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- t'* * - ̂ »>y ' qstss ̂ Ste HENRY s f ' '•M?\ BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WILL NOJ LET HER HELP TAKE CARE OF THE TWINS, AND BECAUSE SHE HATES IDLENESS, ROSE HAS A VERY SERIOUS DISAGREEMENT WITH RODNEY SYNOPSIS.--Rose Stanton marries Rodney Aldrich, a wealthy young # lawyer, after a brief courtship, and iasltnutl.v is taken up by Chica­ go's exclusive social set and made a part of the gay whirl of the rich . folk, it is all new to th^,girl, and for the -first few months she 4s qhartoed with'the life. And then she comes to feel that she is living a useless existence, that she is a social butterfly, a more ornament in her husband's home.' Rose longs to- do something useful and to have the opportunity to employ her mind and utilize her talent and-educa­ tion. Rodney feels much the same way himself. He thinks he ought to potter around in society .iust to please his wife, when in reality he'd rather be giving,, his nights to study or social service of some sort- They try to reach an understanding following the-visit of two New York friends, who have worked out satisfactorily this same prob- leiff. Then Rose decides that her Job as mother is a big one, and she % looks eagerly forward to the great event, but She has twins and is unable to care for both the babies at once. Of:... ««.< /CHAPTER XIII. $ T * m-- kg*- 1fhe Dam Gives Way. ^•She began getting her strength back jfwy fast in the next two or three 5iiftys, but this queer kink in her emo­ tions didn't straighten out. She came to see that it was absurd--monstrous almost, but that didn't help. Instead of a baby, slue had given birth to two. They were hers, of course, as much '-fjw oae would have been. Only* her seal, which had been waiting so ecstatically for Its miracle--for # the child which, by making her a toother, Should supply what her life needed-- her soul wouldn't--couldn't accept tie substitution. Those two. dri/il, tBin-voiced, squirming little mites tl;nt were exhibited to her every morning, were as foreign to her,-as if they had Upen brought into* -the house ' in a basket. When Harriet came In for the first ttBbe to see her. Rose knew. Hat list was living here now, running th« house for Rodney, while Rose was laid up. Doing it beautifully well, too, through all the confusion - of nnrses and all. Harriet said: "I think you're in great luck to have liad two at once; get your duty »to posterity done that much sooner. And, •f course, you couldn't possibly be expected to nursie two great erea- tnres like thgt." * Rose acquiesced. She would have struggled, though, she knew, but for tlutt queer trick fate had played her. Dtr heart ached. i JVhen shfe found that struggling lib herself, denouncing herself for ITltrute, didn't serve to bring up the feelings toward the twins that she |mew 5 any proper mother ought to have,. !she burled the dark fact as deep as she could, and pretended. It was only before Uodaej that the pre- tense was really necessary. And with him, really, It was hardly a pretense ,St all. He was such a child himself, In his gleeful delight over the pos­ session of a son and a daughter, that she felt for him, tenderly, mistily, luminously, the very emotion she was •trying to capture for them--felt like cradling his head in her weak arms, kissing him, crying over him. 'She wouldn't have been allowed to <|d that to the babies, anyway. They • Were going to be terribly well brought •p, those tM*lns; that was apparent front the beginning. They had two nurses all to themselves, quite apart from Miss Harris, who looked after Rose--Mrs. Ruston and Doris, the maid, who were destined, it appeared, to be as permanent as the babies. But Hose had* the germ of an idea of her own about that _ f ' They got them named with very -lit­ tle difficulty. The b*>y was T.odney, j 4*f course, after his father and grand- j father before him. Rose was a little | •Sifrald Rodney would want the gl.l j ®amed after her, and was relieved to j " Und lie didn't. There'd never In the i World be but one Rose for him, he Said. So Rose named the girl I'ortia. They kept Rose in bed for three ' jpeeks; flat on her back as much as j . .J^ossible, which was terribly irksouie j^|o her, since her strength and vltal- "'JmJ were coming back so fast. . She , (night have rebelled, had It not been for that germinant Idea of hers. It wouldn't do, she saw, la the light of that, to give them any excuse for call-' Ing her unreasonable. One Sunday morning, Rodney car­ ried her upstairs to the nursery to s*e her babies bathed. This was h big room at the top of the" house which Florence McCrea had always vaguely intended to moke into a stetudio. But, In the paralysis of in­ decision as to what sort of studio to 'jmuke it, she had left the thing bare. «. Rodney had given Harriet carte v'blanclie to go ahead and tit it up be­ fore he and Rose came back from the .(seashore, and the layette was a monu- t.r ment to Harriet's practicality. There ; had been a wild duy of i. supplement* t ^?|?llng, of course, when it was discovered I >irthat there were two babies instead of The room, when they escorted Rost it, was a terribly impressive fplace. The spirit of a barren, sterile • efficiency brooded everywhere. And ; this appearance of bareness obtained despite the presence of an enormous number of articles--a pair of scales. j£a perfect battery of electric heaters ^of various sorts; rows of vacuum jars pliauces,.that Rose couldn't guess the uses or the names of. Mrs. Ruston, of course, was master of them all, and Doris flew about to do her bid­ ding, under a watchful eye. Rose surveyed tliia scene, just as she would have surveyed a laboratory, or a factory where they 'make some­ thing complicated, like watches. That's" what it was, really. Those two pink little objects, in their two severe­ ly sanitary baskets, were factory prod­ ucts, At precise and unalterable in­ tervals, a highly Scientific compound of fats and ' proteids was put into them. They were inspected, weighed, submitted ^to a routine of other proc­ esses. And In all the routine, there was nothing that their mother, now they were fairly born, was wanted for. Rose kept those ideas to herself and fcept an eye on young Doris, lis­ tened to tlie orders she got, and stud- led alertly what she did in the execu­ tion of tire m. Rodney had a, lovely time watching the twins bathed. He stood about In every:^>dy's way, made what he con­ ceived U> be alluring noises, and finally turned suddenly to his wife and said: "Don't want to--hold them. Rose?" A stab of pain went through her and tears came up into her eyes. "Yes, give them tojije," she started to say. But Mr* Ruston spoke fbefore she could franji' the words. It was their feeding hour, a bad time for them to be excited, and the bottles were heated exactly. Right. By that time" Rose's Idea had flow­ ered into resolution. But she mustn't jeopardize the success of her plan by tryjjig to put it into effect too Soon. She waited patiently, reasonably, for another fortnight. Harriet, by that time, had* gone off to Washington on a visit, taking Rodney's heartfelt thanks with her. Rose expressed hers just as warmly, and felt ashamed that they were so unreal. She simply mustn't let herself get to resenting Harriet! At the end of the. fort­ night, the doctor made his Anal visit. Rose had especially asked Rodney to be on hand to hear his report when the examination was over. "He says," Rose told her husband, "that I'm perfectly well.". She turned to the doctor for confirmation. "Don't you?" The doctor smiled. "As far aWmy diagnostic resources go, Mrs.. AJdrich, you are perfectly well." Rose smiled widely and contentedly upon them. "That's delightful," she and went on for a minute with ..what s h e r " w # d o t i t j ? " ; | o r « m * t h e I w f c f c , as 1f she lukl«?t heard* "Doris is quite satisfactory, madam," she sukl at last. "I'd not advise making a change. She's a... cteput^duhle -gfupg woman, as such go. Of course I watch her very close." : • <';: "I think I can promise to be de­ pendable," Rose said. "I don't know much about babies,- but, I think I enn learn *as well as Doris; Anyhow, 1 can wheel them About and wash their clothes and boll their bottles and things as well as she does. And you cau tell me what to do just as you tell her." To this last observation It becarue evident that Mrs. Ruston meant to make no reply at all. She gave Rose some statistical Information about the twins instead, in which Rose, showed herself politely interested, and present­ ly withdrew. Rodney wore a queer expression all through dinner, and when he >;ot Rose alone in the library afterward, he explained it. Mrs. Ruston had given him notice, contingently. Rose had informed her of her intention" to dispense with the service of the nurse* maid. If Rose adhered to this inten­ tion, Mrs. Ruston must leave. It was some sort of absurd misun­ derstanding, of course, Rodney con­ cluded, and wanted to know what It was all about. * "I did say I meant to let Doris go," Rose explained, "but I told her I meant to take Doris* job myself. I said I thought I could be just as good a nursemaid as she was. And I meant it." - He was prowling about the room In a worried sort of way, before she frot as far as that. "I don't see, child," he exclaimed, "why you couldn't leave well enough alone! If It's that eld economy bug of yours again, It's non­ sense. You, to spend all your time doing menial work to save me "ten dollars a week!" "It isn't menial ttork," Rose insist­ ed. "It's apprentice work. After I've been at it six months, learning as fast as I can, I'll be able to let Mrs. Ruston go and take her job--I'll be really competent to take care of my own children. I don't pretend I am now." He stared at her In perfectly honest bewilderment. "You're talking rather wild I think, Rose," he said very qulet- ly. » "I'm talking what I've learned from you," she said. "Oh, Rodney, please try to forget that I'm your wife and that you're in love with me. Can't you just say: 'Here's A, or B, or X, a perfectly healthy woman, twenty-two years old, and a little real work would be good for her?* . She won, with much pleading, a sort of Troubled half-assent from him. The matter could be taken up again with Mrs. Ruston. Given a fair field, Rose might have won a victor® here. But, as Portia had said once, the pattern was cut dif­ ferently. There was a sudden alarm one night, when he* little namesake was found strangling with the croup. There were seven terrifying hours--nl- nJost unendurable hours, while the young life swung and balanced over the ultimate abyss. The heroine of those hours was Mrs. Ruston. Th;it th.? child lived was clearly credltabie to her. Rose made another effort even after that, though she knew she was beaten in advance* She waited until the old calm routine was re-established. Then, once more, she asked for Iyer chance. But Rodney exploded before she got the words fairly out of her mouth. "No," he shouted, "I won't consider It! She's saved that baby's life. You'll have to find some way 6f satisfying your whims that won't Jeopardize those babies' lives. After that night-- good heavens, Rose, have you . forgot­ ten that night?--I'm going to play It safe." Rose paled a little and sat ivory still in her chair. There were no miracles any more. The great dam "was swept away. <»nrt steady v*«e» watt - There was jfeven the trace of a smile about her •wonderful mouth. *'Do you remember jthat afternoon of ours, the very first of them, when you brought home my .notebooks aud found me pslecp c n the couch in our old back parlor? f»o you remember how you told me that one's •desires were the only motive power he had? Well, It was a funny thing-- I gat fd wondering afterward what «m.v desires were, and it seemed I •hadn't any. Everything had, somehow, come to sue before I knew I ws< ntetl it. Everything in the worW. even ^our jqve few* mer, come Jike. that. ,< <s 'k _ "But I've got a passion now, Rodney, "IVe had it for a long while. It's a desire I can't satisfy. The thing I want--and there's nothing In the world I wouldn't give to get It--Is, well, your friendship, Roddy; that's a way of say- ng it." ;•• v • Rodney started and stared at her. ¥he thing struck him, it seemed, as a sort of grotesquely irritating anticli­ max. c "Gracious heaven!" he said. "My friendship! Why, I'm In love with you! That'* certainly a bigger thing," "I don't know Whether It's a bigger thing or not," she said. "But it doesn't include the,other." ' •, He was tramping up and down the fooin by now. "You've got my friend- CHAPTER XIV. "Roddy," 3he Said, "I Want You to Come Over Here and Kim Me." I'll get her another place, of course-- for keeping tUip^s cold or hot, a small Land do her * work myself." r f sterilizing oveh ; Instrument* Had *p- ] sirs. Ru«ton rompressrd her Upa, ROM Surveyed Thie Scene. said to the doctor. "Thanks very much." • But after he had gone she found Mrs, Ruston in the nursery and had a talk with that lady, which was des­ tined to produce seismic upheavals. "I've decided to make a little change Ic our arrangements, Mrs. Rus­ ton," she said. "But I don't think •t's one that will disturb you very much. I'm going to let 'Doris go-- #The Only Remedy. She was In the grip of an appalling realization. This moment--this actu­ ally present moment that was going tto last only until she should speak for the next time--was the critical mo­ ment of her life. "Roddy . . ." she said. He was slumped down in a big easy chair at the other side of the table, swinging a restless foot; drumming now and then with his fingers. Some •sort of scene was inevitable, he knew. And he snt there waiting for It. He thought he was ready for any­ thing. But Just the way she Spoke his name startled--almost frightened him, she said It so quietly, so--tenderly. Roddy," she said, "I want you t«4 come over here and kiss me, and then go back and sit down in that chair again." He went a little pale at that. The swing of his foot was ariested sud­ denly. But, for a moment, he made no move--just looked wonderingly into her great, grave eyes. "Something's going to happen," she went on, "and before it's over, I'm afraid It's going to hurt you terribly-- and ine. And I want the kiss for us to remember. So that we'll always know, whatever happens afterward, that we loved each other." She held out her arms to him. "Won't you come?" a* He came--a man bewildered, bent down over her, and found her lips; but almost absently, out of a daze. "No, not like that," she murmured. "In the old way." There was a long embrace. *•- - "I don't believe I'd have the courage to do it," she said, "If It were Just me. But there's someone else--I've made someone a promise. I can't tell you about that. Now please go back and sit over there where you were, where we can talk quietly. Oh, Roddy, I love you so'.--No. please go back, old man! And--and light your pipe. Oh, don't tremble like that! It isn't a tragedy. It's--for us, it's the greatest hope in the world." He went back to his chair. He even lighted his pipe as she asked him to, and waited as steadily aS he couid for her to begin. * . "Do you renemljer ~ . . ." she be­ gan, sail' it' '**»* reinarksfels feow wi'et U hoixMt and disioteresuKl? What's to keep you from wondering--asking questions? Love's got to bo free, Rod­ dy. The only way to make It frw !s to have friendship growing along^ side it. So when I can be your part­ ner and your friend, I'll be your wife too. But not--not, Roddy, till I can find a way. I'll have to find It for myself. I'll have to go off .* . .H She broke down over a word she couldn't at first say, buried her face In her arms, and let a deep, racking sob or two have their way with her. But presently, she snt erect again and, with a supreme effort of will, forced {her voice to utter the word: "I've got to go oft aiooe--away from •you, and stay until Jt find it. If I ever do, and you want 'me, I'll come back." * * * m * • * *l4ie struggle between them lasted a week--a ghastly week, during which, so far as the surface of things showed, their life flowed alocy In its accus­ tomed channels. But *t all sorts of times, and in all sorts places, when they were alone togetirar, the great battle was ^renewed. The hardest thing abo'it it all for Rose--the thing that came nearest to breaking down her courage;--was to* see how slowly Rodney came to realize It at all. He was like a trapped ani­ mal pacing the four sides of his c*fce, confident that in a moment or two lie would find the way ou^ and then, fca- credulously, dazedly, coming to the sMfr- mise that there was no way out. She really meant to go away and leave him --•leave the babies; go somewhere where Ills care and protection could not reach her! She was actually plan­ ning the details of doing it! By the end of one of their long talks, it would seem to her that he had grasped this monstrous Intention and accepted it. But before the beginning of the next one, he seemed to manage, somehow, to dismiss the thing as a nightmare. Somehow or other, during the calmer moments toward the end, practical de­ tails managed to get talked about-- settled after a fashion, without the ad­ mission really being made on his part that the thing was going to happen at all. y "I'd do everything I could, of course, to make It easier," she said. "We could have a story for people that I'd gone to California to make mother a long visit. We could bring Harriet home from Washington to keep house while I was gone. I'd take my trunks, you see, and really go. People would sus­ pect, of course, after a while, but they'll always pretend to believe any­ thing that's comfortable." "Where would you go, really?" he demanded. "-Have you any plan at all?" "I have a sort of plan," she said. "I think I know of a way of earning a liv­ ing." But she didn't offer to go on and ttll him what It was, and, after a little fi' lence, he( commented bitterly upon this omission. Rose's point of vlevtwav seem foolish te old-fashioned women. How do you feel about it? Im­ portant developments come In the next imCsllment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) TRAPPING OF 9I0NKEYS EASY Curiosity, Greed a»4 Imitative Faculty of Animals FurftUh Vulnerable Point of Attack. ship!" he cried out. "It's grotesque perversion of the facts to say you haven't." She smiled at him as she shook her head. "I've spent too many months. trying to get it and seeing myself fall. r--oh, so ridiculously Ve-not to; know what I'm talking about, Roddy." And then, still smiling rather sadly, she told him what some of the experi­ ments had been--some of her attempts to breifk into the. life he kept locked. away from h?r> "I was angry at first when I tound you keeping me. out," she said, "angry and hurt. I used to cry about it. And then I saw it wasn't your fatrit. That's how I discovered friendship had to be earned." But her power to maintain that atti­ tude of grave detachment was about spent. The passion mounted in her voice and in her eyes as she went on. When we see In th* street an or- "You thought my niind had got full of gah-grinder witty his lit?}* red-capped wild Ideas--the wild idea I was pulling pet -monkey, we seldom stlp to think you down from something free and fine of the animal's native home «r how It that you had been, to something that was trapped. As a matter cf ilct, the you despised yourself for being and monkey, came from Asl"-* stfosa or had to try to deny you were. You South America. The is^t-mentloned were wrong about that, Roddy. have nostrils widely separated where- "I did have an obsession, but it as the old world mackeyS ^ave theaa wasn't the thing you thought. It was close with a narrow nasal Upturn, an obsession that kept me quiet, and One might readily Imaglnto that the contented and happy, and willing to trapping of monkeys is a dMVult op- Walt In spite of everything. The ob- eration. However, nothing vould session was that none of those things further from the truth than this by mattered because a big miracle was pothesis. Monkeys are easily tsaught, 'doming that was going to change it all. not by heavily built traps, ?Vat by I was going to have a Job at last--a sheer ingenuity and the simplest sort job that was just as real as yours-- of artifices. A monkey has various ^ul- the Job of being a mother." nerable points of attack, so to speJk; Iler voice broke In a fierce, sharp and these are cupidity, curiosity, r\»V* little luugh over the word, but she got etousness or greed, and a truly wv»n* it back in control again. derful Imitative faculty. "I was going to have a baby to" keep A trapper can take a pair of boots alive with my own care. There was into the jungle, drop them down wlthlo going to be responsibility and hard sight of a monkey and soon have work, things that demanded courage that monkey In a cage. The boots on and endurance and sacrifice. I cotild his feet appear to be the same as the earn your friendship with that, I said, boots he leaves; but here Is where That was the real obsession. Roddy, the monkey Is mistaken. As soon as and it never really died until tonight, the visitor goes uway, the monkey de* Well,, I suppose I can't complain. It's scends from some tree and thrusts his over, that's the main thing. own feet into the boots. The Inside is "And nowv here I am perfectly nor- covered with glue, and he sticks fast J mal and well again--as good as ever, also the boots are weighted with lead I could wear pretty clothes again and and chained together. start going out just as I did a year ago I The trapper may chain a gourd. People would admire me, and you'd be J filled with corn or some other eatable pleased, and you'd love me as much i to a heavy log. Mr. Monkey comes at» ever, and It would all be like the J along, tastes the food.^relishes It, and paradise It was last year, except for one thing. The one thing Is that if 1 do that; I'll know this time what 1 really am." With a dangerqus light of anger in his eyes, he said quietly: "It's perfect­ ly outrageous that you should talk like that, and I'll ask yon never to do it again." wants more. There Is no limit to his greed. He thrusts his hand Into the small opening In the gourd and his fingers close around a large, supply of the food. Then he finds himself un* able to withdraw his hand. The trap­ per advances and captures Mr. Moo* key, because the animal's thinking- cap and his insatiable greed are such LUOIS EVENTS ri TOLD IN Interesting Tidings From City, and Countryside^;^ 3. A. R. MEET AT BLOOMINGTON she i that the simple expedient of releasing !.the food never occurs to ^hlm as a After ten seconds of silence, went on: "Why, Roddy, I've beard you ! describe me a hundred times. Not the ̂ means of escape, you that's my lover. The other you-- talking all over the universe to Barry Lake. You've described the woman who's never been trained nor taught nor disciplined; who's been brought up soft, with the ftloom on. for the pur­ pose o# Heroic Books, Life Is not habitually seen from any common platform so truly and unexag- gerntedl.v as in the light of literature. Books, not which nfford us a cowering- , „ making her marriageable; j enjoyment, but In which each thought whb's never found her job In marriage. Is of unusual daring; such as an idle who doesn't cook, nor sew, nor spin, | nian cannot read, and a timid oae nor even take care of lier own chil-1 would not be entertained by, which dren; the woman who uses her charm • even make us dangerous to existlng-ln- to save her from having to do hard, • stitutlons--such I call good books, ugly things, and keep iter in luxury. • • • The heroic books, even if print- Do you remember what you've called • ed In the character of our mother her, Roddy 1 ' tongue, will always be In a language "I, didn't understand any of that' dead to degenerate times; and we must when you married me, Roddy; It was * laboriously seek the meaning of each just like a dream to me--like a fairy' word and line, conjecturing a larger come true. But 1 understand *ense than common use feimits out of story --v t . now. How can you be »&re, knowing; what wisdom and valor and gener* that my position in the world, my^.-•,. osity we have.--^Thoreatx. oh, the very clothes oil well that friends, oh. the very clothes on my back, and the roof over my head, are I In China there l8 Rn dependent on your love--how are ypp j bewn drilled to a depth of 8,000 few t«4ny to be rare that wjr love fer yen the tuSet primitive antfvs toofe Itinerary of Illinois State Miners' Ex­ amining Board--I ncreased Pay to Chicago and Alton Section Hanils* Bloomington.--The annual encamp­ ment of the Grand Army of the Repub­ lic has just been held here. ' Duquoln.--Illinois state miners' ex­ amining board has announced the fol­ lowing state-wide itinerary for June: Eldorado, 6; West Frankfort, 7; Her- rin, 8 ; Duquoin, 9; Spring Valley, 14; Cnnton, 15; Peoria, 16; Breese, '19; Belleville, 20; Staunton, 21; Pana, 27; Springfield, 28. Lyndon.--August \Vaterstreet, farm­ er, kicked to death by horseu. while hitching it^ .; .. Pearl --The state utilities has been asked to authorize the establishment of a public water system In this vil­ lage. •• ; . Bloomington.--^-Pay of all section hands at the Chicago terminal of the Chicago & Alton road increased from $2 to $2.25 a day, and from $1.90 to $2 at all other points. Chicago.--Robert Mahlum, sixty-two. broke lus neck in fall from tree he was pruning. Chicago.--Nails scattered on the window sill of home of Emanuel Marx proved a good burglar alawn, as thief was captured after scattering the nails. Litchfield.--Tom -Galiagan, fifty-six, killed by fall in mine he had sold for $15,000. r VI rden.--Miners have returned to work at the Royal Colliery mine. Arensville.--Charles Zulauf of this place, defeated "Bob" Peterson of Beard^town in Wresting match for championship for Cass county. Wauconda.--The Wauconda state bank has been organized by W. L. Brooks, R. A. Prior, E. H. Meyer, Wil­ liam E. Brooks and Otis J. Phillips. Sullivan.--American Express office and the Central Illinois Public* Service company building burped, loss $2,000. . Fayville.--Separator building of the Aetna Explosive company burned, and suspected Incendiary Is In jail. Athens.--Rev. C. H. Hands of Waynesville, has accepted the pastor­ ate of Christian church here. Amboy.--A half-grown bald eagle shot here by Stanley Kent. Bloomington.--The Chicago & Alton road has begun operation on eight-hour basis. . Chicago.--Leon Blumberg, twelve, convicted as "traitor" by his fellow schoolmates because he refused to rise when they sang Star Spangled Banners. Lake Forest.--A German butler. In home of Charles S. Dewey arrested as a spy. Chicago.--The Brlggs house, Chica­ go's oldest hotel, has been sold to J. N. Crebs of St. Louis. Chenoa.--The Times and the Clip­ per, local weekly newspapers, have been merged under the' name of the Times. Carlinville. -- Farmers throughout this section are complaining that rats are cleaning out the corn as fast as It Is planted. ' - Springfield.--Henry ©. Chapjn, a prominent paper manufacturer, died from injuries received In an automo­ bile accident. Carlinville.--An old brass cannon of Civil war days has ben set up in the public square. Danville.--A soldiers" monument erected by the government at a cost of $6,000 has been dedicated. Urbana.--An aviation school has been established at the University of Illinois. Bluffs.--Scott county commissioners have awarded a contract to the Herrlck Construction company for the con­ struction of a bridge across Mauvis- terre creek. Harrisburg.--Levi Stunson, thirty- five, had both arms and both legs cut off by # Big Four train. Havana.--John Kroell, sixty, wealthy retired farmer, hanged himself in his barn. Chicago.--Prof. Robert M. Lovett, dean of junior colleges of the Univer­ sity of Chicago, who presided at the peace meeting in the Auditorium Sun- dny, was hanged In effigy. * Carlinville.--John Rohr's barn de­ stroyed by fire which threatened sur­ rounding property. Springfield.--Martin _L. McGinnis, aged seventy-one, who was injured in the tornado at Modesto, died here. His wife Is still In a dangerous condition. Chicago.--William Lorimer, former United States senator, had his arm broken In his sawmill near Jonesville, La. Peoria.--Ajpother attempt to blow up the Henry dam has been frustrated. Taylorville.--Eleventh annual con­ vention of Illinois Bankers' association. Group 7, held here. Galt sburg.--.Three hundred . osteo­ paths In eighteenth annual session here* offered their services to the Unit* ed States medical department. Llncoln.-r-General assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian church vot­ ed $100,000 for the erection of a new theological seminary. Aurora.--Timothy Carmody, aged one hundred. Is planting and cultivat­ ing a vegetable garden of his own. Shelbyvllle.--Alva Peek, young farmer, struck and killed by a Big Four train while walking along the track. , Mount Carroll.--Group 3, Illinois Bankers' association, wll meet here .June 15. Bankers from counties of Carroll, Jo Daviess, Winnebago, Boone, Stephenson, Lee and De Kalb will attend. Oregon.--Fifty thousand small white pine trees havs been set on Governor Lowcleu's Slnnieslpl faro*. Itantoul.--The government avlptlon training, igpiuuds have been located twre, IN HOSPITAL No Relief--Mrs. Brown Fin* ally Cured by Lydia E, Pfnkham's Vegetable ^ #i Compound. ' " V * Cleveland, Ohio.--"For yean I aaCS> fered so sometimes ft seemed as though I could not stand it any longer. It was all in my lower organs. At times I could hardly walk, for if I stepped on a little stone I would almost faint. One day I did faint and my husband was sent for and the doe- tor came. I was ta­ ken to the hospital and stayed four weeks but when I came home X would faint just the same and bad the same pmns. A friend who is a nurse asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com­ pound. I began taking it that very day for I was suffering a great deal. It has already done me more good than the hospital. To anyone who is suffering as I was my advice is to stop in the first drug-store and get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before you go home." --Mrs. W. C. BROWN, 2844 "W. 12th St., Cleveland, Ohio, DAISY FLY KILLER attracts and kill* HAROLD SOMIRS, ISO DC 3H fi)G8« Neat, elMn, ornamental, convenient, cheap. Lute all season. Made of metal, can't spill or tip oy$r; will not «oit or injure anything. Guar* anteed effective. Sold by dealers, or 6 sent by •*- pr*M prepaid for AVL, BROOKLYN, M.Y. • llftlDFH of a11 kind9 bought and sold, I| I BBHHBmg* Bf have any to sell or want to purchase any write, giving par* ttcaiars. ti, Hillas & Bro., Job Dept., Buffalo, N. T. PATENTS Wntson E.Coleman,Wash­ ington, D.C. Books free. High­ est references. Best result*. W. N. U., CHICAGO, NO. 23-1917. pleasant. Snicker--^That fellow's job Is a £«r> rt finnn "* feet snap. Snack--Impossible! Snicker--Not at all; tographer. he's a pho> HEAL ITCHING SKINS With Cuticura Soap and Ointment--* They Heal When Others Fail. 1 Nothing better, quicker, safer, sweet* •r for skin troubles of young and old that itch, ,burn, crust, scale, torture or disfigure. Once used always used because these super-creamy emollients tend to prevent little skin troubles be* coming serious, if used daily. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L» Boston. Sold everywhere.--A<l¥. Easily Proved. At a mill in Bolton the workers were having a discussion about who was the quietest man they knew. Uhey got a minder to act as Judge. Then they got their thinking apparatus to work, to think who was the quiet­ est man they kh6w. Many hundred names were mentioned. The Judge was about to give Ms decision when he saw a minder who had never men­ tioned one. TJien Judge then said: "Neaw, J$ck, do$$, tha not know any qntet mon?" *Well," said the minder, "i think I just know one." "Well, out with it," said the judge. "Well, I think owd Bill Kite the qul- etesf mon I know." ^he minders looked, and then they all exclaimed at "once: .•'Why, mon, he's dead!" ' "I know that. I think he's the qui­ etest mon I know. He's never spoken to me for nearly twenty years!"--Lon­ don Tit-Bits. Took and Gave Father's Advice. Father--Tommy, go out to the barn and hitch the horse to the old sleigh. Son--Why not to the new sleigh, fa­ ther? Father--Wear out the old first, Is my motto, son. Son---Well, then, father, you go out and hitch up the horse.--Everybody's. Yotfttm get a- lot for your money fcy patronizing a real estate dealer. A Wise Move is to change ham eoffeeto P0STUM before the harm is done. "There's a Reason'