The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1920, Page 20

WALL STREET The line of least resistance in the Stock Market to-day appeared to be upward. Prices maintained a firm tone and there was a general dispo- | Ne nw Low ” 1” Last w | Adame Bex sree | Ad, Ramety Ad. Alaska (Gold Alaska Juneay sition among traders to disregard the fo" Ubaimers 0% Gypew unfavorable features in the bus~!Ae tice Siwar,,, ou Sess situation because of the likell- | Aw, Bown Mar on have been discounted A Can cs by the market's recent sharp decline. “2, (uk oy one On the other hand there was an in- (Am, Sumatm | 0% 4% Clination to emphasize the new favor-| Am Drie Aynd wr ae cpfible factors, | Am. Rgren 10 «190 199 + For instance, reports that em-| ye fi oe ats »ployees in many lines of trade are be- | Am, naw ae Oe wes eo dng laid off and that a number of tm- | Am. Inter, Cons... 4% 44 4% 4B ceportant manufacturing plants are Am. Linweed o oO mM +38 @osing down because of lack of de- 4%" yomnotire «85 Mie MM Uy mand for their products did not re- | Aen. gatey Mamor 10 who feelve nearly so much attention from Am, 8, & (. Gey. 12 11% 1% the speculative community that they | 4™. Sm. & lef, wy 4 194 + 2% + “Would have been given a fortnight or | Am Am & Met. of ht ne =* (i ago. Conversely, the Improvement | din steel He 30%, 8% es a the banking situation as set forth | Am Sugar eK 00 ‘by the statement of the Federal Re-|-\m Tel & Te Ov. 0% serve institution issued Saturday, the | Am Nosoo ae AUN eontinued rise in foreign exchanke | im, wae ae ot ou aK ‘mates and optimistic interviews with | | am Te vt ve. 0% 80% minent industrial leaders were | Am. “ne oa = | Ananonde 42 a8 i Thade the baais of substantial pur- | om ; «o ‘chases of stocks. |Amo, Dey Uoode . 3 aM \:All gfoups of stocks participated | Atotson tty, Cle ae aly Ip the rise, The volatile specialties, )Atehion Ry pt... 7 771 ‘ puch as Crucible, Mexican Petroleum, | {ul Sale (Guy. aces Py and others were run up for gains ex-| 41) Gut @ Wi. 111 108 11% 4. 4% tending to as, much as five points. In | Bakiwin Loco, ..., O84 8% OB + 4% the more stable issues, which more | taltinore & Obie, 40° a8 40 + 2 a atcurately represent the true state of Sepa bliss , ei re ~ ai *3 lative opinion, ‘guins ranged! wen Mom ...... Sa oe 3h +S , xg one to more than two points, Neth gteel 4, i % a re was especially persistent buy- Mews, steel B. 7 tie +44 “oe ing of the east. oll and tobacco Issues Boovh Fitherior . tte 4 a) in which, is known, an extended B%yo Hap, Tran, 2% 12% + % short iptaroat existe | Bhim Ubion Gee, OS BH +4 Call money opened and renewed at | Jiven, ‘Tem, (AM 7 per cent. but the rate was quickly | Marne dion, 88 os #1 a “Wwered to 6 per cent, Sterling ex- | Hutte Cop, & Yinc, 6 “~ 7 Change rose to 33.49%, for a gain of | Butte & Guerin, 12 11% i 4 @iore than a cent, and reached the | Butterick Co, TY 10% + % Simghest figure it has yet touched on | Oaddo Gent Oi 19% 14% + 1% the present forward moveinent, Call Padieing 4% * 02 + 3% In the commodity markets heavy | Oulit Peteweun D6 Bias Tiquidation was continued. Wheat | Cait tet pf , Gs Os oo “@howed a loss of more than five | Calumet & Ari: 64 © = 34 Méents per bushel in the first half hour | Canadian Pa Ls 118% + he Of trading and sold at a new 1OW | cent Leather... 90% d8ig joie figure for ‘the year. Corn at first! cent Lesher... 2 9 gi “phowed a firm tone, but soon gave |awio De due... BYU Sed ae Way in sympathy with the weakness |chandier suas... TT Tt Ao ‘im wheat. After fluctuating in acne & Oho...... Ge vb wet 1 - Pfiiehly nervous manner, the cotton|cit am PR. a My Be} “Wharket resumed its decline and bY/OM & St I' ay ie OH 82K Ohh + ease a tole an extreme decline of/Cni ad & Pec.. 31% 90% MK 4 2 ae » MARTA PEpo BH BK GH + 1% “Money rates dropped to 6 per cent./m Aiton Ry... 10 10 «10 +2 the afternoon and this caused @} (i) Great West oh “8% 9% + 1h ble on the part of shorts to) cy: & Nomhwest ty 78% 77 18% +41 ‘cover their commitments. There wa8| (iis Comer 8 1% 1h + * ievlariy urgent buying of the 4 Ohino Cover 2% 10% Be + 1 leading oil, steel br id cquipment | Ay Fudd & Iron my bi 2 shares. In many tances, these li OS See! be oa” a Te wptocks rose Detwoan four and five . 4 + 2 ts, Rails were by no means | Columble dmeh ae oe tae ward, % ‘ I 5 Southern Pacific, Great Northern, | Conse Clie Cop. OS + aes Pacific and other high. | vneol Ges Co .... Silty a0 Ale + 1% riced dividend payers were run up Con Tnter-Cal Minn. 8 ce. G gains ranging from two to three | Continental Can... 61% 00% 61% + 2% ts. The market was strongest at |Cortinemal Candy, 6 = 5% 5K +, % close and trading indicated that fis Products ane Fe ocd TH 4 big bear groups, which have built Products of. 81 9% 0% — % p. [Oracle Seol ... OH 8S ODT + SH huge paper profits during the re mauris ee. ee oes ‘ tent break, were in a state bordering lia Gane Buner.. 28% MM SOG aE Ga demorstization, esti mee Lee. Wheat showed an extreme loss of 9| (gan am eusar. S% Sty S1% 4 2% sepants, per bushel. Cotton closed Ir-lo9n Tale Corr: Ok WL 0G SI Sregul s ar ee ee Del, & Hudeon.,. 108% 103% 103% + 2% ‘ LIBERTY BONDS. Da & Bod, % hh % + y Liberty 31-25 opencd 92.40 up .10;] Den. & wo iia~ & 2d 40, 85.60, up .08; Ast 41-45, 87.08, Lally Bert ait ce i 5 2d, 85.80, up .10; Bd, 88.70, up 28; | Eoticomdonneton,. 36% > oly 4 Rid , 85.90, up .04; Victory 3 95.96, | Brio... 6% 16% + 2% p02; 43-48, 96, up .04. Brie Ist... 4% BH My + 2h : Famous Payers... GH% 60 BA + Sy FORBIGN EXCHANGE. Pisbomody ew wH — %| me Opened strong. Demand sterling | Fisk Rubber 161d + te mwpened 3.498-4, cables 3.501-2, up eae tts id We+ % + $2031-8. Francs demand .0614, cables|Gonwu chem. 1138 ass * $0615, up .0007. Lire demand .0384, cables | Gears! Cigar OY MY BOK + 2 baless, wo 0005. Marks demand .0144, | (emral hieo 1B0% 122% 120% + de 20145, up .0006. Belgian francs | Geursl Motaw'.... 16 16s 18M + 1% f 0649, cables .0650, Swiss france | Geneml Motom pf, Ot, O84 Ole + 3d demand .1570, cables.1575. Pesetas | Geni Motom De oy We Mw 1 320, cables .1825. Canadian | Goodrich .. ee um At th td lars demand .8950. Grecby Mining at 2» a +1 fdey = Great No. Ry gf... St a + 3%) reat Ne Ore. a Bis 1 eGRAIN STILL LOWER (ri ire) aK + 1M OR gar Gulf State Steel, eo + IN CHICAGO WAMEE ot oe Gy t ogg eS wston Oil .. Lory . . ~ + Ulinola Central, ~ + “Five Cents Lopped Off Price of | tnssretion cower.. 05 oF Wheat—Cc 5 Interboro Consol 4% it om and Oats Coase an , Also Down, Imar. Agr, Cory... 18 Inter, diarvester. os CHICAGO Nov. 22.—Rallies of brief uration in.the grain market were fo!- lowed by downward plunges that car- tled breadstuffs and feedstuffs ‘ailke to . the towest level yet this season. Wheat dropped below any prices since 1917 and corn and oats to the lowest price since 1915. Knowledge that these Ogures. were well un the cost of production failed to stop the abnormal w More than 5 cents a bushel was slashed from the value of wheat within little more than a single hour, ber delivery changing handi $1.63 1-4 as against $1.68 the finish o urday. prices on corn ot oats war less apec- r except as being in addition to jous operations of late that had cut orn values nearly in half, § Cutting ry LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. DIED. 1GH THOMAS ROW- Campbell Funeral Church, ALLACE.—On Nov. 19, JOHN, beloved gmbusdand of Ellen Wallsco (nee Quigicy) Funera: from his late residence, 1904 ark av., Weehawken, N. J., on Tues- Petey, Nov. 22, at 9 A. M.; thence to st. Lawrence's Church, where a solomn mass Het requiem will be offered for the repowe if hie soul, Interimens at Korwaton, N. ¥. FUNERAL DIRECTORS, Anywhere “Campbell Service” Call “Columbus £200” (Nou-bectarian) ‘d foesasm 3 LANDS. DU PONT INVESTS IN GENERAL MOTORS Reported to Have Bought Blocks of Steel Worth More Than $40,000,000, Announcement was made to-day by William C, Durant, President of the General Motors Corporation, that he had disposed of @ large block of stock in that corporation to the Du Pont Securities Corporation o& Dela- ware, wich has been formed by Pierre 8. du Pont and associates. While the exact amount of stock involved in the transaction is not known, uccording to those in a posi- tion to know the facts, it totals ap- proximately 2,700,000 shares, At pres- ent market prices the stock has a value of more than $40,000,000. Prior to the present transaction the fu Pont interests are undersjood to ave been owners of 4,484,560 shares of General Mote ok. A FIGHT LONG ISLAND FARES. Appeal to Highest Court by City tn 20 Per Cent. Increase. The Board of Rstimate tostay adopt- ed a resolution condemning the actton of the Interstate Commerce Commission in granting the Long Island Rallroad a 20 per cent. increase in Yates, Corporation Counsel 0 been instructed to appeal to the highest courts against the increase. | The Estimate Board contends that the long Island Railroad is an intra-stats not an interstate railroad Ie'therefore is subject ta regulat iy, the. Publlc. Service “Comptasion oF this State, /pageenger preme THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, | FINANCIAL NEWS AND PRICES | { CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS a New Tat, Mer, In, Mer, Marine 9 Teand ot Invincible Ot Kanais Clty So Kelly Syrtng Kelsey Weel Keanwott Kegetone 1 Loew's Lackawanna Steot Lehigh Lat, Mackay ( “Mant Mex. Petro! +s Miam) . +1 Atupins Nody |. Midvale Steel ” bs) Mao & #t. L. + % Mo, K. & T. ee! Mo, F 2 Ney Mid, eaten + % National Acme + 1% jooat Aniline + 4 Nat Cloak & Bult + % Nat Comdutt +e iat Bnam & Btp, + 1% Lead + 3% jorada Conat + 1% New O11 T & M + 2% NY Airbrake + 2% NY Central + ay + 3% Nu aa + 1% aw. + 1% Nortolk & West + 2% Northen Vac ....+ + 2% Nora Scotia Steel. , + % Oka & R + % ‘Ontario Gilver + % ac. Dev. Corp. +1 Pacific Gas ...... + 1% Pan Amer, Petco! . + 0% Peon, RB. ard Venn. Beab'd +14 Peoples Gan ... nae? Tere Marquotte + 1% Phil. Oo. + 1% Pierce Arrow + 1M Pietee Oil. + & Pitts, Ooal . + 8M Pite & W. . +% Pond Creek Oval . . + 1% (Prem Steet ..... + 3% Pullman Oo. + 9% Wunta Sugar... + 2% Rail Steel Sorina. + 3 Ray Cover + % Reading 6... + 3% Remicgwn Tye + 1% Ken Motor + 1h Rey dron & Beool + 2% Revleglo Steel... +1 Roral Dutch NY.. + 2% Sarago Arma! b+ % Saxon Motom aM au + % Seaboard Aie Line 8 8 +o% Seam Koduck 1 + 3% Shattuck Aris, . By + * Sinclair OU . wi + 1% Glomthelf, Steel, we +4 Ho, Porty Ihieo Sug 102 100% +2 Bouth, Vac, . 15 1% 114% + 4% ‘South, By, B% M4 WM + 1h WY 58% WK + Ihe 1% 41 We + 6 Studebaker sth 4 tT + OM Suvmarine ‘oat wy 10 10% + w ‘St, Joseph doad .. 14 “4 a+ % StL, & Aan Fran 26 Me BM +2 Bt & Bo W.... Bite 30% BL + UH Superior Steel... 42 2 +0 “0 + ‘Tenn Coy & Chea 8% + % . wy + ow Texan & Pac » +2 ‘Thint Ave 10% + 1% ‘Tobacco Prod OO + O% ‘Trane Oil... + % ‘Tranmue & W + % Twin Clty + 1% Union Hee & Union Macitic + 2% + a United Alloy aj United Drug .. + Uaited Fruit +10 United Ry Inv ‘co. 1% +2 Un Retail Stores. 60% +6 UBCIP. i" + % United Food 3 + 3% U. 8, Indust, Al,, 72 +3 8. & imp, 37% + 1% S$. Rubber 00% + OM 8, Smokers... 43% +" HN. Steel....... SoM + 1% ‘Steel vf. ~ 108% +1 Copper m + % Sec... 10% % Caro, Chem 4" + th Vanadium Stel. 40% + 4% Watasis O% +N Watisah of A. Dy + 1% Wet Maryland a + %® Werte Pac Com. s +o West Pac Com ot. 74 24 Wee! Airtwake oe set Weminguouse 42% + 1% Wheeling: 10% + *% Willys veriand LJ + % Waite ou ha White Motors +2 Wilson Co. +3 Worthington 48% 18% + Me Worthington pi BST oF ow 2 Wootworth + 108 10T% 108 + 1% 100% 1 $4,500 A YEAR EACH FOR CRIMMINS BOYS Court Aiffirms Report of Referee in Case of John D. Grandsons, Referee Joseph McCloskey's report awarding $4,500 per annum to John D. Crimmins.3d, fifteen years old, and a like amount to his brother, Holmes Crimmins, twelve years old, grandchildren of the late John D, |Crimmins, was to-day approved ‘by Surrogate John P. Foley. Surrogate Foley also affirms the payment on account of each of the two boys $2,697 to their stepfathe Charles L. Hoffman, this money be. ing paid for the support of the bo fram May 8 1918, to Dec, 81, 1919, The report shows that the boys are interested in a trust fund of $367,000, the principal of which Is to be paid to them upon reaching thirty years of age. Attorney McCloskey says in his re- port that bbe apayment of such an- nuities to boyof such tender age is in line with the wishes of the grand- father that they have every educa- tional advantage "so that they might be useful members of society and a credit to their ances ~ | New York Wins Bridge Sulit. WASHINGTON, Noy. 22.—The 8u- Court to-day declared constitu- tional a NéW York statute under which! the State sought to compel the Inter- national Bridge Company to construct separate pathways for vehicles and pe- nd that destriens across its bridge at Buffalo. | indicate he was penitent, The statute penalized the company $500 and interest at the rate of §50 a day lo spilure te comply with it, ys I INDEPENDENT O11, 3000 Allied O11 “ Law, Law “4 otal 54 ow ay 8 4 100 Colnmmbia amc raid 1 ef 400 Kmpiew Tube We eK 6200 Genera Amynalt “o 4 We 00 Merenies Paver » 19 19 400 Mercer Motors ey | eM ” bos % 3% - Mm | 1 1500 0 8 Steam oe #0 Uolted Profit. Bharl 18 4100 United Retail Cand: 5% STANDARD O14. 100 Angio- American O11 19% 181), 19% 5 Oates 30 E 280 Union ‘Tank Line 100% 03% 000 Amal Novalty 2 $200 Boone O11 2 ae 3000 Boston Wsoming ‘ % 200 Cari Bynd Wy 1K 1% 200 Cit Serv ‘BY te 32% 222M 1900 Cushing Pet e © 4 300 Denny OU 1% 1% #00 Dorainion OL. % 9 9 Hak Basin Pet ee a 2000 Kngineers Pet iA mA 1000 Federal O11 % 2 2 600 Gienrork O11 % 2 100 Granada Ott 6 6 200 Guffey Gilleaple .. 25% By 100 Hudson O11 * * 900 Int Pero! 18 uy 20000 Kay County Gas .. 1% M4 100 Lone Star Gas... ® £00 Marsesibo O11*.. 6 1000 Martand 2% 00 Merritt Ol 150 Midwest Met MS 148 100 Mountain Prod 134 18% 00 Nilo Ol) a ou 00 Xo Am Ott 2% 800 Omar OH 2% 1% 100 Prod & Ref... oe OM 1700 Red Mock Oil... 1 Cae 1400 Tyan Cons. i ik 400 Halt Creek Prod .....6., 98 26 aR 400 Malt Creek Prod new. W100 400 Settled Prod 24M 1800 Simms Pet % mH 8 1500 Skelly OW is 8) 8 Hoo United Tex OU. wo 2100 Victorta OM new . 5 ® . MINING 600 Alex Col * * 1200 Auauta ‘met creas! 170 Ba Lede s 8% 1000 Boom ay tae 8 13400 Bost & Mont nr es 4600 Caled Mine 7 16 10 3300 Calumet & Jerome « a See 100 Candelaria M 1 1616 800 Con Virginia. 3% 44(0 Cortex Silver “o 2 OF 00 81 Salvador so of 1900 Pureka Croesus oi or) 340 Ryroke Holly. te aN 1920. ARGUES FOR JOBS HE CAN CONTROL Craig Says He Faced Prison For Acts of Those He Had No Voige | in Appointing. Comptroller Craig appéared to-d y defore a joint meeting of the State and Municipal Civil! Service Commissions to submit arguments tn favor of his ap- plication to have certain positions in his department taken out of the com- petitive civil service class and placed in the exempt class. There are 128 positions in the list. His general argument was that in these particular positions the qualifications of the applicant could not be determised | Soares baw 1200 Gotd Conn i a | 1200 Gold Devel 2 1200 Goldtietd Wierenae 1 1509 Gold Kewana : 2 2 Theatre, Novelization by William A, Page. 1000 Gold Silver Pick a ae | 4:60 Geta zone » op } 1200 Great Rend | 1 1 | “00 tects. Mining rr er Matton $00 Honduras yn uO THK 490 Jambo Bxtenision ae ae | 26900 Kuox Divide wt | 100 La Rose Mining ” “ “ | 1000 MaNamere sof waters of the Nile, where lazy | 1000 MeNamara Cresent oe) & * | 1000 Mersh Min Ld | 1°00 Mothertode or 5? | those who passed the guardians of the city's gates. 100 Mother Lode new oe 5h | hile travellers from many, | meee be ii |line, the first touch of dawn sgttled, while traveller earl i | 1000 North star ‘ 4 | voice of the muezzin calling all to prayer and worship o: jomet, |. 1200 Opie Stiver ay | metropolis, pied ae Ee Cairo, the beautitul; Cagro, the mystic; Cairo, the romant 1000 Rochewr Mince & $8 |self, a welcome’ oasis for tse caravans 2500 Roper Group wo ow ot 200) Silver King Divide ibis 3 " far distant Cathay for WE te le 4 wa {CAFO rivalling even Bagdad and far distant y 200 Tonopeh Relmom 0... 1% 1% 1M 5700 Tonopah Cash oy... 8 7 §$ | wil, who gladly paid hiv, homage with loyal words and deeds. (0700 Tono Divide i 1 ite 1500 Tonopah Kut lve 1 1 te Sassi int t* I leprorts to over throw Al Malik-al-Naslr. 1200 Towopah Stidwey 1 110 [Wrest seed hip a 1% | rorced to camp outade the city’s wall nova : r ‘i im tne teen. 2 8g |a bench whereon he had nodded dreamily, cried out: 18300 ‘Temopah Roseuo Eula. 32 98 38 “Hear ye all, travellers from distant lands, followers of the Prophet. ge AR ecg stag 6 @ 6 save in Allah! ‘Thre gates are open! 200 United Eastern % m 2% 1200 Victory. s 8 6 110 Wee task C an dr, 1 1 1 |yice of the Sultan stepped forward, to scrutinize closely all who might enter. Pav rem 0 Obra cet : . J his right hand in salute, and to ea FOREIGN BONDS, Wendt ie Ge and son 90000 Dustin, 4 1% 194 134 | “Allah's blessing on thy day, 10000 Denmark be %% 99% 9% | brother,” to the seller of dates; and 10990 French os "0 39 #89 | the date seller did reply: “And on £0000 German Gov 5a a 8 bi ” +4 thee, the peace, oh brother. 85000 Hamburg 4% Mh MM 15% (000 Norway 80 100 © 98% = oq | “Then, to @ carrier of carpets, the 47000 Tusstan G 5¥n 19 1 1¢ Jeunuch spoke: “Allah's blessing on BONDS 6. thy day, oh brother." Whereupon the 13000 Allied Packer 6a. 59% 58% 89 Joarpet carrier did reply: “And on cae we Me gu | thee, the bounty of Allah, oh brother.”* | 8090 Aneconds fe 20 9% 6% 91%| To a donkey driver, the eunuch W000 Armour & Co ff....... 954 9% 66% ]spoke the same words: ‘Allah's blese- 7000 Heth Stl Ts 38... 94% 4% MM ling on thy day, oh brother.” The 10000 Cons Textile Ts. 95% «95K 05H ast the 2000 Galena 8 0 Ts wh 98% 93% 99m | ConKey man ted ais sits iy ‘a 20900 Teint & Co 4% 94% ey eUUCh, replying: “And on thee, 2000 Inter ROT Te 70 10 [sweat of health.” 1000 Kennecott C ‘ 8% 93% 98%] But the fourth visitor to whom the 5000 Morris & Co 7%. - T% OTH OTH e ic words 10000 Obio Cities Te 26. 4% sy | raised his band silently in 10000 Seaboard AL 68.0... 83 82 [and placed it palm to palm witb that 14000 Sears Rorbuek 7 21... 97% st%]of the eunuch. The newcomer, $000 Rese Rosie to $i.» 0% ™% | without speaking, made signs with his 50000 Sinclair © TY. : 90% * si meee Botray’ et Cle ‘Be ia 100 ago | free left hand, The eunuch grunted 25000 Swift Co 7 97% 96% o7 | with satisfaction. 4000 Texas Co 1 a “At last—thou art from Prince Nur 10000 Utah Seo , 6. 81% 81% J al-Din?” The stranger made signs with his by civil service examination—qualifica-| gnt hand and placed a fiiger across tions of honesty, integrity, loyalty and! j\5 1) wood judgment, ate ” + Mr. Craig said that when he recently] “Yea, dumb thou art,” murmured paid a fine of $824 for'contempt of court |the eunuch. “But thou canst hear. in violation of an injunction, the viola-| Know then I am Abdullah, head tion ‘was really committed by the Chief of the Divis on of Stocks an Bonds, al-|eunuch to the Sultan. And thou art Hee Mr. Craig was legally responsi-| Kataf, the dumb slave of the Prince “More than once," he said, “4 have|Nur al-Din. Well, I can read thy have Lee pe Brava for the acts of| fingering. ‘Thy master’s message?” had no voice." Wore appointment I) ong gent mute made further signs ‘The positions which he seeks to have| which Abdullah readily understood. restoret to e exempt class, where ” ? they would be within his control, were | “Ab, he is without the gates? Go, placed In the competitive class during | bring him hither, { will await him the Mitchel Administration, — yonder in the shadow of that stall. Seven Killed in Soctalist Riot. | Haste thee.” BOLOGNA, Italy, Nov. 21.—Seven| As the mute, Kataf, sped through |Persons were killed and thirty wounded | the gateway to fetch his master, the in a_ conflict between Socialists and \e' ed anti-Sociniists at the first meeting of | Ptince Nur al-Din, Abdullah areles the new Municipal Council here to-day. OVED INSTALMENT NO. 13. . THE HEAD VS. THE HEART. N all my life never had I spent such a miserable day as when Hugh, angered because I had failed to have breakfast ready at the ap pointed moment, walked out of the house without saying one word to me, When I had fairly spent myself with weeping, I got up and walked into the kitchen, Never could I sit down at that rejected breakfast table. I hhd no spirit, no appetite, Pouring out a cup of coffee, I drank part of it standing in the kitchen, Passing into the dining room, I surveyed the melancholy looking breakfast table. Thon my tears started ‘afresh, What a perfectly wretched day to be unhappy, to be the victim of @ husband's wrath, Walking to the window, I contemplated the steady downpour. I could see only a few pedestrians, buffeted by the strong wind. Motorists were driving care fully through the wet, slippery streets. Overhead, the clouds presented an un- broken‘ canopy of dull gray Nature had made me a_ rather buoyant, if highly emotional, creature, and after my first outburst of weep- ing, | began to wonder how I could distract myself, how I could forget the morning's depressing event. Mother was away on a trip with father, and I did not feel much like calling up one of the girls and making an engagement for the day. I tried to read thé morning paper, but I could not get interested in the new Finally, 1 brought myself to the point of clearing off the table and putting our apartment to rights. 1 | managed to do a little sewing and mending, and, Mm the afternoon, I found a good book, Under the cheer- ing influence of a clever story, and the sun, which was breaking through | the clouds and flooding my room with tts golden light, | managed to cheer up considerably, Yet, all day | L had been waiting, listening for the telephone. I was sure that Hugh |; would call up and say something to About 5 @vlook I went into the kitchen prepare dinner, Just as | was stir. ring up & Cocoanut custard, one (on ea fiona Y EDITH J (BY HDITH JOHNSON} AGAIN ( Hugh's favorite desserts, the tele- phone bell summoned me. Hugh's voice startled me—it was 80 har “I am going to be pretty late at the office and I think I had better get something down here. I may join Hampton for dinner. He's in town for the day.” Then he rang off. When Hugh returned two or three hours later I was lying in our room, After Hugh's curt announcement I had once more thrown myself on the bed in such convulsions of sobbing as I did not before know were pos- sible, After a while my head began to ache violently. My temples were throbbing and my whole body felt numb. ‘There was not a light in the apart- ment when Hugh let himself in. Be- fore he could turn a switch I could hear him stumbling over something on his way back to the bedroom. Standing in the door, he could barely see me, huddled up on the bed. I lay perfectly still, with my head in the pillow. “Are you sick, Alma?" he asked in I moaned miserably from my pillow, ‘That !s—I have a terrible headache, “Have you eaten to-day?" asked a shade more gently. “No—no—nothin, I sobbed. Hugh went out into the kitchen, I heard him filling the tea kettle and putting it on the stove. I could also hear him light the oven and pull out the rack where We made the toast. In a few minutes Hugh returned bearing a neatly arranged ltthe tray of toast and tea, “Sit up and eat this, Alma." ‘There was nothing of a penitential spirit in his manner or votce. It was not the suppliant lover who had borne food to me. It was @ stern judge—a judge whose head ruled his heart on all ocedsions. I might receive some- thing like Justice, but no clemency. In the darkness the face of Hugh's mother rose up before yme. The thought occurred to me that she must have been in the habit of pun- ishing him when he was a little boy in the very same cold, calm, self- contained manner he, was displaying to me now. I sat up in bed, though I felt aw- fully dizzy, Hugh put the tray in my lap. I drank some of the tea, and {ts warmth and delicate favor comforted me and I tried to nibble at the toast. (To Be Continued To-Morrow.) he over to the seller of dates. words sufficed to send the stall- keeper on his way, leaving Abdullah apparently in charge. But it required several dinar to make the seller of dates vacate his place of business! fe protested strongly. “Nay, my presence is worth many dinar this day, Trade will be brisk by forenoon, The joyful news of Prince Nur al-Din's defeat by the army of our blessed Sultan, whom Allah preserve, will cause money to flow. Glad hearts lead to full bel- Me Abdullah, angrily disclosing his identity, forced the stall keeper to surrender his point of vantage, from whence all who came in or gut of the city’s gates could be seen, ‘and here now Abdullah anxiously awaited the coming of Prince Nur al-Din, the de- CHAPTER L crocodiles dozed idly upon the shores. spread from the desert and the Orient its luxurious All, is until daybreak, to admit a motley ch he spoke the same words: PRINCE NUR-AL-DIN FROWNED. relf gave out the tidings, dalmed him the King, Al Malik-al-Nasii Prince Nur al-Din clenched his fists angrily, “I must win by guile and wile. By poison or the dagger must I win the throne. Tell my two Wazirs, Abu Shimah and Al Khasip, they must earn the wages—the wages I pay them—and so must thou. if by the Feast of Rhamazan ye have not hit upon somg plan to rid me of ‘and they conquering this Al Malik«l-Nasir 1 will de- nounce ye to him as traitors in my pay. Then for ye all, the scimitar.” Abdullah groaned aloud. “Awah! awah! Allah alone knoweth how diffi- feated pretender to the throne, whose Ife was forfeit if his presence in Cairo should be discovered. Prince Nur al-Din, disguised as a rich merchant, a cloak muffled about iis face, suddenly entered the gate- way, followed by Kataf. Abdutlah respectfully saluted the rebel Prince who raised his hand in greeting, and then turned upon the luckless Kataf. ‘Keep watch, thou tongueless dog, and warn if danger threatens,” he muttered, flercely. Kataf bowed low as he moved nearer the gateway. Dark, “handsome, somewhat surly, brother-in-law to the former Sultan, who had married his sister Sharazad, the Prince Nur al-Din had expected to be named as the successor to the throne. But fate decreed that the dy- ing Sultan should nominate Al Malik-al-Nasir, the young prince who was so popular with the people that his ascendancy to the throne was hatlead with joy. Whereupon Prince Nur al-Din, with heavy threats, had taken to the fleld to win by force of arms the throne, had not the loyal armies of the Sultan defeated him in battle, Abdullah, secretly plotting to over- throw the Sultan, and accepting pay from the rebel Prince, greeted his master eoftly. ‘The blessings of Allah upon thee, oh prince of princes,” he said, bowing low. Nur al-Din raised his hand in token of rebuke. “I pay thee not for mouthings and fawnings. Allah's curses are upon me, Thou hast heard my men have Ween defegted by the soldiers of this Sultan, this Al Malik- | bs The news hed ht, The Sul te tc cult is this task thou asketh,” “Thou art his steward. Poison,” sald Nur al-Din, carelessly. “Away! Each dish or cup that's set before him I must first tasted “And is thy death too great a price for thee to pay, knowing it will place me on the throne?” The crafty Abdullah held out his hands beseechingly and smiled. “ oh Prince of Princes, but if I were dead I should forego the great joy ef acclaiming thee as the Sultan. That would indeed be too great a price to pay, oh Lord of Lords.” Nur al-Din, susceptible to flattery, smiled craftily. “Te dagger, then?” “Nay, he is too careful of his skin to be ever unattended. Two mighty negroes are ever near him, ever guarding him, I have already bribed more than one to siay him, but at the first movement of @ hand those black dogs have sprung and struck the striker dead.” Nur al-Din hesitated, deep in thought. “Can we not win my sister Sharazad to our side? A woman might succeed where men have failed. She hath beauty—wit.” “Yea, and a little son whom she would see upon the throne. Were she to strike, it would be for him, not thee.” “At least that obstacle thou canst remove," said Nur al-Din, darkly, “Thou shalt have my written-order this very day and 1,000 dinars when it is obeyed.” Abdullah bowed shall *die.” low. “The boy CHAPTER IL ATAF, the mute, came sud- denly to his master, and with many signs and much ex- citement, conveyed news of rare import. Prince Nur al-Din's many lands stirred uneasily in th There is no might, POISON OR THE DAGGER,” HE SAID. 20, by F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gewt.) 4 HE first rays from the risingesun flashed across the sky, across the plains and deserts of ‘Arabia, across the gleaming waters of the Red Sea, and passed over the sands of Ancient Egypt to illuminate the 'placi@ A rosy gleam from the East diffused itself over Cairo, gateway of the Orient, sleeping there behind her walls which kept out all visitors except Upon her mosques and minarets, rising high against the sky ic sleep as the, the streets of the sleep’ through there by the waters of the Nile she spread hers In the reign of the young Sultan, Al4Maliks al-Nasir, a thousand years or more ago, there was no more glittering court in ali the Eastern world than that of display and young Sultan, upon the throne for several months, had already won the favor of the people and was loved *by, save the followers of the Prince Nur al-Din, ceremonious pomp. The pretender to the throme of the Sultan, whose armies had threatened the very life of the Empire itself im dig As the gates of ancient Cairo opened with the dawn the ancient keeper of the city’s keys, mMsing quickly from throng of travellers who had been no power, no glory, Pass ye in and out of Cairo freely until sunset.” ‘As the gatekeeper hobbled back to his lodge by the city gate, a man in the uniform of a eunuch in the @er« To each visitor the eunuch held “THE SULTAN MUST DIE—BY eyes gleamed. “Ah, the Sultan vengefuily. explained Abdullah, “it ts his custom to walk the streets at dawn, rgbed as a common man, thereby to learn the plaints or wishes of his people, Withdraw into the shadow of this stall, O Prince of Princes!” he added, The three men stepped darkness of the stall, Then round the corner of the street and Into their view came the Sultan Al Mallk-al- Yasir, ruler of Cairo and‘ of Egypt, ed as a common kitborer, in rags and patches forsooth, yet in spite of his humble garb looking every inch a Prince of royal breeding and com- manding presence. A young man, seb upon the throne through the death of his uncle, the former Sultan, Al Ma- lik-al-Nasir had sought in truth to reign wisely and well. Now, in mod- est attire, he strolled the city’s streets and picked up such: gossip as might aid him in governing with justice, Behind him, ever near at hand, two giant negroes strolled, carelessly pre- tending they were but strangers; yet each watched closely every movement of hig royal muster and all who did approach. Ah aged wazir also ace companted the tall young man a acted as hig guide. A beggar woman asked alms of the Sultan, not knowing his identity, ana he tossed her a coin. An old man ambled near them, feeling the street before him with a heavy staff of wood, while he called out, “Blind—blind, have pity on the blind.” Concealed within the shadow of the stall, Abdullah clutche! the arm of Prince Nur al-Din, “Yeh, now watch, oh, Prince, Allah may have rewards for thee. This is no blind man, but a rogue of mine, who has been bribed to slay the Sultan, Watch loge. ly" , The aged blind man cautiougly felt his way; yet despite his sightless yes his staff led him unerringly to-* ward the Sultan, He paused in front of the ruler, and as the Sultan chatted with his friend, the wazir, the sup- posed blind man felt for a dagger which was concealed in the handle of his staff. He stepped closer and held out his free hand to the Suy* while with the other he clasp dagger. (Continued in T, wage in To-Morro: comes,” he mul into the