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Show " ' THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH ' of the American Federation of La-bor to direct Its efforts when favor-able condition permit, toward compelling those employer! of la-bor who have reduced waxes dur-ing this period of unemployment, to restore them." REPEAL of the Illinois and the search and seizure act was .completed by the state senate by vote of 20 to 24. The bouse had previously passed tbe repeal act, 91 to 66. News Review of Current Events the World Over Farm Board to Abandon Efforts to Stabilize Wheat Prices Austro-Germa- n Customs . Union Stirs Protests. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ft . I lV;?-- : i MO N T A G 0 Norman, gov-ernor of the Bank of England, came to tbe United States Friday on one of his fre-quent quiet visits, having little to say to tbe press, as usual. His arrival Interested finan-ciers deeply, for it A '' ay : y MORE a-NOttempts to stabilize the price of wheat by large purchases on the ' open market will be made under the auspices of the federal farm board after the 1930 crop Is marketed, which probably will be done by May 81. This was the an- - Investigation Is to Include all de-partments of the municipal govern-ment and the Inferior courts. National Importance Is given this New York scandal by Its possible effect ou the Democratic party's action In the national convention next year. It may greatly promote tbe chances of Franklin Roosevelt for the Presidential oomlnatlon, or It may ruin them. He would be favored by those parts of the coun-try In which the Democrats are po-litically dry if he were freed from the Tammany brand. But Al Smith is said to be cold to his can-didacy, and National Chairman Raskob Is reported to be strongly In favor of giving the nomination to Owen D. Young. was believed be M. Norman would go to Wash-ington and that then or soon there-after President Hoover would issue the call for the International silver conference which was given au-thorization by the last congress. Silver has been In a parlous state for many months, for, while pro-duction has not greatly Increased, the sales by India on Its return to the gold standard, and by other countries for the purpose of lessen-ing the silver content of their coin-ages, have glutted the market In lit'-'-O Its price was C2 cents an ounce, and It now sells for about half that. 8am H nouncement of the Thompson boa,rd. who8 Devr chairman, James O. Stone, and new member, Sam H. Thompson of Illinois, have Just taken office. In making Its de-cision known, the board pointed to Its pest purchases of large wheat stocks and asserted that "it can-not indefinitely buy more than It sells nor Indefinitely hold what It has bought" Farmers must know, the board continued, that "it can-not follow a regular policy of buy-ing at prices above the market and sell Ins below cost" main jpa" I'HROUGHOUT of tbe American fleet In Panama waters Secretary of tbe Navy Charles Francis Adams was a deeply In-terested observer. He returned to Washington with the firm convlc-- GERMANT and Austria have that they are about to consummate a customs union, and have caused great disturbances In j the "chancelleries of Eu-rope." Great British, France, Italy and especially Czechoslovakia have protested against the move and ac-cording to report some of them have warned the two nations not to go ahead with their plan. The British position Is that it is a vio-lation of the protocol of 1022 In which the League of Nations reor-ganized Austrian finances and Aus-tria agreed to give equal tariff to all countries. The French, Italians and Czechs fear the proposed union Is the first step toward the political union of Germany and Austria, which would violate the peace treaty. The Czechs are try-ing to bring the other countries of the little entente to their point of view, and the two Germanic na-tions have Invited Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia to enter the economic combination with them. When the French, British and Italian umbnssndors questioned Foreign Minister Curtlas in Berlin, he replied in effect thnt Germany would not back down In lta Ar. No definite sales policy for Its present big wheat holdings was an-nounced by the board. There were Indications, however, that should the farmers display a tendency to help themselves by restricting wheat acreage, tbe disposal of the 1030 crop holdings would be spread over a long period and sold slowly. In the market the Immediate ef-fect of the announcement waa of course a sharp break In prices. On the Chicago Board of Trade wheat deferred futures reached the low-est levels since 1895. July touched WH4 and September went down to 60 cents. There was quick recovery, how-ever, when the stabilization cor-poration announced this plan: Ef-fective April 1, the corporation will quote a selling price of 82 cents a bushel f. o. b. No. 2 hard win-te- r wheat at Chicago for ordinary quality, with premiums f.sked for vain of high protein and quality. This price will be advanced cent a bushel on April 10 and M cent a bushel every ten days thereafter until June 30, the date which marks the expiration of the cur-rent crop. year. What loss the government will ' aiiffpr thronih lta ulipnt stiihlllin. tion that, notwlth-Secretar- y standing the de--. Adams velopment of avia-tion, the battleship Is still the backbone of modern fighting fleets. "These big surface vessels are essential cogs In our naval fighting forces," said Mr. Adams, and his opinion coincides with those of the leading naval of-ficers who participated In or watched the maneuvers. In roports filed at the Navy de-partment, such olllcers as Admiral William V. Pratt chief of naval operations; Rear Admiral Joseph B. Reeves, and Rear Admiral Mark A. Bristol, chulrman of the execu-tive committee of the nnvy general board, agree thot without battle-ship strength the United States would be powerless to prevent a major hostile movement across the ocean directed at this country. TvJ ATIONAL1STS of Porto Rico received no encouragement from President Hoover when he landed at San Juan and delivered lila firar nrliiruea. wlrlrh mam mu Ha minntlon to put the tariff, union into effect but be assured them that this In no way heralded an eventual political unification with Austria. It was tolerubly evident thut Germany was willing to carry the matter to the World court at The Hague. Brluud, French foreign nilnlster, was placed In an embarrassing po-sition for the Austro-Germa- n plan Is really a sturt toward his great scheme of an economic union of all Europe In which there shall be no tariff walls. to the Island legislature. On the contrary, be dwelt on the Innumer-able benefits the Island had derived from Its rule by the United States, predicted fine things for Its future, and pledged the support and co-operation of his administration to-ward continued Porto Rlcun prog-ress. The Island, said the President, has In the course of a single gen-eration emerged from stagnutiou to a high place in the march of prog-ress, and constitutes now "a mag-nificent example of what a capable and Intelligent people, may accom-plish under tree institutions." Mr. Hoover praised the efforts of Gov. Theodore Roosevelt to secure new channels of livelihood for the is-land's Increased population. He said the two other principal pro-blemsone engendered by the hur-ricane of 1928, the other by the buslnesa ripnrpaalnn r "imr tlon operations will not be known until the 1930 crop Is sold. ' The grain stabilization corporation has on band In excess of 100,000.000 bushels and may have as mucb ns 200,000,000 bushels wben all the fu-ture deliveries are In. Senator Borah, after a White House lunch-eon conference a few days ago, said the board probably would have 210.000.000 bushels of wheat by July 1. Officials said the prices paid for wheat ranged all the way from 70 cents to $1.23 a bushel. At least 60.UOO.000 bushels were bought at a price between $1.00 and $1.25. Losses will depend on Bales prices and carrying charges. In Washington It was asserted that It was now certain that farm relief legislation would be a major Issue during the next session of congress, and something new In this line may be devised. Senator Borah la still urgently supporting the export debenture plan, and Senator Watson of Indiana prefers tbe equalization fee scheme. Sen-ator McNary also likes the latter program but says he cannot see how It will help solve the present problem In the face of the world wheat surplus. President Hoover Is opposed to both these plans. Borah suggests that tbe present wheat surplus In this country be sent to China or destroyed. The European powers will not let It be dumped on their markets. SECRETARY of Andrew W. Mellon celebrated his seven-ty- sixth birthday on Tuesday, and the day was mude notable by the Joint award to him and bis brother, Richard R. Mellon, of the medal of the American In-stitute of Chem- - f ' :. :. passing events In our history." Washington, he said, is "sensible of these many serious difficulties." He pointed out that the federal government had contributed more liberally to Porto Rico than to in-dividual states, adding that the Is-land not only was Included In the American economic system but had received government contributions for public works, roads, education and public health. President Hoover's reception In San Juan and everywhere else bis automobile tour of the Island took him was enthusiastic. Wednesday was spent at St Thomas, capital of the Virgin Is-lands, where the people welcomed him respectfully and toW him plainly the needs of the little group thut has Just been placed under tbe control of the Depart-ment of the Interior. That night tbe Arizona began a leisurely re-turn to Norfolk. sts. Though nel- - Andrew w. ther of them is a Mellon scientist they are thus honored as pioneer patrons of science who hare given millions of dollars to promote It during the last score of years. Much of the practical results of the Mellon gifts have come from the Mellon Insti-tute of Industrial Research which they established at the University of Plttsburgn in 1913. There aU Industry and many brunches of science are furnished a place to make discoveries. The Mellons do not usually pay for these re-searches, nor receive any credit for them, although they furnish an Im-portant part of the scientific ma-chinery. "Tbe Mellon Institute," says Dr. Frederick E. Breithut, president of the Institute of Chemists, "is the MAYOR JIMMY of New York has been given the opportu-nity to examine and reply to the charges of mis-feasance and neg-ligence In office led against him. Gov. Franklin Itoosevelt found himself in a difficult osltlon when - Mi ORGANIZED United States Is prepared to fight, with all tbe strength it pos-sesses, any at-tempts to reduce wages. Such is the assertion of Wil-liam Green, presi-dent of the Ameri-can Federation of f 4tai ' ' ' v. mm&.tjM West Point of our Industrial sys-tem, assisting the United States to attain and hold Its foremost posi-tion amongst the industrial nations of the world. Its activities have assisted In bringing to the United States the largest chemical Indus-try In the world. "What Andrew W. Mellon and Richard B. Mellon have done has become more or less a part of our Industrial fabric and technological organization, but it required great vision and courage to see this 20 years ago when research was still merely an unwelcome stepchild iq most of our industries." FOR two years the Treasury has been Investigat-ing charges that European safety match manufacturer were dispos-ing of their products In this coun-try at low prices to the injury of domestic producers. Evidently the charges were found to be true, for Secretary Mellon Issued an anti-dumping order against the impor-tation of safety matches from eight countries. 8ucb action previously had been taken against Russian matches. Tbe latest nations affected are Finland. Norway. Esthonla, Swe-den, Latvia. Austria, Holland and Poland. (A. 131. Weetera Newapaper Dalea.1 asked to oust the Mayor walker mayor or refer the matter to the state legislature for aa Inquiry, but he extricated him-self by the simple expedient of for-warding the charges to Jimmy at bis retreat In Palm Springs, Calif., and asking blm to make answer when he returned to New York. However, the affairs of the me-tropolis are to be thoroughly In-vestigated, and Tammany may be approaching one of Its temporary eclipses. The state senate, by the strictly party vote of 26 to 24, adopted a resolution for an inves-tigation by a legislative committee consisting of three senators and four assemblymen, and after a pro-tracted debate the assembly con-curred with the senate, the vote being 76 to 70. The action of the senate was a surprise to the Dem-ocrats, for Mastlck and Westall, the two Republican Westchester senntors who had formerly blocked such a resolution, suddenly shifted their votes and went along with tbeir colleagues. Their change of mind occurred when William L. Ward, Westchester Republican leader, dropped his opposition to tbe Inquiry following telephone conversations with prominent of New York city. Tbe Labor. In a state-ment Issued in Wm. Green Washington, he said: Reductions in wages have been favored and encouraged by bankers and some employers wbose desire for standard profits has overcome their better Judgment. If they are persisted In, a return to normal conditions will be delayed for two years or more. It Is only through the development of the purchasing power of working peo-ple to the highest possible polut that a market can be found for the goods which we are producing In un ever increasing' volume. "In tbe light of these facta tbe American Federation of Labor con-ceives If to be Its duty to resist, with all the Influence and power a lta command any attempt on the part of employers to reduce wages. Furthermore it win be the policy Ii. . The Sealed Trunk j by HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER : jl Coprrtrht tor The Bobbe-Merr- 0. WWO ferrtee j of a difficulty if It didn't mean tak-ing much trouble and sometimes when It did. Tbe thing she couldn't under-stand was why they bad been so cruel to her father. He never could have meant, whatever It was be'd done, to hurt anybody In tbe world. Yet as she remembered with bitter understanding some of the things that bad happened In the last few weeks before they left WHAT WENT BEFORE At a, dance Martin Forbes, newapaper raportar, maata "Rhode White." Ha overhear a converea-tio- n between Mai Lewis and a woman which he believes con-cerns Rhode. Ha recalla a "blind d" inquiring (or "Rhoda McFar-land- " and aenaea a newapaper story. He believes that Rhode's real uame la McFarland. Ebe re-- I fuees to admit or deny It, bnt Martin waa right Her Ufa In California bad been happy after her mother's death until mlefor-tew-ie overcame her father. Pro. feasor McFarland. They move to Chicago. CHAPTER II Continued De'd smiled and told her he was not rich yet, not rich at all. but that he thought It wasn't going to be long, not more than a few months at most, before he was. As soon as that happened he'd stop work, and they'd go roaming the world together. Meanwhile she was to be patient and get along as best she could. How manv times durlne the next watcb people talk down at tbe end of tbe car. And when she and her father had dinner In tbe restaurant bis long preoccupied silences did not leave ber restless. She would be sampling conversations from all over tbe room. It was real bereavement when Mrs. George left the hotel and went to New York to live. But the best friendship of those four hotel years didn't begin until after Mrs. George bad gone. It was with Miss Bacon, whose rather Incredible first name was Florabel, the public stenographer. Rhoda had been saying good morning te ber and sometimes stopping beside ber desk for word or two, for months. But in her loneliness after Mrs. George bad gone, she formed the habit of making longer visits when she saw Miss Bacon wasn't busy. Miss Bacon was not, Rhoda per-ceived, as old as she bad thought; her being rather stout and her wearing spectacles made ber look so. But she had a Jolly young voice and a nice smile. She didn't ask her own breath for a matter of sec-onds. , It came at last with sob of relief. She cried, rather peacefully un-til, after a while, she beard tbe nurse coming to tell ber. Sbe buried ber face In tbe crook of her arm and lay perfectly still, and the nurse, believing ber asleep, went away again, shutting tbe door after ber. . :l At that, quite suddenly, ber mind went to work. What bad ber fa-ther been trying to tell ber, la that last flicker of his conscious-ness But thinking about that, she decided at last, wouldn't do any good. Tbe fragmentary words worked out to two opposite mean-ings, i He might, of course, have been telling ber to go to Uncle William and that she'd find his address among bis papers. But he might have meant that she was to look out for Uncle William and not let him get possession of tbe papers. And since ber uncle was almost ss much of an ogre to ber as be had been four years ago. It w&s nome to come east, tbe whole town must have turned upon him as If he'd been a leper. They'd broken him, somehow. She couldnt believe, any more, that the happy time be'd used to talk about the long holiday when they'd roam the world doing what-ever they pleased would ever come. But the scheme that was to make It possible obsessed him more and more. He almost never talked to her now ; be dldnt even want her to read to him. And he couldn't be very well, either. His face had a queer bine color sometimes that fright-ened her. He Insisted It was noth-ing, and when she found out aeel- - fonr years had they had thot same talk, without essential variation? Dozens scores I Towsrd the end. the note of it bad gone sharper, more like a cry of desperation, un-til ber one care, with him, had come to be to avoid everything that could remind him of the life she led during the long days from the time be left ber at the break-fast table until he came back sometimes long after dinner at night She didn't wonder now, looking back upon it that as the months stretched into years the thought of the little girl left unoccupied and un cared for should have driven him frantic. And yet somehow, It hadn't been horrible at all. If she'd been a timid child, of course It would have been dread-ful Or If people hadn't naturally liked her and wanted to be kind to ber. Or If her father had been the sort who asked nagging ques-tions and told her she must never do thnt again. She'd begun doing things from the first day he'd left her there In the hotel that he prob-ably wouldn't hove approved If he'd known about Most of the things she'd done hud been sensible pnonifh. aha thnnirlit nrul nhon alia f w S uemauy, mat ne a oeen to see tne doctor who lived In tbe hotel he told her it was for a touch of Indi-gestion. Florabel was urging her now to go out and find herself a regular Job. She was better fitted for It than most of the graduates of the schools, and a3 good as she'd ever get until she'd hnd some actual business experience. Rhoda wanted to do it, hut she felt she couldn't without telling her father about the plan before putting It In execution. So she put Florabel off, saying she would go looking for a Job some time, bnt that she didn't see thnt there was any hurry. At the end of one of these con-versations she saw something In her friend's face thnt made her ask. with a catch In her breath. "Is there any special hurry that you know about?" Florabel visibly hesitated over her answer. "I sort of hnted to tell you," she said. "Why. I'm not go-ing to be here very much longer. You see, Pm going to marry Mr. Gage. You know. And of course rhnt means I'm going to Denver to live. And oh. Lamb. I'd like to see you settled before I go!" Rhode hated to remember the little scene that followed. She'd me latter interpretation tnat sne adopted. What the doctor had said was the thing that frightened her worst "You're only a little girl!" That of course, was nonsense. She was sixteen and lots of people thonght she was older than that. She could pass for eighteen, well enough. He'd said that only be-cause be was sorry for ber. But sixteen was still a child, according to law. You weren't of age until you were eighteen or was It twenty-o-ne? And If Uncle William knew where she was and learned of ber father's death, he'd come and get her, and she wouldn't be able to get away from him. Well then, the only safe thing for ber to do was to disappear before he had time to find out what had hap-pened. Looking back now In those days, after the passage of two years so packed with life that they seemed longer than the four that had pre-ceded them, she wondered that she, a mere child of sixteen, hnd been able to follow out that resolution so steadily that no one had tried to put an obstacle In ber path. Except for a telegram, purport-In- n to come from Florabel In Den- - hadn't been sensible she must have been lucky, for she'd never got Into any serious trouble. One thing thnt went a long way toward making ber situation toler-able during those four years was the fuct thut she'd always hnd as much money as she needed. From somewhere her father had had a perfectly adequate and regular sup-ply. From her fourteenth birthday on, she'd known exactly how much it was: a hundred dollars a week. At thnt time he'd begun handing It all over to her except what his small personal wants required and had given her the Job of keeping their accounts and paying their hotel bills. It had always been In j cash five yellow-backe- d twenties. There'd never been any sign of a change for better or for worse In their circumstances. She never knew where the money came from. Once she asked him outright, and ho hnd so pointedly He'd Smiled and Told Her He Was Not Rich Yet any prying questions. She talked quite a good deal In a nice friendly way, about her own affairs. Prob-ably she was rather lonely herself. Not that she hadn't any relations, but that they didn't do her any good. Her father, It seemed, hod had several wives who had died, one after another, and the children didn't like one another very well, and quarreled. Florabel had been the youngest and she'd had a hor-rible time until she'd managed to learn a trade that made her Inde-pendent Independence was FlornbePs sa-cred word. Everybody, she said, even a girl who was almost sure to get married, ought to have a trade. Then If anything unexpected hap-pened, she'd got something to tie to. "Of course, not if she's rich," she added. said, in he, hurt bewilderment, some pretty mean things, about In-dependence and so on. and she'd made Flornbel cry. They'd made If up, though, within the hour. She helped Florabel shop and she went to the wedding and saw the couple off on the train. She liked Mr. Gage, herself. He was fat, like Florabel, and Jolly. He looked rather solemn, though, when he said good-b- to her. He gave her his card with his address on It and told her to keep It enre fully. If anything ever happened to her, he said, nnd she found she wanted any help, she was to write or telegraph. She refrained from asking him what he thonght might happen. Of course she really knew. When, about a fortnight later, an hour after she and her father had finished their late dinner, the blow fell she hadn't been surprised at all. She had had the doctor ver, which she had slipped out early that morning and dispatched to her-sel- f, she had nothing to show any-one as an indication that she had a friend In the world and the tel-egram wasn't much good since if you looked at It closely you saw thnt It hadn't come from Denver at alL She couldu't have done It, of course, If she hnd not had plenty of money, and, likely enough, n. then If the hotel people hadn't beS accustomed to her paying the bills. She paid everything In cash, that morning, nnd when this was don. she had a little over three hundred dollars left, fifteen twenty-dolla- r bills and a few small ones. The papers her father had fried to tell her something about had al-ways been kept In a big leather hat trunk that must have been her mother's. She opened It and looked . in with the Idea of seeing whether her uncle's address was there, but iifiiorro. tne question mat sne nev-er asked It again. She was afraid she guessed. She was afraid it was her Uncle William the ogre. Her whole ca-pacity for fear was concentrated, focused upon that one polut She believe that It was he from whom she and her father bad fled, thereby frustrating bis Intentions to take her away. The only qualms of panic she ever felt when going about alone on her small excursions to the shops, the library, a near-b- y movie theater, took the form of a belief that she had seen him or that be was fol-lowing her. If he was the source of the money they lived on, then It meant that be knew where they lived and that he was, for some reason she couldn't futhom, biding his time. But she was, as a mat-ter of fact, too healthy and happy, even too well occupied, to think "I'm not rich," Rhodn said. "At least I don't think we are. Father expects to be pretty soon. I wish I could learn stenography. I sup-pose It's awful hard." "It's spelling that Is most Im-portant," Florabel told her. "Can you spell?" "Oh. I think so," Rhoda said. "Spelling Isn't hard. Is It?" "If was for me," Florabel told her. But Khoda, as It turned ont, was one of those lucky people who simply can't misspell a word that they've ever seen In print. "I could teach yon myself," Flora bel volunteered. "I'd like to, first rate. I haven't much to do, hardly ever. In the middle of the morning or In the middle of the afternoon." There never was a more enthusi-astic pupil, and Florabel seemed as excited about It as she was herself. She worked over the preliminary exercises until her hand cramped there within ten minutes, bnt she'd known then that It was too late for his remedies to do any real good. The one thing that It was unen-durable to remember and Impos-sible to forget was the way her fa-ther hnd pleaded with the doctor for one more day. He frantically believed that enough of the drug they were putting Into his veins would give him the little handful of hours that was all he needed. They did give him more stuff out of the hypodermic syringe, but this time It was morphine and under If he relaxed, so that for a while he talked to her, comfortably but con-fusedly. He thought It was Just after her mother died, when she was five years old. But a little later after the nurse hnd come, he roused, as from. a sleep, stared at Rhoda In a fright-ened wav and tried to ancnk tn as the trunk was nearly full she decided against going through It She didn't much want to, anyway. She took It as It was. along with her own small trunk In a taxi te a convenient railway ststlon. It hadn't mattered much which sta-tion except that It had to be one that had a train that went to Den-ver. Tbe next day she took her suit-case with her to the funeral and went from the cold little chapel straight back to the station. She spent that night at the Y. W, C. A., where nothing happened except that by Inadvertence she picked her new name. She'd bad one all chosen, but when they gave her the regis-- , ter card to sign she'd begun writ-ing her old one. Rhoda Whitehnuse ' MacFarland. Half-wa- y through she'd seen what she was doing and stopped. Well, Rhoda White made a good enough name, and she was glad that she hadn't discarded Rhoda. She'd have felt lonely, de-- ! prlved of that The very next day she found a Job nnd met Babe Jennings. The Job was at the News, where Flora-bel hnd told her they took girls without experience In the steno-graphic department nnd trnlnerit them, themselves. If you were good you hnd a chance to be pro-moted to be private stenographer or even secretary to one of the ex-ecutives. ' The only technical untruth Rhodn told the employment manager was that her name was Rhodn White. (TO BB CONTINUED.) . 1 about him much. Really she'd never lacked friends. But her father's often repeated In-struction not to tell who they were or where they came from, to an-swer no personal questions at ail, brought It about that most of her friendships were with members of the staff of the hotel, rather than with residents. There was one exception among the guests: a middle-age-d pretty woman who always wore black a widow, Rhoda supposed. She didn't ask ninny questions because she was deaf, so deaf that you had to shout to make her hear. She was going to a school where yon learned so thnt you could tell what people said by looking at them without hearing their voices at all. The school was downtown in one of the big buildings of the loop, and Mrs. George, whose deaf-ness had come upon her suddenly, hated to venture down Into that confusion alone. Her need was a godsend to Rhoda, who volunteered to go with her every morning. She went Into the class with Mrs. George, and having nothing else to do, she sat and watched and learned g herself. It took Mrs. George three months to lenrn. hut in half that time Rhoda was infallible at It !t made life more amusing. She liked to ride In tbe elevated and j and then until It came uncramped again. She was determined, at every lesson, to surprise Florabel by how mdeh more she knew and she never foiled. By the end of two months she could write a clean page If she didn't try to go too fast, and she was taking slow dictation that Florabel rend not from prepared exercises but out of the newspaper or anywhere. Then one day a client appeared at the desk In the middle of the lesson. Rhoda caught up her note-book and fled, but not very far; only to the nearest sofa. When the man had finished dictating his let-ters nnd gone away she went bock to Florabel. "Let me see If 1 can't write them from my notes," she pleaded. "He talked loud enough for me to bear him, all right, and I know I've got everything." Florabel hnd been rather shocked and she made Rhoda promise not to do It ngnln, but she did let her transcribe her notes on the type writer und there were only a few smnll mistakes. What they did after that with clients they knew, was to ask permission for Rhoda to sit be-side the desk and take the dicta-tion for practice. They were most-ly awfully nice about It. People were like that In the main, according to Rhoda's experi-ence kindly, glad to help one out her. waving the nurses away as he did so. The only Intelligible word she had been able to hear, when he lapsed Into unconsciousness, were "papers" and "your Uncle William." The doctor had been giving some Instructions to the nurse. Rhoda Intercepted him on his way to the door. "Will he wake up'aguin?" she asked him. He looked at her steadily a mo-ment before he answered. "No, my dear child, he won't. This Is the end." And then, surprisingly, his eyes filled up with tears. "You're only a little girl I" he ssld, ns If It were a discovery. "Won't you let me get some woman here In the hotel to take you In until your friends can come and get you? And won't you let me telegraph now. for them?" . She told him, afrnid her voice was betraying her sudden panic, that she would telegraph and thnt she'd rather go and lie down by herself in her own room. The words must have sounded all right, since he assented, though a little dubiously. Even with the door shut she could hear her father's terrible breathing. She wanted to think, but she could not She could only listen. It lasted a long time. When It stopped the cessation brought her bold upright In bed, unable to draw Names Taxed Alphabet 1 A womnn with 2(1 names, all but one of which are Christian names, received power of attorney In a will filed In London recently. The names of the woman appear In the document In this alphabetical or-der: Ann, Bertha, Cecilia. Dlnna, Emily, Fanny. Gertrude, Hypnthla, Inez, Jane, Kate, Louisa, Maud, Nora, Ophelia, Quince, Rebecca, Starkey. Teresa, Ulysses, Venus, 1 Winifred. Xenophon. Yeftn, Zenus, j Pepper. . I Keep It la Mind I . Another Bid to longevity Is !e I realization that the other driver p may be a fooL Kansas City Star. J |