|restaurant. |

|George Edward Waddell, our famous "Rube," fanned out|
|to-day. It was not the first time Rube had fanned, |
|but it will be his last. Tuberculosis claimed him |
|after a two-year fight. |

|If Mrs. Mary McCormick sneezes or coughs, she will |
|die. Her back was broken yesterday by a fall from a |
|third-story window. Thomas Wilson is being held |
|under a $5,000 bond pending her death or recovery, |
|charged by the police with pushing her from the |
|window. |

=107. Lead Beginning with a Conditional Clause=--The lead beginning with
a conditional clause is valuable for humorous effects or for summarizing
facts leading up to a story. As a rule, however, one must avoid using
more than two such clauses, as they are liable to make the sentence
heavy or obscure.

|If Antony Fisher, 36, 1946 Garden Street, had not |
|written Dorothy Clemens she was a "little love," he |
|would be worth $1,000,000 now. But he wrote Dorothy |
|she was a little love. |

|If Joe Kasamowitz, 4236 Queen's Avenue, speaks to |
|his wife either at her home or at the news-stand she|
|conducts at the St. Paul Hotel; if he loiters near |
|the entrance to the hotel; or if he even attempts to|
|call his wife over the telephone before Saturday, he|
|will be in contempt of court, according to an |
|injunction issued to-day by Judge Fish. |

=108. Lead Beginning with a Substantive Clause.=--The substantive clause
has two main values in the lead,--to enable the writer to begin with a
direct or an indirect question, and to permit him to shift to the very
beginning of the lead important ideas that would normally come at the
end of the sentence.

|That Jim Jeffries was the greatest fighter in the |
|history of pugilism and Jim Corbett the best boxer, |
|was the statement last night by Bob Fitzsimmons |
|before a crowd of 5,000 at the Orpheum theater. |

|That he had refused to kiss her on her return from a|
|long visit and had said he was tired of being |
|married, was the testimony of Mrs. Flora Eastman |
|to-day in her divorce suit against Edwin O. Eastman,|
|of St. Louis. |

=109.