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preached by some unattached gentle
man.
Grace motioned to Abbott to sit be-
side her, with concentration Of at
tention that showed her purpose of
reaching a definite goal unsupported
by the other.
I'm so glad Fran has taken a place
in the choir" Abbott whispered to
Grace. "And look at Simon Jefferson
who'd have thought it,! f
Grace looked at Simon Jefferson;
she also looked at Fran, but her COM
pressed lips and reproving eye ex-
pressed none of Abbott's gladness.
However, she responded With am
so glad you are here, Professor Ash
ton, for I'm in trouble. and kcan't de-
eide which way it is my duty to turn.
Will you help me? | am going to
trust you-it is a matter relating to Mr..
Gregory"
Abbott was pleased that she should
think him competent to advise her re-
speeding her duty; at the same time
he regretted that her confidence re-
lated to Mr.. Gregory.
Professor Ashton" she said softly,
docs my position as hired secretary
to Mr. Gregory carry with it the obli-
cation to warn him of any misconduct
in his Householder"
The solo was dying away. and, sweet
and low, 1t fell from heaven like man
ma upon his soul, blending divinely
with the secretarys voice. Her ex-
preston "hired" sounded like tragic
note-to think of one SO beautiful SO
meek, so surrounded by mellow hymn
notes, being hired!
You hesitate to advise me, before
you know ALL" she said, ''and you are
right In moment the choir will be
singing louder, and we can all talk to-
gether. Mrs Gregory should be con-
suited, too"
Grace, conscious of doing all that
one could in consulting Mrs. Gregory,
'too," looked toward the choir loft,
and smiled into Hamilton Gregory's
eyes. How his baton, inspired by that
smile, cut magic runes in the air!
Mrs. Gregory" Grace said in a low
voice, II suppose Professor Ashton is
so surprised at seeing you in church
it has been more than five months.
hasn't it? that I'm afraid he
isn't thinking about, what I'm saying"
Mrs. Gregory could not help feeling
in the way, because her husband
seemed to share Grace's feeling. In
stinctively she turned to her mother
and laid her hand on the invalid's
arm.
"They amt bothering me, Lucy
said the old lady, alertly. 81 can't
hear their noise, and when / shut my
eyes | can't sec tneir motions"
81 have something to tell you both, )"
Grace said solemnly. Last night, l
couldn't sleep, and that made me SEN
sitive to noises | thought l heard
some one slipping from the house Just
as the clock struck half-past eleven. 1t
seemed incredible, for l knew if it
were anyone, it was that Fran, and |
didn't think even she would do that"
It. was as if Abbott had suddenly
raised a window in a raw wind. His
temperature descended. The others
manner of saying THAT Fran" OBJ
scured his glass Of the future.
Mrs. Gregory said quickly, Fran
leave the house at half-past eleven?
Impossible"
"How do you know" Abbott asked,
that Fran left the house at such a
time of the night?" The question was
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CHAPTER XII.
Grace Captures the outposts.

Trace captures the OuCpOSCS.
The next evening there was choir
practice at the Walnut Street church.
Abbott Ashton, hesitating to make his
nightly plunge into the dust-clouds of
learning, paused in the vestibule to
take peep at Grace. He knew she
never missed a choir practice, for
though she could neither sing nor play
the organ, she thought it her duty to
set an example of regular attendance
that might be the means of bringing
those who could do one or the other.
Abbott was not disappointed; but he
was surprised to see Mrs Jefferson in
her wheel-chair at the end of the pew
occupied by the secretary, while be-
tween them sat Mrs. Gregory. His sur
prise became establishment on discov-
ering Fran and Simon Jefferson in the
choir loft. slyly whispering and alb
bling candy, with the air of soldiers off
duty-for the choir was in the throes
of solo.
Abbott. as if hypnotized by what he
had seen, slowly entered the audi;ori-
um. Fran's keen eyes discovered him,
and her face showed elfish mischief
Grace, following Fran's eyes, found
the cause of the odd smile, and beck
oned to Abbott. Hamilton Gregory,
following Grace's glance-for he saw
no one but her at the practices, since
she inspired him with deepest fervor-
felt suddenly as Ii he had lost some
thing, he had often experienced the
same sensation on seeing Grace APP
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Queer Uses for the crocus.

The crocus is nowadays held to
justify it's existence by its beauty,
but in bygone centuries it was culti-
waited with an eye to profits saffron
being in high demand both as an
aromatic and as favoring for cakes
and pies. A distinction of crocus
blossoms, also, was held to be good
for strengthening the lungs and heart.
and as a preventive of plague. Evil
dence of the flowers commercial
value survives in the name Of the
chief center OF its cultivation. SAT-
from Walden, but saffron nowadays is
appreciated only by the sparrows.
who wreck the crocuses to obtain 1t.
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winter-and mother had mel was so
Etsle and bad! In a cheap
lodging house. mother got to know La
Confetti. and she persuaded mother
to wait with her for the season to open
up, then go with Bounder Brothers;
they were wintering in Chicago. 1t
was such kind of life as mother had
never dreamed of, but 1t was more
convenient than starving. and she
thought it would give her chance to
: find father-that travelling, all over the
country. La Confetti was a lion
tanner. and that's what mother learned,
and those two were the ones who
could go inside Samson's cage. Tho
life was awfully hard. but she got to
like it. and everybody was kind to us,
and money came pouring in. and she
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Advice to the Innocent.

We have letter from young wom-
an who asks:
Can | succeed as chorus girl and
remain innocent? My friends tell me
that | am very beautiful"
We are unable to give expert advice
concerning the possibility of succeed
ing as chorus girl and remaining in
nocent, but we feel safe in saying that
if the young lady Is provided with a
suitable supply of innocence in her
present environment 1t would be pity
not to KEEP it right there.-Chicago
Record Herald.
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cient Romans. The name Hammam-
Meskhutin was given to the stone
cataract in an allusion to a legend
that the waterfall was petrified by
Allah, Furnishing the impiety )of unbe-
levers by turning all the members of
tribe into stone At night, SO the
story runs, it's stone jewellers of the
remote past are freed from their
strange letters, come to life and re-
sumo their normal shapes.
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Bound to Bargain.

Whats the price of this silk?"
asked deaf old lady Of a young shop
man.
Seven shillings," was the reply.
Seventeen shillings!" she ex
claimed. 'I'll give you thirteen"
"Only seven shillings. ma'am, is the
price of the silk" replied the honest
shopman.
ooh, seven shillings!" replied the
lady, sharply We'll, I'll give you
five."-Youth's Companion.
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his feeling for Fran seemed to call for
unfairness to Grace.
81 will tell you," Grace responded,
with the distinctness of one in power.
cat the time, / told myself that even
Fran would not do that. But, long
time afterward, heard another sound,
from the yard. went to my window.
looked out The moon was bright,
but there was a very dark shadow
about the front gate. I heard voices.
One was that of Fran. The other was
the voice Other tone vibrated in it's
intensity-"the voice of mani"
ut was not Fran's voice." Mrs.
Gregory declared earnestly.
What man was it?' Abbott in
quired, rather resentfully.
81 do not know. l wish now, that l
had called out" responded Grace, pay
ing no heed to Mrs, Gregory. THAT is
where l made my mistake. The man
got away. Fran came running into
the house, and closed the door as soft
ly as she could-after she'd unlocked
it from the outside! l concluded It
would be best to wait till morning, be-
fore 1 said word. So this morning,
before breakfast, strolled in the yard,
trying to decide what had better do.
went to the gate. and there on the
grass-what do you suppose fouEd?'
Abbott was bewildered. Mrs. Greg
DRY listened, pale with apprehension.
''It was a card" Grace said, with
awful significance, "a gambling card!
AS long as have lived in the house,
nobody ever dared to bring a card
there. Mrs. Gregory will tell you the
same. But that Fran. -. She
had been playing cards out there at
midnight-and with a mani"
81 cannot think so,'' said Mrs. Greg
DRY firmly.
after making up my mind what to
do" continued Grace evenly, II took
her aside T. told her what had seen
and heard. / gave her back her card.
But how can we be sure she will not
do it again? That is what troubles me.
Oughtn't l to tell Mr.. Gregory. SO a
scandal can be avoided?' aa
Abbott looked blankly at Fran, who
was singing with all her might. She
caught his look, and closed her eyes.
Abbot asked weakly: What did she
say?"
Grace answered.: "She denied it, Of
course-said she hadn't been playing
cards with anybody, hadn't dropped
the card found, and wouldn't even ad-
NIT that she'd been with a man. If l
tell Mr.. Gregory about her playing
cards with a man at tat hour. don't
believe he will think he ought to keep
her longer, even IL she does claim to
be his friends daughter"
"But you tell u.s." Mrs. Gregory in
terposed swiftly, that she said she
hadn't been playing cards"
"She said!" Grace echoed unpleas-
antly, "she said!"
THAT card you found" began Alb
bott guiltily, was it the king of
hearts" Possibly he had dropped it
from his pocket when leaning over the
gate to- But why had he leaned over
the gate?
Grace coldly answered, 81 do not
know one card from another"
LET me try to describe it,"
ST hope you cannot describe the card
found" said Grace, the presentiment
that she was on the eve of discoveries
giving her eyes starlike directness.
81 suspect dropped that card over
the fence" he confessed, "for | had
the king of hearts, and last night,
about that time was standing at the
gate"
CTO BE CONTINUED)
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When a young man calls ON a girl
he might as well make love to her;
she thinks that is what he is there for
anyway.
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The average man would rather help
out with the anvil chorus than play
second violin Not for the exercise.
either.
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If wishes were automobiles the sup
ply of gasoline would soon be ex-
hausted.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamma-
tion, alays pain, wind collie Csc bottle-dy
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Did you ever get nervous prostra-
ton from trying to make others
happy? No?
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Few Do.

Few Do.
why is that man so much In de-
mand at public gatherings?"
He knows the words of The Star
Spangled Banner"
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Ammonia water that has been used
for washing may be used for plantA
It Is an excellent fertilizer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-27

against a 8 to 2 score. Hall won two
games before Washburn finally ran
out the match He will face Touch
ard in the lower half of the semi-1nal
round.
Miss Edith Rotch. the champion Of
the Longwood Cricket Club, of Bos-
ton. defeated the girl whom critics
Judged as her most dangerous rival
in winning over Miss F. Sheldon IN
two sets. Miss Sheldon forced the
Boston woman to rs in the first set.
but she tired badly in the second and
was beaten at 6-3.
One of the best matches of the day
was between Miss Cheeseman and
Miss Condit. The latter won the
opening set at Z to 8, but the athletic
Miss Cheeseman came back with
rush and won the second by a score
of to 2. The third was master
piece. and Miss Cheeseman finally
won by a score of 1913. Every stroke
was fought to the last bitter ditch,
and there were times when Miss Con-
dit appeared to be on the high road
to victory. She lacked the stamina OF
her opponent, and was finally forced
to dip her colors, 60, 60.
There was a plentitude of excellent
lawn tennis and furious action in the
mems doubles match between Or.
Rosenbaum and G. A. Dionne and
Glazebrook and Reimer, which the
former pair won at 10-s, 5-a o--S'
The summaries follow
Mems Singles. Fourth Round-Watson
NJ Washburn. Harvard, defeated waiter
Merrill Hall. Seventh Regiment and West
side club. New York 3--6, g., Cd.
Semi fnal-7Dean ,Mathey, Princeton de-
feated Charles Bull; jrr Crescent A. :"
Women7s singles-Second Round-Miss
Ruth Sheldon. Montclair defeated MRS.
Gustave f. Touchard, New YORK, b-5,
90 Miss Ruth Cheesman, East Orange,
defeated Miss Edith Condit, East Orange
semi-fnaisEMiss Edith f. Rotch. .Bos-
ton. defeated Miss Ruth Sheldon Mont
e's Mems Doubles. Second Round-Hol-
combe Ward and George N. Miles defeat
ed Allan c. Bragaw and F. c: Fiske. or.
ange Lawn Tennis Club. SO, 81; Robert
Bennett and G. Magown defeated Felix
doubleday and Walter L. Pate by de-
fault. Watson NJ. Washburn and GnstaVe
F Touchard defeated Montgomery ogden
and Lawrence D. Woodbury. by default
Third Round-otto Hinck and FRANK
Kidde defeated Robert Bennett ana L.
A Magown. 60, 6-3.
Mixed Doubles. First Round-Miss Mar,
earet Seymour and E. A. Clark deIeaLed
Miss Dorothy Marsh and Irving Grimm;
2-6, 6-1, 81; Mrs. Gustave Iouchard
end ". P. Burden defeated MISS Mar
Consolation Mems Singles. First Round
George S. Groesbeck defeated Theodore
Corwin, 60, 81
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fully one hundred men in the party.
The ladies and those that do not care
to undertake such a strenuous drive
will proceed in a special train of
Pullman cars and join the tourists
at various points along the road and
take part in the good roads meetings.
The purpose of the tour is to boost
and prepare for the Lincoln trans
continental rock highway which will
commence at New York and end at
San Francisco. Six million dollars
have been subscribed toward the $780,
o00, 900 required for the purchase of
road material which the organization
promoting the road will donate to
various States and counties along the
route.
They are expected to provide the
working force to build the road
Meetings all along the route will be
held and many speakers will tell all
about the proposition and generally
prepare the people for the coming of
the road. The Star motoring repre-
sentative will be of the party, and
seventeen nights out of the twenty
one that will be passed in making
the trip will be spent under canvas
and in the open, as two fast trucks
with a United States army commits
sary department will feed and pre-
pare the camps for the good roads
boomers. Part of the equipment for
the tour will be electric light and
wireless outfits.
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TENNIS TOURNEY DOWN
TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP

HARTFORD, Conn.,, June 27.-The
semi-fnals in the singles in the an
nual New England championship
tennis tournament were reached yes
terday. the victors being Wylie c.
Grant, of New York. national indoor
champion. and A. H. Man, jr, OF
Yale. They will meet today for the
championship. Grant defeated E. K.
Hastings. jr., Harvard, SO, b-O'
60, and Man won from G. c. Burg
win, Trinity. Go. Cd. c. E. Bacon
and j. A. Richards, Wesleyan, the
New England intercollegiate cham
pions, defeated Man and z. W. Peas
lee. of Yale, in the doubles semi
finals. 81, SO. 6-3, and Grant and
r. H. Cole defeated ]. A. Holcomoe
and P. Roberts, rs, 6-1 Grant and
Cole will meet Bacon and Richards
for the doubles title tomorrow.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-27
CRAWFORD WOMAN
GOLFER A VICTOR
Mrs. L. L. Blake, With Nef
card of 81. Captures Tour
ney at Forest Hill.

Mrs. L. L. Blake, of Crawford, with
e card of 1O1-9O-s1. won the net
prize in the one-day tournament for
women golfers over the links of the
Forest Hill Club yesterday Mrs. NJ.
II. Frayne. of Dunwoodie, was the
gross winner. with 50.
There were thirty-three starters IN
this. the last tourney on the spring
schedule of the womens Metro
politan Golf Association. Many OF
rhe competitors found the negotiation
oil second River, at the third ana
eighteenth holes, a difficult PROPOSE
ton with the result that there were
only two who could do better than
100. ,.a
AIRS c. A. woodruff. of the home
c4,,h. won the putting competitloh'
a 17-year-old golfer. R. NJ. Lewis Is
of Bridgeport, Conn, put out ,. -
Rawers. the Brooklawn Club star' III
TIE first round of the annual touiaia
ment of the Connecticut golf eIuos a.
New Haven yesterday. Bowers piayeu
steady game, but the youngseei
us too fast for him. In the AFTER
noon before a large gallery Lewis Ios'
to B. P. Merriman, the FORMER
golfer. but not until he naa clippeS
OFF a stroke from the course recoIu
and Merriman had gone him one oe'-
Ter than that. Merriman had a.
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MISSING MCCARTHY GIRL
FOUND WANDERING IN PARK

NEW YORK. June 27-Heien NC.
Carthy. the 16-year-old daughter OIL
yohn A. Mccarthy, a newspaper
broker. and formerly of Albany, N
who disappeared from her
fathers apartment in the Hotel Har-
crave after he had spanked her last
Tuesday morning. was found yester-
day in Washington Park, IN
uoper New York city. The girl was
ma Die at first to answer questions
81 The police and her identity was
established through a gold seal ring
Which she wore and which had be-
Innged to her older sister now dead.
Helen said she had spent all Of her
time in Washington Park sleeping
under the trees or bushes at night
ard roaming about in the day time.
She said she had washed her face
and hands in a stream and had been
to il to drink many times, but she
Was uncertain as TO how she has
eaten especially since Tuesday. When
found, the Mccarthy girl carried
Htt1e mesh bag in which was So cents
and wore a string of gold beads and
the seal ring
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-27
JERSEYMAN INDICTED in
ALLEGED EGG FRAUD

NEW YORK, June 27.-Three large
wholesale produce firms have been
indicted by the Federal Grand
Jury on charges of making false
claims against railroads on consign-
ments of eggs. They are DeWinter
& Co., of 321 Washington street; r.
B. Sinner & Co., of 1886 Washington
street, and w. P. Brown & Sons, OF
13e Reade street. The list of de-
PENDANTS includes Harry D. Wheeler,
a former member of the Board Of
Education of Hackensack.
The Grand Jury investigation that
resulted in the indictments, in each
of which are fifteen counts, began last
April and was based upon complaint
of alleged collision of the accused
firms with railroad inspectors as
signed to investigate claims for DAM
age to freight in transit.
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DEAN MATHEY HAS
|. TASK TO BEAT BULL
Princeton Tennis Expert Plays
Brilliant Game and Outlasts
His Aggressive Opponent.

Play throughout the Middle States
tennis tourney, now being contested
on the courts of the Orange Lawn
Tennis Club at Montrose has been ex-
eeptionally interesting and the efforts
AT times have been brilliant. In the
leading match yesterday, in which
Dean Mathey, the Princeton expert
and former intercollegiate champion
in the doubles, defeated c. NJ. Bull
ir.. in the semi-final round, Mathey
gave a grand exhibition and he had
to be at his very best to win, for
Bull too. was in rare form and put
m a most desperate battle. The sets
were split. Mathey winning the first
ga losing the second AS and taking
the third set GA.
Mathey outplayed Bull in the first
set. Alert. active and quick to seize
every opening, he placed shot after
shot where it gave Bull the most
trouble to return and when the right
moment came was ever ready to rush
in TO the net to make his kill.
Mathey. flushed with success, forced
the play in the second set, but Bull
met him stroke for stroke and fin
ally had him fighting a defensive
battle. Forcing the Princeton man
into the back court, Bull made him
do a little running. while he came up
to the net with clever shots for points.
In the third set Bull could not get
! going right, and as a result Mathey
had him 3-loye in no time. With de-
feat staring him in the face, Bull
rallied and won two games. but then
suffered another relapse, and Mathey
led at So and Furthermore at 40-15 on
the eighth game. Once more Bull
showed his mettle. He went at
Mathey hammer and tongs, brought
the game to deuce in a few we'll
played strokes and forged ahead to
win the game, making the score So.
He won the next one, too, and in the
final game forced the score to deuce
fully half a dozen times before he
was finally pulled out of position and
passed by smash down the centre.
Walter Merrill Hall, champion of
the Middle States two years ago, was
eliminated by Watson Washburn, the
Harvard player, after another we'll
fought match in the fourth round.
Hill romped through the first match,
winning 6 games to 3, but if Wash
burn was f1ustered he certainly did
not show any signs of it. On the
other hand. he went about his work
in a nonchalant manner, accepting
everything as it came, but taking
great pains to place his strokes so
that Hall had to do the running. He
thus wore Hall down and beat him
in the second set, 6 games to ?. The
third set was a hummer. With his
back to the wall, fighting gamely
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-27
ARAB SEER PREDICTED
HE WOULD WE'D WIDOW

NEW YORK, June 27.-Mrs Mabel
Moore Ford, daughter of Colonel NJ.
Frost, president of the National Ma
chinery Company. Of Tiffin, q, Will
be married in the Holland House next
Wednesday to Samuel II. Ragiand, of
New York, formerly of Kansas City,
and who has a country home at Som
erville, n. J.
The marriage TO a widow was pre-
dicted two years ago by an Arab for
tune-teller while Mr.. Ragland, who
was not then acquainted with Mrs.
Ford, was travelling in Egypt.
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MOTHER WEEPS AS SHE
TESTIFIES FOR DAUGHTER
Tspecinl to the Newark star.l

JERSEY CITY, N. J., June ~
Mrs. Sarah Crochran, mother of Mrs.
Amy, McComb, who is suing her hus-
band, William McComb, for divorce
on a charge of desertion, created a
pathetic scene in Chancery Chambers,
here yesterday, while telling of the
trials of her daughters married life.
Toward the close of her testimony
she burst into tears.
She was so agitated that Counsellor
Thomas @. Haight called Mrs. Nc
Comb to her mothers side and, by
permission of Chancellor Crit
fin, escorted Mrs. Crochran to the
courts private room until she regain
ed her composure.
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MARRIAGE GIVES LONG LIFE

CHICAGO, June 27-Local health
department statistics show that mar
ried men live much longer than bache-
lors. The death rate of the latter Is
figured out as 29H per cent. higher
than that of married men. The NOR
tally rate of single women is 40 per
cent. higher than that OF married
women. -
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He Got His.

Grouch-There goes man that
robbed me of a large fortune.
Gink-He robbed you of fortune.