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CHAPTER LII.

A LTHOUGH Barbara was not
"A considering the wealth of
her future husband, Cynthia
Paige was. Since John Brandon
was aboundantly able to dress his
wife handsomely, why should Ar
thur Paiges money be spent on
lavish trousseau for his niece? But
when Cynthia suggested this to
her brother, she received repri-
mand that warned her to avoid this
subject.
What Barbara will have in the
future is none of our business"
Arthur declared. "She shall leave
our home with an outfit suitable
for her fathers daughter and my
niece. Forget your rigid economies
so far as she Is concerned, Cynthia"
II will get her what she wishes"
since you command it," the sister
said stiffly.
She could well promise this. foi
she knew that II she presented
matters in their true light to her
niece, the child would not be ex-
travssant.
DISMAL SHOPPING TRIP.
So. when the pair went to Boston
to buy such articles as Summerheld
could not supply as we'll as could
larger city. Cynthia had little trou-
BILE in curbing the girls desires.
"Of course, your uncle has insist
ed that you have everything of the
best quality" Cynthia said before
she and her charge started out on a
shopping tour. "You know what he
is. He would take off his head and
give II to you IL you wanted it
But you would not allow it"
Hardly" Barbara laughed ale
most hysterically. Her nerves now
adays were not steady as they
once were.
"Don't be frivolous. You knew
perfectly we'll what l meant, and 1t
is not kind to turn into jest
what I say OF wour uncle's lavish
ness. II YOU appreciated 1t as you
should YOU could not do that"
81 do appreciate it," the girl pro-
tested. "I appreciate " to such an
extent that | feer'-
well, what do you feel"
81 feel like a wretcfp in letting
him get my trousseau for me, after
what he has done already through
all these years. I have been such
an expense to him and to youi l
should think you would both be
glad I am going to get married"
she added passionately.
I'VE are glad on your account"
her aunt said. You are very un-
grateful to speak as II we could
have any other pleasure In your
leaving US
II did not mean to seem ungate-
full" Barbara apolog'zcd. Il neg
your pardon"
While Cynthia regretted this al
lercation, she was sure that It would
result in Barbara's insistence upon
economy in the purchase OF her
clothing,
She was correct, as In most Of
her surmises with regard to her
niece. SO sure was the spinster
that she had gained her ends that
she could permit herself to seem
generous.
Get a handsome quality OF
satin" she urged IN selecting ma
terlsl for the wedding gown. mo,
dear. not that light piece; this more
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Decentraliziug the City
A Plea For
MORE ROOM TO BREA THE
By DR.. VIM. A. McKeever,

thoughtless cities to forsake their
god of greed and their consequent
gently unto these primitive open
despoliation of the helpless under
class children and to look intelli-
plains from which might come the
very blessings OF eternity.
And so, | urge that every big city
throughout this great country at
once set itself to the mighty pur-
pose of redistribution of the de-
pendent elements Of its population
to places of potential well-being
and advantage.
With tenth OF the money wasted
in wrestling with the human want,
crime and anguish growing out of
its over-congestion, the typical big
city OF America could secure a mil
lion acres Of rich desert land, could
transform the same into a garden
through irrigation, and could bless
the world with a new civilization by
means of the gradual and syste-
matte transference Of it's surplus
families to this land of promise.
I am writing here a plea for the
millions of ill-faring little children
now being counted among the
proud CD population lists OF our
cities. l am pleading for the other
millions OF innocent babes soon to
follow these and to come into a
world which to them can at best
become only a den of suppression
and iniauity. Sometimes hope and
pray an accusing angel will appear
in startling presence and behold,
as it were. at one glance the 300,-
900 little ones whom we annually
destroy through our Indifferent
cruelty of centraliza oon--some
time. I hope. an angel OF compass
sion will point accusingly to our
wicked cities, crying, Monster.
you have slain all OF these"
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When Hearts Are Tru11lps
Serial Story
FULL OF ROMANCE
By Virginia Terhune Van de Water.

. expensive one. We want you to
have the best you know
So careful was the child that
Cynthia returned to Summerheld
after a week in Boston with the
consoling assurance that nobody
could have shopped more economi-
cally.
Did you buy lot Of pretty
things?" Arthur questioned that
night at dinner.
"Oh, yes" Barbara said. "A lot
of them. | cannot thank you as i
wish l could for alr'-
Arthur held up a warning hand.
Hush. hush, child! If you thank
me ! shall be displeased. l want
you to understand that you have
a right to everything / have, dear.
why do you know, / am such
selfish old brute that, had you
decided to live a life of single
blessedness. / would have been en-
tirely satisfied, even though l know
in my own soul that a woman is
better of and happier married than
single. Still. IT, you had never
fallen in love-I would not have
regretted it,"
ARTHUR! How can you make
such statement" Cynthia has
tened to Interfere. You know
how happy you are in Barbara's
prospects, and how safe you feel
about her"
FUTURE ASSURED.
She cast a glance OF admonition
across the table, and her brother
obeyed 1t as well as he was able.
He was accustomed to his sisters
glances. and obeying them had be-
come a habit OF years with him.
"Of course, am happy for Bah.
and in the fact that her future Is
assured-so far as one may pre-
dict" he admitted. But what
meant is that ! had never thought
of her getting married until John
Brandon paid her attention. 1t was
one OF the things that ! took for
granted must happen some time
but never was willing to dwell on
IL even in thought. Which, as ]
have just said, only proves what
selfish old uncle you have, dear
child"
Barbara was silent for the rest
OF the meal.
After all. had Uncle Arthur not
been worried and anxious about
what was to become OF her?
Could Aunt Cynthia have been
mistaken?
t'ro ne Continued.)
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(Costiaued from Yesterday

tCostiaued from Yesterday
~ didn't leave you" he retorted
suddenly. "You went away with
the man you married."
Don't speak OF him that way"
she interrupted hotly. Nobody
speaks OF that affair at all"
why not? You did marry him.
didn't your"
What OF it," she famed back.
what has that to do with you and
me! Why do you refer TO II? It's
my personal afrair, anyway"
He turned toward her. eXaspera-
ted:
'If you think" he said. "that your
behavior with Grismer means moth
Ing to me, you'd better undeceive
yourself! Or I'll do IL for you
In . way you can't mistake"
"Undeceive me?" she repeated un-
easily. How do you mean?"
by making a fight for you my
self" he said. "by doing my best to
get you back!"
II don't know what you mean,
jim" she repeated. her grey eyes
intent on his flushed face.
"Do you believe you have been in
suited by what did? Is that what
you mean"
jim DECLARES HIS LOVE.
He did not answer. They walk
ed on, slowly pacing the deserted
corridor. Her head was lowered
now; her lips a trifle tremulous.
"I-didn't suppose you'd take
what / did-that way" she said un-
steadily "I--respect and love you.
- ! supposed ] was at liberty
to dispose of--myself / didn't
Suddenly he freed his arm from
her clasped fingers and passed it
around her waist and she caught
her breath and placed her hand
tightly over his to hold IL there.
You adorable boy" she whisper
ed, IAN ! forgiven? And you do
care for me. don't you. Jim?"
care for you" he repeated in a
low, menacing voice. 81 care for
nobody else in the world. steve"
She laughed happily. yielding con-
fidently to his embrace, responding
swiftly and adorably and with a
frank unfeserve that told more
innocent story than his close caress
and boyish heart on fire confirmed
And. for the moment. she let him
have his way. gaily enduring and
humorously content with a recon
over-demonstrativeo on his part.
But presently his lips on her
flushed face, on her hair. on her
throat. disconnected her. and her
own lips parted in dismayed and
laughing protest at an ardour en-
tirely new to her.
He merely kissed her fragrant
mouth into silence, looking steadily
into her gray eyes now widening
with perplexed and troubled IN
quiry.
"I love you" he said. "I want
YOU back. Now, do you understand
steve? | love you! l love you!
Confused. crush ed hotly in his en-
brace, she stared blankly at MIN TOT
one dizzy instant; then, in silence,
she twisted her supple body back
ward and aside, and with both ner-
vous hands broke loose the circle
of his arms.
They were both rather white now;
her breath came and went irregu-
Iarly. checked in her throat with
little sob at intervals. She leaned
hack against the wall, one jeweled
hand against her breast, looking
aside and away from where he stood.
= IT told YOU" he said. unsteadiiy.
She renamed silent, keeping her
gaze resolutely averted.
"You understand now, don't your
he aswed.
She nodded.
Then. he caught her in his arms
again, and she threw back her love-
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w IE have just now completed
w another Government census
ana. In some respects, the
big cities are engaged in a game
CO childish rivalry and envy as to
which is ahead Of the other in popu-
lation. But underneath all this
trivial competition / see one of the
greatest tragedies of modern times
the pinching, cramping and semi
starving of the vast lower stratum
of the population. And the stu alton
becomes absolutely pathetic when
ever we test it out as to it's cruel
effects on the growing generation.
By the time of the census of 1880
l want to see the big cities yieing
with one another in an EFFORT to-
ward Intelligent decentralization
the percentage of families trans
ferred from crowded and suffocat-
ing situation to a wholesome life
in the open country; the approx
mate number of growing children
saved and made happy by means of
their transference to places of bet
ter advantage for all-round de-
velopment, intimate self-reliance
and independence of thought and
action.
During the past two weeks I
have seen from the car window
millions upon millions OF acres of
idle lands in the West and North
west, with a soil rich with the de-
posits Of the ages and wanting only
a supply of water to make II liter
ally burst out with enough food to
supply the tables of a continent. A
mere ten-acre tract of this land,
intensively cultivated, would per-
manently feed and fatten a family
OF fve. And yet IL lies here waiting
for generations for the wicked
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This Day in History.

1t was on this date. in the
year 1905, that Admiral George
Dewey, the victor OF the battle
of Manila bay in the Spanish
war. was rendered a monster
naval pageant and welcome at
New York.
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w yE have just now completed
w another Government census
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Clear, Peachy Skin
Awaits Anyone Who
Drinks Hot Water
Saws an inside bath, before break
fast helps US look and feel
clean, sweet, fresh.

Sparkling and vivacious-merry,
bright, alert-a good, clear skin and
natural, rosy, healthy complexion
are assured only by pure blood. If
only every man and woman could be
induced to adopt the morning inside
bath, what a gratifying change would
take place. Instead of the thousands OF
sickly, anaemic-looking men, women
and girls, with pasty or muddy
complexions; ins ,al of the multi
tudes of nerve wrecks" "rundowns," "
"brain fags" and pessimists we
should see a virile, optimistic throne
of rosy-cheelled people everywhere.
An inside bath is had by drinking
each morning, before breakfast, q
glass of real hot water with tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in il
to wash from the stomach, liver, kid,
reys and ten yards of bowels the pre-
vious days indigestible waste, soW
lamentations and poisons, thus
cleansing, sweetenine and freshening
the entire alimentary canal before
putting more food into the stomach.
Those subject to sick headache, oil
iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism
colds; and particularly those who have
q pallid. sa!low complexion and Wht
are constjpated very often, are urget
to obtain q quarter pound OF limestone
phosphate at the drug store which
will cost but a trifle, but is sufficlen
20 demonstrate the quick and remark
able change in both health and appear
ance, awaiting those who practice IN
tcrnal sanitation. We must remem
-Bor that inside cleanliness is more i'm
rortant than outside, because the ski
does not absorb impurities to con
taminate the blood while the pores Il
the thirty feet Of bowels do.
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Hoover Very Shy
in any Criticism
of Navy's Work

Washington, Mar. 1S.-Whiie refus-
ing to comment on military plans or
policies, Herbert Hoover today told
the Senate committee investigating
the Navy Departments conduct of the
war that owing to shortage OF food
and heavy sinking of allied merchant
ships by German submarines, condl-
tions abroad were critical from April
1917 until September.
Mr.. Hoover was called before the
committee at the request Of Rear
Admiral Sims, who asserted that ne
was best qualified to support his con-
tention that the allies were losing
the war when the United States join
ed them and that only a vigorous
campaign against the U-boats could
bring about victory.
Asked if the Navy Department could
not have offered more complete CO.
operation by sending more vessels to
the critical zone, Mr.. Hoover declined
to express an opinion except to say
that he supposed Everything was
done that could be-"
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MEAT CAUSE Of
KIDNEY TROUBLE
Take q glass of Salts if your Back
hurts or Bladder bothers-Meat
forms uric acid.

If you must have your meat every day,
eat it, but flush your kidneys with salts
occasionally, says a noted authority who
tells us that meat forms uric acid which
almost paralyzes the kidneys in their eff
forts to expel it from the blood. They
become sluggish and weaken, then you
suffer with dull misery in the kidney
region, sharp pains in the back or sick
headache, dizziness, your stomach sour2,
tongue is coated and when tie weather
is bad you have rheumatic twirgcs. The
urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the
channels often get sore and irritated,
obliging you to seek relief two or three
time during the night.
To neutraliZe these irritating acids, to
cleanse the kidneys and flreh off the
body's urinOus waste get ioUr Uunces OF
Jad Salts from any pharmacy here;
take tablespoonful in glass of
water before breaii:,,y .o. a lew days
and your kidneys will then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid of
grapes and lemon juice, combined with
lithia, and has been used for generations
to flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys,
also to ncutralize the acids in urine,
so it no longer irritates, thus ending
bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in.
iure, and makes delightful eferyescent
:ithia-water drink.
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Mr.. Eagle Threw a
Surprise Into
Woman Meeting

New York, March ia letter from
Representative Joe H. Eagle, of Texas,
declaring "women's chief work should
be making one good man good wife
and properly rearing a family of chill
dren", caused a mild sensation today
at luncheon of the womans chamber
of commerce, a national organization
of professional and business women.
The latter was the only adverse re-
ply it was said, received from more
than a score of governors and public
officials in the country to a request to
give the organization all aid possible.
"Mr. Eagle seems to have forgotten
that men have ruled the world ever
since the name Of Adam, and we all
know the terrible mess they have
made of it. Mrs. Kathrine Clemmons
Gould. founder of the organization,
told the gathering Of several hundred
women. eve are, some of us, denied
the privilege Of being able to find or
marry that good man, and we must not
count on them any longer, but we
must get right down to business a.
longside the men,"
The womans chamber of commerce
it was announced, has been organized
in 80 states and plans are under way
to establish branches in South Ameri-
cs and Europe.
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More MeXicans
are Coming to y. S.

Washington, March 13.-Em1gra.
tion of Mexicans from the central
and northern part of Mexico to the
United States continues to give the
Carranza government concern. Ad-
vices from Mexico City today said the
governors of Jalisco and Tamaulipas
had asked the department of Gober-
inacion to stop the movement, declar-
ing that if continued it would par
alyze the country's industries.
The Mexican authorities at Juarez
have reported to the department. OF
interior that in single day seven
car loads of Mexicans passed through
that place into the United States.
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Parker and Reese

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On the contrary, he declared, he eX-
pected that the nations and peoples
would give the league all the WORK
it could do.
A resolution was adopted provid-
ing for the appointment of COM
mission of ten members, each with
two counsellors. to make the propos-
ed investigation into conditions in
Russia as soon as favorable reply
is received from the soviet govern
ment. To this commission is to be
added a commission from the inter-
national labor bureau for the spec
ial purpose of investigatin labor con-
ditions.
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Girl Who Married John
Beggs in Hour Of
Need Opens Fight.

Kansas City, Kan, March 13. (By
Mabel Abbott, N. e. A. Staff Cores
pondent.) )-There is a silver lining
TO the dark cloud that overshadows
John Beggs, Irish-born soldier in the
American army, in his cell at Fort
Leavenworth. Beggs is serving
six-year sentence for the accidental
killing of two German civilians after
the armistice.
The silver lining is Mrs. Helen
Downey Beggs, the girl who married
him while the decision of the court
martial was pending.
81 could be Of little assistance to
you as a sweetheart she told Beggs,
"but as a wife I can be of real help.
Someone will listen to me-"
Fate Plays Grim Trick.
Fate played grim trick on John
Beggs.
, He came to America seven years
ago. Two days before this country
entered the war he enlisted as a
private in the 18th Infantry. He
was promoted and after his outfit got
into action he became lieutenant.
His best friend in France was Lieu
tenant Ernest V. Downey Of Brook
lyn, N. Y. Downey sent Begg's pic
ture home and showed Beggs the
picture Of his family, including a
pretty, little sister Of 20 years.
After the armistice Downey came
to America. Beggs went into Ger
many with the Army of Occupation.
Just before he was scheduled to re-
turn to this country, he, with several
other soldiers, celebrated by a little
target shooting in the German town
of Seeburg, and two aged Germans
were killed.
Tried BY Court Martial.
Beggs was arrested, charged with
involuntary manslaughter," and tri-
cd by court-martial. Nobody thought
he would be punished.
announcement of decision was de-
layed and Beggs came to America,
under guard. Downey met him and
visited him often. He also took his
sister to see Beggs.
One day Beggs told her he wanted
to marry her when he was out or
trouble. She suggested they didn't
need to wait on that account ana
they were married at the New York
City Hall.
Gets SiX-Ycar Term.
And then. six months after the
court-martial. the blow fell. Beggs
must serve six years in federal pris-
on.
lie is there now. His former Off
GERS and his friends are putting his
case before the War Department.
Md Mrs. Beggs has come 10 Kansas
City 10 help them!
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4 were emDty.

it were empty.
It was the eleventh annual mas
orerade and ball Of the Great New
Tork Division No. z3 OF the National
Fraternal Society of the Deaf, anG
every guest was deaf or dumb, OF
both. There were men, women and
children, all defective in speech OF
hearing, from every boro in the city
One of the Dancers Explains.
There are three hundred guests
here" said a committeeman who
spoke as if unfamiliar with the sound
of his voice-he was totally deaf
who haven't the faintest idea
what tune the orchestra is playing.
I haven't. They've never heard The
Vamp' or Mandy but that doesn't
matter. They get the time, the beat
of the music and that is all that is
needed for dance.
ITO be even clearer, they feel the
beat. The vibrations from the in
struments, particularly the drums,
beat against their bodies and regist-
er in their chests and nerves. Their
ear-drums do not work at all. 1t is
one of the paradoxes of deafness.
Shout at a deaf man and he will
not hear. Rap ever so lightly on a
door, so lightly that even you your
self cannot hear the noise, and he
will hear it distinctly. Lean against
door and the deaf man will hear
it. Rap a drum near deaf beggar.
IF he doesn't turn around, no matter
how deaf he says he is, he is a fax
er."
From the gallery one looked down
on a floor we'll crowded. Every
face had a smile. Children ran a.
cross the floor. Boys and girls gave
every indication of obtaining as much
enjoyment as those more fortunate
ly endowed But there was no vo-
cal sound; instead, whirling ges-
lures, fingers cracked, flashed and
tucked in palms as they conducted
their conversation in sign language.
The atmosphere of enjoyment was
there. Although the lobby, where
men usually smoke and exchange
TALK, was qulet dS i'Hc az "a
though the inter1nissions between
dances were periods of deepest sill
ence. there was not face that indi-
Gated that anything was not similar
to any other occasion of enjoyment.
They engaged in every form of diver
sion any other ball guest ever IN
dulged in and laughs (many OF them
could laugh, testified to their pleas
ure.
Then the music started again.
They stood still The beat Of the
drum came. They registered the
time. whether foX-trot, waltz or one
step. and then they whirled HGt on
the floor again. dancing to tune
they could not hear.
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League of Nations
Will Investigate
Russian Affairs

Paris, March 13 3.-The EXECUTIVE
ouncil of the League of Nations met
oday in the cloak room of the for
ign office, under the Presidency OF
Icon Bourgeois.
In his opening address, M. Bour-
geois reviewed the work Of the coun-
cil He said that while there was
skepticism regarding the success o1
the League, it had not retarted the
leagues work. Up to the present time
NJ. Bourgeois declared, the league
had shown its reality.
Arthur J. Balfour, the British rep
resentative. replying to M. Bourge-
ois slia there was no reason for
anxiety as to the field of the league.