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his business to preach to Della Ry-
ans boy, and a large experience of
men had given him a practically linn
itless tolerance of any and all lapses
of which the human animal is capable.
They only concerned him as they bore
on his own affairs. In this particular
case they did bear on his affairs, close
ly and Importantly, on the affair of
all others dearest and nearest to him
the happiness of his daughter He
knew that in this three weeks of i'm
prisonment she had come to feel for
Dominick Ryan sentiment she had
never before felt for any man. He
had seen her in the young mans
arms, and, knowing Rose as he knew
ber, that was enough.
Driving down from Antelope in the
sleigh he thought about 1t hard, hard
er than he had ever before In his life
thought of any sentimental complica-
ton. He was enraged-coldly and
grimly enraged-that his girl should
have stumbled into such a pitfan. But
It was not his habit to waste time and
force in the indulgence of profltless
anger. The thing had happened.
Rose, who had been ccurted many
times and never warmed to more than
pity for her unsuccessful suitors, had
suddenly. by fateful. unpremedItated
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his soreness Of shame till 1t became a
weight of guilt. 1t also stirred afresh
the pity, which was the strongest feel
ing he had for her. 1t was the ten
derest. the most womanly letter. Ber-
ny had ever written him. A note OF
real appeal sounded through it. She
had humiliated herself. asked his par
don, besought of him to return AS
he thought of 1t. the vision OF her
alone in the fiat, bereft of friends.
DULY devoid of any occupation. scorn-
full of her old companions, fawningly
desirous of making new ones who re-
fused to know her. smote him with
an almost sickening sense of its pitt
fulness. He felt sorry for her not
alone because of her position. but be-
cause of what she was. what her own
disposition had made her. She would
never change, her limitations were
fixed. She would go on longing for
the same fiesh-pots to the end. believ-
ing that they represented the highest
and best.
Berny had realized that her letter
was skillful and moving production,
but she did not know that it was to
gain a hundredfold in persuasive
power by falling on guilty con-
science. 1t put an end to Dominick's
revolt, it quenched the last sparks OF
the mutinous rage which had taken
him to Antelope. That same after
noon in his frigid bedroom at the ho-
tel, he answered it. His reply was
short, only a few lines. In these he
stated that he would be back on the
following Saturday. the tenderness OF
his injured foot making an earlier
move impossible.
The letter reached Berry Friday
and threw her into a state of febrile
excitement. Her deadly dread of DOM
inick's returning to his family had
never quite died out. 1t kept recur-
ring, sweeping in upon her in moods
of depression, and making her feel
chilled and frightened. Now she knew
he was coming back to her. evidently
not lovingly disposed-the letter was
too terse and cold for that-but, at
any rate. he was coming home. Once
there. she would set all her wits to
work, use every art of which she was
mistress, to make him forget the
quarrel and enter In upon a new era
of sweet reasonableness and mutual
consideration.
She set about this by cleaning the
house and buying new curtains for the
sitting-room. Such publications and
garnishments would have agreeably
impressed her on a homecoming and
she thought they would Dominick. In
the past year she had become much
more extravagant than she had been
formerly, characteristic which mad
arisen in her from a state Of rasped
irritation against the restricted means
to which Mrs. Ryan's rancor con.
demned her. She was quite heavily
in debt to various tradespeople: and
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different attitude toward her, the
poor girl might have been quite a
pleasant, easy-going person. In all
other ways she had been a good wife.
Since their marriage. no other man
had ever won a glance from her. She
had often enough assured Dominick
of that fact, and he, for his part, knew
it to be true. She had struggled to
keep comfortable home on their
small income. If she was not congen-
ial to him-if her companionship was
growing daily more disagreeable-was
1t all her fault? He had known her
well before he married her, six months
of the closest intimacy had made him
acquainted with every foible of her
character. 1t was no story OF youth
beguiled and deceived by mature
woman in the unequal duel of a draw
ing-room courtship.
Her letter intensified his condition
of self-accusation. chafed and irritated
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stockholder. thatIl double his salary
and give him chance he'd never
have got in this world. She wants to
pay off mortgage on a ranch Perley
has in the Sacramento Valley and
she's sent Mrs. Perley a check for
five hundred dollars. She's offered
Willoughby first-rate job on the Red
Calumet group Of mines near Sonora
in which Con had a controlling inter-
est. and she's written to the doctor to
come down and become one of the
house physicians of the ST. Filome ena
Hospital. which she practically runs.
She's ready to do all this because of
what they did for Dominick, and yet
she, his own mother, won't give the
boy cent and keeps him on starva-
ton wages, just because she wants to
spite his wife"
He looked at his daughter across
the table with narrowed eyes. What
have you got to say for yourself after
that. young woman?" he demanded.
Rose had evidently nothing to say.
She raised her eyebrows and shook
her head by way of reply. Her face,
in the flood of lamplight. looked pale
and tired. She was evidently distrait
and depressed; very different-look-
ing Rose from the girl he had taken
away with him four weeks earlier.
He regarded her for an anxiously-con-
templative moment and then said:
What's the matter? Seems to me
you look sort'er peaked"
"I?" she queried with surprised
start. why. I'm quite WE'LL
Wells you were before you went
up to the mines?"
A color came into her cheeks and
she lowered her eyes:
I'm little tired, think, and that
always makes me look pale. 1t was
hard sort of trip. all those hours in
the sleigh, and that hotel at Rocky
Bar was n dreadful place. l couldn't
sleep. There was a COW somewhere
near-it sounded as II 1t were in the
next room-and the roosters all be-
gan to crow In the middle of the night.
I'll be all right tomorrow"
Her father drew his coffee-cup
toward him and dropped in lump of
sugar. No word had passed between
him and his daughter as to the scene
he had witnessed two days before in
the parlor of Perley's Hotel. She was
ignorant of the fact that he had seen
1t and he intended that she should re-
main ignorant of 1t. But the next
morning he had had an interview with
Dominick Ryan, in which the young
man. confronted with angry questions
and goaded past reserve by shame and
pain. had confessed the misery of his
marriage and the love that in an un-
guarded moment had slipped beyond
his control.
Cannon had said little to him. Be-
yond telling him that he must not
see Miss Cannon again, his comments
on Dominick's confessions had been
brief |and non-committal. 1t was not
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CHAPTER x.
DomInIek Comes Home.

Three days after the return OF the
Cannons. Dominick Ryan also came
home. He had answered Berny's let
ter the day the Cannons left, few
hours after that interview with the
Bonanza King. in which. driven to
bay by the old mans questions. he
had torn the veil from his married
life.
After that there was a period of
several hours when he sat in his room
thinking over what had happened. 1t
seemed to him that he had played
a dastardly part. He saw himself a
creature of monumental, gross selfish
ness. who had cajoled young girl,
in a moment of softness and senti-
ment, into an action which had done
nothing but distress and humiliate
her. He. who should have been the
strong one, had been weak. 1t was
he who should have seen how things
were going: he. the married man. who
had allowed himself to feel and to
yield to a love that ought to have been
hidden forever in his own heart.
He felt that 1t would be sort of
expiation to go back to his wife. That
was where he belonged. Rose must
never again cross his path. have a
place in his thoughts, or float, soft
beguiling image, in his memory. He
had wife. No matter what Berry
was. she was the woman he had mar
ried. She had not deceived him. 1t
was he who had done her wrong,
and he owed her a reparation.
In his raw state. his nerves still
thrilling with the memory of that mo-
ment's embrace. he saw Berny from
her own point of view. He lost the
memory Of the complacent mistress In
the picture of the unloved wife. on
whose side there was much to be e'said
Morbidness colored his vision and ex-
aggerated his sense of culpability. II
she had an ugly temper, had 1t not
been excited fed and aggravated by
the treatment she had received from
his family? II they had maintained
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to dressmakers and milliners she
owed sums that would have astoundet
her husband had he known of them
Ihis did not prevent her from still
further celebrating his return by or
dering new dress in which to gree,
him and a new hat to wear the first
time they went out together. How
she was to pay for these adornments
she did not know nor care. The occa
sion was so important that it excused
any extravaganza, and Berny, ir
whose pinched, dry nature love OF
dress was predominant passion, was
glad to have reason for adding new
glories to her wardrobe.
ITO BE CoNTINUED.)
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that his darling had left the table in

that his darling had left the table IN
tears.
He sat on for some time, stonily mo-
tionless, save for the movement lo1
his lips as he puffed out clouds OF
smoke. The soft-footed servants.
coming to clear the table. fed before
his growled command to get out and
let me alone" AS he smoked he
looked straight before him with
fixed, unwinking eyes. his face set
in burrows of thought. At long IN
tervals he stirred in his chair. pom
derously. like an inert. heavy animal.
and now and then he emitted short
sound. like grunted comment on
some thought. which, by its biting
suddenness, seemed to force an e1ac-
ulation out Of him.
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Poor Rich.

Sometimes poverty consists In Just
feeding the poor. Half the millionairef
in the country don't know how much
they are worth.-Atlantic Constitution
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SYNOPSIS.

Bill Cannon. the bonanza king. and his
daughter. Rose. who had passed up Mrs.
Cornelius Ryan's ball at San Francisco to
accompany her father. arrive at Antelope.
Dominick Ryan calls on his mother to
beg a ball invitation for his wife and is
refused. The determined old lady refuses
to recognize her daughter-in-law. DOM
mick had been trapped into marriage
with Bernice Iverson. a stenographer.
several years his senior. She squanders his
money. they have frequent quarrels. and
he slips away. Cannon and his daughter
are showed in at Antelope. Dominick
Ryan is rescued from storm in uncon-
scious condition and brought to Antelope
hotel. Antelope is cut off by storm. Rose
Cannon nurses Dominick back to life.
Two weeks later Bernice discovers in a
paper where husband is and writes letter
trying to smooth over difficulties between
them. Dominick at last Is able to Join
fellow snowbound prisoners in hotel par
lor. He loses temper over talk of Buford.
an actor. After three weeks. end of i'm.
prisonment is seen. Telegrams and mail
arrive. Dominick gets letter from wife.
Tells Rose he doesn't love wife. and never
did. Stormbound people begin to depart.
Rose and Dominick embrace. father sees
them and demands an explanation. Roses
brother Gene is made manager of ranch,
and is to get It II he stays sober year.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-13

looms is not going to promote the hap
piness or the weli-fare Of the in
dividual
The moral tone of the average
show in Hammond is high. The ex-
oeption Is the burlesque show which
is falling into disfavor and is now sell
dom seen here.
Is therefore would be restriction
of the liberties of the people, would
promote immortality and drunkenness.
would encourage lawlessness in this
community if its theatres were closed
on Sunday. Half of the people do
not know how the other half live or
they would not take from them one of
the few pleasures they can enjoy ON
Sunday.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-13
DID NOT DIE m VAIN.

Nothing is easier than to cry out
against the sacrifice of heroes in the
tragedy of the Scott expedition to the
South Pole. 1t is the natural, the
obvious view. The goal sought had
already been reached by the Nor
wegian explorer. Captain Aniundsen.
and such additions to the knowledge
of the globe as might come from that
source had been gained. And 1t is a
simple matter to ridicule the whole
quest of science in the most remote
and fearful wastes of ice and snow
on the face of the earth.
But is this judgment sound? lie 1t
fair? Does it correspond with the
facts? Is the world no richer for
the heroic death of the men who won
their way to the South Pole and then
persisted on their return toward their
stores and their places of refuge to
wait for the ship which was to carry
them back to civilization?
How much is it worth to mankind
to have such an object lesson of
courage and fortitude? What IL the
true value of an inspiring and thrill
ing tale OF desperate battling against
the elements. largely for the express
purpose of proving tmhat there were
no barriers formidable enough on this
planet to keep men from planting
their feet and their flag on any spot
they might seek9
Think what Captain SCOTS victory
in defeat and death in triumph will
mean to British schoolboys, for all
time to come. Picture the flush and
glow of millions of young faces when
| they read how the Union Jack was
carried to the South Pole, even at the
price of the lives of the heroes who
bore it there
| 1t all goes back to the elemental
question of the effect upon the char
acter of-the race. the manhood of the
world If that is fine and high, If II
kindles new and lofty aspirations in
sluggish breasts and fills multitudes
of men with new desire to prove
themselves equal to any call of duty
any promise of worthy fame, then thu
cost of the Scott expedition was mo-
heavy, if weighed in the balance Will
its benefits.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-13
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER.

The Hammond TIMES remarks:
In few weeks Mayor X. M.
Wosczynski, Clerk Ignatius Man
Kokski and number Of deserving
aldermen will go before the people
of West Hammond for the renom-
ination and reelection which will
amount to vote of confidence"
Let's see, now. is West Hammond
in the United States Fort Wayne
News
From one end of the state to the
other facetious editors have. taken
their pound of flesh from the above
Most of them think West Hammond is
in Indiana. For their benefit we
might remark that it is a part of the
great commonwealth of Illinois.
We might also remark that for
twenty-five years, American born citi.
zens have ruled it and their rule has
been vicious. 1t remained for men
with blood of foreign birth, with
names like the above, to purge of vice
to refuse graft, to give the city q
clean municipal rule and those whe
poke fun at their names because those
names are not Smith, Jones. etc.
should hang their heads in shame.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-13
THE PARTY PRESS.

The Indiana democratic editors, in
convention assembled last week. de-
cided that the editors of the party
papers were entitled to something
better as return for their services
than a subscription to the Congress
sional Record, an annual copy of the
Agricultural Year Book, a few pack
ages of garden seeds in the planting
season, and lot of oratorical posies
from the party leaders at editorial
banquats
You can bet your galluses the
democratic editors are entitled to
something better than garden seeds.
They have for the past decade kept
the democratic party from croaking
and being encoffined
They have lead the forlorn hope
when the rest of the fiannel-mouthed
wind-jammers who are now moving
heaven and earth to get the offices
couldn't even squeak to do anything
for the party.
Editors do the work for politicians
and the latter get the glory. When
an editor tries to edge his way to
the pie counter, some big stiff kicks
him in the shins and puts him hors
du combat. If the editor tries to re-
monstrate he gets 1t where Nellie
wears the beads.
Incidentally there is much specu-
lation in Hammond as to who should
have the Hammond postoffice when
Postmaster Schaaf's term of Office ex-
pires- There ought to be no specula-
tion whatever about it.
If there is any man In Hammond in
the democratic party who is entitled
to the job it is S. E. Swain editor OF
the Hammond News. For over 20
years he has stood the gan and been
in the thick of the fight for the
democratic party and the pickings
have been mighty Slim If there is
any gratitude and any favor to be
distributed in this vicinity for keep
ing the party faith Editor Swain is
entitled to it and there isn't a broad
minded man who will deny it. II
Congressman-elect J. b. Peterson
wishes to recognize party fealty he
will make no bones about appoint Mr.
Swain and if this be yellow journal
ism make the most of it.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-13
A MURDERER's PARADISE.

Electrocution is to take the place
of hanging for murder in this state,
If the bill which passed the senate
goes through the house. Oh. well.
it doesn't make much difference. if
Governor Ralston is as soft-hearted
and as soft-headed on the subject
of capital punishment as were his
immediate predecessors, nobody
will be hanged anyway. A murd-
erer runs just about one chance in
a thousand of being executed for
his crime, and unless a convicted
murderer dies soon after confine-
ment in prison. it is about thous-
and-to-one shot Ell will be pardon
ed. There is nothing cheaper than
human life in this glorious country.
Washington Cnd) Herald.
Especially in Gary where fiv
have already taken plac
this year and where the iniquituou
pardon board has been at work.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-13
HI E A X d
By
r u b E

CHAIR factory wants to locate in
Crown Point. Probably because it is
the county seat
ALMOST near the happy days when
the the maple tree will be tapped Lot
of bubbles will also be tapped soon for
new Easter millinery.
STUDENT OF the psychology of the
bunny hug and the turkey trot"
calls attention to the fact that this is
the "children's century" Might add
that it is also the 'six-clinder" year.
session this year Wish it would take
up the coal bin conservation question.
FIFTY YEARS HENCE.
(From THE TIMES Feb. IS. 1859
Fifty thousand male suffragettes
today stormed the national Capitol
demanding equal right for men. The
president issued an order through
her secretary to have the local gar
rison prepared for reserve duty.
Each soldier was given an emergen-
cy can of talcum powder and port
able mirror.
Exciting scenes were witnessed in
Wall street when the police were
The rioters were recalcftrant at first,
tearing the puffs and rats from some
of the cops.
Suffragettes arrested in London de-
clare that they will not eat until man
gets his rights.
Legislatures of the several states
may consider male suffrage as soon
as the spring millinery styles have
been announced
Male suffrage is making some
Roadway out in California where a
handsome young man has succeeded
in getting elected alderman.
women have oppressed us long
enough declared one sad-eyed suf-
fragette. I'VE peel the potatoes,
tend to the children and keep house,
but when ii comes to voting we are
classed with babies. lunatics and con-
victs"
In several parts of England some
of the suffragettes have become so
rabid that they threaten to demolish
all manicure, cigarette and corset
shops and no officeholder is safe
when she wears a picture hat.
GOOD GROUNDS FOR SANDER.
(f'rom the Laporte Argus-Bulletin.)
Two complaints for damages in the
1 sum of $500 each were filed IN the
| LAporte superior court today by
| vladislaus Plamowski and Stanislaus
/ Kuxzynski against Frank Niespodzi-
1 tNespo). Islander is alleged
They complain that on Jan. 2s 1913
/ the defendant said: "Ci dwaj pick
are ukradIi mole pienladze i zega-
REX"
] (Co1 j. T. Wachowski OF the GARY
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-13

pie attended the nickel theatres in
Hammond. This makes total of
5000 people who by their own acts
express their approval of the Sunday
theatre.
1t is doubtful if there were that
many people in attendance in all of
the churches in Hammond. But as
Stunning that there we're we have a
situation in which the expressed de-
sire for entertainment on Sunday is
as great as the expressed desire for
divine worship.
Statistics show that the FIVE cent
theatre and the cheap vaudeville have
done more to limit the business of the
saloon keeper than any other one
thing. They have provided substi-
tute for what had come to be known
as the poor mans club. y fs-ssf
The church never provided a SUBJ
stitute forth poor mans club; the
church seldom Nude an appeal that
took the prosperqps.. saloon habitue
of the down town saloons. The thea
tire has been the only competitor of
the saloon for the spare change and
the idle time of the non-church goer.
The church swings open its massive
doors in the morning. it welcomes the
faithful and an hour later it is closed.
An hour in the evening, excepting for
Sunday and school, prayer meeting
and young peoples meeting, consti-
tutes the extent to which the average
church investment actually pays re-
turns. The rest of time the congre-
cation is excluded.
There is not protestant church in
the city that is open to its members
for more than IL out of the 16S
hours of the week. The rest of the
time the church property is a dead
investment. Any Catholic church is
open from six in the morning until
six at, night; and even later If there
are services
The point is that the church fails
to provide the entertainment that
keeps the minds of the individual oc.
cupied on Sunday; the day of rest ane
recreation.
On the south side in Chicago Rev
White, the pastor of an Independent
churchs, makes it a practice to give
a secular lecture every Sunday even
ing on travel, literature, history OF
most any non-religious subject. Thes,
lectures are illustrated by stereopti
can and moving pictures. Sacred
music is sung by the choir and tn,
congregation. Fifteen cents admis
tsion is charged The result is tina
this is one church in which the IS /
10" sign is hung out nightly. 1t i
impossible to accommodate the crowd
which seek admission. The church i
a business as well as religious sue
cess.
There is no excuse in that com
) munity for attending the theatre Of
; Sunday for there is not a person ii
, | it who could not be delightfully."- en-
| tertained and instructed by Rev
Whites famous lectures.
There is not student of condition
in an Industrial community like thi
who will not admit that it is neces
sary in the interests of peace an
t quiet, of law and order, to say moth
t ing of the moral well being of tn
4 people of this community, that the
e have something on Sunday in the wa
= of a diversion to take up their tim
+ and thoughts.
$ To spend all morning in churc
= and all afternoon and evening in So