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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07

Average price sof twenty industrial
ssocs Iussdssy t was l ra;is vas up - NV
IL Average price OF forty bonds was
e0.74 up 90
~ Unfted Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-Concrete
expression Of confidence entertained
in high financial circles regarding
business future, in form Of the divi-
dend increase by American Smelling
and Atchison on the same day. elic-r
tied prompt response in overnight
buying orders from every section of
the country.
New York, Central, whose pro-
nounced strength in face of Mon
days sharp drive on the market had
attracted favorable attention, con-
tinued to head the upward move
4ment among the rails reaching fur
Their new high since 1910 at 1241k.
Baldwin jumped into the leader
ship of the industrials, running up
three points to BsA at the expense
Of an over-crowded short interest.
With the avesaga price Of railroad
stocks In lew high ground for the
present bull market, the principal
activities around noon continued to
snter upon the carrier group. Call
&noney eased off to az per cent after
renewing at per cent and this de-
velopment encouraged a tremendous
volume Of dealings in the nom
dividend paying rails.
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FOUR INJURED IN
TRAIN COLLISION
Freak of Fate Averts Heavy
Loss of Life,
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. Jan. IA freak OF
fate alone averted heavy loss of
Life here early today when west
ern Indiana accommodation train
crashed into the side Of the New
York Express, crack Baltimore &
Ohio flyer. Only four persons were
hurt.
Two mail clerks were injured
when the Baltimore & Ohio mail car
was hurled high in the air and
thrown through the Oakdale station,
a himsy wooden suburban depot.
The fireman and engineer of the
western Indiana train were hurt, but
not seriously.
If the crash had occurred three
seconds later, the Western Indiana
locomotive would have plowed into
the diner, which was flied with pas
sengers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
PACKERS REFUSE
TOFOLLOW RISE
Hogs Sell Steady After Four
Hour Deadlock,

Hog statesmen fought losing bat
tie today at the local livestock mar
ket to sustain a sc advance in prices
effected in early trade when the pro-
ducers sold string of 5000 pork
ers at $10.30@1O.90. After four
hour deadlock, dealers gave in and
sold their hogs practically steady
with Tuesday. Top was $10.S5s and
the bulk Of sales was at $1015@
1895. Heavies sold at $1D.60G10.75;
mediums. $10.35@10.50; lights, $10.15
@10.25 and light lights, $9.50@10.15.
Pigs were steady at $6@9.5O. Sows
were unchanged at $975 down. Re-
ceipts were estimated at $4,000. Hold
over was $500. A good clearance
was reported.
A run Of 1850 cattle was cleared
at, prices steady with Tuesday. A
few lots OF yearling steers sold at
s10Q10.50, Handyweight cattle Of
fair to good quality sold over
range of s9.25@9.z5. In mont cases
the decline OF 15@25c effected Tues
day held today. Receipts were esti-
mated at 1900, and as usual con-
tanned practically no good cattle. A
few rather heavy cows sold at $3.50
and the general run cleared at
ss.5o@450. Heifers were quoted at
5000.
Prices on 800 veal received had a
stronger tendency. Top was $14,
about Soc higher than Tuesday. Bulk
~ Cood 1f7rff coId az e1QE01Q E0
Mediums>were quoted at $9@z1, and
common, thin calves brought $5@S.
Only few calves were qualified to
sell higher than 1880.
F. Sheep and lamb values were high
er. Lamb top was SIT and mixed
lambs sold from $1450 to SIG. Me-
dunn quality stock brought s11@14
and culls sold at 5000 A few ex-
ira good sheep cleared at $3.50. fully
SOC above opening week levels Re-
ceipts were 200.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
BUILDING SUPPLIES

Portland Cement--Cloth. a bag. Soc;
MortarGNovie prepared. 75c 1oo-lb.
sack
Hydraie Finish. $4,000 sack !,
mason's SOC sack
plaster and Finishegs-Iyory Neat. q,
a 10O-lb sack. plaster paris. 81 a So-lP
sack: Stonewall prepared fret coat-cloth
Fioerins----1xe p P. clear, s7b; com
mon. $40: No. common. SAB.
Bevei Siding axe clear redwood
Finish-Clear yellow. pine. g. and 10
inch. 500; l2-inch, $11Q; clear redwood
Drop Sidings-1x6 K p S75:. No y
common $40; ks No. ! commbn. X
500 No. common. $50.
Bcards-1x4 No common. $50: No z
common. $40: Ike No. I common. SOS:
No. common. $40 ks and 1xI0 NJ. /
No. COMMON. S75; No 2 common, $50.
Finish-Clesr yellow pine 6, 8 and 10
inch. 500: 12-inch. $110; clear redwood
6. s and 10-inch. S140: 12-inch. 500.
1 1000.
ex12 to 1e-ft.. $40; 2xsx12 to 16-ft..
16-ft.. $55: ID to 40 feet. 80 more.
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but could not. 1t seemed that there
was a suction that forced it shut L
ran screaming up the stairs and
Kenneth passed me-"
Opens Frozen Window
Carrie Smith said she heard the
screams and started downstairs.
"Kenneth pushed me back" she
said, Saying, My God, you can't
go through those flames
81 ran to the room where the boys
were sleeping and aroused them.
opened a window that has been
frozen all winter / seemed to have
superhuman strength. / pushed
Wallace through the window and
Ralph stepped on the floor and walled
that his feet were cold. picked him
up like Me was an infant and sat
him on the porch roof. climbed
out and we screamed.
"A neighbor man got ladder and
carried us down and took US next
door"
Roscoe Keeney, 542 w. Twenty
Eighth St.; Lee Scott. 525 w. Twen-
ty-Eighth st; Baxter Nichols, 52s
w. Twenty Eighth st., and Frank
Barnhardt, $40 w. Twenty Eighth
ST., were the neighbors who did he
role work at the FIRE.
Neighbers Are Valiant
Scott and Keeney broke front
window and pulled the burning cloth
ing from Mrs. Smith. who was try
ing to smother the flames on the da~
venport. Scott carried her to the
window and handed her to Keeney
on the front porch.
Scott then worked through the
flames to the kitchen and found
Kenneth lying on the floor. Mrs.
La Vonne Smith said her husband
had passed his mother in the parlor.
failing to see her, and went into the
kitchen to save her. She heard him
screaming, Mother, where are your"
Carrie said: ~ had a premonition
that something was going to hap
pen while at work Tuesday. I hur-
ried home"
Smith was called at HIS work and
hurried home to find 1t wrecked. He
st.id he had just recently let the
household goods insurance expire
The family recently moved here
from two and half miles south Of
Lebanon, Ind.
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Deaths

Lydia D. Gross. 81. st. Vincent hospi-
tai septicaemia.
William .Miibourn Gift. ss. $3.50 North
tis.
uremia.
Tillie Ankenbroclx. "a. % Ridgeview
Drive, acute dilatatiou Of heart.
Elwina Owens, 70 Methodist hospital.
lobar pneumonia.
Charles cariyis. 10 Long hospital. acute
nny0carditis
& Per q i. n; IN. Mcdonald 81 1919 Miller
s, William NJ Waltnan. days. 1875
Silver. prematrre birth
Anna Barbara Hereth. %. 324O Wash.
n&tQn BlyQs hypostatie Pneumonia.
pect0riz
HsrTl Earl MAstcn, 43. Dcaconesa hos
p1taI. fractured akul4 accidental
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
INAUGURAL PLANS READY
jackson and Van Ornan to Take
Oath Monday at Noon.

Detailed plans for Inauguration OF
Ed Jackson as Governor and F. Har-
lod Van Orman, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, were announced today by VIII
lis G. Dye, chairman of the inaugu-
ration committee. The oath OF Of
fee will be administered by Justice
Julius Travis of the Indiana SUI
prene Court in the rotunda of the
Statehouse, Monday at 10 m.
Special trains from Evansville,
home of Van Orman, and Lafayette
will arrive early Monday. The
Evansville delegation will be accom-
panied by band. and will present
Van Orman with gavel as presid-
ing officer of the Senate.
Plans were preflented to the Re-
publican State committee this after
noon for final approval.
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Other Live Stock

10000: market yearlings and handy
weight steers moderately active; steady:
heavyweights dull; killing quality very
$I1 better. grade she-stock steady; others
long 15c. OFF calves 15M60c up; bulls
firm ep-Receipts. 5000; market.
slow: all classes around Z5c up bulk
lambs, S17.75 q 1850; best held higher;
full shorn lambs. $685. choice yearlings.
$16.5Q fat ewes. so @9.75; feeding lambs
scarce; few sales good to choice feeders.
S16.25 a 1850. Hogs-Reccipts. $4,000:
ers, 10c off; bulk $4,000 1890; heavy
weights. $l0.25 g 1870: mediumweight.
70 40 1872 sEf ag 70 % 1od5
smooth. So a 1925: packing COWS,
rough. $9.40 Q9.S5; slaughter pigs. So so
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07

CHICAGO. Jan. 7.--Grain futures
opened with a strong undertonesDn
the Chicago Board OF Trade today.
Most business at the start conferred
in coarse grains.
There was no material change in
wheat values. Underlying strength
developed as sellers tried to rein
state lines in response to better ex-
port business. Export sales were
100000 wheat, 100000 rye and some
oats.
Lighter receipts and improved
feeder demand helped corn. There
was a noticeable let UP in free
selling. I A little export business
strengthened oats. Provisions were
higher with hogs and cables.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
State Committee Meets

Lieutenant Governor-elect f. Har-
old Van Orman was closeted with
administration leaders, including Re
publican, State Chairman Clyde a.
Walb, throughout the morning. The
Republican State committee was to
meet at 2 p. m. at the SEVERN to
set date for city conventions for
Jan. II.
A trip to Riley Memorial Hospital
by the legislators was on the pro-
gram this morning.
Both women members Of the
House, Mrs. Elizabeth Daugherty,
Wabash County, and Mrs. Antoinette
Hagenwald. Terre Haute, arrived
and attended caucus meetings.
Republican Legislators will caucus
tonight at p. m. at the Statehouse
with Democrats caucusing in rooms
of the Democratic State committee
at the Claypool.
Support Of all but one or two Of
the eleven Marion County Repre-
sentatives for Leslie for speaker was
pledged at meeting Tuesday night.
1t is said. ID. C. Stephenson, polit-
ical adviser of Governor-elect Ed
Jackson. and George ". Coffin, Ma
rion County Republican boss, at
tended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
Frisco Valuation Sci

< WgAns sass { Jan. 7-Tenta-
tive valuation of the st. Louis & San
Francisco Railway, as of June 80,
1919, was fixed by the Interstate
commerce commission today at
s1s5, 1853, 722 for all property owned
by the road and 1886, 1897 .O6S for all
property used by the road.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
STATE BoTTLERS MEET
Legislative Committee to Be Named
Thursday, Says Secretary.

Philip Hamm of Elwood. president,
opened Indiana State Bottlers' As
sociaiton convention today at the
Claypool About sixty members at
tended.
A committee to look after inter
ests of the bottlers in the coming
Legislature will be named Thursday,
l. E. Yuncker. secretary, said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
GIRL CAUGHT in CHASE
Arrested After Fight Said to Have
Occurred Over Chinese.

Miss Laura Walker. 10, colored,
449 w. Sixteenth St.. MAS under
arrest today on charges Of assault
and battery with intent to kill,
vagrancy and drawing deadly
weapons. Sergeant Smith said he
caught Miss Walker after chasing
her a block and q half. Tuesday
night.
Police charged she cut Samuel
Hill, "a, colored, $40 w. Vermont St.,
after he had struck her when he
found her conversing with a Chinese
in the 500 block in Senate Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
BURGLARY DISCOVERED
Bakery Driver Reports Grocery
RObbed-Apartment Entered.

Otis Harris, 26 N. Richland St.,
driver for the National Biscuit Com
pany, discovered, when he was MAX
ing delivery at the 8. L. Klezner
grocery, 1922 s. East St., that bur
glars had been there. Lieutenant
Schubert and the police emergency
squad found $22 had been taken.
Miss Lucille Benson, Apartment 8,
the Roberts, 225 N. Illinois St., re-
ported SIS in cash, q wedding ring,
divorce papers and clothing and
Jewelry valued at $e5 stolen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
One Day Sentence

Abraham Harrison, of Chicago,
ILL.,. was sentenced to one day in jail
and costs. after4he pleaded guilty to
violating the anti-narcotic law before
Judge A. B. Anderson in Federal
Court today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
Chicago Grain Table

WHEAT Prev.
a,r Y Ss4 1 H|sn. , ESs 1 Ggis s9s.s
Hsy Is ss fs ss l 2zs l lssg 1881
OATS
asiS ..ssf fR sss ss55& 81. SO 81. 81
LARD
san 1900 1906 1890 1897 1875
RIBS
Jan Nominal 14.67 1910
RYE
9 Saiy Is4 1881 l.ss I1SsE 1857 1s sss
CHICAGO. Jan. 7.-Carlot receipts were:
heat 81 corn. 401; oats. "a; rye. 20.
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Commission Market
14I11 'N|I'|IlIllI'4IlIlIAl4
Fruits

Fruits
Apples--Fancy Jonathans.. $500 80
bpE; fancy pelicious, $475 BOX; n.
$50 BE- fancy Ba HdR9i $3.50 SiP bS
Apricots-- California. $3.50 box.
Rsaaaas-s lve pSs1n hd 80 1o-n
dSErsnsberries-s7.5o@ a half barre
GrsPe-TsncS California Empsrors
z. Li,ssnoenss-cslifornia. s5@B5o.
Limes-$1 30 hundred
Oranges fancy California vale1-
cias 1859 to 260s. $3.50 q $50: Florida.
fiuIm1ss--Arsentine., ss@s.5o . ao-lb
Pears-Bartlett, So bushel: extra
Psrslmmons-Fancy Indianas, S1.50 a
ssrawberrses-eo@7Oc quart =
Tangerinee-$ 20.
Vegetables
Beans-Fancy Southern Green. S303.5o
Bsets-Fancy homegrown, 50 4oc
sdoze punches, S1.75 q 80 bushel
Cabbage-Fancy Holland seed. y Csc
csfrots-s1e 5 a bushel: New Texas.
= tssSaiilihower-Caiiforn S2.75 3 crate.
sfs trimmed S sSe 6u hssss ts al zs
81 crate.
ueumbers-HUm grown. 50 dozen
EggpIant--$l 10 dozen.
End1ve-60c dozen
Kale-sonthern. ST 90 a bushel
sse hot noas ISsR ss sgs Boy ss %
soss@Sancy Southern. soc Das-
onions-spanish So. l502.25 crate.
{ eQme-srowu. So q 100-lb sack; Indiana
filOW. So. Indiana Red So: hot house
Ieens. Soc dozen lunches
49, HreleT-Home-grow Zoe. doz- punches.
hadlshes--B Buttons hot house. $50
dozen punches: long red or white. 75r
Ruhahagas-$1 % ffty-lb basket
Shali0ts-76c basket.
Spinach-&2 a bushel
Tonafoes--F ss sncy California repacEed.
81 90 six-basket crate
Turnips-S1 30 q bu.. 81 80 barrel
Potatoes
Fancy Michigan round white 50 IS a
150-Ib. bag MlnuesQta 81 $150-Ib.
BAG. Red River Early 0hlos. $2.1bt 20
pound bag. Idaho RUssete. S3m325
1xQ-l1 bag Kentucky cobhlers &3f1 -
Sweet Potatoes Virginia. 81 rs bar
iel Eastern Jerseys. 1915 hampegs
lndtana So 80 hushel Arkansas H2 ~
trA@t as1 a 4. .isaA2 .sAf1
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Prices on Coal

Anthracite, $3.50 a ton; coke, $40:
West virginia lump, $6G7.25: Kentucky
ssugrn r 70 76@ a :75: Pocghontas mine rsn.
lnnlp. SIS az: indiana egg S. B5 as d5.7 rs
indiana mine run. 81 30 a 80 wheel
ing. SOC ton extra.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07

Tank WAGON Prices

tCsssline prices do not include stats
GAsOLIG f. Enerzse. 47c d gallon:
13 Re: Silver Flash Tie: Standard avia-
tien. q &C. Sinclair cQmmercial 1899.
!. kEAQSke e. ryst ai7ne. II re. Moore
8 kie fnlore then goo galioie) brighi
!. q :assFTss re! e'IsspisrA 1e
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
Slate Is Formed

The administrator slate of Lemuel
A. Pittinger. Selma, for floor leader,
and John C. Sherwood, Michel, or
George A. Freeman, Kokomo, for
caucus chairman. appeared likely to
go through without a hitch.
On the Democratic side of the
house Thurman A. Gottschallx,
Berne, was to be floor leader, with
Representative Herbert, P. Kenney.
New Albany, or John w. Kitch,
Plymouth, as caucus chairman.
Senator Walter S. Chambers was
TO be caucus chairman Of the Demo
cratic side Of the Senate with SEN
ator Joseph Cravens, Madison, APP
pearing likely for floor leader. SEN
ator Andrew E. Durham, Green
castle, entered the race for the
Democratic floor leadership.
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NOTICE.
TO TENANTS IN OFFICE
RTTIIDTNGS 2

If you wish to buy Fritchs Veg. Soap
of me. it will be necessary tc send mail
orders. as the managers of some buildings
do not wish to have any soliciting in their
building NV price for SOAP for 1925 to
you will be 80 cents for 8 bars or 2 bars
81 90 Thanks for past favors L. h.
Rowell. Gen. Agt.. Box 657. indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07
GRAINS DISPLAY
STRONGER TONE
Better Export Business Aids
Wheat,
BULLETIN

BIZ United Press
- CHICAGO. Jan. Grain fu-
lures finished fractionally higher
on the Board of Trade today.
Improved export business Great
ed a strong undertone.
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Produce Markets

Strictly fresh. new-laid No. eggs. loss
on 52ci, fowls 4 " lbs. up, zoe; fowls
Zoe; Leghorn poultry, rs per e cent t. dis.
count: young tom turkeys, IL lbs up. 33c:
GID tom Il turkeys 26c: young hen turkeys
pounds up. lac; SQUADS, II pounds to
Dozen. "a 90; Dung guineas. 2-pound size.
lis. 43c: packing stock butter delivered
Indianapolis, Io@22c Id. Rabbits So
CLEVELAND, Jan. 7.-Poultry-Liv
Ine esty lf8T1s S7@2Se medium sr S4@SSc
light goo gle; geese. 25 q 27c: light g
q 23c; ducks heavy, 500 32c: light, 20
AZ ne; firsts, 405b a Al Nc; standards.
43c. Eggs-Fresh gathered northern ex-
tras. soc. extra firsts. 58c; Ohio firsts,
56c; western hrgts, 55c., Potasoes-M ichi-
Russets S276@S.S5; New York, sea
2 10 per $50 pounds.
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TINNERs. sTIpPIIra

Tin G 20x2S coke. $3.50: charcoal.
$22. 900 "a ternes Sl5015: old styles
Lead-Bar. SIS per 100 pounds.
Zfne--Sheet $13 per 100 pounds
Copper Bottoms, 36c per pound ;
sheets. soft. 10-oz.. 27c pound.
Steel--No, % range: galvanszed, So .65
g 9s65 per 100 noz1nds o. p G. r.. $4.55
Q4.65 per 100 pounds
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Local Bank CIearinus

Bank clearings Wednesday were $751;
600.
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IRON AND sTEEI.

Local Wholesale prices on IRON END
steel bars are: Structural 1928 q 100
III. base. steel bars. S3.Io q 100-lb. base;
cold rolled shaftiilg. So o5 4 1OO-pound
base. blue annealed sheets. IO-gauge base
So 90 100-pound; galvanized sheets %.
gauge base. $5.66: 100 pounds: black
sheets 28-gauge &4T5 100 pounds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-07

Dealera selling prlcae: Black Gus
Summer IT. DC winter. lie; cylinder
II @ Gle, engine. I8066e: dynamo. zS d
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WOMAN DIES, SON
BURNED IN BLAST

Continued From Page ~
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EENsEED OIL And TEHPKNTIKN
Local dealers are quoting fhe fp11ow1ne
prices en Rsssd oil ~ i ai-
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NEJDL' s FRIENDS
CLAIM ADVANTAGE
Continued From Page y

Knapp, Hagerstown for the speaker
ship. representative Willis e. Roe,
Lake County, also claimed to have
some support for the speakership.
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RAIL STOCKS HEAD UPWARD DRIVE
\, C, Features Market
Dividend Increases Bring
Response.
Average Stock Prices

Average price Nof twenty industrial
stocks Tuesday was 1918. up 81. Az
.ersge price of twenty rails was 100.27. up
10 Average price of forty bonds was
o0.74. up .06.
Evening star., 1925-02-06

Linen Handkerchiefs
15c Each

(Seconds of 25c and 35c Grades)
Women's Embroidere Lin
en- Handkerchiefs, white and colored
effects. Importers odd lots and slight
irregulars.
Goldenberg's-First Floor.
Evening star., 1925-02-06
Women's Sc and So Pumps anC

Broken footwear
riddane This
choice the styles Pumps and Oxford of
dull feathers Spanish, military and low walking
22 in the lot
ergs- -Frs Floor.
Evening star., 1925-02-06

Choice of oCtagon, cushion and
tonneau shapes. white or green
gold filled cases. Complete with
ribbon bands and slides. Reliable
six Jewel Sw s s movements.
Pretty engraved cases. Each in
box.
Goldenberg 's-First Floor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-08-27
CHE BLACK GANG

drug the girls with cocaine or some
dope first. What do you say to my
theory now, sir?"
ITS another point in its favor, Nc
Iver," conceded Sir Bryan cautiously
''but it still wants lot more proof
And, anyway, whether you're right OF
not, we can't allow it to continue. We
shall be having questions asked Ii
parliament
McIver nodded porrentously. IF
can't lay my hands on man who can
lift me up like baby and dope me,
may l never have another case. Like
baby, sir. Me-
He opened his hands out helplessly,
and this time Sir Bryan laughed out.
right. only to turn With quick frowu
as the door leading to the secretary4
office was flung open to admit a man.
He caught a vague glimpse of the
scandalized Miss Forbes lowering like
canary eating Dird-seed in the back.
ground; then he turned to the new
conner.
"Confound it, Hugh" he cried. "Tm
busy"
Hugh Drummond grinned all over
his face, and lifting hand like leg
Of mutton he smote Sir Bryan in the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-08-27
OPTIMISM
ey TAoMAs ARKLE CLARK

81 THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
THINGS are seldom as bad as we
a think they will be.
read, some years ago, Miss Mildred
Aldrich's "On the Edge Of the War
Zone" Miss Aldrich was living in a
little house on the bank of the Marine
at the beginning of the late war. She
was an eyewitness to the heroic strug-
giles Of the French army when the
Germans were driven back from their
vantage ground in that vicinity. She
went through all sorts Of discomforts
in a climate that at it's best In winter
is disagreeable. She was without coal
when snow was on the ground and
the temperature was bitterly low. She
was shut in, restricted in her food
supplies, and often In actual danger !;
yet she never complained. She says
she really never suffered, and that she
was never so well in her life. Even
when she was without fuel she didn't
catch cold, and she objected very
strenuously to being pitied by her
friends. She was sure that things are
never so bad as we fear they may be.
She tells of many of the soldiers
who came back from the front for
''repos," some Of whom were quartered
with her. They had been in the
trenches, surrounded by all the
wretched conditions of which we have
read, more wretched, perhaps, than
we dream of. They had slept out in
the snow and cold, or, what is even
worse, in the mud and rain, yet they
were rosy, healthy, thoroughly fit, and
cheerful as school boys. They had not
found the conditions of living in active
war service nearly as unbearable as
they had supposed they would be.
sThe Grape hanger and the prophet
of evil almost always make things
worse than they are.
The case Of neighbor of mine when
was a boy in the country comes to
my mind as l write. He was constant
ly obsessed with the thought of
drought and food, Of pestilence and
famine, of cyclones and devouring in
sects. He invariably took the gloomy
view. He constantly courted disaster
and predicted calamity, and he looked
forward with melancholy resignation
TO the time when he would be quar-
tered on the county, his home and his
friends gone. Yet he regularly pros
pered. his crops always matured, prices
were much higher than he had antici-
pated, the Weld of grain was satisfac-
tory and he got on well. He extended
his possessions regularly, until he is
now one Of the solid, substantial farm
ers In the community in which he
lives. But he is not happy. Today he
is looking for trouble, though most of