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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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