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You can figure . ’ ?<» »—K. from )ojr o«a i.dica *t*u* ***|ierSe»ce “ A i». dark f. 4 colored Coasts e Tb*w. he asked a trace thick -hr are >(« giving >ourself away Mr* Y IWaat* it diverts: me cvtraor i rtanlf , lij jour !■ ire,* H!at kstone n *4 fcta. with ca>uwc»-iled amusement. Voor r >r> n-d look. Tour annoyance It's rii a. mj 1 ft is! Besides. Iks tier-- fit* n« k"* ;«ing job in the s>rY» e‘ :tii*at*-d in an hotir. my g dd» o ’- «d •- me*, I'll be bidding > jo a i' --d fare we!: it* been a very I -or !: -C" »S:,- t: aud I c: Y wr! ei cbhsat-d j yon lor mat let i i rfc an i: c *:.;uata a** of > our.-ei: t«r !ij ’ -b at bet -he curtain * about ' rr >* : Hi-B'r *hese epilogue' 'dual. , ..id Cot d. slowly, uo you flunk jou ne *t.T“ Ij, | m announcing to f m~ Rkxbf • k }awie-d uffectedlr t he ! ..n ti . t- : ." lie continued w ith n» wdueg ; »!.+• oi candor. “I'm a ui but 4 by tfe..- :»!#ce. It's served »• - fl'ttjri-* w. 1 ehOOgfe—I owe it D'» l-artt abut and I've had icy Biiig down her and made my bit of «-ad} merer bsr bow—no thanks to •■si. by ’he bye bis heck of the « *d* i» growing a trace too hot lor 'v So I'm going U* beat it and leave ftm cork of the rood" Yon mean you're going to try to e.-c ajs- in that cat boat T~ Coast nodded tow: -d -k exalt in question with-cut feSBoung feu regard from B’ackstock 1 ost tub? Never--r-r! No—inquisl tiis * t ut I don t rultid—Cm going to go awij from here in a nice little, tight .;t'i« ce tor-boat that's now t g the way dons from New Bedford, kindu si oi the as*e irw-c 1* who sent me the » ursair— which you Interfered with i: f'jr that shell out there. I guess no*’” bUckstuck Then why . . ~ “See tor tobrti If." ? 044-4. t'oitti ijrnt'd -o look -retaining with •toe ci: • -:tjr t - srs>;> ;;pjn tin- do* ■UK IntermiUeatiy whi'e Black ►iom ta ».*-d »h«- blind f*ol!i*? had been •nakin* vicious tIMnjiU to 1 reak *»»>. .-ri-arentiy Infuriated by tbe •nan • harsh and ot<!<i:.ic accents. And tn.-< b„*n: ••.*> Coast had been re nt raining hits indistinctly in the failing light he tuari - on! tbe lull. gaunt figure of the ' ; s . : • . - a *i’h lift-4 arms on tihe fiui.v: -- ot tr Ih-u* preparing to dive, and he r-t.-iied a vague iutpres •don tb.» ilie boat i ell was riding lower ia th- water. .v first fi(. failed '» tm-b- th*- co-ace 'ion letw-en the • *o Tie*, a* he m a - cei. Chang leapt iigi.t:» up and out. turned in wiitt nd e®ie:i*d the water as neat ly as an arrow, with barely a per reptibie j-plash "Ton see.” commented Plackstock With a note of Impatience. “1 though I'd rfesst at least one lord* n from your already overstrained ictelll ***«•' tils insolence farm-d to a flame the smoldering resentment in Coast's bosom W hat the devil are you *et itn* at V be demanded hotly. - too.' returned Hlackstock. un moved ~l had an idea you were mak ing sheeps eye* at my little boat, so I decided to deliver you from tempta r*on and sent Chan* out to scuttle tor 4 ■*"?!» matter—watch her set time ao»' —jast a strong twist cf tile wris- and nut corues our bilge plug and in comes th- water and—down she goes!” Coast, choking with despair and race. ;n silence saw the prediction ver itied to its bitterest letter. Then he swung back to his tormentor, qutver ir.e w h indignation even as the dog u- h- id quivered and strained against restraint Itatun >ou'“ h-- cried despite him seif lCa« ksto. h la :ghcd again, by all ’ 'Inns en ■ tit; hunsell immensely. Hut «i.. !** he asked lightly “Why ■ a:un me far tak us a simple meas re towerd self-preservation—obeying N tune's first lav., and all that sort ot • g 1 v. ant you to stick here un :■ rr.iw n ’-c;n;. at the earliest: i ' gives ti e u chance to make a ■ '• at: £. t aw:i\ Why should I ieave he means gum up my plans? , i .. • ks i ni many kinds of a loo!. 1 know, but not that bad!" You'it never leave this island free.” Coast mutteted Eh. what's that* Oh. you think • so? IV- eve me my gay gallant. I n * se to ai you're banking on. It's ti e you had nte g\essing for a time ' —i wasi; ; s'.ri about you at first; imiuatur- i e .rd you've been grow "g recently is quite some disguise. Just cow—merely satisiitU . the case. . . . Well, as 1 was sa>u.. I worked the wireless pretty stead ily—was happy enough to pick up a message to the Scylla—a revenue cut ter. I take it—ordering her here to | bust up a nest cf smugglers, and ! spiked that gun with another m?e- ■ usage. a couple of hours later, revoking 1 The order as being based on false in- i formation And. finally. I got my j friends on the mainland to make up ft little party to fetch me off. So. ail things being pleasant as afternoon tea. I came down to gloat over you a little. Hope you don’t mind." "Why.” said Coast—"since you’d made up your mind about me—why • did you held off this long” To laugh at me?” “Partly. Mr. Coast, partly. There were other reasons. One was I don't bear you any ill-will; which you’ll allow is pretty decent of me. consid ering the rotten way I've treated you. I don't kill in cold blood without a pretty good reason Van Tuy’s mouth had to be shut, you know—or rather, you don't know why. and likely never will; and Power was threatening to split on the game here, so he had to be taken care of. But you . . . I'll be candid: to begin with your life wasn’t worth a tallow dip; ! made up n:y mind to eliminate you w ith neatness and dispatch— I when your bark was turned, for choice. But then I began fa think the game was about up. so far as No Man's Land was concerned So. what was the use of making a bad matter messy? You were harmless, and I didn't hate you hard enough to want you murdered—unless you made it necessary. So I voted for the laugh instead of the funeral." "Do you think for an instant I in tend to let you go?” "You? What've you got to say about it? Don't be silly: I'm going— "You Can Figure It Out Yourself." i te.-id-> you’d changed your way talking: his lordship's languid : *1 was missing; and you look like any other ordinary mutt, out of your y c ubes—but I got your num r in due course of tinje That ak r> i made about the gin when - !:i.g my biuif about knowing ■ ; !e 1 ’ the f- < 1 of th«*ir laces— > no .. t yourself then, and 1 hadn't it n:« • doubts 1 did some tall fig .-nag he; re i sot completely hep. but a lit'!- work v.ifh wireless rounded fh -pry on'. You sj e. you had the y. rn ot the t'orsair's troubi* down too and glib for it to be without a t a:n of truth; you gave n:e that t:- :■ to g on. . . . And then— we!1, we knew one man certainly, and prot. bly two. had b-en on the island | in *he fog yesterday morning and but*r-d in on ti:» funeral obsequies of :ny ill advised young assistant. Power, and it didn’t seem in reason they'd content to let the matter rest at that—specially after going to the | tremble of breaking Chang's head in return for being shot at. ... So I g t busy, as I say. and the fog help tig I fixed things up very prettily. 1 warned Yoorhis—he's sloping for safety now; sent the tug after the Corsair, unhappily too late—it's evi dent your friend, the Secret Service sleuth-“ “How did yeti guess that?" Coast demanded huskily. "Considering what I've been up to. wiat was the Wiliest guess? I wa-n't sure until vou gave it away I and not to the electric chair, either. I shall just quietly drop out of your ken for good and all—and some day you'll be grateful. Look what a cute little island I'm making you a pres ent of—God knows I've no further use lor it; you're welcome. Same way with my wife: I was rather fond of her, once, but now you can have her. Of course there'll be some delay about the blessed respectability end ■ of it—the divorce—grounds—deser j tinn—and all that—hut, still, if you're half as keen a lover as you are a fool-" ' You contemptible hound!” "Steady, there!" Blackstoek's voice dropped to a dangerous key. “Re member-” He found no time to finish. As he spoke Coast, beside himself, released ■ the dog and whirled the tiller above his head. With a grunt Blackstock j stepped back, tugging at the weapon in liis pocket; but before he could drop it the dog, free and frantic with j hatred, launched itself like a bolt for his throat and, blind though i: was. I springing by instinct toward the sound of his voice, found its mark. Coast's .bludgeon, sweeping for his head with deadly accuracy, none the less missed its mark, so quickly the dog staggered and carried Blackstock off bis feet. In a twinkling they were down. Blackstock underneath, grappling madly with the frenzied collie whose jaws were snapping wickedly at his j throat. •TO BE CONTINUED.) Marble Quarries in Italy Though Wsstefully Operated for 2.0G3 Years, the Supply Is Still Inexhaustible. Twenty centuries ago men were digging out the side of the Apuan mountain.', in Italy, for as far back as that time they realized what could be done with the marble which com poses so much of this mountain range The mines or quarries are only with in a few square miles of territory, but an army of 6,000 men and boys are continually -* ir earnings northwestern Italy. No one knows how much marble is contained in this range of Italian mountains. Though they have been opened for 2,000 years, and, as stated, the mining methods are attended with enormous waste, it is known that vast beds of the marble still exist. By digging longer and longer tunnels and shafts an inex haustible supply can be obtained, for the beds are so extensive that some supporting people of of the mines are worked at a height of over a mile above the sea. while many of the workings are over 2.000 feet above the sea. This is a great advantage to the Italians, however. . because methods are still In use in quarrying and getting out the marble which are hundreds of years old. But little advantage has been taken of the modern labor-saving machinery, such as electric and compressed air drills and saws, the principal tools being steel bars and chisels, mallets, while not only dynamite but gun powder is placed in big holes, ex- i ploded. and frequently the side of the ! mountain will be so shattered by the explosion that the waste marble is i much more than the block which is 5 loosened.—Albert Wilheim in Cassier’s Magazine. The Other Extreme. "I haven't enough money to startle society with my gowns." "In that case. I why not go in for barefoot dancingr GREAT CANAL NEARING COMPLETION A W Z.OC2C CHAMBER j4T2&&AFZQ&£$ Our photograph shows one of the immense loc* chambers of the Panama canal pieted. at Mlrafiores nearly com DOCTORS UP BOOKS New York Woman Chooses Odd Profession. Receives Calls and Makes Visits Like Any Physician. With All Book Lovers as Clientele—At tends Great Libraries. New York—Miss Janet C. Lewis bas taken up a work which, ia ail probability, is the most novel profes sion ia the country. She is a book lector. That is literal, for she re ceives her calls and attends her pa rents in much the same fashion as iitv other doctor. The diseases to which she ministers are various, and inly too well known to librarians who have to deal with old and valuable hooks. The chief of these is dry rot cr disintegration, due to various causes. The use of sulphuric acid in tan ring. may be an excellent preventive tor worms, but. on the ether hand, leather so treated soon loses its natur al oil. The present conditions in nearly all libraries do not tend to preserve old md valuable bindings. Direct sun shine is one of the most potent factors in disintegration, as are also gas and. to a lesser degree, electricity. The best way to secure good, fresh ven tilation and a proper supply of light, n bile barring the sunlight, is to have the windows and globes of the lights tinted red. green or yellow. Green lives the best results. Glass fronts. Miss Lewis says, are ■ not advisable, since they prevent the | free circulation of air. which is es ! sential for proper ventilation. Ex cessive dampness is as much to be shunned by the librarian as excess of • stacking room. Miss Lewis uses in her work an old ! preparation which is based on a secret formula willed to her by an old Ger man librarian, a great friend of hers, who died a few years ago. To this recipe she added certain lubricants with whose properties she was con versant and evolved her present prep aration. It is of the consistency of vaseline or petrolatum, and almost Mack in color. The original recipe had been handed down from father to 1 son in a family of book lovers and li brarians. and previous to coming in'o the hands of Miss Lewis had been used effectively in various European libraries. Miss Lewis star-ed her work some eight years ago. and since then has treated most of the great New- York libraries with success, including in her long list the New York Rar asso ciation. the Avery library at Columbia | university, the private collection of J. P. Morgan and the library of the Metropolitan museum. In addition to being a book doctor. Miss Lewis is a practical llibrarian. having been in j charge of the Richard Hunt collection for many years before taking up her present work. She finds that she can no longer continue her work unaided and now has a corps of assistants book lovers as she is herself, whom , she chooses with the utmost care and who have become very expert in the work. FASHION CURSE TO THE RACE Missouri Lecturer Declares Vanity Is Basis for Much of Our Poverty. Kansas City. Mo—The whole gain of modern civilisation in science, in dustry and the art of living has been more than lost by the waste in the ceaseless pursuit of fashion, according to assertions by Prof. H. J. Daven port in one of the series of lectures of the University of Missouri extension here. "There !s no cure for poverty when all surplus energy is dissipated in show." declared Professor Davenport. 'Fashion today is a compound of fool ish pride and foolish flunkeyistn. If the social leaders have chosen a new costume or a new trick akimboiits: ik :r arms or of drawling their w ords all the social small fry must take the cue therefrom. A part of the life of the best of us is set as a burnt offer ing for vanity. "So long as our desires fix them selves in the gratification of vanity we shall fad that all our possessions are dead sea fruit and our life is weari ness." His Wife Lcved Him Too Much. Chicago.—John Reekinger. when brought before the court of domestic relations, told the judge that he left his wife because her continued dis play of affection for him became very tiresome. She even followed him to his office -«*-i <nt*rfer*d with his busi ness USE ENGINE IN THIEF CHASE Railway Policeman Orders Engineer to Pursue Thief and Makes a Capture After a cight. Oakland. Cal.-£Pressing Into serv ice a switch engine. J. J. O'Connor, state railway policeman, pursued a burglar along the rails on the Oakland mole, caught up with the man after a four blocks' chase, engaged hint in a hand to hand encounter and finally subdued and arrested him. The pris oner is Kd Rensen, and he is in jail charged with petty larceny. The capture was made late last night. O'Connor noticed Rensen and another man removing about one hun dred feet of lead pipe from a freight car at the Oakland mole. He ordered the men to halt, but they took to their heels and ran down the footpath along the rails. O'Connor followed, but the men were too fleet for him. Seeing that he had no chance of capturing them on foot, he ran over to a tram which was being switched about and ordered the engine driver to assist him. The train started alter the burglars with O'Connor in the en gine cab. When the engine was a1 reast of the fugitives O'Connor jumped off. He sought to arrest Ren sen. but the latter fought. O'Connor was the stronger in the scuffle and downed and handcuffed his man. In the meantime the other man disap peared in the darkness. Exonerated for Death. Springfield. Ohio.—A jury acquitted Pearl Elder, white, charged with man slaughter for the killing of James San ford, a negro, alleged paramour of El der's mother, September 2S. 1910. Brave Diver Saves the Ship Goes Under Water Amid Sharks to Fix Propeller. Boards Up a Hole Made in Boat by Storm in the Gulf of Mexico and Enables British Vessel to Reach Its Port. San Francisco.—One of the most re markable feats ever performed by a i diver is related by the offices and crew of the British sloop of war Shearwater, which is undergoing re pairs at the Union Iron works. J P. Ijrgane. a young Irish shipwright. ! boarded up the prope”er well while the vessel was rolling in heavy seas and so enabled her to make the voy age to this port. The Shearwater was cruising off the coast of Mexico w*hen in a storm she lost her propeller. Resort was imme diately had to her sails, but it was I found that steering was almost im possible. because the big arch or well ! ".nder the stern in which the propeller had revolved made the rudder's work ineffectual. The officers decided that if they were to bring the ship to port this well must be hoarded up. Lingane was sent down to do the work. Though hampered by his heavy diving suit and by the weight of wa ter. he was able to adjust himself to the had roiling of the ship and to handle the heavy timbers that were passed to him. He fastened the boards so securely that they had only shifted in one place when the Shearwater I reached this port, even though she had : been battered by heavy seas on the way. Naval men have given high praise to the young man for what he did and a special report on it has been sent to the British admiralty. A trial to the nerves of the young diver while he was at work was the i presence of several sharks, which at ! times swam close to him. Armed men j on the warship, however, kept them from attacking him. GIRL GOES INTO A CAISSON Clad in Gyrr Costume. Overalls and Jumper. Miss Ruth Kenny Watch es'Cinking of Piers. — Kansas City. Mo.—Miss Ruth Ken ney. teacher of mathematics in the Rosedale high school, descended the narrow, muddy ladder to the bottom i of the pneumatic caisson which is be ing used to build the foundation for the James street bridge in Kansas j City. Kan., and remained half an hour thirty feet below the bed of the Kaw ; river. Miss Kenney wore her gymnasium costume and over that a pair of over alls and jumper, just like the "mud hogs” who work down in the slime at the base of the piers. She had been told by the foreman ; just how to take a full breath and | slowly exhale, so as not to be affected by the air pressure. “Often I have read how these piers are sunk." she said, “but I never bad | an opportunity before to inspect one 1 in course of construction.” Costly Joke on Detective Philadelphian Took Seaman on Leave for Deserter From United States Navy. Philadelphia. Pa.—As a result of a boast that he was a deserter from the navy. Owen Martin, a seaman on the battleship Idaho, at League island, was arrested in Pittsburg, and brought back to his vessel two days before his leave of absence had expired, while the detective who paid the expenses of bringing him back to his ship in the hope of obtaining the customary reward of $60, returned to Smoky City without the money, a sadder but wiser man. Martin had been visiting his home in Sellersville, 111-, and was on his way tack to Philadelphia when the Incident occurred. In a spirit of fun he declared that he had deserted the Idaho several weeks previous. Without w-aiting to write or tele graph to the Idaho for particulars, the detective, whose name is Miller, took Martin into custody and boarded the first train for this city. Martin de nied that he was a deserter, stating that he had made the assertion in fun, 1 but Miller was obdurate and insisted on accompanying him back to his 1 ship. Arriving on board the Idaho at league island the defective found that Martin had been on a leave of ab sence and still had two days to his credit before reporting for duty. Miller could only retire as gracefully as pos sible. while the crew of the Idaho gleefully bombarded him with pota toes. Child Slid Down Pipe to Furnace. Altoona, Pa.—While looking for his mother's thimble. Morris, the two-year old son of Robert Templeton, stepped into a hot-air pipe this wek and slid down to the furnace. His mother, frantic with fear that he had been roasted alive, tore down the pipe, and found that the child had saved him self by making a wedge of his arms TRAMP SEIZES A FINE HOME Leavenworth. Kan, Caretakers Make Odd Discovery at Cheever House. Leavenworth, Kan.—When caretak j ers for the house cn Miami street for ! merly occupied by Col. and Mrs. Ben | jamin H. Cheever and now owned by : Mrs. Cheever entered they found that a tramp had taken possession. The house is richly furnished and has been without a tenant except the tramp. He had slept on the spotless linen in the massive brass beds, wash ! ed his hands in marble basins, waltzed : with his brogans on the oriental rugs, eaten from silver plate and drunk from cut glass goblets. Cans of imported dainties were robbed of their contents and cob webbed bottles taken from their musty ; hiding places is the cellar bins. New Ambassador Sails. Xew York.—Former Gov. Myron T. Herr*~k, recently appointed ambassa dor to France, sailed for that country with Mrs. Herrick. BIG GOAL DEPOSITS Rutsian Scientific Explorer Tells of Sakhalin. Declares Its Agricultural Possibilities Are Small, but Says There Is Good Pasture for Cattle—Deep Bor ings Made for Naphtha. St. Petersburg.—Sakhalin, the for lorn easternmost island of the Russian empire—once the grimmest of convict settlements, and now. since the Ports mouth treaty. Japanese territory in its southern part—is attracting consider able scrutiny as to its natural re j sources. Russia is doing much to ; open up her Amur territory, and the process would be helped if Sakhalin, t "the cork of the Amur bottle." were to prove an economic asset. A Russian scientific explorer. M. Polovoy. has jus: given the St. Petersburg Geographical society an estimate of its resources. Facade of Government Buildings. Its agricultural possibilities ho rates as low, but there is good pasture for cattle. The meat trade, however, is no: organized at all. Vladivostok, close by, gets its supplies in c-old stor age from Australia. Coal is probably the best of its as certained properties. He believes that there are at least ten million poods of it in the island. It would find a good market in the western states of America, besides in Japan. Deep borings are now in progress for naphtha, which is in as good position as the Itaku wells and should be abie to compete with American petroleum in east Asia. Gold prospecting has not had success. There Is a great supply of timber, of which no use was made until in 1906 a firm begaa tc export railway sleepers. The population, which a dojen years ago consisted of 20,000 Russian de{>ort ed convicts, and about half as many free persons, sank to about 6.000 after the Japanese war. The convicts bad got their liberty on condition they volunteer for the war. Russians sold their houses for next to nothing. A whole village was left to caretakers for 50 rubles. Last year the ex-con victs who had served in the war and returned were declared free peasants and settled near Alexandrovsk. the seat of government. Sakhalin's weak side, as M. Polovoy found it, is in its cut off condition, not so much geographically as through want of steam navigation. Moreover, the coasting trade is closed against foreign shipping. There are very few roads into the interior, even the roads prospected by the Russian prisons de partment have fallen back into waste. Harbors are scarcely to be found at all. Labor is unskilled and there is no ascertainable general rate of wages. Evidently the piantlessness that has hitherto marked the adminis tration of the important "cork of the Amur" will need to be changed if its great coal and lumber resources are to get a chance. WONT SELL JEFFERSON HOME Congressman Levy, Owner for 35 Years. Announces He Will Not Dispose of Monticello. New York.—Congressman Jefferson 51. Levy has no intention of selling Monticello, once the home of Thomas Jefferson, to the government or ai v one else. The idea of the purchase of Monticello by the government, recent ly proposed by patriotic societies in 'iVasbington. is distasteful to him, lie declares, in a statement given out here Mr. Levy has been the owner of Monticello thirty five years and dur ing that time the property has been scrupulously maintained. Visitors have been admitted to the estate freely. Sir. Levy explains, and the condition of the property is better than it would be if owned by the government. Hen Hooks a Long Ride. Winsud. Conn.—A. Thomasion, a grain dealer, received a car load of baled hay from Canada this week, and when the shipment was being unload ed a white Leghorn hen was discov ered between the hay tiers. Biddy had laid several eggs while in transit. The car containing the hay and hen left Canada two weeks previous and Biddy had no food or water during that time. Home Rule Bill Liked. London.—John O’Callaghan, nation al secretary of the United Irish League of America, was the guest of honor at a dinner given by nationalist members of the house of commons. T. P. O'Connor praised Premier Asquith s bill as the best measure for home rule ever introduced in parliament. Promise Reduced Rates. Liverpool.—Frank L. Brown, chair man of several committees, sailed on the Mauretania with the promise of several steamship companies to grant reduced rates for European visitors and exhibits for the Panama-Pacific exposition.