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f, J AM!*. SrcHEITOV. a.t-» "H WWrm mmw tnWB" W«Vfl!>V«V t>f A 1ttJS. ALCxx KI^i Iv X rLA YOURSELF LAUGH RAILROAD GOOD JOKE ON Mtich Wisdom Is Needed Eastern Company Unwittingly Qivn Away More Than 500,000 Tain of Coal. BRIEFLY I ? v V'; fHpUOCK jHOLMl^TASigFOt A RAILROAD COMPAN^ ' By Louis Joseph Vance ft- ./ SN&: ^',vv -'. CAN YOU SOLVE LOVE'S PUZZLE? anyhow? Is It, In ths case of husband and wife, respect and admiration of certain spiritual qualities? Or, in your ex­ perience, is it pure physical attraction between a certain man and a certain woman--with respect and admiration as side lights? Do you believe that an intelligent woman would love enough to live with him, the man who years previously had married her just to save her good name as a girl and then had disappeared? That Is the problem confronting Sara Law, the great actress, in "The Destroy­ ing Angel." Hugh Whitaker, you remember, was given Just six months to live, by eminent surgeons. He discovered a decent young w;oman In trouble--her honor at stake. "One good deed before I go," he said; "111 marry this frightened child, and give her my respectable name. Then I'll go off eomewhere and wait for the end." This he did--and five years later turned up In New York from Australia, prosperous and healthy, and (started a hunt for the girl-wife of other days. He discovers her in Sira Law, and mutual recognition across the footlights stops a play, Martin Ember, former detective, comes to Whitaker and tells amazing facts. A big mystery looms in this in­ stallment. : . • -• i vV , . tt " . SH' , • . • IP' , '-U "jj. |<j|HAP'Ta5R" V4|4»-C«mtln«id.i **And you found her and told Dram-' .ffttond-- ?" s " Whitaker leaned over the table, studying tbeman's face with intense Interest. • "No--and yes. I found Mrs. Whit- ?i|tfier. I didn't report to Drummond." •"But why--In heaven's name?" Ember smiled somberly at the droop- big ash of his cigar. "There were sev- •i?il reasons. In the first place 1 didn't have to: I had asked no retainer from Drummond, and I rendered no bill: what I bad found out was mine, to keep or to sell, as I chose. I chose not to sell because--well, because Mrs. Whitaker begged me not to." "Ah!" Whitaker breathed, sitting back. "Why?" "This was all of a year, I think, after your marriage. Mrs. Whitaker had tasted the sweets of Independence and--got the habit She had adopted a profession looked upon with abhor­ rence by her family. She was already successful in a small way, had little need of the money she would get as claimant of tour estate. She- enlisted my sympathy, and--I held my tongue." •'That was decent of you." The man bowed a quiet acknowledg­ ment. "I thought you'd think so. - . There 'was a third reason." .. Jle paused, until Whitaker encour­ aged him with a "Yes--?" "Mr. Whitaker"--the query'~«&m§ ^ofnt-hlank--"do you love your wife?" * Whitaker caught his breath. "What bright--!" .he began, and checked ab- " rig>tly. Xhe blood darkened his lean : Cheeks. "Mrs. Whitaker gave me to urider- " trtand that you didn't. It wasn't hard * to perceive, everything considered, that your motive was pure chivalry--quix­ otism. I should like to go to my grave • with anything half as honorable and upselfish to my credit." v: "I beg your pardon," Whitaker mut- hi .;t|ired thickly. w / *' %^**You don't, then?". -- ^ "*'Love her? No." .^•\#>'*There was a slight pause. Then, "I . do," said this extraordinary man, meet­ ing Wlii taker's gaze openly. "I do," he repeated, flushing in hi8 turn, "but i . . hopelessly . . . However, was the third reason," he pursued In a more level voice--"I thought you ought to know about it--that induced me to keep Sara Law's secret. . . , I loved her from the day I found her. She has never looked twice at me. • . . But that's why I never lost in- barest. •*You mean," Whitaker took Mm up HfRdently--'"you continued to--ah--?" "Court her--as we say? No." Em­ ber's shoulders, lifting, emphasized the disclaimer, "fm no fool. I have had the sense not to Invite the thunderbolt. She doesn't know It, unless Max told her against my wish; but It was I who Induced him to bring her before the public, four years ago, as Joan Thurs­ day. Since then her destiny has been Rather too big a thing for me to tam­ per with; but I've watched and won­ dered, sensing forces at work about her of which even she was unsus- fclous.". "What te blazes do you mean?" Whitaker demanded, mystified. & "Did it strike you to wonder at the extraordinary mob her farewell per­ formance attracted tonight?" I "Why--yes. It struck me as rather I Unusual. But then. Max had done nothing but tell me of her tremendous popularity." * "That alone, great as it is, wouldn't v brouglu 80 many people together ; f|o stare at the outside of a theater. ^ptye magnet was something stronger-- we morbid curiosity of New York. JThose people were waiting, thrilled expectancy, on tiptoe for the sen- itlon that presently came to them: le report of Drummond's death." 'What the devil--!" :« "Patience! This Is the third time it has happened--the same thing, prac- ' Really: Sara Law on the verge of • .leaving the stage to marry, a fatal ac­ cident Intervening. Did Max by any *<Bhance mention the nickname New Jfork has bestowed on Sara Law?" "Nickname? No I" "They cull her The Destroying \f%ngeL'* - gijj "Wh|i rot f* "Yes; hut what coincidence. Three f^jiben lorved her--and one by one they Ifled. And now the fourth. Do you .frontier . . .?" ? "Oh, but--The Destroying Angel'-- !" -*• Whitaker cried indlgnautly. "How can -they blame her?" ---.•---- "It isn't blame--irs superstition. Listen . . ." • i f ij Ember bent forward, holding Whlt- aker's gaze with intent, grave eyes, s -- • ^-*The first time," he said in a rapid ufi- 1 , ?_'/ „ iiertone, "was a year or so after her •V -K^f^Jtriumph as Joan Thursday. There V-ere then two men openly Infatuated 7.' ' Mrith her, a boy named Custer, and a "" - J t, fiiiao I believe yon knew--William r-iEhimUtou." ' • - "I knew them both." . j " C u s t e r w a s m a k i n g t h e p a c e ; t h e V!kf announcement of his cii-.-i-.-i^nt to ""Sura Law was confidently antirfpiited. >; Hf died attddenlr • *he eorr»i««ir,a Jurir decided that he had misjudged the In­ tentions of a loaded, revolver* People whispered a suicide, but it didn't look quite like that to me. However , . . Hamilton stepped into his place.' Presently we heard that Sara Law was to marry him and leave the stage. Hamilton had to go abroad on business; on the return trip--the wed­ ding was set for the day after he land­ ed here--he disappeared, no one knew how. Presumably he fell overboard by accident one night; sane men with everything In the world to live for do such things, you know--according to the newspapers." "I understand you. Please go on." "Approximately eighteen months later a man named Thurston--Mitchell Thurston--was considered a dangerous aspirant for the hand of Sara Law. He was exceedingly well fixed In a money way--a sort of dilettantish architect, with offices In the Metropolitan tower. One day at high noon he left his desk to go to lunch at Martin's; crossing Madison square, he suddenly fell dead, with a bullet in his brain. It was a ritle bullet, but though the square was crowded, no one had heard the report of the shot, and no one was Seen car­ rying a rifle. The conclusion was that he had been shot by somebody using a gun with a Maxim silencer, from a window on the south side of the square. There were no clues." "And now Drummond!" Whitaker exclaimed in horror. "Poor fellow I Poor woman!" - A slightly sardonic expression modi- fled the Sines of Ember's mouth. "So far as Mrs. Whitaker is concerned," he said with the somewhat pedantic mode of speech which Whitaker was tQ learn to associate with his moments of most serious concentration--"I echo the sentiment. But let us suspend judgment on Drummond's case until we know more. It Is not as yet an es­ tablished fact that he Is dead." "You mean there's hope--" "There's doubt," Ember corrected acidly--"doubt, at least, in my mind. You see, I saw Drummond In the flesh, alive and vigorous, a good half hour after he Is reported to have leaped to his death." "Where?** "Coming up the stairs from the /downtown subway station in front of the Park Avenue hotel. He wore a hat pulled down over his eyes and an old overcoat buttoned tight up to his chin. He was carrying a satchel bear­ ing the initials C. S. D., but was other­ wise pretty thoroughly disguised, and, I fancied, anxious enougjh to escape recognition." 4 "You're positive about this?*' 'The man was Carter S. Drummond. I don't think I can be mistaken." "Which way did he go?" •Toward the Pennsylvania, station, I fancy; that is, he turned west through Thirty-third street. I didn't follow--I was getting Into taxi when I caught sight of him." "But what did you think to see him disguised? Didn't II strike you as curious?" "Very," said Ember dryly, "At the same time; it was none of my affair-- then. Nor did it present itself to me as a matter worth meddling with until, later, my suspicions were aroused by the scene In the theater--obviously the result of your appearance there--and still later, when I heard the suicide re­ port." "But--" Whitaker passeil a hand across his dafeed eyes. "What can It mean? Why should he do this tiling?' "There are several possible explana­ tions. . . . How long has Drum­ mond known that you are alive?" "Since noon today." v "May I ask, what was the extent of your property in his trust?" "A couple of hundred thousands." "And he believed you dead and was unable to find your widow , . ." "Oh, I don't think that!" Whitaker expostulated. "Nor do L We're merely consider­ ing possible explanations. There's a third . . "Well?" - "He may have received a strong hint that he was nominated for the fate that overtook young Custer," Hamilton and Thurston; and so planned, to give liis disappearance the color of a simi­ lar end." * "You don't mean to say you think there was any method in that train of tragedies?" "I'm not ln the least superstitious, my dear man. I don't for an instant believe, as some people claim to, that Sara Law is a destroying angel, hound­ ed by a tragic fate: that her love Is equivalent to the death warrant ot the man who wins tt." "But what do you think, then?" "I think," "^aid Ember slowly, his gaze on the table, "that someone with a very strong Interest in keeping the y o u n g w o m a n s i n g l e -- a a d o n t b * stage--" "Max! Impossible^" - • Ember shrugged. "In human nature ho madness Is impossible. There's not a shred of evideuce against Jules Max. Aiti) .vet--he's a gambler. ing runs like wildfire up and down Broadway, day by day. A dozen times lie's been on the verge of ruin, yet always he has had Sara Law to rely upon; always he's been able to fall back upon that asset, sure that her popularity would stave off bankruptcy. And he's superstitious : he believes she is his mascot. I don't accuse him--I suspect him, knowing him to be ca­ pable^ of many weird extravagances. . Furthermore, It's a fact that Max was a fellow-passenger with Billy Hamilton when the latter disappeared In midocean." Ember paused and sat up, prepara­ tory to rising. "All of which," he con­ cluded, "explains why I have tres­ passed upon your patience and your privacy. It seemed only right that you should get the straight, undistorted story from an unprejudiced onlooker. May I venture to add a word of ad­ vice?" ' .. "By all means.** "Have you told Max o£ your rela» tlons with Sara Law?" , "No." "Or anybody else?" "No." •Then keep the truth to yourself--at least until this coil is straightened out." Ember got up. "Good night," he said pleasantly. Whitaker took his hand, staring. "Good; night," he echoed blankly. "But --I say--why keep It quiet?" Ember, turning to go, paused, bin antrnrocn / "They Call Her Destroying An- • • gel.*** . glance quietly qutzzlca on don't mean to claim your wife?" "On the; contrary, I expect to offer no defense to her action for divorce." "Grounds of desertion?"- =-• "I presume, so." i "Just the same, keep it as quiet as possible until the divorce is granted. If you live till then . . . " you may possibly continue to Uve thereafter." What is your opinion of this Drummond suicide report? Do you believe the man is dead--if he isn't, why the effort to create the suicide impression? Is Drum mond a thief or a madman? ITO BE CONTINUED.) % EXIST IN PRIMITIVE EASE For Some Unexplained Reason Cars Frequently Disappear and thf • ": Finding Them la Moil ' Difficult . * 5 - ' •t times When the scarcity of freight cars catises the railroads to place an embargo upon certain classes of gopds, the problem of keeping track of its cars to see that they do not run away and become wanderers upon the face of the earth is a stupendous one .for each company. When a freight car is built, It is given a number before It leaves the shop, and thereafter it is always known by thAt number until it is worn out and scrapped. When a new car receives its number, and starts out upon its business career; it is entered in the record book, and a careful ac­ count of its wanderings and earning power are kept there. This record book is a history of the car, and by Consulting it, one can learn how many trips it has made, what cities it has Visited, how many times it has been to the repair shop, and also where it is supposed to be at any given time. But in spite of all this care In keep­ ing a record of each car, now and then for some unexplained reason, one dis­ appears from sight--literally running away. Some of the big companies em­ ploy cor .tracers, but as a rule a print­ ed tracer Is first sent after the car to bring it back home. This printed tracer in a blue envelope, Is sent to the person in whose jurisdiction the car was last supposed to be, and ff It had passed out of his district the tra<jwr is sent on to the next one to whom the car was assigned. This lit­ tle printed tracer falling to bring the car home in a reasonable length of time a man known as a tracer is sent after It. The tracer is really a rail­ road car detective. And sometimes it is more difficult to track a runaway freight car than a criminal. There are tens of thousands of miles of railways, and hundreds of thousands of freight cars, and to find the one carrying a certain ft limber is often like hunting a needle in a hay­ stack. The tracer may arrive In a city, where the runaway car Is sup­ posed to be, at the very moment when the car is leaving it in the opposite di­ rection. It may cross his track on a parallel line, or dodge around him on a short line. It may be headed north, or rolling merrily toward the Pacific, while he Is going toward the Atlantic. A runaway car apparently is as de­ praved as any criminal. It hides on a lonely siding, or gets lost in a short swamp line. One such runaway rested nearly a year on a siding in southern Texas simply because it got lost, and no one seemed to know just what to do with it. The nearest freight agent had no record of It, and no tracer had re­ quested its return. Going on the prln= ciple that what Is "everybody's busi­ ness is nobody's business," this local agent made no effort' to hunt up the owners. If the order had been re­ ceived by him to return it he would have obeyed, but lacking such orders he left It on the siding. In the course of time, it was occupied by a family of squatters, who lived quite comfort­ ably in it for six months, and were routed out only when quite by acci­ dent, the car tracer discovered ltr-- Popular Mechanics Magazine. Pueblo Indiana Live In Exactly the 8am« Manner as Have Genera­ tions of Ancestors. Perhaps the most unique settlement in the United States is the Pueblo In­ dian village, located in Arizona, ob­ serves the Christian Herald. This vil­ lage comprises 1,500 peaceable Indians, whose sole and almost only aim In life Is to secure a livelihood as easily an possible. This settlement Is located In the hottest section of the state, but the excessive heat Is not uncomfort­ able to these people, whose ancestors have lived In that desert section for unnumbered generations. ' Wastes of burning sand stretch for miles and miles on every side of this village. A peculiar thing about this people la that they have two distinct villages. The summer village Is located upon the floor of the valley, where the Pueblos occupy themselves in agriculture. The produce they' ritse, over what they need to eat during these hot months. Is stored away for winter use. There are only a few places in that section of the desert where water Is obtain­ able, and In these places the Pueblos pursue their primitive agriculture. Seasons come and seasons go, but as each goes by it sees these people living as they did during the preceding one. Since the white man first knew of this colony, which was back In the six­ teenth century, the habits of this iribe have not changed. They eat the same kind of food, do the same sort of fancy work and live Just as did their ances­ tors. So far as is known to historians, this is the oldest colony of any kind in this country. Double-Tracking the Trana-8ibeHan. News has been received in Tokyo reporting the completion of the double- tracking of the Siberian railway. The news, says the.Far East, still lacks of­ ficial confirmation, but if it is well founded, it is bound to prove a wel­ come relief to the present congestion of traffic on that line. It recalls the fact that during the Russo-Japanese war the trans-Siberian was a one-raH road, the best the Russian engineers could do being the construction of fre­ quent switches, so that trains couid pass in either direction. And yet by Spartan regulations they managed to feed and carry munitions for over five hundred thousand men over that "double strip of rust." A Stage Eplsodo. Miss Margaret Illlngton, the well- known actress, tells a story of an amusing unrehearsed effect that oc­ curred one night when she was act­ ing in the comedy, "Mrs. Dane's De­ fense." Miss Illlngton was playing the part of Mrs. Bulsome Porter and in one scene she had to make a very serious and dignified exit. On the night In question, just as she was go­ ing off, Miss Illlngton unfortunately tripped and fell full length upon the stage. This was bad. enough, but, as luck would have It, the next line in the piece, which was immediately spoken by another character, was: "Mrs. Bulsome Porter seems very much upset I"--Lonsdale (Pa.) "Re­ porter. Friendship. -- Doctor--Dfd you sleep well? Patient--Not a wink. Doctor--That is too bad. Sleep is our best friend and especially to the sick. Patient--It is a friend like all the others who abandon you at the mo­ ment when one has most need of them, --Medical Pickwick. Dear We, Yeal We often bear a great tragedy or a All theatri- great sorrow more calmly than we d< eal managers are, of course ; but Mux | the minor annoyances of life. Flea Is a CMHI-ttenrt * Th^ tSil^ Of W* plunK- l are more Hlneo^certto* than, •lephaa* A million-dollar joke on the Dela­ ware St Hudson Railroad company, perpetrated away back in 1906, when the railroad generously deeded 1,200 acfes of mountain land to the com­ monwealth of Pennsylvania as a site for the State Hospital for Criminal Insane, came to light at Fairview the other day when a coal dealer tried to make a contract with the hospital to furnish its coaL The dealer learned to ids amaze­ ment that the hospital has on Its grounds more than 500,000 tons of chestnut, pea, buckwheat and other steam sizes of coal, all within easy hauling distance of p its powerhouse. Upon inquiry he discovered that the hospital got the coal along with the land without paying a cent. The explanation is that when the land Was deeded to the institution coal mines threw away every year thou­ sands of tons of coal in the culm dumps, then thought to be useless, but which are now yielding large returns. In 1900 the world had not learned to use small steam sizes of coal. The mines were yielding so plentifully then that grades of coal as large as chest­ nut were frequently dumped into the culm bank. Before the Delaware | Hudson turned over the land to the state, it used the mountain on which the hos­ pital is now situated as a dump. The road had a gravity line to. carry coal from its mines at Carbondale to Ilonesdale. In 1905 tills line was aban­ doned and a steam road built, and this made the mountain useless to the rail­ road company. But in the nine years that the "gravity road was In use the road had filled two large ravines with culm. The thought that this might be valu­ able never entered the heads of the railroad officials, nor even of the state officials who accepted the grant of land for Pennsylva^. But a few years later, when the hospital - was con­ structed, a marked change'Tiad taken place In the value of culm. The hos­ pital authorities found that they had enough fuel in the two ravines to last them, at the lowest estimate, fully SO years. CATTLE PASSES OF CONCRETE Western Railroad Makea New and Val# uable Use of Its Cul­ vert Pipes. Instead of using eulvert pipes for drainage only, a railway has installed a number of such pipes on its line between Minneapolis and Superior, Wis., which are large enough to serve as cattle passes. These new culverts One of Several Large Culverts, Made of Oval Conrete Pipe, Which Serve as Cattle Passes Under a Railway. are of re-enforced concrete and are made in sections five feet six inches long. Each section is oval in shape, being 7 feet 5 inches in height and 7 feet wide. A flat spa^, 2 feet wide, serves as the bottom K the passage­ way. These pipes ijftve been found fully as satisfactory as the arched or boxlike culverts which are common­ ly built where a pass for stock must be provided beneath an elevated track. The various sections of the pipe, after being placed, were cemented together. --Popular Mechanics Magazine. New Use for X-Ray. In Switzerland recently the Roent­ gen rays have been made use of with great success for the examination of re-enforced concrete work about which any qiiestion may have arisen. The advantage of being able to make an examination of the condition of such- re-enforcements or the proper disposi­ tion and sltuktlon thereof without de­ stroying the concrete structure are self-evident, as well as the desirabil­ ity of being able to make an Inspec­ tion of the position of the re-enforc­ ing Iron rods upon the completion of the cement parts of a new building or a new structure. Reports of Happenings From AH Parts of the Stats. FUEL FAMINE HITS SCHOOLS Putting Euripides In His Place. That Euripides might be styled a "lowbrow4" In the language of today Is the opinion of Dr. Paul Shorey of the University of Chicago, and one of the best-known professors in the United States, who spoke recently at Stanford. "Euripides dragged the stately four beat anapestlc verse of Sophicles down to the level of the fry­ ing pan and the bourgeois," said the doctor. He added that "Whatever Eu­ ripides thought, he had to say, and his thoughts were as plentiful as mi­ crobes."--San Francisco Chronicle. Alaskan Progress. A generation ago men would have recoiled from the idea that the Klon­ dike gold fields, even If-they existed, would ever be developed. The very possibility of carrying civilization into such a ^country, building cities, creating Industries, operating mines, would have been doubted. But the thing has been done; now we are looking to Alaska as a country that ere long will not only produce metal and mineral * wealth, but will make itself agriculturally self-supporting. Needs the Money. Charlie--Speaking of borrowing, I have an acquaintance who has had a new overcoat of mine for a long time and he won't give it up. ' Dick--WTho is it? Charlie--My tailor.--Puck. Classifications. "Oil wells are divided into gushers and spouters." ."Wells, do you mean?" said wells. What should I mean?" T thought maybe.you were allndlng to the promoters." Chose an Appropriate Hymn. A correspondent of the Yorkshire (England) Post writes: "Even a night Zeppelin may have Its humor. On a recent Sunday evening air-raid alarm signals were given just as the vicar entered the pulpit of a York­ shire church and gave out the hymn. By an extraordinary coincidence the congregation found itself 'Singing to welcome the pilgrims of tljie night,'" Filial Showdown. "A man can always change his opin­ ion." "Not always. When I had voted one way in the morning tshey wouldn't let me go back and vote the ofiiW way In tht afternoon." Chicago High School With 1,472 Pupils Compelled to Dismiss Teachers and Scholars for Lack of Coat. .. ..--Others Threatened. j Chicago,--The first of the Chicago iichools was compelled to close because of the coal famine. It was the Lake View high school at 4015 North Ash­ land avenue. The coal supply gave out there in spite of the efforts of Chief Engineer John Howatt and his corps tf assistants to keep all schools supplied, and 1,472 pupils and 39 teachers were dismissed by Principal B. Frank Brown. Eight other schools were burn­ ing their last ton of coal,, and about 150 more reported that they had just about enough fuel to go through the day. In a Bad Way. "Why, what is the matter, Mabel?" You look like you didn't have a friend." "That is it exactly. many friends as an Dallas News. I have about as alarm clock."-- Chicago.-^With the continuance Of* the coal shortage and with no indica­ tions of a loosening of the grip of the cold wave, the fight between the rail­ roads and the coal dealers reached an acute stage. Convinced* that drastic measures were necessary to alleviate the situation, and in order that the bins of Chicago's apartment buildings and homes might be filled, federal in­ vestigators were said to have reached a conclusion'that drastic action would be necessary to avert a crisis. It was suggested that Governor Dunne, Mayot Thompson, members of the city coun­ cil and the public utilities commission meet and draft a plan for the seizure of coal in the railroad yards in the city and compel its delivery to house­ holders and business firms. The util­ ities commission could compel the mines to ship the coal, the railroads tb deliver and place it in the city, it was agreed. With the coal in the city limits, the mayor could seize and dis­ tribute it. Various explanations of the situation were given by the rail­ roads and coal dealers. The latter "passed the buck" to the carriers, claiming that coal was held on the ex­ cuse it was impossible to arrange transfers. Chicago.--Speculation was heard 111 local political circles regarding the of­ fice of warden of the Jollet peniten­ tiary when It became known that the present warden, Michael Zirumer, had asked Governor-elect Lowden to re­ lieve him not later than January 10. Two men were suggested as Mr. Zlm- mer's possible successor. Chief of Po­ lice Healey, who retired to captaincy of the traffic division on that date, is reported to have said that he is "in the hands of his friends." The other man suggested Is former Warden Ed­ ward J. Murphy of Joliet. When the appointment will be made Is not known, but It is believed that Mr. Low­ den is in no hurry. Representative Israel Dudgeon of Grundy county, who is a close friend both -of the governor- elect and Mr. Murphy, hs believed to be the man who will prevent the claims of the latter. Chicago.--Twenty-four motor trucks, exploding one by one in a blaze which destroyed the Timroth Teaming com­ pany's garage, caused panic in the neighborhood and a loss of $175,000. The building was wrecked and debris hurled for many yards around. The fire started from the backfiring of a carburetor on a machine which was being filled with the engine running. Harrisburg.--In the special election held here to elect a successor to the late Judge William H. Parish, as judge of the city court, Wirt W. J)ameron was elected by a plurality of 45 votes. There were four candidates. The proposition to issue $24,006 bond to pay off the old city indebtedness was defeated by 89 votes. Bast St. Louis.--An ordinance to raise saloon licenses from $500 to $1,- 000 and to decrease the number of sa­ loons from 376 to 200 was killed by a vote of 10 to 5 at a meeting- of the East St. Louis city council. Frankfort Heights.--This town was without police protection when 1(8 po­ licemen, John Wherry rfnd Calvin Craigs, were arrested and taken to Benfon on charges of assault and bat­ tery. Spnfcgfleid.--A program of proposed legislation to be presented to the Illi­ nois State Teachers' association-meet­ ing here December 27 will be shaped by the executive committee here De­ cember 26. Harrisburg.--Arthur Vinson and George Walls, both negroes, became involved in a fight here and Vinson re­ ceived pistol wounds in the head which will prove fatal. ' Harrisburg. -- The Mitchell-Preston revival, which has been in progress for four weeks, closed. The conversions numbered 227. Peoria.--February 14-17, Inclusive, have been set as the dates for the annual exposition of the Peoria Auto­ mobile and Accessories Dealers' asso­ ciation. Benton.--A car on the Coal Belt ln- terurban line was wrecked when it struck a cow. Seventy passengers were shaken badly and several re­ ceived injuries. Springfield-- Irvin J. Matthews of Rockt'ord passed the examination, for editor of the state press bulletin at the University of Illinois. He is elev­ enth ou the eligible list, having re- calved the grade of 72.4. Springfield.--The amateur poultry raiser will be given special attention at the annual show of the Illinois Poultry association in Springfield De­ cember 28. Breeds which are noted for their egg laying will be prominent. Alton.--The Standard-Tilton MUlvng company with mills here and at Dal­ las. Tej . announced that a bonus^of a month'! pay would be gKen to ail em­ ployee:). The company employs about 800 men. i Pekln.--Walter Kinrivald, a four- teen-yenr-old boy, was freed by a cor oner's jury of the charge of killing KiwiwaW! » ^eaitfcy -- • • •• u- ' to fee' Ouraelvea a* Other* See Ua. Laughter Is a mark of Intelligence only when one is able to laugh at him­ self, to smile with others at his own awkwardness, whims, shortcomings and personal peculiarities, remarks the New Y^ork Tribune. One needs a cer­ tain amount of wisdQni In order to know when he is making himself ridic­ ulous. He must he big enough and wise enough to put himself in another's *;1 place and see himself as others see' >' him. It is then -that laughter serves ^ the purpose of a corrective and a* means of self-discipline. ^ ^ But this requires a certain breadth)». of vision which not everyone possesses.! p Lincoln had It, and with all the sad-« ness and tragedy of his life this abil-f Ity to laugh at himself kept him sweet) jj" and human, saved his wit from ironyi | and cynicism, and enabled him tol |* laugh, not at people but with them. Iti ^ is this trait of quaint self-ridicule and aloofness from that petty sense of dig- ' nity which spurns self-criticism which constitutes the true sense of Sj humor. All the great humorists, from §8 Aristophanes to Mark Twain have bad $ it. Half the fun Of life must be en- |? Joyed at one's own expense. I A man may be dead In earoeat 4a his devotion tt> some great cause, asf ^J was Lincoln, yet keep his faith in him- f self and his Ideals. It is this sense of • humor which preserves balance' and i'| saves a man from bigotry and fanatl- cism, For want of it amont; good } people and reformers many a noble cause has failed and many a fboral rf ideal has been rendered durable. OFTEN LATENT FOR YEARS Minnesota Physician Explains fteasona . for Tuberculosis Infection in Entire Families. "If tuberculosis is not hereditary! why is it usually found in* most of the! members of an infected family?" The reason, according to Dr. L J. 1 Murphy of the Minnesota Public Health association, is this: "The first case in a family usually Infects all the other members of the family before the case is diagnosed or sent to a sanatorium. "Infection of other members of a family can be prevented, as a rule, only by removing the source of the in­ fection to a sanatorium," adds Doctor Murphy. "Children especially shpuld be safeguarded from individuals who may be casting off tubercle bacilli In tbeir sputum or mouth spray. Today authorities agree that childhood is the period of infection. ' "Most of those who develop con- suraptom in adult life have carried the latent Infection from childhood and have not received a new infection ae the time the symptoms appefr. .The extremely heavy death rate from tu­ berculosis between the ages of twenty and thirty Is due to childhood infec­ tions which are 'lit up' by the various forms of life strafhs to which young adults are subjected. "The onset of tuberculosis Is very insidious. In case of doubt consult a physician. A cough lasting more than three weeks, a dally afternoon (lush­ ing, a steady loss In weight, frequent hoarseness, easy tiring, indigestion, and a blood-stained sputum are some of the early signs, any one of which should call for a thorough examina­ tion. Grown-ups who have been in­ timately exposed during childhood should report also for periodical aminations." * ' One-Step Not New. If you've been doing the one-step n»- der the impression you're being mod­ ern, forget it and go to learning the minuet or some other reasonably up- to date dance--take it on the word of James E. Cogan of Washington. Mr. Cogan, who is here on a visit told Broadway he had danced the one-step as far back as 35 years ago--and, in fact, had invented It himself. The other night Cogan strolled down the great white way to renew memories of the city and chance led him into a big restaurant along the Rial to. where, after a few minutes of obstination he was persuaded to try his hand--that is, feet, of course--at a dance. What was his surprise to find he could not only do the one-step, but could do It as well as any of those On the floor. And then he discovered the one-step was really not new at all. "I danced that as far back as forty years agd," he declared. "In fact, I invented it." Wherefore. Mr. Dancer, what do you mean, modernism?--New York Corre­ spondence Pittsburgh Dispatch. J Proper Illustration. j. It is a mistake, avers the Illuminat­ ing Engineer Society, to use a bright light ugainst a dark background, and while an artistic fixture is well eribugh as a decoration, yet lamps which in themselves are good and suitable will not be satisfactory from a hygieni<* standpoint unless the fixtures are in the right position. In planning the il­ lumination of a room It Is only com­ mon sense to determine Just what you are going to use that room for, and then to arrange the lighting. By do­ ing this It should be possible for peo­ ple of middle age to add years of ex­ cellent eyesight which otherwise would soop diminish. Where children of various ages are in a family the natter of artificial light Is of great im­ portance. The general health of a growing boy or girl may be seriously affected by careless lighting, especial­ ly in rooms where they cea4 or stutjJ,, their lessons. • Nothing to Brag About. Visitor--You don't know Who I *M|» do you, Jimmy? Jimmy--Nawl Visitor--Aha! I kiow who yoo arat though. *i Jimmy--Aw, that ain't nothln'--I know that myself.--Boston Evening Transcript $?••.- - > <, ' i i n -- f ~ Beat Trapa."-"v.";'-'.,^, ^ % V, .' 1 The Beat Trapa.%^^ The trapper who has to buy traps, baits, and other trapping supplies should be sure to get the best that can be had, for while the first coat may seem higher, the best goods am ipucb *' ' > • ' T 'S If ' ^ "iL .• .• .* .*< • V* " * ' " "V, , , ^ r ' i '• * ' ' • # : " yVt*#? ̂ jail t* i-i jLi. *-