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"Make Your FareWeIIs Also, My
Child"

how to dress. For the first hour, or
day, or week, of an acquaintance, they
have a charm quite Incompatible.
And, up to a certain point, they ex-
ercise it. Your jeunes files are amaz-
ing. All over the world, men go mad
about them. But when they marry
- She finished the sentence with
a ghost of shrug, and turned to Rose.
"Can you account for them? Were
you wondering at them, too, with
those great eyes of yours? Alors
Are we puzzled by the same thing?
What is it, to you, they lack?"
Rose stirred a little uneasily. 81
don't know" she said, except that
some of them seem little dissatisfied
and restless, as if-well, as if they
wanted something they haven't got"
"But do they truly want it?" Ma
dame Greville demanded. 81 am
willing to be convinced; but myself,
find, Of your women of the aristocrat
class, the type most characteristic is"
she paused and said the thing first
to herself in French, then translated
sis passive epicure in sensations
sensations mostly mental, irritating or
soothing-a pleasant variety. She
waits to be made to feel; she per-
petually-tastes. They give stranger
like me the impression Of being per-
fectly frigid, perfectly passionless.
And so, as you say, Of missing the
great thing altogether. A few of your
women are great, but not as women,
and of secondrate men in petticoats
you have a vast number. But wom-
an, great by the qualities of her sex,
an artist in womanhOod, I have not
SEEM
ooh, I wish," cried Rose, "that I
knew what you meant by that!"
"Why, regard now," said the actress.
SIN every capital of Europe (and I
know them ally, wherever you find
great affairs-matters of state, diplO-
macy, politics-you find the influence
of women in them - women of the
great world sometimes, sometimes of
the half-world They may not be
beautiful have seen O faded woman
of fifty, of no family or wealth, whose
salon attracted ministers of state ;
they haven't the education nor the lib
critics that your women enjoy, and, in
the mass, they are not regarded-how
do you y?-chivalrously. Yet there
they are!
"And why? Because they are capa-
BILE Of great passions, great desires.
They are willing to take the art of
womanhood seriously, make innumer-
able sacrifices for it, as one must for
any art, in order to triumph in it,"
Rose thought this over rather du-
biously. 1t was new notion to her
or almost new. But suppose" she
objected zone doesn't want to tri
umph at it? Suppose one wants to be
a-person, rather than just woman?"
'"There are other careers indeed"
Madame Greville admitted, "and one
can follow them in the same spirit
make the sacrifices pay the prico
they demand. Mon Dieu! How
have preached. Now you shall talk
to me. 1t was for that I took you
captive and ran away with you"
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CHAPTER vi.

The First Question and Its Answer.
Roses instructive attitude toward
the group Of young to middle-aged
married people into which her own
marriage had introduced her was
founded on the assumption that, allow
ing for occasional exceptions, the hus-
bands and wives felt toward each
other as she and Rodney did-were
held together by the same irresistible,
unanalyZable attraction.
Oh, there were bumps and bruises,
Of course! She had seen Rodney drop
off now and again into "a scowling alb
straction, during which 1t was so evi-
dent he didn't want to talk to her, or
even be reminded that she was about,
that she had gone away flushed and
wondering, and needing an effort to
hold back the tears.
These weren't frequent occurrences,
though, and did not weaken her idea
that, barring tragic and disastrous
types-unfaithfu husbands, cold, mer-
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CHAPTER v.
The Princess Cinderella.

nc FTiNCCSS NiuOCISIfos
When the society editor of came
rica's foremost newspaper" as in it's
trademark it proclaims itself to be,
announced that the Rodney Aldriches
had taken the Allison McCraes' house,
furnished, for year, beginning in
October, she spoke Of it as an ideal
arrangement. AS everybody knew, it
was an ideal house for a young
married couple, and it was equally
evident that the Rodney Aldriches
were an ideal couple for it.
In the sense that it left nothing to
further realization, it was an ideal
house; an old house in the Chicago
sense. built over into something very
much older still - Tudor, perhaps -
Jacobean, anyway. In the supplement
tary matters of furniture, hangings,
rugs and pictures, the establishment
presented the last politely spoken word
In things as they ought to be. If you
happened to like that sort Of thing,
1t was precisely the sort of thing you'd
like.
The same sort Of neat, fully ac-
quired perfection characterized the
McCrae's domestic arrangements.
every other year they went off around
he world in one direction or another,
and rented their house, furnished, for
exactly enough to pay all their ex-
penses. On the alternate years they
came back and spent two years in
come living in their house.
Florence McCrae was an old friend
Of Rodney's and it was her notion that
1t would be just the thing he'd want.
Rodney knew for himself what the
house was-complete down to the
corkscrews. And six thousand dollars
q year was simply dirt cheap.
To clinch the thing, Florence went
around and saw Frederick about it.
And Frederica, after listening, nom
committally, dashed off to the last
n@atioG Gzf the TnurAday club (all this
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oh, that's too bad,' he said with
concern. "Can't you manage some
thing .W
"Too bad!" said Rose in lively dis
sent. "It's too heavenly! I've got a
whole day just to enjoy being myself !;
being" she reached for his hand,
and, getting it, stroked her cheek with
it being my new self. Portia used
to think I faxed pretty we'll. But !
never was-don't you know?-right.
SO, you see, it's a real adventure just
to say-well, that 1 want the car at
a quarter to eleven and to tell Otto
exactly where want him to drive me
to. I always feel as if I ought to say
that if he'll just stop the car at the
corner of Diversey street, can walk"
He laughed out at that and asked
her how long she thought this blissful
state of things would last.
Forever" she said.
But presently she looked at him
rather thoughtfully. "Of course it's
none Of it new to you," she said
not the silly little things, nor the
things we do tOgether-oh, the dinners,
and the dances, and the operas. Do
you sort of-wish I'd get tired Of iti
Is it a dreadful bore to youY'
$50 long as it doesn't bore you," he
said; $50 long as you go On-shining
the way you do over it, and I am
where I can see you shine"-he took
hold Of both her hands, $50 long as
it's like that, you WONDER" he said
''well, the dinners and the operas and
all that may be piffle, but shall be
blind to the fact"
She kissed both his hands and told
him contentedly that he was darling.
But, after moments silence, little
frown puckered her eyebrows and she
asked him what he was so solemn
about.
Well, ne had told her the truth.
But precisely as he said it, he felt that
six months ago. Not the man who had
tramped impatiently back and forth
across Frederica's drawing-rOom, ex.
pounding his ideals Of space and lei
sure. Not the man who despised the
clutter Of expensive junk. That man
would have derided the possibility
that he could ever say this thing that
he, still Rodney Aldrich, had just said
to Rose-and meant. And the terrify.
ing thing was that he hadn't resisted
ho ho -ho6n'f yx,ontod tn OF
didn't want to now, as he sat there
looking at the slumbrous glory Of he1
eyes.
So, when she asked him what he
was looking so solemn about, he said
with more truth than he pretended
to himself, that it was enough to make
anybody solemn to look at her.
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cenary wives-which had to be ad-
mitted as xisting-marriag was a
state whose happy satisfactoriness
could, more or less, be taken for
granted.
1t was something that Simone Gre
vile said which gave rise to her first
misgiving that marriage was not, per-
haps-even between people who loved
each other quite as simple as it
seemed. No one has studied our lei
sured and cultivated classes with more
candor and penetration than this great
Franco-Austrian actress. She had
ample opportunities for observation,
because, while she played to houses
that couldn't be dressed to look more
than q third full, she was enormously
In demand for MncheOns. teas. dinners.
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HIDES AND PELTS.
Dry Hides.

Flint butcher, lb. .............. 35
Flint fallen, Id. ....:. :........... 33
Flint bull and stag, lb. ........ 19
Flint culls and glue, lb. ...... IL
Salt hides, &c to SC, lb. less.
Horse hides 1/2 to 213 price of green
Salted.
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Ouis.-Spelter, $7.431a
Butter, EGGS, Potatoes and Poultry

Chicago.-Butter - Creamery, $50
441sc.
Eggs-Firsts, 45 @ 4Sc; ordinary
41Q4412c.
Potatoes-Wisconsin Minnesota and
Michigan, bulk, $165 OILS; sacks. $1.So
PoUltry-Fowls. Is @ 1S1Ac; springs
19c; turkeys, 27c.
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Boston Wool Market.

n.-Wool-Scoured basis: Texas
months, $1.55@160
California = Northern, $1.7O a 1.75;
middle county, $1.5OQ1.55; southern,
Oregon-Eastern No. staple, $1.SO;
eastern clothing, $1.5OQ1.6O; valley No.
1, $1.6O@1.65.
Territory-Fine staple, $1.S0@1.S5;
half-b blood combing, $1.75@1.S0; three
eighths blood combing, $1.45 @1.50; fine
clothing, $1.6O@1.65; fine medium cloth
inG, $1.55@1.6O.
Pulled-Extra, $I;SO@1:S5; AA. $1.70
@1.SO;; A supers, $1.60@1.65.
Linseed.
Duluth.-Linseed-On track, $3.50
336h; arrive, $3.181k; December,
S31Sh asked: May S3.19 bid.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS,
Prices Quoted for Metals.

New York.-Lead-$6.37
Bar Silver-S5Ac.
Copper-Casting $23171a.
London - Bar Sill er - 42%d per
ounce.
st. Louis.-Spelter, $7.431a.
Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates, 60
per cent, $4,000 $3.50 per unit; crude
ores, 60 per cent, $2O.OO@25.OO; rs per
cent $1,000 q 1880; 10 per cent, $9.40
Q12.2O per unit.
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Green Sailed Cured Hides, ct

Over 40 lbs, lb. ............... 17h
Under 40 lbs. lb. .............. TN
Bull and stag .................. IL
Glue hides and skins .......... IL
Part cured, 1c less.
Green &c less than cured.
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Kansas City Produce.

Kansas City, -Butter-Creamery.
411ac; firsts, 391ac; seconds, 37Rc;
packing, 81 12c.
Eggs-tirsts, 44c; seconds, 32c.
Poultry-Hens, 1Sc; roosters, 14hc;
brOilerS 23c.
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Hungarian patent ................
DRESSED POULTRY.
Live Poultry.
LHVV IUUIGNys
(PriCeS net E.OB. Denver.
EGGS.

Eggs, graded No l net, F.
Eggs. graded No. 2 net, +.
0. b. Denver ........... .SS
Eggs, case count, mise.
cases, less commission Ii 90 @ 1900
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Butter.

Creameries, ex. 1st grd., lb. A @ As
Creameries, End graue, lb. Al
Process ............... 40
Packing stock (net) .......3O Q31
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After her talk with the act
ress, Rose begins to understand
more why it Is that married
folks don't always get along
very we'll together. An inter-
esting problem is unfoIded in
the next instalIment.
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Calf and Kip, Green Sailed.
Green Sailed Pelts.
Dry Flint PeIts.

Wool pelts .................. AZ
Short wool pelts ............... 40
Butcher ShearlingS, No. l ..... "a
No. murian ShearlingS ........ 10
Bucks, saddles and pieces at value.
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HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
(F. o. B. Denver, Carload Price!
Buying Prices

Buying Prices-per Ton.
Colo. upland, per ton ..... .24.00 @260O
Nebr. upland, per ton 49,. 1890 W24.OO
Prairie hay (new CROP,
Colo. and Nebr., per ton. 1000 Q22.0O
Timothy, per ton .25.00@260
Alfalfa (new crop per ton 1000 Q2200
South Park, per ton $500 q $500
Gunnison Valley, per ton. .23.00 @ 25.O0
straw, per ton ............ 6.OOW I.UV
Grain.
Oats, Nebr., 100 lbs, buying ......2.!5
Colo. oats, bulk, buying ....... .2.15
Corn chop, sack, selling .......... 4.13
Corn IN sack, selling: ..4.10
Bran, Colo, per 100 lbs, selling. .1.7O
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ATE
MARK EFT
OTATIO IS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.

Cattle.
Grass steers, good to CHI. II. 1.0O@ 1870
Grass steers, fair to good. .10.00W11.0O
HelferS, prime ............. 1850 S.75
COWS, graSSerS, good to ch. 7.40W $50
Cows, grassers, fair to COED $500 7.25
Cows, Gamers and cutters. 5000 $40
Veal calves .............. 8O0@1O.00
Bulls ................... 5000 7.25
Feeders, good to choice ...10.25 % 11.50
Feeders, fair to good ..... 9.50@10.25
Feeders, common to fair :. 5000 $50
Stockers, good to choice :. 5000 800
Stockers, fair to good 6.50Q IT'S
Hogs.
Good hogs .17.25 q 1880
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Fruit.
Vegetables.

Apples, Colo, new fancy, box. 1.50 a ESQ
Pears, Colo. .,..............z .z.OO Z0U
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ROEB.
.17.25@17.So
Good hogs .......
Sheep.

Lambs 1925 W17.25
Feeder lambs ........... .16.O0Q17.25
Ewes 9.75@1O25
Feeder ewes ............... 1900 $50
Wethers .....,.1O 10000 1850
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ROUND UP YUKON DOG TEAMS
Horses Also Replace Autos on Trails
In Alaska After the Shows
Begin.

Dawson, Y. THE lower Yukon
river mail contractors are getting busy
on their big winter system. Numer-
GUS dog teams still are used on the
thousands of miles of Alaska trails.
The most important route perhaps, is
that between Fairbanks and Chitina,
at the terminal of the Copper River
railway.
Certain mail was handled over that
route all summer by automobile, and
these machines will continue running
until the heavy snowfalls in Novem-
Der. Large sleighs drawn by horses
then will be engaged.
Percy de Wolfe, the Dawson-Eagle
mail carrier, has been busy for some
time sending hay, grain and other sup
plies along the route in preparation
for the winter service. He will use
launch as long as the river is clear of
ice.
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tional savings estimated In the neigh
borhood of $4,000, 100000 a year, and
has thrown It's weight into the scale,
prepared to put behind the entente
group effective cooperation to secure
the success of the principles of democ-
racy."
The task is called a tremendous
one" but, according to the views of
the Bankers Trust company, there can
be no doubt as to the ultimate VIC
tory of the United States and her
allies.
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STRENGTH OF The
]. warning POWERS
Statistics Show Huge Preponder-
Il ance in Favor of the
Entente.
WORLD HAS A GREAT TASK
To NuIlify the Plans of the Kaiser lie
Large order-Strength in Wealth
and Man Power of Nations
at War Compared.

New York. - The comparative
strength of the allies and the central
powers is graphically shown by "The
Balance Sheet of the Nations at War"
which has just been compiled by the
Bankers Trust company.
'The world has a great task still
before it in order to nullify the plans
of the HohenzollernS," says the intro
ductiOn. "The task must not be belit-
tied but it is at least interesting to
see resources existing successfully to
accomplish this task, provided that
the nations of the world now opposed
to Germany continue to cooperate in
felligently and Loyalty until Germany
and her allies have been absolutely de-
feated and their plans of world domin-
iOn rendered permanently ineffective"
Figures showing, for both sides, the
combined area, income and interest
charge, and cost of the war in treasure
and men, are presented with the expla-
nation that they have been gathered
with great care from the "best avail
able sources" and are believed to Ere
feet with substantial correctness the
relative economic strength of the op-
posing groups of nations" although it
is impossible to vouch for their abso-
tute accuracy.
Controlled by Allies.
The allies, including the United
States, are shown, by this tabulation,
to control 19,526,000 square miles of
the earth's surface or 94.1 per cent of
the total area held by the nations at
war, as compared with 1922 900 square
miles, or only SO per cent held by
the Teutonic combination: The ag-
gregate population Of the allies, eXclu-
siye of the large Asiatic population
tributary to the British empire, reaches
the huge total of 473,250,000, or 1853
per cent of the total of warning peo-
pies, while that of the central powers
1s but 147,000,000, or 2S.7 per cent.
Without counting Asiatics and Afri
cans, the allies have available for mill
tary service 81, 100000 men, or 7S.5 pei
cent of the total possible fighting men
while the Teutonic powers can com
nianG nut rs, $4,000, Or us per cent
The number of men actually enrolled
In the armies and navies of the allies
is 21,400000, or 66 per cent of the to
tai, while the enrolled military
strength of the Teutonic allies is IL,
100000, or "a per cent, as shown BY
fhe following table:
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The combined national wealth of
the allies is estimated at 1858, 100000
900, or 805 per cent Of the total Of
the nations engaged In the present
conflict, while the wealth of Germany
and her allies is placed at $134,0O0,-
100000, or 1875 per cent. Contrasted
;Eith this is the national debt of the
allies, $83,960,000,000, or 14.7 per cent
pf their aggregate wealth, and the
combined debt of the Germans and
their allies, $3s,500,000,0OO, which is
psf per cent Of their aggregate
wealth. The figures for the various
countries are found in the following
table:
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given Germany great advantage be-
cause of the supplies of coal and iron
ore thus made available, and also be-
cause of the ability thus obtained to
turn to use the factories of the manu-
featuring sections in making NUM-
lions of war.
"Just at the critical moment, when
the scales were almost evenly bal
anced between the entente allies and
the Teutonic allies, the United States,
with its great wealth and resources,
entered the conflict, with a possible
22,OOO,OOO men to draw upon, with Its
national wealth of $2250O0,OO 900, ma
honal income of $4,000, OOO,O 900, ma
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The aggregate national income of
the allies is placed at $50, 100, 100000
and the interest charges each year at
S., S91 900, 600, which is 4.6 per cent of
the income, while the combined In
come of the Teutonic alliance is esti-
mated to be S16,600,O00,000 and inter-
est charges $1,970,OO0,O00, which is
11.S per cent of the income.
Regarding the cost of the war ia
BILE is presented showing that the al
lies have spent $72, 200,000,000, or 64.1
per cent of the total cost of all warning
nations. while Germany and her allies
have spent sos, 800, 100000, or S5.9 per
cent.
In killed, wounded and missing the
conflict has cost the allies S,992,956
men, or 5S.7 per cent of the total hui
man losses, while it has cost the CEN
trail powers 6,3O1, 773, or Alb per cent
of the total of 15,294.729 for last Sep
TENDER.
In the introduction to the balance
sheet it is pointed out that, while the
exact figures are not available, 1t is
a well-known fact that the surplus
food producing sections of the world
are practically controlled by the en-
tente allies, either directly or through
their control of the seas. The same is
true, to a great extent, of territories
producing metals and coal.
Japan has not yet been an active
factor in the European theater OF, the
war;" comments the pamphlet. ut
has, however, effectually guarded the
Pacific ocean. 1t has enrolled in it's
army about 100000 men, out of an
effective man power of 10,500,0O0. The
entire army and navy, as well as the
unenrolled man power, may be said to
be still in reserve.
"While Russia has nominally about
100000 men enrolled in it's army and
navy, it still has an enormous reserve,
as the total number of men available
for military purposes aggregates
around 100000.
Russian Situation Grave.
"The extreme gravity of the present
situation in Russia is, therefore, ap-
parent, especially when it is borne in
mind that, if Germany can gain con-
troll of Russia or force a separate
peace with Russia, even If Russia re-
manned thereafter simply neutral, 1T
would be possible for Germany to draw
therefrom an enormous quantity Of
foodstuffs and the raw material for
munitions of war; On the other hand,
if Russia can be kept in line with the
entente allies, it would seem that the
Teutonic allies must be compelled to
capitulate, at reasonably early date,
from sheer exhaustion.
"While considering the danger
points we must not overlook the fact
of the virulence of the Teutonic sub
marine campaign. 1t is impossible,
however, to present figures In this con-
nection which have statistical value.
1.-THE fact should not be lost. sight of
that Germany now controls Belgium,
northern France, Serbia, Roumania
Mont enegro, and a large portion Of
! Poland, having combined population
| Of about 32,300000. 1t is true that
men of all these nations are serving
in the armies of the entente allies
and that Belgium is maintaining an in
dependent army of moderate size. The
control of these countries, especially
Belgium and northern France, has
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Modern Woodmen of America.
Meets first and third Mondays a
7:30 p. M, /. O. O. F. Hall.
H. c. Clayton, C. C.
Fl. M. Grammer, clerk.
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Knights of Pythias.

Meets first and third Thursdays at
800 p. M, |. o. o. F. Hall.
A. Tarapani, c. C.
W. Castaing, K. of R. and S. and
Master of Finance. 4.
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Woodmen of the World.

Meets second and fourth Tuesdays
1880 p. M, l. o. o. F. Hall.
]. A. Whitehurst, C. C.
]. d. Smith, clerk.
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FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS
Odd Fellows.

Meets every Friday night at 7:3O
l. O. O. F. Hall.
Arthur Pinder, N. G.
Willis Castaing, Secretary.
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WOodman's Circle.

Meets first and third Wednesdays
7.30 p. M, 1. O.. O. F. Hall.
Mrs. j. d. Smith, Guard.
Mrs. Cora Pierce, Past.
E. B. Lilies, clerk.
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Eastern Star.

Eastern Star.
Meets every second Monday at 800
p. M, I. o. o. F. Hall.
Mrs. Ada Fernald, w. M.
Mrs. Martha ]. Gibble, secretary.
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Masonic Lodge.
Meets second and fourth Thursdays,
7:30 p. M, I. o. O. F. Hall.
A. E. Kroner, w. M.
W. E. Little, secretary.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-03-28

vote of 1O1 to /. The bill by Griffith
was the measure agreed upon between
the representatives of the labor unions
and the Iowa Manufacturers Associa-
ton. The bill also creates a deputy
industrial commissioner. The benefits
were raised to Sc and SIS weekly
Formerly these figures were SIS to SO
1t is believed that the bill will pass
the senate practically without opposi-
ton.
New System Of Selecting Jurors.
If committee bill from the iu-
dietary committee Of the senate is
given the attention its importance de-
serves new plan of selecting jurors
will be introduced. At present the
names of men to serve on juries are
drawn Unfortunately from promis-
cuous list placed in box. There is
no effort made to select men compe-
tent for this very important duty. The
bill recommended by the committee
provides for appointment by the Dis
trict Judge of commission of three
members to draw 81 day while on
duty. The commission will select both
petit and grand jurors. Good moral
character is made q peresquite for
Jury eligigbilty Under the bill. The bill
has been Endorsed for two years by
the Iowa Bar Association.
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man, in the Point son, Thursday,
March 18TH .....
Mr.. and Mrs. Dyer Hall re: .rned
home from Dubuque where they had
been to attend the funeral Of al
alive.
Del Boynton returned home after
a visit with his sister at Riverside.
Henry Heyer returned home from
Chicago Saturday morning.
Several from this vicinity attended
the singing school at Thorpe, Frll'.y
night, under the directions of Prof.
Durham