TUB BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, lMi
"THE KING OF DIAMONDS"
A Thrilling Story of a Modern Monte Cristo
His Proposals
No. 2 To a Cozy Little Dluc Nurse
Copyright. 19H, International News Service.
$ ByNellBrinkley
BY LOUIS TRACY.
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LESSON II PART IV.
Presplratlon on tho body, especially on
the feet and hands, sometimes becomes
po excessive flint It constitutes a di
sease. In the case of feet that persplro
freely, change tho stockings every day,
bathe tho feet twice a day. taking care
to dry them thoroughly. DUst with talcum
liowder. If tins ;s not sufficient apply
night and morning a solution ot alcohol
and salicylic acid In the proportion of
n tablespoonful of salicylic acid to a
nunrt of alcohol. This some treatment
can bo used for the hands or the arm
pits. Whllo I do not believe In too much
water on tho faco during tho hot days, I
am a firm advocate ot Its free use' on
tho body. Tho skin of tho face and tho
body are not only somewhat different In
structure, but exposed to such different
conditions that tho same treatment does
not apply Perfect physical cleanliness Is
necessary, both for health and beauty.
Kood during the summer should bo con
fined to that, which may bo easily di
gested and eliminated from tho system.
Fruit and vegetables that grow In abund
ance at this season represent tho food
that nature points out to us, and should
be freely eaten. Sweets clog the digestion
even more in summer than In winter, and
I want my beauty-loving girls to fore
swear them or partako very moderately.
Lemonade and weak Iced tea are good
summer drinks, better than tho more
elaborate beverages that pour from tho
soda fountain. Wine, beer and any drink
with spirits In it are beauty destroying
at any time, but doubly so in tho sum
mer. For health's sake nnd for beauty's
sake they should bo forbidden,
Madame lso'bcll's next lesson, widen
will appear in this column, will be cspe
cialy for young girls, and will treat of
beauty troubles peculiar to girlhood and
how to rid oneself of them. Madame lso
bell will be very glad to answer any per
sonal questions ot this naturo .from girl
readers.
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATIUCE FAlItFAX.
Still n Child to Him. -
nnn.. aYi. 1'itlrfax: I have -known a
...on .Innn I WfLfl B. Ctrl. Of (lUOUt
in- i nm at nresent 17. Ho used to
ii, in hn ofimo house and wo were very
Intimate Recently, however, on account
f,r- 4,1 fart, we bra not as In
t. i iWv courteous to
mimic. v r - . -. v, -
me and each day we are drifting further
apart. I love mis younu fi t
It 1b my opinion that you are still a
child to him. It Is hard to realize mat.
a younger playmate has grown..
You can do nothing. If a man Is blind
to love, one can only hope for time and
circumstances o open his eyes, unror
tunatcly. many times, a woman Is pow
erless to take any Initiative.
Dou't Glic Ul So Much.
near Miss Fairfax: I am a young lady.
19 years old, and have been keeping com
pany with a young man two months my
KKninr He comes to see mo twice a
week, but won't take me to any dances or
shows, lie says iney are not accent. Jin
lnven me as ho has told me so. and
love him. Please advise mo what to do.
as I am considered a good dancer and
surely would like to go with him.
MAItY.
There are decent dances and shows that
are both moral and entertaining. Don't
give up all amusements because of his
narrow minded verdicts; you will have to
glvo up more after you have married
him.
YOUNG
MEN
WANTED
You Can Begin This
Great Story To-day
by Reading This
First
Philln Anson, a bov of 15. ot cood birth
and breeding, finds himself an orphan
and in diro novertv. his mother having
Just died. A terrific storm sweeps over
Lior.don, Just at this time, and the boy
saves the lit" of a little girl, but is
abused and cuffed by a man, who say
ho Is tho girl's guardian, and whoso name
Is Lord Vanstono. Philip returns to the
place where his mother had died, deter
mined to commit BUlcldc, but Just at
thla time a terrific flash of lightning Is
followed by the fall of a meteor In the
courtyard ot Johnson's Mews, the home
ot tho boy. and ho takes It as a sign
from hpnviMi Ho nlrkn un several bits
of the meteor and takes them to a dia
mond dealer, named Isaacslcln. Tile
broker recognize the bltB as meteoric
airmonas, and has I'nmp taxen in cnargo
by the police. At tho prison Philip gives
the name of Morland, having otton that
from some letters his mother left. Lady
Morland, dining In a restaurant, reads
or tho bov s arrest m a paper, ana sets
about to discover his antecedents.
Philln succeed in establishing his own
ership of the diamonds, and makes
menus with trie magistrate, un ms re
lease ho enters Into an arrangement with
Isaacstcln to pell tho. diamonds for him,
and then establishes himself at a first
class hotel, from whero he arranges for
tho purchase of tho property of John
son's Mews. lie has un adventure, there
that results In his making friend with a
policeman nameu urauiey. a green grocer
und an old Junk dealer named O'Brien.
Also, ho makes un enemy of a desperato
criminal named JocKy Mason. Alter he
has arranged' for un Interview with Mr.
Abingdon, tho police -magistrate, ho goes
for u stroll, and encounters Bradley and
his wife. A few pleasant words with tho
Policeman loft Philip free to call on Mr.
Abingdon, whero he told the magistrate
his story in full, and asked him to take
the responsible position of guardian. Mr.
ADlngdon was interested, ana that night
Philln received a telegram from Isaac-
stein that his mission to Amsterdam had
been successful, This closes tho first
epoch of the tale.. Now opens tho story
of tho mature Philip Anson.
A tall man, wnom a policeman spotted
as a ticuet-or-ieavo man, visited the
Mary Anson Home for Destitute Boys,
which occupied the site ot Johnson's
Mews nnd the old Junk store. He was
shown around tho fine building by an
aged veteran of the Crimean war. O'Brien,
for it was he, explained to tho stranger
how the home came to be built, but was
disgusted when the mun cursed violently
at tho mention of the boy who had be
come king of diamonds, Philip Anson in
his home that night confessed to Abing
don that he knew himself to bo nephew
of Sir Philln Morland. Ho told of his
mother's cruel treatment by her brother,
and of tho rebuffs sno had met irom sir
Philip s wife, who sought to make her
son heir to tho estate, and of the Dart
pluyed by Sharpe 4: Smith, the solicitors
In the case. Philip decides to drop nego
tiations with tho lawyers, and starts tor
his club. A tall man. wbo has been
watching him, questions a servant, ahd
leaves. PhlliD's driver nearly collides
with a passing oab. At hla club Philip la
maucea to ouy some siaus ior u ueuem
concert to bo given at a muslo hall. On
his walk homo he passes tho music hall,
and Is attracted by two men. who watch
a vounir woman get Into a cab, and over-
Hears tne address sue gives, ms sua-
nlclnn nrn nroused. and ho secures a CAl)
to follow when the two men drive after
the first cab In a brougham. At an open
utroot thn first can drives into un oo-
structlon. The two men In the brougham
endeavor to persuada the girl to drive
nwnv with them, but Philln intervenes.
and sends them about their business. He
then induces tno young woman xo iuo
his cab home. He learns her name i Is
Ellen Atherly. and gives her his cab She
la tn nine nt the concert for which he has
Durchased tickets. After the concert
Philip takes the girl and her mother to
suppur at the 8avoy, and there mako an
Important discovery. It was tho girl
whmn life ho had saved ten years uclore,
Af nm lmn three conspirators were
meetlnc at another place. The leader
ii'oo HMnv Orenlnr. Grenler determines
to rob Philip, and decides to Impersonate
him, making up so well ho fooled Jockey
Mason.
Now Read On
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Copyright, 1904, by Edward J. Clode.
"Now, Mason, be reasonable. Can
ask anybody elso If I resemble Philip
Anson when made up to represent him?"
"Perhaps not, but you ought to have
warned me. Besides, I am worried to
day."
"What has happened now?"
"I went to report myself to Southwark
poltco station. Who should I find there
but Bradley, tho chap we used to call
'Sailor.' Ho Is an Inspector now, arid, of
course, he knew mo at once."
"What of that?"
"He pretended to take an Interest in
me, and tried to lead me to talk about
you."
"Tho devil he did!"
"Oh, I know their ways. They can't do
anything to me as long as I show up
regularly and keep a clean slate."
"But what about me?"
"I said you had been a good friend-
there was no use In denying that I was
here pretty often and that we both
thought of emlgratln."
"Good. We will."
"Not me. I have a score to settle"
"Patience, my worthy friend. Your
score shull be settled m full. I cannot
I prevent It .even If I would. Do you think
I T ll V., Loan t.lln nw flint T Bnn,1 T ...
'don's money on a wild goose chaso? Not
me- I-angdon has taken my advice at
last. He has met his charmer with whom
ho Is so infatuated. She almost recog
nlred him, but ho pretended such com
plote Ignorance of her. and even of I.on
don, that her suspicious were quieted.
"What good Is that to us?"
"Little, but It gave him the opportunity
to try and Ingratiate himself. He failed
most completely, and why?"
"How do I know? He Is an ass, any
way."
"Exactly. More than that, the young
lady Is In lovo with Philip Anson."
"I'm not."
"But he Is In love with liar. At first,
both Mrs. Atherley and the girl kopt him
at arm's length. She was too poor, he too
rich. That difficulty was smoothed ov
I iron EAZii: AND KEOOsXMXilfD&D DT quite tc-ently, and they meet now nearly
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soon be off to Norway or Swltnerland
for tholr honoymoon."
"Oh. Indeed. Then whero does all your
clover scheming come in? Why havo. you
held me back? He went to Sussex. You
wouldn't let me follow him. Ho was out
late several nights on his motor car along
tho North road. I would havo met htm
and smashed his face In with a life pre
Hcrver. but you held me back. What are
you driving at? What's your garnet"
"You shall see."
Grenler went to a cupboard and tool
out a small box. From this ho produced
n single check and several slips of paper
on which were written names and slg'
natures.
"That is an old check signed by Philip
Anson," he said, coolly. "Here Is his slg
naturo repeated several times for amuse
ment. It only needs a man of action like
you," an accomplished actor like myself.
to possess the necessary nerve the nerve
that risks nil on a supremo coup nnd
wo will not only be rolling In mone. but
able to enjoy llfo In any part ot the
world wc select oven In London when the
wind changes a little."
"You must talk plainly If you want me
to understand you," said Mason doggedly,
Very well. You think I am somewhat
like Philip Anson at this moment?
"His image, confound him."
"No. not his Image. I would not hum
bug his friends. I might puzzle them for
a moment nt a distance, but let them
noak with mo and I am done. It w suf.
flclent that I resemble him. But the hand
writing, that Is good?"
"FirBt-class."
"There I agree with you. My skill In
that direction has been admitted by three
bank clerks and an Old Bailey Judge.
And now for the coup. If you Intend to
kill this young gentleman you may as
well kill him to our mutual advantage.
There Is no gain In being hanged for him
unnecessarily, eh?"
Mason glare dat him In silence.
"I seo I must keep to tne point. Wo
must, by somo moans, Inveigle him to a
placo where you can work your sweet
Pleasure on him. Ah, that Interests you.
it must bo known that he Is going to that
place. It must be quite certain that he
leaves It."
leaves m i
Yes. I, Philip Anson, the second, will
leave It. I will lay my plans quite surely.
will even telegraph my movements to
his fiancee and to his agent, Abingdon,
who used to be stipendiary magistrate at
Clerkenwcll. Now, don't Interrupt. You
spoil my train of thought. Philip Anson
will live again for days after you have
er disposed of him. By that time you
will have ostabltshcd such an alibi that
an archangel's testimony would not shake
It. Then Philip Anson will disappear,
vanish into thin air and with him a hun
dred thousand or more of his own money,
some In gold, but mostly In notes, which
will have been changed so often as to
defy anyone to trace them. As a precau
tionary measure, he will go out of his
way to annoy or Insult the young lady
whom he Intends to mako his wife, nnd
that alone will supply an explanation, of
a sort, for his wish to conceal his move
ments. With proper management, Philip I
Anson should lenve tho map without ex-
citing comment for weeks after he Is !
dead, nnd when the weeks grow into
months, people will class his disappear
ance with tho other queer mysteries fa
miliar to every one who read the news
papers. Neat. Isn't It?"
"Too neat You can't do It."
"Havo you or I evolved the Idea7 Who
runs tho greatest risk, the man who
strikes one blow and hides a disfigured
corpse, or he who calmly faces hundreds
of men, and says ho Is Philip Anson?"
I don't caro about risk, but If it comes
to that, I suppose you arc the more
likely to be found out."
"Thank you. You see my way at last.
In any event, you are safe. Even sup
pose I am discovered, will I split on
you? Will I add a chargn of murder to
one of forgery? Not much! I tell you the
problem Is workable, not by timid
bunglers, but by clever men. I admit I
haven't the nerve to suggest this present
arrangement to an accomplice merely to
make money. But of you are resolved to
end Philip Anson's earthly pllgrlmago, 1
can't prevent you, but I fall to see any
reason why I shouldn't profit by the
transaction."
"What about me when the thing Is
done?"
"Oh, you are beginning to appreciate
the other side of events. Now, we will
assume that Philip Anson has been dead
couple of months, and Victor Grenler
has amassed a fortune by a shoer run of
luck on the turf, It Is fairly evident that
Victor Grenler must divvy with Jockey
Mason, or tho latter can make the world
too hot to hold him. even If an old
friend were unkind enough to refuse to
disgorge unless under pressure."
Mason's bdows winkled In though. The
project sounded plausible enough. Deter
mined as he was to wreak hla vengeance
on Philip, arenlers Ingenlus idea not
only offered him a reliable means of es
cape, but promised a rich harvest of
wealth, certainly it was worth trying.
Not once, but many times during the
preceding month, Grenler had withheld
the murderer's willing hand. When It dl1
fall, what keener satisfaction could he
have than the knowledge that he would
be enriched by the deed?
"I can t see ahead like you," said
Mason, at last. "But I will obey orders
You tell me where and when; I will be
there."
Grenler shifted his feet uneasily.
"I don't quite mean that," he said. "I
will acquaint you with certain facts on
which you may rely absolutely. I will
forthwith act myself on the assumption
that the real Philip Anson won't Interfere
with me. That Is all "
The other man guffawed most unpleas
antly. This sophistry did not appeal to
him.
"Put It any way you like," he said.
"You can depend on me for my part of
the bargain."
"And you can be quite certain that In
o. rry little while we need not troubla
( 'ir active wits any further as to the
t hcrewlthal to enjoy life I have though
This as you must boo alroudy la about a young clinp whoso
heart was like a dish ot butter. Put that in n hot ovon nnd it will
Just molt swoetly away. You can hco that this hoart of hla wna liko
that, or thero wouldn't bo a sorics of his proposals. Under tho many
gazes of womankind tender, apoallng, mocking or widely childilko
it softonod in Ids breast and his talkative tonguo way forevor telling
somo feminine crouturo all about It, Sometimes they aro mighty lova
ble things, theso chaps with tsugar-and-butter hearts who've no mothem.
This is to tell (you tho talo of li Is proposals; to amiiso you when
it reminds you how, when that baby, man, looks hack from hiH gray
yoars to his golden ones, ho remombors tliat ills first liourt troublo
was over a woman much older than he,and tils lata proposal, when tho
hoar-frost was boginning to touch the sable of his hair, was to u muid
whoso little llfo was only a sprig of green just putting out a timid lent
into the world. You see, men folks aro Just us funny in ono way an
wo feminine things aro in somo other. And ono of their "funnies" is
this: When man is crossing the spriug-tlmo hills of llfo litn heart.
mets before tho glance of autumn it's u mother lie's wanting still;
when his slowing feet are tramping tho barren hills, with tho nip of
frost in his veinB and its white on his hair, it's spring his hoart answers
to and no one elso. It's youth's high laughter lio's wanting and' tho
child-like hand In his own. So.
Well, this blond boy with his heart of huttor hustled from Prop.
school into tho gates of collcgo, und tho love-imago of the schoolmate
of his mother was rubbed out front his soft heart and her likeness
again a friond-faco thero. And one day, a high-hearted gala day, when
tho world was mado of loyal pretty girls, und tumult, and gorgeous
fields of beating, whipping penuuts, he played tho big game tho game
of tho pig skin "Mix and dream awhllo!" And ho ''dreamed" n long
whllo for tho Bquad camo togother liko meeting stars, "mixed" hard
aud wont down as though tho gridiron had bucked, and when tho
smitten heap had shook itself looso and lifted itself mun by man apart,
ho lay at tho bottom of the deck, uwfullylong and awfully still and
awfully fiat, with (n cracked head and a snapped forearm. And ho
dreamed a mighty long while.
For ncliing, groaning, bed-lashing diyys his fellow prisoner was a
littlo blue nurse, when his long body thrashed tho bed-things into a
riot and tho air smoked and ho wouldn't lie still until ho had laokod
four minutes Into h6r silky-lashed gray eyes. After a whilo bo only
needod to look half a minuto to lio still. And thou whon tho waiting
days camo ho did it. They wero bo long and sho was so kind! And
can a chap help It when his heart is made of sugar-and-butter and n
lltlo bluo nurso lias oyeB like fireworks? And hands liko ho had
dreamed Ills mother's woro? A nurso might just as well havo a neat
littlo card on her shoulder and thereon prlntod, "Everybody's mothor,"
Kor sho is cioso kin to a mother, sure.
Hut hIio hasn't ary business to bo young and wavy-haired into the
bargain. So, ono twilight-time, the blond boy, whoso hand was grow
ing hard and strong, grlppod hers and hold it cioso under his chin and
proposed. And then tho cosy littlo bluo nurso bont and smiiod and
said, "When you aro out again in the aun and air all well and kicking
tho pigskin then usk mo!"
And he didn't. And tho cunning little bluo nurse knew he
wouldn't. NELL B1UNKLEY.
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When Electricity Will Be Cheap as Air
By KDGAIt IjUCIK.V IiAtyKIX.
Q. "Is the prophecy that 'went the
rounds' about twenty years ago, that
some way of 'tapping nature' and thus
securing unlimited supplies of olectrlclty
from air or from space, coming true?"
A. The nearest approach to the great
work of tapping nature's unlimited store
of electricity Is the act of allowing Irri
gating streams from high mountains to
this Idea out In all Its bearings. It sim
ply can't fall. Come, lot us drink to a
glorious future."
He reached for a decanter, but a sud
den knock at the door Jarrod the nerves
of both men considerably.
"See who Is there," whispered Orenler,
whose face showed white through the
paint and grease It bore.
"I will slip Into my bed room. Quick!
Bee who It Is."
Langdon entered.
"Where's Victor?" he a-'4! eagerly.
"In his room; he will be here In "a mo
ment. What's tho matter' You look
pretty glum. '
To I'e r.'tuinu'-'J Tomorrow j
turn turbine generators over and over
again in illfforont power plants along
down the sides of the mountains, and
then, after soeurlng all meahanlcul work
of gravitation, secure growing work In
the growth of food plants. This Is the
height nt present of human skill in the
work of "tapping nature."
Windmills turning armatures Is another
way of tapping. And tho cupturo of
water in tides, using tho force of outflow,
Is still another. We still lia.ve the dyna
moa with us; wo must turn armatures
with their jailar fields of magnetic linos.
We must use running wuter or flowing
winds to tap Nature; or burn carbon un
der boilers, which Is too expensive and
prosalo to he called tho high art of tap
ping, as ono would turn a faucot.
I suppose, my correspondent means Just
tapping a free supply. This auspicious
event has not arrived unless using solar
engines Is tapping- Heat refleeted by
mirrors directly from the noonday sun
upon boilers has been made to generate
team and turn armatures.
Another way of tapping Is to allow the
sun to thine on thenno-clectrlr piles,
unions of rndu of bars of unlike metals.
What in- friend evidently wants is clcr-
trlctty as cheap as air, water and sun
light. This really Is the dream of elec
tricians. Hlnco nothing exists but elec
trons, and these are electricity, tt does
fifpin that wn ought to gat all we want
for nothing by merely taking or tapping
the supply. But ICdlsun, Thomson, Ruth
erford, Tesla and Htelnmltz have not
blazed tho way Into this unknown prob
lem of tho ages.
I havo no doubt that man will make
this conquest; for havo I not declarod
constantly during forty-six years that
the mind phasing In man Is Illimitable?
Q.-"What Is carbon? What Is car
bonlo acid? What Is carbonic oxide?"
A. I do not know what carbon Is. Car
bonic acid Is a compound of carbon and
oxygen; ono atom of carbon bolng chem
ically united with two of oxygen In each
molecule.
Carbonic oxide Is the name given to the
moleeule made up of one atom of each
clement, curbon and oxygen. I do not
know what anything Is, for evertyhlng Is
made ot electrons; these are elcctrllcty,
but I have no Idea as to what that Is. I
may get a rubber type reading, ' 1 do not
know " This will save many quarters of
(cconds of golden time when writing
Q 'What ir the process of levitatton,
the lifting of heavy weights, without the
application of force, or any mechanical
power?"
A. This has been done, fiom periods
beforo any history. The causo Is totally
unknown to any one of the great stand
ard mathematical sciences. I cannot an
swer this question by reference' to any
known law ot nature.
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Most women know there Isn't anything
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dally washing the faco In a sufficient
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from using it. Over In Knuluni they
have a way ot using buttermilk as & toi
let cream, in tho fchape of presolatea
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being so concentrated, and of proper
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small Jur of the emulsion goes a far a.
W pints of the liquid Applied to a rough,
red, freckled or sallow skin, It gradually
banishes the ugly tints and make the
skin soft as a roso petal.
Whllo the presolated buttermilk eir.u'
slon Is not so' well known In America,
any druggist here can supply it. It u
highly recommended by Shorman & M""
Connell Drug Co.. IGth and Dodge Sts.2
Owl Drug Co., 16th and Harney ta..
Harvard Pharmacy, SltH and Kainam
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