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Hunting a Husband
The Widow Calls at Randolph's Studio and is Showered
with Compliments from' the Artist
By VIRGINIA TERHUXE VAN DE WATER.
Flowers from Maynard came to Beatrice
early, the following afternoon. Sorcohow
these blossoms did not cause her the
qualms of conscience that had been oc
casioned by their predecessors.
She found , hersolf regarding; the wid
ower and his behavior in a different light
from that in which she had considered
them, twenty-four hours, ago. She had
lost a certain personal feeling toward.
the man. After all, she said to herself, he
was only a friend and acquaintance who
had appeared to her as a pleasant com
panion, but one in which she had no par
ticular concern or responsibility, a per
son of whose conduct she often disap-
preyed but who was none the less, an
agreeable and amusing associate: If he
chose to send her flowers, well and good.
It made little or no difference to her
what his actions were.
She compared the two men Maynard
and Randolph and the artist did not lose
by the comparison. She decided that he
was all that she had admired , in her
former suitor, and more besides. May
nard was bright; Randolph was brilliant;
Maynard had a light, easy manner, Ran
dolph had poise and grace and a certain
self-assured dignity that were courtly and
fasclnatmgt To Beatrice's facile fem-
inine mind, Maynard was fast becoming
an incident, Randolph the potential
suitor.
The woman smiled wonderlngly at her
self as she' recalled the hot discussion
nhe had had with Helen Robbins' over
Robert's intemperate habits. What dif
ference did they make to her no?-'
Women of Beatrice's typeaVer o a
greater'or less extent, like weather vanes,
requiring' only the puff of circumstances
to make them turn their backs upon the
object to which they have been stead
fastly directing their attention; and to 'as
sume an entirely new viewpoint. "'
Moreover, : Beatrice's character had
never been a . particularly consistent, one.
She thought much of Sidney Randolph
during that morning. He appealed to' the
romantio strain Inherent In every daugh
ter of Eve as Maynard never had. The
artist had attracted her strongly and un
usually, in the little while she had been
in his company, and she looked forward
with genuine excitement to her, appoint
ment with him for that afternoon.'
Despite her eagerness, however, Beat
rice was enough cf an actress, with an
eye to dramatic effects, to plan to arrive
at the sludlo later than the time the ar
tist had named. -She -felt she would be
more welcome if -the man had begun to
fear she, was not coming.
"It is too bad I am so late," she ex
claimed regretfully as Randolph himself
threw open thet door In response to he
ring. "But I waited long enough to de
cide whether those clouds coming up
from the west meant a shower or not."?
"Tour coming Is ample recompense for
you tardiness, unfortunate as I felt that
.to be," said Randolph with a flashing
smile. "As to the clouds outside they
make no-difference now, for you have
brought . the , sunshine to my gloomy
studio."
He led her Into the clear, chill light of
the great room he used for his work.
Seated on a broad divan, were Helen Rob
bins and a pale, sweet-faced girl of 20.
Both were laughing at the chatter of a
tall, black-bearded foreigner who stood
in front of them. . They, arose as Beatrice
entered, and when the two women
friends had greeted each other with the
superficial . demonstration of affection
customary In such cases, Randolph pre
sented' Monsieur de Renac, while Helen
introduced Miss Damerel
."Of whom you have heard me speak,
Beatrice, my dear," she explained. "Tou
remember we hoped to have her at dinner
with you and were disappointed.'
Miss Damerel gave Beatrice a slender,
gloved hand when the elder woman
greeted her, , but she, only smiled' as' the
widow said they had missed her at the
dinner. "Which, except for your absence,
was delightful," she assured the girl:
Theh, following a suggestion from her
host, she went, with hiih to the other end
of the huge room. ' The place was Uttered
with ' bric-a-brao and the professional
paraphernalia of canvases, paints and
other artistic accessories found in studios.
and Beatrice had noticed only these when
Randolph paused, " " "" '
"There,"; he said -softly, "is-wnat you
came to see." And the widow knew that
she was face to face with the famous
"Iphlgenftt.'' , -
It was, she appreciated at once, a won
derful bit of work. , A . pale, . sum girl,
with' a rapt expression in her dark eyes
and a faint, flicker of. pain about, her
mouth, stood before a smouldering altar
fire, while' in the background .. were
massed a band of somber,', dark-visaged
armored men, their eyes set sternly, upou
the bright,' girlish form. The coloring
and the mastering of light and Bhade
were impressed even to Beatrlce,.and sh
gazed an, It long In silence. Her woman's
Instinct ' warned her against ; fulsome
praise. At last she said in an awed' tone
as she-turned away: -
,"I wish I might see the creator of such
a picture while he paints."
The words were uttered, sincerely and
on the. impulse of the moment, but the
artist caught, at them eagerly.
"If you would only,, permit, I could
gratify that wish," he declared in earnest
tones. "Give me a few sittings and let
me palnt.your portrait!" ' .
' Beatrice laughed shyly. ,
"Don't make fun of mel'V she begged.
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"1 am.only' speaking tfiei truth from niy
heart;" Insisted tho painter, ."I can't tell
you about It now; but some time I wish
you would let me talk the matter over
with you. I am very desirous of your
consent." ' ' - - '
Before she could reply the tea,, was
brought in by a servant, and the quin
tette gathered around a quaint Japanese
table, while the : conversatlori became
merry and general. At the end of a half
hour Helen and Miss Damerel left and
Beatrice followed, their example.
De Renac Insisted volubly upon taking
the ladles home. In his car, which was
waiting below, There would be room for
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Randolph, too, he suggested, If the artist
would leave his "smells . of ' $atnt and
varnish" and take a breath of fresh air,
an Invitation which the host accepted
with alacrity. Thus it came gJJout that
when Beatrice's home was reached it
was, as last night, Randolph who, after
assisting her from the car, accompanied
her to the door. ' '
'"May. I not come and see y6u?" he
asked as the widow gave him her hand
on parting. 1
"I would be very happy If you would,"
she answered.
"Then when may I call?" he queried,
following up his opportunity imme
diately.
"Won't you ome Thursday evening?"
she suggested. . ,
The artist's face fell.
"I have an engagement," "he said
slowly, "but," brightening suddenly, "I
shall break It."
, "Oh. don't' do thatl" iprotested Beatrice,
pleased, nevertheless? at his evident de
sire to av$jl tymsejfof the chance of
seeing ner, asaw, , . ,
'"La reine. le vuet," he quoted, smiling,
"I shall see you on Thursday evonlrig."
"La reine le veut!" repeated Beatrice
as she entered her apartment; "The queen
commands it! And shs, too, smiled.
The Araucanians
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AaKnt 15, 1563.
It was 349 years ago today-August 15,
1563 that the "Arau anlan8, in a bloody
battle near Valparaiso, kiUed the. great
Spanish, commander, Valdlvia, scattered
his army' to , the
winds, and , brought
to a disastrous close
the Initial attempt of
Spain upon the" ah
clent liberties of
Chill.
A wonderful people
are the Araucanians.
It is customary to
think of the Iroquois
or Six Natians as
having been the
greatest 'of all the
Indians of the west
ern hemisphere, but
the honor belongs to the Araucanians of
Chill .and not to the Iroquois of North
America. The Iroquois, great as they
were among red men, were finally made
to pass' under the yoke, but the Arau
canians were never conquered, and ae
today the same freemen that they have
always been' ' ' '
When the- Spaniards went to' Peru In
3X32, the Araucanians occupied' a strip of
territory on the western slope , of the
Andes,- In Chili, between the thirty
seventh and tblrty-ninth parallels. We
learn that they were "of ordinary stature,
but powerfully built; brave, hardy, hos
pitable, faithfujj to their word, generous,
to a fallen enemy and enthusiastic lovers
of liberty.",-. . . - , . y.y " :
It fete -been -shown, that , the original
Mexican and Peruvians were the most
advanced of all. the aborigines of the new
world, and the Araucanians ' were, In
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. . ; ,
many ways, ahead even of the Mexicans
and . Peruvians. By natural disposition
they were far less, cruel and bloodthirsty
than the other native American races,
and in brain power and will power they
were head and shoulders above them all.
Upon the-coming of the white man they
soon learned : the inefficiency of their old
arms as opposed to muskets and. cannon,
and forthwith they laid aside, their bow
and arrows and armed themselves with
spears, swords, and other weapons fitted
for close quarters. , - ;
With their new arms they advanced
rapidly within such a distance of the
Spaniards as, would not leave them time
to reload after firing, and after receiving
the volley, rushed forward In close col
umn, fighting the enemy hand to hand.
When the Spaniards, after conquering
Peru, set out under Pedro de Valdlvia to
try their hand In Chill, they soon found
themselves '.'up against" the Araucanians,
and' it did not take them long to find out
that, they now had to reckon with a dif
ferent breed of men from the Peruvians.
These valiant Indians maintained a de.
fense which for heroism Is without a
duplicate in the history, of warfare, and
had the other native races been equal to
the Araucanians the Dons would never
have gained a'footing in Chill. Even as
It was, Valdtvia's army was broken to
pieces and he himself was slain. .,
- Well and trury has it been said that
nowhere does history afford a more bril
liant example- of what a - brave people.
animated by.' the love of liberty, can ac
complish. After resisting the best troops
and the best generals of Spain for 20
years they at last compelled their proud
adversaries ' to acknowledge their Inde
pendence.
The "Good Fellow" Gets Home
By HAL COFFMAN.
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The word "assassin" was once emi
nently! respectable. It was first used in
the twelfth century in Persia. It signified
a' member of a Mohammedan religious
order. These astastlns devoted their lives
to truth, justice, . "
purity, right, and
their business was to
alvo everybody . a
square deal. ,.
they took' their
name from the lead
er, Hassan, and
were called Hassan
ltts, or Hassassins.
Then some enemy of
the order called them
Hashasalns, orhash
hlsh eaters.
.These men were
fired by religious
teal, until they Van
amuck, killing every
one who tried to op
pose - them. People
thought they were intoxicated by hashish,
-or the Julee of the hemp plant. They may
have been so, but a man Intoxicated by
religious seal, or drunk on success and
his own oratory, Is quite as dangerous as
sn Individual who Is simply plain drunk
on dope or drugs. , . j
The word "assassin" was taken us fcy
the French and circulated, first as a,
slang word, and then it got fixed in the
dlotlonary and when the English adopted
It, It became legitimate.
' .These assassins of Islam were proud of
the name and gloried In it The secret
Order of Assssslns existed from the
twelfth century down practically to our
own time, and members of the order still
endure.
" They weri fatalists, and were, taught
that If they died .In the particular 'work
to-which they were-assigned, theln-souls
would immediately gravitate to paradise,
For 200 years the Order of Assassins
held all Asia Minor in terror, and instt
tuted some very dark ages.
The assassin struck lit the dark, and
the government was powerless to locate
the murderers. In fact, officers of the
government' themselves were often mem
bers Of .this Order of Assassins. The
whole thlnt was very much like the
Camorra of Italy, or the cheerful Ku
Klux Klan. or White Caps, of which
America' has had taste.
The world should beware of men .who
oome In the name of reformation, de
manding that the world should be made
over according to ideal plans which they
themselves have formulated. Any man
who Is better (or who thinks be Is bet
ter) than 'the common run of humanity
is apt to be a dangerous Individual and
may easily gravitate Into the Bacred
Order of Assassins.
The Mahdls" that have appeared from
time to time In the orient, especially in
Asia Minor Persia and Turkey, have
belonged' to this Order of Assassins. The
word "Mahdl" means one who leads' us
out of captivity.
Each of the dosen or so Mahdls that
Mohammedanism has produced has called
himself "The Mahdl."
There was one particular Mahdl that
turned the Soudan Into a trail of danger
and death about the year 18). This Mad
Mullah's business was to restore the
Soudan, and eventually the entire world,
to a condition of peace, equity, Justice
and prosperity through destruction of the
forces that he said were strangling the
plain people. .
This man took to the desert with a few
hundred followers. At first they were un
armed. They lived on the contributions
of the faithful.
A little later, when contributions were
not forthcoming, they , made raids Into
the towns and villages and collected their'
own. Soon, they were transformed into
a formidable mass of cavalry, riding
stplen horses. The restless, the worth
less, the uneasy. aJI those who had noth
ing to lose, quit work and followed the
Mahdl. . :
Ideal communities were to be organ
ised. A new distribution of goods was t.i
be the rule. Thelch and the governing
classes were to be eliminated. The rule
of the people was to be supreme.
The revolt grew so great that the
khedlve abandoned the Soudan.
General Gordon, known as "Chinese
Gordon," . was sent out by the English
government to treat with the, Mahdl,
and, If necessary,, to destroy, him.
Gordon arrived lo Khartoum In MM.
He Issued a request to the hostile Sou
danese to lay down their arms and return
to their homes and go to work, promising
them immunity from punishment for their
offenses. . .. .. ,.- -
The reply of the assassins was to cut
off Gordon's . communication with Cairo
Gordon did not have any Idea. of. ttu
number of men be had to deal with, and
nobody yet knows how this disorganised,
unorganized mass of humanity, that fed
off the land like grasshoppers, shut Gor-
don up with his 10,000 soldiers In Khar, i
toum.
Th h..lAtn trim Am tiM itm ant!W
--w-.,..o ...... "-h. wjc s
or ten months. . , vr
Finally , Great Britain dispatched iXtJ
army to the relief of Gordon, under. Oerrei
eral Wolseley, who arrived within tto-: W
days' march of Khartoum. But throush i ..
the treachery of certain people in Khe- ;1 ,
toum for - whom General Gordon , wa W
fighting the gates were thrown open and
the hordes ;Carae tumbling through, vrJff?
Gordon went down to his death. x-A. ,
Only the death of Gordon aroused th4?'
British nation to the danger of this ru?i.L
of the mob. Kitchener was sent to tho
Soudan wth an army, and it took hlrti
twelve years to put down the rebelllo'n
started by these religious progressives
who thought to make the world over. J .
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Little Bobbie's Fa
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Bf WILLIAM V. KIRK.
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Bobble, sed Pa to me last nite, wan.; 1
he was reeding the sporting palge
the paper, t see that our old pal "Matty? ,fi
is booming along in grate shape. I aln,t
ways feel kind of
orry for poor old
Matty, sed Pa,
the poor old fel
low newer wins
any moar ball
galms. It Is too
bad that men like
McGraw add Matty
have to go back
like they have, sed
Pa, after the good
work thay used to
do for New York
City.""" .
- Pleese, pleese, sed
Ma to Fa, stop all
the time reeding
and talking about
V.! 'iim!
base, ball
tnenkui;
hevvy subjecks. Nobody is Interested e-U
In things like that' ; except a ; few""
fool men that- newer - Btop ,beei-9i
Ing boys. If you have rot to do ' uisrixh
reeding Yn the summer, why dont y,gl.
reaa sum - ute summer- ncasnun, nuer.ov:.
this book ' I am now reeding, .a butirul-s
love story ' by a man that sum day wlli,
be as grate a1 story rlter as Robert
Chambers. The nalm of this story I ani'iV1
reeding la When Love Was Golden. ilmm.
Just listen. to this butluful passege, sed:
Ma, & then she red to us;
Glory O'Brien, debutante though she-f s
. - - . . . A Im.
was, unused as she was to tne wayg
of the -world, felt a rich blush, suf -fuse .-j
her coun-te-nance when Lord Everhope ' .
fixed her with his ardent gaze. Hls.darlclJa.
orbs were the orbs of. a mystic. ana-:.-.:r
somethina In the ' tender yearning ot i'fc
them made her faint, fluttering, almosl!jT
feeble. It wa as if some canary in Edsnbw
had seen j, golden mate 'and fluttsrel;
Into its pulsing wings. . .'j ,W
Isent that pretty? Isent- that dlyinsj If1
wltelng?.' sed Ma, -;.t;iA.'
Wunderful, sed Pa. As I was say,;,-
Ing, Bobble, ;the Giants have got tne;
pennant so , neer , cinched that all tfcayV '
need to do now Is to go down to knij
department stoar & get! the ftag.'poMi'
& tha buntlngi I - guess 1 1 won't cash)';!
this year and send a few. of my Oiicajacji
trends looking for loans, . sed Pa. '.H4;
ha, If thare U' anything . I like it U.ji
to see Frank Chance & his followers? -M-i
getting -the conseet took out of . tha. ;
heads.
Dldent I ask ybu to liesen to me A"'-
mlnnlt &. stop that foolish base ball.jLi
talk? sed Ma. L' havent finished ree4--.
ing to you from this butUul.etory,, ' ,
Lissen: v..... . ,
Lord .Everhppe gased into the noweftt,a
like face of the girl who was soon, tox,
be his bride. The exquisite contour otii
her face was .wonderful. .-. Her ' rosebud'-
Hps were half parted, like the flrs.te
parting petals of a honeysuckle. . Her
perfumed breath, sweet as white ,'clovefcSi
In a June meadow, seemed to sweP hi
eager fao. r iiJI
Com to me, sed Lord Everhope. - e 0T
Glory O'Brien crep like a littel wo0.
nymph into the sheltering arms of hum!
adoring lover, and sobbed on hie uiiW'-!
formed shoulder sobbed from sheer, y
happiness. Isent that divine, sed Ma.
It is., indeed, -sed Pa. But doant fori'"
git one thing, Bobble, after we havft,,:v
got that flag won we still" have a fastT
team to beat, probably , the Red 80?
Always remember that .there's many sV),r
slip between one pennant and twa ' WeA
must cop 4he world's series this yeer.
Then Ma took ber book of Ute sum :al
mef reeding and went Into the llhraryaoj
to read, v .-. , - -.''..; . . . : .. f
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