A Much more time U wasted In sail ing the reputation of. successful men than would be required Icr the erec tion nf memorials to perpetuate the memory of their goods deeds. Frank B. Welch, in The Sundav Mag azine. THE RETRACTION WAS WORSE. Second Statement "Piled Up the Agony" on Rival Editor. District Attorney Heney of San Francisco, a short time after his wounding, discussed with a reporter at his bedside one of his statement! about the San Francisco boodlers. "They expect me to retract that statement, do they?" he said, grimly. "Well, if I did retract it, my retraction would be like the Tombstone editor's. "He, you know, printed a story to the effect that a rival editor's father had served 37 years in jail. Pressure was brought to bear on him, and finally he agreed to retract that statement In his retraction he said: "'We find that we were mistaken when we said in last week's issue that the Clarion editor's papa had passed 37 Bummers in the penitentiary. AH ef forts of friends to have his sentunce commuted to life imprisonment tailed, and the old man, as a matter ot fact, was hung.'" AND THEY'VE COY IT! "How do you like the new styles in neckwear, dear?" "A little ruff around the neck, love." Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness. It Is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric li hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wear ing quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as It can be applied. much more thinly because of Us great er Btrength than other makes. Comparisons Necessary. "We find repeatedly how Imperfectly figures convey to the ordinary mind the magnitude of objects," says the Welt Spiegel, "and how much more readily they are comprehended by comparison." 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D. 306 Boa Building, OMAHA fsERIALV L n story cyl THE MAKER OF MOONS By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Illustrations by J.J. Sheridan (CopyrlKht, G. V. rutnuma Sons.) SYNOPSIS. The story opens In New York, Hoy Car- Icnhiie, the story-teller. Inspecting a queer reptile owned by (ieorse Godfrey of Tif fany's. Uoy, and Harris and l'lerpont, iwo friends, depart on a hunting trip to Cur (II in, I WoodH, a rather obscure loial- ty. Harris revealed the fnct Unit he had Joined the secret service for the piirpin of running down a gang of gold milkers. Prof. l.a(i range, on discovering the gang s formula, had been mysteriously killed. Karris received a telegram of in structions, lie and l'lerpont set out to locate the gold making sang. A valet re ported seeing a queer (.'Mnaniun In the supposedly untenanted woods. Hoy went hunting. CHAPTER III. Continued. The dog sprang to the front, circled once, zigzagged through the ferns around us and, all In a moment, stif fened stock still, rigid ,as sculptured bronze. I stepped forward, raising my gun, two paces, threo paces, ten per haps, before a great cock-grouse blun dered up from the brake and burst through the thicket fringe toward the deeper growth. There was a flash and puff from my gun, a crash of echoes among the low wooded cliffs, and through the faint veil of smoke some thing dark dropped from mid air amid a cloud of feathers, brown as the brown leaves under foot. "Fetch!" Up from the ground sprang Voyou, and In a moment he came galloping back, neck arched, tal' stiff but wav ing, holding tenderly in his pink mouth a mass of mottled bronzed feathers. Very gravely he laid the bird at my feet and crouched close beside It, bis silky ears across his paws, his muzzle on the ground. I dropped the grouse Into my pocket, held for a moment a silent caressing communion with Voyou, then swung my gun under my arm and motioned the dog on. It must have been five o'clock when f walked into a little opening in the woods and sat down to breathe. Voyou came and sat down In front of me. "Well?" I Inquired. Voyou gravely presented one paw which I took. "We will never get back In tlmo for dinner," said I, "so we might as well take it easy. It's all your fault, you know. Is there a brier in your foot? Let's see there! It's out, my friend, and you are free to nose about and lick it If you loll your tongue out you'll get It all over twigs and moss. Can't you lie down and try to pant less? No, there Is no use In sniffing and looking at that fern patch, for we are going to smoke a little, doze a little, and go home by moonlight. Think of Howlett's despair when wo are not in time! Think of all the stories you will have to tell to Gamin and Mloche! Think what a good dog you have been! There you are tired, old chap; take 40 winks with me." Voyou was a little tired. Ho stretched out on the leaves at my feet, but whether or not he really slept I could not be certain, until his hind legs twitched and I knew he was dreaming of mighty deeds. Now I may have taken 40 winks, but the sun seemed to be no lower when I tat up and unclosed my lids. Voyou "The figure a Woman'e Turned Slowly to Me." raised his head, saw In my eyes that t was not going yet, thumped his tall half a dozen times on the dried leaves, and snttled back with a sigh. I looked lazily around, and for the drat time noticed what a wonderfully beaitlful spot I had chosen for a nap. It was an oval glade In the heart of the forest, level and carpeted with green grass. The trees that sur rounded it were gigantic; they formed one towering circular wall of verdure, blotting out all except the turquoise blue of the sky-oval above. And now I notices that In the center of the I greensward lay a pool of water, crys- Ital clear, glimmering like a mirror in tha meadow grass, besldo a block ot grarlte. It scarcely seemed possible that the symmetry of tree and lawn and lucent pool could have been one of nature's accidents. I had never be foreseen thla glade nor had I ever heard it spoken of by either FMerpont or Darrls. It was a marvel, this dia mond clear basin, regular and grace ful as a Roman fountain, set in the gem of turf. And these greut trees they also belonged, not in America but in some legend-haunted forest of France, where moss-grown marbles stand neglected in dim glades, and tho twilight of the forest shelters fairies and slender shapes from shadow-lalnd. I lay and watched tho sunlight show ering tho tangled thicket where masses of crimson cardinal (lowers glowed, or where one Ions dusty sunbeam tipped tho edge of tho floating leaves in tho pool, turning them to palest gilt. There were birds, too, passing through the dim avenues of trees like Jets of (lame the gorgeous cardtnnlblrd that gave to the woods, to the village 15 miles away, to tho whole county, the name of Cardinal. I rolled over on my back and looked up at the sky. How pale paler than a robin's egg It was. I seemed to bo lying at tho bottom of a well, walled with verdure, high towering on every side. And as I lay, all about mo the air became sweet scented. Sweeter and sweeter and more penetrating grew the perfume, and I wondered what stray, breeze, blowing over acres of lilies, could have brought it. Hut there was no breeze; the air was still. A gilded fly alighted on my hand a honey-fly. It was as troubled as I by the .scented silence. CHAPTER IV. Then, behind me. my dog growled. I sat quite still at Hist, hardly breath ing, but my eyes were tixed on a shape that moved along tho edge of the pool among the meadow grasses. The dog had censed growling and was now star ing, alert and trembling. At last I rose and walked rapidly down to the pool, my dog following closo to hoe!. The figure, a woman's, turned slowly toward us. She was standing still when 1 ap proached the pool. The forest around us was so silent when I spoke tho sound of my own voice sturtled me. "No," she said, und her voice .was smooth as flowing water. "I have not v fete'; "I Saw Her Eyea Were Fixed on My Forehead." lost my way. Will ho come to me, your beautiful dog?" Ilefore I could speak, Voyou crept to her and laid his silky head against her knees. "Rut surely," said I, "you did not come here alone." "Alone? I did come alone." "Hut tho nearest settlement Is Cardinal, probably 19 miles from where wo nro standing." ''1 do not know Cardinal," she said. "Ste. Croix in Canada is 40 miles least how did you como into tho Cardinal Wooda?" I asked amazed. "Into the woods?" she repeated little Impatiently. "Yes." She did not answor at first but stood caressing Voyou with gontlo phrase and gesture. "Your beautiful dog I am fond of, out l am not ronii or Doing ques tioned." she said quietly. "My name Is Ysonde and I camo to the fountain hero to see your dog." I was properly quenched. After a moment or two I did say that In an other hour It would be growing dusky but she neither replied nor looked at me. "This," I ventured, "Is a beautiful pool you call It a fountain a de Melons fountnin! I have never before Been It. It Is hard to Imagine that nature did all this." "Is It?" she said. "Don't you think so?" I asked. '"I haven't thought ; 1 wish when you go you would leave me your dog." "My my dog?" "If you don't mind," she said sweetly, and looked at nie for tho first time In tho face. hor nn Instant our glances met, then she grew grave, and I snw that her eyes were fixed on my forehead Suddenly she rose and drew nearer looking Intently at my foreheud. There was a faint mark there, a tiny cres cent, Just over my eyebrow. It was a birthmark. "Is that a scar?" she demanded drawing npaicr. "Thnt crescent shaped mark? No.' "No? Are you sure?" ahe Insisted "Perfectly," I replied, astonished "A a birthmark?" "Yes may I ask why?" As she drew away from mo, I saw that tho color had fled from he cheeks. For a second she clasped both bands over her eyes as if to shut out my face, then slowly dropping he hnnils, she snt down on a long squarr block of stono which half encircled th linHln, and on which to my umnzemen I snw carving. Voyou went to he agnin and laid li Is head in her hip. "What Id your name?" Dhe asked at length. "Rot Cardenhe." "Mine Is Ysonde. I carved these drauoi! files on the stone, these fishes and shells and butterflies you see." ' You! They are wonderfully dell rate but those are not Amuriran dniconflles." "No they are more beautiful. See. I have my hammer and chisel with me." She drew frrTii a queer pouch at her aide a small hammer and chisel and held them toward nie. "You are very talented," I said; 'where did you study?" I? 1 never studied I knew how. I saw things nnd cut them out of stone. Do you like them? Some time I will uhow you other thiiiKs that I have done. If 1 had a great lump of bronze- I could make your dog, beauti ful as he Is." Her hammer fell Into the fountain and I leaned over and plunged my arm Into the water to llnd It. it is there, shining on the Band," she . said, leaning over tho pool with me. Where," said I, looking at our re flected faces In the water. For It was only in the water that I had dared, as yet, to look her long In tho face. The pool mirrored the exquisite oval of her head, the heavy hair, tho py's. I heard the silken rustle of her girdle. I caught the flash of a white arm. and the hammer was drawn up dripping with spray. The troubled surface of the pool grew calm nnd again I saw her eyes reflected. "Listen," sho said In a low volco 'do you think you will come again to my fountain?" 1 will come," I said. My voice was dull; the noise of water filled my ears. Then a swift shadow sped across the pool; I rubbed my eyes. Where her reflected faco hud bent besldo mine there was nothing mirrored but tho rosy evening sky with one pale star glimmering. I drew myself up and turned. She was gone. I saw tho faint star twinkling above mo In tho after glow. 1 saw the tall trees motionless In the still evening air. I saw my dog slunihlng at my feet. The sweet scent in tho air had faded, leaving in my nostrils tho heavy odor of fern and forest moltl t blind fear seized me, and I caught up my gun and sprang Into the dark qning woods. The dog followed me crashing through the undergrowth at my side. Duller and duller grew tho light, but I strode on, tho sweat pour lng from my face nnd hair, my mind a chaos. How I reached the spinney I can hardly tell. As I turned up tho path I caught a glimpse of a human face peering at me from tho darkening thicket a horrible human face, yel low and drawn with high -boned cheeks and narrow eyes. Involuntarily I halted; the dog at my neeis snarieu. men l sprang straight at It, floundering blindly through tho thicket, but tho night had fallen swiftly nnd I found myself pant ing and struggling in u mazo of twist ed shrubbery nnd twining vines, un nble to see the very undergrowth that ensnared me. It was a pale face, and a scratched ono that I carried to a late dinner that night. Howlett served me, dumb re proach In his eyes, for tho soup had been standing and the grouso was Juiceless. David brought tho dogs In after they had had their supper, and I drew my chair before the blazo nnd set my alo on a table besldo me. Tho dogs curled up at my feet, blinking gravely at tho sparks that snapped nnd flew in eddying showers from tho heavy logs. David, saia i, "did you say you saw a Chinaman today?" "I did. sir." "What do you think about it now?" "I may have been mistaken, sir" "Hut you think not. What sort of whisky did you put In my flask to day?" "Th usual, sir." "Is there much gone?" ADout threo swallows, sir. as usual." "You don't suppose there could hava been any mistake about that whisky no niedlcino could have gotten into it, for Instance?" David smiled and Bald: "No. sir.' "Well." said I. "I have had an ex traordlnary dream." nen l said 'dream. I felt com foiled and reassured. I had scarcely dared to say it before, even to my self. "An extraordinary dream," I re peated; "I fell asleep In the woods about five o'clock, In that pretty glade where the fountain I mean the pool Is. You know tho place?" "I do not, sir." 1 described It minutely, twice, but David shook his head. "Carved stone did' you say, sir? I never chanced on It.' You don't mean tho New Spring " "No, no! This glndo Is way beyond that. la it posslblo that uny people Inhabit the forest between hero and tho Cnnnda lino?" "Nobody short of Ste. Croix; at least I have no ktiowlcdgo of any." "Of course," said I, "when I thought I saw a Chinaman, It was imagination Of course I had been more Impressed than I was aware of by your adven turo. Of course you saw no China man, David." "Probably not, sir," replied David dubiously, (TO P.I0 CONTINUED.) Birthplace of Vegetables. Turnips and radishes caiuo origin ally from central Europe. Tho beet root nnd the beet, which have bei greatly Improved by cultivation, an considered as tho same species bj botanists. The beet, only tho stnJi of which Is eaten, growa wild in tl. Medtterrnntnti, Persia and HabylonlQ TRAMP JOKE IN GERMANY. ' raw fjrs : I trr ... Mr. Sport Mere Is a little some thing for you drink a glass of beer to my health. Tramp Light or dark? Fllegcndo Dlaetter. A Needed Chang. The navy department recently re ceived from the commander in chief of the fleet an olllcial communication lativo to certain changes recom mended by him to be made In the uni form shirt of tho enlisted men. In ac cordanco with custom this letter was forwarded to various ottb Inls for com ment or expression of opinion, tho re marks of each oflleer being appended on an Indorsement slip. Kach indorsi1- llient Introduces the subject matter of the letter in a brief, and one of them thus terselv explained the contents: 'Commander in chief di'slres to change ahlrt." Llpplncolt's. How's This? We offer On iiuiulrml nullum Ilewunt tor mi (mh ol ( atiiriti thut ntmi'il txi runtl b 1111 1 CtarrU Cuti-. V. ,t. niKNTY CO.. Tolnlrt. O. 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