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all moved toward the dining room. I wonder, little book, if it was a tear that I saw shining behind Elea nor Pairlow's long lashes, as I caught Jim's voice expounding in his usual gay tone, "Yes, Madame Kitty, we all have our right to happiness and there is always enough in the world to go around. The mistake we make is if we do not find our own we usual ly go over in somebody else's yard and try to steal theirs." "Are you trying to excuse Kitty's leaving her husband to his 'good works' and coming over here to snitch some of our happiness?" asked Dick with a grin. I glanced at Eleanor Fairlow and caught her looking at me with an expression that bothered me. Was she seeking her happiness over in my yard? Suddenly the whole thing grew unbearable and I turned to Dick and whispered, "Let's go home." (To Be Continued Monday.) o o IT EVENS UP "I hear you have a jitney bus line. Are you making a fortune?" "No. I also own a shoe store and the people are riding to save leather." o o Herman Ave held in $1,500 bond by Comm'r Foote for mail frauds. NATION-WIDE WAR AGAINST THE BLACK HAND STARTED A nation-wide crusade against the Mafia, or Black Hand society, will be started in Chicago next week. United States secret service men have for years been running down clues to this immense Sicilian organization, which has branches in nearly every large' city in the United States. Recently they have traced a leader to Chicago. He is being watched in the hopes that headquarters of the society might be discovered. In the little Italy districts of the North and South Sides hundreds of men and women have been killed and mutilated in recent years. Chil dren have been kidnapped and stores and homes blown up. The many crimes committed by this dreaded or ganization have been credited to the Italian race. They resent this stig ma and many Italian-Americans are aiding the government in its crusade. A. Bruce Bielaski, head of the bu reau of investigation for the depart ment of justice, has left Washington. His route to Chicago is a secret, but it is known that he intends to visit other cities to obtain first-hand re ports from his agents before coming here. Recently three writers of the Black Hand letters were arrested. They confessed. Nobody but secret serv ice men know to what they confessed. Since that time the Italian squad, working out of Second Deputy SchuetSer's offlce has been very busy. The detectives are co-operating with the secret service opera tives. When they are qeustioned they say: "Wait till next week." o o WANTS DOG ORDINANCE Dr. C. A. White, a veterinary sur geon, was requested by Aid. Nance of the health committee last night to draft an ordinance for the regulation of dogs. Dr. White's plan is to give out licenses at police stations and have a policeman at each station re sponsible for the dogs in his district. !c ., 1.-j