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is almost instantly follows cyn ide poison, but, 20 minutes were required to dissolve the capsule. Miss Inez Hanscomb, Avis' in timate friend, called Richeson "by 'phone an hour after Avis died. "I told him Miss Linnell had died suddenly and it was desired he come immediately," she testifies. "He said in a calm voice: 'Is Miss Linnell dead? But why did you call me?' I told him he was her only friend nearby and he asked me if she had said anything before she died. I said she had not. " 'Well said he I remember I baptized her three years ago. I know her folks at Hyannis, but I do not know why I should be called. Call up her sister in Brockton.' I told him he had had lunch with Avis that day. 'Oh, you are mistaken"he answered.1' Whatever may have been the secret thoughts of Richeson that fateful Saturday night he acted well his part, and on the follow ing day in he Cambridge church he preached a sermon on "Could we have only known' and, de ferred to the death of a-beautiful girl who had at onevtrmcDeen his parishioner. $! With unusual fervofnerned his congregation to jppSre for "death, knowing' rt?tr the hour when the summons might come, and concluded with a -powerful exhortation upon the insidious temptations of city life and the uncertainty of the mortal span ! (To be concluded Monday.) o o Do your swatting now; '"X '. ABOUT PEOPLE. ' . The only "this yearns" bride in the diplomatic society .aflWash- mgton is MmcMal bran, who was mar ried to the first sec retary of the Argen tine legation just a few days before her husband r e c e ived his appointment. - Edward Stone, a brakeman, running between C h i c a go and Libert vllle, 111., found $25,000 in money on his train. The generous ; owner gave-hlm $1 for returningit. o o - I . OUR PRECISE ARTIST. mNHMh mm 4 & (HEReiSMY,) t AvI pay envelope! "Paying his fairl" o o Wanted Two live men at Roselawn cemetery. So run an ad in a Vermont paper. " jfeiiittHHr