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BtVfD CHAPTER XI.--Continued. The first of it I distinctly recall was After a children's party at our house. Carlotta singled out Mrs. Burbank for enthusiastic commendation. "The oth­ er women sent'nurses with their chil­ dren." said she, "but Mrs. Burbank came herself. She was so sweet in apologizing for coming. She said she hadn't any nurse, and that she was so timid about her children that she never could bring herself to trust them to nurses. And really, Harvey, you don't know how nice she was all the afternoon. She's th© kind of mother I approve of, the kind I try to be. Don't you admire her?" > . w • "I don't know her," said I. '.The only time I met her she struck me as being--well, rather silent," "That's it," she exclaimed triumph­ antly. "Shp doesn't- care a rap for men. She's absorbed in her children and her husband." Then, after a pause, she added: "Well, she's wel­ come to him. I can't see what she finds to care for." "Why?" said I. s *'Oh, he's distinguished-looking, and fwlite, offensively polite to women-- lie doesn't understand them at all-- thinks they like deference and flattery, the low-grade molasses kind of flat­ tery. He has a very nice smile. But he's so stilted and^tiresome, always serious,--and such a pose! It's what I call the presidential pose. No doubt M '11 be President some day." ."Why?" said 1. It is amusing to Itatch woman fumble about for rea­ ligns for her intuitions. , Carlotta did uncommonly well. "Oh, •J* don't know. He's the sort of "high- averaged American that the people go crazy about. He--he--looks like a President, that sort of--solemn--no- sense-of-humor, Sunday look,--you Itnow what I mean. Anyhow, he's go­ ing to be President." I thought not. A few days later, while what Carlotta had said was tresh in my mind, he overtook me walking to the capitol. As we went on together, I was smiling to myself. He certainly. did look and talk like a President. He was of the average height, of the average built, and of a sort of average facial mold; he had fcair that was a compromise among the average shades of brown, gray, and black, with a bald spot just where , Otyost men have it. f His pose--I saw that Carlotta was f&rewdly right. He was acutely self- conscious, and was acting his pose every instant. He had selected it »«arly in life; he would wear it, even - til his nightshirt, until death. He said nothing brilliant, but neither did he say anything that would not have been generally regarded as sound and sen­ sible. His impressive manner of de­ livering his words made one over­ value the freight they carried. But I soon found, for I studied him with in­ creasing interest, thanks to my new point of view upon him,--I soon found tfcat he had one quality the reverse ift commonplace. He had magnetism. Whenever a new candidate was pro­ posed for Mazarin's service, he usefl to ask, first of all, "Has he luck?" My first question has been, "Has he mag­ netism?" and I think mine is the bet­ ter measure. Such of one's luck as is "BCt the blundering blindness of one's opponents is usually the result of one's magnetism. However, it is about the most dangerous of the free gifts of nature.--which are all dangerous. Burbank's merit lay in his discreet use at it. It compelled men to center upon hjm; he turned this to his advantage by making them feel, not how he shone, but how they shone. They #ent away liking him because they ^%ad new reasons for being in love '•ith themselves. * ' I found only two serious weak- Messes. The first was that he lacked the moral courage boldly to do either rht or wrong. That explained why, spite of his talents for impressing people both privately and from the platform, he was at the end of his political career. The second weak­ ness was that he was ashamed of his ^ery obscure and humble origin. He Knew that his being "wholly self-made" J %as a matchless political asset, and T|» »»ed it accordingly. But he looked on it somewhat as the beggar looks on .^e deformity he exhibits to get alms. Neither weakness made him less <2,^;'Valuable to my purpose,--the first one, It anything, increased his value. I . Wanted an instrument that was capa- .|pe, but strong only when I used it ;• .*I wanted a man suitable for develop- lu' •f&ent first into governor of my state, fcnd then into a President. I could not have got the presidency tor myself, feut neither did I want it. My longings T were all for power,--the reality, not the shadow. In a republic the man T Jrho has the real power must be out *. «f view. If he is within view, a mll- * llon hands stretch to drag him from " _ the throne. He must be out of view, 4 putting forward his puppets and ivt ^hanging them'when the people grow fcored or angry with them. And the president--in all important matters fie must obey his partjr, which is, after simply the interests that finance in unimportant matters, his BO- ^ffljaHed power is whittled down by the • .party's leaders and workers, whosev acquirements may not be disregarded, /file shakes the plum tree, but he does • lijt under orders; others gather the ||fruit, and he gets only the exercise :j|*»ud the "honor." I had no yearning for pugpetshlp, towever exalted the title or sonorous ie fame; but to be the power that Jfelects the king-puppet of the political v|>uppet-hierarchy, to be the power that Selects and rules him,--that was the illogical development of my career. ....in Burbank I thought I had found a Jnan worthy to wear the puppet robes, «--one who would glory in them. He, like most of the other ambitious men I have known, cared little who was be­ hind the throne, provided he himself was seated upon it, the crown on his head and the crowds tossing the hats that shelter their dim-thinking brains. Also, in addition to magnetism and presence,3ie had dexterity and distinc­ tion and as much docility as can be expected in a man big enough to use for important work. In September I gave him our party nomination for governor. In our one­ sided state that meant his election. As I had put him into the governor­ ship not so much for use there as for use thereafter, it was necessary to protect him from my qombine. which had destroyed his two immediate predecessors by over-use--they had become so unpopular that their polit­ ical careers ended with their terms. Protect him I must, though the task would be neither easy nor pleasant. It involved a collision with my clients --a square test of strength between us. What was to me far more re­ pellent, it involved my personally tak­ ing a hand in that part of my political work which I had hitherto left to Woodruff and his lieutenants. this winter--Woodruff tella me we may not get the only thing we're ask­ ing." I was ready for him, as I was for each of the ten. I took out the list of measures passed or killed at the last session in the interest of the Power, Trust. It contained 78 items, 34 of 'them passed. I handed it to him. "yes--a few things," he admitted, "hut all trifles!" "That little amendment to the Wa­ terways law must alone have netted you three or four millions already." "Nothing like that Nothing like that" *T can organize a company within 24 hours that will pay you four mil­ lions in cash for the right and stock besides." He did not take up my offer. * "You have already had 13 matters attended to this winter," I pursued. "The one that can be done--Really, Mr. Roebuck, the whole state knows that the trustees of the Waukeegan Christian University are your dum­ mies. It would be insanity for the party to turn over a hundred thousand acres of public land gratis to them, so that they can presently sell it to you for a song." He reddened. "Newspaper scandal!" Me blustered, but changed the subject as soon as he had ahown me and re- shoirn himself that his motives were pure. I saw- that Burbank's last winter was to be crucial. My clients were clamorous, and were hinting at all sorts of dire doings if they were not treated better. Roebuck was question­ ing, in the most malignantly friendly manner, "whether, after all, Harvey, the combine isn't a mistake, and the old way wasn't the best." On the other hand Burbank was becoming restless. He had so cleverly taken advantage of the chances to do popu­ lar things, which I had either made "GovernorI" and He Laughed In Wild Derision. One does not in person chase and catch and kill and dress and serve the chicken he has for dinner; "*he orders chicken, and hears and thinks no more about it until it is served. Thus, all the highly disagreeable part of my political work was done by others; Woodruff, admirably capable and most careful to spare my feelings, received the demands of my clients from their lawyers and transmitted them to the party leaders in the legislature with the instructions how the machinery was to be used in making them into law. As I was financing the machine of both parties, his task was not diffi­ cult, though delicate. But now that I began to look over Woodruff's legislative programme in advance, I was amazed at the rapacity of my clients, rapacious though I knew them to be. I had been think­ ing that the independent newspapers --there were a few such, but of small circulation and influence--were ma llgnant in their attacks upon my "friends." In fact, as I soon saw, they had told only a small part of the truth. They had not found out the worst things that were done; nor had they grasped how little the legislature and the governor were doing other than the business of the big corporations, most of it of doubtful public benefit, to speak temperately. An hoar's study of the facts and I realized as never before why we are so rapidly developing a breed of multi-million­ aires in this country with all the op­ portunities to wealth in their hands. I had only to remember that the sys­ tem which ruled my own state was in full blast in every one of the states of the Union. Everywhere, no sooner do the people open or propose to open a new road into a source of v/ealth, than men like these clients of mine hurry to the politicians and buy the rights to set up toll-gates and to fix their own schedule of tolls. However, the time had now come when I must assert myself. I made no radical changes in that first pro­ gramme of Burbank s term. I con­ tented myself with cutting off the worst items, those it would have ruined Burbank to indorse. My clients Were soon grumbling, but Woodruff handled them well, placating them with excuses that soothed their an­ noyance to discontented silence. So ably did he manage it that not until Burbanfe's third year did they begin to come directly to me and complain of the way they were being "thrown down" at the capitol. •*..; Roebuck, knowing me most inti­ mately and feeling that he was my author and protector, was frankly in­ sistent. "We got almost nothing at the last session," he protested, "* for him or pointed out to him, that he had become something of a na­ tional figure. When he got 81 votes for the presidential nomination in our party's national convention his brain was dizzied. Now he was in a tremor lest my clients should demand of him things that would diminish or destroy this sapling popularity which, In his dreams, he already saw grown into a mighty tree obscuring the national heavens. I gave many and many an anxious hour to anxious thought and careful planning that summer and fall. It was only a few days before Doc Wood­ ruff appeared at Fredonia with the winter's legislative programme that I saw my way straight to what I hoped was broad day. The programme he brought was so outrageous that it was funny. There was nothing in it for the Ramsay interests, but each'of the other ten had apparently exhausted the ingenuity of Its lawyers In con­ cocting demands that would have wrecked forever the party granting them." "Our friends are modest," said I. "They've gone clean crazy," replied Woodruff. "And if you could have heard them talk! It's impossible to make tfcem see that anybody has any rights but themselves." "Well, let me have the details," said I. "Explain every item on this list; tell me Just what it means, and Just how the lawyers propose to disguise it so the people won't catch on." When lie had finished I divided the demands into three classes--the im­ possible, the possible, and the prac­ ticable. "Strike out all the impossi­ ble," I directed. "Cut down the pos­ sible to the ten that are least out­ rageous. Those ten and the practica­ ble must be passed." He rehd elf the ten which were be­ yond the limits of prudence, but not inob-and-hanging matters. "We can pass them, of course," was his com­ ment. "We could pass a law ordering the state house burned, but--" "Precffeely," said I. "I think . the consequences will be interesting." I cross-marked the five worst of the ten possibilities. "Save those until the last weeks of the session." Early in the session Woodruff began to push the five least bad of the bad measures on to the calendar of the legislature, one by one. When the third was introduced, Burbank took the limited for Washington. He ar­ rived in time to Join my wife and my little daughter Frances and me at breakfast. He was so white and sunk­ en-eyed and his hands were so un­ steady that Frances tried in vain to take her solemn, wondering, pitying gaze from his face. As soon as my study door closed behind us, he burst out, striding up and down. , "I don't know what to think, Say- ler," he cried, "I don't know what to think? The demands of these corpor­ ations have been growing growing, growing! And now--You have seen the calendar?" "Yes,'" said I. "Some Of the bills are pretty stiff, aren't they? But the boys tell me they're for our best friends, and that they're all neces­ sary." "No doubt, no doubt," he replied, "but it "will be impossible to reconcile the people." Suddenly he turned on me, his eyes full of fear and suspicion. "Have you laid a plot to ruin me, Say- ler? It certainly looks that way. Have you a secret ambition for the presi­ dency--" "Don't talk rubbish, James," I inter­ rupted. Those few meaningless votes In the national convention had addled his common sense. "Sit down--calm yourself--tell me all about it." He seated himself and ran his fin­ gers through his wet hair that was being so rapidly thinned and whitened by the struggles and anxieties of his ambition. "My God!" he cried out, "how I am punished! When I started In my public career, I looked forward and saw just this time--when I should be the helpless tool In the hands of the power I sold myself to. Govern­ or!" He almost shouted the word, rising and pacing the floor again. "Governor!"--and he laughed in wild derision. I watched him, fascinated. I, too, at the outset of my career, had looked forward, and had seen the same peril, but I had avoided it. Wretched figure that he was!--what more wretched, more pitiable than a man groveling and moaning in the mire of his own self-contempt? "Governor!" I said to myself, as I saw awful thought* flitting like demons of despair across his face, and I shuddered, and pitied, and re­ joiced--shuddered at the narrowness of my own escape; pitied the maeti Who seemed myself as I might have been; and rejoiced that I had had my moth er with me and In me to impel me into another course. "Come, come, Burbank," said I, "you're not yourself; you've lost sleep--" "Sleep!" he Interrupted, "I have not closed my eyes since I read thole cursed bills." "Tell me what you want done," wa« my BUggstion. "I'll help in any way I can--any way that's practicable." "Oh, I understand your position, Sayler," he answered, when he had got control of himself again, "but I se^ plainly that the time has come when the power that rules me--that rules us both--has decided to use me to my own destruction. If I refuse to do these things, it will destroy me-- prid a hundred are eager to come for> ward -and take my place. If I do these things the people will destroy fne-- and neither is that of the smallest importance to our master." His phrases, "the power that rules us both," and "our master," Jarred on me. So far as he knew, indeed, so far as "our master" knew, were flot he and I in the same class? But that was no time for personal vanity. All I "said was: "The bills must go through. This Is one of those crises that test a man's loyalty to the par'.y." "For the good of the party!" he mut­ tered with a bitter sneer. "Crime upon crime--yes, crime, I say--that tbt party may keep the favor of the pow­ ers! And to what end? To what good? Why, that the party may con tlnue in control so may be of furthei use to its rulers." He rested his e! bows on the table and held his fac<t between his hands. He looked terrl» hly old, and weary beyond the power ever to be rested again. "I stand with the party--what am I, what am I with out it?" he went on in a dull voice. "The people may forget, but. If I of fend the master--he n*ver forgives ot forgets. I'll sign the bills. Sayler-- if they come to me as party meaa urea." <TO BE CONTINUED.) wxm. ERICAM HOME BRAVE GIRLS IN STEUBEN VILLB|J:; SAVE VICTIMS OF A MOB. Mr. William A. Radford will answer Questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subject# pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide expe­ rience as Editor. Author and Manufac­ turer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. t94 Fifth Ave., Chicago. 111., and only inclose, two-cent stampt for reply. A nearly square house design 24 feet wide by 30 feet long with a cot­ tage roof pitched rather low is shown in this plan. This style of house is growing in popularity. In walking along the newer streets of Chicago as well as In other cities I notice a great many similar houses. It is a plan that offers? a large amount of room in proportion to the material used in building. The nearer square you got a house the more space you can inclose within the four . walls. Every foot of wall costs mone^y, espe­ cially during these times when the price of all building materials must be picked from the top shelf. The general design of this house Is severely plain. The ornamentation consists of proper proportions and neatness. AB a popular house It Is designed for economy In building, but at the same time comfort has not been sacrificed to save a few dol­ lars. There is great economy, for In­ stance, in making one chimney do for the kitchen range and heating ap- aratus. There is still further econ­ omy In putting the chimney \ln the middle of the house and running it out through the roof at the highest point. It costs less to shingle around a chimney at the ridge than any other place, the chimney Is better supported and It costs less to prevent water from rains or melting snow coming in around the chimney when It goes through the roof at the peak because there is no accumulation of water there like you have to contend with down near the eaves. Tou seldom see eight rooms laid out conveniently in a house that is A.RADF0RD EDITOR that 90 per cent of the population would naturally come under the defi­ nition eommon people. In my opin­ ion the proportion is not very much different to-day. The common people are the kind to build up a community. It may require an uncommon genius occasionally as a leader but for every day dependence the common people are just as important now as they were in Lincoln's time. That is why I am so anxious to see more of these low cost houses. When I see a man start to build a house for $1,200 fcr $1,500, I know n /r;:. *3* OA. 42 c" VALC. BEO MXW BED XOOM 8 9 - 0 ' / TWO ARE SHOT IN Street Car Employes, Attacked by j*; Union Labor Men During the ' ' A Parade,, Use Pistols to Save *'^5- * - A Theif Lives. v Steubenville, O.--A Labor day riot .1 that bid fair to end in a tragedy had it not been for the bravery of two young ^ ^ women employed in the telephone ex* s change, occurred here Monday afteiv noon. The victims of the crowd's rage were Joseph Harbison, who re­ ceived a fractured skull, and John Hat* ton, who was cut and bruised, while in shielding the men Misses Mary Magee and Eula Rooke received cuts and bruises about the head and body and are in a serious condition. Harbison and Hatton came from St. Louis to work in a where a strike is in progress. here mine Mon* [ 1 1 %;;SSS Second Floor Plan right off that that man intends to build a home and have it paid for in a short time and he will sh£ceed. More such houses mean more comfort and more contented citisens. But while it 1b right and proper to be contented with the house you have, that does not mean that a per­ son should not progress. A person may go from one step to another In house building the same as in busi­ ness, but it is difficult to feel happy and contented in a habitation that does not provide conveniences for do- day as they left the telephone office they were set upon by a crowd, and. • were being badly beaten when the two ; girls rushed into the thick of the trott*..',-;^ ble and, frantically pushing and shov^ - ing their way through about &0 Rjeii, reached the victims, to whom the . ? f young women were strangers. . i \ - The girls threw themselves on-th® ' prostrate men, protecting their head* ' ^ and receiving on their own bodies the kicks and blows of the mob. One o£ * the men, who was wielding a piece at iron, struck Miss Magee on the head. Another piece of iron almost broke , Miss Rooke's arm. Finally police reached the scene and! rescued Harbison and Hatton. Only one arrest was made. Harbison wa• removed to the mayor's office and later to Gill hospital, where It w*» found that his skull was fractured. San Francisco.--The labor union parade Monday resulted In the shoot* ing of two men by employes of the United Railroads at noon. The car men were attacked by the paraders and In self-defense opened fire. The trouble started at Ferry, where It is stated a Sutter street car broke through the line of parade. A mob of labor union men followed and attacked the car. The motorman, seeing that his life was In danger, opened fire and wound* ed one of his assailants in.the leg. A block further up an inspector w attacked by the mob. He drew a pis­ tol, aimed at a labor union man who carried bricks in his hands and him through the groin. JEWS ARE SLAIN IN ODESSA. : || Black Hundreds Riot and < Many Brutal Excesses. VIRTUE IN THE EELSKIN. Worth Trying by Those Wt»o Suffer from Rheumatism. "Why don't you get an eelskin?" said the old "vegetable lady," as the master at OQe of 'our largest markets paused in front of her stand and rubbed his knee, giving utterance to a half-smothered exclamation that rhymed with clam, ham and words like those. "What good would an eel- skin do?" growled the market-master. "Don't you know," was the answer, "that an eelskin is the wry best thing yoa *•»" try for rheumatism? Some folks think that the eel, being natural­ ly limber and quick in its motions, gives a virtue to the skin, and this makes a rheumatic Joint as limber as the eel itself; bnt 1 guess there isn't much In that notion. It's a kind ol magic, you know. "But the eelskic really does do good, and the way it does It Is this: The eelskin Is just like leather, -only not'so thick, and it feels like a piece of tough kkt that has been soaked In oil. Now, you wrap the eelskin round your knee and tie It on, or pin It on, It doesn't mat­ ter which, and It keeps the Joint warm and the oil makes the skin soft, and after awhile your rheumatism U gone. People laugh at the idea and call it an old woman's notion, bul some old women's notions are pretty good notions."--Philadelphia Ledger. Feminine Loveliness. Feminine loveliness itt the physical expression of everything la life that If pure, virtuous, exquisite^ tiwtarllj and divine.--Exchange. only 24 by 30 feet. You must utilize every foot of space to the best advan­ tage to secure so many rooms and still have them convenient. This is accomplished by inclosing the stair­ way in the center of the house where it takes up very little room down­ stairs and the upper landing is with­ in*' easy reach of the doors of the whole four bedrooms and the bath­ room. You cannot take up a great deal of space for halls in a small house and still leave room for the requisites. A hallway* is not absolutely necessary, and we dispense with it entirely In this plan downstairs and reduce the dimensions of the upper hall to the smallest possible space. Still when you study this plan you cannot find any fault with it. It is not an ex­ pensive house, but When It Is finished and nicely painted it is by no means cheap looking. The old-fashioned idea of putting considerable expense on a house to make It !ook well is no longer necessary, instead a good ap- '/•O'A /JlO' taw*? hocm &V7LO* /0 0<*//:0' Z/vsvC fiOay Fircl Floor Plan pea ranee Is secured by studying out good elevations and proportions that go well together. Cottage roofs like this were popu­ lar a hundred years ago. They are easily made and look especially well on a house as near square as this house. Cheap help may be used on such a roof because it is all straight work. Any one can cut the roof boards and put on the shingles after the boss carpenter lays out the raft­ ers and puts them in place. This little house contains every convenience necessary tot comfort. It is just the kind of a house that is needed by the great majority living In towns and cities, the great majerity which we might call the common peo­ ple. people who want comfort, who want to live right and enjoy life as they go along. Lincoln oace said: "The Lord must love the common peo­ ple because he makes so many of them." Probably Lincoln considered ing the work and that is not comfort­ able in cold weather as well as in warm weather. It is quite an undertaking to build a home. It means with most persons years of hard work, but they are the happiest years to look back over. Suc­ cess depends upon the start made. If a person uses the right kind of a plan, a plan the cost of which will be well within his means and a plan that will be reasonably satisfactory when the house is finished, the chances of paying for the property and of soon having a home free of en­ cumbrance is very much better than when a more elaborate house is se­ lected. The little details that go to make up a satisfactory house must not be overlooked. A house without a bath­ room is a back number. No one wants a bedroom without a clothes closet and it does not pay to try to do without hot and cold running wa­ ter both upstalrB and down. When the plumber is at work it costs but a trifle more to have a pipe for hot water laid at the same time the cold water pipe is put in. There are other incidentals but these are the most Important. Odessa.--The Black Hundreds begaa rioting here Monday afternoon, alleg­ ing that the Jews were responsible fOr the explosion of the bomb in the court­ yard of the central police station Sat* urday morning, resulting In the deaths of an artillery officer and four police­ men, although it was stated at the time that the bomb was accidentally dropped by the officer. The rioters ran through the streets inhabited by Jews, shooting promiscuously. Sev­ eral Jews were killed and Injure^. The mob Indulged in other brutal ex­ cesses and beat down many victims with flexible rubber sticks. The Jew­ ish cemetery, where thousands, of Jews were praying at the gravesides of their dead, was the scene of a tierce onslaught by members of the Black Hundreds, who shot down many, at the mourners with revolvers. PLAGUE DEATH IN BERKELEY. Tf Woman Succumbs to Rats Prosecuted. San Francisco.--The health board reports an additional death from bu­ bonic plague and two additional cases under suspicion since Saturday. The death was that of a woman and oc­ curred at Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco. The rat war here is being prosecuted with energy and Buccess under the system adopted last week by which the city is divided into 12 districts, each in charge of a physi­ cian, inspectors and assistants. Pleasantly Shocked. "Do you know," he said, "that I was almost overcome with surprise the first time I ever say you?" "I noticed," she replied, "that you seemed to be considerably flustered. "Yes. For a moment I was speech­ less. You see, I had heard a great deal about you. Your friends had be­ gun six months before we met to plan to bring us together." "I don't see what that could have hade to do with the surprise you say you felt when you saw me for the first time." "Why, 1 found you to. be so beauti­ ful and you were dressed with such excellent taste." "Indeed! I suppose my friends,' as you call them, had given you to un­ derstand that I was homely and a frump. So kind of them, I am sure." "O no! They never did so. I assure vou--at least didn't do so intention­ ally. But they did keep telling me right along that you were very intel­ lectual and deeply interested in public affairs." City Officials Are Arrested. Fremont, Neb.--City Attorney C. & ^ Abbott, Chief of Police Peterson and " ' J Street Commissioner Fletcher were ar­ rested Monday upon warrants sworn % out by Union Pacific officials for using violence on laborers who were laying; a track at Union and C streets. Seven Killed in Train Wreck. ^ Charleston, W. Va.--A Chesapeake^ & Ohio focal train was derailed a mile below Kanawha Falls Monday night. Seven persons were killed .a«d 17 injured. % ^ Two Killed in Motor Car Race. Denver, Col.--W. B. F>elker, ft wealthy Denver man, and B. V. Dasef. were killed in a 50-mile auto MM tt Overland park Monday. Famous Old Chapultepec- The eastle of Chapultepec is the most noted and historic edifice in Mex­ ico. It has a history dating far back Into the days when Mexico was ruled by Spanish viceroys, and following that it served in the same capacity during the days that Mexico was an empire, republic, empire and republic agaia. Do not try to be funny; unless you are naturally gifted with a great deal of wit to be merely funny Ls to be­ come obnoxious. Races Auto Into the River. Brescia, Italy.--Elliott F. SheparC of New York, while speeding over the fifth circuit In the automobile raes here Monday, plunged Into the river at Monte Chiari, broke his collar bone and slightly Injured other parts of his body. Mr. Shepard's chauffeur, Led- niann, had his face cut and bruised. While Mr. Shepard was driving rap­ idly over the bridge spanning tltft Chiari river a tire slipped, the car lurched, bounded into the air. jumped over the bridge railing and shot de«0» five yards into the river. '; Caid MacLean Well and Safe. Tangier.--The anxiety expressed here regarding the safety of Caid Sl| Harry MacLean, &ue to the protracted absence of direct news from the gen­ eral. was relieved Monday by the ar­ rival of letters from MacLean himself. He is in good health and is with Hal so­ li in the Ben larous territory. Letters from Raisuil to the British miutster here, laying down the terms upon which the bandit chief will release MacLean, were also received. Raisuli suggests ib*i be Ben laron*. j*