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shoek-Proof Shoes.

A manufacturer has recently placed
on the market q line OF shoes for cleo
trical workers which are made TO with
stand potentiels up to 10000 volts
without harm to the wearer. The
shoes contain no cement and have no
seams, but are vulcanized into q solid
piece under high pressure in aiumi-
mum molds. 4 novel feature OF the
shoe Is that the soles are white, and
under the white surface Is q layer OF
red rubber. When the sole has worn
down TO q point where the red is ex-
posed, If is a sign to the wearer that q
new haIfsole should be Immediately
secured in place.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
Novel Illumination.

The city OF Seal Beach, Cal, Is now
attracting attention because Of the
novel idea OF Illuminating the entire
water front which has been carried ont
by the officials A battery OF Al pow
erful searchlights, each being OF more
than 25,0OO-candle power, has been
placed on the outward edge OF a long
pier which extends out into the ocean
from q point at the center Of the Wa
ter front The Illuminated water front
may be seen far out at sea, while the
searchlIght beams are visible for miles
inland.
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promise that you will cal on me in
case Of necessity"
Don't let that worry you, Iooten-
ant" said Hook, grasping the officers
hand in his great sun-burned paw.
Wen get along ali right, reckon,
and If we don't, I'll let you know"
Hope had already wired the navy
department that the chances of finding
the formula OF Doctor Burke's inven-
ton were almost negligible and asking
that sixty days leave OF absence be
granted him. The following morning
he received telegram from Washing
ton granting his request. Whereupon
he wired Inez Machin:-
VIII you do me the honor to marry me?
The department has granted me sixty
days leave and I am starting East imme-
a few hours later he received her
reply:
have announced our engagement.
Owing to the shortness OF your leave we
will be married soon after your return
Love.
That evening saw Hope boarding the
ferry which connected at Oakland
with the eastbound mail train.
Inez Machin was undeniabIy a beau
tifuI girl-taII, slender and as 1.-THE
and sinuOus as panther. An exquis-
lite Olive-coloring, lustrous eyes, and
great masses Of blue-black hair be
trayed her Latin descent. Her beauty
was married, however, by a thin-lipped
and rather cruel mouth and by an ex-
preston which could best be described
as cold and calculating. Though she
oil he
girl who had been brought up in the
sO-called smart set" she had a seduc-
tiveness OF manner, together with a
pronounced physical allurement which
had kept a score of fmpressionabIe
youths in her train.
Despite her self-assurance, however,
her meeting with the man she was to
marry was marked with a certain con-
Straint.
81 knew that you would come, Jar
WIS.," she said, as she greeted him in
the library of her home. ct was ter
ribly embarrassing for me to be com
PEELED to write you as did ,. but
| what else could I do? You know, as
well as I do, that, though society is
| always tolerant towards a married
woman, it never looks fOrgiVingly on
| the indiscretiOns of an unmarried one
| Ever since the story of our spending
| the night together in the cabin leaked
out, life here has steadily grown more
/ impossible. Some of my best friends
| have cut me On the street, and wasn't
| even invited to the Tailer'S cotillion
But everything seems to have beer
forgotten since 1 announced our en-
gagement. I'll try to make you a gooC
wife, Jarvis. Don't you think thai
we can be happy together, Jarvis?'
81 hope sO,' he answered coIdly
''When is-when are we to be mar
ried?"
ION the fourteenth" answered Inez
''The invitations will be out tomor
row."
$50 SOON" he exclaimed. ''Bu
that is only three weeks away"
There seemed nothing to be gained
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by waiting" she answered easily.
''And besides" she added, that viii
give US a month for our honeymoon
before your leave expires. By the
way, where are we going on our wed
ding trip, JarVisT''
81 haven't given it a thought" he
answered miserably. Anywhere that
you wish, Inez.'
''Don't be so enthusiastic about it"
she exclaimed with a sudden burst OF
anger. Zone would suppose that you
were going to be buried instead of
married. You're anything but cheer
full bridegroom. You treat me as
though 1 had the smallpox"
you know as well as do that I
don't love you" he answered brutality,
land that 1 am marrying you only be-
cause feel that ought to. I'll be a
good husband to you, Inez, but can't
be a lover"
"At any rate you can pretend to be
one" she replied. There is nothing
to be gained by either of US letting the
world know the truth. And now sup
pose you look over this list and see If
there are any others to whom you
would like invitations sent
The next fortnight was crowded
with pre-nuptial gaieties; luncheons,
teas, dinners, receptions, dances. the
ater parties, for, in spite OF Inez' as
sertion that her friends had ostracised
her, there was no lack of entertain
ment in her honor. Nor could Hope
detect any signs Of GOODNESS in the at
| titude of those OF her friends TO whom
he was introduced. If they believed
the stories of her indiscretion, they
] certainly did nothing to show their
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sparkle Of this famous street is, per-
haps. largely due to the New York
climate. Climates are never perfect.
but among the worlds greatest cities
the American metropolis is singuIarly
fortunate. It is flooded with sunlight,
and on its best days the air has a
crisp and tonic quality. By q tacit IN
Outstanding. addressed and sad people
keep OF Fifth avenue. On a bright
morning there is no resisting the
streets gay intoxication- The most
expensive shops Ia the world are close
at hand. the best restaurants nearby.
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disapprovaI. In fact they seemed TO
Guido themselves in the attentions
they showered on the young couple.
This, If Hope had only known it, was
due as much to the impression he had
made as to Inez' popularity. for his
frankness and cordiality, his polished
though democratic manner, and clean
cut appearance, won him many
friends. Though he did his best to
hide his misery under a veneer OF
small talk and laughter, he was not as
successful as he imagined He little
dreamed, nor had he known it, would
he have greatly eared-that his melan-
choIy manner had become a popular
subject for discussion among Inez' girl
friends.
''That Lieutenant Hope is a perfect
dear" Angelica Pembroke had re-
marked to a group of women at q tea
one afternoon, "and Inez is mighty
lucky to get him. But he always has
such a sad look in his eyes when he is
talking to you that one gets the feel
ing that he is hiding some terrible
sorrow" Which accurately summed
up the opinion of the women
Hopes a good Sort" said Reggie
Van Arsdale to the men with whom he
was playing cards at his club. what
gets me is how q girl like Inez Machin
happened to rope him in-he's not at
ali her Sort. And the funny thing
about it is that she has an idea she
can twist him around her little finger.
He's quiet and doesn't say much, but
all you have to do is to take one look
at that jaw of his to see who is going
to be the boss"
The day after Hopes departure for
the East, Cleo and Hook returned to
Valdavia and reOpened the little cot
tage about which chung SO many sad
and happy memories.
1--WE must look things in the face,
Hook" said Cleo the next morning.
''and decide what is best to do.
have only a few hundred dollars left
from the sale of daddy's books. and
that won't last US long. I must find
some kind of work"
''Now don't you get to fretting about
things, Miss Cleo said Hook, assum-
| ing a confidence that he was far from
Its only inviting trouble TO talk
like that" she said severely. "YOu
know as well as do, Hook, that ]
| must go to work"
Then why don't you get a job in one
of them public libraries?' he asked
THAT sort of work pays well and 1t
amt hard"
1--WE thought of that" she replied
''but find to get a position as libra
rian you must get a diploma from a
| library school or college,
You could get a job as stenog
rapher, I reckon" he suggested.
NO" she asserted, 81 am not fitted
for that either. 1t would take me an
hour to pick out a letter on a type
! writer and 1 can't write shorthand
either. The truth is. Hook. am not
fitted for anything except to keep
house. I know how to cook and sew
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and to make bread, but there are thou
sands and thousands of girls who can
do those things as well as 1 can. What
wouldn't I give to have learned how to
do something practical"
''Now, don't you worry none, Miss
Cleo" said the seaman sOothingly.
I'm going to start out and get a job
tomorrow. Everythin's goin' to turn
out all right
Hook" she demanded, suddenly, 81
want you to promise me something
"What is it, Miss Cleo?" he demand
ed cautiously.
ST want you to promise me first"
'An right, I promise"
81 want you to give me your word,
HOOK" she said earnestly, that no
matter how much we may need money,
you will never let AIr. Hope know"
'But, Miss Cleo" expostuIated the
sailor, taken OF his guard, ''the very
last thing the lootenant said TO me
wuz, BE sure and let me know, Hook.
if Miss Cleo needs any money"
eff you ever tell him. she declared
passionately, ''Pn never speak to you
again Oh, 1 just couldn't stand that
Il couldn't" and she burst into tears.
''There. there, Miss Cleo" soOthed
the sailor, awkwardly stroking her
bowed head, aDon't take on so. OF
course I won't let the lOotenant know
if you don't want me to, but hanged
If can see why"
Remember, Hook" she said. wfp-
ing her eyes, you have given me your
word"
The next two weeks Cleo spent in
searching the Help Wanted" columns
OF the newspapers and in answering
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11
Riaht Idea

Thomas A Edison. the inventor. tells
this story:
"a schOOlteacher was questioning
her class on general knowledge
Now, girls she said. what is the
most wonderful thing that a man has
ever nader
'sThe class was silent as the grave,
but presently one small girls hand
vent mp and a triumphant look over
spread its owners face:
Please. miss, know living tor
his wife and family. she said
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.sThis girl went to spend Christmas
In the country, and they invited her
best young man down. expecting
and with reasOn-that under the mis-
fIetoe's stimulus he'd propose.
~But when she got to the country,
she discovered that not z branch OF
mistIetoe was 70 be procured
did she surrender Never. She
fixed some pearl studs TO sprig OF
apple leaves, and hung them from the
chandelier, and the young man
they're married and have I've children
now-1ey9 msE tee dinere1ea-
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Brave men lounge at the windows Of
exclusive clubs, and fair women cut
coupons at fashionable banks. Life
seems indeed worth living. The whole
town is gay. Even children and nurse
maids in the park seem more engag-
ingly clean and innocent end spirited
than elsewhere, as If they. too. felt the
call of happiness. It is worth while
noting the clearness OF much OF New
York's air, doing justice to the clean
and simple Iveliness OF much Of Its
acknowledgements its prominence as
enc Of the worlds chief centers Of dis
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She Deserved 70 Win

Senator Lodge was praising the re-
sourcefulRess OF Serbia In her uneven
fight against Germany, Austria, Bull
garia and the Turks
Serbia keeps her army intact" he
said. She reminds me, "A the re-
soHrcefulness OF her retreat. Of = GER
tsin girl at Christmas.
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FIFTH AVENUE THE JOYOUS
Famous Street Has Few Rivals In
Any Of the Great Cities Of
the Old World

Perhaps the chief impression which
the metropolis makes is of the vivaeity
OF its life. 1t Is the compIetest express
sion Of our national Joie de vivre. And
&c is pleasant to record that for the
most characteristic moment OF this
EQUALITY you would not cite Broadway
lsf aeht but Fifth avenue By dag. The
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

New York receives weekly from 125
to 10 carloads Of chickens, averaging
10000 pounds to the car.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

sipation and pIeasure-seeking has done
its reputation bad service with many
people OF virtue and good TASTE Har-
per'G
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Call a man a diplomat, instead OF
a liar, and he viii be pleased Yet
it amounts to the same thingl
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

OF all animals dogs appear to evince
the keenest musical susceptibility
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Two Pennsylvania inventors have
patented a slingshOt with a sight 20
aid in aiming it
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Always proud to show white clothes.
Red Cross Ball Blue does make them
white. All groeers- Adv.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

A whale struck by a harpoOn has
been known to dive at the rate Of 800
yards in q minute
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Synthetic milk is being produced
from peanuts by European chemists
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

Pop-Are you familiar with mathe-
mates? Weasel-Sure; I call 'em
'1Math" for short
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-27
C. 0. KRUGER, ONCE HEAD
OF TRANSIT COMPANY,
LEFT LITTLE AT DEATH
Rumors of Great Wealth of Late
Magnate Disproved by Re-
port Made to Federal Court
by Creditors
movies" ARE TO BLAME

Charles o, Kruger late president of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
died virtually penniess. Instead of the
tabled wealth he was popularly supposed
TO have had at the time of his death, the
sli3.5 500 estate he left was more than eaten
up by claims against il. This became
known today when a petition was filed in
the United States District Court this
morning by receivers of a contracting
firm asking for authority to accept $1,000
from the Land Title and Trust Company
administrators Of the traction magnates
estate, in settlement OF claim against
the estate.
Judge Thompson granted the receivers
authority to make the settlement. subject
to authority being granted by the Or
phan's Court to the administrators to
Consummate the agreement. The petit
tion hinges on a claim the contracting
firm OF James G, Doak & CO. held against
an unsuccessful Manayunk moving pie
ture venture, in which Kruger was heav-
iy interested. along with Albert NJ.
Greenfield and James j. Springer
Receivers for the DOak concern have
already obtained judgment for $4,000 of
the $1,000 claim, and the 5000 item
brought up this morning means that re-
CeiNeTS are READY 10 accept Ou-per cent.
Jass on the remaining SIS, 900 due them.
The petition hled, however, states that
the Kruger estate Is largely insolvent
and adds that even If the receivers OBJ
tain Judgment for the full amount due
them from the estate they would not
get more than $4,000 or $1,000
Last month Judge Solly. in the Orphans
Court at Norristown, granted a petition
presented by Krugers executors, asking
that they might accept an offer of S27, 900
In settlement OF bonds and mort cages
against the estate tOtaling $l435OO At
that time witnesses showed that Kruger
had been engaged i'm financing, building
and operating moving picture theatres
and an Office building and in connection
Herewith executed the bonds and mort
cages These ventures proved unsuccess-
ful and claims were at that time present.
ed TO the executor arising from the de-
hciency OF judgment on the bonds after
the foreclosure Of mortgages.
There was also some trouble at the
time OF Kruger's death in November, 1914
his body being eXhumed because OF efforts
OF his widow 10 compel an insurance COM
pany 10 pay accident policies of SIS, COO
She claimed that his death was due TO an
automobile accident whereas the insur-
ance people said the case was directly due
TO heart failure
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-27
CAMDEN JITNEY MEN
IN FIGHT FOR LIFE
Drivers Hold Meeting and APP
peal to Public Against
Hates Bill

Camden jitney drivers held a meeting
this afternoon in the Courthouse 10 con-
slider plans for a campaign against the
bill now before the New jersey LeSsa-
ture aimed at the nickel buses. r, H.
Stark is the leader of the drivers.
Virtually all the jitneys now running IN
Camden were today plaStCrcd with posters
CARRYING the slogan Defeat the katca
JitnCy Bill II VIII Not Rcgulate-lt VIII
Prohibit Jitneys." The itncys as usual,
were crowded with passengers, all of
whom assured the drivers of their CO.
operation and support.
The Hates bill is similar, so the jitney-
men say, to the ordinance passed hy
Councils here last summer which drove
every one of the 700 jitneEs operating
in this city from the streets, heavy
bond and zone clause are two points IN
the New Jersey bill that bear stronS
similarity to the Philadelphia ordinance.
Some of the jitney drivers said today
that a bill is not necessary TO throw the
jitneys out of business. They say the
war has wiped out what profits they did
make at one time, and point to the fact
that this year but % licenses We're issued,
as compared 10 the 32S granted last year,
as indicative Of the growing unpopularity
of the business.
Harry A. Criffey Jr, and George S.
FretZ, Jr., are two of the jitneymen who
blame the whole trouble on the war.
when we started in last May" they
said gasoline was only 9a cents a gal
lon; now it is - cents. Rubber has
jumped Instead of being able to get
inner tubes for S2.15 we must pay s..
now One brand of tires has gone up
from S12 TO SIS, another has jumped from
SIT to $50. Whereas we were formerly
BILE TO make s. to 81 a day profit over and
above our expenses and depreciation and
overhead charges, we are able now to
make but 81 or So.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-27
HUGE STEEL MERGER
FAILS TO MATEPTALIZE
AFTER MEETING HERE
Nothing Definite Announced by
Cambria Directors Today and
Rumors Say Combine
Plans Are Off
DIVIDENDS DECLARED

The meeting Of the directors of the
Cambria Steel Company at the COM
pany's offices In the Norris Building TO-
day did not develop anything on the pro-
posed new steel merger, If anything did
occur at the meeting ii was not made
public.
William II. Donner president of the
Cambria Steel Company after the meet
ing, said there was nothing 10 announce
besides the declaration of the regular
quarterly dividend and a dividend Of l
per cent extra on the company's stock.
The financial district was much sur
pr:sed that nothing developed al the meet
ing, as it had been generally expected
that something would come out, For the
last week or so many rumors have been
aioat relative To the progress being made
on the merger plan, some being that the
deal was off, while others were equally
al persistent that only q few things re-
nounCement could be made,
II is known that j. Leonard Replogle,
representing the new interests in the COM
pany, has options on large blocks of the
Companys stock 10 go in under any mer-
ger of the company with other companies,
and these options which are at $50 a
share, expire on January 81,
Whether these options have been eXer-
cised or not could not be learned today,
nor was there any information forthcom-
ing as to whether they had been extended
beyond January 81. This raised the belief
that there Is a possibility OF the whole
deal bein gcalled Off,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-27
CHINESE PARTNERS
WIVES, ONE WHITE, ONE
BLACK; ONE SHOT DEAD
Scuffle on Second Floor Over
Restaurant at 1888 South
Street Results in a
Tragedy
WOMAN GRABBED PISTOL

n Chnaman toycd with loaded re-
restaurant at 1898 South street at the
lunch hour today. Men and women of
three races became nervous as they eyed
the weapon whirling about on the finger
of Joe Wah
There was hubbub of demands. oaths
and cries uttered by the white women,
negro women, Chinamen, negro boys and
men who surrounded the two central fig
ures in the quarrel Wah and his Chinese
partners negro wife. Dorothy Foy.
Dorothy grabbed the revolver. "Itm
go off If you play with it that way" she
said
Gimme, gimme, gimme tha' back
shrieked Wah, and he clutched the negro
womans' hand in yellow hand that
gripped like a wise. The revolver did go
off and the bullet struck the white wife
of Wah in the mouth, killing her in
stantly.
The woman was Margaret Wah.. She
was also known as Mrs. Hugh Walls, for
10 Wah though unquestionably Chinese
and nothing else, evidently desires some
to know him by the English name Of
Hugh Walls. Margaret was % years old.
She lived over the restaurant with Wah,
and so did the negro wife OF John Foy,
Wah's Chinese partner-Dorothy Foy.
The two partners were very wel-to-do
men, or at least Wah is. Not only does
ne conduct the Chinese chop suey res
taurant but also, in partnership with an
other Chinaman, runs the Chinese res
taurant at 10th and Market streets.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-27

looked as though ii might have belonged
to a society queen, was adorned with
kitchen utensils and aprons. Some
woman who packed her things quickly
and left her husband" one man suggest
ed. And many agreed.
A pair of faded tights. trimmed with
spanEles. was brought to light in another
wooden box bought by a dainty-looking
girl. In the same package was q box of
grease paint wrapped in circular an
nounCinE that Sig Sawtcll's Circus would
positively appear at Abingdon, Va, July
2i
HALF PINTS" For DEMURE MAN.
Many Of the small packages contained
old shoes and rubbers. An old woman got
"A tin washboiler which was filed with
cigars and old collars and a pair of rub
bors. Many believed that this belonged
to the husband of the wife who had so
hurriedly packed her trunk. Mute evil
dCnCes Of domestic jars were found
among many other packages.
very demure gentleman in black, who
looked MS though he might be the leader
of prohibition movement. drew a round
hathoX filed with half pints' OF n we'll
known brand. He dropped the thing on
the sidewalk with an air of disgust.
Several drivers saw that the package
did not interfere with traffic.
There were nearly 2OO0 packages in the
sale. They brought from 10 cents up to
$3.50. The big figure was attracted by the
better class of trunks, some of which
were worth 10 times the amount when
new, The auction was conducted by
James \, Freeman d Sons. And very
few were disappointed with their grabs.