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ening a voice, must mean something
terrible. one thing must nave paci-
fled her for a moment; and that was
seeing the two OF us behind the wall.
In the midst OF that resplendent light.
alive and we'll But she would GER
tainly have felt much easier If the
light had been put out.
Meantime. the other had already be-
gun to play the ventriloluist. He
said:
Here. | raise my mask little.
Oh, only little! You
see my lips. such lips as l have?
They're not moving. My
mouth is closed-such mouth as l
have-and yet you hear my voice,
Where will you have It? In
your left ear? In your right ear? In
the table? Listen, dear. 1t 8
in the little box on the right OF the
mantelpiece: what does 1t say? Shall
I turn the Scorpion .. And
now. crack! What does 1t say in the
little box on the LETT Shall turn
the grasshopper?' And now.
crack! Here 1t is in the little leather
bag. What does 1t say. 1 am
the little bag OF life and DEATH .
And now. crack! 1t is in Carlotta's S
throat. in Carlotta's golden throat, in
Carlotta's crystal throat, as | live!
What does it say? 1t says, Its |.
Mr.. Toad. it's ! singing! l feel with
out alarm-coack-with its melody
enwind me co-ack!' And
now, crack! 1t is on chair in the
ghosts box and 1t says, Madame Car
lotta is singing tonight to bring the
chandelier down!' And now,
crack! Aha! Where is Eriks voice
now? Listen, Christine, darling!
Listen! 1t is behind the door OF the
torture-chamber! Listenl It's my
self in the torture-chamber! And
what do / say? ! say, Woe to them
that have nose. real nose. and
come to look round the torture-cham-
ber! Aha, aha. aha!"
oh, the ventriloquists terrible
voice! 1t was everywhere. every
where. 1t passed through the little
invisible window, through the walls.
1t ran around us, between us. Erik
was there, speaking to us! We made
a movement as though to fling our
selves upon him. But already, swift
er. more fieeting than the voice OF
the echo. Erik's voice had ieaped back
behind the wall!
Soon we heard nothing more at all.
10 iS w hot
Erik! Erik" said Christine's
voice. You tire me with your voice.
Don't go on. Erik! Isn't 1t very hot
here?"
'Oh, yes" replied Erik's voice. the
heat is unendurable!"
But what does this mean? q.
The wall is really getting quite hot!
The wall is burning! -
'Tll tell you. Christine, dear: 1t is
because of the forest next door"
We'll, what has that to do with it,
The forest?"
Why, didn't you see that it was
an African forest?"
And the monster laughed so loudly
and hideously that we could no longer
distinguish Christines supplicating
cries! The Vicomte de Chagny shout
ed and banged against the walls like
madman. | could not restrain him.
But We heard nothing except the mon
ster's laughter, and the monster him
self can have heard nothing else. And
then there was the sound OF a body
falling on the floor and being dragged
along and door slammed and then
nothing. nothing more around us save
the scorching silence OF the south in
the heart of a tropical forest!
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lucky and any undertaking In hand
should II possible be abandoned. more
than four snccZeB did not count.
There Is u saying In many parts Of
England today once wish. twice
n kiss. three times letter. four times
something better" II people sneezod
together It was good sign. pnrtlcu.
larly n they happened TO bo discuss
ing bu8lncBB,
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Couldn't Understand Him.

A young man Just returned from COZ
lege was out cycling one day when sud
denly he came to steep gradient.
While descending he lost control OF
his machine and two men came and
found him lying on the ground. When
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DnnnlX Rootnd ldean

II Is true That a woman suggests
beef tea as a universal panacoa for
all Ills. II is certain. on the other
hand. that man always believes that
a woman always feels better tor lyi.x
downs MacnaughtoA
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Pain in Back and Rheumatism

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to work for you from the FIRST dose. and cR.
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asked what was the matter. he replied
We'll, ! came down that incline with
trnl gravity, and was prcclpitatod on
the hard macndamlzod road" Away,
leave him ulonc." said one OF tho
men, he's n foreigner"
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DOCTORS DID
NOT HELP her
But Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound Restored
Mrs. LeClear's Health
Her Own Statement.
Detroit, Mich. 81 am glad to dis
cover remedy that relieves me from

m y suffering an d
pains. For two years
l suffered bearing
down pains md got
all run down. i was
under n ncrvou .
strain and could not
sleep ut night. 1
went 10 doctors hero
il the city but they
did not do me any
good.
Seeing Lydia Il.
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Alas. that wise man can't help
looking like a fool at his own we'd
ding,
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Some CoIIrlnc.

rs BandboX brave man"
We'll he wears Il hat with red
feather in the bow"
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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ndver-
tised, / tried it. My health improved
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again. No women suffering from fe-
male ills will regret it II she takes this
medicine. Mrs. JAMES G. LECLEAR.
1886 Hunt ST., Detroit, Mich.
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to us, We must therefore try to open
II without even knowing where It was
When | was quite sure that there
was no hope Tor US from Christine
Daao's side, when had heard the
monster dragging the poor girl from
the Louis,Philippe room lest she
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Australia raises nearly 10,O00.O0O
acres of wheat years
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
tcething, softcns the gums, reduces innnmma-
tion,nllhys pal cures wind colo, ,a5c bolt ~,
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Ten smiles for nickel Always buy Red
Cross Bag Blue; have beautiful clear white
clothes. Adv.
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Another Case.

Philadelphia, Pa. 49," Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound is all you
claim it 10 be. About two or thrco
days before my periods / would yet bad
backaches, then pains in right and left
sides, and my head would ache. called
the doctor and he said had organic in
fammntion. went 20 him for n while but
did not get well 30 took Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. After tax
ing two bottles was relieved and finally
my troubles left me. | married and
have two little girls. have hnd no re-
turn Of the old troubles. Mrs. CHhs.
Bom.L, $3.50 $. Chadwick St, Phila. Pa.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-26
BY B. r. lNMAN.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 26.-In sew
eral cities in Indiana activity is al
ready developing in connection with
the approaching municipal elections.
In some of these cities the old-time
bipartisan combinations are quietly
planning to get in their work. Fusion
is being proposed as means, presum-
ably to bring about better conditions.
In a certain prominent city near the
western side of the State subtle forces
have been quietly at work for several
weeks which have as the object OF
their efforts the nomination of fusion
ticket to be composed of Progressives,
Republicans and Democrats.
1t is time for a note of warning to
be sounded. The Progressive party
must make no mistake on this ques
ton. Let it be understood once and for
all that the Progressive party is OPP
posed to fusion. 1t will go before the
people in these municipal campaigns
with full tickets composed of the best
men that can be secured. 1t will invite
the cooperation of all persons who ap-
the welfare of the community at heart.
The Progressive party does not need
to go outside of it's own ranks to find
candidates who will truly represent
the people and will conduct the city
administrations in a manner that will
be a credit to the cities which they
serve and reflect honor on the official
and the party with which he is affiliat-
ed.
1t is not difficult to understand how
it is that the Republicans and Demo
Gratis are advocating fusion in certain
| Indiana cities. The former organiza-
ton is so completely shot to pieces
that it does not have a ghost of a
chance of electing its candidates. The
Democratic party in some Of these To-
calities has become so completely en-
tangled in the meshes of the brewery
| interests and other enemies to good
government, that they fear the results
of going before the people on the rec
| ords that confront them.
The Progressive party stands alone
| in it's capacity to give the citizens of
Indiana a clean, safe and economic adj
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EDITORIAL VIEWS
PORK BARREL, AGAIN.
(Connersville News.)

The Examiner says the News at
tacks Finly Gray for voting and work
ing for a government building at Shell
byville while Watson was praised for
voting and working for a similar bull
ding for Connersville. The Examiner
misrepresents the News in this. Ii
specifically stated that Mr.. Gray was
not blamable for working and voting
for his own district though but a few
months ago he expressed conscientious
scruples against so-called pork bar
rel" legislation. But Mr.. Gray is not
only congressman from the Sixth dis
trict but a sworn officer of the whole
government. And what has he and
many other northern Democratic con-
gressmen done? In order to get a few
thousand votes for their own respec-
tive districts they have voted TO as
good as throw away millions of the
peoples and the nations money to put
public buildings in dozens of southern
villages. The southern votes were nee
essary to push a pork barrel bill
/ through and they demanded their
price, and got it. The northern mem
bers helped pay that price by voting
it out of the pockets of all the people.
If Mr.. Gray had not so plainly express
ed himself against pork barrel legisla-
ton the sudden change in his attitude
would not have appeared so striking.
But he talked economy and has parti-
cipated in what Washington officials
openly declare was one of the worst
voted for a building for Connersville
only towns whose revenues justified it
We're given public buildings. Will the
Examiner contend that this is true of
the twenty-six million pull on the
treasury in which Mr.. Gray participant
ed?
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WARNING To PROGRESSVES

ministration. The Progressive party
was founded as protest against the
very forces that underlie every sug-
gestion to fusion which emanates from
the bosses of the two old parties. The
Progressive party will continue to
stand firm as a coherent force in the
defense of these principles of reform
which enter into the very foundation
of the party's platform. In its lauda-
BILE efforts to give the people the kind
of municipal government that will best
conduce to their happiness and pros
perity, it invites the earnest coopera-
parties. 1t is unreasonable and alb
surd, however, to ask the party which
has instituted these reforms, to repu-
date its position on these great ques-
tons and join with the forces that
have been a menace to the highest
type of municipal government during
recent years.
In many instances the efforts to Sc
cure fusion is the cunning work OF
crafty politicians who realize the i'm
portance of driving the Progressives
from the moorings, and thereby check
the uprising of popular sentiment in
their favor.
If the Progressive party is right in
it's advocacy of more righteous and
economic municipal, state and nation
al government, why should the voters
of that party be expected to join with
either of the old parties simply to
crystalize the selfish ambitions of GER
tain men whose only hope of being ell
ected to public office lies in their be
ing able to enlist the support OF Pro
gressive voters?
Every city. in Indiana should nomi
nate Progressive ticket. The ticket
so nominated should contain the
names of men of integrity and whose
ability to render the highest type OF
public service is unquestioned. With
such a ticket in the field the Progress
sives Of Indiana may depend on it that
there will be no backward step in the
matter Of needed reforms Let the slO
| gan be mo fusion, no compromise and
no backward step. The Progressive
party is right: 1t must stay clear of al
entangling alliances. Principle must be
| paramount to expediency.
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and that affection that blossomed at
their mating time and held them near
and dear in the days of happy poverty
was left TO her as an apple OF Sodom,
dissolving into the smoke OF estrange-
ment and the ashes OF anguish. Ans
still she loved him as of old and il she
knew the words OF that old poem she
might echo in her heart its words of
pathos and of woe:
You walk the sunny side of fate;
The wise world smiles and calls you
great:
The golden fruitage of success
Drops al your feet in righteousness;
And you have blessings manifold
Renown and power and friends and
gold
They build a wall between us twain,
Which may not be thrown down again,
Alas, for |. the long years through,
Have loved you better than you knew.
Your lfes proud aim, your arts high
truth,
Have kept the promise OF your youth;
And, while you won the crown. which
now
Breaks into bloom upon your brow,
My soul called strongly out TO you
Across the oceans burning blue,
While aforementioned and afar
! watched you as l would star,
Through darkness struggling into
view.
And loved you better than you knew.
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THE PRAYER CENSOR.
(Logansport. Ind, Reporter,

tLOsanSpoTt, lnu., hepOIleT.l
The spectacular interruption OF a
prayer by Mr.. O'Neill in the opening
of the senate session indicates that
the presiding officer lacks the sense of
absurdity which we sometimes loosely
call the sense of humor.
II indicates something else, and
something more previously defective
in the makeup of Mr.. O'Neill, and that
is a sound sense of propriety. 1t was
rather a far-fetched idea that the min
lister was insulting" the senate.
He was doing nothing of the kind.
Mr.. O'Neill, as matter of fact, was
entirely out of order to interrupt the
prayer: he had neither legal nor a
constitutional right TO do so. The Of
ficiating chaplain is not under the con-
troll of the speaker of the house, more
than to be designated the acting min
lister
1t may be that the preacher went
farther than Mr.. O'Neill in his sensi-
tive condition felt that he should do,
but the drastic and indecorous conduct
of the speaker was a greater insult to
the senate than the act he censured.
II was more than that; it was an
insult to the state of Indiana, and
brought a good deal of discredit upon
the Hoosier state. The act has been
carried far and wide over the nation
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costumes handsome and the music
lifting.
The plot is less threadbare than
that the ordinary musical comedy,
the story being a good one, with
certain "Cobosso," an impecunious
Italian tenor, as leading principal.
Mr.. William Edmonds, who took this
role, showed himself possessed of his
tronic talents, his representation being
excellent theatrically and indicative Of
an appreciation of dramatic subtleties.
His characterization was, in fact in
tensely diVerting, his depletion of the
selfish interest and the shrewd prac-
ticality of the Latin which underlies
his seeming-but mere seeming
romanticism. being well done The
genuine humour of the plot is furnish
ed by this character
And therin lies what theatric ex-
cellence it possesses. Since its hum
our is a result of the action and is not
eXtraneous thereto.
Miss Florence Gear, as the aunt of
THE Sweetest Girl in Paris" is a
comedy actress of parts, a sort OF COM
posite photograph of Lillian Russell's
material charms and May Twins la
comic manner
That Miss Gear has undeniable gifts
as comedian was shown in her clever
burlesques of we'll known stage people
-Chauncey Olcott, Mary Garden,
Anna Held, Eva Tanguay and one or
two others, this part of her perform
ance elfciting a number of recalls.
The other principals were Well TAX
en- including Mr.. Richard Bartlett as
James Armstrong and who has good
singing voice, and Miss Eleanora SUIT
ter as Mary Blake the girl in the
case.
E G. w.
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FAILURE IN SUCCESS.
Fort Wayne. Ind. News)

(Fort Wayne, Ind, NeWS.)
Orville Harold, the grand opera sim
ger, rose suddenly from the obscurity
of an Indiana town to an international
fame, and his achievement has been
hailed as a success. And in one sense
it has been a success, signal and glo-
rious. Yet in another way it has been
a failure. This feature of his achieve
ment was made manifest to us the
other day when his wife appeared as
plaintiff in a divorce case. asking sep
aration and maintenance. She still low
ed her husband, she declared. but she
realized that the new life into which
his developed talent had transferred
him had weaned away his love from
her forever and forever. Nothing in
common now remained between them
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and the almost universal comment Is
derogatory TO the dignity OF the sen
ate and the state. We miss our guess
If Mr.. O'Neill does not rue the day
that he lost his decorum and his tenn
per and violated the proprieties OF so
fixed an institution as the right OF
prayer by the chaplain of the senate
We do not know what the religious
proclivities of Mr.. O'Nein are, but for
his sake and the sake of the senate
of Indiana we earnestly hope that no
more subtle motive will be found in
spring this extraordinary act.
The state. as public, has already
repudiated the conduct OF the speaker
OF the senate, and il has done well 10
do so.
They will some day interrupt the po-
litical prayer of this religious censor.
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YESTERDAY IN
THE ASSEMBLY
SENATE

Shively-Spencer public service COM
mission bill passed.
Bill passed putting bureau of legisla-
tive information on permanent basis.
Clarke bill, governing Juvenile Court
of Indianapolis and increasing salary
of judge passed.
House bill providing for charter CON-
mission to rule on all applications for
establishment of new banks killed
Steams ship ticket bill made special
order for February IS.
HOUSE.
Storen amendments to registration
law, allowing voter TO register by aft
davit, passed.
New garnishee bill by Weidler in
PRODUCED and committee decides to re-
port it for passage.
Crayens introduces bill for $1,000
900 State House as feature o. centen-
NAL observance.
Fifteen bills passed, one billed,
thirty-one introduced.
Township trustees increase in sal
airy to S. day killed
Two Lake County salary grabs"
passed.
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A WARNING TO MANY
Some Interesting Facts Regarding
Health Statistics

Few people realize to what extent
their health depends upon the condi-
ton of the kidneys.
The physician in nearly all cases of
serious illness, makes a chemical
analysis of the patients urine. He
knows that unless the kidneys are do
ing their work properly, the other Or
gans cannot be brought back to health
and strength.
When the kidneys are neglected or
abused in any way, serious results are
sure to follow. According to health
statistics, Brights disease which is
really an advanced form of kidney
deaths In 1910. in the state of New
York alone Therefore, it behooves
us to pay more attention to the health
of these most important organs.
An ideal herbal compound that has
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the great Kidney, Liver and Bladder
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The mild and healing influence OF
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If you feel that your kidneys re-
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Swamp-Root is sold by every drug
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ADVERTISEMENT
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Heart toHeart
+
/ Talks i
ECHOES OF CHRISTMAS.
ByJArfES A. EDCERTON

Christmas Is over, but the Christmas
spirit is not. That never dies. It
goes with us through all the year.
have run on to three stories Of last
Christmas that seem so good they are
worth repeating, even at this late day.
The first concerns a guard in the
New York subway--about the last
place one would look for the Christ
mas spirit.
The other guards were tired and
snappish. The people were tired and
dostled and crowded each other almost
spitefully.
This guard had a smile and merry
Christmas for everybody. He called
out cheerily:
"Give your fellow men a chance.
Just little peace and good will now.
Remember it's merry Christmas"
The crowds responded instantly.
The jostling stopped. People stood
aside respectfully and courteously to
let others pass. They went aboard in
an orderly manner. Yet by their very
orderliness they were enabled to make
greater haste, and this guards plat.
form was cleared before the others.
Not only so, but all those concerned
had little better Christmas because
Of the incident.
Another story relates to a little girl
strapped to a Bedford frame in a
Brooklyn hospital. There she has been
for three years, suffering from curva-
ture of the spine.
She wrote a pathetic letter to Santa
Claus, appealing not only for herself,
but for the other tots about her SINH
larry afflicted.
The letter got into one of the New
York papers.
From all over the land came the re-
Spouse. Dolls and toys arrived by the
score. A San Francisco lady sent a
diamond ring. Another mailed a check
for $500.
With her treasures about her the
crippled child cried:
mo one can ever have a happier
christmas than I am having right
now. 1 am so happy can't keep from
crying" and she burst into tears.
Then she gave all but a few Of her
precious dollies and toys to the other
AIlic SilpplcS anu ScuL tuS SCOO W I'LL
old ladies' home.
The third story is Of a six-year-old
boy in the children's home at Cincin-
natl. He is placed there because his
mother Is employed in an office. On
Thanksgiving day he was given a
large, luscious orange. 1t was reported
that he had sold it and when asked
the reason he said he had put the
money in the bank to buy his mamma
Christmas present.
"Mus' be sumpin' NICE" he prattled
"I haven't got nobody but JUS my
mamma. so 1t mus be sumpin' very
nice"
Do not these stories reflect the spirit
OF him who gave his name to Christ
mas, who taught good will and who
loved little children?