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If* atai ** call tbe »*r»«tei Death’ 1 is* aa»e»i„ac turn* a*. befaeeB uk mad ttaamos aortiti* or • little ia*e-r »*H le- a* dead a* thwack Ttocy ! bad £-WS a* ante boibta, Out only hope real* SB tbe tart that 1 can urn mj tafi Tbst • »tx 1 didn't let Tbe* Iuk «brf b.i cac beraSiC • If 1 bad 'be deril * own time b~-;.-Bc it Iron. fa.Ii.tac witk a.* an: j f«wgy W«t broke my Beck doiaf ft I A ttttie later »ket we re aare Jew | k_* aad tel* b>*« are oat. of beans* HI be«rt emaidC for beip P* rllpt wet ktieraat or banter - “ He m-utifed. mad a chill rat a* Xa tkaBjr' i back a* be list et*ed to a watrd boa! that came from far behind tbem Y waa a b»»«KS- jrd!:c* aou&d and bie face tcraed a an# chart’r pmOar a* be caned iaautnacl* at Xeil Hi* ammyrnmaum m*« tbe t'-rribie qcea rw la ten far* Y«diaa.~ be aaid "Tbeyre away back la tbe iarM Her aoc • niaa dowa a* u*" For a mooe-al be «m> silent . tarmed to tbe tea Fbern lb yam aotice any 'baar tbe way you're bemad Nat — Tbe fbriUiac ewtfteasH :n Na ba wer. He aodd«n for his c-hm. began to irritate him At iimif he found himself rest •g pen It so heavily that it short ri.- d his breath, and he was compelled Joy Shone in Her Face. to straighten himself, putting his shale ight on his twisted feet. It cenjed an hour before Neil broke the terrible siletH- again Perhaps it was ten minutes. 1 m going to begin." be said. Lis**r If you hear an answer nod your head " He drew a deep breath turned his fa; c a? far «; he could toward the shore, and shouted "Help—help—help!” Again arc again the thrilling words burst from his ibroat. and as their e< hoes floated back to them from the forest i:k“ a thousand mocking voices, Nathaniel grew hot with the sweat of horror If :»e could only have added ms own voice to those cries, shrieked out 'he words with Neil—joined even .h*v2!linglr in this last fight for life, r. wo.Id not have been so bad But » was helpless. He watched the des jwratiot grow in his companion's fare a- th-re catt e no response save the lading echoes: even in the light of the stars be saw that face darken with s effort the eyes fill with a mad light and the throat strain against its >i.ok:cg thong Gradually Neil s voice became weaker. When he siopp-d to r>-st and listen his panting breath came to Nathaniel itke the hissing of sr<„n.. Soon the echoes failed to come tiu k from the forest, and Nathaniel (ought like a crazed man to free him self. jerking at the thongs that held : n» until his wrists were bleeding and tic rawhide about his neck choked him No use!- be heard Neil say. *■ Bet ter take it easy lor a while. Nat!" Marion's brother had turned toward lie. Uis head thrown back against •i.* stake, his face lifted to the sky. Nathan el raised bis own bead, and locad that he could breathe easier. For a l og time his companion did not break -.he silence Mentally he began counting off the seconds. It was past midnight—probably one o'clock. Dawn < *me a: half past two. the sun rose an hour later. Three hours to live! Nathaci"! towered his head, and the rawhide tightened perceptibly at the movement. Nell was watching him. I m devilish sorry—for you—Nat—“ he said Hi* words came with painful slowr ceas. There was a grating huskiness in hi* voice “Thi* damned rawhide—is pinching —my Adam s apple—" lie smiled. Hi* white teeth gleam ed. his eye* laughed, and with a heart bursting with grief Nathaniel looted away from him. He had seen courage, but never like this, and deep down in his soul he prayed—prayed that death might come to h>m first, so that he might not have to look upon the agonies of this other, whose end would be ghastly in its fearless resig nation A moaning, wordless cry broke through the cloth that gagged him. At the sound of that cry, faint, ter rifying. with all the horror that might fill a human soul in its articulate note, a shudder of life passed into Neil's body. Weakly he flung himself back, stood poised for an instant against the stake, then fell again upon the deadly throng. Twice—three times he made the effort, and failed. And to Na thaniel, staring wild-eyed and silent now. the spectacle was one that seemed to blast the very soul within him and send his blood in rushing tor rents of fire to his sickened brain. Neil was dying! A fourth time be struggled back. A fifth—and he held his ground. Even in that passing in stant something like a flash of his buoyant smile flickered in his face and there came to Nathaniel's ears like a throttled whisper—his name. “Nat—” And no more. The head fell forward again. And Nathaniel, turning his face away, saw something come up out of the shim mering sea, like a shadow before nis blistering eyes, and as his own limbs went out from under him and he felt the strangling death at his throat there came from that shadow a cry that seemed to snap his very heart strings—a piercing cry and (even in his half consciousness he recognized it) a woman's cry! He flung himself back, and for a moment he saw- Neil struggling, the last spark of life in him stirred by that same cry; and then across the w hite sand two figures flew madly toward them, and even as the hot film in his eyes grew thicker he knew that one of them was Marion and that the other was Winnsome Croche. His heart seemed to stop beating. He strove to pull himself together, but his head fell forward. Faintly, as on a battlefield, voices came to him. and when with a superhuman ef fort he straightened himself for an instant he saw that Neil was no longer at the stake but was stretched on the sand, and of the two figures beside him one suddenly sprang to her feet and ran to him. And then Marions terror-filled face was close to his own. and Marion's lips were moaning his name, and Marion's hands were slash ing at the thongs that bound him. When with a great sigh of joy he crumpled down upon the earth he knew that he was slipping off into ob livion with Marion's arms about his neck, and with her lips pressing to his the sweet elixir of her love. Darkness enshrouded him but a few moments, when a dash of cool water brought him back into light. He felt himself lowered upon the sand and after a breath or two he twisted him self on his elbow and saw that Neil's while face was held on Winnsomes breast and that Marion was running up from the shore with more water. For a space she knelt beside her broth er. and then she hurried to him. Joy shone in her face. She fell upon her knees and drew his head in the hollow of her arm, crooning mad senseless words to him. and bathing his face with water, her eyes shining down upon him gloriously. Nathaniel reached up and touched her face, and she bowed her bead until her hair smothered him in sweet gloom, and kissed him. He drew her lips to his own. ana teen she lowered him gently and stood up in the starlight, looking first at Neil and next down at him; and then she turned quickly back to the sea. From down near the shore she called back some word, and with a shrill cry Winnsome followed her. Na thaniel struggled to his elbow, to his knees—staggered to his feet. He saw the boat drifting out into the night, and Winnsome standing alone at the water-edge, her cobbing cries of en treaty. of terror, following it unan swered. He tottered down toward her, gaining new strength at each step, but when he reached her the boat was no longer to be seen and Winnsome's face was whiter than the sands under her feet. "She Is gone—gone—” she moaned, stretching out her arms to him. “She is going—back to Strang!" And then, from far out in the white glory of the night, there came back to j him the voice of the girl he loved: "Goodby—Goodby—” (TO BE CONTINUED.! LOVE TALES’ o/’JfcmXl 9^ THOUSAND IMS'! EW YORK—Tommy on ' the third express' ele vator — Tommy with the Arcanum button 1 in his coat lapel—whis pered out of the cor- : ner of his mouth: "That clerk on the j eighteenth floor has cut out the young lawyer on the twenty third and he's going to marry the black eyed typewriter on the eleventh just after Easter. She's the second one in her family to make a match in the building—Fifteenth? Yes. sir—and her sister is going to step into her shoes—Twenty-five. All out—and I’ll bet she'll be lucky, too.” Skyscraper gossip at the rate of 550 feet a minute as the elevator runs. And in a social settlement of ..000. A thousand typewriters under one roof’ A thousand, so they say Who could count them? A battalion of cashiers, secretaries, clerks, tel ephone operators, manicures A hive ■n which there are more women and girls than there are in Yassar or Bar nard college, for the average of four women to six men holds good in all the big office buildings An establish ment where ambition and romance and integrity and cunning have office and telephone numbers and energy and brains look out across the long corridors, where trickery in oTer haste for the nimble dollar may be dodging shadows—a business commu nity screened behind Its own individ ual doors and with its name in the directory, in a way suggesting the towering hotels with their rooms, en suite and single, peopled by those w hose names appear on the register. Several regiments of alert human beings matching wits for money—big wits and little wits—and watching for great stakes or small—control of railroads and corporations and for fortunes and ciTic honors and for words of praise and favors and high er rungs in the long ladder ot pro motion. While law and brokerage and pro moting predominate, the industries of the skyscraper are diversified widely One may buy a machine for taking the temperature of the water at the bottom of the sea or wings for flying machines, flour for health bread, or blades for sawing walrus teeth Fruits from Brazil are sold direct and rub ber from the Orinoco is purveyed from lump samples A doctor has a consultation room and a dentist waits at his tip-back chair Agents of for eign governments drop in to order lo comotives or contract for crops of al falfa or outputs of shoe factories. Be tween basemen: and sky one may ne gotiate for almost everything And. by the authority of the super intendent, never a week without a ro^ trance. They dig a hole In ground that Is worth more a square foot than a farm and more for any odd inch than it costs to buy a horse and a cow. and three normal cellars down they bolt a foundation to nature's very backbone and build In steel toward the clouds two feet a day until the plans say stop. By and by, when a hundred thousand dollars have been multiplied by the number of stories, the doors are opened. Straightway and strange ly, too. without creating a gap any where in the city, a multi-commercial, financial, legal and what-not. etc., fam ily moves In with thousands of busi- ! ness children, and they call it "our building." As many people under one roof as there are in some cities, more than there are in some townships, as many as there are in some counties, living along miles of walled-in streets and avenues. At eight in the morning they are avenues of silence and there are unlocked doors At S:45 the family comes marching in. a hun- I dred to the minute, and the elevators, forty horsepower to the car. are run ) nlng a floor a second. Elevator men ride further every day than motormen j on trolleys. They beat the guards in ! the elevated The total daily runs of all the elevators In New York exceeds a transcontinental trip. There may be some veteran in the business who knows what it is to have covered ten times the distance around the globe in a car. A wholesome sisterhood of woman here, but scarcely a brotherhood of man. Sisters in a family of thou sands chat and whisper and babble and drop off into rival establishments At lunch hour they leave a thousand desks, meet again and babble and whisper and chat: and again when the rolltop of authority is slammed down and the typewriter batteries have become silent. They chat, but never about business, for which qual ity the woman who sits at a man's business elbow is commended more : than she will ever know. The gossip of fiction, the sphinx of business. One never goes shopping for legal advice, for bonds, for architecture or civil engineering. There are no popu- : ;ar shades in real estate or spring styies in stocks. So along these in door avenues business is largely con versational In reaching out for money the stenographic, telephonic and tel egraphic agencies are forever kept , busy. The streets of Canandaigua or ! Port Jervis or Stamford do not ring with half the hellos that go over the building wires. Seventy-sev-n. on the seventh, talk to Phiiadelphia. while | eighty-eight, on the eighth, hold the Boston wire Washington and Albany I —...€ With a roof promenade and dancing there is a setting as romantic as a beach or a moonlit park. whisper without interfering with Bal timore and New Haven. And letters: Twenty-three times a day bushel bags are filled at the mail boxes—two bushels of letters an hour, forty-six a day. and never any let up Except for an occasional club note or a post-card with a sentimental pic ture and vague initials, all strictly business—letters for money. You can't measure prosperity un der these conditions With a barroom or a barber shop or vaudeville house It is different. You can see the cus tomers go in. Who knows how mac v patrons, clients, accounts or w hatever they may be. opened the second door from the elevator on the seventeenth floor? How much did they add to the bank account of the man whose name is In gilt on the glass* N'o one knows. No one can know. It would be easier to estimate the catch of a Gloucester mackerel sloop riding tn the off-shore fog. Men go in with money and come out without it; others come out with an idea and return with a check. Except in a general way there is no gTea; concern among those whose names are not on the doors Books are kept for failure as well as for suc cess. A stenographer's notebook may suggest increased revenue or It mat not. Business Is not always pressing Men find time to fall in love between 3 a. m. and 5 p. m lust as they do elsewhere between seven and eleven in the evening. With a roof promenade and florists' booths and candy shops and the latest waltz on tuneful strings in the res taurant, and forty women—mostly un der twenty-five—to every sixty men. including slim youths in gay haber dashery and tired business persons, and corridors which if placed end to end would stretch along Fifth avenue from Madison Square to Forty-second street—with this combination one can see that there is a setting for the romantic as good, perhaps, as a beach or a moonlit park or a lake with lily pads and canoes. Even now they are arranging for the early spring hops on the roof These hops are naturally informal, but ■every little movement has a meaning of its own. When from an adjoining j roof one sees a youth and a white shirtwaist leaning on the parapet it is . evident that the young man's fancy has turned to the thoughts long asso ciated happily with the vernal season The candyman is the first aid to skyscraper Cupid. A small package of cream peppermints first; later j chocolates; then a pink or a rosebud I :rom the glass case near the door, and in order the large box of choice sweets, ribbon-tied. The elevator man —Tommy or any one of the others— ) whispers of the engagement- All very pretty and proper Four girls in one suite of offices were married within two years • Twenty and odd floors produced thirty brides between Maytlmes. and of course there were presents from the man in the private office and mantel ornaments or silver spoons from a subscription list all along the line down to the office boy. It has come to pass with our changed metropoli tan conditions that the sofa by the parlor window and the gas a faint blue flicker are no longer absolute essentials. Lovemaking thrives among ledgers and law books and ticker tape, and Cupid has a seat at the typewriter and loops a telephone receiver over his curly bead. Many of us are becoming unfamiliar with she beauties of our fair city Living, for example, on the ninth floor and working on the fourteenth, a New Yorker cannot be said to be directly in touch with Manhattan Island. One comes down from the upper realms of an apartment house, disappears in the subway and emerges therefrom only to return to the familiar upper atmosphere of the office building. The dally routine is describing a letter "T" the connecting link correspond icg to the subway. Preacre-s Free on This Boat Preachers will be carried free on the Mississippi river steamer G. W Hill owing to a request made by the late Capt G. W Hill, who died several weeks ago at his home in Alton. He was one of the owners of the steamer and said that it had aiways been his custom to carry preachers free on any steamer of which he was the in dividual owner, and he wanted his boat to accord the same privileges to clergymen as long as it bore his name. Captain Hill said that he began that custom on the first steamer he owned and operated, which was on the Des Moines river in Iowa in the early '50s While on a trip down the river from Fort Des Moines, now Des Moines, he found that one of his most prosper ous looking passengers was a preach er. He at once refunded the fare, which was $10. and ever afterward he made it a rule to carry preachers on the complimentary list.—St Louis Re public. He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. MEETING PLACE OF DANDIES The Old Bell Tavern of Pall Mall— Nell Gwynne’s Home in Old Lcndor City. The ancient thoroughfare of Pal! Mall, which in its checkered history has witnessed so many outward changes and with whose very stones one might almost say are bound up the social records of a bygone age. its romances and tragedies, its amuse , ments and scandals, is about to under go another transformation. The Old Bell Tavern, standing at the corner of what used to be called John street, but which is now prac tically Included in St. James' Square, adjoining, is doomed to go the way of many another building which, while it survived in that region, formed an in teresting link between the past and the present. After having served the agreeable purpose of a house of re- i freshment for -enturies the tavern is to be removed and in its place in due course will uprise an automobile show room quite in the modern style. Among all the notabilities who made Pall Mail their home Nell Gwynne will always assert her own place in the imagination ot the ro mantic. Tradition has net always spoken accurately as to the precise locality pf the mansion which the royal favorite inhabited, but it is now pretty well accepted that the house occupied the site on which now stands I a part of the Army and Navy club The residence sometimes erroneously attributed to her was actually inhab ited by another notable personage. Moll Davis, a young actress whose professional career, we are told, pre- i sented certain features similar to ' those of Nell herself. But this house ; on the north side of Pall Mall was not the only one which Nell Gwynne tenanted in the thoroughfare In . K5T1, as we are told, she crossed to the park side of the street. Who can doubt then that in the days before the club became an institution the Old Bell, standing in the Terr j thick of it all, was a favorite resort of the citizen who walked abroad? There men supported their port, discussed the latest scandal of the day, tore I reputations to tatters. A school for gossip the place doubtless was just as much as a shrine of Bacchus—. haven of good cheer in daylight ac dark. One can picture the compa. ?hat was accustomed to gather undt the oaken beams of its low pitch roof—the nsec who could quaff th. wine and retail their story "with air. So too can one bring to the changing clientele of the ts\ as fashions altered and socie: t grated further westward ant: re ward. until a time was reached v.: 'gentlemen's gentlemen" famish inconsiderable proportion of ;t.= or nightly customers.—London T graph. Passing of Applejack. Applejack is a back number in pc sylvania. There was a tine vrie:: good old Presbyterian deacons a elders of York county made enoug.. applejack—as they said—to sup: themselves and the rest of the cone ration." but that time is gone i almost gone in New Jersey also, last of the applgjack producing star. k FAMOUS DOCTOR'S • PRESCRIPTION* Ik KIDNEY ** a deceptive disease— thousands have it and TROUBLE dont know u If you want good results you ear. make no mistake by using Dr. Ril m- t's Swamp-Root, the great kidney rem edy. At druggists in fifty cent and dol lar sizes. Sample bottle by mail free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out If you have kidney trouble. Address, Dr. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton, N. Y. ROMANCE OF COLD WEATHER Mar. Saves Two Lives but Subsequent Lionizing Is Much to His Disadvantage. Two lovers were strolling along a canal bank on the outskirts of Paris tbe other day when the woman sud denly ran from her companion and threw herself into the water. Though but a bad swimmer, her companion al once jumped in to rescue her, but ha was unable to do so, and both were In peril of drowning. At this mo ment a stranger came along, and see ing the struggling couple, bravely jumped in and succeeded in bringing both the man and the woman to the bank, where they were soon revived. A cheering crowd assembled to con gratulare the rescuer, who. however, showed great reluctance to be lion ized. He was quickly walking away when two policemen came on the scene and insisted that the name and address of so brave a man should be taken. Their surprise was great when they found that the gallant rescuer was a burglar for whom the police were anxiously searching. He was taken into custody and will be brought up for sentence. It is expect ed that the gallant rescue will lead to his dismissal, or at least to a re duction of any sentence that might otherwise have been passed on him for his less heroic deeds. Has Cardinal Gibbons' Approval. Cardinal Gibbons, the highest au thority of the Roman Catholic church in America, has expressed his ap proval of Tuberculosis day. which is to be observed by the churches of the Tutted States on or about April 30, and of the general organized anti-tu berculosis campaign, acording to a report of an interview made public by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The interview was granted by hU eminence to H. Wirt Steele, executive secretary of the Maryland Associa tion for the Prevention and Relief ot Tuberculosis, and Dr. Charles O'Dono van one of the leading physicians of Baltimore. The Cardinal expressed his entire sympathy with the plan of the Tuberculosis day movement and indorsed the program both of the Maryland association s*id of the na Uonal association. Preponderance of Evidence. “Sorry." said the constable, "but I'll have to arrest ye—you been drivln' along at the rate of id miles an hour.’' "You are wrong, my friend." said the driver. "I wasn't, and here's a ten-dollar bill that says I wasn't.” "All right.” returned the constable pocketing the money. "With 11 to I against me I ain't goin' to subject the county to th' expense of a trial." —Harper s Weekly. Proof Positive. “I heard he was in bad odor with her family. Is that mieT' "Draw your own conclusions. It was a centless marriage.” COFFEE HEART Very “lain in Some People. A great many people go on suffering from annoying ailments for a long time before they can get their own consent to give up the indulgence from which their trouble arises. A gentleman in Brooklyn describes his experience, as follows: “I became satisfied some months ago that I owed the palpitation of the heart from which I suffered almost daily, to the use of coffee, (I had beer a coffee drinker for 30 years! but I found it v ry hard to give up the bev erage “One day I ran across a very sen sible and straightforward presenta tion of the claims of Postum. and was so impressed thereby that I con eluded to give it a trial. “My experience with it was unsat isfactory till I learned how it ought to be prepared—by thorough boiling for not less than 15 or 20 minutes After'I learned that lesson there wat no trouble. “Postum proved to be a most pal at able and satisfactory hot beverage and I have used it ever since. “The effect on my health has been most salutary. The heart palpitation from which I u«ad to suffer so much particularly sfter breakfast, has dls appeared and I never have a return ol it except when I dine or lunch away from home and drink the old kind oi coffee because Postum is not served I find that Postum cheers and lnvig orates while it produces no harmful stimulation.” Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Ten days’ trial proves an eye openei to many. Read the little book. “The Road tc Wellville,” in pkgs. “There's a Rea son” Etw wit the aheve litter? A am