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A Y R A U L T • & B O L I i N G E R . G R E G O R Y , M I C H .

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T h e woman of over-developed figure who puts o n a J .

C . O. R e d u c i n g Corse t immediately , gains a m o u l d i n g of the

J k o r e that is eu t i re lv natural hut woudorfutty-dimtrr<

I t t r t h o one corset wh ich reflects every ' detail! of s ty le cor­

rectness, the flexibility and ease ao m u c h desired and i n ad­

di t ion , accomplishes a positive reduc ing of the figure. I n

every respect the J . C . O . M o d e l ia the most advanced ide<

i n an extiH l o n g r educ ing c o r s e t - ^ o u can find a J . 0 .

Corset that i s fitted i n every way to every type o f figured-

to r y o u n g misses* far women of s l i m figure and a complete

range embrac ing the new smart uucorseted effects. -

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T h e most beautiful chu rch wed­d i n g i n the his tory of P l a i c f i e l d was the wedding of M r . W a r r e n Oottrel of C o u n c i l B l u f f s j o w a a n d M18H8 H a n n a h M i l l e r , daughter o f R e v . M i l l e r and wife o f this v i l l -age^.

T h e bride's father, R e v . A . E . M i l l e r , marr ied the couple wi th tbe impressive r i n g ceremoney, after that most beaut i fu l solo,

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T h e color scheme of p i n k and white waB car r ied out at the br ide 's table and wedding bells h u n g ev erywhere. T b e bride*a c a k e made and presented b y M r s . E v a Jacobs and Miss E l l a Montague was the the center of beauty and was cut by the bride who wielded a s i lve r k n " e t ied w i t h whi te r i b b o n .

M r s ; L e n Cook presided at the se rv ing table which was also drap* ed i n p ink and white. T h e waiters M r s . Corne l iu s Donohutr, M r s . J .

"Because," was sung b * M r . I Caskey aud M i s s M a b l e Caskey B i c h a r d Bax te r of dabksoit. ^ won favors b y ^he i r graceful a U

^ H i e oride and groom were at- tent ion. A four course supper i e u l e d b y M r * aud M r s . C h a f e s waa served after w h i c h the br ide

I l e a of T a l e , M i o l i . , R e v . I r a {and groom left immedia te ly fo the i r home at . C o u n c i l Bluf f s where h * i s general secretary o f the Y . M . 0 , A . M r . and M r s . Oott re l , M r . a n d M r s . B a x t e r and iRev. I r a M i l l e r o f Cairo ^Were a l l cla8Si&ateetegether at A d r i a n .

the home of M r % E d . C r a n n a las t week.

M e t G a l l u p a&d fami ly apettt N ^ w Y e a r s at the tiome of 0» W . Marshal l .

Mesdames J a n e t W e b b and M . Wat son are e n d u r i n g an attack of lagrippe.

M r s . J e s s i e C i a n n a eutertained the M o d e r n P r i so i l l ae at her home last Saturday.

W i l l D u r k e e a n d f a m i l y o t J ack ­son vis i ted relat ives here a por* t ion of last week. .

M r s . M , b a n t i * o f M u n i t h i s w a i t i n g her parents> M r , and M r s . W . B - C o l l i n s .

M r s . M u r r a y a n d ch i ld r en of Jackson vis i ted her sister, M r s . 0 . Marsha l l , last week.

L . E. H a d l e y and fami ly enter­tained 0 . W . M a r s h a l l and fami ly and M r s . M u r r a y Sr inday,

MisB J e n n i e - W i n s l o w of C h e l ­sea spent the past week w i t h her fr iend, M r s . W i r t B a r n u m .

Mr* and M r s . Wa l t e r Bowersox left here for Jonesv i l e last Sa turday where they w i l l make the i r home.

K a r l Ase l t i ne left M o n d a y for Ka lamazoo where he expects to take a college course. Here ' s to your success K a r l .

T h e M . E . Snc ie ty held the i r annual meeting Wednesday i n the ohurcn par lors , a n d elected the fo l lowing officers: Pres ident , A . & H a d l e y , V i c e Pres ident , G e o r g i a

ebb; Secretary, A n n a ( i i l b e r t ; cour t ju ro r .

" S n a g P r o o f " rubbers at M E . K u h n ' s .

M e n ' s $18 sui ts now* $14.40 at Dancer's*

L . G a l l u p a n d wite v i s i t ed at P . S. Ov i t t ' s Sunday .

G u y K u b t i re turned to school i n H o w e l l M o n d a y .

„ D o n M e O o r n e y a n d wife vis i ted her parents Sunday ,

M a n y fal ls on the ice M o n d a y bu t no serious damage,

Y o u cannot reform a bad egg by p u t t i n g i t i n c o l d storage.

F r a n k Bates is spending tbe week wi th fr iends i n Det ro i t .

L . Gates o f A n n A r b o r was here on business one day last week.

M i s s F r a n c i s M c O l e a r has r e ­tu rned to her school at A d r i a n .

T h e b lacksmi th shop was a frasy^place M o n d a y and Tuesday.

Pe te r V a n K u r e n was a Jack ­son v is i tor Sa turday and Sunday .

M r s . T h u r l o w has returned from D e t r o i t where she has been v is i t ­i n g .

M i s s M a e M a d i g a n of Stock-br idge visi ted L o n e t a K u h n Sat ­urday.

t h e W . C . T . U . w i l l tneet w i th M r s . Grace P o o l F r i d a y af ternoon, J a n . .H

Misses L o i e t a and Mi ld red ] K u h n were iu Jacksou one day last week.

W m . M a r s h a l l i s i n H o w e l l th i s week s e r v i n j u _ a s — c i r c u i t

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is tbe best thing we have to offer. Other inducements are only of secondary importance. Upon this basis only do we solicit yonr patronage. Postpone the getting of some things that you can get along without and put the money in the bank. You have never met a person with a bank account who regretted hav­ing started it. Why not start one today? Many working men start a bank account and watch it grow from month to month.

Deposits in any amount respectfully solicited, and all alike will receive the same careful, courteous and prompt attention.

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T h e Miss ionary Soc ie ty of the P re s . church met at the ha l l / J a n . 3 and elected tbe fo l l owing officers: Pres . , M r s . { t th l ine O l a r k ^ l T i o e t t o s . , M r s . J e n n i e B i c h m o n d ; Seo'y., Mrs . P e a r l M a r s h a l l ; C o r . Sec 'y , M r s . M i n e W a t s o n ; Treas., M r s . E m m a W e b b .

M i l j e r gave the b r i d e away and M € f « r s ; V e r n j To|>|>iog o f P l a i n . fiel| a n d l U e b a ^ ^ ^ J a o k T

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L o c a l Notes

L a d i e s 115 z i b i l i n e s now $11.25 at Dancer 's .

Panacea a guaranteed egg pro­ducer at K u h n ' s .

M i s s O o a t e s spent a few days i n De t ro i t last week.

M e n ' s $10 suits and overcoats now $8 at Dancer 's .

B a y Sharp and f a m i l y of Stock* b r i d g e spent Sunday here.

M i s s L o n e t a K u h n was c le rk at the U n f d i l l a store Tuesday.

T h e r e wilhbe a box sbcial at th home of Ohas. B u l l i s J a n . 15.

M r . Ooates and wife cal led on h i s sister, B e l l e . Wednesday.

M r s . E d n a L i U e y of S tockbr idge has been v i s i t i n g fr iends here.

M r s . S tackable entertained a L a d y Maccabee deputy Thursday .

L e e V a n K e u r e n v i s i t ed rela­t ives i n Iosco t i le first o f the week.

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H . Jacobs and fami ly have been i n N o r t h v i l l e the past week v i s i t ­i n g relatives.

A n s m b e r of fine fish b a r ^ been tabe& f rom the W i l l t a m s v i i l e L a k e recently,

L . G a l l u p and wite v is i ted at the home of H e n r y Dawey one^ day the past week.

M r . and V s. 0 . H . W i l k e r s o n of N . D a k o t a are v i s i t i n g at the borne of Geo . A r n o l d ,

A n d r e w Burgess spent most of last week wi th his cousins, F r a n k and H o w a r d H o w l e t t

M r s . C a r l B o l l i n g e r and sister, L o i s , v is i ted the i r brother, Hask-el , i n J ackson U s t week.

T h e H a r r y Reade fa rm has been sold to F r e d Rose who w i l l take pesession about M a r c h 15.

T h e first number on tbe lecture course w i l l be g iven J a n . 20. G r i f f i n H . M a n g e r , humoris t .

T r y hav ing W , J . Dancer & C o . S tockbr idge send y o u goods on approval by parcels p o s t A d y.

M a r y H o w l e t t and L i l l i a n B u h l have been v i s i t i n g at the home of A n d r e w Jackson i n S tockbr idge .

T o m G a l l u p has re turned f rom Grass L a k e and is v i s i t i n g at the home o f h i s nephew, E u g e n e G a l ­l u p .

E . N . B r a l e y went to H o w e l l

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M e t d a l l a p and J o e B o w e n sold vigors. » the i r lambs to G r e g o r y buyers M r g . 0 a B p e r Swar thont , M a r y , last .week . . .. ftod^ A l p h a have returned

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PINCKNEY. MICHIGAN

L a t e s t N e w s T o l d

i n B r i e f e s t a n d

B e s t F o r m ,

Washington The bfigest rebating inquiry in

years got under way in Washington when Interstate Commerce Commis­sioner Harlan began hearings to de­termine the nature and amount of the payments made by the trunk line rail­roads to the terminal railroads owned by the big corporations. *

* * * Senator Joseph W. Bailey sent his

resignation as senator from Texas to Senator Gallinger, to take effect im­mediately. R. M. Johnston of Hous­ton is in Washington and Senator Bai­ley said that he would- be appointed by Governor Colquitt to succeed him.

* * * Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and

Frank Morrison of the American Fed­eration of Labor, convicted of con­tempt of court and sentenced to jail in connection with the Buck's Stove & Range case, have filed their appeal in the District of Columbia court of ap­peals. It alleges the men were con­victed not of contempt of court, but of want of respect for judicial authority.

* * * » •Senatpi* Joseph W. Bailey of Texas,

long one of the picturesque figures and striking speakers of ;\ne United States senate, delivered before crowd­ed floor and galleries his farewell speech as a member of that body.

* • •

President Taft nominated Fenton _W^- Booth -QJ-4Illnoio, now j-sstiee of-

the court of claims, to be chief jus­tice of that court, succeeding Stanton J. Poelle and Henry Sherman Boutell of Illinois, to be a justice of that court, succeeding Booth. Mr. Boutell is now minister to Switzerland.

* * * Postmaster General Hitchcock per­

sonally inaugurated the parcels nost-system in the United States with the advent of the new year. He mailed the first package at the Washington post office. "To whom the package

" was sent was not disclosed. * * *

Webster Morton, colored messenger for the Washington and Southern bank of Washington, D. C , disap­peared with $6,000 in bills given to him to take to the treasury depart­ment to be changed.

* • •

Domestic Bail was allowed by tho United.

States circuit court at Chicago in the cases of thirty-two of the thirty-three men sentenced to Leavenworth prison for the Iron workers' dynamite con­spiracy, but the amount cf bail de­manded makes a total of $1,070,000. The amount was fixed at the rate of $10,000 a year for each year to which the convicted men had been sen­tenced.

« * *

The. board of directors of the Inter­national Mercantile Marine company has accepted the resignation of J. Bruce Ismay as president. The resig­nation takes effect June 30.

* * * * The entire business section of the oil town of Blue Creek,' W. Va., was destroyed by fire with a loss of $40,-000.

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Samuel D. Felker, Democrat, was chosen governor of New Hampshire by the legislature, which had been called on to choose an/ executive, as neither leading candidate in laBt No­vember's election had received the necessary majority at the polls. Mr. Felker received 222 votes to 191 for Franklin Worcester, the Republican candidate.

* • *

"Gen.'* Rosalie Jones, flanked by her ^ little band of suffragette pilgrims, de-*< livered to Governor-elect William gul-

zer the' message that took them tho long walk from New York to Al­bany. The governor-elect met the en­thusiasts on the step's of the execu­tive mansion, took the message from General Jones, land delivered a short address, complimenting the suffra­gettes on their determination and

Instructed to stay away from home because of misconduct, Edwin Ghirra-nelli, son of a millionaire manufactur-3r of San Francisco, was found dead in his room at a hotel. He had taken poison. Among the young man's ef­fects were found the letter from his father ordering him to stay in Port­land.

* • •

Dr. William B. Craig, dean of the Indiana Veterinary college and Alon-zo M. Ragsdale, undertaker, men well known in the business and profession­al life of. Indianapolis, were indicted by the grand jury and placed under arrest in connection with the murder of Dr. Helene Knabe on the night of October 23, 1911.

* * * Seven were killed and more in­

jured when a heavy Chesapeake & Ohio freight train broke through the bridge which spans the Guyandotte river at Guyandotte station, only a few miles from Huntington, W. Va. Thirty men were at work on the struc­ture putting on a double track when the accident occurred.

* * * Popular election of United States

senators was the recommendation made by Governor Suizer in his first message to the legislature. "The peo­ple can and ought to be trusted," said the governor. "They have dem­onstrated their ability for self-gov­ernment."

* * * Eugene Dahl, traveling representa

tive of the Grand Trunk railroad and vice-president of the Transportation club of Cincinnati, 0., and his six-year-old son Lawrence w,ere instant­ly killed while walking the C , L. & N . trestle at Norwood, O. Mrs. Dahl, who was with her husband and son, escaped.

, * • *

Henry J. Horn of Boston, vice-presi­dent; Benjamin R. V o l l o c k > general manager, and Charles N . Woodward, general superintendent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, were arrested .in Bridgeport, Conn., on bench warrants issued by the crim­inal court on the charge of manslaugh­ter in causing the death of passengers in the wreck of a passenger train at W e i l port, October 3.

* * * Securities worth approximately $30,-

000 which A. B. DuPont, the traction man, says were given him by the late Tom L. Johnson to further the cause of municipal ownership and single tax, were turned over to the widow of ,£lev^laiidJ^Jal^jmiyor, Mrs. Margaret

B R I E F E X A U G U R A L

T H E FINANCES OF T H E STATE A R E IN BEST CONDITION AND

STATE PROSPEROUS.

FEW RECOMMENDATIONS A R E MADE TO L E G I S L A T U R E .

In Leaving The Executive Office Ex-Governor Osborn Gives Advice

In Scriptural Quota­tion.

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nessed the ceremony. • * *

Representative William W. Wede-meyer of Ann Arbor, Mich., who sudr denly went insane at Colon, Panama, at the time of President Taft's recent visit to the isthmus, jumped overboard

Sm a ship on which he had been ta-l at Colon.

»»end of the long search for Will­i e Rockefeller, Standard Oil mag-

nate, wanted as a witness beforevthe mM*f:t& Washington, e ^ e wten Chairman Pu^^ was noti-

Jtockefeller would.. accept

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Sporting Almost helpless and so badly bat­

tered was Al Palzer in the eighteenth round of his scheduled 24-round bat­tle jtfith Luther McCarty in Los An­geles, Cal., that Referee Charley Ey-ton stepped In and declared McCarty the new world's heavyweight cham­pion. The big New Yorker was noth­ing more than a punching bag for the clever and fast McCarty.

* * •

Foreign Cipriano Castro, former president

of Venezuela, has engaged passage on the steamshfp Amfcrika of the Ham­burg-American line.

* * * Count Michael Karolyi, a prominent

member of the opposition in the Hun­garian lower house, was severely wounded by Count Stephen Tisza, the speaker of the lower house, In a duel with sabers, which took place in Buda Pest. Count Tisza also was cut in the hands.

* • * The viceroy of India, Baron Har-

dinge, is not recovering as quickly as expected from the wounds he re­ceived on December ^3, when an In­dian fanatic threw a bomb at him during his official entry to the new imperial capital city. The doctors in attendance declare he is suffering con-siderable pain and remains in a fever­ish condiUdn.

V. ' 0 0 0 Count Romanones handed to the

king in Madrid, Spain, the resigna­tion of the cabinet. This was in ful-

December 31, 1912. To the People of the State of Michi­

gan, and their Forty-Seventh Legis­lature: Section five of Article six of the

Constitution of the State ot Michigan, relating to the viuties of the Governor, is. as follows:

"He shall communicate by message to the legislature, and at the close of his official term to the incomif^g legis­lature, the condition of the stata and ecommend such measures as he may

deem expedient." Obedient to that mandate of the peo­

ple, I find satisiaction in reporting to you that, although the state had a deficit two years ago to the amount of near amil l ion dollars and was con­sequently in disgrace, it is now out of debt and has a surplus in the treas­ury of near a million dollars. The rate/Of taxation haF been lowered and should continue to lessen Hundreds cf millions of dolinrs in property have been added to the tax rolls. More should be added at once. Conditions throughput the %tate are good. In­stitutional and departmental efficiency has increased. New economies are being practiced and there/are many others that may be resor<ed to. Pro­gressive laws should be enacted com­prehending more equal taxation and the assessment of porperty tangible and intangible now escaping taxa­tion; insuring greater purity and hon­esty in election^ and returns; con­serving the rights of the masses and improving their conditions; divorcing the organised Mquor interests from_ politics; practically alul effecTiveTy checking the devastation of alcohol, the too easy supply and consequent excessive use of ^nich cause measure­less misery; realizing the responsibil­ity of the strong to kh^weak , the duties of public brotherhood and of the state- ia all of its citizens; concen­

t ra t ing responsibility in visible offi­cials chosen by votes in wieldy elec­tion districts; and keeping step with the onward match of better public business, highe- humanism, applied ethics and pure morals. There is little danger that such new and need­ful legislation will be created too rap­idly for practical adjustment to it of the life artd affaire of the state, but heed to this^may well be given. It may also be retnembered that the form of government is best that is best ad­ministered.

I do not need to urge you, as leg-isaltors, to whom has been delegated all the power of the people of Michi­gan ^whose average of citizenship is the highest in the world, to be true to j-our trust, because I have faith that you will be. I do not need to sug­gest to ^ou that citizenship should take precedure of partisanship aft that the welfare of the state is to be thought of before any consideration

11$ given to party politics, because you are as well seized of these axioms as I am. I do not need to request your respectful and patriotic oo-eperation with the distinguished citizen who has just been inaugurated Governor of the State, because you will con­tribute such an attitude of your own free will . And I do not need to ob­trude a long message of suggested

Ailment of the understanding when he legislation which would only tend to confUBe the new order if remembered, 8nd be of l o value if forgotten, be­cause I have conferred with Governor Ferris and he understands the needs of the state as 7 see them. My ad­ministration of affairs is my message to the people.

Now permit me, in closing, to quote the eighth versp of the fourth chap­ter of the Epistle of Paul, the Apostle, to the Phillipians, upon which may pafely be builded the strong and per-mananistructure cf state and in which may be discovered a- safe_ rule of guidance for every action:

"Finally," brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatso­ever things are lovely, whatsoever

assumed the premiership after the assassination of Premier Canalejas. The ministry includes some discord­ant elements, and King Alfonso re­quested the count to form a new gov­ernment.

• • * The London (England) taxlcab driv­

ers began the new year with a strike which takes 5,000 out of 8,000 taxis oft the streets. *The strike is the result of the increa&ecL cost of gasoline, or petrol, as it is called there.—

0 0 0 ^

Personal Rear. Admiral Charles J. Badger

succeeded Rear Admiral Osterhaus in the command of the Atlantic fleet.

* • * Roswell Miller, chairman: of the Chi.

gago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company, was found dead in bed at

courage,,, A hundred spectators Jw4M-bia home-la-NAYy; York by a servant who had gone to his room to wake him.

0 0 0 Gen. Edward Merwin Lee, said to

be a relative of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the famous Confederate commander, is dead in a- private sanitarium in New York at the a£e of seventy-s©yen. In 1869 while acting governor of Wyoming territory, ho signed the first equal suffrage bill.

•• * • Funeral services for the late White-

law Held were held in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, and we^^ttended by President Taft, mem-beta of tbe dipl^matlccorps and many otber persons prominent j n public life.

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W E D E M E Y E R A S U I C I D E . ^ "" • — -

Ann Arbor Congressman Leaps Into Ocean While Insane.

T H E JULIA L U C K E N B A C H PRAC-T i O A L L Y SPLIT IN TWO JN

C H E S A P E A K E B A Y ; FOUR- • T E E N SAVED.

BRITISH S T E A M E R INDRTAKU L'A, WAS GOING FAST D t & I N G FOG.

The Indrakula, With a Big Hple in Her Side, Headed for the Beach

and Grounded in Time to Save Her Crew,

After being rammed by the British steamer Indrakula off Tangier bar in the Chesapeake bay, the tramp steam­ship Julia Luckenbach was practically split in twain and foundered.

Though within easy wireless reach of 10 steamers, 14 lives were lost after a desperate battle with the seas. Among the drowned are Captain H . A . Gilbert and Mrs. Gilbert.

Captain Gilbert and Mrs. Gilbert lived at Raspeburg, near Baltimore. Nineteen of the crew, were lost Eight were saved by the steamer Pennsyl­vania, and six others were rescued by the Indrakula according to a wireless message received at Newport News from the revenue cutter Apache, which went to the Indrakula's assistance.

First Officer Hunt, half crazed by his terrible fight for life, and by the remembrance of the tragedy through which he had passed, at first said that 22 persons had gone down with the ship, but subsequently it was learned that only 28 in all were on bqard the Luckenbach including the crippled wife of Captain Gilbert.

The Luckenbach sank five minutes after the Indrakula, coming out of the fog, dealt her a death blow.

Only those on the top deck had time to escape. First Officer Frederick Hunt and seven members of the crew climbed into the rigging and hung there for six hours in the terrible cold until the Danish liner Pennsylvania rescued them. The others, caught be­low decks, died without knowing what nau Happened.

A Representative W 7illiam Wr. Wede meyer, of Ann Arbor, Mich., who sud­denly went insane at Colon, Panama, at the time of President Taft's recent visit to the isthmus, jumped overboard from a ship on which he* had been taken at Colon. '

The ^essel was the Panama of the Panama"line. ,~<:*

Tjhe news was received by the w*ar department by wireless.

At the same time that news w a s received of Wedenaeyer's' death his colleagues, in the house received 'a ca­ble from Panam,a that he was en roufce to Washington in charge of an attendant. He was reported as having suicidal mania.,

Wedecneyerfs close friends say that a few days before leaving for the isthmus he fell and struck his head on an icy sidewalk. It was not re­garded as serious and did not deter him from going with the congres­sional party.

The Indrakula, with a big hole in her side, backed away from the sink­ing ship and headed for the beach. She was grounded in time for all of her crew to be saved.

The Luckenbach reached the capes late Thursday. She ran into the gale blowin'g but was able to make the passage into tiie Chesapeake bay. She was slowly working her way up the bay when the Indrakula, driven at a high rate of speed by the gale, bore down on the Luckenbach and the col­lision occurred.

D Y N A M I T E R S T O QO F R E E .

If They Can Raise Sum Required— Ryan Must Furnish $70,000 Bail.

Attorneys for the imprisoned dyna­mite conspirators won a victory in the U . S. court of appeals in Chicago when a writ of supersedeas was granted them and an order issued for the release of the prisoners on bonds from the federal prison at Leaven­worth, Kan.

A l l will be released, it is believed, except Hockin.

Attorney Zoline presented the pe­tition in behalf of the convicted iron­workers, and argued in supports of it, as did Attorney Krum. Zoline de­clared that in cases such as the pres­ent the prisoners have the right of bail, particularly as the defendants were sentenced and sent to Leaven­worth before a hearing on a writ of eror had been held.

T H E M A R K E T S .

DETROIT—Cattle—Extra dryfed steers $7.50(?? S; steers,und heifers, 1,000 to 1,200 rbs., I7&7.&u; steers and heifers S00 to 1.000 lt>s., $61*6.75; steers and heifers that are-fat, 500 to 700 rbs., $5¾6.60; choice fat cows, $5.50^6; good fat cows, $4.50 (&5; common cows, ¢4^4.25; canners, $3<Li> 3.S5; choice heavy bulls, $5.50(aG; fair to

--jyood hoiognas. bulls. S4.7ft<fo.va.ri: stock-bulls, $4( 4.25; choice feeding steers, 800 to 1,000 Ihs., $6t?/6.50; feeding steers, fcOO to 1,000 lbs., $5.50( 6; choice stockers, 500 to 700 Ihs., $5.2o(§>5.60; fair stockers, 500 to 700 tbs., $4.50&5; stock heifers, $4<y) 4.50; milkers, large, young, medium age, $50<?c70; "common milkers, $30£i 45.

Veal calves—Market steady; best, $9(g> 11; others, $4^.50; milch cows and springers, steady. . Sheep and lambs—Market dull and 25® 50c lower. Best lambs, $8.25^8.50; fair to good lambs, $7.25@7.75; fair to good sheep, $3.75@4,25; pulls and common, ?2.50 ^3.

Hogs—Light to good butchers, $7.50® 7.75; pigs, $7.50@7.55; light yorkers, $7.45 @7.55; pigs, $7.50( 7.55; light yorkers, $7.45 :-7.50; stags, 1-3 off.

N E W S O F

M I C H I G A N

Three Rivers.—Joseph Cox, a poi liceman, was- badly beaten by aj number of citizens and lodged in the city jail , after he had fired two shots! at Robert Keith, superintendent of thej Sheffield machine Bhopa. Neither bul-j let flred by the officer took effect^ Keith and a party of friends, who hadi attended a local daiicing party, were, lunching at a cafe, when the officer or* dered^him to light the lamps ou his.; auto. Keith did not obey the order at^ once, waiting until the 4 p&rty waa| ready to starts Cox is alleged to have-ordered Keith to halt. When the lat-{ ter turned around the officer fire^ twoj shots at him, both of them tearing! holes 1n Keith's overcoat^ A crowd) Including Prosecuting Attorney Georgef Arnold, fqrmer Mayor Arthur W Scidi more, Alderman Fred Rohrer, Thomas; Hogan and other prominent resid^ffts.j

"attacked the officer. Cox was badly? beaten and taken to the jail where-Prosecuting Attorney Arnold turned] the key,

Hastings.—Breaking, through thin, ice on the mill pond at Morgan, Morley Mains, aged twelve, nearly lost his life while skating. He and his little sister and brother scouted for help, but no one responded. While the ice was breaking away beneath Morley's grasp the other children took off their skates and ran to a store 6fr rods away, where they secured help. In the meantime Morley was fighting to keep the swift current from drag­ging him under the ice, which kept breaking as he clutched it. Just as the boy was about to be drawn under the ice Jatnes Howard slipped a pole under him and hauled him out. The boy° dropped from exhaustion and was carried to the store, where restora­tives were administered.

^pro-

March 15 for Extra Session. As the result of the conferences be­

tween President-elect Wilsdn and dem­ocratic leaders in congress during the holidays, these features of the demo­cratic legislative program have been tentatively agreed upon:

Congress will be called in extraor­dinary session March 15 to revise the tariff. A complete scheme of tariff revision will be laid before a caucus of the democratic members of the new house early next March by the democratic members of the ways and means committee.

This will include an income tax if the constitutional amendment on this subject has been ratified by three-fourths of the states, and an excise tax if it has not. It will also in­clude the administrative features of the' new law embracing a substitute for the present maximum and mini­mum clause. Any changes in the in­ternal revenue taxes made necessary by reductions in the customs tariff also wiH be laid before the caucus,

The democratic caucus wil l decide whether the schedules wil l be report­ed and passed by the house separ­ately or as one bil l .

EAST Steady.

Hogs—Strong; $8; pigs, $8@S.lo.

Sheep—Lower; top lambs, yearlings, $7 @ 7.50; wethers, ewes, $4.50@4.75.

Calves—$51^12.

BUFFALO, N. Y.—Cattle— heavy, $7.90; yorkers,

$S.50^8.75 ; $5.25@5.50;

GRAIN, ETC. DETROIT—Wheat—Cash No. 2 red,

$1,12 1-4; May opened at $1,161-2, advanc­ed l-4c and declined to the opening; July opened at 95 l-2c. advanced to 95 3-4c and declined to 95 l-2c; No. 1 white, $1,111-4.

Corn—Cash No. 3, 48c; No. 3 yellow, 49c No. 4 fellow, 47c.

Oats—Standard, 35 l-2c; No. 3 white, 1 car at 34 l-4c, 2 at 34 l-2c.

Rye—Cash No. 2, C2c. Beans—Immediate and prompt ship­

ment, $2.20; January, $2.22. Clover Seed—Prime spot, $11.55; prime

alsike, $12.75.

Portugal Uneasy. The political situation in Portugal

daily becomes worse and more threat­ening. Rumors are current every hour that one side or the other intends to overturn the government and force either the proclamation of a dictator­ship or the appointment of a provis­ional cabinet.

The secret society of the Carbini-erios is increasing in strength. It now numbers 30,000 members, virtually all of/4hom are socialists.

A bill for presentation to the legis-m , , • j, lature has been prepared by a corn-

things are of goco report; If there b e A m i t t G e o f t h e Michigan district of the fny virtue, and If there b**any praise, U n i t e d Iron Workers of America. It is think on these things."

Respectfully, CHASE S. OSBORN.

H . W. Sawyer, who is interested in Newaygo county lands, waiting from Albuquerque, New Mexico, says: "I have spent $1,000 in traveling over the west the past year and I know that no stable in the union offers so much for the money as Michigan." ,

Attorney General Wykes holds in an opinion that the state railroad com­mission has supervision _ over the Mackinac Transportation Co., which te charging 50 cents for transporting passengers acrosd the straits. A n in* yestigatioii wil l be made at once.

.slated that all of the-featuroa of the-good mining laws in the various state have been embodied in the hill . '

Saginaw's fire loss during 1912 was $60,734, or about $1 per capita, prac­tically the same as last year. This is the lowest fire loss of any city 1n Michigan.

Lumber importations at Saginaw and Bay City for the navigation sea-sou of 1912 amounted to 86,737,7^1 feet, or approximately 2,000,000 feet less than in 1911.

Grief-stricken over his wife's death four years ago, Richard Wybenga, 90 years old, hung himself In the barn on-his farm in Cannon township, near Grand Rapids. *,- • • - - '

GENERAL MARKETS. The poultry market is a little firmer and

dressed chickens are in demand at an advance of about a cent. Other lines of poultry are steady and quiet. Fruits are dull and steady. Offerings of apples are quite large and demand is not active. Butter is steady and the tone in the egg deal is easy. Dressed hogs are easy and dull. Potatoes show little change and busines is not active.

Butter—Fancy creamery, 35c; cream­ery firsts, 32c; dairy, 32c; packing, 21c per Ih.

Eggs—Current receipts, candled, cases Included, 25 c per doz.

APPLES—Baldwin, $2.25@2.50; green­ing, $2.60@2.75; spy, $2.75®3; steel red, $3@3.50; No. 2, 75c@$1.50 per bhl

CABBAGES—$1@1.25 per bbl. DRESSED CALVES—Ordinary, 10@llc:

fancy, 12 1-2—131-2 per tt>. -DRESSED HOGS—$S@8.50 per cwt. for

light to medrum. DRESSED POULTRY—Spring chickens

13<g/16c; hens, ll@13c; old rosters, 16® 17; turkes-s, 21@24c; ducks, 16@19c; geese, 14 @ 15c per lb.

POTATOES—Michigan, sacks, 55c; bulk 48c in car lots and 55@60c for store.

HONEY—Choice fancy white comb, 16 @17c per Tb; amber, 14@15a

LIVE POULTRY—Spring chickens. *12 1-2@J3 p*r lb; hens, 11 l-4@12c; No. 2 hens, 9c; old rosters, 9#10c; ducks, 15@ 16c; geese, 12<§>14c; turkeys, 17@20c per lb.

VEGETABLES—Beets, 40c per bu; car-ots, 45c per bu; cauliflCiWer, $2.25 per

doz; turnips, 50c per bu;. spinach, 75c per bu; hothouse cucumbers, $2 per doz; watercress, 25@70c per doz; head lettuce, $2@2.25 per Hamper; homegrown celery/ 25@30c per bu; green peppers, 40c per basket rutabagas 40c per bu; hothouse radishes, 25c per doz.

PROVISIONS—Mes pprk, $19; family $22@23; briskets, ll@12c; bacon, 16@18e;i shoulders, 13>l-2c; picnic hams,. 13c pure lard in tierces, 11 l-2c; kettle rendered lard, 12 l*2c per lb. , 7

Battle Creek.—Two hundred pi fessional men and women from every part of the world met in con­ference as the Medical Missionary so­ciety at the sanitarium here. Dr. Rob­ert H. Gohen of Bombay was the prin­cipal speaker and discussed diseases in the upper classes of society in In­dia. Miss Ellen M. Stone, former mis­sionary in Bulgaria, who was the subr ject of world-wide attention because of her capture by bandits, who held%

£pr ransom of $45,0001 which w_ag paid by popular subscription! alsoT spoke.

Lansing.—An obligatory list law for township and village libraries is being advocated by educators of Michigan and the movement may cul­minate in the matter being brought to the attention of the legislature. The

yidea is to purge rural libraries of books unfit for reading. Michigan edu­cators would have the obligatory list compiled by the superintendent of public instruction and the state l i ­brarian, the heads of these two de­partments working together. As it ia> now the superintendent and the l i ­brarian are in an advisory position only.

Niles.—Septimer S. Beall, mem­ber of the board of supervisor* for many years, and his wife were so badly burned as the result of the ex­plosion of a gasoline stove that the outcome in each case is doubtful. Mrs. Beall is in a^much worse condition than her husband, who received his injuries in trying to extinguish the flames that enveloped his wife, and. which threatened to destroy their home. Both' are elderly persons.

Jacksorn—Because in the law relative

o r "change

No. 1 timotnyrttWItf.SO; No. 2 timothy $14.50@15; No. 1 mixed. $14(8)14.50; light mixed, $15® 15.50; wheat and oat straw $9@10; rye straw, $10.50® 11 per ton. * '

Superintendent J . L . Hayes, of the Saginaw district of tne Pere Mar­quette railroad ajppofnted A. R. De* wees chief engineer and B . L . McDer-mid chief train dispatcher.

With the time of his wedding but a few hours away, Peter Nelson, liv­ing south of Grant, lost his life In a tragic manner when. he. rushed into a burniifc/Darn to save his employer^ Hye ^tock. He was, burned to death* Twenty^head of cattfefcnd horse* were burned and caused a loss estimated at about J&OOO^ -

a~ to the sen­

tencing of women to Jackson prison, Mrs. Allen Jackson, convicted of as­sault with intent to do great bodily harm, wi l l have to be resentenced. Warden Simpson refusing to receive her when she was brought to the lo­cal prison to begin a sentence ot two and one-half years.

Adrian.—Dr. Samuel Stevenson, an age* physician of Morenci, died at his home. Doctor Stevenson1

was a graduate of the TJ. of M . and the Detroit College of Medicine. He practiced in Morenci for over half a century. He leaves two sons who live in Montana, a daughter in Morenci* and also a brother, Dr. W. G. Steven­son, of Morenci.

Charlotte.—Oscar Praul, the Cal­houn county man charged with having stolen furs from George An-drews of Olivet, was arrested and brought from Marshall to this cHy. Prahl pleaded not guilty, hut after be­ing confined in jail several hours* changed his mind and pleaded guilty. He was fined $30, #

Brighton.—John t Lane .of Ply­mouth, who was 'Making his first try as a brakeman on a local'Pere Mar­quette freight train, fell from a cat

per HAY—Car lot "prices track. D e t r o i t J _ w n i l e switching in the local yard. Both legs were run over and it 1»

feared he may lose the ' r ight -one. Lane was taken to a Detroit hospital.

Calumet—During the la£t "year there were 36 violent, deaths tat Calumet, a community of 35,000 peo*

T>le, while only thirty-six were due to tuberculosis in the same period. Ten deaths were caused by cancer, 31 by Heart trouble and 23 by pneumonia. Thirteen of the violent deaths were caused by suicide, seven of the sui­cides occurring within a period of one-month. Two were due to scalding and otie to taking poison^by mistake. The remalnfug violent dea^ts wejre duelto Mne-4£c lde t t fe«*3^ dors. " V ': '

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Agatha Redmond, opera singer, starting tor an auto drive in New York, finds a stranger sent as her chauffeur. She is annoyed, but he remains. Leaving the car. she goes Into the park to read the will of an old friend of her mother, who has left her property. There she Is accosted by a stranger, who follows her" to the auto, climbs In and chloroforms her. .lames Hambleton of Lynn, Mass., member of an old New England family, decides, he heeds a holiday. He goes to New York and there witnesses the abduction of Agatha Redmond. Hambleton sees Agatha f° r\l* bly taken aboard a yacht. He secures ia tug and when near the yacht drops over­board. Aleck Van Camp, friend of Ham­bleton, had an appointment with him. Not meeting Hambleton, he makes a call 'upon friends, Madame and Miss Melanle Rey­nier. With the latter, Van Camp is very much In love.

C H A P T E R IV.—Continued. "I think my proposition a prior one,

he remarked with dogged precision; "but, of course, Miss Reyuier must decide." He recovered his temper enough to add, quite pleasantly, con­sidering the circumstances, "Unless Madame Reynier will take my part?" turning to the older woman.

"Oh, no, not fair/* shouted Jones. "Madame Reynier's always on my side. Aren't you, Madame?"

Madame Reynier smiled inscrutably. "I'm always on the side of virtue in distress," she said.

"That's me, then, isn't it? The way you're abusing me, Madomoiselle, lis­tening here to Van Camp all the eve-DingTw ' ,

But Melanie, tired, perhaps, of be­ing patiently tactful, settled the mat­ter. "I can't go to luncheon with any­body, tomorrow," she protested. 'Tve had a tough of that arch-enemy, indi­gestion, you see; and I can't do any­thing but my prescribed exercises, nor drink anything but distilled water—"

"Nor eat anything but food! We know," cried the irrepressible Jones. "But the Little Gray Fox has a spe­cial diet for Just such cases as yours. Do come!"

"Heavens! Then I donVwant to go thereJ" groaned Aleck.

Melanie gave Jones her hand, half in thanks and half in farewell. "No, thank you, not tomorrow, but some­time soon; perhaps Thursday. W i l l that do?" she smiled. Then, as Jones was discontentedly lounging about the door, she aid a pretty thing. Turn­ing from the door, she stood with-face averted from everybody except Van Camp, and for an instant her eyes met his in a friendly, half-humorous but wholly non-committal glance. His eyes held hers in a look that was like an embrace.

"I wil l see you soon," she said quietly.

Van Camp said good-night to Jones at the WrrierT^after they had walked together in silence for half a block.

"Good-night, Van Camp," said Jones; then he added cordially; , c By the way, I'm, going back next week in my pri­vate car to watch the opening of the Liza Lu, and I'd be mighty glad if you'd go along. Anything else to do?"

"Thanks—extremely; but I'm going on a cruise."

As Aleck entered the piously exclu­sive hail of the club his good nature came to his aid. He wondered wheth­er he hadn't scored something, after al l .

C H A P T E R V.

Melanie's Dreams* Midnight and the relaxation of slum­

ber could subtract nothing from the high-browed dignity of the club offi­cials, and the message that was wait­ing for Mr. Van Camp was delivered In the most correct manner. "Mr, Hambleton sends word to Mr. Van Camp that he has gone away on the Jeanne D'Arc. Mr. Hambleton may not be back for some time, and re­quests Mr. Van Camp to look after the Sea Gull."

"Very well, thajak you,*' replied Aleck, rather absent-mindedly. He was unable to see, immediately, just what change ip his own plans this sudden turn of Jim's would cause; and he was for the moment too deeply 'preoccu­pied with his own personal ^ITairg to speculate much about i t His thoughts went back to the events of the eve* nlng, recalled the picture of his Di­ana and her teasing ways, and dwelt especially upon the honest, friendly, wholly bewitching look that had flown to him at the end of the evening. Ab­surd; as his own attempt at a declara­tion had been, he somehow felt that he himself was not absurd in Melanie's eyes, though he was far from certain whether she was inclined to marry him'. *

Aleck, on his part, had not come to hi t . decision suddenly or impulsively; nor. skying arrived* there, was bo to

ly desired Melanie Reynier for a wife, yet on the whole he was a very cool Romeo. He was manly, but,he was calculating; he was honorably dis­posed toward matrimony, hut he was not reborn with love. And so, in the sober bedroom of the club, he quickly fell into the good sleep induced by fa­tigue and healthy nerves.

Morning, brought counsel and a dis­position to renew operations. A note* was dispatched to his Diana by a pri­vate messenger, and the boy was bid­den to wait for an answer. It came presently: ^ r

"Come at twelve, if you wish. H

" M E L A N I E REYNIER." Aleck smiled with satisfaction. Here

was a wise venture going through hap­pily, he hoped. He was pleased that she had named the very hour he had asked for the night before. That was like her good, frank way of meeting a situation, and it augured well for the unknown emergencies of their future life. He had little patience with ti­midity and traditional coyness in wom­en, and great admiration for an -open and fearless spirit. Melanie's note almost set his heart thumping.

But not quite; and no one under­stood the cool nature of that organ better than Melanie herself^^The la­dies in the apartment at nH^Arch-angel had lingered at their breakfast, the austerity of which had been miti­gated by a center decoration of or­chids and fern, fresh-touched ' with dew; or so Madame Reynier had de­scribed them to Melanie, as she brought them to her with the card of Mr. Lloyd-Jones. Mlrs Reynier smiled faintly, admired the blossoms and turn­ed away.

The ladies usually spoke French with each other, though occasionally Madame Reynier dropped Into the harsher speech of her native country. On this morning she did this, telling Melanie, for the tenth time in as many days, that in her opinion they ought to be going home., Madame > consid­ered this her dutytg and felt no real-responsibility after the statement was made. Nevertheless, she was glad to find Melanie disposed to discuss the matter a little further,

"Do you wish to go home, Auntie, or is it that you think I ought to go?"

"I don*t wish to go without you, child, you know that; and i am very comfortable here. But his Highness, your cousin, is very impatient; I see that in every r letter from Krolvetz. You offended him deeply by putting off your marriage to * Count Lorenzo, and every day now deepens his indig­nation against you. I don't like to dis­cuss these things, Melanie, but I sus­pect that your action deprives him of a very necessary revenue; and I un­derstand, better than you do, to what lengths your cousin is capable of go­ing when he is displeased. Tou are, tfy't&e law of your country, his ward until you marry. Would it not be bet­ter to submit to him in friendship, rather than to incur his enmity? Aft­er all, he is your next of kin, the head of your family, and a very powerful man. If we are going home at a l l % we ought to go now."

"But suppose we should decide not to go home at all?"

"You wil l have to go some time, dear child. Tou are all alone, except for me, and In the nature of things you can't have me always. Now that you are young, you think it an easy thing to break away from the ties of blood and birth; but believe me, it isn't easy. You, with your nature, could never do i t The call of the land is strong, and the time wil l come when you wil l long to go home, long to go back to the land where your father led his soldiers, and where your moth­er was admired and loved."

Madame Reynier paused and watch­ed her niece, who, with eyes cast down, was toying with with her spoon. Suddenly a crimson flush rose and spresdrover Melanie's cheeks and fore­head *nd neck, and when she looked up into Madame Reynier's face, she was gazing through unshed tears. She rose quickly, came round.to the

talr and hissed her

"They aren't so much in Mr. Lloyd-Jones' style as these," replied Madame Reynier. She had a faculty of com­menting pleasantly without the least hint of criticism. This remark de­lighted Melanie.

"No; I should never picture Mr. Lloyd-Jones as a garden pink. Bur­then, Auntie, you remember how elo­quent he was about the hills and the stars. That speech did not at all in­dicate a,hothouse nature."

"Nevertheless, I think his senti­ments have bteen cultivated, like his orchids."

"Not Ianie.

There was an interval of silence, while the younger woman stood look­ing out of the window and Madame Reynier cut the leaves of a French journal. She did not read, however, and presently she broke the silence "I don't remember that Mr. Van Camp ever sent orchids to you."

"Mr. Van Camp never gave me any kind of flower. He thinks flowers are the most intimate of all gifts, and should only be exchanged between sweethearts. At least, I heard him ex­pound some such theory years ago, when we first knew him."

Madame smiled—a significant smile, if any one had been looking. Nothing further was said until Melanie unex­pectedly shot straight to the mark with: —"How do you, tatnk ho would do,

"But I'm not going to say 'yes;' at least, I don't think I am. Do sit down."

Aleck started straight for the gilt chair.

lOh, no; not that! You are four times too. big for that chair. Be­sides, it's quite valuable; it's a Louis Quinze."

Aleck indulged in a vicious kick at the ridiculous thing, picked up , an enormous leather-bottomed chair made apparently of lead, and placed it jauntily almost beside Miss Reynier's chair, but facing the other way.

"This is much better, thank you," he said. "Now tell me why you think you are not going to say 'yes* to me."

Melanie's mood of softness had not left her; but sitting there, face to face with this man, face to face with his seriousness, his masculine will and strength, she felt that she had something yet to struggle for, some deep personal right to be acknowl­edge. It was with a dignity, an aloof­ness, that was quite real, yet very sweet, that she met this American lover. He had her hand in his firm grasp, but he was waiting for her to speak. He was giving her the hear­ing that was, in his opinion, her right.

"In the first place," Melanie began, "you ought to know more about rue— who j am, and all that sort of thing. I am, in one sense, not at all what I seem to be; and that, in the case of marriage, is a dangerous' thing."

"It is an important thing, at least. But I do know who you are; I knew long ago. Since you never referred to the matter, of course I never did. You are the Princess Auguste Stepha­nie of Krolvetz, cousin of the present Duke Stephen, called King of Krol-

a bad achievement," said Me^jfvetz. You are even in line for the throne, though there are two or three lives between. You have incurred (he displeasure of Duke Stephen and are practically an exile from your country."

"A voluntary exile," Melanie cor­rected.

"Voluntary only in the sense that you prefer exile to absolute submis­sion to the duke. There is no alterna­tive, if you return."

Melanie was silent. Aleck lifted the hand which he held, touched it gently with his lips and laid it back beside its fellow on Melanie's lap. Then he rose and lifted both hands before her, half in fun and half, in earnestness, as if he were a courtier doing rever­ence to his queen.

"See, your Highness, how ready 'I am to do you homage! Only smile on the triost dev^tt^ol_y^ujr_se^vants "

Melanie could not resist his gentle gaiety. It was as if. they were two

is

cheek affectionately. "Dear Auntie, you are very good to

me, and patient, too. It's al l true, I suppose; but the prospect o f home and Count Lorenzo together—ah, well!" she smiled reassuringly and again caressed Madame Reynier's gaunt old face. "I ' l l think it al l oyer, Auntie dear.**.

Madame Reynier followed 'Melanie* into her sitting-room; bringing the precious orchids in her two hands, fearful lest the fragile vase should fa l l Melanle regarded them a mo­ment, and then said she thought they would do better In the drawini-room.

be-ta%e*^rr*m^ ^ sometime* think the H W e * ^ ^ was that he sincerely and affectionate* [pink quite as pretty as an orohM."

Auntie, in place of Count Lorenzo?" Madame Reynier showed no sur­

prise, "He is a sterling man; but your cousin would never consent to it."

"And if I should not consult my cousin?"

"My dear Melanie, that would en­tail many embarrassing consequences; and embarrassments are worse than crimes."

Melanie could laugh at that, and did. "I've already answered a note from Mr. Van Camp this morning, Auntie, No, don't worry," she play­fully answered a sudden anxious look that camo upon her aunt's counte­nance, "I've not said 'yes7 to him. But he's coming to see me at twelve. If I don't give him a chance to say what he has to say, he'll take one anywhere. He's capable of proposing on the street-cars. Besides, I have something also to say to him."

"Well, my dear, you know best; cer­tainly I think you know best," was Madame Reynier's last word.

Mr. Van Camp arrived on the stroke of/twelve, an expression of happiness on his lean, quizzical face,

"I'm supposed to be starting on a cruise," he told Melanie, "but luck is with me. My cousin hasn't turned up—or rather he turned up only to disappear Instantly.—otherwise he would have dragged me off to catch the first ebb-tide, with" me hanging back like an axichor-chain."

"Is your cousin, then, such a ty­rant?"

"Oh, yes; he's a masterful man, Jimmy."

"And how did he 'disappear instanU ly?' It sounds mysterious." i

"It is mysterious, but Jim can take\ care of himself; at least, I hope he can. The message said he had sailed on the Jeanne D'Arc, whatever that Is, and that I was to look after our hired yacht, the Sea Gull ."

Melanie looked up, startled. "The Jeanne D'Arc, was it?" she cried. "Are you sure? But, of course—there must be many boats by that name, are there not? But did he say nothing more—where he was going, and why he changed his plans?" %

"No, not a word more than that Why? Do you know of a boat named Ihe Jeanne D'Arc?"

"Yes, very well; but it can not mat­ter. It must be another vessel, sure­ly. Meanwhile, what are you going to do without your companion?" ?

Aleck rose from the slender' gilt chair where, as usual, he had perched himself, walked to ihe window and thrust his hands into his pockets for a contemplative moment, then he turned and came to a stand squarely before Melanie, looking down on her with his quizzical, honest eyes.

"That depends, Melanie," he said slowly, "upon whether you are going to marry me or not"

For a second or two Melanie's eyes refused to lift; but Aleck's firm-plant­ed figure, his steady gaze, above al l , his dominating wi l l , forced her to look up. There he was, smiling, strong, bi$, kindly. Melanle started to smile, but for the second time* that morning her eyes unexpectedly filled with tears.

"I can't talk to you towering over me like that," she said at last softly, her smile winning against the tears.

Aleck did not move, •* don twant yon to t a l k to 'nie about i t ; a l l I want to for you to say 'yea . ' w

"Go away, Sophie," said Melanie "Serve luncheon lo Madame Reynier alone. I shall wait; and you'll have to wait, too, peer man!" She looked scrutinizingly at Aleck. "Or are you, perhaps, hungry? I'm not going to talk to a hungry man," she announced.

"Not a bite till I've heard chapter thirty-nine!" said Aleck,

In a moment she became serious again.

"I have lived in England and here in America," she began, "long enough to understand that the differences be­tween your people and mine are more than the differences of language and climate; they are ingrained in our. habits of thought, our education, our judgment of life and of people. My childhood and youth were wholly dif­ferent from yours, or from what an American girl's could be; and yet I think I understand your American women, though I suppose I am not in the least like them

"But I, on the other hand, have seen the dark side of life, and particularly of marriage. When I was a child 1 was more important in my own coun­try than I am now, since it seemed then that my father would succeed to the throne. I was brought up to feel that I was not a woman, but a pawn in the game of politics. When I had been out of the convent for a year or more, I loved a youth, and was loved in return, , but our marriage was laughed at, put aside, declared impos sible, ^because he was qf a rank in­ferior to my own. My lover disap­peared, I know not where or how Then affairs changed. My father died, and it transpired that I had been of ficiaHy betrothed since childhood to Duke Stephen's brother, the Count Lorenzo The duke was my guardian and there was no one else to whom I could appeal; but the very week set for the wedding I faced the duke and declared I would never marry tho count. His Highness raged and stormed, but I told him a few things 1 knew about his brother, and I made him see that I was in earnest. The next day I left Krolvetz, and the duke gave out that I was i l l and had gone to a health resort; that the wedding was postponed. I went to France and hid myself with my aunt, took one of my own middle names and her sur­name, and have been known for some time, as you know, as Melanie Rey­nier."

"I know you wish to tell me .all these things, Melanie, but I do noi want you to recalT painful matters of the past now," said Aleck gently "You shall tell me of them at another time."

ThP color hriphlpnpd in Melanln's

children playing at a story. Aleck, in such a mood as this, was as mu<jh fun as a dancing bear, and In five minu­

ses more he had won peals of laughter from Melanie. It was what he wanted —to brighten her spirits. So present-

-iy he cam& back to the big chairs though he did not again take her hand.

"I knew you were titled and impor­tant, Melanie, and at first I thought that sealed my case entirely. But you seemed to forget your state, seemed not to care so very much about Jt; and perhaps that mado me think it was possible for us both to forgetjjt, or at least to ignore It I havenl a gold throne to give you; but you're the only woman I've ever wanted to marry, and I wasn't going to give up the chance until you said soA'

"Do you know also that if I marry out of my rank and without th<l con­sent of Duke Stephen, I shall forfeit all my fortune?" |

" 'Cut off without a cent!'" Aleck laughed, but presently paused, embar­rassed for the first time since he had begun his pica. "I, you know, haven't millions, but thore's a decent income, even tt>r two. And then I can always go to work and earn something," he smiled at her, "giving information to a thirsty world about the gill-slit, as you call it. It would be fun, earning money for you; I'd like to do i t "

Melanie smiled back at him, bat left her chair and wandsred uneasily about the room, as if turning a difficult mat­ter over in her mind. Aleck stood by, watching. Presently she returned to her cha1r>jmshed him gently back into his seat amhdropped down beside him.* Before she spoke, she touched her fingers lightly, almost lovingly, along the blue veins of his big hand lying on the arm of the chair. The hand turned, like a magnet spring, and imprisoned hers.

"No, dear friend, not yet," said Me­lanie, drawing away her hand, yet not very quickly, after all. "There is much yet to say to you, and I have been wondering how to say it, but I shall do it now. Like the heroes in the novels," she smiled again. " I am go­ing to tell you the story of my life."

"Good!" said Aleck. " A l l ready for chapter one. But your maid wants you at the door."

face, her eyes glowed. "No, not another time; you must un­

derstand-now, especially because all this preface l£ads me to what I really want to say to you. It is this: I do not now care for the man I loved at nineteen, nor formally of the other men of my country who have been pleased to- honor me-with their regard But ever since those early days I have had a dream of a home—a place different from Duke Stephen's home, different from the homes of many people of my rank. My dream has a husband in it who is a companion, a friend, my equal in love, .my superior in strength." Melanie's eyes lifted to meet Aleck's, and they were full of an almost tragic passion; but it was a passion for comprehension and love, not primarily for the man sitting be­fore her. She added simply: "And for. ray dream I'd give all the wealth, all the love, I have."

The room was very still. Aleck Van Camp sat quiet and grave, his fore*y head resting on his hand. "lie looked up, finally, at Melanie, who was be­side him, pale and quite worn.

'Toor child! You needed me more than I thought!" was what he said.

Rut Melani * had not quite finished ^No, that is noX-enough,-that I should need you. Ycu must also need me. want what I alone can give yod, match my love with yours. And this, 1 think, you do not do. You calculate, you remain "cool, you plan your life like a campaign, and I am part of your equipment You are a thousand times better than Count Lorenzo, but I think your principles of reasoning are the same. You do not love me enough, and that is why I can not say yes."

Aleck had taken this last blow standing. He walked slowly arottnd and stood before Melanie, much as he had stood before her when he first asked her to marry him; and this time, as he looked down on her fair­ness, there was Infinite gentleness and patience and love in his eyes. He bent over, lifted Melanie's two hands, and drew her bodily out of her seat She was impassive. Her quick alert­ness, her vitality, her passionate seri­ousness, had slipped away. Aleck put his arms around her very tenderly and kissed her lips; not a lover's kiss exactly, and yet nothing else. Then he looked into her face.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

K m g o r A m e r i c a n I s l a n d s

James Jesse -trang Really Was Crowned -and Had Dominion Wittf-

in the United States.

to that island. Other Mormons joined the colony from time to time, and by the winter of—18*58 they were sufll-

There frequently appears* alons Chestnut street a proffcssioaal beggar who claims to be Henry Strang, a son of America's only king. His tale is greeted as a huge joke, yet the story he tells is true, the only part of it concerning which there may be any doubt being his own connection with i t

TJie kingdom he refers to was once set up on Beaver island, In northern Lake Michigan, and flourished for some years. James Jesse Strang, a prominent Mormon, had quarreled with the leaders of hl» church, and in

1184$ withdrew with a few followers

clently numerous to threaten control of the island. On July 8, 1850, Strang was crowned king with elaborate cer­emonies. There was much contro­versy between the Mormons and the other inhabitants of the island, most­ly fishermen. While on a visit to De­troit President Fillmore heard of this little kingdom within the domain of the United States. He sent an armed vessel to Beaver teland, and King Strang was captured and tried for treason. He conducted hi* own de? fense andlnsade-aueh an eloquent plea that he was acquitted. Ia 1S50 he was assa*a1nated,~ntfladelplUa H e * ordV v.

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Don't Experiment.

"From your druggist (got two ounces of Glycerine <ind half an ounce of Globe Pine Compound (Conccntntied Pine). Take these two ingredients home and put them iirto a half pint of good whis­key. Shake well. Take one to two tea-spoonfuls after each meal and at bed time. Smaller doses to * children ac­cording; to age." This is said to b.e the quickest cough and cold cure known to the medical profession. Be sure to get only the genuine Globe Pine Compound .(Concentrated Pine). Each half -ounee bottle <?pmes in >a tfn screw-top sealed caso. It your druggist is out of stock he will Quickly get it from his whole­sale house. Don't fool with uncertain mixtures. It is risky. Local druggists say that for the past six years this has had a wonderful demand. Published by jthe Globe Pharmaceutical laboratories of Chi, ago.

T O L D H E R L I F E ' S A M B I T I O N

Small Girl Somewhat Crudely Ex­pressed Her Desire to Be a

Teacher When She Grew Up. * -

t At one time or another during tho

ward school life of a little girl there prevails the ambition to become a teacher. Perhaps it is the indisputable authority possessed hy the hand that wields the rules or the nonchallant dis­play of wisdom on topics surrounded by the most inaccessible difficulties to the small boy and girl. They wil l nearly always tell their ambitions to a well liked teacher, and one rath,er surprising declaration was given by a little maid in one of Mis,s Clara Town-sen d's room before she became princi­pal of the James school.

Among tho special favors coveted by the youngsters is the permission to stay behind after school and clean the blackboards. One evening a little girl was given the desired privilege, and while engaged in the task she struck up a shy sor^ of conversation with Miss Tawnsend. Finally the usual confession was made.

"When I grow up, I am going to be a teacher," she announced.

"That so?" pleasantly- asked Miss Townsend. "And why do you want to be a teacher?"

"Well," was the rather surprising answer, "I ' l l have to be either a teacher or a lady, and I would rather be a teacher."—Indianapolis News.

Shopper's Cramp. . Simeon Ford, at a dinner of hotel

men in New York, discussed a new disease.

"lucre's a new disease called shop­per's cramp," he said f"Tt\ appears early in December, becomes violent­ly epidemic about the middle of the month and ends suddenly on the eve­ning of the 24th.

"Women feel shopper's cramp In the-arms, the limbs, everywhere; but it attacks the hushand only in one place—the pocket."

Balanced. Representative Pujo was talking in

Washington about the currency. "It must balance," he said. "It

must balance automatically 'and deli­cately. It must resemble the Christmas husband."

" Oh, John, dear,' said this chap's wife, 'I'm so sorry you've got all those heavy parcels to carry!'

" 'Well, you see,* John panted, re­assuringly. 4my pocket is very much lighter now.'"

A Weakling. "I am sorry to say." remarked the

young w^fe, "that my husband seems to lack initiative and decision."

"What has caused you to think so?'* her friend asked

"1 have to suggest it every time when he .asks for a raise in salary, and then he. hesitates for a long time about doing it."

Keeping Her Word. Josephine—Do you know to whom

Stella is engaged? Margaret—Yes, but I promised I

would not tell. However, I don't think there'll be any harm in,my writ­ing his name on a piece of paper for you.—Satire.

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=1 ••Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch

In life— fhe crouching vassal to the tyrant wife.'*

This .was written of the henpecked husband with one wife—but to have sixteen such "tyrants" forever nag­ging at your soul, even the poet could not do justice to the feelings of Hugh Edward Gilhespie, an Englishman, who fled from a perfectly good African throne to escape the nightly curtain lectures of his sixteen "beloveds." He was literally henpecked off the throne by this "anvil chorus."

Stranger adventures probably never i>efel a man, even in the realms of fic­tion, than have been the lot of this native of Newcastle, .England.

While hunting in the jungle in Brit­i sh East Africa, he fell asleep and was captured by the "black men," who took him before their king. He fought that potentate and "licked" him; became the ruler in his stead, Jbecause'of' the attachment for him of a sacred monkey ,and entered into full

T"oyal possession, including a dusky harem. And his sixteen wives, ac­cording to his own statempnt, "hen­pecked* him off the throne and out of the "kingdom.*

Gilhesple's mates on the Royal Prince, an African coast tradiifg ves­sel on which the ex-king is second en­gineer, corroborate his story in many of its details. Resides, the English-man still retains that—f-H-N4^e—loo which marks, the man with the "ty­rant wife$—or wives—the world over. Even as he told the story of strange adventure he would cast worried glances over his shoulder, as if fear­ful that in New York his former queens might appear at any moment.

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By HUGH e o W A R D GILHEgPtE. I was born in Newcastle, England,

and Ferved my apprenticeship at Haw­thorn es. Nine years ago—I am now twenty-eight—I entered the service of the Prince line. At thp_Jiine^of my adventure I was, as I am now, the sec­ond engineer on the Royal Prince, trading from Mombasa to New York.

1 had ofton touched at East African "fioris, and for a long time had want­e d to do some big game shooting, 1 want to say right, now, though, that *my desires along that line are fully satisfied. Never again wi l l 1 desert the paths of civilization. I might be made king again. Vgh! ' Rut to continue with my story. At Mombasa I obtained the necessary leave, and with a guide set out. for the jungle. We soon came upon the trail of elands, and followed it for some hours. Eventually, when the trail became stronger, my guide sug­gested that we separate so that we could come on the game from two

^ides. We followed this plan, and hence my "kingly'—and henpecked-adventure.

For an hour I followed the track of the game, and then found that I was lost. I shouted and fired my gun sev­eral times, in ihe hopes that the guide would hear me, but all to no purpose. 1 was lost, and so had to make the best of it. For a time I tried to re­trace my steps, but only made matters *0orse, and evidently had wandered far into the jungle. When almost worn out by hunger and my long tramft I lay down for a little rest.

Lands on King's Solar Plexus. I don't know how long I had b e ^

asleep, when I was"~awakened by rough shake of thje shoulder. I open-edVmy eyes, and there before me, stood the most villainous bunch of natives it has ever befallen to my lot to see. They had already taken possession of my rifle and revolver, so that when they motioned for me to follow their leader there was nothing else to do. Re­sides, 1 was so nearly famished that I would have gone anyhow in the nope that they/would give me something to eat.

The march led to their village, and there I was presented to the king, a big black "bullet head" individual who sat In an old arm chair, probably se­cured from some seaport town. Over this chair was thrown a lion's skin: •Ftott natives kowtowed to their mon­arch, and bade me do likewise. I wouldn't make an obeisance, and by eigne so declared. Then they tried to force "me to bow. Instead, they started about the* prettiest little row yon ever saw. When I finished with that <jrew three of them were stretch­ed otft cold before the royal throne And half a dozen others were nurs­ing b*<Hy bruised faces.

A t this PPjot his majesty took a "JJtt- ' tt^.irS^i/aiitf for real nerve

got to hand It to that black But he lacked the training, of

_ J mifht not be bere to tell tbe ' —itti^^ftawa h© rushed • me, and

with a

stiff right to the jaw. But always he was back looking for more, and I was getting a bit winded in the fight. When he tried to close with me, how­ever, I landed on his solar plexus and he went out for the count—and hen some. ^

Monkey to "Blame" for Throne. W h e n I had "knocked out" the Idng

I expected that all Ms subjects would rush me and try to kill me; that they didn't I have only fate to thank. As the scowls gathered blackest on those dusky faces a little monkey that had been sitting on the arm of the chair— the throne, I mean—ran out to where I was standing and, jabbering as if it had met an old friend, climbed up to my shoulder, nestling contentedly against my cheek.

That instant a great change came over the "populace." As one man the natives prostrated themselves before

But at that monies* say chief thought was food, so I bade the medi­cine man, who understood a few words of English, to hurry through the initiatory ceremony and have my "chef" prepare me so/ne food ha-etanter.

As I ravenously devoured the fruit and baked ground nuts that were brought to me, the old man in his sadly damaged English informed me how I came to be made king. It seems that the monkey, which had perched on my shoulder, was a sort of a personification of a god the na­tives worshiped, and which lived in the jungle. When the monkey ran out to me and climbed "up my sleeve, it was a sign, so the natives thought, that the god had chosen me for their ruler.

Here I was king, and it looked to me as if I had best exercise the prepo-gatlves of my office until I had a chance to get back to civilization. Be­sides, I was a bit curious to^see just what kind of a king I would^make. So T decided to stay on the job, for a while anyhow.

Haggling for Lions' Teeth On. That night I retired to my palace, a

hut built of weeds and grasses My queens, whose apartments were in two huts separated from the palsce, did not bother me that night, but the next morning- when I started out for a stroll, all sixteen crowded around. The ringleader, or, I should ;Vsay, my supposed favored wife—she was the fattest, and in African social' circles that is the mark of beauty in women

acted as spokeswoman. I couldn't understand a word.she said, so called my friend the medicine man and he, with much,kowtowing, interpreted.3

Serinefineh-—that was my "favor­ite's" name; it means "peace." but I think Sen's father must have laugh­ed in ghoulish glee at the practical joke he was playing on some poor, unfortunate man when he named her —Sennenneh called me the "light of the sun" and other pretty, names. I was suspicious all the time that she wasn't compMmeating me for nothing, and when she pointed to those lions' teeth that ercircUd her fat neck and the fifteen others followed suit, I knew I was in for irouble. There followed a lot of gibberish which was inter­preted as meaning that my. sixteen wives expected mo to show j n v ap­preciation of their devotion by"provid-ing more lions' teeth.

Talk about a man being henpecked by one wife! I had sixteen, and they had the art of curtail, lectures down The American league executive ^ 0, aboiU_the finest point JrMgJni^Me^^rWis^ed Garry—Herrmann—a. star

twirler if he completed the deal ma­king Frank Chance a free agent. This was part of the trade.

Who the flinger will be that Herr­mann is to get from the American league is not known. President John­son has not consented to turn him over immediately, but will do so be

T W O F O R M E R W I N D Y C I T Y I D O L S I S T U D E N T S T O P L A Y B A S E B A L L

Illinois Senate Would Permit Col­legians to Receive Coin for Their

* Prowess on the Diamond.

'Joe Tinker and Fielder Jones. —

During the recent annual meeting of the American league, held in Chi­cago, two players of national fame met by chance and .held a "fanning bee." Tinker, who has signed as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, was for years the star shortstop of the champion Cubs, and Jones, who is now president of the pacific Northwest league, was manager and center fielder of the White Sox.

R E D S T O G E T S T A R P I T C H E R

American League Twirler Part of Price for Release of Chance—

Has Three Good Ones.

Joe Tinker, who has signed his con­tract as manager of the Cincinnati club, expects^to have one of the lead­ing pitching~staffs in the Rational league. He now hrs three high class, men in Suggs, Benion and Fromme, and looks for a fourth from the Amer. ican league.

Of course, I tried to stop thorn, but there are some things that even a king is powerless to do, and that was one of them.

Finally, with my head swimming from the concentrated chatter of mv harem, I fled to my throne. There * rested in peace., but when the fear of fever in the night air flna_lly_drove me Lfore ihe_basehail season-begins. He

There stood lainous bunch

before me almost of natives.

vil-

me, beating their heads on the ground and uttering weird cries that fright­ened me more than had the fight. After this had kept up for a few mo­ments an old chap with a big staff, the head carved in the shape of a strange bird, came toward me and kowtowed. Then he pointed to me and next to the throne. Finally it be­gan to dawn upon me that I had been chosen to succeed the'king I had just "deposed."

As I walked toward the throne the natives chanted some sort of a song that made me regret I had a cultivat­ed ear for music. I didn't wonder that it brought all the men, women and children who had missed the fight rushing to the scene, nor that under its influence the former king—I was really "It" now—returned to con sciousness.

He gave one look at me as I sat perched oh- the throne, the monkey still clinging...to my shoulder, and then he looked in the direction of the "palace" door just back of the throne. He didn't wait for any parting words.-but with a shriek that threatened to endanger my ear drums fled to the forest. His departure was hastened by the tumultuous cheering his for­mer subjects sent after him.

Sixteen Black Wives in Doorway, After he had disappeared among the

trees 1 looked curiously about me. As my glance reached the doorway of my "palace" the sight caused me to half rise. There, in a semi-circle in the doorway, sat sixteen women—the blackest I had ever seen. Their skirts of red flowered calico, cut short and on the bias, were about their only arti­cle of apparel, unless one would in­clude under that name their anklets, bracelets and nose rings and earrings of brass. Then about the neck of each hung great, necklaces of lion's teeth. It was quite evident, I figured, judging from the number each wom­an wore, that lions' teeth were away above par in my new kingdom.

As I looked at them—and they re­turned my glances with wifely grins —I began to think I had been mistak­en in my premise that the old king had fled from fear of me. It looked as if he had seen a good chance to

.'"'duck" from those sixteen* queens and had taken i t I almost envied him right then, and before my three weeks on the throne were up my en­vy waa unadulterated—It was green-eyed.

back to the palace the whole harem yented its pent up spleen upon my poor heajtK

Henpecked 6ff Throne. It was terrible, and so one night,

after-1 had been tempted to murder about sixteen of them—meani-ng all—I slipped out the palace door" with my rifle in my "hand and silently fled through the forest—literally henpeck­ed off my throne.

I had gone but a few yards when I heard, a noise behind me and the sacred monkey came running down the path, As I picked it up a sound smote my ears that made my blood run cold. It was made by my sixteen wives in hot pursuit of their deserting husband. I took but one glance to­ward the clearing in front of the pal­ace; directly toward me the sixteen' were headedr "Peace" in the lead. 1 waited for no more, but dived into. . the thick underbrush and ran for my p life. Al l night 1 stumbled through the jungle, with the monkey as my only guide. The monkey was again my salvation, and it led me to a path that I followed all the next day.

is expected to be a prominent hurler

Ordained king; of the tribe.

About sunset, when I was famishing for lood and water, I came on tho camp of an English hunting party, and staid with it until we reached Mombasa.

It's a strange story, hut it is true. And if Sophie—that la the sacred mon­key's name now—could only speak, she would confirm every word of how I was made a king and then henpecked off my throne. I had royalty thrust upon me, and one trial was enough. Never again! "

Pitcher Fromme.

In the younger organization. Herr­mann is enthusiastic over the deal, and believes the new twirler will aid Tinker immensely in keeping the Reds at the top of the first division in the National league race.

"I felt confident all along that I would secure Tinker," said Herrmann, •and now that it is all over I believe I got the better of the deal. Three Df the five players we have released to the Cubs we couldn't use. We never had Corridon, we wouldn't have re­tained Knisely and Humphries isn't fast enough for major league company. Mitchell has been a faithful, hard working player in the Reds' employ, but we had to let him go to swing the deal. Phelan, too, is a first-class in-fielder, but, like Mitchell, we were forced to give him up. I wil l have a star American league pitcher shortly 4vs part of the deaVso I think-we have fared very well."

Larry McLean may wind up with the Cardinals next summer.

Connie Mack will increase the price of seats at his park next season.

Billy Papke is enjoying himself put- . ting alleged fighters from France to" bed.

Art Irwin, the Yankees' scout, has been, appointed business manager of the club.

Garry Hermann is some pinochle shark. He also considers himself some swapper.

Charlie Frank of the New Orleans club says he is satisfied with the Peli­can pitching staff..

The Washington Americans will play an exhibition game with the Cin-„ cinnati Reds on March 30.

Hans Wagner says he has to play one more year, anyhow, just to 'win back that batting leadership. ,

Give Ty Cobb Tris Speaker's arm and you will have to look no farther to find the greatest of all time.

Bat Nelson'admits his skypiece is a bit soiled, but^modestly writes col­umns about its being in the ring. /Manager Mike Kelly is one of the

greatest leaders who knows how to get publicity out of absolute silence.

Harry Gasper, the former Cincin­nati pitcher, says he is done with baseball. That's what they all say.

"Old Cy" Young want3 to pitch for Atlanta next season. If he does, it will be his twenty-third year on the slab;

Larry Cheney of the Cubs holds a pretty fair record. He pitched in 42 games. He started and finished 28 of them.

It is reported that the Louisville team of the American association will s^rve as a farm for the Pittsburg-Pirates.

"Rip" Hagerman, leading pitcher of the Lincoln club, has been sold to the Portland club of the Pacific Coast league.

Already several baseball managers are willing to concede their club is strong enough to finish in the second division.

The University of Illinois' senate is­sued a report of its. recommendations to the western iniexcoltegtete confer­ence on the question of amateurism, which recommendation* are now be­ing considered by the conference board. While the senate did not countenance plaving in. organized ball or as a regular thing, its stand is that occasional playing on organized fceams for money is not wrong.

The University of Illinois recom­mends the amendment of rule 5 so that it shall read as follows:

" A student shall be ineligible to represent his college or university in any intercollegiate athletic contest under the following conditions:

"(A)—If he is or has been a mem-, ber of any team playing under the na­tional agreement of professional base­ball clubs or has engaged in contest* with teams playing under this agree- * ment.

"(B)—If he is or has been a mem­ber of any so-called outlaw team.

l"(C)—If he has played on any team' regularly for a salary, so that playing has been his vocation or principal calling for the period of his associa­tion with said team.

"(D)—If he has ever drawn a salary for nominal service in some alleged employment while his athletic work has been really his main service.

"(E)—If he is or has at any time during his college course been a member of any athletic team of any athletic lub.

"(F)—If he Is receiving or has at any time received compensation as coach, trainer or instructor in physi­cal training.

"(G)—If in term time he engages; in athletic contests as a representa­tive of any athletic organization not connected with the college."

The University of Illinois also pro­poses that in place of an eligibility-committee in each university, which passes on eligibility of students in that university, there be created a single committee from the various universities to rule finally upon ques­tions of eligibility, and in, doing sa to enforce the true spirit of amateur­ism without regard to trivial infrac­tions.

C A R E E R OF E N G L I S H F I G H T E R

Matt Wells, Former Lightweight -CtraTtrptoir^rTjrreat Britain7~Has

, Had Few Fights.

Matt Wrells. the former lightweight champion 6f Great Britain, lias prob­ably fought fewer battles as a pro­fessional than any other fighter who ever held the premiership. From 1904 to ISO7 he held the- -amateur lightweight championship of England-

New Minor League. A e t h e r minor league Ms hatching.

Western New York and Pennsylvania towns want baseball. Bradford, Mead-ville, Greenville, Kane, Warren and Oil City in Pennsylvania and James­town, Corning, Hornell and Olean, N . Y. , are the towns most prominently mentioned as candidates for berths.

Speaker Was Busy Fielder. ~ Tris Speaker was the busiest out fielder in the league- Tbe Red Sox star/ fly chaser took care of thances

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Calvo Signs Contract. Manager Griffith has received the

signed contract of Jacinto Calvo. The young Cuban sent a letter to Griff written in Spanish. "They did not touch Spanish where I went to school," said the Old Fox, "so I can't translate the missive. However, as he Bigned his contract, I guess every­thing is all right."

, ^ "Farmer*' Burns' Advice.

"Farmer" Burns advises parents to forbid their boys using cigarettes and start them Wrestling and boxing. This veteran trainer thinks Jhe Y. M. C. A. is the place for his boys when out of school, and "Farmer" is a wise old owl.

Glory for Ml. Baseball players should not get all

the glory. What's the matter with signing up Mercer, Thorpe, Pumpelly and Brickley to do a turn in vaude­ville?

Matt Weils.

His first fight as a professional was with CroiXi the French welterweight champion. After winning a number of other bouts of minor importance,, Weils came to America early in 1910. He engaged in several bouts on this side with success, and Upon his re­turn to England he defeated Freddie \ Welsh, the British title holder, in twenty rounds. After winning the championship Wrells paid a second visit to America and while here boxed no-decision bouts with Leach Cross, Pal Moore, Dick Hyland, Wil l ie Moody, "Knockout" Brown, and Abe Attel. Several weeks ago in London Welsh regained the championship from Wells in a twenty-round con­test.

Baumgardner Is Speediest. ^ f The latest pitcher who has more

speed than Walter Johnson is Baum­gardner. Inasmuch as Johnson is al­ways the standard of comparison for the speedy boys, the suspicion takes* hold that after ail Johnson has the greatest supply *of smoke when it comes to actual facts.

\ Jacobson Is Real Giant. You who have seen Bi l l Lange.

Larry McLean, Orvie—Overall, ~JefT~ Tesreau and many other big fellows, and think you have seen a big ball, player, want to wait until you get a good flash at Baby Jacobson, wiio wi l l get a try-out with the Giants next spring,

Lajoie Going Back? It la rumored that Larry Lajoie had

his salary cut Larry says he Is worth as much now ae ever. He was getting sometbing around $10,000.

Don't Want Chance. A report that President Barry o f

the Los Angeles Coast league club sought Frank Chance to manage his* Los Angeles club is denied by Barry.

Hartaell to Llvo in Toledo. "Topsy" Hartsell, manager of the*'

Toledo team, has moved to that city* , and jtays he wi l l live- there.

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' M E L I S S A WOULD NOT M A R R Y A F A M I L Y .

He's a perfect gentleman, I think," declared Mrs. Merriwid's maternal maiden Aunt Jane.

Her niece, proceeding with her soft Improvisation on the piano, expressed her entire concurrence in that op in-

•'And he's very sweet tempered," Aunt Jane continued.

"Surest thing you know," murmured Mrs. Merriwid, still playing.4* "Some saccharine, he is."

"And you can't say he isn't good looking.' 1

"I could, but I won't, dearie ?' said Mrs. Merriwid, executing an arpeggio with nimble fingers. "To save time I ' l l admit that he's intelligent, a good citizen, a consistent Christian, a nifty dresser, and a patient piiecemeal pic­ture puzzler. He departed this house on the ninth day of November, 1912, and *4HeTl never come back, he'll never

come back, No, he'li never come back any more."

Mrs. Merriwid sang this with mournful expression.

'Td*Tlke to know why/' safd Aunt Jane.

Mrs. Merriwid's rich contralto was again raised in song—

ul don't think his Uncle John Eyer had a collar on."

"I wonder if you'll_ever learn to be sensible," sighed Aunt Jane.

Mrs. Merriwid whirled around on the piano stool and faced her relative. "Darllngest aunt," she said, "I am not the frivolous, unthinking creature you deftm me. Beneath this apparent kid-ding there lies a deep and serious ap­preciation of Mr. BJudthick's m e r i t -but I am also wise to Uncle John. Un­cle's deficiency in the matter of linen gives me what is commonly known as the willies."

"I never—" "Don't say that you never heard

that Mr. Bludthick had an Uncle John, dearie," interrupted Mrs. Merriwid.

of strong spirits of ammonia an6 leave it where it was handy for her to sniff."

"Don't you like his sister?" inquired Aunt Jane.

"I might learn to like her, but I wouldn't want to take up the study until I had made myself a mistress of German and the higher mathematics," replied Mrs. Merriwid. "She would say, 'Do not you like?' by the way, aunty, dear., That little habit ,Lshe has of raising her eyebrows and coo­ing, 'Yes-s-s?' fills me withy^motions too profound for words. Brjfcks-s-s are the only things that would be at all adequate. No, sister didn't make a hit with me. The sample cous in-well, you saw the hat she was wear­ing."

"Of course It wasn't exactly the hat I should choose," Aunt Jane con­ceded.

"Very well, then," said Mrs. Merri­wid. "What boots it to bandy words, as Mr. Ruskin remarks? There, are the ginkesses who would consider themselves privileged to greet me with a clammy kiss and give me ad­vice and criticize my gowns and ask me what I pay my dressmaker and follow me into the kitchen and borrow my trunks for a month's vacation and tell me what my husband likes and dislikes and direct my attention to my increasing stoutness and call me Me­lissa." Mrs. Merriwid got all this off in one breath. "Married to them!" she exclaimed. "Of course I would be, and worse. Nay, dear, a man may speak with the tongue of an angel and make love like John Drew in his palm­iest days; he may be liberal, consid­erate and unselfish and thoroughly domesticated, but if thereTs^arrUncle John with nothing between the neck basd^of his shirt antd his whiskers who is to be considered on visiting terms and entitled to a seat in the chimney corner where he can spit on the hearth, I beg to be excused. Uncle John, figuratively speaking, has done more for the leading industry of Itenu -than Shy other factor. They ought to

Mrs. Merriwid's Rich Contralto Was Again Raised in Song.

"I haven't either, but I do know that he has a mother and two sisters and several cousins because I have met mother and a sample sister a i d cousin. Mr. Bludthick isn't to fcl.vme for having them, df course, and the fact that he is proud, of them does credit to his heart, even If it argues a certain osseous solidity of the oranium, is Dr. Jllasy would put it. In other words, I might love him madly enough tcjorgive, the circumstances, but not its open avowal. Do you get me, sweet aunt?"

"You wouldn't be marrying the fam­ily," said Aunt Jane.

"I would not," Mrs. Merriwid as­serted with emphasis. "Not while reason holds its sway and the tariff question remains unsolved, dearie. Not in a million years. But if I mar­ried Mr. Bludthick, I would; that's something that can't very well be side­stepped. I have heard sanguine young brides-to-be say they weren't marry­ing their husband's families ere this, and I have seen the pearly Pozzoni coursing down their cheeks as they realized too late their fetal error. Take it from me that you might as well try to ignore an ulcerated tooth as a husband's family There ift real* ly~i«^sueh- thmg^a«- -aev^r ing rela

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tions; they decline to be severed and they won't be pleasant." * ,

"Mrs. Bludthick seemed to be quite pleasant," observed Aunt Jane,

"She gave me the gloomy eye never­theless, and I could detect the out­lines of a hammer in her skirt pocket," said Mrs. Merriwid. "I un­derstand from ber devoted son that she's a Colonial Dame. If she isn't a colonial knocker, I'm no Judge of an­tiques. Her nose is the feature I ob­ject to particularly though. I could see little fragments of. other people's business sticking to It quite plainly where she had forgotten to wipe. it off/ If I $*e> expected another visit, I?d put my private affairs in a bottle

erect a statue cf him J i the market place opposite the courthouse."

Mrs. Merriwid turned to the piano again, and sang:-... "He's a perfect gent, but when I get

tied up fcr life I'll pick

An orphan." "It isn't an orphan asylum I'd send

you to, llclteca," remarked Mrs. Merri-wid's maternal maiden Aunt Jane.

(Copyright, 13:2, by W. G. Chapman.:

What Colors' the °'Blood. The color of blood Is due chiefly to

iron in the little blcod cells. When the iron is kept in these little blood cells, which are living and traveling around in the blood vessels, the color is red. Hit the skin hard enough to break some of the little blood vessels beneath the surface and the little red cells escape from ,the injured Mood vessels, wander about for awhile in the tissues and die. When they die the iron that made them red before then changes to black and blue color­ing. After awhile this iron is taken up by the glands called the .lympha­tics, and made over again into nice red cells. The iron is taken up much more quickly by the lymphatics If the

i>lack™and-bluo_spot-is rubbed and massaged.-—St Nicholas.

Wrong Way. Miss Inez MJlholland, the beautiful

and aristocratic suffragette, detests the male flirt.

A t a luncheon in Newport a male flirt sneered at woman suffrage.

"Woman doesn't want a vote—she wants a 'husband," he ja id .

"Nonsense?" said Miss Milholland. "it's a fact," the flirt continued.

"Tbe way the average woman wor­ships man is amazing. Why, I myself have turned about fifty women's heads.0

"Away from you?" said Mies MiJbol> land.'

R U S E G F S I S T E R J E A N

By M A R T H A M'CULLOCH-WJU LIAM8.

Wingfield looked at his sister Jean, frowning heavily. She sat across ths room from him her head bent, .jier bauds discolored but stitching ieftly at something-*-something that roused him to auger, l ie flung his book half way across the desk in front of him, got up laggardiy, and said, balancing bimseif with both hands upon the desk-top:

" 'Patches ar* premeditated pov­erty. You know that—yet you do worse than patch. Is this the third, or fourth time you've made over that hat?, I'm sick of seeing it—of seeing you messing with it. A new one, much better looking, wPould cost only a couple of dollars—I believe you in­sist upon trimming such things your­self.'

"Correct! Every way," Jean an­swered impassively. "I am not in love with my hat-making—nor even with my own Way of trimming. Maybe I might be if—"

"If what?" Wingfield asked almost savagely as she paused.

She smiled at him—rather a hard smile but wistful. "I was about" to say if I could buy the things I like— rather than the things I can afford," she said.

"You mean those poodle-dog feath­ers that fly in the face of everybody?" Wingfield queried.

She shook her head, saying, "No— praise be. Willow plumes don't tempt me in the least. But I would like— say for this summer—a real fine straw —the seven-dollar sort, as pliable as cloth almost and very rich broad pale purple velvet for a bow and a trail of orchilds. I say just the thing yester­day—for seventeen dollars—and » Paris tip, inside the crown—to make believe it came from there."

"Go get i t!" Wingfield ordered, pull­ing a roll of bills from his pocket and tossing them to her.

She did not touch, the money. She looked at him steadily, smiling still that old smile. "I have never yet put the rent into finery," she s aid, drop­ping her eyes.

Wingfield scowled. "I am begin­ning to believe it might better for us if you did," he said. "You're not a bit bad-looking—-but nobody wants a dowdy anywhere. That's how you're left out of things. 1 have to go—it is part of the game to be seen right— and things are slow^£ii£H:gh as it is/ '

'"Thave not complained," Jean said calmly. "Jt is not very—exhilarating —eating bread and cheese in the kitch­en alone, when you are with your— fm^ids. Still , somehow I would rath­er stick to the bread and cheese. They do not bore me—not anything like the

W I T H T H E W O R L D ' S

W O R K E R S R E V I E W O f P R O G R E S S T H A T IS B E I N G M A D E A L O N G A L L L I N E S O f E N D E A V O R

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M U S T K N O W D E T A I L S

GOOD T E S T OF H U M A N M A T U B E

M a n of Bus iness Today Has to Have a Perfect Acquain tance

Wi th His Occupat ion.

D A Y OF S U P E R F I C I A L I T Y GONE

Modern Competition Too Fierce for Any but Those Who Equip Them­

selves for the Struggle Which Inevitably Must Precede

Success.

There is a successful department store in Chicago which has spent tens of thousands of dollars in cost j reductions. With that house the sav­ing of one nail in a packing case of any standard bke is a big item. As to i^e merchandise put on sale, the prices are fixed and immutable, as are the profits, which have betua fig­ured on average sales, from a paner of pins to the furnishings of a palati­al home. But even this is not enough for its management

"Do you know that the average of sales for every sales person in this sLore is fixed annually?" the manager once asked of the writer, turning to a memorandum book on. his desk "This year/' he said, "the average rales for every sales person in this house are $43.83. The average Will be greater than that next year, for the reason that the growth of the city in population will be fixed anew, With the city growing at an average fixed ratio, if the average sales in the house do not 4ncrease in proportion, we shall know just this, that we are falling behind our competitors!"'

Here, in .a paragraph, is a light for many a small business man, strug glmg in his benighted tway against the comparatively small competitions of bis immediate competitors. The ;6ame paragraph may be taken by "^Th^rs~inrir war-aiag—iHga-mst vqs4=& 'ing, unstudiedly, into the miry field of such competition.

It is nut enough that such adven­turer talks of the monopol> which is straggling competition lie may be-strangled and mummified by other

Women's Aid in Business. Many successful business men have

said that they have been aided beyond measure by the advice of their wives in business matters. Indeed, it is not uncommon for a man, who is rated in business circles as particularly shrewd, to say that he seldom undertakes an important project without consulting and depending largely upon his wife's opinion. Full recognition of the val­ue of woman's opinion is to be given by the mayor of Flint, Mich., who fa­vors appointment of a municipal com­mission of five women whose duty it would .be-'to study problems of civic concern and lend their assistance in direction of improved conditions, a sort of "municipal housekeeping com­mission." It is a harmless though nov­el proposition and should not occasion any alarm in official circles, since the women are to act only in an advisory capacity.

Man Who Was 'Watched Those Who Use the Escalator Mak*s Some

Pretty Wise Deductions.

One Day a Week for Rest. While it is urged that the normal

one day of rest in seven should be the Christian Sabbath, or the Lord's day, it is recognized that there are condi­tions of industry that require the con­tinuance cf work each day in the week. and. in consequence, tbe em­ployment of some workers upon the Lord's day. In such cases the council insists that it is the positive duty of every Christian employer to arrange f that those 'employed upon this day ' should be given one other day in j every seven, for the rest and recrea- j tion of. mind and body so essentia) to , health and happiness. Jt is the cbliga- j tion of every Christian employer in •

| At the I2titb street station of the : New York "sub" there is a long essa-

la tor It is not only a moving side­walk; it is a moving flight of stairs. Jt ascends at about the same pace as the average man or woman- If yon like, you can stand still and be^carrted-to the top in some forty seconds. Or,

j you can keep moving and make It In itwenty. ^

'1 can Flze up a man's character by I the way he climbs those stairs." This | statement of John Sellers, -who has-been chopping tickets at I25th street)

j ever s^iice the escalator was installed^ "If b£ stands still and lets the esea* lator do the work, I know he's a fail-

I ure. lie's satisfied with rising; he) ; doesn't care anything about the op­portunity to rise faster. If the stairs'

I didn't move, he'd walk up them; a& they do, he takes the chance to loaf.

| A man that climbs stairs on that prin­c ip le will try to get through life in> ; the same way! I "Once in a while, though, I see some i fellow that starts climbing the inia-! ute he hits the stairs. He Isn't think* 1 ing of the escalator as a convenience i - a *way to belp him out of work. So .far as he's concerned, it's just an ad-: vantage—it'll help him to get therm ; quicker. And. you can take it from­me that's the kind of man God's: marked for suci-fss!"

I • _ j i - • Mo Jobs for Showy GJris.

Cirl wage earners with painted faces are tabooed by factory and fifco$ employers. This fact was strongly emphasized by Mrs. P. J, O'Cocnel?

any line of industry to so arrange bis j lusher address at the opening session scale of, daily compensation that the living wage of his employe is calculat­ed upon a six day, and not a seven-day's basis.— I4oston Transcript.

When the Girl Worker Marries. The business girl wife has learned

the valuable lesson of being silent 16 gotten. She kirovCs

tbe worries that beset every one in business.

Having had to work for money her self the business girl knows the value-of it.

This girl knows by experience that

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of the recent vocational guidance con­ference in New York. Mrs. O'ConnelU obtains occupations for several hun­dred girls a year, who come to her from the various high schools, settle* ments and religious organlzailous ot the city.

She recited an experience with a giri wi>Trfiad~had i4 jobs ju nv^jWrir and said the .girl's p'*rfcisteuey in the habit of dress, which was described as follows, was largely to blame fof h'-r "floating" from job to* job; "A tawdry red satin hat, ear-rings that vou buv at the ten cent store, Very

gang which haunts those table d'hote small business not a hundred yards the w%rk^r Deeds a quiet, restful home , low cut lace sh rt waist and a lavish places^" I f r 0 U 1 o v v u door, it ie not that when the day's work is ended She ; application of paint and powder"

-this small ^competitor~has adopted-aa- ,-knows- the unfairness of a-^ktng h^r-i "-When the girl, came to me the. first

course,

"You know said almost I—we kept

hang it!

Jean has risen, hat in hand. She Turned to the mirror and set it upon her head, speculation in her eyes, a stronger frown underneath the brim.

•'1-l4oo^b like a last year's bird nest/' she commented, tossing it to the ceiling and catching it ask<-w. "Nobody wouid believe 1 was on/<j a fielder, though a substitute," the said with a la intr~t winkle. "Ho you re­member the game Tim? Out in the back lot—I was just thirteen and gawky as a young calf—bur. I could run—and had the only pair of real legs left available."

"I remeraber—well," Tim nodded. "That was a game sure. Accident was epidemic—ten of our noble team, earned with sprained legs, anus, shoulders—what not. Hut not a one could have caught the fly you did—it saved the game for us. That reminds me—I met Treptow last week—and al­most the first thing he said was: 'Where is that sister of yours? The girl of the fly?"'

"You didn't tell him—of Jean said quietly.

Wingfield looked down. I cant "tell people," he fretfully, ' i f they knew house they'd expect—O! You know why/*

"Perfectly," Jean said. "You are ashamed to seem poor—you'd mind that worse, much -worse, than being poor. You like to be -liberal—mind— I don't say extravagant. Since you earn most of the money, you have a right to spend it as you choose. I have never complained—I never s-hail. Cut this I ask—if Billy Tnptmv comes in your way again—ask him here to dinner.'*

"Ask him! When he has all the rich folk running after him! Don't you know that?'* Wingfield demanded.

Jean nodded, but persisted. "As l him. I know he'll come—if you tell him I am to be cook."

Someho\y Wingfield dfd ask Billy In fact, he could not very, well escape it, because Billy developed suddenly a turn of inquiry that quickly brought out the facts. Jean was in the city— keeping house for her brother—Hilly straightway demanded the address.

Wringfleld went home laggardiy. Ii was late when he got there—too late for Anything but a hurried change of costume. It took him all aback to find the living room deserted, the dining room, a tiny place, likewise empty except f6r, massed roses. He won­dered If, after all, Billy Treptow was not coming, It was five minutes past the hour. Suddenly from the kitchen he heard voices and laughter.

Pushing into the door—there was not room to go clean inside—he saw Billy with both arms about Jean, whost hands upheld a platter of de lectable fried chicken. She was laughing and saying: "Mfnd! You*P upset your dinner," to which he wa answering, "Not on your life, I've been waiting five years to eat your cooking—now I mean to eat it al­ways/'

intricate system of cost keeping. There are men who may be said to Lave been born business may have struggled in

thing I did was to make her wash off the paint." said Mrs. O'Connell, "but

men. They j business has taught her this lesson. '.on the way to the factory where I sent quicksands, If her husband should fail to make,, her for a Job she must have touched

busy husband to execute household comparisons Her own experience in

long before, and yet in seme way j his appearance promptly at the dinner ' herself up, for the Huperintendent tele-v,hich they are unable to describe have emerged to turn at the verge of failure into the broad road to suc­cess.

i'ut however tliis may have, been fcccompUshed, a^broao common sense — perhaps J*oo broad to be termed at all common—-has guided them. The Instinct of trade has been a heritage or many such men.

It is unfortunate that every year thousands of men and women, dissat­isfied with their condition, are led by the generalizing examples of such men into fields of eifort In which they have not the slightest concrete knowledge.

"Competition," is one of the com- . 'monest of everyday terms. What is ! competition'' Shall it be considered from only the one side of the person j who enters upon a new business and j finds that he suffers from this buga j boo of competition? Or should the | broader view be taken and the man i already in the established business ] be regarded, also as one having a J right to kok upon the new venture as ! aggressively competitive. '

The whole country today Is regard ! ing the movement from the fauna to : the cities as a pignjficantJy ennnous ! sign of the nrr.eK. ICconcmists, the pulpit, even political partes, have j

hour she will not grumble, for she has experienced the n**cessjty of some' times staying at the office wben buti ness demanded it.

phoned me that he had interviewed the girl and that he would not employ, a pa-nted girl.' Very lew employers will."

F I N D T H E M P O S I T I O N S

German State Employment B u ­

reaus Take Care of Workmen

Throughout the .Empire .

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been preaching against the movement it is a time and a condition which is laying this stress upon that one word, "occupation," especially in its urban sense, lint the true balelul-ness of the word lies in the fact that tbe general acceptance of competi­tion is po narrow in the public mind.

Put a finger upon tbe map in any settled section of the country and move Jt to cover either -cUy-v or town The finger will regt upon a spot in which already are more than enough business concerns to more than sup­ply urban populations' needs for the* necessities that come from the middle­man to the consumer.

The real opportunity—the real com­petition that Is reality in its broad­est sense—is a better, broader, more economical system of business.

S Y S T E M A N E L A B O R A T E ONE

Men Are Classified According to Age and Degree of Ability, and Result

Has Been Greatly Decreased Periods of Enforced

Idleness.

One of the recommendations of the Chicago commission on uijemp.oyment comprehends the establishing in Chi­cago and other JiiinoU citie» of state labor .exchanges him:!ar to Mjo.se maim tamed in li< run ai.d oilier (jeim^n cit­ies

Berlin's public labor bureau has readied a hijih state of development The work frii sr. if. • <J \Ji >.J >- ' • I

oi finding employment has | been highly 'systemizt d, classified and j bUbdivided. There are 28 different j departments. ID for men, nine for j women, indexed according to the van : ous trades. Skilled workers are aepa- ; rated from tinhkilled. There is a de­partment for older and younger men in J#94 this bureau found positions for

men. Jn 1»0« Jobs were found by the same agency for 82,.557 men and 15,182 women, its activity hav­ing fcfoown a steady increahe.

One of the reasons lor the Kucces» of the Herlin bureau, which \h the larg-

I est in the empire^ in tbe fact that »hn-j ilar bureaus'exist ;}."<,ughout tier-I many, in 1907 tn- .. mber was re-1 ported as *400, of which 150 were re­garded as of large importance. The relations between these bureaus are close. Information is interchanged almost daily, bo that the needs for

hJK age, parentage, means of identifi­cation and place of employment. When*

leaves this place for another his j employer returns the book after enter-| ing the date. The book must be. . bhown, that its owner may obtain an-' • other job. * t ! After the age of 21, also, record* j are kept which nhow what the work-j man is, what he has done and what he | is capable of doing. Much information

of this character is derived from re-I turns of the state industrial insurance I system. The insure} worker \n given I a card, which bears essential facta i as to occupation, place of employ

ment, wages, size of family, general economic condition, state of health

J and so forth. When he applies for j work at a labor bureau be.must pro-; duce his card to e^vblisb his charac-i ter and position. These facts are*

available for 18,000,000 persons. ! When he seeks work at a labor bu* , \ reau, also, considerable information ; concerning the applicant is entered in : <he books, and the follow-up system

is used to ascertain his succor or failure in securing employment. In tierlin. 'for "instance, he is given a small book which he brings to the bu­reau each day to be stamped, until he

j obtains a Job.

Where the Blind Work. A workshop for the blind, erected J labor in a l l sections of the country are

I The book idea is carried still fur-, ther as part of tbe German system, j For full records are kept at the tero-j porary shelters for wandering work­

men, generally of the unskilled o r needy type, since the labor bureaus, take care more especially of the ur­ban and skilled workers. These shel­ters may be found In almost al l Oer-i man cities and towns. .There are. about 500° of them. They are vari­ously maintained by charitable, re­ligious or trade union organizations,! but the work of all of them synchroni izes with that of the labor bureaus/; In .order to obtain employment

in New York at a cost of $170,000 by Misa Emily ii. Bourne, and the most completely equipped institution of its kind in the world, has been opened to the blind workers of the 'city.

The building is equipped for the making of brooms and mops and the caning of chairs. The workers are able to earn from $10 to $1¼ a week. The building has four stories and a roof garden, a restaurant, shower iaths-and other conveniences.^

Such Institutions mark the pass­ing of a day that regarded blind per* tons as helpless burdens.

continually, Ipown. Further, a month­ly publication is issued which serves to knit the bureau into a close work­ing system.

Germany not only makes a distinc­tion between the employable and the unemployable, varying treatment ac­cording to the needs, but also keeps an eye on individual workers. By means of records it knows that his* tory of each workman virtually throughout his career. If he Is less than 21 years old no German may en­ter employment without getting, from

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the police his labor book. It contains ^for debate.

Through one of these shelters, the ar tisan must produce his little book, which is stamped at each station; alsor before food or shelter can be obtained. If work is not obtainable, he lk for­warded to the next station.

It is thus clear that "the man with, the little book" might he used as an­other term to describe the uneraploy-; ed In Germany. Whether so elaborate^ a plan could be worked out in ihim eountryv or whether state labor boy reaus in a single city or state wotil4 * r be successful In the absence'.of 9^->^:%^M l iar requirements elsewhere. Is ^§jjj j j^^^^

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^> WILLIAM J. BOSS AD AY Vite&or of ihe N&w Yprk Zwti&gical Park

€The bird purtrailfc wat3a tta&s astSfiJe are J ffcarr life© ^Ameanleaia Kattujrai History." <5oppri«3tit, fey Wai3iain T- BoroaMlay.

H E United States de­partment of agrieal1' ture is reEpozisi&le for the s t a r t -3aiag statesnexitt tSaat, in the year 13^4, in- j sect jpests eost to is : ©cm try eo le^s than $424U$W& Here are tbe figures ot

government experts:

Product. Cereals -..; 1¾

p.f-r.&ejiila.g.e Am o>;uizit <jf Loss. <of ILoigiS-

Hay Cotton T©l*34seo TradCij <cr.ops U^«ar^ Fruils Farm forests Misc<eHaiat!iOu« crops

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The Jacksmpe. Ufctfurih Bjfd WSafich Is Rapidly Jtecam-

wag EstizicL .

it.w^jiw f kotla fall and spring they are shot u.wj//jci ! along the whote route of their migra*

exterminated, and'other curlews great­ly reduced., . . . So adverse to the £horebirds ^.re pretext .conditions that

e wonder is that any escape. In

Total $t2L>. 1%. W eiaornaoos following

Keeping in mmd. this loss, consider also the facts:

<1> Tbat^lnsectiTorous birds do taore than all other agencies com­bined to keep down insect pests;

(2) That snch birds undoubtedly are rapidly decreasing in number; and that, therefore,

(Z) Destructive insects are, in all probability, increasing very rapidly,

for Ma e':*wrf"d song stud his fcamd-Tjjzzji? zpptiitu^cv, glad everywhere to

th<? cowipzjzkjzi a ad |t<& iarii-adi ji±2s.zi he is well treated, amid hUsh-ily r&Iisalble as- a destroyer of ks&rmtnl %T£h2, wcrtas aed jasects.' Yet this itird ss Hauirdtred literally by the thou-j>&iuds for j^i-pses by degrees , aad ipwjr wMtes in the southern states above uae-fltioned,, and is more or less huaied ia' other states. Mr. E- A. . MelMaeamy, who Hvp* on Avery Island, La... says that during the ten days or two weeks of the "robin season" (in January when the berries are ripe) at least \hMr> of these useful and beau­tiful birds are slaughtered daily for the poL "Every negro man and boy who can raise a gun is after them," says Mr. Mcllhenny.

Although this bird causes some loss to small fruit growers, it certainly does vastly more good than harm. It is constantly at work on lawns and fields hunting for destructive insects, Which it is exceedingly difficult to keep in control. It devours many caterpillars, including hairy species, which infest the orchard, woodland and shade trees. Forty per cent, of its focd is insects, and 43 per cent, wild fruit- It would pay the farmer well to go some expense in order to keep the robins away from his fruit trees and berry bushes rather thar shoot these birds which are so useful to him in man3' ways. To mur­der thenl for pot-pies is, of course, nothing short of barbarous.

The purple martin is also fond of the society cf man, and- when not molested by the villainous English spTarrows—and sliU more villainous men by whom it is shot for food, chiefly in the south—it is glad to breed in birdhouses near human habi-

The Nighthawk. Oct- of tfte Most Useful of Insectivorous

Birds Which Is Being Hunted for "Sport" and Exterminated.

The Robin. Highly Valuable as an Jnsrct and (Jrub

Destroyer, But Murdered by the Thousands for Pot-Pies

in the South.

<vfth tbe result, that the damage they «lo is mounting up, year by year.

It is perfectly apparent that here is a situation which demands immedi­ate action, and that this action should bring about the vigilant protection for a l l time, and in all parts opthe coun­try, of all insectivorous birds. Man} of the most useful of these birds are already on the tobogganslide to­ward extermination, as the result of stupid state legislation, or the lax en­forcement of such laws as have been enacted. To be explicit:

There are seven states in which the Tobin is being legally killed by the tens of thousands annually as "game"! These states are Louisiana, Mississip­pi, Florida, South Carolina, North Car­olina, Tennessee and Maryland.

The black bird is legalized "game/-' and suffers the same fate in four states—Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee and Pennsylvania—and the District of Columbia besides.

Doves are slaughtered by the whole­sale in 26 states, much to the loss of the farmers, for this bird is a great eater of weed seeds.

Cranes, which are a lso very useful birds, are much hunted for food and for "sport" in Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oklahoma.

Of the sixty-odd species of Bhore-birds (i. e„ snipe, curlews, plover, sandpipers and the like), at least 30 feed on noxious insects; yet all of these birds are rapidly disappearing. According to Mr. W. L. McAtee of the

taon north and south. The accompanying illustrations pre­

sent portraits of a group of birds, most of which'the average person probably j tations. It males a charming neigh knows by sight, though I fear that only a small minority have a clear idea of their very great economic worth.

The jacksnipe (or Wilson's snipe) is 1

one o* the shorebirds (referred to by Mr. McAtee j , which, as a family, are being rapidly exterminated. It de­stroys large numbers of worms and larvae, for which it probes with its long bill in the soft earth of corn and potato fields—thereby doing the farm­er ar great service—as well as along the shores of ponds, lakes and streams. It also feeds on grasshoppers and other injurious insects. It should be carefully protected, especially dur­ing the breeding season.

The kildeer plover is another valu­able and beautiful shorebird which is being hunted to death. It frequents meadows aftd^pasture lands, as well as shores, and devours great quanti­ties of mosquitoes, crane flies, grass­hoppers, army worms, cut worms, caterpillars, cottou-boll weevils, clover-leaf weevils, rice weevils, marine worms, wire worms and crayfish.

Doubtless everybody knows the rob­in, perhaps the most democratic of our birds, beloved In the northern "states

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The Kildeer Plover. Another Valuable Shorebird Which De­

stroys Great Quantities of Worms and Insects.

The Purple Martin. An Industrious Huntnr of Mosquitoes and

Othgr Dangerous Insecta. IVhlcb Itself Is Being Hunted to

Death as Food. bor and a very useful one, for it is re-markftbjy swift and graceful on the wing, and Ms expert and persistent in catching rose beetles, May beetles, cucumber beetles, mosquitoes, house flies and flies that trouble horses arid "cattle"." One observer "records that 32 parent martins made 3,275 vis­its to their- young in one Jay, each visit meaning, probably, anywhere from one to half a dozen insects.

The nighthawk (also called "bull-bat") i ^ probably one of the most useful of birds. It feeds exclusively on insects,, and ranks next to the golden-winged woodpecker (flicker) as a feathered destroyer of ants, which it takes when they are in the winged stage. Potato beetles, cucumber bee­tles, leaf hoppers, bugs of various kinds and enormous quantities of gnats and mosquitoes are found in their stom­achs. They are entirely harmless, for they never feed on fruit, grain, grass or vegetables. Yet they are being hunted for sport and are being exter­minated.

The loggerhead (or southern) shrike is a champion pest destroyer, a large

percentage of its food being harm­ful rodents and destructive insects, the latter including grasshoppers, crickets and moths, which it frequent­ly impales upon thorns or sharp twigs. It sometimes catches young birds (though this is more characteristic of the northern shrike, or butcher bird,) but its diet is chiefly insects and small rodents. It is, therefore, very valu­able to the farmer.

The golden-winged woodpecker (also called 'flicker," "highhole," etc.) is an industrious tree protector, and tbe most efficient of all feathered ant-eaters. It is also feeds freely upon bee­tles, grasshoppers, crickets, caterpil­lars, and other harmful insects, as well as on weed seds. Yet it is rapidly growing rare because it is much hunted for food. It should be pro­tected everywhere and at all times.

In view of the decrease already ac* complished in the general volume of bird life in America, in view of the enormous losses annually inflicted up­on the people of this country by the ravages of insects, and in view of the

j destruction of v i l d life which is now i furiously proceeding throughout Amer­

ica, the McLean bill, which is now be­fore congress, to provide for the fed­eral protection of all migratory birds, becomes the most important wTild life measure that ever came before that body. In view of the annual economic loss that will continue as long as a federal migratory bird bill fails to pass, it is impossible for anyone to put forth one good reason—unless it be oh purely technical grounds—against that measure. The Weeks bill, before the lower house of congress, is precisely like the McLean bill, and it matters not which one passes first.

Unless the people of this country wish to shut their eyes to \their own interests, and pay out millions of dol-

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cost of living due to the losses caused by insect pests which would be destroyed by the birds, they should demand that a federal migratory bird bill be at once enacted into a law. It is Senate Bi l l No. 6497, and on the senate calendar it is No. 606. We can­not afford to wait until 1914 or 1915, and congress has full power to act

THOUGHTFtr t . PAINTER. In the Night Editor's Room. "Here's a% long story about that

storm on the lake the'other day. Want it cut down?"

"Does it be'gin, 'The storm beggars description?'"

"Yes.? "Well, run that, and cut out the de­

scription."

Limiid blue ia a weak solution. Avoid it. Buy Red Cross Ball Blue, the blue that's all blue. Ask your grocer. Adv.

this winter.

H A R E M S O U T O F D A T E I N T U R K E Y

Jen-Winged Woodpecker. A Great -Tree-Protector, and Champion

Ant-Destroyer Which Is Being Ex-•v termlnted by Pot-Hunters.

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totireau of biological survey (United States department of agriculture):

'fTho black-bellied! plover, or beetle-: | ie^^niohfoxc)irjr^./i%long the AUan-

n.great numbers years; ago, seen only its a straggler. .The plover, once exceedingly abun-

tMt ot the Great Plains, now ; The .Eskl'mr* 'm-Iow^ wn'n

Only the Sultan Adheres to the Old Style Oriental Institution—Mod­

ern Turk Resorts to Divorce.

The domestic arrangements of the sultan are entirely different from those of his subjects. Most Turks

i have one wife; the sultan har no j^recognized sultana. Turks of high rank marry into their own class; the sultan forms unions with women of slave origin. The ordinary man may not look upon an unveiled woman ex­cept she be his relation or servant; the sultan has the right to talk with any woman in the land face to face. Turks of position model their house­holds more or less on the European plan; the sultan's household is orien­tal.

That does not mean that in the im­perial palace you would find women sipping sherbet or smoking narghilehs or clad in baggy trousers. On tho contrary, you would And them smok­ing nothing more oriental than a cigarette, sitting on a European chair —and. yes, wearing corsets! But the code of morals is entirely different, says the New^Tork Sun.

The Imperial harem is founded on. the old court system of the Byzantine emperors and has an etiquette and law of its own. The first fact one must grasp ia that the wives or favorites of the sultan have no im­portance at all. They are nobodies, The daughter of a Circassian peasant imay be honored by the sultan's favor and even'"bear him a child, but yet be distinguished by no other title than the commonplace "Kadin Effen-dl." Only the mother of the eldest eon receives the royal designation of "sultari." her whole title bein$ J ' 'Kha-reki sultan." :

Her dlcrnity only results from her befnrr the mother of a possible heir to throne: that' is. fn tho event

*~ j^e no\brothers'.• for • .. ' • ^ >ho n<hf of prece*

dence as the elder male descendants. And the royal favorite of the moment will have transitory importance on account of the influence which she may exercise over the sultan.

Royal princesses are considered in­ferior to the mother of the sultan, who is the real queen of the little world of the harem, has absolute authority, a large staff of officials and the su­preme title of "Valide sultan." Thus it happens that a woman of slave birth may, if she be the mother of an heir to the throne, eventually become the highest woman of the land.

Every royal princess has her daira, or separate apartments; slaves, ser­vants and so on, the management of the household being given over to her kalfas, or ladies in waiting—that is to say, Turkish women of good birth who have remained unmarried.

Royal princesses rarely take a hus­band of their own rank. They are generally married by the sultan to the sons of men of wealth and posi­tion, such as pashas, officers cf state, high civil officials and the like, a policy which is founded on a very practical reason, namely, that the ar­rangement makes the existence of a heriditary aristocracy impossible.

One of the paradoxes in Turkey is that the poorer a Turkish woman 19 the greater her freedom. The rich woman canont move a step unaccom­panied. She sees Constantinople only frdm the windows of her closed brougham or through a veil thick enough to act as a mask. She may dress as exquisitetly as a mannequin in a Paris dressmaker's showroom, but she must not display so much as an inch of embroidery in public.

When her husband wants to take a second wife, or grows tired of her and wishes ta divorce her. he has both the opportunity and the means if he is a rich man^ It is not chic

,among Turks of any education to take a second wife; but divorce is. re-

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The Loggerhead Shrike. Fifty-nine Per Cent, of Its Food Is In­

sects, and Twenty-eight Per Cent. Is Harmful Rodents.

placing polygamy—a simple repudia­tion by the husband of his wife, pro­vided he is well enough off to pay the nekyah or marriage settlement, which he is legally bound to hand over to her.

The woman of the poorest classes can go out alone. Custom does' not oblige her to wear her veil down. Should her husband, in a fit of anger, wish to divorce her, he must first of all produce the Nekyah, the dowry, In ready money, not an easy matter for a poor man.

The. real danger to domestic happi­ness in the great mass of Turkish homes is the growing tendency of di­vorce, and a divorce wholly favorable to the man as against the woman.

The payment of the modest nekyah arranged at the time of his marriage is a simple affair, and it is seldom enough to keep the divorced wife for the rest of her days. She is forced to take refuge with her parents or to find shelter with some.of her friends.

Day on Which Women Rule. Candlemas day is not celebrated !n

Holland much more than in Englar-d, but its place is taken by a festival tn-knownMn this country. Slipper dayjn the Netherlands is the one day in t i e year in w which the Dutch woman claims superiority over, her husbat<.d.

On that day she rules him to her hearty content, and he generally obeys^good Jiumoredly enough. That is, unless she is one of those ladtes not unknown in Holland or in aay other country who aspire to complete rule over their unhappy partners throughout the year.-—Philadephia In­quirer. <

Jumped, Kil led; Stayed, Safe. Ernest Woods, fireman, Jumped and

was killed, while Fred Lebush, en­gineer, stayed at his post and escaped death when the train from St. Albans, which they were drivirfg, collided with ari engine In the Grand Triink yards at Montreal. Woods had barely leaped frqm the engine when the baggage jar toppled over upon him. v

1 see'"you-are paying the hospital expenses of that pajnter who fell off the roof." , "Yes; he's too good a man to lose.

As he went down he touched up two or three places which would have been very hard to reach."

S K I N E R U P T I O N O N C H E E K

Kingsley, taich.—'t^stv May my thirteen-months-old baby had a sore come oaher cheek. It started in four or five smalhpimples and in two or tjiree hours' time spread to the size of a silver dollar. It spreao><o her eye. Then water would run fromMhe pim­ples and wherever that touched it caus­ed more sores until nearly all one cheek and up her nostrils were one solid sore. She was very fretful. She certainly was a terrible looking child, and nothing seemed to be of any use.

'•Then I got some Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. She tried-to rub off everything we put on so that we would sit and hold her hands for two hours at a time, trying to give the medicine a chance to help her, but after I washed it with Cuticura Soap and then put on ttye Cuticura Oint­ment they seemed to soothe her and she, did not try to rub them off. It was only a few days before her face was all healed up, and there has been no return of the trouble since. We thought that baby's face would surely be scarred, but it is not." . (Signed) Mrs. W. J. Cleland, Jan. 5, 1912.

Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post-card "Cuticura, Dept. L , Boston." Adv.

Distinction. "What have you ever done to claim

distinction? In other words, what have you ever done that was original or out of the ordinary?"

"I once had a part in the actual transfer of several shares of stock on the New York exchange."

Optimism. Hope is a quality of the spirit of

man more stubborn of its ground than life, itself. It dwells not "in the suburbs of the soul, but holds its place rather as a window through which the future may be seen. It lets us in to the dark places with a confident stride that otherwise we would shuffle ^ through by halting steps. It shows the little things by which- we climhr—so- that we- make of hindrances a kind of lookout from which to take a survey Of the land beyond. And if that Jand seems bet­ter than it be, we care not, because it never lets us near enough to know,

Its Class. "That was a raw deal." "What was?" "The plot they cooked up."

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Weather Was Fine, No Fuso, Feathers Or Gaudy Display; Republican

Officials Take Oath With Gov­ernor, at His Request.

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Made a Complete Job. "Mrs. Dungleford, has your husband

been cured of his cacoathes Bcriben-di yet?"

"I—I think so; the surgeons tooU that out when they removed his ver­miform appendix."

JUDGE CURED, HEART T R O U B L E .

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Ftook about 6 boxes of-DoddeKid­ney Pills for Heart Trouble from which I had suffered for 5 years. I had dizzy spells, my eyes puffed,

my breath was short and I had chills and back­ache. I took the pills about a year

~ago and have had no return of the palpitations. Am now 63 years old, able to do Jots of

Judge Miller . manual labor, am well and hearty and weigh about 200 pounds. I feel very grateful that I found Dodds Kidney pills and you may publish this letter jtf you wish. I am serving my third term as Probate Judge of Gray Co. T2jours truly,

PHILIP M I L L E R , Cimarron, Kan. Correspond with JudgV^Miller about

this -wonderful remedy. Dodds Kidney Pills, 50c. pe^box at

your dealer or Dodds MedicinV<Jo., Buffalo, N . Y . Write for Household Hints, also music of National Anthem (English and German words) and re­cipes for dainty dishes. A l l 3 sent free, Adv.

Rosea in Medicine. Roses at one time figured prom­

inently in the pharmacopoeia. Pliny gives 32 remedies compounded of^the rose leaves and petals. Sufferers from nervous complaints used to seek relief by sleeping on rose pillows and one is told that Helogabalns used to imbibe rose wine as a pipk-me-up after his periodical gormandizing \ hours. The flower was also served at table, both as a garnish, in the way parsley is now used, and as a salad, and rose water was largely used for flavoring dishes, Roses as food have gone qut of favor among western na­tions, but the Chinese *6till eat rose M t t e j r j » _ _ •

Woodbridge N, Ferris is now govern­or Michigan and the first democratic chief executive to be at the head of the state government since Edwin F. Winans assumed the reins of office 22 years ago.

In keeping with the personal request of Governor Ferris the inauguration was simple and devoid of unnecessary display. Apparently the elements were in sympathy with the occasion, for the weather was ideal and the cere­mony was conducted on the east por­tico of the capitol building and sev­eral thousand persons.... vie wed the event from the capitol lawn. At the request of Governor F$rris the repub­lican state officials were sworn in with him. This party included Lieutenant Goveronr Ross, Secretary of State Frederick C. Martindale, Land Com­missioner A. C. Carton, State Treas­urer John W. Haarer and Auditor Gen­eral O. B. Fuller.

—Democrats from practically every county in the state were^oiThantl for the ceremony and tlje-ymade the most of the occasipn^I'ff was the first oppor­tunity they have had to participate in an event of this kind for many years and they enjoyed themselves to the very limit. 1

Currie Is Speaker of House. Efforts to bring" about *a fusion of

progressives, democrats and republic­ans who opposed the election of Rep. Gilbert M. Currie, of Midland, as speaker of the Jhouse, in an effort to make Rep. Noble Ashley, of Detroit, presiding officer, did not materialize and when the roll was called Currie received one of the 54 republican votes. The democrats turned their 34 votes over to Rep. Farmer, of Living­ston county,. while Rep. McBride, of Shiawassee, received the votes of the 12 progressives in the lower house.

When the' republican" caucus - was" held the night, preceding the election 14 representatives failed to attend, and it was feared that some members of the Wayne delegation had succeeded in their efforts to defeat Currie, but the differences were adjusted and Rep. Currie will wield the gavel during the present session. Clerk Charles S. Pierce, who has had experience in sev­eral sessions was re-elected by unan­imous vote. Rep. Charles McBride, o£ Ottawa' county was elected speaker protem of the house. Over in the sen­ate Dennis Alward\ of Clare, was chosen as secretary to succeed E. V. Chilson, who voluntarily retired after several years in that capacity. Sena­tor Frank Scott, of Alpena, was the unanimous choice of the senate for president pro tern.

Senate Bids Launched. Republicans'in the senate started

work early in launching their pro­gressive (measures, as several bills of considerable importance found their way into the legislative hopper the first day of the session. Senator Sam­uel O'Dell, of Oceans county, sent up bills covering the p r o ^ o s e ^ s j ^ ^ bal­lot, which would el iminatelrom the ballot the names of many state officers; a bill providing; for the direct election of United States senators, un­der a scheme whereby every legislator would have to file a pledge to vote for the men selected at the primary,,and a bill to provide for state life insurance, limiting the amount of policy for each insured to $3,000.

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No thoughtful person uses liquid blue. It's a pinch of blue In a large bottle of water. Ask for Red CrossBaU Blue,thebrae that'saU blue. Adv

The.Distinction. "I'd marry a man not of words, but

of deeds." "So would I, i f they were title

deeds." . ~ —

Full Australian Ballot. Senator W. Frank James, of Han­

cock, followed with a bill to establish full Australian ballot system in,

this state, under which party label will not be used on ballots, on the theory that it will make it easier for a voter to avo,id a mistake in marking his ballot. James also presented a bill to establish a minimum wage scale for women and a corrupt practices act in­tended' to put an end forever to the use of money in election campaigns. Senator Leonard Verdier, of Kent, came forward -with a resolution to ap­prove the proposed amendment to the federal constitution which could pro­vide for the election by the people of life, by the company of which her son United States senators.

Woodbr idge N . Fer r i s .

, Following is the list of senatorial committees as announced by Lieuten­ant Governor Ross:

Taxation—Wiggins, Fizgibbous, Wine-gar, Hanley, Smith.

Agricultural College—"Woodworth, O-dell, McNaughton.

Apportionment—Ogg, Odell, Walter, James, Curtis.

Banks and Corporations—Rosenknms, Powell, King, Kelley, Case. ,

Cities and Villages—Corlisw, James, Hadden, G. (.*.. Scott.

Constitutional Amendments—Wood. F. D. Scott, Woodworth, Hut-chins, Ocleli.

Elections—James, Straight, Wiggins, Verdier, Corliss.

Executive Ilusines.q—Murtha, Straight, Case, McNaughton, Curtis.

Finance and' Appropriations—G. Scott, Wiggins, Rosenkrans, Walter, Po ell.

Fisheries—Walter, Weadock, lladden, Murtha-, Htrtchlns.

Forestry and State Lands—Powell, King, Odell, Alswede, Kelley.

Gaming Interests—King, G. (J. Scott, Verdier, Amberson, McGregor.

Insurance—Fitzgibbons, Wood, Ogg, Woodworth, Walter.

Judiciary—F. 1). Scott, Murtha, Smith, Verdier, Wood.

Labor Interests-—Verdier, Ogg, Wea* dock, James, Grace.

Railroads—Smith. Corliss, Wir.egar .*. Fitzgibboris, Giltins.

State Affai rs—Woodworth. McNaugh­ton, Smith, Ilanlcy, Rosenkrans.

Agricultural Interests—Powell, Curtis, Hutehios.

Kalamazoo Asylum —(Vise, lladden, Wiggins. . -.

Newberry Asylum—Winegar, "Wuod, Mc­Gregor. " Pontiae Asylum—FiUgibbons, Corliss, Smith.

Traverse City Asylum—Alswede, Wal­ter, F. D. Scott.

Claims and Public Accounts—Glttins,• Case, King.

College of M ines—Ilanley, Winegar, A\<? swede.

O011 hTIeh and T<7wns!11ps— Iurtha, IS 1 c-Nr ugh ton, Case.

Education and Public School*—King, Odell, Amberson.

Federal Relations—Am berson, Fitzgib-bons, Hutchins. _

Geological Survey—Gfttfns, Amberson, Rosenkra ns.

Home for Feeble Minded—Kelley, Cor­liss, G. G. Scott.

Horticultural — .McNaughton, Rosen­krans, Wopdworth.

Industrial Home for Girls—Tladden, Amberson, Ogg. v Industrial Home for Roys—Rosenkrans, Alswede, Grace;—

Immigration—Curtis, Gittins, Alswede. Liquor Traffic—Grace, G. G. Scott,

Wood, ' . . Employment Institution for the Blind--

Ogg, Kelley, McGregor, Michigan Reformatory at Ionia—Wea­

dock, King, F. I). Scott, Mining Interests—James, Wiggins, Cur­

tis. Xorm.nl College at Vpsilanti—Kelley,

Straight, Weadock, Normal College at Kalamazoo—Grace,

Straight, Winegar. Normal College at Mt. Pleasant—Wal­

ter, F. 1). Scott, Murtha. Normal School at Marquette—Wioegar,

Gittins, Ogg. Military Affairs — Odell, Verdier,

Straight. Printing—Corliss, Case, Powell. Public Buildings—Wiggins, Weadocltf

F. D. Scott. Public Health—G

berson. Roads and Bridges

bona, McGregor. Rules and Joint fiules—Straight, Mur­

tha, G. G. Scott. ^ Saline -^Interests—Ilanlcy, Weadock,

Rosenkrang. School for the Blind—McGregor, Curtis,

King. School for the Deaf—Verdier, Winegar,

Towell. • Soldiers' Home—McNaughton, Wood,

King. State Asylum—Case, OlttlnH, James. State Library—F. D. Scott, Fitzglbbo^ns,

Murtha. State Prison at Jackson—Ilutchins,

Smith, Woodworth. State Prison at Marquette—Wood,

Winegar, Powell. State'Public School—Odell, Grace, Wig­

gins. Tuberculosis Sanltorlum — McGregor,

Hadden, Hanley. Supplies and Expenditures—Smith,

Walters. University—Weadock, Verdier, G. G.

Scott. Mrs. Louisa Sandusky, of Battle

Creek, mother of August Sandusky, al­leged to have been killed by Mrs. Mary Pltchford, has been promised a pen­sion, to continue the remainder of her

E C O N O M Y " " ~ t k a t ' s one th ing y o u are 1111 l l i m • looking for in these days

of high l i v i n g cost—Calumet insures a wonder­ful saving i n your baking . B u t i t does more.

Itiaaurea wholesome food, tasty food—uniformly raised food. Calumet is made right-to sell right—to bake right. Ask one of the millions of women who use it—or ask your grocer.

RECEIVED HIGHEST AWARDS World's Pur« Fo°d Expotitlon, Chicago, tU.

Porii Exposition, Franco, March* 1912«

You don't *a*e money when you huy cheap or big-can baking powder. Don*I be misleadBuy Calumet, It's more economical—more wholesome-—

gives best results* Calumet is far superior ta sour milk <*nd soda*

Surprised Him. There was a fellow who proposed to

all the girls just for fun. He had no idea of getting himself engaged, but he enjoyed the preliminaries. So he was disagreeably surprised once and served him right.

"Miss Evelyn," he said soulfully, u think you could love me well

enough to be my wife?" "Yes, darling," she cried. "Well—er—now I know, where to

come in case I should want to marry." —Detroit Free Press.

Fire In Bank of England. The first fire within memory oc­

curred at the Bank of England, Lon­don, a few days ago. The fire broke out In the southeastern portion of the building. 1Sie flooring and joist-ing were considerably damaged. The outbreak was discovered by the Bank of England authorities, and subdued by their own appliances in 30. min­utes. A lieutenant and a dozen men of the Irish Guards on duty at the bank, with fixed bayonets, assisted the police in keeping the crowd back from the building.

Geography of l i q u o r . Mayor Gaynor, discussing city gov­

ernment in his wonted illuminating and brilliant way, said in New York:

"We must not have one reform law for the rich and another for tne poor. 1 4 as bad -fer-t-hc-miRiomrirrri;o-gam­ble in his club as for the laborer to gamble in a stuss joint, it is as bad to become intoxicated on champagne as on mixed ale.

"Too many reformers, eo-called, think that when a man is drunk on Fifth avenue he is 1H, and when a man is i l l on Third avenue he is drunk."

Self-Appreciation. "How do you know your speech

made such a profound impre88ion?' r

asked the doubting friend. "There wasn't very much cheering."

"That's just the point," replied Sen­ator Sorghum. "I am one of the ora­tors to whom my constituents would rather listen than hear themselves ap­plaud."

Crushing Rejoinder. A workman sat.on a curb nursing an

injured foot which had been struck by an iron casting which had fallen from the top of a building. „

"Did that big thing hit you?" asked a sympathizing bystander.

The workman nodded. "And is it solid iron?" :'No," replied the victim, "half of i t

is only lead."

Constipation causes many serious diseases. It ia thoroughly cured by Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Cue a laxative, three for cathartic. Adv.

Women who marry for a home pay big rent.

F O L E Y K I D N E Y P I U S Are Richest in Curative Qualities

FOR BACKACHE, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEYS ANO BLADDER

O. Scott, Kelley, Am-

-Hutchins, Fitzgib-

Our Discontent. Brand Whitlock, the mayor of To­

ledo, was talking about discontent. "It is our discontent, our divide dis­content," he said, ".that will make a great nation of us.

"I believe in discontent. I can sympathize even with the discontent­ed .©Tel farmer, who said:

"'Contented? When'll I be con-tented? Wall, I'll be contented when I own all the land adjoining mine—and not befur, be gum! '"

To Her Incredible, Otherwise. He—My brother is making more

money than he can spend. She—Goodness! Where's he work­

ing, in the mint?

It is easier for love to find the way than it is to pay the way.

was an employe.

ftlra. WInslow'a Soothing Syrup for Childrcir teething, soften-the firum«, reduces inflamma­tion, allayfl pain,cures wind colic, 26c a hottie.M^

StVagQltng Along* j. "Is that a monthly rose?" "It looks more like a weakly one

to me. »

The Theodore Roosevelt criminal i g e a r c h is being made for Miss Myr-libel case against George A. Newett, | t j e whitmore, of Hemlock, who was editor of Iron Ore, a paper published i a s t 8 e e n at the Pere Marquette sta-at Ishpeming, will be postponed until tion on the night of Dec. 9. She had Ltlfe disposal o t thCL^lonelVdvn.« jUt_drawi i -4135 from the Hemlock bank against the editor The civil suit is and foul play is feared.

Anyway, the wise man is less of a fool than .the average.

THE BEST T E A C H E R . Old Experience Still Holds the Palm.

scheduled to be^eard irr February, i Nine-foot sheets and a most rigid

Mrs. John C. Brigharo, 39, of Sag* inaw, committed suicide by swallowing

and frequent inspection of the hotels two ounces of poison, with her four ;oj! the state is the desire o M h e 7,00(r children in the1 house, or so members of the tnited^Commer-1 gt r ' Horace Piunkett, of Dublin,' rial Travelers of Michigan, They, wi l l chief forester of Ireland, Is making actively endeavor to secure legislation itig third visit to the Battle Creek tlmt wil l M a i about these ends. 1 sanitarium-

For real prac'tical reliability and something to swear by, experience— plain old experience—is able to carry a big load yet without getting sway-backed. V

A So. Dak. woman found some things about food from Old Experi­ence a good, reliable teacher.

She writes: "I think I have used almost every

breakfast food manufactured, but none equal Grape-Nuts in my estimation.

"I was greatly bothered with weak stdmach and indigestion, with forma­tion of gas after eating, and tried many remedies for it but did not find relief.

"Then I decided I must diet and see if I could overcome the difficulty that way. My choice of food was Grape-Nuts because the doctor told me I could not digest starchy food.

"Grape-Nuts food has been^a great benefit to me for I feel like a different person since I begun to eat i t It is wonderful to me how strong my nerves have become. I advise every­one to try it, for experience is the best teacher.

"If you have any stomach trouble— can't digest your food, use Grape-Nuts food for breakfast a^east, and you won't be able to praise it enough when you see how different you feel." Name given by Postum Co.,, Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to WellvlHe," in pkgs. "There's a Reason.".

Mv#r i m 4 the above letter? A new one uppenrw from time to time. They nee ft-emnlat* true* and fall of n««uui Interest* Adv*

DON'T C U T OUT A V A R I C O S E V E i N

^eABSORBIMEK^ -A mild, safe, antisep­tic, discutient, resof-vent liniment, and a proven remedy for this and similar troubles-

M r . R . C . Ke l logg , I3ecket ,Mass. , before us ing this remedy, suffered intensely wi th painful and inflam­ed veins; they were swollen, knot­ted and hard. H e writes: *'After using—©ae and one-half bottles of A B S O R B I N E , J R . , the veins were reduced, inflammation ancF pain gone, and I have had no recur­rence of the trouble dur ing the past six years . " Al so removes G o i t r e , Pa infu l Swellings, W e n s , C y s t s , Callouses, Bruises , " B l a c k and B l u e " discolorations, etc., i n a pleasant manner. Pr ice $ i . o o and #2>oo a bottle at druggists or de­l ivered. Book 5 G Free. W r i t e for i t . W.F.Young)P.D,F.,310TempleSt Sprtngfleld>MiSSw

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PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6, 1912. "In December 1908, my face be­came sore. I tried everything

that was recommended, and my face got worse instead of -better. I spent over $100 and got no benefit. The face and nose were very red and the eruption had the appearance of small boils, which itched me terribly. I cannot tell you how terrible my face looked—all I can say is, it was dread­ful, and 1 suffered beyond description.

"1 have not gone on theetreet oiiff time since 1908 without a veil, until now. Just four month's ago a friend persuaded me to give Resinol a trial. I have used three cakes of Resinol Soap and less than a jar of Resinol Ointment, and my face is perfectly free from any eruption, and my skin hM» clear anddcaa~aMny-ohiM*ftr It is about four weeks since the last pimple disappeared." (Signed) Mrs. M. J . Baieman, 4256 Viola Street.

For over eighteen years Resinol has **been a doctor's prescription and house­hold remedy foreskin troubles, pimplea, burns, sores, pHes. etc Resinol Oint­ment and Resinol Soap sold by all drag-gists. For sample of each, write to Dept. I7-K,Reslnol_Cbem. o., JWtiatore, Wki

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G r e g o r y G a z e t t e Published every Saturday morning by B. W. CAVERLY, 1 fntkuev, Mich

TERMS OF SUB$C PTION One Year in advance .1.00

All communications should be addressed toR. W. Caverly, Pinckney, Michigan, aud should be received on or before Wed­nesday of each week, if it receives proper attention.

"Entered as feecend-class matter June 8 1912, at the post office at Pinckney, Mich-ian, under the Act of Maich 3, 1879.'3

NORTH HAMBURG. Miss Una Bennett and Miss Clara

Carpenter entertained a fe friends at the home of Uigs Carpenter Tues­day evening Dec. 81,

Erwin Nash is slowly regaining his strength,

The Ladies Aid wjll meet with Mrs, Twitchel Thursday, for dinner.

Henry Ross of Brighton spent the week end with Geo, Van Horn.

Mrs. Chas, Sweitzer spent last week in Ann Arbor.

Mr. J. D. Boylan fif Chilson passed away Saturday evening. Funeral at late residence, Tuesday at 2 P. M.

Miss Clara Carpenter returned to school in Owcsso, Sunday, after two weeks vacation,

Mrs. Mvron Ely and daughter ot Howell have been visiting at the horn ft of Wm, Benham.

CHUBBS CORNERS George Schuler spent the week ena

in Jackson. F. W. Allison is better at this writ-

Margaret Paulus of Jackson is vis­iting at the home of M. Hoisel.

Wirt Smith has moved his family to Ann Arbor.

Mrs, Uayid Yelland and family of Ann Arbor visited friends in this vi­cinity last week.

Robert Entwisle spent the holidays with relatives in South Saline.

E. Hoisel and wife are visiting rela­tives in Jackson.

Mrs. T. Richards has returned home after spending some time with rela­tives in Northern Michigan,

The CCPPCmet at Mark Alli­son's New Years evening. M. rioisel was awarded first prize and Jay Brig-ham the consolation prize. Tt:e next meeting will be held at tbe home ot M. Hoisel.

I0TTTH MAJUOJr. Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Shthen and son

visited_at Jaa. Harris* of Pinckney last week.

Tbe annual oyster "eat" held at the pleasant home of Hart Gauss last Tuesday night was well attended and a royal good time was enjoyed by all.

John Carr spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Irving Hart of East Mar­ion,

Miss Kit Brogan spent a portion Of last week with friends at Howell and Chilson,

Mrs. M. Gallup entertained com­pany from Jackson a portion of last week.

John Gardner and wife entertained *

the following at New Years dinner: Vern Detoerest and wife, Hart Causs and wife, and Ray Newcomb and wife of Howell.

Mrs. Learn Newman spent part of last week with relatives at Fowlerville : Several from this vicinity attended ;the play at Pinckney last Thursday flight.

WEST IIJJUOI. Over onVhu dred attended tbe New

Years diuner at the home of M. Sopp. Proceeds over $27.

A number from this* place attended the Oatrell and Miller at tbe M. ft church at FlainM^ January 1,1918.

Sinking school at tow church every Saturday evening; Lyle Gorton, teach ejr.

Mirtie Well man has returned to Detroit for a few weeks visit with her 8ist«r who is in poor heajtn.

Mrs. Geo, Brand called on friends here last Friday.

P. H. Smith is spending the week in Howell

Harry Maycpck is on the sick list. The losers of the hunting contest

gave an oyster suppe* at tbe borne of Sbubel Moore last Saturday evening.

Mrs, Carrie Maycook is on the sick lis'. Rev. Miller's son spoke at tbe cburch

Sunday evening. L. Few less and daughter Eva of

Iosco are visiting at the home of P H.Smith.

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ANDEBSOS. Aubrey Gilchrist and family of

Pinckney visited at the home of E. Book Sunday,*

Agnes Brogan of Lansing was a guest of Clare Ledwidge last week.

ft. ,W. Crofoot and .wifeandA.G. Wilson and wife spent last Thursday at the home of Chas. Bulhs,

Chas. Frost and family of UnadilJa were Sunday gueBts of C. A. Frost and family.

Gene McClear and family, Max Led­widge and family and Mike and Will Roche ate New Years dinner at the home or vViil Ledwige.

R. J. Edwards visited relatives in Canada recently.

Mrs. Sharps of Stack bridge is visit-ing bev daughter Mrs. Cbas. Bullis.

Ray Brogan of South \Marion visit­ed visited at the home of %1ff Brclran Sunday.

Chas. Holmes and family and Kirk VanWinkle and family of Lansing spent tbe latter part of last Week at the home of Jas, Marble.

Mrs. Jennie Lavey of Pinckney spent Thursday at Gene McClear's.

Will Caskey and wife spent New Years at tbe home ot Robti Caskey of Plainfield.

A number from here attended the play at the Pinckney opera house last Thursday evening, All report it well plcyed.

W. H. Crofoot and wife spent New Years in Pinckney.

Mary Conners spent a cod pie of days last week with her grandparents Mr, and Mrs. Dan Plummer of this place;

Mrs. Wm, Ledwidge. and daughters were in Ann Arbor Monday.

Glenn and Orla Hinchey ate New Y ars dinner with their brother Frank and family.

Will Roche visited relatives in Pinckney Sunday.

Mrs Gene McClear and children re­turned to their school work in Ypsi-lanti Saturday. - Tbcrwedding of Miss Frances Car­penter of this place and Albert Symes of Chilson took place on Netv Years day at the home ot her parents.

Pinckney L o c a l s

T O A D IS F R I E N D O F F A R M E R

Science Making Efforts to Show .Tiller of Soil That Humble Batrachlan

Should Be Encouraged. The toad is one of the greatest

friends of the American farmer. Science has proven this to be" true and is "making great efforts to show the tiller of the soil how important it is that the humble batrachian be eneou*

Farmer's Best Friend. aged in every possible way to multi­ply and spread over the country.

This little chap who appears so lonely in the open field or in the rear

Mrs*-Jas. Mehan of Brighton is visiting friends here.

Mr. Fitssgerald of Brighton is taking treatment at the Sanitar­ium.

Thomas Dolau of Detroit has been visiting his people here. Miss Nellie Gardner is the guest

of friends aud relatives in Detro­it.

Leo Monks transacted business in Howell and Ann Arber Tues­day.

Carleton Barnard .and wife of Cbilspn were in town last Thurs day.

Chas. Henry, John Monks and Fred Lake are doing jury duty in Howell.

I. J. Kennedy and family spent New Years at the home of James Doyle.

Lewis Sbeban has purchased a drjving horse of ex-sheriff Stod­dard,

Mrs. N. T. McOleer of Gregory spent Sunday at the home of M, D olan.

F. E. 'Dolan underwent a ser-

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of th« stable, is one of the greatest . ,. , Q •, • bug fighters in the world. He Is prowl- ioub operation at the Sanitarium ing around the grass after game and Monday, he getB it in vast numbers from the enterprising ant to the lazy slug that crawls slowly from beneath a damp stone.

It is estimated that over 1800,000,000 worth of crops are destroyed annually by insect pests. This great sum would be doubled if It were not for the toad and his allies, who keep up a constant warfare against the encroach* Ing bug and worm, that are cheating the farmer out of his just profits aa surely as the middlcin r. iz doing in the cities. -.

It is estimated that the average toad is worth at least five dollars a year to

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Bev.VPr. Wittliff of Brighton was the guest of Bev. Fr, Coyle Monday-.

Miss Grace Grieve of Stock-bridge spent the past week with relatives here.

Marion Ashley of Detroit is vis­iting herf grandparents, Mr. and M rp. M. Dolai:.

Norbert Lavey left Monday for Xmpbis, Tennesee, wherehe ex-

the farmers, as the creature during that | pects to locate, period has destroyed Insects and thus saved crops that are worth that amount. A large toad has be*n known to devour 100 rose beetles at a single meal. In the stomach of one toad, 78 myriapods were found; in another, 68 army worms and another 65 gypsy* moth caterpillars. At another post mortem it waB shown that the batra­chian had just lunched upon 37 ants, 19 sowbugs, 8 spiders, 1 caterpillar and 10 plant lice. At another time one

J j toad was seen to eat 85 large and full -*grown celery worms in three hours*;

while another accepted 86 flies, fed w* him In less than 10 minutes.

E X H I B I T S A T ROAD C O N G R E S S

Complete Demonstration of Govern­ment's Work on Pubtlo Highways

Will Be 8hown to Farmer.

Mrs. H. M. Williston slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk Monday breaking her arm.

Jas. Harris ia attending the the board of supervisors meeting at Howell this week.

We understand that Lewis Col­by has sold his residence on Pearl St. to John Mclntyre,

Mr. and Mrs. M, Dolan and daughter, Ella are home from from Pontiac for a short time.

Fifty people attended tbe oyster supper given at the home of E, &. Webb last Saturday evening.

Mr G. Mitchell and family of Dansvilie visited at the home of

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SOUTH IOSCO. Mrs* Truman Wainwright and Mrs.

.Walter Miller are on tbe sick list. Mrs. Wm. Caskey of Anderson visit­

ed her parents here last week. Miss Kathryn Lambome has return­

ed to her home after spending some time with her siater in Pinckney.

Daniel Wainwright of Williamston spent Sunday at T. Wainwright's. " Wss'Btva home Saturday*

lira* L. I. Lambome and daughter F. Beatrice called on Mrs. Walter Miller Wednesday afternoon.

George Wimbles the new sher­iff elect hafi given out the follow­ing appointments: underaheriff, E. Miller Beurman, deputies, Geo. Snedicor and D. N, Weiand. The other deputies will be appointed later

B. B. Morgan, of Howell town­ship, has figured out that an old rail fence cut up in stove wood and sold at the present prices will bring money enough to buy two to four wire fences of tbe same length with the fence posts thrown in.—Howell Republican.

The Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society is making a col­lection of early maps of Michigan, with the purpose of obtaining aa complete a set as possible from 1825 down. Tbe earliest maps were those made by Risdon and

Mu(MmHarrington of W e b b e r - f " ^ r , a n d . , . t h e f T ^ f Tilfets vufting ber obter Mrs, Joe P 6 ^ to t h ! { * m l ™ °* . #'

An interesting exhibit at the Ameri* can Road congress to be held next fall t U t t*. n . . . ^ . , will be presented by the United VVm. Bullis the past week. States department of agriculture. See* retary Wilson of the department has authorized Director Logan Waller Tage of the office ot public roads to give a complete exhibit of the gov* ernment's work on the public roads of the country, showing how unimproved roads hurt the farmer and how im­proved roads aid not only the farmer, but the consumer.

Four of the biggest associations which are working for the improve­ment of public roads_ar# consolidating their forces in order to make the next American Road congress the biggest affair of its kind In the history of this country; they are the American Road Builders' association, the American Association > for Highway Improve­ment, the American Automobile asso­ciation and the National Association of Road Material and Machinery Manufacturers. All of these associa­tions have previously held separate conventions. It Is expected that farm­ers' associations and other associa­tions interested in the improvement of public highways will likewise take part in the congress. '

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Implement for Ditching and Distribut­ing Tiles Has Been Invented by

an Iowa Man. In describing a ditching machine

and tile distributer, invented by A* B. Hanson of Mason Citjr, Ia., the Scien­tific American says;

This invention relates to the laying of pipes or hollow tiles in ditches, and its object is to provide a new and

at present. residents of the state in the hope JUm J * * Bolwrft «i¥ debtor j found copies oi aiMyittd OfMrft HuriBftton of Web-/these maps »n»esentH(l to the

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WWW «nd oarefnllypreserre them.

Ditching Machine end Tile Distributer improved ditcMnf machine and tile distributer, arranged to readily form a ditch In tbe gramd and to place tbe tiles or pipes into the bottom of the ditch for convenient forming of the Ulee or pipes to form a line of snob ttllla or pipes, lie aooompenying il-lustration Is a longitudinal central seo-tlon of the maohlae and distributer.

Plan of natation. • A definite plan of rotation will help

you build up tbe soil and inoreaee the yield from year to year.

Mrs. Walter Chapman a n <f daughter of Pontiac spent the first of t heweet witb—reratrveH" here.

Guy, Paul and Roy Kuhn and Vincent Young of Gregory were in town one day the latter partof last week.

Mrs. E. G. Pish spent the past week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Berkley G. Ishatn of Plain-field.

Mr. and Mrg. Wm. Newman of Owosso spent New Years at the borne of her mother Mrs L. A. Devereanv

jilaude, Mildred, Monaco and Genevieve Kuhn of Gregory at­tended the phy and dance here last. Thursday night.

The Telephone gan<* «-hn have been working in this vicinity for tbe past month have pulled np stakes and gone to Dexter. „

The Misses Mary Coyle and Alice Nannery and Lewis Toyle of JNortb field were guests of Rev. Jos. Coyi- 'hM Mtter part of last week.

Miss Mae Teepla has returned to tb Martha Washington Semin­ary, Washington D. C.,after spend-ins: three weefca4 in Lansing and Pinckney.

The next meetihp; of the Pinck­ney Literary and Social Club will

held at the home of Misa Kate

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We are here to serve you with anything in the line of printed stationery for your business and penonai use. • • • •

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Farmers were out plowing yes-t rday, January 2,1913 Cut rbat on the hitching post for reference, —Fowlerville Standard.

Brown, Friday evening-Jan 10th at 7 o'clock standard. All inter-estod are cordially invited to At­tend.

Dr. H. F. Sigler was first one here to make use of the parcels post. He sent an 8 oz. package to Nebraska. Since then quite a number of parcels have been sent ont from this office and other* received herb and, the success of the riew>ystem aeems assared.

A Lansing man recency lost a valuable dog and advertised in the paper to give a fifty dollar reward for nis return. A f%rmer living near the capital city, who "does not have time to read," found the dog in his barn and shot him.

A petition signed by 47,00* per* sons, asking that the local option question be submitted to a vote of the people at the coming spring -faction, was presented to the board of supervisors of Jack-om county in session at Jackson

last week. No action was taken in regard to the nutter, although tbe board will have to vote to sub. mit. the question.

The bartenders of Chicago have organized a temperance club. The secretary g4va "A guy in front cWt tend bar and bit the, booze and make good. It gets him just •R quick as the guy in front who pays for it. While no apologies are ofered for thus mutilating the English language there is doubt­less much truth in the meaning conveyed* The words of the bar­keeper may be acoeipted as expert testimony.

To B e mm 1i

W, J. WRIGHT PHYSICIAN; AND SURGEON

Office Hoan—12:30 to 3:80. 4:00 to 8:00 , . • . . . . . ;

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Sportesmen are denonncW tbe present. Kame laws, particular-I.V w,th mmhH to the opening of the nartTiiitfi. Hnri deer seatohe. Men hnntiDgJbirds are placed'at a die»«lvant«ge because of the lafe opening of th« partridge season, which commences the samedam'aW the deer season,, October 15.1 ''

TV state game department re-lizes the folly of the' statute and an effort will be made to change it at tho session of tnetegl islature. The plan of State Game W tden Oti« i» to open the and rabbit season October11, ant* the deer season November Itt* It" also probable "that he will t&&? mend that the deer seasou be ex­tended to December 10, with a lisenoe goo. I for twenty days*. ' Such a law would % approved 6y farmers in tbe huotidg re^S ;of the upper peninsula ' '

The closed season for rtbbite nas done mvoh to; proteot thes animals. Rabbits are not fit to > eat daring the summer months •

?i!§??njMuld however open-> on October 1 instead of October* 15 declare all hunters- . > ( !

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I will be at the bank in Ores-. oiy every Wednesday qhtil Jan ' 12,1918, at Unadilla Tu6Bday,I>eo. 17«nd Toeaday Deo. 31 and at Plainfield Thursday, Dec. 19 andl Thursday, Jaw. 2 to receive tanitv

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