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The Washington times., 1913-11-02
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Hoars have such large number Of friends
in Boston and Washington that they hardly
know where to stay. Frances really made
her debut in Boston last year before she
came out here.
saw Mrs. Thomas Musgraves on the
street the other day. She is just here from
Bar Harbor for a short time, seeing about
her house, which the Norwegian Minister
and Nine. Byn are occupying. just where
she will spend the winter do not know and
] did not get a chance to ask
What will Washington do without the John
Hays Hammonds and the Edison Bradleys?
Both families are taking apartments in New
York this winter. Mrs. Hammond, who just
purchased the wonder residence of Mrs. Pull
man, in Sixteenth street, last spring, will rent
it and the Bradleys are closing their house.
| just hope they get homesick for Washing
ton and come back before xhe season IS
over, and everyone is predicting that they
will, too.
Mrs. Wilson has won the hearts OF the
board of the House of Mercy. They are
planning for benefit entertainment on the
afternoons of November Is and rs at the
Columbia Theater, and they sentean invita-
ton to Mrs. Wilson to attend, forgetting that
the 25th was the date of the White House
wedding, and when they got response it
was to the effect that Mrs. Wilson would
gladly come on the 26th, but, Of course, an
other important engagement prevented her
accepting for the FIRST day. They were so
glad to think that at such busy time she
could promise them an afternoon.
BY the way, you would enjoy this enter
tainment, which is rather unique and orig
nal Mrs Henry Wood, of Baltimore, is ar
ranging tableux of the Angels of Art"
and all the celebrated pictures of the old
masters, classics, ETC., will be represented
with musical Interpretation.
About sixty girls in Washington society
are being asked to take part, and it is caus-
ing lots of merriment among the young girls,
for they all want to be angels.
NY, but the marriage of Katharine Elkins
and Billie Hit gave society folk a jar. Why
the old friends of the late Senator and Mrs.
Stephen B. Elkins would not believe it.
They said it could not be, because they had
not received a previous announcement,
which, of course, would have been the case.
But then they reckoned without the hand
some hostess in this case-the bride-who
declared to her girl friends that if she ever
married, it would be in exactly the hury-up
manner in which it was done. The three
Hates we're there, Katharine Elkins, Kathar-
inc Brown Barnett, and Katharine Britton
For years, really ever since she was tiny
girl, Mrs. Hit had promised her cousin,
Katharine Brown Barnett, that she should be
Ter bridesmaid, and it must have ben a ter
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rible disappointment when Mrs. Blaine FL
kins served as matron of honor in her stead
The house will be all ready for Mr.. and Mrs.
Hit when they return to town to live, for the
bridegroom saw to it that charming resi-
dence was built and furnished just according
to the desires of the bride, before the exact
wedding day was really known to either.
Nov Mrs. Billie Hit, Who has shown such
tenderness for her mother since the death
Of her father will be able to step into her
mothers house on moments notice, while
she could really speak to her mother-in-law
from the windows Of her house. Now, with
the Hit house open and the charming home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry. al in
running order, | can promise you al sorts
Of nice entertainments during the late win
ter.
entirely forgot to tell you that q special
room was included in the plans Of the new
Billy Hit house for keeping intact all the
bewildering lot of hunting and riding tro-'
phies which you saw in her boudoir in Ter
mothers house. in X street. There are crops,
cups, brushes. blue ribbons. and, IN fact, al
most everything that one could give as
prize to the best horsewoman in America
Then Katharine Hit has perfectly splen-
did collection Of hunting pictures, and the
room will be fairly lined witf, those
I'll bet you are not in it up there where
you are, IS far as cute little fads are con-
cerned. I'm sure wearing ballet slippers to
the .theater hasn't reached you yet That's
what they are doing here. Really. saw
several the other evening as ! stood in front
of the theater myself. Maybe they were
going to tango party afterward, but
So
Another engagement which delighted US
all beyond measure was that Of Henrietta
Bates Mckee, or Mrs. Mckee Dunn Mckee,
to Frederick H. Brooke, of Washington. One
of the incest things about the wedding viii
be that it will bring favorite back to Wash
ington after more or less Of an absence
since her former marriage to the late Mr..
Mckee. Mr.. Brooke's sailing for Europe to
join Mrs. Alfred e. Bates, who, you know,
is the mother Of Mrs. Mckee, and Henrietta
leads to the rumor that the ship which brings
them over just before the middle of the
month will bear on its register the names Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Brooke, instead of three differ
ent names. My, but the Bates-McKee we'd
ding was charming event, every one Of Of
cial or social rank going, and the church was
fairly teeming with titles and all that.
Having done my duty as see it and
told you everything that think will interest
you, and having used up every speck of my
best stationery, will now say adieu to you.
Always yours,
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We we're all very sorry down here to see
Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. George Downey 60 to
their new post. Colonel Downey was sta
toned here about five and half years, and
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| JEAN ELIOT@
G LETTER.
USAN DEAR

USAN DEAR:
Want to be really, truly sur
prised? Here you are: Mr.. and
Mrs jefferson Davis Young an
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Callie Hoke Smith, the daughter of SEN
ator and Mrs. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, will
be bud this year, but she will not come
cut until December, because the whole Hoke
Smith family is going TO remain in Atlanta
until then.
Margaret Britton will come out, and
had hoped that Olive Willis would, but her
folks arc going to Texas to spend the win
fSr. and that settles that. Then Mrs. Moor,
d taking Frances abroad for year; but still
there is Eleanor Knowland, of California,
and Mildred Hardy, of Texas, to depend
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ed Blake "What makes you think
we haven't found herr"
Because" began Standish; then he
checked himself and said somewhat
lamely. "bccanse--I have GOOD rea'
cons for knowing you haven't"
Hint Sdil keep az close in touch
with her rs all that? Mark 9 detectives
must he foolish house graduates, Well.
III admit we haven't found her-yet.
But we will before midnight You left
some pretty easy clues and they're be-
ing followed That's the trouble with
O man who has something TO hide.
He'll lock and double-bar nine doors
to discovery; and leave the tenth wide
open with a Welcome sign over 1t.
And that's just what you did. Why,
SON" he went on, noting Standish's
halfsmile of incredulity, IF | wasn't
dead sure Of getting her, would ! be
such a fool as to tell you all this? And
whatever else Jim Blake's been called,
no ones yet tied fool to his name.
tell you once more, Wen have her
name by midnight at the very latest.
OF course she doesn't know we're
tracking her" he continued, chuckling
as at his own shrewdness. I've seen
to it that she hasn't the slightest sus-
picion. And that makes our work all
the easier She doesn't know And
there's no one to warn her. It's a
clnch!"
His voice trailed off into a self-satis-
fed laugh, Nor was the laugh wholly
assumed For he saw Standish's
hands slowly clench again. And a few
beads of sweat we're beginning 10
show themselves upon the insurgents
forehead.
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CHAPTER wi,
The Trap.

The Trap,
For a moment Blake did not an.
swer. Nor could Wanda reai ANYTHING
from his utterly expressionless face,
Then he said:
do you know why / did that?"
Probably repliGd Wanda gravely,
because you wanted Mr.. Standish to
come here
He eyed her sesrchingly. Pat her
face gave no sign that her rerly had
been intended as impertinence.
HIM" he vouchsafed You're o
bright girl"
Thank you, SIR" she replied de.
murely.
Again he glanced at her moveless
features In quick doubt Then. evi.
IDENTIFY making up his mind, he went
on:
You heard the story I was telling
those men over there? The story
about Standish and the Woman"
II happened to catch part of it,
you happened to catch every word
oS IT," he corrected. And now, why
do you suppose told such an allim-
portant secret loud enough for tele-
phone girl to hear it?"
That's Just what I've been wonder
ing she said frankly. But | can't
figure it out"
Then I'll tell you" retorted Blake
nodding approval at her unembarrass-
I'd candor What's the one thing we
need to turn that story from a windy
piece of campaign gossip into the dead.
lest weapon ever forged in Washing
ton?"
THE Woman's name" replied Wan.
da. at once.
Good applauded Blake. You've
got real brain under that metal re,
ceiver you wear You seem to have
this situation worked out as clear as
have. Maybe now, you can guess
what that Woman's name is worth to
US. How about it?"
Wanda rolled her big eyes cell
ingward after the manner of a stupid
child who seeks in space the answer
to teachers question.
"Maybe-mayhe IA million dol
iars," she hazarded timidly, at length.
Blake grinned appreciation of the
bit Of acting, and was not in the very
least deceived by it--as Wanda had
perfectly well known be would not be-
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Yellow, Yellow, Yellowlll

Murray's home run, coupled with
several other thrilling exhibitions
from Nairn's scrappers should have
changed Paducah's scorn to admira-
tion. However. the home-run did
not get him a single bit of applause.
To the contrary-Paducah's players
and rotters tried to cheat him out Of
it by calling the miraculous hit a
foul, but even the umpire, who is
said 10 joy-ride with Manager
Brouthers didn't have the nerve 10
call ii anything but safe hit
Cairo never fails to give out-os
town players credit for sensational
hits and plays. The fans are true
sports the kind that make baseball
a game worth seeing, The Padueah
fans who attended the Fourth of
July games know this to be true.
Paducah wouldn't be such a bad
town If it would eliminate its cheap
skates from baseball and business.
especially those who devote their eff
forts to roasting a woman witness of
Sundays game merely because she
is the wife of Manager Marin. Is
this what Paducah calls true
Southern obituary?
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II housewives and restaurant keep
ars would decline to purchase fish
rom which the gils have been re-
moved. there would, be less sickness
in Cairo.
Whenever you buy fish be sure
that the gils are red. If the gills are
white shun the fish as You would
| rattlesnake, for it is apt to be filled
with just as deadly poison, If the
ellis arc removed, do not buy the
ish under any circumstances. There
are only two ways to determine the
freshness Of fish. First, by odor, and
'ccond, by color of the glls. Fisher
Uen who fish for the market know
his, and that is why they are care
ful to remove the gills from their
atches.
1t has again been called to the at
tention of The Bulletin that fisher
men are seining stagnant pools in
Kentucky and selling the fish (gliis
removedl on the Cairo market.
1t is dangerous to eat stagnant
water fish even when first caught.
and the danger increases with time.
Fish caught in the Kentucky ponds
are cleaned and permitted to lie In
the open over night and then
brought to Cairo, uniced, and covered
with flies and slime. Before offering
the FISH for sale they are dipped in
water. so that the worst part Of the
slime and odor is removed
IL the housewives and restaurant
keepers would decline to buy fish
from which the sills had been re-
moved the fishermen would cease tho
practice of seining the stagpant
ponds Bear this warming in mind
waen YOU buy fish in the future.
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tWhen the xtention Of The Bull
letin 10 caaed to any miSstatement
OF fact or to any error concerning
any man or thing, corrections will
cbeerfully be made.)
Cairo Fights to Win.

Perhaps you have noticed that
whenever Caifos serappers 30 into
anything they go in to won. This
is true OF food nghting, levee
building, baseball and everything
else.
When the outside world. mislead
by untruthful newspaper accounts oi
flood conditions, thought that Cairo
had been wiped away by the raging
waters of the Ohio, or would be
swept out of existence, Cairo's
scrappers never lost confidence for
a single instant. They were in the
battle with the elements to win and
they won.
When Cairo announced il was go
ing to build a sixty-foot levcc system
the outside world smiled indulgently
and said. Pooh. pooh " The scrap
pers, undaunted. adopted The Bull
iHltH SibEdH plANF HEGb VI ARASht
rolled up their sleeves and jumped
into the fray They won this battle
Cairo now says that 1t is the log
ical gateway to the Panama canal
and in 1915 it will prove it, The
scrappers are still on the job and
they intend to win this battle for
commercial supremacy. just as they
have won their fight against the
elements and their battle for higher
levees that will make future fights
with the rivers unnecessary.
Work. it is announced, will be
started on the new leyee system by
August 1 and will be completed by
December 81, 1913. This will be in
ample time to provide for whatever
the future is to bring in the way of
floods. With stage Of Sc feet, all
Cairo will have to do is bulkhead the
street gaps in the levees. Then the
scrappers will be in position to sit
back aud take things easy.
Things will be booming in Cairo
soon.
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sion. There was nothing however. to
be read In that expression Standish's
heavy face was mask-like, blank, save
for a faint tinge of polite bewildef>
ment.
But Blake was far too wise reader
of men TO so by the sign In q face. He
let his mildly wandering glance shift,
as If by accident. to Standish'g hands.
They were tightclenched. SO tight
that the knuckles showed white from
the convulsNe pressure.
Another campaign yarn" smiled
Standish. and his voice was as mex
pressive as his face. Isn't It rather
old-fashioned to spring lies Of that
sort? The public doesn't stand for
them nowadays, Proofs are needed. :"
Really" drawled Blake why,
Standish. sometimes your knowledge
of up-to-date conditions simply daz-
zles me, That's what it does. Daz-
zles me-"
And now" pursued Standish,
turning TO go.
And now" echoed Blake, we've
got you with the goods, Don't bluff,
man. No blum ever won penny after
the cards we're laid face upward And
they're face upward now You know
what | mean And you know we've
got you dead to rights Five years
ago you spent week with a woman at
hotel whose proprietor can and win
identify you. Any expert can swear
that the registered name, Fowler ia
In your handwriting. 1t was in March
Congress was still in session But
you gave out word that you'd gone to
the mountains to rest. We've got the
dates We've got ever fact proved.
Man. can't you see I'm trying to help
your Give me chance to-"
Standish, his face still mask was
staring at the floor. At last he raised
his eyes--the dark tired eyes in whose
depths Self and Love and Happiness
had so long ago burned out. And turn
ing to Blake, he said evenly;
so you have dug all that up, have
you? | might have expected IT., In
fact | have expected It. But it hasn't
worried me. Because you cant harm
me with such story"
MOI" asked Blake, with real inter
est. why not?"
you know perfectly well why not"
answered Standish, "the story won't
amount to the paper you would print
OF the Woman. And you can't do
that"
What makes you think we can't
supply the Woman's manner demand
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1-I'll have to think It over" saIu
Wanda confusedly And. anyway"
she added, there's no use making a
price till I've got what you want, Is
there? Besides" with an easy lapse
into sweet innocence, mfr Standish
seems to be such a nice man. It's a
pity to-
"Oh. he's a nice man." laughed
Blake. "Hell's full of nice men, But
there's no time. now, to haggle about
prices, You get that number for me.
and you won't lose by it. And every
word you can overhear is worth q
three-carat diamond Steady there,
He's coming"
Standish came toward the switch
board. from the dining-room whittier
a page had at last tracked him He
saw most unruffied telephone girl
absorbed In novel Jim Blake was
leaning negligently against the switch
board rail, looking with dreamy half
shut eyes along the nearly deserted
corridor. Standish hurried across to
Wanda.
Some one wants me on the phone?"
he asked.
NO" drawled Blake, before the
girl could reply. Some one wants
you over there In the amen corner for
a minute or two. If you can spare the
time took the liberty of sending
that message about your being wanted
on the phone. because" leading the
way to the amen corner, Il have a mat
ter Of private business to talk over
with you"
Private buslness7" echoed the puz-
zlod Staudlsh. instinctively following
Blake to the corner Private bust
ness? Between you and me?"
Blake looked at him with gentle
pity, then shook his head
My boy" said he. the game is up,
The whole show ia over. We've found
out all about that pretty little affair
OF five years ago"
What AFFAIR."" asked Standish, un-
moved. Please explain, My time is
limited"
IF you're referring to your time In
politics, it Is. It ends tonight There!
There! Don't get huffy. You've got
nerve all right l grant you that
What affair, hey? Why, the affair
with the Woman whom you registered
as your wife, under the name of
Fowler, at country hotel up in New
York state, That's all Hardly worth
mentioning. hey?'
AS he had talked, Blake had let
his gaze wander over the ceiling. the
walls-anywhere except at Matthew
Standish. Yet he had missed not one
detail of the younger mans express
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER 49, Congressman Standish
ana the Woman, believing themselves In
love. spend trial week as man and wife
IN MOTEL In northern New York under
assumed names. The Woman awakens to
the fact that she does not love Standsh
and calls their enga gement of. Standsh
protests undying devotion.
CHAPTER IT-wanda Kelly. telephone
girl at the Hotel Keswick. Washington. Is
loved by Tom Blake. son of the political
boss OF the house. lie proposes marriage
and is refused.
CHAPTER III-She gives as one of the
reasons her determination to get revenge
on jim Blake for running her father Con-
gresham Frank h. Kelly. Congressman
Standish, turned insurgent. Is fighting thu
Mullins BILL measure in the interests
OF the railroads The machine is seeking
means 10 discredit Standish In tia hope
OF pushing the bin through.
CHAPTER Iv-Robertson. son-in-iaw OF
Jim Blake and the latter's candidate for
speaker of the house tries 10 win Stan
Dish over. and falling, threatens to dig
intol bis past. SIS
CHAPTER v-gfm Blake finds out
the northern New York hotel He se-
cures all the facts except the name of
the Woman and proposes to use the story
as club 20 force Standish to allow the
Mufins bill to pass
CHAPTER VI-Tom Blake and his faith
er have a family row over the fathers
political theories, Jim Blake sends for
StGndish.
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Continued on Fifth Page. J
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A'otiililS SIlngy ABOUT EouI Ideas,
young LADY, he commented. Maybe
I'd better put them straight. DO you
want make a hundred dollars?"
"A hundred dollars?' she echoed in
wide-eyed wonder of innocence that
Saint Cecilia at her best could not
possibly have equaled. "A whole hun
dred dollars? Why. how could a poor
telephone operator like me make SO
much money!"
Here's the idea" replied Blake,
wearying of matching cudgel against
batpin. and coming straight TO the
pith of the matter i've sent for
Standish to come here because want
TO have a talk with him When I'm
through. III go away. And the chances
are that he'll go straight TO the tete-
phone and cali up some one It's that
some ones number want
oh" exclaimed Wanda. smiling
brightly at her own comprehension.
And that's worth hundred dollars ?"
Yes And II you can hear what he
says on the phone I'll make ii two
hundred"
For an instant the innocent wonder
Ing smile again illumined Wanda's up
turned face. Then, like Blake. she
evidently wearied of futile word-fenc-
Ing, for Pe said. incisively:
Il see. I've got the idea. You'll
spring this story of the Woman on
him. You'll make him think you've
almost got her in your net You'll try
to scare him into hustling to the near
est telephone and warning her. He'll
know you're having him watched. So
be won't dare to go 10 her in person
~'fh his warming or send her q letter
He's got too much sense for that. And
q telegram would be too risky. So
nothing's left but the phone. He'll
call her up. You'll get the number
And then it'll be a cinch for your men
to find the Woman's name in no time.
and all shout her. The fun story
names and all-can be circulated on
the floor as soon as the house sits. to-
night And good-by then TO Mr.
Standish."
Say" drawled Blake in genuine ad-
miration. You've sure got a brain.
Well have to get you in the secret
service. Or, II you want a Job in my
Office at double what you're getting
here-but we can talk about all that
afterward. WILL"
You're sure the number viii give
you the clue TO the Woman?"
Absolutely"
"And don't you think one little hun
dred dollars Is a pretty cheap price
10 pay for Information that will bring
you millions?"
Sheer innocence had reached its
towering acme-the summit whercon
rests pure wisdom. Blake regarded
the Girl from under his bushy brows.
"Well?' he demanded, If a whole
hundred dollars has shrunk so quick.
" into little hundred dollars, what
price strikes you as fair?"
Lets see," pondered innocence's
fair apostle. how about ten thousand
dollars?"
Ten thousand dollars!" repeated
Blake, Rot! Ten thousand dollars
for-for one measly telephone num-
berl"
mol" contradicted Wanda, and her
voice and face were like chilled steel,
for a victory that saves your leader
ship of the machine that puts your
son-in-law in the speakers chair, that
millions of dollars to you. That's
what the telephone number means to
you, Mir. Blake That and mans
carner--a womans shame-a girls
self-respect. Throw all that into the
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CHAPTER VII.
The Tran Is Sprung.


There was pause. Neither man
seemed DESTROYS to be first to return
to the attack The buzz Of the city
crept ir from outside, The half-stifled
rhythm Of the dining-room orchestra
reached them In snatches
Standsh got to his feet; slowly and
more like very old man than one in
his prime. But he looked down with
Grass stolidity at his tormentor. And
in his deep tones there was more of
sorrow than of nervous dread
Mr., Blake" he said, there's one
point can't quite grasp. Even your
admiration for my worthy qualities
and your very kind desire to save me
trouble, can not wholly explain your
Continued on Fifth Page
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balance and tbs price went look SO
fancy"
My dear young lady, counseled
Blake with his most fatherly sir, be
lieye me when warn you tat there
is such a thing as being Just trifie
too ambitious. Stir, there's no time 10
argue Stsndish ought 10 be here by
NOW. Shall We say thousand dol
lars?r
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Evidently Some Snorer,

A woman woke her husband during
storm the other night. and said:-I
10 wish you would stop snoring, for !
want to hear it thunder"
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ed Blake What makes you think
we haven't found herr"
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Two of a Kind.

Some people look almost as pleasant
when they are going to the photog
rapher's as when they are going to the
dentists.
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Dogs Haul Artillery.

Dogs are made use of to haul light
artillery in the Belgium army and are
being experimental with by the Hob
land army.