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Evening star., 1914-12-31
"Chick" |Gandil Forfeits Collateral.

Chick" Gandil, first baseman of the
Washington base ball team, forfeited
SO collateral in the Police Court today
on a charge of conducting an unli-
censed entertainment. Gandil was ar
rested by Policeman Long of the tenth
precinct. He was alleged to have con-
dueted an entertainment at the Arcade
last night without first having obtained
a license. He left the collateral at the
police station, and when his name was
called in court today failed to respond.
Evening star., 1914-12-31
Colored Girl Cut by White Boy.

Marie Richardson, colored, sixteen
years old, 81 Fenton street northeast,
was treated at Sibley Hospital last
night for a cut on her left arm. She
said that an unidentified white boy
about ten years old inflicted the wound
while she engaged in an alteration
with him near Massachusetts avenue
and 10th street northwest.
Evening star., 1914-12-31
U. S. Seamen Drowned at Beirut.

Capt. Oman of the cruiser North Caro-
lima has cabled the Navy Department
news of the death of John Pugliese of
Fall River, Mass, coal passer, and
Thomas P. Ryan of Buffalo, fireman, at
Beirut, Syria, December 26. The men
were drowned while swimming, and
their bodies were buried at Beirut.
Evening star., 1914-12-31
Colored Boy Snatches Handbag

Mrs. w. A. Pearce, 144O Rhode Island
avenue northwest, was robbed of a sill
yer handbag yesterday afternoon while
at Connecticut avenue and Macomb
street. The handbag was snatched by
an unidentified colored boy. 1t con
tanned only small amount of cash and
a few trinkets
Evening star., 1914-12-31
Struck by Street Car.

While crossing at the intersection of
Massachusetts avenue and 9Th street
northwest this morning about $50
o'clock William Pitts, 444 1 street
northwest. was struck by a street car
and injured about the head. He was
taken to Casualty Hospital
Evening star., 1914-12-31
COPYRIGHTS FOR BRITONS,
Only Citizens of Self-Governing Col
onies Barred From Privilege.

President Wilson today issued a proc
lamation certifying that the citizens
of Great Britain. excepting those in
Canada. Australia, Newfoundland, New
Zealand and South Africa, are eligible
to secure copyrights on parts of an
struments for the reproduction of mu-
sical composition on equality with the
citizens of the United States.
This was done following the COM
pliance of Great Britain with the pro-
visions of the act of March 4, 1909,
governing the issuance of copyrights
in the United States.
There are 101 cities and 75S incor-
porated towns in Iowa.
Evening star., 1914-12-31
Breaks Wrist in Fall on Stairs,

Sarkis Bakaian. eighteen years old,
ia 18th street northwest, accidentally
fell on the stairs at his home yester-
day afternoon and fractured his wrist
He was taken to Emergency HosnitaI
Evening star., 1914-12-31
Wanted At Once

When you want something
right away. the quickest
method Of obtaining 1t Is
through a Star Want Ad. Ad-
yertisements in the Wanted
Miscellaneous column, on the
classified page of The Star,
meet with instant response.
Phone Classified Department,
Main 2440.
Evening star., 1914-12-31
False Prophets.
the Pittsburgh Dispa tel

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Disposition to gibe at peace propa-
gandists who six months ago predicted
there would be no war overlooks en-
tirely the rival predictions of the jingo-
lists that preparedness would prevent
war.
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Fine Commercial Years,

Percy 8. Foster is another one of
hose who sees the sun rising over a
more prosperous nation and city.
"A business man would have to be
lind indeed If he did not fully appreciate
hat conditions have been somewhat dis
Evening star., 1914-12-31

United States 1914 farm crops are
'alued at $5,06s, s,742.00o.
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Belief of Robert N. Harper.

Prosperity is coming to this country
because of the war, according to the belief
Of Robert N. Harper. THE United States
Is becoming the main market on account
of the war;" he said, land will give US
the output for hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars of goods which we have formerly
imported.
Another reason why prosperity is COM
ing to this country is the fact that all
available cash in this country is to be
distributed from twelve different points
through the federal reserve act. Through
these agencies money will be put into
more active operation, and this naturally
will rebound to the benefit of trade"
Mr.. Harper declared that the fact that
Europe will have to constantly import
foodstuffs from this country is bound to
boom business.
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DIRECTORS:

George W. Gray
William D. Hoover
George ward
Reginald S. Huidekoper
o. II. p. Johnson
Thomas r. Jones
Victor Kauffmann
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Busy Buying New Stock.

Mr.. Roach of Mayors furniture store
said that he had been too busy pur-
chasing stock with which to fill orders
to give the question of prosperity a
thought.
Harold H. Levi. manager of Hechts'.
said that he looked for local and ma
tional prosperity in the year of 1915,
The crisis brought about by the war"
he said. had been but a temporary
matter and was now a thing Of the
past.
Optimism and enthusiasm" he said,
"on the part of the merchants is ali
that is required to bring the prosper
ity sought by their concerns. A man
ager who hasn't the faith of his CON
victions and the nerve to prepare for
a normal selling year must necessarily
suffer now as at all times" Mr. Levi
laid particular emphasis on the effects
of the individual attitude upon the in
dividual business. In his own store he
reported that business was far better
this year than last. the sales in one
department having increased 400 per
cent.
John Hansen. president of Schmedtie
Bros. Jewelry establishment, stated that
he looked for good business in his par
ticular line. He explained that jewellers
have been conscious of the superiority
OF American-made jewelry over that Of
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WORRY OVER FUTURE
Trade Conditions of Country Dis
turb Democrats
Result of the New Tariff, So Far, by
No Means Satisfactory-Leader
Would Prevent Union of Re
publican Factions.

1t is plain that the Democrats in
authority at Washington, from the
president down. are disturbed by the
slowing down of traffic in many lines.
They do not find satisfactory assur~
ance anywhere that the country will
be able to readjust it's affairs to the
new conditions created by Democratic
legislation without suffering serious
losses and passing through a period
of wide and deep distrust of Demo
cratic policies and Democratic leader
ship-a distrust more active and for
midable than the ordinary state of pub
lie sentiment which has never, since
1892, given the Democratic party a ma
jority of the popular vote in a national
election.
1t is evident that there can be no
retracing of the steps which have been
taken The party's pledges must be
kept and its program carried out. Any
other course would tempt ridicule and
invite defeat. The only hope the
Democratic leaders have lies in the
chance that after uncertainty gives
place to positive knowledge of the
governmental conditions which affect
business there will be improvement in
trade and productive industry will be
more satisfactory.
1t is this situation which makes all
Democratic politicians anxious to pre-
vent. if possible, the union of the Re
publicans and the Progressives. They
realize that such bringing together of
their natural opponents would destroy
all hope that the Democratic party will
be able to retain it's hold upon the
country after putting some of it's fore
most doctrines to the proof of expe-
renee
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PART THREE.
finished.
CHAPTER l.
Spite House.

Kate ReUfetos the Book.
The book is not finished. This book
of Jesse's life and mine is not finished
while she who set us asunder is al
lowed to live. Vengeance is mine.
saith the Lord, II will repay" We
wait.
What impulse moved my man after
four years to enter that tragic house
He read our book, SO piteously stained,
this heap of paper scrawled with rusty
ink. He added parts of a chapter,
which have finished. 1t is all blotted
with tears, this record of his life
childhood, boyhood, youth, manhood,
humor, passion-veritable growth of
an immortal spirit-annals of that love
which lifteth us above the earth-and
theni
So must try to catch up happiness
have notes here of dear Father
Jared, made at the time when he was
bringing me with Baby David home. 1
remember we sat in our deck chairs
on the sunny side of the ship, watch
ing a cloud race out in mid-Atlantic.
We talked of home.
Frognall End, where my saint is
curate-in-charge. is on the river near
Windsor, and there l went to live with
Baby David
From the first my Heaven-born was
interested in milk, later in a growing
number of worldly things, but it was
not until last winter by the firesfde
that we really had serious tales all
about Wonderland
Although David has decided to be a
tram conductor, he still takes some
little interest in other walks of life
Once on the tow-path he asked an old
gentleman who was fishing what he
was fishing for, and got the nice re-
ply: Il often wonder" And it was on
this path beside the Thames, that one
day last November he made a big
friendship. His nurse was passing a
few remarks with young man who
asked the weJ to my house, and baby
went ahead pursuing his lawful occa-
sions- Curious to know what it felt
like to be a real fish, he was stepping
into the river to see about it, when
the young man interfered-
Lego my tall said David wrath
fully. then with sudden defiance. Il
got my feet wet anyway, so there."
That's So" the young man agreed.
I say David grew confident.
''Mummie says it's IN the paper, so
it's all right
Whats that. sonny?''
"A little boy what went in 60 see
about some fishes, and that man what
swum and swum, and 1 saw'd his pic
ture in the paper So now tend you
look de udder way"
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All the Facts Not Given.

Notwithstanding the standpat pre-
dictions of tremendous rush of for
eign- made goods Immediately follow
ing the lowering of the tariff barriers,
it appears that during October the inn
portations at New York fell off more
than s3S, 900 900, or from s1os, zoo, ood
to 81. 100000. This does not look like
swapping the United States with Eu-
ropean products" says the Philadel-
phia Record But this says nothing of
the foreign goods imported and held
in bond until the new law went into
effect. which was stated in the news
papers to amount to over 500, O0O, OO0
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Trust Legislation.

The trust problem, like currency re-
form, will no doubt be made the sub
ject of profound Investigation and
study preliminary to entering upon a
far-reaching legislative program.
The lower house of congress has
been most active in trust inquiries, but
since campaign material was the real.
object of inquiry, rather than to estab-
lish basis for legislation, and since
the case made out was merely prima
facie, the reported desire of President,
Wilson to institute a scientific inyesti-'
cation of the facts on which to base
his judgment ought not to be displeas-,
ing to house Democrats.
Has not the unwisdom of haphazardi
methods of procedure been duly. i'm,
pressed on the leadership by the glar-i
ing defects of the income tax law?
Still more conspicuous as an exam
pie of unpreparedness to act on funda-
mental propositions is the currency
bill as it emerged from the house. And
even now, after it's crudities have been
brought to light by reason of the more.
searching inquiry in the senate, some
members of the finance committee feel
that not all of the obscurities have
been detected and eliminated.
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strings, while Billy and Patsy fell head
over ears in love, and my pet cupid
had them both for slaves. David rode
Billy home, by his august command
straight into my brown study, where
l sat in my lazy chair.
Was it my voice telling baby to go
and get dry feet? Was it my hand
grasping Billy's horny paw? For 1
heard my roaring canyon saw my
cliffs, my embattled sculptured cliffs,
and once more seemed to walk with
Jesse in Cathedral Grove
1 laughed, 1 cried. Oh, yes, of
course / made fool of myself. For
this dear lad came out of Wonderland,
this Needless ruffian who knew of my
second marriage, who had such tale
to tell of Madame Scotson." Oh.
haven't you heard? Her precious
Baby David is illegitimate! Couldn't
| hear my neighbor, Mrs. Pollock tell
ing that story at the Scandal club?
Feeling ill-bred and common, 1
begged Billy's pardon, made him sit
down, tried ever so hard to put him
at his ease. Poor lad. His father
condemned as a felon, his mother such
a wicked old harridan, his life, to say
the very least, uncouth. Yet some
shone the eyes of a gentleman, and
there was manliness in all he said, in
everything he did. After that great
journey for my sake, how could 1 let
him doubt that he was welcomed?
Il know I'm rough" he said hum
bly,, but you seem to understand.
You know I'm straight You won't
mind straight talk unless you're
changed, and you're not changed-at
least not that way, num-"
Changed, All, how changed, The
looking glass had bitter things to
tell me, and crying makes me such
trump. / never felt SO plain. And the
eyes of young man are often brutality
frank to women
Don't mind about me, Billy. Say
what you've come to tell me"
Been gettin' it ready to say ever
since / started for England Look
here. mum. 1 want to go back to the
beginning, to when l was a kid, an
mother KEEP that hash house in Abb
lene- Dye mind if l speak, mean
about this here Polly2"
set my teeth and hoped he would
be quick
for joke, and the way Jesse treated
her
II can't hear this"
You don't mind if l say that moth
er and me haven't no use for lesser"
Il know that
Well, mother put her up to the
idea To get shut of him. she sham
med dead 1 helped 1 say she done
right. num- II she'd let it go at that
I'd take her side right now"
Billy, was that real marriage."
It was that She's Jesse's wife m
rfEht"
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Put Economy in Background.

The party of ringing declarations
and unbroken pledges, as embodied in
the Baltimore platform. in which the
party then in power was denounced
for "profiigate waste of money wrung
from the people by oppressive taxa
ton. through the lavish appropriations
of recent Republican congresses" now
brayely shows that it has the cour-
age of its changed convictions as re-
CARDS simplicity and economy" by
asking congress for many millions
more to carry on the government than
Republican congresses voted In fact
a "billion-dollar'' maximum last year
They acknowledged the corn, but with
a latticework of explanations. They
had preached drastic economies until
self-convinced they could put their
theories into practice if given the
chance.
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only a cur would blame the weak.
Only a coward would accuse the lost
But in your manhood remember her
courage, Jesse. Forgive as you hope
for pardon. Keep your life clean, from
every touch of evil, but to the world
stand up for the honor of the name
you gave her..
Il will
You forgiven"
yes
You will pray for herr"
Il will pray"
And now the hardest test has still
to come For your wife's honor and for
the child, you must keep their names
stainless, clear of all reproach while
you await Gods judgment. They must
leave you, Jesse"
"Oh, not that, sir"
Can they stay here in honor?"
No
Can you run away"
''Neveri"
Then you must part"
Jesse covered his face with his
hands, and there against the deepen
ing twilight l saw shadows reaching
out from him, as though-slowly the
shadows took form of high-shouldered
wings and mighty pinions sweeping
to the ground
He looked up. and behold he was
changed.
Pray for me, sir!" he whispered.
Then the priest raised his hand, and
gave him the benediction
Jesse closes the Book
1t is years now since my lady left
me. Never has an ak touched her
trees, or any human creature entered
her locked house. The rustic of her
dress is in the leaves each fall, the
pines still echo to her voice. l hear
her footsteps over the new snow, 1
feel her presence when l read her
books. l know her thoughts are spir-
it's haunting me, and all things wait
until she comes back. Not until lost
my lady did 1 ever hear that faint,
thin, swaying echo when her grove
seemed to be humming tunes. At times
when dew was falling, 1 have heard
the pattering of millions and millions
of little feet, just as she said, making
the grass bend.
Tears drop on the paper and shame
poor fool Jesse. The Book says that
He shall wipe away all tears. If my
bear had only lived, l should not have
been SO lonely. l wonder flood help
me. can't write more. The book is
finished.
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why, can't see nothen."
You can see. The game is for me
to jump in, and you swim"
But can't SWIM I'm sailor"
''oh. wea1ly? Then what's your
manner"
It's Billy O'Flynn."
No, but that's WEAKLY my guinea
pig, the pink one-Billy OF1ynn-
You're not fairy, Billy?''
why. what does you know about
fairies?'
believe in fairies, but then it pleases
mummie''
So Billy sat on his heel making
friends with the heaven-born. and
Patsy, the nurse, came behind him.
craving with cotton-gloved hands to
touch the sailors crisp, short, golden
hair, and David gravely tried on the
mans peaked cap.
Yes" Billy agreed, fairies is rot
when there's real gals about, with rosy
cheeks a-blushin' an cotton gloves"
"Lawks. 'Ow you sailors does fancy
yourselves said Patsy, her shy fin
gers drawn by that magnetic gold of
the mans hair.
Climb on my back and ride said
young O'F1ynn to David. TN be a
fairy horse
The cheek of inn" jeered Patsy,
fairy 'orse indeed"
Oh, surely the fairies were very
busy about them, tugging at heart
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LEAVE CONDIMENTS TO CHEF
Visiting Frenchmsn Bitterly Criticises
American Habit of Sailing Food
Placed Before Them

1T is easy to see that most of these
multimillionaires don't know what de-
cent cooking is"
And the French countess, Struggling
her white and pretty shoulders. let
her eyes rove disdainfully over the
Newport dinner table. with it orchids
and its gold plate
why do you say that, madame?"
a multimillionaire inquired
Because rejoined the countess.
'-the minute dish is set before you
you all rain salt on it You all, with
out exception. rain salt on every dish !"
"Well2' said the multimillionaire as
he rained salt calmly and generously
upon his chaufroid de gibier- well.
what of it,"
There. look at YOU cried the
countess, Sailing a chaufroid de gf-
bier, to which a chef has devoted six
or seven hours of his best talenti And
you salt it without even tasting it
nrst! That Ia to say. you are used to
bad cooking. to unseasoned cooking.
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AaaHaD gaS&s gsAAsag
@gN2wS8sS 32S&agSD

that as a matter of course you take
this cooking to be bad
Mon ami" said the countess i'm
pressively, when a chef sees a diner
salt or pepper a dish he's in despair
he's in despair as a painter would be
if the purchaser of his painting took
up brush and added little more
green to the grass or a little more blue
to the sky
Good French cooking needs no ad-
ditional seasoning at table They who
season it, like you multimillionaires.
without so much as tasting it first,
don't know what good French cooking
is Were / a chef I'd rather work in
a Marseilles eight-sou table d,hote
than in your kitchens of marble and
glass;
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ness. The piteous lost creature has
never been your wife,
Il told her what she is, straight
from the shoulder"
Who made her SOP
Jesse lowered his head.
Who made her the living accusa-
ton of mems sins? She is the terrible
states evidence Gods evidence
which waits to be released in the Day
of Judgment You told her straight
from the shoulder. Judge not that We
be not judged. Remember that of all
the men she knew on earth. you only
can plead not guilty"
Because 1 married her?" asked
Jesse humbly.
Because you tried. You gave her
your clean name. your pure life. your
manhood. an act of knightly chivalry.
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SYNOPSIS.

The story opens with Jesse Smith
Mating the story of his birth, early life in
Labrador and of the death of his father.
Jesse becomes a sailor. His mother mar
rfes the master of the ship and both are
lost In the wreck of the vessel. Jesse
becomes q cowboy in Texas He marries
polly. singer of questionable morals.
who later is reported to have committed
suicide. Jesse becomes rancher and
takes up the narrative Unhappily mar
Eied she contempIates suicide but changes
her mind after meeting Jesse. Jesse
cues Kate from her drink addened hus
band who attempts to kill her. Trevor
loses his life in the rapids. Kate rejects
offers of grand opera managers to return
to the stage and marries jesse Their
married life starts out happily. Kate sue
cumbs to the pleadings of composer to
return to the stage and runs away with
him She rescaes Widow O'Flynn from
self and returns home. where Jesse
ceives her with open arms. Jesse calls
on neighbors and plans to capture cattle
thieves. Kate is rescued from the hands
of the bandits Jesse is captured by the
robbers. but by a clever ruSe makes pris-
oners of the robbers. They turned
over to a United States marshal. who has
arrived with extradition papers. Jesse
takes charge of the. outlaw chiefs son.
TO keep him out of his fathers profession
He takes Billy to Vancouver and the
Had is Shanghaied. Is born to Kate
and Jesse and is named David Jesse re-
cefves a letter from his first wife. Polly,
IN which she tells him she deceived him
into thinking she had killed herself She
threatens to come to him.
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Edith is very timid, but she tries to
do her duty. and not long since recit-
ed a piece" before some school visit
ors with great credit and apparent
calmness- Her mother. later compli-
mented and praised her, especially for
not seeming at all nervous. ~Oh, but
L was scared. really. mamma" the
child explained ingenuousIy. Il held
my hands still. but you should have
seen my knees.
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democrats on ! New tack.

Some OF the Democrats who for
merly denounced as robbery the use
of the taxing power for anything but
raising revenue for the necessary ex-
penses of government, now advocate
its use as "a club" to make franchised
corporations behave.
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Not Chosen by the Voters.

A vast army of Democrats are going
into state and local offices as the bene-
fcfaries of minority Victories They
are to get their places because the OPP
position to their party is so divided
that 40 per cent, or less. of the whole
number of voters were able to carry
many states, counties and similar civil
divisions in the election