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thoughtfully at the buckle OF her shoe.
twinkling in the freight
They didn't notice anything" she
said. $50 far as they were concerned
mamma, 1t was one of the finest coughs
you ever coughed.''
who were 'they'?'' asked her father
Whom did you see?''
only the mother and daughter"
Mary answered. Mrs. Sheridan Is
dumpy and rusty; and Miss Sheridan
is pretty and pushing-dresses by the
fashion magazines and talks about
New York people that have their pic
lures I'm 'em. She tutors the mother.
but not very successfully-partly be
cause her own foundation is too fIimsy
and partly because she began too late.
They've got an enormous Moor Of
painted plaster or something in the
hall. and the girl evidently thought it
was to her credit that she selected ftI''
They have oiLpaintings. too" added
Mrs. Vertrees. with a glance Of gentle
pride at the Landseers. I've always
thought oil-paintings in a private
house the worst of taste
-'Oh, if one owned a Raphael or a
Titianr' said Mr.. Vertrees. finishing
the Implication, not in words. but
with a wave OF his hand. Go on.
Mary. None Of the rest OF them came
in? You didn't meet Mr.. Sheridan or
~ He paused and adjusted a lump
Of coal In the fire delicateIy with the
poker. "0r one OF the scnsZ''
Mary's glance crossed his, at that.
with a flash Of utter comprehension.
He turned Instantly away. but she had
begun to laugh again.
No" she said. mo one except the
women. but mamma Inquired about the
sons thoroughly"
Mary" Mrs Yertrees protested.
''Oh, most adroitly. tooP' laughed the
girl "OBly she couldn't help uneon-
sciously turning to look at me-when
she did itP'
MARY YertreesP'
Never mind, mammal Mrs Sherf-
dan and Miss Sheridan neither OF
them could help uneonscio1sIy turning
to look at me-speculatively-at the
same time! They al three kept look
ing &C me and taking about The Oldest
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Copyright 1915, By Harper = BrOthers)

But who saw your insisted Mrs.
Vertrees.
Zone of the sons, I suppose he was.
l believe he's insane. or something. at
least 1 hear they keep him in SAM
tarium somewhere. and never talk
about him. He was staring at himself
in mirror and talking to himself.
Then he looked out and caught me-"
How did he IoOk?"
Like a ghost in a blue suit" said
Miss Vertrees. moving toward the
street and waving a whites ioved hand
in farewell to her father, who was OBJ
serving them from the window of his
library. Rather tragic and altogether
impossible. Do come on. mother, and
let's get it overr'
And Mrs. yertrees, with many mis-
givings. set forth with her daughter
for the gracious assault upon the new
house next door.
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seer-in the hall without.

seer-in the hall without. Said the
emerging one:
He mighty shaky, Mist Jackson
Drop right down an shet his eyes
Eyelids all black Rich folks gotta go
same as anybody else. Anybody asst
me if | change 18th at ole bOy-NO.
sub! Lem keep is money: keep my
black skin an keep out the grOundT'
Mr.. Jackson expressed the same
preference. ''Yessuh. he look tub me
like somebody awready laid out"
He fell silent at a rustling of skirts
in the corridor. 1t was Mrs. Sheridan
hurrying to greet her son.
She was one of those fat. pink people
who fade and contract with age like
drying fruit; and her outside was
her daughter had long ago absorbed
her. Edith lived all day with her
mother. as daughters do; and Sheridan
so held his wife to her unity with him
that she had long ago become uncon-
sciOus of her existence as a thing sep
arate from his.
Mrs. Sheridan's manner was hurried
and incOnsequent; her clothes rustled
more than other women's clothes; she
seemed to wear too many at a time
and to be vaguely troubled by them.
and she was patting a skirt down over
some unruIy internal dissension at the
moment she opened Bibbs' door.
At sight of the recumbent figure she
began to close the door softly. with
drawing, but the young man had heard
the turning of the knob and the rus
Ting of skirts, and he opened his eyes.
Don't go, mother" he said. Pm
not asleep" He swung his long legs
over the side of the bed to rise, but
she set a hand on his shoulder, re-
straining him; and he lay fiat again.
NO she, said, bending over to kiss
his cheek. 81 just come for a minute,
but want to see how you seem. Edith
said"
Poor Edithr' he murmured. "She
couldn't look at me. She
''Nonsenser Mrs Sheridan. having
let in the light at window, came back
to the bedside, You look a great
deal better than what you did before
you went to the sanitarium, anyway
It's done you good; body can see that
right away. You need fatting up, Of
course, and you haven't got much
color
"No." he said. ST haven't much
color"
You look a great deal better than
what l expected"
Edith must have a great vocabu-
lary!'' he chuckled.
''She's too sensitive" said Mrs. Sher-
idan. land it makes her exaggerate g
little. What about your diet?"
That's all right. They told me to
eat anything"
That's good" she said. nodding
''They mean for you just TO build up
your strength. That's what they told
me the last time 1 went to see you al
the sanitarium. You look better than
what you did then, and that's only a
little time ago. How long was itY
Eight months, 1 think"
'tNo, it couldn't be- l know it ain't
that long. but maybe it was longer 4
1 thought And this last month or sc
| haven't had scarcely even time tc
write more than just line to ask how
| you were gettin' along. but l told Edith
! to write. the weeks / couldn't, and
asked Jim, too, and they both said
| thew would so / SI1DDOSa VOu'ye kent
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end of his string. Such times do come
in all their bitterness. finally. to the
man with no trade or craft. If his
feeble clutch on that slippery ghost.
Property. shall fail
The windows grew black while he
paced the fan-shaped zone of freight.
But as the mantel clock struck Wheel
lily six there was the rattle of an outer
door, and Mary Vertrees came rushing
into the library and threw herself into
a deep chair by the hearth, laughing
so uncontrollabIy that tears were in
her eyes. Mrs. Vertrees followed de-
cerously. no mirth about her; on the
contrary. she looked vaguely disturbed.
as if she had eaten something not quite
certain to agree with her, and regret
ted it.
Papa! Oh, ohr' And Miss Yer
trees was fain to apply a handkerchief
upon her eyes. I'm so glad you made
US go! 1 wouldn't have missed it"
Mrs. Vertrees shook her head. 81
suppose I'm very dull" she said,
gently. Il didn't see anything anus
ing. They're most ordinary, and the
house is altogether in bad taste, but we
anticipated that, and"
"PapaP' Mary cried. breaking in.
They asked US TO dinnerr'
"Whatr'
And I'm goingr' she shouted. and
was seized with fresh parOxysms,
Think of it, Never in their house be
fore; never met any of them but the
daughter-and just barely met her
What about you?" interrupted Mr.
Vertrees, turning sharply upon his
wife
She made a little face as if positive
now that what she had eaten would
not agree with her. Il couldn't" she
said 4
Yes. that's just-just the way she
she looked when they asked herI" cried
Mary. choking And then she-sht
realized it, and tried to turn it into q
| cough. and she didn't know how, and il
sounded Iike-like a squealP'
Il suppose" said Mrs Vertrees
much injured. that Mary will have
an uproarious time at my funeral. She
makes fun Of"
Mary jumped up instantly and kissed
her; then she went to the mantel and
| leaning an elbow upon il. Cazed
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old. they had shapeliness and a flavor
of mode.
The room was cheerful and hideous.
Under a mantel of imitation black
marble a merry little coal fire beamed
forth upon high and narrow "Eastlake"
bookcases with long glass doors. COM
Portable, incongruous furniture, half a
dozen Landseer engravings which Mr..
and Mrs. Vertrees sometimes men
toned to each other, after thirty years
of possession, as very fine things"
They had been the first people in town
to possess Landseer engrayings, and
there. in art. they had rested. but they
still had a feeling that in all such mat
tiers they were in the van.
The growth of the city. which might
easily have made Mr.. Vertrees a mil
lionaire. had ruined him because he
had failed to understand it. When
towns begin to grow they have whims.
and the whims of a town always ruin
somebody. The dainty little man was
one of the first to fall down and wor-
shin Bigness. He was a true prophet
of the prodigious growth. but he had
fatal gift for selling good and buying
bad. He sold his Inherited Office build
ing and house in town to buy lots;
then he sold his farm: except the house
and the ground about it, to pay taxes
on the lots. But he had to do some
thing to keep himself and his family
ND, so in despair he sold the lots
(which went up beautifully the next
YEAR, for Traction stock" that was
paying dividends; and disappeared al
together from the commercial surface
at about the time James Sheridan
came out securely on top
But there came a day when three
! servitors of Bfgness in Philadelphia
took greed counsel with four fellow
worshipers from New York. and not
long after that there were no more
dividends for Mr.. Vertrees. In fact
there was nothing for Mr.. Vertrees, be
cause the traction stock" henceforth
was no stock at all, and he had mort
gagged his house long ago to help 'man-
age somehow" according TO his concep-
ton OF his position In Iife"-one Of his
own old-fashioned phrases Mr.. Yer
trees had discovered. too. that there
was no salary for him in all the buzz
zing city-he could do nothing.
! It may be said that he was at the
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bibles on Watch Chains.

The devout Of all lands have their
own particular way Of giving outward
demonstration to their piety. In Rus
STA it frequently takes the form OF
wearing miniature Bibles as charms
on the watch chain They are got up
in attractive form about an inch
square and three-eighths OF an inch
in thickness, and they contain five
books OF Moses The text Of the book
is in Hebrew and the titles in Latin
It is true that the book could not be
read without the aid Of a powerful
magnifying glass. but that does not
trouble the Russian He places his
great reliance on the fact that he car
ries the Word on his person
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up pretty we'll On the home news"
eGOb nos

up pretty Wen On CDe nome news.
''Oh. yes"
What I think you need said the
mother, gravely. ''is to Iiven up little
and take an interest in things That's
what papa was sayin' this morning.
after we got your telegram; and that's
what'n stimulate your appetite, too
He was talkin' over his plans for
you"
"Plans?' Bibbs. turning on his side.
shielded his eyes from the light with
his hand. so that he might see her bet
ter. what" He paused What
plans is he making for me. mother7''
She turned away. going back to the
window TO draw down the shade
well. you better talk it over with
him." she said. with perceptible nerv-
BUSINESS. He better tell you himself
] don't feel as il l had any call, ex-
actiy. to go into it: and you better get
to sleep now. anyway" She came and
stood by the bedside once more. But
you must remember. Bibbs. whatever
papa does is for the best. He loves his
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CHAPTER ~.

Mr.. Vertrees. having watched their
departure with the air of a man who
had something at hazard upon the ex-
petition. turned from the window
and began to pace the library thought
fully, pending their return. He was
about sixty; a small man, withered
and dry and fine, a trim little sketch
of the elderly dandy. His lambre-
quin mustache, like his smooth hair,
was approaching an equally sheer
whiteness; and though his clothes were
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Chinese as shIpbUlIders.

Chinese ship yards may possibly
vet build ships for the United States.
as they are already building them for
European owners HongkOng is said
to be enjoying shipbuildfng boom
on an unprecedented scale one yard
being prepared to build steamships
up to 10000 tons The labor EN-
pIoyed. including foremen- is all Chi
nsse, though the white race supplies
the technical star
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DON'T LOSE YOUR HAIR
Prevent II by Using cuticura Soap and
Ointment. Trial Free.

II your scalp is irritated, itching and
burning and your hair dry and falling
out in handfuls try the following treat
ment: touch spots Of dandruf and
itching with Cuticura Ointment and
follow with hot shampoo OF Cuticura
Soap Absolutely nothing better.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept L.
Boston. Sold eYerywhere.-AdT.
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No Optimist.

why did you leave your last
placer"
The husband OF the lady worked
for made love to me, ma'am-"
We'll, if you go to work for me III
see that nothing of that sort happens
here
'Yessum, hope so. but you never
can tell
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Coney Island is to make a s1,OO0,-
900 trolley terminal, work on which
will soon be commenced.
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FITS, EPILEPSY. FALLING SICKNESS
Stopped Quickly. Fifty years Of uninterrupoed
success of DIT. KlIBe's Epilepsy Medicine insures
lasting results LARGE TRIAL BOTTLE FREE. DR.
KLINE COMPANY, Red Bank, y. Js-AdF.
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One of the near-trasedies of
life comes when the poor young
man or woman is snubbed by
the rich crowd with whom he
or she has played at school in
childhood. 1t is then that pow
erty stines, and pride of family
doesn't help much. The situa-
ton is quite as interesting,
though reversed, when a rich
and IoVabIe young man is
snubbed by a poor but naughty
aristocrat because he belongs
to the "new rich"
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Get The Genuine

1T is usually the bold and reckless
swimmer who is drowned especially
in the sea of matrimony.
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Every time it rains We are remind
ed that not al displays OF fancy
hosiery are confined to the shop win
dOEs.
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SYNOPSIS.

Sheridan's attempt to, make a business
man of his son Ribs by starting him In
the machine shop ends in Bibbs going to
a sanitarium q nervous wreck On his re-
turn Bibbs is met at the station by his
sister Edith.
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Peculiar

PA, what is a hypochondriac?"
a man whose idea Of q treat is ,
treatment"
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YUKON'S GOLD GOES
 TO COAST OFFICE

VANCOUVER.-The coming year bids fair to be the best in the history of the Dominion assay office in Van couver.
 The establishment of the copper refinery by the Consolidated Mining & Smelling company has had the ef- feet of sending here the gold of the Rossland mines, hitherto sent to the Tacoma shelter. This amounts to a value of about $S,OOO,OOO >erannum.
 To this has to be adoeo about $1,- OOO,OOO a year from the Hedley Gold Mining company's mine at Hedley and a similar amount from the Yu- kon and other sources. Then there is the Surf Inlet mine to be added to the list of gold producers from early in the year, so that the Dominion as say office here should be handling, within the next few months, gold to the value of betv cen $6,OOO,OOO and $7,OOO,OOO per annum.-Ex.
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KAISER TO VIENNA

LONDON, Nov. 23-The kaiser of Germany and the king of Bulgaria are expected to arrive in Vienna today to attend the obseques of Francis Joseph Vienna re ports that the funeral arrangements not yet compe ed The body will probably be removed on Monday to the Hofburg chapel will lie in state Teusday and Wednesday and will be inferred in the Capucin crypt on Thursday Amsterdam reports indicate that the reports sent out
 from Vienna about the death of the emperor not facts The latest report that he derOus in the afternoon later fell into comaose condition and died unconscious
 ROIE Nov 23.-The Pope saying Mass at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning when he was informed of the death of the emperor of Austria Later he conferred with the papa secretary of state Cardinal Gashar He will probably send his condolences and will undoubtedly be represented at the funeral but whatever action he takes will probably be embarrassing.
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HUGHES WISHES ALL
 SUCCESS ID WILSON

LAKEWOOD, Nov. 22.-Charles Evan Hughes wired his congratula- tions to President Wilson today on the latter's reelection to the Presi- dency. In the wire he stated that be cause of the closeness of the Cali fornia vote he had awaited the oficia. count. After this explanation the message to Wilson said
 Permit me to express my best wishes for a successful adminisua- tion."
 Hughes had nothing else to say. The message of congratulation came as a surprise to some because of the statement of Wilcox that the Repub- licans did not conccdc California in spite of the official count. It is as sumcd that Hughes refused to take advantage of the alleged missing Of two California precincts.
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FAREWELL DANSANT
(Contributed)

Mir. Gerald F. Gill and Mr. James H. Roper, two popular young engi- neers of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, will leave this month for San Francisco and Washington, D. C.. their respective homes. To their many young friends in Seward they will give a farewell Dansant" Fri day eve. at the van Glider Hall. Pat rons and patronesses for the affair will be Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Weir and Mir. and Mrs. T. M. Ward; honorary, Mir. and Mrs w. c. Edes.
 The young men have arranged a most unique program and the even ing promises to be one long remem- bered by their young friends who are loath to see them leave Seward. Mir. Gill is a University of California graduate and Mir. Roper one of Ann Arbor, Mich.
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OUTPUTS EQUAL

Deputy United States Customs Col lector R. ". J. Reed calls attention to a curious coincidence in regard to the shipments of gold from this port. On October 13 last year the amount of gold sent away was $4O9,3S7.54 Yesterday, October 13, jusr year later, the amount was S410,36O.l1. That these shipments exactly a year apart should vary less than a thou sand dollars is indeed rather odd Nome Nugget.
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ARE FILING
 EIGHT HOUR SUITS

CHICAGO, Nov. 23-The heads of the railroads and their attorneys are uncertain as to what the effect will be of the decision of Federal Judge Hook who declared the eight hour law un- constitutional. President Ripley of the Sante Fe says he expected the decision and he will fight to the last. Lee, counsel, for the Illinois Central, says that if the government protects them other suits will be abandoned. The Pennsylvania, Cleveland and St. Louis have filed suits.
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VILLA FORCES NORTH OF GEN.
 PERSHING'S COLUMN FIRE ON TRAIN

FL PASO, Nov. 23 - Fifteen Americans narrowly escaped death today when band of Villas followers ir ed a train at Zazman fifty miles south of the border The passengers saved only by the quick and pucy action of the engineer who when the first shots fired opened the throttle and dashed to safety through the eaden hail. The has caused sensation here, par
 cuary as it shows that the Vlistas operating north of the Pershng column in country which was sup posed to have been cleared of them. Washington has notified and it is expected that orders for the pur suit will be sent at once
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FOUND UNCONSCIOUS

SANTA ROSA, Nov. 2&.-Jach London died at Glenellen ranch al 7:45 last night. He was found un- conscious by his servant in the morn ing and he never regained conscious ness. He rallied slightly at midday but then sank rapidly. It was boliev ed at first that he was suffering iron Ptomaine poisoning but the truth wa later discovered by the doctors. Hi daughter, who is a student at tn, University of California, his wife Charmion and his sister are the sur vivorS.
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CALF. PRECINCTS
 MISSING FROM COUNT

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 22.-A tre- mendous sensation was created here today when it was learned that two precincts are missing in the official count and that the Secretary of State for the state may withhold certif- cates of election from the electors. It has not yet been stated how many votes were cast in the missing pre- cincts and other facts have been sought in vain but the general opinion seems to be that some rotten work has been accomplished.
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DETERMINING ROUMANIA

LONDON. Nov. 23.-ThiS afternoon it was announc- ed that Falkeuhayn is Over-running western Rou mania or, to be more correct, western Wauachla Inc fate of the Roumanan army at Orsova IS unknown but It feared that has been surrounded and annhated or conpehed to surrender The most dsquietng fact of all H that Bucharest still remains silent and the worst is be- Heved It is admitted by military observers that no ob- stace seems to be now in the way of march by Falken havn on the capital It is also announced this afternoon that the allied armies in the Monastir region are at srandstiu Artillery fighting and airshp reconnoitermg remains all that is proceeding on the SOmme.
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WILSON CONDOLES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23-President Wilson sent his expression of condoence to Emperor Karl of Austria to- day and also expression of his well wishes for the cess of his reign Secretary of State Lansing instructed Ambassador Pened also to extend the public condoence of the people of the United States to the people of AuStro Hungary on the death of the venerable Francis Joseph The official announcement of the death of the emperor was received at the Austrian embassy today.
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MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN MAY END

CONSTANTINOPLE Nov. 23-The Famine states to- day that the capture of western Roumania by the Teutons will probably bring the Macedonian campaign of the AL
 lies to an end as the possession of ROumania by the Teu tons removes all hope of cutting this empire and Bulgaria off from Germany and Austria The same paper also eX- presses the belief that the participation of Greece in the war on the allied side has been forever prevented by the conquest of Roumania The Famine even questions the possibility of the allied troops remaining in Greece al though fleet may be kept in Greek waters to prevent Greece from joining the Central powers The possibility is, however suggested that the allied army at Salonih may be sent to Egypt attack Turkey across the Suez canal.
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TOFTY MINER IS A SUICIDE

FAIRBANKS.-According to a telegram received from Commission CT J. c. Moody, of Hot Springs, by Deputy United States Marshal J. l.. finders, of that place, Mel, Smith committed suicide at Tofty Not,nG has yet been learned concerning the details.
 Smith is a miner in the Tofty coun- try. Further than that Mir. Anders can not state at this time. The wire was received by the deputy marshal after his arrival in Fairbanls.-Ex.
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NOT CONGRATULATE WILSON

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. - It has been remarked that since Hughes admitted Wilson's election last night none of the begerent nations of Europe has sent con- gratuatons although plenty of time has elapsed On the other hand the President is receiving thousands of con- gratulatoy messages from the public. He told the cab net today that the happiest circumstance connected with his reelection is that it continued and active as socaton with its members Each member shook his hand warmly today on meeting him.
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NO CONTEST IN CALF.

FRESNO, Nov. 23. - Chairman Rowell of the state Republican com mittee says he is waiting for word from Wilcox regarding possible ac- tion in the court but he believes that the discovery of two missing pre- cincts by the secretary of state would be a ridicu.$ls thing to base a con test on.