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Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04

At the Old Peoples home. 22l4 Writ
street, on Monday afternoon Mrs. Eliza
beth Page, an old resident Of Omaha, cele-
brated her eighteth birthday. Mr.. Page
was formerly proprietor Of the Planters
hotel located where the postoffce now
stands. Mrs. Page was the recipient Of
many presents and beautiful flowers from
her old friends. The affair was in charge
OF the Wednesday Afternoon Social club
Mrs. Page wore a stone colored silk dress
presented to her by the guests OF the hotel
In 1852. The company we're entertained
by instrumental music and singing OF old
time songs. Mrs. Page related a few Of
her old-time "reminiscences. which were
greatly enjoyed by ali after which re-
freshments were served.
The members Of the club are Mrs. Will
liam Winslow. Mrs. Wallerstedt. Mrs
johnson, Mrs. Bramblett. Mrs Kent, Mrs
Eslin, Mrs. Howard. Mrs. d. T. Beams.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04
Among the Women's Clubs

Tag Day for the Young Women Christian Association Turned $500
Into the Golfers Of the Association Toward Raising the Debt the
BuldingFund Now About $25 oOOwOmans League Officers
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04

This amount together with several larg,
sums which have been promised for tn,
near future, will bring the amount clos,
20 the $4,000 mark. which Is the aim o.
the host Of women working for the cause
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04

The women's Relief Corps of U. S. Grant
post WI hold its regular meeting Tues
day afternoon at 1880 in Baright hall.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04

BOUT $4,000 is the proceeds an
nounced for Tag day, which
was held last Thursday for the
benefit OF raising the Young
Woman's Christian association
Indebtedness fund.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04

President TRfts rebuke to the board of
governors Of the Metropolitan club for re-
fusing to receive three Of the prominent
members of congress continues to be an en-
crossing subject OF conversation IN official
and club circles and a revolt in the Metro
politan club is already under way. Senator
Root of New York is leading the opposition
TO a clique of men In Washington most
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04

The diplomatic corps is rapidly complet-
ing its arrangements for the establishment
OF summer capitals. Here is the list 80 far
as Il has been definitely arranged. British
Par Harbor; French, Manchester blythe
Sea; German. Manchester blythe Sea; Rus
sian, Manchester blythe sea: Italian, Man
chester by the-sea; Mexican Magnolia
Mass; Turkish, Belport, Mass; Austria. Bal
Harbor; Chinese. Nvack -the-Huds1n
Venezuelan, Bar Harbor; Netherlands. Ban
Harbor; Argentine, Buena Vista, Pa
Persian, Gloucester; Greek. Bar Harbor
Siamese, Gloucester. Mass.
The Belgian. Swiss Norwegian, Costa
Rican, Peruvian, Colombian. Salvsdorian
Haitian and Dominican legations will not
be moved from Washington this summer
The japanese ambassador the Chilean
and Brazilian charge d'affaires, and tn,
Spanish, Nicaraguan, Swedish, Portuguese
Panaman, Bolivian and Cuban ministers
have not completed their plans for the
summer
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04

A very interesting report Is current in
society to the effect that Major Archie
butt, the presidents military aide, is to
win the heart and hand OF Miss Lucy
Heron Laushlin, sister Of Mrs. Taft, and
that it is with this end in view the gallant
Georgian is having his house fixed up. and
accommodating Georgia quilts and the like
There is no confirmation Of the story. but
II is regarded as not at all unlikely II It
should be true, Postmaster General Frank
II Hitchcock will soon be the sole prize
bachelor Of the administration
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04

Mrs. Joseph Bailey, wife Of Senator
Bailey, gave a pretty luncheon last week
in honor OF Miss Scotia Goodwin of Dallas
and several other young girls. who are at
tending school In Washington.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04

Mrs. Samuel Nelson Barker Of Chevy
Chase recently gave house party. Among
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oougricat ists. b. thepobse,tsrrtn O..
SYNOPSIS.

James Wilson or Jimmy as he is called
by his friends, was rotund and iook-
Cd shorter than he really was. HIS
ambition in life was to be taken seriously, w
art 10 considered q huge Joke, except TO
himself, II he asked people TO dinner ey-
eryone expected g frolic. Jimmy marrles
Bella Knowles: they live together year
range to celebrate the first anniversary
Of his divorce. The party Is. in full swing
when Jimmy receives telegram from hls
Aunt Selma, who will arrive in four hours
tell her Of his divorce. Jimmy takes III III
into his confidence He suggests that Kit
play the hostess for one night be Mrs:
Wilson pro tenn Aunt Selma arrives ana
s hs dssDsn ap T9rts taken a1s as MI Bea
Jimmy's divorced wife, enters the house
and asks Kit who is being taken away In
the ambulancef Belle insists 1t is Jim.
house. HARRISON steps out on the porch
'the doot. He demands an explanation.
The man points to the placard and Har.
bison sees the & word Smallpox" printed printed
leave the house until the quarantine. is
lifted. After the lifting OF the quarantine
several letters are found In the mail box
endeliyered. one is addressed to Henry
putely Of their incarceration. also Of his
tnfatuation for Mrs. Wilson. Aunt Selma
u taken III with Ia grippe. Betty acts as
nurse. HARRISON finds Kit sull1,ng on the
roof. She tells him that Jim has been
treating her outrageously. Kit starts
downstairs. when suddenly she is grasped
IN the arms Of q man who kisses her sew
eral times. She believes that HARRISON
did Il and is humiliated. Aunt Selma tells
Jimmy that her cameo breastpin and
other articles Of jewelry have been stolen.
She accuses Betty OF the theft. Jimmy
tells Aunt Selma all about the strange
happenings. but she persists in suspecting
Betty OF the theft Of her valuables.
HARRISON demands an explanation from
Kit as to her conduct towards him, she
tells him Of the incident on the roof, he
does not deny nor confirm her accusation.
Aunt Selma Ia awakened during the
night; she finds Jim making love to
Bella; she demands an explanation
from Jim. Bella reveals the whole
plot to Aunt Selma. She forgives both
Of them. but calls Kit a JeZebel She
tells Jim to reveal the true situation to
Harbison. Jimmy Is taken I'll: Bella tells
the guests that spots have broken out
on his body. They are convinced that
Jim has the dreaded disease. Bella tells
the guests that jim is delirious, she
said he saw man crawl out from under
his bed. He said the house was haunted.
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viii Likely Free Shakers.

Kissimee, Fla.-The ,coroner's in
quest over the body of Sister Sadie L..
Marchant, the member Of the Shaker
colony who was treated to euthanasia
by Sister Elizabeth Sears and Brother
Egbert Gillette, will be held in a day
or two and itis declared the inquest
propably will do away with the neces-
sity for an investigation by q grand
jury. At her urgent request Sister
Sadie, who was in the last stages OF
tuberculosis, was given chloroform by
her fellow Shakers. There is no
statute against attempts at suicide N
this state and it is believed this will
enter largely into the question wheth-
er the Shakers have been guilty of any
criminal act.
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Rogers Has Started on Trip.

New York.-C. P. Rodgers, third
aviator to start on the trans-continen-
tai fight for the Hearst prize, rose
from the race rack at Sheepshead
Bay, swept in wide circle over the
grounds and then headed northwest
until his white-winged flyer merged
into a bank of clouds over the jersey
meadows and disappeared. He drove
a Wright biplane and carried mes
sages from Mayor Gaynor to the may
or of San Francisco and from the
commanders of the eastern division
of the army and navy to the COM
nanders on the Pacific coast.
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THONRS 4. CARTER
HAS PASSED AWAY
PROMINENT MAN IN NATIONAL
POLITICS HAS GONE TO HIS
LAST REST.
REMARKABLE CAREER ENDED
Had Twenty-Five Years of Congress
slonal and official Life-was Born
in Ohio and Was the First Repres.
entatlve From Montana.

Washington. - Former United
States Senator Thomas Henry Carter
of Montana for many years notable
and picturesque figure in national
politics, once head of the Republican
national committee and since last
March chairman of the American Sec
ton of the international Joint Com
mission, died at his home of in
forction of the lungs. He was 81
years old.
Mr.. Carter had been under the care
of a physician for months. He was
able to go about, however and his all
ment, filing of the lungs with clot-
ted blood, did not become acute until
a week ago. A Baltimore specialist
was summoned and at that time the
attending physician expressed con-
fidence in the patients recovery. But
the malady became worse and death
resulted. Mrs. Carter, wife and their
sons, students at Georgetown Univer-
sity, were with him when he died.
The interment will be at Mount
Olive cemetery this city.
Mr.. Carter had remarkable career.
1t extended over twenty-five years Of
congressional and official life at
Washington. This embraced service
at the first Republican elected from
Montana, two terms in the United
States Senate and executive positions
as commissioner of the general land
office, chairman Of the Republican
national committee in the second and
unsuccessful campaign of Benjamin
Harrison for the presidency, president
of the board of United States commits
sioners for the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at st. Louis and, since last
March, chairman of the newly created
international joint commission,
American section" especially charged
with Canadian boundary matters.
An Onion by birth, and 1owan by
adoption, and a Montanan long before
that territory was admitted to state
hood.
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Washington.

Praise instead of criticism is given
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief OF the
chemistry bureau and popular pure
food champion, by President Taft in
his opinion disposing of the much
discussed Rusby case made public il
the shape of a letter to Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson. The resignation
of Wiley will not be asked for nor
will the "condign punishment for the
chief of the bureau of chemistry,
which Attorney General Wickersham
held to be necessary, be meted out
to him.
President Taft celebrated his fifty.
fourth birthday. Congratulatory mes.
sages poured into the executive Of
fees from all over the world. One
came from King George V. of Eng
land. It read as follows: "Balmoral
Castle.-President OF the United
Ctates: have great pleasure in send
ing you my most hearty congratula'
tions on the anniversary of your birth
day, and trust that the friendly rela.
tions existing between our two coun-
tries may ever continue
The reciprocity campaign in Can
ada is going on with intensity as cleo
tion day draws near. The two lead
ers. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and R. Bor
den have gone to their home constit
uencies in Quebec and Nova Scotia,
respectively, but their heutenanta
have taken I'D their work in Ontario.
Odds in favor of the reelection Of
Laurier have heightened, and even
money is now offered that the = sr-
ais will have a majority of thirty In
parliament, while to is freely Of
feYed with few takers that the gov
ernment will be returned.
The Federal prison parole board
will meet at Leavenworth peniten-
tiary to hear the application for pa
role made by John E. Walsh, the con-
victed Chicago banker now serving
f,ye-year sentence for his connec.
tion with the troubles of three banks.
All pending indictments against
Walsh have been dismissed. He has
served one-third of his term, and, un-
der the law is eligible to apply for
release The board will hold meet
inc at the Atlanta penitentiary, where
about 100 applicants for parole Will
be considered.
In an address before his friends and
neighbors at Louisiana, Mo, Speaker
Champ Clark made plea for more
notifies and more politicians and for
cibly asserted that upright and hon.
eat politicians are the rule and not
the exception in America. ut Is
sometimes urged that there is SO
much corruption in politics that good
men are defiled by participation
therein" he said. THAT excuse Is
not tenable. In fact it is preposter-
GUS. The probabilities are that there
8 not a congressional district in
america where there is a majority OF
purchaseable voters"
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wood, Ind.
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and the advice free.
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CHAPTER xxi. (contlnued.)

Aunt Selma put her clothes in a tub
in the laundry and proceeded to dress
them Ike vegetable. She threw in
q handful Of salt, some kerosene oil
and little ammonia. The result was
villainous, but after she tasted it-or
sruffed it-she said 1t needed bar
Of soap cut up to give It strengthen
aavor-and went into the store-room
for it.
The laundry soap was in a box. 1
took IN silver fork, for hated to
touch the stun, and jabbed a bar sue
oessfully in the semi-darkness. Then
| carried 1t back to the laundry and
dropped It on the table. Aunt Selma
looked at the fork with disgust, then
we both looked at the soap. One side
Of 1t was covered with round holes
that curved around on each other like
coiled snake.
ran back to the store.room. and
there, little bit sticky and smelling
terribly Of rosin, lay Anne's pearl
necklace!
was so excited that I seized Aunt
Selma by the hands and danced her
all over the place. Then left her,
trying to find her hairpins on the floor,
and ran up to tell the others. 1 met
Betty In the hall, and waved the
pearls. at her. But she did not notice
them.
"Is Mr.. HARRISON down there?" she
asked breathlessly. IT left him on the
roof and went down to my room for
my scarf. and when 1 went back he
had disappeared. He-he doesn't
seem to be in the house." She tried
70 laugh, but her voice was sbaky.
HE couldn't have got down withou,
passing me. anyhow" she supplement-
ed. II suppose I'm silly, but SO many
queer things have happened. Kit"
II wouldn't worry, Betty" I soothed
her. HE is big enough to take care
Of himself. And with the best inten.
tons in the world. you can't have him
all the time. you know"
She was too much startled to be in
dignant. She followed me into the
library. where the sight OF the pearls
produced a tremendous excitement,
and then every one had to go down
to the .store-room, and see where the
necklace had been hidden, and Max
examined all the bars Of soap for
thumb prints.
Mr.. HARRISON did not appear. Max
commented on the fact caustically.
but Dal hushed him up.
was almost ready for bed when
Jim tapped at my door. I had been
very cool to him since the night In
the library when I was publicly staked
and martyred, and he was almost
cringing when opened the door.
What is It now?" asked cruelty.
HAS Bella tired Of 1t already. or has
somebody else rash?"
Don't be shrew, Kit" he said. Il
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don't want you to do anything.
only-when did you see HARRISON
last?"
"1f you mean last" 1 retorted, I'm
afraid haven't seen the last of him
yet" Then saw that he was really
worried. Betty was leading him tc
/ the roof" added. why? Is he
missing?'
"He isn't anywhere in the house
Dal and have been over every inch
of it." Max had come up, in a dress
ing gown, and was watching me in
solently.
a"I think we have seen the last Of
him." he said. .Tm sorry, KIT, to mir
the little romance in the, bud, The
fellow was crazy about you--there's
no doubt of 1t. But I've been watch
ing him from the beginning, and
think I'm upheld. Whether he went
down the water-spout, or across d
board to the next house"
I'll dislike him intensely" / said
angrily, "but you would rot dare to
say that to his face. He could stran
gle you with one hand
Max laughed disagreeably.
"Well, I only hope he is gone." he
threw at me over his shoulder, s'1
wouldn't want to be responsible tc
your father If he had stayed" ! was
epoocb1ooS uith wrath
They went away then, and I could
hear them going over the house. At
one o'clock Jim went up to bed, the
last, and Mr.. HARRISON had not been
found. did not see how they could
go to bed at all. II he had escaped.
then Max was right and the whole
thing was heart.breaking. And If he
had not, then. he might be lying
I got UP and dressed,
The early part of the night had
been cloudy. but when / got to the
roof it was clear starlight. The wind
blew through the electric wires strung
across and set them singing. The oc,
casional bleat of a belated automobile
on the drive below came up to me
raucously.
And there In the starlight, I went
over the whole serio-comedy, and
loathed my part in It, He had been
perfectly right to be angry with me
and with all OF us And I had been
hypocfite and, Phnrisee, and had
thanked God that / was not as
other people, when tho fact was that
I was worse than the worst. And
although it wasn't disnifled to think
of him going down the drain pipe
still-no one could blame him for
wanting to get away from us, and he
was quite muscular enough to do it.
1 was In the depths q self-abase.
ment when heard a sound behind
me. 1t was long breath, quite audi
BILE. that ended in q groan. l gripped
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Left Him Far Behind.

Childish standards Of greatness are
interesting perhaps because they are
at once so like yet so unlike the
standards of grown folk. Many en-
adult, for instance, has been proud
with no more reasonable basis than
that which little Johnnie displayed in
attempting to top" the boasting of a
juvenile comrade.
1--WE got real railroad train, with
an engine that goes, an a real, live
pony, an really, truly. gun. an"
That's nothing!" interrupted the
lads disgusted listener. "Once knew
boy who sat up until IL o'clock
twice in one week."
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CHAPTER XXI.
n Was DeiirIum.

I was sure he was dead. He did
not move, and when I caught his
hands and called him frantically, he
did not hear me. And SO, with the
horror over me, half fell down the
stairs and reused Jim in the studio.
They all came with lights and blan-
kets. and they carried him into the
tent and put him on the couch and
tried to put whisky In his mouth. But
he could not swallow. And the 81
lence became more and more ominous
until finally Anne got hysterical and
cried, HE is dead! dead!" and col
lapsed on the roof.
But he was not. Just as the lights
in the tent began to have red rings
around them and Jim's voice came
from away across the river. some.
body said, There, he swallowed
that" and soon after. he opened his
eyes. He muttered something that
sounded like "Andean pinnacle" and
lapsed into Inconsistencies again.
But he was not dead! He was not
dead!
When the doctor came they made a
stretcher out of one Of Jim's six-foot
canyases-it had a picture on it. and
Jim was angry enough the next day
and took him down to the studio. We
made it as much like a sick room as
we could, and we tried to make him
comfortable. But he lay without open.
ing his eyes, and at dawn the doctor
brought consultant and a trained
nurse.
The nurse was an extensively cap,
able person. She put us all out, and
scolded Anne for lighting japanese in.
cense in the room.
The consultant came, stayed an
hour, and left. Aunt Selma. who
proved herself trump in that trying
time, waylaid him in the hall, and he
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the parapet and listened, while my
heart pounded, and in minute 1t
came again.
l was terribly frightened. Then-1
don't know how 1 did 1t, but / was
across the roof, kneeling beside the
tent, where 1t stood against the chin
ney. And there, lying prone among
the flower-pots, and almost entirely
hidden. lay the man we had been look
ing for.
His head was toward me, and I
reached out shakingly and touched his
face. 1t was cold, and my hand, when
I drew 1t back. was covered with
blood. '''9
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General.

Three hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars were stolen from the branch
OF the Bank of Montreal in New West
minister, B. c. Five robbers entered
the bank by the front door, broke
through the thin metal coating Of the
vault, blew the safe by charge OF
nirto-gIycerine and made their escape
with their booty without being seen
except by q Chinese caretaker. There
was in all $350,00 in the bank safes.
The robbers took all they could carry.
premier Stolypin, who was shot
down in the municipal theater at Kiey,
Russia, in all probability, will sur
yive his wounds. The surgeons an
uounced that the premier's conditions
was satisfactory. They declared no
complications were feared, and that
there were good hopes Eor his recov-
cry. The local police believe Bogroff,
the would-be assassin, is political
maicontent, and the reasons for the
crime we're his hatred for M. Stolypin,
due to the premier's reactionary pol
icieg.
Frances reply to Germans propos-
ais on the Moroccan negotiations has
heen written and will be laid before
the French cabinet. The German de-
mands were such as could not be &C.
cepted by France.
Great Britaon, Germany, Austria
and Spain have agreed to recognize
the republic Of Portugal.
The keel Of Uncle Sans greatest
dreadnought, the battleship New
work. was laid at the New York navy
vard The new sea fighter will be
of 97 600 tons displacement. The New
YORK viii be more than two years in
building.
lanes Russell soley. formerly as
,x;stant secretary of the navy, mem
her of the New York bar, died at
Roosevelt hospital from pneumonia.
1fr SoIey was born in Boston October
I. 1850.
$4,000 persons engaged in the New
England textile industry resumed
work after q period of idleness.
The eruption of Mount Etna has
beccme more intense. Showers OF
ashes are heavier and the rumbling is
heard for miles. The shocks are
growing in violence and panic pre-
yails. The fear of the people is aug
z,sated by the great heat