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-4 a. 10 TTTE BEE: OMAITA. SATTTRTfAY, 'ATTtW EI, EIGHTY WILUET DIPLOMAS Commencement Exercises for Creigh ton Classes Saturday Night. FOETY-THE.EE ABE DOCTORS Majnrlty of Prafeealoaal tirades tea Take I Medicine Dea- tala Baneaet at Hea ahaw "atarday. Commencement week for professional graduates of Crelghton university goes merrily on. The alumni associations of the departments of law and medicine held their annual banquet Friday night. The banquet of dental graduates will fee held Saturday night after the graduating exercises. It Is to be held at the Henshaw In connection with the. annual class day exercises. Tha graduation exercises proper of the class of 'It are to be held at the Brandels theater Saturday night, when eighty pro fessional men and women will receive their diplomas. Forty-three of these will carry away M. D.'s. Nine lawyers and elRheen dentists complete tha class. One of the dental graduates and five of the medical graduates are girls. PAUL 1 MARTIX KADIS DEAIf Ttaif Man Will Ilea Faeally of Crelghton I. aw School. Paul L. Martin, who for some time past has been the practical head of the Crelgh ton Law school as manager, will head the faculty as dean at tha opening of the fall term. Ha will occupy the plaoa of T. J. Mahoney, whose resignation takes effect at the close of the school year. Mr. Mahoney taught two hours a week for school since Its founding In 1904. when six students organized to form the first law class. Ilnce then the Edward Crelghton In stitute bas been built, and the student body now numbers over ninety. Mr. Mahoney taugbtwo hours a week for a number of years, but with the growth of tha school, his private practice has de manded that ha share tha work with C. J. Smyth, formerly attorney general, who has been associate dean. Paul I Martin Is a graduate of Crelgh ton university. He took his law course at Harvard, and a degree of L U B. at Cam bridge: also a degree of A. M. later at Crelghton. Ha came to tha school In 1906, and has since occupied the position of sec retary, general Instructor and manager.. Much credit has been given him for the building up of tha school. Ha U only 28 years of age, and It It said, will be the youngest dean In the United States. LOOKS RIGHT TO PAPER Defense of Trading- Stamp by Building Trades Journal. PEEVCIPLE HAILED AS THE BEST MEDICAL GRADUATES GATHER Boataess Meeting; and Baaasiet Held at the Henshaw. ' With a banquet fur 185 guests. Including forty-five members of the class of 1911, the Crelghton Medical Alumni association concluded the exercises of Its annual meet ing last night at the Henshaw. Imme diately preceding the banquet a business meeting was held, at whloh the election of officers to serve for tha coming year took place. Dr. Oustavus Hahn was looted president, with Dr. Rudolph Rlx as secretary-treasurer. A feature of the meeting was the presentation of a beautl- ful office chair to Dr. Rlx, who has held the office of secretary-treasurer for eleven years. Tha banquet was held In the rathskeller and tha classes of the different years oc cupied separata tables. Tha oldest class represented was that .of 1SU6, of which Dra B. C. Uenry, A. E. Mack, J. W. Ham mond and B. P. Windsor were present. Dr. J. W. Helwlg acted as toastmaster and introduced tha following speakers: Drs. J. 8. Suva, '11, Omaha, Neb.: & O. Harris. .'10, Oreshara. Neb.s Dell Lynch, 09, Omaha; A, M. Fitsglbbons, '08, Omaha) a.. Baoha. '07, Omaha; J. F. Langdon'OS, Omaha; C. II. Sweet, '06, Carter, 8. D.; J. Peters, '04, Earling, la.; H. J. Newell, '03, Alexandria. Neb.; C. F. Crowley, '02, Omahaj E. A. Moor. 0L Harlan, Ia.j. B. M. RUey, '00, Omaha: A. F. Toohev. '99. Boreaford. 8. D.; A. 8. pinto, '98, Omaha; a. r. Windsor, '96, Mount Auburn. 111.; B. C Henry, Omaha, Neb. At tha banquet It was announced that the new 130,000 operating room at 8t Jo seph's hospital had been formally dedi cates, ny ujs association yesterday. LAW AXUM.M AT BANQUET Fifty Sarroaad Board with Class of . Nina Gradaatea. Tha banquet of tha Alumni association of Crelghton Law college was held last night at tha Rome hotel, with tha class of 1311 as tha guests of honor. About fifty. Including tha class, were present W. C. Fraser was tha toastmaster of the evening and welcomed the fledglings into tha fold of practicing attorneys. Clement B. McCarton answered In an ap propriate vein for the class, telling of the .things that they ware going to do and not going to do to hold up tha honor of an honorable profession muoh-mallgned and tha standard of tha alma mater set by former graduates. Edward MoDermott of Kearney, county attorney of Buffalo county, responded to Tha Young County Attorney." "After all, it is all right to hold the office." ha said, "but I speak from ex perience when I say that tha life of young county attorney Is filled with vex ations all IU own. especially that of a young . officeholder. Ho must take the case, no matter what tha evldonoe, and win a victory. You never can tell where oen sura ends and approval begins." ' William P. Rooney of Wayne, Neb., talked of the vicissitudes of practice In a mailer town. Thomas B. Murray spuke on "criminal lawyers." Clinton Brome, assistant city attorney, told of bis ex perience with a few municipal problems. W. A. Sohall of tha firm of Smyth, Bmith sc Be hall, spoke on tha "Alunml association," proposing plana for more ef fective co-operatioa between tha alumni. FUNERAL- OF MRS. WELLER Foraeer and Present Paatora of First teas Issssy, Tha funeral of Mrs. C F. Waller, who died Thursday, will be held Sunday at p. m. at the home, SOS Wirt street. Rev, F. L. Lovaland, former pastor of tha First Methodist church, and Dr. F. N. Lynch, present pastor, officiating. Interment will be In Forest Lawn cemetery. The active pallbearers will be: W. H. Clarke. E. P. Fills. C'herlea Harding. C. W. Kalney. Fraua; C Pation. W. H. Knodoa. The honorary pallbearers: R. W. Breckenrldge. Autos Field, A. T. Austin, K. U. Van Court, C. C. Beldon. Judge J. FewceiL KITTREDGE STILL ALIVE Foramen Senator Has Occasional Laeld Moments, hot Boon Lasso Into TJaeonaeloaaneea. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., April 8. Reports today from tha bedskla of former United States Senator A. B. Klttrtdgeof South I Dakota, are that his condition hi precarious. Ha has lucid moments when he recognises those at his bedside, but soon relapses Into unconsciousness. Dr. R. F. Brown of Sioux Falls, 8. IX. Ut family physician. Is bare la attend a nee. Young Man Becomes Head of Creighton Law School After four years as secretary of the Crelghton College of Law, dur ing which time the number of stu dents enrolled has Increased from thirty-four to 104, Paul L. Martin has been made dean of the college. T. J. Mahoney becomes dean emeri tus, and C. J. Smyth, associate dean emeritus. The . school, while Mr. Martin has been secretary, has been put upon an ejual basis with the mate university law school In tha admission of graduates to practice In the supreme court and lias been made a member of the Association of American Iaw Schools. Mr. Martin , himself Is a graduate of the Har vard I .aw school, class of 1905, and came to Omalfa to enter the office xof Hall & Stout. Ho taught in the school for two years before becom ing secretary. As dean of the school Mr. Martin will continue in his present execu tive capacity and there will be no new secretary. The secretary to the dean will be Miss M. A. Byrne, who succeeds Miss Florence M. Poast, who entered the service of the gov ernment at the Smithsonian insti tute, and J. W. Delehant, a Crelghton A. B., will become librarian. J PAUL MARTIN. POWER OF WOMAN PASTOR Enrolls More Men in Jler Chorea. In a Year Than Predecessors Did . la ITS. nvestlo-atlon, According; to' Balti more Pabllcatlon, Proves Prices In Stamp Stores Arc Often Lower Than Others. 1 The Building Trades Journal of Baltimore prints the following regarding "8. & H." green trading stamps: "The Journal, upon Its own account, has been investigating 'tradlnt? stamps,' that it might prove or disprove the claims for and against them. If trading stamps are a benefit to the laboring man and his family. It Is our duty to advise our readers to collect the stamps. On tha other hand, if they are not a bene fit, wa should make that fact plain. 'Our . investigations have shown that there is as wide difference in the respon sibility of trading stamp companies as there is In banking institutions, trust com panies or any concern which handles the funds of others "Tha principle of trading stamps is good. It Is not only when not properly conducted that fault can be found with trading stamps. Of the number of con- oerns we Investigated, one stands pre-eminently for responsibility and square deal ing. Wa refer to the Sparry As Hutchin son Co., who originated trading stamps fifteen years ago, and who do business with .the largest department stores and thousands of rrFion;ble merchants throughout the United States. There Is no chance foi doubt that every stamp Issued by the Sperry - Hutchinson Co., Is gilt edged, and that lA will be re- e ned whenever the holder Is ready to redeem It. 'Further Investigation proved that In the stores where 6. dc H.' green trading stamps are given prices are low or lower than they are In stores where no stamps are given.' That means you would spend no more money for the same goods, but probably less money for the same goods In a store where you can get the '8. A H.' stamps than you would in a store where you cannot get them. This proves that the stamps, whatever their value, are a bona fide discount a reward, pure and simple, which tha merchants give to their patrons for patronizing them and paying spot cash. One stamp In itself, like the little cop- per, does not stand for much. But also like the penny. If saved they rapidly accu mulate, so that It Is an easy matter for every family to annusly obtain thousands of stamps. "Wa visited tha "S. & H.' premium par lor at No. 411 North Howard street, and were surprised to see what a few thou sands of these stamps will gat. "The proposition as wa see It, la this: Since a family can obtain thousands of stamps each year, since the stamps cost them nothing. It Is right that they should gat them. Failure to get them would mean a downright loss to the family, which may be measured by the value of the premiums which the stamps would obtain. "The Journal found also that the Sperry & Hutchinson Co., Is absolutely fair to labor." Rev. Sarah A. Dixon, pastor of the Con gregational church In Tewksbury. Mass., has proved that woman can minister to the spiritual wants of a community with even greater success than her male prede cessors. Rev. Miss Dixon has, through her efforts. Increased the membership of the parish and has caused more men to become en rolled in the last year than were added In Ml tha previous 175 years of the church's existence. There is no lack of interest In Rev. Miss Dixon's church, and . "church-going" is a fixed habit with young and old of her con gregation. In the Sunday gatherings that listen to her preaching are many with whom church attendance had not been for many years part of their Bunday program. A native of Barnstable, Mass., Rev, Miss Dixon early displayed her Intellectual powers. She was graduated from the Bridgewater Normal school with a teach er's diploma at the age of 18. For five years she taught, but felt a call to the ministry, which she decided to answer by entering the College of Liberal Arts at the Boston university. By teaching In a night school and substi tuting one day of each week in a day gram mar school, she provided herself sufficient Income, and studied hard, winning scholar ships and other coveted educational honors. She later entered the Boston University School of Theology, and It was while there that Miss Dixon supplied the pulpit of the Methodist church at Centerville, Mass. Every week she traveled seventy-five miles each way to preach Bunday sermons. The degree of bachelor of sacred the ology was conferred upon her In June, 1897. The following week she went before the Andover conference, and after a trying examination, was ordained a minister of the gospel. A call was received by her from the Congregational church - at Tyngaboro, Mass., and this she accepted, remaining nine years. Bhe then became assistant pastor of the Trinitarian Congregational church In Lowell, and resigned in 1908. After a fear of special study in Oxford university, England, she returned to Mass achusetts and entered upon her work at the Tewksbury pastorate. Rev. Miss , Dixon says: "To knock et'the door and enter a kitchen and have one say, I'm glad you are a woman, for Ican have a talk with you right hare in my kitchen;' to sit by tha sick and hear one whisper, i I'm glad you are a woman, for 1 can tell you what la burdening my hearf yes, even to call In time of housed eanlng and hear, You can come In, but I wouldn't have coma to the door If It had been a man' all these experiences make me thank God I am a minister with the authority of the church back of my words and acts. "If I was a man I would vote. I would so Into town meeting and exert my Influ ence, ror I am a firm believer In woman suffrage." New Tork World. tokiqtu FUKMH 24th and L Streets. am s I an hontn unana. T to THOSE FRUIT TREE LEGENDS tery of Appomattox Apple Orchard) Blooms In AU Kinds of Seasons. Paragraphs have recently been appearing In newspapers that "a young apple tree la to be planted to replace the old apple tree under which Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox." This apple tree legend survives the years and all attacks upon It. It la such a Plei Ing legend that people persist in believing It. These fruit tree legends, the Grant apple tree and tha George Washington cherry tree, are a great deal hardier thau the fruit trees and live to a riper age. Lee did not surrender under an apple tree, but In the parlor, on the left of the entrance of the house of Wllmer McLean. on tha main street of tha village of Appo mattox. And It may take some of the bloom off the story to announce that April, 1S6&, was a backward month, and that at tha time of the surrender, there was not a leaf or a blossom on any trees around Appomattox Courthouse, April T Grant wrote to Lee of "tha hope lessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia." Later tha same evening Lea replied that "though not entertaining tha opinion you axpreaa of tha hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of northern Virginia, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood and, therefore, before considering your proposal, ask the terms you will offer on condition of Its sur render." Giant replied tha next morning that "Peace being my great desire, there Is but one condition that I would Insist upon namely that tha men and officers surren dered shall be disqualified from taking up arma agalnat tha government of tha United States until properly exchanged." At mid night. April t. Colonel Whlttler brought to Grant a letter from Lee proposing a meet ing at 10 a. m., April , on the old stage road to Richmond between the picket lines of the two armies. Grant answered that he could treat only of surrender. Leo then requested an interview; Grant assented and sent his answer by Colonel Bahcoca, who delivered It to Lee, whom be found resting by the roadside In an apple orchard. The rvault of this correspondence was the sur render conference at McLean's house Washing tun biar. ( VOLUME OF LIFE INSURANCE Immensity of the Bnataeaa and Its Steady Growth from Tear to Year, In a late Issue of the New York Specta tor there is presented a remarkable show ing of the standing and growth of Ufa Insurance companies in tha United States for the year 1910. The footings of an ex tensive table show a larger list of active companies than aver before and the larg est single year's transactions. "In 1904, says the Spectator, "the life Insurance companies of this country wrote and policyholders paid for over one and three quarter billions of new Insuranoe, During the three fallowing years the business fell off, due to the unsettled oondltlon of the public mind following the various legis lative Investigations. In INS the business again took an upward turn, until In 1810 a new record for new Issues was estab lished. During the six years since 1904 the number of companies engaged In the busi ness has more than doubled but the in crease In new Insurance is only partly due to their entry upon the scene, as a great majority of the old-established com panies made considerable gains during 1914. Last year tha new paid-for ordinary busi ness amounted to S1.8S7.2d,000, or 114269,000 more than In the previous year, while at the close of the year the ordinary Insurance In force amounted to tU.12S.8M.Out, again of 1712,710,000. Adding to the ordinary bust. ness the Industrial Insuranoe in force. 11.178,138,000, It appears that United 8tates life Insurance companies operating under legal reserve laws stand obligated to pay tha tremendous sum of over tlt.SS0,00O,OUO. To guarantee tha payment Of this vast amount, which will be spread over many years, the companies have asauts In hand amounting to 3. 87100,000, of which over ftt7.US.O0O is surplus, a large part of which is already apportioned for future dis tribution. The accumulation of this large amount Is evidence that the life Insurance contracts are fully safeguarded, and that aU just claims will be paid In full and promptly as they fall due. Last year policyholders paid In premiums some SUB. 10,000, while the total cash Income from all sources exceeded 1770,341,000. On the other band the companies paid out to policyholders and their beneficiaries soma S3r7.S33.0U0 and added to the assets 1223, I7M0O. a total of ta7.O08.OOO In benefits. This indicates that the companies paid all expenses eut ef tnoome other than Pre miums and saved soma (24.000,000 In eddl Uon." Ladtea, notice the low prices meets sal sjrrocorlce In The Boo Mar kec Shveppes on nasjo S. jH Soils 20 per cent Oolow Omaha Prices, PJot Only Ono Day, But Evory Day i LLMBERT'S HOLLAND DUTCH ARTS AND CRAFTS FURNITURE We have a full Jine of this famous and beautiful furniture. It is the most satisfactory to be found for dining room, library or den and we have an arrangement, whereby we charge you exactly the factory list prices, thereby affording a genuine bargain of every piece purchased. Send for the beautiful free Limbert book. GET OUR PRICES ON RUGS mm mm TJw-AIStf'i .,vVt,'.---?-ir.Vnt V 6x9 Seamless Brussels Rugs. .. .$6.75 7-6x9 Seamless Brussels Rugs... $3.00 9x12 Seamless Brussels Rugs. .$12.50 9x12 Seamed Brussels Rugs. .. .$9.75 9x12 Axminster Rugs $17.00 9x11 Velvet Rugs $11.00 9x12 Wilton Velvet Rugs $16.00 See our line of Wilton and Body Brussels Rugs, in all sizes 20 per cent below Omaha prices. SEE SMYTH KIDNAP HIMSELF (Continued from Page One.) mobile that night. He was positive that he had not and that If one had gone by he would have heard It. The four reports from the detectives are as 'follows: " OMAHA. Neb. April 27. 1911 Mr. J. J. Donahue, Chief ot Police. Dear Sir: This morning I called at car barn. Tenth and Fierce. There met Curtis Ingram, con ductor of Dundee car on which young tsmytn came in atter getting away irom kidnapers Tuesday night. Ingram left Dundee at 10 p. m. At Fiftieth and Dodge streets yeung Smyth- boarded his ear, which got to Fortieth and Uodge at 10:14, where he got oft In getting on the car Smyth in a way fell on and waa noticed by the conductor as being put on and It was no real fall. He told the conductor that he had been kidnaped. The conductor looked at him surprised, when young Smyth again said that he had been kid naped. "Did you not read, all about It in the papers that I was to be kidnaped. Uhey got me." Smyth then went on and told a story that at 6:30 p. m. at Sunder land's coal office a man put him In an automobile with three others and took him to a shack away out (n the country after dark. While the man was asleep he got out another man took after him with a gun and run him four miles to a car. Mr. Ingram says young Smyth was In no way excited or exhausted from a four-mile run getting away from a man with a gun. Ingram says that he wanted to go with the boy to a drug store at 40th and Dodge to telephone the police or his folks. In reply young Smyth said that his father no doubt had tended to this; that he had money for his fare and took a transfer for north on Fortieth street. I saw him go Into the drug store. H. HEITFEL.D. OMAHA. April 27. 1911 Mr. J. J. Dona hue, Chief of Police: I called on O. W. Barnes, who runs a drug store at Fortieth and Dodge, this afternoon. He says that young Smyth came into his store about 10:15 Tuesday night bareheaded and told mm that he had been kidnaped by a Swede ana tnree Italians, rney got me, he said. He had a string tied around his wrist. Mr. Barnes asked him If he should telephone the police or his home. He would not nave tms. Mr. uarnes took no stock in his story and paid no mora attention to him. Young Smyth went out with Ulock Watchman Corrlgan. 1 think he took him home. H. HEITFKL.D. OMAHA. Neb.. Am-11 27. lSli. William Clark Williams, 4522 Hamilton street: I called at his house again last night. I was told after he thought the matter over he remembered of seeing a young man passing down Izard street and he watched him going so far west as the railroad tracka of the Missouri Paciflo belt line that cross Forty-fourth and Izard streets. Mr. WU- lianms describes the young man as being ID or It years old, wearing a light raincoat and light cap crushed down In front He said be ceuld Identify him again If ha waa dressed the same as he saw him passing down Isard street; he said he watched him and the young man saw him watching him. i asuea turn ir he Knew nernara &mytn. He said he did not. I did not tell him how Bernard Smyth waa dressed as I did not know. I went over to Edward Underland's house to find out how Bernard Smyth was dressed when he passed by his bouse, when he and his sister saw him. Ha described him dressed the samo way as Mr. Williams saw him when he passed by going east on Izard street. Mr. Williams said if we would bring that boy to the chief's office dressed as he was when he passed west on Izard street the evening ot April 26 at or near 6:30 o'clock, he would knew him, and will be glad to go any time to meet the boy at the chief of police's office. He also said that Mr. Smyth was out to see and have a talk with him at the Sunderland Bros.' offloe about seeing the automobile as spoken about by Bernard Smyth in nis report to the police. He told Mr. Smyth that his boy was not picked up by an automeblle at the corner. If an automobile passed that corner at the time stated he would bear It and also see It, as be was in the ooal yard about 10 feet west of tbe office and he was looking for an automobile, as Mr. Sunderland haa automebllea ha would go to see if he was wanted, but he said they did not have such a thing around there that evening. When he was told about It the next morning by one pf the boys delivering the newspapers he went out to investigate and see If he could aea any tracks ot an automobile around the plaoe, but be could not aeen any eigns of It. He said he told Mr. Smyth that his boy was fibbing. STEPHEN MALONET. "OMAHA, Neb.. April 27, 181L Edward Underland. 4101 Cuming street, and his sis ter, Agnes Underland, saw Bernard Smyth passing by their honuse, going west to Forty-first, then north to Izard street. He said he spoke to Bernard as he passed by; he didn't see any one following him. Agnes said to ber brother, 'If Bernard Smyth Is afraid of being kidnaped, what is he doing by going down that way. I gueas I will follow him,' but her brother Edward would not let ber. Edward didn't see any one following him. This was a little after o'clock in the evening. "STEPHEN MAI-ONET." You Can Join The Bee's Free Booklovers' Contest Mow! Get the back pictures and coupons from the Bee's Business Office. This is the first prize in the Booklovcrs' Confest. APPERSON, Model Four-Thirty, Fally Equipped, $2,000 1 f Old subscribers and non-subscribers axe equally weloujie in this contest. It's a fair field and no favor. This is the Second Prize in the ooklover's Contest: KBIBALL, 88-Note, Player Piano, Mahogany Case FATHER TAKES CHARGE OF BON Will Not Peraalt Htm to Aeeonspaay Police (or Ideatiftcatloa. Efforts to confront Bernard Smyth with the people who assert that they saw him going west alone toward the shack whither he says he was taken by kidnapers In an automobile failed because C. J. Smyth re fused to allow bis son to accompany an officer. Detective Maloney was ordered by the ahief to take Smyth out to the Sunder land coal yard to be identified by Wil liams, the man who says he saw htm on the evening of tbe kidnaping, but the father refused to permit it The police have not arrested the boy and so have no authority over him and the father's ob jections bad to stand. The police are now working on an In vestigation of the neighborhood near Thirty-sixth and Burt, where the Smyth fam ily, used to live. One woman, who refused to give her name because she did not want to figure in newspaper stories unless It should be necessary, came to see the chief and volunteered Information about the character of the boy. She said she would go on tbe wltaeaa stand If necessary to I testify, that the boy had not been an ex- No Strings No Catches .No Subterfuges- In the Bee's Book lovers' Contest. Get the Back Pic tures and Coupons. Start Now. fcar ''u V if ssliil. jt" B'lssTI k TIH ill JiBBsTi's sjf 1'J,1''TTsr iiTj-'JLI ' ' 7! TilV I TT 1 'II " ITj'""f"M i'TPi sy See complete list of prizes under today's Booklovers' Contest Picture. emplaiy member of the neighborhood and that neighbors considered him rathor wild. The police are investigating stories of this sort In self-defense agalnat the assertions of'C. J. Broyth that their refusal to be lieve the story is merely an excuse and to substantiate the theory that the boy Is capable of having worked the whole thing through himself. INSTRUCTOR LAUDS YOUNG MAN Father Dooley of Crelghtoa Testifies te Smyth's Steading at School. Testimonial to tha good character of Bernard Bmyth Is made by W. F. Dooley, vice president of Crelghton university, principal of the high school department In a statement volunteered by Father Dooley he said: "In the three years that Bernard has been In school at Crelghton I have known noth ing except that which Is to his credit. I know that all of his Instructors have the same opinion of him. "So far as we know the young man has no evil or extravagant habits. We cannot entertain the idea that he cfuld have been guilty of writing the blackmail letters. " CHANTECLER ON CHERRY JAG Prise Roester Feasts OS Cocktail Decorators and Wakes the Neighborhood. Mra. Acton W. Smith's prise rooster Chanteoler is the most dilapidated looking daybreak greeter in Sayville, I. I., and all because It got so drunk on fermented can ned cherries that Its owner thought the rooster dead and had plucked more than half Its feathers out for pillow stuffing before It "came to." With one side totally denuded of feathers, with the feathers on tbe other side gone in spots and with the long tall feathers missing. Chanteoler Is so disreputable looking that the hens refuse to look at the rooster. The situation Is made all the more dis tressing by the fact that a cockerel that formerly fled when Cbantecler approached, has become the overlord of the chicken yard, and passes fully half Its time chasing the former cock of the walk out of the way. Chantecler was so tipsy that the b:rd had to be assisted to Its perch. It fell off three times before gettlog staying grip. When one of the Smiths went put te the chicken bouse with a lantern at 10 o'clock at night to see how the' bird was getting along the rooster was so drunk it thought day had broken and began to crow. Since then the crowing has continued at close Intervals and challenging retorts are heard from all the other roosters In the neigh borhood. Sleepless chicken raisers say it" merely goes to show how one drunken rooster can demoralize a neighborhood. Mrs. Bmith feels sorry she threw the fer mented cherries where Chantecler could get them. Bh Is sorry, too, that she began to remove the plumage of her pet without feeling the rooster's pulse or applying an Instrument to ascertain whether Its heart was still beating. It was not until Chante cler squawked violently and flopped to the door Just as she had pulled out the last tall feather that she realised tbe sad truth. New Tork Press. Afflaltr Marriage Assailed. NEW YORK. April -Justice New burger In the supreme court today signed the final judgment annulling the marrisse of Julia Kutlner and Ferdinand llnnry tarle, the artist whose matrimonial ex periences added the word "affinity" to tjnilun slang. ILm Knutte wa Varls's second, wife. u -rm k-soawanHBHp S imhi im