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]. w. Muliiran Dies

Chicago.-JOhn W. Mulligan, real
estate and tax agent Of the Chicago
Rock Island G Pacific railway. died
after a long illness. He had complete
control of the real estate and tax de-
partment of the Rock Island and was
widely known.
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Covington.-Dr. and Mrs N. NJ. He.
bert celebrated their fiftieth anniver.
sary at st. Peters Church recently,
and were the recipients of congratula-
tions from hundreds of friends. Con.
gratulatory resolutions were also pro-
mulgated by the Parish Medical So
ciety, of which DR.. Hebert is a mem,
Der.
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Elect Road President.

New York-Joseph H. Young, pres
ident of the Norfolk & Southern Rail-
way, was elected president of the re-
organized Denver & Rio Grande West
ern Railroad at directors meeting
here.
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BEAN BASIS OF LAWSUIT.
Woman Claims $1,000 for Slipping On
Legume at Defendants Stall,

woman claims $4,000 for Slipping On
Legume at Defendants Stall.
Hamilton, Ont.-Responsibil for
possessing bean Of the ordinary gar
den variety furnished the basis of a
$4,000 law suit in the assizes count
here. The suit was brought by wiz
lima and Isabel Gilbert against A. Nc.
Dougall, for compensation for injuries
suffered by Mrs. Gilbert when she slip
ped on the bean in front of the de-
PENDANTS stall in a vegetable market
nearly year ago. The plaintiffs were
unsuccessful in a lower court because
OF lack of evidence that McDougall
owned the bean.
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Millions In annus Coin

2W.-Counterfeit American pa
Ysy representing approximately
80 700, has been confiscated in
t.ssAoerg by the police authorities who
discovered counterfeiting plant in
fun operation.
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U.s.. WISH FOR PEACE
MAY HALT INVASION
REPLY FRpM FRANCE AND ENG.
LAND o AMERICAN NOTE
10 NOW LIKELY.
GERMANY WON'T GIVE UP GOLD
Premiers Expected to Answer Desire
That PREPARATION Farley Should
Be Resumed With the Ber-
lin Government.

LOndon.-Dramatic efforts on the
States to arbitrate the PREPARATIONS
question between the Berlin and the
Entente governments and the refusal
of the Washington government to sit
In judgment on the merits of the veX-
Ing problem have lent new interest 10
the conference at Lympne between
Premiers BRAND of France and Lloyd
George Of Great Britain.
The expressed desire of the United
States that there be IAN immediate
resumption of negotiations has
brought into the situation new ele-
ment and it has been popularity sup
posed the premiers would merely con-
slider plans for further occupation Of
German territory and not a renewal
of exchanges between London and
Paris and Berlin.
The new factors entering into tbe
situation make it probable that LLOYD
George and BRAND will find Them
selves called upon to make some sort
OF answer to the implication in the
United States note to Berlin that
further negotiations should be COM
meEced.
1t is known that military authorities
or France have perfected all plans for
the occupation of cities and towns In
the ndustrially important Ruhr dis
tricts of Germany and have fOrmulat.
ed economic penalties that will, be put
INTO operation when occupation of these
places has been completed.
Germany, at the same time she ap-
pealed to Washington, sent communi-
cation to the allies rejecting the de-
mand that the gold holdings Of the
in Berlin be deposited be-
fore May 1, in either Cologne or Cob
Ienz as security for reparation pay.
ments. These holdings amounted to
!, O91, 59S,0O0 marks on April Is.
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Policeman Overcome nv E,,r,..

Bound Brook, N. J.-Gas fumes
leaking from tank at the Hemingway
chemical Company forced hundreds "a
people living near MiddlebroOk to flaa
Tor their lives. One policeman was
overcome. -
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M. Taylor Pyne. Financier n,..

New 1ork.-M. Taylor Pyne, lawyer
and financier, died at the age of Ga
years after d three days illness with
bronchial pneumonia. He was a trus-
Zee OF Princeton University and was
Identified with various RAILWAYS
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New York.-A thirst kettle, moon
eine-Doom! Then Marcel Ozrekoske,
ganltoT saw stars. He's charged with
Naoia@on OF explosives laws and op-
basement.
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TRAIN KILLS THREE.
Three Others Hurt When Auto Ia
Struck at CROSSING.

STUCK at CrosSIng.
Montreal-ThrUc persons were kill
cd and three others injured when
their automobile was struck by a
southbound Delaware & Hudson Rail-
way train at Hughes crossing, near
Lacolle. The dead are Mr.. and Mrs.
Isadore Beaudin of this city and their
infant granddaughter, Leona Blair.
The child's parents and friend, the
other occupants of the car, were not
seriously injured.
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TAKE COIN FROM THROAT.
Girl Had Quarter Embedded in Esoph.
agus Two Years.

.
Scranton, Pa.-From the esophagus
of 13-year-old girl, local surgeons re-
moved a silver quarter that had been
embedded there for more than two
years. The operation was performed
without the use Of the knife, the sur
geons making use of a rubber tube
with an electric light at its lower end.
This was forced down the girls
throat. The light revealed the black.
eped coin. The surgeons then intro.
duced forceps and extracted the coin.
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Fire Loss 100000.

Watertown, N. 1.-TWO buildings
comprising the E. w. Coon Cheese
Storage Plant at Cape Vincent were
totally destroyed by fire with a loss
of $400, 900.
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Amnesty In Franco

Paris.-The general amnesty bill,
governing offenses committed during
the war, has been passed by the
Chamber. The vote was 52S for the
measure to IA against it.
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S3nn.nnn. nnn as Ala

Washington.-A resolution to auth
crize a government loan OF $500, OOO.-
900 to farmers was introduced by Rep
resentative Upshaw, of Georgia.
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TORNADO IN OKLAHOMA.
Buildings Blown from Their Founda.
tions By Storm.

Durant, Okla.-Many Buildings were
blown from their foundations, trees
twisted out by the roots and many oil
derricks were wrecked by a tornado
that swept the central part of Bryan
county, in southwestern Oklahoma. No
reports of fatalities have been receiv-
ed here. Damage was estimated at a
quarter of million dollars.
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WashingtOn.-Any reparations pro-
posals the German government may
submit to the United States for trans
mission to the allies must be of a
character those governments will be
willing to consider and, therefore, win
probably be made clear to each gov.
eminent separately.
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BENSON WANTS MILLIONS.

Shipping Board Chairman Needs $780,
$4,000 for Fiscal Year.
Observation-Disclosures Benson of
the shipping board asked Congress for
an appropriation of $4,000, 900 to fl
nance operations of the governments
merchant fleet during the next fiscal
year. He also said another appropria-
ton of $36, $4,000 would be needed to
permit the Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton to function until July 1.
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thud plunged to the ground before
the small door which was Withholding
the spark of life from the inhabitants
of an entire planet.
Beside the door great crew of men
had been laboring to pierce the wall,
but they had scarcely scratched the
f1intlike surface, and now most of
them lay in the last sleep from which
not even air would awaken them.
Conditions seemed much worse here
than at Helium, and 1t was with diff
Guilty that I breathed at all. There
were a few men still conscious, and TO
one of these spoke.
IF 1 can open these doors is there a
man who can start the engines?" 1
asked.
81 cam" he replied. eff you open
quickly 1 can last but few moments
more. But it Is useless, they are both
dead and no one else upon BarSoOm
knew the secret of these awful locks.
For three days men crazed with fear
have surged about this portal in vain
attempts to solve its mystery"
1 had no time to talk, was becom-
ing very weak and it was with diff
Guilty that controlled my mind at all.
But with a final effort, as l sank
weakly to my knees hurled the nine
thought waves at that awful thing be-
fore me. The Marian had crawIed to
my side and with staring eyes fixed on
the single panel before US we waited
I'm the silence of death.
Slowly the mighty door receded be-
fore us. 1 attempted TO rise and fol-
low it but was too weak.
after it," cried to my companion,
land if you reach the pumproom turn
loose all the pumps. 1t is the only
chance Barsoom has to exist tomor-
row -
From where I lay l opened the sec
ond door, and then the third, and as
saw the hope of BarsoOm crawling
weakly on hands and knees through
the last doorway 1 sank unconscious
upon the ground.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
At the Arizona Cave.

1t was dark when l opened my eyes
again. Strange, stiff garments were
upon my body; garments that cracked
and powdered away from me as rose
to sitting posture.
felt myself over from head to foot
and from head TO foot / was clothed,
though when fell unconscious at the
little doorway 1 had been naked. Be
fore me was a small patch of moonlit
sky which showed through q ragged
aperture.
AS my hands passed over my body
they came In contact with pockets and
in one of these q small parcel of
matches wrapped In oiled paper. One
of these matches l struck, and Its dim
flame lighted up what appeared TO be
a huge cave, toward the back of which
1 discovered a strange. still figure
huddled over a tiny bench. AS l APP
preached it I saw that it was the dead
and mummified remains of a little old
woman with long black hair, and the
thing it leaned over was small char
coal burner upon which rested q
round copper vessel containing q
small quantity of greenish powder.
Behind her, depending from the roof
upon rawhide thongs, and stretching
entirely across the cave, was a row of
human skeletons. From the thong
which held them stretched another TO
the dead hand of the little old woman:
as / touched the cord the skeletons
swung to the motion with noise as of
the rustling of dry leaves.
1t was a most grotesque and horrid
tableau and / fastened out into the
fresh air; glad to escape from so grue-
some a place.
The sight that met my eyes as I
stepped out upon small ledge which
ran before the entrance of the cave
filed me with CONSERVATION.
A new heaven and a new landscape
met my gaze. The silvered mountains
IN the distance, the almost stationary
moon hanging In the sky, the cacti-
studded valley below me were not of
Mars. / could scarce believe my eyes.
but the truth slowly forced itself upon
me- was looking upon Arizona from
the same ledge from which ten Years
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across an old sea bottom and so bad to
rise only a few feet above the ground
/ travelled with awful velocity, for
my errand was a race against time
with death. The face of Dejah Thoris
hung always before me. As turned
for last look as 1 left the palace gar
den I had seen her stagger and sink
upon the ground beside the little incu-
bator. That she had dropped into the
last coma which would end In death,
if the air supply remained unreplen-
ished, I we'll knew, and so. throwing
caution to the winds, I flung over
board everything but the engine and
compass, even to my ornaments, and
lying on my belly along the deck with
one hand on the steering wheel and
the other pushing the speed lever to
it's last notch I split the thin air of
dying Mars with the speed of meteor.
An hour before dark the great walls
of the atmosphere plant doomed sud-
denly before me, and with a sickening
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OBJECTED TO WOMAN'S SKIRT
Peculiar Reason Advanced by China
man for Refusing to Consider
Matrimonial Alliance.

In spite of the success with which
the campaign against the binding Of
women's feet has been waged in China.
there are still parts where men will
not marry girls who have natural feet.
Missionaries try, SO far as possible,
to arrange marriages between Chris
tan girls and Christian men. One OF
our Christian girls, writes a CORE
spOndent, was getting quite an old
maid, having reached the age of twen-
ty-elght. Several heather had asked
her, but she refused them all. One Of
our preachers approached a country
tenant farmer and tried TO persuade
him to ask the ty-eight-year-old
lady. We all thought 1t would come
off. The man was about the same age
as the lady in question, and had not
yet succeeded in getting engaged. But,
to our surprise, he would have nothing
to do with the plan, and gave as his
reason: "Who would marry a girl with
a skirt like that?" The girl had her
skirt embroidered in q different way
to the girls and the women In the viii
lage where the particular swain lived,
and he felt that he dared not make
such an innovation on the fashion of
his own village. A beautiful pair of
brown eyes. long, fine, black hair, and
a good Christian character counted as
nothing against q strange style of skirt
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CHAPTER XVII.
From Joy to Death.

For ten days the hordes of Thank
and their wild allies were Toasted and
entertained. and, then, loaded with
costly presents and escorted by ten
| thousand soldiers of Helium command
ed by Mors KAYAK, they started, on
| the return journey to their own lands.
The Jed of Lesser Helium with a small
party of mobiles accompanied them all
the way to Thank to cement more
closely the new bonds of peace and
friendship.
Sofa also accompanied Tars Tarkas,
her father, who before all his chief
tains had acknowledged her as his
daughter.
Three weeks later, Mors Kajak and
his officers accompanied by Tars Tar
kas and Sofa, returned upon a battle
ship that had been dispatched TO Thank
TO fetch them in time for the ceremony
which made Dejah Thoris and John
Carter one.
For nine years I served in the coun-
ellis and fought in the armies of Helium
as a prince of the house of TardOs
Mors. The people seemed never to
tire of heaping honors upon me, and
new proof OF their love for their prin-
cess, the Incompatible Dejah Thoris.
In a golden incubator upon the roof
of our palace lay a snow-white egg
For nearly five years ten soldiers of
the jeddak's Guard had constantly
stood over 1t, and not a day passed
when 1 was in the city that Dejah
Thoris and 1 did not stand hand In
hand before our little shrine planning
for the future, when the delicate shell
should break.
Vivid in my memory is the picture
of the last night as we sat there talk
ing in low tones of the strange ro-
nance which had woven our lives to-
gether and Of this wonder which was
coming TO augment our happiness and
fulfill our hopes.
In the distance we saw the bright
white light of an approaching airship,
but we attached no special significance
TO so common a sight. Like a bolt of
lightning it raced toward Helium until
ITS very speed bespoke the unusual.
Flashing the signals which pro-
claimed 1t a dispatch bearer for the
jeddak. it circled impatiently awaiting |
the tardy patrol boat which must con- |
voy 1t to the palace docks.
Ten minutes after 1t touched ar the |
palace a message called me TO the |
council chamber. which I found filing |
with the members of that body.
On the raised platform of the throne /
was Tardos Mors, pacing back and |
forth with tenSe-drawn face. When
all were in their seats he turned to-
ward u.s.
This morning" he said, word
reached the several governments of
Barsoom that the keeper of the atmos-
phere plant had made no wireless re-
port for two days, nor had almost
calls upon him from score
Of capitals ELECTED a sign of response.
All day thousand cruisers have been
searching FOR him until, just now, one
Of them returns bearing his dead body,
which was found in the pits beneath
his house horribly mutilated by some
assassin.
II do not need to tell you what this
means to Barsoom. 1t would take
months. TO penetrate those mighty
walls, In fact the work has already
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The First Thing to Do With a State
Legislature Is to Abolish It.
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. Emporia, Kan

Take IT'S of all walks of lfe majority them
farmers Give of them
cent college degrees and let the srage from the third grade the
school Round them
all of the bunch other. Put them where
onethird with the other tword Organize
them backs of the heads about of them
nasty selfish sneakng ambition hold job
Then bang Slap them from the outside about
100 questions of craftsmanship that most of them heard
of things involving millions of dollars the good fortunes of mil
lion people Then let the circles of the the
be filed greedy wolves seeking special privileges of
all this them which to solve these
questions.
internal expect results What dmnabe
scheme that If the devil himself planned
it, he have
designed for another age, and worked well in the country
fifty years ago. But plays HI
thing do legislature abolish
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| women and children. among which
were the few nen whose duties neces-
STATED that they remain within the
/ city during the battle. We were greet
ed with an endless round of applause
and showered with ornaments OF gold,
platinum, silver and precious jewels.
The city had gone mad with joy.
/ My fierce Thanks caused the widest
/ excitement and enthusiasm. Never be-
fore had an armed body of green war
/ riOrs entered the gates of Helium, and
! that they came now as friends and al
lies filled the red men with rejoicing.
/ That my poor services to Dejah Tho
ris had become known to the Helium-
! ties was evidenced by the loud crying
of my name, and by the loads of orna-
ments that were fastened upon me and
my huge thOat as we passed up the
avenues to the palace, for even In the
face of the ferocious appearance of
Woola the populace pressed close
about me.
At the top Of the great steps lead
ing up to the main portals of the pal
ace stood the royal party, and as we
reached the lower steps one of their
number descended TO meet US. He was
an almost perfect specimen of man.
hood; tall, straight as an arrow. SUI
perbly muscled and with the carriage
and bearing Of a ruler of men. / did
not need to be told that he was TardUs
Mors, jeddak Of Helium.
The first member of our party he
met was Tars Tarkas and his first
words sealed forever the new friend
ship between the races.
THAT Tardos Mors," he said, earn
estly, "may meet the greatest living
warrior Of Barsoom Is a priceless
honor. but that he may lay his hand
on the shoulder Of a friend and ally
is q far greater boon"
"Jeddak of Helium,' returned Tars
Tarkas. at has remained for a man of
another world to teach the green war
riors of BarsoOm the meaning of
friendship; to him we owe the fact
that the hOrdes of Thark can under
stand you; that they can appreciate
and reciprocate the sentiments so
graciously expressed"
TardOs MOrs then greeted each of
the green jeddaHs and 1eds, and to
each spoke words of friendship and
appreciation.
AS he approached me he laid both
hands upon my shoulders.
'Welcome, my SON. he said; chat
you are granted, gladly, and without
one word of opposition, the most
precious jewel in all Helium, yes, in
all BarsOom, is sufficient earnest OF
my esteem"
We were then presented to Mors
KAYAK, Jed of lesser Helium, and IA
Their Of Dejah Thoris. He had followed
close behind TardOs Mors and seemed
even more affected by the meeting
than had his father.
He tried a dozen times to express
his gratitude TO me, but his voice
choked with emotion and he could not
speak, and yet he had, as I was to
later learn, a reputation for ferocity
and fearlessness as a fighter that was
even upon warlike Bar
SOON. In common with all Helium he
his daughter, nor could he
think of what she had escaped with |
out deep emotion.
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before I had gazed with longing upor

before / had gazed with longing upor
Mars.
Burying my head in my arms /
turned. broken, and sorrowful, down
the trail from the cave.
Above ne shone the red eye OF Mars
holding her awful secret, forty eight
million miles away.
Did the Marian reach the pump
room? Did the vitalizing air reach
the people of that distant planet in
time to save them? Was my Dejah
Thoris alive, or did her beautiful body
lie cold in death beside the tiny golden
incubator in the sunken garden OF the
inner courtyard of the palace OF Tar
dos Mors, the jeddak of Helium?
For ten years l have waited and
prayed for an answer TO my questions.
For ten years l have waited and
prayed to be taken back TO the world
of my lost love. 1 would rather lie
dead beside her there than live on
earth all those millions of terrible
miles from her.
The old mine, which I found I'M
touched has made me fabulously
wealthy; but what care 1 for wealth
AS l sit here tonight in my little
study overlooking the Hudson, just
twenty years have elapsed since first
opened my eyes upon Mars.
1 can see her shining in the sky
through the little window by my desk,
and tonight she seems calling TO me
again as she has not called before
since that long dead night, and l think
I can see, across that awful abyss of
space, a beautiful black-haired woman
standing in the garden of a palace, and
at her side is a little boy who puts his
arm around her as she points into the
sky toward the planet Earth, while at
their feet is a huge and hideous crea-
ture with a heart of gold.
1 believe that they are waiting for
me, and something tells me that 1 shall
soon know.
1.-THE ENID
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Bats and Bees

For many years l have noticed when
the lime trees are in flower the ground
beneath them strewed with dead bees
(the small bumble-bee), states a Scot
fish correspondent on nature matters.
But don't think this can be the work
of bats. as suggested, for the bees are
generally whole, Outwardly. but their
insides are eaten away. Can 1t be
that there is some tiny insect in the
lime flower which, fastening on them
as they suck the honey, eats into their
bodies. and causes them to drop down
dead below the tree? have never
noticed any number of bats about the
trees of an evening, and besides a
bats mouth would be too large to eat
them out like that
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Ostrich TeIephonInq.

When the eggs on the ostrich farms
in California are on the point of hatch
ing, curious tapping OF the shell may
be heard. This the keepers call "tele-
phoning" The sound is caused by
the chicks inside the eggs endeavoring
TO break out. Those which cannot
easily emerge are assisted by the
mother bird, which will sometimes
break an egg from which the teIephon-
ing is heard by pecking 1t carefully,
and will then aid the chick to get out.
AT the Pasadena farm the sight of
a boy riding an ostrich as he would a
pony may sometimes be seen.