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RUPERTSARGENT jh&QT
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Author of "Th Count t Harvard," etc
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Copyright. 1008. by J. B. Llpplncott
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that gives great spirit and variety to happenings along
the Atlantic coast.
RUPERT SARGL'NT HOLLAND
Is the author of this entrancing serinl, and his gifted pen
has done fine work in depicting events that are stirring
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end entertaining, lhere is
modern Pirate; there is beautiful Barbara Graham, a
fine young girl to admire and love, and the gallant ad
venturer, who meets with some thrilling experiences!
The air of the mystical about
n absorbing and well devised plot
The Pirate of Alastair is essentially a story of the
times, recently written, copyrighted, and is a serial having
features that commend it to every reader as a capital
romance! We bespeak for this narrative a very favor
able reception, arid do not hesitate to pronounce it one
f the leading romances of its class modern, interesting,
nd having all the elements of a splendid story.
CHAPTER 1.
I Ton know Alastair? No how ahonld
ou? Very few people know It, and I
tare done my best to keep the secret to
ftirself. The place lies, however, not o
ery far from great cities on the Atlan-
Se coast. Ton take a train northward
ora Boston, and when you reach the
proper station you alight and climb Into
' countryman's wagon, and he drives you
through the pines by a twlatlng, sand
'milt road to Alaatnlr. You will know It
'because you can go no farther, unless you
ehooae to drive Into tha waver.
Few people, come to Alaatnlr. Moat
ft tha travelers In thia part of the world
Ca off about a mile inland from the
ch and go on for another mils and a
4lf to the Penguin Club. The latter la
fall of New Yorker who come to the
fines and the sea to hunt and fish and
forget Wall Street and Fifth Avenue,
tliey forget It by keeping close together,
fKod dreaalng for dinner, and dancing
very other night
. Alastair Itself la only a beach between
wro great headlands. From the end
where my cottage stands, snugly hid in
flbe pines on the edge of the dunes, the
veach stretohea smooth and white to a
Dttle land-locked harbor at the farther
etnd. Bit on my porch and look down
Jong the aands to the east and you
will see a reef of rocks shaped like the
tatter U that closes in a little salt water
tke with tha aid or a distant cliff. It
not quite a lake, rather a email In
land sea, for the tides have room to ebb
ad flow. A ship la settled Into the
ends of this sea. settled upright, ao
that on may walk tho decks, and I
Often go there of an afternoon when the
.ids la low and climb on board. It la a
. food place to sketch, and I can leave
stay palnta and canvas In the cabin.
I stumbled across Alaatalr when I was
looking for a quiet place In which to
Vrlte. I found the dilapidated cottage,
camped In it for a week, and fell ao much
In love with the beach that I went to
own, bought the bini.se and pnrt of the
woods, and moved in. Charles, the man
who had nerved my father before me, de-
Imirred at first, but finally gave In, and
arnod himself into cook, housemaid, and
alet for my sake.
From my balcony I can see the distant
-rocks of the little inland sea and, stand
ing up above them, the high aides of the
jhip, and its single remaining broken
tnast pointing straight to the heavens,
Sometime the stars seem lo outline
where the inisaing spars and sails should
fee, and on a bright night 1 can half close
any eyea end fancy that I see the ringing
lighted and lanterns burning on the quar
ter-deck.
There m history hidden In that bat
tered hulk. She la no ordinary vessel
tuid may once, for all I know, have been
pirate craft. She has the long clipper
lines of swiftness, and her high, bulging
tww is of a tyi long past. ben I
first cams to Alastair I made Inquiries
ft to her history, but the oldest farmer
oald tell me only that she had alwnv
Wo there so far aa he knew, and dia-
visaed the subject as of no importance.
The people of the near-by wintry ap
peared never to have boarded the casta
ay. I felt the joys of Crusoe when
Brat cl untied on tier uvea. '1 he name
ta gone, long ago waahed oi.t by th
tea ; the deck was hare, and the top of
the forecastle cbnk"d with aand.
drought a shovel and dug sway the ram'
part drifted against the hatches. At
last I could open the door and, clearln
Che steps of what little wind bad sifted
through, I driK'euded into the cabin. It
w mildewed with damp and water, but
fn time, ty bailing and letting the sun
in, I dried it out and found quite a ball
liable apartment, furnished with talil
od chairs and a row of bunks along the
ceawird side. Whatever there had been
that was portable the first wrekera must
years before hare carried off. All that
was left was a heavy oaken cheat, stud
4ed with bras nails, now grt-r-nish-yel
low, and when I broke the lock 1 foun
the chest bare.
My fancy loved to play about the
ablp. Often I l named of her and of
nan who should come up out of the sea
od tread ber deck agnlu. lie was a
ejray a uuigueiic ticure, and 1 a ever
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OF ALASTAIR is a
romance of love and adventure of great
power and interest. There is a charm
to this story that is manifest in every
chapter. While the incidents deal with
modern, every-day life, the author has
brought in a glamour of the romantic
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the mysterious bhip and the
the story is warranted by
could resist the call of mystery to fight
uesine mm.
CHAPTER II.
It was the moat beautiful August that
I remembered. Tho air waa clear as a
bell, and day after day the sun rose on
a . tranquil world and amiled at It for
Joy. Every morning at breakfast I would
say to Charles, "Did you ever know
auch weather, Charles?" and he would
anawer, "No, sir, I never did, air," and
every evening at supper I would say, "It
has been a glorloua day, Charlea, haan't
It?" and he would answer, "It has, sir,
Indeed it has, sir," My family servant
made a perfect echo.
The afternoon on which I finished the
first half of my book I eat for some time
on the porch outside my den, smoking. I
was too serene to stir. I watched the
gulls circle and skim above the pine
crowned cliff, and the laiy waves, rising
occasionally into sparkling white caps,
lift tneir heads and duck again like play
ful dolphins. The tide was coming In :
could mark the great wet circles on thai
beach aa ll advanced, now recedlne for
moment, but quickly recovering tha
lost ground and marching on, steadily
winning over the yellow sands. It would
be high-tide by sunset or a little after;
everyining waa setting in from sea to
land; th salt smell waa coming atrotielv
on the east wind.
About 5 o'clock I abut the. door of m
cottage and started down the beach, con
scious of no further plan than to board
the ship and, possibly, catch something
of the late afternoon color for my can-
vaa. inow and again 1 stopped to watch
small flocks of aand snipe scurry over
me wei, gusieuing sanos, now to watch a
wave recede and leave a path of opales
cent pebblce in Its wake. There were
owels for all the world and to spare as
long a;i the water bathed the stonoei.
to, walking lulsurely, I came In time
to the far end, and looked across tho lmr-
lorlng rocks to tho ship. To my surprise.
a young woman stood on the deck, and
nutlcring from a splinter of the mast
was a white handkerchief. She was look-
ng across at me, her hands shading her
eyes from the eunset glitter at my back.
and as she saw me look up she waved
her hand beckonlngly. Tho easy path
to the ship lay through a small break
whern the rocks Joined the cliff, but this
break was some distance off. With a
smile for what I saw must have happened
to the skipper, I climbed over the near
est rocks and stood on the edge of the
little Inland sea. Sure enough, the tide
n rising bad covered the cause a v to
the cliff, and waa pouring in, fast tilling
the harbor, like the bowl of a flooded
fountain. The water waa not yet deep;
It barely covered the path by which the
cipinrer had come, and even off the
rocks In front of it it was scarcely up to
my knees.
The woman of the ship called, "I'm
marooned. I came by the path and for
got all about the tide. What shall I do?"
She jwlnted towards the way she had
come, but I was in rouau clothes and
quite used to a wetting, so I waded in
and, crossing the shallow bowl, quickly
scrambled ou to the high divk. I stood
up dripping and laughing.
So yon thought you'd go for a sail.'
I asked, "but didn't think you'd sail ao
far from land?"
The girl I saw now that ahe couldn't
be more than 'JO looked qulszlcally at
me for a second, then imiled, and finally
laughed.
It waa such a very real ship," aha
said, "that I couldn't resist the call. I
full asleep sitting against the gunwale,
and when I woke up th water was over
the path not very far over, but quite
enough to ruin these forever." She
pointed to her kid slippers. "I was grow
ing desperate when I saw you on th
beach."
1 waa studying th slippers ; there waa
no question but thai the salt water
would ruin them. She inspected them
also.
n waa very foolish ot me t wear
them, but I had no idea of going far
wneu I left the club. The first thing I
knew, I caught a glimpse ot the water,
and then I forgot the slippers and walked
on until I oatM to that cliff, aad froia
ther I mw this llftie nsrW and this
boat, tni I couldn't rit that, could IT'
I shook my held. "Nobdy could re
sist It."
"I had Just about com to th point
of taking them off and wading in," she
went on, and then finished, "when I
sighted you."
"I can go away again," I etigfeated.
"No," ahe said slowly; "I'd rather you
didn't do (hat. There miiHt be some
other way out of It."
"There are several other waya." I an
awered. "I've often atudied the problem
from thia very deck."
I thought ahe looked a little bit sur
prised. "Do you often find people ma
rooned here glrN. I mean?"
"No, but I've often wondered what I
ahould do if I did. To tell the truth,
I've never found any one here before, but
the r hi p look aa If ahe ought to be In
habited. She's a good ahlp, and once
belonged to a pirate chief.'
"How do you know that?" r.he asked.
"I'.y tlie oaken chet below-deck. It
liaa the pirate look, though there's noth
ing In It."
"yea," ahe aald; "I made an exploring
trip and I found the chest."
"Don't you nprrf with me. then?"
Again there came tliut quitical look
in her eye, and then the smile.
"Yea," ahe anid: "it mint have belong
ed to a pirate." She atopped abort and
the iniile spread from her lip to her
eye. "Shall I tell you a eccre'.? When
I fell asleep here an hour ago I dreamed
of pirates, of a real old-fashioned buc
caneer who enme tip out of the cabin
fully armed, pistols In hia pocketa and la
hia handa and a pb;tol clenched In 'hia
teeth. The funny part of it la that he
waa exceedingly polite to me. Do you
ever have auch foolish dreams aa that?"
'Often ; a buccaneer calla on me every
other week, I'm only waiting for the
chance to ship with ona. I think their
BX r. 'Sndnh.t
bit Alaatalr."
tola up to captnre
soma Ioosf "frauds af hair, and for tha
first tim, i not(,d ,he Ana aPun gold in
the aim.
"Alastair?" ahe repeated. "Oh, so thia
la the beach of Alastair and you ?"
She pauaed. "You muat be the man they
told me abont at the club yon live In a
cottage at the far end of the beach, and
write books, and never come out of your
h"
bowed. "I am the man, I aaid, "and
yonder is ray home. I pointed west
ward to where the tip of my balcony
showed between th dunes.
"What a beautiful little world!" she
said, and then, a moment later, "but
how lonely! Who named the place Alas
tair?" I don't know. It'a always been called
that, apparently."
"It s a lovely name. And what do you
call the ship?"
Oh. just the Ship. Her other name
disappeared years and years ago."
'The Ship of Alastair. And do yoo
sometime come on board of her to
rite?"
No, I have a den for that. Some
times I come here to paint. I keep my
thintta In the cabin.'
"Yes, I found them," she said. Xou
see, I know a great deal more about you
than you think."
(To be continued.)
POINT OF VIEW DIFFERS.
Teamster aad Woman of Fashion
Express Their Diverse Opinion.
There la little choice between the
way of the reformer and the way of
the transgressor la the matter of hard
ness. Each of them has, as one may
say, a tough Job. In mitigation the re
former has the comfort of conscious
reel Undo find the transgressor the re
lief of curse words. I saw the two
of them clnsh the other day. The
transgressor was a somewhat thinly
clad man, who was urging two tre
mendous horses and a load of coal up
a hill. The reformer was a square-
Jawed lady In a Persian lamb coat
Now, the yelling of the teamster and
tho names he called those horse were
frightful. Furthermore, he threw snow
balls at the struggling animals and
swung about with a somewhat lnef
fectlve whip. The lady was horrified.
"Ston lushing those horses!" she
commanded.
Tho teamster cast a wrathful eye
at her.
How'm I goln to aet'm up the
hill?" he demanded.
"Speak kindly to them," answered
th lady with her best S. P. a A. ninn-
ner.
Aw, gwan!" roared the driver.
"Who's doln" this, mo or yon?"
'I'll report you to the authorities,'
tho lady cried.
The whip cracked and the huge
horses drow tho wagon a few foet far
ther. Tho lndy followed.
I'll report you," she repeated.
You eomo out here and cot this
load tip and I'll report myself," shout
cd tho man. "You need something to
keep you busy."
"You're a brute!" screamed the lady.
This was too much for the teamster,
"Now, you look here, lndy," he said ;
I got to get thia coal up, and those
horses can do It They ain't even
sweatlu' yet. Can't you manage to
mind your own business,"
"It Is my business," declared the
lady.
You make me tired!" answered the
teamster. "Ain't you got nothing to
take up your time but buttln In?
Ain't you got no moro sense than to
follow a man up this way? You ought
to bo ashamed of yourself talking to a
man you never seen before. Ain't yon
got no folks to look after you? If you
got to talk ain't you got a husband?'
"Yes, I have, and he'll attend to
you, ahe screamed.
"liet him," answered tho teamster.
"I bet he'll attend to you for quarrel
li.g with a strange man In the atrect
You ain't acting like a lady. Get up!
The horses went forward with a
lurch and the top or the hill was
readied.
Tho lady turned away, very red In
the face.
"The brute!" sho said.
The teamster appealed to a by
slander.
"Talking to me alutut cruelty to ani
mals." he said disgustedly, "and her
wearing a baby lamb coat." Wash
lugton Post.
A Logical t'onelnalon.
"Mr. Partington says be believes a
man should pay as he goes."
"Judging from the way ha gets In
debt, ho must be accustomed to travel
ing backward." Washington Btar.
In point of geographical elevation
Madrid Is the highest city In Europe.
THE IMMORTAL 9TH.
Haw Seventeen Members of m nark
nrst THe.l to lake Pr Artbsr.
In tho grittHl nsniilt ciuntiiencing
Aug. HI, tlif Immortal Ninth Iteulment
of the- JniHiuwn army nm onlomi to
cross tho fiohl to tim foot of the flop
on which lay, dciil nml dying, ninny of
thpmeri of tho rcsdmnnt which bad g(ine)
before. The colour!. TnknCitc!, survey-
Ing tho tank net for hlt r.-clmcnt, sent
buck fl report tlint it wn not feasible,
snjs niclmrd llmry In I'verybocly'
The brigade general. rhlnole, replica
hotly that one regiment wns enough to
Inko one hntlcr.v.
Tnkng'tct ulepp.'d out of the ravine,
In which he hml been seeking shelter,
at the bend of hi otiinminl. P.efore
he hwl leen tnnreliinc. .m colonels usu-
nll.r do. In tho rear, while bis lino offi
cers led the ndviinee. Now be leaped
forward tip the slope, out In front of
his men. A 1l07.cn pares from the ra
vlno lie fell with four bullet through
his breast. The lieutenant colonel took
up tho lead nnd was shot 11 few yards
farther on. The majors were wiped out.
Every enptaln but one went down.
The last captMin. Nnslilmoto, In
charge of I) company, found himself
at length under the Chinese wnll with
seventeen men. looking down upon
the shell-swept pin in. protected for the
moment from the sharpshooters above,
with that handful of heroes, a mil
and n half In ndvnnce of the mnln body
of the Japanese army, he grew giddy
with the success of his nttompt.
Of tt sudden he concluded that he
could take Port Arthur with his seven
teen men. lie started in to do It. There
was only the wnll ahead the wall and
a few niiicliine guns beyond, the dry
Itself a five minutes' run would hava
brought him to the cltudel. lie scaled
the wnll nnd fell across It his back
bullet-broken. Eight of his men got
nver. seating the height beyond, called
W:ingt;ii. or tho wntch tower, a place
lo which the Russian generals formerly
rode on horseback to survey the battle
field. On the slope for three months
In full sight of both armies the eight
iny rofting. The Russians referred to
Ihem ns "the Japanese garrison."
SHORT METEE SERMONS
Suararestton.
Suggestion is a method of awaken
ing the powers of the subconscious
mind so that they may ussert them
selves and accomplish great results.
Rev. C V. WInblgler. Baptist, Wash
ington.
lslnK What We Have.
You have something of life, some
thing of truth, something of reverence,
something of the senes of duty, some
thing of loyalty; then use what you
have. Hev. E. L. Powell, Christian.
.ouisvllle.
Paylnar (or Itelltlon.
The valuo of our church services
will be greatly enhanced when It costs
us money. Its an enormous misfor
tune to get your religion for nothing.
Rev. R. S. MiieArthur, Baptist, New
York City.
When Vlrtaa tomes.
Virtue comes only when a man
stands at the parting of tho ways be
tween right and wrong, and turns his
back on the wrong and chooses the
right. Rev. J. li. Cndy, Congregation-
allst, Dorchester, Mass.
Look I nir Back.
Iioklng bad: usually results In go
ing back. The man who holds on to
;he past of which he Is ashamed will
some day find himself back In the old
place of shame. Rev. P. M. Strayer,
Presbyterian, Rochester, N. Y.
Hard Tnlnar to Do.
It Is easy to be happy when singing
the doxology In church, but the harder
.blng Is to sing when iieople act to as
to tempt us to swear or to hire some
ne to swear for us. Rev. J. H. llobbs,
Episcopalian, ITtlea, N. Y.
(iod-On tered.
When human lives learn the blcss-
ng there Is In becoming Ood-centered
instead of self-centered the hard
things of life will have their bitter
ness taken out of them. Rev. S. N,
Watson, Episcopalian, Akron.
The Vision of I lie Idenl.
We have to keep it clear light shin
ing in any dark place; we have to
teep the flag of righteousness and pur
ity flying here; we have to maintain
;he vision of the ideal before us. Rev,
Charles F, Aked, Rapt 1st, New York
City.
Wronai Htart.
The weakness and lnstsfliclenoy of
much of our thinking is lu that we do
not start light. We nitiy spend ages
trying to reason from the contradic
tion of life to a kindly (!od and fall.
Rev. T. K. Burr. People's Pulpit, Mil
waukee. t'hristlanllr'a 4-l(t.
The gift of Christianity was the rev
elation of a person who was to make
humanity a s-rpetual institution God
in Christ, in whom 'Jod came from
fceaven down to earth In the Incarna
tion. Rev. E. Perry. Methodist, Mil
waukee. Itl-ht her Una.
A mail Is best when right feeling
stimulates right thought, in a disci
plined and finished manner, and turns
upon the feelings and becomes their
master directing them with right pur
pose. Rev. W. W. Kenn, Cnltarlan,
Cambridge, Muss.
Iiitasliialion.
Imagination is the most essential ele
ment lu any great Invention. knowK
edge, business enterprise and religion.
If It was not for the pow ers of Imagina
tion, the tin Hons w ould be stranded
long before tills.--Rev. '. K. Carpen
ter, Methodist Kiilscopaiiiin. Aurora,
111.
t hainiiMune Corks.
The inn unfurl lire of the ts-st kind ot
corks, those made for champagne bot
tles, are never Intrusted to machines.
The ordinary common tork is made by
machinery, but the best work Invarla
bly is done by human hands, and th
champagne cork cannot be trusted to
a machine. All the blemishes In tha
cork have to W taken Into considera
tion, so thia work is done by hand
labor.
The amount that people have to lea re
Is entirely too great for their leugt
of Ufe.
LAN! WILL TURN AT LAST.
Keop the wagon movin'
Iane will turn at last;
liong time till daylight.
Hut day in tires kin' fast !
t'ountry doin' mighty well -
Kcttlin' all tne la.ids;
South is smiliti' l.appy
The West Is ahakiii' hands!
80 keep the wagon movin'
Sky will clear at laat ;
I-ong time till daylight,
But day is breakin' fast!
-Atlanta Constitution.
1 ik ten 01 it 1
Elinor glanced roguishly at the young
man sitting dejectedly beside her on
the sand at Milton Point.
"You may have as many minutes as
this sand takes to run through my
fingers." she said, taking up a handful
of warm, white sand from the beach,
"and then if you continue to b dis
agreeable and cross, I'll well, never
mind, you will regret It, Mr. Jack Rob
inson." She let the soft sand trickle slowly
through her sun-burued Angers like a
minute-glass as she hummed, careless
ly, softly, "If I But Knew."
The young man turned impatiently
and looked out across the broad ex
panse of water. How easily the whlte
wlnged yachts skimmed over the
water! He wished his little craft of
love would run as smoothly.
"Elinor," he said, turning to her,
"will you stop singing that song?"
"When your present fit of Ill-temper
blows over," she retorted, watching the
last few grains of sand fall from her
fingers. "If I but knew your heart
were true," she hummed on, Ignoring
blm.
"See here, what can I do to prove
to you that I am sincere?"
Ho watched her dust the sand from
her pretty palm.
"Do? Y'ou make me feel like a prin
cess of 'ye olden time.' Then brave
knights won their ladles by acts of
courage, but now "
"Yes, now?" he said, looking up St
her eagerly.
"Oh, now we don't even take a man's
word for anything."
And Elinor laughed a merry, capti
vating laugh, which chased away the
IT IS A lOSO. DISTANCE FROM SHOSE.
frowns from Jack's brow, lie could
never be angry with her for long.
"Suppose we piny we are living one
hundred years ago," she said, after a
minute.
"I'll play anything you like."
"And do anything I like?" she asked,
looking at him dubiously.
Her tone was half-serlous, half-playful.
"Anything," he replied, firmly "that
Is, provided you'll accept that as proof
that I love you. I've said all I can, to
no avail."
Elinor did not reply nor look up;
she was tracing her name In the sand
thinking. She had tried to believe
Jack, but somehow, at times, she doubt
ed that he really meant all he said.
He was such a serious sort of fellow,
and she oh, she was frivolous and
scatter-brained, according to her own
estimate of herself. Why should be
love her? And yet, why should he say
so if he did not?
At last she covered the sand letters
ver and looked tip.
"Jack," sho said, "would you really
do anything for nie, even If It was silly
and and awfully dangerous. Just to
prove to me thot you like me?"
"Not to prove that I like you, but
that I love you yes.
He laughed a little at her serious
face.
"Do you see that big rock out there?"
She pointed to n largo rock Just In
the edge of the now low tide.
"I do."
"You know when the tide Is high It
Is a long distance from the shore? The
water almost covers It and splashes
around tt and makes a terrible noise."
"Does it?" he asked, amused.
"Y'es ; and unless one Is a very good
swimmer one cannot possibly get In
until the tide goes out again. If one Is
ea tight out there. It would be awful
to stay there all night."
Elinor shivered at the very thought
of It. Should she go on?
"And whut then? Who ever stayed
out there all night?" he asked, know
ing well w lint was coming.
"Why -why, nobody." She hesitated.
"Would you do it 7"
"Do you ask me to?" He looked at
her Intently, ft.e was building a pyra
mid of sand.
"I I'd tielleve you If you did." she
said, at length, and looking Into bis
eyes to see how he would receive the
suggestion.
"And you'd like to believe me. Eli
nor? Tell me that but no, don't! I'll
do It. Are we not living 11 bund red
years, .a go?"
Elinor wished, now thut she had
promised to do It, that she bad not
asked It. Suppose a storm should come
np and the waves should dash over the
rock and sweep him off and and he
was not able to swim far enough to
reach shore!
"Jack." she said, a little nervously,
"let's mov forward a hundred years;
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I don't like the old times. 1 I might
believe you."
But Jack would not puss over the
century so quickly. He would do as
she had asked him ; he would spend
the night on the big rock, and then she
might believe.
Elinor sat In the window of their
summer cottage on the shore and
watched the tide come In, wave by
wave. One by one the shadows fell,
and the figure out on the rock lecame
less and less distinct. At last she had
to go out to the bench to see It st all.
Higher and higher grew the water
mark about the rock, nnd yet the figure
did not move ; It sat on the topmost
point, looking out over the sound.
At last It was too dark to see tho
figure on the rock, and Elinor walked
up and down the beich In front of t.he
cottage. She was fiupposed to have re
tired, but somehow it scorned so useless
to pretend to sleep.
She wondered If the ladies lu the
centuries long ago slept on its usual
while their knights were in danger.
Oh, she wished to-morrow would come,
when she might live again in the
twentieth century.
The searchlight of a passing cruiser
was thrown 011 the rock, and hy its
light she could see the waves break
about the ragged edges.
Running close to the water's edge,
she looked up and down for a skiff,
one of the old flat boats she nnd Jack
so often fished In. Finding one far
up on the shore, she dragged it down
to the wafer and jumped In.
Stroke by stroke she pulled out to
wards the big rock, but the tide was
strong nnd the boat heavy. It seemed
hours before she came near It.
"Jack. Jack !" she cabled. "I'm
Oh. It's such hard pulling."
"Elinor!" was all Jack said, as ho
took hold of the rope with one hand
and bers with the other. The plsce
was not nearly so rough as It hnd
looked from a distance.
"Jump in," she said.
"But the night hasn't begun yet." lie
replied, still standing on the rock.
"What?" sho almost gapped. "I
thought It must surely be morning, and
that It was never going to get light."
"It's only eleven, and that wasn't
late one hundred years ago."
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OWA'S law authorizing the establishment of commission gov
ernment lu cities of 25,000 or more population, which baa been
very successful in Its first year of trial by Des Moines, accord
ing to reports from that dty, waa enacted by the legislature
in the spring of 11)07. Applying to eight cities by virtue of tho
liopuhitloti clause, It wits instituted in Des Moines, a city of
75,MiO Inhabitants, soon ufter the Supreme Court of Iowa, In
February, 1008, upheld Its constitutionality without a dissenting opinion, and
has become widely known as "the Des Moines plan." In Its general feature,
flie plan provides for a method of city government that has been tried, with
good results, for several years In Houston and Galveston, Tex.
Instead of a mayor and a lioard of aldermen or councilnien, the "Des
Moines plan" makes the governing power of a city a commission consisting
of a mayor nnd four couucilaien. I .urge powers are combined in the com
mission, which inukes the local laws and executes them through a division
of authority whereby each meinlier of the commission becomes the head of
a department. These departments are as follows: Public affairs, accounlit
aud flnauces, public safety, lu -hiding tire and health; parks and public prop
erty, public Improvements.
The Iowa law may be adopted hy any city win, in the Stale having suffi
cient population, which makes It eligible for eight dtles. Cedar Rapids has
followed the example of lies Moines and has elected to try it. If 10 per
vnt of the voters of 11 11 eligible city petition for the purpose an election must
lie held to decide whether the city shall adopt the law. A majority of tlie
voters may adopt it or may drop it ufter ttlnl. Initiative and referendum
provisions form an Important part of tin- law. At the ieuiund of 25 per cent
of the voters there must iie a referendum 011 tiny ailon of the commission,
Hisitlve or negative, mid the decision of the majority r.f voters at tho refer
endum election is made binding on the mayor and tuuciliuen. All ordi
nances granting franchises must be Mibmtttod to the voters for adoption or
rejection. Sessions of the commission must be public.
To Judge from the report from D's Moines, the plau has been espocially
effective In financial snd police mutters. 1'or th second year in its hlstory.lt
is said, the city lias Itved within Its lucome. having surplus of about
f20.tx, Instead of 11 deficit of f50,0i!0 or more. The hve ineuilicrs of the com
mission have been paid $;i,taK) each, whereas coundltnen were formerly jwiid
$2!H) each, but It Is estimate! that business methods of administration have
saved more thati the $ir,tK)0 total cost of the commission. Every depart
ment of the government has lieee reorganized; situ ures have been abolished,
and It is even staled that "there are 110 more political Jobs." Streets have
Is-en kept oloiin. better lighted at less cost, and paving contracts have btumt
oarrbvi out in the spirit and the letter of tlio contract. Each commissioner
takes personal pride In bis department and feels persoual rewponalblllt
for tt
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"Get In, Jack," she said. Impatiently.
She hoped no one was ou the shore
to see.
"I would, 'If I but knew,'" he said,
meaningly.
"Then know, Jack, and do come."
As Jack walked homo from the little
cottage that night he thought one hun
dred years was the shortest space of
time Imaginable. He broke Into a hap
py whistle. "If I but knew. If I but
knew !" Philadelphia Telegraph,
VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION.
Twlre mm Many Folk Carried la K. le
vators on Lateral Lines.
Vertical transportation In New York
has reached enormous proportions, and
according to a jwper recently read be
fore the Eiectrioal Engineering Society
of Columbia University, twice as many
people nre carried vertically as are car
lied horizontally every twen?J-tur
hours, says !je New York Sun. 1
Taking twenty-six of the large office
buildings in the lower part of the bor
ough of Manhattan, all of eighteen
floors or over, this authority states, we
find a total of f72 floors In all, aggre
gating a height of approximately one
and one-third miles. In these twenty-six
buildings there nre tlfi express eleva
tors traveling an aggregate distance of
275 miles an hour and averaging 243,
000 passengers a day. These same
twenty-six buildings have 115 local ele
vators running approximately the same
number of car miles an hour, but car
rying about .172,000 passengers a day.
This makes a total of 231 elevators
running 4,400 miles, carrying a total of
Cl.'.OOO passengers a day.
Taking the 8,000 elevators used ex
clusively to carry passeriroTs In the
borough of Manhattan :md dividing
them Into groups, nllowin;: for the num
ber of persons curried, we find thut
they transport approximately ,."i00,000
passengers a day. From tho last report
of the public service commission we
learn tbat only 3,500.000 are carried
a day by surface, elevated and subway
cars In the entire city of Creator New
York.
No Longer In Control.
Knicker Did Jones lost control of
his auto?
Bocker Entirely; his chauffeur
won't let him use It at all.