind the arch. The nature of their conver satjon would have held him listeniug: here was his last opportunity to get the Information he sought. He had heard the rendezvous in the summer house, its open situation offered n< hiding place outside, but knowing that it would be almost dhrk inside, he had conceived the Idea of putting on biSebastian costume qnd impersonating Sybil. His room was next to Sybil’s. He bad heard her come upstairs aud fron his window could command the Point When Shine left it he had gone dowt. passed the balcony where Stokes was and hearing his folluwitu footsteps, moved with that close imi tat ion of Sybil’s gait to the summei house. There the dim light aud th* drooping curls of his wig enabled him to carry through the deception. Stakes' wild speech, followed by the drawing *.f the pistol, had torrefied him. Om fronted by a man armed aud half mad panic bad seized him and be had mad* a rush from the place. (TO BE CONTINUED.!

surveyed hb» machine. It looked like a busted birdcage. At length be nod ded. reassured. “I reckon.” he observed slowly, “that 1 was just on the wrong halt.”—Kan aas City Times. Nature Good Physician A Boston doctor, who has been .giving some suggestions to bls fellow doctors on the treatment of accidental wounds, says? the main thing to do . with a wound is to let nature do her best and not interfere too much artth her. Nature, he points out. says the Pathfinder Magazine, prevents Infection by various methods. Blood washes out the wound, carries away .a certain amount of the foreign matter, tnciud ing bacteria. The blood also contains certain “anti bodies.” which act as chemical antiseptics and kill bacteria. Nature, be claims, repairs wounds by bathing the injured tissues with serum which contains cell blood, and with white blood cells, which absorb and digest badly damaged tissue Business and Speculation While It may be true that the man who risks nothing gains nothing. It is also true that gain does Dot depend on risk alone. In all business there is an element of risk, but to business this element is smaller than it ts In specolatloiL—Grit. Cunning, at best, only dux the dirty work of wtedum; therefore I Iseplxe IL—Juah Billings. - ♦ w ‘ * • ■ -

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAE

Uncle Sam Gets Houdini’s Books

Handcuff Expert Spent For* tune Accumulating Noted Works on Legerdemain. Washington.—Enriched each year by the addition of 100,000 volumes, the Library of Congress now possesses, among other treasures, what is undoubtedly the greatest collection of books on magic ever assembled. It is the library of the celebrated magician and handcuff king, the late Harry Houdini, who gathered material from all corners of the earth, writes John J. Daly in the Chicago Tribune. “When I die,” said Harry Houdini to a newspaper man between performances in a vaudeville theater. “I shall leave behind me, as my proudest contribution to posterity, a collection of books on magic the like of which has never been seen before.” He did. He gave, in toto. some 5.147 books and pamphlets to the Congressional Library, some of them the rarest books on magic to be found anywhere. The lot cost Houdini a fortune. It took him the better part of a lifetime to accumulate. Close Student of Magic. Looked upon merely us an entertainer, Harry Houdini studied the art of magic as most men delve into their favorite subject, be it philosophy, psychology, medicine, or the law. He went as deep in legerdemain as any man who ever lived—and it is said'by those who should know that Harry Houdini had no master when he died; that he was the last word iu magicry. All told, he was master of more than 10.000 tricks—some of which he learned from the books now recorded in the Library of Congress, some of which he got first hand from men who never read a book—lndian magicians, and the like. The collection of b<M>ks on magic given the American public by Harry ikudini marks the first step in (lie development of a lore of this kind in the United States. Heretofore, any ore interested in the intricacies of un art that has come down from the time ; the Exodus had. prefone, to tiud out by practice; by apprenticeship toY* master. That, of course, tn a measure, must be the case tixlay;. but with the Houdini collection where it can be studied publicly, the road is made somewhat easier for those boys aud girls who would devote their lives to battling their fellows. Books of Famous Magicians. In Houdini’s collection, now being assorted and catalogued at the Library of Congress, are books on magic once owned by the two Steads, the Davenport Brothers, Heinberg, Harrigan. Hagan. Platt, Robinson, Alexander Herman, the Great, and a host of others whose names have become legion in legerdemain. Os books particularly devoted to magic there are in this collection 1,727. There is only one missing, a book on magic that has been lost to collectors for all time. It seems, since no trace of it eould be found even by Houdini in his world-wide search. This volume is the celebrated “Hocus Poeus Junior, the Anatomy of Legerdemain,” a treatise on the gentle art of conjury by Johann Baptista Porta, the famous Neopolitan magician v.lyj held forth in the Seventeenth cent/ry. Though “Hocus PoeusT is not in the list, there is another work by this same author that is worth its weight in gold. This is “Magia Naturalis,” a rare, clumsy volume In German text that contains a fantastical woodcut showing the original methods of securing magical aid. Porta began this book in 1658, after he had written the tost volume, “Hocus Poeus,” and therein be shows the first method ot producing The famous candle trick, by which many candles are lighted simultaneously—a baffler in the old days but now quite tame beside some of tlie more modern tricks. Describes Pristine Method. In an elaborate detail porta describes the pristine method. Linen thread was boiled in oil with brimstone and orpiment and. when dried, bound to the wicks of several candles. When one candle was lighte*! it ignited all the others, much to the mystification of spectators. ’’Magia Naturaiis.” incidentally, is one of the earliest works on conjury. Harry Houdini had a great time collecting these books. When he was not appearing ir a theater.- or accepting the challenge of some police tlepartu»nt to break from iron cells, and the like, he spent most of his time io the cities he visited searching shelves of old book shops. The Imprints on the fly leaves of the books show they come fem tar and wide, from almost every country tn the civilized world. Most of the books are in a rare state of preservation despite the fagt that some date back more than 200 years.

OLD ST. LOUIS MORGUE VACANT AFTER 50 YEARS

Tragedies In th« Mound City Are Recalled as Building la Being Razed. St Louis.—The old morgue, for more than a half a century St. Louis’ home of death, has been abandoned to Its ghost*. The last scene to thousands of tragedies, the old building has gone tbe inevitable way of the victims it housed. It will be razed to make way for a new $1,000,060 municipal service building. The morgue started its grewsome career to June. 1875, as one of a group of public buildings, housing courts an to * jail., St Louis was then a hardy river town where justice was rapid. One room to the morgue housed the gallows, an efficient arrangement The scaffold ha* long since been removed but many of the morgue's oldest

There is one. for Instance, published in 1692. This is the work of Simon Witgeest of Amsterdam, who wrote “Natuurlyk Tover-Boek oft Nieuw Speel-Toneel der Konsten,” a volume falling almost to dust on the shelves of the Library of-Congress; but one that contains a variety of information of interest to all students,of magic. Hauber's Works in Collection. Hauber, the German, published an extravagant treatise in three volumes under date of 1736. a book known as “Bibliotheca Magica.” and this finds a favored spot in the collection. Eighteen volumes from the j>en of Johann Christian Wiegleb, under the title “Naturliche Magie,” were published from 1789 to ISO 4 and these are intact ; probably the only complete set In this country. Houdini had quite a difficult lime annexing these. They constitute the first monumental work on magic and were an attempt to *-ompletely cover the field—a library in itself. While these earlier books give a goed insight into the field of magic, not one of them contains the great tricks of the masters; for these were preserved with infinite secrecy. Probably the first great expose of stock tricks in magic came when a book called “Les I’etites A ventures de Jerome Sharp,” issued in from the pen of a ytrang Frenchtitan, M. Descremps. a frank volume that enjoyed quite a popularity in its day. This, Houdini capture*! early in his search, it is now safely preserved In the Library of Congress—al<mg with the other rare volumes. Conjury Fathered by Italians. Thus runs the earlier collection — from Porta, to Witgeest, to Haulier, to Wiebieb. to Descremps. They constitute the .earlier essays in the modern school of conjury fathered, it is said., by the Italians, Audroletti aud Antonio Carlotti. Houdini prided himself on his knowledge not only oi m;igic.ify, but of the psychic—and his books on psychical rfeearch eu:numbered those lie gathefed on the first subject. There are j/djo volumes bequeathed by him to The Library of Congress, books that deal with a subject which interested, him more and more in his later life. Leader of, His Profession. Only tifty-two years of age when he died—his death occurred <>ctober 31. 1926— Harry Houdini had conquered the. world about him; at least in so far as his particular subject occupied the attention of that world. He believed, with others, that no form of entertainment compared with magic; that, after all. theatergoers iu every land are as little children and love to be amused by the deftness of the hand, the quickness of movement that deceives the eye. He was probably right, since no theater in which he appeared in the last twelve or fifteen years was ever large enough to accommodate his following. In the vernacular of the theater. “He packed ’em in.” His remnuerative reward was the highest given any entertainer of his time, with the exception of such outstanding singers and stars as Caruso. John McCormick, Gal-U-Curci. and others of that ilk. Houdini Collection Prized. That such an austere institution as the Library of Congress, containing as it does practically all the known knowledge « f the tiniverse. values the Houdini collection is evidenced by the statement recently given, it follows, in part: “Houdini, the consummate magician and mysterious handcuff manipulator; Houdini, the baffling conjurer and possessor of a thousand tricks, was known the world around; but Houdini, the laiok collector, was known to but a few, and is only now disclosed to the public generally by the terms of his will disposin’ of the library it took him a lifetime to build. No less than three collections are comprised in it One is on drama, which he bequeathed to his wife; the other two. one on magic and the other on psychical research. he bequeathed to th? Library of CnmzressJ’ No b<<••£ on macle was too humble to arrest the attention of Harry Houdini, the collector. His choice bits therefore run all the way from the paltry little treatise <>f Prof. Harry Helms, whose scrapbook is labeled. “The Famous Magician and Juggler.” to the compendium compiled by L. W. de laurence entitled. “The Great Book of Magical Art. Hindu Magic, and Indian Occultism”—a work that c*»ntalns an amhzing array of material, fanciful and fantastic. Hindu Necdie Trick. In all the realm of magicry contained in the Houdini edllection there is no line to tell the Inner workings of the celebrated Hindu needle trick—a trick that Houdini mastered only after seven years’ study. In the National l*res® club, at Washington, the

ghosts bear the marks of tbe bemp. In tiK-.-e early days tbe morgue might have been impressive. Now it is a grimy little building, crouched In the shadow of surrounding skyscrapers. It looks Its part as a catch-all for human debris. Even the glamor of violence has been taken from to In recent years its patrons were largely the victims of traffic accidents. Occasfonally the body of a slain gangster enlivened its i routine. i But for Cal, an aged negro employee. there was none to regret the abandonment of tbe morgue this spring. He alone seemed to enjoy the passing show to which death was always the star, tbe show now robbed of its old backdrop. *Tve seen a lot of ’em since I came here.” ruminated CaL when the morgue moved to temporary quarters

fa;aoi. - ; ,u, re. ... i that yeie from abroad, first unfolded this tricl in 1912. It consisted of a relatively sim pie operation: the swallowing, in sue cession of two packages of gold-headet needles, a hundred feet of thread, anc the drinking on top of all this a glass ful of water. Careful examination o: the man’s mouth, a search conductet by fingers aided by flashlights, failed to reveal any traces of thread oi needles. When a committee was thus con vinced that the steel needles and tb« cotton thread had thoroughly disap peared. Houdini, his hands behind his back, motioned for a member of the committee to release a knotted piece of thread lodged betwen the magi cianVteeth. This done, he instructed the committeeman to draw forth the thread, warning against carelessness as, he explained. “You might tear my throat.” Out came the needles, at regular intervals, all threaded. How he did it, no one ever knew. He learned the trick, he said, from an old Hindu magician. He was afraid it was too delicate to be used sucessfully on the stage because of lighting difficulties, but in later years it found favor among the masses. The secret died with him. It is not to l»e found anywhere in his collected books. Harry Houdini, born Eric Weiss, the son of Rev. Dr. Mayer S. Weiss of Appleton. Wis.. April 6. 1574, came by the name Houdhti in this way. As a boy he was interested in the career] of what he thought the greatest niagi-l clan oP* all time, the famous French conjurer, Robert Hnudin. In ISST. Houdin.- at the request of the French government; journeyed to Algeria to overshadow the influence of Marabouts w!u> were then exerting a supersti, tious influence on the Arabs by means j tl : - ■ ' to rout the Marabouts, destroying thetf prestige: so that the Arabs came back to normalcy. For this he was honored by the French government. If a mart could do that, thought Erie Weiss], afterwards Houdini, he was worthy of emulation. So Weiss had his name changed legally to Houdini. Houdini Unmasks Houdin. The ir<qiy of ir is that in after years Harry Houdini, making a study of Houdin’s nuthmis. found his idol to be so much clay and wrote a book called “The Unmasking "of Robert Houdin” —a heartbreak to Houdini, who said: “My investigations brought forth only the bitterest disappointment and sadd« s t disillusionment. 3 Stripi»ed of his self-woven veil of romance. Robert Houdin stood forth in the uncompromising light of cold historical facts, a mere pretender, a man who waxed great on the brainwork of others—a mei-hanieian who b«>ldjy filclie*! the inventions of the master craftsmen among his predecessors.”! Harry Houdini, whatever may be said or thought of him. whs honest in his work and in his beliefs. In the theater he was known as a showragn par excellence; because, as those in that world have it, “he knew how to put over his act.” He first appeared in 18821 a young trapexe p«'rfortner.. Around the late nineties he began to be recognized. Under the guidance of Martin Beck he gained his early fame as the “handcuff king.” From then on he occupied the center of the stage in this and other countries, having at one'time or another appeared before most of the rulers in every country on eafthc Chokes Snake Savannah. Ga.—-Drawn back ready to strike, its rattlers whirring a warning, a deadly diamond-h|ack threatened the life of Sidney Hulbert, standing two feet away. J. B. Simmons. seeing the snake, feared to kick it as it would have .gone toward! his friend. So he grabbed the rattler about the neck and choked it to death. MOTHER’S t ■ AS ' •’ ■ ' G * V I \'i A ' Nt 't i Using three of his mother’? best sheets. Frank Higgins, fourteen, ot Toledo,. Ohio, made a giant kfte. l'.» feet tall and 13 feet wide, to win flrat prize In the kite flying contest. Three of his friends help him send it aloft and heavy rope is used because it pulls so hard.

— — —' —' r— — In the city hospital. “Ten thousand of them at least. “We used to have one a day at first, but last year we averaged mote than three. There are a lot more accidents nowadays with automobiles so common. “The biggest nnmth for murders was June. 1924. We had 20 that month, mostly gangsters. They all end up here. Hardly one of ’em more than twenty-four years old either." The new municipal service building is part of an extensive program of construction started here. Virtually all public buildings are to be replaced. Lazy Angler Nelson. B. C.—A resident of Kootenay Lake has the fish telephone all bites. A telephone circuit between the set pole and the fisherman’s home gives the signal. Bar Bachelors London. — The Croatian .peasants’ party in Yugo-Slavia has decided that bachelors cannot be ministers or members of parliament. I ♦

What’s the / Answer a Questions —No. 5 1— What is the longest game on record in the National league? 2— What President was impeached? 3— Who was President when Roosevelt died? 1 i 4— is the only portion of t|e brain whose destruction causes imme- t iiate death? • •' 5 — What English portrait painter was a crony of the statesman. Edmund Stirke: the lexicographer and writer. Samuel Johnson; the pbet and novelist. Goldsmith a of* the actor. DaGarrick? 6— What country rtu? the largest continuous area in the world? 7— What are the Vedas?. 8— Who said; “Give 'em a little more grape. Captain Bragg”? 9— Is the use of “learn” for “teach” permissible? 10— What Is the first verse in the Bible? 11— Who is the chqmpion woman golf player? 12— What President 1 later became chief justice of the United States .Supreme court? 13— What state was? named for an F.ngiisii king of the house of Hanover. an<i‘which king was it? 14— What are the five principal sen<es of human natur?? 5 15— What movie actress has received the appellation, •“Aujeriea’s Sweetheart”? ; ■ 16— Which is the largest river in Eurojie? H—ln what novel is Becky Sharpe a leading character? •! 18 — What is turquoijse and of what country is it the national stone? 19— Is the split infinitive always bad usage? j 20— What is anothe? name for the First Book of Samuel? U. . Answers—No. 4 1— 18TO. 2— Chambersburg. Pa„ Gen. Jubal A. Early. 3— Lee De Forest, t 4 — The- fhnny bone. ]so called, is that point on the elbow where the ulnar nerve lies close to the surface. 5 — G. Von Elm. - ! ! 6— Michelangelo. I ; 7— Colorado and California. 8— On a mountain top in Samoa. 9 — General Wolfe. 10— The Fascist labor code abso. mtely forbids strikes, lockouts and boycot ts. 11 — Thomas DeQuincy and Samuel Taylor < 'oleriilge. 12— Gene Tunney, ' 13 — John Adams. 14— Battle of New Orleans. Wa* of 1812-1815. 15 — Sixty-five per cent. 16— Air is composed chiefly of oxygen and nitrogen. !. 17— John Bunny. ! , 18— The Zugspitze. in Bavaria. 19 — President Woodrow Wilson. 2U —About CO per cent. Master of Masic Had Novel Piano in Mind - j - - . wm>-e tame dominates French music of the last century, ordered from a piqn* manufacturer a spf*ially constructed mstruntent. so fashioned that the strings could be use<l as*a harp. t Berlioz. I >ved to play stringed instruments and in ins early days gave le<M>ns on tbe guitar, in spite of the poverty which he* mentions iu Ids memoirs, he had succeeded in buying u piano, but it was l not the sort of instrument that he wanted “If I were rich,’ ’he wrote. “I would have continually about me a big grand piano, two or tbredpErartt harps, some Saxe trumpets add a collection of busses ami S.tradii arius violins.” The piano which he later invented was in part an answer to this dream. It is at pre-cut in (he possession of a uiddy known <■<>::(*«• tor who loaned it to the orgahirers bf the Berlioz'exporitton of the great musician’s centenary.—From I.'Ere Nouveße. P tris, (Translated for thj? Kansas City Star). j < Voice Distinction i , The distinction between a soprano and mezzo-sop ratio is range. In the > <-e of lyric and dramatic voices the tl.ffereuce is in timbre. Grove’s dictionary calls attention to the fact that many mezjnesopranl can sing higher notes than many soprani: hut there is a middle to every voice; o which, as a rule, it ts not difficult to find, and about this the tessitura ot the music (literally, the texture) and the practice should be woven. Likee Workee. A Chinese newspaper published thia letter from an applicant for work: Sir; I am Wing—l can drive typewriter with good noise and my Eng- . iish is great—My last job left itself from me. for good reason that large man has dead. It was on account of no fault of mine. So. honorable sirs) what about It? If I can be of big* use to vou. I will arrive on same date that vou should guess.—Squadron News of the Far East, Cavite. VbiUppine islands. Fox “Played Possum” The wily fox will sham death to escape its enemies. During an English shoot a fox cornered by the crowd appeared to die. The beaters fragged it out into the ride, where almost every member of the gang, no doubt remembering past raids on the poultry, gave it a blow with a stick. Going into a farmhouse for lunch, tbe beaters put this apparently dead fux in a cot while they had lunch. That was the last they saw of it. Reynard bad escape* to furnish spurt another day.