Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1914)
TiTfi BEE, OMAHA, FHTDAY, MAT 22, 1914. 9 f J i I - ------ - - i 1 mrsrr -m ami .jiiNtfmitim. ' m THE PROFESSOR'S MYSTERY WELLS HASTINGS 42 BRIAN HOOKER. AMT"H lliiiritt-.in.n . .... "hi ituuoi ilMMUNa by HANSON 1UOTH COPYRIGHT 1911 WyTHE OOBDS-MCRRILL COMPANY ?y You Can Begin This Great Story To-day by Reading This First Two of the Latest Styles from the Paris Shops Described by Olivette Prof. Crosby cnsua.t.v encounter at a suburban trolley station Miss Tabor, whom he had met nt a Christmas party, both being bound -for tho Alnsleys. On the way thes trolley Is wrecked, near the Tabor home, and there Crosby goes to spend tho night. After retiring he Is summoned and turned out, to find ac commodations at a nearby Inn, no ex planation being given him. He en counters Mr. Tabor In a heated debate with u rough looking Italian the next day, and learns the Italian Is one Caruccl. Later at the Alnsleys he meets Miss Tabor again, and they ate getting on famously, when Dr. Walter Held, Miss Tabor's stepbrother turns up, and carts her off home. Crosby Is warned he must not try to see Miss Tabor again. He persists, and is invited to accompany her on a midnight trip to the city, where they rescue Sheila, Miss Tabor's old nurse, from tho effects of an assault committed on her by Caruccl, who turns out to be Sheila's husband. In escaping from the city with Sheila, they have u brush with the police, but avoid being detained or Identified. This gets the newspapers Into the game, and one of tho reporters, who comes closest to the trail, turns out to bo Maclean, an old pal of Crosby's, who Is persuaded to sup press tho Tabor name, and to assist In cleaning up the mystery. In the mean time Crosby has gotten Into the good graces of the Tabor family, has learned ttiat It Is Margaret who wedded Dr. Reld, while he Is In lovo with Miriam, who answers to the family pet name of Lady. Ho and Maclean locate Caruccl working with a gang of gratiers near the Tabpr home, and manage to stir up quite a row with him, when Shelln Inter venes. Crosby returns to the Tabors, where he gets into an intimate conversa tion with Mrs. Tabor, only to be inter rupted by Lady and her father. -As a result of tho conversation that followed Lady U left with her mother, who seems unduly excited, while Crosby and Mr. Tabor go to have a smoko and talk over tho situation. Tabor explains that his wires health has been shattered since the- death of a taughter several years prior, and that conditions are becoming unbearable. Caruccl in the storm-center, and they agree that he must be gotten rid of. Sheila Is to help. Crosby goes back to town and encounters Maclean, who has dug up some Information as to Caruccl. Maclean explains the situation, that is leading tin to the ninHm, .if mystery. It Involves a visit to n splrltual atlc seance, which Crosby makes under .nacieairs guidance it developes the medium Dretends to tirniln h onirit nt Mrs. Tabor s dead daughter, the wife of Dr. Reld, Leaving the scene of the seance, Crosby sees Caruccl on tho street and follows him to a drinking place, where theJtatlan meets Dr. Reld and a giant, and drinks are served for three. It becomes apparent that Reld has a scheme on foot, for Crosby notes that Carucct's drink Is drugged, while neither of the others is drinking. A large roll of bills is handed Caruccl Just before ho collapses and Is carried out. The giant comes back with the money and gives It to Reld. Crosby accosts Reld, and they quarrel., - - Now Read On . ' ij CHAPTER XIX', In AVhlrh I Cannot HelleTc Half I Ilenr. (Continued.) "There's plenty of time for that," I ald. lowering my, voice Instinctively, as I felt my own temper slipping. I'll ask ou just one more question On your word, Is Miriam Tabor alive, or not?" I never saw a man so broken by a word. He turned from red to greenish whit", the perspiration shining on his forehead; for a moment It eqemed that .he could not peak. Then ho dragged the words out hoarsely and unnaturally. "You've taken ft damned, cowardly ad vantage Miriam Tabor was my wife, and she's dead. Now are you satisfied? Bi cause I'm not." There was nothing to add. rose In silence, and wo made our way to the door. On . the sldowalk, he waited for me to choose my direction: then without i word, turned pointedly In the oppoalto one, and walked quickly awn). 1 set out for the Caruccl tenement In a utate of no great comfort. By forcing a scono I had gained nothing;, and I had made an overt enemy of Dr. Reld. Not that I was particularly concerned over that development; 1 had never liked the man from the first; and I was impressed not so much by what he had said as by his open and disproportionate confusion. Think what I might of my own side of the affair, Reld had confessed to a personal roncovn with Camccl; ho had flown into a rage upon my asking for an explana tion; and the name of Miriam had itrloken him like a blow. He had told ma nothing, after all, and had made me the moro anxious over what he refused to tell. If he had been absolutely In the right, I had nothing' worse than to touch upon a grief brutally, and would have said precisely what he did fay If I had been Justified and he had ben lying. Well, Caruccl was out of reach, and Held worse than silenced. What chance remained to me of an an swer to my problem depended upon Sholla, I had no time to doubt If I should find her; for her window was lighted up, and tho herself plainly to be seen, leaning far out to watch the street below as I turned the corner. When I was still half way up the block, she called to me by name, bidding me to come up at once, and I answered as I picked my way along, trying to reassure her. The scone for n moment resembled a ludicrous burlesque of a serenade; nor did the street miss ' anythlna of Its humor. With one accord the wc-.nen In the doorways, the lounging j men about tho lamps and the scurrying ' screaming groups of youngalcra under foot caught up the Implication, and began ! a babel of Jocoso advice and criticism In a dozen languages. And although I un derstood but little of It, and was some what preoccupied with graver matters, yet I was fain to dlvt hurriedly Into tho doorway with a heated and tingling countenance. The llttlo room was Itself again, save for a dull spot upon the clean scrubbed boinilp; nnd the canary In the window paused In a burst of sing ing as t ontertu. ."Sheila," I eald, "l am ery much afraid you won't like my news." "Well, sir, what's happened him?" she asked briefly. 'You're right." I answered. "It's your husband, but It's nothing to be alarmed about, nothing at all dangerous. You must" "For the love av God, do'n't thry to break things t9 me, sir. Speak right out. He's not hurt, yo say; well, he's pinched then, I suppose." "No. It's not the police. He's been shanghaied. If you know what that means." "Crimped? It's thruc for ye, I know, 't's tvlce before he's been, but who done it I never could tell. Av I thought anny av my folk that's afraid av his silly tongue wud do that dhlrty thrlck " sho stopped short, her strong face working. I was rather angry myself. "Well, Sheila, I don't believe they had anything to do with It before; but it was Dr. Reld who had it done today. I was there, but it was over before I understood what was going on." "Reld? 1 shud ha- known 'twas Reld, the shamblln' scun he is. an' smalt good thorn that loved him best ever had av him. Now, the devil hould his dhlrty little pinch av a soul. For why shud he harm my man?" "That's what I want to .know," I said. "He's afraid of what Antonio says about him, and you know" "As far as his story ever goes It'll harm no man," she burst out, "they know well he's all bark an' no bite. If they weren't all crazy afraid together, an' a truer man anny day than that blagyard body snatchln' pill roller. His own guilty heart It Is, whlsperin' over hln shoulder, an' me poor lamb that he married an' murthered, and the child av his own body on the one day! An' the poor mother they're callln' .craay, with the soul av the daughter she cudn't let free standln' between her an' the sunshine. Crazy she'll never be untU they make her so, .with their" tloctors "an' questions an1 whispers, an' that death-fetch Reld grlnnln' be- I fni-A her fnr n-lth thn hlnnri nnt rlhrv nn - - - . ...... -. . w - ...... . hlml" She paused for breath, walking up and down the room twisting her hands. "Sit down, Sheila," I said, "you know this is absurd, I'm trying to get a little truth about people wo both care for", and If you say things like that, how can you expect mo to believe anything?" But my knees wore trembling as I spoke. "Mudhered It was all the same," she i said sullenly, dropping back Into a chair nevertheless "When a docthor with all the learnln' that goes beyond the knowl edge av a woman lets his wife die an' an innocent mlto av a new-born baby go down to the grave with her, 'tis black murder It Is, no less. How could she rest quiet after that, an' half her life callln' to her, an' the mother that wouldn't let her go, and had tho powor to see? 'TIs no docthor she wonts, but a priest, an' no medicine but a handful av holy wnther, like my own sister's cousin Nora that used to sit an' talk with her lad that was dead evenln's by tho byre wall, nn' Father Tracy came behind an' sprinkled the two av thlm, the one he could tee an' the one he could not see." "Who Wf.s it that died?" I asked sharply. "Was it Miriam? Did Reld lie to me when he said so, or did Caruccl lie No afternoon costume could bo found that would be more charm ing than this combination of green and white taffeta frock and cupe of plain green charmeuse shown on tho left. The dress has a bodice made with bib nrrnngement laid in broad tucks and fastened by a row of tiny white bowls. The underarm and sleeves are of white chiffon. Frills of tho chiffon finish tho sleeves in the turncd-up fashion of cuffs. Tho rolling collar of chiffon has a double frill and fastens with a tie of tho striped material.' The skirt gathers under a belt of plain green charniouse and but tons In a line to continue tho bodice fastening. Stitched pockets trimmed In the buttons cross tho side. Under this tunic upper skirt Is an underskirt that buttons over tho right ankle. The graceful cape of the green charmouso hangs straight from the shoulders and is topped by a "Coqulllo" collar and fastenod by a cord and tassels of white silk, Tho afternoon frock on tho right combines linen and tulle In a fashion that Is at once cool, charming and smart. The bodice Is a simple blouse of fine linen, turned up at the fronts In two scallopod rovers, hand-ombroldored, Tho neck. Is finished by a double collar of black and white tulle. Tho short sleeves are finished by a band of the ombroldory. Tho draped girdle fastens at the middle front undor a huge bow of black tulle. Tho skirt is gathered at the waist and has three flaring founces of tho harid-embroldercd, scalloped linen .outlined In bands of tho blank tulle, Tho skirt Is gathered Into a puffing at the botton and above this Is sot a woo puffing of the black tulle. OLIVETTE. ! Changing Heavens By GARRETT V. SEHVlSs. "That spectacle,"sald a friend of mine, one night, pointing up to the starry sky. i "always overwhelms me with a sense of when he said that Reld was married to ur.changeablcness." Lady?" , "Yet," I rcpllod, She grew suddenly quiet and cautious, j "It it the grand as if shu had said too much already, and hi typo of ron musr weigh her words. ' tlnual and atupend- "Reld told yo the tTUth for once," she :ous change that the muttered. '"Twas Antonio lied." 'imagination could "Then Miriam was his wife, and possibly conceive. Lady" Us apparent un- "Ycs," she answered, "It was Miriam," jchangeableness Is but she did not meet my eyes. Then j that of a distant she went on hastily, before I could speak j landscape. Feen by asaln. ' a flash of lightning "Ye see, sir. 'twas like this: When (the wheel of a rac Mlriam died, her mother's hrart nearly Ine auto seems to went with her, an' so because the poor dear loved her "more than enough, she dirt not go quite away. "lis mo some Try Skin Absorption Instead of Cosmetics The constant use of rouge and powder invites a coarsened, roughened condition of the skin, eruptions, enlarged pores snd wrinkles. If you've learned this from experience, suppose you quit cosmetics ind try the following: Ask your druggist for an ounce of ordi nary mercollred wax and begin using his tonlsht. Apply like cold cream, nashlng It off in- the morning. Keep this jp for a week- or two. The wax will lit erally absorb the coarse, colorless or .lemlshed top skin, but so gradually whiles, when the llvln' holds too close by the dead. She used to talk to her, an' when the villain that' let her die got he doctors an' looked like judgment, an' said my poor soul was wrong In her head, an' ought to be taken away, an' they moved her out there In the eounthry where they had no friends, an' kept her hidden as If there was a shame upon her. sure the lovln' oul of the dead girl followed her mother. They said she was crazy when she made thm move her daughter's room, an' keep It up In the new house as It had been In the old. an" would lt an' talk to her there. Sure, 'twas no sign at all, an' a black lie in Reld's black heart to ret the husband an" the daughter agaln'her. Some folks are that way, that can see the fairy folk an' the gob lins, an' speak with the wandhertn' dead. j A good' priest Mrs. Tabor should have . when the power tire her, an' not a lyln' schemln' brute av a dorthor that wants to put .her away. 'Twas not much at first anyhow. But he turned their heads with his talk av asylums an horrors to lead them away from his own wicked ness." "Is that the secret, then?" I asked. "Is the trouble no more than their fear that Mrs. Tabor Is Insane?" Secret? What secret? There's no c- j vibion, as restless and as swiftly vari able as a winter storm-sky fiUul with eddying flakes. "I'rsa Major the Great l!d, l,fo the Lion, Taurus the chnrging Rull, OHoi tho mlghtly Hunter, the .o.ithtrn Crf'Ss, the Northern Crown, the Lyre, tho Whale, the Scorpion, the Scales, Virgo the Virgin, Hercules the Doer of Deeds, Draco the Great Dragon, Ophlu chiis the Serpent Hearer, the wholo re fulgent ryrln of the Zodiac, from A'irg round to Flsces, all these, wltn.iul ex ception, and every starry uompanj In Our Great Debt to the Turks be motionless. Your whole lifetime Is but a lightning flash against the spinning wheels of the -universe! The entire his tory of the world since the traditional time of Adam Is hut a lightning flash in the existence of the sidereal systems. "They are all In motion, and thoy are all changing within themselves. Ixiok yonder at that rich part of the Milky Way, there the millions of apparently crowded stars resemble luminous clouds. If you could stand watching those star clouds for a million years, Instead of a few moments, they would shift and roll bofore your eyes like tho whirling vapors of an advancing thunderstorm. "The astronomer arrives at a know ledge of the fluctuations of the universe by projecting his Imagination hack Into the past and forward Into the future. He gazes through a telescope which pene trates time Instead of space. Its lenses gather together, and bend to a focus, beams of age .Instead of rays of light. With its aid he sweeps all pant and com ing neons Into the field of his mentl visions, and strives to view them In the mass, as they nro een by the "Anclent- !of-Days' himself. "It Is In this way that we know that all these brilliant oonsMlHtloru. uhich, to the eye of the caual !ookor. have, not altered their outlines ainoo recorded bin- SS i ... V. . .. V. . fr all nr.li, . 1 n r-v j n , tifph klifinil HAttfn i1 AMiIIIm' . JUmm. ..nil .11 -lll.f am I ",r " ' ".vnt.j "C. , - - tradnallv lhe dear, velvetv. natural! v. She was growing e-irenn again. 1 Is all i lout i.ore me nans 1.1 i rv- nn ne tinted underskin ome to the surface, i that dorthor that's never happy but doln' And merrollzed wax boeomes you.r ever- i ),arrn. She1 no more eraxy than meself, '"U&Le wrinkle, and lore onres. 1 n' no one thinks nor fears It. not even pake a fa'e bath bv dissolving an ounce mm iney omy say w. necause rf powdered saxollte In half pint wltrh 'stopped herself again hazel. 'Vhls lus remarkable astringent i and tOnK properties, and beneficial re- ,, ., . . s ilts c-.aie qukkly.-Advertlee-T.ent. To Be Continued Tomorrow.) !he are shining tonight on the tenti of our soldiers in Mexico, are In rwlty i mutable and ephemeral n so "nany swarms of snow crystals. ' Yes, It Is no xaggi'rati'in to afflipi that the firmament of -ta would up pear, to an eye endowed with Immortal toy REV. THOMAS R. GREGORY. Tho piece of work for whUh the world will ever ho In debt to tho Turk was -e-gun on April , HJ3 and ended, fifty three years later, with the fall of the City of Constan- tine. When Constanti nople fell before the mad rushoa of the Mussulmans, the barriers of darkness fell with it all o,er the earth, and the dawn uf new day was at hand for the long-benighted humanity. Whut Athena was In the age of Peri cles, what Alexandeia was after the light of Athens had expired, l onstan tlnoplo was for the three or four cen turies preceding tts capturo hy Mahomet II the head-eenter of the world's Intel- rJf start, and the Italians were beginning to learn a Utile something about the long forgotten achievements of their Illustri ous ancestors. And what Petrarch, Boc caccio nnd one or two others were doing In Italy, little groups of kindred spirits were trying to do In other countries; but the progress was distressingly slow, and In the main Europe still lay In tho Intel lectual equator of the dark ages-the. plghtmare period of history, when the intellectual life of the people was well nigh extinct. But when the- Greek scholars, driven forth from Constantinople hy the Turks, brought their aid to the work, thlnKs be gan to forge ahead by leaps nnd bounds, Tho splendid literature, of the ancient I Greeks (thanks to the newly Invented : printing press) began to be disseminated .abroad, and 1t was ss' good as settled .that th battle was won. The darkness was rouiea. run Dats and owls were driven away. The long nightmare was over. Touched by the Ithurlal spear of Greek genius, the long dormant, degraded humanity vtarted Into a new life-a life of thought, of decency and self-respect lectual light, the home of the great seholars, the haen of the eholec spirits!0' freedom and progress. 'VI.. a --'"i.uouim- m Kadtiuvc Isdlclts "Scauiy Lesson I.ICSflON VIII PA ItT IV. The Hnnd Their Possibilities. Provide yourself with a loose, Pr- . feftly clean pair of white kid gloves. I several sizes too large for you, and sleep I In these at night. Before putting them on wash the hands thoroughly with pure ! loap and warm water, dry them well and I rub In cold cream, or. It wrinkles are forming, a good massage cream. Take ! each finger neparately and work the cream well Into it. twisting the linger sliRhtly and working from the base to tho finger tip. Then cover the back of tho hand with .the cream and treat It to a series of little patting movements, be ginning at the wrists and running up over the knuckles, getting all the cream Into the skin that It will hold. This will fill out hollow and take away wrinkles, and sleeping In tho kid gloves atnlKht will Induce perspiration whlcn will Whiten the hands. If there are discolora tion on the hands, apply peroxide of hycirogen once or twice a week, no oftener. as It Is drying to the akin. In largo cities the regular weekly Visit to the professional manicure has become; to be a habit, and with one thorough treatment K week It Is a simple matter to keep the nails In good condition. How ever, It Is quite possible for a woman to manicure her nails herseir. It she has the Implements that a professional use and practices the manner of properly using them, The proper tools are not expensive, but It Is best to purchase them separately and avoid those that come In set. Ask for the best quality and the . style used by professionals. They consist of a pair of scissor. w'th curved, narrow blades, a long flexible file, a thin cuticle knife and a buffer of good size with a chamois cover that can be easily removed. In ad dition to these are some Inexpenstva arti cles such qs orange wood sticks, a wide mouthed bottle of peroxide ot hydrogen, emery boards, a polishing cream or pow der, a nail brush nnd a bowl of warm, soapy water. Note-Tha subject of "Manicuring" Is to be continued In tin next article. Lesson VIII Is divided Into five parts and should be read throughout to ob tain full Information on the subject. (Lesson VIII to be continued.) Advice to the Lovelorn Ry BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Gifts from n Mnti. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am n girl of IS and have been receiving attentions from a young man, but am not as yt on guged to him. Another young man of my acquaintance sent me a present ot some wearing apparel. The first young man asked me to send this other young man's present buck to him, telling me he didn't wnnt me to receive any sifts from any other fellow than himself. What X want to know Is, shall I keep tlje present or send It back? I do not wnnt to hurt the young man's feelings -who sent me the present. Do you think tho first young man had any right tq asl; me to send it back? T. H. D. You must never accept gifts of wearing apparel from men. If the first young man la seriously Interested In you ho would naturally resent your receiving such a gift. Return It with a grateful little note, saying thtt you appreciate his the whole sky that mankind ;i admired and mnde legends about, are triildng up. crumbling, drifting asundar, nnd pre- Kindness, but feel that you ought not to paring to assemble In other forinHtluni, I nr HdyantaRo of It who treasured' up In their dvvoted minds and precious folios the wisdom of the ancient times. The fall of the city forced these men to saatter themselvea over Kurope. The greater part of them went to Italy, though some nf them sought refuge in Clernwiny. France, tln British Islea and elsewhere about the continent; and everywhere they were of Immense value to a movemont that had already set In here and there about Europe, especially In Italy. That movement was the renslssanee of Utters or. as we call It In English, the revival of learning. Thanks to the Immortal Petrarch snd a few other Of hII the missionaries that ever wont forth none were so holy, so snored, so worthy of our eternal respect, love and gratitude as were those Greek scholars who fled from Constantinople to find a refuge from the. fury of the Turk. Thank God, then, for that Turkish fury. Jt hastened along that Intellectual free dom, without which the world and our life in it Is not worth the living Cut the Plab'a Viewpoint. Griggs The last time we went fishing together I remember you caught the hook In your jaw and I had the dickens of a time getting it out. BrlggsTes, from that little accident I got the fish's viewpoint on the sport and ,, , , . . . , ii nnven i. neen imuns B'nce uosion Italians the revbal had made a fair J Traijicrlpt. like the new heaven that Is to ahlni rpon ! tho new earth of the Apocalypso. "But It Is not only changes hr.iiuht about by the "cross-drift" of thj t.irs thnt tho astronomer's eye can perceive. Equally astonishing changes era iiktrivr place In the distances between our itar. the. sun, and his brethren. "l.ook up at Alderbnran, the red first magnitude star In the eye of Taurus. I. Is going awny from you at a apeed r.fl thlrU'-tlve miles per second, seventy tlincrl as fast as the swiftest cannjo ball. Every surcesslve night It Is 3,000,0X1 miles farther than It was twenty-four hours before, and yet Its distance Is so great thnt It has not appreciably dimin ished In brightness In 1,000 years. "Then fix your eves on n l'ttle star under the feet ot Orion, which astrono mers call Delta Leporls, It Is flying away from us nt the rate of sixty-two miles per second. That means a retreat of more than 6,3.10,00) miles botwen on night and the next nnd yet Delta Le porls does not sensibly fade. It Is like a d'stant steamer's light so far away to begin with that no alteration of its dis tance can produce a change In Its ap parent magnitude until the time elapsed begins to bear some appreciable propor tion to the spaoe that Intervenes. "If you will regard another little star In the Whale, called Kta Cephel, you will be looking at a projectile as big as a sun, which Is rhnotlng toward us more than fifty miles per second. Tho great Dog star. Blrlus. which crossed the Milky Way hundreds of oenturles before his tory began, Is speeding In our direction at the rate of fifteen miles a second, and the Little Dog star, Prooyon. I chasing after him with the losing stride of ten miles per second. "The magulflctnt Areturu Is retiring Into the depths of space with dignified step-three iiiIKk a secondwhile Alpha, f-'entaurus, a twin star, each of whoso components equals our sun. la drawing a m'llion miles nearer flvery twenty-four hqura. The nst Orion Nebula Is retreat ing eleven miles a second., but that whirl ing wonder cnllud. tho Andromeda Nebuls Is rushing hit her ward 185 miles a second, or moro than ll.GOO.OOO miles per day. "Luckily for us, It has plenty of sky room. '"In view of all this, do the heavens still aeem to you so placid and unchangeable?" Von Cnti Do Nothing. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl JO years old nnd have a great many friends of both sexes, but there Is one youner man of whom I think a great deal. He, very seldom linn a position and If he has one he Is always grumbling about it. He also Is Inclined to alcoholics and gam bles. What can I do to cure htm? DISTRESSED. You can't save him, but you can wrack ! your own life If you .choose by marolnc him and making the effort. Suppose you show him ou have some good common sense by rutting such a man off your list of acquaintances. Your love for hlni docs you no credit esm 9 V stops itching instantly THE moment Reiinol Ointment touchei ny itching ikin, the itching tops and healing begim. With the aid of Reiinol Sotp, t quickly remove all traces of ecxema. raib, tetter, ring orm, pimples or other tormenting, un tightly eruption, leaving the skin clear and healthy. It ia equslly effective for orei, boili, fcurni, -d, rough handi, dandruff and piles. RetlDol Ointment Is so nearly f er4 that It can be ued on eipead sur faces without attiaetingiidue'attantioa. IleInal has bn preaeribad by dottor for It years. All drugxuu tell JUsiool Ointment (40a and 11.00), and Reiinol goap (JJe). For trial ne fiee. write to Dept. 40-S, Realnol, Balti more, Md. fiewtreof uselats "aubatHutM." 4l