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tary of the Treasyry that bank loans outside New York | decreased $266,000,000 from November 15 to the end of the yeag wan accepted as fur- ther proof that deflation Is progrens- ing in a satisfactory manner but failed to stimulate new buying, THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS « at. Lave lam. Action of the Senate in passing the , stock market to-day | wiiisis, ‘i . Ms Adeans Bayram Cee Lehigh Valles v.66 Bh + w comparatively dull,’ sional, piyiog of thee talitoad aaates peewee: 4 oe Ga ta Mae and as a group they were the firmest Ajwia Janay a tal i ~ 1 on the list. Olla wore irremtlar. Atwatsimes oc. abe itt beet ad 101% 18% — 1% wide fluctuations in Coppers were dull but firm, Ae Chemscccs 8 he Loom a Namvilic. 90% wh — % | Irregularity of price movements 4m pam ne a Lesa ae +18 with gains and m Hark Now, wD Dfan Blorated i specialties, continued until the end of the exsion, ‘Am tect Sugar as Mcmbal okey + ¥% being fairly evenly divided. — | with increasing weakness on the Am hey, rath hs aero Meaicon Varroleune ~ 4 . ‘was, of course, taken Part of spedialties whowe earnings iin can, 7 ° wu aleea Oorber » i the action of Atiantic Guilt. It Gre being affected by current un~ Aa car a iM m4 Midille tates Oth. F become established over the fAVorable conditions. The volume Of gm soem kg Midvale Biel ssse0 + trading was extremely small. THIS An Ha Lye pr Me Ken & Tet. oy — % that hehe attempt of bio best illustrated by the Lae Lees jm le; ne be tio Wan & Text 4% -% minority stockholders’ committee to there were no transactions in United ‘sn jutwwaiinal.” au da eae . 10% +h have the company placed in the hands States Steel during 12 and 1 o'clock ‘Ailad Chan sess Wn doin ae teaho oun, we +% & Feceiver need not be taken seri- | {inourh steel ontinarily the most ac- jam ger eater, TN 1H Mont Want .scccee ath -* SONY, and that much of the stock’s| Atiantic Guif and other shipping Joana ur. ws beaneatapete! a +h Feoent weaknest was due in great jshares retained mort of their early en Simi Wouniy, ao’ a ae ba, Re +4 | part to the circulation of misintor- | gains, coppers cloned firm although sfansnd ; prep toga 4 + % iit became known that nales o Ry B s + % y mation 4 aaa ” ag eats af- metal have just taken place as low sm Nak mam Ds 28 oan faira which the big bear crowd jy 12% cents a pound. Steels closed 4m Newnda Comat ses x operating in the market was not slow jfirm nnd most changes inthe rails en es ees be + % take advantage of. The stock to- | road up were upwal thouRN iam Wool voce. ee NY semen % y : far rose five palate compared with | gains Swere Vimited to. fractions, ‘An Wne Hee oe Bie A aa + 4 | the close of Monday, and showed a| Weakest stocks in she Industrial® am zine geass, arin ime ¥ Ont & War, 17% any 4 ot Monday, ai owed & wore the fertilizer insucs, Coco-Cola Ansan rarity Nortol & Western, 100% +14 yy fecevery of nearly ten points over | and camly stocks, Soars Roebuck and prema tex 4 Northen Pacifio..., 94% ae _- the recent low mark. the leading paper shares. wets also A=tee Bi ccs wn ee Nowa deotia ar . we Dc American Woolen and other indus-|_ ‘The cotton and grain markets also Quen iy ie!) N*M Koenig he perma ttt =—% 1 tiat epeoialties which were wonkent | Were extremely dull and price 8 AUGW ae Wis ta 47% pec Ww 0G, * © oh Monday were firmest to-day, On| Te Irewular, Ad Gall & Wot Yon 304 oe ne, ek + % ‘the other band United Fruit touched boogie! ey Ltd Pan-Amer Det Be. OTM + % _* & Rew low mark for the year, and! Bes Mowe... iN ay Penn BIR ..ss-e04 4048 wie W hero was noticeable pressure on* ° Bet Sleel esse Bl by fees Rae Oe Ee we Alex Tire, Sears Rocbuak and other al t. OSSIP | tes ieee es ak Peete 11% 11% ITN + recently ve n re vieth Stool a wm Marcusett a s s meseave to bear seliing. Booth Piaberien “4 Paton Pet ied bh oe Was little in the way of news (Mhiya Hagd ‘Tron, 12 12% sues ater 1 10% 10% > which to base market operations. LIPERTY BONDS, Byrve Kos we 88 Pome On are renewed at 7 per cent., as was vt , Bitte Cop & tie 6% OK Pittatrands ¢ . Liberty § 1-28 opened 91.10, up .04 and sterling exchange rates |. y be te: gq, Tutte & Suynor: aa Tite & W Va..- tenon leh and without particular | ist # 1-46 87.38, up 08; 2d, 86.72; 3d, Catto Onset Ont by 1 Vrwewst Steel Car, statement of the Secre. 90.00; Ath, 87; Victory 4 849 9140, Cte Pacing oo. ON Oh itinan ti, O RBIGN mxSnantia c | CUM Perheme 4. 42% 40% IN + TH im 2} XC EB CLOSE. | alt Pet yt... TM% TW + Wl i Seer of NJ. BIOS ARE SINANCIAL | Sterling, demand 4.88, cables 3.88 3-4, Canadian Wacitic 116% +4 | Pt Mee sorinee off 1-2c.; French francs, demand .0721, (entral Leather ... Hay Capper. Central Leather yf cables .0722, off .0007¢.; lire, demand (rm), Mune Reading » 0365, cables .0866, unchanged; Belgian Onandier Motom bane peg francs, demand .0752, cables .0753, off Chee & Obio oo 0008: marks, demand .0165, cabler .0166, unchanged; Canadian dollars, de- mand $7.50, cable ——, up .0075c.; fwe- den kronen, demand .2240, cables .2245, C, RIA Pac 70 © of CoM & St PRR CoM & St RR yt hig HI & Veo, Senora Heplogle moet Steal 6. Tq Iron & Stool... Rep Iron & Atel pf 96 om ch NY.. 1% + oh For Men Who 0006c.;, Norway Kronen, demand Obie Grat Wertem Tone 2 + -1750, cables .1756, up .0023c.; Denmark Clic Great Wet uf hb & Goutwet. dy Wish to Know kronen, demand .1810, cables .1815, up ‘lilo & Nortiw Ry, aL eS - + 24 .00160.; Argentine pesos, demand .7919, Chile Caer tsi, Ge nies, + 4 cables .7930, off .0040c.;Swias francs, C0me Cover ...... paxon Motor oo... + he La demand .1685, cablos 1660, unchartged; {amit & Jatt. Geaboand Ale Line. + % The Gen: guilders, demand .3420, cables .8430, un- Cova theerece wareRovtuck ....5 66 — + eral Rules of Changed; pexetas, demand 1392, cables Col Fast & Iron. Oe a Trading. , 1897, off 00060, Hee Rares toll T. & Te At + % The its of Stock | = (ol Gua & Klecteie Sinclair O@ 6. 23% + % ‘and Bond Holders. | || WITNESSES “FIXED,” rw tia tee it a The Deposit Require- SAYS U.S. ATTORNEY (27S: Core Oph ments for Carrying Con Int-Cal tin, Soo Ne eect we Acouses Saloonkeepers of Perjury | Ox uy SOR AE RS ofc eh Jee) Ne |S How to E ee rene Btowart-Waroe Qh Give a Broker in Testifying Against Policemen | Ce, Praia Blinker os Instructions. : racy marine Boat Broker's Commission Acgused of Blackmail, Gan Cle Gene Superior Oa 8% Can 5 Charges. Trial of Patrick Burke and Harry | Ogu aww awe, ait ne en ae | Walsh, detective sergeants under Del & Hudson... 10115 ‘Meme & Vaific -» Me tee te Eodorse 0 Stock suspension, in the Brooklyn Federal Yen & Rio Granie Tex & Pac (ral .. 20% Certificate. Court to-day on charges of conspir. |e * Wo Gr M.. ‘Third Avonso Sei ‘i “| Dome Mines... %y How to Group Invest- ‘acy to extort money from saloon | rikigm Goal ...., [scrap By er oe ments. keepers, had been on only a skort | Padkett Juanes ‘Trareon Oil rs time when Aasistant United States Brio ...... trecowe & Will. 30% Attorney Wallace Collins asked that Brie im pv Union B & ayer, TBs two Government witnesses be held for | Brie at pf ... ‘aion Ou 2% Perjury, saying he believed all the Memow Mayen . Union Pacific ...., 121 Government witnesses had been | Vk Teste Daited Atay 21, “fixed.”" Freeport Texas © ‘Tho witnesses he directly acour sd [Gea Achat A csepsied Seth were Charles Carlsen and Edward | Gaston Wi) & Wig United Food ihred, Dohl, former saloonkeepers. Carlaen's |General ¢irar Cece EL saloon was ut 56th Street and Seventh | Geoeal Hlectric be Aegis Avenue; Dohi's at 46th Street and |General Motor ars ana Sixth Avenue, both In Brooklyn, Their | Goodrich Mae ells testimony in court, where they said |Gootriot 1. uate Wie fone % they did not know the defendants, was |G Northera of Se tally & for aa 48 1s a contradiction, the Prosecutor said, |Gt Nor Ore VS Rutter Oi OS % { of affidavits they had previously made. | Greme Cananca, 1 8 Smoltom, a4 OTN q The case was adjourned until to-mor- | Uulf States soot t i st <i, ry row to permit an investigation. Him Moron 135 %1 ay the % | After the adjournment Dol and | Ulinoia Central. 8% % 2%. Carlsen admitted in the District At- | Imdistoma Refining 0% % pees fd ae cera pear qld Pe- | Inaniration Commer, & i: mM — 1% | porters, their o: lavits were | Inter Com Com. 4% s true and said they will testify truth- | tune Cons Cow ef 13% rr oy ue | tally ‘to-morrow. Teter Ast Com.. "10% > To | The indictment charges the defen- | Iter Agr Com 1f.. 504. % A on Wi dants, representing themselves as | inter Harvester... 98% % 2 « 42nd STREET OFFICE Prohibition agents, accepted $25 from | Inver Motor Ge ate te — | Nm oO ee vd 505 Fifth Avenue Doh! and $50 from Carlsen on July | Inter Paper om... O64 By GS — & haa . a, + 4 ‘Telephone Murray Hill 7120 12, 1920, promising protection, The | tome Mer Marine, UK 13% 1% liad + 1M ~ affidavits sae he weteon kedoare wot 90% ay +14 10% + ‘ forth these charges, and Dohl's added 10% —% = Offices in 8 Principal Cities that: be bas aereed. 30 pay $9. 8/Gay » 195 — ) oo * for prot n. 4 a 4+ a Direct Private Wiree 4 Sm & ae : an a WA h U. S. SUES TO END ai ainsi Th 4 PINE LUMBER TRUST | *==. ~ ty eA tf a aaa Kelly Srbyfiad.., 46 444 4 — | Wheonatn Contra + 8M ST. Seep eae Sori Kenuenots Conger. ia 118 1" leas Teas “ ment to-day Injunction proceed | Keystone Tire ... 10% biel sas iden. ‘Cita Bak ., PERSONALS. ings in the Fedeai District Court | Lackawanna Steel. 64 85% Gi, 4 TBE Diviloml Total Salew 446,90 sem the heap ae Pine Farrag oy ' E alxty-one corporations and sixty-nine in- \SENAT PASSES ‘tividuals, FIELD SHOT HEIRS WANTED, He tion lato end an elleged con. [SAYS HAT piracy to ourtalt the supply and in- MINE DETECTIVE ‘crease the price of ‘elow pine lumber, Missing Heirs are being sought ame througb. the world, Many peo- ple are to-day Uving in paehe ie BIEo. . WCOMBS—WILLIAM VP, On eb, 22 Wermty whe are really rob, but Greenwich, Conn. Services Fifth Avenue @o not know it) You may be one Presbyterian Church Chape!, S5th at.. near Fifth av, on Thursday, Fob, 24, at 11 A. M. Interment Littie Rock, Ark. SPEYER.—DLLIN PRINCE, at her resi fence, 1058 Wifta Avenue, on Feb @f them. Bend for 400-page cloth- “Missing Heirs * eontaining care. fully authenticated iets of missing Relra and unciahnod estates which and daughter of the late John Dyneley ave been ised and Mary ‘Travers Prince hgh Set here Sad Funeral services at the Cathedral of ebroad, The Index of Missing ®t, John the Divine on Friday morn. Meire we offer for sale contains ing, Fev, 25, at 2 o'clock, Kindly omit flowers, TOGRESS4—On Feb. 21, FRANK TO- GRESSA, beloved husband of Angeliua and father of wx @aughters, Funeral from his tate residence, 364 ‘thousands of names which have ap- peared in Americas, Canadian, Bugiiah, Beotch, Irish, Welsn, Ger- man, French, Belgian, Swodian, Mat of Bogiisb and Irish Courts of Chancery and unclaimed dividends Mat ef Bank of England, your ame oF your ancestor's may Le in the list, fend $1.00 (one dollar) Bt once for book, before bth odt- - Mow @ exhuusted. Weiaviished 1481, FUNERAL DIRECTORS, AL Your Seivce, Bay or ight PRANK F. CAMPBFLL . “THE FUNERAL CHURCH” Inc, (Neow-Sectarian) “19701 Broadway at 66th St. TNTERNATIONAL e CLAIM AGENCY, = Pept $74, Puuaburgh, Pa be eee ee ELP_WANTED—MALE. Pearl st, Thuroday Foo. 24. Thenoe Sarah OCA fins begs to St. Jomchim's Church, Roosevelt at, Pewers, Inverted by lawyers, execu. whore a solemn requiem mana will bo fora, administrators. Also contains offered 10 AM. Intermeut Calvary | Cemotery, INDUSTRIAL BILL Witness, Against Whom State Had | Measure Providing for Reorganizing Dropped ‘Case, Tells of Police ‘Chief's Alleged Threat. WILLIAMSON, W. Va., Feb. 23.— Isaac Brewer, testifying in the Mate- wan Street shooting tru’, to-day told a juryS id Hatfeld, Police Chief of the detec: |b: tc ° Killed Albert ©. Felts, a privat ‘Live, May 1%. Refore the genera! fight that followed the slaying of Felts was 88 to 19 the Senate to-day i Knight Bill to reorganize the State 43, 1621, beloved wite of James Bpeyer|iitte mining town. fired the shpt that | Industrial Commission, recommended Commission Receives 33 Votes to 9 Against. ALBANY, Feb, 23.—By a vote of ssed the y Gov. Miller in his first m o the Lesrislature, ‘The faw votes in pposition to the bil were cast by sage over, aix other private detectives and) the Democratic members. threo citizens were killed. The detec-| Minority Leader Walker and Sena- tives’ mission at Mate be evie= 1 tors Jolin J. Boy! and Nathan ve of pasdk i pele aS, Stone] Straus jr, of New York, condemned Mountain Coa! Conmany =e 4 aial Brewer told of meeting Sid Hatfield] ‘€ Measure as vicious, as weakening by appointment the day of the xhoot- | t Ing: of @ remark made to him by Hat- | fleld to the effect Mayor Testerman| ci ‘was carrying water on both shoul- ders, nd if ‘Tosterman ‘“meased around” tia affairs “would cut him in two with o t Brewer, who was wounded during the battle, in-] dicted by a grand Jury in connection with the shooting, but the State tater | ¥ against hil, by 4 BERLIN, Feb, Duke Ernst Gan- ther of Schleswig-Holstein, brother of former Empross Augusta Victoria, is dead at his home at Primkenau, Silesia, He was born in 1863 and was 4 son of Duke Frederick of Schleewig-Holstoln. During the war he acted for a time as Assistant Governor General of Belgium. consist of 4 single Commiss. administrative functions and judicial body of three m as a court to decide comp t claims and with power aise te appol) . ™ he labor law and being against the interests of the workers. They also rittcised its inclusion in the bill to recodify the labor laws, Senator Frederick M. Davenport, Republican, of Onelda, said that he might object to some sutures of the ill if he did not have confidence that nder the type of man who would @ named by Gov. Miller as head of the reorganized Industrial Commis- ion would administer it effectively nd honestly, The proposed reorganization would Mrcall \tails of the executions of Sinn Fein-| |to sensation, be | Shares. High. Low. Last, INDUSTRIAL. 1600 Aeme Coa ‘%s & 4% {Acton Explosives cite .. 9% Me OM 200 Car Light a ay | 500 Durant Motors ssc, 1 BO 80 Farrell Coat wo tT 100 Hanes Koitt a. wou ow nes Koltt B Wh NK 300 Luter Hubber 10% 10 10% Unter Trade Mark o 6 6 it i 00 Radio 1% 1% 500 Nu ™ 2% 80 Mending Co wl , 1% WM 1500 Neadine Co rts... W% 16% 400 Bweete Co 2% as 6400 Us Sioa %% % 10800 US sn % % 900 United te Sie 20 8 OV Of Cale... 7 MO 800 © 0 of Indiana (row), 60% a 28 O1 of NY ee INDEPENDENT O11 RKO Abied OW .. nr 4000 Noone OU ‘ 1% 1% 1% 800 Reston Wyoming . " “ a" 8600 Carib Bynd Ch i. | 100 Cition Servion “Hi 28% 28 aR 75 Cite Berviee (old)... SR NB 100 Cities Bervice pt. o « 69 1009 Denny OL vc.ce “4 % 300 FIK Basin Pet posse The TH OT 1800 Engineers’ Petro ara i a 1 700 Federal OW . 1% 1% 500 Glenrook ONL 3 1% 1% 000 Guffey Gillemte . MM MM 2000 Hudson Oil * a * 1300 Int Petro! in 15% 16 500 Maracaibo OU, rt 1} 100 Merritt Ou % Lhe 2% 600 Mexieo OiL 1% 1% Mh 3000 Noble Olt he oho 100 North American Oil, hy te 700 Red Rock Ol... i te 200 Tran Cones. ® ™ 600 Simins Pots. 7% ™ 100 Sivtly Oi ™% ™ 1000 United Texas Olt...» ve % 300 Vietorla Onl (new) xX M 10900 '¥ Ol . * * “ MINING. 1000 Alas-Br Col . bt % * 1000, Atianta : ae: 1000 Big lade “ ™ s 1500 tooth 5 5 4100 fos & Mont » ot 0 Caled Min 0 ‘ 1209 Candelaria Mf 1 it 200 Con Virninia bs 3700 Cobler Silver Cr 200 Creeon Gold ‘We iy] ) Dandie aris 1 1 1 , FEBRUARY 23, 1921. FINANCIAL NEWS. AND PRICES CURB FLUCTUATIONS (N OIL AND INDUSTRIALS Law, Lena: 2» Sharon. High 500 Gold tenie i 22 "Great Bewd s.ceve 2 0 Recla Mining ed 5% Tron Blossom, “ 4700 Jumbo Kae 10 1.0) Knox Imyide 1400 Monamara 1700 MeNemare Crement 1200 Marsa stn 1000 Motiiertode 400 Motherlode new 500 Murray Soyridee 1000 North Star ON Prince Com, 2) Wes Cone Rochester Attiies 1000 San Toy 1000 Silver King Divide 400 Mt Croix Atinen, 1000 8 Silver Lead. 1200 Suorom Mintne. 200 Tonopah Belmont 1000 Tonopah Cash 5700 Too Divide, 200 Tonopal Hextension. 1500 Tono-Jtim 1000 Tonopah Midway 800 Tmoiah Mining 1000 Tonopah Stivrpat 1000 ‘Tunoval Montana 1000 Tonopah eww 4000 © 8 Continental 700 United 20 ie ie fe Cape, 1300 Wilbert FORBIGN BONDS, 5000 Clty of Bergin As of HONDS. 10000 Am Agr Chom 18000 Am ‘Tel Gs 22 1000 Atn Tel Gn 24. 47000 Anaconda 11000 Armour & Co Is 11000 Both Steel 3000 Beaver Boa 10000 Cerro de Pasco 8s. 0000 € a dream. Her father did not come | 7000 Cons Gas Se home to dinner, She was glad that 18000 Copper export she would not gee his gloomy fac 5000 Gopper Export Ss 5000 Copper Kxport 8s 10000 Be Roebuck ars Hoohuck 00 Mamma Ser ees ess 3 7 2 00 Burke Croesus sos 2400 Burka Holly 1% 11 1500 Gaid Cos 8 s | 1500 Geld Darel 6300 Goldfield Florence 1600 Gold Kewana 1000 Gold Siiver Ptok 4000 Minolair € % oo “Do I, Annie? I do so want to look 101 nice to-day’ Varia said wistfucy. Bis¢a In her soft blue suit lined with 08% gray, with the high collar and cuffs 104000 Teas : 00% 00% 9% {Of Squirrel and the duvetyn hat, 10040 Union Tank 7 2 10 Varia charming. 100% 100% THREAT OF DEATH TOODUBLINEDITORS FROM ARMY Ordere+ to Cease Printing Cer- tain Details of Executions of Sinn Feiners. DUBLIN, Feb, ‘The newspaper editors of Dublin to-day were notified by the Irish Republican Army that publication of certain prohibited de- ers by the Crown forces will be pun- ished with death. The notice reads: “The editor {s hereby warned that any exploiting for vulgar pandering mongering, in re- ports of executions of the above will punished with death within twenty-four hours of publication. Particular reference is directed to the following: | ‘irst—No descriptive detaila of the arrival of hangmen or their as. sistants or the mode of procedure, or | any gruesome details are to be pub- lished. “Secondly—No descriptions of weep- ing clergymen leaving the precincts of a prison are to appear, “Thirdly—The mere statement that these men died for freland will con- vey to the Irish Republic all they wish | to know of these incidents, | | “Fourthly—In the case of Kevin Barry (a medical student executed Noy. 1 last for taking part in an‘at- tack on w military escort in Dubiin jlast summer in which two British |soldiers were killed) the details were or |noyance and bitter resentment of his friends and relatives. “The above warning is given in due time and its strict observance is rec- ommended. (Signed) “Grond Headquarters, rish Republican Army. \BELIEVES LANDIS WILL QUIT BENCH President Heydler Thinks Judge Soon Will Give Whole Ti to Baseball. John A, Heydier, President of the National League, defended Judge Lan- dis in @ statement made public here to-day. “When a public man makes @ states ment that baseball {s paying « big sal- ary to Judge Landis in the nawre of a bribe, then that man Ia elther wtituily misrepresenting the whole situation or he i# wotully ignorant of the facts,” ne said. The National League head drew at- jtention to the fact that the two big baseball cases now in court are not within the jurisdiction of Judge Lannis. nt Heydler expressed the opinion Judge Landis soon will devote his to baseball, although he re- threshed out to the most extreme an- | BACK FROM RUSSIA, SAYS REDS FAILED} Wife of San Franciscan Died inj Soviet Jail—Bears Petition to | Lifting the dewy bunch of violets viet: . Sat {that had come that morning from Government. John Amory, she untwisted the paper and, catching them up, ran dowa Abourd the Aquitania. which| the ‘stairs. docked this afternoon after a day| “Goodby! ‘By, aes Nope she a >. r| Schy ,| called waving back to the servants at Quarantine, was Mitri Schwartz) tint epswied: in the docewage ene of San Francisco, who went to Rus- sia ten months ago with his wife, a Socialist and admirer of the Soviets He is returning, as he expressed it a “much better citizen than when he her, she slipped her hand into his, le After many persecutions by| MSR Ane aocty OE tink vaste.” the Bolshevik!, hwartz and bis}her father said slowly, "I've told ‘wife were thrown into jail at Reval,| Martin to drive through the park, A where Mrs. Schwartz died. Mr,| 4M are doesn’t get married wartz will present the Govern-| Varia looked up at him, at his beet- ment at Washington a petition, he) ling white brows ‘and those gray eyes that could be yo stern, at bis ry from) the Russian people, for! gic with the white mustache and deliverance from the Bo!sheviki,| iis high, aristocratic nose, thom he termed “the moral doxen-| “But it's not going to be goodby ta" Dag, dear’ — iis ei "Vari sald cutting in, “we “The Bolshevik system is rotten and | jay to taik. You've id Mr. ichwartz.| known from r that T didn’t In Russia are sick of | like this match with all those it, Iam going to Washington to lay} mien buzzing about the place, that the plight of the Russian people be-] you should take Ninw’ fore President Wilson, and will “No, no, she begged slipping her tell President Harding about © Bray glo’ hand over his lips. tions after he takes office,” “Well, if it's got to be, it's got to Sao-Ke Alfred Zye, the new Cl .” he said looking straight ahead Minister to th oUnited States, wr-|"iut what 1 want ts thiss 1 rived from London With his wife, showed any f tivm, but young daughter and suite of twelve. ays been the one"—be He js familiar with America, having nd shook out bis snowy spent eight years here as a student| handkerchief and blew his nose, and as a member of the Chinese] “you're like your mother was when Legation in Washington. 1 marricd her against her father's “There is no doubt that in shaping | Wishes” BARGE CANAL BILL GOES TO PRESIDENT and to sell all canal marine cauipment in its possession was agreed to to-day by the Senate. Tho measure was sent to the White House. DO You KNow? wri. ith, by rewe btul COT Nin ork evens WaetaTR OM, QUESTIONS, 1, What fabled bird lived five cen- turins, then burned itself to death in order to renew its life another 500 years? 7 2. What ancient writer told of the “lotus ers"? 3. What is a trust credit- ors of a bankrupt estate called? 4, What is the largest city in Kan- sas? 5. Who was the first voyager to sail round Cape Horn? 6. In what year did the Wall Street panic, known as Black Friday, occur in New York? 7. Where is the Bunker Hill tonu- ment located? & What is the motto of the United, States? 9, What does it m 10. Who was the twenty-first Pre: dent of the United States? ANSWERS. 1, Phoenix; 2, Homer; 3, assignee; ets “if, in geeking to strengthen and ulwark our national the country hould be deprived & Jurist of, the iva character of Judge Bandis.” 4, Kansas City; 6, James Lemai 6, 1869; 7, Charlestown, Mass, na pluribus unum out of many, 30, Chester A. Arthur, ,, 5000 Coppor Export 86 25 4. God, let me make him 4200 Guit OW she breathed and she fell 100) Grand Tr asleep at Inst that night. 2000 Hine « 18000 Inter kT . Saab vena CHAPTER It 10000 Morris & 66 H, Miss Varia, vot look uni) Nat Leatier Be. s that lov! Annie ex- $000 Sears Moebuck Ts zs claimed earnestly, stand- girl. rough ch Amory face, Annie, her world policies China will follow]. “Y« u see, Dad, we all do it?” she the lead of the United States," said | laughed softly. . ; Mr. Zye. “As Minister it will be my| ~N% child, don't Fesigated Kreatest duty to cultivate the tra. | What youre ae clas ditional friendship betwee nthe two] Mutt TM Be Penni aDEGR A, Eeseure business for a wh We'll roam where aney takes you. Her father answeied, gruffly, “Of . ! course!" . 'ASHINGTON, Feb, °3.—House| This is my happiness,” Varia amendments to the resolution directing | answered softly. the War Department to cease operation] He looked at her again, He saw of the New York State Barge Canal] her face radiant with joy, her eyes, AGamnblo in Vie. \ aC ite Dp in SYNOPSIS OF PRECE Melville ‘Nopern. ‘kf bis prompeetive wude and fant opps’ of "Nt want day Varia bows, t0 hin 's louely, and touched oy the sympat CHAPTER HL Sentinised) UT when she had left him, she turned back suddenly to speak to him, He stood there in the centre of the room, the Jow light on his face and Varia al- most fancied he had forgotten her al- ready. It was as though he were thinking of some one else. , Varia tiptoed inte the hall again and closed the docr softiy behind her, Below jn‘ the street the fresh eve- aing atr cooled her cheeks, She lifted ner eyes to the distant silver stara that hung above the tiny fenced-in park, She hugged her hands together in her muff and was glad that in her ecstacy she was alon “Pi make Itim happy," she prom- ised herself, “I love him—and he will love me, the way I want him to; not now, perhaps, but afterward, when ent Copynient, 1921, by The Press Publishing Co, 4 Ning Grey, who Ix to be married to John Amor mer lover, calls on her aud pxrouailes her to elope with him we are married. This is my chance for happiness, As she walked on uptown she al- most believed that John had begun to love her already, She remembered his kisses and the passionate way he had said: ‘so damned lonely”— She would do all for him that any woman could. With her tender hands she would heal the burt that ‘ina had given him. aria lived through the evening In ind hear him say that Nina had Ul graced their nam ing back and eyeing the eks were just touched with er blue eyes were the color | ers, | "she said; ‘no, and she drew Annie's ek to her own. “I'll be Mrs. the neat time you see me!" he Went to the window as sie heard motor car in the street below, vaguely saw Sarah's wrinkled black and Jennie, the waitress, and ‘runkly mopping her eyes, Now, Dad!" She stepped into the limousine and her father got iv after her, agd as he settled down bes.de a chance!" he eagerly, Con looked at . “You want me to be happy?” dewy as the violets she held, the look if a child waking from a. blissful dream, He lifted the speaking tube, *Mar- tin, The Little Church Around the Cotner!” he commanded, ‘Then he sat with a scowl between his white biows, his arms crossed, silent, as the car gilded smoothly through’ the sunlit morning streets. The car stepped at the curb, Varia pped out. An old woman in a fuded black shawl stop) looked wa at her curiously, but Var only looking at the church to which a few leaves of ivy, defying the winter, sull clung. ‘As though in a she found herself going wp on her father’s arm. The sunlight shot down through a high win and cast a violet stain on the There at the rail stood Jc ting for her, and the minister In his sober black. How solemn: it was! How how awe-inspiring! Varia her breath ag she heard b peating those wonderful words: “——to have and to hold from this day forward, for better tor worse” As she felt the ring slip down over her finger, she saw John's face # white, so stern, almost the face of a stranger, jt seemed, At last it was all over and, with her hand tucked in John's arm, she was standing on#the sunny ste) oy ed to do yomething for you children,” her father said in that new gruff yolce, “just a breakfast at the Plaza, I asked Adam and John’s friend, Jim Cather, and Molly Still- well, Just the young folks, Varia,” Le (The New York Brening World.) DING INSTALMENTS, ‘ On the morro. (ries on her wedding dress, Jobin comes 10 see erie whe has found, Jobe sks her to marry hin. She consents, He stooped and kissed hor and she felt the tickle of his white mustache as it brushed her cheek. “Oh, Dad, but aren't you coming?” Varia begged. He shook his head grimly and they sew him marching off down the street, Sul in her dream-world, with Jobn at her side, Varia found herself gote ting out at the Plaza, Hor cheeks burned h excitement, her eyes were shining but she stopped at the entrance of the Rose Room to say, “John, there's just one thing I want to do—then I'll be back." Tn the enclosed telephone booth she ve her nulnber with dry Nps. Not until she heard a familiar volee that drawled “Hello? did her excites nent abate Is this you, Nina? Yes, Varia, 1 Was married this morning to John Amory, I wanted you to know the first of all, Nina dear, to wish me— here am I? At the Plaza, 4 you would be home. You un- , nd, Nina, you atways knew 1-—-cared for him"— On the way to the Rose Room she came on her own reflection, a girt wth flushed eeks and dazzling, happy eyes. Onct more she breathed her prayer, with her hand on the door. “Let me make him happy!* There was a little cry as Varta came into the Rose Room. Molly Stillwell stood up and came er to her and kissed her and said ssfily, “Oh, Varia, you are beautiful to-day!" Jim Cather took her hand and muttered something unintelli- «i and Adain ar old Adam— with whom she had gone to kinder- garten, wished ber happiness in his big rough vo! Varia as she took her place at the table was conscious of flowers and the sparkle of glass and silver, and the din of those gay voices. But under the cover of the table she slipped her hand {nto John's and felt him clasp it tightly. Perhaps she ate hoped lerst creamed oysters and chicken salad; she may have tasted coffee, But to her it was some strange food —nectar and am- brosia it may have been, for all she knew. She cut the frosted wedding cake and Adam Phillis rose to toast her. With his glass in his hands and the words: i “To tho bride"——he stopped, for “he door of the Rose Room had been thrown open and, smiling there on the threshold, dramatic, daring, stood ina, dressed in a soft clinging frock flame color. “Don't get up!" she begged advanec- ing toward them, her head thrown back, her great dark eyes flashing on. thelr faces, “I've come like the fatry godmother to wish you happiness!” They drank her toast instead. The men pushed back the silver and made room for Nina at the table set for five; but V. felt as though a eold mist had obscured her happiness, That Nina could do this—this wild thing—on her wedding day! The laughter went on, voices were even gayer if anything, but Varia felt the note of restraint beneath ft all. It was artificial now. Each one must Know, Molly and Jim, and dear old Adam, that John had not seen Nina since the day she had thrown him over, Varia glanced at her husband's face, He looked the same, though a little paler perhaps, and his mouth had that set strained look .. y How hot ‘St was! How the roso hangings and the rose chairs and the soft rose decorations seemed to suf- focate her! Varia waa very tired— she must sit and smile and pre- tend that she was gay, too, but @ sick four caught at her heart when sho glanced at Nina, dark and lovely in the flame-colored gown At last it was over, and Varia, thanking them with her eyes) went hurriedly away to straigitea her hat and put some powder on her hot cheeks, ‘ “Of course Nina had not thought It had never entered her head that |: might make Varia nervous to have her come to the wedding breaktasi” —#o Varia thought as she straight- ened her hat and looked at herseif with critical eyes. But she found when she came back that she had left her violets and, going softly over the mossy carpet, she came on her sister and her hus- band. ‘They did not see her, “Why did you do it, John?” Nina was saying in that langourous voice that held such magnetism. John looked at her, shrumged elight« ly and then half turned away. “God knows!" he angwered in a muffled yot Varia shrank back against the cur- tains. In & moment she had hidden herself in the embrasure of the wine dow, She heard their footsteps go past her hiding place, but she heard nothing else they said, Pressing her cheek against the cool glass she stood there for a moment 4s though she were dizzy. knows!" That voice and tho: words! And that was the way he felt about his marriage already! She had been mad. , . She had known he had not loved her, but she had blinded herself to consequences, in her hope she had believed that he needed her. The minutes stole by and Varia fought back her emotion. Hopeless n ngulfed her. But soon she must &o out and face her friends, who had enme to wish her happiness. She caught her lips between her teeth and threw back her head with a proud little litt If she was very pale when she said good a few minutes later no one noticed, They laughed as they scat- tered er ‘etti and rose leaves on the two flmures, and Varia, turning, waved and throw a kiss. ‘For Varia was her father’s daughter! There w shrill whistle and then te dat the curb, ™ You fergot your flowers!” Molly Stillwell cried, but Varia shook hee a and only smile With the goodby ringing inher hy sharp slam of the and then she and All face was white and tired-looking and she sat very still in the furthest core ner of the car, “Tived, Varia? John asked her. Read To-Morrow’s Interesting Instaly ment, pretense dropped away. «Her

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