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SYNOPSIS.
In the time of Queen Anne, Lady Pru
dence Brook, widowed at 16 and still a
widow at two and twenty, while Journey
ing In a coach to London with her cousin
Peggy, is accosted by a highwayman who,
however, takes nothing from her except a
kiss.
The two girls live with their grand
mother, Lady Drumloch, who, despite her
reduced circumstances, maintains a gay
■octal position in the court circle.
Prue Is small, gay, delightful, daring, ex
travagant. and always In debt.
!T She Is perpetually pursued by creditors
and just now Is In deep water for want or
a few guineas with which to buy, a new
gown by whose aid she hopes to win back
the queen’s favor, very reoently lost Dy
one of her mad pranks.
She decides to visit Aaron's, a notorious
money lender, and asks him to take care
of her debts on the strength of her ap
proaching marriage to Sir Geoffrey Beau
desert.
Aaron informs her, however, that Beau
desert is himself head over heels in debt
and while Prue is still In his office air
Geoffrey arrives.
Prue at once secrets herself In a closet
and to her astonishment overhears Sir
Geoffrey ask for advances of money, also
on the strength of their engagement.
Prue reads in a paper an account of the
trial and sentence of Robin Freemantle,
the highwayman who had kissed her on
the moors, and that he is to be hanged at
Tyburn the following Monday.
CHAPTER XV—(Continued.)
“What fun It would be!” she cried,
with reckless gaiety, “if you were to
stay until midnight and unmask with
the rest! 1 wonder if any one would
recognize you.”
“If the experiment will amuse you,
I will stay and try it,” said Robin tran
quilly.
, Her own voice dropped almost to a
whisper. "To amuse me?” she mur
mured. “What do you suppose would
happen?"
"Probably nothing at all; I am not
so well known. At the worst, they
would merely arrest me," he said.
“Merely arrest you! and send you
back to—prison, I suppose.”
“Why, ’tis likely; and then, in a few
days, you would be free—to marry
some one you love.”
"I have had enough of marrying,” she
said petulantly. “Besides, had I loved
one man, I would not have married an
other, even in jest.”
“Even in jest,” he repeated. “Well,
have a little patience and you may
laugh as heartily as you please at this
merry jest. When you are free, will
you—” he hesitated—"I owe you a
chance to make a better use of your
freedom next time, yet it irks me to
think that you will very likely throw it
away again upon one who is not wor
thy of you.”
• “Do you mean Sir Geoffrey Beaude
sert?” she said. “Do not fear, I shall
never marry him."
“You will not?” he exclaimed eager
ly. "You do not love him? Oh! you
give me new life; I care little what toe
comes of me, if I am sure you will not
marry Sir Geoffrey Beaudesert.”
“Hush-sh," sht* w hispered, peering
round in the dim twilight of their re
treat; “I thought I heard a movement;
suppose any one had overheard you!”
He clapped his hand on his sword,
but everything was still except the dis
tant music and the approaching voices
of another pair in search of solitude.
“Let us go." said Prue, rising in a
tremor and adjusting her mask. "I
would not, for the world, have anything
happen to you, and I fear you are not
safe here; we have been incautious—
prithee, begone from this house—”
"Do not be uneasy, dear Lady Pru
Y -dence; I am safe here," said Robin, de
vTl vouring her with his eyes. "I may nev
er see you again; do not banish me—”
“Never see me again?” she inter
rupted. “Why not? I am sure you are
in some danger you will not tell me of,
else why should I never see you again?”
“Would you care if you did not see
me again?”—he was beginning, in a
passionate whisper, when Peggie, re
leased from her sheepskin and
clad in somewhat scanty drapery in
tended to represent springtime, pounced
upon them, delighted with the semi
nudity that displayed her charmig
form, while the mask concealed her
plain face.
“Have I been away long enough?’
she cried, saucily. “Have you had
plenty of time to quarrel and make
love? Come, Prue; 11 o’clock has
struck, and we shall scarcely be in
time for a country dance before we un
mask. Hasten!
She was drawing Prue after her by
one hand, but she hung back, extending
the other to Robin, who stood irreso
lute, longing to follow, yet not ventur
ing. unbidden.
"Farewell,” she said, in a thrilling
voice. “Prithree, do not linger.”
He pressed a kiss on her finer tips
and was still looking after her with his
heart in his eyes, when a hand brushed
his arm with a peculiar touch, and
turning with his wandering senses
Buddenly on the alert, he saw a figure
in a monk’s habit, strolling slowly to
ward the most crowded card room. He
followed and soon caught up with him.
"Your dtess is too conspicuous,” said
the monk, in a harsh whisper. “There
is work to be done, instantly, and your
dress unfits you for it.”
“Show me the work,” said Robin, ap
parently greatly interested in two play
ers who were throwing dice for high
stakes.
“I expected to find you at your post,
and after a long search, where do I
discover you? You, of all men—at the
feet of the most heartless little Jezebel
in London.” said the monk, with bit
terness.
Robin laughed silently. “Have you
also been under her feet?” he asked.
“Well, if it were anyone else, I would
kill him for such a calumny upon the
most virtuous and adorable lady in the
world; but I cannot spare you, so give
me your news.”
“The papers stolen from a certain
general are here, in the possession of a
man who does not know their import
ance, but only that Madame Sarah will
pay handsomely for them. Not being
able to obtain audience of her, he is
now leaving the house.”
“Why do you make such a long story
of it?" said Robin, impatiently. "De
scribe him to me, and I will see to the
rest.”
“There is no hurry; he has a sweet
heart among the maids and will be
some time about his adleux. I will
show him to you, but you must get rid
of that scarlet affair; what have you
underneath? Oh! that is still worse;
satin and velvet and diamonds! Why
couldn’t you come quietly dressed, like
the rest of u«?"
Robin blushed under hl3 mask, for
he knew very well that If Prue had not
been among the guests, the monk’s
frock or the student’s cap and gown
would have been fine enough for his
purpose.
"Never mind my dress," he said,
shortly. “You can lend me your frock
and if you have no further business
here, you can do me a service.”
As they went out together, Robin
explained to his friend the manner in
which he had obtained a domino and an
invitation, and, incidentally, the pre
dicament of Lord Beachcombe. To
gether they sought and found his car
riage at a place previously arranged
for, and within it the exchange of gar
ments was effected.
"Now go to the house by the river
side, where you will find Lord Beach
combe tied hand and foot in the dark
in the guard room, and his lackeys un
der similar conditions in another room.
Steve Larkyn is in charge of them. Re
store the mask and domino to Lord
Beachcombe, return him and his var
lets to the carriage, blindfolded, and
when you have taken them a safe dis
tance from Essex street, set them free
to go their way to the ball or to the
devil, whichever pleases them.”
The carriage drove away and Robin,
completely concealed under the monk’s
gown, made his way back to the house.
Not, however, through the brilliantly
lighted main entrance, but this time by
a side door that led to the servants’
quarters.
CHAPTER XVL
AT THE UNMASKING.
When Prue and Robin had left the
<®nservatory a sufficiently long time to
insure their return to the ball room,
out from behind a clump of plants
slipped Sir Geoffrey Beaudesert. Ob
serving her exit from the ball room with
a tall and conspicuously habited masker
he had followed with the intention of
interrupting a tete-a-tete and fore
stalling one of Prue’s little flirtations
that, however harmless in themselves,
were dangerous, as he knew by experi
ence, to anterior claims.
When he found that, avoiding the
well lighted rooms, Prue guided her
companion to an out of the way re
treat, where it was unlikely that they
would be disturbed by anyone less fa
miliar with the house than herself, his
annoyance increased, and with it his
anxiety to know who the favored swain
might be, and when Peggie, with the
good natured intention of giving Robin
an opportunity, left them to rid herself
of her sheepskin, the green eyed mon
ster took complete possession of Sir
Geoffrey and prompted a baseness of
which, a moment before, he would have
blushed to think himself capable.
The only available concealment
was at such a distance that at
first nothig reached him but the
murmur of voices. Pie could see that
Prue stretched out her hands to hef
companion, and that he kissed them
with ardor, but until his own name
was mentioned, he heard nothing but a
disjointed word here and there. Then,
w ith ears preternaturally sharpened by
something even more poignant than
jealousy, he overheard Prue’s repudia
tion of himself and her companion’s
expression of relief and gratitude for
the same.
it was fortunate, perhaps, that the
colloquy was so soon brought to an
end by Peggie’s eagerness to carry her
cousin off to the ball room, whither Sir
Geoffrey followed as quickly as he
deemed wise, only to find Prue already
standing up in a country-dance, and
the tall masker ip scarlet missing. He
hunted everywhere for him, but in
vain, and finally withdrew to one of
the card rooms, where he played with
a marked absence of his usual skill,
and also of the luck for which he was
proverbial.
At midnight a flourish of trumpets
announced that the moment for un
masking had arrived. The dancers
formed a double iine and marched past
the dais, each couple unmasking as
they saluted the duchess and her roval
guest. Following them came an almost
interminable procession of the beauty,
talent and rank of the country, and
among the very last of these. Sir Geo
ffrey’s search was rewarded. The tall
figure in its scarlet draper;- suddenly
appeared, he knew not whence. anil
within a few feet of him, doffed domino
and mask and revealed the familiar but
unlooked-for person of Lord Beach
combe.
Instantly there flashed into Sir Geo
ffrey’s mind an explanation of the
words he had overheard, which roused
him to an almost uncontrollable fury.
This man, once his rival, was still In
love with Prue, and after goading him
into a monstrous wager about her, had
exerted some infernal arts or argu
ments to induce her to play the jilt
once more and thus rob him, at one
stroke, of his bride and his money.
“Oh!” he muttered, with Intense bit
terness, “such a trick is worthy of a
man who would not pay his own sis
ter’s dowry, until he was sued for it!
He shall answer for this treachery
with his heart’s best blood, and as for
her—" His look boded ill for the fu
ture of the capricious beauty toward
whom his feeling just then was less
like love than hate. He was forced
into self-control, however, by the re
flection that to provoke a meeting on
this issue would place him in a more
than equivocal position and that it
would be necessary to And some other
cause of quarrel.
Beachccmbe, meanwhile, unconscious
of what had happened under shelter
of his disguise, saluted his hostess and
his sovereign and passed on with a
bland exterior and a temper in a
highly inflammable state.
Sir Geoffrey lost no time in throw
ing himself in Beachcombe’s way. They
exchanged greetings and then, “How
goes the courting?’’ asked my lord.
“How is it you are not in attendance
on the fair widow?”
Sir Geoffrey's fury choked him. Was
ever such impudence as this scoun
drel’s?
"Do you require an explanation on
the subject?” he said, between his
clenched teeth.
“Far from it,” retorted Beachcombe,
with a jeering laugh. "It will be quite
enough for me to know that she has
Jilted you; I care nothing for the de
tails. Still, if I were you, I would not
carry my willow quite so openly."
“No doubt your lordship regards It a3
quite, permissible to prejudice the Vis
countess Brooke against a suitor who
has a wager with you. dependent on
her favor,” sneered Beaudesert.
“I hardly fancy it would be diplo
matic,” drawled the other, r.ot having
the clew to Sir Geoffrey’s meaning,
and relishing his peevishness as evi
dence of defeat. "As the lady has
probably never pardoned my speedy
consolation. ’ doubt not that anything
I might say against you would only
drive her Into your arms. This Is thq
first time I have seen the Lady Pru
dence since Her Majesty requested her
to retire from the court a year ago.
She appears to me even more beauti
ful and vivacious than formerly. I
must endeavor to make my peace with
her: one can not afford to be at odds
with so bewitching a creature, especi
ally if she is to be attached to the
queen’s household again, where we
shall be obliged to meet constantly."
Sir Geoffrey was so duml'ounded by
what he took to be the earl’s audacity
and dissimulation, that he fell back
and allowed him to follow In the wake
of the subject of their conversation. It
was but a small consolation to him that
Prue was in his power through het
rash marriage: she had already shown
him that she considered him particeps
criminis. if she did not go so far as
to lay the blame on his shoulders. It
was plain to him that Beachcombe
would give him no opening for a quar
rel about her and that he would have
to find some other cause for the duel
he was determined to force upon him,
but that gave him no uneasiness. At
that period dueling, though nominally
unlawful, was a highly popular means
of settling any and "every difference
between gentlemen, and love, cards,
etiquette, family jars, political opin
ions and a host of more or less trivial
causes gave plausible excuse for the
indulgence of personal hatred. Sir
Geoffrey was a dead shot and a fairly
skilled swordsman, and had come off
scathless in encounters with far more
formidable antagonists 'than this young
lordllng, whose prowess was still un
tried and whose reputation for courage
or any other lofty quality was yet to
make.
With a wager of five thousand
guineas contingent upon Prue’s fidelity
to him, Sir Geoffrey was not prepared
to be overnlce about the pretext that
would put such an antagonist hors de
combat for a few weeks.
While he was turning over In his
mind a variety of baits by which he
might draw Beachcombe into a quar
rel, the latter pursued his way through
the crowd, exchanging greetings and
receiving congratulations upon the ad
vent of his son and heir, and at last
reached Prudence. It was no very easy
task to edge his way through the
throng of her admirers, nor had he
any special reason to felicitate him
self upon his success when he had
gained it. He came up, bowing low,
with his hand upon his breast, pour
ing out the customary stream of high
flown compliments and asseverations
that the sun, moon and stars had re
fused their light since her eyes, the
brightest of all luminaries, had been
withdrawn from the firmament!
Prue regarded him with one of her
most beaming smiles.
” ‘And pray, sir, when came you from
hell?
Our friends there—did you leave them
well?' ”
she inquired, with an air of flattering
interest.
In the midst of the laughter that
greeted this sally, Peggie was heard tq
exclaim, in a voice of mock-horror,
“Prue! how shocking!”
“My dear, you must blame Mr. Prior,
not me, if you object to the quotation,”
said Prue demurely.
"Maybe,” retorted Peggie; “but in
conversation one can not see the in
verted commas, and you know Lord
Beachcombe does not read poetry.”
"True, I apologize," said Prue. and
turning again to her former suitor, she
dropped a deepcurtesy. "How is it,
Lord Beachcombe that we have not
seen you earlier?” she asked gracious
ly. "When did you arrive from—
home? and did you leave her ladyship
and the baby well?”
The laugh that followed tHis was
utterly incomprehensible to the proud
father, who replied with urbanity,
feeling that Prue showed great self
denial in making these inquries so
publicly and exposing herself to the
hilarity of those who could not fall
to remember how she had forfeited
the proud position of wife to the pres
ent and mother of the future Earl of
Beachcombe. He felt quite sorry for
the regret and mortification she must
be suffering and was inclined to con
cede that the punishment was over
harsh for the frailty of a creature so
winsome.
He offered his hand to lead her into
the supper-room and the magnetic
thrill of her touch sent the blood surg
ing through his veins in the old ac
customed way—he looked down into
the sparkling depths of her lovely eves
ana straightway forgot—everything
that he ought to have remembered. It
needed but the gloomy frown of Sir
Geoffrey Beaudesert to incite him to
Offer the most effusive attentions and
Prue to permit, if not actually en
courage them, until wearying of a pas
time that had nothing to recommend
It but its folly, she turned the battery
of her fascinations in another direc
tion.
(Continued Next Week.)
FIRE GOES TO ENGINE
HOUSE TO BE PUT OUT
Cincinnati—Cincinnati firemen re
cently were asked to fight one of the
most novel fires In the history of the
local department. And they did not
have to go after this fire; It went to
them.
A trainload of merchandise on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad was set on
fire by sparks from a passing locomo
tive. The cut of cars was standing on
a siding.
Immediately a call was made to the
roundhouse for an engine. When It ar
rived the cars seemed doomed. There
was no possible chance of getting a line
of hose to the fire.
The engineer and fireman of the lo
comotive studied the situation a few
moments and then made a hurried half
mile run to the nearest fire house,
where they got the aid of the fire com
pany and extinguished the flatnes.
A Level-Headed Parson.
From Norman E. Mack’s National
Monthly.
Just before the collection was taken
• up one Sunday morning, a negro
clergyman announced that he regret
ted to state that a certain brother had
forgotten to lock the door of his
chicken house the night before, and as
a result in the morning he found that
most of the fowls had disappeared.
“I doan’ want to be pussonal,
bredr'n,” he added, “but I hab my
s’piclonsas to who stole dem chickens.
I also hav reason fo' b'llevin’ dat If
I am right In dose s'plcions dat pus
son won't put any money in de plate
which will now be passed.”
The result was a fine collection, not
a single member of the congregation
feigning sleep. After it was counted
the old parson came forward.
"Now, bredr’n,” he said. "I doan’
want your dinners to be spoilt by won
dering where dat brudder Uvea who
doan' lock his chickens up at night.
Dat brudder doan exist, mail friends
He was a parable gotten up to' purpose
of finances ”
An Explanation.
From Harper's Weekly.
The two friends were exchanging
confidences.
"What ever Induced you to accept
Toady Johnson, Mabel?" said Annette
"Oh—why—well." said Mabel, "you
sec Toady put his—his arm around uv
waist, and, to tel! the truth, 1 yteL’.e
under pressure."
TURKISH TERMS ARE
HELD UNREASONABLE
Balkan Allies Refuse to Con
sider Offer and Peace Dele
gates Recess.
London, Dec. 30.—"These terms do
not form even the basis for negotia
tions," was the unanimous outcry of
the peace envoys of the allied Balkan
nations Saturday after Reshad Pasha,
the chief Turkish delegates, had real
the reply he had received from Con
stantinople to his request for Instruc
tion.
What Turks Offer.
The proposals presented by the Otto
man delegates were:
"First—The province of Adrlanople
to remain under the direct administra
tion of Turkey.
"Second—Macedonia to be converted
into a principality with Salonikl as
its capital. The principality to be un
der the suzerainty of the sultan of Tur
key. but governed by a prince chosen
by the Ualkan allies and nominated by
the sultan of Turkey. This prince to
be a Protestant and ffom a neutral
state.
"Third—Albania to be autonomous
under the sovereignty of the eultan
and governed by a prince of the im
perial Ottoman family, who Is to be
chosen for a term of flve years, with
the possibility of a renewal of his ap
pointment.
“Fourth—All the Islands of ths
Aegean sea to remain Turkish.
"Fifth—The Cretan question not to
be one for the decision of the confer
ence, as It Is a matter between Tur
key and the great European powers."
The sitting of the conference today
assumed a quite different aspect from
that of its last meeting at which the
Servian envoy read the terms offered
by the allies.
They Call It Mockery.
Today, even while Rechad Pasha was
engaged In reading the Turkish propo
sitions, the Balkan delegates could not
refrain from manifesting their aston
ishment and Indignation by means of
gestures and expressive exclamations.
"Why did we tight, then?”
"What Is the return for our vic
tories ?”
"Doesn’t the blood shed by 100,000
glorious victims deserve some other
reward ?”
“It Is a mockery and not a serious
conference!” were some of the sharp
ejaculations which crossed the picture
gallery In St. James palace.
After the conference had decided to
adjourn until Monday the conversa
tion became even more-animated.
Turks Seem Pleased.
Rechad Pasha was the only calm
person present. With his right hand
in his trouser pocket and hia left hand
caressing his beard as though hiding
a smile, he stood without uttering a
word.
Today’s meeting, which might ap
pear to superficial observers to be
bordering on a rupture, must, accord
ing to qualified opinions, be Interpreted
otherwise. Both sides, It Is pointed out,
have now laid down their maximum
aspirations and neither of them ex
pects to see the maximum demands
realized.
The delegates of Bulgaria, Greece,
Montenegro, Servia and Turkey gath
ered at 11 o'clock. It was the turn of
the Turks to preside and Rechad
Pasha took the chair.
FEWER CATTLE RUT
PRICE WAS GREATER
Chicago Stock Yards Report
Shows Big Slump In Re
ceipts for Year.
Chicago, Dec. 30.—Fewer cattle by
281.298 have been received at the Chi
cago stock ya. ds this year than In 1911,
according to figures announced last
night. Despite this fact, (nore money
was paid for beef during 1912 than in
1911 by $3,282,735. The total paid out
this year was $183,488,909.
Three reasons are given for the In
creased price of beef. The western
states did not raise as many cattle as
usual, owing to droughts, many farm
ers are turning their pastures into
wheat fields and the demand has In
creased. It was explained that the
population In the United States has In
creased in the last 20 years 20 per
cent, while the increase In cattle pro
duction has been only 8 per cent.
Beef exports fell oft this week, ow
ing to the big home demand.
CITIES WANT RIGHT
TO CONTROL SERVICE
Springfield. 111.. Pec. 30.—Favoring
the establishment of a public utilities
commission, but opposing giving it
power to control the service • or rates
of any public utility, unless invited
so to do by the city interested, the
convention of representatives of cities
having the commission form of gov
ernment in Illinois went on record to
day by a vote of 18 to 6, as being in
favor af home rule for cities in the
matter of public utilities.
Resolutions were also passed favor
ing legislation grnntlng cities the right
to purchase and operate public utili
ties; favoring a uniform system of
accounting of the books of citieH and
favoring also a law increasing the
power to raise funds for municipal im
provements.
WILSON INAUGURAL TO
BE BRILLIANT AFFAIR
Washington, Dec. 30.—Major General
Leonard Wood, chief of staff, who has
just been named as chief marshal of
the approaching inauguration parade,
has begun to outline his plans for a
military, /naval cmd civic demonstra
tion.
General Wood's purpose is to make
the Wilson Inauguration parade as well
balanced as possible in the matter of
the representation of the cavalry, in
fantry and artillery of the army, the
blue Jackets and marines of the navy,
an adequate and liberal representation
of the national guard and a well pro
portioned civic display.
ENGLISH AVIATOR IS
DASHED TO HIS DEATH
London. Dec. 30.—Edward Petrea. a
well-known English aviator, was killed
today near Redcar while undertaking a
flight from the Hrooklands aerodrome
to Edinburgh. He intended to cover
the distance without stopping. His
monoplane ran into a heavy gale on
tlie way and his machine was dashed
to earth. The motor fell on Petrea,
killing him instantly. He narrowly
escaped death near Aldershot on Ucta
bar 24.
¥ ■ \ v, *
EBERHART TO ASK
MANY STATE LAWS
Governor Wants “Blue Sky,”
Public Domain and Other
Measures Passed.
Minneapolis, Dec. 30,—Qov. A. O.
Eberhart announced Saturday that In
his message to the 1913 legislature he
will recommend the following meas
ures : '
The creation of a state land depart
ment to be supervised by a commis
sioner of the public domain.
The creation of a department of ag
riculture to co-operate with the state
college of agriculture In disseminating
Information among the farmers of the
state.
Congressional and legislative reap
portlonment.
Presidential preference primaries.
The creation of a state public utilities
commission to have supervision over
all public utility corporations not now
under the supervision of the state rail
road and warehouse commission.
A law which will enable the state
to control the Issuance and sale of all
stocks, bonds or other securities, this
law designed to prevent the sale of
"blue sky" securities.
A workingmen's compensation and
employers' liability act.
Stricter regulation of woman and
child labor.
The extension of agricultural and In
dustrial training In the schools of the
state and the establishment of social
centers.
The Improvement of state highways.
Reform In judicial procedure and
legislation uniform with that adopted
In other states on marriage, divorce
and other subjects.
Measures designed to prevent crime
by removing the causes.
More stringent public health mea
sures and increased vigor in the fight
against tuberculosis.
Laws encouraging publicity and de
velopment work for the state.
EXPLORERS START
TRIP UP AMAZON
Expedition Will Penetrate the
Wilds of South America and
Study the Cannibals.
New York, Dec. SO.—An expedition to
explore the upper water of the Amazon
and the regions Inhabited by the can
nibals In the foothills of the Andes,
starts today with the departure of A.
Lange, a young American explorer,
and Admiral Jose E. Carvalho, of the
Brazilian navy, for Para, where they
will take the special expedition yacht
Pennsylvania for the cruise. They
will be joined at Para by Dr. Franklyn
Church, of Johns-Hopklns university,
the biologist of the expedition, and
Capt. J. H. Rowan, a former com
mander of the United States navy, and
Sandy McNab, former chief of flollce
of Frankfort. S. D., who explored the
Amazon with Dr. Lange on a previous
trip.
The University of Pennsylvania Is
backing the expedition with a fund of
about $100,000. The hope of the Bra
zilian admiral Is to explore the upper
tributaries of the Amazon, some 600
In all, and to open this great country
to commerce. The scientists In ths
expedition will collect specimens of
birds, mammals, flora and minerals and
make an effort to determine the origin
of some of the tribes of the cannibal
Indians.
It will be three years before the ex
plorers return and during most of their
absence they will be completely out of
touch with civilization.
WOULD PLACE*STREET
LIGHTS ON BUILDINGS
New York, Dec. 30.—Abolition of
street lamps and the substitution of
street lights on buildings is the novel
proposition which the executive com
mittee of the Broadway association is
considering in Its scheme to make
Broadway ‘‘the best lighted thorough
fare in the world.”
The Incumbrance of lamp posts and
the shadows which they cause are re
sponsible for the movement for bracket
lamps, the cost of which owners of
Broadway property are to be asked to
help meet for the sake of the Im
provement. It Is proposed to have the
new lights every 20 or 30 feet. While
much of Broadway la already known
as the "great white way,” there are
many stretches of the thoroughfare
which are poorly lighted.
OLD LANDMARK WILL
BE TORN DOWN SOON
New York. Deo. 30—Like so many
old teeth New York Is pulling out one
by one most of the few old land marks'
that are left among the newer build
ings. The passing of the old arap||
vine, a little gable roofed ale house,'1
Sixth avenue and Eleventh street,
announced for the new year, to £
place to a modern structure for
purposes. Alex McClelland, a Scot^J*
has preclded over Its musty ale_
mutton pie for 40 years, Is golni"
retirement. The old two-story
house has many traditions and^ ■■
time It has been vis^" if1 by ma" ^
tlnguished persons .r' I 'ast. ,
ale will be served 4 \QO£S itl
the old year passes
PARCELS PQST]?Per °et
v.», S and E
eggs and country but' -
the farm to the houscf/f CtlSCOl
post to reach half a r, » — •
New York and its envi/ZffJ BOY ,
newest plan announce m
Julian Heath, preside’”.. ““
Housewives’ league. _i ,
her plan will become t jtICIIgS I
extent on January 1,
are opened to parcels pot - **
Registery bureaus for 1 SOTS dS
be opened next Wednesday ir. • .
cipal cities of the country, |
declared. ,
TWO PLEAD GUILTY 77
TO JEWELRY Ul
St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 30O|/ff#
Kaufman. 19 years old, and !t“*****
Ellis, 23 years old, whose husjd fit«
in Colorado, pleaded guilty* ***4,‘
larceny before Judge Orr Iro4e Y
trlct court toaay and were 1»*4» w
pended sentences.
The couple were arrested 1
last week on a warrant swo
the boy’s father, C. K. Kaufm^^^a^g
tary and treasurer of the
Jewelry company, charglng^MB^^*
of Jewelry from the com par
WIFE ADMITS HIRING
HER HUSBAND KILLED
Georgia Planter’s Wife Con
fesses Following Admission
of King’s Slayer.
Macon, Ga.. Dec. 30.—Mrs. James
King, widow of a Hound Qak, Ga..
planter, who was killed near here, con
fessed last night that she plotted with
Nicholas Wilburn, a farmer, to slay
her husband so that she might marry
Wilburn and get *2,000 life Insurance
carried by her husband.
Mrs. King was arrested after Wil
burn had confessed to the police that
he shot and killed King because Mrs.
King offered him *600 to commit the
crime and promised to marry him.
In her confession Mrs. King declared
that if it had not been for the *2.000
insurance policy she never would have
planned to kill her husband.
King was shot December 12. while
hunting. Investigation led to the ar
rest of Wilburn and a negro. James
Harber. who the police say has stated
that Wilburn told him ne was going
to kill King. Mrs. King is 35 years old
and Wilburn is 25.
In his confession to the police Wil
burn is quoted as saying:
"Mrs. King had offered me *600 to
kill her husband. She said she wanted
to get rid of him and promised to
marry me if I killed him. He had *2,000
life insurance.
"On December 12 I was passing th®
King home. She called to me and told
me that King had gone hunting and for
me to shoot him. I followed him and
when he stopped to rest I sneaked up
behind him. grabbed his gun and shot
him. He begged me not to shoot hi*n
any more. Just then he felt over.
‘‘I put his gun in his hand and ar
ranged the body so as to make it look
like he had shot himself, and then went
back to the house and told Mrs. King
what I had done. She said I waa a.
good boy and she thought a lot of me."
Mrs. King is the mother of six chil
dren. Her oldest daughter married *
brother of Wilburn.
UN STATES FAR
ND IN AVIATION
France, Germany, Russia, Eng
land, Italy and Japan All
Lead Uncle Sam.
Washington, Dec. 30.—The United'
States, home of the first heavier than
air flying machine, Is far behind other
nations in military aviation. This Is
the assertion of Captain Washington t
Chambers. U. S. N., chief of the navy’g
aviation corps, an expert who la de
voting his entire time to the science
he says:
"France leads the world In aviation
and all that she does Is worth nothing.
A short time ago, in response to an In
quiry by the minister of war over 3,000
officers signified their desire to learn
aerial navigation. Germany leads in
aerostation, but Is making great pro
gress in aviation also.
"France haa eight dirigibles, Ger
many 30. The number of aeroplanes
actually possessed by each Is a rapidly
Increasing quantity, but France prob*
ably will possess about 350 before tip
end of the year, the ultimate aim belifir
to have 1,000 as soon as. the requisite
number of pilots can be taught to us®
them.
“It Is significant of German foresight
that one of the first steps undertaken
when It was decided to construct a
large aeroplane fleet was to found an
aerodynamic laboratory. This is at
Gottingen, where the best known
course of instruction in aeronautics la
ably conducted by Professor Prandtl.”
France leads with a total app> "’ ■te*
tion of *6,400,000 to date an<D v
ular subscription of *1,000,Qm ^B \
many is second with a total jS>
tlon of *1,500,000 and a p ^B
scriptlon of *750,000. Nex' JE
sia. Great Britain, Ital> ifEi
then the United States* ^B
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