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atEaesaessa ' ~ $$ •M.M\ V.'V^-iVS' S * % PL AINI>EAUSS, / / * = L - _ rustracions dy COPYRIGHT BY A.C l-WCLURC &t CO., »9iav SYNOPSIS. 1 ̂Hfiote-K«rr, * mothertas girl. wto hm» itoent most of her life Ir school, arrives pit her father's home in Belmont. Daviu Kerr is the political boss of the town. *ntf Is anxious to prevent his daughter le&rning; of his real character. Kendall, •wpesentSn® the Chicago packers, is ne- Irotiatiag with Judpr- Gilbert, Kerr s chief adviser, for a valuable franchise. They Sfikr the opposition of Joe WriKht, editor jbf the reform yapar. Kerr asks the as- stafance of Iw.<lge Gilbert in introducing feloHa tti Belrpont society, and promises Co help iiim put through the packers Sr**ychir-e anfl let him have- all the srrart. Dlorfa nieets Joe Wright at the Gilberts. St appears they aie on Intimate terms, «evlTitc m?t previously 1E a touring party agt Europe. The Gilbert* invite Gloria to May wit!? them pending the refurnishing Of the- Kerr home. Wright begins hie fight kga'.nst the proposed franchise in the col- Cn;im of his paper, the Belmont News. Kerr, through his henchmen, exerts ev- »ry Influence to hamper Wright in the publication of his paper. Gloria realises •he is not being received by the best so- iety and Is unhappy. 8he takes up set- lement work. Kerr and his lieutenants to buy Kerr's paper and ask the tor to meet them at Gilbert's office, lllng at Gilbert's office to solicit a ao- .Jitlon Gloria meets Wright. He proposes Mid la accepted while waiting to be called Into the conference. Wright refuses to ell his paper and declares he will fight to finish. The Belmont News appears with ja bitter attack on Kerr. Gloria calls jwright a coward and refuses to listen to any explanation from him. Broken-heart- jpd, Gloria decides to plunge more deeply Sri|o settlement work. ' ) CHAPTER XVII.--Continued. • - j Although Gloria had professed that the had no fear about being left with &e sick woman, when she said it she 4 In jnlnd only a fear of being alone In such a dismal lodging house and (ear that she might be called upon to act as doctor and trained nurse both were her patient to take a turn for the worse. Now, however, a new thought came to her. How wu she to act? V IWhat was she to do to amuse her? She felt instinctively the antipathy •be had aroused. She cowered like a lamb before this young Bhe-wolf of the city. She was alone, defenseless, with this creature that had so far reverted tto type that, she might rend and tear, ip Even in a battle of wtts, and that was |v Hi till there would be If the girl did not Ignofg her entirely, Gloria felt her- seilf no match for thiB brazen child of misfortune. Her comparisons were physics.!, but it was not a physical fear she felt. Sheltered Inexperience was pitted against the most cruel'ex­ perience society could ever devise or tolerate. Gloria was mistaken in thinking that Little BUa slept After Mrs. Hayes had left her she walked quietly back to a chair by the bedside. On it lay a cheap novel with which the sick wom­ an had been beguiling the time. She picked it up and was turning the pages casually when a feeling stole over her that she was being observed. IhlfHtig flgMo fho KaaV sho fonnd TAt* tie Ella gazing at her stonily. . ;*Say, what'd you come here for?" tr- she answered in surprise, v* ̂wanted fd help you." :-Mv ^ sneer curled the sick- woman's • jj^i, a cynical sneer of disbelief. "Help me! To what? I ain't ever saw you down here before. Coma on. fVfeat brought you?" "I came with Mrs. Hayes," was all that Gloria could And to answer. *•» "The woman what just went out?** - * -Yes.- ^ ' l feeling that she must do something to end this catechism, Gloria hap- ^ pened to glance at the book she held *' In her hand, and this led her to ask: ^Wouldn't you like me to read to you?** "Naw. I can read fer myself." "Perhaps there is something else I feaight do. What do yon say, I might Write a letter tor you?" "A letter? Who tor* . "Isn't there some one who ought to know you are sick?" ^Who'd want to hear from me?" the not understand. Once she would iol have understood a lack of love where two had lived together continuously. Now she could waive that point, but the estrangement was beyond her. Little Ella considered the question gravely. What was she to tell this in­ quisitive girl who evidently was not asking questions just for the fun of prying into some one alfie's life? Somehow or other Gloria bagan to ap­ peal to her. She had decided that the visitor's ignorance was real, not feigned. In reply to the question as to why she was not received at home, she turned her big dark eyes, lust«r- lesB now, U£j$n Gloria, and Bald quKet- Ijr: » 1 loved." , "Oh!" extfaWied Gloria, and a sud­ den pain shot through her. "Oh, what?" "Was it really love?" The question came forth without a thought of how it might affect her hearer. It did, Indeed, provoke Little Ella, taking away that kindly feeling which had begun to kindle in her heart because of Gloria's ignorance. "Didn't I say I loved?" she demand­ ed harshly. "What do you know of love? You can't come down here, and teach me anything. Pooh! I don't be­ lieve you know what real love is. Were you ever in love?" Ordinarily to a girl reared as Gloria had been no more serious affront could have been offered her. It was a meddling with her private affairs which was unpardonable. "Was you?" Little Ella asked the question again with the .sharpness gained from lis­ tening to the city attorney cross-ex­ amine witnesses in police court. See-, lng that she was almost compelled to' say "yes" or "no," Gloria replied de­ fiantly: "Yes, I was." a bet. What's x £ 1 'P,' K%:f- *zr.y . Don* Understand.*' K«fc..S IW.-Suy: < in replied sullenly. "I a*ut'/;Ul* PRliv u uio Tllmgo «u!/' Sttt,* ; "Haven't you a mother?" •; "She's dead." ^ ™ "A father, then? Isnt there some $toe watching for yon, hoping to see fbu come down the quiet little street?" Here was an attempt to awaken a •entiment for the past which met irtth no success. Ltttle Blla replied roughly: "They're watching at his house all vlght--all right--him and that pasty- taco wife of his--so they can run out and uuchain the dog. Then they'd gather in the parlor an' say prayers fer the dead--that's me." \ \ "What oould you have done to have W»ur fhiiifly treat you so?" Gloria •Iked, "What oould you do to be Olrtrenged (torn your father, of all per- "And yer not married?" "No." "Goln* to bar A pause.. Ik- "No." , "Say, yer the matter?" Gloria felt herself fascinated by this slight little woman who in her excite­ ment had propped herself up in bed on a thin, trembling arm. The light had come back into her eyes as she pur­ sued her inquiries and they shone like two burning coals. "He didn't really love me," Gloria said more to herself than to the girl. "Did he tell you so? How do you know?" There was no answer. "Huh! You asked me questions so I thought I'd ask yon some. Did he know yon MM* *» ivTcu ma . * t "He did, but--my father discovered that he was unworthy." This Information seemed to Little Ella to be a bond of fellowship. She fell back on the bed to rest, and re­ marked philosophically: "Humph! My ol' man thought the feller I loved was no good, too. Guess we've had pretty hard times, nfr ?" No reply, "What d' you think?'* . '1--I---he was unworthy." : It was now Gloria who spo1(£ list­ lessly "So yon had to choose between 'im an' yer father?" ,;7> "Was there aagr ehoice? t jart him up. "I left home. So, you see, I've loved more'n you've ever loved," she cried "You didn't really love."- There was scorn in her voice as she spoke. "I've gone through fire an' storm fer the man I loved, because I loved a real man. You must 'a' loved some kid at the ribbon counter. A real man wouldn't 'a' let you give him up." This was a tribute to the animal per­ fection of the graceful young creature before he£. The sight of Gloria something to be desired, to be pos­ sessed, made Little Ella feel that no man with red blood in his veins would give her up without a fight. She hated her for her masses of beautiful hair, her deep, soulful eyes, her complexion of apple blossoms, and her delicate white hands. She hated'her for her svelte, girlish figure and her beautiful clothes which brought out her t>est lines. A woman may be down in the world, but she has .eyes to see. "Look at me," she cried, beating her flat breasts with her red, bony hands. "A man died fer me--an* he thought I was worth it. Did yon. love a man well enough for him to do that fer you?" Gloria could only avoid the question by tactlessly referring to Little Ella's present state. "You dont know what you're saying. Can't you see what he's brought you tor "Don't yon say a word against him," snapped the sick woman. "All men aint alike, neither. It wasn't his fault I'm here. It's the system." "The system! What's that?" Hftrft vu the iutTOuuvuuu O* •» u«*< element, Gloria's curiosity was aroused. There was something Inex­ orable about it, to judge from Little Ella's manner of speaking. "Well, call it society, if you want to," conceded society's victim. "What do you mean?" "Say, are you stringte* me, or was you born yestiddy?" She laughed harshly at the humor of such a question. "I don't understand^" was all Gloria eooM reply. went town the seal# feef acquaintance­ ship gr#w Slighter and her understand­ ing more vague. The poor creatures whom as a class Little Ella now rep­ resented to her were almost as foreign and as misunderstood as would be a lama of Thibet. Having no knowledge, she could have no real pity. Gloria had nefver dreamed, even when she tried to put the worst pos­ sible construction on what few things she knew, that the world could be ao cruel. Never for an instant had she thought that it was possible for men whom stte regarded as upright and honorable to ba engaged directly or in­ directly in .exploiting vice and igno­ rance. Jt had never occurred to her that men whom she might know, some of them oWned dreary blocks of hovels and tenements from which high rents were secured only because the people who lived in them were not respect­ able. Poor and honest tenants could have paid but poor and precarious rents. As little Blla told her story of the syBtqm" at Gloria's request, her voice grew shriller and shriller as the in­ dictment grew graver. She talked rapidly, sometimes turning aside from the direct channel of her revelation, to explore some little eddy of a spe­ cific instance which made her account reality. Gloria could have credited something to exaggeration had it not been that Just at the. moment she thought the girl was beginning to draw on her imagination some inci­ dent would be introduced suddenly to make the whole thing ghastly real. For the first time the daughter of David Kerr learned of the peddlers of showy -dresses, the venders of cheap perfumery, the stealthy cllBBeminators of cocaine, and the many other leeches that fatten on the unfortunate of the underworld. She learned that all the misery was but a monument to human greed. Nothing was exploited in which there was not a profit of three or four hundred per cent. Nothing was ^exploited which did not tend to kill the finer feelings, reducing the poor victims, in time to the level' of brutes. "And the men down hei^y" Little Ella cried, the memory of the good, wholesome men whom she had known in her earlier life coming back to Bmite her, "poor Ignorant excuses fer men, most of 'em--all they're good fer is to Bteal an' lie an' live off us wom­ en, an* vote the way the boss tells 'em on 'lection <}ay. An' who's responsi­ ble fer that? Say?" Gloria could make no reply, and Ella, whose pause had been rhetorical, uncouth as she was, made answer herself. "I know. The fine geuilumea what buys the votes. An' when they needs more money fer more votes they send the p'llce 'round, an' us poor girls has to pay, always pay." "I never dreamed of such a thing;" "I tol' you you didn't know. "Why, oncet I was good like you, too. An' now," she began to sob--"now--I'm down--an' I can't git up. I can't git up. It's too late." Suddenly Gloria remembered the power to which she would appeal. Where a minute before had been dark­ ness and uncertainty was now the clearness of a summer day. 'It's never too late," she insisted. "Remember. I'm not alone. My father will help me. He's brave and good and strong, with a heart of gold. I can't change the world's ways, maybe, but I can do something to make Belmont better with my father's help--and yours/* Gloria was a doughty Crusader, and st sacs ngP' work of reform. Site was going to permit her father to be a ways and means committee, but she intended to have a thorough grasp of the whole situation herself. s. "Why do you pay this--this black­ mail?" Gloria demanded. :"I've got to live. What else can I do--now? I'm down, an' in debt" "But they can't keep you from lin­ ing." \ "They can send me tq the work* house." And at. the thought Little Blla shuddered. "Whom does this money go to? I want to get Ithat part of it absolutely Straight so I can tell father." "It goes to the boss, of- course." Little Ella made this statement in a mfttter-of-fact manner The methods of the "system"' were so notorious that she did not have to think a mo­ ment before giving her-answer. ,, The boss. Here was a tactor In the game of which Gloria as yet had had no inkling. The boss. What does he do? Now she desired to know about this boss. "The boss?" Both the tone of her question and the look on her face do- noted her interrogation. "Yes, the boss gits the money." Lit tie Ella saw that it would be neces­ sary for her to explain. "I thought everybody in Belmont knowsd that I gives it to Noonan mostly, bat some­ times the round-sergeant collects, an* sometimes they both do." This double collection wasn't on the square, but what was she tb do? 31 she complained, she knew: to«? WtU what would happen to herJ-\ . "Who's Noonan?" "Mike Noonan? He runs'the saloon downstairs, an' rents me this room. He gks a rake-off from 'most every­ body down here." "He must be a rich mat." > • "Oh, some--but he's got to putt a lot of it on." "And you say the police know about this?" Little Ella looked at her in amaze­ ment. To Gloria a policeman was a stalwart individual with white gloves who halted traffic while Bhe crossed the avenue. To the other a police­ man was an enemy, a grafter who nev­ er overlooked an opportunity to feath> er his own nest or line his owh pocket- book. The best that she ever could say for any one of them was that he was an autocratic rowdy. Gloria's sim­ plicity In asking if the police knew ol this tribute caused her to reply: "They ought to--they git some ol it. Then the man higher up gits his." "I can't believe it. When you get well I want you to come and tell my father all this. He Is--he's an influ­ ential man. I'm sure he'll help you. He shall help you," she added decisive­ ly, "and every poor, unhappy person down here, because I shall tell him to." Little Ella looked at sher, all admlr* tion for such power. "Gee! I wisht I had a pa likt yourn," was all that she could say. "He can't knotf that such things ar« happening--here--every day in Bel mont" "If he did, I reckon he wouldn't tell you." Little Ella'was more conversant with the Ways of the world. "And what did you say finally be comes of this money you hafo ta pay?" "The boss gits It" ' "Oh, yes.' This boss--who is he? What does he do to earn his money ?" "That's what he gits fer pertectln* us. He keeps the bulls from juggln' us." "And If you don't pay?" "He gives 'em the tip an' we're hauled in, and sent up for thirty days." This didn't accord with Gloria's idea of law and justice. Here was a man Who, without authority and as hlf whim dictated, arrested people bo cause they would not do something unlawful. And the police, instead ol being instruments of the law, were ud­ der the direction of this boss. "Can't the law touch him?" sh« asked. "Huh! He's the law in this town.** "Do you mean to tell me there Is s man so base," demanded the daughter of David &err indignantly, "this boss, that spends his time collecting this money?" v <TO B® CONTINUED.) , i 1 . ; Lie Always Mors Active;" - Strange • the truth never gets the wide circulation a lie does.--Florida Times-Union. GOOD DEFINITION OF "CHIC" • -- CHARTS* XVIII^tK Gloria bad not been reared without an understanding of the various lay­ ers of society. Of those close to her own station in life she had an intimate CHqm ^e«|d and,intelligent knowledge, but as she Visiting Englishman Well Describee the Elegant Women Who Ars the Pride of New York. Lord Morley, at a luncheon at the Rltz-Cafltom in New York, said of the American woman: "The American woman as she glides In her motorcar down Fifth avenue, or^as she hurries from her jewelers (p Sherry's, is perhaps the most elegant woman in the world. "Fifth avenue Is perhaps the most elegant street iu the world. Broad and straight bordered with splendid shops and hotelB of pale stone, drenched with sunshine and roofed with a luminous blue sky. Fifth ave­ nue is a fitting promenadd for Ameri­ ca's beautiful women. "But theBe women dress, perhaps, a little too boldly for the street Take, for example, their tight gowns with a silt at the side--a slit through which advances and retreats a slim foot In a patent leather shoe and a supple ankle in a gossamer silk stocking. This is perhaps too overwhelming a costume for street wear. "Yet in such a costume the Ameri­ can woman is undoubtedly^ chic. And this raises the question:̂ What is chic?" Lord Morley paused and smiled. Then he continued: "Chic, I would reply, 1b the art of wearing a bold gown modestly." Aviation Inspires an Opera. Aviation the most up-to-date branch of science has excelled all other mod* ern-achlevements in that it has in­ spired grand opera. This, howevdf, is not surprising lor a cl»ssM thipie OF IRVIN6'S CREATION Merchant, Living Decade bi Men* $a! Daze, Recovers Memory; Asks for Old-time Friends. frarrytown, N. T.--4 real Rip Van Winkle has come to light In the Sleepy Hollow country, on which Washington Irving saddled the immortal creation of his pen. The modern Instance of truth stranger than fiction is Kernmu. Levy, who for years wa® a prosperous merchant and real estate man of Tar- rytown. Ten years ago Levy received a, scratch on the leg. The injury did not< heal and a mental malady developed., that left his mind a Mank. He virtu­ ally became a hermit in his home and his actions were like those of a som­ nambulist His body was active, but his mentality was, asleep. On Intro* to the hands of libertist and com­ poser in the Greek tragic story of Icarus, who was killed while attempt­ ing a flight, and it is on this ancient legend that the aviation opera, which was produced at Nice recently, waa based. The author of the libretto, M. Henri Cain, shows Icarus in the cen­ ter of the maze constructed by his father, Daedalus. Despising the allurements of nymphs and naiads, the youth makes a pair of wings with the feathers of an eagle and tries to fly from the top of a cliff. In the final scsne, in which Icarus dies from his tall, the genius of science appears and in a vision shows him the final conquest of the air. To show how the opera is Identified with modern aviation It may be added that the music was composed by M. Henri. Deutsch de la Meurthe, the wealthy Frenchman who was one of the first to have an airship built for hte. own use. . On the Warpath. "Good afternoon, Johnny!" said the nice young lady visiting his mother's house in the sweet cause of charity. "Why dont you come to our Sunday school? A lot of your little friends have joined, and wo are going to have a lovely party." Johnny shook his head. Then he sud­ denly exclaimed: "Has a boy named Johnson with jred hair, joined yet?" "Yes, dear," said the nice young iady, "and he seems to like it He's such a good little boy!" "Huh! Is he?" mutered Johnny. "Well, if he's there I'll come, too. I've been looking for him for three months, uud never knew where to find him bo re." Inquired for Old Friends. quent occasions, when persuaded al­ most by physical force to go outdoors, he would walk with fixed eyes past friends without a sign of recognition. It was thought that Levy's case was hopeless until, threa fbonths ago, he suddenly showed a mental qulpkening and expressed a desire to visit Croton Point, where his boys were in camp. The change benefited him and gradu­ ally his mind began to clear. When he returned home, he started to take an interest in hi& business, and a few days ago entered the volunteer fire company's house, of which he had been a forgotten member- "Where's my old friend, Judge Dan Armstrong?" he asked. "Oh, he's dead," was the answer. "And Sheriff Charles M. Lane?" "He's been dead these many years, too." "And Abe De Revere?" "He's been in Sleepy Hollpw oemo- t&ty many a year." "Where's Abe Storms and Tom Welsh?" "They're dead, too/* "Well, I guess I'll h*T« to fo ottt with the headless horseman and find my old friends." Levy's memoir of what happened up to ten years ago is fresh. What took place while he was ill he doM not remember. Today he is apparently aa well as ever. TOO MANY WlflDWS HERE With But 500 Population Ohio Villagf Haa Many Unmarried Men and Women. Republic, O.--The town council, the chamber of oommerie; the ministerial alliance and the Republic Woman's olub have about decided to take con­ certed action to remedy a condition which is causing a vast deal of dis­ tress here. Although this is a hustling town of 500 population and the residents are more than commonly prosperous, something Is wrong. It may be that the hearts of the sturdy Republics, as they style themselves, have grown cold in the steady pursuit 0f the dol­ lars, or it may be that Dan Cupid has overlooked the pretty community, for a' recent census shows there are 50 widows, each owning a comfortable home, 14 bachelors, all prosperous, 20 widowers and a great many more than the average number of maiden ladies. The town fathers are puscled to ac­ count for this condition. Something must be done--hence the efforts to get the leading organizations of the town together. It is probable that a mass meeting will be held to discuss this gr%v»'question. • • v» . ; < V ' • . ' Cousin of "Mary# ̂ Lancaster, Mass.--Richard R. "Pow­ ers, who claims close relationship to "Mary," heroine of a nursery rhyme about a persistent little lamb, has just celebrated his one hundred and third anniversary here. "Mary," whose full name was Mary Sawyer, was a cousin of Powers, he avers, and her lamb was one of twins born on the Sawyer fans in March, 1814. 8aya Wife Fed Him on Soap. New York.--William Mueller, seek­ ing a separation, told' the court he had struck his wife only once and that was when he returned home and asked for something to eat. His wife picked up a cake of soap and tried to torce il uunu hlo threat. The eo*jr* was astonished, but refused* to grant the decree. Judge Gives It Up, Woman Faints ̂and Passaic Divides OVeft* Ownership. New Mexico Man pi£s Death $nd Skeleton TeifclSiory oT.̂ \ ; Hope&ss Strugtfe. -HZ: KISSES VS. SCIENCE Santa Fe, N. M.--Literally caught in hi? own trap was the fate that befell some unknown hunter in the wilds of Socorro county, N. M.--not only caught but devoured by the very anit mils he sought to entrap. This terrible stor*' was bronjht -'*5" Brlndle lull Certainly Lovea Mrs. Theodore Bergnsr, But Doctors ./ Take Joseph Tomer's Side--Court •J] Enters Case as Nonsuit. Passaic, N. J.--It wasn't a baby but a dog, and the man on the bench wasn't a Solomon but just & district court judge, with human doubts born of long experience with human^ testi­ mony. The dog was a white and brin* die bull, valued at $500 by the rival claimants, and the Solomon baby com­ bination beisg broken the adjudication of his ownership threw the residents here into & fervor, capped a woman to taint, made the judge throw up his hands in despair and divided the town into two opposing factions. "I give it up," said Judge W. Car- rtngton Cabell of the district court after hearing the testimony. "It would take a Solomon to decide the case. It's too much for me." On the side of the plaintiff there was the testimony of two physicians, a dog ifancier and a reputable citizen, Joseph Tomer of Rutherford, N. J., who said the dog was his. Arraigned against this testimony was the word of Theo­ dore Bergner, general manager of the Botany Worsted mills, Passaic, who also claim the dog, his wife, their neighbors, a servant the family cat a dog's kiss and a physician. , j "As a mere citizen," said Judge Cabell, "I would teel inclined to accept the testimony of the dog and give it to Mrs. Bergner. As a judge, however, I am unconvinced. | will enter the case nonsuit." The courtrooin was crowded with Passaic society, as Mrs. Bergner, who liyes at 112 Lexington avenue, is ope Of the leaders thfere. "The dog Is mlpe," said Mrs. Berg­ ner. "We bought the dog last Janu­ ary when it was only two months old! On September 8 the dog was ill and we sent it to a dog hospital in Passaic. Dr. John Bakelaw said an operator was necessary. Then on September 20 Dr. Bakelaar told us the dog had escaped. We advertised for it and a ! Santa Fe by Charles McCarthy, a \ ittuCuLuan, WuG uidCCtcFcu mtj ciieweQ- at skeleton of the victim, the wrist bones still held in the vise-like grip _ of the trap. The condition of the ground told its own story of the last desperate, hopeless struggle of the TO- known trapper, fighting against Hi 1 % "Oh, I Don't Know," Answered Bergner. Mi* We got the m % w P t Evidence of Fearful Struggle. death from which there was no cap*. '• : '• The trapper had driven. H Mi S wagon, to which was hitched a iteam ^ of little mules, many miles into what ^ is the heart of the wildest section of the state. It was evident that he was after bear, for he had one of the j^- largest Bteel traps he could secure. It is believed the unknown had fin- iehed baiting and setting the trap and was in tho act cf leaving It when, by , ^ a misstep, he stumbled into the great 'j&J steel Jaws. In falling the bones of both hands were caught between tile f|; great steel rims at the wrist Ijl. Once caught, there was no escape • without the help of • "another human being. He was 50 qailes from cfcMza- |t*, tion and in a region seldom entered "j. by men. The trap had been made sta-' ^ tionary and, pinioned as he was, it M. was-impossible to disconnect it On the ground about the trap were gr? fvidence of the fearful struggle of the man to escape the fate which he knew would be his. But night came and found him still held fait. With the darkness also came the wild ani- mals he had sought to entrap. Ha !:-v knew their haunts and had selected his site well. Attracted by the human p. v-ii t« A 4min otfnnlro/1 Mm 'Cij, He fought as best he could, but, with hands useless, there was but one out- -V come. Bear, mountain lion, coyote, whatever it was, vanquished the trap- per, perhaps began feasting on ills flesh before he was altogether dead. . ^ One week after this tragedy. Mo- £%• Carthy happened across the scene. Nothing was left of the unknown save I the skeleton, and even some of the | i bones had been crunched. Tho steel M,-. -- ;tho' &x trap still retained Its grip on mortal remains of its victim. Find Ship Lost 24 Years. Punta Arenas, Patagonia.--A ship aground on the rocks, with the skele­ tons of her crew of SO men nearby, has been found In a cove near here. Evidence pointed to a fight with na­ tives who, after murdering the crew, despoiled the vessel of its cargo. Tho ship !s believed to be the Disborough, missing 24 years. man told us he found it dog back." "How do you know it waa your dog?" asked Judge CabelL / v "Oh, I know," answered Mrs. Berg­ ner. "Our cat at home is afraid of all dogs and is always fighting them. Well, when Puppy came home the cat purred and actually went up and kissed Puppy. The cat knew it was Puppy." Then as additional evidence ,Mrs- Bergner said: .• "Kiss me. Puppy." . 4 . * '£, >'***> •Puppy did. Then Mrs. Bergner*s neighbors took the witness stand and taid they were sure that the dog belonged to Mrs. Bergner. Mr. Tomer's case was less affection­ ate and more scientific. He called to the stand Dr. Bakelaar and his as­ sistant, Dr. Henry Cempfner. Both were certain that the dog in fcourt was, not the dog on which they had oper­ ated. Also Joseph Walkland of New­ ark, N. J., took the stand and testV fled that he had sold the dog to Mr. Tomer. "Besides," Mr. Walkland added, "the dog before yon is two years old. Mr. Bergner's dog was only a year old." Undismayed, Mr. bergner brought vforth an expert, who testified that the dog in the room was not two years old. After the case was dismissed Mrs- Tomer met Mrs. Bergner outside the court room. •> "You stole my dog!" Routed Mix Homer.' Y Mrs. Bergner feinted. . ' v - . ir-" "v-;- "Move Over," 8ays Man. Chicago.--Wassell Morris • of 225S Clybourn avenue reiurueti uoms at three a- m. the other day and found his room mate, Michael Henecerak, lying in the middle of the bed. "Move over." he said. There was no re­ sponse, and when he attempted to push Hanecerak toward the wall he discovered that his room mate waa Lost His Star. Hammond, Ind.--Policeman James O'Keefe lost his star when he ordered eminently respectable citlrens to do the bear dance at the point of a re* valvar. Tree Sent by Parcel Post ; ' Franklin, Pa.--A tree was shipped from here to Ohio by parcel post. The branches had been l»ound closely to the trunk of the tree with twine, and the girth was only four inches. The tree was eight feet long and Rural Car­ rier Bunnell would not accept it un­ til he had sawed it off to keep the yer- oal within th? limitations , COON PET UPSETS TRADITIONS Acknowledged Foe of All Feaths'red; Creatures Takaa Up With Guinea Chleks. Xoneesen, Pa.--Smoke, a coon belonging to Franklin Sauter of this place, has cast aside its hereditary in­ stinct of enmity toward birds and fowl of all kinds and adopted a brood of young guinea hens that had been hatched in the oven of Mr. Beater's stove. Naturalists and woodsmen in this section declare it is the only instance on record where a coon is known to have overcome his natural instincts to kill all feathered creatures. Several months ago Mr. Sauter, On a hunt, captured a baby coon that had been pulled down and injured by the dogs. Taking the animal home, it 'sooo became domesticated and became a great pet around the house. Not having an incubator for his guinea hen's eggs, Sauter placed the eggs.In a box back of lfis stove. He was considerably astonished to find the coon in Ihe box with the young guineas, mothering them. Since that time the animal has ro> fused to leave the guinea chicks and keeps them well covered. VZ- RATS GNAW A DYING MAN K •• Tip* Eyee Were Punctured While HeJjjiy Unable to Beat the , Rodents Off. ' '> ' " W^fMirtMport, Pa.--Rata Lewis Jackson, a negro, as he lay dy­ ing in his home here and punctured Dotn nia «;»b. Tud Om »iiw«ii par­ tially paralyzed and helpleas. 4While in an unconscious condition, the rats attacked him. They were still on his bed when he regained his senses, but he was unable either to bent them off or call for help. After the old man died the rodents again Invaded the room and, but for the constant vigilance of a daughter and friends, they would have gnawed the corpse. As it was they managed to get jit the face and bite it several times yhile the watchers were out of the room. Other members at the family hav< .suffered from bites by the rata. Sevfll eral days before a rodent nttafckeA #1 small child but was driven It had dx»wn Mood. C«y- \ of , J} vas .... z . 'V Si, ' ]