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Bashful Bob
Tho Amusing Advontures of a Shy Young Man
No. .10 When the AVrong Number Ts tho Right Number
By Stella Flores
CcpyiiKht, 1P1I. International N Scrvlc.
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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1014.
77ie Professor's
Mystery
BY WELLS HASTINGS
AND BRIAN HOOKER
Illustrations by Hanson Booth
Copyright, 1911, by The Bobbs
Arcrrtll Company.
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You Can Begin This
Great Story To-day
by Reading This
First
Prof. Crosby casually encounter at a
suburban trolley station Mies Tabor,
whom lie had met nt a Christmas party,
both bclnp bound for the Alnslcys. On
the way thes trolley Is wrecked, near the
Tabor home, and there Crosby goes to
i-pend the night. After retiring he Is
summoned and turned out, to find ac
commodations at a nearby Inn, no ex
planation belns' given him. He cn
colintors Mr. Tubor in a heated debate
with a rough looking Italian tho next
day, and learns tho Italian Is one Caruccl.
Later at the Alnslcys he meets Miss
Tabor again, and they are getting on
famously, when Dr. Walter Held, ills
Tabor's stepbrother turns up, and carts
ner otr home. rosoy is warned he ninst
not try to seo Miss Tabor again. He
persists, and Is Invi'ed to accompany her
on a midnight tr.j, to the city, where
they rescue Sheila, Miss Tabor's old
nurse, from .ne effects of an assault
committed "a nor by Caruccl, who turns
out to b Sheila's husband. In escaping
from the city with Sheila, they have a
brush with the police, but avoid being
detained or Identified. This gets the
newspapers into tho 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 the Tabor name, and to astU'st ln
cleaning up the mystery. In the 'mean
time Crosby has gotten Into tho good
Braces of the Tabor family, Jias , learned
that it is. .Margaret who wedded Dr.
Rrld, while he is In lovo with Miriam,
who answers to thd family pet name of
uauy. He und MacleAn ihrntu r
working with a g,ing of graders near the1
labor home,- and manage to stir un
quite a row with him, when Sheila inter
teiiea. Crosby, returns to tho Tabors,
whore he gets Into nn Inllmntn ,-,'
Hon with Mrs. Tabor, only to bp Inter-
"I'l-u uy j.uuy nna ner rather. Ab a
result or tho conversation that followed
Lady ls,'left with her niotnoriTVbo, -scorns
unduly "excited, while Crosby and Mr!
i.B.ip nn' ?- smoko and tallc.oVcr
ifltllnt,?.n- '.TabLr eP'"ln thuChls
tho death of a daughter several years'
prior, and that conditions are becoming
unbearable. Caruccl is tho storm-center.
rid Vf1hi'uVh?t I10, "$ b gotten
rid of. Sheila Is to help. Crosby goes
back to town and encounters Maclean,
who has dug up some Information 'as to
Larucci. Maclean, explains the situation,
that Is leading up- to tho solution of the
mystery. It Involves a vlslf to a spirltual
lUIe seance, which. Crosby makes under
Maclean s guidance. It devejones. jiw)
'ncium pretends' torPTdaOce- theplrTC of
Miyi. Tabor s dead daughter, the wife of
Dr. Reld,. Leaving the scene of tho
seance. Crosby sees Caruccl on tho street
and follows him to a drinking place,
where tho Italian meets Dr. Ueld and a
Riant, and drinks aro served for three.
It becomes apparent that Held has a
scheme on foot, for Crosby notes that
. arliccl's drink Is drugged, while neither
if the others Is drinking. A large roll' of
bills is handed Caruccl Just before lie
rollapses arid ts carried out. Tho giant
comes back with tho money and gives it
to' Reld. Crosby accosts Held, and they
quarrel. Held has planned to havo
Caruccl shanghaied; Crosby moets Sheila
and tells her what -has happened to her
husband. ..She tells him of tho death of
Miriam Tabor and her Infant child, and
lays the, blame on. Dr. Reld, with a sug
gestion that Mrs. Tabor needs a priest
more than a doctor.
"Now who on earth but a human would need any help at lovo
making on a day like this!" grumbled Cupid, rolling lnr.lly out of a
cluster of violets.
His complaint did seem Justified, for spring was never moro
maddeningly sweet.
Like a humming bird, he darted off. and when ho reached
Orchid's homo, hovered over it. looking keenly down. .
Orchid went over to the 'phone. "I'll Just cnll up Ruth, sho
mused.
Cnpld flashed down. , ' ,.,
Ho gently tickled the nose of the little telephone operator with
a May blossom econt.
Sho looked around guiltily, and stole out to the door.
In that moment Cupid put his chubby hand out. muffling tho
bell. Then he deliberately signalled not Ruth, but Bob. ".Now
I wash my hands of you!" he exclaimed. ,, . .
Five seconds later ho was busy with the charming affairs of a
pair of young swallows.
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Now Read On
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CHAFTnn XIX.
In "Which I Cnnnnt Delleve Half I
Hear.
(Continued.)
"Sheila," I said, "toll me Just one thing.
How much truth Is there in what your
husband hays?" ,
"How. do" 1 know what ho says?" She
was walchliiB me closely, as It to see
that I folfowed her words.' "He's dhrunk
half tho time,- poor devil, an' ho says one
thing today an' ono tomorrow. Never ye
mind him, Mr "
VBut there must havo been somc'thlng)
for lilnv- to go on," I porslsted. "Did
Reld have some affair abroad before his
WHriJairc, or not?"
She hesitated, her apparent hatred of
Reld struggling with her loyalty to tho
family and her rcco.vcrcd caution.
"There was softie watthor av a woman
In Gcrnjany," she said at last, reluc
tantly. ."Ijut I never rightly know about
U, nor Antonio either." Then moro
rapidly: "An' It's angry I've been, Mr.
Croscby, an' 'tis like I've' said more me
self than I mean." She paused.
"Has that nothing to do with the
troublo In the family? Sheila, you know
I'm their good friend, and I'm not morely
coslpln. You must Ijrvo seen" for
thn life of me I could not go on.
"I'll pay no more," he answered ob
stinately. "If weary I am for you. an'
the poor darlln' that's bewlthclng ye,
hut" her eyas filled, and she shut her
mouth with a snap. Pay what I would
aflor that, I could not move her. She
had said enough already, and she trusted
i gentlemen like me that it should go no
'urther. That 'was all.
"Sheila," I said, as I rose to go, "Is all
you hao told' me true?"
"Thrue?" she started as If I hai struck
her.. "Yos. It's thru-an' sorrow fell
'hm that made It so."
J took up my hat awl stlek from tho
table.
V will have another taUc-about this
miim day. Sheila," I said. And I elosed
the door behind me.
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ril,Vl'TI!It XX.
v ,xmw ; ,nrw nt rmit" h claimed. MX i ' n milium) i i i ih'mih i
Nor t'n!rr(nnl All I Srr.
War the nest few days I thlnV I must
have-been nearer to a nrvous-breakdown
nan I am ever likely to be asalh. All
tho strain atl the anxiety of the whole
Minimer wd to fall upon .me In a
na: I had Ml the relief of taking arms
igalnbt my trouble. Hor of any better
Imslnevs titan ,to brood anil to remember,
Hffung mtwry by the hour In hopelojB
fsrrh after S'inie zrain of derision ami
tlf host ,mi !nr f 1 r ily bruise T,v
i 'irat .le,. tn vri.. it) makr a night
i at' ' ' j "J "'a as ai t,'h m
a good deal, taking mo with him Intc
strango corners of the town, and trying
his beat to bring me out of myself; but
I could not talk to him of what was on
my mind, and the irritation of constant
pretenso to carelessness vitiated much of
tJiatTellef ho tried to give. Whorever 1
jfilgoi. bo to appearance, tho same Spar
tanjvfox was at my breast Caruccl's
'at'dry and Shclla'B attempted contradic
tion?' and the ambiguous trouble- that
bvJrKung iTady and" shut me out from
bgrf-'l could not fathom It; and I dared
iiui. larto ijancruun nuuuii 111 iiie unn.
ltc-jd had passed through some scandal
before Ids marriage; Sheila had admitted
so.much; and' her denial that Miriam
and -Lay were the same hadf been In
volved in such a maze of surmise and
superstition, so evidently and angrily
pu.Viorward as a defense, that I coufd
not' believe what f would of it. It might
w'cll bo that Mrs. Tabor was' oppresset
oven to Insanity by the situation. But
what was the situation? If the mother's
madness of bereavement were at the root
o all, what had the family .to conceal?
And why should not the remaining daugh
ter marry whom' she chose? Hhella'S'
explanation of the first was absurdly
tenuous; and tho last sho had not at
tempted to explain. No, there was one
shadow over them all; the cause of the
mother's grief was tho cause of the
daughter's terror, and of the Irrational
behavior of the sane and practical morT
of the family. 1 could find no alterna
tive; either Mrs. Tabor was haunted by
mediaeval ghosts, or some part of the
scandal must be true.
At IaM, one unbearably humid morning,
when I was almost on the point of' golns;
blindly out to Stamford on tho chance of
any happening that might let my anxiety
escape into action, of any opportunity
that might force a climax, Mr. Tabor
called mo. on the telephone.
"Hello, Mr. .Croscby? Sfr. Laurence
Crosby ? Well, Crosby, this Is Mr. Tabor
talking. Are you free, this nornlng, so
that you can give us a tew hours of your
time? You can help us very much If you
will."
"Certainly; I'll be put as soon as I can
get a train." The Idea of seeing Lady
again was a compensation under any
circumstances; but the next words de
stroyed that hope.
"No, don't do that. AVhat 1 want of
you Is right there In New York." He
hesitated a moment "Hcjlo that the
same situation which occurred the other
day, when you were alone In the house,
and we were In town, has arisen again.
You understand me? We're looking after
this neighborhood. The person In ques
tion has been gone an hour, leaving no
word; may have gone to New York.
Now, will you meet all trains until fur
ther notice, and keep your eyes open?
Call us up about every haf hour. In
case of success, use your own Judgment
don't excite any one, don't be left be
hind, and telephone as soon as possible.
Am I making this ""explicit enough?"-
"Yes, perfectly. I'm to meet trains, let
matters take thejr own course as far as
possible, keep In touch, and let you
know.-"
"That's It exactly. I knew we could
count on you."
I was not many minutes in getting to
tho (Jrand Central, laying my plan of
action on the way. To be sure that no
one arrived unobserved In that great
labyrinth of tracks and exits was no
such easy matter, even though I knew
the point of departure. I regan by a
thorough search of the watting rooms.
Then, flndlnir. as I had expected, no trace
of Mrs. Tabor, I learned the times and
positions "of all the Stamford trains, and
ret mytelf to meet each one as It ar
rived. I had to make certi'n of seelng'
evory passenger, and at theame time
to Tieep out of the expectant throng that
crowded close to the restraining ropes on
a similar errand; for if Mrs, Tabor
should appear I must not seem to be
watching for her. The next hour and a.
half was divided botwen studying the
clock, running my eyes diztlly over
rtreams of hurrying humanity, racing
anxiously from place to place when a
late train crowded close upon Us suc
cessor, and snatching a moment at the
tt-lephona -' In the Intervals of nervous
waiting. Kven so, I ?ould not be morally
sure that she might not slip by me some
where unnoticed. And when at last I
recognised her fragile figure down the
lot g platfrm, I was less excited than
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"Twenty-One Guns"
By YilliMAX IjAUFKnTV.
Twenty-one guns will be. fired in their honor" .
Highest saluto that our nation can give.
On that grim ship, 'with their coffin's upon her.'.,
Death gives them rank and through death they shall live.
Never in combat these lads could have-won it r .
Sailors, marines of the rank and the file
Now that the twlstings of fate so have spun it, ,
Sound them the cannon from Governor's. Isle. ' , ,
"Twenty-one guns will bo fired in their honor."
Back from the Palisades echoes be sped ' "'
O'er the Montana, with death throned upon her.
Honor dented us reverts to our dead.
Irony grim in our Nation snluting!
Little they heed t who sljently He; . . :
Shattered they fell to the sound of guns shooting
Under the hostile blue Mexican sky. . '
"Twonty-one guns will be fired In their honor."
Twonty-one guns" and they never had died!
And tho Montana's bright flag set upon her
Need not half-mast as she creeps up the tide. '
"Twenty-one guns" and the mothers who. loved them
Never need woop as tho death ship goes by.
Huerta refused to the banner above them
"Twenty-one guns" and these lads had to die.
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Do You Believe in God?
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Two-Year Courtship Bill Another Blue Law
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By ADA IWTTKHBON.
They're trying to pass a new bluo law
In Massachusetts. The women of that
state, which centers In Uoston, are try
ing to bring about a tevival of the Ceru
lean laws Uiat
made life a pain
and death a Joy
while New Eng
land was making
Its history from the
Plymouth Rock ho'
glnnlnge. They pro
pose, quite se
riously, these wo
ment bent upon re
forming something
they don't care
much what to
limit the period of
courshlp. Unsm'l
Ingly the peg
skirted lobbyists
have charged the
legislature, d e
mandlng that u. man's option on a girl
shall expire after two years.
Doubtless the Hay state women meant
well. I do not lecall ever meeting any
on, Inside of Jails or out, within the con
fines of hospitals for the Insane or hap
pily beyond thcnl, who didn't think they
meant well, nut tho doughty female do-
iscendants of 'the men who defended
I Hunker Hill give no evidence of havlm;
thought of the strength of the barrlcadu
which they aro attacking with their pop
guns, tho Invincible barricade of nature.
If they will lake tho trouble to rccull
their own courtships they will remember
that women cannot be wooed, ns trains
are run, by schedule. The loxo of somo
women Is of slow, steady growth. The
pine trees that clothe their New Kngland
hills furnish an object lesson In that sort
of love growth. Tho love of others un
folds as delicately and beautifully as the
petals of a rose, fcomn are there, though
they do not tlulvn In Massachusetts,
whose love Is as brief and nrdent as a
fire of shavings.
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Copyright, 19H, by the Star Company.
By EliliA WHEKLEIt WILCOX.
A woman has lost her only child; a
man has lost his possessions In an earth
quake. They wonder how any Intelligent
human being can. believe In God,
"What do you know ,
about God?" they
ask.
Not so much as
many reat ones
know, yet more and
moro with each pass
ing1 year, so that
life grows moro
radiant with each
step forward toward
the final goal. For
even upon the path
shines the smile of
Him I 'know to be
God.
I know this earth
Is but one room In
my Father's man
sion, and that what
ever my experiences may b in thta, thy
Hie- uui ia I'repare me 10 enier larger J
rooms.
Experience, is the object of all life.
We came from the great all source,
and we are returning to It. That we
can make the Journey for ourselves and
others happier and more beautiful by an
absolute unswerving faith In the God
of Love back of a1) things. I know.
That a belief in our own divine origin
ml- our onene with- God will mold
circumstances and turn seeming evil' 'to
good I also know. But the -way to such
molding Is long and the path steep, be
cause it leads over the boulders of self,
and we must chlte) our own stairway
through the rocks. But God awaits u
at the summit.
The great trouble with most of us is
that we magnify our petty lesser selves
and declres apd tasks, and Ignore our
real selves, and then doubt the existence
of a God because our lesser selves suffer
some disappointment or pain, which need
nof jiave come to us if we had recog
nised the divinity within.
God' made millions of worlds-millions
of planets.. No, man can make, one or
even explain how the beginning began.
Therefore the most reasonable explana
tion is that He whom we call God made
all.
, Tl. magn'fi'-'iv e r.( this vast universe
jli becnd tb1- s . , e of h ,man Intr'ject
One glance through a telespope at tho
heavens is enough to make the most
brilliant belns" on earth ank back In un
utterable awe.
Yet. poor, petty creatures are daily and
hourly sitting in Judgment on the Cre
ator of All Things because a hailstorm
destroyed a harvest or a lightning stroke
killed a cow, or death claimed a child,
or a thief robbed a house.
"e sun nnd bo ashamed, O petty
cavillers.
Look up and out at the glory of crea.
tlon, and know that God lives, and that
you are part and parcel of Him, and
nothing can befall you once you ac
knowledge this truth that all Is for ul
timate and universal good.
God Is lovo.
Hera Is what Seneca, a Itoman philos
opher, said S,(A) years ago;
"God Is near you. with you, in you,
There dwells within us a holy spirit, the
watcher and guardian of all we do, good
or bad. According as we deal with Him
iso He deals with us."
Knlctetut. a C,
------ i-imiv-viiii nun a
man of great wisdom, who lived 100 years
alter Christ, said:
"Be always ready to resign the bless
ings which God's providence has lent
you for a while. Never say anything
aiiout -i have lost It,' but say 'I have re
stored It.' Is your child dead? It has
been restored. Is your wfe dead? Bhe
has been restored. Has your estate been
taken from you? Has not tt.V, then,
also been restored? But he who has
taken It from me Is a bad man. But
what Is It to you by whose hands the
giver demanded It back?"
In every age there' are a few souls
who listen to great truths like these and
realise that they need only live these
truths to be at peace with God and man.
Vast and cumbersome and blind creeds
seem to be the machinery by which the
masses of the world. move.
And slow Is that movement.
It Is pitiful to think of the miserable,
(ear-wrecked beings who have wept bit
ter tears over dreary dogmas, trying to
find "Illumination."
Trying to reconcile ths Irreconcilable
and paradoxical statements of. supposed
teachers, when all they nvd to obtain
light, happiness and hope waa the old,
old truth, "Ood is near you, with you,
In you.
Live lo this thought and oi will need
no other rr'.lgion
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATRIOH FAIItFAX.
A Declaration Not to lie Deferred.
Dear Mies Fairfax: I am IS and have
been keeping company with a ynung man
four years my senior. Hut lately he Is
getting serious, always mentioning me as
his future wife. How can I tell him I do
not love him. K. K.
It may be hard to tell him you don't
love .him, hut every day this Is deferred
makes It that much harder. Moreover, to
accept his attentions In neither fair nor
honorable.
Foolish tilrl.
Dear Miss Fairfax: t am 17, and In lon
with a young man two years my senior.
He made Hn appointment with me which
I could not keep, and ever since he does
not speak to me. He la employed In tno
same place In which 1 am, and I love him.
YOUTH.
You hold y.ojir love too cheaply to )b
stow it on a man as surly as this one.
Don't speak to him and think no moro
about hlni.
O ran Re IHossoms.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am going to b
married In June, and I am going to have
an evening wedding. Which Is the propi.r
headdress, orange blossoms or pearls?
My sister wore orange blossoms and I
prefer the pearls, but my mother prefers
the orango blossoms, 11HIDK.
There will be many other occasions
when you may wear pearls, but thla Is
the only occasion that permits of orange
blossoms, Therefore, wear orange blossoms.
The first might require five years or
longer for their wooing. Tho last may
bo won in a few hours. Five times sixty
niinmcs. i neiieve. la tho record Interval
hctween meeting of two nr n. v,,
shnvlngs typo and their marrlnge. Tho'r
closest second was a Now York couple
whose host and hostess Introduced them
at a dance at midnight, watched them
nance me hours away and were gratified
witnesses nt their wprfrilnir nvi
Ing. waving them their adieus from pier
to j-.uropoward sailing etcamcr at 10 the
same moinlng. Lv the women of
Massachusetts' be swayed from h.ir
course by such examplen as theso of tho
celerity of cupld. let mo explain that
ooui occurred in Now York,
Men, too, are temncramentnllv akin tn
the three types I have described. Tho
men who fall In love nt first sight anil
marry are a smalt minority compared
with those who wait for second sight anil
third and hundredth to clarify their via-lon-espoclally
In New Kngland. And
when their love erou-a innMlv thn nm..
Is not.truo of the contents of their pocket-
books. iove may be forced by hot house
methods of propinquity and moonlight
and quotation of the poets, but marriage
can't not In Now England, where they've
formed tho deliberative habit, where they
think things over before and after n.wl
during everything.
I fear me, well meaning women of
Massachusetts, that the bachelors of your
stato will pay their a tax for freedom
from matrimony and laugh at you.
Tho man who Is working to earn that ,
competence without which no man who
respects himself and cares for the well
being of the woman he wants for a Ufa
companion; the man who is waiting to
meet tho sort of woman he prefers, and
who meanwhile continues his brotherly
comradeship with the other women; the
man who is waiting for his childhood
sweetheart; these and many others will
scorn your sky-tinted laws,
Cupld laughs at bolts and bars. Like,
wise he sneers nt a time card.
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Natural Schcllnc K?cd Rockers, like illustration, with full
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Among them are the following: Maple swing; or cottce, child's
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fern baskets. Fibre Jardlnters In green or brown. Metal swing
stands. Various desirable articles of porch furniture.
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Monday morning we are placing on sale our com
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95c, $1.50, $2.25 up to $9.50
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