Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa)
February 17, 1908

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J*{ sees. r#.. SEEMS LIKE HOMS 1 kV* \y |V •Pvt. r«f I After trying other newspapers and |3jje." still feeling like a rat in a strahge ,f -garret return to the Times-Repub llFl'1 j'lican and it will seem Ilka home. jpb-\ -It contains all tha newa you cara J*' to know. VOLUME! THIRTY-FOUR. ^Tfrserve Forces in Provinces ot Asia-Minor Called and L'ro cecding to 1 rontier ASSUMES A SERIOUS ASPECT Sultan of Turkey Not Awed by Recent Demonstration by Russia and Incur­ sions of Persian Territory Continues —Powers May Become Involved in Controversy. Tiflis. Fob. 17.—Reports have been received hero from Armenia that all redia*. or Turkish ftnny reserve lorces, in Van. Mush, and other vilayets ot Asia-Minor, have been called to col ors, and are proceeding rapidly to the frontier. At the same time the league of all Turkish revolutionary parties is increasing,' the revolutionary agitation. Appeals and proclamations are being issued exhorting the population to pro test In every way possible against the warlike plans of the sultan. St"-- The concentration of Turkish re serves on the Persian and Russian frontiers in Asia-Minor, If in progress, is the outcome of border difficulty /with Persia. Recently Turkish troops crossed the Persian frontier in the vi cinity of Urumiah and committed dep redations. To this Russia, under her •treaty obligations to Persia, objected and begin the concentration of a strong force on the frontier of Cau- I casus. This show of military activity was thought to have been sufficient to put a stop to Turkish aggression and the Russian movement was said to have been discontinued. If the reports from Armenia are true, the -difficulty in Asia-Minor, which is closely con nected with the railr,oad aspirations of the powers in the Balkans, may as sume a serious import. •-^-#3 1 --BURN TO DEATH IN BARN.= M. D. Baldwin and Sixteen Horses JW^*yiea at Bedford. Boecla^ „ries-Repul)Ucan. BedttSfSfFeb. 17.—M. D. Baldwin, one of the owners, together with six teen horses, burned to death in the Black Baldwin livery barn, whose destruction is believed to have been of incendiary origin^ Will Saville, also, ds perhaps fatally injured because of the fire. The fire was discovered by Floyd Nevis, at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, when he went to the barn to get a span of horses he had 'left there. As he stepped inside the door to rescue the horses he stumbled over the in sensible form of Saville. He dragged lilm into the open air and called for help. The Are had got such, a start that not a man was able to enter the building', which was practically demol ished. Every horse in it was cre mated. As soon as the fire was quelled the Office was entered and the lifeless body Of M. D. Baldwin was found. He had apparently been sleeping all night in the office—and slept to his death. The property loss amounts to $5,000, which Is fully covered by insurance. The coroner held his inquest today and •the Jury brought in the verdict that the fire was started by persons un known. Some young .men were seen in the barn at about 3 o'clock in the morning. The fire 'broke out at an hour later. The young men have dis appeared. It is thought that a fire may have been started by them to lceep w'arm. The authorities are vigorously conducting further investigations. LEFT WITHOUT HEAT. Plant in Rule Block, Hampton, Out of Commission Four Days. Special to Times-Republican. •Hampton, Feb. 17. The heating plant of the Rule block in this city, was out of commission four days of last week—Wednesday to Saturday caused by a toad leak in the boiler. It is stated that this was the first steam heating plant installed in north ern Iowa, having been in continuous use every winter for the past twenty seven years. The occupants of the 'block were obliged to resort to stoves, and had the weather not been moderate, the suffer ing would have been rather severe. The third and most of the second floor of the building are occupied by Hotel Rule. Repairs to the plant were completed Saturday night and the heat again turned on, much to the delight of the building's occupants. CAR FALLS SIXTEEN FEET. Elevated Track at Hampton Coal Chute Quite Badly Damaged. Special to rimes-Republican. Hampton, Feb. 17.—While the Iowa Central yardmen were doing some switching here Saturday evening, a box car loaded with coal was pushed off the north end of the elevated track at the coal chute, and fell to the ground, a distance of about sixteen feet. Need less to say, the car was completely wrecked, and the coal scattered pro miscuously. A section of the trestle work some fourteen feet in length was carried down with the car, and wrecked, and other parts of the structure sustained slight daimige. It seems that the crew either misunderstood" the signals, or were mistaken in the number of cars tr.. *3F" ,11k -1's ft IP that wore on the trestle and the dis tance to the ond of the track. The February term of district court was adjourned until Hie -4th. But one jury ease has been tried, that ol Mar tin Johnson vs. Morgan and Oakland Township Drainage District. The plaintiff was awarded damages in the sum of r. HITCHCOCK RESIGNS TODAY. Will Begin Duties of Managing Taft's Campaign, at Once. •Washington, Feb. 17.—Frank H. Hitchcock today presented to the pres lent his letter of resignation as first assistant postmaster general. The pres ident accepted the resignation and made ft felicitous response to it, in which he referred to Hitchcock's serv ices in lie postoffice department. Hitchcock expects to enter almost im mediately, upon bis new duties as manager of the presidential campaign for Secretary Taft. FIVE HURT IN CRASH. Michigan Central Passenger Train Telescopes New York Central Yard Engine. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 17.—rive per sons were injured, one probably fatal ly. when a Michigan Central passen ger train running twenty-five miles an hour, crashed into and telescoped a New York Central yard engine at Black Rock, late last night. NEXT MEETING IN CLINTON. Boys'. Y. M. C. A. Conference to Go to River' City—210 Delegates Present, fjpiclul to Times-Reoubltcan. Oskaloosa, Feb. 17.—Oskaloosa won in the basket ball contest among the delegates to the Y. M. C. A.. Clinton will likely get the next Iowa boys' state conference. Two hundred and ten delegates are present. There were fourteen conversions in the big meeting last night. ATHLETE SERIOUSLY ILL. Member of Boone Basket Ball Team Poisoned by Small Wound. Special to rimes-Republican Boone, Feb. 17.—Clinton Kastner, a member of the Y. M. C. A. basket ball .team here, is critically ill at his home from blood poisoning. He received in a practice game Friday last a small scratch on the knee, which developed a serious sickness. $300,000 IN PURSES Representatives of Western Trotting Circuit Decide to Have tha Racing Season This Year of Three Months' Duration Schedule of Dates. Chicago, Feb. 17.—The racing sea son of three months' duration, for purses aggregating $300,000, was de termined at the annual meeting of representatives of the great western trotting circuit, held here today. The meeting was attended by two repre sentatives froth each of the thirteen racing associations ill the circuit. Each association offered aggregate purses exceeding that of any former season. George Keller, of Decatur, 111., was re elected president, and W. H. Smoilin ger, of Iron Mountain. Mo., secretary. The following racing stewards were selected: George Keller. W. H. Smollinger, E. J. Mulgrew, Dubuque I. L. Sears, Dav enport, and C. R. Duffin, Terre Haute. The following*' schedule of dates, with the 'amount of the purses offered by each association, was adopted: Peoria, July 3-10 $30,000 Terre Haute, July 13-20 25.000 Llbertyville, July 20-25 25,000 Decatur, July 27-31 15,000 Kalamazoo, Aug. 3-7 30.000 Galesburg, Aug. 10-14 15,000 Davenport, Apg. 17-21 15,000 Dubuque, Aug. 24-28 15,000 Hamline, Sept. 1-5 Milwaukee, Sept. 7-11 Peoria, Sept. 14-18 Pekin, Sept. 22-25 Springfield, Sept. 25 to Oct. 2. 35,000 30.000 25,000 10.000 20,000 RACERS AT BUFFALO Three of Leading Autos in New York Paris Trip Resume Journey Ger mans Delayed by Accident. Buffalo, Feb. 17.—The Italian car ar rived here at 5:45 this morning, and after a short time departed for Erie, Pa. The French car driven by St Chaffney departed at 11 o'clock. The American car leaves at 3 this after noon. After the freezing weather it is expected the roads will be found in fair shape. German Car Delayed. Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 17.—The Ger man car in the New York-to-Parls au tomobile race arrived here at 12:45 p. m. An accident this side of Canan daigua delayed the Germans several hours. Indicted Men Surrender. New York, Feb. 17.—Foster H. Yoorhes, former governor of New Jer sey, and Frank G. Combes, of Phila delphia. indicted by the grand jury last week on charges of perjury, today sur rendered and gave bail of $2,500 each. Wellsville, O., Concerns Resume. Wclisville, O., Feb. 17—Nearly all the industrial concerns, employing 2, 0o men in this vicinity, have resumed op erations after having been closed down for a number of weeks. Gives Employment to 2,000. Johnstown, Pa.. Feb. 17.—Work was resumed in the Bessemer department of the Cambria Steel Company today, giving employment to 2,000 men. f-y-'- -til1 1# 1 ®)£tfDCtUU3 Application of Corn Kelt Meat Producers' Association Being Heard By Prouly IOWA PACKERS REPRESENTED Independent Packers Again Appear as Intervenors, as They Did at First Hearing in Des Moines—Railroads and Iowa Stockmen Chiefly Involved —Lower Rates Wanted. Chicago. Feb. 17.—Interstate Com­ merce Commissioner I'routy today re sumed the hearing of the case of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association against Missouri, Iowa and Illinois railroads, in which the association seeks a reduction on Interstate ship ments and rates on live stock in Iowa. The hearing was commenced some time ago in Des Moines and was con tinued until today. The case involves chiefly the railroads and Iowa stock men, but the independent Iowa packers are represented in an intervening mo# against the stockgrowers and their ef forts to get a reduction in rates. J. F. RANDOLPH IS SUICIDE. Treasurer "of Company of Which Thomas A. Edison is President. West Orange, N. J., Feb. 17.—John F. Randolph, treasurer of the Edison Manufacturing Company, of which Thomas A. Edison is president, com mitted suicide today by shooting. It is believed that Randolph was tempor arily insane. That Mrs. Randolph did not follow her husband to his death was due to the prompt and determined action of air. Edison. When lie reached the house Mrs. Randolph was hysterical, wringing her hands and crying out that she would kill herself. Edison followed Mrs. Randolph to the second floor and came upon her as slje was about to throw herself from a second story win dow. He seized the frenzied woman and after a hard struggle succeeded in pulling her back to safety. Several letters left by Randolph showed the suicide was deliberately planned. In one, which was addressed to Mrs. Randolph, he assured her that provision would be made whereby all his property would go to her. The let« ter declared that every dollar which he possessed had been gained honestly by hard work. Among the letters was one for Mr. Edison, also one for Mrs. Edison. The contents of these letters were not made public. PROTEST DOES NOT STAND. Smith and Dunbar Acted Substitutes for Bowling Champions. Cincinnati, Feb. 17.—Aitlio they had appeared as substitutes in the Na tional Bowling Association champion ship match, Smith and Dunbar, of the Corinthians, Newark, N. J., have won the international two-men champion ship. They had defeated the cham pions of the Canadian, American and Western Bawling Associations, but their final victory depended upon the decision of the protest that was filed against them on Saturday. The Na tional Association champions, unable to compete, had designed Smith and Dun bar, who were their teammates in the five-men contests, to take their place. A protest was filed against the en trance of any except the actual cham pions in the contest. President Herei mann, however, decided today that the protest against Smith and Dunbar does not stand. MORSE ARRAIGNED TODAY. Former New York Banker and Finan cial Promoter Pleads Not Guilty. New York, Feb. 17.—Charles^ W. Morse, a former banker and financial promoter, was arraigned before Justice Dovvling today on two charges of grand larceny and misappropriation of funds of the Mercantile National bank. Thru his counsel he pleaded not guilty. The court fixed his hearing for next Mon day. Charles W. Morse was indicted by the grand jury today on a charge of perjury alleged to have been committed when Morse testified before a former grand jury. BRYAN HAS BUSY DAY. Seven Hundred Guests Will Be at In dianapolis Banquet Tonight. Indianapolis, Feb. 17.—W. J. Bryan was scheduled to spend another busy twelve hours when he started today to carry out his program, which included addresses to the ministers' association and high school students this morn ing, a reception this afternoon, an ad dress to a mass meeting this evening, and a banquet tonight at which 700 guests will be accommodated. PENNYPACKER TO TESTIFY. Will Be Called When Sanderson's Ex pert Witnesses Finish. 1 larrishurg. Pa.. Feb. 17—Tile trial of the conspiracy suits was resumed to day. Following the precedent of his associates in their opening speeches to the jury for the defense, counsel for former Superintendent of Grounds Shumaker laid all the responsibility for the alleged irregularities in connection with furnishings the capital upon Jos eph M. Huston, the architect. Counsel for the defense began calling experts who had measured the furniture sup­ 'r~mi V'* *%»s*$n? St Western nnd the Missouri, Pacific in Kansas. The mortgage runs thirty years and bears 6 per cent interest. INTERNAL DISSENSIONS. Cause Failure of Phoenix Coal Com pany, With Mines at Cornell, III. I'hicago, Feb. 17.—Creditors of the Phoenix Coal Company, with mines at Cornell. III., today made application for a receivership for the concern. It is alleged that internal dissensions in the company have caused the business to deteriorate. SNELL WILL CASE Jurors Stand 11 to 1 in .Favor of Breaking the Will—Can Not Agree on Verdict. Clinton, III., Feb. 17.—After having been out since Saturday evening, the jury in the SneJI will case had not reached a verdict up to 10 o'clock to day. Rumors are broadly current that the jurors stand 11 to 1 In favor of breaking Snell's will. MACON CONTINUES ATTACKS. Increases in Salaries Rejected on Points of Order. Washington, Feb. 17.—The final Mages of the passage of the executive, legislative and* judicial appropriation bill were entered upon in the house to day. Macon, of Arkansas, continued liis policy of attacking all increases In salaries, and they were accordingly re jected on points of order mudti by hini. New Alsistant to Cortelyou. Washington, Feb. IV.—The president sent to the senate today the nomina tion of Charles P. Graiulfleld. of Mis souri, to be flrst assistant postmaster general. Lawrence F. Michael, of Gettysburg. S. D., to be agent of the Indians at Lower Brale agency. Bill for Thirteenth Censua. Washington, Feb. 17.—A bill" provid ing for taking the thirteenth census was reported in the house today by Crumpacker. chairman of the com mittee on census. Against Littlefield Bill. Washington, Feb. 17.—Representa tive Kustermann of Wisconsin, today made an argument before the house judiciary committee ,against the Lit tlefield bill, providing that liquor which is shipped in interstate com merce into a slate and directed to a local option district, shall become seizable at the state borders. He con tended that the bill cannot be upheld, therefore argued that it should not be enacted into law. BACK TO FULL TIME. Six Thousand Cotton Mill Employes at Saco, Mass., Affected. Biddeford, Mass., Feb. 17.—The cot ton mills of the Pepperel Manufactur ing Company and York Manufactur ing Company, in Saco, went back to full time today. About 6,000 operatives are affected. MINERS IMPRISONED Twenty-three Men Are Caught by a Cave-in in Pennsylvania Colliery— Details Are Meagre. Pottsville, Pa., Feb. 17.—By a cave in at Mid-Valley colliery, a mile and a half north of Mount Carmel, twenty three miners were imprisone.d this aft ernoon. There is no telephone connec tion with the colliery and details are meagre. SENATOR LATIMER VERY ILL. Undergoes Serious Operation for Twist of the Bowels. Washington, Feb. 17.—Senator Lati mer, of South Carolina, was operated on here today for what is known as twist of the bowels, and is in a critical condition. VETERAN MISSIONARY DEAD. Dr. J. L. Atkinson Began His Work in Japan in 1873. Chicago, Feb. 17.—A Daily News ca ble from Tokio says: Dr. John L. At kinson, a veteran Congregational mis sionary at Kobe, is dead. He was a •minister in Iowa before coming to Japan in 1873. INSTRUCTED FOR TAFT. Second Missouri Congressional District Elects Delegates. Chillicothe, Mo., Feb. 17.—The re publicans of the Second Missouri con gressional district today elected dele gates to the national convention at Chicago and instructed them to vote for the nomination of Taft. WILLIAM SELLS DEAD. Son of One of the Three Organizers of Famous Circus. New York. Feb. 1 7 William Sells, son of one of the three brothers who organized the famous Sells Brothers'' circus combination, died suddenl.v ol gastritis here today, aged 43 years. Ufa* »*-»v rtwv MARSHA-Ll-iTOWJS", IOWA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17 190.S plied by Sanderson, to refute testimony I of the commonwealth that the meas urements were falsified. Former Gov ernor Penny packer is to lie called as soon as Sanderson's expert witnesses on measurements have been heard. MORTGAGE FOR $50,000,000. Kansas Colorado Pacific Secures Lar(|e Refunding Loan. Wichita, ivas., Feb. 17.—A $50,000,000 refunding mortgage given by the Kan sas Colorado Pacific railroad to guarantee the Trust. Company of New York, was tiled this afternoon. The Kansas Colorado Pacific includes the Fort Scott. Wichita 'it Politicians Would Mot Be Sur prised if Other Congressmen Concluded to Kctire CAMPAIGN CHANCES DAMAGED Withdrawal of Cousins and Birdsall Has Its Effects in Other Districts Prediction Made That Forthcoming Campaign Will Be Record Breaking Mud-Slinging Affair. Special to Times-Republican. Des Moines, Feb. 17—The withdraw al and retirement of two of the pres ent members of congress because they found themselves to be out of line with the overwhelming sentiment among their constituents, may be fol lowed. by other similar retirements very soon. A prominent politician from the Tenth district stated here a few days ago that a number ot Congressman Conner's friends have intimated to him that the tide is turning against •him in that district, and it is stated that he may not remain in the fight. There is almost certainty now that there will be strong opposition to Congressman Hull in this district, and it is stated by those who are well informed that as soon as a strong can didate gets in the field in a way to indicate he will make a hard fight, Captain Hull will withdraw from the race. It is recognized that Hull could possibly win another term, but at the expenditure of his salary for the term, since he has taught his followers to do work only for money. The passing of Cousins and Birdsall is regarded as having a very damag ing effect on the campaigns of the old congressmen all over the state, as It is virtual confession of the truth of President Roosevelt's Indictment or congress. It has been virtually decide'd that Che successor to Senator Hopkins, who is to .be auditor of state, will come fr-mi Audubon county. His district is com posed of Guthrie, Dallas and Audubon. The two first named have had the senatorship for many years. Audubon will probably present the name of George Cosson of Audubon, a lawyer of ability, and a staunch republican. "You can look out for the most re markable campaign of misrepresenta tion, villiflcation, defamation—political mud-slinging-v-ever seen in the state of Iowa. The plans are all laid. It will begin with private circulation of all scrts of stories and finally with hints and inuetidoes in the standpat papers and later, if they dare do it, with pub lication of the vilest slanders ever con cocted in the imagination of a band of disreputable conspirators." So stated a man who got on the in side of things at the Savery the past week. It is stated that the plan of those who would break up the republican party unless they can be restored to their former places of power is to so completely discredit the present state administration that unless the stand patters win in the June primary a democratic state is certain. Here it what was agreed upon: Attack the political record of the re publican party in Iowa and of all those who have had to do with legislation, the execution of the laws or appoint ments to places. Attack all state officials not of the standpat' faith and accuse them, di rectly or indirectly, of malfeasance in office. Attack the private and personal character of all candidates who are not avowed standpatters especially on cor poration questions and give circula tion to all available stories of personal shortcomings. Make an especial attack on Governor Cummins, accusing him of every known political crime, of every of fense against the laws, of dishonesty, perjury, falsehood, trickery and of per sonal debauchery. In case it is found impracticable to publish the falsehoods,.or dangerous to do so, they are to be circulated pri vately with the newspapers engaged in insinuations and intimations. In this way the minds of the people will be poisoned against the whole republican party and against the prominent re publican officials and candidate.3 to the extent of enabling the crowd which is out to get in again. WOODBURY TAX FERRETS BUSY. After the Cudahy Packing Company and Armour Company. Sioux City, Feb. 17—Woodbury coun ty tax ferrets are after the Cudahy Packing Company and Armour Co., for the purpose of compelling them to pay taxes from which they were ex empted by common consent of the business men of Sioux City and the city council. The board of supervisors lias passed a resolution empowering Judge Ben McCoy of oskaloosa and D. B. Shontz of Correctlonville, the ferrets, to tiring suit against the Sioux City Stock Yards company, the Farmers' Loan and Trust company, Edwin E. Dewey and other incorporations and individuals who have failed to pay taxes on their property. Ten years ago the citv council ex empted the Cudaliy Packing company 'F- OVA*' 4" a! "^AS from payment of taxes on Ihelr pack ing house property. During these years the company has paid taxes on a nom inal iluation of $10,000 or $15,000, where ,s if Hie law was strictly en forced it would probably be assessed for something like $750,000. The agree ment ictween tlie council and the Cudahv Packing company has ex pired. The agreement between the counei and Armour Co. will run three years more. 1L is said to be the intention of the ferrets to make the packing companies pay up all the taxes that would have been assessed against them despite he exemption agreement. Woodbury county lawyers agree that the exemption of the city council was illegal. INSANE WITH JEALOUSY. Des Moines Druggist Shoots His Wife Then Wounds Physician. l)es Moines. Feb. 17.—M. F. I)avis, a druggist here, sliot his wife Saturday night, and shot and probably fatally wounded I'r. James .Miller, city phy sician. when with officers he respond ed to the injury call. Davis quar reled Willi his wife in the presence of a neighbor, Mrs. Banks, who had invited them to supper. lavis, who is believed to lia.ve been under the influence of drugs1, raised a twenty-two rifle at his wife, and Mrs. Banks grabbed his arms from behind just as tie tired. The mullet entered the wife's leg. She was removed from the house immedi ately. Wi en Mr. Miller and two officer.* arrived nnd approached the house, Davis, who was sitting in a second story window in the dark, fired. The bulle: entered Dr. Miller's right lung taking a downward course. He was hurried to i^lercy hospital and in re sponse to the next alarm, four police men stormed the door of the residence. Davis appeared at the head of (he stairs, his hands above his head, and cried for mercy. It is believed that jealousy prompt ed his action. He is but thirty years old and was madly in love with his wife, to whom he had been married but a short time. She was a Catholic nnd he joined that church in order to win tier hand. Afler being removed to a hospital. Mrs. Davis sent word that she would like to see her husband, not knowing of his further crime. Davis' father Is I wealthy. On the way to the station, Davis told the officer that he had in tended to do more shooting, but changed his mind. His rifle was found by the officers hidden between the two! mattresses of his bed. He had un dressed after the shooting and had gone to bed. ALLISON MEN MEET Sixty-fifth District Republicans Gather at Cedar Rapids and Perfect Plans for Campaign. Special to Times-Republican. Cedar Rapids, Feb. 17.—The meeting of the Fifth district republicans, here today was solely in the interest of Sen ator Allison. Every county was repre sented except Grundy. About sixty re publicans, largely standpatters, attend ed the meeting, which was for the pur pose of selecting distric. and county chairmen for an energetic Allison cam I paign. Senator Whipple was chosen chair man of the meeting and Henry Stone secretary.. (^ommitteess on resolution and permanent organizations were ap pointed. Major Guthrie, of Dubuque, in gen eral charge of the Allison campaign, was here this afternoon at the Mont ross hotel with the republicans of the Fifth district, to effect the organiza tion in the interest of Allison. The fol lowing appointments as chairmen of the respective counties to perfect coun ty organization, and have charge of th€ campaign in the interest of Sena tor Allison, were made: Benton—L. Kirkland. r.?ama—W. D. Lee. Marshall—G. R. Estabrook. ones—F. B. Bolton. 'N* Cedar—O. C. Bowling. Linn Ward Woodbridge. No representative was present from Grundy county. ADMITS KILLING TAYLOR. Bert Hendersliter Took Revenge on Step-Father for Mistreating Mother. Special to Tirnes-ReDiiblican. Creston. Feb. 17.—After several hours in the sweat box and persistent cross questioning by the sheriff and police. Bert Hendersliter, son of Airs. Belle Taylor, and stepson of the' murdered man, Nathan Taylor, confessed last night that he fired the shots wliifih ended Taylor's life. He stated that Taylor had illtreated his mother and he took this method for revenge. He pro duced a watch and chain also which he had taken from the body. The young murderer is hardly responsible men tally and will probably be committed to the criminally insane ward at the penitentiary. CALIFORNIAN TO SPEAK. D. E. McKinley to Open Taft Cam paign at Mason City. Special to Times-Republican. Mason City, Feb. 17.—Hon. Duncan E. McKinley, of California, will ad dress the Taft club of this city, Feb. 21. Plans are made for a big meeting opening the Taft campaign in this •s :ate. SHOOTS OFF HAND. Mason City Farmer Injured While Hunting. Special to Times-^republican. Mason City, Feb. 17.—Arthur Morris, a farmer, lost his hand by the acci dental discharge of a gun while crawl ing under a fence. He came near bleed ing to death. He lay some time before iound. w:r 4 -"•fc-J $4'* •r "1 T.«R. BI/.LE.TIN, c» he Weather. Sun irlt.."" February 1H at 0:57 sets 0:4. Iowa—Rain or anow tonight and Tuesday warmer touighl colder in the west Tuesday. Illinois—Increasing cloudiness, with rain or snow Tuesday and possibly late tonight rising temperature. SoiJt.i Dakota—Suow and colder to night and Tuesday partly cloudy, with snow in the east. Missouri—Showers lonight or Tues day: warmer tonight and in the cast Tuesday colder in the west Tues day. PAGE ONE. Telegraphic Newai Flood Danger Passed in Pennsyl vania. Much Suffering Among Victims. Turks Prepare for Hostilities. Iowa Kate Hearing on in Chicago. Corirer May Follow Cousins and Birdsall. Auto Racers at Buffalo. Knell Jury Deadlocked. Edison Saves Woman's Life. PAGES TWO AND THREE. Iowa Miwii Stee: Shy of Resolutions. Iowa. Interested in Aldrich Bill. Seeking Lost Son. Central Wreck at GiftorcL Mail Pouches Rifled. Knights of the Grip. PAGE FOUR. Editorial* Voting Municipal Expenditures. 'Tis No Scapegoat. Business at Leading Points. Topics and Iowa Opinion. Guide for Short Course. PAGE FIVE. General Newa: Propped of a Stormy Convention. Story, The Fighting Chance. Odclty in the News. PAGES SIX AND SEVEN. City News: Boys Battle for Life in Icy Water. One Drowns: Others' Call Close. Gigantic Short Course Opens. Attendance Beyond Expectations. Guide to Short Course. (Page 4.) School Entertainment Tonight. Dr. Whinery Has Another Operation. City News in Brief. PAGE EIGHT. Market* and Generali Steer Trade Weak. Hog Demand Does Not Hold. Wheat Closes Weak. Corn Also ^Veakens. Dr. Levingston Unmasked. ADDITIONAL MARKETS New York Grain. New York, Feb. 17. Wieat—May, 1.00%. Corn—May, 69'A. St. Louis Grain. St. Louis, Feb. 17. Wheat—May, 94%. Corn—May, 56%. Oa.ts—May, 49%- The Money Market. New York, Feb. 17—Money easy, 1V2 ©2: prime mercantile, 5p6: sterling firmer, 4.86.25@4.86.30 demand, 4.82.75 (&4.* 2.80 at sixty days. FIFTH DISTRICT CALL Delegate Convention to Be Held in Des Moines March 18 to Select National Delegates. Chairman George R. Estabrook, chairman of the Fifth district con gressional committee, has issued the following call for the district delegate convention: "To the Republican Electors of the Fifth Congressional District of Iowa: Pursuant to a call of the republican national committee and by the direc tion of the republican district commit tee of the Fifth congressional district of iowa, there will be a delegate con vention to be held in the city of Des Moines on Wednesday, March 18, 1908, at it a. m., for the purpose of electing two delegates and two alternates to represent said district in the national republican convention to be held in the city of Chicago, 111., June 16, 1908, and for the transaction of such other bus iness as may properly come before said convention. "The delegates to this convention shall be selected by the respective counties in the usual manner. "The representation in said conven tion shall be based as follows: One delegate for each county and one ad ditional delegate for each two hun dred votes or a fraction of one hun dred or over cast for Albert B. Cum mins for governor at the general elec tion held November 6, 1906. "This convention will be held in con junction with the Fifth district caucus of the state convention, to be held on same day, and the same delegates will be: eligible to both. "On this basis, the various counties in the district will be entitled to repre sentation as follows: Benton Cedar county Grundy county Total A LETTER FROM HOME sr 9 Tiina county 1^ Jones county 1® Linn county Marshall comity 1® 98 "Dated at Marshalltown. Iowa, Feb ruarv 17, 190S. "GEO. R. ESTA BROOK. "Committeeman Fifth Congressional District ot iowa." WlCJSf Is so newsy because it tells of th« things that one wanta moat t« know. It is just this quality that distinguishes the Timea-Rspubli* can from ao many other news* papers. N E 4 1 Waters Receding and Inundated Districts Being Cleaned Up To Permit Business MANY VICTIMS SUFFERING Cold Catches Them Unprepared and Marooned Boats Carry Supplies of Bread and Bologna Two Brick Houses Undermined by Waters and Inmates Have Narrow Escapes. 4 Pittsburg, Feb. 17.—Two brick house9 at 22 and 24 Pennsylvania aven.ue, weakened by high water, collapsed early today. 'One man was injured and eighteen others narrowly escaped be* ing crushed to death. The flood stag! at 10 o'clock this morning was 24V§ feet. The rivers are slowly receding. Suffering among-the flood victims it intense today owing to the cold weath er and all charitable organisations are engaged in alleviating the misery. Reports are being received 'showing the damage to be widespread and heavy. Scenes of activity are in evidence everywhere in the flood district today. As the water recedes hundreds of men are put to work pumping water from the cellars and clearing the debris from the streets on the north side. Patrol men in skiffs are distributing coal and food to imprisoned families. For'this purpose 4,000 loaves of bread and 1,000 poijnds of bologna were secured last night. In the manufacturing districts a gen eral cleaning up is in progress and by nightfall all evidence of the flood is expected to be obliterated and busi ness resumed. A great amount of goods lias been destroyed by water in the basements of business houses down, town, but stocks valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars were removed to places of safety early Saturday and the loss in this respect is much smaller •than In previous years. At western Pennsylvania points above the city, the water has receded from th# lowlands and the restoration of normal conditions is under way. TODAY'S COURT DECISIONS. Opinions Handed Down by Iowa's Hiqheat Tribunal. Special to Times-Republican. Des Moines, Feb. 17.—The followinf decisions were handed down by tha su preme court today: The state of Iowa vs. Roche, appel lant. Union county. Affirmed. Allen vs. Hawkeye i^oan and Brok erage Company, appellant. Clinton district. Dismissed. Collins vs. Collins, appellant. Davfti district. Affirmed. Flynn, appellant, vs. Finch. Wash* ington district. Affirmed. Baker vs. Mathew, appellant. Iowa district. Affirmed. Delana vs. Voss, appellant. Iowa district. Affirmed. Logan, appellant, vs. Southall. Wood bury district. Affirmed. McGinnis vs. Wabash Railroad Com pany, appellant. Monroe district. Af firmed. Mickey vs. City of Indianola, appel lant, Warren district. Affirmed. McDermott vs. Mahor*ey, appellant Greene district. Affirmed. Middle Branch Telephone company^ vs.' Jones, Warren district. Affirmed. Altig, appellant, vs. Altig, PoweshieH. district. Affirmed. Harni vs. Sioux City Stock Tardil company, appellant, Woodbury dtatricL Affirmed. Henn Brewing company, appellant vs. Hamilton, Appanoose. Reversed. Jones vs. Jones, appellant, Iowa dis* trict. Reversed. Evans vs. Palmer, appellant, Wash*, ington district. Reversed. Smith, appellant, vs. Ellyson, John son district. Reversed in part, affirmed in part. HEARS SERMON THRU 'PHQNE. Forest City Invalid Lady Benefits by Novel Scheme. Special to Tlm*,-'-K',DUitiican. Iowa Falls. 'Rcb. 17.—An example of carrying the gospel to a person unable to attend the, house of worship thru physical disabilities, is shown in the northern part of the state. Mrs. Eu gene Secor, who is an invalid, is able to hear the church service, owing to a plan evolved by Willard Secor, of Fore-st City, who arranged to have a telephone placed at the bedside of Mrs. Secor. The phone was connected with a transmitter that hangs in front of the pulpit in the First Methodist church. a ONLY THREE SURVIVORS. Sailors From Wrecked Vessel ReaeH Port in Small Boat. Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 17.—A dispatch from Tatoosh light reports that a boat reached there this morning containing the first mate and two sailors of the,, sailing ship Emily Reed, wreclced. at Taillamook Friday. The sailors be^ lieve no one else was saved. DYNAMITE AT CLINTON. Wreck Derrick Car of Northwestsrnj Stopping Work on Bridge. Special to Times-Republican. Clinton. Feb. 17. Dynamiters wrecked the derrick car used on the Northwestern bridge here this morning early, stopping work on the super* structure 00 the bridge. t" I*! ft ,4 I 1

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Republican NationalConvention Will Be Disturbed By Pro gram of "Allies" ANTI-ROOSEVELT FORCE STRONG Fwr Expressed That They Already Control National Committee— Both Claim Balance of Power—Taft Evi­ dently Has Upper Hold—Will South­ erners Stick? Washington, Feb. 17.—If the oppon ents of the Roosevelt doctrines carry to conclusion their program of trying to defeat, the nomination of Secretary Taft by filling the republican national convention with contesting delegations from the southern states, it will be the biggest undertaking of the kind ever attempted. Indeed, as a. bid for the control ot a government, it will be but one step from open revolt with force and arms. The Bfune scheme has been tried be fore, but never upon a scale of such magnitude. Yet its operation Is com paratively simple. A national conven tion certainly can be oontrolled by this means, provided there bo a sufficient number of contestants, and a majority of the national committee be favorable to their cause. The national committee makes up the temporary roll of the convention and •the men named In the temporary roll are the ones whose votes decide the va rious contests. The particular state or district in (Jispute does not vote, but all the other contestants on the tem porary roll do vote. Hence, if the na tional committee will place enough contestants upon the temporary roll to give the anti-Roosevelt people a ma jority of that roll, they can control the convention. First, by making the seats of their contestants permanent, and then, with this acquired majority, do ing as they please in making the nom ination. Fear Reactionaries Control. It ,will thus Hie perceived that it Is solely a question of who has the na tional committee. If Taft has it, the scheme will not work. If the reaction aries-have it, then it will. Both sides claim it, but from the boldness with Which the anti-Taft people have com bined in the selection of un instructed contestants in Florida, and from their known purpose to continue the same tactics In the other southern states, It Is to be feared that the reactionaries have captured the majority of the com mittee. But the control of the national com mittee will not avail if there be not efiough contestants to give the opposi tion a clear majority of the temporary roll. The Grant third-termers in the famous convention of 1880 had more than fifty contestants and they had the national committee. But it was not suf ficient,' and Grant was defeated after •the most bitter struggle, next to the present one, ever occurring in the re publican party. The very first test vote In the convention 'of 1880 showed the Grant adherents that they had not brought enough contestants to the con vention by just seventy-two. The result was that the Blaine fol lowers and the other opponents of the •third-term were able to take the con tests away from the national commit tee and unseat as many on the tem porary roll as they pleased. Which they did, and generously, in their strength, permitting John A. Logan and some of ,the other more prominent supporters of General Grant to retain their seats. Not Enough Votes in Sight. But in the convention of 1908. the opponents of the administration ticket and policies will have to bring forward considerably more contestants than Grant needed to win. Conceding that the reactionaries can hold together all the delegates from all the favorite-son states, and can perfect a fighting com bination of all the favorite sons, they will still be 189 votes' short of a bare majority of one. There are about 345 votes in the southern states, and it will really be necessary to have contests lii most of them to stand any show of making up a temporary roll large enough to swing the convention. And besides, there is a large ques tion of whether they can hold their men together as Grant did his fam ous "Sparatan-Band" of 306, to go thru very many ballots. The information here Is that many of the delegates from Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New York will be likely to have a lively desire to line up on the Taft side unless the reaction aries can show a vast preponderance of strength early in the 'battle. If it comes to a matter of sticking it out for thir ty-six ballots, as did the Grant "stal warts" in 1880, the reactionaries will fade away into thin mist. For there is ho personality in either Fairbanks, Cannon, Knox or any of the others ap proaching that of General Grant, and no leader in their whole camp to hold a candle to Roscoe Conkling. Will Southerners "Stick?" Again, the means that must be used to pick up contestants iu the south are not of the kind to bring stay-to the-death material out of the south. John Sherman's reference in his book to Russell A. Alger regarding the con vention of 188S shows that at least some of the southern republicans will not "stay put." Even the friends of Alger afterward told tales to prove this. One was that on one occasion in the convention of 18S8 several negro delegates from the south came to the Alger headquarters and offered to sell their seats in the convention. The per son in charge politely declined to buy, saying Alger had all the seats he wanted. The spokesman of the colored delegation shuffled uneasily for a moment and then essayed to close the deal at one, stroke. "Boss," lie said, "de votes go wii dese seats." Another thing not to be lost sight of Is the grave possibility of the conven tion of 1908 coming to the breaking point If the reactionaries persist in a campaign of this kind and of such magnitude. Death has not yet by any means taken all the republicans who can re member liow near the republican con vention of 1S80 came to a crisis. In no other national convention has it ever been necessary to offer and adopt a resolution like this: "Resolved, as the sense of this con vention, that every member of it is bound in honor to support its nomi nee. whoever that nominee may be: and that no man should hold a seat here who is not ready to so agree." Yet this resolution was offered in the convention of 1880 by Roscoe Conk ling. and that distinguished but un scrupulous field marshall, fearing the effect of his high-handed course in try ing to nominate Grant might have, forced a rollcali upon it and tried to drive from the convention three dele gates who had dared to vote against it on the ground that It was an insult to their life-long loyalty. •I I Oddity in ihe Neivs ®®sXsXSXsXsXsX^ Twice Saved in Half Minute. Wilkesbarre, Pa.—Terreneo Bradigan Lehigh Valley railway brakeman. yesterday saved the life of an Italian woman on the tracks near Pittston twice in half a minute. The first time he pulled her from ill front of a coal train barely in time. She was picking coal and did not hear the train approach. She was so confused and excited by her narrow escape t'hat she stepped oil the adjoining track, directly in front of a fast running train. As Bradigan pulled her from the track the second time .the locomotive's pilot struck and bruised her. Living on Skunk Skins. Pennsburg, Pa.—In spite of unpleas ant features connected with skunk hunting, a considerable number of men follow that employment during the winter months in the rural districts north and west of Pennsburg. One of those who makes a regular business of trapping this odoriferous animal is Alfred Bortz, who has established his headquarters on the property in Low er Macungle toiwnsliip that was for merly known as the Kelnert peach or chard. Near by are abandoned Iron ore mines, and the shafts of these mines are a favorite haunt of tthe skunks. Bortz has set twenty traps about the shafts and every morning he makes the rounds of the traps, collecting the animals that have been caught during the nlglit. In ten days he caught seventeen skunks, and he considers this profitable. For the pelt of a black skunk he gets $1, while t'he striped variety brings 60 to 75 cents. He also sells the oil obtained from the ani mals. C. R. Shaffer of Limeport and his brother, made a notable capture of skunks a few days ago, trapping six of the "cats" in one hole. As four of them were black, the catch added materially to their spending money. Many furs sold under various high sounding names are made of t'he pelts of the 'h*-*nble skunk or the muskrat. Of both /v^ese large quantities are shipped fix. this region to furriers of PhiladeTrwfcA and New York. Many of these hides eventually reach Eu rope, where they are sold as monkey skins. Of course, if they were offered as plain skunk furs there would be little sale for them among fashionable women. Hog Lives in Straw Stack. Richmond, Ind. That a hog can live six months without food or water was proved today on the farm of Charles Eglu, near here, when an old straw sta,ck which was overturned six months ago was torn to pieces. A hog which had become buried by the straw was found alive and sprightly, altho much thinner in flesh than it was when imprisoned. Mistakes Pop for Water Wagon. •Chicago.—It was simply a case of mistaken identity. Robert Wilson, 42 years old, was looking for the water wagon. When he saw a pop wagon belonging to the Manhattan Brewery company at Tliirty-lifth street and Cottage Grove avenue lie concluded it was what he was looking for and climbed aboard. Presently Mr. Wilson heard some thing pop behind him.' He turned to look. One of the bottles had blown open and something was fuzzing out of it. Wilson passed his hot, dry tongue over his lips and stared. Then despair seized him and he seized the bottle. He threw it into the air. It came down with a sudsy crash. He wondered if he could throw one without breaking it. He tried it. It broke. He wondered if he could throw one so high that it would not come down at all. He found he could not. Then he 'wondered if he could throw one by a mental process. •He will never know. Policemen Kel ley and Lodge of the Cottage Grove avenue station saw him and took him to the station. Phonograph Aids Dramatic Art. Ann Arbor, Mich.—The phonograph as "first aid" to dramatic art has been introduced by Professor Beziat de Bordes of the French department of the University of Michigan in train ing student actors for the presentation pf Moliere's "L'Avare" by this meth od. Professor Beziat hopes to add feel ing and delicacy to the lines. Thirty six records have been carefully pre pared which will give the play exactly as the cast is to produce it. At any time any member of th« cast may rehearse the entire play in the solitude of his room. Professor Beziat declares that the phonograph will prove an invaluable agency for the introduction of foreign drama into this country, Gives Lives for Coin to Purchase Rum. Philadelphia, Pa. According to thN police. Martin Brady and John Barto lett were asphyxiated here yesterday, in order to obtain money for liquor. The two men wore found lying dead in the cellar of Brady's home by a gas meter inspector. The condition of the mon, acc^rdinff tn fhf* physicians, in dicated that they had been drinking heavilv. Bradv was found with a "quarter in-thf-slot" gas meter in his arms. It had been wrenched from .ts fasten ings. The police believe that the two men tried to extract money with which to buy liquor, and sacrificed tlu-ir live#. The Fighting Chance. Copyright, ISO#, by the Onrtla Publishing Company. Copyright, 1004. by Robart W. Cnombera. CHAPTER ELEVEN An hour inter, fresh from her bath, luxurious iu loose and filmy lace, her small white feet short ^ith silk, she lunched alone, cradled among the cush ions of her couch. Twice she strolled through the rooms leisurely, summoned by her maid to the telephone, the first time to chut with Grace Forrall. who, it appeared was a victim of dissipation, leiug: still abed, and out of humor with the raluy world: the second time to answer iu the negative Marion's suggestion that she motor to Lakewood with her for the week's end before they closed their house. Sauntering back again, she sipped her milk and vlchy, tasted the straw berries, tasted a big black grape, dis carded both and lay back among the cushions, her nr'ced arms clasped be hind her head, and, dropping one knee over the other, stared at the celling. The room was very still and dim, but the clamor in her brain unnerved her, and she sat up among the cushions, looking vacantly about her with the blue, confused eyes, ihe direct,1 unsee ing gaze of a child roused by a half heard call. The call—low, imperative, sustained —continued softly persistent against her windows, Ihe summons of the young year's rain. She went to the window and stood among the filmy curtaius, looking out into the mist. A springlike aroma pen etrated the room. She opened the window a little way, and the sweet, virile odor enveloped her. A thousand longings rose within her. Unnumbered wistful questions stirred her, sighing, unauswered. Every breath was drawing her backward, nearer, nearer to the source of memory. Ah, the cliff chapel in the rain! The words of a text mumbled deafly—the yearly service for those who died at sea. And she, seated there in the chapel dusk thinking of him who sat beside her and how he feared a heavier, stes.lth ier, more secret tide crawling, purring about his feet! Always, always at the end of every thing, he! Always, reckoning step by step, backward through time, he, the source, the inception, the meaning of all! Unmoored at last, her spirit swaying, enveloped in memories of him, 6he gave herself to the flood, overwhelmed as tide on tide rose, rushing over her, body, mind and soul. She closed her eyes, leaning there heavily amid the cloudy curtains. She moved back into the room and stood staring at space through wet lashes. The hard, dry pulse in her throat hurt her till her under lip, freed from the tyranny of her small teeth, slipped free, quivering rebellion. She had been walking her room to and fro, to and fro, for a long time before she realized that she had moved at all. And now impulse held the helm. A blind, unreasoning desire for relief hur ried into action on the wings of im pulse. There was a telephone at her elbow. No need to hunt through lists to find a number she had known so long by heart, the three figures which had re iterated themselves so ofteu. monoto nously insistent, slyly persuasive, re peating themselves even In her dreams, so that she awoke at times shivering with tlje vision in which she had listen ed to temptation and had called to him across the wilderness of streets and men. "Is he at home?" "Would you ask him to come to the tele phone V" "Please say to him that it is a —a rieud. Thank you." In the throb bing quiet of her "Is he at home?" room sLe heard the fingers of the prying rain busy at her windows, the ticking of tae small French clock, very dull, very far away —or was it her heart? "Who is it?" Her voice left her for an instant. Her dry lips made no answer, "Who is it?" he repeated iu his steady, pleasant voice. "It is I." There was absolute silence, so long that it frightened her, but before she could speak agaiu his voice was sound ing in her ears, patient, unconvinced: "I don't recognize your voice. Who am I speaking to?" "Sylvia." There was no response, and she spoke again: "I only wanted to say good morning. It is afternoon now. Is it too iate to say good morning?" "No. I'm badly rattled. Is it you, Sylvia?" "Indeed it is. I am in my own room. ]—I thought"— "Yes I am listening." "I don't know what I did think. Is it necess-'iry for me to telephone you a minute account of the mental proc esses which ended by my calling you up out of the vasty deep?" The old ring In her voice, hinting of the laughing undertone, the same trail ing sweetness of in flection —could he doubt his senses 9/ longer? "I know you now," he said. By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. "I should think you might. I should very much like to know how you are— if you don't mind saying?" "Thnnk you. I seem to be all right. Are you all right, Sylvia?" "Shamefully arul outrageously well. What a season too! Everybody else is in rags—makeup rags! Isn't that a dis agreeable remark? But I'll come to the paint brush, too. of course. Wo all do. Doesn't anybody ever see you any more?" She heard him laugh to himself un pleasantly—then, "I«es anybody want to?" "Everybody, of course! You know it. You always were spoiled to death." "Yes—to death." "Stephen!" "Yes?" "Are you becoming cynical?" "I? Why should 1?" I "You are! Stop it! Mercy 011 us! If that is what is going on in a certain house on lower Fifth avenue, facing the corner of certain streets, It's time somebody dropped in to"— "To—what?" •'To the rescue! I've a mind to do it myself. They sny you are not well, either." "Who says that?" "Oh, the usual little ornithological cockatrice—or. rather, cantatrice. Don't ask me, because I won't tell you. I always tell you too much anyway. Don't I?" "Do you?" "Of course I do. Everybody spoils you, and so do I." "Yes—I am rather in that way, I suppose." "What way?" "Oh—s|oiled." "Stephen!" "Yes?" And in a lower voice, "Please don't say such things—will you?" "No." "Especially to me." "Especially to you. No, I won't, Sylvia." And, after a hesitation, she continu ed sweetly: "I wonder what you were doing, all alone in that old house of yours, when I called you up?" "I? Let me see. Oh, I was superin tending some, packing." "Are you going off somewhere?" "I think so." "Where?" "I don't know, Sylvia." "I decline to be snubbed. I'm shame less, and I wish to be informed. Please tell me." "I'd rather not tell you." "Very well. Goodby! But don't ring off just yet. Stephen. Do you think that some time you would care to see any people—I mean when you begin to go out agaiu?" "Who, for example?" "Why, anybody!" "No I don't think I should care to. I'm rather too busy to go about, even if I were inclined to." "Are you really busy, Stephen?" "Yes—waiting That is the very hardest sort of occupation, and I'm obliged to be on hand every minute." "But. you said that you were going out of town." "Did I? Well, I did not say it exact ly, but I am going to leave town." "For very long?" she asked. "Perhaps. I can't tell yet." "Stephen, before you go, if you are going for a very, very long while—per haps you will—you might care to say goodby." "Do you care to have me?" "Yes, I do." There was a silence, and when his voice sounded again it had altered. "I do not think you would care to see me, Sylvia. I—they say I am—I have changed—since my—since a slight illness. I am not over it yet, not cured —not very well yet, and a little tired, you see—a little shaken. I am leaving New York to—to try once more to be cured. I expect to be well—one way or another"— "Stephen, where are you going? An swer me!" "I can't answer you." "Is your illness serious?" "A—it is—it requires some—some care." Her fingers tightened around the re ceiver whitened to the delicate nails under the pressure. Mute, struggling with the mounting impulse, voice and lip unsteady, she still spoke with re straint: "You say you require care? And What care have you? Who is there With you? Answer me!" "Why, everybody—the servants.' 1 have care enough." "Oh, the servants! Have you a phy sician to advise you?" "Certainly—the best in the world. Sylvia, dea—Sylvia, I didn't mean to give you an impression"— "Stephen, I will have you truthful with me! I know perfectly well you are ill. I—if I could only-if there was something, some way— Listen: I am —I am going to do something about it, and I don't care very much what I do!" "What sweet nonsense!" he laughed, but his voice was 110 steadier than hers. 1 "Will you drive with me?" she asked Impulsively, "some afternoon?" "Sylvia, dear, you don't really want me to do it. Wait, listeu: I—1 ve got to tell you that—that I'm not fit for it. I've got to be honest with you. I am not fit, not in physical condition to go out Just yet. I've really been ill for weeks. Plank has been very nice to me. I want to get well. I mean to try very hard. But the man you knew —isT-cJiangts.l." "Changed?" "Not in that way!" he said in a slow voice. "I[-how, then?" she stammered, all ft-thrili. "Nerve gone almost. Going to get it back agaiu, of course. Feel mil lion times better already for talking with you." "Do—does it really help?" "It's the only panacea for me," he said, too quickly to consider his words. "The only one?" she faltered. "Do you mean to say that your trouble illness—has anything to do with"— "No. no! I only"— "Has it, Stephen?" "No!" "Because If I thought"— "Sylvia, I'm not that sort! You mustn't talk to 1110 that way. There's nothing to be sorry for about me. Any man may lose his nerve and, if he is a man. go after It and get It back again. Every man has a fighting chance. You said it yourself once— that a man mustn't ask for a fighting chance he must take it. And I'm go ing to take it and win out one way or another." "What do you mean by 'another,' Stephen?" "I Nothing. It's a phrase." "What do you mean? Answer me?" "It's a phrase." he said again: "no meaning, you know." "Stephen, Mr. Tlank says that you are lame." "What did he say that for?" demand ed Siward wrathfully. "I asked him. Kemp saw you on crutches at your window, so I asked Mr. Plank, and he said you had dis carded your crutches too soon and had fallen and lamed yourself again. Are you able to walk yet?" "Yes, of course." "Outdoors?" "A—no, not just yet." "In other words, you are practically bedridden." "No, no! I can get about the room very well." "You couldn't go downstairs for an hour's drive, could you?" "Can't manage that for awhile." he said hastily. "Oh. the vanity of you, Stephen Si ward! The vanity! Ashamed to let me see you when you are not your complete and magnificently attractive self! Silly, I shall see you! I shall drive down on the fU*st sunny morn ing and sit outside in my victoria un til you can't stand the tempxation an other instant. I'm going to do It. You cannot stop me. Nobody car. stop me. I desire to do it, and that is sufficient, I think, for everybody concerned. If the sun Is out tomorrow I shall be out too! I am so tired of not string you! Let central listen! I don't care. I don't care what I am saying. I've endured it so long-1— There's no use! I am too tired of it, and I want to see you. Can't we see each other without—with out—thinking about things that are Bettled once and for all?" "I can't," he said. "Then you'd better learn to! The Idea of you telling me you had lost your nerve! You've got to get it back -and help me find mine! Yes, it's gone, gone, gone! I lost it In the rain somewhere today. Does the scent of the rain come in at your window? Do you remember— There, I can't say it! Goodby, goodby! You must get well, and I must too. Goodby!" The fruit of her Imprudence was happiness—an excited happ iness, which lasted for a day. The rain lasted, too, for another day, then turned to snow, choking the city with such a fall as had not been seen since the great bliz zard. Sylvia, at her escritoire, chin cradled iu her hollowed hand, sat listlessly in specting her mail. She turned her head, looking wearily across the room at the brightly burn ing fire beside which Mrs. Ferrall sat, nibbling mint paste, very serious over one of those books that "everybody was reading." "What is the matter?" demanded Mrs. Ferrall, withdrawing her finger from the pages and plumping the closed book down on her knee. "I have been imprudent," said Syl via in a low voice. "You uittin"—Mrs. Ferrall looked at her keenly—"that he has been here?" "No. 1 telephoned him, and I asked him to drive with me." "Oh, Sylvia, what nonsense! Why on earth do you stir yourself up by that sort of silliness at this late date? What use is it? Can't you let him alone? Are you Stephen Siward's keeper?" "I felt as though I were for awhile. He Is ill." "With an illness that, thank God, you aro not going to nurse through life. Don't look at me that way, dear. I'm obliged to speak harshly I'm obliged to harden my heart to such a monstrous idea." "Grace, I cannot endure"— "You must! Are you trying to drug your silly self with romance so you won't recognize truth when you see it? There was no earthly reason for on to talk to Stephen. No disinterest ed impulse moved you. It was a sheer perverse, sentimental restlessness, the delicate, meddlesome deviltry of your race. And if that poison is in you it's well for you to know it." "It is in me," said Sylvia, staring at the fire. "Then you know what to do for it." "No, I don't." "Well, I do," said Grace de cisively, "and the sooner you marry Howard and intrench yourself behind your pride the better off you'll be. 'J?hat's where, a enough, you dif from your "It is 1n vie," said Sylvia. fer ancestors. You are unable to understand marital treachery. Otherwise you'd make it lively for »s. 4U." "It is true," said Sylvia deliberately, "that I could not be treacherous to anybody. But I am wondering—1 ain asking myself just what constitutes treachery to myself. I was In .ove with him. You knew it." "You liked him," insisted Grace pa tiently. "No loved him. I know. Dear, your theories are sound iu a general way. but what is a girl going to do about it when she loves a man? Could yon tell nie?" "If you uiurry him." said4 Mrs. Fer rall quietly, "your life will become a hell." "Yes. But would it make life any easier for him?" asked Sylvia. "How—to know that you had been dragged down?" "No I mean could 1 do anything for him." "No woman ever did. That is a sen timental falsehood of the emotional. No woman ever did help a man in that way. Sylvia, if love were the only question und if you do truly love him, I—well, 1 suppose I'd be fool enough to advise you to be a fool. Even then you'd be sorry. You know what your future may be. You know what you are fitted for. What can you do with out Howard? In this town your role would be a very minor one without Howard's money, and you know it." "Yes, I know it." "And your sacrifice could no. help that doomed boy." Sylvia nodded assent. "Then is there any choice? Is there any question of what to do?" Sylvia looked out into the. winter sky, through the tops of snowy trees. Everywhere the stark, deathly rigidity of winter! Under it, frozen, lay the rain that had scented the air. Under her ambition lay the ghosts of yester day. "No," she said, "there is no question of choice. I know what must be." (To Be Continued.) PHONES TO PROTECT CROPS. California Fruit Growers to Be Warned of Sudden Temperature Changes. The United States weather bureau recently put into operation a plan by which it is thought fruit growers throughout the orange belt of San Ber nardino. Riverside and Los Angeles counties will be given ample protec tion from damage to crops by frost, says a Los Angeles dispatch. In this district sudden changes in temperature are not unusual during winter months, and it has been found that the printed charts issued by the weather bureau do not insure suffi cient protection, especially in the re mote portions of the great orange belt. Arrangements have been completed by which it is possible to send warnings by telephone at any hour of the day or night. Substations have been estab lished, to which warnings will be sent, and from these substations the warn ings will be sent to growers, nearly all of whom have telephones a:id can be reached quickly. Whenever a sudden drop in temperature is expected it will be known at Los Angeles In ample time for the growers to protect their crops by smudging or in other ways. A clerk will be on duty at the Los Angeles office of the weather bureau at all hours to seud out such warnings. FUTURE OF AEROPLANES. Farman Expects Five Hour Aerial Line Between Paris and London. Henry Farman, the French aeronaut who recently won the Deatsch-Arch deacon prize, in an interview at Paris on the future of aerial navigation said that the best results iu aeroplane trav el would be had from a combination of the principles of the Blerfot machine and- the cubic cellular aeroplane used by Santos-Dumont and himself. For the present he regards aeroplanes as purely sporting machines, but expects their development to be rapid and foresees the time when in aeroplane omnibus will cover the distance be tween Paris and London in five hours. M. Farman feels certain that within twelve mouths aeroplanes will be able to travel seventy-five to a hundred miles at an insignificant cost compared with the expense of running an auto mobile for the same distance. !#!8f3 iS9£S&gBe.> The Ruling Passion. (Washington star.) Don Marino Torlonia, of the ductal family of Torlonia of Home, said at.a dinner party in New York that a cer tain American millionaire reminded hhn of the famous Roman miser, Ar pagnio. "Let me," said the tall young man, smiling, "show you what a tremend ous miser Arpagnio was. As he lay I dying- in his cold, dark, bare palace of stone on the Corso his one thought was that, since he was too 111 to eat, a full lire a day was being saved on the food bill. The doctor was announced. The doctor, after feeling Arpagnio's pulse, looked grave. 'Well,' said the miser, 'how much longer have I to live?' 'Only half an hour,' was the re ply. "Arpagnio's eyes flashed fire. "'You scoundrel!' he cried, 'Why do you let things run on to the last min ute like this? Do you want to ruin me? Send for the barber at once.' "The barber arrived post haste. 'You charge,' said Arpagnio, "20 centes-iml for shaving?' 'yes, signor.' '"And for shaving a corpse 5 lire?' 'Yes.' "Arpagnio glanced at the clock. Sev- :.y_ ......i.jull still. tllJdilltU. "x'utu'jsuavjt nit iiuiciay, lie gasped. ".IS Ule uytra-uou uiiici.au ^.x^at,uii aim. j_,ut vviai ms 14.01 uiuaUi, aiUiuug ut: iiiurniuicu, vvimo uie Dar jjui uiicd liis com, pale outsells: 'now splendiu! uur ure and boi ceiitea-mii saved!'" 4 Historical Evidence. (Harper's Weekly) The late Riehard Mansfield was a patient sufferer in his last Illness, and lie retained his good cheer to a marked degree. One day he told his physician that be believed he would not live many weeks longer. "Bosh," said the physician. "You are good for a long time yet. Why, man alive, did you e'er hear of any body near death iwlth legs and feet as warm as yours?" "Yes," replied Mr. Mansfield, "lots of 'them. For instance, there was Joan of Arc and the Salem witches.' These meals are always ready ahcl what do you know that's so good? You will never bake beans at home again when you once learn the difference between yours and Van Camp's. Note how nutty our beans are—how mealy. None are browned, none are broken all are baked alike. And note what a delicious blend we get. It comes from baking the beans, the tomato sauce and the pork all together. It isn't your fault, but you cannot be gin to bake beans as we bake them You lack the facilities. Beans must be baked in a very fierce heat, else they are not digestible. t, We bake ours 90 minutes at 245 degrees. Then we bake in live steam. That's why our beans don't brown, don't burst. That is why they are all baked: alike, and baked well. That's why they are mealy, yet nutty. Van Camp's pork and beans baked with tomato sauce Then you can't get the beans that we get, for ours ar* selected by hand from the choicest beans grown. We pay for them seven times what some beans would cost. Then our tomatoes are ripened on the vines—not in shipment. They are picked when the juice fairly sparkles. That gives to our sauce the zest which you don't get in other sauce. v- The millions of people who know Van Camp's never want home-baked beans We have spent 47 years in learning how to best prepare this dish. Is it any wonder we know Don't judge Van Camp's by some other brands that are 1 cheapened at every point. It pays to get the best in beans, because your people will eat them more frequently eat, them in place of meat. y\ 1 And beans are Nature's choicest food—84 per cent nutriment. 10,15 and 20? per can. Van Camp Packing Company, Indianapolis, ind. *1 ,,5 S«sSf k.. Was Accommodating. (Weekly Telegraph) ill A rector's wife has placed on record that she wrote to the village butcher, he replied with a note to this effect: "Dear Madam! I have not killed my self this week, but can get you a leg off my brother if that will do." 5 W 1 3 *'1 S'i .Vr Xvt -Mir l-ir* •a-vs 1 mm®?. mv.

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