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INTO THE DEPTHS.

Synopsis.-Typical tramp In APP
pearance, Daniel Randolph f1tz-
hugh, while crossing Chicago
street, causes the wreck of an auto,
whose chauffeur disables it trying
to avoid running him down. An
pity the occupant of the auto, a
young girl, saves him from arrest
and gives him dollar, telling him
TO buy soap, and wash. His sense
of shame is touched, and he inn
proves his appearance. That night,
he meets Esther Strom, Russian
anarchist, who induces Fitzhugh
to address a meeting. Fitzhugh
visits Symington Otis. prominent
f1~ancier, and displaying pack
age which ne says contains dyna-
mite, demands $4,000. Otis gives
him a check. At the house he
meets the girl who had given him
the dollar. and learns she Is hatn-
leen Otis. She recognizes him.
Ashamed, he tears up the check
and escapes, but is arrested. Es-
Their visits Fitzhugh in Jail and
makes arrangements for procuring
legal advice. His trial is speedily
completed and he is found insane
anu COAAlAiAAttCu W oil o0S AesAAss
which he easily makes his escape.
Titzhugh takes refuge in Chicago,
with Esther, who has become in
fatuated with him. His one icea is
20 become rich and win Kathleen.
IN a fight with Nikolay, jealous adj
mirer of Esther, Fftzhugh worsts
him. Securing mental employment
he learns that Nikolay has been
found dead in Esther's house, and
in q letter to him she admits the
killing. telling him she did 1t for
his sake and that she has gone
away. He sees Kathleen from
distance, and is strengthened In
his determination to win her. Fitz-
hugh attracts the attention OF
Quigg, dealer in bogus stocks. Fitz-
hugh acts as a decoy for gullible
investors. Staked by his employer
in . poker game for high stakes he
meets a wheat pit Spectator, Hen
~ Hunt, who believes him to be a
New York man of wealth. With
his poker winnings he joins Hunt
in a wheat deal. Through Hunts
operations Fitzhugh nets nearly
/ $4,000.
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papers secured by thick elastic bands.
These papers contained mass OF
data covering the past seven weeks
consisting of crop reports, statistics
from many different sources, pewspa-
per clippings and kilograms and cable
grams that had exhausted his ready
money to the last cent. He walked to
heavy desk of solid mahogany,
switched on the light that was a mimi
and spread the papers ON the flat top
of the desk. And while Hunt sat OPP
posite, following him with concen-
trated attention, he went over them
point by point, dwelling fully on every
detail, explaining clearly the reasons
for his belief. So lucidly did he do
this that child might have followed
him.
MY deductions are substantiated,"
he summed up, "by the fact that Otis
and his following are not bulling the
market as you supposed they would.
What's more, they're not going to bull
it. I've put myself in their place. Otis
and company will make their attack
when the enemy is in it's most vulner-
able state, and that's just the condi-
ton the enemy's in now"
There was conversational pause,
while Hunt reperused some of the pa
pers scattered about the desk.
$50 you think we'd better unload?'
he said finally, sitting back and mo-
tioning to Haki to fill his champagne
goblet.
"As though our lives depended on
it,"
Hunt watched the servant fill his
glass, then lifted it and surveyed his
host solemnly across its rim.
$50 be it," he rumbled in q sepul-
chral voice. 1.-THE blame be upon your
head if we lose."
Fitzhugh's prediction was bounti-
fully fulfilled next day. December
wheat went tumbling and crumbling.
Hunt, thanks to Fitzhugh, managed
to squirm from under with whole
skin and few thousands profit. Hur-
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he saw on the glass over doorway
General Delivery"
He came to dead halt. A hot
blush of shame pricked him. He felt
suddenly mean. contemplate. He en-
tered the room and asked if there were
any mail for Daniel F'itzhugh. The
clerk handed him half-dozen letters
pOstmarked from small town ia Rus-
STA.
He opened and read them one by
one, standing near the window. In all
of them Esther breathed be" ove for
him, yet there was differ Ice as the
letters progressed. In the first two
she wrote chiefly of him and secondly
of the work she was doing for the
Cause. The next one was solely about
him and there was more inSistent
note in her passionate declarations.
In the third was O tone of despair,
hint of fond hopes fast slipping away;
and the last two were filed with Bit
ter reproaches, piteous pleadings--
jealousy!
From word she let drop IN one of
the earlier miSsiveS he OWNED she
was in dire need of money. Even at
that moment she might be suffering
from lack of necessities.
He stuffed the letters In a coat
pocket, went to his bank and procured
bill of exchange to her order for a
thousand dollars.
At one of the public desks he wrote
on the back OF q deposit-slip: "The
goal is not yet in sight, but I'm run
ming fast
This he attached to the draft and
sealed in an envelope, which he al
dressed and mailed to her while re-
morse was hot upon him.
From the post Office he went to a
hotel in Randolph street, asked for.
stationery and wrote the following:
Dear Hunt
l have just received bad news. My
brother is at the point of death. Must
hurry to his bedside. May see you in
couple of weeks. Meanwhile, good luck!
Yours. f.
He directed this to Hunts home adj
dress, took it to the district messenger
office in the hotel and left ders for
its delivery at nine o'clock.
Had anyone looked for Fitzhugh
that night in his apartment or in the
theaters or hotel Hobbies, or in any of
the other places where he usually
spent his evenings, it would have been
in vain. He would not have been
found
But in vile saloon in lower Clark
street tall, trampish-loolSing man
with q pointed beard, attired in ragged
habiliments and wearing low upon his
brow an old SLOUGH hat fully half
size too large, was carousing delirious-
ly with the muddled denizens, leading
them in maudlin song, and incitin"
them to drunken ribaldry.
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CHAPTER VIII.

Fitzhugh's debauch lasted tvs
weeks. Then he sobered up and went
home. Under cover of the somnolence
that enveloped the apartment building
at four O'Clock in the morning he stole
up the six flights of stairs to his rooms
unobserved, and let himself in without
awakening his valet. He removed MS
shabby apparel, his decrepit hat. Sc
GREETED them in a wardrobe and weni
to the bathroom. When he entered his
bedroom, glowing from a hrisk scrub
and attired in silk pajamas, he looked
little tired. 1t was not, however, a
physical tiredness. FItzhugh felt, men
tally, like man who had taken a very
arduous journey in search of gold only
to find he had been chasing rainbow.
He climbed in between the snowy
sheets of his bed and ley very still.
His eyes were closed. blu, he was not
asleep.
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Astor and Mrs. Josephus Daniels wife
of the secretary of the United States
navy, were absent.
Belgium is not represented at the
congress, because, it is said, the Bel
gian Women Suffrage association de-
handed that the German delegates
condemn, or at least express regret
for German atrocities committed in
Belgium during the war. This, it is
reported, the Germans refused to do.
Helen Ring Robinson, formerly state
senator of Colorado, was one Of the
speakers.
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Himself In Without Awakening His
Valet.
rying through the outer Office Of Bur-
ton & Burton, he spied FitZhugh and
fell upon him with open arms. pressing
into his hand a check for thirty thou
sand dollars.
"What had we better do now, Dan?'
"Sell December wheat It's going to
zero. This slump will keep up indefi-
nitely."
"Right-o," Hunt was fairly burning
with excitement-the gamblers ex-
element, than which there is none
more feverish.
You may sell half a million for me.
You'd better sell an equal amount
yourself" Fitzhugh produced slen-
der check-book and started to fill out
check. Abruptly he paused, bit his
lip, made as if to return his fountain
pen to his p, lSet. II forgot some
thing" he said slowly.
whats wrong, DAMP" Hunt looked
properly solicitous.
"My-a draft. Should have been
sent from New York day before yes
terday. Ny brother has it, but he's sud-
denly fallen i'll. Probably forgot all
about it. That's all. I'm sorry, Hunt,
but / can offer you nothing except my
personal check, and thatll be only for
few thousands
In a flash all of Hunts reverence
for wealth and his desire to toady to
it were to the front. What an oppor-
tunity to be Of service to this man of
millions! He could have wished for
nothing better Don't worry about
that for a minute, DAN" He spoke
with the utmost friendliness. "Tll at
tend to your margins for you. Five
hundred thousand, believe you said?"
"Yes.o Fitzhugh rapidly filled out a
check for twenty thousand dollars.
'Take this, anyhow, Hunt" He tore
the check from the book. "Just as an
evidence of good faith" he laughed.
The courtier took the check in the
sasle jocular spirit in which it was
offered, scarcely CHANGING at its figure
After little they parted, Hunt hasten
ing to the private Office of Burton.
senior.
Fitzhugh went straight to his bank
and deposited the thirty thousand dol
lars. Immediately afterwards he
started back to the Board of Trade
When nearly there, however, he
stopped, paused irresolute, then turned
and walked slowly in another direc-
ton. ror over an hour he roamed
restlessly about the loop. He seemed
infirm of purpose, aimless of destina-
ton.
Once, without exactly knowing why.
he entered the post Office and strolled
absently about the dark corridors. He
was leaving by the western entrance.
when, happening to glance TO his left,
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Turkish nationalist forces defeated
government troops and advanced to
within five and a half miles of Ismid,
which caused the British to close the
Gulf of Ismid which controls the APP
proach to Constantinople of all craft
from the Black sea. American wom-
en- relief workers who recently evac-
uated the Caucasus to escape being
caught in the red drive are returning
to Batoum. Hopes are entertained for
the resumption on a limited scale of
relief work in Armenia, which country
is reported to be combating the inter-
Tor bolshevik movement. Fighting
against the French in Cllicia has
stopped in accordance with an armis-
tice pact The French troops evacu-
ated Thrace where the nationalists,
the Turkish government and the Bull
garians are uniting to oppose Greek
occupation.
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year 1914 then there would have been

year 1914 then there would have been
no war.
Nine. Schlumberger was one of ten
women, representing as many coun-
tries, who spoke at the session, which
was devoted chiefly to internal affairs
of the alliance. Announcement was
made that since the last congress was
held at Budapest before the war the
women of twelve countries had obtain
ed the vote.
The session was well attended, prom
lent among the delegates being ten
Indians in their native costumes. Lady
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WOULD HAVE PREVENTED WAR
No World Conflict Had Women Been
Given Suffrage Before 1914, Says
Speaker at Convention.

Geneva Nine. De Witt Schlumber-
GER president of the French union for
women suffrage and French delegate
to the international Woman Suffrage
Alliance congress, was applauded WHEN
she declared that if all women Dad
been possesser Of suffrage before the
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Doesn't hurt a bit and Freezone
costs only a few cents.

With your fingersi You can lift of
any hard corn, soft corn, or corn be-
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A tiny bottle Of "Freezone" costs
little at any drug store; apply few
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you lift that bothersome corn or cal
lous right of, root and all, without
one bit of pain or soreness. Truly !
No humbug ADV.
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|Cuticl1ra Soap
Compilations |
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Furniture OIL.
To renovate scratched furniture,
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disappeared. Then polish with an
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with the result.
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Freshness Of the past.

Wife-The eggs stale? Why, 4
asked the grocer If they were fresh,
and he replied: Absolutely
Hub-You must have misunder-
stood him. He probably said: "Obso-
letely." Boston Transcript.
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Republican Convention Adopts
Platform After Much Travail
in Committee.
LEAGUE PLANK OBSTACLE
Advocates and Opponents Satisfied by
Compromise--Women Get Equal
Voice With Men T. Ca .paign
WET Hopes Shrivel--
Affairs In Europe.
By e.. F. cLIPsoN.


Note-Mechanica exisencies Of the
present time, require that this review
be written by Friday noon. Important
phases Of the Republican national con-
vention, notably the nominations for
president and vice president, not hav-
ing yet occurred, they are reserved for
treatment In the general news or in
special articles.
Agreement on the platform was ef-
fected in the Republican convention
Thursday night without any Of the
fireworks which had been predicted
and anticipated. The pyrotechnics oc-
Cured in the committee which framed
the platform and did not reach the
public nor the great body Of delegates
excepting through the press. The
League of Nations plank was the great
exciting cause and the difficulty was
to SO frame it as to save the faces of
the Republican senator's who had taken
such varying attitudes on the question
ever since President Wilson brought
II ! peace treaty and the league cove
nant back from Europe. The result
was accomplished in very adroit
compromise which abuses the admin
istration as un-American in its stub
born insistence upon the league as
framed in Europe, pats on the back all
elements whether reservationists, mild
reservationists or irreconcilables in
the senate majority who opposed the
Wilson league; pledges the party to a
continuation of the policies Of Wash
ington, Jefferson and Monroe and to
an international association which
shall provide international courts, de-
velop international law and secure in
slant and general international confer
ence whenever peace shall be threat
ened.
To many this must look like an in
dorsement of the principle Of League
of Nations although nothing is said
about mandates nor the duty Of Amer
lea to take part in foreign embroil-
ments. On the other hand the plank
specifically states that the United
States shall have the right to deter
hline ia advance what is lust and fair
without becoming involved as par lei
pant or peacemaker in foreign quar-
rels. Much Cf is was gone over In
the senr+e ties and it always
caused the Republican ma
jcrity ~ ~ ne convention It seemed
to sa ,sls ali parties. Johnson claims
a victory. Ledge claims victory, 9th
ers who were opposed to both OF them
claim victories and everybody is
happy with the opponents hugging
each other today whereas yesterday
they were enemies, with certain cir
reconciMbles'' threatening to bolt tb'
party. No such an example of
ofIing of troubled waters has ev
violsly been seen and the mas
of Elihu Root is said to be
that penned the remarkable co
mise.
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irrecOncilable elements, will be in a
difficult position.
Indications are that the coalition
will be obliged to continue at the helm
in order to make an appearance Of
stable government before the allied
powers which will meet at the Spa
conference to settle the amount Of
German PREPARATIONS and other impOr-
tant questions. After that confer
ence new elections appear to be a
necessity to remove the ambiguous
complexion OF German affairs. One
seemingly bright ray from the recent
elections was the small vote pOlled
by the party OF the extreme left--the
communists or German bolshevists as
they properly may be termed. This
happy result, however, was somewhat
vitiated by the extremely heavy vote
polled by the independent socialists
who undoubtedly number in their
ranks many extreme radicals.
The Spa. conference at the insist
ence of Germans and Italians and in
the hope that the United States will
send representative, has been post
poned until July 5. One of Germany's
big protests at the conference, aside
from the reparations bill, will be
against reimbursing the allied nations
for the expenses of the armies of oc-
cupation and Of the several control
commissions. These expenses are said
to amount to upward of 100,00OOOC
marks or normally about 100000 a
day. If the cOnferees can be con-
vinced that German resources will
stand this big sum in addition to the
huge PREPARATIONS, the. money will be
very acceptable in tightening the milf
tary budgets of England, France, and
even the United States, unless our al
truism prevents the acceptance of
portion Of 1t.
In spite of the uncertain political
situation in Germany the problems
with which II Spa conference will
wrestle. ,tate Of affairs in Russia
and IN ear and far East, note
of dirt optimism comes from Eng
land and fror. sources close to Prime
Minister Lloyd George. The word is
that the whole world is settling down
and that nations gradually are return
ing to sanity. Ir land is said to show
definite signs of returning to peace on
basis of permanent connection with
the British empire; Egypt is ready to
abandon its claim to complete indie
pendence and to accept progressive
constitution pan-Moslem agitation in
India is said to be dying down and
the Turkish situation is clearing. In
this optimistic condition Of mind it is
impossible to say to what extent the
wish fathers the thought. But If Eng
lish problems really are clearing 1t
argues well for improved conditions
all around. That the principal coun-
tries Of Europe are achieving better
basis, materially at least, is evident
in increased production, more ship
ments to the United States and
slight amelioration Of exchange c0ndi-
lions. Past history has shown France
and F. East, to be wonder
fuI * sense.
Z ltiOns on the long
Poles and Russian
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mlnd was gloomy,
could see no light on
anything, could not
work and could not
have anyone to see
Ime. Doctors med
fcine did not help me
and Lydia E. Pink
h a m 8 Vegetable
compound was re-
commended. I took
i t a n d a m now
wv g III. ] recon-
n1~1 "a ~ III MT
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/ problem of representation an I'M
usually difficult one from the start.
Another feature was the unpre-
| cedented number of outsiders and men
from other parties who were on hand
to influence the choice of the conven-
| ton. Notable among these were VIII
liam J. Bryan and William Randolph
Hearst, especially the latter. who
seemed to conceive 1t patriotic duty
| to dc all in his power to assist the
Republicans in making q wise selec-
ton.
Worien will from now on have an
equal voice with men in planning and
managing Republican campaigns. This
Is assured through the adoption by
the convention of the report of the
committee on rules, the chief recon-
mendation of which was that the
executive committee shall have mem
bership Of fifteen instead Of ten as
heretofore. The makeup of the COM
mittee will be seven men, seven wom-
en- and the chairman. In addition the
committee will have woman vice
chairman, ranking next in dignity to
the chairman. There will also be an
assistant secretary who will be a
woman. The women of the majority
got everything they asked for from the
convention Notwithstanding the fact
that a strong delegation Of their sex
who are opposed to suffrage was on
hand. These latter were disappointed.
The Supreme courts decision up
holding the prohibition amendment
and the Volstead act came at an OPP
perfume time to relieve the platform
trainers Of embarrassment on the
question. The hopes of anti-prohibi-
tiOnists which went from wet to moist
are now scarcely humid. Their only
recourse is in the election of con-
gress which will repeal or amend the
Volstead law.
Gov. Edward /. Edwards Of New
Jersey, who is making the race FOR the
Democratic presidential nomination
largely on the question Of personal lib
erty, advocates a nationwide refer
endum on the question of prohibition.
He believes that the sentiment of the
people so expressed, will force an
amendment to the law. His conten-
ton is that the act goes too far in
attempting to regulate the habits of
millions Of citizens; that it places In
the lawbreaking and criminal class
millions of women all over the coun-
try who make light wines from home
grown fruits for domestic use and
millions OF farmers who make and ma
ture cider from their own orchards;
that by the prohibition of beverages
Of light alcoholic content, it has in
creased the illicit distillation of harm
full liquors to twentyfold t Fir former
production; that many Of the agents
of enforcement, both state and fed
eral, have become either blackmailers
of the lawbreakers or partners in
crime; that 1t is the main impelling
cause why 100000 men Of foreign
birth have returned to their native
lands and that it menaces the whole
industrial fabric, and millions Of work
ers are filed with resentment ON ac-
count Of the invasion Of their person
liberties.
The New Jersey executj'
the law on several 9th ana
one easily discerns stion
is going TO cut Hre
at San Francis
cago In -
the only p
wards i
lan@
p
n. 'cl
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- .se!tIc JlS -.---.-ssuIate co'-.Se
Government in that ccuntr~ appar-
4r+,y nave failed Of - ecu. The re-
SUI seer,~ ve of the nature of
.alemate, and while President Ebert
appears to have pulled through by a
small majority the coalition govern
ment which he heads is so beset by
the right and left opposition that par
Iiamentary chaos is almest inevitable.
Ebert and the forces nearest to him
are moderate socialists. The opposi-
ton OF the right contains, under vari-
Gus party names and shades of polit-
ical belief, the democrats, reaction
aries, limited monarchists and uphold
ers of the old regime. The left con-
tains the independent socialists and
all the more radical representation.
The government, endeavoring to steer
a middle course and yet an ultra-lib-
eral one for Germany between these
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NERVOUS
PROSTRATION
Mrs. J. Christman Proved
That Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is a
Remedy for this Trouble.

Binghamton, N. Y.-.'T was in very
nervous condition for ever a year, my
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Sorry to Disappoint You.
No, Maude, the young business man
who advertises for sealed proposals
doesn't mean the leap year kind
Boston Transcript.