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•y-u* if v SYNOPSIS. • - Toramv North, returning to his room In "Mrs. Moore's boarding house at 2:30 a. m„ jBscovere the body of Capt. John Hanskft, iuiother roomer, with a knife wound on his Im-ast. Suspicion rests upon a man Mvins the name of Lawrence Wade, who ftad called on Hanska in the evening and bad l>ecn heard quarreling with Hanska. Duriitg the excitement a strange woman %ho Rives her name as Rosalie IjeOrange, appears and takes into her own home across the street all of Mrs, Moore s hoarders, including Miss Estrilla, an in- valid. who was confined to the room she «pcupie<l and whose brother was a favor­ ite ampng the other boarders. CHAPTER !--Continued. While Rosalie Le Grange was pre- paring to move the invalid on the top floor, the police and the Coroner •traigbtened out affaire a little. There jras much man in Tommy North. If lie had played the craven in the first • tttsh of his gruesome discovery, it was %ecause he had. wakened to that state of tense depression which comes with the sudden departure of drunkenness. He became defiant now; whereupon police began to bully. While they i#ere trying to make Mrs. Moore ad- , «nit that ehe had not seen Tommy Horth come up the stairs, a detective «ergeant put a sneering question to •wr-- r - ; "Well, who rise could have done it? ;1|Pho else has been here?" 4 And the inrush of memory brought ' -'ijpj little shriek from Mrs. Moore. "Mr. Wade--the gentleman who galled tonight!" die cried. All at 'iiiace her suspicions left the branded ifr. North, Air. Wade had come late $1 the evening--and that, in the doc­ tor's opinion, was just about the time , *when Captain Hanska must have died. 1/ ^Kr. Wade had called two or three it. ^^mes before, always at night. Trem- she found his card, "Lawrence Wade, Curfew Club," in the plated ^: J4ltray at the hall door. Suddenly Miss Warding, who had been refusing all ^ .' light on the events of the evening, i\ J- ,J|ave a little shriek. ' ' • "Why, they were quarreling when I * ' %ent--" she cried. Then she stopped, t , %• though fearful of her own words. >Siie police turned on her. In a tumble ,r»f words and emotions, she told what , ' «he knew. Mr. Wade's late call, the .i * liigh words, the fact that none had •' tieard a sound from Captain Hanaka's * ... ;#oom after Wade left the house--that ; ^ .^..ivas enough for the Coroner and the detectives. They packed Tommy ; v Morth--sober, pale, but now thorough- • ;|y collected--into the patrol wagon, • ^':;i®ent the hue and cry to the Curfew ni/" '^'^Club after Mr. Wade, put the house ' ; " ( finder guard, and called their day's ^k'<piw»rk done. . ' > And the real of the Moore establtoh- £ ^fuent. having first received dreadful ! vwarning concerning the fate of ab- . $ 4^conding witnesses, finished that un- i,1. f. easy night tinder the ministrations of ̂ -i.;- &osaHe Le Grange at 442. Grange"---and peared. "Well, well! behind CHAPTER !%,&' • ™" ?S*ik29, •- . The Chief. , Inspector Martin McGee, the middle- ixaftadaoltd executive of the New York " . fletectives, sat in his businesslike of- ^ jsfice running over the reports on the ^Hanska murder, now less than a cal- *" '\-f * «ndar day old but already the subject |.,ttf those innumerable extras which the Siewaboys were shouting under his •windows. Nothing in the formal doc- ^tuaents before him served to give him JN^my new light. Lawrence Wade--that ,'tookerl like the man. Wade was miss­ ing from the Curfew Club when the /police arrived; however, through the ^ :jgood memories of a taxicab driver and ® tic^et seHer, he had been traced to v-./.^fjiBoEton and there arrested in the very ^ ' 1 J?ct of engaging European passage. -V The formal documents in the Han- 1; '</' >'feka case interested Inspector McGee ^'^s&llesB, a great deal less, than an infor- i-. - f jfrnal verbal report made that morning ' ,V ^-oby the sergeant {n command of the ;AvC$reserves. "We didn't know nothing about her, ^•Chief," he said, "except that she had . ;,«n order from you telling us to keep 4*.\- -.||our hooks off her. Forgot the name-- ^Jteomething French with a L--e behind It was all right, wasn't it?" $.'• ,4 Inspector McGee understood at |jonce; and the information brought a ' ^little thrill. He had given only two ^VV£*ucb papers in his career; and the If other was held by a man. So Rosalie ,Le Grange had bobbed up again--Rosa­ lie Le Grange, trance, test and clair- , voyant medium, follower of a small ^ i^balf-criminal trade but friend of eo- -. ;ciety against larger criminals. How ' *• J# curiously that woman had glanced in ; ^and out of his life, and what luck she ^d brought! As he bent over his desk in unac­ customed meditation, the 'doorman brought a card--"Mme. Rosalie Le exclaimed Martin Mc­ Gee, rising as though to some great personage, "back again! Say, you just couldn't keep out of big dofngs, could you? And how pretty you look --prettier and prettier all the time! What hauled you into the Hanska 'case?" J. "I ain't in the Hanska case at all," responded Rosalie Le Grange, answer­ ing his second question first, "at least not deep, Martin McGee." She flashed upon him her dimples, snapped at him her great gray eyes. "Nearly everybody that's lived long enough in New York has had a murder or a burglary or something la the same block. It was bound to happen to me in time. It happened; and in­ stead of minding my own business like the rest, I butted straight in. When the reasons for a thing get too tangled- up for you and me to follow, we stick a label on it an' call it luck. But there," she checked herself, "this is just one of my platform inspirational talks like I used to give the sitters in my., test seances. Only then I laid it to the spirits. Now I lay it to Rosalie Le Grange." "Used to?" echoed Inspector McGee. "Does that mean you've cut it out?" "Well, do these clothes and this flve- dollar-an-hour massage on my poor old face look like I got 'em from sitters at two dollars a throw?" inquired Ros­ alie Le Grange. "Say, ask me about it, please. I'm dying to tell." "All right; I've asketl," responded Martin McGee, a kind of dull fire illu­ minating his clean-shaven jowly police countenance. "Now," said Rosalie Le Grange, "I'm going to astonish you, Marty McGee. I got it from Robert H. Norcross--the railroad king." McGee's face fell. This mascot of his, this curious good fairy , whe had skipped in and out of his career, scat­ tering golden successes, was a kind of an ideal. That she should "work" a doddering millionaire--as Norcross had been in his last years--for the tainted coin of aged folly, was a blow to what idealism an Inspector of de­ tectives may hope still to cherish. Rosalie, skilled from youth to catch and interpret the unconsidered ex­ pression of the human countenance, read his emotion at once. "Now, I don't mean at all what you mean, Martin McGee," she said. "List­ en. It don't matter what I did, or how I did it--but I saved this Robert H. Norcross from makln' about the big­ gest kind of a fool out of himself. Do you remember," she asked suddenly, "that they probated, the Norcross will Becret? Nobody ever knew exactly what he did with his' money, except his nephew got most of it" '1 remember," said Inspector Mc­ Gee. And then, on a sudden borst of laughter, "Gee! Wouldn't the news­ papers give a heap to get this story yOu're sviug tc tell!" "They would," responded Rosalie Le Grange, "aihd that's why you'll never breathe a word to a soul. But there! I always knew who I could trust--an' you're one of 'em. The reason was a codicil or whatever you call it He left me--In token of service and friendship," it said--an old house he owned over by North River, an' stocks--well six thousand a year to make one bite of it!". "Good Lord! He did?" cried Mar­ tin McGee. Rosalie nodded solemnly, but her eyes shone. "Now I played that medium tflune on the square, you understand," she said; "again and again. I passed up chances to hook just such old dopeB as Norcross. My rule was always straight sitting at two dollars a head,, an' no extras. I faked 'em, of course^ But I heartened 'em up. «I handed 'em good advice. I kept silly fool girla from goin' to the bad. I gave weepy old widows the only real recreation they ever had. An' here, right at the end, comes an honest piece of money so big that I could have played crook­ ed all my life, an' never even got a chance at anythin' like it. An' last March I come into my money. I closed up shop an' sold my test books an' stopped this medium business, an' started to be a lady. Six thousand a year ain't too much to do that job in New York, even when you don't have to pay house rent. "There was six months' income wait­ ing for me when the lawyers settled everything up, an' I put that into things that. I wanted all my life. "It wasn't till last week ttofkt looked myself over an' found I wasn't happy. To make no bones of it, bein' a real lady--which I'd wanted to be all my life--jest bored me to death. Well, ftp" t loof woaIt T aof Hnurn on j i&ftd a gnnH long dispute with myself. 'You can't go back to the business,' says I. 'Rosa­ lie Le Grange, you've got Jest what you've always wanted, an" yet you ain't happy. What you need Is a com-' promise,' said I. An' next morning it come to me. Maybe the spirits sent it. You can laugh, Inspector McGee, but there's something in this spirit thing. I used to think there was, an' then again I'd think there wasn't-- even in my own clairvoyance. "Well, anyhow, it came to me like a flash--boarders! " I could run my house just the wa^ I wanteds because I needn't look out for profits. An' I could take jest who I wanted and shut out whoever I didn't want. The thought chirked mQ a lot So I fixed all the bedrooms up sensible with good white and <gold beds and adult-size towels an' gave them all little flxy touches that made them homelike. . "An' I was jest ready to begin to look around an' advertise when--this happened. The idea" struck me as soon as I ^aw the state of the people in that house. The police would put it under guard; an' the boarders would be out of a home. So I moved 'em' over bodily, all but the one you pinched--the sick little dago woman from up-stairs, an' the two girls, and that funny old Professor Noll. An' I'm even putting up with the landlady--if it was other people's troubles I was lookin' for, I got 'em all right!" "Gee!" ejaculated Martin McGee. "1 can use you--" "Yes, you can," interrupted Rosalie, "but you won't I know what you want. You want me to go to work an' help cinch this case. Well, I won't. I'm out of that business, too. What I'm here for, Martin McGee--beyond the pleasure I always took in your society"--here Rosalie let her dimples play and flash--"is to tell all I know or saw, so's you won't be callln' me at the inquest an' gettin' me a fea­ ture in the papers." "How about this man North?" asked the Inspector. "Well, in the first place, I like him," Baid Rosalie; "I like that boy. Looks like an alibi for him when the land­ lady says he come up the stairs only a minute before he hollered, an' the doctor says that this Hanska had been dead two or three hours. Appeared to me like he was jest jarred out of a drunk, too. How about this Lawrence Wade or whatever his name was--the man who called with the bag? Got him?" * "He was arrested this morning in Boston." "Skippin'? Looks bad. But now. Inspector, just to close things up, I'm out of this case. I've given you all I know. Your police will be botherin' my boarders a lot witb^ question*; f»' Mi "Good Lord! He DM?" entered &nd laid on his desk Inspector McGee took it up, glanced at it perfunctorily, and suddenly let out an exclamation which had all the power and verve of an oath. ' "By tho great cats!"" he exclaimed, "look at that--'Mrs. John H. Han­ ska.'? y Rosalie took the card and Angered w. . "The widow, I bet." : "Thought he was single," remarked the inspector. "Though, after all, I'd just been taking it for granted." "Well," said Rosalie, rising, "that's come-again-soon for me." , But the Inspector was observing her with eyes which held quizzical invita­ tion. . "Honest now," he said, "wouldn't yo\t like to sit in on this interview?" Rosalie flashed her dimples and con­ templated him for a second. Then, with the unexpected lightness which marked all her movements, she sat down. "See here, Martin McGee," she said, "you ain't goin' to make a fool of me, draggin' me into this case--but I'm dying to listen just the same." "Show them in," said the Inspector on the instant, and as though fearing that she would pull back her permis­ sion. "But not unless she's willing," said Rosalie, as they waited. And then through the door came two women. "Good Lord!" commented RosaHe under her breath. V CHAPTER 4ft. BO will the reporters. Just'trusv.nî to steer that. You keep me out." ^ Martin McGee sighed. i "All right, Rosalie; but I'd like your help. Still, I owe you lots of good turns, and the case don't look as mysterious, after all. I guess it's that fellow Wade." "I guess probably," admitted Rosa­ lie. "Most mysteries ain't mysteries *at all after the first day. Well, now, I'm botherin' a busy man in office hours an' I must run along. Let's see--five minutes to four, an' it's bad luck to go before the hour. Suppose you tell me about yourself an' how the world's usin' you?" Inspector 'McGee sat back in his I cS^e chair and waxed eloquent. How- ' ever, his narrative of pulls and pro- motioiu and Tammany influence was never ^nished. |Por before tho hour struck, the silent attentive doorman 'I*; HAD ADVERTISED THEIR DADS r# Strange to Say, Fathers Were by No ^ ; Weans Pleased With the Young- &•' stars' Work. < Two youthful suburban aspirants who belonged to families where little brothers and Bistera had been, donated by the ramuy pnysician, decided to en- tor a little side line of business one afternoon. One of the youths was the son of a well-known doctor while the other was the son of a prominent tailor. ' The two lads were very chummy, and this afternoon they decided to launch upon a little advertising expe­ dition. A paint brush wae the means {devised to accomplish the advertising •swJ the lettering was quickly but plainly traced over any smooth sur- jCaoe of- wood <fr stone encountered on the way. After office hours in the evening the doctor was having his customary chat with his %on and during the time he masked: Ami wiiat have you been do­ ing tcd„; Wi!i:ain?" ' "Advertising," he "Advertising whom?" questioned his father. "You and Tom Stan wood's father (the tailor'!). "Me? How did you advertise me?" "Oh, we fixed a sign up that road, 'Buy your panta from Stanwood and your babies frost Dr. White,'" an­ nounced the lad, proudly.--4lta#tr|£ed sunaay Magazine. Fair Algeriennas. In Algiers, and indeed in all Mo- tytnunedan cities, says the National Magazine, the "High Society" ladies of the harem never go outside the harem wallB, save veiled In closed carriages, and attended by trusty servants. It is the middle class and the serving peo­ ple one meets on the streets, and in the shops and cemeteries. The Mohammedan men are intense­ ly jealous and suspicious of women. Keeping them In utter ignorance, as they do, they know that the women have no guiding principles to aave them from being foolish and indis­ creet; and the men know, too. that their women are governed by their ap- j the gaping crowds would be absolute petltes, vanities and passions, and sojuudity everywhere" ' ;V;. • • keep them ae wholly as possible from temptation. Yet these temptations reach them now and then, and the women who are allowed to go out alone, or even in twos oc threes, how­ ever heavily veiled, sometijii^ fl^ <m* portuaitiee for intrigue. •< ± Eve's Costuma for The Sandwich Island costume for street weur for women in Chicago' is advocated by Alexander A. McCor- mick, president of the county board, who believes that the entire aboli­ tion of clothes wp>uld greatly" better the morals of the Community. "Imag­ ination and curiosity," he says, "ac^ count for much vicious thought. Clothes are designed to excite the imagination, rather than to subdue it. If clothes were abolished there would be no such stimulus to the imagina­ tion. Morals could not be much worse, so almost anything in the way of dress changes would have to work an improvement. Muddy street cross­ ings and bathing beaches are exciters ; of the imagination. Much better than Mrs. Hanska's Story. The first was tall and big. Dut her height wae mainly the superb carriage of her shoulders, her size but the ripe roundness of a goddess figure. , She was dark; she was young; she was beautiful. Rosalie Le Grange, connois­ seur of her sex, sat regarding her spellbound. The second woman--In fact she was little more than a girl--was slender, blonde and fragile--her quality was elfin. Rosalie could spare her but a glance. "I am Mrs. Hanska, widow of the maq who was killed last night," said the taller woman; and she hesitated. It was not the custom of Inspector Martin McGee to rise when women entered his office in the role of the accused, or of witnesses. A little bru­ tality of attitude, he felt, put them in a meek and humble mood for the sub­ sequent Third Degree proceedihgs. But this woman--or was it the re­ spected presence of Rosalie Le Grange?--djrew him to his feet. "Won't you sit down?" he said. "Thank you. May I Introduce Miss Elizabeth Lanfe? She is here to verify what I have to say." All this with perfect simplicity. Her eyes traveled then, with a quick glance of inquiry, to Rosalie Le Grange. ' This," said the inspector, taking his cue at a quick prod from Rosalie's toot, "is Mrs. Le Grange. She is the lady who came into the house right after the--accident--and took the hoarders over to her place for the night. She's kept them there ever since. She was just telling me what she knew. Maybe you'd like to hear It." "I should like jrery much to hear It;" said Mrs. Hanska earnestly. "But maybe you want to be alone just at first," interposed Rosalie, mak­ ing a pretense of rising. "No--there is nothing secret," Re­ plied Mrs. Hanska. "I see no reason- why you should not stay. Indeed,tyou may be able to help us." Now Martin McGee summoned the police stenographer and ordered him to stay within call. Gone from him was the heavy humor of his half-hour with Rosalie. He was the Chief--sus­ picious and brutal. "I must warn you," he said, "that if you are Implicated in this case, any­ thing you say will be used against you at the trial." Generally that sud­ den statement made women tremble, drew from them a flood of words out of which McGee picked the flotsam and the jetsam of evidence. But Mrs. Hanska did not give the preliminary frightened start. She only transferred her limpid level gaze from Rosalie's face to Inspector McGee's. "It would be impossible -to impli­ cate me." Dozens of people can testify that I was in Arden, a hundred miles north, last night--that I have not left Arden for more than a month. Per­ haps," she continued, checking an un* formed sentence oh the lipB of in­ spector McGee, "I had better start at the beginning and tell you all about it.' GRAFT WORKED BY CASHIERS tysw Yorkers Said to Be Victimized Out of Large 8ums Annually in That Way. "One form of honest graft a hotel keeper has to fight the hardest in the town is 'accidental short changing,' " says the manager of a very popular hotel in New York city, famous for its oyster bar. "The same sort of 'honest graft' obtains at almost every cash changing place in the city where there is a netting on the cashier's desk to protect the cash, and a lower bar of wood to hold up the netting or glass screen. This bar of wood or metal runs across the hand-hole for change. The cashiers have figured out the angle of vision of all men, short and tall, and the distance they stand from the desk to receive their change. Say a dollar is changed to take out 30 cents; the 'ac­ cidental short-change artist will push forward the 70 cents In coin, but his hand will hold one dime that is hidden from the angle of vision of the man getting change by the line of the bar over the cash hand hole. It the man She was talking "fine," Inspector McGee reflected. Having got her Started, liio bust course tu iiiuliify her until she began to run down. "That's always best," he said. T , Quite simply Mrs. Hanska began her talk. "I married Captain Hanska ten years ago--when I was nineteen. He was nearly thirty-five then, although he said that he was younger; and he had juBt come back from Alaska. He said that he got his title in the Bo­ livian army. I have since had reason to doubt that. He waa an engineer by profession. I realize now how little mother and I knew about him. But he was tho kind of person who carried everything before him--you defended to him in those days in spite of your better judgment And my mother was very trusting. Then, too, Captain Hanska was a very charming man. Afterward I found out how he lived. That, for me, was the beginning of the end. He was a brilliant man. He might have made a good living in any one of a variety of ways. But he simply would not work. He preferred to live by hlB wits: Cards mainly. It was long before I realized that. He was very clever at concealment and it never occurred to me to doubt his word. In fact, I did not realize it all until after our marriage. We were in New York---" she hesitated again. "Shall I tell you the details?" And now Rosalie Le Grange, who had been sitting In unaccustomed si­ lence, spoke for the first time. "You'll excuse me, Inspector," she said with an asperity so well' assumed that Martin McGee wondered for a moment whether she was really offend­ ed, "but Mrs. Hanska don't seem to know her rights. She hasn't seen any lawyer. A person don't knock around this world for forty years without gettin' a line on what her rights are. I've learned. An' I'm goin' to be your lawyer here, Mrs. Hanska. Now as long as you tell the truth, which of course you will, it don't matter about details. What the Inspector is after is who done this murder, an' anythfn' touchin' on thfl facts. It don't matter how you learned it, but you did learo that Captain Hanska was a crook." Mrs. Hanska winced visibly at the ugly word which finished Rosalie's charge. But she managed a nod of as­ sent. "Thank you,' Mrs. Le Grange. Tes, I learhed that he was a--not entirely honorable. In time I realized that he was using me as a lure for his opera­ tions in cards--and other things. We were on our way around the world. Wherever We went, he made me 'en­ tertain men that they might play cards afterward--and be swindled. The end came at Shanghai"--she stopped here and made a little effort before she went on--"it was a young Australian --foolish, and with a great^deal of money. Shall I go Into that?" she paused here, and, her gase traveled with another appeal to the face of Rosalie Le Grange. "Now, Inspector," said Rosalie, "I don't see why this lady has to tell all that It's enough that the game was crooked. You left him, of coarse." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Safest Place for Jewels. 4. few years ago one often heard ttifit "women who possessed jewels of value were becoming-"afraid" to wear them owing to the risks which ac­ companied displaying their property in public. ' It became the custom to seek some place of security where the more precious possessions could be deposited. Jewels were "banked" or committed to the protection of safes and strong rooms. But gradually the sense of-security has in some degree departed. The modern woman has no capacity for matching the resourceful ingenuity of the modern thief. The most astounding cases of jewel rob­ bery show that no precaution is be­ yond being intelligently anticipated. AfterSll, it is not surprising that those who possess jewels of value are begin­ ning to realize again that their safest place is that for which they were in­ tended and are wearing thern^ more than ever. Out of- His Sphere of Influence. Father Farrell was addressing a lit­ tle group of boys at the mission one night, and it wasn't long before all but one of them had been moved to tears. The good priest watched this boy closely, but he remained perfect­ ly possessed. Finally, pointing a fin­ ger at the lad, he called out. "Why aren't you crying?" "Oh." Bays the boy, "I dqp't belong to this parish."-- Judge. is in a hurry, or absent minded, he grabs the change he sees and rushes of without one dime. Always stop, stoop and look, if in doubt. And you would be surprised to know how much money is left at cashiers' counters, box offices, subway ticket booths and other places. I'll wager $100,000 is short­ changed annually in New Yocju never call you back." other field, It is the little things connt. _ L • \' For every trftin ttaft leaves the track. Injuring passengers dozens are hurt by falling through bad spots in station platforms or stepping on rusty naiig or tripping over debris. For every man who sacrifices Ibis life unavoidably there are scores killed or maimed becauBe of the chances they take, in direct violation of all rules of self-preservation, Hundreds, yes, thousands of times each day trainmen stand directly in front of an onrushing locomotive, and step nimbly on the footboard, when a mistake of a thousandth part of a second would mean disaster. Some day there will come a miss, and a mass of unrecognizable remains will be scooped up from beneath the loco­ motive that snuffed out a human life* Sitting on a brake wheel or stand­ ing very close to the edge or end o? a moving car, going between moving cars, riding with the foot on the brake beam, oil box or journal rig­ ging, kicking draw-bars in making a coupling; riding on the footboard be­ tween an engine and cars that are be­ ing Bhoved; jumping on or off mov­ ing cars or engines; placing or allow­ ing material or rubbish to remain too near car tracks where it is liable to c&use men to stumble and fall under trains; throwing boards or other mate­ rial aside with points of nails extend­ ing upward; using spike mauls which are loose on handles, opening knuckles on or passing between cars when they are about to strike---these and count­ less other practices are what cause ac­ cidents to pile up, and against the continuance of which the "safety first" campaign is directed. It is an established fact that the seasoned railroader, unless he has be­ come Imbued with the doctrine of self- preservation, will continually take chances that are appalling to even the most venturesome beginner. It is an­ other case of familiarity breeding carelessness. And the result of such Indifference Is found In tne killed and maimed whose names each year ap­ pear on the railroad records. "The number of accidents that are unpreventable by the exercise of due care is negligible,'"said an expert, dis­ cussing the question. "We have at our command statistics covering every mishap of any nature on our lines, and I know whereof I speak when I make that statement No man delib­ erately sets out to cause a disaster. Whenever the human element enters --and that is almost in every In­ stance--it proves to be a case of thoughtlessness rather than criminal Intent. "This is what we are striving to overcome. We want to instill Into every man a sense of responsibility that will not only cause him to go about his work with due caution but will keep him on the alert to see that others do likewise. The man /who permits an unsafe praetice to pass without calling attention to it is in reality as negligent as tne man who commits the error."---Chicago Evening goat. IS THE TALLEST DRAWBRIDGE ^ J;, Rather Unique, at Least. Among seven noted men who were to speak at the opening exercises of a new school was a professor well known for his lapses of memory. But his speech was clear that night and as he Beated himself his loving wife felt that he had fully earned the burst of applause that followed, and she clapped her little bands enthusiastical­ ly. Then her cheeks crimsoned. "Did you Bee anything amusing about the close of my addreBs, my dear?" asked the professor as they started for home. "It seemed aa if I heard sounds sug­ gestive of merriment • about me." "Well, dear," said she, "of ail the peo* Q}e who applauded your address, jtm clapped the loudest and longest" "Structure Towers Over Calumet River in Chicago to an Almost Unbeliev­ able Height.- ' A drawbridge which, when towers above the Calumet river in Chicago to the height of a 20-story skyscraper, has been built The length of its span, 230 feet, breaks all previ­ ous records for drawbridges of the "bascule" or tilting type. The bridge is raised and lowered in exactly the way that the wooden gates at a rail­ road crossing are operated by the flag­ man to prevent vehicles from passing the tracks when a train is approach­ ing. In spite of Its ponderous mass, the hridge is so delicately balanced that It c.m be raised and lowered as readily as a child tilts his "see-saw." The av­ erage of four complete operations gave a raising time of 72 seconds and lower­ ing time of 67 second*. Sngjnegr|ng Elective' Digger Signal ' Danger signals at grade crossings being installed by one of the eastern railroads are expected to prove to be very effective. As soon as a train comes within a mile of the crossing the signal shows a red light and* a gong that can be heard 500 yards away begins to ring. Both warnings continue to act ufttil the train has passed, when the gong ceases and the red light changes to white. Should the wires become deranged, or should anything happen to the mechanism, the signal on the disk flashes to danger and remains there until repairs are Railroad Employee ftenjflR. Shopmen of the Iron Mountain rail­ road system are to receive a general increase in wages of cents an hour, while the shopmen on the Mis­ souri Pacific will receive a general in­ crease of 2V6 cents an hour. Also tho iron iiouuiilii shopmen will have jgreatly improved working conditions. "Including an hour witb Pfty,, ̂ yery Saturday. • • .... j Beauty In Mexico. k The beauty of the Mexican women consists in superb black eyes, fine and very abundant dark hair, lovely arm* and extraordinarily beautiful hands and feet The Indian woipen some­ times add to these points of beauty a perfect figure, dark but glowing complexion and teeth Uke snap, ,. Camels In Queenelan^ r Over a thousand camels are used i in Queensland as a means of trans­ port across the arid districts, qnfl.tlMI auttber is. rapidljr Utcreasinf.' . / Richmond, Pa.-"Wb« I started taking Lydia R Pinkkam's VefetaM# Compound I was in* dreadfullyrtmdowii" 1- * A ^ to I had internal trou^ bias, and go ex? ireixieiy nervous an<j|. prostrated that if I ,. v ~;t had given in to mf /r^'v feelings I would - have been in bed* Ae i t was I ha{ ' hardly strength a^_. times to be on feet and what I did do was by a great effort I could not sleep at night anc.-. of course felt very bad in the morning^ and had a steady headache. *' *f "After taking the second bottle I no>» ? \ , ; t lced teat the headache was not so bad* s v , '• I rested tetter, and my nerves were - j 'stronger. I continued its use until made »• new woman of rue> am? now % can hardly realize that I am able to di , I so much as I do. 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