" tailing Day
Mrs. A. was more shocked, tTtat
mused when. In reply tc hw question,
"Who was at Sunday school this morn
ing;" her 4-year-old daughter said,
"KveryboOy but .Tonus."
"Why, my dear," wild Mrs. A.,
""wherever did you pet wh an Idea;"
"He was out vNiilns: this morning,"
the little lady lon.'idrnlly said.
"Pirv.t' r." iM y.r. A , "w!io told
you mndi a stor 7"
"Nobody didn't roll me, mother, but
they Just kept singing It over nd over
again: Mesns I, oiling, Men calling
to-day.' " Success Mauazlne.
mm
A I'aeful Remedy.
Little Jamie, aged 8, was playing
with his little friend, Jark. At the
time Jamie chanced to have a rather
heavy cold mid was sneezing quiti
often. Jack's mother heard him sev
ral times and sympathetically asked
"Why. Jamie, what a rold you have.'
Doesn't your mother give you any
thing for It?" "Yes, ma'am," Jamie
very respectfully answered, "she gives
me a clean handkerchief," whereupon
he produced the prescribed "remedy."
The Delineator.
Epidemic of ltrh la Welsh Village.
"In Dowlais, South Wales, about fif
teen years ago, families were strick
en wholesale by a disease known as
the itch. Believe me, It Is the moBt
terrible disease of Its kind that I
know of, an it itches all through your
body and makes your life an Inferno.
Sleep Is out of the question and you
feel as if a million mosquitoes were
Attacking you at the same time. I
knew a dozen families that were so
affected.
"The doctors did their best, but
their remedies were of no avail what
ever. Then the families tried a drug
gist who was noted far and wide for
his remarkable cures. People came
to him from all parts of the country
for treatment, but his medicine made
matters still worse; as a last resort
they were advised by a friend to use
the Cutlcura Remedies. I am glad to
tell you that after a few days' treat
ment with Cutlcura Soap, Ointment
and Resolvent, the effect was wonder
ful and the result was a perfect cure
'in all cases.
"I may add that my three brothers,
three sisters, myself and all our fam
ilies have been users of the Cutlcura
Remedies for fifteen yearB. Thomas
Hugh, 1650 West Huron St., Chicago,
111., June 29, 1909."
. Merely Postponed.
Mrs. Hewllgus (having freed her
mind) Why don't you answer me, It
you can?
Mr. Hewllgus (helping; himself to
'more meat) It's unwholesome to quar
rel while eating dinner, madam. I'll
have good and plenty to say to you
after a while. (
' AN EXCELLENT REMEDY.
Will Break I'P Cold In Twenty
four II oar a and Care Any Conah
That la Curable.
The following mixture Is often pre
verified and Is highly recommended
for coughs, colds and other throat and
bronchial trouble. Mix two ounces of
t'.lycerlne, a half-ounce of Virgin 01:
of Pine compound pure, and eight
ounces of pure Whisky. These can bo
bought In any good drug store and
easily mixed together In a large bottle.
The genuine Virgin Oil of Pine com
pound pure is prepared only in the
laboratories of the Leach Chemical
Co., Cincinnati, and put up for dis
pensing In half-ounce vials.
Snakes have no externul ears, but
"hear" by feeling vibration of sound on
their delicate scaly covering.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
T local application!, aa they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There la
only on way to cur deafoesa, and that la
r coaatltutlnnnl remedies. Deafness, la
cauaea 07 aa Inflamed condition of the mu
eoua limn of tha Euatacblaa Tube. When
thia tube la Inflamed you bava a rumbling;
oound or Imperfect heartnr, and when it la
entirely dosed, Deafness la iba result, and
unleaa tha Inflammation ran ba taken out
nd tbla tnbe restored to It normal condi
tion, hear In will be destroyed forever : nlna
cane out of ten are caused be Catarrh,
which la nothing but an Inflamed condition
f tha mucous surf sees.
TVa will give One Hundred Dollar! for
any esse or nearness (caused tiy Catarrh)
-that eannot be cured by 41 all i Catarrh
turn, eena lor circuiara, iree.
Hold bv IiruKKists. TRe.
Taia Hall's Family Fills for constipation.
In Ashantea is a tros which furnish
es butter.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar
coated, easy to take as candy, regulate
and Invigorate stomacn. liver aim dov
! and cure constipation.
New York's Chinatown lias a popu
latlon of 6.000.
Toar of tba World.
A series of t0 post curds In colors
wilt be mailed to any address upon re -
calpt of 15 cents In coin or stamps,
Andreas The Evening Wisconsin Co.
Milwaukee, Wis,
Tha earth's atmosphere vuiiri from
120 to 200 miles In depth.
TO CDHK A COLD IK U.MS DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablet.
I'rufii.t. rotund money il tt Isila to cure. U. W
OkOV'u.TS muiiin iatioeach bus.
The Kaiser's army ix served regular!)
with bread and porridge mailt) largslj
train the peanut.
CASTOR I A
lot Infants and Children.
' Tha Kind Yea Have Always Cough,
Bears th
igoAtor
$1 000,000 T0 KILL
ITU 1
Mr. Rockefeller's gift of $1,000,000, to be used In eradicating the hook
worm disease, fixes public attention on the dread scourge of the South.
When this parnHite was found the discoverer stated, quite correctly, that
It wns responsible for most of the lassitude and unwillingness to work of
the so-called "poor white trash" whereupon he was laughed out of court as
the discoverer of "the germ of laziness." The hookworm, which Is not a
germ, Is certainly no laughing matter. It Is not peculiar to the Southern
States, having been found In animals as early as 1782. It was first recog
nized as the cause of a parasitic disease In 1843 In Italy, and In 1S79 Its
action In exhausting the blood from the system was realized. In succeed
ing years Its wide prevalence was noted In Europe and In some cases were
traced to the I'nlted States; hut It was not until l'J02 that the existence of
a purely American variety was demonstrated and unnounced by Dr. Stiles,
a zoologist connected with the Tnlted States government service. The np
poarance and habits of the parasite are now well known. It Is a sucking
worm less than an Inch long nnd looking much like "a bit of soiled coarse
thread." One victim may entertain several thousand of these tiny "vam
pires," and these cause loss of blood not only by sucking it, but by leakage
through the minute holes that they make In the Intestinal walls.
Retardation of development due to hookworms has caused a great deal
of unmerited criticism to be heaped on the Southern cotton mills. Lids
of 17 or 18 appear no older than normal boys of 10 or 11; boys of 10 or 11
sometimes look like little children. Strangers not knowing their real aes
and seeing (hem at work go away with lurid stories of the horrors of child
labor. Their Impression Is still further heightened if they try to talk
with the supposed children. The disease makes them dull and backward
they are generally the stupldist pupils In the schools and they seem unable
to answer the simplest questions Intelligently. Perhaps they feel too miser
able even to try. In school they are unable to concentrate their minds on
anything, and the teachers in the hookworm districts say that if their pupils
remain seated for any length of time they "swell up."
Hookworm disease Is caused by the presence of small worms belong
ing to a group of round worms known technically as uclnarinae. Two dif
ferent kinds of hookworm occur In man. One of these Is popularly known
aa the "Old World hookworm," the other as the "New World hookworm."
Roth of these parasites are known to occur in Africa, the home of the negro,
and both have been found in the negro. The Old World hookworm Is rela
tively rare In the United States, where the great majority of cases must be
attributed to the New World parasite. The New World hookworm is known
as "the American murderer," this name having- been given It on account of
the great number of deaths It causes, directly or indirectly.
The American hookworm is about one-fourth to one-half an Inch long
and about as thick as a small hairpin. It has hard cutting plates or Jaws
guarding the entrance to its mouth, with the aid of which it fastens itself
to the Intestinal wall.' In its adult Btage the hookworm is found fastened
to the lining membrane of the small intestine. Formerly It was thought
that the parasite secured ita hold by means of hooks, but now It is estab
lished that it fastens itself by biting the membrane. It makes a wound,
sucks the blood and produces a poisonous substance which Injures the per
son affected. A person may harbor a few hookworms, or several thousands,
according to the amount of Infection to which he has been subjected. The
disease is more common In children than in adults. The parasites do not
multiply in the intestine, as their eggs require fresh air in order to develop,
and so for every hookworm found in the Intestine a separate germ must
enter the body.
The young worm may enter the body in two different ways. It may be
swallowed In contaminated water or It may bore its way through the skin.
Boring through the skin Is the more common method of Infection. After
entering the skin, the young worms make their way to the blood and pass
with the blood through the heart to the lungs. Gradually they find their
way to the small intestine, where they shed their skin, become mature and
then begin their work of injuring the walls of the intestines of suckling
the blood, and of poisoning their victims.
Investigations by Dr. Stiles have convinced him that the hookworm dis
ease has a serious effect upon the mind and prevents children from fully and
properly assimilating the education which Is offered them. He says that, as
nearly as can be estimated, the physical condition of the Southern school
children in the rural districts Is such that, they cannot assimilate more than
70 per cent of the education they receive.
Dr. Stiles Is quoted as saying that It will take- twenty years, at a cost
of $100,000 a year that Is, $2,000,000 to stamp out the malady In the South
ern Stataes. Much, however, can be done in a short time.
The Rockefeller commission has not yet adopted a program for its cam
paign against the disease, but it will probably take up the measures sug
gested some time ago by Dr. Stiles, which include an annual "public health
week" In the schools, when children will be taught the dangers of infec
tion; house-to-house canvasses In the back country districts by medical stu
dents on vacation to enlighten the natives, lectures by physicians and
trained nurses in town halls, churches and schoolhouses; the distribution of
pamphlets and other printed matter telling about the disease; an Institution
for free diagnosis and treatment, nnd
Southern States to permit the above measures and to promote the anti
hookworm campaign.
A late dispatch from San Francisco
worm have been Imported Into California in the last few years from Hawaii,
the Philippines and the Orient. Almost half of a colony of WeBt Indian la
borers who had been working In the
to the Pacific coast were infected.
THRILLING SPECTACLE.
4
Modern Anto Raclrna; ""i,-,r"
the Chariot Races of Old.
All that wild excitement the ancieut
Romans found in a cnanoi race is
being supplied to the modern world
through the thrilling contest of the
automobile speed kings, wnetner neia
on the open roads or on a track, the
mad dash of the automobiles, with
their dare devil drivers at the wheels,
more closely approximates the chariot
races In the amphitheaters of the an
cient world than anything that count
be imagined.
It la thought by the world that the
chariot race belongs to a bygone age,
ret here is Ua counterpart. The Jockey
or the driver ot the trotting horse
never occupied a parallel place. They
were heroea, but they went through no
such terrifying experiences as the old
chariot racer.
The death at a running or trotting
meet ot any driver or jocsey is mo
rare thing. In the chariot races of
ancient Rome, death was a never ab
sent entry, and In some of the terrific
ml v.nna. where horses, drivers and
chariots came together In an lnextric-
ible 1am. It was nothing uncommon for
men, horses and spectators to go to
their death.
The speed that the modern automo
bile can make was never even dream
ed ot in the period ot ancieut Rome
when men ot wealth counted it noth
lng to spend a fortune on the team ot
horses that was expected to bring
victory in the racing contest ot the
amphitheater.
Sometimes the battles ot tho modern
charioteers are held over the open
roads ot the rural districts. Out wher
ever it may be there is' ever the cer
talnty that a huge crowd will be pres
ent, for the automobile race appeal
now as much to the modern public a
the ancient chariot race did to the
populace of the ancient countries.
The element of danger i one of the
biggest attractions, aa it was in day
ot old. In all of the big road events
It Is a significant tact that the most
frequented points are thoao whore the
danger is greatest
At top speed, a mile a minute, a ma'
chine bears down on the danger spot
la the road. It is a had turn to start
with. Hours of being plowed up by
powerful machines have chipped
Into a mass of small stones, and deei
LITTLE
WORM
the passing of laws In the several
says that hundreds of cases of hook
Hawaiian sugar plantations and came
ruta have been marked in its surface.
But tho Intrepid driver ot the modern
form of the chariot haa Just as iron
nerves aa his predecessor ot centuries
ago.
There 1b no thought of slow ud in
Lis ruina as he approaches the turn
iraigni at me curves he goes. The
car skids and sways. Let anything go
wrong with the steering gear or a tire
come off and It Is not hard to imagine
what wouia be the fate of the driver,
or, for that matter, the fate of the
spectators, for all of them who are
close by are in constant danger.
AH during the race, no matter how
often this incident la repeated, it al
ways noas aoiignted spectators. And
the greater the peril, the narrower the
escape, the greater the delight, Joy and
thrill of, those who are looking on.
Automobile racing is not very old as
yet, but aa a thrilling spectacle it bids
fair to bold lta own with the chariot
race ot old, If it does not out-class
It altogether.
Aa Old Baptismal Koat.
In the old baptistery at Florence
the baptistery with the wonderful
bronse doors which Michelangelo call
ed "so beautiful that they were worthy
to be the gates of paradise" most
the babies ot Florence have been bap
tized tor many hundred years.
At almost any hour of any day one
will find baptismal parties waiting be
tore tne loni, wun Dames of every
rank in line, from the princely heir of
a great house, nearly smothered
costly laces and attended by a small
army of friends and relations, to the
little creature decked out In gaud
cotton and held in the arms of a soli
tary old peasant woman.
No register of baptisms was kept 1
the very early days. The first record
was made In this wise: a certain priest
took It into his head to keep accoun
of children he baptized. Accordingly
he put a white bean Into a box for ev
ery uuy auu a umia Dean lor everv
girl.
Later on records were carefully kep
ana ir one could loox them over
would be a fascinating study, for prob
ably the greater part of the painters,
scholars, poets and soldiers who have
made Flotr,ce famous received their
names at the font of "my dear llttl
Saint John aa Dante called It.
Uy marrying, many a nmn has
transformed a good friend Into a poor
wife.
Q.
The Quest of
B
ietty
Uy MAG-DA
Copyright, 1909, by W. O. Chapman. Copyright la Great BrlUli
CHAPTER V.
Everybody but Johnny Johnson fol
lowed Rotty. Johnson wont back to
the houne where now remained none
but Plorre Iicsterlo and several of tho
older and more courageous bachelors
who hfid lived In the house for years.
Betty and her cohort numbered sev
en. HeHldes Iirry Morris, long and
lumhery, there was the Rpntle-eyed
young Philip Hartley, Hank Smith, tall
and tremendously framed, Sothern, fat,
blonde and phlegmatic; Krankel, a lit
tle Jew, who was automobile editor of
the "Times," and Tim Murphy, car
toonist, a great hulk of an IrlHhman:
The Directory Hotel, one of the
most exclusive In the town, was only
two blocks from LeRoy's.
"Now E24 Is my room," whispered
a$etty. "You let me go up first Don't
let the clerk In on this even, till we
find out what's what"
Five minutes later the sextette were
Pulled Inside tho door of room E24 by
such an excited Betty Delancy as the
"Inquirer" office had never seen.
"Look!" she instructed. "Be care
ful, but look right across.'
The span of the court did not exceed
eighteen feet Betty's side of the great
building was all black and quiet. Not
a light ellmDsed In any room. The
room directly across the court whose
windows complimented her3 had the
shades thrown high, the windows open
ed wide and was ablaze with light
There were two occupants In the
room, a man and a woman, seated side
by side at a table covered with writ
ing paraphernalia. The man was pow
erfully built, regular of feature and
very dark, with peculiarly white and
nervous hands. The woman wore a
tailored suit of dark cloth and even at
that distance her remarkable resem
blance to the woman they had last
seen lying In the morgue was unmis
takable. There was the same soft con
tour of chin, the same rust-brown
hair, and clear Ivory pallor of the skin.
The slight yet perfect modelings of
her figure, the slender pink-palmed
hand, the curve of the forehead, were
as like as Is stamped from the same
die.
As they watched, breathless, stupe-
fled from surprise, the man drew a
wallet from his pocket and pulled
from It several papers. He ran rapid
ly through them and withdrawing two
from the packet handed them to his
companion. Sha reached across to re
ceive them when a sudden gust of
wind bellied the curtains Into sails and
sent them fluttering Into the room and
out again. The force of the breeze
caught the papers and they were car
ried out into the court where thev
swirled, eddied and ducked, finally
alighting on the fire escape that Jutted
not nve feet from Betty's window.
The man who had run to the win
dow, watched with eager eyes to see
wnere the papers fell. Then he clutch
ed his hat from the sofa and rushed
from the room. The woman shrugged
her shoulders and sat down again at
the table. They saw hor null ruit th
pins from her copper hair and let it fall
n Rlory over her shoulders. Then she
walked into the adjoining room as If
the recovery of the lost documents was
a matter of perfect Indifference.
"Hank," nudged Sothern, "you're the
longest. Climb out and get those pa
pers." Larry Isn't as long and he's less
awkward," commented Frankel.
And you're worth less than the
rest of us; try It yourself, Frankel."
flashed Hank.
Betty Lancey," asked Larry, "why
aren't you fragile and willowy Instead
of a Juno? Then we'd make a ropa
of the bed-clothes here for a guide
and send you over."
Philip Hartley was already out of
the window. While the others held
caucus he had pulled the blanket from
the bed, torn it in half and tied a slip
knot firmly around his left leg.
Go easy, boys," he suggested.
"That'll make a fair safety."
Clambering out on the ledge he
Steadied himself by the top of the sash
and worked slowly round to the farther
end of the stlL From there he inched
his way along a rldgo In the wall till
he could Just touch the nre escape. The
letters were white against the Iron and
Just the fraction of an Inch out of
reach. Betty Lancey saw the difficul
ty. "Pass him this hat-pin," she said.
'He can fish them over with that"
Blowly, very slowly. Hartley moved
the precious papers over the narrow
Iron shelf, Impaling them on the hat
pin point Then with cramped Angers
he put them into his Inner pocket and
began the return crawl. He was bare
ly within Betty's room again when
they heard a loud rapping at the next
door. After a short wait a woman'
voice answered shrilly,
"What do you want?"
The calmly suave tones of a well
ordered hotel employe replied, "Sorry
to disturb you, madam, but the gen
tleman Just above you has dropped by
accident aomo very Important papers.
They have alighted on the fire escape
attached to your window, and we can
not reach them except through this
room."
"Can't you go from the room above,
argued the woman's voice. "The Idea
Of getting me up ut this hour because
some Imbecile hasn't bruins enough to
keep his letters from blowing out of
the window. ' If bo'd been asleep as he
should have been at this time he
wouldn't have lost them. Indeed, I'll
not open that door. Uo up a flight, or
down one."
"Oh, madunie, I assure you," broke
in tho clerk again.
"What's the row, Mary?" giuwled
Sleepy masculine voice. Tne woman
on the Inside and the clerk on the out
side began a simultaneous explanation.
In the middle of it all the sleepy voice
gave a return growl and ordered:
"Unlock that door, Mary, and get
back Into bed."
There was the grating of the bolt,
the lifting of a window, and then
cry of horror.
"They are gone! They're not here!
Somebody has stolen them. I know
tney Ut here. I was so careful to
watch."
"Nobody In the hotel got them. No
body round here's got a light,' an
bounced the clerk.
Lancey
JT. WEST
"Glad they're gone," sounded the
voice known only to the watchers as
"Mary." "Who In the name of sense
would frolic round on a fire escape at
half past three In the morning picking
up papers? Now, Mr. Clerk, take your
man, and go away with him, please.
Probably he'll find what he wants In
tho eourt."
"Krankel, you follow them," suggest
ed Harry Morris. Frankel, waiting till
he heard the door close, slipped down
the hall after the two men, Sothern
with him.
Betty pulled down the shade, closed
nnd locked the window. Then she
locked the door, looked under the bed,
tried the handles of the doors to the
adjoining rooms and spoke breathless
ly. "Now, Hartley!"
As If to guard him from unseen at
tack, the boys clustered round him. He
drew forth the papers. One was an
unmounted photograph that might
have been that of Cerlsse Wayne or of
the woman in the room across the
court. The other was a letter In the
Identical writing that the envelopes
found In Cerlsse Wayne's room had
borne, and was dated only a week pre
vious. "My Dear Cerlsse Check goes by
to-nlgh't's mall. Hope you will find It
sufficient Be very careful. Think we
are being watched. A slight mistake
would spoil all, and the struggle of
years go for naught. Life for me
would be death itself. II."
"I'm going to run across, see that
woman and chat with her while the
man Is gone," said Betty, rumpling up
her soft brown hair, dull and satiny
as a pecan shell. She threw oft her
collar and belt, and pulled her shirt
waist out from beneath her skirt.
Then she kicked off her shoes, and In
this simulated negligee ran softly over
the velvet-sodded hall and around
through the corridor.
"Let me see," she calculated. "I am
the one, two, three, yes, I'm the eighth
door. That would make those doors
eight and nine from the corner on this
side,"
Betty told off the doors with care.
Sure that she was unobserved, she
rapped distinctly several times. There
was no response, so she knocked vigor
ously. This time the door flew wide
with such celerity that Betty paled in
earnest
"Oh, pardon me!" she faltered. "But
I was alone and sick, and I saw your
light and thought maybe you could
help me. Have you any ammonia?
I am so faint I might send down
stairs, but I am so unused to hotels,
you know."
The young women rather stiffly mo
tioned to Betty to enter. Her thick
hair was In two long braids; she had
changed her tullored suit for a cling
ing negligee of oriental patterned stuff,
and a girdle of mammoth diamonds
held It close at the waist. Betty had
never seen such grace In a woman be
fore and her eyes were the most won
derful the girl had ever gazed upon.
They shone so brightly that their color
was indistinguishable. They were
twin wells of unfathomable brilliancy,
softness and power.
The woman stepped into the bed
room beyond, and Betty, from her seat
on tne coucn, neard her call to the
clerk.
'This Is E44," phoned the double of
Mrs. Wayne. "Kindly send your house
keeper here. A young girl, evidently
a guest of the house, has become 111,
and appealed to me for aid. I cannot
have her in my suite. She seems
afraid to stop alone, so will you send
a woman to look after her?"
Betty hurried to the door, stealthily
opened It and skulked down the hall.
As she rounded the corner something
soft was thrown over her head, and
fastened tightly around her neck. She
felt the Impact of a great furry body
close to hers.
And then Betty Lancey knew noth
lng more. She Uy In a dead faint
CHAPTER VI.
up at the Desterle house Johnny
Johnson was alternately pulling his
front hair and pinching his palms to
keep awake. Johnny, with his usual
audacity, had ensconced himself for
the night In the death chamber. Two
Associated Press men were with htm;
two reporters from others papers and
three detectives. The Associated
Press Men wanted to smoke, but John
ny rebelled against either illumination
or smoking.
"If there's anybody comln' back
here," he contended, "If he or she
smell! smoke or sees lights, there'll be
no comln'."
"Considering the ashes and cigar
ette stubs that we found on the floor,'
suggested the first Associated Press
Man, "the only way to Invoke the
ghost of Cerlsse Wayne would be
through smoke."
"What do we want of her ghost,
sneered jonnny. "This Is no seance.
What we want Is the fellow who made
the ghost."
The bivouac was nerve-racking. The
old house apparently had a bounteous
rodent population and the little beasts
scampered back and forth In the walls
with spooky gambols. Every window
In the house rattled, and the pall of
emptiness that always hangs heavily
In a deserted human habitation rested
a dead weight In the air.
Two blocks distant the elevated
trains ruMbled dully by, and the
morning parade of the milk wagons
had not yet begun to touch the vis-
Ions of the night with the realities of
the day.
"This Is too much for me." cried one
of the detectives. "Let get out and
take a breath."
The little group, all except Johnny,
arose with alacrity. He stopped alone
In the old house, and tried to keep his
eyes open and, falling, wondered why
he didn't advertise the newspaper busi
ness as a cure for Insomnia and accrue
cash thereby, when
"What's that?" asked Johnny of
himself. He heard with Joyous ears
a scraping and sliding In the closet op
poslte, where he had picked up the
gold and amethyst garter. It sounded
as if the baseboard were being forcl
bly removed, or, rather, aa if someone
were endeavoring to slide It back, and
s If the hoard were sticking In an un
accustomed and stubborn fashion.
Johnny looked for a convenient cor
ner In which to duck. He couldn't fit
Into the drawers of tho chiffonier or
the bureau, and tho bed, stripped of
nil Its coverlnKs, even of the mattress
nnd pillows, was flat against the wall.
On a rhnnee John.iy crawled beneath
It, with one eye fixed steadily upon the
closet door.
Ho hnrf rot Inn to wait. Stealthily
the door opened, and through the crack
came a gleam of a pocket electric
flashltKht. The man who was holding
the light whirled It hastily around the
room, scanning It closely as If to make
sure he was unobserved.
"Oh," groaned Johnny, and slunk
closer Into the corner, rolling himself
still more tightly into a bull, and pull
ing his coat up over his fiery head. The
Intruder walked over to the bureau
drawers and began to search hurried
ly. They were empty, and at this dis
covery In each successive drawer the
man flung them shut with a gesture of
disappointment.
The voices of Johnny's returning
companions echoed through the corri
dors and their footsteps sounded on the
stairway. The Intruder put out his
light and started for the closet. The
dawn was now so far advanced that as
he passed the window Johnny distin
guished his features clearly. He must
have been at least fifty years of age, a
rather stockily built man, of good ap
pearance, with a tired face and dark
hair, thickly streaked with gray. He
hurried Into the closet and shut .the
door behind him, and Johnny heard
again the struggle to slide the panel
Into place.
"Who called, son?" asked the fat de
tective, Jocularly, as he entered the
room. "Did they leave cards for the
hull of us? Say, where Is that brick-
top, anyway?"
Johnny, with considerable wriggling
and squirming, came out from beneath
the bed.
"Funny how thundering much easier
It Is to get under a bed than out from
underneath It," he commented, rubbing
the dust from his knees. ,
"You didn't get chased there, did
you, now?" came the question. "Were
you seeing things, or what?"
"I saw enough," retorted Johnny.
"Guess I saw more than you did, and
it didn't cot anything for the vision,
either. lte-. Farley, let's have a
light; where's that pocket contraption
of yours'."
Fnriev brought It out, and Johnny,
glorvin fn the Importance of knowing
something that the others did not, and
reveling in the curiosity and impa
tience of his fellows, strode majestical
ly Into the closet. When Johnny had
anything tucked away In his cranium
that he was crazy to tell as other peo
ple were to hear, he puffed out to the
dimensions of the fabled frog. That
was the time when Johnny was really
funny, and more provocative of risibil
ity than any of his ever-rldlculous
yarns.
Entering the closet he scanned its
calclmlned sides closely, running his
slender, long-nailed Angers carefully
down the wall. Then he hit the base
board. The group around watched in
tense silence.
"Oh, John, cut It out and open up,"
snarled Gorln. Gorln was one oi
Johnny's best friends.
(To be continued.)
MAXAPROF HUMOR.
An Admirer's Dnnitled Flattery Tta
Wrong; Panlm to Welcome m Jadse.
'Most of us are acquainted with
Punch's Joke concering the son of the
house who, as he gallantly escorted the
beauty of the evening to her carriage,
gushingly remarked "I have been wait
ing all the evelng for this moment."
It la an example ot bungled flattery
which compares very favorably with
the remark of an unlucky admirer ol
the great French actress, Mme. St.
Denis. Her performance of Zara had
just been greeted with enthusiastic ap
plause, and as she stepped from the
stage she said, "To act that well a
woman should be young and hand
some." "Ah, no, madam!" exclaimed
the unfortunate man, in his anxiety
to pay the highest compliment possi
ble. "You are convincing proof to the
contrary."
Twice in one evening the great nov
elist, Charles Dickens, was guilty of
an embarrassing malapropism. "I have
distinguished myself in two respects
lately," he wrote to a friend, explain
ing the matter. "I took a young lady
unknown down to dinner and talked
to her about the Bishop of Durham's
nepotism in the matter of Mr. Cheese.
I found she was Mrs. Cheese. And I
expatiated to the member for Maryle
bone Lord Fermoy generally conceiv
ing him to be an Irish member on
the contemptible character of the
Marylebone constituency and Maryle-
bone representatives."
Even these situations, however, are
not quite so embarrassing as that of a
member ot Parliament who at a cer
tain political reception remarked to a
neighbor, "I wonder who that homely
old woman is over there?" pointing
out a rather stout old lady at the oth
er end of the room.
"That, sir," was the reply, "Is my
wife!"
"Oh, no. no!" stammered the con
fused parliamentarian. "I mean the
person standing on her right."
"Indeed! That is my daughter!"
The first Baron Kenyon was rather
fond of telling the story of how, while
on circuit with Justice Rook, they en
tered a village Just in time to accom
pany the population to the little vil
lage church. The parish clerk, anxious
to have the congregation show due ap
preciation of the honor, conferred by
the presence of the distinguished Jur
ists, gave out two verses of one of the
metrical psalms, "Speak, O ye Judges
of the earth, if Just your sentence be;
or must not innocence appeal to Heav
en from your decree? Your wicked
hearts and judgments are alike by
malice swayed; your griping hands by
mighty bribes to violence betrayed."
By this time most of the adults had
woke up to the application of the
psalm and remained silent, allowing
the children and a few women to con
tinue the second verse. Tit-Ults.
Practical.
Walking leisurely around the Egyp
tian sphinx, the traveler from Ameri
ca Inspected it from all points of view.
"It's a shame," he exclaimed, "to
leave the thing In that shape. If I
had It out In Chicago I could clap a
good cement nose on that face so quick
it would make Its head swim!" Chi
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Ommr. (oj'oi-in.
One of the cham;.-. of music is that
the musically unc r.;cated person dops
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"Imitative" music, however, the case
is quite different, iin.l every passage
hns either nn obvicin or a thinly con
cealed meaning. Oei.islo'i.illy it Is hard
to decipher cprtain unusual noises, aa
the following story from Fllegende
Blaetter indicates:
ine composer n.ui just played h' v
last piece to his friend, the critic ' "S
HIT ti t 1 I . . H
very une. luueeii. saia me critic
"But what is that passage which
makes the cold chills run down the
back?"
"Oh," returned the composer, "that Is
where the wanderer has the hotel bill
brought to him."
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One of sable has three bands of the fur,
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A sweeping paradise plume added a final
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Stubborn.
"Loogy yuh, Brudder Tump!" said
Parson Bagster while the congregation
was assembling in Ebenezer chapel,
"I un'erstood yo' to nomernate dat yo
would bring our urrin' Brudder Borax
Smith to de revival yuh to-night."
"I done did muh best to 'compllsh
muh prognostication, pahson," replied
Brother Tump, holding forth an ob
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tomplexloned oyster, "but dat 'ar gam
blln' man, our urrin' Brudder Borax
Bmlth, was sawtuh reluctant an' handy
tvid his razzah. I dess nach'ly
Muldn't bring de gen'leman pussonly,
ttut dls yuh am one uv his ears!"-
Puck.
INSOMNIA
Leads Madness, If Not Remedied
In Time. '
"Experiments satisfied me, some 5
years ago," writes a Topeka wonaUi.
"that coffee was the direct cause ol
the insomnia from which I suffered
terribly, as well as the extreme nerv
ousness and acute dyspepsia which
made life a most painful thing for me.
"I had been a coffee drinker since
childhood, and did not like to think
that the beverage was doing me all
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came when I had to face the fact, and
protect myself. I therefore gave up
coffee abruptly and absolutely, and
adopted Postum for my hot drink at
meals.
"I began to note Improvement In my
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Postum. The change proceeded grad
ually, but surely, and It was a matter
of only a few weeks before I found
myself entirely relieved the nervous
ness passed away, my digestive ap
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ciency, and I began to sleep, restfully
and peacefully.
"These happy conditions have con
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