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I tf I The Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOIC iM smjLli NEBRASKA HEARTS AND MASKS By HAROLD MacGRATH AuthoroPTheManon the Box etc With Drawings by Harrison Fisher Copyright 1805 by Bobbs Merrill CoJ CHAPTER II Continued Tho ten of hearts again Hang the card And then with a sigh of relief I recollected that in all prob ability he like Columbine had heard me call out the card to Hamilton Still the popularity of the card was very disquieting I wished it had been seven or five theres luck in odd numbers A Blue Domino My heart leaped and I thought of the little ticket in my Waistcoat pocket A Blue Domino If by chance therq should be a connection between her and the ticket She was sitting all alone in a cor ner near by partly screened by a pot of orange trees I crossed over and sat down by her side This might prove an adventure worth while What a beautiful night it is I said She turned and I caught- sight of a Wisp of golden hair That is very original said she Who in the world would have thought of passing comments on the weather at a masque Prior to this moment the men have been calling me all sorts of sentimental names Oh I am coming to that I am even going to make love to you She folded her hands rather re signedly I thought and the rollick ing comedy began CHAPTER III When they give you a mask at a ball they also give you the key to all manner of folly and impudence Even stupid people become witty and the witty become correspondingly daring For all I knew the Blue Domino at my side might be Jones wife or Browns or Smiths or even Greens but so long as I was not certain it mattered not in what direction my whimsical fancy took me It is true that ordinarily Jones and Brown and Smith and Green do not receive in vitations to attend masquerades at fashionable hunt clubs but some how they seem to worry along with out these equivocal honors and pros per Still there are persons in the swim named Johnes and Smythe and Browne and Greene Pardon this parenthesis As I recollected the manner in which I had self invited the pleasure of my company to this carnival at the Blankshire Hunt club I smiled behind my mask Nerves I ought to have been a professor of clinics in stead of an automobile agent But the whole affair appealed to me so strongly I could not resist it I was drawn into the tangle by the very fas cination of the scheme I was an interloper but nobody knew it The ten of hearts in my pocket did not match the backs of those cards regu larly issued But what of that Every one was ignorant of the fact I was safe inside and all that was roman tic in my system was aroused There are always some guests who cannot avail themselves of their invitations and upon this vague chance I had staked my play Besides I was de termined to disappear before the hour of unmasking I wasnt going to take any unnecessary risks I was then fairly secure under my Ca puchins robe Out of my mind slipped the previous adventures of the evening I forgot temporarily the beautiful unknown at Mouquins I forgot the sardonic lipped stranger I had met inFriards I for got everything save the little ticket that had accidentally slipped into my package and which announced that some one had rented a blue domino And here was a Blue Domino at my side just simply dying to have me talk to her I am madly in love with you I began I have followed you often I have seen you in your box at the op era I have seen you whirl up Fifth avenue in your fine barouche and here at last I meet you I clasped my hands passionately My beautiful barouche My box at the opera the girl mimicked What a cheerful Ananias you are Thou art the most enchanting creature in all the universe Thou art even a turquoise a patch of radiant summer sky eyes of sapphire lips Archaic very archaic she inter rupted Disillusioned in ten seconds I cried dismally How could you She laughed Have you no romance Can you not- see the fitness of things If you have not a box at the opera you ought at least to make believe you have History walks about us and you call the old style archaic That hurts Methinks Sir Monk There Thats more like it By my haldiom thats the style nijnt Wiiirw Odtls bodkin you dont toll me There was a second ripple of laughter from behind the mask It was rare music I could fall In love with you There once was a Frenchman who said that as nothing is impossible let Jus believe in tho absurd I might be old enough to bo your grandmother lightly Perish the thought Perish it Indeed The mask is the thing I cried enthusiastically You can make love to another mans wife Or your own and nobody is the wiser cynically a We are getting on Yes we are getting on both in years and in folly What are you do ing in a monks robe Where is your motley gay fool I have laid it aside for the night On such occasions as this fools dress as wise men and wise men as fools everybody goes about in disguise How would you go about to pick out the fools curiously Beginning with myself Thy name is also Candor Look at yonder Cavalier He wab bles like a ship in distress in the wild effort to keep his feet untangled from his rapier Ill wager hes a wealthy plumber on week days Observe Anne of Austria What arms Ill lay odds that her great grandmother took in washing Theres Romeo now with a pair of legs like an old apple tree The freedom of criticism is mine to night Did you ever see such ridicu lous ideas of costume For my part the robe and the domino for me All lines are destroyed nothing is i IP - jp - fTayTaM r l Your voice lacks the proper and requisite anxiety It is always the married woman who enjoys the mask with thoroughness She knows her husband will be watching her and jealousy is a good sign You are a philosopher Certainly you must be married Well one doos become philosoph leal after marriage But are you married I do not say so Would you like to be I have my share of feminine curi osity But I wonder ruminatingly why they do not give masquerades oftener That is easily explained Most ol us live masquerading day by day and there might be too much of a good thing That is a bit of philosophy that goes well with your robe Indeed what better mask is there than the human countenance If we become serious we shall put folly out of joint said I rising And besides we shall miss the best part of this dance She did not hesitate an instant I led her to the floor and we joined the dancers She was as light as a feath er a leaf the down of the thistle mysterious as the Cumaean Sibyl and I wondered who she might be The hand that lay on my sleeve was as white as milk and the filbert shaped horn of the finger tips was the tint of rose leaves Was she connected with the ticket in my pock et I tried to look into her eyes but in vain nothing could I see but that wisp of golden hair which occasion ally brushed my chin as with fy fi Look at Yon Cavalier He Wabbles Like a Ship in Distress nizable My my Theres Harlequin too walking on parentheses The Blue Domino laughed again You talk as if you had no friends here shrewdly But which is my friend and which is the man to whom I owe money What Is your tailor here then Heaven forbid Strange isnt it when a fellow starts in to pay up his bills that the tailor and the under taker have to wait till the last The subject is outside my under standing But you have dressmakers I seldom pay dressmakers Ah Then you belong to the most exclusive set Or perhaps I make my own dresses Sh Not so loud Suppose some one should overhear you It was a slip of the tongue And yet you should be lenient to all Kind heart Ah I wonder what all those interrogation points mean the black domino there Possibly she represents Scandal Scandal then is symbolilzed by the interrogation point Yes Whoever heard of scandal coming to a full stop that is to say a period I learn something every minute A hundred years ago you would have been a cousin to Mile de Necker Or Mme de Stael Oh if you are married I shall have ceased to interest you On the contrary Only marriage would account for the bitterness of your tone What does the Blue Dom ino represent The needle of the compass She stretched a sleeve out toward me and I observed for the first time the min iature compasses woven in the cloth Surely one does not rent a costume like this I understand now why you at tracted me Whither will you guide me sentimentally Through dark channels and stormy seas over tropic waters into the haven under the hill Oh if you go to quoting Tenny son its all up with me Are you married One can easily see that at any rate you are not Explain Jjjj jftB9ftP JMWWntBfaMMWJiww M hiPrisiiwwr ngiwpn i j wjii i reptitious caress If only I dared re main till the unmasking I pressed her hand There was an answering pressure but its tenderness was de stroyed by the low laughter that ac companied it Dont be silly she whispered How can I help it True I forgot you were a fool in disguise What has Romance done to you that you should turn on her with the stuffed club Practicality She has never paid any particular attention to me perhaps that is the reason As we neared the corner I saw the Honorable Julius again He stretched forth his deaths head mask Beware the ten of hearts he croaked Hang his impudence The Blue Domino turned her head with a jerk and instantly I felt a shiver run through her body For a moment she lost step I was filled with won der Tn what manner could the ten of hearts disturb her I made up my mind to seek out the noble Roman and learn just how much he knew about that disquieting card The music ceased Now run away with your benedic tions said the Blue Domino breath lessly Shall I see you again eagerly If you seek diligently She paused for a moment like a bird about to take flight Positive fool compara tive fooler superlative foolest And I was left standing alone What the deuce did she mean by that After all there might be any num ber of blue dominoes in the land and it seemed scarcely credible that a guest at the Hunt Club would go to a costumers for an outfit I had gone to a costumers but my case was alto gether different I was an impostor I hunted up Imperial Rex It was not long ere we came face to face or to speak correctly mask to mask To be Continued I MIA f Dl wapiuicu ck riici Gunner The gridiron hero is all smiles Guyer Yes he has captured a grid iron heroine Gunner A gridiron heroine Guyer Yes a college girl who real ly knows how to broil a beefsteak Chicago Daily News nrwiriiiifcinai giiiinig fisJtfy 3s S WRITTEN BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN tCffi t ifj for s JiT L XZZo F cc r -- -7 - 2 rnnrt j jf faSj L J JiJ enf -A s LsiSZa U P An autograph letter of Abraham Lincoln writter more than half a cen tury ago to his life long friend Thomas J Turner of Freeport 111 ifterward a colonel in an Illinois regi ment is here reproduced as an object of national interest The value of this letter to the fam lies to whom it has descended like an apostolic succession may be estimat ed from the fact that it has passed from deathbed to deathbed as a sacred pharge in the Turner generations the Famous Illinois Tavern Where Lincoln When a Circuit Rid ing Lawyer Swapped Stories With the demolition of the old Kel ley tavern torn down to make room fox a barn there passed one of the famous old hostelries of Illinois Built in 1839 the old tavern became the stopping place of all west bound trav elers it being the only hotel between Danville and Urbana on the state road For -years it enjoyed great popular ity especially during its ownership by Joseph Kelley who operated it from 1840 until 1864 During the 50s it was the regular stopping place of the old time circuit riding lawyers among whom were Abraham -Lincoln and Judge David Davis Both Lincoln and Davis were warm friends of Kel ley fthose ready wit and great fund of stories made him a favorite with both men Kelley was a great story teller and during the months inter vening between the April and Septem ber terms of court he searched assid uously for new stories to tell Abe Often Lincolns coming being her alded about the surrounding country drew scores of farmers to the hotel and not infrequently residents of Ur bana drove down to enjoy the contest between the two great story tellers However well equipped with new ma terial was Mr Kelley he always found himself vanquished by Mr Lincoln whose fund of anecdotes seemed in exhaustible Old residents say that the two champions frequently told stories almost all night Lincoln sit ting in an immense armchair with wide rockers and a buffalo robe cush ion known to the household as Abes chair The old chair is still in the possession of the Kelley family one of its most cherished heirlooms The old tavern played an important jpart in the social life of the commun ity Here during the winter months assembled all the young people for miles around to dance and enjoy themselves In the yard were held the turkey shoots on Thanksgiving and Christmas when the pioneers as sembled to prove their wonderful skill with their old muzzle loading firearms Whisky on these occasions flowed freely and some famous fights have occurred about the old building but for the most part the early settler was good natured even in his cups and no serious damage was done in these encounters With the coming of the railroads and the passing of the stage coach the old tavern suffered a lamentable falling off in business and after a pre carious existence it was closed and the building became the home of a tenant farmer Later it was used for the storage of grain and farm imple ments Falling into decay it has at last been torn down after an exist ence of 75 years many of its timbers going into the new barn r I a4 11 - tod JL si f2 fi P H TU 3 Jx y A- i Uus nr fiy y - - j f J r Vin Z Z Zs sy vr J a 2c w JXT uJ CW ac XJW man to whom it was written treasur ing the series of Lincolns correspond ence in order to bequeath to members of his family souvenirs whose value he foresaw with prophetic eye Any letter of Abraham Lincolns would be of interest to the people ol Illinois especially one written before the period of war and turmoil when the Springfield lawyer was engaged in the vocations of peace The owner of the letter a Freeport man is now living in Chicago As Wallace Saw Lincoln Famous Author Wrote Entertainingly of First Meeting The charm of Lew Wallaces Auto biography consists not only in the fact that the author was a famous general and famous novelist but that so many of his recollections are rem iniscent of the great One of the most fascinating des criptions is that of his first sight of Abraham Lincoln It was in 1850 at a tavern in Danville I1L Wallace writes as follows There was one of the contestants who arrested my attention early part ly by his stories partly by his ap pearance Out of the mist of years he comes to me now exactly as he ap peared then His hair was thick coarse and de fiant it stood out in every direction His features were massive nose long eyebrows protrusive mouth large cheeks hollow eyes gray and always responsive to the humor He smiled all the time but never once did he laugh outright His hands were large his arms slender and disproportion ately long His legs were a wonder particularly when he was in narra tion he kept crossing and uncrossing them sometimes it actually seemed he was trying to tie them into a bow knot Altogether I thought him the gauntest quaintest and most positive ly ugly man who had ever attracted me enough to call for study Still when he was in speech my eyes did not quit his face He held me in un consciousness About midnight his competitors were disposed to give in either their stories were exhausted or they were itacitly conceding him the crown From answering them story for story he gave two or three to their one At last he took the floor and held it And looking back I am now con vinced that he frequently invented his replications which is saying he pos sessed a marvelous gift of improvisa tion Such was Abraham Lincoln And to be perfectly candid had one stood at my elbow that night in the old tavern and whispered Look at him closely He will one day be president and the savior of his country I had laughed at the idea but a little less heartily than I laughed at the man Afterward I came to know him better and then I did not laugh Lincoln Then and Now Tall swart ungainly gaunt he stood be fore us Chaffed by the mob for his ness Now like a very god he towers oer U3 Beloved for his tender knightliness A laughing stock his figure when we knew him A shrine for all thats best in us since then Revering een the blessed soil that grew him A model he for all his fellow men Baltimore American MODEL OF LINCOLNS ONLY PATENT One of the most valuable of the gov ernments unique collection of patent models the finest in the world is No 6469 granted May 22 1849 to Abra ham Lincoln for method of lifting ves sels over shoals The device consists of the application to a river steamer of two or more collapsible floats made like bellows worked from sides of boat by upright poles When a vessel so equipped strikes shoal water the bellows are inflated by pressure on the poles which is supposed to raise the boat clear of the bottom When the bellows are to be deflated a wind lass raises the poles N Y World NERVOUS HEADACHES Dr Williams Pink Pills Will Cure Most Cases and Should Interest Every Sufferer Nobody who has not endured tho Buffering caused by nervous head ache can realizo tho awful agonyof jits victims Worst o all the ordin ary treatment cannot he relied upon to euro nor even to glvo relief Somo doctors will say that if a person Is subject to these headaches there is nothing that can bo done to prevent their recurrence Nervous headaches as well as neu ralgia are caused by lack of nutrition tho nerves are starved Tho only way to feed tho nerves is through tho blood and it is in this way that Dr Williams Pink Pills have accom plished so many remarkable cures Mrs Addle Merrill of 30 Union Street Auburn Me says For years I suffered from nervous head aches which would come on me every five or six weeks and continuo for several days Tho pain was so severe that I would bo obliged to go to bed for three or four days each time It was particularly intense over my right eye I tried medicines but got no re lief I had no appetite and when tho headache passed away I felt as if I had been sick for a month My blood was thin and I was pale weak and reduced in weight I read about Dr Williams Pink Pills in a paper and decided to try them I first noticed that they be gan to give me an appetite and I commenced to gain in weight and color My headaches stopped and have not returned and I have never felt so well as I do now Dr Williams Pink Pills are sold by all druggists or sent postpaid on receipt of price 50 cents per box six boxes 250 by the Dr Williams Medi cine Company Schenectady N Y W N U OMAHA NO 6 1907 MOUNTAIN GUIDES FAIL HER Miss Peck Will Make Another Attempt Upon the Highest Andean Peak Miss Annie Peck whose chief pleas ure is climbing mountains has re turned to New York from Peru beaten in her attempt to climb the highest of the Andes beaten not by the moun tain itself but the worthlessness of the men she employed as guides and porters on the expedition She Is con vinced that she would have reached the summit but for the faults of her men and says she is going back with Swiss mountain men to make another attempt As it was she reached a height of 18000 feet being then about 2000 feet above the summit This was at her first attempt One of her men deserted and tho rest got drunk on the alcohol which was carried as fuel for cook ing Besides they were all afraid of the trip and especially as they ap proached the top of the mountain of which they have a superstitious dread The second attempt was like the first except that the men gave out sooner and so less progress was made before the attempt had to be aband oned FEARFUL BURNING SORES Boy in Misery 12 Years Eczema In Rough Scales Itching and In flamed Cured by 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worth its weight in gold and when I had used the first box of Ointment there was a great improvement and by the time I had used the second set of Cuticura Soap Cuticura Oint ment and Cuticura Resolvent my child was cured He is now twelve years old and his skin is as fine and smooth as silk Michael Stein man 7 Sumner Avenue Brooklyn N Y April 16 1905 His Practical Idea A benevolent old man who lived on his farm in Iowa never refused shel ter to any who might ask it of him His many friends remonstrated with him about this characteristic know ing that many unscrupulous hoboes would avail themselves of the oppor tunity and that there was great dan ger of the old man being robbed To these remonstrances the old man re plied that he believed in practical Christianity But said one of his friends this seems very impractical Suppose one of these men took it into his head to rob you one night My dear young friend was the re ply I bid all enter in the name of God but I prove my belief in practi cal Christianity by locking up their pants during the night Dont be too sure of the man who boasts of being sure of himselL I r V 1 I I J
