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STEVENS POINT DAILY JOURNAL, STEVENS POINT. WIS. WHEAT MYSTERY STIRS THE WORLD Financiers Grope to Account for Canceled War Orders. SHIP DISASTER IS RUMORED Buyers of Entente Allies Add to Riddie by Calling Off Shipment of American Horses -Grain Prices Fluctuate. Chicago, Aug.

world's mystery has developed in the cancellation of wheat orders by buyers in Italy, France and the United Kingdom. That something of great international significance has occurred which still is being withheld by the rigid war censorship was the belief of DE prominent Chicago financiers. The reason at the bottom of the heavy cancellation of grain orders. which yesterday also included orders for horses for war purposes, remains an enigma. Financiers not only in this country, but in London and Liverpool as well, profess to be in the dark.

It was easy to confirm the cancellation of grain contracts aggregating upward of 2.000,000 bushels of wheat. Unload War Horses. In addition advices came from Boston that the steamship Devonian of the Leyland line, which sailed during the day for England, and the Cambrian, which sailed on the day before, unloaded more than 2,000 remounts for the English army which they had on board. The Devonian, however, carried some grain. On top of the cancellations LaSalle street buzzed with the rumor that the Allen liner Corinthian, flying the British flag, which sailed last Friday from Montreal for Havre, France, had met with disaster in the Gulf of St.

Lawrence. No confirmation of this could be obtained. The street was wondering whether some such trouble might be what the war censors were holding back. In Dark on Boat's Fate. Regarding the Corinthian George E.

Bunting, general manager of the local offices of the Allen line, said: "The Corinthian left Montreal at daybreak on August 6. She passed Father Point at 8:50 o'clock a. m. on August 7. Since then nothing has been heard from her.

She carried 105 cabin passengers, none of them from Chicago. There were between 300 and 400 third-class passengers. She is a boat of 7,500 tons displacement and carries both freight and passengers. We have had no report of any mishap. She should be half way across the Atlantic at this time." It was the general impression in the wheat trade that there was something back of the attitude of the foreign governments and speculators, but what it was they could only conjecture.

Foreign ambassadors at Washington also professed to be puzzled over the attitude of buyers abroad. Wheat Price Breaks. As a result of the uncertainty there were unusual fluctuations in both grain and stocks. Seaboard exporters who have been heavily long in September wheat in Chicago and other markets were free sellers for delivery yesterday and were largely responsible for the break of cents a bushel from the close of Thursday. The low price was $1.07 and the finish a loss of cents a bushel for the day.

ANOTHER RAID ON BRITAIN Immense War Bills Are MaturingNations Will Have Establish Credit Facilities. By JOHN C. FOSTER. International News! Service Correspondent. London, Aug.

persons were killed and twenty wounded in another air raid which the Germans have made over England. Official announcement of the raid was, made by the government press bureau, Fourteen houses were destroyed or damaged by bombs dropped from the German air craft. The district raided was on the North sea coast, but the exact location of the region damaged was not revealed. It is supposed that the Germans attacked the shipbuilding yards around Newcastle and the arsenals and 118- val stations near the mouth of the Thames river. TRAIN HITS AUTO; ONE DEAD Three Others Seriously Injured in Accident Near Mason City, la.

Mason City, Aug. St. Louis passenger train struck an automobile near here killing Miss Gladys Preston of Belmond, seriously injuring Carl Ganote of Popejay and sending the driver, Harold Rice, and Mrs. L. V.

Sharpe to the hospital. NAME GOVERNOR OF WARSAW General Baron Reinhard G. von Scheffer-Boyadel Appointed to Govern Polish Capital. Amsterdam, Aug. Baron Reinhard G.

von Scheffer-Boyadel has been appointed governor of Warsaw. according to a Posen dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung, a copy of which has been received here EASTLAND IS RAISED NO BODIES FOUND IN BOAT WHICH CAPSIZED. Vessel in Which Thousand People Lost Lives Breaks Cable and Slips Back Four Feet. Chicago, Aug. 20 hours of lifting by huge cranes with the assistance of several powerful tugs, the Eastland, which capsized just three weeks ago, causing a loss of nearly a thousand lives, was slowly raised from the mud of the Chicago river until the steamer reached an angle of about seventy-five degrees.

Two setbacks during the day upset the plans of Capt. Alexander Cunning of the tug Favorite who had notified various state, federal, city and county officials that his work would be completed late in the afternoon. After a cable about the stern had been loosened for readjustment the boat fell back four feet. There was a crash and the sound of splintering wood as the stern dropped upon a pontoon boat. A few hours later it was found that the stern of the ship was fast in the mud.

Throughout the night five pumps worked incessantly pouring as many streams of water from her interior while the tugs and big cranes stood by ready to resume the lifting process. It is is is is is is is is is expected, however, that the steamer with its bulk entirely cleared of water, will right herself today. Coroner Hoffman, who was waiting on the "floating morgue," which was to take care of bodies that might be found in the hull, expressed the belief that there were few victims left in the boat. IS CHARGD WITH MURDER Indiana Authorities Fail to Shake Calm of S. N.

Eversole on Macklin Girl's Death. South Bend, Aug. N. Eversole, former Dunkard preacher, who was arrested on his farm near Bristol, was formally charged with the murder of Hazel Macklin, the fifteen-year-old high school girl who was found strangled to death on October 24, 1914, in Island park, an isolated picnic ground near this city. He will be arraigned before Judge George Ford today.

No charge has been made against the son, and it is now said he will be held merely as a witness. The only link, as the police admit, that connects him with the murder is the discovery of the canvas telescope bag, which had been partly burned on the farm formerly occupied by the Eversoles. It became known, too, that the authorities are working hard to obtain a confession from the elder Eversole, though thus far with small hope of success. LAST OF '61 MEN LEAVE ARMY "Drummer Boy" of Chickamauga" Retired as an Active -Is 64 Years of Age. Washington, Aug.

last officer on the active list of the United States army who saw service in the civil war, was placed on the retired list when Col. John L. Clem, quartermaster's department, reached the age of sixty-four years and ended his official duties at the war department. where he had been stationed for many years. He retires with the additional rank of brigadier general, in accordance with an act of congress.

Colonel Clem is commonly known as "the Drummer Boy of Chickamauga." TERRIFIC STORM IN JAMAICA Hurricane Sweeps Over Northern Part of Island: Banana and Sugar Plantations Destroyed. Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. estimated at $10.000,000 was caused by a terrific hurricane that swept over the northeastern and northern coast of Jamaica Thursday night Great banana plantations were completely destroyed. Sugar plantations suffered the same fate. So far as is known, there was no loss of life, but communication with many points is cut off and the fate of some settlements is still in doubt.

TURKS RAKE ALLIED WARSHIP Report Capture of 100-Yard Position by Assault on Gallipoli Peninsula. Constantinople, via London, Aug. 14. Turkish war office announced: "Within three days we have captured eight machine guns and munitions near Ari Burnu (on the peninsula). "Our artillery has hit a hostile warship off Ari Burnu.

"Near Seddul Bahr, on the right wing. we took trenches of 100 yards by storm." AUSTRIAN FLEET IS ACTIVE Bombards 'talian Railroad From Mol. fetta to Seno San Giorgio-Five Depots turned by Shells. Vienna, Aug. Austrian fleet has bombarded the Italian Littoral railway from Molfetta to Seno Giorgio, according to an official report.

At San Spirito the station and five depots were burned. At Bari the castle signal station and five factories were shelled. The population was panicstricken. The Austrian vessels returned unharmed. A PLACE OF SHELTER PANAMERICANISM U.S.

1 MEXICO BALTIMORE AMERICAN. Yesterday's Games STANDING OF THE CLUBS. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Club. W.L.P.C.I Club.

W.L.P.C. Philadel'ia .54 45 .545 Boston ..52 51 .505 ...56 49 New 50 .495 Chicago .52 49 57 .462 Pittsburgh .52 50 .510 Cincinnati ...44 57 .436 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Boston .67 35 .657 New 50 .500 Detroit ...64 39 .621 Cleveland ...39 61 .390) Chicago .62 40 .608 St. 64 .385 Wash sh'gton .54 50 .579 Philadel'ia ..33 70 .320 FEDERAL LEAGUE. Chicago .59 46 49 .533 Newark ...58 46 .558 Brooklyn ...49 60 .450 Pittsburgh .57 46 .653 Buffalo ...49 61 .445 Kan.

47 .552 Baltimore ...37 68 .352 Friday's Results. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Brooklyn, 6: New York, 1. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati. 4.

Philadelphia, Boston, 3. Chicago-St. Louis, no game: rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE. New York, 3: Philadelphia, 2.

Boston, 3: Washington, 2. No other games scheduled. FEDERAL LEAGUE. Baltimore, 1-3: Pittsburgh, 4-2. Newark 7: Chicago, Buffalo, 1-6; St.

0-0. Brooklyn, 9: Kansas City, 2. WESTERN LEAGUE. Lincoln, Omaha, 3. Denver.

Sioux City, 7 (ten innings). Wichita, 3-0; Des Moines, 2-8. Topeka, 5-5; St. Joseph, 0-3 (12 Innings). CENTRAL LEAGUE.

Terre Haute, 3-1: Grand Rapids, 2-5. Erie, Wheeling, 1. Youngstown, 4: Dayton. 2. Evansville, 8: Wayne, 3.

THREE I LEAGUE. Moline, Davenport, 3. Peoria, 4: Bloomington. 0. No other games played.

ENEMY REPULSED, SAYS ROME Teutons Attempted Surprise Attack at Night During Hurricane on the Carso Plateau. Rome, Aug. following official statement was issued by the war office here: "In Cadore, owing to the fact that the hostile trenches are so close together, giving neither side room to operate, there have been only small and sporadic attacks and counter-attacks. On the night of August 12, after a heavy bombardment, the Austrians advanced against our Collana positions but were repulsed. "We have dislodged the Austrians from the western entrenchments on Mount Chiana in the Rienz valley.

"On the Isonze Austrian attacks against our positions near Monte Nero and our recently captured positions at Plava were repulsed. the Carso plateau on the night of August 12 the Austrians attempted during a violent hurricane to surprise us by an attack against our trenched works but were repulsed." BRIDE OF DAY IS DROWNED Toledo Woman Rowing With Husband -He Says She Fell Into Water. Toledo, 0., Aug. Elizabeth Deitsch. twenty-three years old, married Wednesday in Monroe, was drowned Thursday in view of her husband.

The accident occurred in Lake Erie about three miles east of Monroe. A wound on the woman's head is accounted for by the woman's husband, who says she struck their boat after she had fallen into the water. Authorities of Monroe began an investigation yesterday. Mrs. Deitsch's death was not made known to her parents here until Deitsch returned to the city and inserted a death notice in the local papers.

Mrs. Deitsch's parents said they opposed the marriage. Explosion Kills Germans. Amsterdam, Aug. Berlin dispatch states that several persons were killed by explosions following a tire in a powder works at Reinsdorf, near Wittenberg, Germany, JOINT APPEAL TO MEXICAN LEADERS Plea for Peace Sent to Chiefs by Lansing.

APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT Requests Carranza and Others to Arrange for Convention to Elect Provisional President "First Chief" May Reject Plan. Washington, Aug. appeal of the United States and six LatinAmerican republics to Carranza and other Mexican leaders to settle their differences and agree on a provisional president was started on its way last night. The task of telegraphing the appeal is a big one, inasmuch as it has to be sent to Carranza, Villa, Zapata, the governors of the states of Mexico, the principal military leaders in the field and leading citizens of the republic. The text of the appeal will not be given out for publication until all copies have been sent.

When this will be state department officials would not venture to guess. What Appeal Sets Forth. The appeal was prepared by Sec- retary of State Lansing and the diplomatic representatives of Argentina. Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala and approved by President in Mexico, having continued several Wilson. It sets forth to that conditions years without prospect of early abatement, warrant the United States and sister republics in making an urgent appeal that the various factions lay down their arms and endeavor by other means to restore peace.

It is understood it proposes specifically: 1. That the factions appoint representatives to hold conferences and arrange for holding a convention. 2. That this convention select a provisional president and pledge him the support of the factions and elements represented. 3.

That this provisional president will be recognized by the United States and the Latin-American republics which co-operated in the preparation of the appeal. The state department has reason to believe Villa, Zapata and many of the governors of states, military commanders and prominent citizens will agree to the plan proposed. Present indications, however, are that Carranza will Il reject it. The Mexican border situation continued to absorb attention in official quarters and was the subject of a conference between President Wilson and Assistant Secretary Breckenridge of the war department. Strict Patrol Kept.

Later Mr. Breckenridge reiterated the statement that no more troops would be ordered to the border unless General Funston should request them. Persistent reports that armed Mexi. cans are crossing the border endeavor. ing to stir up trouble are regarded as significant, however, and a strict patrol is being kept.

Swift Border Justice. Brownsville, Aug. for a band of about thirty Mexicans, some of them known to be direct from Mexico, proceeds in the mesquite brush about fifty miles north of Brownsville. Meanwhile 1,600 United States cavalrymen and 1,000 infantry men on patrol duty between Brownsville and Laredo, rangers and peace officers used a swift and effective type of border justice which rapidly ran down fugitive Mexicans of bad records who are accused of implication in raids of the last two weeks. Although the number of Mexicans killed in the raids is given officially as between fifteen and twenty, it is known that more have been killed.

Several Mexicans have been shot while resisting arrest or trying to escape. BERLIN GETS NOTE ON FRYE Note to Austria-Hungary Reiterates Stand Formerly Taken on Shipments of Munitions. Berlin, via London, Aug. American note to Germany concerning the sinking of the American ship William P. Frye by a German commerce destroyer has been received by the American ambassador and will be presented to the German foreign office at once.

Washington, Aug. state department answered the Austro-Hungarian note of June 29 making representations tantamount to protest against the shipment of arms and ammunition from the United States to the enemies of the Teutonic allies, but will not publish the official text until next Sunday. The note points out that the United States feels that it has a perfect right to stop such shipments if that course is necessary for the benefit of the United States, but would be guilty of unneutral conduct if it stopped the shipments with the intent to injure or benefit one or the other of the belligerents. Husband Shot; Woman Hangs Self. Beloit.

Aug. Wednes- day night the husband of Mrs George Horton in a fight with James Kaplenis was shot by Kaplanis and slightly hurt. Yesterday Mrs. Horton's dead body was found in the attic of her house, where she had hanged herself. BIG FIRE IN MUNCIE FLAMES DESTROY STORES AND FLAT BUILDING.

Falling Walls and Wires Endanger Many; Loss Estimated at $150,000. Muncie, Aug. stores and flats were destroyed by a fire of unknown origin in the center of Muncie's business district last night. It is estimated that the loss will be more than $150,000. The fire started in the Rowlett department store, which was the principal enterprise in a three-story building covering a quarter The building was destroyed.

Besides the department store the building was occupied by the Scott grocery store, the Kehner Packing company's store and several flats. Hundreds of persons were endangered by falling walls and live wires, but the only serious injury reported was when Virgil Harrold, a spectator, was trampled on by a crowd of persons rushing out of the way of a falling wall. It is thought he will When the eastern wall of the building fell it did considerable damage to the western wall of the traction terminal station across the street. The telephone exchange is in the terminal building, but all the operators stuck to their posts. ALASKA FOREST RESERVE CUT President Returns to Public Domain About 5,802,000 Acres of Chugash National Park.

Washington, Aug. Chugash National forest in Alaska was cut almost in half by order of President Wilson. In a proclamation the president returned to the public domain about 5,802,000 acres of the forest reserve, which is to be crossed by the government railroad from Stewart to Fairbanks. This was the largest elimination of national forest land ever made at one time by presidential proclamation. The lands opened to settlement were found not to be of high enough timber value to warrant government protection.

Swedish Steamer Ashore. London, Aug. Swedish steamer Kiruna, 1,638 tons, bound from Philadelphia to Stockholm, has gone ashore in Pentland Firth, between Scotland and the Orkney islands. A dispatch to Lloyds states it probably will be a total wreck. THE MARKETS Grain Provisions, Etc.

Chicago, Aug. 13. Open- High- Low- ClogWheat- ing. est. est.

ing. Sept. 1.10 1.07 Dec. 1.08 1.06 1.07¼ May 1.12 1.10 1.11⅝ CornSept. Dec.

May OatsSept. Dec. May FLOUR--Spring wheat patent, Minneapolis, wood or cotton, $7.30 retail trade: Minnesota and Dakota patents, old. $6.2506.50: jute. straight, first clears, second clears, jute, $4 10 (4.20; low grade.

jute, soft wheat, patents, new. rye flour, white, new, dark, new, steady: choice new timothy. No. new timothy, No. 2 new timothy, $13.500 14.50: light clover mixed, heavy clover mixed.

No. 3 red top and grassy mixed timothy, 13.50: clover ham heated and damaged. alfalfa, choice, $16.00 alfalfa. No. 1, alfalfa, No.

2. Kansas and homa choice, new, Chicago. Aug. 13. BUTTER-Creamery.

extras. extra firsts, firsts, seconds, dairies. extra. firsts, 22c: seconds, 20c: packing stock, ladles, EGGS-Miscellaneous lots, cases Included, cases returned, ordinary firsts. firsts.

extra, LIVE POULTRY-Turkeys, 14c per chickens. fowls, springs, roosters, ducks, geese, 10c: spring geese, ICED FOWLS- -Fowls, 14c: roosters. 104 ducks, turkeys, geese. POTATOES- cobblers. per bulk, Jersey, Minnesota, Ohio, Omaha, Aug.

13. HOGS--Market lower: heavy, light, $6.8007 25: pigs. bulk of sales. CATTLE -Market steady: native steers, and heifers. western steers.

Texas. steers, cows and heifers. calves. SHEEP-Market slow; yearlings. 7.00; wethers.

lambs, Live Stock. Chicago, Aug. 13. CATTLE-Steers, good to choice. 10.35: yearlings, good to choice, inferior heifers, to choice helfers.

good to choice cows. $5.7007.30: cutters. canners, $3.00 74.25: butcher bulls. bolognas, good to choice veal calves, $10.00 heavy calves. HOGS -Prime light butchers.

fair to fancy light, $7.5507.85: prime medium weight butchers, 750: prime heavy butchers. heavy and mixed packing. $6.50 heavy packing. pigs, fair to good, stags. East.

Ruffalo, N. Aug. 13. CATTLE--Market fairly active and steady: prime steers. butcher grades.

$6.30478.75. CALVES- Market active, $1 higher: cull to choice, 13.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS -Market active. lambs 15025e lower: choice lambs. $9.250 9.60: cull to fair.

yearlings. $7.00 28.00: sheep. $3.0007.25. HOGS-Market active. higher: Yorkers, pigs.

mixed, $7.90078.15: heavy, roughs, 6.25; stags, $5.00 5.50. LADY OF THE LAKE By M. M'CULLOCH-WILLIAMS. TEUTONS CHIT OFF RETREATING RUSS Trap Closes Upon Czar's Army in Poland. SIEDLCE TAKEN BY KAISER Fall of Fortress Half Way Between Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk Leaves Slavs Without Line of Retreat by Rail.

London, Aug. German battie cruiser was destroyed and several other German warships severely damaged in a great naval battle with the Russian fleet in the Baltic sea near Oesel island, at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, according to news dispatches from Petrograd. It is asserted that, though the firing was terrific, the Russian fleet escaped any loss or serious injury. Russian seaplanes again rendered invaluable assistance, it is declared. It is believed that the German objective was to bottle up the Russian fleet in the Gulf of Finland or the Gulf of Bothnia, but the seaplanes gave warning in time to prevent such an issue.

The location of the battle that the Germans are trying desperately to assist their northern armies with supplies and re-enforcements from the sea, but the Russian defensive action appears able to foll such a move. London, Aug. of the Polish railroad town of Siedice, 63 miles west of Brest-Litovsk on the main line from Warsaw to the latter fortress, which is the southern base of the new Russian lines of defenses, is announced in official German dispatches. Simultaneously the massing of seven Austro-German armies in the Bug and Vistula triangle is taken to indicate that a vast Russian army, cut off from retreat by rail through Siedice to Brest-Litovsk, is trapped and is certain of annihilation or capture. Kovno Holds Out.

The vital point on the Russian line now seems to be at Kovno, where the Germans are still attacking the fortress in the hope of cutting the Warsaw-Petrograd railroad at this point and continuing to the important city of Vilna on the same line, but in the rear of the proposed line of defense. The capture of Vilna would render the greater part of this line untenable. Check in North. The Russians for the time being are holding in check the Baltic flank of the German armies which are struggling to cut the Warsaw-Petrograd railway and are battling toward the Dvina, beyond which lie the roads to the Russian capital. German attacks toward Riga have been repulsed and the railway tion at Dvinsk remain in Russian hands.

From Ostrolenka, north of Warsaw, to Chelm, in the south, the Teutons claim to have made further progress, but between the Vieprz and the Bug they apparently have been thrown back with heavy losses. Details of the capture and occupation of Vladimir Volynski 011 the Luga river, 75 miles southeast of Lublin, were received here. The Cossacks before evacuating the town set it on fire and the greater part was destroyed, in spite of the fact that the captors tried to put out the flames. Offsetting the German successes in central Poland, the Russ'ans claim to be steadily driving back the Germans on the Kovno-Riga front, the most important sector of the whole long battle line. In the Riga region Petrograd reports that the Russians have retaken several villages and are advancing westward.

Like the grass, the shrubbery was unclipped--long trails grew as nature willed from the vines. But there was no touch of decay or pov. erty in the house proper--gay cushions upon the piazza, lawn rug spread between garden chairs, litter of new books. Doors stood hospitably wide, but there was do sign of life- -not even after Withers had knocked with unusual vigor. But presently an old negro peered cautiously around the corner of the house, stared at them hard a minute and then shrilled out in the high pitched tone of the stone deaf: "No use yer waitin'.

Woon't see Miss she've M'ria-Susan turned much plumb 'fore sundown-. an' tooken the hull kit an' b'ilin' she've got yere off ter the crick, an' the swimmin' hole--with fishpoles an' dinner baskets an' sich." "Good! We'll follow--being fishermen of degree," Withers proposed gayly, slipping silver in the old, lean hand. Davis hesitated. "Sure we'll be welcome?" he asked. "I confess the swimmin' hele tempts--but suppose we find it- Here the men found her, the lady of the lake.

As the car stopped at the very water's edge they saw her splashing showers upon the heads of three small boys, gurgling and panting in the nearest shallow. Beyond, five young girls swam laboriously, almost painfully, in ward of three strapping lads. A young man and maiden lounged upon a blanketspread bank, and made a brave show at fishing. The lady of the lake greeted Withers cordially and acknowledged Davis' presentation with an easy unconcern that robbed the situation of all awkwardness. "I do wish you could come in," she declared heartily, waving her hand toward the enticing water.

"Of course you can fish-you might even wade, or dangle your feet in water. But don't, please, disturb toward the pair piscatorial. "It what would be cruelty to children -besides, is one nice girl among so many?" "Come out yourself! Can't we persuade you?" Withers entreated. She laughed softly, saying, "I will if you will help me in the closing game." "Tell us how! We're your accomplices," Withers shot back. She looked at the timorous small boys, saying reflectively: "I know they could swim if they had to---and they'd hav: to if they were pitched in here beside me, heels over head." "Here they come! Catch!" With.

ers shouted, wading out and seizing the smallest youngster, to swing him deftly into the "swimmin' hole." Down went the child to come up spluttering, but laughing, within a yard of Mrs. Elliot, who drew away, saying firmly: "Now for it Tommy! Swim!" Tommy swam--the plunge had washed away his cowardice. He even patronized Ned, the next to be tossed. Billy, who had bulldog jaw, wriggled and kicked. "No--these are not slum childrenjust tots she picks up and invites here for a month or a fortnight," Withers explained.

"Schoolboys, too--you see the big fellows--and girls." "Mighty decent of her--if she is an accomplished flirt," Davis returned, his eyes fast upon the deserted cabin that served as bath house. Almost as he looked the small girls swarmed from one door of it, the lads and small boys from the other. And right upon their heels came the lady of the lake, glowing and happy, tendrils of wet hair clinging to her forehead, her eyes dewy dark, yet lucent. Her thin blue frock, quaker-plain, came modestly high at the throat, but had sleeves short enough to reveal arms of admirable taper and softness. She looked down plaintively at her small well-shod feet, saying to Withers: "Jimmy, isn't it a shame not to go barefoot this fine hot weather?" "Why not? No law against it!" Withers answered bravely.

She shook her head sighing resignedly: "You forget Bridgeway. He would die of shame for me--and 1 really can't afford to kill my social conscience." Bridgeway was the old black man who had met them at the house. He was a reminder from her father's time, and to him "M'ria-Susan" would always be a child. Indeed, she started almost guiltily when he appeared upon the opposite creek bank, making a trumpet of his lean hands and shouting: "Ye better come to the house righten erway! Er pile more men is thar waitin' ter court ye." "Shall we go boldly and send them about their business?" Davis askedwondering at himself for his presumption. In response, he got a beautiful sidelong upward glance and a very soft: "N-no! I rather like to -hear what people have to say." This was the beginning.

The end came two weeks later when Davis, more madly in love than ever he had dreamed he could me, asked her plumply to marry him--asked it also as diffidently as though he had not seen the world. With her kindliest smile, she told him frankly that she had promised Withers that she would marry him should she ever make up her mind to take a second husband. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.).