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EP|T0ME Of EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention Of What 10 Transplrln0
IN Various Sections OF Our Own
and Foreign countric0.
Washington.


Charles A. White, the Illinois legis-
lator, who claims he was bribed to
vote for William Lorimer for senator,
completed his three days story on
direct examination before the Sen
ator Lorimer committee.
Standing upon chairs, waving hand
kerchiefs and yelling loudly. demo
cratic representatives acclaimed Rep
~Iesentatiye Oscar w. Underwood or
Alabama, democratic leader of the
house, when he attacked William j.
Bryan for criticising his position on
extension of the tariff revision prog
ram.
A woman is now in actual charge
of the minis of the United States.
Miss Margaret Kelly, long connected
with the mint bureau. was appointed
examiner, in which position She will
be next in authority to George e..
Roberts, the director.
With stable tariff conditions the
United States within the next fifteen
years will be producing within it's
own borders all the sugar consumed
In the country, IN the OPINION OF true
man G. Palmer, secretary of the Unit
ed States beet sugar industry, who
testified before the house sugar inves-
tigating committee.
Proposed increases in Communication
passenger fares by the leading rail-
ways operating in and out of New
York city were held by the Interstate
Commerce commission to be reason
able, generally, except in the case of
the Pennsylvania railroad, whose COM
mutation rates are declared excessive
and are ordered reduced. Against the
Pennsylvania a specific order is made
by the commission requiring it to de-
sist from exercising its present COM
mutation fares to and from New
York city by September /, and for no
less than two years thereafter.
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Coz CCETAAL5 5pEAk/NG
ENGLISH GIRL IS HELD

Warsaw, but 1t would be interesting to
hear the verdict of an English au-
thority.
Though the Warsaw citadel does
not give anything like adequate &C
comodation to its prisoners, Miss Ma
lecka's friends need not fear that she
Is being i'll treated, as her British
passport, at this stage of affairs,
would. in any case, protect her In that
way.
At the same time her quarters are
none too comfortable. The food,
though fairly good. is very scanty. and
the cells are exceedingly dirty. Her
friends have been sending her addi-
tional food and also some books. She
will not be allowed to see visitors or
to write or receive letters until her
preliminary examination has been
completed.
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JEANNE D'ARC'S OLD SWOkD
Museum at Dijon Said to Possess
Blade Given to Maid of Orleans
by King Charles VII.

Paris. B~iographers of Jeanne
dare, including Anatole France and
Andrew Lang, have never been able
to discover any authentic relics of the
Maid of Orleans. The executioner
threw her ashes into the Seine. and
the cottage at Domremy has not SO
much as a wooden shoe which can be
proved to have belonged to the Lib
orator of France. There is, however,
in the museum at Dijon a sword kept
in the hall with the tombs of Philip
the Bold and Jean-sans-Peur. for which
the custodian, M. E. Metman. has doc
uments proving that 1t once belonged
to Jeanne dare.
On one face of the hilt is engraved
tune kneeling before a cross. with the
name Charles VII. On the other Is the
word "Vaucouleurs." On both the
arms of France and those Of the City
of Orleans. The date, 1919. is found
in FIVE places on hilt and blade. This
date may indicate when the sword
was made, or it may be in comment.
Grafton of the assassination of the Due
de Bourgogne In the presence OF the
Dauphin. the future Charles VII. on
the bridge Of Montereau.
Nj. Metman's manuscripts show that
the sword was manufactured at To.
ledo and was autographed by the
sword-maker, Lupus Aguado, and that
it was specially made as a present tc
the Maid from the king of France.
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No Future" for this Girl

eye and tell her not to let any curly,
haired, gazelle-eyed SIS a week clerk
with pink ears and perfectly mani
cured nails get her out of her head
enough to stand for that marriage
business. When he loses his job he
never gets another, and the aforesaid
stenographer has to hike out and get
one of her own. And the chances are
it will be about $40 per writing five
letters a week, watching the telephone
and steering creditors off some chea1
screw of a lawyer with fringe around
the bottoms of his trousers. You taxi
chances, too, on getting even that SIC
on which two must live cheaper thar
one. Tell her that, too"
Then she said to the grocer: Give
me a dimes worth of brick cheese
and a nickel's worth of lettuce. We
are going to have sandwiches TO,
luncheon. | like that word luncheon.
No; I have a half loaf of rye bread
left from yesterday"
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RISKS HER LIFE FOR OTHERS
New Jersey Woman SEXES Large
Shepherd Dog, Afflicted With Ra-
bies, and Forces It Into She'd.

Pennington, N. THAT the lives Of
others might not BIO imperiled, Mrs.
Jacob Leon grappled with her large
shepherd dog when 1t was suddenly
stricken with hydrophobia. The dog
was tied to its kennel with a rope
when Mrs. Leon discovered its condi.
ton. An instant later it had bitten
the rope in two and, swapping, snarl.
ing and frothing at the mouth. it start
ed to leave the premises.
Realizing the danger to others, Mrs.
Leon called sharply to the animal and.
catching 1t by the sides of the head.
forced it into a woodhouse.
William E. Green, a n%eighbor, was
summoned to dispatch the dog with Il
shotgun. and when he arrived the dog
was dashing madly about the wood
house. biting everything within it's
reach. Mrs. Icons arms we're
scratched by the teeth of the dog as
she held it, but the skin was not
broken.
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Sad-Eyed Blond Stenographer. Who
Welded CurIy-Haired Clerk, Gives
Gypsy Seeress a Tip"

Kansas City. Mo.-Three gypsy
women, one quite young. were in an
East side grocery store when two
young American women entered. One
of the older gypsies made a "gurg-
ling" noise to the young n soon
after the Americans were inside.
Don't you girls want your fortune
told?" asked the little gypsy miss as
she walked toward the young women
with her hand o~utstretched.
II can tell your past, present and
future" went on the gypsy girl. "All
about your love affairs. can tell
you when you are going to ,et mar
ried."
This appeared to be too much for
n of the young women, q sad eyed
blond. ti%red-looking, creature.
Say. YOU" she exclaimed, I'm al
ready married, and I'd rather give you
$50 to tell me how to lose what I've
got than - cents to know that there
is another lazy loafer waiting down
the line somewhere for me to sup
port!"
Where do you liver" she asked
then. Il will come to your home and
tell you all"
BEAT it. little one, beat it." ordered
the tired-looking blond. Il don't live;
l exist. And as for O telling me all.
why I can tell you more about this
game and hand out more real, genuine
hot tips on this matrimonial business
than you ever dreamed Of. II you
v e run across a stenographer earn
ing her little $S5 per, and enjoying
single blessedness, don't wait to read
her palm. Look her straight In the
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Personal.

Congress expects to get through by
the 18th.
Mr.. Charles M. Schwab says that
it was he who evolved the idead of the
steel trust.
Admiral Togo was in Washington
and dined with the president.
Republicans are having fun over
the Bryan Underwood controversy.
The reapportionment bill is so
drawn that no state will lose in rep.
rcsentatiOn.
Former United States Senator Ed.
ward Murphy Of New York died at
Troy, N. Y.
Germany has accepted John Leisn.
man az ambassador from the United
States at Berlin.
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Chinese Empress Wealth.

Seattle, notwithstanding to Chin
csc papers received here 1t is credit.
ably reported in Pekin that the for
tune accumulated by the late Empress
Dowager TIE Hei, which amounts to
between $25, 000, 900 and $50. 0O0. 900
chiefly In gold bars, has been shipped
to England, whence it will be trans
ferred to a bank in Brussels for in
vestment. Since the death of the
empress dowager the treasure has
been stored in the palace under mill.
tary guard.
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DEMOCRATS IN BOTH HOUSES
OF CONGRESS EXPRESS PRES
IDENTlAL PREFERENCES.
HARMON A CLOSE SECOND
tion-Positive First Choice Ex-
pressions Number 153-Many
Refuse to Cast Ballot.

Washington, D. c. = In a straw
houses of congress not one favored
w. j. Bryan for the presidential NOM
ination in 1912.
Governor Woodrow Wilson Of New
Jersey leads with As.
Following is the result:
For Governor Wilson of New
Jersey, as.
For Governor Harmon Of Ohio,
IS.
Fer Speaker Champ Clark OF
Missouri, 20.
For House Leader Underwood
Of Alabama, II.
For Governor Folk of Missouri,
IA.
For Governor Marshall of Indi-
ana, Ia.
Fer Governor Foss of Massachu-
sets, 2.
Total positive first choice ex-
pressions, 153.
ate, 81.
Declined to express preferences
81.
Number who have Optional"
preferences and favor Wilson,
Harmon or Clark, 7.
Non-committaI, with preferences
for Wilson, 8; Clark, /; Harmon,
Total number of Democrats in
house and senate, 267.
Geographically the poll indicates no
sectional preferences, except, perhaps,
in the case of Underwood, whose adj
herents are almost without exception
from the South. Wilson and Harmon
have champions in every section Of
the country. Marshall and Folk are
native SON. candidates, and other
followers are held together by con-
yention or primary pledges.
Those who are for Wilson say: He
is progressive without being radical,
or, in Governor Wilson's own langu-
age, "a conservative with a move on
He is safe, sane and listens to rea-
SON"
The views of those voting for Har-
mon may be summed up about as fol-
lows:
He has been elected governor of
Ohio, AND in the face of Republican
opposition within the state, has
achieved wonders. The time is ripe
for conservative Democrats to again
assume control of the party. Ultra
progressives have shown them their
plotting leads the party to breakers.
Governor Harmon is nearer being the
man-of-the-hour that Cleveland was
than any other candidate"
Champ Clark, in a letter which he
has sent to a Weatherly, Pa, editor,
makes the assertion that he is not a
candidate for the presidency. lie
said:
while l am not a candidate for
president, and may never be, | con
slider it a great compliment to be
thought of or mentioned in that con.
nectiCn by my fellow citizens.
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Gets $45 for Nickel.

Dover. Del.-Walter McGinnes. :
day laborer, In purchasing a basket
and contents at a public sale OF the
goods of Mrs. Thompson. who recent.
ly died, began to look through his
purchase and found $45 between the
leaves OF a memorandum book that
had been in the basket, two $40 bills
and n IS. McGinnes paid but i've
cents for the basket.
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General.

A fire at Dubuque, Iowa, destroyed
$4,000 worth of property.
Congressman Berger has introduced
q bill to pension all old people.
There is now in the treasury vaults
at Washington a total of $1,SS9, 247.-
600.
The Very Rev. Robert Gregory, D.
D., died at London. He was dean Of
st. Paul's.
Bryan says If he has done Congress
mar Underwood an injustice he will
retract his criticism.
At least eight are known to be dead
In the fire which burned the hospital
for insane at Hamilton, Ont.
An excursion steamer capsiZed In
the st. Lawrence river, and seven are
known to have been drowned.
The Connecticut state grange has
decided to administer a snub to Presi-
dent Taft at the coming fair.
President Taft sem to the senate
the nomination of Captain Alfred
Reynolds, U. S. N, as a rear admiral.
Robbers entered the Bank Of Taft,
twelve miles west Of Muskogee, Okl.,
blew the safe and escaped with $1,000.
Democratic Leader Underwood, in a
speech denounced as false William ].
Bryan's attack OF 4Ir. Underwood,
charging him with blocking tariff
schedules.
A statute has been found under
which the coffee trust and other like
foreign combines can be prosecuted.
The campaign publicity bill, with
the amendments attached to it in the
senate, was SEN to a conference COM
mittee of the two houses.
Record-breaking export -four orders
for September and October delivery
have been booked by Seattle millers
during the last two weeks. One
mill has Chinese orders for 1000 0
sacks and others are running full Ca
pacity.
Encouraged by the success of the
postal savings system in the hundreds
OF cities where it is alredy in opera
ton. Postmaster General Hitchcock
signed an order extending the system
to ten large cities of the first class.
According to official estimates, an
nounced at the presidents Office, the
largest part Of the Maderist army has
been mustered out and the former
revolutionists are at work in the fac
tories or on the h%aciendas.
The government has taken duty on
coal imported into Canada at all
ports between 500. Ontario, and the
Pacific coast to relieve the coal fam.
he in the western provinces.
Chicago detectives arrested a
man giving his name as John Barker.
Who is believed to be Jay Duryea, in
connection with the robbery Of H. T.
Bied, q Los Angeles, Cal. diamond
anerchant, from whom diamonds val
he'd at $4,000 were stolen June %.
Grim tales Of loss Of life and disas-
ter to shipping by the West indian
hurricane which swept the New Eng
land coast continue to come in.
The senate Lorimer committee will
spend perhaps the last week Of tax
Ing testimony In Washington and may
then reces to meet IN Chicago 1t
some time yet to b decided.
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CHICAGO BLACK HAND ACTIVE.
Total Of 10 Murders and Scores Of
Standings Within Year.

Chicago. Ill. - A summary of the
crimes committed by members of the
so-called Black Hand in this city dur
ing the year 1911. gives a total of
Is murders, scores of Standings and
more than 100 bomb explosions, $780,
900 collected in blackmail and the
infection of incalculable misery upon
thousands by sinister threats. There
has been but one conviction.
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Chicago. - Dancing the Grizzly
Bear costs $25 II done in public, &C.
cordins to the standard OF police court
lines,
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THE LISPING LOVERS
Expressions of Ardent
Devotion As Told ina
MON OLOGUE

ttI TINT beathly crowded in here NTH Helen?
II that huhky looking in front the nhinchth
gentleman, he'd and offer you hih heat
Il don't
hrth NTH Helen, ibid thrah him within his
thlighteth.
DO know NTH Helen hommth with lived the dath
old when poes knghh-were fellow could
in a ladys eyth and thow the thtuf he wah made Of!
Oh excuth NTH Helen Theth haven't the henth
they born with Thtarting the with
Look for thh o
won't fall. right
i could ride like hth million
the What thay 1t would be rather
that eghacty
know. meant Oh, thay, WI
Theemth thor of funny path trolley
doethnt It, NTH Helen? But homhng awah themh
when call at houth elh elth Ioh,
Lithenng to everything hay That
thee the look him? Horroh
II wah prethiden I'd have
ofenth
What wath thytng? Oh anything
how-how hand Lophded? Oh, in
the know mean do
chanth,
Oh let him lithen What do
ononth? But there
would like to know I've
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To Him That Hath
By LEROY SCOTT
Copyright, The Frank A. Munsey Coz

think he'll care for a girl like you? 1
came the other day and found no one
around but that nice father Of yours.
had a little talk with him, and-welI,
I've got you sized up Just about right
And you think you're the girl for him.
Kate took one step forward and drew
back her open hand; but the hand
paused in mid-blow.
You drunken She-deviI," she blazed
forth, get out Of here!-or I'll have
the police put you out!'
Lillian Drew spTang up, as livid as
If the hand had indeed cracked upon her
cheek, and glared at the flame of hatred
and wrath that was Kate Morgan.
Rage abetted by liquor, had taken away
every thought, every desire, save to
strike this girl down. Her hands
clinChed; but blows make only a passing
hurt. All her life she had used words;
words, if you have the right sort. are a
better weapon-their wound is deep,
permanent.
You little skinny alley-Cat!" she
burst out furiously. You think
you're going to marry him, don't you?
You marry him! Oh! Lord"
Kate shivered with passion. Get
OUT
Lillian Drew gave a sharp, crunch
ing, gloating laugh. That's it!-you
think he's a thief, don't you? You
think you're in his class. Well-let
me tell you something"
She drew close to Kate, and her
eyes burned upon Kate with a wild,
vindictive triumph. Hes not a thief
he never was one""
ooh! he says he is, but he's not. He
never took that five thousand dol
lars from st. Christopher's. He pre-
tends he did. but he didn't. You hear
that, little girl"-he didn't. Phil Nor
ton took it. I know, because / got it.
D'you understand now that he's not
a thief?-that he's ten thousand miles
above you? And yet you, you skinny
little nothing, you've got the nerve to
think you're going to catch him! Oh!
Lord"
"You'rc drunken than 1 thought"
sneered Kate
"If ii wasn't true. dyou suppose
he'd be paying me to keep still about
it?"
PAY you to keep still about his
not beng a thlet! ana you want me
to believe that too?" Kate laughed
with contempt. Then she inquired So
Would you like a bucket
of water over you to sober you a
bit?"
At this moment the hall door open
cd and David entered the room. He
paused in establishment
whats the matter?" he asked
sharply.
The two had turned at his entrance,
and, their faces ablaze with anger,
were now glaring at him. Kate was
the first to speak, and her words tin
gled with her wrath.
Nothing. Only this charming lady
friend of yours-don't come too near
her breath!--has been telling me that
you didn't take the money from the
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Mlssion-that Mr., Morton did-that
she got it-thatyou are paying her
not to tell that you're innocent"
The color slowly faded from David s
face. He held his eyes moment on
Kate's infuriate figure. and then he
gazed at Lillian Drew. She gazed back
at him defiantly, but the thought that
her betrayal Of the secret might cut
off her supplies began to cool her an
ger. David thought only of the one
great fact that the truth had at last
come out; and finally he exclaimed. al
most stupidity, more in astonishment
than in wrath:
so this is how you've kept a Sc
cret?"
Kate paled. Her eyes widened and
her lips fell apart. She. caught herself
against her desk and stared at him.
"So-it's the TRUTH she whispered
with dry lips.
But David did not hear. His atten-
tior was all pointed at Lillian Drew.
"This is the way you've kept 1t. is
it, he said.
shes the only one I've told" she
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CHAPTER XXXIII (Continued)

OINCE Rogers would soon be
gone, David began to look
for new Charters. His pride
shrank from a clearinghouse
where he knew he would be liable to
snubs and insults. As money matters
troubled him no longer, he leased a
small fiat with a bright southern eX-
posure, in an apartment house just
outside the poorer quarter. If he and
Tom prepared most of their own meals
they could live more cheaply than in
a boarding house, and he could save
more to quiet Lillian Drew and to pay
off the debt 10 St ChristophcT's.
One afternoon, while David was at
the Pan-American talking 10 the Mayor,
and Kate was at her desk typewriting
a manuscript, the office door opened and
closed, and a low, satiric voice raspcd
across the room:
Hello. little girl
Kate looked about, then quickly rose
Her cheeks sprang aflame. At the door
stood Lillian Drew, smiling mockingly,
her face flushed with spirits.
Hello. little girl" she repeated.
kate's instructive hatred of this wom-
an, founded partly on what Lillian OBJ
viously was, but more on the certainty
that she had some close and secret con-
nection with David's life, made Kate
tremble. A year before the wrathful
words that sought to pass her lips
would have burst forth unchecked. But
abe controlled herself.
What do you want?" she demanded.
Twenty uncurbed years had made it
Of l +3r-St in tp
pain those who had aroused her antag-
onism. She had observed before that
Kate dislikcd her, and stung under her
little girl" consequently to inflict her
presence and the phrase on Kate was to
crafty instinct. She walked with a
slight unsteadlness to David's chair, sat
down, and smiled baitingly up into
Hates face.
I've just come around to have a
visit with you, little girl. Sit down."
Kate drew rigid. "If you want Mr..
AldrIch. he's not here"
"Oh, yes. he is. But I don't want him
just yet. l want to have visit with
you She looked Kate up and down.
well, now. for such little girl. you're
not so bad
Kate's eyes blazcd. II tell you he's
not here. There's no use of your wait
ing
I'm in no hurry at all. But you're
too thin. You've got to put on ten or
fifteen pounds if you expect to catch his
eye"
Kate pointed to the door. Get out of
herewith that breath of yours"
The indicative fire gathered in Lillian
Drew's eyes; the return blow of her
victim had reused her pain-giving de-
sire into wrath.
"Oh, you want 10 catch him, all
rightv she laughed Indignantly. 81
saw that in a second the other day from
the way you looked at him. But d'you
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Drawn for The Times

returned uneasily. Her effrontery be-
gan to flow back upon her She's
only one more you've got to square
things with. Come, give me a little
coin, and I'll get out and give you a
chance to settle with her"
You've had your last cent? he said
harshly.
"Oh! no. haven't. 1 don't leave till
you come up with the Dough- She
sat down, and looked defiantly at him.
Kate moved slowly, tensely, across to
David, gripped his arms and turned her
white. strained face upon his.
'So-you never took the mission
money! Her voice was an awed, de-
spairing whisper.
Her tone, her fierce grip. her white
face, sent through him a sickening
shiver of partial understanding. I'm
sorry-but you know the truth
She gazed wide-eyed at him; then her
voice, still hardly more than a whisper.
broke out wildly: "Yes-yes-you took
it, David! Say that you took it,"
He was silent for a moment 'If I
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Il can roll over and play dead" said
Gray Cat; and over she went on her
side and closed her eyes. Just then
she thought of the mouse, and she
jumped up and ran to the corner. But
it was too late; the crafty little fellow
was safe in the hole.
Gray Cat looked at White Cat. I've
are two silly CATS" she said. That
little mouse fooled US. He started
discussion between us and We fell into
his trap, for while we were trying to
outdo each other by performing tricks
he escaped and is no doubt watching
US and laughing at US for being so
silly"
"I think you are right said White
Cat, but II we learn a lesson from this
experience one mouse is not a high
price to pay, and l am sure we will be
wise in the future" and they walked
off together.
The little mouse peeped out of his hole
and looked after them. It think l bet
ter move out of this neighborhood," he
said. They will be on the lookout for
me and / cannot play that trick twice."
and after making sure the coast was
clear he ran out of the hole and went
down the street as fast as he could
looking for a new home.
Tomorrow's story: Nanny Sues
Ghost Story
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White Cat. but I can chase my tail,
and catch 1t, too" she replied.
You are not so large as Gray Cat"
ventured the little mouse. who felt that
all the time gained was favorable TO
his escape.
White Cat gave him a look that
plainly said, '1 will settle with you
later" But the mouse thought that to
be eaten by White Cat would not be a
bit worse than being eaten by Gray
Cat, and he kept on with his remarks
We mice think she is a little larger
he said. "and she can do such won
derful tricks!"
80 can l." said White Cat, running
around in a circle.
That is not so hard as turning over"
said Grays Cat; and she jumped into
the air and turned over, landing on her
feet.