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never seen him, but she has heard
him. Mother knows, because she
gives him his program"
There was sound OF hurried foot
steps in the passage and a voice
cried:
"Cecile. Are you there?'
Its mothers voice." said Jammes,
able lady. built on the lines OF a
Pomeranian grenadier. burst into the
dressing room and dropped groaning
into a vacant armchair.
How awful" she said.
"What?"
Joseph BuQuet is dead! Yes. he
was found hanging In the third-tioor
cellar!"
Its the ghost!" little Giry blurted
Sorelli was very pale.
Il shall never be able to recite my
speech" she said.
Ma Jammes gave her opinion. while
she emptied glass of liQueur that
happened to be standing on table;
the ghost must have something to do
with It.
The news soon spread all over the
opera. The dressing-rooms emptied
and the ballet-girls, crowding around
Sorelli like sheep around their shep-
herdess, made for the foyer through
the ill-lit passages and staircases,
trotting as fast as their little pink
legs could carry them.
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CHAPTER III.
The Mysterious Reason.

me mysterious Reason.
During this time, the farewell cere
mony was taking place. Everybody
remarked that the retiring manager,
| looked cheerful, as is the Paris way
| The foyer of the ballet is tho las
place in which two men 30 knowing
as NJ. Debienne and M. Poligny woult
have made the mistake OF betrayinb
their grief. however genuine It nigh
| be. And they were already smiling
rather too broadly upon Sorelli. wht
had begun to recite her speech, wher
an exclamation from Jammes brok,
the smile brutally.
The opera ghost!"
Jammes yelled these words In
tone OF unspeakable terror, and hel
finger pointed. among tho crowd OF
dandles, to n face 30 pallid that tn.
deaths head In question Immediately
scored n huge success.
The opera ghost"
Everybody laughed and pushed his
neighbor and wanted to offer the
opera ghost n drink. but he was gone
He had slipped through tho crowd /:
and the others vainly hunted for him.
while two old gentlemen tried to calm
little Jammes and while little CRY
stood screaming Ike n peacock
Sorelli was furious: she had not
been able to finish her speech. the
managers had kissed hor, thanked her
and run away as fast aB tho ghoB,
himself They were to receive their
personal friends, for the last time. in
the great lobby outside the managers
office. where supper would be served
Here they found the now managers.
NJ Armand Moncharmin and NJ. Fir.
min Richard. whom they hardly know;
nevertheless, they were lavish In pro-
togta'ionB Of friendship and received
nattering compliments In reply.
The retiring managers had already
handed over 20 their Bucccssora the
two tiny magtcr.keyg which opened
all tho ors-thOuPandg o. doorB-or
the opera house. And those Keys
we're being passed from hand to hand,
whom the attention OF some OF tho
guests was diverted by their discoy,
cry, at the end Of the table, OF that
arrange, wan and fantastic face. with
the hollow eyes. which had already
appeared in the foyer OF the ballet.
THE opera ghostl"
There sat tho gnORt, as natural as
could be, except that no neither uts
nor drank
CTO BE COgTISUEDJ
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received so fair n gift. The angels

received so fair gift. The angels
wept tonight"
Raoul heard nothing after that
Nevertheless, he did not so away
but, as though he feared lest he
should be caught, he returned to his
dark corner, determined to wait for
the man to leave the room. To his
great establishment. the door opened
and Christine Daae appeared, wrapped
in furs. with her face hidden in a
lace veil, alone. She passed him. He
did not even follow her with his eyes.
for his eyes were fixed on the door.
which did not open again.
When the passage was once more
deserted, he crossed 1t. opened the
door of the dressing-room. went in
and shut the door. lie found himself
In absolute darkness. The gas had
been turned out
There Is some one here!" said
Raoui. with his back against the
closed door. In n quivering voice.
What are you hiding for?'
All was darkness and silence.
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But they left her no peace until
Meg began:
Well it's because of the private
box. It's Box Five. you know. the
box on the grand tier. next to the
stage-box, on the left. Mother has
charge OF It. No one has had 1t for
over month, except the ghost, and
orders have been given at the box
ONCE that It must never be sold"
And does the ghost really come
there7"
Yes. And he has no dress-coa'
and no head. You only hear him
when he Is In the box. Mother has
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is 30 little worth talking about that
you can't see 1t side-face: and the
absence OF that nose is horrible
thing to look at"
This chief scene-shifter was a seri-
Gus, sober, steady man, very slow at
imagining things. And then. one after
the other. there came a series OF in.
cidents so curious that the shrewde est
people began to feel uneasy.
FIR instance. fireman is brave
fellow Well the fireman, who had
gone to make a round OF inspection In
the cellars and who had ventured a
little farther than usual. suddenly re-
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NekkI 2H~,<e.eN-.
FROM THE GINGER JAR,

How many unlocked kicks have you
coming?
How would you like to bo n mules
chiropodist
II there rs smartcAt man In the
world why Doesn't he come out In tho
open and provo his claim?
Most OF the corners in life are sharp.
but the man who keeps straight ahead
will not encounter many OF them.
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Whs, Hen ooIna TO Give uo.

'For ten years have been trying
to give up smoking"
THAT so2"
Yes, but this year | am going to
give up trying"
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PORCELAIN dish, o'cr which
In many cluster
Plump grapes hung down. dead ripe and
without luster
melon cut in thin. delicious slices.
A cake that seemed mosnc-work In
spices
Two china cups with golden tulips sunny
And rich inside with chocolate like honey.
IT. B hldrich.
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ROM womens eyes this doc
trne / derive.
They sparkle stil the right Promethean
fire.
They the books. the arts, the acad-
emics
That show, contain and noursh all the
world.
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He struck match. The blaze III
the room!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-02
Daddy Bedtime
A Kansas Horse
Nf0rV- Carries Big
Sunshade,

YHEN children daddy looking At picture saa
WV his shoulder why It's bull wien an
w unbre back!' y ~.
mes and then she ADDED "WhS, 20
, , -.
Just . ~.
bu1ok umbrellas really only awnings maze
pole fastened to
~ Fl
walks IN tne sun
walks beside him. also aoe % kep COW
Of the anecon ney
Of work they able 70 d NOT
an animal lis able work comfortable
we always nave
To- Inn o when out
better tnan ne
canopy
made of imitation leather ana
along
inge flies OF the horses back
paasol for Dobbn put sue
noticed
ana nice pachee
. nbbe. s.y 49, -.
bonns much against
ss -. -,
while leaving goods each horse tore the
other its head & v
shop and them standing there
indignant he NJ n
millinery
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not surrender until he was completely
out of sang froid and canned goods.
From accounts given by people who
knew Ferdinand and Isabella we'll, II
appears that Ferdinand was the weak
er vessel of the two. He was an ex-
cellent lawn tennis player but object.
ed to getting out on the firing line and
having arrowheads sunk into his per-
son. On numerous occasions Ferdin-
and was about to surrender in>one
proud Castilian leap when Isabella
would mount her horse and egg on the
Spanish militia with voice and whip,
There was very little of the clingine
vine about Isabella, which accounts FOL
the depressed look Ferdinand wears IN
most Of his pictures. It was Isabella
who invented the Spanish inQuisition
which enabled great many patriots
to die for their country on the In
stallment plan.
Ferdinand and Isabella reigned for
thirty years and each had the sat.
isfaction of dying q natural death.
They also died seized of considerable
real estate, in Cuba, and elsewhere.
to which no confiding American ever
read his title clear.
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Sidewalk Sketches
FERDINAND AND ISABELLA.
ny Howard L. Ram

Ferdinand and Isabella were q do
voted married couple, who have bo.
come famous In history by acting as a
Joint angel for Christopher Columbus.
They backed Christopher to the full
extent of several bond issues, and
Isabella even went so far as to pawn
her jewelry in order that Columbus
might discover a land which a few
years later wiped Spain of the high
seas with one hand.
At the time Ferdinand and Isabella
were married Spain was infested with
q large number of unpopular citizens
called Moors, who were holding all OF
the offices and distributing the federal
patronage in any way they saw f1t
Ferdinand and Isabella determined to
get rid of the Moors by confiscating
their breath, and they were 80 success.
full in this pursuit that not q Moor got
out of Spain with q perfect wind-pine.
The hardest Moor they had to deal
with was person named Boabdil,
who refused to even become hoarse
until he had slain several thousand
Spaniards who were In a good state Of
health at the time. Boabdil shut him
aelf up in the city of Granada and did
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lature rode rough shod over Q pro-
vision Of our organic law and denied
the people the rights which the max
ers of our state constitution expressly
provided the people should have. About
the Same time that the legislature
enacted the bill above referred to, 1t
passed Joint resolution providing for
the initiative and referendum. (P. 423.
Acts a5th g. Az
What good is 1t going to do the peo-
pie for them to adopt the initiative
and referendum amendment, II the
legislature refuses to pay any atten-
ton to 1t.
The constitution OF the state now
specifically provides for referring
specific matters to the people. The
legislature that recently adjourned.
either ignorantly or wilfully ignored
the express terms Of the state coneti-
tuition and deprived the tax payers OF
the right to vote on the question OF
whether they should or should not be
taxed several millions OF dollars, Az
to whether they did this ignorantly or
wilfully, the reader can form his own
opinion.
Suppose the legislature had been
asked to vote on the following ques'
ton:
Are you willing to submit this
capitol grounds purchase to vote OF
the people?
We believe the members would have
voted to submit 1t to the voters. Yet
the legislators did not seem to know
that the constitution expressly pro-
vides that that very thing shall be
done.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-02
INDIA COTTON INDUSTRY.

The latest issue of The Consular ana
Trade Reports, sent out by the govern
ments contains an article by Consul
Henry D. Baker on the cotton indus
try ia India This report shows that
AmrIcan competition is not feared
chiefiy because of the low standard of
wages paid in India and met only IN
japan where similar wages prevail.
The report in part says:
In visiting the cotton mills at Ban
galore It was noticeable that great
bart of the work was performed by
children Of both sexes who do not re-
ceive over s cents per day. The hot
climate Of southern India tends to
MAKE the atmosphere Of the mills
located here extremely oppressive,
but in the construction Of new mills
a ueat deal Of humane attention Is
nbW paid to making them moro spaci-
Gus and better ventilated and to cooF
ing the air with fans and machines
fbr spraying light jets Of water.
practically all Of the machinery Of the
sjouth Indian mills is of English manu-
flacture, except electrical equipment,
Which Is from the United States.
lIn the particular class Of goods
t,Aned out by the south Indian mills
japanese competition seems to be
More feared than that from the United
Minedom, while that from the United
&tates does not seem to be an item for
consideration. As the total imports Of
ttotton goods into this section Of India
nNow represents as much as "a per
Client of the total value Of imports, it
Would seem obvious that with the
enormous home market of over TO-
tJOO, 900 people, the local mills have a
,akreat field before them for catering
Ito the local demand at the expense Of
countries now making heavy exports
here, of yarns and piece goods.
England appears to be participating
In the expansion Of the south Indian
sbtton manufacturing industry only
by largely increasing It's exports Of
raw cotton for mixing, the total Of
which increased from 521 hundred
weight, (hundredweight pounds)
value at 1920 in 1901 to 14,4s1
hundredweight, valued at $18S,762 in
1912. No American machinery Of
any sort appears to be used Except
electric motors), not even for ginning
the cotton. English gins Of 40 to 80
pounds capacity are used entirely, and
cost on the average about 5000. The
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-02

That William Randolph Hearst Is
likely to be elected United States
senator from New York Is the opinion
of Norman e. Mack, chairman of the
New York democratic state committee
and publisher Of the Buffalo Times.
He said to the New York Times cor
respondent in Paris on Tuesday:
"Should the Sulzer direct primary
bill become law, Hearst would un'
doubtedly be candidate, and with his
big newspaper circulation, his large
means, and the kind Of fight he can
make, should not be at all surprised
II he won out"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-02
LEARNING TO SWIM.

There was day not so far distant
when the public objected to the use OF
anti-toxin to prevent or cure dlpn-
iberia. That day has passed and now
victims Of the once dreaded disease
are few, comparatively speaking. II
the disease develops before the pre-
tentative measures have he"r taken,
anti-toxin can still save the day in
majority of cases.
The art of swimming isNa sort OF
anti-toxin for that very common dis
ease, drowning. Unfortunately how
ever there are many people who fear
the remedy more than the disease and
who will not permit their children to
learn to keep on the surface OF water.
There is Just little reason IN refus-
ing to learn to swim as there is In re-
fusing to take anti-toxin in the case OF
diphtheria. There is just as little
gained and in either case it may result
in death.
The great fear among those who op--
pose swimming, is that knowledge OF
the art will lead to frequenting OK the
water until it ends in death. Mothers
are prone to say: eff my boy learns to
swim he will want to go into the
water and he may drown. whereas II
he is not allowed to learn, he VIII
not 20 in the water and will be safe.
That is very foolish view which
could be held only by mother-bless
them. They are just trusting enough
to believe that if they tell their sons to
keep away from the water. the sons
will obey. There are some youths who
will obey command Of that kind but
the vast majority Of them are going
to 20 into the water whether they are
disobeying or not. They take to it
as naturally as duck, except that
thew need a little more instructions
that does the bird. They don's get this
on their secret expeditions to the "old
swimming hole where many of them
learn only to paddle sufficiently to
cajole themselves In later years into
the belief that they can swim. The
result is they take undue risks that
result in drowning sooner or later
But to return to the real subject.
Failure to know how to swim, or in
ability to do SO. is not going to remove
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complaint concerning American gins
is that they tear the cotton and break
the staple.
The fy-shutt1e Stays which have been
recently introduced into the hand
loom industry with such marked sue
cess are all made locally and cost only
about $3.50 to 81 apiece. There are
now considerable number Of small
factories employing two or three gins
driven usually by oil engines, and
understand that most Of these are OF
English manufacture.
England supplies about 81 per cent
OF the yarns imported for weaving.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-02
Evening Story.
sARsARA's NAME
BY Dorothy Douglas.

copyright 1913, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
When Capt. Scott retired from the
navy and took banana plantation IN
jamaica he had not reckoned on the
loneliness and Inconsistencies that waa
hound to overtake Barbara, his ever
smiling, beautiful daughter.
Even then Barbara continued to
smile. although the ache, at times,
for old friends, old surroundings,
made her fearful Of attempting some.
thinu desperate In the way of bring.
ing about amusement-something to
break the rnonotony OF plantation
life.
There were times when the great
gray battleships lay anchored OIL IL
the sunny harbor. Then Barbara
made up for the weeks and some
times months OF loneliness. She
laughed to her hearts content with
all the navy men who thronged mel
fathers house, from midshipmen up
to the very commander himself
Many a lieutenant had gone away
with the ship, but his heart had re
NAMED behind IN the possession OF
beautiful Barbara Scott.
And when the last battleshiD was
but a speck Of gray mingling swiftly
with the gray of the distance, Bar
bara turned away from the harboi
and sighed-that was all. Her heart
was still her own.
AS days wore on Barbara began to
fear that she would turn into . ba
mana. SO many hundreds OF punches
did she watch the men on her fathers
plantation load onto the boats.
She sighed. How would love tc
20 where they are going perhaps
hack home. Some Of my very best
friends might get one Of those
bananas"
Barbara was pensive for lons
moment while in spirit she was
banana journeying across the water
and finally arriving in her own coun
try. -o..oa 80
then smiled wistfully. II can a
least send love with them. No, will
not send love, I will put something
more material into banana and just
SEER anything comes OF 1t. My ring!
No. The family would wonder where
It was. And not stickpin, for some
one might swallow It. Barbara's
eyes frightened. my card-that will
be best of ali-someone surely vii
get it unless it melts into the fruit !"
with hasty steps Barbara skipped
down to the wharf and with dexterouf
fingers insenter card within the Skin
,, OF q banana. After that she watched
the shipload leave the harbor.
Where to-" che questioned, and
turned back to the house
In the course Of events 1t was
Lieut.. Cumming who bought the
, banana that Barbara had handled. Il
was an evening in early spring and 9
crowd OF navy men had come across
the river from the Brooklyn navy
yard and had landed on the east side
hungry and looking for clean bu1
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OF fire. But then some OF the insur-
ance companies might have 70 20
out of business,
Sioux City Journal: President
Wilson 10 criticised by represents
tives of democratic organizations be-
cause he does not spend more time
holding the bag. They are out for
game They want the president to
help In their contests with rivals
Of their own faith that they may
save themselves from being turned
under.
Davenport Times: About $4,000
acres OF Iowa farm lands are mis-
sing. At any rate the assessors
couldn't find them. The total for
J farm lands in Iowa, as reported by
+. the assessors. Is 34,565,21S for this
year as compared with 34,628.8S1
last year. So far no explanation has
been Forthcoming. Surely this land
has not been washed down the Mis-.
souri,, Des Moines and Mississippi
rivers.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Ac-
cordtng to Bradstreet's index mum
bers the cost OF living has gone
down about six per cent since last
December. These index numbers in.
chde a long list Of products and Sc
we're ups and downs In few may
affect the general average. There are
some commodities that have gone
down perceptibly and which will con-
tinue to 20 down, but there are 9th
ers that have not moved down, or
that have moved up higher, among
which II beef and oven pork, Beef
! prices are not subject to sudden de-
| clines, for It takes two or three
years to produce beef steer.
Mason City Globe Gazette: The au.
tomobile scorcher who hopes for
hard surfaced roads as his partic.
ular pie will be disappointed. With
hard surfaced roads will come also
strict laws against speeding, as In
Michigan and California. Statistics
A Friendly Word.
II have no bad habits" said the
on automobile accidents show ter
rible ravages all over the country.
From April to May % of this
year in forty-four states and the
District Of Columbia there were
1888 accidents, with toll OF EGO
deaths outright, 424 serious and LAS
other injuries. While we are engaged
in providing laws for reducing &C
oidents on railroads and interurbans
it would be q good scheme to ap'
ply the brake to the automobile
speed foolery.
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PRISON SCHOOLS.

That even prison life Is ylelolnS 70
modern humanitarian impulses Is IN
dictated in the number Of prisons that
are maintaining schools for the benef1t
Of prisoners. Out of IS prisons In
the United States and Canada report
ing to the United States bureau or
education, forty-four have schools. In
thirty-three of these civilian head
teacher is in charge. Altogether there
are twenty-seven evening schools,
nineteen day schools, and eight cor
respondence schools. Both academic
and trade subjects are taught.
In arguing for schools in prisons,
DR.. A. C. Hill, Of the New York state
education department, who has pre-
pared bulletin on the subject for the
United States bureau of education,
points out that there are three ways
of handling man whom the courts
have pronounced unfit to remain in So
ciety: First, he may be put to death
at once; second, he may be slowly
killed in destructive environment;
third, he may be placed IN a favor
,!ble environment and restored to nor
NAL health, If possible"
I Prison schools represent an attempt
to apply the last Of these methods, &C
cording to DIR. Hill. Schools In pris-
ons are the expression of the highest
conception~yet formed OF the proper
way to deal with men and women seq
regated from society for violating IFS
laws" he says. "They are an out
growth Of the belief that the door OF
hope must never be closed to any hu-
man being They stand for oppor.
tunity., They are humanity's offer OF
help to overcome the inertia and des-
pair that settle down upon a man dis
graced and deprived Of his liberty"
Prison libraries form an important
educational factor, and special atten-
ton is given to them in the bureaus
bulletin. Dr.. Hill notes that there Is
usually plenty Of books, but that the
quality OF the reading matter Is sell
dom satisfactory. He cites the opinion
of II. II. Hart, of the Russell Sage
Foundation, that, mot one prison IN
ten has q suitable selection Of books.
Nose OF them are composed Of one
third unreliable books and one-thfrd
trash"
IN his conclusion Dr.. Hill urges that
better methods and greater efficiency
in character building are needed all
along the line, back to the school and
the home. He believes that public
effort should be directed more fully 70
providing the. right kind OF education
for the thousands Of neglected children
whose environment is such as to make
the development Of bad and dangerous
characters almost inevitable. The
hopeful sign of the times is an
aroused public sentiment that is de-
manding full knowledge of the facts
and a vigorous use Of the BEST means
Of checking moral degeneracy at it's
source" sHa