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Will Irwin OF THE CITY I HAT WAS, ETC. ILLUSTRATED BV HarryR.Grissinger C O P Y R I G H T 1 912. BOBBS-MERRILL C? <;A .'** SYNOPSIS. Tommy North, returning to his room In Mrs. Moore'a boarding house at 2:30 a. m., discovers the body of Cs.pt. John Hanska. another roomer, with a knife wound on his breast. Suspicion rests upon a man friving the name af J^wrence Wade, who tiad called on Hanska In the evening and had been heard quarreling with Hanska. During the excitement a strange woman Who gives her name as Rosalie IvcGrange, appears and takes into her own home across the street all of Mrs«. Moore's boarders, including Miss Estrilla, an In­ valid, who was confined to the room she occupied and whose brother was a favor­ ite among the other boarders. Wade Is arrested as he is about to leave the coun­ try. Mrs. LeGrange. who, while plying tier trade as a trance medium, had aided Police Inspector Martin McGee several times, calls at his office to tell what she known of lhe crime. While she is there, Constance Hanska. widow of the murder­ ed man, whose existence had been un­ known, appears. Mrs. Hanska, says she ,had left her husband and discloses the fact that Wade represented her and vis­ ited Hanska on the night of the murder In an effort to settle their affairs. She admits Wade was in loye with her. Wade Is held by the coroner's jury for the death, •of Hanska. Tommy North, who had been field by the police. Is released and re­ turns to Mrs. LeGrange's house. He be­ comes infatuated at once with Betsy Bar­ bara. Driven by the belief that Betsy Barbara loves Estrilla Tommy North gets drunk and is discovered by Betsy Bar­ bara. The next morning Tommy apolo­ gizes to Betsy Barbara and at her urging prepares to establish the Thomas W. North Advertising Agency. CHAPTER VI11.--Continued. "That's easy," said he. "They opened the window. It was raining, wasn't it? Well, the rain came in and stained If "I suppose so," said Rosalie. But •he made a minute examination. Let ns violate for a second the privacy of tier mind. "Dear old dope!" it was staying, "he hasn't thought to look into the weather that night. He don't know it had cleared up and stopped rain­ ing for good when I came into the liouse; and I saw them open the win­ dows myself." "Well," she said aloud, "that's all for the bed. Now let's see the furniture An' his clothes an' everything." /-V f It was half an hour before Rosalie finished her search of the room. She tr went over it inch by inch, her lips ^ v pursed, her hands making quick flut- . j ters of dis&ust over the dirt and dis- Vi ^ ^r^er- She spoke little, and then as SJK%T ithough to herself. Inspector McGee, '^finally, gave up following her swift r>V„- " . tnovementB, mental and physical, and v ifif ' rested himself in a Morris chair. Hie C " was a life of grim hard things; these $'J* *urroundingB, depressing even to Rosa­ lie. were to. him part of the day's work. And so he fell to watching not the search for evidence but the figure |JOf Rosalie Le Grange. There was * (something pleasing, and more than l^vi^Jrieasing, about this woman here. He t . r 'f: Remembered how she had appeared to feT$f:.f-fciin ten years ago, when she began t* , flashing in and out of his life. He had ' X $'•** %>een sitting in another house of mur- p||and he had seen her cross the 1^.7 street He had marked her then as "a ? '*? i" peach"--a little too plump for his idea beauty, but pretty nevertheless. She ^#r, fcad brown hair then; and those big yray eyes. The eyes remained as th«* £r r • - 'were, but there was a foam of white * '&•. .\n«cross her hair. The face had fallen , «!' * into a delicate ridge here and there, *hou8h massage had taken care of the 4* , wrinkles, which showed not as yet. i,^er figure had broadened a little--yet §4V\ ijl^j-fBhe still bore it wonderfully. The skin her *°ng PlumP hands had begun to *^-'r gather about the knuckles. And still f '--sbe aPPealed to him as she had nev- V" 4"'eT appealed ln those first days. He ^ no «reat amount of imagination; • -j;-. tout what he had soared and took flight. ."Suppose--then--when they were both young-- PV The flight stopped there; the bird ^Vv .' * •: *>f imagination fluttered to earth, killed ,®>y 111 arrow of memory. This was-- V; fcad always been--a medium, a profes- clonal faker. In their early acquaint­ ance she had duped even him. She "was next door to a crook; and he jdwelt BO cloee to crooks as to have his tolerations, but also his prejudices. N<>. she wasn't the kind for a man. r ; But " was a/pity. The broad, sturdy frit •V,police bosom of Martin McGee heaved a 8igh- iP ' - The slgh did not e®cape Rosalie Le '^^f^Grange; little in her surroundings ever |l^^|e8caPed her- She appeared to come $-$'\aiA£&ont °' her thoughtful mood, and her much choice. Professor Vango&adopt- ed me--my mother was in his circle. Old fake! But he had mediumship, too; an' he thought, an' I thought, he brought soraethin' out of me. Anyhow, I saw things. So I became a medium, like you became a cop--because it hap­ pened that way. Sometimes," added Rosalie, drawing all sting from her words by a flash of her dimples, *'I think you're awful stupid, Martin Mc­ Gee, an' sometimes I think you're a wonder. It's generally according to whether or no you agree with me. As you mostly do, I generally call you a wonder. An' you've got get-there be­ sides. Slow, but you do get there." This bit of conversation fulfilled Ro­ salie's purpose. It turned the sub­ ject from herself to Inspector^McGee's self; and she knew from a life of ex­ perience that no man lives who can re­ sist that lure. "How do you feel about me today?" he asked with heavy male coquetry. "I haven't made up my mind today," she said, "but it's veerin' toward the stupid." She crossed the room and fumbled with the catch of the south window. He rose heavily to help her. "No, thank you!" she said. "No, thank you. I want to look over this fire escape. I'm that old I cant go up modest-like. It's enough to have the stenographers rubberln' from these windows, without you." However, she managed with sur­ passing lightness the step from the window to the iron stairway, with as­ tonishing grace the ascent. She threaded it to its top, viewing it all ill a general way. Then she stopped, ma­ king a picture of herself as ehe bal­ anced on the landing, and pulled out a wire hairpin. This universal imple­ ment of the sex she twisted to suit her purpose, and began a slow descent, picking at the interstices of the iron. So she worked downward nearly tine flight before she came to a cake of dirt in a corner of the iron steps. She •brushed it away and discovered a little irregularity in the metal. She picked at this with her twisted hairpin. It proved to be a loop of steel, somewhat spotted, but still bright.. She hooketi the pin into the loop, and pulled. Some­ thing gave way. Out of a very small hollow in the iron step, which seemed like a bubble left ln the process of casting, came a little hard balL She rubbed it with her hands, and polished it with her handkerchief. It was a red shoe button. Rosalie fingered it, and glanced up­ ward, musing. Above, the iron stair­ way ran straight to the windows of the lumber room. And that was the only window from which it could have fall- Mr which she felt. Her eyes widened; her jaw dropped. "Urn-hum!' she bussed with the tone of one who gathers the straws of sus­ picion into . a sheaf of fact "Um-hum!" And just then the voice of Inspector McGee boomed from within. "Pretty near through?" he asked. "Much as I want," replied Rosalie, voice and face falling at once into in­ difference. "Is there a place to wash in this house? Water ain't turned off yet? All right." When, ten minutes later, she re­ turned from the lavatory, marvelously freshened in appearance, the inspector awaited her in the lower hall. "I may be wanting to come again/' she said. "Will you let the cops know?" "Well, how do I stack today?" asked Martin McGee, "smart or stupid ?" "Kind of between," jabbed Rosalie, "but edgln' toward stupid still." She smiled again over her shoulder; a dim­ ple played and then another; a lock of hair fell from its fastening over her cheek. And suddenly something happened; something which Martin McGee, blush­ ing over it later in silence and secrecy, could hot himself account for. With the motion of a dancing bear, so awk­ ward was it and yet so quick, he had caught her in his arms and kissed her heavily on the face. Rosalie did not seem to struggle; yet somehow, without haste, without disarranging herself in one little item, she was free of him. The surge in Martin McGee receded as rapidly as it had risen. He stood blank, his color thickening. "Martin McGee," said Rosalie Le Grange, "you jest cut that out!" liv; Kt. r - . v "Getting tired?" she asked. "No," he said. And then suddenly: "Rose, why did you ever start it?" "Being a medium, you mean?" "Yes. The word was out of his lips before wonder entered his mind. "Now, how did you get that--what I was thinking of? You make me won­ der if there ain't something in yonr mediumship." "Well," said Rgtalie. "When you're left an orphan at twelve--there ain't SLAVERY OF COLONIAL DAYS CHAPTER IX. Moving the Pawns* At breakfast next morning, Rosalie opened her game--opened it like a master of human chessmen, with a trifling move or two of the pawns. "Don't any of you people be as­ tonished," she said, "if your clothes look strange and orderly ,when you get home tonight. This is my day for cleaning closets. I announce now that if I find anything isn't hung where it ought to be, I'm going to set it right." When they were gone, Rosalie Le Grange, refusing assistance from Mrs. Moore, put on dust-cap and long apron and made good her word. But she did more than clean. From Miss Hard­ ing's apartment on the ground floor to Miss Estrilla's on the top, she exam­ ined minutely every garment and every pair of shoes. When she had finished, when she stood in jier own room dressing for the street, she looked very serious. Before she put away her house-dress, she took from its pocket the red shoe button. She inspected it again, and locked it away in the deepest compartment of her jewel case. Rosalie walked briskly to a book­ store in the heart of the foreign dis­ trict, held short consultation with the clerk, journeyed another block, and stood at length before a sign lettered in many tongues. She hesitated and began talking to herself. "You can't teach aa old dog new tricks," she remarked. "But sometimes you can brush up the old tricks he used to know," she added. "It'll take time--well, any­ way, I'm here!" and she entered. When she emerged, it lacked but half an hour for lunch time. AW-11**- table, she made subtle inquiry a ? as the Rosalie did not answer at once. She gave a little stagger, sank down in a chair, and began to murmur inarticU' late syllables in a low and rather husky voice. "What has happened?" asked Miss Estrilla again; and she spoke In real alarm. Rosalie sat upright aB with great effort. Once or twiee her hands clapped and unclasped. - "Give me that glass of water," she said in a half-whisper. She drank; she wet her fingers and dabbed her temples. > . :• "Are you ill? Shall I send for iome one?" repeated Miss Estrilla. ; "I'm better now," replied Rosalie In a firm but rather sleepy voice. "It^s cruel to frighten you. But listen. I'm in trouble in a way"--at this, Mies Es­ trilla settled back as though relieved, somehow--"an' I've Just got to ask for your help. Now please don't be scared. It's really nothin'--only--well, I've got to tell about it, I guess." All the weariness of the world was ln that last phrase.^ "I git took this way some­ times. There's nothin' dreadful about it when folks understand. Don't call anybody, ^please don't. Jest stay where you are. In a minute, I'll be goln' out of myself--unconscious, you know. I'll talk, probably. I may thrash around a little. By an' by, I'll stop talkin' an' be perfectly quiet--" Here Rosalie shuddered three or four times again, impersonated an effort of the will, and went on: "Don't do anything to me while I'm talkin'. But after I'm done an* lay quiet, wait five minutes. Then if I don't come to, sprinkle water ln my face, shake me--anything an'-- dont--tell--anybody--" These last words died away in a crooning under­ tone. Rosalie sank deeper into her chair. Her eyes fixed on the distance. Gradually, her lids fell. So she rested for some time, immobile. Miss Estril­ la, sitting up on her couch, watched Rosalie intently. Now and then, Rosa­ lie noted, her breathing came in Irreg­ ular little catches. From the cover of her long eyelashes, best instrument of her trade, Rosalie stole a glance which took in this constrained atti­ tude. She let her ^s droop to a full close. "Ugh--oh--ugh!" went Rosalie's voice finally; and at the deep tone, so unlike Rosalie's accustomed silvern accents. Miss Estrilla started. "Doctor Carver"--it was a deep male voice which proceeded from Rosalie's entranced lips; this male voice of her had been the envy of her old contem­ poraries--"a--ah! Doctor Carver, I come to apeak of a young man. I see ? ^ ^klf®,^Than Ha,f • Ml»'on White. Held In Bondage During 1' That Period. V kT fvit. - Coold we draw the curtain which oono®als the life of prehistoric people, V£>-' should see that the servant prob- Ijplt' , 'em l* as old as the human race. In- v * deed. If it were possible for extremes to meet, cave-dwellers and denizens of twentieth century sky-scrapers would doubtless converse sympathetically on this never-ending problem. Its exist- ^ _ ence is due to the universal desire of 1118111 to use the strength of others for lliS own profit and pleasure--an un- changeable trait of human nature. During the colonial period of our history, service was performed In the , main by two classes--the negro slave and the indentured white servant, £ffwrites Prof. Marcus W. Jernegan ln // Harper's Magazine. The white serv- ant, a semi-slave, was more important *D t*ie 8eventh century than even the aegro Blave, in respect to both num- £ ^>erB and economic significance. It Was a Red Shoe Button. en in such fashion as to strike the fire escape. She knew from Mrs. Moore that this room had been used for stor­ age during all of the last year. If a previous tenant dropped it, the lac­ quer would be gone or tarnished by now. The other windows on the foilrth floor were cut off from view of the fire escape by an irregularity of the wall. From those windows, one could scarce­ ly have thrown the button and hit that spot on the fire escape--"let alone droppin' It," thought Rosalie. Rosalie wrapped the button in her handkerchief and continued her search. Nothing heavier than straws and scraps of paper. "Well, you never can tell," she said to herself as she straightened up on the landing before Captain Hanska's window; "let's see--whe in my house ever wears- -' She stopped all motion here; and since there was no need for conceal­ ment, her face showed the shock needs of the colonists was for a cer­ tain and adequate supply of labor. It was the white servants who supplied this demand and made possible a rap­ id economic development, particularly of the middle and southern colonies. In 1683 there were 12,000 of these semi-slaves ln Virginia, composing about one-sixth of the population, while nearly two-thirds of the immi­ grants to Pennsylvania, during the eighteenth century were white serv­ ants. Every other colony made great­ er or less use of them, and it is likely that more than half a million persons were of this class during the colonial period. the plans of her boarders for the Mr. North, already busy with agency, had not come home to 1 at all. Betsy-Barbara had an enj ment to help him select furniture, stance must spend the afternoon her lawyers. Professor Noll Inte to read a paper at the Health 1 conference. Miss Harding and Jones never came home bet breakfast and dinner time. "Now's my4 chance--while the li al arjju- t in Mc- many Jt, Judge 1 contests d in the urtleff's ast Jan- forts of solve an it was tor from e estate led, was Is empty an' my nerve's good,1 said to herself as the boarders de ed. Forthwith, Rosalie moved a _ , piece. She mounted the stairs to ""ttinjf Miss Estrilla's room. She was b« lng strangely. Her eyes looked away. Her manner seemed remo the things of this world. As knocked and entered, she passed hand over her eyee, gave a little vulslve Jerk, dropped herTland tof side, and shook herself. Miss Estrilla lay &$>ack among cushions in half-light She seem catch the strange new manner o: salie. "What's the matter?" she asfc of con- the neys on ent, last #: the Jiaps the most pressing of Per- early Woman's Observation. A woman's powers of observation are fearfully and wonderfully made. She can be introduced to a strange gentleman, and after two minutes of casual conversation she can tell you his habitual state of temper, whether his wife affects domesticity or clubs, and whether or not he Is happy in his home and living within his income. She can go to a social function where there are 20 women she never he sum County State's to Chi- Barber eys re which night rdance d the tioned ittorney •ney for Itood to for his HP in if a icmths. saw before, and come back wi inventory of what each one wore, much it cost, whether any part o costume was "made over, changes it needed to make It* becoming, and whether the coald afford it After she his finished 1m this Information Bhe can write from memory, without making than three mistakes In each, dozen new recipes for onion pres and asparagus shortcake that picked up at the same gathering. (feme South, Young Man. "If you live by the rivers you are washed away. If you take refuge In the mountains there are the. ava­ lanches."--Kansas City Journal. Migrate to Virginia. Here the riv­ ers rise sometimes, but always ln a perfectly ladylike manner. The winds only gently fan the cheeks of beauty and temper the Bun's heat to the plow­ man and harvester in the fields, while the mountains serve as barriers to the borean blasts that blow from the tornadic west--Norfolk Virginian- %lot. Ml?" ggle - on C. Unti was in Chicago on Wednesday. Ci G. Berner was a busines in Chicago today. Bennie Kennebeok- boarded cago train Monday. ~f Mrs. Wm. Bonslett was a visitor Wednesday. ,and Everett Hunter boarded the ,ar(j train Tuesday morning. Qore Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Lusk It p. I cago visitors Wednesday. Jlght. Mrs. F. A. Bohlander was ft was passenger Wednesday morning^ 8°* John Catlin of Elgin passed^^ as the guest of McHenry fr^e*^OU8 N. A. Huemann attended to iBtic matters in the windy city We Mrs. Simon StofTel is spendi^me days as the guest of relatives jretty go. |. It's Atty. V. S. Lumley of to was a business visitor in towrfr1 to urda*- Cto Misses Florence and Fannie ^ .. spent Sunday as the guests -tied relatives. she W. F. Holtz went to Chicagned nesday morning for a few with friends. « Miss Mattel Gorman spent a* cently as the guest of North ^ Lake friends. ^ Mr. and Mrs. M. I>, Wilki among tlje Chicago passenge day morning H. E. Buch transacted mai business nature in the me< city Tuesday. Mrs. C. W. Goodell passedC^ days this week at the home <|m^! ther at Ladd, 111. em. "I rememoer tne treabuf&ftrt a bank note company, who was forever un­ dertaking to show his clerks how muph better he could do their work than they could. One day the president of the concern took him by the shoulders, backed him into his private office, rolled an armchair to the window, and said solemnly: 'Your business here in office hours is to sit in that chair and think. That is what you are paid for --60 do it!' ' "He had the right experience of de­ tail, but Instead of using it to propel his train of thought he kept it running eternity. Presently she heard a fust- ling from the bed. Miss Eetrllla had moved. Rosalie braced herself with­ in for the shock of cold water. But Miss Estrilla only shook her. Rosalie made a sleepy motion and became still. Miss Estrilla shook her again, and called Into her ear. , "Madame Le Grange--wake up!.*' This time, Rosalie permitted hef eyes to open. She etare4 a moment as at things remote, fetched another shudder, sat bolt upright. Her first ex­ pression was bewildered; her second startled. There. followed evj^ry ap­ pearance of "^embarrassment mnd chagrlh. "Oh, what has happened ?" she said. "Don't you know?" asked hb- trllla, regarding her narrowly. "I remember coming in here/,' said Rosalie, "an' I remember telling you that I might go out--fall asleep." She arose at thiis and began nervously to pace the room. "I've got Uf apologize," she went on, "I am--well, the last time I was took this way, I went to my own room. When I came to, it was dark--the ser­ vants thought I'd gone away an' for­ got to come home to dinner. £ made up my mind I wouldn't let it happen again like that--an' you were the only person In the house. Was I out- asleep--long?" "About six or seven ~ minutes, 1 think," said Miss Estrilla. Suddenly she covered her eyes with their green shade. "What doe** tt mean. all .tlUa T" ehe asked. ^ : .V- "Poor dear, I believe 1 must have bothered you with my talking--if I did talk." She approached the bed, and sat down. "Now I'm goin' to tell yon all abont It," pursued Rosalie; "I must, of course. It ain't right not to explain, now I've made this scene. But yonll be the only llvin' soul around the house that knows a thing, an' you'll understand what I mean when I'm through. Cdmin' right out with it, I've been a medium--a spirit medium--all my life. You know what that Is, don't you?" "Oh, yes!" "Didn't know but you mightn't. Some folks don't, an' some hold a low opinion of 'em. I do myself." Rosalie paused. "That was why I cut it out, maybe--that and the feelin* that my powers was goin'. Well, one day comes a legacy--money I'd never counted on or expected. An' that happened jest when it seemed like my power had grown weak an' I had to quit or be a fake--because when people come an' pay you two dollars you have to de­ liver answers or you'll git no more custom. So I jest determined to drop it all an' go to keepln' boarders with my money." Rosalie made the proper dramatic pause here, and let her voice fall. "You can't do a thing all your life, though, an' stop it right away. I hadn't counted on that. I never could control my trances exactly. They had a way of comin' when they wanted to. You can hold it off for a while, an'! then- it's like holdln' off sleep. Twice be­ fore this week it's happened--I've told 'you what I did the second time, an' how It scared me. An' just now, standln' ln the hall, 1 felt it comin' on--strong. You know the rest. An' I hope you'll excuse me--an* you won't say a thing, will you?" Rosa­ lie's voice held all the pleading in the world. , Miss Estrilla, expressionless behind her green shade, spoke in an even and unemotional voice. "And what do your spirits say to you?" 1 "To me?" replied Rosalie; ."good­ ness, I don't know. I wish I did. I have to find afterwards from other people what I said or did. Well, I'm as sorry as can be that I bothered you, an' won't-do it again, if I can help it. Did I talk much?" "Not a great deal. Something abdut a young man and a young woman." "Anybody in the house? Sometimes --they tell me--my spirits talk about folks a thousand miles away an' sometimes about folks that are right here." . MISB Estrilla seemed to be consid­ ering this. .When she spoke, her voice ,was still even and perfectly con­ trolled ; but she did not answer the question. "You have been very kind," she said, "and I don't see why you should tell any one else. You may come here whenever you feel that way. It would be a pleasure to return your kind­ ness." Rosalie sighed as in relief. "My! That's good. I didn't want to ask--it's a lot to ask o^ anybody--but now you've offered, I'll take It I've been thinkln' lately it would be a good thing to let go of myself when I feel it comin', an' get it off my system. Was that the bell? Excuse me--I ain't sure that lazy Molly will answer it.--An' thank you, .my dear," The bell was only a peddler. When Rosalie had disposed of him, she con­ sulted her watch. Much remained of the'afternoon. "Good time to git in an hour's ses­ sion with that darned phonograph," she said; and she took refuge ln her own big clothes-closet--which, exper­ iment had shown, was sound-proof. (TO BE3 CONTINUED.) ited track, ,and his activity didn't get him anywhere." ~ No Ideas Necessary. Once upon a time there was a^yimng man who had urgent literary aspira­ tions, but nothing to say. In his ex­ tremity he went to the Sage and asked him what to do about It. "Write, my son. write," adflsed the Sage. The young man followed this advice. He wrote diligently, and lo! his writing became very popular and his name was famous throughout the land. "How do you explain It?" asked a critic of the Sage one day. "It is very simple," replied the Sage. "As the young man had no Ideas, there was nothing to distract him from a strict attention to literary style, which he developed to a point of pefectlon. "But what Is literary style worth without ideas?" queried the critic. "Everything to the populace; noth­ ing to the philosopher," declared the Saga Moral: Vox populi vox pop- Vftt, i; ILLINOIS STATE NEWS :: Johnston City.--Charles sPiasso, a Sicilian, who was shot by a fellow- countryman, died. He refused to tell who shot him. ' v Freeport--William O. Wright, for many years prominent as a Democratic politician and a former member • of the state central committee, died. He was seventy-two years old. Rockford.--The Wells Training School for Teachoi«s at Oregon closed after an existence of 35 years. It had graduated more than five thousand students. Mansfield.--Ralph Flrke, who is said to have made a fortune fattening geese for the market, ha^ purchased 5,000 chickens in Tennessee and will bring them to his pens here for fat­ tening. Firke keeps the fowls in a pen of his own invention. Pana.--Miss Guydeil Inman, a nurse, formerly of St. Loiiis, and Carl Little of Vernon, member Of Illinois highway engineering corps and wealthy larfd owner, were married by Rev. Presley Carson on a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train while it was running 40 miles an hour, between Pana and Taylorvilie. Duquoin.--Results of the annual election of officers of the Perry Coun­ ty Fair association; one of the oldest in southern Illinois, were announced here. They follow: President, S. R. Haines, Tamaroa; vice-president, Sny­ der B. Ward, Duquoin; secretary, S. J. Harry Wilson, Pinckneyville; mar­ shal, Hugh Campbell, Pinckneyville. Springfield.--Charles Nicholas Heb- ner, 3607 Pine Grove avenue, Chicago, was appointed secretary of the state public utilities commission. The com­ mission has had no secretary, Captain Kilpatrick having served only tem­ porarily in that capacity. Mr. Hebner la connected with the chief engineer's office of the Chicago Railways com­ pany. He is thirty-eight years old. Aurora.--The body of D. H. Graves, forty-five years old, an Elgin business man,, who had been missing since last week, was found on toe Henry Spreit farm near St. Charles with the throat cut from ear to ear. The police are inclined to believe the man a suicide, but cannot account for the fact that ho knife, razor or other weapon was found near the body. Joliet.--Because the city council re­ fused to support a proposed law to close all business houses, including barber shops, on Sunday, a committee from the barbers' union swore out complaints against ten saloonkeepers for violation of the Sunday closing law. Two city aldermen were among those complained against. The barbers said other warrants would follow. Springfield.--The average wage of school teachers in Illinois is $662.07 a year, according to statistics compiled by State Superintendent of Instruction' Francis G. Blair. The average pay of the 5,600 male teachers in the state is $772.07 a year, and that of the 24,- 950 women teachers $643.70 a year. Three hundred and thirty-two women and 74 faen teachers receive less than $200 a year. Chester.--Gotfried Centch, forty- seven years old, the Weiga saloon­ keeper whose trial for the killing of Henry Oppermann, October 18, 1913, had occupied the circuit court since last week, was found guilty of man­ slaughter by the jury and the penalty fixed at from one to twenty years in the penitentiary. Centch* was jointly Indicted with Herman Ebers for the murder of Oppermann ln a fight ln which several persons participated. Ebers has not yet been tried. Lincoln.--Designation of 166 miles of state-aid roads in Logan county and acceptance of the flrBt allotment of $16,000 under the Tice act were voted by the county board of supervisors. Ten thousand dollars will be available for road purposes to the two town­ ships reporting the largest contribu­ tions to the road-bullding cause by April 18, when a special committee of the board meets here to award the first allotment of joint state and coun­ ty funds. Springfield. -- State Fire Marshal Walter Bennett and members of the staff went to Paris and conducted a fire prevention day and mass meeting --minus one of their best inspectors. The missing one Is A. T. Ranus, who suffered death in the Missouri Athletic club fire ln St. Louis. Ranus' head­ quarters were ln Mount Vernon. He had been a special inspector for the tftate fire marshal's department for some time and was regarded as one of the most efficient men on the force. Jacksonville.--The Caldwell chap­ ter of the D. A. R. unveiled a tablet placed by them on the Morgan county courthouse. The unveiling of the tab­ let was preceded by appropriate exer­ cises held in the courthouse at which speakers of promlninece took part Judge JS. P. Brockhouse accepted the tablet In behalf of Morgan county. Former Gov. Richard Yates also made an address. The bronze tablet con­ tains the names --» all Revolutionary soldiers burled In this county. Altamont.--Wesley Loar, fourteg» years old, lost both his legs when a Chicago & Eastern Illinois switch en­ gine ran-him down. Physicians say be will live. Rockford.--After long litigation an agreement has been reached by which the estate of A. W. Barber, millionaire, who died at Crystal Lake in 1912, will pay omitted taxes amounting to $82,- 000. Barber, it was said, paid taxes on an assessment of only $20,000 dur­ ing the ten years he resided at Crystal Lawe The money will be divided among the various taxing bodies of McHenrir cotraty. Urbana.--Rachel Erwia, an aged negress, received one vote afid the Re­ publican nomination for alderman in the Fifth ward of Urbana. Some joker Wrote her name on the ticket, and there were no other candidates. It is probable she will withdraw her name. Springfield.--Charles Nicholas Heb­ ner of Chicago was appointed secre­ tary of the state public utilities com­ mission at a salary of $5,000. 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