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'R thTurs Bown $15,000 Contract Boston, Dec. ~24—Definite an- nouncement that “aBbe” Ruth had turned back his contract to the Bos- {ton American baseball club and has demanded a- salary of $20,000 was made here tonight by John Igoe, bus- iness manager of the home ‘run re- cord holder, upon arriving from the Pacific coast. The contract, which was made last year for a three year period, provided for a salary of $10,- 000. In submitting his new demands, Igoe added, Ruth said he would not play .major league ball except with the Red Sox and would not consent to be, traded. Ruth is_on the Pacific coast at present. Igo branded as false reports that Ruth was contem- plating entering the ring. HARCARD ARRIVES IN'WEST AND HOLDS PRACTICE ,Sacramentol, Calif, Dec. 24—The Harvar University football team which wil] play the University of Oregon eleven at Pasadena on New Year's Day ,reached California today. When the second sectfon of the Overland Limited pulled into Sacramenta the football squad left the train and spent a few minutes in practice. Oregon Team Holds Secret Practice Pasadena, Calif., Deé. 24.—The Or- egon University football squad con- tinued today its secret practice 'In ‘was the Oregan coach that his plays would not be known that he stationed sentries along the top of the grand- stand and at the entrances to the park. Gossip around the training quarters indicated that the squad was divided into two teams, one using Harvard's reported defensive and offensive plays and the other the Oregon playz. HARVARD GRADS GREET CRIMSON FOOTBALL TEAM San Francisco, Dec. 24.—The Har- vard University football team arrived here tonight from the east en route to Pasadena to meet the University of Oregon New Year’s Day. A dele- gataion of Harvard alumni met the members of the party at the ferry and escorted them to their hotel. Tomorrow they will be guests of the Harvard club at luncheon and tomorrow night will “ depart for Southern California. FEBRUARY 7TH DATE OF ANNUAL TRAGK MEET Boston, Dec. 24.—The Boston Ath- letic Association today announced April 12-13 as the dates for the Na- tional amateur boxing championship and ebruary 7 as the date for its an- nual indoor track meet. INTERCOLLEGIATE CHESS TOURNEY AT BROOKLYN preparation for the game here New Year's Day with Harvard. So careful New York, Dec. 24.—The intercol- legiate committee in charge of the FINANCIAL AND MARKET WAS EXTREMELY DULL. New York, Dec. 24.—The 'extreme | dullness of today's transactions falling to the smaliest to- tal of any full session since mid-sum- mer, reflected the detached attitude of "traders and the public at this pe- riod of the year. In the main, however, the undertone was firm with occasional intervals of strength, particularly in some of the ob: inactive miscellaneous. Sp pairment in the November reversal. Money was again the one disquiet- | ing feature, call loans rising to 15 per cents. from the opening rate of 10 and declining to the initial quotation just | before the close. Little or no effort was made to negotiate time - loans, which ruled at recent maximum fig- ures. Moderate reaction was manifested by foreign exchange, dealers reporting further offerings of demand and time bills on London and Paris, presuma- biy to close out year-end accounts. Reviews of steel trade —con emphasized expectations of a cogmld- crable increase of railroad business carly in the coming year, some of which is to be financed by issue of chort time notes and trust certificates. American Tobacco securities, Amer- jean Linseed, Endicott-Johnson, Col- umbia Graphophone, Remington Type- writer, California Packing, Company and several of the sugar and shipping issues were conspicuous for their consistent strengthA at extreme gains of two to seven points . Rails and representaative steels and cquipments made only moderate’ up- ward progress at best, but metals and local utilities, notably Manhattan Ele- vated, denoted steady accumulation. Sales amounted to 625,000 shares. Bonds were strong on the rebound n speculative rails, investment trans- porations also stiffenings Liberty is- cased again, but foreigns were htly better. Total sales, par-value, azeregated $31,750,000. 01d U. S. bonds were unchanged on STOCKS Yesterday's transactions cn Stock Eaebange o 3 ' . Low. Closs Hide Locomotive Am Tel & Tel e &S ¥ Atchison, T & S F pr . Baltimore & Ohlo .. .. Balumore & Oblo pr pr . Rute & Super “anadian Pac .. Tentral Leather .. stock market, | ¢ Barrett | COMMERCIAL Chandler Motor h. West pr . Chi, Mi & St P Ch.' M Copper Chino_Copper Columbia Gas Crucible Steel Delaware & Hudson .. Denver & Rio G Den & Rto G or . Dome Mines Ere . Fre 24 pf . Fisher Body General Electric . Geeral- Motor .. General G Int Mar Int M Int 2Mer Mar . Intemaational Paper Kcnneoott .. Lehigh Valley ell - Motor P Mazwell Motor pr ... Maxwell Motor ctfs exican Petrolewn mi S Missourd K & T . Mp, Ken & T pr .. Missourl. Pacific . South Rallway South Ry pr . Overland Overland pr New York. Dec steady; midd MONEY. New York, Dec. strong; ‘high 15: 10 10; closing hid 10; offered at n 10; bank acceptances 4 3-4 NEW YORK MARKET. 3%s, 1047 Ist 43, 19 2d 45, 19 Ist 4is, 2d 4us, ad 1 1942 %s .. Quoted in dolla CHICAGO GRAI Open. h. MARKET. Low. annual chess tournament between Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Har- vard has fixed the dates for January 1, 2 and 3 at the Brooklyn Chess club, Paly will begin at 7 p. m. New Year's day. PITCHER SANDERS RELEASED BY YANKEES TO ST. LOUIS New York, Dec. 24—The New York Americans today announced the re- lease of Pitcher Roy anders to the St. Louis club of the Amercian League. Sanders was recalled by the Yankees from ‘the Toledo club last fall. New York asked waivers on hi ma few days ago, and St. Louis claimed hig-. NEW HAVEN FIVE PLAYS AT TAFTVILLE TODAY ‘What looks like a banner attraction for the basketball fans will be staged in Parish hall, Taftville this after- noon. The Crescent A. C. of New Haven wilk be the attraction against the fast Crescent A. A. of Taftville. The New Haven boys will have such stars as Weiner and -Pete of Yale, ‘Wes MeDonald, captain and star of the New Haven High school, Kinip- ping, former Dean Academy star and Bddie Rahmn, star of the Atlas club and considered one of the greatest players in the state. This bunch of players are a fast and snappy team and with Manager Benoit’'s Crescents Murphy, Belair, Higging, Vickery, Daley, Mills and Jack Murphy, the fans will no doubt see one of the blue ribbon ovents levar staged in Parish hall tis season. There will also be a fast preliminary between the Rough and Tumbles vs the All Col- legians. The game will be called at m. EASTERN CONN. LEAGUE AVERAGES Ave. Barber ; 114-6 Bacon g 112-3 Greenhalgh Ao 112-1 <15 111 .16 109-9 Collins . 15 108-12 Rondeau .15 107-9 Peckham <% 106 4 King 5 106-1 Peltier e 105-13 Pepin ; 105-10 E. Salisbury 9 105-1 McCarthy 16 104-12 B. Smith L2 104-10 L. Salisbury . .15 104-9 ARG cevs L 1046 | Conture 15 104-7 | Bessette 15 103-2 Z56. 103 ~15 100-8 15 98-3 Lepach 15 Hagberg =15 ‘Alexander 12 Dunn 12 15 . 15 12 12 9 THE STANDING L Ave. Pl Danielson 4+ 133 8022 Taftville 4 983 . 9318 6 600 7824 7 533 7670 9 400 7638 Jewett City 15 000 6817 High Team Pin fall, Danjeison, 8022 High Team 3 String, Danielson, 1720 High Team Single, Danielson, ... 624 High Individual Average, Barber 114-6. High Individual 3 String Collins, 366. High Individual Single, King, 159. AT THE TAFTVILLE ALLEYS Olympics. Marcilles 90— 283 Desmarais 86— 284 Armitage 88— 270 Marion 91 110— 290 Dugas 121 136— 385 510 1512 197 Melrose 100 ot 101 13 518 501 1506 Totals 514 1487 Meyers 77— 266 Brown 11— 317 Edwards 100— 275 Schmidt 81— 294 H. Gley 119— 319 Totals .. 438 488 1437 100— 284 100— 270 78 - 109— 285 99 101— 289 81 98— 268 TPotals "...... RI E% 505—149& Taftville O. F. Y George Walker 84 86 Addison T Bentley 92 Armitage 6 Knowles 107 PR o Jailore Totals ..... 436 458 417 1406 Troy Jailored. BALL PLAYERS AND SCRIBE a baser. what is two great guys, and what with me on the tour of the “bushes” Ontario, has went on down on shore what we missed on Pigeon Lakes. After the world's series, vou couldn't print what's called, Graham, what runs a hotel the once-a-weekers in such part that great province as we visited. In the first place we had Lake and on Rice Lake. During something like a hundred vasbacks, redheads, bluebills, lers, ete: Our decoys were set some ducks would come coax about 27 past our blind. some good. They both shoots shooters, well Hawkins, believe it ask any of us.) Speakers’ Fine Catch. and four ounces. Bert what is a_ TIndian guide from Hiawatha Indian reserve, was| dandy. They caught shot ducks. They was lots of around the Kawarthas, what is season. in” place, west, east, opposite direction. fishing business and went huntin’ Simpson’s Island, off ‘the burk Rossport. meat, cub bear, caribou, deer moose, in addition to fresh salmon trout, whitefish and a few other varjeties of unusual eats. (You will excuse us for but it is a important item with ball players and star chroniclers.) ‘We has all hunted n other parts of Canada and has got our share of the spoils, but we never has seen no place where they is more evidence of deer, caribou and moose, east of the Mani- all toba boundary. They was iwo feet of snow and every morning they W fresh tracks every place. As we wasn't used to going without sleep at nights we didn’t catch up to much game “Pete,” but we had a great time at that. They was a inch of crust on the snow and it stayed with us cight days. Spoke” bagged a big buck that ‘would dress over two hundred and he got a coupla shots at another one. We saw four moose. They was all of the lady variety and was as free | from harm as a frog is from hair. One guy what was near us shot a caribou -and another bunch grabbed off a couplt of moose. Which goes {to prove that something made the ‘tmck what we saw. Not the Kill That Counts. In closin’ “Pete we just want to call your attention to the faet that it |is not the kil that makes the trip. HAD FINE HUNTING TRIP Dear Pete: I gotcha letter all right and although you slipped me a fast one I'm going to do my best to step into it and paste one on the snout for Tris Speaker and Leslie Nunamaker the Gulf of Mexico to do three things. Get rid of me, escape the cold weather and to get them ducks down on the Texas Rice and Speaker, what is fondly known around the cir- cuit as “Spoke” and big Leslie, what we calls plain “Les” and myself, what lef here and went up to Peterborough, Ontario, to visit a fine guy named Chris in his town. The three of us noted celebri- ties what made the trip had a grand time and gained much publicity in all good shooting on the lower end of Pigeon week there we managed to pick off ducks, mostly the open water variety—can- whist- out on ‘points” along the lake and when along we | would talk sweetly at ‘em and maybe The flight usually lasted about an hour or so and nobody didn’t never fail to do You know “Spoke” and bluerocks at the gun club here and both is good as - the records will show; while you also know that when you was here we hit one out of three. This goes to show that me and Mo- The Topperweins and others is good shooters. (If you don't Speaker got a big muskalonge on Rice Lake what weighed 25 pounds Anderson, the with him and told us that “Spoke” played several other ‘lunge, but as you know we is a great fisher in the summertime, so we just fun great place for both fishing and duck hunting in the fall after the baseball Peterborough is kinda in the middle of the lakes and is a “going- south and the We breezed up north of Lake Su- perior after the duck hunting and On that trip we had deer and caught mentioning grub | SOFTCOLLARS CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. TROY, The best luck we ever had on a day’s duck hunt was one day when we just got one old he-greenhead. Once we went on a trip in Quebec and got a nice moose and a nice deer—and: then got frozed in and had. to walk 33 miles to the railroad. Another time ve had one of our finest trip and didn’t see nothing. So there you are. It's WHO you go. with and HOW jou behave that MAKES a hunting trip: Spoke and Les can and do pui & real fellowship in a trip. No man is ever going to leave a good taste in the mouth of himself or his friends that fails to honor the rules that are just in the protection . of wild life, which in its own helplessness fails to protect itself. Yours for No Horns, as in No Shoot! S’long, “ACK.” BOXING TO BECOME ‘RECOGNIZED SPORT AT YALE The efforts and desires of a large number of Yale men to have the red blooded man’s game of boxing recog- nized as a legitimate branch of .ath- letic activities were fulfilled when it was announced by Prof. Carence W. Mendell, chairman of the athletic as- sociation, that Yale would,begin im- mediately on the resumption of col- lege to organize a team of glove weild- ers. Just how far the progrom presented by those interested in the furthering of boxing will be pushed this year is as yet unknown. The board of con- trol is approving of this sport .made the proviso that any schedule or plans must first be submitted to it before being completed. In other words. Yale thinks highly of the fistic game but doesn’t intend to plunge into it with- out knowing just how far it is going. There is mo question however,, that a number of tournaments of various kinds will be held -this winter and of course there is a possibility of a. meet with Penn or some one of the other institutions that have representatives in boxing. Next year Yale will go in for this sport on more extensive scale was also announced. of a of boxing and he has been appointéd ito investigate and find out just how extensive a schedule will be possible this season. Moss King, boxing in- structor at the university for 14 years and in his prime one of the cleverest lightweights that ever drew on a gove, will do the coaching. The in- uction will be free just as with wrestling but King will be allowed to continue with .his private classes which are already- organized. The authorization to be represented in the ring comes after a short but determined campaign on the part of the students. Professor Mendell and Director Sharpe are boh very much in favor of boxing when conducted properly and on an ameteur a on of and €ons 50 as to keep in tip-top shape. HOPE FOUNDRY, AUBURN, R. L., was totally destroyed. was badly damaged. one story, 180 by 100. ered by insurance. BROKER SULLIVAN HAS bail for an alleged bond swindle month ago, was ington, D. C, lic esaid, f fraud Washington banks. econd charge was fixed at $1,000. basis. Captain Callahan also likes this sport it is very likely that a number of his gridders will not only go out for the team but also take extra les- IS DESTROYED BY FIRE Providence, R. 1., Dec. 24.—The Hope which together with one of the wings A second wing The main building was of brick and The loss is cov- AGAIN BEEN ARRESTED New York, Dec. 24—David M. Sul- al arrested: again to- day by request of the police in Wash- He is wanted, the po- alleged conspiracy to de- Bail on the non-assessable 7 Per Cent Cumulative any time between December 1, 1920, 10 shares of stock for each Debentu Dated December 1, 1919 COMPANY - Five-Year 6 Per Cent. Convertible Gold Debentures Convertible ‘at the option of the holder into the Company’s fully pi and at and December 1, 1924, in the ratio eof r2 of this issue. Due December 1, 1924 Preferred Stock (par value $100): Net earnings for the twelve months ended September 30, 1919, were $1,902,- 680.32. Annual interest on all First Mortgage Bonds outstanding with pub- lic, and this issue ‘of Debentures requires $688,380. Price 96 and Interest. We recommend these d ebentures for investment. ‘A. B. LEACH & CO,, Inc. Plant Building New London, Conn. C. ROYCE BOSS, Representative. MERRY CHRISTMAS GREETINGS | SENT OUT BY D'OLIER Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 24 —Franklin D’Olier, ‘national commander of the American Legion, tonight sent Christ- mas greetings to the war disabled men and women throughout the country in a telegram which he addressed to Cor=- poral J. E. Bute, Waiter Reed hos- pital, Washington. Corporal Bute rep- resented the disabled veterans in the recent conference of department com- manders of the legion in Washington. DEATH SENTENCE FOR FIVE COMMUNISTS IN BUDAPEST -Budapest, Saturday, Dec. 20.—Five additional Communists have been sen- tenced to death, including Eugen: Las- clo, ‘author, journalist and long terms of imprisonment. The police authorities have issued warrants for Alexander Garbai, former premier, charging him with instignat- ing 204 murders. TWO MEN:-ARRESTED FOR THEFT OF LIBERTY BONDS New York, Dec. 24.—Two fore ar- rests were made tonight in connection with the theft of $142,000 worth received stolen property. OBITUARY. Dr. Underwood Cochran. Atlantic City, N. J, Dec. parks and public years ago from Camilla, Ga. BELGIAN Y. W. C. A WORK BEGINS and Centers . Opened in Antwerp Brussels. ' The American Y, W. C. A. has re- cently opened a hotel with living ac- in commodations for twenty girls Brussels Belgium, which will living accomodations meals served at recreational and In addition to dustrial centers .or liees,” have been opened, one in Brus: sels and one in Antwerp, where in reasonable prices, this center two meals, for social affairs, which to read or to write letters, old warehouse and has been remod cled so that it now has a_cafeteria, gymnasium, concert hall, a rest and reading room. Foundry in Auburn was practically| American secrelaries are in charge | destroyed by fire that did damage es- | Of the work, assisted by Belgian timated at $125.000 today. The blaze|women who attended the Y. W. C. A. started in the main building together | International Training School in Paris this last smmer. Water Powers In Alaska. . Systematic investigation of the wa Department in the Interior, and has been carried on in one or an other part of the territory to the pre- livan, member of the Consolidated |sent time. This investigation was un Stock Exchange, liberated on $50,000 | dertaken to supply the need for defin ite information in regard to the quan supplying power for mines, cannarie and sawmills. 2 ‘The . investigation qf the water re :sources of southeastern Alaska wa: 0 lawyer. Nine others have been sentenced to of Liberty bonds from the firm of E. D, Levinson and Company last September. Nathan Edson, 23 years old, and Sam- uel Massey, 31 years old, both clerks are charged with having criminally 24—Dr. Underwood Cochran, commissioner of buildings, former member of the New Jersey house of assembly and a large real estate op- serve as a.demonstration Y. W, C. A., with wholesome a educational program. in- “Foyers des Al- dustrial women workers may go for recreation, for educational classes, for and where they may also find a quiet. eorner in The Brussels foyer is housed in an classrooms, Southeastern ter resources of Alaska was begun by the United States Geological Survey, in 1906 tity of water available for many uses, such as. hydraulicking, dredging, and Basketball THIS AFTERNOON Parish Hall, Taftvilie CRESCENTS, of Taftville Vs, CRESCENTS, of New Haver Game Called At 2:30 begun by the Geological Survey in co- operation with the Forest Service in 1915 and was designed to determine both the locations of water-power sites and the possible water power avail- able, Since then the Geological Ser- vey has maintained a number of gag- ing stations in southeastern Alaska throughout the yearrand has installed other stations in cooperation with in~ dividuals and corporations. From the Consular Reports. Consul Dreher reports that accord- ing to a census of the Canal Zone the civil population is 21,759, of whom 7,031 are Americans. There - are 10,517 men, 4,814 women and ‘6,428 children. Then number:of government employes is 9,698, Consul O'Hara cables of a perma- nent samples exhibition to be held at Trieste under the auspices of the chamber of commerce. The consul considers this an excellent opportunity for American exports to display their goods, that durn he-fish until his, the fishes'| 1ddie Egan, middleweight cham- |erator, died suddenly .tonight from tongue was hangin’ out. We have |pion of the A. E. ¥., was one of the|2cute mnephritis. Dr. Cochran, who e ok e T D tricat e Dporters of . Thb. oibtios | Was 47 yeacs Jold? casie Rers eoveral Champion Heavy-Weight Of Europe Latest photograph of Georges Carpentier, champion heavyweight of Europe, who recently defeated Joe Beckett, of. England, in the first round. S s © 3ha gave her dress ome or A two final pats, Jessie Knight looked at the reflection of herself in the mirror. It was an old- fashioned glass with a wave in it, and the had to tilt it in order to get a good view of herself. She thought she focked very npice. Her blue poptn Aress was new and she bad waved her kair becomingly. Her hands, of esurse, Were better out of sight. They had &grown coarse and rough with werk eince her marriage. On the left owe sbone the timy spark of s digmond juarding her unworn wedfing ring. Ebe loved her rings, for to her they ‘were symbolic—the one of great joy, khe other of & lasting security. Her hat and coat were not so fresh #s her dress, and they &id not match. Still the coat was warm and she had siways felt thet the hat was partieu- Iarly becoming. She looked in the glass again and smiled. Certainly Ger- Erude would not find her ehanged. She locked the door behind herand slipped the key in the crevice where Preston could find it if he came. to tho house. He was pitching hay ower n the barn. She conld hesr the rustle of the hay and his spinited whistliag. She “hoo-hosed™ to him, and ho came to the little hay door in the tap-of the barn, pitehfork in band, and looked down at her. He took off his bat and wiped his forehead on his siecvs. “Cover your head; you'll take oold,” Jessie commanded. . “It's summmer tempevature up here in the hay. Gofng {0 be gome long™’ he inquired. “Till supper-tms, probably. Ca? PR LT St oo Niek. I don’t want him following me into town.” Preston whistled to the dog and Yes- sle swung down the hill alone. She ‘was very happy. It was a dull winter’s day, with snow hanging upon the horizon in thick, leaden clouds piled up like vast dis- tant mountains. “Knee-deep” sang on the wan bough of a wayside tree. Jessie shook her kand at him. “We've bad snow enough, you little trickster!” she said. At the foot of the hill the town be- gan straggling along to a center of lively congestion. Jessie’s destination did not lie at the center, though close to it. The house she sought was a rather isolated, old one on a principal strest. She rang the bell and an el- derly woman came to the door. “Why, how do you do, Jessie!” she exclaimed. “Come right in. Ger- trude‘'s out row, but she’ll be back in 2 few moments. She'll be so glad to see you. Take that chair by the radi- ator, and draw off your coat. Did you walk. down?’ “Yes, 1 waiked,” Jessie replied. “Preston, was busy and I didn’t mind. There's a good track zll the way.” “Bincs you wem! up on ths hill to Jive I never wes you auy meors,” said MNrs, Bates. “T was leliing Gertrpds 80. There! I guess thal’s her step now on the veranda.” Jesaie, heard the step and her face flushed with expectation ss =he turned it toward the door. She had pof soen Gertrade Whittaker in a year, and th had ‘once bheen all in all ta czch of o . Jor-beart®heat meryoucly as the door opened and Gertrude entered. That first glance showed Jessie how much Gertrude had changed during the year that she had been working in the city. She was a figure of fash- ion in her handsome brown suit and toque and tawny furs. She bhad on a little veil edged with scallops fhat just came to her nose. Through it her eyes looked large and coquettish. “Why, it's—Jessie!” she said. “Yes, it’s Jessie.” Jesste stood up. She held out her hand. Gertrude clasped it with her perfectly gloved fingers, but she did not offer a kisa. “I'm delighted to see you,” she said perfunctorily. “Just excuse me till T put away my coat and hat™ She left the room. When she came back and sat down Jessie eyed her with admiration. Gertrude had caught the prevailing air of elegant simpliei- ty in dress and it was very becomng. She locked more like a little lady ef leisure than a girl who earmed her own living as she leaned back in ker chalr, critically examining a carefully menicured nail. . “Well?” inquired Mrs. Bates. “What did you see dow, street?” ' “Snow, and then some.” Gertrnde smiled. “Oh, I saw a team or two come to bring the womenfolk to town to do itheir Saturday's trading.” Sbe mimicked the local vernacular elev- erly. “Auntie, I weuldn't come back to this poky old burg to live for any- thing In the world. T @on't see how I #tood it a2 long as 1 did. I dom’t see how you stand it. As for you, Jessie, way up there on the hill-—why, it must *feal ke you were buried.altve!™ . “Now, Gertrude, it isn’t as bad as all that,” Mrs. Bates tried to say tactfully. “You didn’t use to think it was either when you lived here.” “Oh, { didn’t know any better then. But now I do. I never grew up till I got to New York. Of course, it's no use tfalking to you two about it, for you wouldn't understand. You're back Just where I was a year ago.” Mrs. Bates laughed. “Just hear her, Jessie! She's been going it this way ever since she came. Yom'd think we were heathen and she was the only original missionary. I tell her she's got New York on the brain.” Jessie sat silent. She was tryiag bhard to readjust all her ideas of Ger- trude. Somehow she did not seems to know this stylish little creature with the peculiarly coiféd hair and ex- quisitely delicate complexion 'and hands. Gertrude’s appearanee fascin- ated her; she could not keep her glance from straying over it continu- ally—a glance that was growing every instant more wistful and wondering. “I wish,” Gertrude said, thoughtful- Iy, “that I'd got hold of Jessie sooner and made her go with me. It would have been the making of you, Jessie. She's smarter than I am and she'd have worked up faster if enything. T get $14 a week now with a bonus, and I've only been there a year. It fsn't hard work-—not half as hard and eom- plicated as it is here in the coumtry, with their old-fashioned switchboards and apparatus. I only have to walk five blocks to my apartmént. and of eourse 1 eam always ride, There are Ly in the apartment; _it's cheaper and nicer that way. And we are so congenial. We have the best times. One of the girls plays the uke- lele and another sings, and if we don’t go out some 'place we can have a reg- ular concert right there at heme. I'm learning the ukelele, too:. It's great for a certain style of music. Oh, Jee- sle,” her tone changed. “I wish yeu were there, too. You'd love it, T know you would.” “But Jessie is married. She's hap- pier the way she is.” Mrs. Bates said gently. “Happy on that hill in that desolate. old house!” Gertrude shrugged her shoulders. “I dom't believe it. Are you, Jessie? Don’t you wish some- times you'd give Preston Knight up and gone with me?” “Yes, I do,” burst from Jessie. She did not know why she said it. It was forced from her to her own astonish- ment. | Suddenly it eame to her that she had made a mistake. She should nev- er have married Preston. How had she come to do it? There had been the chance to go to New York with Gertrude 2and there had been the chance to marry Preston and live with him in his oid home on the hill. She had been sorry for Preston. His moth- er was dead and he was very lonely. She had always known him. He loved her. It had seemed to her that New York was a vast uncertainty, but the old house on the hill and life with Preston was safe and sure. She had chosen the thing she was positive of. And she kad not been very sorry for all the band wori ard lack of pieas- ure snd financial anxiety of that first year of her married life unitl she be- gan to feel tempted and uneasy an “Well,” said Gertrude, smiling. *Tt isn’t too late now. You go with me, Jessie, when 1 go. Will—” “Stop!” Tt was Mrs. Bates’ volce, stern and barsh. “Stop this instant, Gertrude Whittaker. I won't allow it. You're a regular temptress. Don't you listen to her, Jessie. The ides of her wanting you to leave your husband and go with her! I hope you've got too much sense to heed her.” “Yes, I've got toc much senmse,” Jessie said. She stocd up and fum- bled blindly at her gloves. Her lips were pale and quivering. ' “I've got tos much semse, of course. Only—" She thrust ker arms into-the coat Mrs. Bates was heiding for her. “Run along up the hill,” the older woman said. “It’s begun to smowand darken. Some night after Gertrude's gone I shall want you and Preston to come down to supper. There! Now you're all cosy and warm. Run along, dear ehild.”. She kissed Jessie warm- 1y and bundled her out the door with an air of wishing to get her away as quickly as possible. 1t was snowing thick and fast. The eold finkes fell stingingly upon Jessie's waproiceted face as she mounted the Rhill. Her fest were siow. her heart keavy. She shivered, but not with the cald. . As she possed ‘under tae bare liltle tree whers the .“k -dzep” had trilled on her way down the hili,"a light shome eut upen her. It was scarcely dark enough for s lamp, bul there was one in the kitchen window, Preston had set it there to cheer hep up the hill. She lifted her head and began to walk faster. Before she reached the door she smelled a faint odor of frying bacon. She opened the door and went in. Preston stood beside the stove trying to do two things at once—read the deily paper and turn the sizzling ba- con. He turned a joyous face toward her. “Hello, my girl. I thought it was just about time for you, so I was getting supper,” he cried. “Take your things right off and sit down at the table. Tea's all made and everything. There! Give me your coat and I'Tl shake 1t out the door. This is going to be a heavy snow. They got it im New York yesterday. I was just reading about it in the paper. Gee, I'm glad I'm here and not there—surface cars all blocked, railroads tied up, wires down. And worst of all, so many people out of work—tclephone com= pany’s discharged hundreds. It's hard times in the city, all right. How'd you find your friend? Jessie looked round the low, com= fortable kitchen, at the storm press- ing at the windows; at her husband, tall, rugged, with such a tender seri- ousnessinhis dark eyes as he brushed her coat and hung it up to dry. She could not speek, and when she did not he inguired again in £urp “How'd you say rour {riend was?® Suddenly Jessic threw hersell Inte his sifas. © “Oh, don’t’ call her my friend,” ¢he murmiréd. ' “She's thy —-st enemy I ever had.”