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CHAPTER xx.-continued.
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When Joe suddenly announced his inclination to go out into the country after all, Le Moyne suspected ruse to get rid of him, and insisted on going along. Joe consented grudgingly.
 "Car's at Bailey's garage" he said sullenly. T don't know when I'll get back"
 '"That won't matter" Ks tone was cheerful. I'm not sleeping, anyhow"
 That passed unnoticed until they were on the highroad, with the car running smoothly between yellowing fields of wheat. Then:
 "So you've got it too" he said. "We're fine pair of fools. We'd both be better off if I sent the car over. a bank"
 He gave the wheel a reckless twist, and Le Moyne called him to time sternly.
 They had supper at the White Springs hotel-not on the terrace, but in the little room where Carlotta and Wilson had taken their first meal to- gether. Joe submitted with bad grace, but the meal cheered and steadied him. K. found him more amenable to reason, and, gaining his confidence, learned of his desire to leave the city.
 "Tm stuck here" he said. sI'm the only one, and mother yells blue mur- der when I talk about it. want to go to Cuba. My uncle owns farm down there,"
 Perhaps I can talk your mother over. I've been there."
 Joe was all interest. His dilated pu- pills became more normal, his restless hands grew quiet. Ks even voice, the picture he drew of life on the island, the stiffness of the little hotel in it's midweek dullness, seemed to quiet the boys tortured nerves. He was nearer to peace than he had been for many days. But he smoked necessarily, light ing one cigarette from another.
 At ten o'clock he left K. and went for the car. He paused for a>moment, rather sheepishly, by Ks chair.
 "Pm feeling a lot better" he said. T haven't got the band around my head. You talk to mother.'
 That was the last K. saw of Joe Drummond until the next day.
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last he asked K. to mind the door un. til he got some coffee.
 "One of the staff's been hurt" hL explained. If don't get some cof- fee now, I won't get any,"
 K. promised to watch the door.
 A desperate thing had occurred to Carlotta. Somehow, she had not thought of it before. Now she won- dered how she could have failed to think of it. She went to the staff and confronted them. They were men of courage, only declining to undertake what they considered hopeless work. The one man among them who might have done the thing with any chance of success lay stricken. Not one among them but would have given of his best-only his best was not good enough.
 Tt would be the Edwardes opera tion, wouldn't it?" demanded Carlotta.
 The staff was bewildered. There were no rules to cover such conduct
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Pay For Rejected Men.


 Checks for 37 men who enlisted in the First Regiment, Infantry, in 1918, but who failed to meet the require ments of the War Department, are in the adiutant generals office for deliv- cry when called for They range from $9 to $50 and are for pay from Juno 20, 1916, the date of the mobilization of the men at their home rendezvous, to July 3, 1916. when formally inspect ed and recognized by the War Depart ment.
 The names of those in favor of whom the checks are drawn follow. Bryant Lee, William B. Crow, Will P Adams, Charles P. Mullins, Ralph Higgnbottom, Fred Tolbert, Herman r. Chalk. John Higginbottom Cliff E. Duncan, Nat Allen, Charles Burge- man. Robert Von B. Setzer, Ben w. Smith, Lewis Noll, James A. McMil- Ian, James Grantham. Earl Moore, Gerald Porter, Seth H. Stoker, Earl c. Norton. Ray c. Page, John A. Snodgrass, James R. Moore. Columbus Chaves, Jesse Kent. William R. Brown, James Hammonds, Elmer Freeman. Earl Fellins. Crawford B. Boggs, Sidney Fennell, Mack Hurd. Elmer Phillips, Ollie Sudberry, Alger Thomas, Roy Lewis.
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after the days hard work. Oddly enough, and not so irrational as may appear, Sidney foi ned a part of the evenings happiness-that she loved him; that, back in the lecture room, eyes and even mind on the lecturer, her heart was with him.
 So, with Sidney the basis of his hap piness, he made the most of his eve ning's freedom. He sang a little in his clear tenor-even, once when they had slowed down at a crossing, bent over audaciously and kissed Carlotta's hand in the full glare of a passing train.
 How reckless of you!"
 "I like to be reckless" he replied.
 His boyishness annoyed Carlotta. She did not want the situation to get out of hand. Moreover, what was so real for her was only too plainly a lark for him. She began to doubt her power.
 The hopelessness of her situation was sdawning on her. Even when the touch of her beside him and the soli- tude of the country roads got in his blood, and he bent toward her, she found no encouragement in his words:
 q am mad about you tonight"
 She took her courage in her hands ::
 s'Then why give me up for someone else?"
 sThat's-different
 "Why is it different? I am a wom- an. I-I love you, Max. No one else will ever care as do."
 ssYou are in love with the Lamb P
 "That was trick. I am sorry, Max. I don't care for anyone else in the world. If you let me go I'll want to die"
 Then, as he was silent:
 'If you'll marry me, I'll be true to you all my life. I swear it. There will be nobody else, ever."
 The sense, if not the words, of what he had sworn to Sidney that Sunday afternoon under the trees, on this very road! Swift shame overlook him, that he should be here, that he had allowed Carlotta to remain in ignorance of how things really stood between them.
 "I'm sorry, Carlotta. It's impossible. I'm engaged to marry someone else"
 "Sidney eY-almost a whisper.
 "Yes."
 took the news. If she had stormed or wept, he would have known what to do. But she sat still, not speaking.
 "You must have expected it, sooner or later"
 Still she made no reply. He thought she might faint, and looked at her anxiously. Her profile, indistinct be- side him, looked white and drawn. But Carlotta was not fainting. She was making desperate plan. If their es- capade became known, it would end things between Sidney and him. She think it out. It must become known without any apparent move on her part. If, for instance, she became i'll, and was away from the hospital all night, that might answer. The thing would be investigated, and who knew
 1AS SdI IuluSu III Ut ScHWitleI $ road and drew up before the house. The narrow porch was filled with small tables, above which hung rows of cleo tric lights inclosed in Japanese paper lanterns. Midweek, which had found the White Springs hotel almost desert ed, saw Schwitters' crowded tables set out under the trees. Seeing the crowd, Wilson drove directly to the yard and parked his machine.
 "No need of running any risk" he explained to the still figure beside him.
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Wounded By SpIinters.

While acting as marker in the pits at the rifle range R. L. Grigshy of Jackson, Miss, a member of the Fourth Company, was struck by fly ing splinters when bullet struck the edge of the target on the 2,000-yard range. He was painfully but not se- riously cut about the neck and should CTS. MT. Grigsby had stepped out from under the shelters and had gotten too far back when the target was struck by a bullet fired by student and a shower of splinters flew about his head. He walked out to the firing line, where first aid was applied, and was taken immediately to the post hospital in an ambulance, where the wounds were dressed.
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Incorporation Matters.

Little Rock Drug Company, capital s6,00O, J. R. Vinson president, w. H. Lusby vice president, J. c. Conway secretary-treasurer.
 Harris & Weld Oil Company No. 1. Marianna, capital $25,000, J. B. Har- ris president, W. I. Newborn vice pres ident, w. P. Weld secretary-treasurer.
 Fort Smith Glass Products Company of Fort Smith, capital $46,000, Robert Malcolm president, George L. Ham mons vice president, 0. A. Friedrich secretary-treasurer.
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SUPREME COURT WILL DETER MINE coNSTlTuTloNALITY
 OF ACT NO. 156.
ACT OF 1915 LEGISLATURE
Case Originated in Columbia Chan cery Court, Where Petition Was Filed To Restrain Two Men
 From Taking Up Their Stock.
Little Rock

Little Rock.--
 A case in which it is proposed to test the constitutionality of Act 156 of the 1915 legislature, to restrain stock from running at large, the act providing for it's enforcement by in- itiative petitions to the County Court, has been filed in the Supreme Court.
 The case originated in the Colum- bia Chancery Court wherein l.. T. Reynolds and others filed a petition to restrain Arkie Harrington and E. N. Knight from taking up their stock.
 The act provides that when 20 per cent of the qualified voters in three or more townships in any county peti- tion for vote on the question of restraining stock from running at large the County Court shall order an election. Six townships in Columbia county in August, 1916. voted in taver of the law.
 In attempting to enforce the law in Magnolia township, Columbia coun- ty, proceedings were instituted in the Chancery Court to restrain tile officials from enforcing the act. Tho lower court dismissed the petition.
 In the appeal to the Supreme Court 1t is contended that the act is invalid because of irregularities in the en- crossing and enrolling of House Bill No. 9S, which is Act No. 156. It is al- legged that the bill was amended in the House by the exemption of sey. eral counties, and that 1t was again amended in the Senate. After being returned to the House 1t was further amended by adding other counties to it's provisions.
 It is agreed by both parties to the suit that the original bill, as intro duced, does not appear in any of the records of the House or Senate now preserved, and is not on file in the of fee of the secretary of state.
 It is agreed that the engrossed bill now on file in the secretary of states office and the enrolled bill. approved by the governor, are identical with each other and with Act No. 156 as printed in the Acts of 1915, except that in the engrossed bill the word Monroe" and the word Clark" couuz ties added to the bill appear as inter- lineations in pencil in section II, while they appear regularly as other ex- empted counties in the enrolled bill and in the printed act.
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Hiit svf0a F6See . e0 tVih6he. "We can walk back and take a table under the trees, away from those in- fernal lanterns"
 She reeled a little as he helped her out.
 Not sick, are you?"
 "I'm dizzy. I'm all right"
 She looked white. He felt a stab of pity for her. She leaned rather heavily on him as they walked toward the house. The faint perfume that had almost intoxicated him, earlier, vaguely irritated him now.
 At the rear of the house she shook off his arm and preceded him around the building. She chose the end of the porch as the place in which to drop, and went down like stone.
 There was a moderate excitement. The visitors at Schwitter's were too much engrossed with themselves to be much interested. She opened her eyes almost as soon as she feIl- to forestall any testa; she was shrewd enough to
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CHAPTER XXI.

It was the Lamb who received the message about Wilson; and because he was not very keen at the best, and because the news was so startling, he refused to credit his ears.
 "Who is this at the 'phone?"
 ''Le Moyne's. my name. Get Dr. Ed Wilson at once. Doctor Wilson, the surgeon, has been shot," came slowly and distinctly. Get the staff here and have a room ready. Get the operating room ready, too"
 The Lamb wakened then, and reused the house. He was incoherent, rather, so that Doctor Ed only learned the truth when he got to the hospital.
 "Who has been shot? thought you said"
 The Lamb turned pale at that, and braced himself.
 'Pm sorry-I thought you under stood. believe it's not-not serious. It's Doctor Max, sir"
 Doctor Ed, who was heavy and not very young, sat down on an office chair. Out of sheer habit he had brought the bag. He put it down on the floor be- side him, and moistened his lips.
 "Is he living?'
 "Oh, yes, sir. I gathered that MT. Le Moyne did not think it serious"
 He lied, and Doctor Ed knew he lied.
 The Lamb stood by the door, and Doctor Ed sat and waited. The office clock said half after three. The bag with the dog collar in it was on the floor. He thought of many things, but mostly of the promise he had made his mother. Cold beads of sweat stood out on his forehead.
 T think hear them now, sir,' said the Lamb, and stood back respectfully to let him pass out of the door.
 Carlotta stayed in the room during the consultation. No one seemed to wonder why she was there, or to pay any attention to her. The staff was stricken. They moved back to make room for Doctor Ed beside the bed, and then closed in again.
 Carlotta waited, her hand over her mouth to keep herself from screaming. Surely they wouldn't let him die like that When she saw the phalanx break up and realized they would not operate, she ran from the room.
 The staff went hopelessly down the stairs to the smoking room, and smoked. It was all they could do. The night assistant sent coffee down to them, and they drank it. Doctor Ed stayed in his brothers room, and said to his mother, under his breath. that he'd tried to do his best by Max. and that from now on it would be up to her.
 K. had brought the injured man in. The country doctor, on the way in, had taken it for granted that K. was medical man like himself, and had placed his hypodermic case at his dis posal.
 When he missed him--in the smok- ing room. that was-he asked for him.
 "I don't see the chap who came In with us," he said. Clever fellow. Like to know his name.
 The staff did not know.
 K. sat alone on a bench in the hall. He wondered who would tell Sidney he hoped they would be very gentle with her. He did not want to go home and leave her to what she might have to face. There was chance she would ask for him. He wanted to be near, In that case. The night watchman went by twice and stared at him. At
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on the part of nurse. One of them. replied rather heavily: "If any, 1t would be the Edwardes operation"
 Would Doctor Edwardes himself be able to do anything?"
 This was going little far.
 Possibly. One chance in a thou sand, perhaps. But Edwardes Is dead. How did this thing happen, Miss Har- rison?
 She ignored his question. Her face was ghastly, save for the trace of rouge; her eyes were red-rimmed.
 Doctor Edwardes is sitting on a bench in the hall outside!" she an- nounced.
 Her voice rang out. K. heard her and raised his head. His attitude was weary, resigned. The thing had come, then! He was to take up the old bur- den. The girl had told.
 
 Doctor Ed had sent for Sidney. She thought it was another operation, and her spirit was just little weary. But her courage was indomitable. She forced her shoes on her tired feet, and bathed her face in cold water to rouse herself.
 The night watchman was in the hall. He was fond of Sidney; she always smiled at him; and, on his morning rounds at six o'clock to waken the nurses, her voice was always amiable. So she found him in the hall, holding cup of tepid coffee. He was old and bleary, unmistakably dirty, too-but he had divined Sidney's romance.
 "Coffeel For mel" She was aston ished.
 "Get it down." e
 So she finished it, not without anxi- ety that she might be needed. But daddy's attentions were for few, and not to be lightly received.
 Gan you stand piece of bad news?"
 Strangely, her first thought was of K.
 "There has been an accident. Doc tor Wilson"
 (Which one?"
 Doctor Max-has been hurt. It ain't much, but guess you'd like to know it."
 Where is he?"
 Downstairs, in seventeen"
 So she went down alone to the room where Doctor Ed sat in chair, with his untidy bag beside him on the floor, and his eyes fixed on straight figure on the bed. When he saw Sid ney, he got up and put his arms around her. His eyes told her the truth be- fore he told her anything. She hardly listened to what he said. The fact was all that concerned her-for sud denly Sidney's small world, which had always sedately revolyed in one direc- tion, began to move the other way.
 The door opened, and the staff came in. But where before they had moved heavily, with dropped heads, now they came quickly, as men with purpose. There was a tall man in white coat with them. He ordered them about like children, and they hastened to do his will. The heaviness of inactivity lifted. The room buzzed. The nurses stood by, while the staff did nurses work.
 It was the Lamb, after all, who brought the news to Sidney. The new activity had caught Doctor Ed. and she was alone now. her face buried against the back of a chair.
 "There1l be something doing now, Miss Page" he offered.
 "What are they going to dor"
 Going after the bullet. Do you know who's going to do itY His voice echoed the subdued ex- citement of the room m-excitement and new hope.
 ro sn coNTDuzDA
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Make TubercuIsr Tests.

Student officers in the training camp are undergoing a thorough ex- animation for tuberculosis. Under or- ders from the Southeastern Depart ment headquarters, First Lieut. T. B. Spencer, w. H. Schroeder and J. M. McNeal, contract surgeons of the United States Reserves. and tubercu- losis specialists. are administering the tests to the regiment, taking up one company at a time. While no re- ports have yet been made, 1t is be- lieved to be very improbable that any appreciable per cent of the disease will be found. However, those stu- dents in whom are found any of the symptoms will be sent at once from the camp.
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Fourth Company Annihllated.

Fourth Company Annihlated.
 Battling desperately againit over- wnelming odds, the Fourth Company. Officers Training Camp, defended the city of Argenta from the invad- ing Fifth and Sixth Companies. The Fourth Company occupied the city as defense garrison and commerce. confidence of it's safety, progressed in the usual channels. Presently the drums of the Fifth and Sixth sounded in the distance, and the battling Fourth went into action. Pushed back. foot by foot, by the superior farces, the Fourth, fighting to the end, was annihilated, after which it gathered itself together and reached the train ing camp just in time for lunch.
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Aviator To Infantry.

Roy Wallace, licensed aviator from Charleston, s. C., enlisted in the United States army at the local re oruiting station. going into the infan- try. Previous to his enlistment Wal lace made flight from Star City to Pine Bluff in Wright biplane. He has participated in many balloon as tensions and airplane flights in differ ent parts of the country.
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To Open Camp Pike Bank.

A bank will be established at Camp Pike by II of the IA Little Rock banks, according to an agreement reached at a meeting of the Little Rock Clearing House Association. The bank will be organized under state charter The capital stock, to be determined later, will be owned by the stockholders of the II banks interested.
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Accents Appointment.

Mrs. G. H. Trough, wife of Gov. Brough, accepted the appointment as state chairman of the Women's Lib erty Loan commission, rendered by Mrs. William c. McAdoo, wife of Sec retary of the Treasury McAdoo, and head of the national organizations
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con,nlete Road Plans.

The State Highway Commission completed plans for II miles of gravel road in Lonoke county, an extension of District No. 4. The road is to be constructed north of Lonoke to tho White county line at an estimated cost of. $2,992.
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Perry School Report.

J. L. Bond, state superintendent of public instruction, received the an nual report of W. B, Louder9nilk. Per ry county examiner The report shows a total enrolment for the year of B. 020, of whom 2,S40 were white and 180 negroes; total value of school property, $75,715; amount of fund re. ceiyed, $45,'g21.26; amount expended, $36.439; amount unexpended, $S,411. During the year two new brick schools were erected at cost of $6,116.
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STATE HAPPENINGS.

An automobile loaded with contra band whiskey was captured near De- catur recently Tn addition to new Buick car the officers captured tho man in charge and 50 half pints of red liquor
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Judoe,s Son Appointed.

aichard McCulloch of Little Rock, son of Chief Justice F. A. McCulloch, was commissioned second lieutenant of the Arkansas National Guard by Governor Brough. Lieutenant McCul- loch was assigned to the supply coni- pany, Third Arkansas Infantry.
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The Fordyce Lumber Company has supplied practically 100000 feet of lumber for Camp Pike at Little Rock and is running overtime in order to be able to fill all orders.
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Chas Hopper who has been editor and publisher of the Gillett Reporter, has sold the plant to l.. F. Maynard, formerly of the Kensett American. MT. Maynard will take charge imme. diately.
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Names BIano,s Successor.

Governor Brough telephoned from Hot Springs authorizing the appoint ment of Jacob Frohlich of DeValfs Bluff as representative in the lower house of the legislature to succeed w. H. Bland, who died recently.
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Severe damage was done by hail storm in the vicinity of Magazine re- gently.
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The cream shipments from Benton county now average $15.O00 per month
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Father F. J. McElhome of Pine Bluff said that the Building Commit tee of St. Joseph's Catholic church would receive bids for completing tho new church that was begun severaI vaars ago
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To inspect the Conway-Saltillo road, which has been granted $10.000 state and federal aid, District Engineer J. D. Fauntleroy of Fort Worth, Tex. made a trip over the highway with William J. Drummer, commissioner. ond Tohp T. phi1Jiuc
Evening star., 1917-10-01

REMBRANDT HAT OF VELVET
THE NEW SHADE CALLED RED
WOOD" GOLDEN POPPY RIBBON
CRUSHED THROUGH TWO BUT
TONHOLES AT THE SIDE.
of red millinery. In tho new hats.
however, these dark shades of red pre-
dominate. and they are not to have the
danger signal over them. Nearly every
woman in the world can wear a velvet
hat in the tones called beet root and
redwood There is a touch of rich ma
hogany in one and earth brown in tho
other that makes them suitable to the
eyes.
OF course. this is to be a season of
draped fabric hats. as you proba bly,
know by this time. What is called the
cola psible crown has precedence over
all others except the stiff, oblong crown
used in sport hats made of silk plush.
There is something about the drap-
ed velvet hat that comedies quite neat
ly with the high. honed stock which
will shortly be accepted over all roll
ing collars.
The sketch shows this combination
as you will see it on the smart women
after the middle of October. The hat
has that oblong line that is always be
and 1t runs to a slight point back and
front, but fits the head so sloseIy that
quite a good deal of the coifure is eX-
posed.
The only touch of color on the deep
forest red is bit of golden poppy rib
bon, which is crushed through two long
buttonholes embroidered in the velvet