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i r > v £ £ * v * J ^ ^ ^ c ̂ ̂ ^ < ; • * v w ̂ - v - v > $ r v / ^ t * l w 'HE • pHcfejBtjBJ4 Iv* • i'TljA1i^iP»iflc'fa'iS'W» , H»IJ* \( ••; *t> .H; ¥ *$?? By Henry mt •V; Webster jiffif? >* "S^v v 4 ; ' & -A v- .{•'im\ fWv^i CbpyrlthtlSl^Bob^M^TinCo. *<• -,'l^T ;•:.* l • w.,v • "04 V fi"£~ , 5s L\'V * s£\ >*. - '• '• S?,S3C- •:' v •\ ~ '-V.V- MC'^'.""* ri >'• & i ilV ;&>,• B ti}^ ; K.V ffS^* S:&f'-' THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF "THE GIRL UPSTAIRS" IS GIVEN WITH HUGE SUCCESS FOR ROSE -- JIMMY WALLACE, DRAMATIC CRITIC. M4KES A DISCOVERY Synopsis.--Rose Stanton, of moderate circumstances, marries wealthy Rodney Aldrich. on short acquaintance, and for more than a year lives in idleness and luxury in Chicago. The life palls on her, she longs to do something useful, but decides that motherhood will be a big enough job. She has twins, however, and they are put in the care of a professional nurse. Rose again becomes intensely dissatisfied with idleness, so over the protest of her doting husband she disappears into the business world to make good on her. own initiative, gets a job in the chorus of a musical comedy in rehearsal and lives in a cheap roonYWig house. Her taste and intelligence soon get her a place as assistant to the producer, tier fashionable friends think she has gone to California. , .. hi* SU' • IfVv. CHAPTER XIX. •* . 1 --13 *. Success--And a Recognition. There is a kaleidoscopic character About the events of the ten days or •o preceding the opening performance of most musical comedies which would snake a sober chronicle of them seem fantastically incredible. This law of nature made no exception in the case of "The Girl Up-Stairs." There were rehearsals which ran so smoothly and ewiftly that they'd have done for per­ formances : there were others so ab­ ominably bad that the, bare fdea of presenting the mess resulting from six weeks' toll, before the people who had paid money to see It, was a night­ mare. Of all the persons directly, or even remotely, affect *4 by this nerve-shat- tering confusiot i. Rose was perhaps the least pertui bed. The only thing that really mattered to her was the successful execution of those twelve cqstnmes. The phantasmagoria at •North End hal' was a regrettable, but necessary. Interruption of her more important activities. She wakened automatically at half- past seven and was down-town by Jualf-pnst eight, to do whatever shop- pins the work o£ the previous day re­ pealed the need of. At nine-thirty--an unheard-of hour In the theater--t*ie watchman1 at the <51«be let her in a' the stage door, and Hose had half an hour, before the ar­ rival of the wardrobe mistress and her assistant, for* looking over the work done simp she had left for re­ hearsal the da-j before. 'She liked quiet, cavernous old tiara of a placi' down under the Globe stage; liked it when she had it to Iver- iself before the two sewing women came and later, when, with a couple •of sheets spread out on the floor, she cot and basted according to her cam­ bric patterns, keeping ahead of the Hying needles ot the other two. After her own little room, the mere spa­ ciousness of it seemed almost noble. In keeping with the good luck wbich had attended e?*rything that hap­ pened in connection with this first venture of hers, she was able to tell Oalbraith that bofh sets of cos- Itumes were finlslsd and ready to try on on the very dft.v he announced that jtfce next rehearsal would be held at !fen tomorrow at the Globe. She persuaded the girls to wait un­ til all six were dressed in the after- moon frocks and until she herself had Wd a chance t*.< give each of thern a final inspection and to make a few ^ast torches *n.1 readjustments. Then they all tror/pec! out on the stage and ctood in a row, turned about, walked ihere and ther*, in obedience to Gul- braith's instructions shouted from the back of the theater. It was dark^out there and discon­ certingly si Jet. t. 'the glow of two cigars indicated the presence of Gold-1 fSmlth and Blotk in the middle of a lit­ tle knot of other spectators. ! TJie only response ltose got--the only index to tl e effect her labors had produced Wf«s the tone Of Gal- braith's voije. "All right," he shouted. **Go and put on the others." There was another silence after they had filed out on the stage again, clad this time in the evening gowns-- a hollow, heart*constricting silence, almost literally sickening. But it last­ ed only a moment. Then:1 • **VVrill you covne down here, Miss Dane?" called Galbraith. There was a slight, momentary, but ^perfectly palpable shock accompany­ ing these words--a shock fe^t by ev­ erybody within the sound of his Voice. •Because the director hftd not said, "Dane, come down lierehe had said: "Will you come down here. Miss Dane?" And the thing amounted, so rigid Is the etiquette ,of musical com­ edy, to an accolade. The people on \ ithe stage and in the wings didn't know what she bed done, nof in what character she was about to appear, but they did know she was, from now HO, something besides a chorus girl. ^ Rose obediently crossed the runway «wid walked up the aisle to where Gal­ braith stood, with Goldsmith an|d Block, waiting for her. She was feej- , ; Ing a little nun.b and empty. Galbraith. as she came, held out a v'jhand to her. "I congratulate you, .lfiss Dane." he said. "They're admir­ able. With all the money in the world, « wouldn't ask fur anything handsom- K f" The rest of It didn't matter to Rose more guarded but nevertheless 'drove another bargain, principally to their own advantage;. "You've certainly got a good eye for costumes. Miss Dane," Goldsmith said, "and here's a proposition we'd like to niake. A lot of these other things we've got for the regular chorus don't look as good as they might. You'll be able to see changes to make in them that'll improve tliem maybe fifty per cent. Well, you take it on, and we'll begin paying you your regular salary now; you understand. tweuty.-fi.Ye dol­ lars a week, beginning today." Rose accepted the "proposition with a warm flush of gratitude. But, from the moment her little salary began, she found herself retained, body and soul, exactly as Galbraith himself was. They'd bought all her ideas, all her energy, all her time, except a few scant hours for sleep and tt few snatched minutes for meals. She gave her employers, up to the time when the piece opened at the Globe, at a conservative calculation, about five times their money's worth. Even if abfe hadn't been in the com­ pany, she'd have found something like two days' work in every twenty-four hours, just In the wardrobe room. There wasn't a single costume outside Rose's own twelve that didn't have to be remodeled more or less, r Oh top of all that, the really ter­ rible grind of rehearsals began: property rehearsals, curiously discon­ certing at first; scenery rehearsals that caused the stage to seem small and cluttered up, and, last and ghast­ liest, a dress rehearsal, which began at seven o'clock one night and lasted till four the next morning. If you had seen them that morning, utterly fagged out, unsustalned by a single gleam of hope, you'd hove said it was impossible that they should give any sort of perform­ ance that night--let alone a good one. But by eight o'clock, when the over­ ture was called, you wouldn't have known them far the same people. There was the feeling,' on the 'edge of this first performance, that they were now on their own. The appearance, back on the stage, of John Galbraith in evening dress, just as the call of the first ac* brought them trooping from their dressing rooms, intensified this sensatioo. He was going to be, tonight,'simply one of the audience. Rose herself was completely domi­ nated by the new spirit. Her nerves --slack, frayed* numb an hour ago- had sprung miraculously into tune. She not only didn't feel tired. It seemed she never could feel tired again. It wasn't until along in the third act that the audience became, for her, inything but a colloid mass--some­ thing that yoi\ squeezed and thumped and worked as you did clay, to get it into a • properly plastic condition of receptivity, so that the jokes, the songs, the dances, eveh the spindling little shafts of romance that you shot out into it, could be felt to dig in and take hold. But along in the "third act, as she came down to the footlights with the rest of the sextette in their "All Alone" number, one face detached It­ self suddenly from the pasty gray surface of those that spread over the auditorium ; became human--individu­ al--and intensely familiar; became the face, unmistakably, of Jimmy Wal­ lace ! It is probable that of all the au­ dience, only two men saw that any­ thing had happened, so brief was the frozen instant while she stood trans­ fixed. One of them was John Gal­ braith. in the back row, and lie let his breath go out again in relief almost in the act of catching It. He guessed well enough what had happened. But it Was all right. She was going on as if nothing had happened. The other man was Jimmy Wallace himself. He released, too, a little sigh of relief when he suw her off in her stride again after that momentary falter. But he hardly looked at the stage after thAt; stared a^ftenfly at his program Instead, ana presently availed himself of the dramatic crit­ ic's license and left the theater. As for Rose herself, in her conscious thoughts she didn't recognize the hope already beating tumultuously in her veins, that he would tell Rodney--that perhaps even before she got back to her dismal little room, Rodney, pacing his, would know. It was so irrational a hope--so un- v *' |4e . ; k f t i * , • Strangely enough, that got her. She stared at him almost in consternation. "Do you mean you are going away?" fche asked. "Tomorrow?" "Of course," he said, rather sharply. "I've nothing more to stay around here for." He added, as she still seemed not to have got it through her head: "My contract with Goldsmith and Block ended tonight, with the opening performance." 1 "Of course," she said In deprecation of her stupidity. "And yet it's always seemed that the show was you; just something that you made go. It doesn't, seem possible that it could keep on going with you not there." The sincerity of that made it a really fine £Q.mplime?it--just the sort of com­ pliment he'd appreciate. But--the old perversity again--the very freedom with which she said It spoiled it for him. " : "I may be missed," he said--It was more of a growl, really--"but I sha'n't be regretted. There's always a sort of 'Hallelujah chorus' set up by the company when they realize I'm gone." "I shall regret it very much," said Rose. The words would have set his blood on fire if she'd just faltered over them. But she didn't. She was hope­ lessly serene about it. "You're the person who's made the six weeks bear­ able, and, in a way, wonderful. I nev­ er could thank you enough for the things you've done for me, though I hope I may try to, some time." "I don't want any thanks," he said. And this was completely true. It was something very different from grati­ tude that he wanted. But he realized how abominably ungracious his words sounded, and hastened to amend them. "What I mean is that you don't owe me any. You've done a lot to make this show go as well as it did, in---- more ways than you know about. It wasn't for me, personally, that you did it. But all the same, I'm grateful. You'll stay with this piece, I suppose, as long as the run lasts. But in the end. what's the. idea? Do you want to be an actress?" "The notion of just going on--not changing anything or improving any­ thing; doing the same thing over and One Face Detached Itself Suddenly. P.: «r. tjordial approval of the two owners, \ p*P^ted and so well disguised--that ^prho had yet to make sure on the fig- f s'le mistook it for fear. But fear never *j|res; and the details of settlement,' bhich left her more than a hundred dollars' profit, even after she had de­ ducted the hundred she owed Rod- fkey. The point--the point--settled Galbrafths praise--was that she J^ad succeeded. • - ? It was, on the whole, a good bar- *||litn on i slifeiL BuT^Goldisralth Block earn* back next d«y and made one's heart, glow like that. That's where all her thoughts were whe^P John Galbraith halted her on the way from the dressing room after the performance was over. "i know you're tired," he said brusquely. uBut I fancied you'd be tlreder in the morning, and I have to leave for New York on the fast train. So, you •see. it was now or never." over again for forty weeks, or even four, senilis perfectly ghastly--just to keep going round and round like a horse at the end of a pole. What I'd like to do, now that this is finished, is--well, to start another." His eyes kindled. "That's it," he said. "That's what I've felt about you all along. I suppose it's the reason I felt you never could be an actress. You see the thing the way I do--the whole fun of the game is getting the thing. Once it's got . . He snapped his fingers, and with afc eager nod she agreed. "Well then, look here," he said. 'Tve an Idea that I could use you to good advantage as a sort of personal as­ sistant. There'll be a good deal of work just of the sort you did with the sextette, teaching people to talk and move about like the sort df folk they're supposed to represent. It would be done more if we could teach chorus people to act human. Well, you can do that better than I, that's the plain truth. Under this new contract of mine that I expect to sign in a day or two, I'll simply have to have somebody. And then, of course, there's the cos­ tuming. That's a great game, and I think you've a taleut for it. "There you are! The job will be paid from the first, a great deal better than what you've got here. And the costuming end of it, if you succeed, would run to real money. Well, how about It?" "But," said Rose, a little breathless­ ly--"but don't I have to stay here with 'The Girl Upstairs'? I couldn't Just leave, could I?" "Oh, I sha'n't be ready for you Just yet. anyway," he said. "I'll write when I am. and by that time you'll be per­ fectly free to give them your two weeks' notice. They'll be annoyed, of course; but, after all, you've given (hem more than their money's worth already. Well--will you come if write?" "It seems too wonderful to be true," she said. "Yes, 111 come, of course." He gazed at her In a sort of fas cinatlon. Her eyes were starry, her lips a little parted, and she was so still she seemed not even to be brt*ath!ng. But the '»$es weren't look- ! lag at him. Another vision filled them. The vision--roh, he was sure of it nowl --of that "only one," whoever he was, "that mattered." "I won't keep you ajny longer," he said. "I'll have them get a tajtiand send ypu home." She said she dtdut want a taxi. Ilet didn't demur to her wish to be pot on' a car, and at the crossing where;'they1 waited for it after ail- almost silent walk, he did manage to shake hands and tell her She'd hear from him soon. But hie kicked his way to the curb after the car had carried her off, and marched to his hotel in a sort of bafled fury, tie didn't know exactly just what it was he'd wanted. But he did know, with a perfectly abysmal coiiviction, that he was a fool! ; - X*? I ij / I It was out of the Umbo, of the un­ foreseeable that the blind instrument of Fate appeared to tell Rodney about Rose. He was a country lawyer from down-state, W'ho had been in Chicago three or four days, spending an hour or two of every day in Rodney's oilice in consultation with him, and, for the rest of the time, dangling about, more or less at a loose end. A belated sense of this struck Rodney at the end of their last consultation. •Tni sorry I haven't been able to do( more," Rodney said--"do Anything, really, in the Way of showing you a good time. As a matter of fact, I've spent every evening this week here in the office," "Oh, I Haven't lacked for entertain­ ment," the man said. "We hayseeds find the city a pretty lively place. I went to see a show Just last night called 'The Girl Up-Stalrs.' I sup^ pose you've seen it." "No," said Rodney, "I haven't." "Well, it was downright funny. 1 haven't laughed so hard in a year. If you want a real good time, you go to see it." The last part of this conversation took place In the outer office. Rodney saw the man off with a final hand­ shake, closed the door after him, and strolled irresolutely back toward Miss Beach's desk. t It was true, he'd been taking it 04 rather recklessly during the past tw<> months. But they'd been pretty sterile, those long, solitary evening hours.- He'd worked fitfully, grinding away by brute strength for a whllq, and then, in a frenzy of impatiencej, thrusting^ the legal rubbish out of the way and letting the enigma of his great failure usurp his mind and his memories. "Telephone over to the, University club," he said suddenly to Miss Beach, "nnd see If you can get me a Seat for 'The Girl Up-Stairs.'" The office boy was out on an errand and in his absence the switchboard was in Miss Beach's care. She arose obediently and moved over to the switchboard, then began fumbling with the directory. "Why, Miss Beach!" said Rodney. "You know the number of the Univer­ sity club!" He was looking at her now with un­ disguised curiosity. She was acting, for a perfectly Infallible machine like Miss Bench, almost queer. Without looking around at him, she said: "Mr. Aldrich, you won't like that show. If-- you go, you'll be sorry." * - While he was still staring at her, young Craig came bursting blithely out of his office. "Oh. Miss Beach!" he said,, and then stopped short, see­ ing that something had' happened. Rodney tried an experiment. "Craig." he said, "Miss Beach doesn't want me to see 'The Girl Up-Stairs,' She says I won't like it. Do you agree with her?" A flare of red cmtie into the boy's face, and his jaw dropped. Then, as well as he could, he pulled himself together. "Yes, sir," he said, swung around, and marched back Into his own cubbyhole. "You needn't telephone. Miss Beach." said Rodney curtly. And, without another word, he put on his lint and overcoat, walked straight over to the club and told the man at the cigar counter to get him a ticket.for tonight's performance of "The Girl Up-Stairs." KIt was after five, and.he decided he might as well dine here. So he went up to the lounge, armed himself with an evening paper, and dropped, into m big leather chair. But all his carefully contrived en­ vironment hadn't the power, it seemed, to shift the current of his thoughts, They went on dwelling on the be­ havior of Miss Beach and young Craig, which really got queerer the more one thought about it. . He flurtg down his paper and went into the adjoining room. The large round table nearest the dbor was pre­ empted by a group of men he knew, and he came up with the intention of dropping into the one vapant chair. But just before the first of them caught a glimpse of him his ear picked up the phrase "The Girl Upstairs." And then a lawyer in the groupfl looked up and recognized him. "Hello, Aid- rich," he said, and the flash of silence that followed had a galvanic quality. The others began urging him to sit down, but he said he was look­ ing for somebody, fend walked away down the' room and out the farther door. He knew now that he was afraid. Yet the thing he was afraid of refused to come out into the open where he could see it and know what it was. He still believed that he didn't know what it was when he walked past the framed photographs in the lobby of the theater without looking at them and stopped at the box office to ex­ change his sent, well down in front, for one near' the back of the theater. But when the sextette made their first entrance upon the stage, he knew that he had known for a good many hours. # ! He never stirred from his seat dur­ ing either of the intermissions. But along in the third act he got up and went out. The knout that flogged his soul bad a score ot lashes, each with the sting 'of its own peculiar venom. Everybody who knew him. his closer friendis and his casual acquaintances as well, niust g*nce. His frterids had been sorry far him, with Just a grain of contempt; his acquaintances had grinned .over It Just a pleasurable salt of pity. "Do you know Aldrich? Well, bis wife's In the chorus at the Globe theater! And he doesn't know It, poor devil." ? The northwest wind which had been blowing icily since sundown, had in­ creased in violence to a gale. But he, strode out of the lobby nnd Into t|w|: street unaware of it. f He found the stage door and pulled it open. An intermittent roar of hand- clapping, increasing and diminishing with the rapid rise and fall of the curtain, told him that the perform­ ance was just over. A doorman stopped him and a>alMd| him what he wanted. "I want to see Mrs. Aldrich/1; he: satd. "Mrs. Rodney Aldrich.'? "No such person here," said the tnan, and* Rodney, in his rage, simply assumed that he was lying. It didn't occur to him that Rose would have taken another name. He stood there a moment, debating whether to attempt to force an en­ trance against the doorman's unmis­ takable intention to stop him, and de­ cided to wait instead. ' The decision wasn't due to common sense, but to a wish not to dissipate liiS rage on people that didn't mat­ ter. He wanted it Intact for Rose. He went back to the alley, braced himself In the angle of a brick pier, and waited. He neither stamped his feet nor flailed his arms about to drive off the cold. He just stood still with the patience of his immemorial ances­ tor, waitings unconscious of the lapse of time, unconscious of the figures that presently began struggling out of the narrow door that were not she. What do you suppose happens when Rodney meets Rose at the stage door? It is a thrilling meeting they have--and the emo­ tional stress takes them almost to the breaking point. The next installment tells you all about what happened. / (TO BE CONTINUED.) WARRING ON INFANT PLAGU£ Medical Scientists Place Themselves in State of Preparedness to Repel Advances of Foe, The best war news of home signifi­ cance published the other day related to the new state of preparedness In which our medical scientists find them­ selves for the fight with infantile par­ alysis and its microbes, observes the New York World.* In case of a fresh advance by these foes of childhood in the coming summer, the "prospects for a distinct repulse are encouraging. It is from the research forces of the Rockefeller institute that the bulle­ tins come of a progressive readiness. Not least encouraging among the discoveries bf the doctors Is the fact that two centers of generally efficient defense are characteristic of the body itself. One of these is in the secretions of the nose and throat, the entrance avenues of the microbes. The other Is ill certain membranes, when Intact, surrounding the spinal cord and brain, A slight injury to these membranes will let the virus in when the disease germs have once passed the other bar­ riers. How frequently the defenses succeeded all around is shown by the record of last summer's attacks,, only 1.50 cases of paralysis occurring to every 1,000 of population in this city. This would mean about 16 cases to a city of 10,000 people. Passing from natural preventive to discovered remedies, the doctors tell of a better serum and of methods of ad­ ministration made more effective by a winter's study and experiment. Alto­ gether the research bulletins go far to strengthen the counsel, found to be well based even in last summer's epi­ demic, against panic and nerve-racking worry. Calory Is Measure of Heat. Calory is a. word so much used by physicians and writers upon diet that there is no excuse for anyone not un­ derstanding what it means. The defini­ tion of the word calory in the dictionary is: "One or two recog­ nized units of heat, of which the 'great­ er calory' or 'kilogram calory' is the amount of heat necessary to raise one kilogram of water 1 degree C.; the 'lesser calory' or 'small calory' being the amount of heat necessary to\ralse one gram of water 1 degree C." Calory, then, Is a measure of heat. The human body may be likened to a furnace, and the-food that goes Into it to the fuel, for this, in fact, is exactly what it Is, as it supplies the body with what enables it to keep up Its heat. So the heat-giving qualities of our food are measured in calories. TOLD IN BRIEF Interesting .Tidings From City, Town and Countryside. REMODELING THE CAPITOL the ice cream and have known, for weeks, of this dla-1 giv it to the miswiohfc' ^Vhy He Came Home. Rbscoe Boone, a Muncie electrical contractor, went home late the other afternoon to find Mrs. Boone enter­ taining a company of women at cards. He had forgotten about the party and besides it was the usual period of the day for him td remember about the evening meal. "Oh, Mr. Boone," said one of the guests as he stumbled upon the room filled with women, "did you come home to supper?" MOh, no; not at all," be replied gal­ lantly, even If somewhat confusedly. "I Just came home to see what time it was."--Indianapolis News. Spend More for Sweets. American people arc spending, more for candy every year, according to fig­ ures compiled recently by the census bureau. They spent over $1,85,000,000 for factory-made sweets" last year, which is an average of about $1.80 for every man, woman and child. Figures recorded 65 years ago show that the annual per capita consumption of candy was then about 13 cents. Buying a Substitute. Bessie had a new dime to Invest in Ice cream soda. "Why don't you giv« your dime to missions?" said the minis­ ter who was calling. **I thought about that," said Bessie, "but I thinfc I'll buy |Ka dtwiiwliii .. A /i"1 A J A.JT. A • > ' 4 J ..0- 4• Old State Board of Health Holds Its Last Meeting--Illinois Central. . y Get Mine Output in Exchangi-., . for Car Service. Duquoln.--Shortage of ' cars hiH Caused coal operators to enter into agreement to sell their coal output to the Illinois Central railroad if supplied with sufficient cars. Springfield.--Work of changing the Inside of the state capttol to accommo­ date the new departments of the state government is proceeding rapidly un­ der the direction of Secretary of State Emnierson. Chicago.--The state board of health* which is abolished by the new consoli­ dation of departments act, held Its last meeting here. Easton.--Oscar Tonlin, who broke his neck while "loading hay. ls still living, a wonder to physicians, who say he has a chance to recover. Springfield. -- Local council •. of Knights and Lndies of Security has in­ dorsed the plan of the head council to erect an old folks'- home, orphanage and hospital, at Topeka. Decatur.--Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Custin went to Detroit six weeks ago to wed a soldier and lias not been heard from since. Farmersville. -- Reverend Joseph O'Rourke, for 20 years In charge of Saint? Mary's church, celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary of the priest­ hood. Bunker Hill.--By will of George Groves, estate goes to witlow after payment of all debts. Mechanlcsburg.--Pastors and lay­ men of the Methodist church of this district attended a religious retreat. Curran.--Mrs. Nicholas Kriesee of Springfield was severely injured by fall from a cherry tree. Bloomlngton.--Israel Stephens of Rushvllle found guilty In the federal court here of selling liquor! without a federal license. v Springfield.--Two hundred grain men from central Illinois held a ban­ quet here and formulated plans for co-operating with the government In the regulation of food prices, i " Chicago.--N. P. Swanspn of Daven­ port, with $1,900.13 In his-pocket, res­ cued from confidence men by the po­ lice. „ Bel videre.--Otto Schlaeretski Is home'from'the Isle of Man, where he was held prisoner by the British as an alien enemy, having been taken off a merchant vessel at Liverpool, haying proved that his father had taken out. naturalization papers years ago. Chicago.^---Mrs. Nicholas W. Box left her estate of $175,000 to her husband and on his death it goes, to J^ilcevlew hospital at Chicago and to the f^ome hospital at Lafayette. •. Duquoin.--The "Egyptian Hustlers," an organization of traveling men of central and southern Illinois, in annual session here elected Bert S. Grue of St. Louis president. v Chicago.--Miss Jane Addams has es­ tablished a postal savings bank branch at the Hull house for the convenience of the foreign residents of that dis­ trict, who have repeatedly lost their savings in private banks. Freeport,--John Hale, twenty-three, resident of Harmon township. Lee county, gave himself up as a slacker, saying that he had not been to town in three years and did not read the news­ papers. V' Carpentersvtll©. Authorities have placed patent extinguishers on conveni­ ent , posts in town for use of citizens in 1 use of fire. Springfield.--Mine operators of the state have employed* checkers at the mines in effort to increase efficiency 'rtf miners and double the output. Virginia.--Cass county farmers have petitioned the county comitiiss!oners to put question on the ballot this fall of discontinuing commission form of government. Springfield.--The. tax of $1 on tele­ phone poles of the InterStJite Independ­ ent Telephone and Telegraph Co. im­ posed by this city declared valid by supreme court. : ^ Rockford--Nineteen' valuable es­ tate* comprising 2,999 acres have been turned over to Uncle Sam' for array cantonment. Rockford.--Population of city ac­ cording to the school census isi 64,387, 3,283 more than last year. - vJ Moline.--Medical association is en- farcing agreement of giving one-third of fees to families of enlisted doctors. Danville.--Edgar Ball ah. Socialist, arrested for distributing antidraft pamphlets. Springfield.--In support of the policy of the council of defense the whole­ sale bakers of this city will not take feick stale bread after July 10. Chicago.--J. C. Willis, recently re­ moved as president of the Armltage Savings bank, is under arrest for al­ leged passing of Bad checks. Galena.--George Koster, twenty- eight, feared draft and killed himself. Springfield.--All unlicensed dogs iu city will be shot. Freeport. -- Speculators throughout Stephenson county are offering con­ tracts for this year's potato crop at 90 cents a bushel. Nashville.--Hiram Rice, sixty, who killed Sheriff May and Marshal Leker and then shot himself, is dead. Bloomington.--In Red Cross drive a little red pig was sold for $678. Medora.--The post office here will be moved Into better quarters. Carllnville.--Farmers who continue to sell uncandled eggs to buyers are liable to fine under the new law. Springfield.--Mr. ar.d Mrs. John Dor* celebrated their golden wedding anni­ versary. CarlinvHle.--This city has 14 less population by the school census than a • #7 " I- 4- jruizago.. voyrfe-- CRAMPS mi ml Suggestions that may save Much Suffering :r Pa.--"For yea» I Buffered with terrible cramps. I would have to stay in bed several days every month. I tried all kinds of remedies and was treated by doctors, but my trouble con­ tinued until one day I read about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege­ table Compound and what it had done for others. I tried it - now I am never troubled with cramps and feel like _ ft different woman. I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com­ pound too highly and I am recommend­ ing it to my friends who suffer as I did." --Mrs. GEORGE R. NAYLOR, Box 72, Marysviile, Pa. Young women who are troubled Willi painful or irregular periods, backache, headache, dragging-down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion should take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Thousands have been re­ stored to health by this root and herb remedy. Write for free and helpful advice to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (con­ fidential), Lynn, Mass. Only women open ana read such letters. Old false Teeth Bought Broken or in any condition. We pay up to $5.00 a set, according to value. Mail at once and get our offer. If unsatisfactory, will return teeth. Domestic Supply Co., BlngbmtM, N. T. '«• • H .is ^ % % t'ij The Same Trespass. A farmer, going over his land, caught an Irishman* with his dog tres­ passing in a field, and threatened him with prosecution. Returning, however,, through the same field an hour later he w-as sur­ prised to meet the Irishman in an­ other part of: i^ and exclaimed qpK grily: : . • - . ' "What! Trespassing again?" "No, no," answered Pat, "It's still the same trespass. Fair play, sorr!" DANDRUFF AND ITCHINff^v Disappear With Use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment--Trial Free. The first thing In restoring dry, fall-' lng hair Is to get rid of dandruff and Itching. Rub Cuticura Ointment into scalp, next morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Prevent skin and scalp troubles by making Cuti­ cura your everyday toilet preparation. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.--Adv. The Re<£l*srath a Babel. ..That parliament of Babel, wi reichsrath, now engaged in playing an obscure part in the Austro-Hungarian peace hunt, is permitted to express its emotions In eight official languages-- symbolic of'the war of tongues raging in the empire itself; In the great vocal chorus the Slavonian may be said to have struck the strident top note, for the very word he has coined for him­ self expresses the belief that no man- Is a talker except himself. "Slowan." in Old Slavonian, meant "to speak," and as the Slav understood no other speech, the others were naturally the dumb dogs.--London Daily Chronicle. War Spirit Contagious. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .was more than once placed in a perplex­ ing position by the loss of members of his cast during his tour through­ out Canada and the United States. No less than ten members enlisted. Including two ladies for service in war hospitals. One humorous inci­ dent occurred after the engagement of a "deputy" in the United States. She was not very -much Interested in the war prior to her appointment, but the talk behind the scebes among the company bore so frequently on the loss of relative!# at the front that she felt one night impelled to volun­ teer as a nurse, was eventually ac­ cepted, and,her place had to be filled. Many a man who thinks he is ready money resembles a dollar minus 70 cents. The Danger Zone for Many Is Coffee Drinking Some people find it wise to quit coffee when their nerves begin to "act up.* ^ The easy way nopp*| " *days is to switch 16̂ * Instant Postum Nothing in pleas­ ure is missed by the change, and greater comfort fol­ lows as die nerves '-«dbu5ld^4r - Postum is economical to both health and purse. "There's a Reason" 4 L Ml i ' V-t i .„4Jk* L*. &: ^ ̂ ^ ^ ̂ "-A J