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ft te bit"
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ft ivev.no defeat- He weered at a
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If—•* aet a wealthy one "
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tvterte ufejettlo# at nteck te bad
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'Trie da uocad track him to raetrol
f. bad tterr ar - 'lessee for that:
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la fits a orb- -*»sm aicg about the
"Tli<*vr • in true eaoertmeoia oC
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*Tr* n» ( fdtei t» go great things.
COW If- « •- —
•Lor to the Uit'
’"lie leadi U togas. !k~f ail loot u>
ttjn l> a isicsurti. dltceicntt. ita
t*f>* Mi> wiii nu.be mraiiaM aa
t«n)4>r. M tfc'cg as l!»r telephone.
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mmkw* Willi: be'* «MH enengb .
*~M*o base fMtla «m for bin. Katt
tea*
"Uotae* base"
Canal etranglte tetaf-at-on. . . .
►II* baa nagMUwa”
"Ttet ate aireegtb ambition^ en
tn I mam |W to know bin tatter, to
i “Garrett, that Is unworthy of you."
He said nothin*, doggedly taking
, what lemfort he might front the
i knowledge that he was right.
Gradually be comprehended that in
[tlii course of th ir conversation the
l car hud left fifth Avenue at the Plaza
and was cr, .-‘jig Central Park at the
' 1>iecty-aeccnd Street entrance.
“We're near the gate.'' he sat(J
• r fc: aptly "if you'll drop me there.
[ please—"
Certainly Tell Patrick."
Coast groped for the speaking tube
: nd communicated with the driver.
When b<- sat back be was conscious
of the woman's softening regard.
“You're not angry. Katherine?"
“No, Cirri" i: hut I’m very, very sor
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"If I'ec seemed presumptuous—"
“To no-. Garrett? Can you re mem
I her the time when wo were not—
lriei<«P
“No. ... I wan: you to under
■u.iid that 1: wrsn't altogether be
ad'- i want } o;i myself—need you.
to -a- e I li ve yea—as you know—
hsv loved von for years ... It
*r» )ea'.i - . ol your happiness. I
said Loihiu; that I didn't believe."
“i know Put you were—are mis
tak<a You'll come to understand."
'I doa't want you to make a mis
take. Walt. Katherine, wait a little
before deciding I'm sure of your
heart: it wch't misguide you."
“I believe not. I know my heart
and mind ”
“You know mine." he said gently,
and no more
lighted a cigarette and wander*-o
round the dining-room of Biackstock s
apartment, idly inspecting the halt
dozen hunting-prints that adorned the
green burlap wails.
Unspeakably bored, he went to the
buffet, where he poured a very little
Scotch into a tall glass, drowning it
with Icy charged water. He had re
fused to driuk up to that moment, and
was thirsty, but as he sat Bipping and
watching the players. Van Tuy^s un
natural pallor, moist hair and fixed
smile affected him with a faint dis
gust, and he put the glass aside, not
half-emptied. His trows knitted in
his corcern for the man. who had
been drinking heavily and would pur
sue that madness until satiated or
sodden: no influeure that Coast knew
of wculd restrain him; he was as un ;
manageable as a wild horse, and as |
spirited
...i r. graceful, high lord of
Devi'.-n.ay-fare. Van Tuyl sober was j
inimitable, more !■ '. J than feared in ;
spitg cf. perhaps lteat:se cf. the wit '
he wielded like a whip-lash. Ex- I
cesse: fanned that brilliancy to a
burning frenzy; at such times he knew
no friends, and those who knew him 1
avoided him; his wits, submerged, !
frothed with a satiric humor that ;
etched as indelibly as an acid when
be did cot lav on with a bludgeon of ,
vituperation. . . . A dangerous foil '
to Biackstock, Coast thought, com
paring them, wondering that they j
were so much together. Contrasting
them he thought: fire and tow. rapier ■
and broadsword!
Biackstock was the broadsword of |
that comparison, heavy and cumber- !
some if capable. Without an effort he !
dominated the others. Van Tuyl al- j
ways excepted; the sheer weight of :
Blackstock's personality forced them ;
into the background. Little Dundas.
with his deferential smile, delicately
pink face and permanently rounded
shoulders, seemed the veriest shadow
of a man: Blackstock's shadow he
had apparently constituted himself.
Truax. round of face and blandly prac
tical. if unquestionably independent.
“Brain*. Rather," Observed Van TuyT Blandly.
T::. ' s'.al.yil her; she winced. 1
wor 7 ?pg wflif But the personality!
Mi I r.g'as illlcltilock stood forth so'
.ift- . limned In such vivid coloring,
in foreground of her conscious
ly .hut there was left little room.
<*’ : ft>r old friends such .13 Garrett
Can 7.
Ar yot. Coast lingered at the door,
keen *•}(« searching hers almost
plaintively.
“I 11 drop In for tea tomorrow, if
vou ask me. Katherine."
"Hare you ever needed an invita
tion. Garrett?"
"Then !H come."
lie nodded to the driver and the
car swept away.
Long after it had shot out of sight,
he stood staring Then discovering
bin—eit bareheaded, hat and stick in
hand, an object of amused regard,
with a curt laugh of confusion and
awakened self-consciousness, be
turned hack through the park.
CHAPTER II.
li- slgaing with tittle reluctance bis
place at the card table to Dundas,
whose turn it was to cut in. Coast
was only less dwarfed by his host.
"A good brldger”—Blackstock la
the current slang: giving himself
wholly to the game, playing to win.
"wolliug the tricks." Van Tuyl told
him.
The comment brought a darkish
smile to the man’s face.
"What d’you want me to do with
'em?” he growled semi-humorously,
flipping a card from his hand and a9
swiftly making his play from dummy.
".Make you a present of 'em? . .
Play to that, now; come through with
that ten-spot.” He chuckled as he
gathered In the trick and led the
iinal card from dummy. “That'll teach
you to double my original make. I
guess. . . . Game and rubber.
Dunuy: six without, doubled, and a
little slam. Got that down?”
“Yes.” replied Duadas. grinning
feebly as he jotted down the score.
"Tough luck, partner." Truax ob
served to Van Tuyl. “You couldn't
help doubling on your hand, of course,
ami equally of course 1 had to be j
chicane In hearts."
“Brains, rather” observed Van
Tuyl biandly, shuffling.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Religious Part in Health
it Is the Interpreter of Sickness and
Death, and ef Health
aa Well.
Ifco'e li a great deal of aonsrsse
wrti.co about religion and health;
| there is a gieat deal of sense in real
! !jr connecting the two There are a
i greet many religions people who get
sick and die A great many Irreligi
ous people who do the same thing. It
would be possible to get figures to
prove anything you like In this connec
tion Cut they would not prove the
truth A clear mind, n pure heart
and a cheerful spirit stand n better
chance In the face of disease, than a
muddy mind, a dirty heart and an
ugly spirit Health Is a by-product,
but a sure product of religion But
there are few of us who get religion
enough to successfully combat our
own foolishness In other directions
So wa get sick sad die And there
are many worse things than these in
life Religion Is the interpreter of
sickness aad death, aad health aa well
Fearsome things are those which are
set eoderetood. ReHalon explains
stcfcneaa aad death and wa can adjust
ourselves to these great blessings. Re
ligion explains health and shows bow
it means opportunity and obligation;
that is religion clarifies- all experi
ences. we see them aa the? are. adjust
them to each - other «nd ourselves to
sll. and such an adjuatmeat la not
Tar from a condition of M*K& Re
ligion will not set a broken, leg. but
will contribute very largely to Its heal
lng. through keeping the sources of
healing pure A dean heart produces
s clean mind, a dean mind Insures a
clean body and a dean body la con
ducive to health.—OniversallM-Leader
Different.
“Why. a year ago you told dm
this place waa easily worth yu.000
Now you estimate Its value at tern
than $10,000."
"You must remember that I waa
trying to sell ft to you then Now yoc
want me to sell it for you."
Shoes of Snake Skin.
Shoes made of snake skin are worn
by many ultra .tasbionabla English
women this year.
WRECKED BEFORE SHE EVER MADE A FLIGHT
77LF FLAY FLY AFTER ITS FALL
THE May Fly, a dirigible built for the Prltish navy at a cost of about $200,000, met with disaster recently when
she was taken out of the shed-for her first trial flight Fortunately there was no loss of life, although the
officers and men in charge of the vessel were for a time in an extremely perilous position, during which they
behaved with great courage and coolness. Almost immediately after coming out of the shed the airship was
caught by the wind, heeled over, and eventually broke her back. Her fate will probably cause the abandon
ment of iighter-than-air craft in favor of the heavier-tban-air biplane or monoplane.
ASK NEW CALENDAR
British Statesman Would Rear
range Months of Year.
Every Month Would Begin on Sunday
—New Year Day and Leap Year
Separate—Many Other Novel
Features in Scheme.
London.—Sir Henry Da'.ziel, loader
of the ultra-radicals in the houso of
commons, the father of the bill which
aims at giving Scotland local self
government had Just had prepared a
bill to alter the calendar. This bill,
known as the fixed calendar bill, con
tains some novel features. As the
memorandum which accompanies it ex
plains. the bill purposes to substitute
for the present irregular calendar a
fixed calendar having regular periods,
of which the week is the common
measure.
in this, as in other features. It dif
fers from the calendar reform bill, in
troduced in the house of commons in
1909, but which never got beyond the
second reading stage.
That bill sought to make the months
as uniform in length as possible, but
as a difference in this respect is un
avoidable in a year with 12 months, it
is thought better to increase that dif
ference so as to allow of the week be- '
ing a common measure of all months, j
This arrangement makes it possible j
for each month to begin on a Sunday !
and end on a Saturday.
A table giving the proposed fixed
calendar shows that the months of I
January. February, April. May. July.
August. October and November would
eacb consist of £8 days, while the re
maining months of March. June. Sep
tember and December would each
have 35 days. "New Year day" is set
apart, thus bringing the total of days
up to the requisite number o. 3C5 days,
while for leap year a special day Is
set apart for "Leap day." which is to .
be intercalated between the last day !
I
of June and the first day of July, as re
constituted by the bill.
A clause in the bill provides that
the New Year day and Leap day shall
not be accounted days of the week,
and shall not, except where specially
mentioned or provided for. >e held to !
be Included In any computation of days. :
but shall otherwise be public bank j
holidays. The conditions o' labor on i
these days, and the remuneration ]
therefor, under the bill, would conform
as far as possible to what prevails on
Sundays. A fixed date. April 15. Is se- !
lected for Easter day.
Finally, the bill, if passed by parlla- ,
ment. will not become operative until
the government decides that sufficient
international concurrence has been se
cured.
CAT SLEEPS ON $16,000 RUG
Lives All Night In Waldorf-Astoria
Safe. Which Is Supposed to Be
Airtight and Burglar Proof.
New York.—When Frank Allstrom.
treasurer of the Waldorf-Astoria. :
opened the Inner doors of the big safe
In his private office he was greeted
by a stray black cat which jumped i
from a vault containing 118.000 in'
fresh, crisp bank notes.
Mr. Allstrom could not explain how :
the tramp cat happened to be in the
safe. Although the massive steel
vault is airtight and burglar proof,
the cat seemed none the worse for Us
sixteen hours of Imprisonment.
"After unlocking the safe." Mr All
strom said. "I reached into the vault
where 1 had placed the bank notes. 11
wss never more surprised In my life j
than when the big. black cat yawned 1
and looked at me as though to ask. ,
'Is my breakfast ready?
"We have been unable to ascertain i
how the cat gained access to the saTe. 1
as the inner doors are at all times |
kept locked. None of my assistants
can recall seeing the cat In the office ,
before we closed the safe on Tuesday
afternoon."
MONEY ADRIFT THREE YEARS
Pocketbook Dropped From Boat In
Delaware Bay Comes Ashore and
Owner Recovers Valuables.
Lewes, Del.—Dr. Harry Hickman of
Philadelphia has recovered his pock
etbook and $120 which it contained.
Three years ago he dropped it from
a launch into Delaware bay. The
pocketbook was found by the little
daughter of Ernest Lynch, who picked
It up on a marsh where she was driv
ing a cow, where it was probably
washed by some winter storm*
Three years ago Dr. Hickman, who
was visiting here, was in a launch par
ty and dropped his pocketbook over
board. Search was made for it but no
trace was discovered Some of the
money found by the girl was redeem- I
ed at the National Bank here and the
rest, which was badly soaked and
torn, sent to Washington for redemp
tion. Although the pocketbook con
tained Dr. Hickman’s name In It when
it was lost, the card was gone when
It was returned to him.
SNEEZE PLAYS GREAT HAVOC
Big Indian Elephant Performs Her
Triennial Feat, Shaking Building
and Breaking Glass.
London.—Daisy, the big Indian ele
phant. which sneezes once in three
years, performed her triennial feat
the other afternoon at the Bostock
Jungle, White City. As results of her
sneeze:
Huge pieces of plaster fell from the
ceiling.
Four windows were broken.
An electric light cluster was smash
ed.
A party of thirty schoolboys were
watching Daisy, which had been mo
tionless for more than an hour, when
suddenly the animal gave a scream,
reared up on Its hind legs and, giving
vent to a roar that shook the jungle
to its foundations, spurted a stream of
water over them, drenching them to
the skin.
Daisy laid down immediately after
her sneeze and went to sleep.
Judge Is Expert With Needle.
Hot Springs. S. D.—Emmett B.
Cook, justice of the peace, aged 61
years, devotes several hours every day
to the making of fancy work. One of
the features of the exhibit at the state
fair from this county will be a crazy
quilt made by him
Sewing is Mr Cook's hobby. He
learned it as a child Although once
famous in New York state as a ball
player, be has become mere noted Tor
doing fancy work.
Since the death of his wife, n few '
years ago. he has lived alone He de
voted several hours each day to bla
crazy quilt patches
■ ■ ■ -■ ■ ■—
Buy Land by tha Inch.
Louisville. Ky — Public-spirited cltt- ;
tens of a West Louisville neighbor j
hood are buying a lot 250 feet square
at the rate of about $1.25 a front inch *
When the lot is all sold It will be
presented to the trustees of the Lout*- i
ville free library ns a site for a new
branch, the money for which is in
hand, but awaiting presentation of a ;
site. No aite donor coming forward, :
the people devised a novel scheme to •
raise $3,SOO for the site.
NEWEST THING IN COOKING
From Paris Comes »n Innovation
Which Will Eliminate Present
Clews to Menu of Host.
Chicago.—And now It ts odorless
cookery.
Straight from Paris, and also from
a master chef of that epicurean met
ropolis. has come the latest item of
elimination by which modern civiliza
tion makes its progress, and a bevy
or Chicago matrons, young women
who have “come out” and others soon
to do the same crowded the instruc
tion rooms of the Chtcago School of
Domestic Arts and Sciences to learn
of the newest thing la cookery
For no longer are palates to be
tickled and mouths to water on
Thanksgiving morning at the frag
ranee of roasting turkey, and the
higher cost of turkey will not neces
sarily be responsible.
No longer are the breezes to waft
more of frying onion and boiling cab
bage from your neighbor's kitchen to
your living rooms than that neighbor
gets when his dinner is served.
And never more will houses become
saturated with stale reminiscences of
the failures and mistakes of cooks
who might have been more accom
plished in their vocation.
Investment in a few paper bags is
all that Is necessary for the new style
of cookery. It is almost utensil-less, |
as well as odorless, and the hours and ,
energy employed in scraping pots and ■
pans hereafter will be saved.
Tbe greater part of an elaborate
dinner was placed in a single com
partment of one oven by cookery stu
dents of the School of Domestic Arts
and Sciences this morning And
when onions, trout, bacon, baked ap
ples. potatoes, stuffed tomatoes and
several other edibles were cooking
steadily at the same time, a nose held j
so close to the oven as to be in dan
ger of scorching could not detect any
odor whatever.
RARE GRAPES GROW IN PARIS
- *
Miniature Vineyards in French Cap
ital Hava Old Vina* Which Yield
Well—One of Beat Known.
Paris.—Though It does not. of
course, take very great proportions.
Paris has an annual vintage season
which cannot be entirely ignored
Many gardens of the French capital
■belter flno vines, and some of these
have quite a reputation.
One of the beat known of the city's
miniature vineyards Is that t»f the
chamber ot deputies. This was cre
ated in the reign ot King taula Phil
ippe. when vtnea were planted In I he
Auguesseau and Montesquieu court
yards ot the Palais Bourbon This
year's harvest promises to be n par
ticularly good one.
The past tew days has seen the
gathering or the grapes In many other
parts ot the city The church of
Salnt-Loule-en-l’Ile haa a eery produc
tive vineyard, and there Is also •
good yearly harvest In a garden dose
to the Sscre-Coeur.
Tit# rue Satnt-Guillaume saw a gay
little fete when M. Trogan. editor of
(he ••Correspondent." entertained
those who write for his review for the
plundering of a very fine old vine.
This is an annual affair, and It was
as successful this year as on previous
occasions.
FLIES BRING SIX CENT* BAG
Unique Campaign la Instituted by
Public Health Committee of Dublin
Corporation—Boys Like It
London.—'The novel campaign
against flies Instituted by tbe public
health committee of the Dublin cor
poration Is providing sport for many
boyb. Tbe health committee Is fssu
Ing bags each capable of holding a
quart of dead flies, 15.000 to 20.000
going to make up n quart, and € cents
la paid for every full bag returned to
the corporation disinfecting depart
ment
With each bag is given a cardboard
flapper or “slayer.” Many boys are
now engaged in clearing the flies from
their own homes and those of their
neighbors, and the sport is proving a
source of huge delight to them.
Sir Charles Cameron, the medical
officer of health, said that he had
cleared his own house of flies by for
malin. a weak solution which attracts
and destroys the pests.
Run Submarine by Wireless.
Portsmouth. England.—Successful
experiments with the wireless control
of submarine boats have been made,
but the details are kept secret. It is
known, however, that a submarine
was taken to shallow water off Sel
sey while the hertslan waves were
worked from the cruiser Furious. The
submarine, which was on the surface,
was found to be entirely under the
control of the cruiser. Then the crew
was taken out and the experiment
was equally successful when the boat
was submerged. Similar experiments
are being made with torpedoes.
ARE YOU FREE
-FROM—
Headaches, Colds, Indigestion^
Pains, Constipation, Sour Stomach,
Dizziness? If you are not, the most
effective, prompt and pleasant
method of getting rid of them is to
bke, now and then, a desertspoon
tul of die ever refreshing and truly
beneficial laxative remedy—Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It is
well Known throughout the world
as the best of family laxative reme
dies, because it acts so gently and
strengthens naturally without irri
tating the system in any way.
To get its beneficial effects it is
always necessary to buy the genu
ine, manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co., bearing the name
of the Company, plainly printed on
the front of eveiy package.
FOR RENT.
GeoaGi=- _
The Chronic Bore—Now, I am an
open-minded man. I’ve always made
it a rule of my life—
The Acute Victim—Yes; and I’ve
often wondered why some idea didn’t
move into that open mind.
Astonished the “Cop.”
Police Lieutenant “Barney” Keleber
always has a new story to tell.
"Two of our ‘finest' were walking
along Broadway not so long ago,’’ be
gan the lieutenant, unfolding his latest
offering, "and their attention was at
tracted to the bronze figure of an ape
standing upright in the window of a
large jewelry store.
“What kind of an animal is that
supposed to be?” asked one of the
other.
t " ’You surprise me with your thick
ness,’ returned the second cop.
That’s a gorilla. Never hear of them
before?*
“ ‘Sure, and I read about them In
the histories,* he answered. ‘My, what
a lot of damage they did during the
Civil war! How did a general ever
make those things mind him?*’*—New
York Sun.
Hardly as Bad as That
The boy whose business it was to
answer the telephone rushed into the
room of the senior partner.
“Just got a message saying that
your house was on fire,” he said.
“Dear me.” returned the senior
partner, in a bewildered sort of way.
"I knew my wife was pretty hot about
something when 1 left home this
morning, but 1 didn’t think it was so
bad as to set the house on fire!”—
Stray Stories.
The Facetious Farmer.
“I am an actor out of work. Can
you give me employment on your
farm?"
"I can. But a day on a farm is
no 20-minute Sketch.” %
“I understand that.”
“All right. Yonder is your room.
When you hear a horn toot about
4 a. tn. that’s your cue.”
Tramp Turned Down.
“I haven’t a place to lay my head.”
“Well, you can’t leave It here."
it’s what a woman doesn’t know
that worries her.
THE TEA PENALTY.
'A Strong Man’s Experience.
Writing from a busy railroad town
the wife of an employe of one of tho
great roads says:
“My husband is a railroad man who
has been so much benefited by the use
of Postum that he wishes me to ex
press his thanks to you for the good
it has done him. His waking hours
are taken up with his work, and he
has no time to write himself.
“He has been a great tea drinker
ail his life and has always liked it
strong.
“Tea has. of late years, acted on
him like morphine does upon most
people. At first it soothed him, but
only for an hour or so, then it began
to affect his nerves to such an extent
that he could not sleep at night, and
he would go to his work in the morn
ing wretched and miserable from the
loss of rest. This condition grew con
stantly worse, until his friends per
suaded him, some four months ago, to
quit tea and use Postum.,
"At first he used Postum only for
breakfast, but as he liked the taste of
it and it somehow seemed to do him
good, he added it to his evening meal.
Then, as he grew better, he began to
drink it for his noon meal, and noW
he will drink nothing else at table.
“His condition Is so wonderfully im
proved that he could not be hired to
give up Postum and go back to tea.
His nerves have become steady and
reliable once more, and his sleep li
easy, natural and refreshing.
He owes all this to Postum, for he
has taken no medicine and made no
other change In his diet.
"His brother, who was very nervous
from coffee-drinking, was persuaded
by us to give up the coffee and use
Postum and he also has recovered his
health and strength." Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, “The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. “There’s a reason."
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•-•tercet.