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Tf1ELd5T f i^"| ' cOfiynms^/v^ if C/mrutj JomwoiO JO*J m m • . ., .: ',• •-• *r EDERICK PALMER W":- 8YNOPSIS. t'prc-h~" At ("&. • , the B w#r n At fhetr home on the frontier between rowns and Grays Marta Galland and mother, entertaining Colonel Wester- llnsr of the Gravs, see Captain Lanstron, Staff intelligence officer of the Browns, Injured by a fall In his aeroplane. Ten y*ars later. WesterlinR, nominal vice but rgal chief of staff. reinforces South* La !Qr. meditates on war. CHAPTER II--Continued. •SV Rather Idly, now, he drew a pad to­ ward him and, taking up a pencil, ., . r. ,. made the figures seventeen and twen- & $'$$•.' ty-seven. Then he made the figures fevc I? thirty-two and forty-two. He black- ^ ^ -ened them with repeated tracings as jr*-mused. This done, he put seven- it* vA : - <een under twenty-seven and thirty- "two under forty-two. He made the Jwbtraction and studied the two tens. & jk £' . v A swing door opened softly and hie ^ ^ "/ yjptecutive clerk reappeared with a soft 3Sj.,V- My- w- 45?:' v Vv? v.: <&SV- '•> jfread. Some papers for your signature, r," he said as he slipped them on the , plotter In front of Westerling. "And 132d--no order about that, sir?" t~3le asked. 1 I "Nan*. It remains!" Westerling re­ plied. _r Z '% The clerk went out Impressed. His f ilef taking to sum* of subtraction id totally preoccupied! The 132d to main! He, too, had a question-mark to his secret mind. Westerling proceeded with his math- Yv.'-. ematics. Having heavily shaded the |^£vb tens, he essayed a sum in division. He p£-r t found that ten went into seventy just '; seven times. Vv-\ V "One-seventh the allotted span of Hfe!" he mused. "Take off fifteen . / • years for youth and fifteen after flfty- ^ ^ -five--nobody counts after that, though 1!^ ? ' ' mean to--and you have ten into i'}; iorty, which is one-fourth. That is a good deal. But It's more to a woman *p-^Y. Vthan to a man--yes, a lot more to a "ft*-- -'-1' voman than to a man!" V % I c'er^ was ri8bt in thinking ^Westerling preoccupied; but it was Pl*y : ^®ot with the international crisis. Over lW', ' 'Ms coffee the name of Miss Marta Gal- tend. In the list of arrivals at a hotel. fii* Bad caught his eye In the morning pa- . J' per. A note to her had brought an ^ >-«nswer, saying that her time was 11m- fy.V'U" hed- but she would be glad to have L'; »*; Mlm call at five that afternoon. Westerling realized that the ques- T V," of marriage as a social require- & V ' > v * | p e n t m i g h t a r i s e w h e n h e s h o u l d b e - ; : "tome officially chief of staff with the fretirwment of H1b Excellency the fleld- '^jT-?,%»ars%aL For the present he enjoyed ;|.f . liis fositlon as a bachelor who was ilhe most favored man in the army too marching through the main avenue. Youthe all, of twenty-one or two, they were in a muddy-grayish uniform which was the color of the plain as seen from the veranda of the Galland house. Where these came from were other boys growing up to take their places. The mothers .of the nation were doing their duty. All the land was a breeding-ground for the divi­ dends of Hedworth Westerling. At the far side of the park he saw another kind of dividend--another group of marching men. These were not in uniform. They were the unem­ ployed. Many were middle-aged, with worn, tired faces. Beside the flag of the country at the head of the proces­ sion was that of universal radicalism. And his car had to stop to let them pass. For an Instant the indignation of military autocracy rose strong with­ in him at sight of the national colors in such company. But he noted how naturally the men kept step; the solidarity of their movement. The stamp of their army service in youth could not be easily removed. He real­ ized the advantage of heading an army in which defense was not dependent on a mixture of regulars and volun­ teers, but on universal conscription that brought every able-bodied man under discipline. These reservists, in the event of war, would hear the call of race and they would fight for the one flag that then had any significance. Yes, the w p, touch to think of marriage bell was that a little surprising that the the girl of seventeen had »;4|v. «er. £ f > " t n n g in his secret mind when he was ^ ^>n one °' *ke first rounds of the lad- now lost in the mists of a lower ifctratum of existence, should ever 4-Dk!e again. Yet he had heard its fey- . Ipote in the tone of her prophecy with «ach step in his promotion; and while .<|f r (the other people whom he had known were the vagueet shadows of • Personalities, her picture was as defi- C"0y-. ,Ulte in detail as when she said: "You '«""have the will! You have the ambi- tion!" She had recognized In him the tj'jpower that he felt; foreseen his ascent to t^e very apex of the pyramid. She ^"V'1wa11 unmarried, which was ^ ^ jjtrange; for she had not been bad- 'i°°kin8 and she was of a fine old fam- What was ehe like now? Com- § \ xnonplace and provincial, most likely. • ,^^f;;-iMany of the people he had known in i' ^ his early dayB appeared so when he "One-Seventh the Allotted Life!" He Mused. Span v*4 • ; ^'y ̂ inet them again. But, at the worst, he : lA^i^ooked for an interesting half-hour. The throbbing activity of the streets :!. the capital, as his car proceeded on ^ I X C »ithe way to her hotel, formed an ener- f'/.'"V- '« g^tic accompaniment to his gratifying \*r ^, *•;; backward survey of how all his plans worked out from the very day of & ' • ? - t h e p r o p h e c y . H a d h e h e a r d t h e r e - ' % mark of a great manufacturer to the feijjgf-:'- '.banker at his side in a passing limous- h>iZ:'Wr lne- "There goes the greatest captain industry of us all!" Westerling WOu1'1 only have thought: "Certainly tefr-0' •xlt old human impulses would predomi­ nate and the only enemy would be on the other side of the frontier. They would be pawns of his will--the will that Marta Galland had said would make him chief of staff. Wasn't war the real cure for the general unreet? Wasn't the nation growing stale from the lo^g peace? He was ready for war now that he had be­ come vice-chief, when the retirement of His Excellency, unable to bear the weight of his years and decorations in the field, would make him the supreme commander. One ambition gained^ he heard the appeal of another; to live to see the guns and rifles that had fired only blank cartridges in practice pouring out shells -and bullets, and all the battalions that had played at sham war in maneuvers engaged in real war, under hie direction. He eaw his columns sweeping up the slopes of the Brown range. Victory was certain. He would be the first to lead a great mod­ ern army againBt a great modern army; his place as the master of mod­ ern tactics secure In the minds of all am chief of staff. I am at the head I the soldiers of the world. The public 1 ; : . &*• j|pnv ' • ®Sa- " feV-- - gr- • all your workmen at one time or another!" Had he heard the banker's answer, "But pretty poor pay, pretty small dividends!" he would have thought, "Splendid dividends--the divi­ dends of power!" j He had a caste contempt for the men commerce, with their mercenary talk about credit and market prices; and alBO for the scientists, doctors, en­ gineers, and men of other professions, , who spoke of things in books which he did not understand. Reading books was one of the faults of Turcas, his as­ sistant. No bookish soldier, he knew, had ever been a great general. He re­ sented the growing power of these leaders of the civil world, taking dls- ..i tinction away from the military, even when, as a man of parts, he had to • court their Influence. His was the profession that was and ever should be the elect. A penniless subaltern was a gentleman, while he could never think of a man in business as one. All the faces In the street belonged (to a strange, busy world outside his in - terest and thoughts. They formed what was known as the public, often making a clatter about things jwhich they did not understand, when they should obey the orders of their su­ periors. Of late, their clatter had been about the extra taxes for the recent in­ crease of the standing forces by an­ other corps. The public was bovine with a parrot's head. Yet it did not admire the tolling ox, but the eagle and the lion. As his car came to the park his eyes lighted at sight of one of the dividends --one feature of urban life that ever «ave him a thrill. A battalion of the 12Sth, which he had ordered that after­ noon to the . very garrison at South La - Vi. ?ir Jbe JUo4 commanded, was r>*.. ^ would forget its unrest in the thrill of battles won and provinces conquered, and itB clatter would be that of ac­ claim for a new Idol of Its old faith. "Since you've become such a great man?" she hazarded.* "Is that too strong?" This referred to the tea. "No, just right!" he nodded. He was studying her with the polite, veiled scrutiny of a man of the world. A materialist, he would look a woman over as he would a soldier when he had been a major-general making an inspection. She was slim, supple; he liked slim, supple women. Yes, she was twenty-seven, with the vivacity of seventeen retained, though she were on the edge of being an old maid ac­ cording to the conventional notions. Necks and shoulders that happened to be at his side at dinner, he had found, when they were really beautiful, were not averse to his glance of appreci­ ative and discriminating admiration of physical charm. But he saw her shrug slightly and caught a spark from her eyes that made him vaguely con­ scious of an offense to her sensibili­ ties, and he was wholly conscious that the suggestion, bringing hlB faculties up sharply, had the pleasure of a novel sensation. "How fast you have gone ahead!" she eaid. "That little prophecy of mine did come true. You are chief of staff!" After a smile of satisfaction he cor­ rected her. "Not quite; vice-chief--the right- hand man of His Excellency. I am a buffer between him and the heads of divisions. This has led to the errone­ ous assumption which I cannot too forcibly deny--" He was proceeding with the phrase­ ology habitual whenever men or wom­ en, to flatter him, had intimated that they realized that he was the actual head of the army. His Excellency, with the prestige of a career, must be kept soporifically enjoying the forms of authority. To arouse his jealousy might curtail Westerling's actual power. "Yes, yes!" breathed Marta softly, arching her eyebrows a trifle as she would when looking all around and through a thing or when she found any one beating about the bush. The little frown disappeared and she smiled underst*idingly. "You know I'm not a perfect goose!" she added "Had you been made chief of staff in name, too, all the old generals would have been in the sulks and the young generals jealous," she continued. "The one way that you might have the power to exercise was by proxy.v This downright frankness was an­ other reflection of the old days before he was at the apex of the pyramid. Now it was so unusual in his experi­ ence as to be almost a shock. On the point of arguing, he caught a mis­ chievous, delightful "Isn't that so?" in her eyes, and replied: "Yes, I shouldn't wonder If It were!" Why shouldn't he admit the truth to the one who had rung the bell of his secret ambition long ago by recogniz­ ing in him the ability to reach his goal? He marvelled at her grasp of the situation. "It wasn't so very hard to say, was it?" she asked happily, in response to his smile. Then, her gift of putting herself in another's place, while she strove to look at things with his pur­ pose and vision, in full play, she went on in a different tone, as much to her­ self as to him: "You have labored to make yourself master of a mighty or­ ganization? You did not care for the non-essentials. You wanted the reality of shaping results." "Yes, the results, the power!" he exclaimed. "Fifteen hundred regiments!" she continued thoughtfully, looking at a given point rather than at him. "Every regiment a blade which you would bring to an even sharpness! Every regiment a unit of a harmonious whole, knowing how to screen itself from flre and give fire as long as bidden, In answer to your will if war comes! That is what you live and plan for, isn't it?" "Yes, exactly! Yes, you have it!" he said. His shoulders stiffened as he thrilled at seeing a picture of him­ self, as he wanted to see himself, done in bold strokes: It assured him that not only had his own mind grown be­ yond what were to him the narrow as­ sociations of his old La Tlr days, bat that hers had grown, too. "And you-- what have you been doing all these years?" he asked. "Living the lite of a woman on a country estate," she replied. "Since you made a rule that no Gray officers should cross the frontier we have been a little lonelier, having only the Brown officers to tea. Did you really find It so bad for discipline in your own case?" ehe, concluded with playful solemnity. "One cannot consider individual cases in a general order," he explained. "And. remember, the Browns made the ruling first. You see, every year means a tightening--yes, a tightening, as arms and armies grow more compli­ cated and the maintaining of staff secrets more important. And you. have been all the time at La Tir, truly?" he asked, changing the subject. He was convinced that she had acquired some­ thing that could not be gained on the outskirts of a provincial town. "No. I have traveled. I have been quite around the world." "You have!" This explained much. "Howr f envy you! Thaf ia a privilege I shali not know until I am superannu­ ated." While he should remain chief of staff he must be literally a prisoner In his own country. "Yes, I should say It was splendid! Splendid--yes, indeed!" Snappy little nods of the head being unequal to ex­ pressing the joy of the memories that her exclamation evoked, she clasped her hands over her knees and swung back and forth in the ecstasy of seven­ teen. "Splendid! I should say so!" She nestled the curling tip of her tongue against her teeth, as if - the recollection must also be tasted. "Splendid, enchanting, enlightening, stupendous and wickedly expensive 1 Another girl and I did it all on our own." "O-oh!" he exclaimed. "Oh, oh, oh!" she repeated after him. "Oh, what, please?^ "Oh, nothing!" iwsald. It was quite comprehensible to him how well equipped she was to take care of her­ self on such an adventure. "Precisely, when you come,to think it over!" she concluded. "What interested you most? What was the big lesson of all your journey­ ing?" he asked, reajly to play the lis­ tener. "Being born and bred on a frontier, of an ancestry that was born and bred on a frontier, why, frontiers interested me most," she said. "I collected im­ pressions of frontiers as some people collect pictures. I found them all alike --stupid, just^stupid! Oh, so stupid!" Her frown grew with the repetition of the word; her fingers closed in on her palm in vexation. He recollected that he had seen her like this two or three- tlmee at La Tir, when he had found the outbursts most entertaining. He imagined that the small flBt pressed against the table edge could deliver a stinging blow. "As stupid as it Is for neighbors to quarrel! It put me at war with all frontiers." "Apparently," he said. ^ She withdrew her fist from the table, dropped the opened hand over the other on her knee, her body relaxing, -her wrath passing into a kind of shamefacedness and then into a soft, prolonged laugh. "I laugh at myself, at my own incon­ sistency," she said. "I was warlike against war. At all events, if there is anything to make a teacher of peace lose her tetnper it is the folly of frontiers." "Yes?" he exclaimed. "Yes? Go on!" And he thought: "I'm really having a very good time." "You see, I came home from my tour with an idea--an Idea for a life occu­ pation just as engrossing, as yours," she went on, "and opposed to yours. I saw there was no use of working with the grown-up folks. They must be left to The Hague conferences and the peace societies. But children are quite alike the world over. You can plant thoughts in the young that will take root and grow as they grow." "Patriotism, for instance," he ob­ served narrowly. "No, the follies of martial patriot­ ism! The wickedness of war, which is the product of martial patriotism!" The follies of patriotism! This was the red flag of anarchy to him. He started to speak, flushing angrily, but held his tongue and only emitted a "whew!" in good-humored bonder. "I see you are not very frightened by my opposition," she rejoined in a flash of amusement not wholly untem- pered by exasperation. CHAPTER III. The 8econd Prophecy. M&rta, when she had received the note from Westerling, had been in doubt as to her answer. Her curiosity to see him again was not of itself com­ pelling. The actual making of the prophecy was rather dim to her mind until he recalled It. She had heard of his rise and she had heard, too, things about him which a girl of twenty-seven can better understand than a girl of seventeen. His reason for wanting to see her he had said was to "renew an old acquaintance." He could have lit­ tle interest in her, and her Interest In him was that he was head of the Gray army. His work had Intimate relation, to that which the Marta of twenty- seven, a Marta with a mission, had set for herself. A page came to tell Westerling that Miss Galland would be down directly! When she appeared she crossed the room with a flowing, spontaneous vital­ ity that appealed to him as something familiar. "Ten years, isn't It?" she exclaimed as she seated herself on the other side of the tea-table. "And, let me see, you took two lumps, if I remember?" "None now," he said. "Do you find it fattening ?" afee asked. He recognized the mischievous sparkle of the eyes, the quizzical turn of lhe lips, which was her asset in keeping any question from being per­ sonal. Neverthless, he flushed slightly. "A change of taste," he averred. - ji,' LEISURE APPEALS FEW i f f - Fine Art of 8imple Living Appears to Have Died Out In This Age of Work and Rush. Leisure of life has disappeared be­ cause a great deal of money must be made in order to live. Who today will sacrifice much for good books or a garden or for leisure Itself, unac­ companied by luxuries? After all, if one wants to acquire the fine art of simple living, it is the spirit that counts. "I never," said an old gentle­ woman who had suffered reverses, "gave up having candle-shades on the table, even if the dinner was only bread and milk." And there Is a great deal in the spirit that this triumphant point of view expresses. Like the Emperor Caligula, the old lady had lived as simple a life as she could In the station tb which the gods had called her. To the best of us the practice of the fine art of simple living consists in do­ ing without things gracefully, gaining what we can of pleasant leisure, aUd giving what we can of cheerful com­ panionship, and in never talking aboyt eocuwmy. ^here are men who woul^d . • ' ' ' A rather die than swear in the presence of ladles, yet boast loudly of their sav­ ings In the matter of cigars; and there are women who would forego their an­ nual spring cleaning rather than show their ankles, yet who triumphantly tell you after dinner that you have eaten not sweetbreads at their table, but the frugal calves' brains. These people do not know that one of the principal secrets of the fine art of simple living is never to tell. To save and to tell is as bad as to kiss and to tell, and in the matter of cigars it is only too easy to find out the truth fo^ oneself. Now, Caligula--but wher­ ever he is, this remarkable man must be pleased to know that he has point­ ed a moral.--Century Magazine. Electrle Range Operated Cheaply. An electric range displayed recently in the windows of the electric light company at Salt Lake City was op­ erated continuously, both day and night, for a week, at a total cost of $1.18. This figure was based on energy at four cents a kilowatt hour, with a discount of ten per cent The stove contained one oven, the temperature of which was automatically controlled by a thermostatic device.--Electrical World. •*We got the approprtatlott for aa ad> dltional army corps this year," he ex­ plained contentedly, his repose com­ pletely regained. "Thus increasing the odd* against us. But perhaps not; for we are deal­ ing with the children not with re­ cruits, as I said. We call ourselves the teachers of peace. I Organized the first class In La Tlr. I have the chil­ dren come together every Sunday morning and I tell them about the chil­ dren that live in other countries. I tell them that a child a thousand miles away is just as much a neighbor as the one across the street. ,At first I feared that they would find It uninter­ esting. But if you know how to talk to them they don't" "Naturally they don't, when yon to them," he interrupted. She was so intent that she passed over the compliment with a gesture like that of brushing away a cobweb. Her eyes, were like clear wells of faith and purpose. "I try to make the children of other countries so Interesting that our chil­ dren will like them too well ever to want to kill them when they grow up/ We 'have a little peace prayer--they have even come to like to recite It--a prayer and an oath. But I'll not bother you with it Other women have taken up the idea. I have found a girl who is going to start a class on your side In South La Tlr, and I catae here to meet some women who want to in­ augurate the movement in»your capi­ tal." 'Til have to see about that!" he re­ joined, half-ban terlngly, half-threaten­ ingly. "There is something else to come, even more irritating," she said, less Intently and smiling. "So please be prepared to hold your temper." "I shall not beat my fist on the table defending war as you did defending peace!" he retaliated with significant enjoyment But ehe used his retort for an open­ ing. "Oh, I'd rather you would do that than jest! It's human. It's going to war because one is angry. You would go to war as a matter of cold reason." "If otherwise; I should lose," he re­ plied. "Exactly. You make it easy for me to approach my point I want to pre­ vent you from losing!" she announced cheerfully yet very seriously. "Yes? Proceed. I brace myself against an explosion of indignation!" "It is the duty of a teacher of peace This Was the Red Flag of Anarchy to Him. to use all her influence with the people she knows," she went on. "So I am going to ask you not to let your coun­ try ever go to war against . mine while you are chief of staff." "Mine against yours?" he equivo­ cated. "Why, you live almost within gunshot of the line! Your people have as much Gray as Brown blood in their veins. Your country! My country! Isn't that patriotism?" "Patriotism, but not martial patriot­ ism," she corrected him. "My thought is to stop war for both countries as war, regardless of sides. Promise me that you will not permit it!" "I not permit it:" He smiled with the kindly patronage of a great man who Bees a charming woman flounder­ ing in an attempt at logic. "It is for the premier to say. I merely make th« machine ready. The government says the word that makes it move. I able to stop war! Come, come!" "But you can--yes, you can with a word!" she declared positively. "How?" he asked, amazed. "How?" he repeated blandly. • ' Was she teasing him? he wondered. What new resources of confusion had ten years and a tour around the world developed in her? Was it possible that the whole idea of the teachers of peace was an invention to make conversa­ tion at his expense? If so, she carried it off with a sincerity that suggested other depths yet unsounded. "Very easily," she answered. "You can tell the premier that you cannot wip. Tell him that you will break your army to pieces against the Browns' fortifications!" He gasped. Then an Inner Yoloe prompted him that the cue was comedy. * 'Excellent fooling--excellent!" he said with a laugh. "Tell the premier that I should loss when I have flvs million men to their three million! What a harlequin chief of staff 1 should be! Exoellent fooling! You al­ most had me!" Again he laughed, though In the fashion of one who had hardly unbent his spine, while he was wishing foi the old days when he might take tea with her one or two afternoons a week. It would be a fine tonic after his isola­ tion at the apex of the pyramid sup veying the deference of the lowel levels. Then he saw that her eyes, shimmering with wonder, grew dull and her Hps parted in a rigid, pale lint a_g if she were hurt * V*5*. C*p Bps CONTmtJCEO AMERICAN SOLDIERS CHEERED THE MJH Mexicans Could Not Understand tbe "Gringo" Idea of Their i ^ National Sport * Vera Cruz, Mex.--»"The bull doesn't get a fair chance," was the reason which General Funstoh gave for pro­ hibiting bullfighting in Vera Cruz. It's a thoroughly gpod American reason. As soon as bullfighting ceaped a quick-brained, money-mad little Span- lard, who runB a theater in a big frame building here, dug up a moving picture film which had been taken at the^ height of the season in the great bull ring at Madrid. Five of the greatest bullfighters in the world--Pastor and Gaona, (Mexican idols, included--were shown killing one bull each. Each bull in turn was shown on the screen in the act of killing six or eight splendid horses. The many Americana in the audi­ ence on the first night were sickened •with disgust. The Spanish and Mexi- I Stood Him on His Feet, can trick of permitting a bull to toss a heavy horse about on*its horns until it is tired out was soon spotted by the American beholders. They saw that each "valiant" matador, ijust before the final thrust, was facing, not a wild, ferocious bull, but a pitifully exhaust ed and weak wreck that could harm no one. The film showed the sixth bull en­ tering the ring, to be faced by the great Spanish fighter, Fuentes. And all of a sudden the jKcture stopped, several printed lines were thrown on the screen, explaining that the next view would show how Fuentes had been terribly injured by the bull. Au odd murmur ran through the audience. It was pay night and many soldiers were in the crowd. The picture was renewed. The bull approached the matador; the matador slipped; the bull caught him In the stomach with his horns; it ran about the ring, shak­ ing the "hero" like a rag. Some one in the rear clapped. Some oiie near him joined him. In a minute the clapping was general. "Three cheers for the bull," yelled an army captain. There were 50 cheers. Suddenly a soldier grabbed a Mexi­ can by the nape of the neck, stood him on his feet and then knocked him down. "The son of a gun was hissing the bull." he explained to a comrade as the lights went on. BIRD A MURDERER'S MASCOT Little 8psrrow Comes to His Prison Cell and Grows to Be Fartilliar. Reading, Pa.--Calogert Strazzierl, murderer, awaiting the result of his application for a new trial, has a novel wfty of passing his time in his cell. He has for his companion a sparrow, which cams to him a week ago through his cell window, and is taken as a good omen by the pris­ oner. During the short time the bird has been in the man's company he has taught it many tricks. When he goes to sleep the bird will fly on the man's bed, not content till he places it in the pocket of his pajamas. Here it will repose till morning. It will climb up his clothes, eat out of his hand at will, and does not appear to be satis- fled unless It Is constantly fondled. MAN SAVED BY SCARED MULE Frightened Animal Pulls Its Driver From 8eat as the Train Smashes the Wagon. Beverly, N. J.--A frightened mule aaved the life of Elias Ziegenfuss, of this city, when a midnight easttyound passenger train struck his wagon at the unprotected grade crossing at Railroad avenue and Mount Holly road. The driver failed to see the locomo­ tive, but the mule sensed the danger and plunged forward so viciously that It stripped itself of the harness, and Ziegenfuss, who had the lines about his hands, half-jumped and was half- jerked from the seat as the pilot hit the wagon, demolishing it Providence Mob Wrecked Stares. Providence, R. I.--A mob of more than 300 persons angered at the In­ crease In the pried of foodstuffs, es­ pecially macaroni and spaghetti, broke Into a riot at Providence, marched through a bulsness district ant wrecked six stores. The trouble started after a large mass meeting had been held among the Italian residents at which addresses were made by New York and Boston agitators. This Hog Has Bight Feet. , Owanka, S. D.-- Pickled pigs' •will no longer be a luxury under any high cost of living regime if Michael BanpeeU a stock raiser of Owanka, Is able to continue raising hogs with «lght feet, like one he recently mar-, keted. The animal had an extra fool Attached to each ankle and all were developed and «f ordinary sis* News Brevities of Illinois ooooo • r : _-r. Belleflojver.--Despondent over flnan* ; - cifcl reverses since he sold his farn| and moved to town, William Polk^V^fL .killed himself by drinking poison. Chicago.--Rudolph M. Patterson of. \ Chicago was appointed Republicant commissioner of the state board ol?tJT^ ' live stock commissioners by QovernoiF£\r 7 Dunne. Bloomington.--Clmrged with mlsapi^ propriating finds to the extent o^ | $2,600, Fred Ahern, postmaster a|?t"^-:'V3 Cardiff, was arrested. He was re^C*'^ leased here upon giving $1,000 bonds4' ̂ Rockford.--James P. Lewis filed s^'-'^ ,v damage suit against the Kmeirson|:;«vVr' Brantingham company asking ?:15,00()|V; • v? for alleged personal injuries received^^VX:' while in the employ of the company, vj Peoria.--Bishop Edward Dunne an- ^ nounced the appointment of Rev. Ed- ^ ward Schuetz as chancellor of th® ^ Peoria diocese, succeeding Rev. Charles M. Metcalf, transferred to par- ^ S Ish at Ohio, 111. Rev. Mr. Schuetz comes from a pastorate at Hennepin. Herrin.--Riley Freeman, who shOts .,Vj^ and killed Mrs. Louise Brown at Free*. . man's Spur, a mining settlement north % of here, Sunday morning, has been, captured after a several hours' hunt, ^ and was taken to jail In Marion. The body of the woman Is in the morgue. Pana.--Charles Wakefield, seven- r ty-flve years old, a retired farmer,' was found dead in a corn field by his' son. Wakefield was on his way from one son's home to that of another when stricken. It is presumed, with heart disease. Bloomington.--In leaning out of a cab window near Strawn, Fireman Hen#y Burtschi of the Wabash rail­ road was fatally injured, being al­ most decapitated when the head struck the mall crane. His home Is in Decatur. Minon.--Daniel H. Davidson, for more than fifty years 'surveyor of Woodford county, and with a nation­ wide reputation as a mathematician and author of books upon civic en­ gineering, itr dead here aged eighty- eight yearsP East St. Louis.--Charles Dammer- man, fifty-one years old, a farmer liv­ ing at Centerville station, near East St. Louis, was struck and instantly killed by a pasBengpr train of the Southern railway while he was'.on his way to Belleville to attend the cen­ tennial celebration. 1 Eureka.--The annual Woodford county convention of the W. C. T. U. was held here. The following officers were chosen: President Mrs. Frank Goodrich, Minonk; vice-president, Mrs. Gertrude Miller, El Paso; treas­ urer, Mrs. Roy L. Moore, Eureka; secretary, Miss Roper, El Paso, and recording secretary, Miss Clara Hamm, El Pfeso. Lincoln.--Four JurorB have been accepted in the trial of Carl Person. F>sur peremptory challenges have been used by both state and defense. The jurors are: Ellis Dillon, fifty- five, clerk; Thomas Brandt, forty- two, farmer; James'Humphrey, thirty- nine, farmer; Stephen Powers, forty- six, farmer. Seventy-five veniremen of the 124 remain. Aurora.--Rev. Ira Harkness, a Uni­ versity of Chicago student, has re­ signed the pastorship of the Wasco Baptist church to enter the employ of a five and ten-cent store in Quincy. ' Deacons of the church! say that Rev. Mr. Harkness resigned on account of the greater promises in a commercial career. The resignation will take ef­ fect in three weeks. Cairo.--Commissioners for four drainage districts were reappointed by Judge William S. Dewey as follows: R. E. Redman, Cairo drainage district; D. I. Kirkham, Richland drainage dis­ trict; James T. McClore, North Alex­ ander drainage district, and Joseph L. Bunch, East Cape Girardeau and Clear Creek drainage district, all for terms of three years. Plalnfleld.--The opposition against the new high school building, led by the Rev. W. A. Evans, has progressed to the point where enough signatures have been secured to present the peti­ tion to the board, asking that the election be delayed to a more oppor­ tune time. A new high school was authorized at an expenditure of $18,000. Peoria.--Resolutions approving a • central labor union bank in Indianap­ olis and authorizing the appointment of a committee to confer with repre­ sentatives of other national labor or­ ganizations for working out the de­ tails of the plan were passed hero by the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers In international convention. Twenty- seven labor organizations maintain headquarters in Indianapolis. It is charged that the banks in the city are not in sympathy with organized labor and have loaned the funds deposited by unions in assisting In the war against labor. Chicago.--Clasped in each other's arms, a big bridal rose pinned to. the breast of each, Arthur Rech, a prom inent young music teacher, and his ^ fiancee, Miss Katherine Seymour, were found asphyxiated in a closet of Rech's room here. They left let­ ters asking that they he buried to­ gether. Rech, in his letter, said that Miss Seymour's health was so poor that her life would be merely a living death. Rech was prosperous and healthy but friends of the young woman said that her illness seemed chronic and that they did not care to face the future separately. Springfield.--The greatest surprise of the primary election came when clerks fu the office of the secretary of stsjte discovered that George W. Fisher of U»l« <'ity apparently has been nomi-' hated for clerk of the supreme court' ;:r%' j , M t h e R e p u b l i c a n t i c k e t . U p . t o t h i s ^ time it lias been the understandingr^t\-;^ that Charles W. Vsdl of Chicago waay ;.^- y nominated for the place and Fisher^ has not been counted in at all. Ulooiuiitgton.--Prof. E. B. Evans, for'i'- flva yearn a member of the faculty^ ^^3' State Normal university, resigned become director of public speaking at:.i- ."t; f t '? ; ' • • ^ lx DfAke uiaversWy. pfa Molnea. Ia. J M k 'd' ;• i