2. The Leyland liner Armenian was torpedoed and sunk on June 28

by a German submarine. The vessel was carrying 1,414 mules,

which were consigned for the port of Avonmouth. A large number

of the missing are American citizens.

3. Specimens of all our students are preserved and show

remarkable results in this department of our school work.

4. Please inform your readers there is a reward of $10 for

shooting pelicans, and a fine of $25 for the shooter.

5. All veterans attending on the regular old soldiers' and

settlers' day next Tuesday may secure tickets for themselves,

wives, or widows which will admit them free of charge on

Wednesday.

6. He complained to his physician that he stuffed him so much

with drugs that he was ill a long time after he got well.

7. William Kohasky and Henry Young, two young chaps, were

friends, but last evening after imbibing freely from the cup

that cheers forgot all about their friendliness and started to

fight.

8. The person retaining my dog, a Lewellen setter, is known and

if not let at liberty at once, will be prosecuted.

9. Daughter and granddaughter of soldiers, her father was on

MacMahon's staff, and the image of that tall old man stretched

out before her evoked in her mind another image no less

terrible.

10. If you do use a Blank typewriter you will never be

inconvenienced without one.

11. Frank Becker had a horse break its leg Sunday and had to be

killed.

12. An all university team picked from the best bowlers in

school will be entered in the state tournament this winter for

the first time and will bowl against nearly 300 other teams at 9

o'clock on Jan. 28 on the Colonial alleys.

13. The Woman's Benevolent Society of the Fourth Congregational

Church has been newly decorated, new lights installed, the

matting donated by the Philathea class in place, and all in

readiness for "Go to Church" Sunday.

14. On account of sickness the club meeting will be postponed

from Tuesday until Thursday.

_E._ Reconstruct the following sentences in any way that will make them

clear. Point out the errors in the sentences as they now stand. (Mainly

paragraphs =157-162=.)

1. A. A. DeLeo, while walking with a young lady the other night,

slipped on the icy pavement and sprained his arm, between

Grobel's corner and the crossing.

2. Some days they only succeeded in gaining a few feet, no

matter how heavy the cannonading.

3. Mr. Scherck explained that sickness in his family has caused

him a great deal of expense in the last year and is sure that he

can meet all his indebtedness, which by the way is not as large

as was reported, by the first of the new year.

4. Miss Louise Hill gave a small luncheon Wednesday, at

Ferndale, where her parents have taken the Frank Bovey house in

honor of Miss Ethel Woolf of Atlanta, Ga., who is her guest.

5. Mr. William Waldorf Astor has reached the fulfilment of the

ambition which brought him from the United States to England

sixteen years ago to become a British subject by his elevation

to-day to the rank of a baron of the United Kingdom.

6. The French are using the grenade as a war weapon with

considerable success in trench fighting, and for guarding the

men who hurl them from poisonous vapors, which are used with

telling effect by the Germans, a special mask is provided.

7. Mr. Moscherosch said this morning that the cap was designed

particularly for chauffeurs and drivers who are obliged to

travel at night and face the blinding light from automobile

lamps, for farmers and factory employees.

8. Van Wie's defense is that he has no recollection of the

marriage on account of an operation performed on his brain.

9. In these elections they are only permitted to vote for an

elector and not for the man running for the office.

10. He finally admitted that not only the testimony was not

true, but that he knew it was false.

11. Lessons which the United States may gain from the European

war comprise the major part of a letter written by Tracey

Richardson of Kansas City, a soldier of fortune, who is now

serving with the Princess Patricia's regiment of Canadians in

Europe, to a Washington friend.

12. Some of the other striking results that have taken place

already since the adoption of this new scheme are: in the first

place, there has been an increase in efficiency. The men do more

work in eight hours than they did before in nine. In the second

place, there is a striking effect in the development of

character.

13. While Harold Green was escorting Miss Violet Wise from the

church social last Saturday night a savage dog attacked them and

bit Mr. Green several times on the public square.

14. One senator expressed the belief that the other outrages

besides the Tampico incident should be considered, such as the

treatment of American citizens in Mexico, and that all the

Mexicans should be included, and not just Huerta.

15. Musical numbers were rendered by Miss Findley on the violin

and Tom Hamilton. The occasion was greatly enjoyed.

16. Quite in keeping with the old-fashioned idea of the wedding

spirit and yet managed with a delicacy and refinement that lent

especial charm to the homely symbols and their significance,

everything was carried out with taste and elegance that could

make it prenuptial in feeling.

17. A burglar, in attempting to enter Wright's store, was shot

at by Winifred Rardin. The man started to run, the bullet

striking him between the fence corner and front gate, inflicting

a superficial wound.

18. The affection has interfered seriously with her singing, her

talent for which has been the subject of high praise and has

brought her to Philadelphia for treatment before.

19. Bacon induced 100 barbers on the West side to advertise

orally to their customers of church organizations between

shaves.

20. When Annie Malone Frazier, colored, was asked which she had

rather have, her husband, Babe Frazier, or $21 which she claimed

he had stolen from her in police matinee Wednesday afternoon,

Annie unhesitatingly chose the $21.

21. Callahan declared he had only bargained for two men each

day.

22. After two weeks fighting they had neither gained the forest

nor even the outer edges of the village.

23. The cause of the fire was said to be the tipping over of a

lamp, which had been left during the night by the family cat.

24. Rev. and Mrs. Pierce have returned from the Green Lake

assembly. The reverend will occupy his pulpit on Sunday morning,

and Monday in company with his wife they will leave to visit

their new-found relatives in Picton, Ontario. On Sunday the

22nd, Mr. Pierce will occupy the Picton pulpit in the morning by

request of the pastor.

25. Both testified that the evil effect is not alone seen in the

motor races.

26. The committee acted last night with the relentless

persistency of a steam roller and crushed out the athletic

activities of two men who were members of the last Olympic team

without compunction.

27. Mrs. Dickenson expects soon to entertain a company of ladies

at luncheon and another dinner party will be given.

28. Mr. Hailey, wife, daughter Miss Ida, and son Will

accompanied by Mrs. Rose Hailey and Master Adran, motored to

Springfield last Saturday and spent the day on business and

visiting relatives, averaging eighteen miles an hour.

29. The young man was taken to Menasha for treatment and his

injury is not expected to prove serious.

30. Wesley Owen got mixed up with his horse Monday and carries a

bad gash in his head where he kicked him, the calk of the shoe

going through his hat and making a hole in the band. He was

being curried when he reared and kicked Wesley. His two outside

fingers on his hand were struck and badly injured. It was lucky

for him he was not more seriously injured. As it was, he was

knocked senseless and had to be helped to the house. Lucky for

him, the horse reared right up and came down on him.

_F._ Rewrite the following sentences in any way that will improve their

coherence (mainly paragraphs =163-164=):

1. Some hail fell Sunday evening, but fortunately there was but

little wind, besides the hail was not very solid and not very

large so that the corn and other growing crops suffered but

little, and fortunately there is but very little tobacco growing

in the path of this storm, and which fortunately did not extend

over a very wide territory, possibly not over a mile in width.

2. Things are very quiet to-day. The justice courts are without

criminal matters, and likewise the undertakers report no deaths.

3. Some large steamers operate upon its course, carrying

freight, passengers, and other commodities.

4. Nicholas Jenkins, a retired capitalist, was among the killed.

William Essex, president of the city railway, is still missing,

and several stores were wrecked by the high winds preceding the

rain, but it is thought that the benefits of the heavy rain will

more than offset all losses.

5. Simon Beck sawed wood last Thursday. Charlie Bishop did the

work.

6. With our nose always to the ground for improvements going on

in our part of the city, we are awarded this time with the

beautiful and attractive appearing front of the new moving

picture theater. Namely, a row of incandescent lights hanging in

a straight line above the entrance.

7. In the interests of the picture Mr. Cummings risks life and

limb with careless disregard of his own safety. To be seen on

the Central Plaza Thursday.

8. This is a picturization of the famous novel and play and

appeals to all classes. A gripping story all the way through and

one that will set you thinking.

9. But even if he was possessed of quite remarkable golfing

ability, I do not think there would be much prospect of his

attaining to the consistent brilliancy of Vardon, Braid, and

Taylor, unless he was granted the opportunity of continually

playing with these giants, or men much of their caliber, say

like Duncan and Ray, and nowadays the amateur has but few

opportunities of taking part in games with these celebrities, as

they are so very fully occupied, and in their quest for the

almighty dollar have not the time for the friendly encounter.

10. Prof. C. O. Bishop was Marshall's English teacher and he

failed to pass the rhetoric tests getting only a grade of 60.

11. I believe that the greatest present menace to the American

Indian is whiskey. It does more to destroy his constitution and

invite the ravages of disease than anything else. It does more

to demoralize him as a man and frequently as a woman.

12. The house was beautifully decorated in red and white hearts

extending from the centers of the rooms in each direction, and

in the arch to the dining-room were two large hearts, pierced by

an arrow containing the words "Two hearts that beat as one,"

where after several games were played, Miss Baker was seated and

showered with rice from a funnel, concealed back of the hearts

above, and also showered with more than fifty presents each

containing a verse, which caused much merriment, after which the

guests proceeded to the dining-room, where the color scheme was

also carried out, hearts being extended from a large wedding

bell which hung in the center of the room and the table was

decorated in red and white roses.

13. Appleton people will be interested to read the subjoined

article from the Grand Rapids _Leader_, referring to people

formerly residents of this city, A. C. Bennett and his son,

Arthur, who used to live on Lawrence Street between Oneida and

Morrison streets a generation or more ago, and Rev. H. C. Logan

received his education at Lawrence College.

14. There is a girl, one of the longest drivers I have ever

seen, and I have seen all the best women golfers play, and

though she has a distance of 250 yards or so to her credit, she

is not one of the good drivers, because at the next hole she is

more than likely to send the ball in a semicircle, getting into

some hazard belonging to another hole.

15. In so far as this war is concerned, the capture of the Kiel

canal is almost as important, if not even more so, to England as

it is to France.

16. It is also asserted that, as Germany may ask further

financial assistance from this country before long, which,

naturally, she would be unable to procure in case of a break

with us, and as Great Britain undoubtedly needs such assistance,

and, through American financiers, is even, now procuring it, as

Germany has also done, although in a much more limited way,

hence the race by these powerful belligerents for American

favor.

17. Henry Fleming is being detained at his home this week. A new

stone hitching post has been set in front of the Fleming

residence on East Street.

_G._ The following sentences lack emphasis. Explain why and improve the

emphasis in each. (Paragraphs =165-168=.)

1. As we go to press, the news comes to us that Doc Pasley of

southeast of town was instantly killed yesterday afternoon by a

tree falling on him. As we are unable to learn any of the

particulars about it, we are forced to leave it out this week.

2. William Abel, who was convicted last month of the murder of

Thomas Kane, 12 years old, was refused a new trial by Judge

Ormerod, who inflicted the death sentence to be hanged.

3. This is her third visit to Shawano and she spoke of our

beautiful surroundings, especially the large forest trees left

by the early settlers for shade trees and she spoke in praise of

them for their foresight in leaving the large pine trees and

oaks standing.

4. When a team in a tournament contest can trim an opponent 77

to 26, it shows that one team is unusually strong, or that the

other is very, very much inferior.

5. One of E. W. Bishop's fine calves was found violently ill

Monday evening. In its stomach was found a considerable amount

of the poisonous variety of mushrooms, the stomach showing much

information.

6. Eggs of the species, like those of all its immediate

relatives, are laid in water and never in deep water.

7. After the usual eats which received their due share of

attention, numerous toasts were responded to.

8. Billy Sunday and Dr. Francis Clark, the latter the founder of

the Christian Endeavor League, will be unable to attend, both

being ill at the present time.

9. Warren is one of the finest little cities I know of and my

travels take me through the best cities in four states, but

indifference toward the appearance of the city such as is

evidenced by the posting of circus ads over an entire side of a

city building, such as has been done on the building opposite

the city courthouse, I fear would soon cause the traveling

public to change its mind regarding this beautiful little city.

10. Much indignation has been aroused throughout this parish on

account of the fatal stabbing of Joseph Mier, a young man and

the son of a prominent planter, which occurred just before dawn

Sunday morning as a public ball was ending, some miles from this

place.

11. A letter from the James B. Clow and Sons Company, Chicago,

received by the city commission quotes prices on bubbler

fountains such as it is planned to install at the corner of

College Avenue and Oneida Street.

12. Wilbur Grant and Jack Faville left the city this morning to

attend the World's Convention of the Christian Endeavor Society,

which is to be held in Chicago.

13. While driving from Barre Sunday afternoon a tire went down

on the car of Burt Smith causing the machine to slide around a

little but after putting on a new tire he was able to continue

home. The report was started that one wheel was broken but such

developed to be erroneous.

14. Do you know that if you attend the song service and

Christian cantata given Sunday evening by the choir at the First

Methodist Church, you will find a pleasure in spending Sunday

evening in a way that will give satisfaction that comes from the

feeling that you attended an entertainment and have been at

services on the Sabbath day?

15. Louisiana never does things by halves. It was the unanimous

consensus of opinion of all that our chest of silver presented

to Mrs. J. M. Thomson was only surpassed by the Congressional

diamond necklace.

16. She is well educated, and speaks, besides Chinese and

English, the languages of Germany and France.

17. Miss Kathryn Stinson, a lady aviatrix, will fly from Grant

Park to the ball park, and just before the battle starts Manager

Tinker will be presented with a watch and chain.

18. The recent tornado wrought havoc with the Newton church,

tearing off a considerable section of the roof, rafters and all,

and throwing the west end gable down upon the pulpit and nearby

furniture of the interior. The belfry was demolished, and the

bell thrown into the yard. The house is otherwise in a fairly

good condition.

19. A fine and costs of $7.50 was paid in police court yesterday

afternoon for Charles McCormick, who was charged by the police

with creating an improper disturbance at the Sherwood buffet.

20. Others of world-wide repute will appear, and delegates and

noted people from all over the world are arriving and have

already arrived in the city.

21. An article appeared in last week's paper stating a baby boy

was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. M. David, which is incorrect, and

Mrs. David wishes it published that it is not true. It must have

been a joke or mistake.

22. Committees of the passengers in general, and separate

committees of clergymen, students, and newspaper men have been

organized to confer with similar committees in the neutral

nations, when the ship arrives, on the question of peace.

23. The place where the body of Howe was found is the most

convenient location for a body killed elsewhere and removed from

another place to the lonesome spot where it was found.

24. The chimney still stands, although many bricks have been

loosened by the heat, and fallen to the earth below.

25. John Fouts of Olena surprised his friends last Friday

evening by bringing home a new bride. In honor of the occasion

he served an oyster stew to quite a little gathering of friends.

26. He has two of the prettiest homes in our beautiful city for

sale. Home No. 1 is located on Beach Drive on our beautiful

water front, where you can sit on the front porch and watch the

beautiful waves. It has a lot 73 by 150 feet, the bungalow has

eight rooms and is a two-story house, with bath and toilet on

each floor, a beautiful flower garden plan, roses, royal palms,

rubber trees, etc. House No. 2 is located at No. 60 Fifth

Avenue, north, a beautiful location. The house is furnished up

beautifully inside and has a beautiful yard.

27. The bride is a pleasing young woman well known in

Beardstown's social set, and enjoys the acquaintance of everyone

who knows her.

28. She climbed up on the bed and tucked her feet under her, and

the thoughtful forefinger began to slowly trace the pattern on

the bedspread, while Jane Rowland studied her with speculative

spectacles.

29. Passengers are forbidden to stand on the front platform and

will not be allowed to stand on the rear platform.

_H._ The following sentences are unemphatic because of their crude or

affected phraseology. Rewrite each so that it shall be good.

1. He leaves nine children, eight of whom are honored and

respected citizens of this state, and the other lives in

Missouri.

2. Pan with his shepherd pipes, Jupiter with his thunderbolts,

Apollo with his harp, and the songstress, Sappho, appeared in

spirit with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which returned

to Evansville Monday afternoon and night on its annual tour. The

whispering winds of the reed section, the passionate love

pleadings of the cellos, mixed with the blatant fury of the

trumpets, the rumble and thunder of the kettle drums, and

instruments portraying all the varying moods of nature,

presented the whole category of human emotions.

3. She has a wonderful voice, full, round, and velvety, with a

mature richness and at the same time the vibrant joyousness of

youth. While her spring songs bring veritable visions of apple

blossoms and the songs of birds, she can express with equal

perfection the tragedy of grief.

4. Processionals of lovely matrons, trailing draperies of

brilliantly hued velvets, brocades and satins, drifts of

adorable girls, their exquisite slimness enveloped in misty

clouds of tulle or clinging lengths of accordion plaited

taffetas; platoons of the brave and the gallant, the handsome

and the gay of Peoria's golden youth, and substantial business

men, in the correctest of evening garb, lent to the Jefferson

Hotel a stunningly pictorial effect last night when the first

Assembly ball of the season took place at that popular hostelry.

5. Away, away on the pinions of the wind flew the car, the speed

being dexterously regulated according to the grade and curvature

of the road. Many birds, traveling at their best speed, were

easily overtaken and left far in the rear; horse conveyances

going at a gallop appeared to be standing still; farm houses

looked like hen-coops, and Eholt resembled a chicken ranch. For

speed, Mazeppa's ride was far outclassed. It was a memorable

trip to those in the car, but everyone had implicit confidence

in the chauffeur and there were no white feathers visible.

6. His heart is of gold, pure 14-carat gold, all wool and a yard

wide.

7. Throughout the entire visit of the society members the prison

band, stationed in the balcony over the prison entrance,

dispersed sweet music.

8. Fortunate, indeed, are the golfers of Elgin and vicinity, in

having for their very own such a lovely and delightful spot as

the Wing Park Golf course, where soft, sweet winds are blended

with the greens below and the blue above--where the sturdy oak

reaches out cool, shadowy arms to caress the tired golfer--where

the last rays of the setting sun love to linger on the golf

balls--where in fact all nature appears to unite into one grand

combination to give the golfer a good time.

9. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Shattuck are entertaining a number of

their lady and gentlemen friends at a boat ride in their launch

"Dion" this afternoon.

10. Miss Muriel Kay, pianist, manipulated not only the keys of

the instrument, but also the heart-strings of the audience.

11. The Merry Matrons' club was hostess at the home of Mr. and

Mrs. J. E. Tiger to a number of friends, as well as the husbands

of the members of the club.

12. She is a dainty slip of a girl, with pretty, graceful

presence. She resembles a canary bird just poised for flight as

she faces her audience, golden haired and singing without the

least effort, her high tones clear and true, trilling the bird

notes and enthralling the guests. She is the best soprano ever

heard in the Birchwood Club.

13. In the fullness of time (according to the laws of human

nature, which draws into a juxtaposition all who would really

enjoy the beauty of life) has been revealed a long looked for

and also a long hoped for event. By an act of providence there

has been provided two existences, two lives, two individualities

in two different families in the immediate surroundings of this

community. These two existences, which had heretofore traveled

the pathway of life, each moving on in an independent course,

passing through the various experiences of life and never once

dreaming of what the end would really be, had emerged upon the

common but ever blessed pathway of life to blend together into a

single union the thought and intents of each other's hearts,

wills, and affections, and thence plunge into the great land of

utility. We are only too willing to admit that the contracting

parties took to heart the words, "It is not good that the man

should be alone," because last Thursday evening at 8 o'clock Mr.

Oliver Keefer and Miss Myrtle Bowker amalgamated their earthly

career into one harmonious entity when they stood before the

marriage altar and agreed to the words which bound the twain as

one.

14. Mrs. Maxwell of Sycamore visited her daughter, Mrs. H. W.

Smith, last week. Mrs. Smith ran a nail in her foot, Mr. Smith

cut his eyeball with a piece of steel, and their son, Horace,

broke his arm.

15. Bishop Cadman, of the diocese of Maine, surprised the

congregation at St. Matthias's Episcopal church last Sunday. The

Bishop preached a fine sermon.

_CHAPTER XIII_

_A._ Distinguish the meanings of the words in the following groups:

1. Abscond, avoid, decamp, elude, escape, evade.

2. Accident, calamity, casualty, disaster, mishap, misfortune.

3. Acquire, gain, get, obtain, procure, secure.

4. Affect, effect, influence.

5. Aggravate, annoy, tease, worry.

6. Antagonize, fight, hinder, oppose, resist, restrain, thwart.

7. Apparent, clear, evident, obvious, plain.

8. Apt, liable, likely.

9. Assassinate, dispatch, execute, kill, mob, murder, slay.

10. Assert, claim, declare, maintain, state.

11. Bearing, behavior, conduct, demeanor, deportment.

12. Blaze, conflagration, fire, flame, holocaust.

13. Board, register, stay, stop.

14. Burglar, footpad, highwayman, marauder, plunderer, robber,

thief.

15. Calculate, expect, presume, reckon, suppose, think.

16. Celebrated, eminent, distinguished, famous, noted,

notorious, renowned.

17. Compel, constrain, force, urge.

18. Crime, delinquency, felony, guilt, misdemeanor, offense,

sin, trespass, vice.

19. Cyclone, gale, hurricane, rain, storm, tempest, tornado.

20. Dangerous, deadly, deathly, murderous.

21. Distracted, excited, feverish, frantic, hysterical, raging,

wild.

22. Dwelling, home, house, residence.

23. Educated, informed, learned, posted.

24. Healthful, healthy, nutritious, sanitary, wholesome.

25. Party, people, person, race, tribe.

_B._ Give equivalents for the following phrases:

acid test

along the line of

any way, shape, or form

appeared on the scene

beggars description

bids fair to become

blushing bride

brute force

burning issue

checkered career

cool as a cucumber

contracting parties

crisp dollar bill

crying need

dark horse

dastardly deed

delicious refreshments

departed this life

devouring element

doing as well as can be expected

dull thud

elegantly gowned

entertained lavishly

fatal noose

few well-chosen words

first number on the program

floral offering

foregone conclusion

fought like a tiger

gala attire

goes without saying

hard-earned coin

head over heels

hotly contested

hurled into eternity

incontrovertible fact

large and enthusiastic audience

last sad rites

last but not least

led to the hymeneal altar

madly in love

marriage was consummated

mooted question

much interest was manifested

one of the most unique

popular citizen

present incumbent

presided at the punch bowl

psychological moment

put in his appearance

received an ovation

red-letter day

sea of upturned faces

select few

signified his intention

small but appreciative crowd

steeled his nerve

stern reality

talented authoress

the present day and generation

this broad land of ours

this world's goods

took things into his own hands

tripped the light fantastic

typical Westerner

under existing conditions

_C._ Correct the following:

1. By his skill as a surgeon he carved out for himself a place

and name such as only real human service can claim or is ever

likely to attain.

2. Borne on the shoulders of six fat policemen, the body of

Patrolman Ferdinand Traudt, drowned in lower Nemahbin lake, was

carried to Cavalry cemetery on Saturday, escorted by a platoon

of twenty-six policemen in charge of Sergeant Edward Solverson.

3. Jim Allen and Silas Watson were connected with the town water

main Saturday.

4. A man adapted to the use of the cigarette is immediately

noticed by his nervous actions and his shallow complexion.

5. Elizabeth Dickerson and Maud Moore have gone east for the

heated epoch, and are missing some elegant weather hereabouts.

6. Another Chicagoan fell victim of petromortis yesterday when

A. W. Simpson, a mechanician in a fashionable garage at 556

Sheridan Road, fell unconscious in a limousine.

7. Edward McDonald broke through the screen door. His sleeves

were rolled up and he singed both arms.

8. A merchants' protective association, comprising the several

towns of this and adjoining counties, it seems, could be

profitably organized with an object in view of detecting and

locating the numerous thieves now permeating the country.

9. Gideon did not select those who laid aside their arms and

threw themselves down to drink; he took those who watched with

one eye and drank with the other.

10. His voice is a pure baritone and the vocal organs of Mr.

Black must be of exquisite formation as he has resources in

singing which command the study of the expert who has to hear

all exponents and reject most of them. For softness and power,

whisper and swell of tone, Mr. Black possesses resources of

exceptional value.

11. With her gift of song she beautifies church, home, charity,

and society.

12. She was taking her folks out riding near Logansport and on

going down the Davis Hill she accidentally put her foot on the

exhilarater instead of the brake.

13. A novel feature was a shaving contest among the employees of

the company. Those entered came to the picnic enshrouded with a

hirsute appendage of three days' growth, and supplied with a

razor and shaving cup. At a given time the unshaved began to

remove the capillary adornment and after the appliance of

styptics the winner was recognized by his friends.

14. After an hour spent in its inspection, they were taken back

to the Insane Asylum and were made to feel perfectly at home.

15. Like his predecessors at the convention, he proved a strong,

virulent, and entertaining speaker.

16. Mr. and Mrs. Christensen, with vocal solos, and Nora and

Mabel Peterson, with instrumental selections, entertained the

high school and seventh and eighth grades very pleasantly last

Friday afternoon. The music was followed by an indignation

meeting.

17. The fried chicken, new potatoes, sweet peas, strawberries,

cottage cheese, and other vegetables, and practically everything

served at the dinner was raised on the place.

18. Unable to give bonds in the sum of $100 each, Mesdames

McCarroll and Caslin, of Ponchautoula, charged with forgery,

were incarcerated in the parish prison here yesterday to await

the action of the grand jury, which convenes soon.

19. Three men, Ed Oliver and Fred and Bertrand Logan, met with

quite a mishap recently when the boat in which they were sailing

at Lower Bend capsized and they were drowned.

20. J. C. Clausen still survives his terrible shot given wound

and it is believed will ultimately recover, although he was more

mortally wounded than reported by this paper last week.

21. The bullet was apparently fired during the celebration but

the author of the act was not discovered.

22. J. W. Hiner of the Chicago bar delivered an address last

week at Berlin, Germany, before the "Englische Sprachvereinigung

im Deutschnationalen Handlungsgehilfen Verband," a German

society.

23. An unknown man standing on the corner of Elm and Superior

streets was hit by a rocket which went between his legs and

becoming entangled in his overcoat exploded up his back. He

immediately departed for parts unknown.

24. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Liddicoat of this village are the proud

and happy parents of a pair of twins, born July 17.

25. Especially does the man of discriminating taste appreciate

them when he compares them to the mass of cheap collars that the

American manufacturers have fostered on the country.

26. A cow was caught in the sudden rush of water and drowned.

Other animals of a herd had to fly for the hills.

27. All then repaired to the dining-room, where the eye was not

only pleased with the artistic decorations of blue and white,

and pink and white carnations, but the inner man was satisfied

with meats, viands, delicatessens, etc.

28. Harry L. Gill was born in Toronto, Canada, and is still a

native of that country.

29. Mrs. Heap wore a stunning gown of emerald green satin with

the bodice combined with lace. Mrs. Tom Clayton wore a stunning

gown of pink satin with a beaded tunic of purple chiffon. Other

stunning costumes were worn by Mrs. Alexander Britton, who was

in purple velvet with lace and brilliants; Miss Catherine

Britton, scarlet chiffon. Miss Mary Green wore a lovely gown of

blue charmeuse and chiffon with bands of skunk.

30. I was surprised to learn on making a round of the motorcycle

factories that the motorcycle engineers have produced machines

to meet the needs of men and women, too, for that matter, in

every walk of life.

31. He has the face of a cherubim.

32. He was a tall man, looking even taller by reason of the

long, formless overcoat he wore, known as a "duster," and by a

long straight beard that depended from his chin, which he combed

with two reflective fingers as he contemplated the editor.

33. How can we expect woman, a member of the weaker race, to

work ten hours a day and still retain her health?

34. Thomas O. Allen, present Minneapolis lumberman and captain

of the Yale eleven in 1905, who has been summoned to New Haven

as a football Moses to lead the Elis into some new bull rushes,

passed through Chicago yesterday on his way east.

35. These exercises are said to be less striving and to have

more pleasure for all contestants.

36. The attaches of the United States Weather bureau here say

that while the precipitation has been unusually heavy, the

present storm and that predicted to follow it are but the usual

rainy season rainfalls, for which there is no freak or

extraordinary explanation.

_CHAPTER XIV_

_A._ Number 1 below is a copy of a speech delivered by George Ade last

night at a dinner in honor of Mr. Brand Whitlock, United States minister

to Belgium. Number 2 is a New York dispatch about the dinner. Write up

the story for an Indianapolis morning paper on which you are working.

George Ade's home is in Indiana.

1. If you will go over the list of young men who wrote for

Chicago newspapers twenty-five years ago you will be convinced

that the newspaper business is the greatest business in the

world for getting out of.

Let us go away back to 1890. Also let us go back to Chicago. I

hope I am not asking too much. About twenty-five years ago in

the Middle West there was a restless movement toward the

newspaper office. Nearly every young man who could no longer

board at home decided to enter journalism. Chicago called him.

Chicago is the home of opportunity--and other things.

The young man who wishes to be a book agent must have a

prospectus. Any solicitor must own a set of application blanks.

The burglar needs a jimmy. But the journalist requires only a

collection of adjectives. So I repeat that about 1890 all the

by-roads led to Chicago and all the young men who abhorred farm

work were arranging to be editors.

The period to which I refer was to Chicago what the Elizabethan

period was to English letters. Joseph Medill and Wilbur F.

Storey were just rounding their interesting careers. George

Harvey was flashing across our local horizon on his way to New

York. M. E. Stone was hacking out of one newspaper office in

order to assume general supervision of all the newspapers in the

world. Vance Thompson wrote for an evening paper. Opie Read was

up and down the street, working as little as possible. William

Elroy Curtis had just served a term as society editor of the

_Inter Ocean_. Paul Potter was tied to an editorial desk, but

already he had heard the call of the stage and was getting ready

to write _Trilby_. Will Payne, Kennett Harris, Ray Stannard

Baker, Forrest Crissy, Emerson Hough, and other contributors to

the five- and ten-cent beacons of the present day were humbly

contributing to the daily press. Ben King was writing his quiet

verse and peddling it around. Eugene Field had come on from

Kansas City and was trying to weave _Culture's Garland_, in

spite of the fact that the high wind constantly disarranged his

material. Julian Street was still operating as an amateur, while

Henry Hutt and the Leyendecker boy and Pennrhyn Stanlaws and

other illustrators who have brought the show girl into the home

life of America were students at the Art Institute, over on the

lake front. Do you recognize some of the names? Most of them are

now typical New Yorkers--born west of Kalamazoo.

It was in 1890 that John T. McCutcheon came up from Indiana and

broke into the old _News_ office. Perhaps you know that later on

he became the Thomas Nast of the corn belt--one of the few

cartoonists with a really definite influence and a loyal

following. Tom Powers was just beginning to draw his comics.

Shortly before Melville Stone escaped from bondage he received a

call at his office from a talented young woman who acted on the

stage. I am not repeating any ancient scandal. I am simply

telling you the facts. The young actress showed the great editor

some verses which had been dedicated to her by a lad living on

the West Side. Mr. Stone sent for the young man and put him to

work, and the next morning he knew the young man had written

_Robin Hood_, and since then he has written most of the plays

with music presented anywhere in America. You must have seen the

name of Harry B. Smith on the billboards.

A young person with very red hair did general hustling on the

_Inter Ocean_ for a short time and then disappeared. Years later

he bobbed up in congress as a member from Kansas and began to

shout defiance at Uncle Joe Cannon. The young person's name was

Victor Murdock.

It was during this same golden age that an overgrown and

diffident young man came from an obscure town in Illinois and

was given a tryout on the _Tribune_. He was steady and

industrious and ever willing, and they set him to do hotel

reporting. He was a failure as a hotel reporter, because the

young men employed by the _Herald_ and _Times_ secured

interviews every day with interesting visitors whom he was never

able to find. He could not find them because those interesting

persons did not exist. They were created by the enterprising

young men of the _Times_ and _Herald_ who were working in

combination against the _Tribune_.

Each morning the _Herald_ and _Times_ would have a throbbing

story told by some traveler who had shot big game in India, or

penetrated the frozen north, or visited the interior of Tibet,

or observed the habits of the kangaroo in Australia.

The visitor who told the wondrous tales of adventure invariably

left in the afternoon for New York, but his name was on the

hotel register as a corroborative detail intended to give

verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

Perhaps I should explain that the hotel clerk was a party to the

conspiracy.

Every day the _Tribune_ young man was rebuked because he had

been scooped by the _Times_ and the _Herald_. He ran from hotel

to hotel, frantically eager to do his duty, but he never could

find the African explorer and the titled European and the North

Sea adventurer who told their breathless tales day after day in

the columns of the rival papers. So the _Tribune_ young man was

taken off hotels and put on finance. After that he was not

scooped. He came to know Lyman J. Gage and moved on to New York

via Washington. To-day the poor young man who failed as a hotel

reporter because he lacked the gift of imaginative fiction is

president of the National City Bank of New York. Perhaps you

have heard of him. His name is Frank Vanderlip.

Now let us inquire as to the designing scribblers who caused him

to lose his job. The _Times_ man is here in New York as first

aid to the tired business man. The next time you visit "Chin

Chin" or the Hippodrome you will notice the name of Charles B.

Dillingham on the program. As for the _Herald_ young man, you

must know something about him if you have read _Mr. Dooley_.

It was about 1890 that the sprightly organization known as the

Whitechapel Club came into existence in Chicago. Moses P. Handy

was an adopted son of the same period. He had come on from

Philadelphia and was trying to introduce the custom of wearing

evening clothes in the evening. Chicago had started to build the

Columbian Exposition and was trying hard to prove that a

provincial city could be cosmopolitan while company was present.

Thus many influences worked together to make Chicago a rather

interesting preparatory school in 1890.

If you will go over the list of young men who wrote for Chicago

newspapers twenty-five years ago you will be convinced that the

newspaper business is the greatest business in the world for

getting out of. Let us here resolve to treat the reporter

kindly, because in a few years we may be working for him.

Of all that untried host standing in line to receive

assignments, I don't suppose any one man was a greater

disappointment to prophets than Brand Whitlock. When he came up

from a freshwater college in Ohio and quietly attached himself

to the _Herald_ staff he attracted attention almost immediately

as a humorist. He specialized on "Josh stuff." He wrote

bantering, fantastic, mock-serious stories of the kind that were

standardized by Mr. Dana's young men. He was a star reporter,

pulling down his thirty-five per; but any first-class horoscoper

would have allowed that Whitlock was destined to contribute to

_Puck_ and _Judge_, and probably attempt the libretto of a comic

opera. He legged it on the newspaper for a while and then

re-deserted, the same as most of the others, and went to

Springfield to resume his studies. This was his first erratic

move. If he had been a true journalist there wouldn't have been

anything more for him to learn. Then he published _The

Thirteenth District_. Many of his old friends bought it

expecting to get something on the order of refined vaudeville,

but found, instead, a true and tragic story of cheap ambitions.

Well, we watched him as mayor of Toledo, and we have been

telling everybody for the last year and a half that we did

assignments together and are members of the same college

fraternity and wouldn't be afraid to go right up and speak to

him anywhere.

To that scattered colony of twenty-five years ago I bring the

assurance that we are proud of Brand Whitlock and are glad to

call him our friend.

2. Brand Whitlock, American minister to Belgium, was the

principal guest at a private banquet given by the Lotos Club at

its home, 110 West Fifty-seventh Street, last night. It was

described by a prominent member of the club as a "banquet that

was not attended by any man prominent in politics, but one that

was intended to do honor to Mr. Whitlock and to drink a little

wine and to eat a little breast of guinea."

Politics and newspaper reporters were barred, and Whitlock in

his address made no reference to the European war or to the

situation in Belgium. "American Ideals" was the subject of the

address, and he referred to the inscription on Washington Arch,

in Washington Square, which says, "Let us here erect a standard

to which all the wise and honest may repair."

"That is a sentence of which I like to think," Mr. Whitlock

said. "It is a standard which to be effective must be erected in

the life of each citizen, and no one can erect it there but

himself. In no citizen did it ever attain such beautiful and

symmetrical proportions as in the life of Lincoln.

"Once in a foreign city I happened to pick up a penny in the

street. It was one of those that bear Lincoln's head. Looking at

it and thinking of its implications, the thought of home and all

that it brought up, the thought of all the hands through which

it had passed--hands of workmen, the hands of little children,

the hands of beggars, even; hard hands and gnarled hands and

honest hands, the hands of mine own people--it seemed to me to

have been made precious by the patina of democracy, and I

thought that nothing could have been more beautiful and

significant than that Lincoln's noble head should have been

engraved on our smallest coin, a token of our universal daily

need in hands that humbly break the bread their toil has earned.

That head to me somewhat palpably wore the people's love like

purple bays--the love of all those common people whom he so

wisely loved and bore in sorrow in his mighty heart.

"In him, as I have tried to say, the American ideal was most

perfectly exemplified, and it was exemplified in him because

after the illusions of life had gone he retained his ideals and

his faith in them. It was thus exemplified in him because in

addition to his wisdom, his gentleness, his patience, his hope,

and his faith, he had that other great American quality of

humor, which saved him in every situation, and by American humor

I mean that instinctive sense of human values that enables one

to see all things or most things in their proper relations, and

so becomes an integral part of the American ideal."

Four hundred fifty members of the club and their friends were at

the banquet. At the table with Whitlock were Dr. M. Woolsey

Stryker, president of Hamilton College; M. A. Van der Vyede,

Belgian Minister of Finance; Nathaniel C. Wright, editor of the

Toledo _Blade_; Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks, Melville E. Stone,

George Ade, and Hewitt H. Howland, of Indiana, all of whom

spoke.

Mr. Whitlock was introduced by Chester S. Lord, vice president

of the club, who presided in the absence of President F. R.

Lawrence, who was ill. Lord reviewed briefly some of the work of

Whitlock in Belgium, where he worked "with a fidelity and a

fairness and a supreme regard for the interests of humanity that

have won for him the praise and the admiration of the entire

world."

Speaking to Mr. Whitlock, Mr. Lord said: "The neutral nations

esteem you and love you. The belligerent nations admire and

respect you. No one could have addressed himself to this task

with greater loyalty, fidelity, or patriotism."

_B._ Do you find the following story meritorious or blameworthy? Why?

_MRS. PALTIER "NOT AT HOME"_

Mrs. Laura Paltier, who has just returned from Florida, was "not

at home" to reporters yesterday. They wanted to ask her several

questions about the $20,000 exposition fund now in her charge.

A maid answered the doorbell at 4356 Lake Erie Drive.

"Is Mrs. Paltier at home?"

"Who is it wants to see her?"

"_The Tribune_." The maid closed the door, leaving the reporter

on the porch. Five minutes later she returned. "Mrs. Paltier is

not at home. I don't know where she is nor when she will

return." She closed the door.

The reporter went to a telephone. "Is Mrs. Paltier at home?"

The maid's voice answered: "I will see." For a minute two voices

could be heard at the other end of the wire.

"Who is this, please?" asked the maid. Upon learning the

identity of the inquirer she said: "No, Mrs. Paltier is not at

home."

About that time the reporter decided that Mrs. Paltier was not

eager to see him.

_C._ Special assignments, such as reporting sermons, local addresses,

commercial banquets, etc., may be taken as additional exercises for this

chapter.

_CHAPTER XV_

_A._ From the following details write for a New York morning paper a

story of the death of Tom Hilton:

Time and place of death, yesterday at the New York hospital;

age, 36; occupation, sexton at Christ Church on West

Thirty-sixth Street; attending physician, Dr. Henry Adair; cause

of death, swallowing false teeth while at breakfast with his

wife yesterday; efforts to save him: Dr. Adair summoned

immediately, incision made in throat, silver tube inserted to

allow passage of air to the lungs, and operation later at

hospital. Patient failed to rally after operation. Survivors:

wife and two children.

_B._ From the following details write for a Chicago evening paper a

story of the fire that destroyed the plant of the W. M. Welch

Manufacturing Company, makers of college and preparatory school

diplomas:

Date, to-day, April 19, at 4:30 A.M.; location, 1516 Orleans

Street, Chicago; cause of fire, supposedly crossed wires on

second floor where fire started; loss $60,000 according to C. M.

Holmes, Jr., manager of the scientific department; persons

injured, one fireman slightly injured by falling glass;

institutions whose diplomas were destroyed, George Washington

University, Grinnell College, University of North Dakota,

Marquette University, Dakota Wesleyan College; lives endangered,

five firemen who were climbing a ladder on the rear wall when it

fell; insurance, amount not obtainable.

_C._ The following almost excellent news article has one grave weakness.

Rewrite the story, strengthening the weak points.

Earl Moisley was 14 years old. He lived with his parents, three

brothers, and a sister at 5417 Gale Street. He was in the eighth

grade at the Beaubien school and a promising pupil.

Earl's grandmother gave him a lamb and he kept it in the

basement. One day last week the animal slipped through the open

door after its master and went bleating into the schoolroom

behind Earl.

"Mary had a little lamb

With fleece as white as snow."

Some one in the back row chanted the foolish nursery rhyme. Earl

was sent home with the lamb. Thereafter his life was made

miserable. Gangs of his comrades followed him, yelling in chorus

the song of "Mary" and "Little Bo-Peep."

Earl turned on one of his tormentors yesterday and blacked his

eye. His playmates say he was summoned before the principal of

the school and suspended for fighting. The boys assert they saw

him marching sturdily home digging one grimy fist in his eye and

muttering, "They'll be sorry, all right."

About 5 o'clock last evening Earl's younger brother went into

the basement. He saw a pair of shoes sticking over the top of a

little red wagon and ran upstairs.

"Mother," he said, "there's a man in the cellar. I saw his

feet."

Mrs. Moisley laid aside her washing and went downstairs with the

younger son. She then told her husband, Fred Moisley, an under

janitor at the city hall.

Moisley observed a piece of heavy twine tied to the water pipe.

He thought some man had committed suicide and ran outside for a

policeman. Mrs. Moisley went near the stiff, outthrust little

shoes, and saw they were those of a boy. She bent over the

figure and fainted. It was Earl. The lamb lay asleep beside the

body.

_D._ Correct in any way needful the following stories for a weekly

paper:

1. Susie, the four-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin

Konick, Booneville, died last night after a few days' illness.

She will be interred at the Meadowland cemetery Thursday. Susie

had the whooping-cough.

2. Mrs. Alice Rice was born in Jefferson county, Ga., on Aug. 6,

1864, and passed quietly away last Saturday, making her age 53

years, 10 months, and 27 days. Mr. and Mrs. Rice were married

about 32 years. One son, Samuel, and husband, Adam, survive her.

They moved to the Houghton farm, near Adaville, 14 years ago,

and were just intending to move to the White farm when death

overtook Mrs. Rice after an illness of 22 hours, which was not

considered serious until about 2 hours before her death. Mrs.

Rice had worked as busy as a bee all her years in Adaville, and

when her beautiful spirit quitted this mundane vale of tears,

she was rewarded with the loving attendance and affection of all

in the sorrowing neighborhood. The funeral service was conducted

Monday afternoon at the sorrowing home by the Rev. R. O. Tumlin.

The remains were interred at the Camp Meeting cemetery. Mrs.

Rice died of heart trouble.

_E._ Get the local and state weather forecast and write for to-morrow

morning's paper a story of to-day's weather and to-morrow's prospects.

_CHAPTER XVI_

_A._ Criticize and rewrite the following baseball story:

The scribe again has a sad story to relate concerning the Sox,

inasmuch as the White Hose have failed for the sixth straight

time to win, and unfortunately it must be admitted that they in

every way deserved what they got.

In fact, if Manager Callahan had taken their bats away from

them after the first inning to-day and had buried them 20,000

leagues under the sea, securely padlocked in Davy Jones' locker,

his men would have been compelled to accept a victory over

Detroit instead of handing themselves a sixth straight defeat

after one of the cheesiest exhibitions of the national pastime

ever seen outside the walls of a state institute for the

mentally feeble.

The score was 5 to 4, and all five of Detroit's runs were

donated by the White Sox, a fact which seemed to rouse the

subconscious generosity of the Tigers to such a pitch that in

the ninth inning it was all the Callahan bunch could do to keep

their opponents from forcing on them enough tallies to even

matters up so that they could start over and let the best team

win in extra innings.

That ninth round saw three Detroit pitchers, Dame Fortune, Herr

Billiken, Mr. Providence and all the gods of Olympus conspiring

to give the White Sox the game which had been thrown away, but

the whole blamed bunch of good luck deities was foiled by a

couple of White Sox youngsters simply because Callahan forgot to

take their clubs away from them.

It would have been a joke that would have caused a laugh all

through the corridors of time if the White Sox had achieved a

triumph with only one base hit, but the fact remains it was

their own fault they did not do so. Their only safe hit was made

by Ray Demmitt, the Tiger discard, who has not yet worn a Sox

uniform long enough to forget the first use for a baseball bat.

Demmitt retains the impression that bats were made to get on

with, while the rest of Callahan's bunch use them solely to get

out with, and that was the whole trouble in the last round. The

Sox entered that spasm four runs behind, having converted

Demmitt's lone hit in the first inning into the only genuine

tally of the day.

Hall, who had enjoyed a breeze all the way at the expense of the

Sox, suddenly was seized with a generous fit and started passing

batsmen. After he had filled the bases with only one man out

Manager Jennings yanked the philanthropic hurler and sent Dauss

to the slab. Dauss was infected with the same Andrew Carnegie

spirit and issued another pass, forcing the Sox to make a tally.

There was no pity in Jennings' breast, so he ordered Dauss to

the booby hatch for a spanking and sent Coveleski to ladle out

the pitch stuff. The young southpaw was equally generous in

intent and would surely have forced in enough runs to give the

Sox the game, but two of the visitors absolutely refused to

accept that kind of a gift and got out. They were Tom Daly and

Ray Schalk.

For a while it looked as if Buck Weaver would have to shoulder

the blame for another defeat because he blew two runs over the

pan by missing a cinch double play in the fourth inning. But

Weaver had plenty of partners in crime before the thing was

over. Harry Lord and Jack Fournier joined him by helping to

contribute three runs to the Tiger total in the eighth.

Lord's miscue was a boot of a Cobb bounder in a tight place.

Fournier's blunder did not appear in the error column. Jack

simply sat down on the grass and watched a tall fly light near

him in gleeful security. By keeping his feet Fournier should

have caught said fly and saved the cost of Lord's error to boot.

Fournier was in the game in an effort to bolster up the offense,

not because he has anything as an outfielder on Bodie, whose

place he took in the batting order, but the switch did not work

out just as planned. Fournier made no better use of his stick

than the rest of the Sox, and gave way to Daly, who foiled the

generous efforts of the Tiger pitchers in the ninth.

It was a typical Joe Benz hard-luck game. The Indiana butcher

boy pitched well enough to have won with any club in the league

behind him, but only once were his pals anything but dead weight

around his neck. In the sixth, when the Tigers made a determined

attack, Weaver and Schalk came to Benz's assistance with a

remarkable play, which pinched Cobb off second base and wrecked

what looked like sure runs. And it is no small honor to have

caught the honorable Tyrus napping in a pinch like that....

_B._ Take as a special assignment a local football, basketball, or

baseball game, or some other athletic contest and report it for the

following morning's paper.

_CHAPTER XVII_

_A._ Write the story of the following for the society column in

to-morrow morning's paper:

The parents of Elizabeth Wallace, 24, announced her engagement

to-day to Parker Maxwell. Miss Wallace's father is president of

the local First National Bank and lives at 1814 Prospect Drive.

Mr. Maxwell, 31, is cashier of the First National. Mr. Maxwell

and Miss Wallace have known each other from childhood.

_B._ Write the story of the following:

The details of Elizabeth Wallace's wedding (see _A_) two weeks

from to-day have been made public. She will be married at St.

Bartholomew's Church at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Rev. C. K.

Tanner will perform the ceremony. The bride will enter with her

father. Howard Prentice, St. Louis, a college chum of the

bride-groom's, will be best man. Alice Wallace, a younger sister

of the bride, will be maid of honor. The bride will wear on the

bodice of her wedding gown an old Brussels lace worn by her

mother at her wedding thirty years ago. The predominating color

scheme will be yellow. There will be two flower girls, Jean

Thompson and Helen Orben, cousins of the bride. Three hundred

invitations have been issued. A luncheon to the bridal party,

relations, and a few intimate friends will be served at 1:30.

_C._ Write for to-day's paper an account of the marriage yesterday of

Elizabeth Wallace and Parker Maxwell (See _A_ and _B_).

Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell left immediately after the wedding ceremony

for a trip through Yellowstone Park. On their return next month

they will live at 1200 East Sixtieth Street.

_CHAPTER XVIII_

_A._ Rewrite for this afternoon's paper the two following stories

appearing in rival publications this morning. No additional details have

been obtained.

_LOSES MONEY BETTING_

Two rough and hearty farmers struck up an acquaintance at a

hotel last Thursday. One was John I. Williams of Winthrop, Ia.

Mr. Williams is now sojourning in the city waiting to see if the

police can recover $2,500, his savings, which he bet on a "horse

race." The other introduced himself as William Shaw, a farmer

from near Winnipeg. The police are looking for him.

Mr. Williams reported his loss and told of meeting Shaw.

"We were together all Thursday afternoon and evening," said he.

"Shaw introduced me to another young man, who proposed the

racing bets. I have forgotten his name. He placed a $1 bet for

me and I won $5. He placed the $5 and brought back $15. It was

easy.

"Shaw and I agreed to put up $2,500 apiece and let him bet it.

Shaw put up checks, but the young man didn't know me, so I had

to go back to Walker, Ia., and draw my $2,500.

"On Saturday we gave him the money and checks in a hallway at

830 North State Street.

"We all shook hands and agreed to meet at 3 o'clock at State

Street and Chicago Avenue and divide the winnings. I waited more

than an hour at the meeting place. I think I've been swindled."

The police think so, too.

_SAYS BABIES BOOST TAXES_

The Mills legislative committee which is studying taxation has

discovered strange things in its two weeks' sojourn in New York

City, but it brought forth a real surprise yesterday in the

person of Prof. Joseph French Johnson of New York University,

who disclosed himself as a disciple of the late Thomas Robert

Malthus, proponent of the theory that there can never be a happy

society because population tends to increase at a much faster

rate than the old earth, working overtime, can provide food,

raiment, and other things.

Discussing yesterday the income tax, Prof. Johnson, who appeared

as chairman of the Merchant's Association committee on taxation,

said he wanted to nail the frequently expressed opinion that the

exemption accorded to the married man should be greater than

that which the bachelor enjoys.

"Since you are talking about exemptions," he said, "I might add

this: I would not exempt the married man. I would not give any

preference to the married man over the bachelor. I do not

believe it is a good thing to encourage matrimony by lowering

taxation. On the contrary, I would discourage matrimony by

making the married man pay a higher tax. I think we should not

do anything to encourage matrimony and child-bearing."

"Surely you are not serious, are you, Professor?" inquired

Senator Boylan.

"I certainly am serious. I should have to give you quite a

disquisition to explain my conclusions, and I doubt if it would

be practicable for you to consider the subject now. And you

would have to surrender to public opinion anyhow. If you do put

in force a new system of taxation you'll have to treat the

married man easily. I am still a confirmed disciple of Malthus,

and I believe that the awful war in Europe is being fought out

because the human race has deliberately refused to see the

lessons of his doctrines, which were taught a hundred years

ago."

Prof. Johnson, who in addition to being professor of economics

at New York University is also dean of the school of finance,

explained after he had left the stand that he is not opposed to

matrimony as an institution, nor as a refuge from loneliness for

those who can afford it. He is himself a married man and has

three children.

"I believe in the Malthusian theory," he said. "Just consider

that man is the only animal whose natural increase is not

regulated. We regulate the increase in the number of cats and

dogs and other domestic animals, but we let human beings go on

having children without any thought of the ability of society to

take care of them. I think we should regulate marriage and

especially child-bearing.

"In my opinion no married man ought to be allowed to have a

child until he can convince some authority of his ability to

provide properly for that child. We want all the increase we can

get in the good elements of population, but we ought to keep

down the 'riff-raff'--although you know as a matter of fact

there is no human 'riff-raff'--yet we allow them to increase

without any regulation. As for those who are able to take care

of themselves, let them marry and have children. The more the

merrier."

_B._ Selection (1) below is a bulletin received some hours after the

news detailed in (2), which appeared in a morning paper. Combine the

bulletin with the morning story.

1. After confessing that he was the cause of his sweetheart,

Emily Benton's, death, Alfred Barker committed suicide at 6:00

A.M. to-day by throwing himself in front of a Burlington express

train near the town of Ashworth. In his pocket was found the

following note:

"Dear Folks: God forgive me for causing my sweetheart's

death. I did not kill her. We walked out there and sat

down. I tried to kiss her and she repulsed me. I asked

her if she did not want to be my sweetheart any more. She

wouldn't answer. I took a hold of her waist, pushed

toward her, and tried to love her. She started to scream,

and I went completely out of my head.

"She became quiet all of a sudden. I thought I had hurt

her and she was breathing heavily but was senseless. I

covered her up and don't remember what happened until I

awoke to find myself lying along the road, near

Naperville.

"My mind came back. I realized what I had done and I

went over to the quarry and jumped in, but could not

sink.

"Then I went to Aurora, bought some chloroform, and that

night (Sunday) I came back and found my darling's body,

and I realized that she was really dead. I laid down

beside her and took chloroform, but about 2:30 A.M. I

woke up and the bottle had tipped over.

"Then I went to Belmont and got a freight and rode to

Aurora, where I got more chloroform. I came back to

Dawson Grove and went into the woods and saturated my

handkerchief with chloroform, thinking I would surely

die. But it failed to work also.

"I could not live and know that my sweetheart Emily was

dead, so I have resolved in a desperate way to end my

life.

"The girl died of heart failure or fright, as I surely

could not kill the one I thought the most of in the whole

world.

"I loved her more than words can tell and I would die for

her and I will die for her.

"I have been partly insane for the last two days.

"Forgive me and I pray to meet my sweetheart in heaven.

"Alfred."

This morning at 10 o'clock a jury impaneled by W. V. Hopf, Ellis

County coroner, will assemble in Dawson Grove for an inquest

into the two deaths. At the same hour the funeral of the girl

will be held from the house of the widowed mother she supported.

The funeral of Barker will be at two o'clock to-morrow.

_GIRL DEAD IN MYSTERY CASE_

2. Miss Emily Benton was found dead late yesterday in a patch of

bushes on the outskirts of the village of Dawson Grove. She had

disappeared Saturday evening in company with Alfred Barker, a

young man who had been paying her attention since childhood.

Searching parties in the field since early Sunday morning were

joined last night by a sheriff's posse in the quest for Barker.

Barker is described as an athletic young man with a "Johnny

Evers" jaw. Barker was about 5 feet 10 inches tall and a blond.

Barker and the girl were "pals" in the words of their

relatives, who only half guessed at times that perhaps the long

friendship would become a "match." Together the girl and Barker

often through the springtime took long walks at

night--occasionally a matter of many miles--to the villages of

Hinman and Nashville. For several years the couple rode to

Chicago together to work every day on the same commuters' train

and often returned home together at night.

While an alarm was sent out through all the surrounding towns

for the apprehension of Barker, no charges have been made

against him. An autopsy held in secret by Coroner Hopf of Ellis

county was expected to reveal the cause of the girl's death.

Alfred Barker, returning from his work at the general offices of

the Burlington Railroad in Chicago, dropped off a train at the

station in Dawson Grove on Saturday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock.

He lingered about the station platform until the 6:30 train came

in and met Miss Benton, home from her day's work at the Parisian

Fashion Company in Chicago. Together they walked to the girl's

home and stood talking on the doorstep of the Benton residence,

just as they had most every afternoon in the last seven years.

The mother says she overheard this conversation:

Alfred.--"Let's take in a show to-night."

Emily.--"No, but I'll be over to-night. I want to see Pauline."

The girl abruptly entered the house and greeted her mother a

trifle impatiently.

"I'm getting awful tired of Al," she said.

That evening the girl went to the home of her sister, Mrs. Henry

Wallis, where Barker and his aunt, Mrs. Fannie Willis,

mother-in-law of Mrs. Wallis, also live. At 8 o'clock the girl

and Barker left together.

"They said they might go to a show, and that's the last I saw of

them," Mrs. Wallis said.

Late at night the two households became alarmed when neither of

the young people returned. The families suggested to each other

that Barker and the girl had eloped, but still there were doubts

and misgivings.

Martin Whittier, the town marshal, was called and the alarm was

sent to the Chicago police. Sunday morning came and there was no

word of either of the missing.

A group of high school boys volunteered to look for the couple,

and soon they were joined by the whole school. No trace of the

trail was found.

Yesterday morning the disappearance had grown into a village

sensation. The schools were closed for the day and all the

pupils turned out to beat over the fields and woods.

Carl Selig, a grocery delivery man, was driving in Orchard

Street on the south side of the village, about 5 o'clock, when

something behind a bunch of bushes and tanglewood at Lyman

Street caught his eye. He climbed off the wagon and pushed

through the brush to investigate. In a small open place half

concealed by the bushes Selig came upon a girl's body. The face

was covered with her coat and her hands were folded across her

breast. He gingerly pulled off the coat and recognized the girl

as Emily Benton. Selig gave the alarm and the body was removed

to Davis's undertaking rooms in the village.

The ground near the death spot was closely examined without

discovery of any trace of a struggle. Ten feet away from the

body a boy picked up an empty two-ounce bottle. It showed no

trace of its contents and it bore no label.

At the undertaking rooms a preliminary examination of the body

disclosed a bruised splotch on the girl's neck, another on the

right temple, and a third on the chin. The inside of her mouth

was discolored and seared, as though she might have taken

carbolic acid. There was no odor to indicate any chemical.

Last night Sheriff Kuhn and Coroner Hopf of Ellis county went to

Dawson Grove and assumed personal charge of the case.

_CHAPTER XIX_

_A._ Write a feature story on the different ways students in your

college make money. Get statistics of the number of students earning

their way wholly or in part and the amount of money earned during a

college year.

_B._ The following statement was made by Dr. Martin Frederick of the

city medical staff, Cleveland, Ohio: "Milady's dimples are defects

caused by faulty construction or weaknesses of the cheek muscles."

Interview several ladies who have dimples and write the story.

_C._ The following statements were made by Colonel G. O. Shields,

president of the League of American Sportsmen:

"The cotton growers are suffering a loss of one hundred million

dollars a year by reason of the ravages of the boll weevil. Why?

Because the quails, the prairie chickens, the meadow larks and

other birds which were formerly there in millions have been

swept away by gunners. The grain growers are losing over one

hundred million dollars a year on account of the work of the

chinch bug. They are losing another two hundred million dollars

a year on account of the work of the Hessian fly. Both of these

are very small insects, almost microscopic in size. It takes

over twenty-four thousand chinch bugs to weigh one ounce. A

quail killed in a wheat field in Ohio and examined by a

government expert had in its craw the remains of over twelve

hundred chinch bugs it had eaten that day. Another quail killed

in Kansas and examined by another government expert had in its

craw the remains of over two thousand Hessian flies that it had

eaten that day. The farmers of the Northern states are paying

out sixteen to seventeen million dollars a year for paris green

to put on their potato vines. A quail killed in a potato field

in Pennsylvania and examined by a government entomologist had in

its stomach the remains of one hundred twenty-six bugs. The

quail is one of the most valuable insect-eating birds of its

size in the world; and yet there are so-called sportsmen all

over the land, thousands of them, who insist on having legal

authority to kill every quail they can find during at least

three months of each year. Then there is a whole army of

game-hogs who go out and kill them when they are half grown and

when there is no game warden in sight."

Write a feature story about the value of birds.

_D._ The following bill of fare for fifteen cents was found in a

restaurant at 1615 Austin Avenue: two eggs cooked any style, one cup of

coffee, two slices of bread, butter, potatoes, toothpicks. Steak instead

of eggs made the price twenty cents. Pie was five cents. The proprietor,

Christ Terss, a Greek, has supported himself and wife for two years on

this priced menu and in addition has put $200 in the bank. Make a

feature story of the details.

_E._ In the court of domestic relations yesterday, Willie Preber, 19,

1848 Ontario Street, was accused by his stepmother, Mrs. John Preber, of

fighting her. Willie pleaded not guilty, saying he could not fight with

her much, as he had a weak heart and might die if he got excited. He

declared he never touched her more than once a day. He was sent to the

house of correction for sixty days.

_F._ The _Seattle Star_ got a good story by interviewing a number of

men and women about the book they had liked most when children. _Tom

Sawyer_ and _Robinson Crusoe_ led the list. Try the story in your town

or in your university.

_G._ A similar story to that in _F_ may be had by interviewing a number

of persons about their favorite sacred hymn. "Onward, Christian

Soldiers" led the list in Columbus, Ohio.

_H._ Inquire of twelve or fifteen college men and women what favorite

remedies they use for colds. Their varied replies will be startling.

Make a feature story of their answers.

_I._ Question a number of persons in your town, or in your university,

about their favorite hobbies, and feature the story as "Riding Hobby

Horses with _Blank_ Men and Women."

_J._ Inquire of the members of the senior class what kinds of husbands

or wives they expect to marry. If they do not intend marrying, get their

reasons and feature them in a separate story.

_K._ Spend an afternoon in the kitchens of the university dormitories

and write the story.

_L._ How strictly is the honor system observed in colleges to-day?

Interview underclassmen in your college and make a feature of their

replies.

INDEX

Abbreviations, 269

Accidents, 149, 153

Accuracy in news, 26, 57, 67, 74, 84, 116, 128, 141, 146

Adaptability, 7

Addresses, 54, 135

"Add" stories, 253

Advance copies of speeches, 54

Advance stories, 54, 193

Advertisement, persons seeking, 47

Advertising manager, 21

Agreement of pronouns, 100

_Alone_, 108

Ambiguous pronouns, 100

Anger, 46

_Appleton Post_, quoted, 59, 77

Apostrophe, 266

Arrest sheets, 36

Articles, beginning stories with, 70

Assignments, 42

Associated Press, quoted, 237

_Atlanta Constitution_, quoted, 190

Automobile races, 189

Autoplate, 16

Bank, 14

Banks in headlines, 281

Banquets, 143

Baseball, 167

Basket-ball, 176

Beats:

news runs, 39;

scoops, 40

Beginnings of stories, 68

Beginning work, 5

Billiards, 190

Bing-bing-bing style, 93

Blotter, police, 34

Body of the story, 84

_Boston Transcript_, quoted, 205

Boxed summaries, 76

Boxing matches, 185

Bryan, W. J., 131

Bulldog edition, 5

Business department, 20

Business manager, 20

Capitalization, 256

Cards, calling, 42, 45

Cartoonist, 11

Cashier, 22

Charity benefits, 205

Chase, 16

_Chicago American_, quoted, 93

_Chicago Herald_, quoted, 140

_Chicago Tribune_, quoted, 60, 192, 196, 233, 301

Children, stories about, 30, 151

Circulation manager, 20

City editor, 5, 6, 68, 95

City maps, 43

City room, 3

Clearness, 74, 90, 97, 106, 117

Climactic order, 61, 64

Clippings, 253

Closeness of events, 29

Clubs, 205, 209

Coherence, 90, 109, 129, 141, 218

Colon, 259

Comma, 260

Complex order in stories, 63

Composing room, 13

Compositors, 13

Condensation, 95, 223

Conjunctions, 104, 107

Contests, 30

Conventions, 32, 143

Conversation, 129

Cooerdination of clauses, 104

Copy, 294

Copy cutter, 13

Copy distributor, 13

Copy holder, 16

Copy readers, 5

Corrected copy, 275

Corrected proof, 276

Corrections in copy, 254

Correlative conjunctions, 107

Correspondence stories, 235

Correspondent, 235

Courtesy, 46

Courts, 144

Crime, 149, 160

Cuts, 253

Dana, Charles A., 116

Dances, 204

Dark runs, 40

Dash, 263

Davis, R. H., quoted, 48

Dead, lists of, 150

Deaths, 157

Decisions, court, 145

Delicacy of expression, 113

_Des Moines Register_, quoted, 66

Dinners, 202

Dispatches, filing, 239

Dress, 46

Dullness in stories, 84

Editor:

city, 6;

exchange, 9;

financial, 10;

literary, 10;

managing, 11;

market, 10;

news, 7;

society, 6, 10;

state, 8;

telegraph, 8

Editorializing, 87, 191

Editorial policies, 87

Editorial rooms, 5

Editorials, purpose of, 87

Editorial writers, 11

Editor-in-chief, 12

Elegance, 120

Ellipsis, 106

Emphasis, 93, 97, 110

End-mark in copy, 254

Engagements, announcements, 200, 210

Exaggeration, 86, 146

Exchange editor, 9

Exercises, 285

Extremes in news, 29

Fake stories, 56

Falsehood, detecting, 51

Feature stories, 224

Features, playing up, 69, 127

Figures, 271

Figures of speech, 119

Filing news dispatches, 239

Filing queries, 240

Financial editor, 10

Fires, 149

Flaubert, Gustave, quoted, 116

Following up news, 212

Follow stories, 212

Football, 171, 192

Force, 93, 97, 110, 119

Forms, 16

Fudge, 18

Funerals, 157

Galley proof, 15

Golf, 179

Government publications, 144

Grammar, 99

Helplessness, value in news, 30

Heroism, acts of, 150

Holiday stories, 143

Holmes, George R., quoted, 77

Human interest stories, 224

Humorous stories, 146, 151

Hyphen, 267

Illustrations, 253

Inaccuracy in news, 26, 84

_Indianapolis News_, quoted, 156

Infinitives, 101

Injured, lists of, 150

Inserts in copy, 252

Instructions from city editor, 68, 95

Instructions to correspondents, 244

Interest in news, 27, 58, 74

Interviewing, 45

Interviews:

by telephone, 42;

making men talk, 48;

numbers of, 135;

questions in, 47, 50;

requirements for, 45;

writing up, 125

_Kansas City Star_, quoted, 62, 312

Killed, lists of, 150

Labor reporter, 6

Lardner, R. W., quoted, 192

Law of libel, 85, 162

Leads:

accident, 149, 153;

accuracy in, 74;

clearness in, 74;

construction, 70;

contents of, 69;

crime, 160;

deaths, 157;

feature stories, 230;

fires, 149;

follow-ups, 213;

form of, 72;

informal, 78;

interest in, 74;

interviews, 126;

kinds, 68;

rewrites, 219;

speeches, 135;

sports, 165;

summarizing, 69, 138;

suspense in, 78, 81;

verse in, 80

Lectures, 54

Legal decisions, 144

Libel, law of, 85, 162

Librarian, 10

Linotype machine, 13

Lists of dead and injured, 150

Literary editor, 10

Life lost, 150

Localization of news, 29, 127, 218

Local news, 238

Longhand copy, 250

_Los Angeles Times_, quoted, 203, 204

Luncheons, 202

Magazine articles, 144

Managing editor, 11

Mannerisms, 130, 143

Maps, city, 43

Margins in copy, 250

Marine reporter, 6

Market editor, 10

Marks for correcting copy, 273

Marriages, 201, 210

Matrix, 16

Mechanical department, 13

Memory, need of, 49

_Milwaukee Journal_, 15, 189

_Milwaukee Sentinel_, quoted, 80

_Minneapolis Tribune_, quoted, 64

Morgue, 9

Motives, seeking, 51

Murders, 149

Names, need of accuracy, 53

Nearness of events, 29

Nevin, J. E., quoted, 131-134

News:

accuracy in, 26;

biased, 56;

defined, 26;

essentials of, 25;

following up, 212;

getting into print, 13;

nose for, 25;

runs, 39;

sources, 34, 159, 191, 211, 230;

staff, 5;

suppression of, 41;

timeliness in, 28;

values, need of knowing, 25

News editor, 7

Newspaper organization, 3

_New York Herald_, quoted, 81, 155, 159

_New York Sun_, 116, 201, 204, 225

_New York Times_, quoted, 81, 168, 182, 185, 205

_New York Tribune_, quoted, 176

_New York World_, quoted, 154, 171, 194, 214

Nose for news, 25

Note-book in reporting, 49

Note-taking, 49

Numbers, 271

Obituaries, 157

Office, city, 3, 43

_Omaha News_, quoted, 131-134

O'Malley, F. W., quoted, 225

_Only_, 108

Organization of a newspaper, 3

Organization of stories, 57

Ownership, influence on news, 89

Pagination, 252

Paragraph, the, 97

Paragraph indention, 251

Paragraph marks in copy, 251

Parenthetic expressions, 108

Parentheses, 264

Participles, 102

Pathos in news stories, 31, 151

Period, 259

Personal interests in news, 32

Personals, 206

_Philadelphia Public Ledger_, quoted 177, 201

Photographers, 11

Photographs, 54

Pitkin, W. B., quoted, 27

Places, well known, in news, 31

Plate, stereotyping, 16

Police:

as news gatherers, 34;

blotter, 34;

bulletin board, 35;

headquarters, 34;

news, 34;

reporter, 39

Policies, newspaper, 87

Political news, 89

Presses, printing, 17

Press room, 17

Printing, speed in, 18

Printing presses, 17

Prominent persons, 31, 51, 218

Pronouns, 91, 100

Proof:

correcting, 16;

specimen sheet, 276;

galley, 15;

marks used in correcting, 277

Proof-readers, 15

Proof-readers' marks, 277

Proportion, 111, 129

Punctuation, 256

Queries, 240

Question leads, 79

Questions in interviewing, 47, 50, 127

Quotation-marks, 264

Quotations:

in leads, 80;

verbatim, 136, 142, 264

Receptions, 203

Record-breaking events, 30

Relation words, 91

Release stories, 54

Repetition, 91, 112

Reporters:

duties, 6;

getting news, 42, 127;

requirements of, 25;

suppressing news, 41

Rewrite man, 219

Rewrite stories, 212, 218

Robberies, 149, 162

Rumors, 26, 153

Runs, news, 39

Scoops, 40

Semicolon, 260

Sentences, 72, 95, 99

Sermons, 54, 135

Sheets, 36

Shorthand, 49

Slang, 120, 164

Slips, 35

Slugging a story, 13

Slugs, 14

Society, 199

Society editor, 6, 10, 199

Sources for news, 34, 159, 191, 211, 230, 238

Space order in stories, 60

Speeches, 54, 135

Speed devices, 18

Speed, value in reporting, 57

Spencer, Herbert, 58

Split infinitive, 101

Sporting editor, 8

Sports, 164, 243

State editor, 8

Stereotyping process, 16

Stories:

correspondence, 235;

getting, 42, 127, 159, 191, 211, 230, 238;

starting for, 42

String, correspondent's, 245

Style book, 249

Subjects, shifted, 109

Subordination of clauses, 104

Suicides, 149

Summaries, boxed, 76

Suppression of news, 41, 48

Suspensive leads, 78, 81

Takes, 13, 15, 251

Teas, 202

Technical news stories, 144

Telegraph copy, 8, 239

Telegraph editor, 8

Telegraph news, 239, 244

Telephone, use of, 42, 239

Tennis, 182

Terminology, 278

Testimony, reporting, 145

Timeliness, 28

Time order in stories, 59

Tone, 82, 93

Track meets, 177

Trials, 144

Trite phrases, 119

Typewriter, 250

Underscoring, 253

Under-statement, value of, 87

Unity in sentences, 110

Unity of impression, 82, 93, 232

Unusual, the, value in news, 30

Vagueness of phrasing, 93

Verbs, 101, 103

Verse in leads, 80

_Washington Post_, quoted, 202, 207

Weather stories, 154

Weddings, 201

Witnesses, statements from, 76, 145

Women's clubs, 205, 209

Words, 116

Writing paper, 250

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Transcriber's Note:

Variations in spelling, hyphenation, and spacing in abbreviations

have been retained as they appear in the original publication.

Changes have been made as follows:

Page vi

greath length and to _changed to_

great length and to

Page viii

as schools of law, medicime _changed to_

as schools of law, medicine

Page 46

forget that he is a gentlemen, _changed to_

forget that he is a gentleman,

Page 62

particularly $15 ones, _changed to_

particularly $15 ones.

Page 64

=AERIAL TORPEDO BOAT INVENTED= _changed to_

=AERIAL TORPEDO BOAT INVENTED=

Page 88

therefore, to modify the preceeding _changed to_

therefore, to modify the preceding

Page 147

The defendents--a weird assortment of the _changed to_

The defendants--a weird assortment of the

Page 154

The cause of the explosion in _changed to_

The cause of the explosion is

Page 169

right in front of the plate and Nunamaker _changed to_

right in front of the plate and Nunamacher

Page 172

upon the white furs and the laven-ender _changed to_

upon the white furs and the lavender

Page 175

In big games this in

In big games this is

Page 179

Paul, 32 ft. 3-3/4 in _changed to_

Paul, 32 ft. 3-3/4 in.

Page 180

H. P. Bingham, of the Mayfield club _changed to_

H. P. Bingham, of the Mayfield Club

Page 191

Yamada--9, 2, 1, 45 30, 0, 75, 0, 45, 4, 2, 82, 0,

1, 31, 1, 0, 0, 9, 2 3, 0, 1, 7, 3--347. Average, _changed to_

Yamada--9, 2, 1, 45, 30, 0, 75, 0, 45, 4, 2, 82, 0,

1, 31, 1, 0, 0, 9, 2, 3, 0, 1, 7, 3--347. Average,

Page 194

in the various sections _changed to_

in the various sections.

Page 195

welcome. The Vandervilt, Astor, Waldorf, _changed to_

welcome. The Vanderbilt, Astor, Waldorf,

his twenty-one-year old son _changed to_

his twenty-one-year-old son

Page 215

a box of figs followed the eggs, Taczowski _changed to_

a box of figs followed the eggs, Taczkowski

Page 231

and I'll fi it." ... _changed to_

and I'll fix it." ...

Page 240

killed at six P:M. by automobile _changed to_

killed at six P.M. by automobile

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Among those present were: Allen Rogers of Los _changed to_

Among those present were: Allen Rogers of Las

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and island posessions of the United States _changed to_

and island possessions of the United States

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here to-day a pair of new fur-lined gloves were _changed to_

here to-day a pair of new fur-lined gloves was

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for robbing W. G. Gaede,. 444 West Grand Avenue, _changed to_

for robbing W. G. Gaede, 444 West Grand Avenue,

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They live at 2404 Faraon Street, this city, _changed to_

They live at 2404 Faraon Street, this city.

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this. I am crushed, overwhelmed, drowned, _changed to_

this. I am crushed, overwhelmed, drowned.

This is for you and and father _changed to_

This is for you and father

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make a pilgrimage to Hindsale _changed to_

make a pilgrimage to Hinsdale

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Last Thurdsay evening the people _changed to_

Last Thursday evening the people

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_Kansas City Star_, January 21. 1917. _changed to_

_Kansas City Star_, January 21, 1917.

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is even, now procuring it, as Gemany _changed to_

is even, now procuring it, as Germany

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when there is no game warden in sight. _changed to_

when there is no game warden in sight."