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AV/Mswr wim-cmr* £tc BY BAVm GMAifAfif. PUtLZipB .eomttGfrreo t&os fir aas-AfenRUJL. COUP*** CHAPTER IV,--Continued. Ed was looking at me in dazed ad­ oration. "Then," I went on, "there >re the retail merchants^ of Fredonia. is it ever occurred to them. In ,|helr excitement In favor of this road, that it'll ruin them? Where will the ' Chopping be done if the women can ,, get to Chicago in two hours and a fain" >'•* :» "You'r^ right, yon're rtfhtl*" fltt* - alairned Ed, rising to pace the flow "' fc his agitation. "Bully for you, Harvey! We'll show the people that the road'H ruin the town morally and '^',;1"'|fena3jcially." '/ •";. * - ~'r.* "But you must come out in favor f cf it," said I. "We mustn't give Dun- - t ^ Skirk the argument that you're fighting 1 '/it, because you'd bo injured by it. No,- -* Jrou must be hot for the road. Per- |japs you might give out that you :^«."; ^rere considering selling your prop- 'terty on the lake front to a company * ijtiat was going to change it Into a •fjrewery and huge pleasure park. As ie lake's only a few hundred yards ide, with the town along one bank id your place along the other why, think that'd rouse the people to leir peril." •'That's the kind of fire to fight the devil with," said he, laughing. "I don't think Mr. Senator Dunkirk will get the consent of Fredonia." "But there's the legislature," said I. His face fell. "I'm afraid he'll <lo lis In the end, old man." I thought not, but I only said: "Well, we've got until next winter--*5 if we can beat him here." Ed insisted that I must stay on and, help him at the delicate task of re­ versing the current of Fredonia sen­ timent* My share of the work was important enough, but, as it was con­ fined entirely to making suggestions, it took little of my time. I had no leisure however, for there was Can lotta to look after. When .it was all over and she had told Ed and he had shaken hands with her and had kissed me and had other­ wise shown the chaotic condition of his mind, and she and I were alone again, she said: "How did it happen? I don't remefnber that you really pro­ posed to me. Yet we certainly are en­ gaged." . * - . "We certainly are," said I, "and that's the essential point, isn't it?" "Yes/ she admitted, "but-->" and she looked mystified. "We drifted," I suggested. She" glanced at me with & smile that was an enigma. "Yes-^w© Just drifted. Why do you look at me so queerlyT' "I was just gOini to ask you that ..same question" tiaid I, by way of eva­ sion. Then we both" fell to thinking, and after a long time she roused herself to say: "But we shall be very hap: py. I am so fond of you. And you are going to be a great man and you do so look it even if you aren't tall and fair, as I always though the man I married would be. Don't look at me like that. Your eyes are strange enough when you are smiling; but when you--I often wonder what you're so sad about." "Have you ever seen a grown per­ son's face that wasn't sad in repose?" I asked, eager to shift from the par- . ticular to the general. "A few idiots, or near ldiqts," she replied, with a laugh. Therefore we talked ot^he future and let the past «le$P ft its uncovered coffin. .* \ .•.•n i ... , ^ '*• CHAPTER V. more and worse laws. So we must either go out of business and let the talents God has given us lie idle in a napkin; or pay the Dunkirks to pre­ vent the people from having their ig­ norant wicked way, and destroying us and themselves, For how would they get worl$ if wo didn't provide it for them?" . "A miserable makeshift system," said I, barkening back to Dunkirk and his blackmailing, tor I was not just then In the mood to amuse myself with the contortions of Roebuck's flex­ ible and fantastic "moral sense." "I've been troubled in conscience a great deal, Harvey, about the moral­ ity of what we business men are forced to do. I hope--indeed I feel- that we are justified in protecting our property in the only way open to na. The devil must be fought with ftra, you know." "How much did Dunkirk rob you of last year?" I asked. "Nearly $300,000," he said, and his expression suggested' that each dol­ lar had been separated from him with as great agony as if it had been so much flesh pinched from his body. "There was Dominick, besides, and a lot of infamous strike-bills to be quieted. It cost $500,000 in all--in your state "alone. And we -didn't ask ^a slnglo bit of new legislation. AH and you can take it away from him; *hi« popularity belongs to the party, and it would cheer just as lojidly for any other man who wore the party u n i f o r m . " " . / ' ' " "I see," he said reflectively; "the machine rules the party, and money rules the machine and we supply the money and don't get the benefit It's as if my wife or one of my employes • IIII 8 A WP"* »J » "Much like that," I answered. "Now, why shouldn't you finance the ma­ chine directly and do away with Dun­ kirk who takes as his- own wages about half what you give him? He takes it and wastes it in stock specu­ lations--gambling with your hard- earned wealth, gambling it away cheerfully, because he feels that you people will always, give him more." "What do you propose?" he asked; and I could see that his acute busi­ ness mind was ready to pounce upon my scheme and search It hopefully If mercilessly. "A secret absolutely secret, combine of a dozen of the big corporations of my state---those that make the bulk of the political business---the com­ bine to me under the management of some man whom thiy trust and whose Interests are business, not political." "He would have enormous power," said Roebuck. I knew that he would point first and straight at that phase of my scheme, no matter how subtly I might dis­ guise it So I had pushed it into his face and had all but pointed at it my­ self so that I might explain it away. "Power?" said I. "How do you make that out? Any member of the com­ bine that is dissatisfied can withdraw at any time and go back to the old way of doing business. Besides, the manager won't dare appear in it at all, --he'll have to hide himself from the people and from the politicians, be­ hind some popular figurehead. There's another advantage that mustn't be overlooked. Dunkirk and these other demagogues who bleed you are inflam­ ing public sentiment more and more against big corporations---that's their of Corpulent corporate pereons. 1 went away, much downcast; but two weeks * afterward he telegraphed tor me, and when I catra he at once brought up theaubjnct of the com­ bine. • "Go ahead with it," J»e said. *Tve been thinking it over and talking it over. We shall need ftnly nine othen besides myself and you. You repr©* seat the Ramsay interest." He equipped me with the neces­ sary letters of introduction and sent me forth on a toyr of my own state. When it was ended, my "combine" was formed. And I was the com-, bine--was master of this political blind pool. I had taken the first, the hardest step, toward the realization of my dream of real political power-- to become an unbossed boss, not the agent and servant of plutocracy or partisanship, but using both to far­ ther my own purposes and plans. I had thus laid out for myself the difficult Jeat of controlling two fiery steeds. Difficult but not impossible, if I should develop skill as a driver-- for the skillful driver has a hand so light that his horses fancy they are going their own road at the*r own gait ' »*...•«- CHAPTER VI. iecent Happenlnds of Interest In the Various Cities and Towni* riTWIWWfffJfT TO HONOR WAR GOVERNOR. ^1 8he Glanced at Me with a Smile That Was an Enigma. GMd tyan and His Woes, After Ed and I had carried the Fre­ donia election against Dunkirk's road, we went fishing with Roebuck in the northern Wisconsin woods. I had two weeks, two uninterrupted weeks, in which to impress myself upon hfm; besides, there was Ed, who related in tedious but effective detail, on the slightest provocation, the achieve­ ments thfct had made him my devoted admirer. So when, I went to visit Roebuck In June, at his house near Chicago, he was ready to listen to me in pioper spirit I soon drew him on to fell of his troubles with Dunkirk--how the sena­ tor was gouging him and every big corporation doing business In the state "I've been loyal to the party for 40 years," said he bitterly, "yet, If I had been on the other side it couldn't cost me more to do business. I have to pay enough here, heaven kno vs. But it costs me more in £our state--with yoar man Dunkirk." His white face grew pink with anger. "It'sfmonstrous! Yet you should have heard him address my Sunday school scholars at the last annual out­ ing I gave them. What an evidence of the power of religion it is that such wretches as he pays the tribute of hypocrisy to it!" His business and his religion were Roebuck's two absorbing passions-- £tV religion rapidly predominating as he drew farther away from 60. "Why do you endure his blackmail- " Ing, Mr. Roebuck?" I asked. "He Is * ' J growing steadily worfe." "He's certainly more rapacinffl11* than ten years ago," Roebuck admit­ ted. "Our virtues or our vices, which­ ever we give the stronger hold on ua. ^ become more marked as we approach sf judgment When we finally go, we are prepared for the place that has been prepared for us." "But why 4o you put Up with his impudence?" j- , "What can we daf He has political potver and is our only protection against the people. They have been inflamed with absurd notions about their rights. They are filled with envy and suspicion of the rich. They :lf lVffi passed l^ws to tamper us In de- * 'jk»>tog the Q Mtttry and want fa past the money was paid just to ^scape persecution under those alleged laws! Yet they call this a free country! When I think of the martyrdom--yes, the mental and moral martyrdom, of the men who have made this coun­ try-- What are the lew million? a man may amass in compensation fbrwhat he has to endure? Why, Sayler, I've not the slightest doubt you could find well-meaning, yes, really honest, 'God­ fearing people, who would tell you I am a scoundrel! I have read sermons, delivered from pulpits against me! Sermon^ from pulpits!" "I have thought out a plan," said I, after a moment's silence and shocked contemplation of this deplorable state jf affairs, "a plan to end Dunkirk and cheapen the cost of' practical bust ness." At "cheapen the cost" his big ears twitched as if they had been tickled. "You can't expect to get what you need for nothing," I continued, "on the present state ot public opinion. But I'm sure I could reduce expenses by half--at least half." I had his undivided attention. "It is patently absurd," I went on, "that you who finance politics and keep in funds these fellows of both machines should let. them treat you as if you were their servants. Why don't you put theih in their place, servants at servants' wages?" "But I've no time to go Into politics --and I don't know anything about it --don't want to know. It's a low business--ignorant corruption, filthl- 'nessY"v% "Take Dunkirk, for example," I pushed on. "His lieutenants and heel­ ers hate him because he doesn't di­ vide squarely. The only factor in his power is the rank and file of the voters of our party. They, I'm con­ vinced are pretty well aware of his hypocrisy--but it doesn't matter much what they think. They vote like sheep and accept whatever leaders and candidates our machine gives (hem. They are almost stone blind in their partizanshlp and they can al­ ways be fooled up to the necessary point. And we can fool them our­ selves, if we go about it right, just as well as Dunkirk does it for hire." "But Dunkirk is their man isn't he?" he suggested. "Any man is their man whom you choose to give them,"replied L "And don't you give them Dunkirk? He takes the money from the big busi­ ness interests, and with it hires the men to sit In the legislature and finances the machine throughout the state. It takes big money to run a political machine. His power be­ longs to yon people, to a dozen of yon, way of fighting you Into yielding to their demands. Under the new plan their demogogery would cease. Don't you think it's high time for the lead­ ers of commerce and industry to com­ bine intelligently against demagoger? ? Don't you think they have cringed b»i-, fore it and have financed and foster­ ed It too long?" This argument which I had re­ served for the last, had all the effect I anticipated. He sat rubbing his broad, bald forehead, twisting his white whiskers and muttering to him­ self. Presently he asked: "When are you and Lottie Ramsay going to be married?" "In the fall," aaid L "In aboat three months." "Well we'll talk it over again-- after you are married and settled. If you had the substantial interests to give you the steadiness and ballast, I think you'd be the man for yo'ir scheme. Yes, something--some su-eh thing as you suggest--must be done to stop the -poisoning of public opin­ ion against the country's best and strongest men. The political depart­ ment of the business interests ought to be thoroughly organized as the oth­ er departments are. Come to me again after you're married." I saw that his mind was fixed, that he would be unable to trust me until I was of his class, of the aristocracy Miss Ramsay RevoH*. The last remark Roebuck had made to me--on his doorstep, as I was start­ ing on my mission--was: "Can't you and Lottie hurry up that marriage of yours? You ought to get it over and out of the way." When I returned home with my mission accomplished, the first remark my mother made after our greeting was: "Harvey/1 wish you and Lottie were going to marry a little sooner. A note in her voice made me look swiftly at her, and then, without a word, I was on my knees, my face in her lap and she was stroking my head. "I feel that I'm going to--to your father, dear," she said. I heard and 1 thought I realised; but I did not. Who, feeling upon him the living hand of love, was ever able to Imagine that hand other than alive? But her look of illness, of ut> ter exhaustion--that I understood and suffered for. "You must rest," said I; "you must sit quiet and be waited on until you are strong again." "Yes, I will rest," she answered, "aa soon as my boy is settled." That very day I wrote Carlotta tell­ ing her about my mother's health and asking her to change the date of our wedding to the first week in August, then just under a month away. She telegraphed me to come and talk it over. She was at the station in her phae­ ton to meet me. We had not driven far before 1 felt and saw that she was intensely irritated against me. Aa I unburdened my mind of my anxi­ eties about mother, she listened cold­ ly. And I had to wait a long time before I got her answer In a strained voice and with averted eyes: "Of course, I'm sorry your mother isn't well, but I can't get ready that soon." It was not her words that exasper­ ated me; the lightning of speech from the storm-clouds of anger to clear the air. It was her expression. Never have I known anyone who could concentrate Into brows and eyes and chin and lips more of that BUI len and aggressive obstinacy which is #e climax of provocativeness. Pa tience, in thought at least, with re­ fusal has not been one of my virtues This refusal of hers, this denial of happiness to one who had deserved so much and had received so little, set temper to working in me like a quick poison. But I was silent, not so much from prudence as from inabil­ ity to find adequate words. "I can't do It," repeated Carlotta, "and I won't." She made It clear that she meant the "won't"--that she was bent upon a quarrel. t But in my struggle to train those stanchest of servants and maddest of masters, the passions, I had got at least far enough away to choose both the time and the ground of a quar­ rel. So I said: "Very well, Car­ lotta. Then, that is settled." And with an air sufficiently deceptive to pass muster before angry eyes, I pro­ ceeded to talk of indifferent mat­ ters. As I sat beside her, my temper glowering in the straining leash, I revolted her conduct and tried to puz­ zle out its meaning. It is clear, thought I, that she does not care for me as people about to marry usually profess to care. Then, does she wish to break the engagement? • That tamed my anger instantly. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Didn't Want to Make Trouble. When Bobbie went to see his grand mother he was much interested in whatever went on in the kitchen. One day she said to him: "I'm going to make you a nice little pie in a sau­ cer, all for yourself. Don't you think I'm pretty good to take so much trou­ ble?" Robbie pondered. "Grandma," he said at length, "mother told me not to be a bother, and if it's goin' to be any trouble you can just as well make my pie reg'lar size."--Harper's. G. A. R. Post Starts Movement for Yates Monument, 'Jacksonville.--Matt Starr post G. A. R., started a movement to build a monument to War Gov. Yates, and appointed a committee to arrange to bring the matter before the next state encampment. They will ask the en­ campment to petition the legislature to appropriate a sum for a monument to be erected in front of the state- house. *the argument will be "what Indiana did for Morton Illinois should do for Yates." The remains of the war governor, lie buried in Diamond ©rove cemetery and are designated by a small unpretentious Monument AURORA TRACTION ROW BARED. SWEDES SING IN DULUTH. Society In Convention at Molina De­ cides on Next Meeting, Mollne.--The business session of the western division of the American- Swedish singers was held-here. The financial statement shows - total re­ ceipts of $9,113.65, with disbursements of $7,753.65. An invitation from the Duluth delegation for the next festival in 1911 was accepted with enthusiasm. The following officers were elected: President, C. D. Forsell, Duluth; first vice,president Dr. Victor Nilson, Min Question of Extending McKinley Trol* . ley Is Brought Up. Aurora.--Propositions in traction matters were submitted to the council at a special meeting to which Mayor Finch, the aldermen, President L. J. Wolf, of the Aurora, Elgin & Southern Traction company, General Manager E. C. Faber, of the same company, and Mr. fisher, of the Joliet, Plainfield & Aurora company, were present Au­ rora and the traction companies have not been able to agree over certain matters for some time, the principal matter being the bringing to the city iuterurban cars over the city lines. Mr. Wolf stated that he had held a conference with Mr. McKinley in re­ gard to bringing his line into Aurora from St Louis. > KEEP MAGILL GIRL IN HIDING. MAN IN HIS HOME MR. GRI8TLETON PHILOSOPHISE# . .ON Thinks There Are Few Who Sweet Abroad and Sour When ; iA the Bosom 'tmm-'n;; Family. ' -%'i Daughter of Accused Man Is Now Con­ cealed In Clinton. Clinton.--Marguerite Magill, the 19- year-old daughter of Fred Magill, who is accused of poisoning his wife, is in Clinton, pi'esumably at the home of R. A. Lemon, the Magills' personal attorney. The young woman is kept in strict seclusion and no outsider has been permitted to interview her. The neapolis; second vice president, Otto state's attorney would like to talk ATTORNEY8 WHO WILL PROSECUTE FRED H. MAGILL, CHARGED WITH WIFE MURDER. " cyfjemm MuzsRs. Johnson, Chicago; financial secretary, Ernst LindskOg. Was There In Plain Sight. In finite Clear to Unsophlstl- / aated Girt. s:' -t -*•-£*' ', " t A Camden business man has at his home a recently arrived Irish girl for a servant says the Philadelphia Led­ ger. One day last week he was called out of town on business, and a tele­ gram came to the house for him. The girl received the telegram and took it to her mistress, who looked at the ad­ dress on the wrapper and laid it aside. A little later the servant picked the telegram up, and noticing that it was still unopened went to her mistress and said: "Thot teelgram has not ylt bin opened; why do yez not open Jt?" "Why should I open It, Molly?" replied the mistress. "It ' is not for me." "Well, it says on the envelope, *Ter be opened.'" Molly brought the telegram and her mistress, looking it over, re­ marked: "i 4ont mo anything aboat it's to be opened." For answer the servant triumphantly pointed out in one corner of the envelope the follow­ ing: "Received at Branch Office, No. --, Broadway. Always open." No Lack of Water. Maj. Gillette's philippics against the .water wasters fall at times upon deaf ears. An Inspector who was visiting West Philadelphia dwellings to dis­ cover who were guilty ot wasting wa­ ter found in one house that a water flush was constantly flowing. "How long has that water been running?" he asked the tenant "How long?" echoed the other in amazement. "Yes." "I don't know." "Don't know?" queried the Inspector incredulously. "No. I've been living here four years. It's been rattling ever since I've been here;" A plumber has since received Boy Drowne; Playmate Silent. Staunton.--George Nixon, aged six, and John Boyle, seven years old, went out on a pond here on a plank raft. George was shoving the raft across the shallow pond with -a stick when he slipped and fellMnto the water. John ran home, but fear kept him from telling what had happened. At night Mrs. Nixon began worrying about her boy. After much coaxing John told the story. The pond was dragged and the body found. Costly Fence Brings Little. Cariinvllle.--The iron fence around the Macoupin county courthouse was sold for $305. It cost originally $96,000. The cost of the fence was in propor­ tion to the 12,500,000 paid for the Macoupin courthouse, erected in 1882, and famed th« country over. The courthouse is beinjjr •#*d<~for at the rate of $50,000 pe^annum, and in 1909 It is hoped to pay the last dollar of debt. _ IRLANRIRUXNRDYRNVFIYFRRI~I~- - with Marguerite, but will not be given the chance. State's Attorney Miller and bin asso­ ciate attorney, L. R. Herrick, went be­ fore Judge Cochrane and filed affi­ davits asking for n special grand jury. The order was made out $200,000,000 Mortgage Filed. Mount Sterling--The $200,000,000 mortgage that the Wabash 1b placing on all their railroad property was fllad here. It is made in favor of the Bowl­ ing Green Trust company of New York, J. C. Vam Blarcom, St Louis, and James B. Forgan, Chicago. It con­ tains 33,000 words and the fee for re­ cording in this county is about $30. Farmer Killed by Lightning. Mount Vernon.--Charles Howard, a prominent and wealthy farmer, was killed by lightning while working in the harvest field near Bonnie, in this county. Overturns Hot Water on Self. Clinton.--Ethel Chandler, aged sev­ en years, tried to lift a kettle of hot water from the stove but turned the receptacle in such a position as to throw scalding fluid over her abdomen. She was badly burned but will recover. Odd Fellows' Home Is Full. Mattooc.--The State Odd Fellows' Old Folks home at this place is .crowd­ ed to the limit and no more members can be sheltered. The board of trus- 4< tees will be asked at their next meet­ ing to erect another building. Stabs Pastor's Son to Death. Bloomington.--Rem is Burton, 19 years old. son of the pastor of the Methodist church at Wapella, died from the effect of wounds made with a Jackknife in the hands of James Carr, a companion. Tries Poison, Then 8hoots tilmself. - Bloomington.--Despondent over ill health, M. D. Reed, aged 60, of Fisher, swallowed a quantity of ether. After waiting for two hours and finding him­ self still alive, he flred a bullet Into lit brain. • ^ "Tod know," said Mr. Gristleton, "when I hear it said of a man that be'a good as pie to everybody else, but you ought to see 'how he treata his folks, 1 don't set it down right away that the man so described must bo necessarily a brute or a sneak. You see, If he is going to show peev­ ishness anywhere, home is the proper place for it; there it can do his family and himself the idast harm. It is es­ sential to his success In life that he Bhould put up a good front and show a smiling face to the world, "As a matter of fact the terms #*» contradictory, for a man can scarcely be permanently ill tempered at home' and yet present even a veneer of grace sufficient to deceive abroad. ^./§§ man is likely to reveal himself at.all- times for what he really is; to be, * S, In the main, either good or bad every- -j 1/ where; but if he have a streak ot weakness in him, why, that I would prefer he should "keep for home, and / M so, I think would his family. "They want him to make a good Impression In the world, to appear everywhere to advantage, and they - are ready to put up with his short com- Ings, to make allowances, and after all ' ^ they don't have to make so many, ^ and they know his ways and they can charm away his crossness easily enough. "The truth Is that while there may be men who are saints abroad and savages at home there are not many > such; most men are pretty decent, ( and these stories we bear about men who are so good to other people and " so mean to their own are likely to be 4 . % without any real foundation or great- ^ ly exaggerated or born out of a chance disclosure. . ; 4 \// "Jones' family, for instance, know him for what he is, a strong, vigorous, . able man who keeps his temper and ; behaves himself admirably In the world, though there he has much to contend with; and they are willing, more than willing, that he should for- ^ get his troubles and even lose hia temper occasionally at home If he / wants to. It gives them an opportuni- ty to soothe and comfort him and be good to him and strengthen him. They not only don't mind, but they really like him to be natural and human; they are not disturbed because he has some fallings like the rest of us, and they know he'll be serene and strong again In a minute. "So I take little stock In the atoriM we hear occasionally of this man or that who is said to be good as pie to strangers but a sour chap with hta own. You can set it down for a fact that the man who has the strength' and courage and self-control to hear himself like a man abroad through the day is, as a rule, and despite any transient pettinesses that he may there reveal, pretty sure to be a man whom they are. right glad to see at night at home." Chipmunk aa a Songster* ; . The chipmunk is not usually OOB* • sidered much of a songbird, but ac­ cording to Ernest Thompson Seton he is quite a success in a vocal role. In Manitoba the chipmunk comes above ground about the first,or -- -1 Resigns From Drainage Board. Chicago.--At a special meeting of the board of trustees of the sanitary district of Chicago the resignation of Isham Randolph, who has occupied the position of chief engineer for the last 14 years, was accepted and George M. Wisner, assistant chief engineer, was elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Randolph will be retained by th« dis­ trict as consulting engineer at a sal­ ary of $7,500 a year, it being deemed inexpedient to dispense with hiB ser­ vices at this time. To Teach Principles of Health. Chicago.--The Chicago School of Sanitary Instruction was incorporated by officials of the Chicago health de­ partment with a view to extending knowledge of public health matters and training men for civil service sanitary inspectors. No charge will be made for Instructloji and the stu­ dents will be given practical work with the inspectors employed by the city. Station Agent Is Accused. Canton. -- Police Matron Mabel Wright, of Peoria, caused a Warrant to be Issued for the arrest of Richard Martin, a station agent at Breeds, accusing him of outraging Ethel Eddy, his 14-year-old stepdaughter. The girl recently gave birth to a child in Peoria and the charge was made at the time that her stepfather was the father. Steal Railroad's Fenee Wire. Taylorvllle.--Barbed wire to the value of $100 has been stolen from the Midland railway between Taylorvllle and Pawnee and South Fork and Val- lentlne. The wire had been distrib­ uted along the right of way to be used in building fences. Approaching Marriage Worried Him. Belleville.--John Buthe, aged 25, son of a farmer, worried so about his ap­ proaching marriage and the heavy bar- vest season that he was taken to the £|elle?ille hospital. Secures New Light Service. Carlinville. -- The Enquirer an­ nounces that Greenfield is to have new electric light service. The power for the lights will be furnished from White Hall and the work of putting up the line is under way. It is ex­ pected that it will be in operation by September 1. Ill and Despondent, Ends Ufa* Roekford. -- Despondent over 111 health, Norman H. McAllister, a prom­ inent Elk and retired business man, 4;oommitted suicide by shooting. ond week of April, says Mr. Seton In Success. Mounted on some log or root it reiterates a loud, chirpy, "Chuck-chuck-chuck!" Other chip­ munks run forth into the sunlight, and seeking some perch add their Chuck-chuck-chuck," to the spring sa­ lute. They are active from this tima of the year on, and their sunny morn­ ing chorus is not by any means con­ fined to that original outburst On April 39, 1905, at Cos Cob, I heard a chipmunk In full song. Ha kept it up for 11 minutes without ceasing, and uttered 130 chirps to the minute. He got no reply, though he worked very hard and seemed tired toward the last. On May 28, 1905, at Cos Cob, I heard a chipmunk sing­ ing. He kept it up for three minute^ uttering three chirps to the second. Betrayed by Clumsiness. "We have to constantly keep on tha lookout for people who, in order to get trade prices, pretend to be in the business," said the head of one of the N6w York wholesale wall paper houses. "They are not always easy to detect either, for some are pretty well posted on the subject, and are hard to trip up. But I caught one the other day. He ^claimed to be a paper hanger from the weak and ha wanted something 'bang up' In style, at trade prices. He talked so know­ ingly about wall paper, that I had about made up my mind to give him the discount wtien a little thing hap­ pened that put me wise.' He at­ tempted to roll up again some paper he had spread out on the floor to ex­ amine. The way he did it was a rev­ elation. He took hold ot It and mauled It about as if he were kneading bread. I never saw anything less like the pro* fessional way of doing it I gave bint the discount all right, but up instead of down." IS r ^ ' , r - Welford's Deduction. Dallas Welford, in an interview j«t previous to his sailing to spend Ida vacation at home, was asked: "What makes a comedian?" With an ex­ pression that was a cross between pity and annoyance Mr. Welford an­ swered: "Comedians are born, not made; If they were made there would be no unfunny comedians." Which NIRTM KAISI* A WMHB* IU auvn comedian Mr. Welford Is a good init* tation philosopher. • Safe. • **t don't know whether I'll be abia 4»" keep my place or not; the mlssaa likes me, but the master don't." "Than you're all right; but if thai n&ter liked you it would be all «•.** . Long Felt Want "How did your wife like that nvm tat yon got her?" "She was speeclSess with delight **3ay, where can F get one Ilka Ik fOx mioe CK*velai;d Leader. A • £ , , a t * .U.L1, - -Ayj+J'i vV-"' • 4 » ) £ » • Uf , i m SaMm