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NEW ENGLAND WOMEN.

NEW ENGLAND WOMEN.
The New England Women of Wash
inston met Monday at the home of Miss
Tulioch, a51 Rhode Island avenue, with
4 good attendance. The president of
the society. Mrs. Charlotte Emerson
Main. was in charge. At the close of
the business meeting the members
were entertained with two songs by Miss
Amy Leavitt. Miss NJ. Lovisa White
told of the efforts of the committee, of
which she is chairman. in introducing a
bill to prevent the Dissertation of the
flag. The New England Women of
Washington organized about two years
ago and is in fourishins condition
having nearly doubled its membership
during the past year.
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NORTHWEST W. c. T. L.

Mrs. W. L. Andrews in an address be-
fore the Northwest w. c. T. l.. Thurs
day afternoon urged more cooperation
between the various philanthropic
bodies Mrs. A. ]. Driscoll read an en-
couraSing report of scientific temper
ance instruction in the schools. Mrs
Clayton Emig told of the successful
meeting held recently at the Naval
Hospital. Mrs. Louise Perkins and
Mrs. Neil McKeller served tea.
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DISTRICT D. a. 2.

The annual May meeting for the cleo
ton of state officers, Daughters of the
American Revolution, and transaction
rial Continental Hall Thursday. May 6.
at pm. All members are urged to
attend.
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DOLLY MADISON CHAPTER n 4

DOLLY MADISON CHAPTER, D. A. r.
Dolly Madison Chapter. d. A. r., held
its April meeting at the residence of the
registrar, Miss Flora Johnson Under
the direction Of the regent, Miss Gusts.
usual business was transacted and re-
ports received. An additional sum of
50 was voted toward the support of a
youth in the Junior Republic in whom
the chapter is interested Allan C. Clark
once more favored the members by ad-
dressing them on the subject of Dolly
Madison. giving many incidents in her
career which were of local interest
Musical numbers were furnished by
Miss Dorothy Schoss and Francis Du
Bots. Refreshments we're served.
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SHORT STORY CLUB.


Members and friends of the Short
Story Club formed large and ap-
preciative audience at the last
meeting this season Tuesday even
ing, in W. c. T. L. parlors, when va
ried literary and musical program in
charge of Mrs. P. J. Hoffliger. was pre-
sented- The story of the evening, writ
| ten and read by Henry p. Holden, de-
picted The Rise and Fall of "a Great
Genius. whose inventive talent after
years of apparent slumber brought sud
denly into existence a machine designed
| to fly in the air. sail the sea and travel
| on land. all of which 1t did on it's trial
| trip, but not in the manner origina Ily
intended by its creator. Mrs. Emet Ham
ilton gave selections from James Lane
Aliens 'Bachelor's Journal" Judge Dow
McLain furnished humorous selections
nationalities, thereby preventing any
breach of American neutrality.
An unusually attractive musical pro-
gram was also presented. in which .he
Esputa DAILY Concert Trio made its first
appearance before the club. This con-
Mueller. cello. and Norman Esputa DAILY,
pianist and leader: their selections he
ing Widelow's "Serenade"; "By the
Brook. Boisdeffre. and as an encore the
sextette from Lucia Another attrac-
ton was the Murray Mandolin Club,
Stutsman. first mandolin; Miss r Muir
ray. second mandolin; Mrs. Charles
Stutsman, guitar. The numbers rem
dered included The Whip march, by
Holgren, and the Adele Valse,' by
Brlquet. The entertainment was closed
Sweet Chariot" by Mrs. Rosa L. Town
send
Miss Nettie Riggs was formally
elected to membership in the club.
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boys. Mrs. H. P. Mcintosh gave a
personal experience in connection with
the early Y. NJ. C. A. work done in In
diana. Miss Elizabeth Mcintosh made
mention of the trench work of the y.
NJ. c. A. in the present war. The dis
cussion was closed by a few remarks
by Mrs. E. P. Woodbury. in regard to
the Y. NJ. c. A. work in the Blue Ridge
mountains.
The guests present were Mrs. II. ].
Ha1lock, vice regent of Wallaloosa
Chapter. Pennsylvania: Mrs. B. Cas-
sada. vice regent of Chemung Chap
ter. Elmira, n. Y, and Mrs G.. n.
White of Jersey City Heights. At the
close of the meeting refreshments were
served.
H. NJ. s. CLUE
Mrs. z. D. Godfrey. "a. Westminster
street. entertained the Home Mission
Study Club of Hamline Auxiliary. NJ. E.
Church. April Is. Refreshments were
served.
The club is still travelling through
red mans land" At this meeting the
members visited the following tribes:
Chippewas. Navajos, Sioux. Apache,
Modoc and Usage.
These side trips were personally con-
Quoted by Mrs. CD. WOODBURY.. Mrs.
r. Mickle. Mrs. NJ. T.. Gotwals and Mrs.
r. G. Houchens. They gave many in
teresting facts in regard to the tribes
which they represented. The American
Bible Society has made new dies for
the characters used in Navajo spelling
and has printed Navajo Bible. which
can be easily read by the Indians
The club made tentative plans for
holding its next meeting in the New
National Museum
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TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUE.

The travel section of the Twentieth
Century Club will meet Wednesday at
1880. Miss Hooper will give the paper
Japan. \ full attendance is
urged. as important announcements are
to be made
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CAPITOL HILL LITERARY SOCIETY

1T Of| fffS11 7
The Capitol Hill Literary Society met
Monday evening at the home of Mrs
Laura B. Lawson, 206 18th street north
east. the president, William G. Hunter,
presiding. Mrs. Marion Guild Wal
porte read a paper descriptive of Louis
XVII, which was discussed by Mrs
Blanche Beaton. Mrs. Matte Ewing, A.
II. Frear and Mr.. Hunter. old Glory
was the subject of a paper read by Mrs
James G. Kent. Musical numbers We're
contributed by Harold King. Harold
Schenck. Mr.. and Mrs. a. II. Frear
Mrs. Clara E. Kalstrom. Messrs Law
son. Johnson and Preston and Mrs f
V. Carr
Election of officers will be held al
the final meeting of the season. which
will take place May 10, at the home Of
the society's president. 127 9th stree
southeast.
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Livingston Manor Chapter, d. A. r.,
met Wednesday afternoon with the
vice regent, Mrs. A Y. Casanova, pre-
siding. The regent, Mrs. c. W. Brown.
who has so long been ill, sent q note
of greeting 10 the chapter. Roll call
was responded to by the nineteen
members present. Miss NJ. l.. Schmidt
gave. in lieu of historical items.
condensed account of the happenings
in the twenty-fourth Continental Con-
gress, ID. A. X.
The special subject considered by the
chapter was the work done by the Y.
NJ. c. A. and the Y. W. c. A. The
paper of the afternoon was given by
Mrs. A. +. Anderson, who confined her
self to the work of the Y. W. c. A.
Mrs l.. Z. Latta, who opened the dis
cussion, spoke of the work of the
Y NJ. G. A. especially the railroad
work Mrs. 6. NJ. BrumbauSh referred
10 the work of the Y. NJ c. A. among
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ECkINGTON w. c. r. L.

LEXINGTON ". c. r. L.
The lexington W. {. T. L. met Tues
DAY evening at the home of Mrs. Frank
Murphy, 81 street northeast The
meeting was largely attended. and the
following new members were received
Mrs. Edith Grain. Mrs Selden Ely, Mrs.
James Mothershead: Mrs. Louise Racine
and Mrs. John Dawson. 1t was voted to
place six prohibition maps in the pub
lie schools. showing the wet and dry
territory in the United States.
Following the business meeting, Mrs
Milton White sang Prohibition com
posed by Mrs. Edgar Mrs. Theodore
Moore, vice president of the Distric,
W. G. T. L.. gave talk on the prog
ress of temperance. Frank +. Buck
land gave his personal observation Of
the drinking customs in Europe. corr
pairing them with those in the United
States The next meeting will be held
May % at Mrs. DAYS
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AID ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND.
The annual benefit theaIer party for
the Aid Association for the Blind was
one of the most successful ever given
by the association.
\ large number of the friends of the
organize ton We're present: Among
the patrons were the German ambas
sador, the Hungarian ambas-
sador. Nine Hauge, Miss Kibbey. Col
Robert NJ. Thompson. John R Mclean.
Thomas Ewing. Chris Heurich. Albert
Carry. a. :. Burleson, Mrs. Elkins. Mrs.
Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. Charles j.
Bell. Mrs. Richardson Glover. Miss Cod
man, Mrs. Delos Blodgett. Mrs. John
Joy Edison. Miss Margaret Britton and
Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln.
The officers of the association are:
President Mrs. Richard Sylvester: vice
presidents. Mrs. Henriette c. Metzerott,
Mrs. James +. Gilbert. Mrs. George
II. Brown and Mrs. Emil Berliner: re-
cording secretary, Mrs. Joseph F.
James: corresponding secretary. Mrs.
p p. Mullett. treasurer, Maj. Richard
Sylvester, and attorney, Andrew Will
son.
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The Florence Crittenton Wheel Club
enjoyed a basket luncheon and sewing
meeting, Thursday at 30I street
Mrs. NJ. W. Story. the president, told
Of her recent trip to New York, de-
scribing the free current events class,
conducted weekly by the staff of the
Brooklyn Eagle, and attended by great
throngs of women. The club voted to
send an invalid young woman to At
lantic City for recuperation. The next
club meeting will be a picnic, May Is.
CAPITOL HILL HISTORY CLUE.
Nineteen members of the Capitol Hill
History Club were entertained Wednes-
day afternoon at the residence of Mrs.
c. T. Mccoy, 1869 Bi1tmore street. The
president, Mrs. l.. +. Slime. occupied
the chair. and the delegate, Mrs. Jason
trict of Columbia Federation of Wom-
ems Club meeting. held April "a
At the conclusion of brief business
session the study program opened and
included papers ON the succeeding sub
Sects. Geneva, Bale, Interlaken, Neu-
chatel and St Call described by Mrs.
Charles Fisher: Legends" depicted by
Mrs. Will Lesher; Effect of the French
Revolution Switzerland. 1898 TO
1920. discussed by Mrs II. 3. Mattox
"Noted Writer. Voltaire.'' character
sketched by Mrs T. F. Rorke. and THE
Life Of PestaloZZi. the Educator" was
portrayed by Mrs. l.. Il. Slime The
hostess. assisted by Miss Mccoy, served
refreshments.
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LINEAL SOCIETY, SPANISH WAR
The Lineal Society OF the Spanish
War met Wednesday evening at the
residence OF Miss Ferris, l31 A street
northeast, with d good many members
present. After business was trans
acted refreshments were served.
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erything that Elaine had unpaeked Then he began on the little writing | desk, the dresser and the bureau draw CTS. A subtle smile flashed over his 1 face as he came to one drawer that was locked He pulled sectiona jimmy from his coat and forced il open
 There lay the precious torpedo.
 The man elutehed at it with look of exultation. Without another glace at the room he rushed to the window seized the rope and pulled himself to the roof, going as he had come.
 
 It did not take me long to unpacH the few things had brought and l was soon back again in the living room where Aunt Josephine joined me in a few minutes.
 Just as Elaine came hurriedly down the stairway and started toward me Del Mar entered from the porch. She stopped. Del Mar watched her close. ly. Had she found anything? He was sure of it.
 Her hesitation was only for a mo. ment. however. Walter" she said may speak to you moment? Ex. euse us, please?"
 Aunt Josephine went out toward the back of the house to see how the servants were getting on, while I fol lowed Elaine upstairs. Del Mar with a bow seated himself and opened his magazine. No sooner had we gone, however, than he laid 1t down and eau- tiously followed us.
 Elaine was evidently very much ex- cited as she enterd her dainty little room and closed the door Walter, ; she cried, Eve found the torpedo!"
 We looked about at the general dis or6er. Why" she exclaimed nery. ously. "someone has been here-ar.d I locked the door. too"
 She almost ran over to her bureau drawer. It had been iimmied open in the few minutes while she was down stairs. The torpedo was gone. We looked at each other, aghast.
 Behind us. however, we did not see the keen and watchful eyes of Del Mar, opening the door and peering in. Perhaps half a mile down the road. the farmer abandoned his hayrack and now, followed by his peculiar dog, walked back. He stopped at point in the road where he could see the Dodge house in tha distance, sat on the rail fence and lighted blackened eorneob pipe.
 There he sat for some time appar- ently engrossed in his own thoughts about the weather. the dog lying at
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worked it's way half from the man pocket The farmer seized it. The man fell back, limp, and the farmer with the torpedo in one hand. grasped at the gun on the ground and straight. ened up.
 He had no sooner risen than the man was at him agan. His uncon- sciousness had been merely feigned. The struggle Was renewed.
 At that point, the hedge down the road parted and Del Mar stepped out. A glance was enough to tell him what was going on. He drew his gun and ran swiftly toward the eombatants.
 AS Del Mar approached his man succeeded in knocking the torpedo from the farmers hand. There it lay, several feet away. There seemed to be no chance for either man to get 1t.
 Quickly the farmer bent his wrist, aiming the gun deliberately at the precious torpedo As fast as he could he pulled the trigger. Five of the six shots penetrated the little model.
 So surprised was his antagonist that the farmer was able to knock him out with the butt of his gun He broke away and fed. whistling on a police whistle for the dog just as Del Mar ran up.
 Del Mar stopped and picked up the model It had been shot into an un- recognizable mass of scrap. In a fury, Del Mar dashed it on the ground, CUTS ing his men as he did so.
 
 The strange disappearance of the torpedo model from Elaines room worried both of us. Doubtless if Ken nedy had been there he would have known just what to do But we could not decide.
 Really, considered Elaine. T think we had better take MT. Del Mar into our confidence.
 "Stil1, we've had a great many warn ings,' l objected.
 T know that" she persisted, but they have all come from very unre- liable sources"
 Very we'll I agreed finally, then let's drive over to his bungalow.
 Elaine ordered her little runabout and few moments later we climbed into it and Elaine shot the ear away
 As we rode along, the country seemed so quiet that no one would ever have suspected that foreign agents lurked all about. But it was just under such cover that the ne farious bridge and harbor mining work ordered by Del Mars superiors was going ahead quietly.
 As our car climbed a hill on the other side of which, in the valley. was a bridge, We could not see one Of Del
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his feet. Now and then he looked ffxedly toward Dodge Hall.
 Suddenly his yigilant attention seemed to be rfyeted on the house. He drew field glass from his pocket and leyeled it. Sure enough, there was man coming out of a window, pulling himself up to the roof by a rope and going across the rooftree. He lowered the glasses quickly and climbed off the fence with hitherto unwented energy.
 Come. Searehlight." he called to the dog. as together they moved off quick iy in the direction he had been look ing.
 Del Mars men were coming through the hedge that surrounded the Dodge estate just as the farmer and his deg stepped out in front Of them from be- hind thicket
 Just minute" he called. T want to speak to you.
 He enforced his words with a vi cious looking gun. It was two to one and they closed with him. Before he could shoot, they mad knocked the gun out of his hand. Then they tried to break away and run.
 But the farmer seized one of them and held him, Meanwhile the dog de veloped traits all his own. He ran in and out between the legs of the other man until he threw him. There he stood, over him. The man attempted to rise. Again the dog threw him and kept him down. He was trained Bel gian sheep hound, splendid police dog.
 @Confound the brute,' growled the man. reaching for his gun
 As he drew it, the dog seized his wrist and with a cry the man dropped the gun. That. too, was part of the dogs training.
 While the farmer and the other man struggled on the ground, the torpedo
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Mars men in hiding at the top. lie saw us, however, and immediately wigwagged with his handkerchief to several others down at the bridge where they were attaching a pair of wires to the planking.
 Someone coming" muttered one who was evidently a lookout.
 The men stopped work immediately and hid in the brush. Our car passed over the bridge and we saw nothing wrong. But no sooner had we gone than the men crept cut and resumed work which had progressed to the point where they were ready to carry the wires of an electric connection through the grass, coneealing them as they went.
 In the study of his bungalow, all the time. Del Mar was striding angrily up and down, while his men waited in silence
 Finally he paused and turned to one of them See that the coast is clear and kept clear" he ordered. T want to go down."
 It ludu SdluItu anu HcGL cGS through the panel. A moment later Del Mar gave orders to the other man who also saluted and left the house by the front door, just as our car pulled up.
 Del Mar, the moment the man was gone, put on his hat and moved to- ward the panel in the wall He was about to enter when he heard some one coming down the hall to the study and stepped back, closing the panel. It was the butler announcing us.
 We had entered Del Mars bunga- low and now were conducted to his library. There Elaine told him the whole story, much to his apparent sur prise. for Del Mar was a wonderful actor
 You see" he said as she finished telling of the finding and the losing of the torpedo. "just what I had
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SYNOPSIS.

After the finding of Wu Fsang's body and lkennedy's disappearance a submarine ap- pears the following morning on the ba.- A man plunges overheard from 1t and iswims ashore It is the entrance of Mar tefus Del Mar into America. At the Dodge home one of Wu Fang's men is trying to obtain information of Kennedy and the Host torpedo His plan Is blocked by Del Mars arrival, who also succeeds in win ming Elaine's confidence. Later she is warned by little old man to be careful. lDel Mars mission at the Dodge house was to locate and recover the torpedo He would have been successful had it not been for Elaine's dog, Rusty, who dug it from the flower pot. while Del Mar and Elaine were talking only q few feet away. Rusty carried the torpedo to the attic. The little old man meets Del Mar at the Dodge home They draw guns together. gases from the exploded shells of the old lman's revolver overcome Del Mar and Elaine. and the old man Of mystery es- leapes. Shortly after this affair Elaise gives masquerade ball. Del Mar att tends. Neither he nor his domino girl can locate the torpedo. A gray friar warns Elaine and Jameson of Del Mars purpose, and his plans are upset. Del
 Mar succeeds in getting this girl Tn iE1aine's home as q maid She finds the Torpedo in the attic. places Il in q trunk,
 which with others Is sent to Elaine's country home. A ho1dap on the train takes place. Del Mars men carry the trunk away only to find on opening 1t that they have the wrong one.
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LIFTS FIRE OUT OF HOUSE Autoist Reseuer Also Saves Dinner From Blazing Stove in New
 Jersey Town.

A. R Gerber. local clothing merz chant, was the hero at a fire to which he was called as he was passing through Hartford in his automobile o2 his way home from Philadelphia. When woman ran from her house and yelled that her kitchen was on fire Gerber didn't need any second alarm SlammiHg ea the emergency brake he jumped from his machine before it was stopped and found the gasoline stove ablaze
 Calmly moving some furniture out of his way and taking the woman s dinner from the stove so it would not be ruined, he pulled the blazing stove right out the back door and landed it where it could do nc further damage except to itsetf.-Mount Holly IN. J1 Dispatch Philadelphia Record
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Missionary's Coed Work.

Dr. Frederick Evans, who has final ly completed his revision of the Arabic Bible, having toiled at the task since 1908, is an American missionary sta- toned at Beirut. He is now oversee ing the preparation of the book plates. He was born at Roekdale. Penn. grad uated from Princeton in 1883. and from Union Theological seminary five years later. That same year he was ordained Presbyterian minister. He became a touring missionary, and made Journeys of exploration into the
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helmets damned down over their ears, who carried in one hand-how the symbolism would have stirred the heart of Maeterlinek-haming torches.
 Behind the hook and ladder was the hose cart and then came a hand en- zine of the type our grandfathers used to drag to fires. After that, for two blocks, filed queue Of water-filled hogsheads on wheels. The eayaleade passed us in cloud of dust, accom- panied by the yells of the torch-bear- ing firemen. When the supply of wa ter ran out the carts dashed dow
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fire has got enough headway for him to see the smoke he gives the alarm, tor is amused, not so much at the dash as at the engines They are primitive and the use of them is more so.
 We went to fire one Sunday after noon in lrkutsk, Richard L. Wright says in Through Siberia It was close to our hotel, so that We had an excellent view First came a troika team that dragged a hook and ladder carriage. On the carriage clung the hremene bowling Cossacks with brass
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the river and were replenished.

the river and were replenshed.
 This crude high pressure service gave rise once to rather humorous incident that the Irkutskians tell with great glee. During fire several years ago a string of water wagons went down to the river, were filled and came rumbling back. When they reached the fire, the water was gone. The enthusiastic captain of hogsheads had neglected to put back the plugs in the barrels and had spilled his supply for several blocks along the main
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FIRE FIGHTING IN IRKUTsk
Department Answers Alarm in Good Cld-Fashioned Style, and Accom-
 pllshes Little.

They fight fires in peculiar way in
 Siberia. First you find the fire. The city is platted into districts, each with its engine house and watch tower. On the watch tower, by day and night. stands a guard who scans the house tops for a sign of smoke. When the
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trans-Jordan country and Arabia for two years. Since 1900 he has virtual ly made his home at Beirut. and has issued many books and pamphlets in Arabic, With Prof. William Libbev he is the co-authcr of the work. "Jor- dan Valley and Petra" His latest
 book is From the Nile to Nebo
 Discussion of the Problem and Route of the Exodus" :"
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easnnahle.

"Fogarty has Quit the profession. What do you think of that 2n
 "Fogarty quit2 You must be af- feetee by the heat. Why, he's on the bill this very day What got the idea into your panama?"
 Well, l saw him coming out of a business mani s lunch place.
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The weight of the dome of St Paurs IS 45,0oo tons, according to Mervin Ma, cartnay. the restoration architect.
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Just as Good.

T wonder women don't want to play football.
 Why should they when they have bafgain-counter rushes ?"
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It's easy to be economical when one is bankrupt.