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that a plurality of one for-Gt would
be partisan to anticipate the name)
had been cast at Ranch 40. There
are several such remote districts even
in New York State whence news leaks
almost as slowly as in Montana or
Idaho. And there is no deprecating
the Importance of the vote that is cast
at Glover Four-Corners. 1t is the will
of the people that rules, and The AS
sociated Press can know no distinc-
ton when it comes to the counting of
honest ballots. Otherwise it would
not pay for that twenty-mile ride.
Surpasses War Interest
New Jersey has been a thorn in the
flesh of the election tabulators for
many years. In the first place it re-
fuses to close its polls until o'clock.
and it's law requires that the counting
of the entire ballot from top to bot
tom shall be completed before another
ballot is taken up. There are upwards
of 240 names on the Jersey ballot
this year in some of the cities, and
it is doubtful whether = on election
night President Wilson will know how
his own State has gone. The Jersey
method is employed in some of the
Central and Western States, adding a
further handicap to the difference in
time. but New York and a majority
of the Eastern States put Presidential
electors on separate ballot to facili-
tate the count.
If the foregoing has not helped you
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to visualize the process by which the
greatest news-gathering organization
tries to satiate your election curiosity
and furnish masses of figures to back
up it's announcement of the victory,
picture to yourself this one fact: On
election night the facilities for wire
communication over practically the
entire country are for the moment
devoted almost exclusively to the coll
lection and distribution of returns.
The mileage of those wires you will
find run up into the millions The
Associated Press leased wire system
itself is almost doubled on election
night, and the telegraph companies
in their own way are cooperating
directly or indirectly in the great ef-
fort TO bring the figures to head.
Consider also the human factors -
thousands of operators at the key and
telephone transmitters, newspaper re-
porters and editors at work on local
situations, while the army of trained
Associated Press men are assembling
all their matter, and you arrive at
something like a general glimpse of
the efforts that will be made on cleo
ton night to supply the missing name
in the first sentence of this article. {
Surprising though it will public in
terest in the great war. or in the null
titudinous events that the world daily
contributes to the excitement of the
breakfast table, the news of q Presi-
Dental election will by no means at
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for the Republican nomination as
candidate for a seat in the United
States Senate, the majority given by
The Associated, Press was only 70
votes at variance with the official
count. In Massachusetts State cleo
ton last year the Boston bureau
scored a record by announcing the
returns only three votes off from the
official figures.
The election machinery of The As
sociated Press is at work in all the
States, but is is developed to it's high
est pitch of efficiency in the States
having the largest electoral votes and
the smallest average of consistency in
Presidential years.
Given n definite line on New York
State, on Massachusetts, which is in
variably prompt, and a reflection of
the vote on the Central and Western
States. where a difference in time is
a handicap to early returns, the result
OF the Presidential election may be
pretty definitely announced at an
early hour and often the full extent
of the victory indicated. so accurately
has the gauge of election figures been
fixed by previous experience.
knowing with a near certainty
whether it is Wilson or Hughes will
be sufficient for the throngs at the
bulletin boards on election night, but
Il
still bigger task than the mere an
nouncement of the result That would
not go far to complete the morning
paper. There are columns to fill with
State tabulations, with lists of Gov
ernors elected, the detailed constitu-
ton OF the next United State Senate
and the House of Representatives.
and similar tables for each State,
locally handled, on the constitution
of the State Legislature. There are
leads to write in
summary of the figures, and contests
in particular States to be explained,
There is one human cog in the
election night machine that is even
more interesting than the general
manager of The Associated Press. He
is the Paul Revere of the backwoods
district who gallops his horse or
drives his motorcycle on election night
to the nearest telegraph station
There are still some remote regions
great many of them-where the
polling of a Presidential vote is al
most a game of solitaire, and from
some of them couriers must ride
twenty miles before they can release
by wire to waiting nation the fact
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Finds Law to Forbid
Selling Bread by Loaf

Altoona, Pa. Nov. s. - Digging up
the law of 1897 which requires all loaf
bread to be sold by the pound, Consta-
BILE ]. j. Bradley has prosecuted five OF
the leading bakers of the city for SELL
ing by the loaf.
The defendants are John Haller,
former president of the Pennsylvania
Bakers Association; H. w. Trostle,
Franklin Brothers, J. c. Peightal and
Mrs. l.. S. Henshey.
The law requires every baker to keep
a set of scales and weights in the bak-
cry. Violations carry q fine of $40,
half of which goes to the informant.
The bakers intend to fight the case,
and have employed counsel to repre-
sent them.
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Germans Training Dogs
to Lead Blind Soldiers

London, Nov. 8. = According to the
correspondent of the Daily Mail, an in
teresting experience is about to be car
ried out by Germany, in which the
ever faithful dog will play an impor-
tant part 1t is proposed to use the
Red Cross dogs. which have already
done extraordinarily fine work during
the war.
The ever dutiful animals are to be
trained to lead, accompany and pro-
tect officers and soldiers blinded at the
front. The German army had $500
dogs in service at the end of 1915.
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tract all of the argus-eyes of an or
ganlzatlon whose field is the world.
So elastic is the system of this clear
ing house for news, that it's corres-
pondent in Peking may come in at the
height of excitement over the election
with a new revolution in China, it's
representative in Panama with dis
aastrous slide in Culebra Cut, it's
bureau IN Petrograd with a stirring
speech in the Duma, or its men at
the front with a great victory. The
usual designated men are on deck to
handle any emergency, in the election
or out of it.
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$4,000 miles of them. some eighty
lates, keeping all of the nine hundred
and forty newspaper members of the
association posted on how the coun-
try is going.
The form of these bulletins is known
to thousands who have seen them
flashed on the election screens:
''506 election districts out of
500 in New York State. for
President give: Wilson --;
Hughes
So. district by district, these bull
letins grow until it looks so certain
to some of the experts that one paper
or another will concede somebody's
election. But the Associated Press
comedies nothing. 1t must know.
fight for Governor of New York in
1900. its system had a severe test.
Coler ran up big vote in New York
City, and the heavy vote of Odell
upstate was overlooked by many OF
the newspapers which conceded Col
er's election. The Associated Press,
in the midst of this confusion was
led TO wonder If its figures were right
The general manager, had an abiding
confidence in his men and figures. but
IN the face Of concession that some of
the papers were making of Coler's
election, something must be done to
check the matter. He ordered a re-
count. The system provided for just
such an emergency. and this Odell-
Coler year is the only time ii has
ever been called into play. All of the
county returns, after being tabulated
and hung on a large rack of hooks,
classified by counties, where they are
Immediately available for recount,
on the hooks came these hundreds
of kilograms. and in just fifteen min
utes time the entire State vote was
recounted. The head tabulator, for
getting for the moment that he was in
a newspaper office instead of his
bank, exclaimed: Mfr. Stone. we
check to the penny! The recount
allied exactly with the figures The
Associated Press had previously given
out and the papers which, independ-
entity of The Associated Press figures.
had conceded Coler's election had
eventually to admit their error.
Accuracy Seldom Questioned
The accuracy of The Associated
Press figures has seldom since been
questioned. In connection with the
recent New York State primary, in
the fight between Calder and Bacon
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sorted chocolates, ASC
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-06-17
A Novel
A Week!

You're all right now. Roeailnd, -
! cnded-and stared down the pas.
sage.
A moment OF eraning into the
darkness. Then a light
shone. faint at first - went
out bright again, and
brighter swung around the
corner Just ahead--and we let out
such yell OF sladness tina, II
must have carried 10 the pyramid
and the palace of the Duke.
Toe launch swung over: as II
glided along the ledge. Rosalind,
with happy cry. sprang aboard
and into the embrace OF the broth.
er whom. knew. she had given
up for dead.
NJ eyes turned to the Lady
Elizabeth. she was 30 placed that
We put her aboard after Justine
and Lady Edith. Al sight OF the
latter. Brinsmsde gave an eIciamH.
ton Of delight and grasped her
hands.
When he saw Lady Elizabeth
however. he simply took her in bis
arms and kissed her before us all.
And that was their betrothal.
Your head IL bandaged, Fred
and you're ms pale as a ghost," RIOS
aiind exclaimed.
Which is the reason I was &C
long coming with the launch" be
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By John Reed Scott
1.-THE DUKE OF OBLIVION"

Copyright. 1914. by
John Reed Scott

water viciously. An inch nearer
and Il would have cracked my
skull like an egg.Hheii.
Bring Lady Edith hero. Dick"
said Rosailnd's yoice-from n little
| farther down the passage.
Coming from the bright moon
liEht Into apparent blaekness. I
could only follow the direction OF
| the sound.
After n couple OF strokes. how.
ever. began TO distinguish things
In front: and ] saw that Rcsalind
and Justine were sitting on a mar.
row ledge which projected from
the wall Immediately under the
surface % tho water-and 10 which
] De NordenoiA was assisting Lady
! Elizabeth.
took Lady Edith across and
put her beside them
Who found this pleasant easy.
chair" ! asked.
"Rosalind." said Justine.
Quite by accident Dick. ~.
sure you" Rosailnd replied. MY
hand struck ~: II felt promising.
and investigated"
What's that noiser- Justine
broke In.
It's the launch,- cri~d-as
tho beat Of the engine throhbed
suddenly thru tho tunnel Thank
heaven. sweetheart" said.
you're" caught myself
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A Novel
A Week!
(Continued From Our Last Issue
rfIAp-rt-R "


CONTINUED From Our Last issue
CHAPTER X.
The Chapel
THOR the next tao hours. De
n vercenols and went over
- every aspect OF the matter.
aiming to meet every contingency
and to provide for every turn OF
circumstances
BY the time midnight neared. we
had consumed every cigar and
cigarette We possessed--the room
was heavy with the odor OF stale
tobacco--and va were impatient to
begin. The wait was getting on
our nerves.
AT IL O'Clock. I went TO the door
Of the women's room and Knocked
Just as Rosaliud swung Il open.
Now" said I. I'm going out TO
reconnolter--to sec how things arc
laid--so that We may Get TO the
chapel tho easiest way and the
Quickest"
what ~ something happensr'
Rosalind interposed.
Nothing will happen: I'm sim
ply going for q moments air and
not away from this building. II
I'm not back by halfaftar. don't
let my absence detain you a sec
ond--go right on 20 the chapel"
And without looking at Rosalind.
went out quickly and quietly and
closed the door.
The candles IN the hall had been
extinguished. but thru the large
windows at the front and rear. tho
moonlight was streaming In. No
servant was about: and ! passed
down the stone stairs and out tho
front door--the latter standing
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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE SEATTLE STAR =$=&z==z

exclaimed. You escaped without
the"
Yes. dear" said she. we -.
capped thru the chapel. but without
the marrlagen."
Tell me about it--what occurred
after ! swan away"
IT'S n long story" said T. Wait
until We get back 10 the Buccaneer
You tell us what happened 10 you"
IT'S a short story" he replied
1T ought by right 10 be very short:
Il ought 10 end two minutes after I
went into the tunnel always
thought I was n laundering fool
now know II.
Il was IN such haste 10 get 70
the yacht that I was swimming az
my full speed thru the darkness OF
this place when. IN rounding tho
second bend, ! ran head-On into the
sharp edge OF a ledge OF rock The
blow half stunned me-and the
blood from the cut well nigh
blinded me. The ledge, which had
about put mo under. in the end
saved my life. for managed 70
pull myself up on n.
MY head was 70 swimming from
the blow that II was hours before
was able % venture on--and when
did come 10 the sea end u tho
passage. night had fallen and all
hope OF signaling the Buccaneer.
or ~ being seen by her. was gone.
There was nothing but to swim
for II. When ] got there. and they
had hauled me aboard. was just
able 20 gasp: TAunch-arms-men'
II was Nquite enough. however. for
Dorwald. BY the time the surgeon
had poured down me a plentiful
quantity OF brandy. the launch and
the second army OF invasion were
ready, and here we are"
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John d. ROCKEFELLER. JR..

JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER. JR.
told the delegates 10 the International
Y. M. c. A. convention how to or
ganize a Christianity trust" to sweep
evil forces out Of competition Which
is about the only kind OF trust or
ganization 10 date old John ID. has
seemed willing to delegate TO the in
experienced hands of Johnnie. There's
darn little money in cornering Chris
tianity.
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CHAPTER vi

In the morning ! awoks JUS as
the ships clock was striking eight
bells Sleep vanished utterly with
the opening OF my eyes. ! got up.
bathed. shaved. dressed. and went
on deck.
We we're bowling along at a
spanking elliptic fog and the
Island OF Oblivion far astern. I
leaned on the rail. staring down
into the awishing water.
Early birdi" came Rosalinds
voice behind me.
You said that TO me In
Charleston harbor." ! smiled.
She gave me an adorable smile.
Wont you sit down. Mr. Cardi-
gam
After you,- 7 bowed.
But ] want TO sit on the arm
OF your chair"
Delighted" said Ii was to be
the elder brother sgzinl !
She came over and perched her
self beside me.
Dear old Dick,- she ssid-and,
slipping her arm around my neck,
she deliberately kissed me on the
cheek.
Don't. Rosaiind," exclaimed.
DO you think am made Of
stone7"
I'm beginning 70 think so,
dear" she whispered.
What" cried. what
Ravdon,-.
You great ssupid!- she laughed.
"Rawdon hasn't been anything to
me for months. set him free the
day W. sailed from Charleston"
Then you" began.
y dol said she-and put her
dear face close 20 mine
THE END.
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general of immigration for the consideration of delegates the biennial of
the general federation of women'S clubs.
its brie the commissioners outline contains 25 distinct
important suggestions relative the employment of females over 10
officially Uncle recognize the inevitable part which
the world OF work outside the home
This the first time Uncle Sam has message the womns
should
is concluded that
vacations permanently
advancing economic independence
adding another burdens outside prophecy Time
will
Woman status the industrial world not yet fixed VIII she be
able shape TO suit herself? Or will impose his conditions
herr
BY she will the freedom Of which the fem
nis dream but by the other she will simply change the form Of her old
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OUR chemists been much mlgned They have
~ been criticised with every OF the because they have not
broken up the dye famine.
Now authority Dr. William Govenor of the Chemists club New
York which
inability
important materials making required for the
high "Ihe chief
teal beno which has from to 81 gallon touo
which has IS gallon 81 gallon nitric acid which
has gone from cents pound to 10 cents and Shurc acid which has
Under the old
Under
they cannot be proftably manufactured
We high label nearly everything and
the high which makes this drab world
X get along.
But ignorance something Americans will not stand for
We scientists much those Of other
Now explained themselves becomes
quite which the col
ored stripes shirt run the first laundering.
Freed or Bond Women?
operation girls division
United States employment service being promoted by the federal
Plans for the summarized by A.. Camnt commissioner
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(G;1)N,5
coLvUM
ouH OWN rNAvEIoorrs

uo~rO~-Np~tes " . isrxs city, ca
t.vplv surrounded By harvard accent. It's
oovu.as are very MARROW, hut us are
v~rv br~ad Traffic 10 frcaocsuy ciogged
~ . bs-~d "A" gcsttas stuck between
~ hniidiaxs.
o. Of the principal industries Of hes
- l, the saic OF charts ana cempssses
= h~~p stranger. from iesins themselves
- ehr crooked str~~ts. The only pcs.en
evus knswn Go find his way about Wa
- f~vA me pussi~ kfrG-end sam was
unwuys iscky anyway.
nnst.n VAS the scene Of the battle OF
unnhss Hni. which had nethins 20 do
wNA G~if.
WAcn sAs ysurg bcsteoiss Of either
- y stni ~ tender aGe Its parents put
enp<S.<ass - u, snd it begins 90 STUDY
Y - tnts Harvard Boston 10 the enly
go h tire world where pretty gtris tnssss
uprn msrriux their beauty by wearing
easssiss sheu eyeglasses
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NEW DIVERSION

There was q candy-biting at Lee
Browns Saturday night. and quite
4 large crowd attended.-The Stone
County tArk) Record.
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THE GREEK army will form an
automobile battalion with 400 motor
trucks.
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THE IOWA republican convention
almost mobbed a speaker for referring
TO Theodore Roosevelt as "the greatest
man in the world" Maybe 7. X. had
better mobilize the Rough Riders be-
fore the national convention meets.
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CALIFORNIA; TOURIST season
for 1916 is officially opened. Mount
Lassen has started erupting again. for
the first time since November, 1915.
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BUT WAyf

l1rA odella Upton. wife OF Rev.
J. J. Upton. pastor of the otway
Methodist church. rendered noble
service In assisting families TO re
move their effects. Starting In nj
thu lower end OF the village. she
hurried from house to house. some
times with almost superhuman
strength. jerking pianos and other
heavy articles out Of the homes
while the excited owners heiplessl'
loohed on.--The Portsmouth to1
TlmeA
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vsnneas hssei esssks
1nGotag ~ b~afboyS
BUps bags
- mmnv UoDo0
uunpA haAD -
- ssrtng de-
XnuuDnnds II -
~ eaAlss
3Snnsf~wuwe1 issD bs1s
0n-1oltAr-a- weed
Uong1ing heases
ouo1nng sisty dsflsrs . vssh
fYoR sas weskj
-. cigar smokA nsgs
- 9anasaRs ieskiaG vewy w.
v0vogoos ssas isohisg very saxtsss
0umsu Dust . few 81 'eml
0nvong utsiA but saytng 10 firmly
~ oDes1ng What they wnns
v0D IuIo - a CONVENTION.
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raue pagpAaEpNEss

4 folding baby carriage IN good
eondition. Cheap n taken at once.
AlDo . double barrel. is-gangs shot
IN. Inquire downstairs. $40 Han
e1ck st-SAndusky tohio) Regis
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RI Nay be AL RIGHT

Josh stitzenhaser and Helen
Masses were locked In the blessed
Embrace of love at the home OF 81
Abuer.-Ths Seneca MOI News
Dispatch
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ACTIVE

H. Woman's club has had 20
mnny Ice cream suppers and box
ynr11es here until they have iced up
ri bozed everything clean out
Wnohfngton On. CT Progress.
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VIZ LEARN A WORD

Mr.. Emory Smith II very dauncy
- this writing Cheer MP. old fel-
-, after rain comes sunshine. -
~ Berkeley Spring CIV. vA) Post.
Evening star., 1916-12-04
LIFE TERM IN PRISON
FOR CHARLES F. STIEL0W
Sentence of Death for Murder OF
Charles D. Phelps Is Commuted
by Gov. Whitman.

ALBANY. N Y, December 4.-The
sentence of Charles F. Stlelo"' con-
demned to die in the electric chalr Tor
the murder of Charles ID. Phelps.
farmer of West Shelby. Orleans county,
in March. 1915. has been commuted to
life Imprisonment by Gov. Whitman.
Stielow was charged with staying the
Phelps housekeeper, Margaret Woicott,
but was not tried on that count. HIS
conviction was sustained by the court
of appeals, and Gov. Whitman three
times granted him reprieve.
On the strength of a confession of
Erwin King that he, and not StleloW,
had killed Phelps, supreme Justlce Guy
granted the condemned man stay of
execution a few hours before the time
set for his death in the electric chalr.
but an extraordinary session of the
supreme court resulted in refusal to
interfere and the court of appeals later
set the week of December IL as the
time for execution. In the meantime
King repudiated his confession.
Gov. Whitman's statement of his rea-
sons for clemency read in part:
Il cannot escape the conviction that
there is a possibility. perhaps more
than a possibility, that this defendant
is not guilty. / think ! am doing right
in committing his sentence to impris-
onment for life. The King confession,
uncorroborated and repudiated by him
self. could not be introduced under our
rules of evidence, but l believe that nc
jury in this country would have con-
victed Stielow of murder in the first
degree with the King confession be-
fore it,"
Evening star., 1916-12-04
TWO CENTURIES OLD.
Anniversary of Old First Presbyte-
rian Church, New York. Celebrated.

NEW YORK, December Especial
services concentrating the 200th an
niversary of the Old First Presby-
terrain Church. at 5th avenue and 18th
street, We're held yesterday. The cele-
bration will be continued until next
Sunday.
When the church was organized in
l1l6 services were held in the city
hall. which at that time stood on the
present site of the subtreasury, in
Wall street The first church building
was erected in Wall street in 1I1S.
Members of the church took proml-
nent part in the revolution and were
active in the Sons of Liberty. being
referred to often as the Presbyterian
Junta. At one time. DIR. Duttield said,
as a barracks and riding school. In
it's 200 years the church has had only
ten ministers.