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TliK ROCK ISLAXD AllGUS, SATUIU3AV". Al'HIT, 2.', 191. 4 THE, ARGUS. I PuMliW. 'daily at 1C4 Pecond ave- RockiliUnd.. I 'J. EntercJ at tha ro'tofflo- cond-claae matter.) RavtdIaiasdr MamW f Aartatd BY THE J.W. POTTER CO. TERMS Ten. cants r-er week by car rier; la Rock Itland; f 1 per year by mail t advaac. '- Complaints of delivery tMc ahouM fnada t tha circulation department. which abould sUao be notified. In every - Instance? whrri It la dealred to hare paper" dZeooTitlnaeJ. aa carrier bave no authority- la th prrmlaea. ' Alt eomtnunleatlona of araTinentatJre elsaraSfterc political or rrlig-loja, tnuat have ; real ' ci attached for pubilca- ttopJ7. Xo avion artlclra will ba printed vie'. Actltlbua ,al -na tare. '-l .' Telephone In all departments. Cen- traliUnton, Roeic Island 143. IKS and s. - i :i - -. - CTR C lTI'Z. C C u N C : Saturday, April 25, 1914. It takes a woman to conceal the things she doesn't know, but a man's Ignorance la always cropping out. T- getter. It Is what might be expected of novices In the newspaper business. Newspapers reserve the right to as sail ethers; sometimes. It must be ad mitted without a great deal of cause, but when those who are la the habit of doing the assailing And themselves on the receiving end it Is quite another matter. In the ability to "stand the raff." to accept In good part what one lias been accustomed to hand to cm ers. lies a thorough test of stability and strength of character. The new hand In the game Is pretty certain to be thin-skinned and to take It to heart when he first finds himself nn fh imt end of a controversy. The i.ii trained. more than half- ' v. i . i . .i .nni.u tinl apnsnned UdHCU W "- " " newspaper man. however. Is ready to take as frwd as he sends and como up for more. The knocks of the tralo give Mm a sane viewpoint and make Inra a kooU f.:o;t Provldence alone can help an Insti tution with a printing press at Its com macd that must needs run to the court for vindication. Such a course strikes The Argus either that such a paper Is conscious of the limitations of Its clientele or doubts the power of Its own influence. The Argus has always endeavored to be considerate of Its contempora ries, and stands ready to do almost any thing In reason for them, but contrib uting to the fund nov so modestly asked is too much, especially when all the circumstance J concerning the re- nu.-t are considered Purine the local option campaign The Argus carried advertlsments for both sides for what they were worth, and regardless of Its own sentiments : ' The weaklln who sues the Rock Is- .. - - .L1U.J t Una newspapers car a:o o- , paramount issue, but it had neith , started has been finished. I1 I Henry Budd of Philadelphia wants :s o fo to th senate. Being a demo- crat In a republican state, however "; but why finish It? You've already f, got It. er during the campaign nor since, any relations with the Local Option league more intimate than with any other or dinary advertiser using Its columns, and nowithstanding that it Is perfectly able to take cars of itself it resents being brought Into this kid like con troversy. ; - The consul general of Persia. ho Is '.ia New York, has given some farts as to the cost of living in his country which would seem to be calculated to promote Immigration thitherward. One I can buy a turkey over there for 3 i . .kl.l'nn fn rrntt nnrl , I' t- 4 ! at Z cents a doren. while a cow brinps j Thursday, urging them to make needed about $3. However, conditions are ' changes in the methods of purchasing relatively not so much better tban j COunty supplies. It w as placed on the ANOTHER HINT IGNORED. As was expected the county board studiously ignored the resolution adopted by the January grand Jury. and presented to the supervisors elsewhere since labor U paid from 5 to 10 cents a day. table. Obviously it would be bad politics, . -. "Dr Julian Thomas, of New York. I now that the county Is about to em ronaut. autcmobilirt and medical j bark on an era of financia affluence SkeT has been held In $5000 bond by nen there will be some real money to he United Stat-s commissioner for'fP"'. n-T precedent or take using the malls to defraud. He has .notice of any movement encroaching bn advertising Chat he was able to "P th prerogatives of leaders of ,.j.it, nr'ine ooara. u mus-i nave ceca an tin effect cures without drags, by taking a dietetic course in which "raw wheat biscuits" figure con spicuously. If the "Doctor" is sent to the pen the government authorities might add to his punlhment by put tins; him on a dit of his own "biscuit." The city of Moline Is fitting up four baseball diamonds for the boys this summer. Use of th premises has been donated by property owners who ish to see the youngsters have an oppor tunity for healthful out of door sport. This is an example nl.lch might be followed with profit in Hock Island. This city oucht to have a dosen dia nmnds open to the cse of all boys. It's e-reat for the lads and it would help add to the visible supply of ball players in later years. Besides It has one In I.'land City park that could un der proper reflations be used for games at a profit. barrapir.g moment for Me;' geMle men when the resolution was brought up. but happily there was a champion at hand to lead the movement to send it to its oblivion and there we may ex pect it to rest Indefinitely. Reforming U a fine thing till it hit" the reformer and then it Is another matter. If the grand jury had found that any other department in county affairs needed a hauling over the coals the heads of the board would have fallen over themselves to adopt the recommendation, even tiiough it took all the surplus revenue for a year or two, but since the grand Jury had the temerity to criticise the board itself It must be speedily sat down upon. It is hardly to be supposed that the grand jury acted without a full keowl edre of tnc facts. . It had access to ell the evid-nre the regular and pe ri." 1 state's btttorney could dig up. a:il to-ifJ,-s It wa9 given the d.ila col- Capital Comment BY CLYDE H.yTAVENNER Congressman from, the 'Fourteenth District. mm TAVENNER (Special Correspondence of The Argua.) "Washington. April 23. Washington just Dow is witnessing an example of expert lobbying that surpasses in clev erness anything in recent years. The lobby is opposing the president In bis policy of re pealing the exemp tion granted to V 3. coastwise ves sels In the matter of Panama tolls. The chief lustra ment In the lobby Is the newspaper known as the Washington Post. The Tost is owned by John R. Mc Lean, who also owns the Cincin nati Enquirer. The Enquirer is one of the greatest news papers in the Unit ed States. It main tains Its own corps of correspondents scattered throughout the United States. In newsgathering ability the Cincin nati Enquirer ranks with the Associa ted Press. The press associations could quit business and the Cincinnati Enquirer would continue to print the important news of the t nitea states, however remotely from Cincinnati it may have occurred. For some reason or other John R. Mctan took up the propaganda against the repeal of the tolls provis ion of the Panama law. The decision on his part was arrived at suddenly, for his broadsides of publicity were turned loose on congress in a single day, and have continued their firing up to the present. Each day the Washington Post prints at least one full page of "news" arti cles against tolls repeal. The paper's editorials are almost completely given up to the propaganda. The news ar ticles, come from towns and cities In all sections of the' country. For the most part they are interviews with al leged leaders of thought in these sev. eral communities, denouncing the "sur render" to England and the other "ar gumcnts" of the anti-repeal advocates The average congressman is a coun try mn. He ia unversed In the ways of newspaper crusades. Each morning he opens his copy of the Washington Post and sees little In it but broad sides .of denunciation for the presi dent. There are dispatches telling how hard it Is going to be ror any democrat who is upiwriing the pres ident to be reelected because of the storm of public indignation against the administration's tolls policy. IThe congressman may be unable to analyxo the motive behind these arti cles. He is likely to come to the con elusion that the Washington Post is merely reflecting in the capital what Is going on In every city of the coun try. He is likely to think that all city newspapers are carrying these same columns of "news" of the tremendous uprising against President Wilson. Jt was left to an Indiana editor, W. C. B. Harrison of the Elkhart Progres sive Democrat, aided by Senator John W. Kern, to expose this latest lobby and to show that, this alleged popular uprising Is being manufactured out of thin air by John R. McLean and his newspapers. 5Jr. Harrison sent to Senator Kern a copy of -a" telegram which he received from the Cincin nati Enquirer. It read: "Cincinnati. Ohio, April 10, 1914. "Some Reliable Newspaper Man, Elk hart, Ind.: Please file early Friday evening 300 words showing unfavora ble sentiment your section, toward President "Wilson's stand on Panama! canal tolls . Interview big business men and get them to 6ay something hqt. ENQUIRER." In other words, the Enquirer's own great corps of correspondents is not big enough to get the "unfavorable" sentiment that John R. McLean wants and is willing to pay for. So blanket telegrams are being sent to "any re liable newspaper men" who may be willing to aid in an Insidious plot against the president and in favor of the shipping trust for the few dollars they can get from the Enquirer for their services. OSLffilffi HENRY" HOWIAND WHEN JUNE IS JUST AHEAD The Daily Story The Mistake of Her Life By May C. Etheridge. Copyrtsrbted. 114, by Associated Literary Bureau. How fair a world thla world may be When Juna la Just ahead, Whan bloasoma rrace the apple tree And summer's ru are spread Acroaa the mead ows soft and s-reen And on the grace ful :pp8, And on men's faces ' there la aeen The flow of eplen did hopea. How food It la to be alive Whn June la drawing near How grood to hope. to dare, to at rive. To nin a taunt at fear: The world la never quite ao fair, , And victory ne er thrills As vhftn. with In Vir Tinfr mm June trips across the hills. The year's fair bride, with robes of c-ause,' Her pathway blossom strewn Th world grows fairer than It was. with each return of June; And. thoutrh In inanitions In the sky Their banquets may be spread. I mourn for those who have to dla - When June la Just ahead. NEW TEST FOR. ILL UMINATING GAS Man's Pet Aversions. The average man does not care to be An onlooker at a wedding. The wearer of the first straw hat In the spring. compelled to wait an hour for a train. Present when his wife tells their friends how eager he was while he courted her. A listener when his best story la being told by somebody else. Met by a pretty girl while he Is wheeling a baby carriage. Wet nurse to a rubber plant. t TAVZNNEE SCORES AG Alii. Congressman Tavenner is to be con gratulated cpon the success cf letted Ly til'; special investigating coniinittte which the board named to look into the sheriff's office and which was headod by the chairman of tho his j supervisors. fight to eliailna-e the joker In the army r rom lne ,acl 1,131 11 returned m- ..... - 'f1lrlnifnl ft f 4 n?n'n f i i f In it m IiiIl-- l:ii in conrr renew com-. --- ammunition Klf.e- The five words which were in-!1"3 criminal ofTc-Rses punishable by For many years all laws and regula tions relating to manufactured gas were based on candlepower require ments. L e., the gas burned la a defi nite burner at the rate of 5 cubic feet per hour was required to give a speci fied illumination of so many candle- power. Tins specification mrnisiieu a perfectly satisfactory control of the quality of gas delivered so long as the gas was chiefly used for illuminat ing purposes with tho old style of open-flame gas burner. At the present may not be the most economical gas to the public. The importance of the heating value of the gas is now being quite generally recognized, and where new legislation has been adopted re cently and where public-service com missions have considered tho question of gas regulation and have gotten to the point of issuing regulations, the heating value standard is being gener ally adopted, supplemented in some cases by a moderate candlepower standard, the latter with a view to af- Too Ready to Quit. It Is very kind of you to ask me to be your wife; but I must refuse. I hope you will not hurry away and do anything rash." ."Don't worry about that. I merely wanted to be sure that we understood each other." "You are so sensible that I am going to take back what I sold and accept you." time, however, this inefficient type of j fording the necessary protection to burner has been very largely displaced J those who still use the opea-flame t I 1 , & f . . . . 1 - . T 1 serted after the measure had left bis ''t"' certain uo- haads would bave pracU.ally nullified Pwtinnts. The resolution it adopted h- r,i.. v t - i , .-..;-..! ,;fliows that some who were not atnen- .. .... .u- . .. able to la Its fat profirs Had b let pronrs. Had n- not extreme vigilance the combine would hare carried Its point. Passage it the bill Ja Its present form is expected to man much for Reck Island arsenal and for the thrjo tit lea. as well as to effect a savins: of millions of dollars fr the government. WHERE ARE THE MEXICAN WAR VETERANS? ' "Where are the surviving veterans of the Mexican war of 1846-6?" This Is the call from Chicago, where only two men remain. In 1910 the Western association cf Mexican War Veterans was disbanded. A year later only two Chicago men. . snt'and gray with years, held their .43t official camp fire and reunion. September 7. 1910. the last national meeting of the Mexican war veterans was held In Indianapolis, when the ' national association was disbanded. There were 18 members of the asso ciation then. In a bushed and tearful - silence the 28 grizzled heroes listened to the words of the secretary: "ft now becomes my f acred duty to ad ' Joora the National Association of : Mexican War Veterans was disbanded, .on that beautiful shore. I ask you to arise and declare the national asso , elation adjourned forever." One by oca they parted, perhaps sever to meet again on earth. The youngest then was 79 years old. Since then the ranks have thinned rapidly. f CHILD'S PLAY. I The Argus has no cause to be ' aXarmed over any act of the MoIIne I Mail Involving the financial resources ' of the two newspapers, nor Is It dls ! posed to Invite or even consider a de- t bate with the publication that allpges a jrrJeraAC, Neither does The Argus anticipate that' the, suJt the Mail has Hied, coming" aa It does In the mldnt of the excitement In. Mexico, will at tract world wide attention. Though ft Isn't likely to cut much figure either aa an advertlelcg dodge or a revenue j w were nevertheless entitled to eriticiFm for bing beneficiaries of a petty system of mutual favors. Those Indicted, if guilty of all the crimes charged, got but a few hundred dol lars from the county treasury but the other evil the grand Jury sought to rectify went to the very root of the county's business policy. It was too direct and too much to the point. The heads of the board refused to stand for it. A previous grand Jury excused cer tain members of the county board be cause it was led to believe that they did not understand the law bearing upon their lights and duties In the matter of expending the county's rev enues. That delicate hint appears to have pasned unheeded. Judging from the fate of recommendation pt the Jan uary inquisitorial body. Evidently the leaders hlnk I hey can continue to "get by." Hut in this they are short-sighted, if nothing more. Next fall there Is an election at which certain propositions are to come up all of them worthy and deserving of popular support. In fact, the progress of the county end its people depends to a considerable extent upon the verdict on theso is sues. The peoplo must be educated to see the need of Improvements pro posed or they ran hardiy be expected to support them. And that is not alL The voters will want to have confidence In their coun ty government before entrusting it with more money to spend. Few of them are fully Informed on inside county developments of the last year or more, but the general belief is that something Is wrong. The refusal of the board of supervisors to make re forms so obviously needed In Its meth od of purchasing supplies docs not help to dispell this feeling. by burners of the Welsbach mantle type. Furthermore, a large amount ot the gas sold today is tised'for cooking purposes and to some extent for oper ating small gas engines for power pur poses. In these applications of gas it is the heating value that is of first im portance and not the candlepower. It has been estimated that less than 0 per cent of the pns manufactured and sold today. Indeed in many of our cities and towns less than 10 per cent. is used In the old type of open-flame gas burners. Notwithstanding this fact we still find In most of our cities and towns ordinances oa the statute books requiring that the gas meet a definite candlepower test, while no at tention has been given to the question of heating value, which is the import ant factor for over SO per cent of tht gas sold. Many of the candlepower requirements fixed by law are quite high, often requiring the manufacture of an expensive oil-enriched gas, which burner. In view of the growing importance of the question of heating values of gases from the manufacturing, the legislative, the inspecting, and the economic sides, the bureau of stand ards, of the department of commerce, started several years ago an exhaus tive investigation of the instruments widely used In this country and abroad to measure the heating values of gases, with a view to determining the sources ot error to which the in struments are liable, the important precautions to be observed in their use, and the accuracy attainable with them. This Investigation has now been completed, and the results will be published in a forthcoming tech nologic paper, reprints of which may be obtained by those interested in the subject by addressing a written re quest to that bureau at Washington. IX C. It is expected that the paper will come from the press about June 1. , Alas, Alackl "There will be no marriage nor giv ing In marriage in heaven," said Mrs. Ilenpeck. Mr. Ilenpeck drew a long, deep, sad sigh. "Why do you look so sad about It, Henry?" she asked. "We haven't any 6uch assurance about conditions in the other place." Brute. "Mary," he pleaded, "will you please quit talking for a few minutes? I'm trying to think." "I can talk and think," she peevIsWy replied. "I can't understand why you are not able to listen to me and think." "I can. Only the things I think while I'm listening to you don't get me anything." I am fond of motoring and am con sldered about as good a driver as any woman In the town In which I live. In summer I make long tours, some times extending over several weeks. One night while touring: I stopped ot a neat farmhouse, the owner and sole occupant of which was a young woman about twenty-seven and come ly, but there was a dissatisfied expres sion on her face as though she bad met with some serious disappointment. - She told me her name was Elizabeth Wyman: her father and mother were dead and had left her the property on which she lived a dairy farm. She bad nothing to complain of except lone liness. I suggested that an attractive young woman with a nice farm should bave no trouble in getting a good bus band, the best panacea for loneliness, This brought about a confidence which resulted in her giving me the cause of her disappointed look. ' "The trouble about men," she said "Is that they don't understand us w men." "And perhaps." I interrupted, "we women don't understand men." "When I was a girl living here with my parents a man named Warren bought a farm down where the road crosses the creek. He had a, son nam ed Abner. I first met Abner Warren at a cornhusking, and he picked me out among all the girls present, danc ing with me oftener than with any of the rest of them. He seemed then to be a fine, manly fellow who could look any one straight In the eye. He didn't treat me right afterward, but however he acted he had that same honest pride in his look. :'Two or three of the girls made a dead set for him, and Agnes Walker got him. I thought at the time she must have managed It very adroitly. and I couldn't understand his engag- clea Insisted that he should auk. Then I took off the engsgemeD, he had given me and handed it tt s He looked at me for a fewn'l ra with a sorrowful expreKs'on tlJnt me that I was making the mlstat. my life, and wonid prove the troth m what he said. He wouldn't treat . woman badly un! ,h. ".. . . """H! Biir or some one whom vuvu hoi. i or revenge, hut tor in. he loved bs4iJ( tDi ige, but f. iL:.M tlon of a Just pnnlshment me and has never been since." He hn OF COURSE HE WOULD. LKra ire? rjBfcrja? Cloud Pictures His Dream. 'i'sre-Iw you believe In dreams? Browne I used to. but I don't nny more. Towne Not ns superstitions as you were, eh? Prowne Oh, it wnsn't a question or suiMrrMltlon. I wm ir. lore with one once, ii saw JllU'd Bin Uxchane. OCJCE upon a thne, some fairies lived on the snow white clouds. Across the iky they traveled, back tnd forth, seeing all the wonderful sights of land and sea. "I'm so sorry for the poor people on earth," said a cloud fairy one bright r afternoon. -r " Why are you sorry?' asked the next f fairy. it seems to me earth people have a pretty good time they have flowers aronnd them, and trees and birds why J should you pity them?" "Oh. I know all that." said the first fairy scornfully, "but they can't sec lakes and hills and so many lovely scenes all at once as we do." "I can't see why you bother about it though," replied the second fairy, "you can't change the world." And w ith that he flew over to the other side of the cloud to see what was goings on there. "No-o-o." mused the first fairy thoughtfully, "I can't change all that, but maybe I miht do something to help. 1 must think about it some more. So all through the long afternoon he thought and thought, and as the sun legin to gn to ilcep a bright idea oc curred to him! "I know, I know, he exclaimed, . "why didn't we ever think before I We can make pictures of lakes and moun tains and valleys here in the clouds, and all the earth people can see them !" He jumped on the nearest sunleam, who carried him 'round from cloud to cloud, delivering the message. J "Yon mustn't just play any more," was what he laid, "you must get lo work and paint pictures on the clouds lor the busy earth people to look at." "What shall we paint?" they asked, "bow shall we do it" "I don't know how you can do it," said the fairy, "you can try and try, till you find out bow; hut I want you to paint the lakes and hills that you love the best!" ' jf-g.'rj-l--3rP,... "I am telling you the truth when I say that I was much happier when I was poor than I am now." "Then why don't you let your millions go and he poor again?" "Why, I should be miserable, think ing of the people who got the money." His Own Fault. Taking her hands in his the youns man from Cincinnati 6aid: "I am going to without any further beating around the bush ask you to be my wife." "Good night," replied the girl from Boston. "The man who wins me for his own has got to do it without split tins an infinitive." The fairies painted the fUeJ-up clouds. So the fairies dipped their hruhe In the sunset's glow and painted the pi!ed-up clouds. Lakes and hillsides, mountains and castles appeared as the sun slipped to rest. And the people on earth looked, up atnl saw the pictures on the clouds. 'I hey saw and wrrc happier fnr lhe fairy scenes, but they liiu't know that fairies were painting the clouils jiul for tVm! But ne know, don't we? A Look Into the Future. "Things "will be greatly changed In CO years from now." "I haven't any doubt of that. Fifty years from now there will perhaps be people who will find it necessary to ad mit that their grandmothers were pro fessional lady divers." Indisputable. "Don't you believe the level of hu man Intelligence Is gradually rising?" "No, on the contrary. Never before were there as many writers of popu lar songs as there are today." They Keep Her Busy Enough. "Do sou enjoy going to weddings. Mrs. Spoxzley?" "No, they bore me. I never go to any but my own." child chris- Slow, "Have you had your tened?" "No. Wo haven't even had him op crated on for anything yet." Two of a Kind. "Oh, Cieorst.'." sighed the lovesick maldcti. "I'm sure I'm not worthy to be your wife." "Well." replied (Umrge wearily. "I'm not woithy to he your husband, so we're Just about eveuly watched." rhiladelohla Press. "I SPOKE OF HEB IX TEST HIGH TEKSIS." ins nlmself to ner wnen ne naa st least on our first acquaintance favor ed me. Agnes was not well liked by us girls, and that was another reason why I was surprised at Abner's en gaging himself to her. The engagement between these two didn't Inst long. I never understood why it was broken, and no one else seemed to know. Abner never said a word about It. As for Agnes, all she would say was that she didn't care. It was whispered about that she didn't confine her loremnkiug to Abner, and he objected to having to divide it with some one else. It was the general ini pression that Agnes was one of that kind" of girls who make, or seem to nw!ift easy conquests of men. but who don't seem to have the faculty of hold ing them after they get them. "As soon as Abner Warren broke with Agnes he renewed his attentions to me. I was glad enough to get him back, though his affair with her left a senr in rue. ne was very respectful to me as well as attentive, and it was not long before he proposed to me. Before I accepted him I told hiiu I thought I had a right to know what had passed between him and Agnes. He replied that he didn't think I had any such right. I .gave up the point, though I was not satisfied to do so, and we bec.me engaged. "All went well with us till one day Bettie Underwood came to see m. os tensibly to talk nbout some church matter, but I've always believed since that she had another object in view. While we were talking she -asked me If I'd heard that Agnes Walker and Cyrus Buckley were engaged. I snld I had not, remarking nt the same time thnt if It were so Agnes had not leea a long while getting over her affair . .J never withdraw them I hoped neww give me his confidence.' hut be dw not. proving himself to be the kind of man I supiosed him to be from tt story I had heard. However, 1 thougSs it quite probable from the effort W words produced on him that someth: would come of my effort. I left l"8 without haviug given hiia any reaw to suspect that I knew his secret What I said to hiui bore q'ii, for, returning that way. 1 stoppea ' Miss Wyman's and found a p1 change in her. "vii- A.t vnn t'llnk has hai,r,ne4 with Abner. Bet replied that Agnes j ince you were here?" sbe asked, W My hostess paused In her story . , I saw that what her lover had aaaf her was true. She. not he, hid.! the mistake of a life. Donbtless tb was something between him and n girl he had broken with that he W not speak of without casting bian,' upon her. If both were st fault th- wasyaii tbe more reason that waatr it ytas it should be kept secret Ther. are many affairs of little or much fc portance that cannot be unravels without a regular trial, and even then it is often impossible to extract th But I said nothing of .this to the t. ry teller at least, not tben. I WJ1 curious to know what her lover mei-t by saying that be would prove that tht was making a mistake in endeavoricj to force him to make a clean breast ot his relations with his first fiancee. So I asked her if there was no more to tell. "Yes." she continued, "there is one very important matter to telL Soon after Abner's parting with me I heard that he had become attentive to Bettie Underwood. I inquired If Bettie ae cepted his attentions and was inform ed that she was very much pleased with them. Can it be, 1 thought that she will engage herself to the mas against whom she had covertly warned me? I had not long to wait for u answer to my questfon. It was sooa generally understood that Abner and - - n--r- alj , uir ' , Bet in the street and asked her if tie ,i i, ns uuc. oue emu it was arm flounced away from me, evidently de siring to avoid a discussion ot what she knew I had on my mind." Again the narrator paused, and I asked her If she had finished her gtory. f "There is little more to tell." she said. "The engagement between Ab ner and Bettie lasted Just one month when it was broken off. Since Abner never came to see me after I returned my engagement ring I could not ask im what it all meant I suppose Be engaged himself to Bettie to show me how silly I had been to permit her to make a breach between him and me. and that she did it because she wanted him herself. I doubt if she was a girt of much feeJing, for she married some one else within a year after she broke with Abner." I asked Miss Wyman if Abner War ren had married, and she said be bud not He had since inherited the farm on which he lived and kept house alone. Before leaving I asked to be informed of its location, thinking that I would like to meet him. It happened that my route passed his house, and I made up my mind I would find an ex cuse to have a word with him. I bid my hostess a sympathetic good by. promising to make her a visit an another occasion, then started again oa my travels. When I reached the house or Abner Warren I left my car at tbe gate, and, seeing a man at work, asked him some questions as to the road I was to traverse. In the course of tie conversation I gave him on opportunity to tell me his name and learned that he was the man I sought Then I asked him for a glass of buttermilk and sat on the porch of his house while he got it for me. While driukiug the buttermilk I told him that I had been entertained tj Miss Elizabeth Wyman, who lived a few miles down the road, and I SP" of her in very high terms. I told ttim that I wondered that so lovely and at tractive a woman bad not been appro priated and hinted that 1 surmised sb had experienced a disappointment. I could not help being amused at tie interest he took In the subject anl when I added that Miss Wymau was on of thos true women wn they gave their hearts away I wouldn't marry Abner on any account. Nnturally I asked why. " 'Ton don't know anything nbout that matter. she said. 'You've, doubt less, heard Abner.'s side of the story, but you've never heard Agnes'.' "'I've never heard either side,' I ty Plied. "She went on talking about some thing else, but what she had said left a very unpleasant impression on me. I tried not to think of it. but the more I tried to banish it th more it persist ed in coming back to me. At last I could stand it no longer uud sKke to Abner nbout it. telling hiiu what Bet tie UuderwotMl butt said. "He seemed 111 at ease and tried to turn tho mutter aside. This made me the more suspicious, and I told him that if he had treated Acnes badlv I should know it, for If a man will deal wrongfully with one woman bo will do so with another. To this be replied that a girl about to be married bud best leave alone her lover's previous ahaii-H wiib women. Her oulv coueern was his treatment of her. face lighted by a radiant smile. "What?" I asked. . "Abner Warren has been to "You don't mean It? And ail k D!,e CP?" ... "Yes. and we are on crawl again. "The Lord be praised.'" April 25 in America History. 17S1 . rr...l.l.1..'. Illll. S. -IIUUIO VI IH"'M'" J,. General Nathanael Greene's nlals defeated by tbe Unu" -Lord Itawdon. -( 18&t-Adm!ral P. V. Porter ran P Confederate batteries on Ked ' above Alexandria, in the l!R mured guuboat Cricket r.y n der the heavy ironclad was blown up to prevent c8ll,u'jfr 1909 Charles Warreu ;l,J:irJl!.ff. thor and educator, died m "l rey. Cat; born lS-lt. All the news all the tine It Ar