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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN SESSION Hottest Factional Fight in Political His tory of Country Is Expected. Hundred» of Police and Deputy LO O K S LIKE C O N T E S T . Sheriff» in Convention Hall Heavy Detail* Guard Every Roosavelt and Taft Factions Ready tor Hot Fight in Chicago. Entrance—Gamera» and Red Chicago — The Roosevelt delegates Crois Flag* Conspicuous. Chicago, June 18.— When the givel o f Victor Rosewater, chairman of the Republican national committee, fell at noon today, calling to order the fif teenth Republican national conven tion, the most desperate fight in the history o f American politics had reached a crisis. The T aft men this morning flatly refused the demand o f the Roosevelt forces that they agree to a proposition that no vote on the temporary organ ization be valid unless it received the affirmative vote o f 640 delegates— a majority whose right to a seat was unquestioned. This was a novel pro gram and arranged at a session o f the Roosevelt delegates that lasted until nearly daylight today. A t 10:15 the doors o f the Coliseum were all manned and the ticket-hold ers began to filter in. The pressure at the doors when they were opened was not great. Great lines o f uniformed policemen were scattered about the structure and massed at every entrance. Grouped with them were 400 special deputy sheriffs, especially commis sioned by the sheriff o f Cook county to see that there was no disorder. Plain clothes men were distributed through the crowd o f curiosity seekers that had flocked to the scene, hopeful that the Roosevelt forces would make good their threat and storm the entrance, thus making a way for all without tickets. Twenty policemen were grouped in front o f the platform and 60 in the rear. Mammoth cameras, aimed at the stage, were perched from every bal cony rail. Red Cross flags at several doorways were a grim reminder possibly o f a prophecy. Two huge megaphones, an ice water tank and a private telephone were the only ornaments o f the speaker’s stage. By 11:10 a. m. the hall was more than half filled, and fully two-thirds o f the delegates were in their seats. The aisles were jammed and the Chi cago fire marshal and his aides kept officers busy clearing them. The convention was called to order hy Victor Rosewater, chairman o f the Republican national committee, at 12:02. A t 12:16 request was made that crowd remain quiet while flashlight betaken. A t 12:18 everyone in the convention hall was brought to their feet by the strains o f ‘ ‘ The Star- Spangled Banner.” A t 12:20 Father Callaghan pro nounced the invocation. 12:25— Reading o f call concluded. 12:26—The chair recognized Gov ernor Hadley, o f Missouri, who moved to amend the temporary roll call. The Roosevelt people have decided on Governor McGovern, o f Wisconsin, instead o f Senator Borah, as their can didate for temporary chairman, ac cording to a statement just made by Senator Borah to the newspaper men. McGovern is I.a Follette's choice for chairman and this is taken to mean that the Roosevelt men may swing to the Wisconsin senator in case o f a deadlock. The Wisconsin delegation an nounced that it will vote unanimously for McGovern for temporary chair man. Central Ohio Storm Swept. Columbus, O. — A rain and wind storm tornado swept the central part o f ’ Ohio, making hundreds homeless and doing damage estimated at a mil lion dollars. A t Delaware the roof o f St. Mary's Catholic school Was lifted and borne across the street, wrecking two cottages. In this city several houses were unroofed. Tele graph and telephone companies are the greatest sufferers. Many miles of wires are down. Plain City, 17 miles west o f here, was almost demolished and several persons are injured. Cyclone Kills Worshippers. Zanesville, O.— Three were killed and a score injured when a tornado struck here, toppling the steeple of the St. Thomas Catholic church through the roof while services were being held. The storm started in the western part o f the city. It lost its force apparently after traveling 26 miles east of here and toppling over numerous barns. More than 600 houses were badly damaged and 60 families were made homeless. Scores o f narrow escapes were reported from chimneys crashing through roofs. Rebels Force Fighting. Chihuahua — Skirmishing between the outposts o f the rebels and federals at LaCrui. 50 miles south o f Bachim- ba, the rebel stronghold, resulted in a loss to the government o f 12, and the rebels two dead, according to report* received here. The rebels were com manded by General Del Toro. The significance o f the action is that the rebels have determined to make Gen- Heral uerta fight every inch o f his way north toward Bachimba. ----------------------- . » k' Guanajuato, Mexico, Flooded, Guanajuato, Mex.— A cloudburst here flooded the city to a depth o f sev eral feet. The loss o f life and prop erty was large. The Porfirio Dias drainage tunnel saved the town from greater disaster. The rainfall was greater than in 1906, when more than 200 lives were lost. The city is in a narrow gorge in which the river runs. Many American mining properties are in the surrounding hills. in caucus preparatory for the Repub- ican National convention have voted that it was the sense of the meeting that nothing less than 540 uncontested delegates could be regarded as a bind ing majority o f the Republican con vention. This was construed by the delegates present as meaning, as one o f them put it, “ a bolt at the go-ofT.” The reaolution in full, which was unanimously supported by delegations from nearly every state which was carried for Roosevelt, follows: ‘ ‘ Resolved, That no election o f tem porary or other officers of this conven tion or resolution or other proceeding shall be taken as the act of this cot.* vention or have any effect unless it shall receive on roll call the affirma tive vote o f 540 deleagtes whose seats are uncontested, and this resolution shall govern and be in force during the temporary organization o f this convention and until the permanent organization thereof shall have been effected.” The resolution was first proposed by Mathew Hale, of Massachusetts. R. R. McCormick, of Chicago, one o f the Illinois delegates and a leader in the fight to nominate Roosevelt, was asked i f the resolution did not fore cast a certain bolt o f the Roosevelt forces. “ This resolution would prevent a bolt,” he said. “ It was designed for that purpose, because if the 540 dele gates vote on temporary organization you then have a convention and there could be no bolt.” The resolution, it was said, will be introduced in the convention imme diately after the convention is called to order. The meeting adopted the text o f a long telegram to President T a ft ap pealing to him to disavow the action of the national convention committee in its aefeat o f the Roosevelt contests. The telegram, after it was given out was held up to get the approval of Senator Dixon. A resolution was adopted at the suggestion o f the Illinois delegation reading as follows: “ No vote on the temporary organ ization or any question concerned therewith shall be valid unless it re ceives the affirmative vote o f 640 un contested delegates.” This would be a majority o f the 1078 delegates constituting the full convention. This resolution was first adopted by the Illinois delegation by a vote o f 57 to 1. House Dislikes Senate Amendments to River Measure. Washington, D. C.— The conference committee on the river and harbor bill is tightly deadlocked and after a spirited row adjiunred for a week. Threats are being made by house members that the whole bill will be defeated unless the senate recedes on some of its larger amendments. One amendment which brought about a serious disagreement was the senate’ s increase in the appropriation for the Celilo canal from $600,000 to $800,000. The house conferees are insisting that they will not stand for this in crease, but senate members o f the conference insist that this and all oth er increases are justified by the rec ommendations o f the army engineers and that no increases have been made that were not recommended by the War department. In regard to the Celilo canal, the engineers specifically said that i f they could have $800,000 this year and a like amount o f even $1,000,000 an nually thereafter, they could hasten the completion of this project and effect a substantial saving in cost. It was on this report that the senate in creased its appropriation to the figure named. Senators on the conference commit tee declared that they will not recede form their more important amend ments and the house members threat ened to defeat the entire bill rather than permit it to pass with the senate amendments attached It is under stood that none o f the other North western amendments is attacked by the house, Celilo being the largest in crease made in that section. POWDER T R U S T DfVIDED. Court Gives Directions How Proper ty Shall Be Disposed of. Wilmington, Del.— The final decree was entered in the United States Cir cuit court by Judges Gray, Buffington and McPherson in the government suit against E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. et. al., providing for the dissolu tion o f the alleged “ powder trust.” The decree directs that the follow ing concerns be dissolved and the property distributed among their stockholders: E. I. Du Pont de N e mours & Co, 1902 Delaware; Hazard Powder company, Delaware Securities company, Delaware Investment com pany, Eastern Dynamite company, California Investment company, and Judson Dynamite & Powder company. The order of the court directs the organization of two corporations, in addition to the E. I. DuPont de N e mours Powder company 1903, which shall be capitalized according to a schedule given, or reorganized; the Laflin & Rand Powder company and the Eastern Dynamite company, or either o f them, to be used instead of one or both o f the two corporations, and in case the Eastern Dynamite company is selected, then it need not be dissolved. In case the Laflin & Rand Powder company is not used, the company is directed to be dissolved and the prop erty distributed among the stockhold ers. ______________ ARM Y INTRIGU E CHARGED. Majar General Leonard Wood Alleged Victim of Plot. Seattle—Thirty immigrants from the Orient, including 20 Japanese “ picture brides,” are held in quaran tine at the United States immigration Btation here because they are afflicted with hookworm. "A b o u t 60 per cent o f the Japanese women entering America are victims o f hookworm,” said Dr. Jolivar J. Lloyd, o f the United States public health and marine hospital service. “ Only 12 per cent o f the male immi grants from Japan have the disease. The greater prevalence o f the disease among the Japanese women than the men is because the women go bare footed while working in the rice fields, while the men have been accus tomed to wearing shoes. The disease is contracted by the larvae o f the hookworm entering the system through some abrasion of the skin, frequently on the feet. It has been estimated that 90 per cent o f the Chinese boys who enter this country have the dis ease. Washington, D. C. — Startling charges o f an intrigue against Major General Leonard Wood, chief o f staff of the army, begun by the late Marcus A. Hanna and kept alive by his friends, were part o f a series o f sen sational incidents which attended the adoption by the house of the army ap propriation bill conference report. Reference to a Western senator, whose son-in-law. Brigadier General Pershing, would be one of the first officers in line for General Wood’s office if President T a ft signed the bill which deposes the chief o f staff, allu sions to Major General Charles F. Humphrey as “ the agent for the pow der trust” and to Senator Du Pont’s connection with the powder business furnished other incidents in a stormy afternoon. In spite o f a vain fight led by Rep resentatives Prince, Cooper and Mar tin, the house adopted the report which had been approved by its con ferees and accepted by the senate. I f President T a ft signs the bill, as it is said he will. General Wood will be removed from his office on March 4, 1913, and the future o f many army posts which the War department has characterized as useless will be left to a commission. Marines Are Entrenched. Havanar-The United States marines stationed at El Cobre, 10 miles west o f Santiago, have thrown up entrench ments and are well prepared to resist any attack. The Cuban gunboat Baire has arrived, bringing as prisoners Gregori Surin, a noted revolutionary leader, and 10 others. The mayor of Palma Soriana reports that the con ditions there are most serious. More than 4000 persons have taken refuge in the town, where they are sleeping in the streets and are absolutely desti tute. Supplies to Be Dispatched. Washington, D. C.— Secretary Stim- son has ordered 30,000 army rations sent to Seward, Alaska, 24 hours dis tant from Kadiak. They will be dis tributed by revenue cutters. The cut ter McCulloch, according to calcula tions here, should have arrived at Ka diak Saturday to assist the Manning in extending relief. The Cutters Thetis and Tahoma also are steaming to the assistance o f the suffering peo ple. The revenue cutter Rush at Port Townsend, is taking on 3 months’ ra tions and will join the relief squadron. Morris Working on Road. Hood River, Or.— W. Cooper Mor ris, the convicted bank-wrecker, of Portland, began work as an honor man on the Portland Hood River highway at Camp Benson. Morris arrived with another prisoner from Salem and was put to work with a gang on the scenic boulevard around Shell Rock mountain. • " I may put Morris on my crew of surveyors, ” said Murray Kay, county engineer, who has supervision of the work, " f o r he ought to be good at fig ures and thus be of assistance.” Hasty Strikes Deplored L ittle Rock, Ark.— Hasty strikes were condemned and a better educa tion of workingmen in general, that they might more intelligently study the problems o f both capital and labor was urged by President Wilson, of the Patternmakers’ league in an address delivered before the International brotherhood of boilermakers and iron shopbuilders, meeting here in biennial convention. The two organizations are allied. The greater part o f the day's session was routine. JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS SICK WITH HOOKWORM _______ being said about mr ckaract»*, Isn’t he. doctor? And I'm not going to stand In hla light, svsn If It doesn't exactly make ms tbe happiest woman BILL IS THREATENED . House Begins Probe. Woman Attacks Asquith. Washington, D. C.— By unanimous I-ondon— While Premier Asquith was holding an official reception in vote the house has directed a sub-com honor of the king's birthday, a fash mittee o f the judiciary committee to ionably dressed suffragette tried to go to Seattle, Wash., and other places tear the epauettes off the premier's to investigate charges against Judge coaL Mrs. Asquith tried to rescue Hanford, o f the federal bench, which her husband from the unwelcome at have arisen through his decision in the case. tentions o f the woman and then an Olsson Socialist citizenship usher literally dragged the suffragette Chairman Clayton named the follow away from the premier and ejected ing sub-committee to go to Seattle: Graham. Illinois, her from the building. Some reportx Representatives say the woman beat Premier Asquith. I chairman; Higgins, and McCoy. 7h3 C$[T[rGQ(D[WDn.QÏÏAW QJM2 T hird degree CHARLES KLEIN. ^ * /AM D A r t h u r hornblow \ ILLUSTRATIONS BY WAY WALTERS COUfAHY w Y W V CtfmtKsHT, ••09, t Y O.W. D HL INCH Art SYNOPSIS. Howard JpffrUs. hanker'« «on. under the evil Influence of Robert Underwood, fellow atudfnt Vale, leads a life of dis sipation, marries the daughter of a gam bier who died In prison, and Is disowned by his father He Is out of work and In tleapetete straits Underwood, who had once been ♦•ng.igeil to Howard’s step mother. Allolu. la apparently In prosper ous clrcumstam <•» Taking advantage of his Intimacy with Alicia, he becomes a sort of social highwayman. Discovering his true character Alicia denies him the hens*». He sends her a note threatening suicide. Art dealer* for whom he acted as commissioner, demand an accounting He cannot niAke good. Howard calls at hie apartments In an Intoxicated condi tion to reouest a loan of 12,000 to enable him to tal<e up a business proposition. Howard drinks himself Into a maudlin condition, and goes to sleep on a divan \ caller Is announced and Underwood draws a screen around the drunken sleeper. Alicia enters She demands a promise from Underwood that he will not take his life. He refuses unless she will renew her patronage This she refuses, and takes her leave. Underwood kills himself. The report of the pistol a w a kens Howard. He finds Underwood dead. Howard Is turned over to the police. Capt. Clinton, notorious for his brutal treatment of prisoners, puts Howurd through the third degree, and Anally gets an alleged confession from the harassed man Annie. Howard’s wife, declares her belief in ner husband's Innocence, and calls on Jeffries, Sr. Ho refuses to help unless she will consent to a divorce. To save Howard she consent*, but when she Ands that the elder Jeffries does not In tend to stand by his son. except finan cially. she «corns his help. Annie appeals to Judge Brewster, attorney for Jeffries, ir., to take Howard’s case. He declines. t 1« reported that Annie is going on the stage. The hanker and his wife call on Judge Brewster to And some way to pre vent It. Annie again pleads with Brew ster to defend Howard. He con sents. Alicia is greatly alarmed when sho leirns from Annie that Brewster has taken the ease. She con fesses to Annie that *h<- called on Under wood the night of his death, and that she has Ida letter In which lie threatened sui cide, but begs for time before giving out the Information. Annie promises Brew ster to produce the missing woman at a meeting at Ids home. Brewster accuses Clinton of forcing a confession from Howard. Annie appears without the wit ness and r**fu*es 1 0 give the name. Alicia arrives. Capt. Clinton declares Annie has tricked them. Alicia hands him Under- weed'»« letter. Annie lets Clinton believe the letter wua wr*tten to her. She la ur- re«led. f Placed the Rolls and Butter on the Table. prisoner’s release. The evidence was "And what?” she demanded, draw such that further delay was inexcus ing herself up. She suspected what able. The district attorney, thus was coming, and nerved herself to urged, took an ac^ve interest in the meet it. case, and after going over the new evi "Now, don’t regard me as an enemy,” dence with Judge Brewster, went be said the doctor in a conciliatory CHAPTER XIX. fore the court and made formal ap tone. "Mr. Jeffries inquired after his plication for the dismissal of the com son. believe me, he’s very anxious. The Jeffries case suddenly entered plaint. A few days later Howard Jef He knows he did the boy a great in Into an entirely new phase, and once fries left the Tombs amid the cheers justice, and he wants to make up more was deemed of sufficient public of a crowd assembled outside. At his for it.” Interest to warrant column after col side walked his wife, now smiling "Oh. i$e does?” she exclaimed, sar umn of spicy comment In the news through tears of Joy. castically. papers. The town awoke one morn It was a glad home-coming to the Dr.Bernstein hesitated for a moment ing to learn that the long-sought-for little flat in Harlem. To Howard, aft before replying. Then he said, lightly: witness, the mysterious woman on er spending so long a time in the "Suppose Howard goes abroad for a whose testimony everything hinged, narrow prison quarters, it seemed like few months with his father and had not only been found,but proved paradise, and Annie walked on air, so mother?" to be the prisoner’s own wife, who delighted was sho to have him with "Is that the proposition?" she de had been so active In his defense. her again. Yet there were still anxi manded. This announcement was stupefying eties to cloud their happiness. The The doctor nodded. enough to overshadow all other news close confinement, with its attendant "I believe Mr. Jeffries has already of the day, and satisfied the most worry, had seriously undermined How spoken about It to his son," he said. Jaded palate for sensationalism. ard’s health. He was pale and atten Annie choked back a sob and. cross The first question asked on all sides uated. and so weak that he had sev ing the room to conceal her emotion, Much alarmed, stood with her back turned, looking was: Why had not the wife come for eral fainting spells. ward before? The reason, as glibly Annie summoned Dr. Bernstein, who out of the window. Her voice was explained by an evening Journal of administered a tonic. There was noth trembling as she said: somewhat ye.low proclivities, was log ing to cause anxiety, he said, reas "H e wants to separate us, I know. ical enough. The telling of her mid suringly. It was a natural reaction He’d give half his fortune to do It. night visit to a single man’s rooms after what her husband had under Perhaps he’s not altogether wrong. involved a shameful admission which gone. But It was worry as much Things do look pretty black for me, any woman might well hesitate to as anything else. Howard worried don’t they? Everybody believes that make unless forced to it as a last about his father/with whom he was my going to see Underwood thAt night extremity. Confronted, however, with only partially reconciled; he worried had something to do with his suicide the alternative of either seeing her about his future, which was as pre and led to my husband being falsely husband suffer for a crime of which carious as ever, and most of all he accused. The police built up a fine ro he was Innocent or making public ac worried about his wife. He was not mance about Mr. Underwood and me knowledgment of her own frailty, she ignorant of the circumstances which —and the newspapers! Every other had chosen the latter course. Nat had brought about his release, and day a reporter comes and asks us urally. it meant divorce from the bank while liberty was sweet to him, it had when the divorce is going to take er’s son, and undoubtedly this was the been a terrible shock when he first place— and who is going to institute solution most wished for by the family. heard that she was the woman who the proceedings, Howard or me. If The whole unsavory affair conveyed a had visited Underwood’s rooms. He everybody would only mind their own good lesson to reckless young men of refused to believe her sworn evidence. business and let us alone he might wealth to avoid entangling them How was it possible? Why should she forget. Oh, I don’t mean you, doctor. selves lr. undesirable matrimonial ad go to Underwood’s rooms knowing he You’re my friend. You made short ventures. Hut it was no less certain, was there? It was preposterous. Still work of Capt Clinton and his confes went on this Journalistic mentor, that the small voice rang in his ears— per- sion.’ I moan people—outsiders— It haunted him strangers—who don’t know us, and this wife, unfaithful as she had proved haps she’s untrue! herself to be, had really rendered her till one day he asked point-blank for don't care whether we’re alive or dead; husband a signal service in her pres an explanation. Then she told that those are the people I mean. They ent scrape. The letter she had pro she had perjured herself. She was not buy a one-cent paper and they think duced, written to her by Underwood the woman. Who she really was she It gives them the right to pry Into the day belore his death, in which he could not say. He must be satisfied every detail of our lives.” She paused stated his determination to kill him for the present with the assurance for a moment, and then went on: "So self, was, of course, a complete vindi that it was not his wife. With that you think Howard is worrying? I cation for the man awaiting trial. His he was content. What did he care for think, so, too. At first I thought it the opinion of others? He knew— that liberation now depended only on how was because of the letter Mr. Under quickly the ponderous machinery of was enough! In their conversation on wood wrote me, but I guess it’s what the subject Annie did not even men the law could take cognizance of this you say. His old friends won’t have tion Alicia’s name. Wrhy should she?” anything to do with him and—he’s mew and most Important evidence. Weeks passed, and Howard’s health lonely. The new turn of affairs was nat Well, I'll talk It over with urally most distasteful to the police. did not improve. He had tried to find him— ” If there was one thing more than a position, but without success, yet "Yes— talk it over with him.” another which angered Capt. Clinton it every day brought its obligations "Did you promise his father you’d was to take the trouble to build up a which had to be met. One morning ask me?” she demanded. case only to have it suddenly demol Annie was bustling about their tiny "No— not exactly,” he replied, heel ished. He scoffed at the "suicide let dining room preparing the table for tatlngly. She had just ter,” safely committed to Judge Brew their frugal luncheon. Annie looked at him frankly. ster’s custody, and openly branded It placed the rolls and butter on the "Howard’» a pretty good fellow to as a forgery concocted by an immoral table, and arranged the chairs, when stand by me in the face of all that’s woman for the purpose of defeating there came a ring at the front door Early visitors were not so in the ends of Justice. He kept Annie a bell. prisoner and defied the counsel for frequent as to cause surprise, so, with the defense to do their worst. Judge out waiting to remove her apron, she Dr. Brewster, who loved the fray, accept went to the door and opened i t ed the challenge. He acted promptly. Bernstein entered. "Good morning. Mrs. Jeffries,” he He secured Annie’s release on habeas corpus proceedings and, his civil suit ! said, cheerily. Putting down his medl- against the city having already begun cal bag. he asked: "How is our pa in the courts, he suddenly called Capt. tient this morning?” "A ll right, doctor. He had a splen Clinton to the stand and gave him a grilling which more than atoned for did night s rest. I'll call him," ’»Never mind, I want to talk to you.' any which the police tyrant had pre- viously made his victims suffer. In j Seriously, he went on: "Mrs. Jeffries, A Polytheist. the limelight of a sensational trial, in your husband needs a change of scene, "When the late Bishop F obs waa which public servants were charged He’s worrying. That fainting spell the with abusing positions of trust, he other day was only a symptom. I'm president of Amenla seminary," aald showed Capt. Clinton up as a bully and afraid he'll break down unless— ” an aged Methodlat of Philadelphia, "I s grafter, a bribe-taker, working hand "Unless what?” she demanded, anx cnce heard him deliver an Interesting and glove with dishonest politicians, iously. Easter addreee on heathenism and not hesitating even to divide loot with He hesitated for a moment, as If an Idolatry. thieves and dive-keepers in his greed willing to give utterance to words he "Bishop Foss showed us, with a lit for wealth. He proved him to be a knew must Inflict pain. Then he tle etory. the bad effect that the many consummate liar, a man who would quickly continued: stop at nothing to gain his own ends. "Your husband is under a great goda of polytheism baa upon the mind "He said a little English boy living What Jury would take the word of mental strain. His inability to sup such a man as this? Yet this was the port you, his banishment from his In India waa rebuked by bl> mother man who still insisted that Howard proper sphere in the social world is for telling a falsehood. - 'God. If you tell falsehoods. will Jeffries was guilty of the shooting mental torture to him. Ha feels his of Robert Underwood! position keenly. There is nothing else be very angry with you.' said th« Rut public opinion was too intelli to occupy hi9 mind but thoughts of mother. “ Very well.' the youngster an gent to be hoodwinked for any length his utter and complete failure in llfo. of tin s by a brutal and ignorant po- I was talking to his father last night, swered. 'Then 1 will ebange my sod.’ " Uaetnan There waa a clamor for the and— " In the world, but don’t lot It trickle Into your mind that I'm doing It for his father's sake." At that moment Howard entered from the luner room. He was sur prised to ses Dr. Bernstein. "How do you feel to-day?" aaked the-, doctor. _ "Ftrat rate! Ob. I'm all righ t'“ t'oll aee, I'm juat going to eat a bite. Won't you join us?” He sat down at the table and picked up the newapaper, while Annie busied herself with carrying In tbe dlshee. "No, thank you," laughed the doctor. "It's too early for ms. I've only Just had breakfast. I dropped In to sea how you were ~ Taking up hie bag, he said: “ Good-by! Don't get up. I can let myeelf out " But Aunte hud already opened th* door for him. and smiled a farewell. When she returned to her seat at th» head of the table, uud began to pour out the coffee. Howard said: "He'a a pretty decent fellow. Isn't ha?" "Yos." she replied, absent mlndedly, as she passed a cup of coffee. , "H e made a monkey of Capt. Clin, ton all light," went on Howard. "W hal did he come for?" "T o see you—o f course," she re plied. . "Oh. I'm all right now," he replied. I-ooktng anxiously at hla wife across the table, he aald: "You're the one that needs tuning up. I heard you crying last night. You thought I waa asleep, but I wasn’t. I didn't say any thing because— well— I felt kind of blue myself." Annie sighed and leaned her head on her hand. Wearily she said: "I was thinking over all that we’re been through together, and whal they're saying about ua— “ Howard threw down hie newapaper Impatiently. "Let them say what they like. Why should we care as long as we r e ' happy?” , . . . 1 Ills wife emtled sadly. "Are we happy?" she asked, gently. "O f course we are,” replied How ard. She looked up and smiled. It waa good to hear him aay ao. but did he mean It? Was she doing right to stand In the way of his career? Would he not be happier If she left him? He was too loyal to auggeet It. but per haps In his heart he desired It. Look ing at him tenderly, she went on: "I don't question your affection for me, Howard. I believe you love* me. but I'm afraid that, sooner or later, you'll ask yourself the question all your friends are asking now, the ques tion everybody seems to be asking'* “ What question?" demanded How ard. "Yesterday the bell rang and a gen tleman said be wanted to aee you. I told him you were out, and be said I'd do Juat as well. He handed me a card. Un It was the name of the news paper he represented.” "W ell?" "H e aaked me If It were true that proceedings for a divorce were about to be Instituted. If so. when? And could I give him any Information on the subject? 1 asked hlin who wanted tbe Information .and be said the read ers of his paper—the people—I believe he said over a million of them. Just think, Howard! Over a million peo ple, not counting your father, your friends and relations, all waiting to know why you don't get rid of me, why you don't believe me to be as bad as they think I am— " Howard raised his hand for her to desist. "Annie—please!" he pleaded. "That's the fact. Isn't It?" ah» laughed. "No." His wife's head diopped on the table. She waa crying now. 'T’ve made a hard fight, Howard,” she sobbed, "but I'm going to give up. I'm through—I'm through!" Howard took hold of her band and carried It to his lips. “ Annie, old girl," he said, with some feeling, "I may be weak, I may be • blind, but nobody on top of God's green earth can tell me that you're not the squarest. stralghtest little woman that ever lived! I don’t care a damn what one million or eight million think. Supposing you had received letters from Underwood, supposing you had gone to his rooms to beg him not to ; kill himself— what of It? It would be for a good motive, wouldn't It?- Let them talk all the bad of you they want. I don't believe a word of It— you know I don't.” 9he looked up and smiled through her tears. "You’re so good, dear," she ex claimed. “ Yes, I know you believe In me." She stopped and continued, ad- ly: "But you're only a boy, you know. What of the future, the years to come?” Howard's face became ae-: rtoua. and she went on: “ You see you’ve thought about It. too, and you’r» trying to hide It from me. But you can't Your father wr.nts you to go abroad with tbe family." "W ell?" tTO BE CONTINUED.) Recovery of Lest Standards. A curious experiment waa 01 made to determine whether a I standard could be recovered by pur personal efforts The assumption 1 mad* that th* standard of length * lo*L One hundred operatives and c era accustomed to dealing with me urementa were aaked to give by ei mat# their Ideae of what tbe gli standard was—In other words, guess at length of the meter. It v found that the guesses were most curate for lengths of about six tncl that small lengths were underei maied and larger unes were-overet mated Taking the average of I 100 subjects the result varied but few une thousandths from t b s tru th