g!*J- . ..—..
JUDGED BY THEIR CLOTHES
Smart Cigar Store Clerk Rtpdy With
Apology That by No Means
Mended Situation.
Herman Fellner tells this story on
himself, according to the New York
correspondent of the Cincinnati Times
Star. He was in Washington on busi
ness recently and met three or four
friends on the street. After a mo
ment's chat he beckoned them to
come with him. "I'm oft the stuff,”
said he, "but I want to buy you each
a cigar."
They happened to be in front of a
combination cigar and news stand at
the moment. Led by Mr. Fellner, they
all trooped in. The clerk hurried to
the cigar case to wait upon them. Be
fore Mr. Fellner could indicate his
wishes the clerk had slapped a box
on the glasB case. "Here y' are,” said
he. "Best dime smoker in town."
Mr. Fellner is sort of fussy about
his smokes. He looked at the cigar
then shoved the box away. "Have
you no other price?” he asked.
The clerk shoved the box in the
case. “Sure thing," said he. "My mis
take and your treat.”
Having pulled off this time-worn
witticism, he addressed Mr. Fellner
confidentially. "Your clothes sort of
fooled me, he. “ You fellers are
a pretty well-dressed lot, you know.”
Then he put another box on the coun
ter. "Here,” said he, “Is the best
nickel smoker in the village.”
ECZEMA DISFIGURED BABY
“Our little boy Gilbert was troubled
■with eczema when but a few weeks
old. His little face was covered with
sores even to back of his ears. Tho
poor little fellow suffered very much.
The sores began as pimples, his little
face was disfigured very much. We
hardly knew what lie looked like. The
face looked like raw meat. We tied
little bags of cloth over his hands to
prevent him from scratching. He was
very restless at night, his little face
itched.
"We consulted two doctors at Chi
cago, where we resided at that time.
After trying all the medicine of the
two doctors without any result, we
read of the Cuticura Remedies, and
at once bought Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. Following the directions
carefully and promptly we saw the
result, and after four weeks, the dear
child’s face was as fine and clean as
any little baby’s face. Kvery one who
saw Gilbert after using the Cuticura
Remedies was surprised. Ho has a
head of hair which is a pride for any
boy of his age, three years. We can
only recommend the Cuticura Reme
dies to everybody.” (Signed) Mrs. H.
Albrecht, Box 883, West Point, Neb.,
Oct. 20, 15)10. Although Cuticura Soap
and Ointment are sold by druggists
and dealers everywhere, a sample of
each, with 32-page book, will bo mailed
free on application to “Cuticura,"
Dept. 14 L, Boston.
Baltirr.ore French.
A Baltimore honlfp.ee tells of a
wniui in thiTt city who lately an
nounced that he had taken up tho
study of the French language.
"Do you fmd It necessary here?”
asked the patron to whom tho man
confided this bit of Information.
“Not here, sir," explained the wait
er; ' bat I've been offered a steady
Job In Paris at one of the hotels If 1
can Para Rrench."
“But Pails Is full of French wait
ers," said the patron, "I’m afraid
you're being deceived.”
. “No, sir," said the man, with much
earnestness and absolute simplicity.
“The proposition's a straight one. Tho
proprietor of the hotel says that tho
waiters he has can't understand
French as we Baltimoreans speak It,
and that’s what he wants me for, you
»ee."—Llpplncott’e.
Modem Methods.
Moliere had written many plays t'j
ridicule doctors and medicine. Louis
XIV. heard that the author had, how
ever, a doctor at his service Blnce he
became famous and well-to-do, so the
king one day called upon Moliere and
said to him:
"I have heard, Moliere, that you
have a physician. What Is he doing
to you?"
“Sire,” answered the author of the
"Malade Imaginaire,” "we chat togeth
er, he writes prescriptions for me, I
dqp’t take them and I am cured!”—
Life.
What! Rub a Kiaa Off?
At the tender age of three mascu
line conceit had gripped that small
boy with a relentless clutch. He had
kissed a little girl of three, and she
was rubbing her lips vigorously.
“You mustn't do that again," said
the boy's mother. "She doesn't like
It Just see how hard she Is trying
to nib your kiss ofT.”
“Oh, no, Bhe ain't,” said the boy.
“She Is trying to rub It in."
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CAJ3TORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and Bee that it
In Use For Over 30 Years.
{Children Cry for Fletcher’s Cast or ia
A woman who beats the street car
tompany oat of a nickel and puts It
h iha church plate may believe In
|te eternal fitness of things.
Dr. Pierce’s. Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Snub-coated, tiny granules, easy to take
Dornot gripe._
The defeated candidate Is surprised
•t the number of misguided men who
Called to vote for him
HIS CHRISTMAS GIFT
FOR HIS BETTER HALF
From the Washington Star.
There was a sly, furtive look In the
man's eye as he entered the vestibule
of his home. Also there was some
thing hangdog and slinking In his
manner.
His wife, of course, noticed these
things at once. She observed when
she kissed him that his lips were hot
and parched. He did not meet her
gaze. There was a distinct veil over
his usually frank and open manner.
His talk, as he hung up his hat and
coat on the hall hatrack, was disjointed,
not to the point, randomllke. He ap
peared to be talking merely for the
sake of making talk, as one converses
with the purpose of covering up some
thing.
This, too, his spouse, of course, no
ticed. She eyed him keenly out of the
corner of her experienced eye. There
was no aroma of drink on his breath.
She had taken pains to ascertain that.
What, then, could it be? She studied
and studied and she continued to ob
serve him sldelongwlse. A married
woman becomes ertremely, almost un
cannily adept in discerning It when her
man has been In some sort of mischief.
Not only that, but she becomes weirdly
skilled In putting her finger, so to
speak, upon the very nature of the
mlschlof.
But this time this wife plainly was
baffled. He continued to avert his gaze
from hers. He looked positively shifty
eyed—something very unusual In him.
Ho did not ask her what there was tor
dinner; a question which she had
learned confidently to expect from him
as soon as he put foot In the vestibule
of evenings.
"Feeling all right, dear?" she asked
him, experimentally.
"Uh-huh," he replied, etarlng oddly
at a little picture that he'd been per
fectly familiar with for at least four
teen years.
"Things go all right at the office to
day?" she Inquired.
"Huh? Office? Things go all right?"
he eald, absently. "What things?
Sure things went all right. Why
wouldn’t they?"
"Oh, nothing,” replied his wife.
She stopped prodding him. Wives
know, with a knowledge based upon In
side experience^ unit the husband with
anything on his mtnd Sooner or later
will blurt out something to give away
the character of the Burden, If lit
alone. The wives hate like fury to wait
for the hour of the blurting opt, be
cause curiosity deterred maketh the
feminine heart sick; but, in a pinch,
they will follow the dope, no matter
how hard It hurts.
As she fussed around, however, she
decided to try another little lead or so,
upon the chance that she might ac
cidentally spring the cause of his dis
quietude.
"The bills were a little heavy this
month, I’ll admit,” she suld, as If
they'd been on that theme.
At first he scarce seemed to have
heard her observation. After a pause,
however, he glanced up at her question
ingly.
runs r un, yes, me onis, ne saia.
"Well, I’m not kicking about the hills,
am 17 Who said anything about bills?
I don’t shriek about bills, do I? I’ll
pay ’em as long as I’ve got the prlco.
Can’t do any better than that, can I?”
Thus driven back, she turned, the
matter oft with what lightness she
could assume. All the same, the under
lying cause of his disquietude, his ab
sorption, his liangdogglness, had be
gun very decidedly to bear upon her,
and for a considerable less sum than
two Blneoln pennies she could and
would have shaken him until his teeth
rattled. But she maintained her ap
pearance and manner of exterior calm.
They shine at this maintaining the ap
pearance stuff.
1 Continuing to observe him out of the
. left-hand corner of her eve, she no
ticed that quite occasionally. If not
; oftener, his right hand would sort of
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The Christmas Goose.
iWhen comes the Yuletlde aeason.
The Christmas goose we sing!
All laden down with Juices brown,
A toothsome offering.
A Christmas goose—some argue—
Is every trusting child.
Who Santa Claus ndores because
His socks with gifts are plied.
A Christmas goose-they’ll tell you—
Well known to all Is be!
Poor patient dad, whoso purse must add
To every charity.
A Christmas goose—not really
Is mother, anxiously
At work with zest, so fearful lest
Forgotten some may be.
The Christmas goose—why, he’s
The biggest goose, I fear,
Who naught will spend upon e friend
! Nor love nor sympathy will lend
1 On the best day of the year.
—May Kelly In Woman's Home Com
panion.
CHRISTMAS PLUM-PUDDING
“Christmas without plum pudding,"
'says Emma Richards In Woman's
1 Home Companion for December,
, "would seem Ulte the play of ‘Ham
’ let' with 'Hamlet left out.’ and while
you can buy a fairly good pudding In
I a tin can, the homemade article gives
fur more satisfaction and a larger
quantity for the same expenditure. A
I young English friend gave me his
i mother's rule some years ago, and I
! havo used It year after year with real
' pleasure, and as It lasts my family
most of the winter, I think It an eco
'• nomica 1 dish. It will require one pound
I of beef suet, one pound of currants,
one pound of Sultana raisins, one
pound of mixed peel (lemon, orange and
citron), one pound of flour, two ounces
of sweet almonds (chopped fine), one
half teaspoonful of mixed spice, one
half a nutmeg, one pound of Bugar,
one small teaspoonful of salt, the rind
and Juice of two lemons, three soda
crackers rolled tine, six eggs and one
I fourth of a teacupful of syrup. Thor
i oughly mix when dry, then wet with
, egg and syrup, and water enough to
make very stiff, then let stand over
night. In tho morning put In bowls,
and cover with cloths, then put In a
kettle of boiling water. Boll It for
eight hours. When wanted for use boll
again or steam until thoroughly heated
1 through. Serve with either hard or
soft sauce or cream. As I own a large
steamer, I usually steam my pudding
Instead of boiling It, and I like It bet
ter that way.”
CHRISTMAS DAY J,N SWEDEN.
From the Wide World Magazine.
I In Sweden, Christmas day begins
' with a picturesque ceremony. There
Is service at the churches at 6 In
the morning, and It Is the custom for
' all classes to attend, rich and poor
alike. As the sun has not risen at
that hour, each person carries a large
lighted torch, and these torches are
thrown down In a heap at the door
of the church, where they form a huge
bonfire. The houses, too, are all Il
luminated with candles. The king
and royal family spend their Christ
mas In precisely the same why as
their subjects, the only deference be
ing that their rejoicing are on a
larger scale. They go to the uhurch
Involuntarily reach up and feel of some
thing that made a slight bulge In the
right-hand Inside breast pocket of Ills
coat. She noticed that when tn,.
caught him at this lie looked hang
doggier than ever, and quickly dropped
the tell-tale hand.
Whereupon a great, glowing light il
lumined her, and she would have laid
as high as 20 to 1, In money, marbles
or chalk, that she knew.
* • •
Suddenly he ran his fingers through
his hair, yawned phonily and said to
her:
"How about the eats? I'm starved.”
"Are you?” she replied, just ordinar
ily like that. “Well, I'll run down to
the basement and hurry Hilda up with
the dinner.”
He watched her ns she traipsed out
of the room and to the basement stairs,
and he listened, with his head chocked
to one side, while she pattered down
the stairs. Then he gazed hurriedly all
around the room, as If seeing some hid
ing place, not for himself, of course, but
for that which made the slight bulge In
the pocket of his coat.
Then, listening again, and even going
to the head of the basement stairs to
assure himself that his spouse still was
downstairs In converse with the maid
of all work, he tripped with the great
est lightness and stealth to the stairs
leading to the second floor, which he
took two at a clip, and going so sllnkly
that he scarcely creaked the stairs as
he went. He did not stop at the second
floor landing, but beat it right up to
the garret, still going with such ease
that he wouldn't have made any sound
had ho been walking on a flock of base
drums instead of stairs.
Reaching the garret, he looked wide
ly and hurriedly uround, like some one
at bay after being pursued. His eye
fell upon an old trunk standing in a
dim corner of the storeroom. He tip
pytoed over to the old trunk, undid
the clasps at the side, found that the
trunk wasn’t locked end raised the lid.
As he did so ba thought ho heard a
creaking on the stairs, and he looked
up guiltily and kept the trunk lid
poised In the air, held by one hand, as
ho listened. Obviously attributing the
creaking sound to imagination, he
thrust the trunk lid back as far as it
would go. Then he burrowed Into the
trunk, which was filled with old papers,
books and the like. He tossed the lit
ter of old stuff to ono side, making a
neat little hole In one of the rear cor
ners of the trunk.
• • •
Then he reached Into hie right-hand
breast poket with a hand that trem
bled visibly, while his breath came
strrtoriously, and he pulled up a small
black leather Jewel case and he Jam
med the Jewel case Into the little hole
that he had made In the back of the
litter of papers and things In the
trunk. As he did so he Imagined he
heard another bunch of creaks on the
stairs, and again he paused and looked
up wildly.
Once again reassured as to the
creaking, he covered over the Jewel
case with the papers, let the trunk Ud
fall gently, put the clasps up again,
and then, standing up and brushing the
dust from his clothes, he tippytoed out
of the storeroom and went down the
stairs to his bedroom on the second
floor, where, flushed but relieved-look
tng, he fixed his necktie and combed
his hair and emitted a phony whistle
to sort of ease his mind. Five minutes
later his wife called un the stairs that
dinner was ready, and when he went
down to dinner his manner was easy
again and all of his hangdogglness had
disa-peared.
But he hadn’t merely Imagined that
creaking on the stairs. Friend wife
had made the creaking. And when he
went to Ills lodge meeting that night
of course she went smack up to the
garret and opened the old trunk and
found the brooch In the Jewel case
which ho foolishly had thought to hide
from her until Christmas.
In the royal park In the early morn
ing. and—after a breakfast of coffee
and cakes at noon—sit down at 3
o'clock to a dinner at which all the
national dishes are Berved. One of
these, lutflsk, is rather formidable; It
consists of salt food slowly simmered
for throe days In lime water, to which
a good handful of wood ashes has been
added, and Is eaten with pepper sauce.
There must also be a ham on the
table, for the pig was sacred to Freya,
the Goddess of Bounty of the old
northern mythology. Grod, or rice
porridge, is eaten as In Denmark, and
the cakes served with It are much the
same as the Danish ones. It Is need
less to say that In palace and hovel
alike—wherever there are children—
there Is suro to be a Christmas tree,
round which the children dance mer
rily.
The Lord of Christmas Week.
From Collier’s.
Men have long dreamed of the perfect
ruler, some happy prince who shall love
his people well, whose leadership shall
be wise, gentle and Just. History is wist
ful with man's effort to find him—the hero,
the strong man. the righteous ruler—and
then to establish him in dominion over
their broken lives and warring wills. Long
ago they found Him. But all who find
Him lose Him. though all have found Him
fair. The eager dream came true, what
time there issued out of Bethlehem the
man of good will, the lover of the race.
Each year, for a handful of days, so brief]
so swift to go, Lord Christ assumes the
leadership. Each year wc give Him Christ
mas week, permitting Ills will to prevail
His brooding spirit to rest upon the na
tions.
Toward that gentle Interlude-the days
of the truce of God—men longingly look
through the tale of the weary months.
And when the brief term Is ended, yearn
ingly our thoughts turn back to that time
when we were good together. His spirit Is
breathed through the pensive season. Ilks
faint musto in the night. Strife, anger,
tumult, and the hurry of the little days
are banished. For our sad mood and lone
ly heart He brings a comfort. To His
loving-kindness we yield ourselves, rs
tired children lay them down to rest. In
His authority we find our peace. A whils
we dwell In that felicity. Touched with
mortality, as is all earthly beauty, the
rapid days glance by, and we have lost
them while the welcome Is still on our lips.
He comes and He passes, because our hos
pitality is short of duration and we are
troubled about many things. IV« crowd
Him out for other guests less radiant. If
His dominion over the hearts of men were
moro than a lovely episode, if He might
but abide, It would be well with us.
Whst He Was Afraid Of.
An Irishman who was to undergo trial
for theft was being comforted by his
priest “Keep up your heart, Dennis, my
boy. Take my word for It, you‘11 get Jus
tice. ''
“Troth, yer reverence," replied Dennis,
in an undertone, “and that's Just what I
am afraid of.”
Need N * Help.
From the St. Paul Press.
A gun Is Invented that will bring down
airships. Ut> to date the aviators have
been able to coma down without u>« aid
of a gun.
A FEDERAL HEALTH BOARD,
It Is gratifying to note that the bi’I
for the creation of a federal health
board will not be allowed to pass with"
out a protest. Reports of organized
rislstance come from all parts of tho
country, and It may be that the oppo>
sltion will soon be sufficiently solidi
fied to defeat a project that promises
Infinite mischief for the community,
and suffering and injustice for the ini
dividual.
The proposal Is based upon those
specious claims that are notoriously
bard to controvert. If a federal health
board were to confine its activities to
the promulgation of salutary advicq
upon hygienic matters, to the abate
ment of quackery, and to the purity of
drugs, it might be possible to say
much In Its favor, although it would
still be difficult to say that such an,
organization Is needed. But we know
that It will attempt to do far more
than this, seeing that Its adherents
have loudly proclaimed their Inten
tions. Indeed, there Is no secrecy
about them. It Is confidently expected
that the board will consist of advo
cates of one school of medicine only
and that the methods of that school
will be not only recommended, bu^
enforced upon the nation. Indeed a
board that was In any way representa
tive of the medical profession as a
whole would be stultified by Its own
disagreements. Outside the domain
of simple hygiene, for which we need
no federal board at all, there is no
single point of medical practice upon
which allopaths, homeopaths, eclectics
and osteopaths could be In unison.
Any board that could be devised by
the wit of man must be composed of
representatives of one school only,
and this means that all other schools
are branded as of an Inferior caste,
even though nothing worse happened
to them. And something worse would
happen to them. If we are to establish
a school of medicine. If we are to as
sert that the government of the Unit
ed States favors one variety of prac
tice more than others, why not estab
lish also a sect ot religion and be
stow special authorities upon Bap
tists, Methodists and Episcopalians?
An established school of religious
conjecture seems somewhat less ob
jectionable than an established sect
of pseudo-sclentlfic conjecture.
Those who suppose that a federal
board of health would have no concern
with individual rights are likely to
find themselves undeceived. It Is for
the purpose of Interfering with indi
vidual rights that the proposal has
been made. We need no special
knowledge of conditions to be aware
that what may be called unorthodox
methods of healing have made sad In
roads into the orthodox. Homeopathy
claims a vast number of adherents
who are just as well educated and Just
as Intelligent as those who adhere to
the older school. Osteopathy, eclecti
cism, and half a dozen other methods
^qf practice are certainly not losing
ground. Beyond them is the vast and
Increasing army of those who may bo
classed tinder the genera! and vague
name of mental healers. Those who
are addicted to any of these forms of
iunorthodoxy need have no doubt as
to the purposes of the federal health
board. Those purposes are to make
It difficult for them to follow their
particular fads and fancies, to lead
them, and If necessary to drive them,
from medical unorthodoxy to medica}
orthodoxy.
Now the Argonaut holds no brief
for any of the excesses and the super
stitions connected with the care of the
body in which this age is so rife. But
it does feel concerned for the preser
vation of human liberty and for thq
rights of the Individual to doctor him
self In any way he pleases so long as
he does not Indubitably threaten tha
beaitb of the community. He may
take large doses or small ones, or no
doses at all; he may be massaged,
anointed with oil, or prayed over, just
as the whim of the moment may dic
tate. and probably It makes no par
ticle of difference which he does. But
he has the right to choose, Just as ha
chooses the color of his necktie or the
character of his underclothing. It lq
not a matter In which any wise gov
ernment will seek to interfere. This
Is precisely the liberty that the health
board Intends to take from him,
Orthodox medicine, conscious of its
losses, Is trying to buttress Itself by
federal statute, to exalt allopathy to
the statUB of a privileged caste, and
to create an established school of
medicine just as some other countriei
have allowed themselves to create an
established school of religion. It la
for the common sense of the commu
nity to rebuke that effort and to re
pel an unwarranted invasion upon ele
mentary human rights.—Son Fran
cisco Argonaut.
CROUP IS A TERROR
But there is a relief so quick, so sure,
so thorough, that you never fear croup
with this remedy at hand. Applied out
side. not inside.
Sedgwick’s Croup Liniment.
All Druggists.
Natural Deduction.
"Papa, are lawyers always bad-tem
pered?"
"No. daughter; why do you ask
that?"
"Because I read so much in the pa
pers about their cross-examinations."
Kindred Spirits.
"Lady," said Plodding Pete. "I aln*
nad a square meal in two days.”
“Well.” said the resolute Woman,
as she turned the dog loose, "neither
has Towser, so I know you’ll excuse
him." _ _
The co-operative system of handling
the apple crop of Nova Scotia has
proved a decided success. The benefit
of co-operative parking consists in a
uniform pack, which secures a reputa
tion fur apples thus put up
M’MANIGAL AFRAID
TO STICKJO CROWD
First Dynamiter to Admit His
Guilt Thought He Would
“ Beat Others to It.”
Los Angeles, Cal.—Ortle E. Mc-i
Manigal was as glib and chipper as
though his one-time friends were not
it all near death or long imprisonment
end as though he himself were free to
do as he pleased.
For more than an hour McManlgal
i hatted with callers. He said he had
not expected the McNamaras would
lidmit their guilt so soon. He also de
ilared that Job B. Harrlman, formerly
a defense attorney and leader of the
locialist ticket in the recent election,
l.new the McNamaras were guilty.
"This confession was something I
didn't expect, at least not at this time,”
paid McManlgal. “I always knew that
J. J. would come through sooner or
later. I figured that when he found
out how cut and dried the case against
Ills brother Jim was, he would plead
Kuilty to save Jim’s life, but I thought
that would come after he had heard
the evidence, or enough of it. Why,
If J. J. had ever seen what Burns
Phowed me in a little back room In
South Chicago, just after they pinched
me, he’d have confessed right where he
Stood. Well, his confession makes the
first sensation, but there’s another and
a bigger one coming. J. J. isn’t the top
of the ladder. There are other men
higher up.”
“You mean that same of the promi
nent labor leaders will be indicted?”
“Well,” continued McManlgal, "be
fore this federal investigation is over
they are going to get some Others. Jim
was my immediate boss, of course, but
J. J. was the works. Jim and I traveled
around together, and Jim used to stop
at my house. He made the first test
of his clockwork device on ihe front
door bell of our house, and after that
he used to sit in our parlor and make
bombs evenings."
Says His Wife Kntw.
"Then your wife knew all the time
what you and Jim were doing?”
"Of course. She knew Jim as J. R
Brice and as Frank Sullivan, and she
knew what we were doing long ago.
That’s all stuff about her saying she
turned against me as soon as she knew
I was guilty. Some one has won he’
over or else she was afraid of wha!
people would think of her if she stuck
by me. She used to get the money,
too, $200 a Job. and put it in the bank.
“Do you think that looks as if she
knew what I was doing, and Jim sit
ting right there In our house making
bombs? And right here I want to say
that Job Harrlman knew the McNa
mara brothers were guilty, as well as
Clarence Darrow did, and I suspect
that Clarence Darrow's employer, Saot
Gompers knew it too. though I can’t
prove that. But I know Harrlman
knew it. When the McNamara defense
brought my wife and children and m?
Uncle George out here to try and win
me over, they and a Mrs. McGuire, q
friend of my wife, all stayed at Job
Harriman’s house.
He Was Badly Shaken.
"My wife knew I was guilty long be
fore I confessed to Burns. She tried
to win me over from turning state’s
evidence by telling me Job Harrlman
had the bag my gun and the clook and
the wire and the other things were In.
I thought they would double-cross me
and I was badly shaken. I have been
double-crossed before. You see when
they got me and Jim we had bag3 with
us and a lot of stuff in them bags was
pretty strong evidence, so I figured that
if this Job Harrlman (McManlgal pro
nounces It Jobb) had my bag, maybe
tho state did not have Buch a atroua
case <?n me as they tried to make out.
Well, I found tho b(tg and all was -In the
vault at the district attorney’s office
and then I knew they had been lying
to me.
“My wife grave me Just 15 minutes to
tell her I'd see Clarence Darrow or to
make up ray mind I’d never see her
and the children again. And I thought
the world and all of those children.
Harrlman didn't have the bag, but I
know my wife had told him what she
knew and she knew all I’d been doing.
"McManlgal, what is the real reason
you confessed and turned up the crowd
you have been running with so long?”
"You mean, why did I confess to the
Burns people? Well, there was the evi
dence they had against me. They had
the real goods on me. But there was a
better reason than that. I had figured
for a long time that I knew too muoh
about J. J. McNamara and the bridge
workers, for I had got several hints
about it. I was like a man walking
with the point of a knife at his back.
A chap in that fix ain’t stopping much.
He has grot to keep moving ahead. So
I kept moving along, and all the time
I was getting surer and surer that
when they wanted to get rid of me they
would find a way.”
“So you thought you would beat
them to It?"
"Sure.”
“You never saw any Indications sug
gesting a slab in the morgue for you,
did you, Mae?”
SlqManlgal Is very fond of being
called Mae. That Is his favorite name
about the district attorney's office.
Th* "Trick" at Detroit.
“Well, I ain’t so sure that I ain’t,” he
answered slowly. Yon know they
pinched me just before I was going to
turn that trick at Detroit. There was
four explosion In that Job, four real
ones and one fake one, just to throw
a score Into one of the big men to the
erectors’ association. All the real ones
were going to be shop jobs. There was
tp ho one to the shops of the Detroit
Bridge and Iron Works company, one
to the Russell Wheel Foundry, one to
the American Bridge company and one
to th® Whitehead and Kale shops.
“J. B. said to me before we set out.
■after this work Is over we will go up
to Conover In the woods and stay therh
a while hunting. I’ll leave you tip there
and come back and pay the money to
your wife/ 1 said, guess I ain't so
strong for going into thdse woods up
there at Oonover. I mightn't come out
again. Ho, when you go back I'll go
back, too.’
“ ’It would be a damn good place to
get rid of a man,’ says Jim, kind of
absent mlndedly. ’You know there are
other fellows they are still looking for
and haven’t found yet, fellers that
knew too much. I figure that they will
fish two or three of them out of the
creeks or the bottom of some well some
day. but they won’t be telling much
then.’ ”
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Lady—Why—er—I’Ve only got
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He Knew Her Well.
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