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mmmmmmim self into thinking I am, when I say things you do not like. I want you to know that if y6u choose me you will not have the woman you married. You will only have a name and the conventional shell of a wife." "Margie! Margie! I can't let you go. Stay with me on any terms I'll do anythipg. You may fix this matter up in your own way if you will only stay with me. I'll make you love me again." "I wish to God you could Dick. If you could give me back the some thing that made me trust you trust life trust humanity I'd bless you and love you to the end of your days." Dick groaned, and then he again asked : "What are you going to do ? " (To-Be Continued) o o SUES TELEPHONE CO. CLAIMS PHONE WAS DEFECTIVE Chicago Telephone Co. is defen dant in a pending suit filed by Miss Juliet Cunningham of 1164 W. 61st st An alleged defective phone is the cause. Miss Cunningham says that her' phone was improperly installed, so that a year ago, while talking over the instrument during a storm, the contrivance was struck by a light ning flash. Miss Cunningham was seriously hurt by the shock and was confined to her home for several weeks as a result of the accident She claims that it would have been prevented had the phone- been pro vided with a "ground wire" to carry the electrical current into the soil. o o MAY STOP AMERICANS GOING ON BELLIGERENT VESSELS Washington, Jan. 6. Legislation by congress to prohibit Americans traveling on any belligerent vessel to day threatened to be one of first re sults of British liner Persia's loss. Widespread growth of congressional sentiment for munition embargo was another development. TICKET SCALPERS DESPERATE i WANT ORDINANCE OUSTED Chicago's theater ticket scalpers are hot after the ticket scalping or dinance. It "has to be put out of the way." If it isn't thousand of dol lars will be lost each year by ticket scalpers, who, with the indefinite and indirect co-operation of the ticket offices, generally manage to sell you seats from 50 cents to $1 more than you should pay for them. Ticket scalpers make thousands from the people each year. So do the theaters. The general public gets stung. Astonishing facts were brought to light before the aldermen passed the ordinance. It was brought out that the first 18 rows in the Ma jestic were distributed in some mys terious way to the cigar counters of hotels and the vest pockets of ticket scalpers. It was also discovered that good seats which had been "sold" for days suddenly turned up at the box office a few minutes 'before show time rushed there by the scalpers in the hope that they would be sold. ,,-Att'y Levy Mayer justifies scalping. He compares the ticket "brokers" as he calls them to the grain brok er. "It infringes on their constitu tional rights" as the ordinance is ille gal, he says. o o EIGHT MISSING IN BLAST ON RIVER STEAMSHIP ' Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 6. Eight persons are missing and be lieved to have been drowned when the Ohio river steamboat Kanawha was blown against the pier of Dam No. 19, eight miles south of here, last night and sunk in 32 feet of water. The accident occurred, during a howling rainstorm that ha'd put out the lighthouse signal and prevented cries of those on board the vessel from reaching short. o o Fireman burned, 6 children res cued, when two frame buildings, 470014702 Wentworth av., -were de stroyed by fire. iMnritfiaBrtiiiflfiaittifli