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Wear one—you'll note 5 % the difference at once. i $2 to $5 J OPEN EVENINGS \ \ McFALL'S | ij Hatters, Men's Eurnishers and 5 Ji Shirt Makers r ;j Third and Market Sts. \ A Cough, A Cold, Neuralgia, Etc. caused by opening doors and windows to get food placed on the back porch or window ledge, while you are overheated, may cost more for physicians' calls than the cost of a whole year's ice bill. Keep your refrigerator in service all the year it is health insurance. Besides, food should not be placed out of doors where germs are liable to attack it. A piece of ice lasts a long time in cool weather. United Ice & Coal Co. Farster A Cowden St*. THURSDAY EVENING, iMary Roberts Rin^art's I Thrilling Mystery of i ["The Curve of the Catenary" (Continued From Yesterday) "Go upstairs and change your O'.Ue," r.hc said. "I've had your thinjni laid out." "Where's Sharp?" "Sharp has gone," said the mater. "He took a notion yesterday to go back to England and enlist. Your father felt that, if he felt it his duty, he ought to be encouraged." I was annoyed. I liked Sharp. He was an amusing old cuss, a socialist or anarchist or something, against every thing. Doesn't it beat anything how the war has taken those revolution ary chaps and made them good citi zens? I went upstairs, and of course the wrong things were out, and nobody to fix my shower the way I like It, or anything. But I got dressed somehow, and I looked out to see if the cars were arriving. None had come, and as I wasn't keen on a chat with the mater, I looked about' for my card to the as sembly. It was gone, and when I got sis on the house phone she said she hadn't seen it. I got one of the housemaids, and she declared she hadn't thrown it out. She'd seen it stuck in my glass two or three days before. Jove, it made me uncomfortable. I slipped down to the telephone and got Charlie Thomas, who's always in charge of the assembly invitation list. They give it to Charlie to do be cause nobody who doesn't belong can slip anything over on him. To get to the assembly past him you have to flash three forebears, a D. A. R. In the family, and a paid-up membership at the two best clubs. "Who sends out the invitations for the assembly, Charlie?" I asked. "I mean, who keeps the list, number, and all that?" "Are you on that, too?" he said. "The police are doing it, you know." "Do you know if my card is in?" "Watt a minute. I think it is. I've been going over the list." He left the phone and came back almost immedi ately. "You're officially marked present. Your ticket's here." "I wasn't there." He whistled. Sure your people didn't turn it is. "Sure your people didn't turn It in, by mistake?" "I'll ask again. I think not." I hung up. and looked about my room. Sly boots were in a row in the closet, as Sharp had left them. Every thing was in order, as Sharp had left It. Sharp! It sounds reasonable, doesn't it? He was a dignified looking fellow, verv gentlemanly. I'll bet, in evening clothes, he could have gone anv- j where. Sharp! And now he was gone. To serve his country! Bosh! To sell the jewels' Rhen the thing had blown over, and buy a little place in Dorset, and settle i down to gentleman farming and writ ing to the local paper about the min istry. Sharp! Some time or other this raav meet your eye. Sharp. So I here and now apologize. If you have read to this point you know that, what with ex citement and loss of sleep. I was hardly rational. You know I never ! could stand loss of sleep. Sharp. To get back to the curve of the catenary—l've gone a long way from ' the curve haven't I? I'm comiingl to it pretty soon. It's like all curves —not the shortest way to a given I point, you know. But it's not cat and , canary. I think I've said that al- 1 ready. Well, the women came, and there' wasnt one smile to divide among the! crowd. &ore? They were the mad- . dest lot of dowagers I've seen in a long time. It hadn't affected their appetites, however. I handed around endless' cups of tea and plates of cake, and one silly old woman had brought her daughter, and when they were gorg ed I had to sit and listen to her raving over Anderson's dancing at the Ma jestic. "I'm perfectly shameless about him." she confided to me. "I almost cried when I heard that he had hurt his foot and had had to cancel the engagement." And a week ago I'd been .rushing that girl! That was the sort mother wanted me to marry, nice girls in my own class! 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I had a feeling that J ought to be up and doing something, I didn't know what. Martin telephoned me late that af ternoon at the club from a pay sta tion, calling me just as the women were going. "Look here," he said. "You have no business hiding that camera. It's more serious than you think it is." "You didn't seem to think it was serious at the time. You had a pretty good laugh over it." "Where is it?" "Whose is it?" ''You know that." "All right. Then I'll take It back where it belongs." "You won't tell me where it is, or how you got it?" "If it's as serious as you say it is, it's not the thing to tell over the phone." Well, I paid up for not telling him, all right. I may be proud of some of the things I did at that time, but I'm not proud of all of them. When all the dowagers petted me at the last, and I was feeling a bit chesty, all I had to do was to remember some of j the fool breaks I made, and believe ' me, I wasn't crazy about myself. I went to get the camera at some- I thing before 6 o'clock, but the shop j was closed. We do things like that in ! our town. I banged at the door, and generally made an ass of myself. But ! there was nobody there. And the more j I thought about it, the more I want* I ed the thing. Martin had said the camera was ' important-—more than that. How was I old Mr. Hazeltine mixed up in the I trouble at Boisseau's. Was he? I ' put the murders out of my mind. No- I body could look at the old man and think he was a criminal. You can see how I missed it every time. I wasn't the only person who knew about the camera. Somebody had found it. The dealer had. He'd heard me call up Boisseau about it, too. And I've failed to get across the excitement in the town over the rob bery if you don't realize that old Bois seau was. as you may say, in every mouth in the city in those days. The other crimes were nothing, in comparison. Taxi drivers and women, and even policemen get cut up now and then, and there's no real excite ment about it. But it's not every day that the best people in town are stood in a row and spoken to like ordinary folks and robbed and left counting sixty twenty times. I had meant to have dinner at the club, and go up after dark that night with the camera to the house on the hilltop. For two reasons I changed my plans. One was that I had not been able to get the camera. The other was a visit from the N. C. I was shaving when his card came, and I sent word to have him brought up. I was nervous, I can tell you. All I had in mind was to keep the little girl out of the mix-up, and as I didn't know what the mix-up was, I had my work cut out for me, believe me. But at first I thought X was going to get off without any trouble. "Come in," I slci, stfiortly. "I'm shaving." ' "Using a safety, too." he said, with his obnoxious grin. "It's a pity our friend of the other night hadn't been addicted to a safety, although that's . a queer thing, too. Those cuts were der-por thnn razor ruts." I was shaving the angle of my shin at that minute, and 1 had a sort of instantaneous picture of that poor wretch on the driving seat of that taxi and what I'd seen in the light of a match. The N. C. sat down on the edge of the bathtub and folded his arms. "Now that I see you with your coat off," he said, "I'm not so asham ed of the other morning. You nearly broke my jaw, young man. I've been living on liquids ever since." "What do you mean by those cuts not being razor cuts? They were made by either a razor or a knife, weren't they?" "That's the question. There was something curious about the cuts. A man who makes an attack with a razor folds it back on the handle— I if you have one about, I'll show you." "Haven't any here. Nothing but this. Did you conie to talk about razors?" "Not exactly. I was only making i conversation until you were readv to talk." He grinned at me and looked at my right hand. "Broke it up, didn't you!" he said. "I've got considerable jaw. Saved my life once. I was in a fire, and I held onto a cable by my teeth. If you're ready, we'll go into the other room. This ain't too comfortable to sit on." He followed me into the other room, ! and his manner changed. "What about this valet of yours or is it val-ay ? He left kind of sud , den. didn't he?" "I didn't know he was going. He ; may have had it in mind for some time. I never talked much to him." "No, I suppose you wouldn't." He : eyed me. "He had the run of things of course?" "Naturally." "Know any of his past historv?" "I got him in London. He had ex | cellent letters." "Letters! They're easy to get. Ever ' occurred to you to associate him with ! the trouble at Bolsseau's?" "I've thought of it." ; "You didn't give your assembly i ticket to anyone, by chance?" "No. I,ook here. I know all that Sharp could have taken the ticket and got in. He'd have had no trouble But I don't think he did. First, he's | always been honest with me. Second ; it's too obvious, too easy. Besides, ; whoever held up that crowd at the as sembly ball knew the lights were going off. The thing was planned from the start. The gas was shut off at Bois scau's. Sharp couldn't have done it. He didn't know how." "There are plenty of others that do know. "Well," ho drawled, "that's sus picious, too. Watch a fellow who hasn't any friends." • • • But all at once I felt that he was only drawing me. He was sizing me tip, getting a line on me. He hadn't come to talk about Sharp. He got up and picked up the overcoat he'd thrown on the bed. i "Well, it's a queer business. He said. "The loot's still In town. I'll answer for that." "Then you don't suspect Sharp'" got him -" he said coolly. No, I don t r.-.:spect Sharp, Mr. Gray since you want the truth. He's not the caliber for the Job. It took some body with a very strong imagination to see the best part of this town in darkness, with the telephone connec tions all gone, trolley lines stopped and al! the rest of it. Somebody who knew society, too —who knew that the youngsters would stay and dance In the dark, and that the old women, who always carry the decorations, would make for the dresslngroom. * V "' '• 1 - • y HARRISBURG TELE I THE SUBURB WITH GAS, WATER AND ELECTRICITY I I I I A Camp Hill, Mechanicsbu I I Street Car Takes You to I H ■ East Camp Hill Addition . R. O. STUCKENRATH, Owner Located on the east of Camp Hill, between Market, Cumberland and Front streets. INDUCEMENTS 5c carfare, 15-minute car service, gas, water, electricity, refined neighborhood, splendid homes, 50-foot streets, 20-foot alleys; nothing less than 50 feet on Market ra street, 40 feet on all other streets, sold to a purchaser. 15-foot building line re- H striction, 150-foot depth of lot, railway station and train service, ready to build • 11 on, fit to live in. PRICES RIGHT—TERMS LIBERAL W To Be Sold For Cash or Easy Terms I Sat., Oct. 14th, at 1.30 P. M. H 20 reservations of lots made thus far—Call 3688-J BELL—Our automobile at your service—Let us take ® you to the grounds. p> I Only 116 Plots Available | I Bell 3688-J J 1 THE SUBURB WITH GAS, WATER AND ELECTRICITY If We'll have to look higher than Sharp for our mar.." 1 didn't care for the way he grin ned at me. "Go to it," I said, "and good luck to you. There are a good many people in this town who'd be glad to have the police surprise them with a little real work." "I think we'll give them a real sur prise while we're about it." The grin set on his face, rather. I remember thinking I was glad he wasn't after me. with that jaw, and then, suddenly, knowing he was after me. Gad, it took my breath. "Been taking any pictures lately?" he said, as he went toward the door. He turned on the question, but I had a second to set my face in order, as you may say. "Pictures?" "You can't hide your talents, you see. These little things get out. Yes, I said pictures." (To Be Continued.) ■ Legal Notices In the Estate of Mary Anna Seitz, late of the City of Harrisburg, Pa., de ceased. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned will apply to the Orphans' Court of Dauphin County on the 23rd day of October, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m. for an order to sell at private sale for the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, for payment of debts, the fol lowing real estate of the said deceased, to wit: A lot of land fronting on the west side of Plum Avenue, thirteen feet seven inches, and extending westward !y with that width thirty-nve feet, ana thence westwardiy with a width of tit teen feet to a priate alley; bounded on the north by property of Lillie M. Fisher and on the south by property of Mary E. Fisher, and having thereoii erected a two-story frame house num bered 1110 Plum Avenue. IGNATZ I'UHREH, Executor of Estate of Mary Anna Seitz, deceased. FOX & GEYER, Attorneys. In the Matter of the Assigned Estate ot John B Roberts, et ux. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned auditor, appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to make distri bution of the funds In the hands of the Commonwealth Trust Company, As signee of the Assigned Estate of John B. Roberts, et ux. as shown by Its ac count, among those legally entitled thereto, will sit for the purposes of his appointment In the Dauphin County Uw Library at the Court House in the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on the 20th day of October, 1916, at 10 o'clock A. M., when and where all pei sons Interested may attend if they sen proper so to do. PHILIP S. MOYER, Auditor. Harrisburg, Pa., October 5, 1916. CHARTER NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that an ap plication will be made to the Gover nor of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania on the 27th day of October, 1916, under the Act of Assembly entitled "AH act to provide for the incorporation and the regulation of cevtain corporations, approved April 29. 1874. and the sup plements thereto, for tfie charter of an intended corporation caned "The Tem perance Development and Agency Com pany of Pennsylvania. The character and object of which Is acting as agent In the business of life, health, accident and disability insurance and In con- I nection therewith and ns an incident | to find furtherance thereof the promn i tion and advancement of the cause ot Temperance and total abstinence from the use.of malt, splrltous and alcoholic beverages, and for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of said Act of Assembly. JAMES A. STRANAHAN, Solicitor. E Legal Notices LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION on the Estate of John A. Fritchey. late or Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsyl vania, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims to present the same without delav to ELEANOR P. FRITCHEY, Administratrix, 911 N. Second Street, Harrisburg, Pa. Or to EDWARD F. DOEHNE, Attorney, 317 Chestnut Street, Harrisburg, Pa. Proclamation in Divorce In the Court of Common Pleas of Dau phin County, No. 106, March Term, 1916 Beryl Loeb vs. Arthur Loeb. IN DIVORCE To Arthur Loeb, Respondent. Sir— You are hereby notified that the above stated case in which you are tne respondent, has been listed for a hear ing in the said Court, in the Court House, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday, the 22d day of October, 1916, at 10 o'clock A. M., when and where you should appear. R. SHERMAN CARE. Attorney for Libellant. Proclamation in Divorce In the Court of Common Pleas of Dau phin County, No. 240, March Term, 1916 —Robert L. Bush vs. May Busri. IN DIVORCE To May Bush, Respondent. Madam — You are hereby notified that the above stated case in which you are tile respondent, has been listed for a hear ing in the said Court. In the Court House, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday, the 23d day of October, 1916, at 10 o'clock A. M.. when and where you should appear. R. SHERMAN CARE, Attorney for Libellant. NOTlCE—Letters Testamentary on the Estate of William C. Peters, late of Harrisburg, Dauphin County. Pa., de ceased, having been granted to the un dersigned residing in Harrisburg, Pa., all persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make Immediate payment, and those having claims will present them for settlement, to ADA BELL PETERS, Executrix. 123 State Street. Or, Harrisburg, Pa. HARRY M. BRETZ, Attorney, 222 Market Street. Legal Notices PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO THE CITIZENS THE COMMON WEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL OK REJECTION. BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMON WEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. AND PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMON WEALTH. IN PURSUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITU TION. Number One. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to article IX of the Constitution of Pennsylvania Section 1. Be It resolved by the Sen ate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met. That the fol lowing amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be. and the same Is hereby, proposed. In accordance with the XVIII article thereof:— .Section 16. The State, or any mu nicipality thereof, acquiring or appro priating property or rights over or In property for public use. may. In further ance of Its plans lor the acquisition and public use of such property or rights, and subject to such rertrlctlons as the Legislature may from time to time, impose, appropriate an excess of property ovt*r that actuatly to t>e occu pied or used for public use, and may thereafter sell or lease such excess, and Impose on the property so sold or leased any restrictions appropriate to preserve or enhanco the benefit to the public of the pioperty actually occupied OCTOBER 12, 1916. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. X. CYRUS E. WOOD. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Two. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing; an amendment to tne Consti tution of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania so as to consolidate tho courts of common pleas of Philadel phia County. Section X. Be it resoived by the Sen ate and House of Representatives of tne Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen eral Assembly met. That the following amendment to the Constitution of Penn sylvania be. and the same is hereby, proposed, in accordance, with the eigh teenth article thereof:— That section six of article five be amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. In the county of Phila delphia all the jurisdiction and powers now vested In the several numbered courts of common pleas of that county shall be vested in one court of common pleas, composed of all the judges In commission in raid courts. Such Juris diction and powers shall extend to all proceedings at law and in equity which shall have been instituted in the sev eral numbered courts, and shall be sub ject to such change as may be made by law and subject to change of venue as provided by law. The president Judge of the said court shall be selected as provided by law. The numoer of Judges in said court may be by law Increased from time to time. This amendment shall take effect on the first day of January succeeding its adoption. In-the county of Allegheny all the Jurisdiction and powers now vested In the several numbered courts of common pleas shall be vested in one court of common pleas, composed of all the Judges in commission In said courts. Such jurisdiction and powers shall ex tend to all proceedings at law and In equity which shall have been instituted In the several numbered courts, and shall be subject to such change as may be made by law, and subject to change of venue as provided by law. The presi dent judge of the said court shall be selected as provided by law. The num ber of judges in said court may be by law increased from time to time. This amendment shall take effect on the first day of January succeeding Its adoption. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2. CYRUS E. WOODS. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Three. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to article nine, section four of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva nia: authorizing the State to issue bonds to the amount of fifty millions of dollars for the improvement o i the highways of the Commonwealth Section 1. He it resolved by the Sen ate and House of Cepresentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the fol lowing amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and the same is hereby, proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof:— That section four of article nine, which reads asfollows: '•Section 4 No debt shall be created by or on behalf of the Stale, except to supply casual deficiencies of revenue, repel Invasions, suppress insurrection, defend the State in war. or to pav ex isting debt; and the debt created to supply deficiency in revenue snail never exceed in the aggregate, at any one tin,*', one million dollars," be amendnu so as to read as follows: Section 4. No debt shall be created by or on behalf of the State, except to supply casual deficiencies of revenue, repel Invasion, suppress Insurrection, defend the State In war. or to pav ex isting debt: and the debt created to sup ply deficiencies in revenue shall nevei exceed In the aggregate, at any one time, one million dollars: Provided, however. That the General Assembly, Irrespective of any debt, may authorize the State to Issue bonds to the amount of fifty millions of dollars for the pur pose of improving ind rebuilding the Highways of the Commonwealth. Section 2. Said proposed amendment shall be submitted to the qualified elec tors of the State, at the Keneral elec tion to be held on the Tuesday next folio" Ing the first Monday of Novem ber In the year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the purpose of decidlnit upon the approval and ratification or the rejection of said amendment. Said election shall be opened, held, and closed, upon said election day, at tha places and within the tiuurs at and witn in which said election is directed to be opened, held, and closed, and i.i accord ance with the provisions of the laws of Pennsylvania governing elections, and amendments thereto. Such amendment shall be printed upon the ballots in tho ! form and manner prescribed by the I election laws of Pennsylvania, and shall in all respects conform to the require ment of such laws. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. a CYRUS E. WOODS, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Four. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section eight, article nine or tile Constitution of Pennsylvania. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Sen ate and House ' Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assemoly met, and it Is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That the Constitution of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania. In accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth article thereof:— Amendment to Article Nine, Section Eight. That section eight of article nine of the Constitution be amended by strik ing out the tald section and Insertlh T in place thereof the following:— Stction 8. The debt of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or other municipality or Incorporated district, except as provided herein and in section fifteen of this article, shall never exceed seven (7) per centum up on tile assessed value of the taxable property therein, but the debt of tne city of Philadelphia may be Increased in such amount that the total city debt of said city shall not exceed ten per centum (10) upon the assessed value of the taxable property therein, nor shall any such municipality or district itu ur any new debt, or Increase its indebted ness to an amount exceeding two <2) per centum upon such assessed valua tion of property, without the consent of the electors thereof at a public elec tion in such manner as shall be pro vided by law. In ascertaining the bor rowing capacity of the said city of Philadelphia, at any time, there shall be excluded from the calculation and deducted from such debt so much of the debt of said city as shall have been In curred. and the proceeds thereof in vested, in any public improvements of any character which shall be yielding to the said city an annual current net revenue. The amount of such deduc tion shall be ascertained by capitaliz ing the annual net revenue from such Improvement during the year Immedi ately preceding the time of such ascer tainment; and such capitalization shall be estimated by ascertaining the prin cipal amount which would yield such annual, current net revenue, at the average rate of Interest, and slnking fi.nd charges payable upon the Indebt edness incurred by said city for such purposes, up to the time ot' such ascer tainment. The method of determining such amount, so to be deducted *nav be prescribed by the General Assembly In incurring indebtedness for any pur pose the city of Philadelphia may issue its obligations maturing not later than fifty <oO) years from the date thereof... with provision for a sinking-fund suf- # ficient to retire said obligations at ma turity. the payment to such sinking fund to be in equal or graded annual or other periodical Instalments. Where any Indebtedness shall be or shall have been incurred by said city of Philadel phia for the purpose of the construc tion or Improvement or p"bllc works of any character from which income or revenue is to be derived by said city, or for the reclamation of land to be used in the construction of wharves o docks owned or to be owned by sal* city, such obligations my be In amount nifflole.it to provide for, ana may Include tne amount of, the Interest and sinking-fund charges accruing anil which may accrue thereon throughout the perloc of construction, and until the expiration of one year after the completion of the work for which said indebtedness shall have oeen incurred; and said city shall not be reoulred to levy a tnx to pay said Interest and Mnklng-fund charges as required by section ten. article nine of the Consti tution of Pennsylvania, until the ex piration of said period of one year after the completion of said work. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4. CYRUS E WOODS. Secretary of the Common wealth-
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