hr rr - § St.GECQGZ surniscm (J .' 'JOKBT^OSr • ttfji'zsaK&r | yv*&32i" B ^.-.w^yTJSr CIIAi'Ii.R XVII.—Continued. ; As the day wears on he concludes I bis business. Nothing has been left ; undone, and when they start on the | succeeding day Miss Westerly will I find occasion ro congratulate her | master of ceremonies upon the skill ! shown in getting matters into such smooth shape. So the sun descends the western fky and makes ready to drop behind tlte mountains that shut in the beau tiful valley of i.os Remedios. They have st u nothing of the senor all day. and even Barcelona and the pro fessor manage to keep out of sight. This is no sign that their move ments have not been under surveil lance—at various times during the day they have noticed some peon hanging near and acting as though he wire a spy, but beyond lowering iheir voices they have paid no atten tion to such facts. If danger overshadows them, it is apt to appear during the night, though the senor may think it best to leave them alone until they are on their way to the mine. True, the law and order society of the city is a thing that exists only in imagination, and military rule keeps the disorderly element in control more than any ; force of police, but at the same time the senor may understand that an out- ! rage such as he contemplates could ! s^£stp carried to an end in the City of Mexico without being noticed ! the foreign residents and minis :• who might mylertake an investi g: 'e y and make it warm for those c. ucerned. On In other hand, should the affair • :r in the country, among the wild :. • messes of the mountains, it would i'S set ii -wn as the work of brigands. ' it U whom the region has always1 ■ 1 t en overrun. This is the way Dick and the colo nel look at the matter, but even they :io not give their enemy credit for the masterly ingenuity he is capable oi showing upon occasion. They may . on find themselves caught in a net that is skilfully cast, and among the meshes of which they may Sounder ss they meet a Roland with an Olivet. The night closes in. Miss Pauline lias learned that a grand concert is to be given on the Alameda, or plaza, during this even ing. which will of course be attended by the best people of the good old City of Mexico. She adores music, and has heard it in all climes, from the wandering dervish hand in Egypt end Algiers that inflict torture on the educated musical tympanum, so the great Strauss band cf Vienna, not to speak of side shows in India, among the Hottentots, the Indians of the Vest, and the natives of South Ameri can countries, for this New York girl lias been a great traveler during the iast few years of her life, believing that this is a strange tvorld we live In, and that people who have the op portunity ought to see as much of it as possible during their short span of existence. move, he does cot say nay. How could a newly accepted lover offer any objection to the desire of hi6 heart's idol in less than twenty hours after she has admitted her' love for him. Perhaps it may lead to trouble —Dick hopes not. He believes that if they can tide over the present, and keep their own until the time comes to leave Mexico, that ail will be well. Fortunately Miss Westerly has a man in charge of the mine who will stand no foolishness, and up to this lime the oppositiou has found no op portunity to do damage in that quar ter. Mines have been flooded or blown up before now, in order to de preciate the stock. When supper is over at the hotel, they make ready to issue forth and see what sort of a gathering this an cient City of Mexico can bring out on an occasion when the military band seeks to play patriotic and pleas ing airs. The love for music is almost uni versal, and well does the poet declare that "The man that hath no music in him self. Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds. Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils.” They can hear end see the people flocking past the hotel even before they issue forth. "Get ready for a crush.” remarks Dick, as Miss Pauline and Dora ap pear, shawls upon their arms. "With such gallant protectors, sure ly we have no cause for fear," comes the quick reply. The gentlemen have talked the matter over and decided upon their mode of action. One thing is certain, "I thought I saw Senor Lopez." re mar! s Pauline. "Alone?" “.Juanita was with him, that strange girl, in whom the good and evil seem struggling for the mastery. I should fear her. perhaps, under the circum stances. but something seems to pre vent me. Where ! shouid hate, I am forced to love.” These strange words annoy Dick somewhat. He ponders over them . again and again, as if he would en deavor to see what influences cause such an expression, hut it baffles him. More than once he appears about to grasp the shadowy substance, but it set rrs to melt away in thin air. and he feels as though he had been chas ing a will-o’-the-wisp across some deep vale or country churchyard. Now they reach the Alameda, the plaza is filled with people. In the mid- 1 die, upon the platform. Pedro Gomez ! the .mst favored leader south of the Rio Grande, waves his baton and his ' military band play in a manner that 1 no capita] reed be ashamed of. Muc h of the music is local or Spanish—a \ bright fandango or a more sober ! polka—a national tune, or some air unknown to foreign ears, but which I has a pleasant ring when executed by well-drilled Mexican musicians. Dora is delighted; her feet keep time j to the music, and she hums the airs as though thev are quite familiar to J her. Given the opportunity, she ] would dance in a minute. Bcb has had his eyes about him ; He feels uneasy. There is something in the strange. | weird music, the crowds of dark-faccd people, and the very atmosphere, that seems to warn him that danger is afoot—enemies hovering near. He does not imagine the fact, but knows that evil eyes are upon them all the while. So Colonel Bob, always ready, keeps his rich* arm free, and much of the time his hand is upon a weap on which he can draw in an instant, with more speed than the average man. for a sheriff in a Western state has to be a man who can shoot while the desperado across the room ia drawing back the hammer. And on this night, on the Alame da. is formed the compact against the two comrades—men meet ,'enor Lopez, and shake his hand, receiving money, in some cases and always a sign that is to mark them as mem bers of the clique, or league. More than once desperate men. armed with the rational knife, the cuchil'o, haunt the footsteps of the two Americans, anxious to earn the rich reward offered-; for the Mexican senor. having been baffled so many times in his efforts to make Pauline a prisoner, so that he may force her to sign away her rights with regard to the great El Dorado Mine, and al ways through the instrumentality of these mm, has descended the scale, and sunk all respect for his honor. He realizes that he will never be al lowed to do his will so long as the Americans are alive; hence they must bite the dust. CHAPTER XVIII. The Bulifighter Accepts a Challenge. • Dick has a peculiar sensation of un easiness, and yet at the same time he is bound to confess that he feels far happier than ever before in all his life. There is a charming sense of full ownership concerning the lovely girl who clings to his arm—she has confessed that she loves him, and al though they are too sensible to act like a pair of spooney lovers they ex perience the same delight, not to be described in cold words, that comes to all who feel the holy passion. As in the case of Colonel Bob, this does not cause Dick to forget his reso lution to remain continually on the qui vive. as danger hovers near. It is a peculiar situation, but at some fu ture time, when these war clouds have sunk forever beneath the hori zon they ran afford to indulge In love's young dream without one thoneht of danger. Now he sees the dark countenance of Barcelona and the look which the bullfighter gives him is enough to warn even a more careless man than Dick that peril menaces him. He has already made up his mind that if an assault is made u;on them openly on the Alameda, he will, with Bob's as sistance, standing back to back, make the Mexicans recall the famous days of the Alamo, when Texans piled a rampart of the slain around them ere finally yielding up the ghost—men whose names and memories have been revered in Texan history as he roes and patriots. He !■: also made up his mind that 1 under such circumstances his first ; bullet will be for Tordas Barcelona, i as he recognizes in this individual the man who would do him the most harm. If the wily senor is in sight ; he may come in for the second lead- ! en messenc- r. unless Bob has already j put a qtiieius upon him. The hour grows later. Still the music continues; indeed, i Gomez and his bSind seem to have j kept their best work until now. Miss | Pauline and Dora t'o not think of re- j tiring from the plaza, and the gentle- I men would not hint at such a thing | because they are not in the habit of showing the white feather. In this case, of course, it might lie justifiable, as they are considering others be sides themselves but all the same they make no proposal looking toward a return to the hotel. Nor does the crowd thin out. It is a gala occasion among the good peo me of th<> city, an 1 they take advan tage of the occasion. With plenty ol stirring music, a cigar and beauty at their side, the average Mexican citi zen is happy enough not to* envy s king. Dick is fully awake when he feeb something dig him in the ribs—of course it is the elbow of the man from New Mexico, who desires to attract his attention, and as he passes by he bends his head to mutter: “The wolves are closing in, pard. When it comes to the point make lead count.” (To Be Continued.) "■ 1 ■ — - . ■ — » ■■ __ Anti-Semitism marks nation’s Decline By DR. EMIL G. HIRSCH. j One of the proofs that the ideals of lib erty are on the wane in this country is the ominous note of anti Semitism in much that is said and written about the Jew by per » ■■■■■■■ mi ■ ■ ■ i ■» ——3 sons who are loud in their professions of Americanism. Anti-Semitism and slavery always go hand in hand. Wherever in the course of history v-e find perse cution of the Jew there we find abiect slavery of the masses of the people. So this rising tide of anti-Semitism in this boasted free country is simply one of the unmistakable signs of the national de cadence. There are ether signs—many of them. For instance, there is the worship of the goiden calf, representing the people's devotion to money making. The sale of an overcoat or a pair of pantaloons with small profit is regarded by them as of infinitely more importance than going to the polls to cast a ballot for the preservation of the nation’s liberty. The truth seems to be, as is charged of late in many quarters, that the so-called "best Americans" are tired of a democracy. There are indications that they would like to have an aristocracy here. Persecution oi the Jew would be certain to become intensified if American liberty should be overthrown. It has been shown through all history that the worst persecutors of the Jews were the slaves and serfs of feudal lords or industrial and political oppressors. It is not pleasant to have among us as one of the striking evidencs of national degeneration this spectacle of incipient but well-defined national anti-Semitism. But the destiny of the Jew cannot be de feated. He has an intellectual if not a political or national mission, i nat mission is to humanize the world—to altruize it and bring about the reign of righteousness in a glorious millenial resurrective perod of the true brotherhood of man. r.:OF. ERICH MUENTER AND V\[FE. Professor of languages at Harvard university who, it is alleged, poi soned his wife who died a short time ago. The police of the country are searching for Muenter, who has thus far eluded them. Many believe he has committed suicide. GIRGENTI THE BEAUTIFUL. No Place of Ruins in the Whole World More Beautiful Than This. Writes William Sharpe in ‘The Gar den of the Sun,” in Century: Every one has beard of Girgenti, as of Syra cuse, before coming to Sicily. The most beautiful city of antiquity has left an enduring name, and if the Gir genti of to-day be far from the Agri gentum of Roman splendor, and still further from the Acragas of Green beauty and magnificence, It is still nobly worth seeing. Even the least responsive imagination can hardly fail to apprehend some idea of what thi3 town must have been of old. when Acragas. with its vast extent and over 200,000 inhabitants, looked out across the dark-blue waters of the Greek sea, or Mare Africano, from a lordly wil derness of supreb temples and magnifi cent buildings of all kinds. To-day it is worth a pilgrimage from the ends of the earth. Th re is perhaps no place of ruin in the whole world more beautiful than thjs. To see it, as the present writer last saw it, in a gold en sunset glow, with the great t-tipb's gleaming like yellow ivory, and the town itself of a dusky gold, and the sea beyond, and uplands 'and moun tains behind, irridated with a serene glory of light, is to see what will be tor life an unforgettable impression, an evfr deeply moving remembrance. To localize the three lov-lie-t views in Sicily (and I fancy that most trav elers would agree with me), I should specify that from the terrace of the Hotel Timco at Taormina, that from the monastery-hostelry of Madonna del Tindaro over Tyndaris and the Aeolian isles, and that from the ter race of the Hotel Belvid' re on the Eouth wall of Girgenti, looking out on THE JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE Peculiar Qualities of a Tuber Tha Grows on the Roots of the Sunflower. Most young folks in the country r.r< familiar with the sweet, crisp, ju-cj tubers known as artichokes. These says an article on "Nature and Sci ence,” in St. Nicholas, grow on thi roots of the sunflower known to hot anists as Helianthus tuberosls, ant are commonly called Jerusalem an: chokes. Vnder this common name yoi will find the tubers offered for sale it most seed catalogues. The plants are easily grown in al most any kind of soil. At first glano the tubers have somewhat the appear ance of potatoes, but unlike them tn<-; may be eaten raw like radishes, o they may be pickled or cooked. Re cipes are to be found in all cool books. These artichokes are entirely differ ent fret not far distant in a botanic* way) from the globe artichokes whicl are grown in California, and perhaps elsewhere ext lusively for their edihl* Tower buds. These are never eatei row. Even when cooked they art rather tasteless. Personally, I think they are not n be compared, as :;r acceptable vweta Id®, with the Jerusa lem artichoke, sometimes even nov found in old-fashioned gardens. OCEANS OF SMALL CHANCE Nickels Paid Into New York Stree Car Companies Reach an En ormous Total. It is probable that all the five-cenl pieces now in existence would no have more than paid the cash fe.e. collected on the New York City Rail way company lines alone. Accort ln, BUFFALO WAR DRUM. Captured by an expedition of the Soudan government sent against the Wiam-Wiam tribes in Central Africa. As a result of the expedition the sultan was killed and his war buffalo captured. It was carved from a single piece of wood and was ten feet long, four and a half feet high and four feet wide. the lovely temples, the beautiful up lands and slopes, and the blue sea washing Porto Empedocle below. --- “Sabots-’ in Use. Wooden shoes are clattering into nse in America, chiefly among our adopted citizens. A few years ago there was supposed to be only one maser of sabots in New York city. Now there are known to be several manufacturers in i>ew York and other cities. Indeed, the industry has grown in Michigan to be a lusty infant. England’s Altitude. Of the 58,324 square miles of Eng land and \\ ales 26,482 are under 250 feet in elevation above the sea, 16, 365 are between 250 and 300 feet, 10, 476 are between 500 and 1,000 feet, 4, 698 are between 1,000 and 2,000 feet, 300 are between 2,000 and 3,000 feet and four are more than 3,000 feet. Had His Misgivings. Admiring Friend—Your new as sistant, Miss Gwimple, is quite an edu cated young woman, is she not? Old Fashioned Principal—H’m—I am not so sure about that. I am afraid she is a coeducated young woman.— Chicago Tribune. Knocking Them Again. Blobbs—Is the population of London more dense than that of New York? Slobbs—Sure. Didn’t you ever try to tell an Englishman a joke?—Phil adelphia Record. to the report of t'ne state railroad coir mission, the number of cash fait? paid in 1905 in New York reached the enormous total of 1,171,151.598. At live cents each that amounts to $58,557, 584.90. In the period from 1793 to tfc< close of 1904 the total value of thi hve-cent pieces coined in this conn'.rj amounted to only $.'4,175,788.15. 11 al the three-cent pieces and two-rent pieces and the cents and half-ccnts were added it would still leave a iota m money far less than that represent ed by the collection of cash fares m New York. With a reasonable allow once for the number of coins tna must have been lost and destroyed ir one way or another since our mia was opened, it is probable that the total amount of change now in rhi! country, including ali coins between i dollar and three cents, would not ex c-eed the sum which was collected las year on the New York transporta'Jot lines. Of course, the secret is that ttw same coin does duty over and ovtu again. French Writer’s Discovery. Zola, in his youth, before fame came to him, wrote some stories about mil lionaires, wherein it seemed to him that he exaggerated shamefully in hie descriptions of the cosuy homes and habits of the rich. But later on, when Zola became a friend of millionaires, he found that his accounts of their ex travagance had fallen far short of the truth. A SCHOOL GIRL'S DRESS. SEOULD NOT THINK TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS VEXATIOUS MATTES. Most Schoolgirls Too Young and Too Pretty to Acquire Much Ornament ' in Their Dress—Don't Worry A _>out Your Figure If Your Dress Is Com fortable—Heaith Is the Great Beau tifier. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. “Jessie has reached the age when she fusses and hdgets about lr r dress, looks at herself iu the glass, worries because her cloak or her hat or her jacket or something eise, is last year's style, and altogether be haves like a vain and silly girl," ex claimed Jessie's aunt Marion, who hau uo patience with such frivolous con duct. "If Jessie had been the fourth daughter in a large family,” said Mary Elizabeth, looking up with a smile, “she would have learned to be thank ful for small favors. Until I had passed my thirteenth birthday I never once weut out of the house with a costume every bit of which had been made for me. I usually wore Susan's last year's frocks and Mildred's last j year's hats, retrimmed and freshened up, and when I had a jacket it had been worn before me by Ethel. Moth er always bought good things that would last and they lasted until sev eral children wore them out. I was cured of fussiness before so much as a wee leaf of it cropped up in my character. Generally speaking I had new shoes and that was a comfort.” Jessie had listened to both speak ers with an air of serious attention. “I love pretty things,” said she, “and I hate ugly ones. Why shall sis ter Louise, who is a young lady, wear a corset that gives her a good figure while I who have no figure at all am obliged to wear a corded waist and button my skirts to it?” By this time I was so stirred up that I was compelled to intrude my views on the girls. “What on earth can you be thinking of, Jessie? A school girl’s first duty to herself is to wear healthful dress and although corsets are excellent and suitable in their place for grown up young women, they are not parts of hygienic dress for you. I hope that you spend a good many hours every day out of doors, and that your director of physical culture superin tends your calisthenics and your ex ercises in the gymnasium. The gym is as much an educational place for you as the Latin class or the recitation room where you study and present any other abstruse subject in the school. For daily use a school girl needs well-made loosely fitting blouses and skirts, and the weight of . her clothing should hang not front the hips but from the shoulder. "Deep breathing is your great ne cessity; your lungs should be filled daily and often with the purest air and your Chest have abundant room to expand. As for shoes, you must have common sense lasts broad enough iu the sole and low enough iu the heel to enable you to walk with ease and grace. A school girl must not wear a tight shoe nor a high heel. You are too young and too pretty to require much ornament in your dress, and there is no sense in your fussing over shirt-waists and simple stocks, hair ribbons and belts. ■'Once your wardrobe is supplied with what is comfortable and you have equipped yourself with a golf cape, a rain-coat and a sailor hat, you are ready for every occasion." "For receptions and commence ments and Sunday evenings at home?” queried Jessie, her dimples playing hide and seek as she ^rchly glancti at me. “I beg your pardon," I answered. “A girl does need one or two dainty frocks for evening wear and they should preferably be white. The simpler they are the more suitable they are sure to be. A great many tucks, puffs, ruffles and late inser tions are misplaced in a girl’s dress while she is yet in her teens. There may be, of course, some unobtrusive decorations, but not very much is needed for she herself seis off her gown, i like to think, too, that a girl who is growing up takes a little time now’ and then to bestow attention on the laundress who has to wash and iron the dainty muslins that are so elaborate and so beautifully fiai-hed with lace edges and delicate em broideries. "A girl who has once or twice done her own laundry work, wasned and ironed a white muslin gown, or a duck skirt, will know by experience that it is far from easy work, and she will be somewhat more careful about fre quently sending it to the tub, than her friend who has had no such per sonal knowledge of the labor in volved.” No young girl has the slightest oc casion to worry about her figure if only she has a dress that fits her comfortably, if she stands up straight throwing back her shoulders and hold ing up her head. The figure will take care of itself. Health is the great beautifier and sensible dress is foi young people its best ally. Fortunately for young girls, there is no question about the length of theli skirts, ror everyday wear frocks that reach the ankle, are comfortable and insure ease in walking, and im munity from contact with mud and dirt. For functions such as Jessie re ferred to in her naive question about receptions and Sunday evenings, a girl’s best gown while she is in her teens may he instep length. Girls never wear trailing skirts in these days. An excellent adjunct to clean liness, comfort and health is a whisk broom or a clothes-brush scrupulous ly used every time a dress is taken off If we would carefully brush oui clothes and shake them out of an opeD window before hanging them in clos ets or wardrobes, we should rid our selves of the danger of germs th^i may have lurked in outside dust Girls should be grot ful that theli lot is cast in the twentieth century An eighteenth century girl.’or one Port in the early nineteenth, wore a short waisted frock with the skirt beginning under the arm-pits. It was of cling ing stuff and swept the floor as she walked. Her shoes were thin slip pers without heels held on by strings crossed over the instep and around th6 ankles. On her head she often wore a construction of muslin and wire that was half turban and half cap. Her sleeves were short and her dresser half low at the neck, as a rule Do you not think that you are much better dressed than she was, both for health and beauty? 'Copyright, i:-u6, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Advice About. Teeth. Select the Brush with Care, Consult a Dentist Whenever Certain Symptoms Appear. So many people show little discrim ination in the choice of tooth brushes, it is equally wrong to have them too soft or too hard. This ought to be as certr.inable by the touch, and they should not be used for any length of time, but at once discarded. Cheap brushes with which the market is now flooded are an abomination, for the hairs are sure to come out and lodge between the teeth, causing much dis comfort, and. moreover, the bristles, are often secured in such a vray with wire that it becomes dislodged, and , pricks the gums. Teeth should always be closely watched, and if the gums recede or any decay is perceived, re course should be had at once to a dentist, for in dentistry a stitch in time does not save nine but ninety. Once let decay get any deep hold little can l>e done, but it is easy to arrest it at the beginning. Parents cannot be too careful in in stilling into their children early the necessity of care and attention to the teeth It seems quite a weakness in the young to shirk tooth cleaning, and, moreover, mothers should watch the i growth of the second teeth, that there is no overcrowding. In early youth man defects can he cured by proper treatment. Teeth that are growing fat apart can he brought together easily; it would be a far more difficult matter later on when the gums are harder and the teeth have attained their full growth, but care should begin before the first teeth have been exchanged. It indicates something wrong if they decay, and it is a state of things that would be likely to repeat itself. The writer remembers how as a child an old nurse who had b"er. i^ the same post for two generations took infinite pains to teach her charges exactly how they should clean their teeth. She always said that pastes and liquid dentifrices were all very well in their way, but that powder should be used once a W’eek at least and that there was a great art in using a proper brush, which Ehould be small and soft, and not too big for the mouth. It should be not only passed from one side to the other, but up and down, and great care taken to clean the back teeth as well as the front; finally It was essential to wash out the mouth with water, to which a few drops of fragrant dentifrice liquid should be added. FROM FOREIGN LANDS. One Can Put Great Deal of Money In to Tiny Turn-Overs of Ex quisite Make. It Is strange what a little extra thrill of delight one has in possessing a article of wearing apparel that 1 TURN-OVERS. came from distance, writes a lady in Farmer. The upper one these three col lars shown in the it came from Ar menia. It is made of the tiny thread wheels for which Armenians are so celebrated. The settaad, or Hardanger, is from Sweden, and the third, or drawn work, from Mexico. But any of them could be imitated by a skilful needle woman. Stand Well. The woman who stands well must learn to hold her shoulders back and level; she must acquire the art of rest, ing upon the balls of the feet; she must learn that the chin should be held up and the bead a little back; and that the hands should be main tained in some easy, conventional atti tude. When she has learned these things she can stand well. But to be seated well is another matter. For Blackheads. The complexion brush used every night with warn water and castile soap will keep the complexion free from blackheads. Twice a week apply a saturate solution of sulphate ol magnesia. Ee cartful of the diet, eat ing plenty of fresh fruits, drinking three pints of water a day. Bride's Luncheon. The usual hour for a luncheon is half after one o’clock. A bride giving a luncheon for her bridesmaids may invite other friends, but it is not usual to do so.