THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUXE 4, 1914.
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The Professor's
Mystery
BY WELLS HASTINGS
AND BRIAN HOOKER
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I titrations by Hanion Booth4
Being Eighteen
By Nell Brinkley
Copyright. 1911, Intern t News Fervlee.
Pretty and Eighteen, and Try in' to Stay
Single Is n Tight-Hope PerfornMiice
Copyright. 1911. by Tlx Bobbs
(Merrill Company.
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You Can Begin This
Great Story To-day
by Reading This !
First
Prof Crosby, on Ms way to visit a.
friend In tha country, meets Mis Tabor,
nhom he had met at a Christmas nousa
party the winter before. An accident to
the trolley car leaves them stranded near
the Tabor home, where they are matte
welcome, but under peculiar conditions.
During the night Crosby is asked to leavo
the house, Misa Tabor saying goodbye
to him and requesting him not to call
again. At the Inn lie learns that Tabor
Is concerned fn some way with a burly
Italian, named Carucel. when he goes in
to his friend's home, he finds Miss Tabor
also a guest there, and Just as they are
getting on well together, she Is taken
away by Dr. Reld, whom Crosby after
words learns ia a brother-in-law of Miss
Taoor. having wedded her sister Miriam,
who Is now dead. The mystery of tho
Tabor household Is Increased, thO'igh.
when Crosby gets a hasty call to go with
Miss Tabor on a mysterious mission to
the city, where he tescuea Mrs. Carucch
who is Sheila, Mlts Tabbr'a nurse, from
the effect of a brutal attack by her hus
band Flans are laid to get rid of the
V'tallan, by sending him out of the coun
try, to relieve Mrs. Tabor of his presence.
Mr Tabor tells Crosby his wife has never
been quite well since tho death of her
daughter. Maclean, a newspaper reporter,
aids Crosby In gaining admission to a
spiritualistic scauce, where the dead
daughter Is supposed to be "material
ized." After tho seance Crosby discovers
Dr. Reld and n. stranger drugging Carue
.il. intending .to have him "shanghaied"
ciKumu iiuu uuifcuuiti aiuuifier. lie niaKes
in enemy of Reld by Interfering. A call
coms from Tabor, telling him that Mrs.
Tabor has suddenly gone alone to the
city, and asking Crosby to look aftor
her. Ho succeeds In locating her, and wit.
nesses a strange Interview between Mrs.
.Tabor and a man who turns out to be
Ir. Taulus, a celebrated alienist. Crosby
and Sheila get Mrs. Tabor back home.
and there. Crosby meets Miss Tabor for
iin Interview that promises to lead to the
clearing up of the mystery. They con
ltss their mutual love, and agree to work
together for Mrs. Tabor's recovery.
Crosby meets Dr. Rr.id, and they settlo
down for an explanation. After discuss
ing the situation fully. Crosby returns to
the city, where he meets. Mclean, and
together they go to attend another
seance, where they encounter Mrs. Tabor.
The usual phenomena are presented,
table-lifting and the like, and then the
"spirit" of "Miriam" appears again, and
Mrs. Tabor questions It. In the midst of
proceedings Crosby switches on the lights
and Mrs. Tabor faints. Tho medium is
furious, but Crosby calls his bluff, and
has Mrs. Tabor cared for, when Mr. Tabor
appears. He -takes Mrs, Tabor homo,
while prosby goes to .consult with Dr,
Paulus. to determine' If the nature of
Mrs. Tabor's hallucination is sach' as
leaves any hofto for cure. Dr. Paulus
agrees that 'th vjslts to the seances have
been a contributing cause to Mrs. -Tabor's
condition, and when they Join the family
they hnve a general consultation as to
what action should bo taken. Crosby
suggests they get hold of the medium
nd try to mako her confess her fraud.
CHAPTER XIV.
Tim Consultation of an Expert and
v n- liayninn.
I ' (Continued.)
"But her heart,- man. her hart;" ob-
tne snocK? '
"Well, we. can dare. I think, to risk
that. Every operation Is a risk that wo
Judge wise to take, and this Is a malig
nant misbelief to be extirpated. There
will be no unreasonable danger."
' If wo can somehow get this medium
out here" said Mr. Tabor.-
'That I shall manage, to bring her to
morrow afternoon, tolling her' perhaps of
a private sitting In the Interest of science.
I am not ojten so much away, but this
case Is of Importance." He rose, and
looked at his watch. "Is not that the
motor car now at the door?"
on the step h turned; to me with his
quizzical amlle "It Is' 'perhaps well for
us alt to have your mind stimulated, Mr.
C rosby. That Is a beautiful and intelli
gent young lady." He looked abruptly
from me to tha midnight, sky. 'It ap
pears. If I dp not mistake, that we. shall
have rain." he chirped. "Good night, '
it is Just Natural
To Admire Babies
Our altrustlc nature Impels love for the
cooing Infint. And at the same time
tho subjecwof motherhood is ever before
us. To knoyr what, to do that will add
to the physical comfort of expectant
motherhood Is a subject that has Inter
ested most women 5f all times. One of
the real helpful things is an external
abdominal application sold In most drug
stores under tho name of "Mother's
Friend." Wo have known so many grand
mothers, who In their younger days
relied upon this remedy, and who recom
mend It to their own daughters that It
certainly must be what Us name Indi
cates, They have used It for Its direct
Influence upon the muscles, cords, liga
ments and tendons as It alms to afford
relief from tne strain and. pain so often
unnecessarily severe during the period of
expectancy.
Every woman should mention "Mother's
Friend" when the stork is the. subject of
conversation. An interesting llttls book
. . . m - ,i -n .
field Regulator Co., 405 Lsmar Blag.,
Atlanta, Ga. It refers to many things
that women like to read about
Get or recommend a bottle of "Mother's
Friend" to-day and write for tho hook.
Now Read On
Nell Brinkley Says:
It's a bit of a Job-to walk the tight
rope from IS to 20 years when the
girl In Pie story has a fresh, sweet face,
the light, fine step' and the round arms
and neck of babyhood still on her, a gift
of pretty chatter that makes even the
sour-heart that knocks her smile behind
the scowl, a warm heart and a grand,
fine way of cummlng with man or dog
and he stepped gravely Into the Umouelne
and cloted the door with a slam.
CHAPTER XXV.
PiBhtliiK Trlth Shadows. '
The morning came dark and stormy,
with a fieptemDer gale driving In from
the sound, aiid the trees lashing and toss
ing gustily through gray slants of rain.
It was so dark that until .nearly noon we
kept the lights burning; and through the
unnatural niorjilng yt sat about list
lessly, unwilling t? talk about the im
pending crsls and unable. to talk long of
anything else for- the unspoken weight
of It upon Our minds. Mrs, Tabor kept
her room, with Sheila, and most' of the
time Lady busy with her. She seemed
hardly to" remember the night before,
save as a vague shock; and physically
she was less weakened by It than might
have been expected; but her mind wav
ered continually, and she confused with
her hallucination of Miriam the Identity
of those about iitr The rest of us talked
Snd read by snatches, and stared rest
lessly out of the rain-flecked windows.
Mr Tabor and I began a game of chess.
It was well on In the afternoon when
tho automobile came In sight, swishing
through the sodden grayness with cur
tains drawn and hood and running gear
splashed with dinging clots of clay. None
of us knew who saw it first; only that
wa three men were at the door together
encouragtnr one another with our eyes.
The medium greeted us with a gush of
caressing politeness, glancing covertly
among us as she removed her wraps, and
bracing herself visibly beneath her Un
concern. It was she who made the first
move, after Dr. Paulus had Introduced us
and we were seated In Mr. labor's study
behind closed doors.
"Mr. Crosby is the gentlemsn who
turned the light on m5 last evening," she
said. I wish I could express the un
dulating rtso and fall of her Inflection.
It was almoit as It she sang the words.
"Of course with him present I would
not be willing to do anything. It was
I very painful, beside the risk, a dreadful
shock like that
"I shall not be In the roorn." I an
swered, "and I'm sorry to have caused
you any discomfort, Mrf Mahl, We
needed the light. I thought."
"Ob, It wasn't the pain." she smiled
with lifted eyes. "We grow so used to
that we don't consider suffering, 't was
very dangerous, waking one out o,i
trol suCdrnly. You might have killed
or girl, light-rooted, light-handed, ljght
hearted ( 'and light-headed," think you,
perhaps) Ves, sure, but then youth goes
to a fellow's head, you know; you, too,
were drunk with youth when you were
traveling the dlitiy way from 18 to 20
years. And when you babbled like a
small and shallow brook, whose golden
bottom Is all clear and plain to the rye
of the passersby, whose flow Is as deep
only as your fore-finger and did most
me, but of course you weren't aware."
6h$ turned to Dr. Paulus; "You under
stand, doctor, how It is, how l( strains
tho vitality. The gentleman didn't
realize." v
We had become, at the outset, four
strong men leagued against an appealing
and helpless woman. Perhaps I should
sav three; for Dr. Paulus did notisem
Impressed,
"Yes, I know'' he chirped. "We need
not, however, consider" that. You ;are
here, madam." as i have 'told you, (dr a
scientific experiment itndr my direction
Mr. Crosby will not be In the room. With
your pcrmlsklon, 1 will now explain tho
nature of that experiment There Is In
this house a lady, a patient of mine, Mrs.
Tabor, who has for some tlino frequently
at with you. She has on these occasions
habitually conversed, as she believes, with
the spirit of her daughter Miriam that Is
some years dead."
"That Is our greatest wpjk." She Was
not looking at Dr. Paulus. but at the
rest of us. "To he able to soften the
great separation You others hope for a
reunion beyond' the grave, but we pur
selves know. If you could only believe
If you could realize how wonderful It Is
to have communion' with your '
"Ws will not bo Into that." said Dr.
Paulus. "Mrs. Tabor, as I said, believes.
She Is therefore In a hysterical condition
to which you have largely helped to con
tribute. I do not say she Is Insane; tha
Is not. Out I do say she stands on the
parting of the ways, and thst, to save
her mind, or as It may be, her life, It Is
necessary for these unhealthy conversa
tions shall cease '',
The medium now IqokH at Dr. Paulus.
"The poor woman! Isn't It terrible? Rut
you know, 1 can't believe, doctor, that
the sittings do anything but soothe and
comfort her. It can't be that you think
her Intane Just because she believes In
spiritualism? You believe too much your
self for thst."
Dr. Paulus looked st hrr steadily, "I
have told you plainly thst she Is not In
sane yet," he said.
"Bee here," snapped Reld. He had
been shruffllng his feet and fidgeting In
his chair for some minutes. "No use dis
cussing the ethics pf your business with
you. Let's come down to the facts.
We're not asking for sdvlee. We're stat
ing a rase. Plain fact Is that Mrs. Ta
bor's going Insane. Ypu can stop It by
showing her thst these supposed spirits
are a trick. Will you do It ir not? TliAt s
tho whole quetrn."
i The medium hud risen, and was look-
unwise things, and laughed out at the
blue sky over nothing at all It
was the stiong, seet wine of youth In
your pretty head. All things roach and
lean to IS years and beauty. As a plant
In the window lifts leaves and flower
faces to the sun. The boy, her own age,
yearns for her, follows her, dreams of
her, and. fired nlth adoration, makes
verses that Launcclot Du I.ako of the
swinging red-gold hair would not be
ins lor her handkerchief, eying Reld with
meek fearlessness. "Of courff, J'nt used
to this," she murmured, "but not among
educated' pedpie. X tw centuries a30,
doctor, your professlon"vas ' re'garde'd lf
the same light. I don't imagine we can
have anything In common. Is the car
Still at the door?"
'Hold on. Walter," Mr. Tabor Inter,
rupted'. quietly. "Mrs. Main. ' 1u must
allow for our feelings In this matter.
Please sit down again. Now, we make no
charges against you. The Irane Is not
whether you are sincere In your beliefs.
nur iviinncr wn Hfcrefj wiui ineni. Jid
moved one hand In a slow, broad gesture.
"All that we leave aside. Trie point Is
here: Mrs. Tabor's belief In these things
Is harmful and dangerous to her. And it
'must be done away with, like any other
harmful and dangerous thing. We don't
ask whether It Is illusion or fact; we ask
you, for the sake of her health, to make
her believe that it Is an illusion "
"You know, of course, that I have no
control over the spirit ice," said Jlrs.
Mahl blandly. "Do you wish mo to re-
j fuse to sit for her."
i "Here and now, we wish1 to have you
sit for her." Dr. Paulus put In, "and show
her, once for all. how .this her daughter's
spirit Is made. It Is to cure her of all
credulousness In It, for with her mind
clean of such poison she will recover.''
"Would you have me lie to her even
for her good"' The woman as either a
wonderful actress' or a more wonderful
self-deceiver flie turned to Mi. Tabor
appfallnsly. "Hew can I deny my own
faith? Do you think he truth can ever
be wrong?"
Mr. Tabor went suddenly purple; "If it
Is tthe truth," he growled, "it's a truth'
out of hell, and we're going to fight It.
But it Isn't." .
Not In the leuit disconcerted by her
false move, she turned back to' Dr Pau
lus. "Doctor " she said, dropping htr
air of martyrdom and speaking more In
cisively than I had yet heard her. "you
are the one who knows. These, gentle
men do not understand You" know that
there are mysteries here that your science
can't explain, whatever you think about
them. You know the difference between
my powers and the fakes of a two-dplhir
clairvoyant. You know It In . spite of
your-elf. -No' tell me how you can, re
concile it. with yoUr oonselence, to bring
me up hers, to listen to suoh a proposal
as this?"
The alienist's Napoloonlc face, hardened,
and his voice took on a shriller edge.
(To Ut contlnucifTornorrow j
ashamed to own. The fat boy four yoars
younger forgets his supper for her sake.
Twenty-nine. long-legged and wiry, hust
ling, and strong of chin and shoulder,
falls hard and far, opening Ills arms,
kings. "Oh, girt who can sing und danc
and laugh, fall into my heart." The
scholar, with the world of men and
women laid open beforci hlft cool, calm
eyes, nnd a little pet belief that his heart
Is as cold as a reef In the sea, und a
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By ADA PATTERSON.
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That was a cheering and significant
line in the news, that told us of a west
ern woman senator Introducing a bin
limiting the lew wages of working v.. is.
Other measures of
this kind have
been discussed in
other states. The
especial cheering
and significance of
this bill It thst a
IT-year-old girl, the
senator's daughter.
Inspired It
A girl with wide
open eyes' and n
keen brain lf this
fenator's daughter,
but eyes and brains
might not have
been employed for
so constructive a
purpose had the
not ben gifted
aBO with sympathv.
OH
I. Jl.' I. . . 1 I
Bar- f
tasglffiCirTirrn
The brain gltes un-
derstandlng. but understanding Is cold
and remote If It has not at Its bark pro
found sympathy. The eyes, the brain,
and the sympathy told tho girl some
thing and she told that something to her
mother. '
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATItlCR HA IB FAX.
Aon Are Vrrj- Sr.HUh.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am s bey of 1"
and Sin very old for my age. 1 am also
very tall. too. I am dearly in love with
n girl two yr m svnlor It grieves me
veiy much to o her going out with
other fellows. I would like to have her
go out with me only. How can 1 make
her stop going out w.th other young ni".r
(5. L. M.
Vou are a very selfish as well as a vry
foolish boy. What right have you to de
prive this girl of the company of other
fr'.ends? Vou arc a child of 17, while n.
girl of 19 Is a woman. If you went five
or six years older you might ask her to
marry you, and then, naturslly. she
would give up the society of other men,
As it I?, try to be wiser and kinder.
leaning for "brainy" women, loses his
heart. nnd his calculating head to the
Mademoiselle "Twlxt 18 and 20 years,"
The. artist, the baker, tho broker, the
poet, tho boy and tle man, lift their
du-nm-wcnvlng olcs and their culling
hands to IS and 20 years. IScn her
father's old ftlend, almost hs old as he
Is, anil who ought to knew hotter, cusses
hi grey hair and dBros to lift his weary
eyes to slim girlhood.
A Girl's Law for
"I couldn't live on what Mollie McCann,
who works at the Emporium esrns," she
tald. nnd not satisfied with the saying,
repeated It. A powrful eaoon Is re
iteration. The Just Judge who told a
woman to go awav, hut who afterwards
yielded to hnr importunities, Is a cape In
point that all t'hrlstendom knows and by
which all Christendom should b encour
aged. The senator's daughter saw that
her mother's mind was attempting to
forus nn other matters. She saw that
the smile with which she answered, "Yes,
dear." was mechanical. There Is much
work to he done by a conscientious fena-
t ir while tho legislature Is In session, and j
afterwards. Helen Ring Robinson Is a
buss woman, but Helen Ring Robinson's
daughter la a determined girl.
"I couldn't live on what Molllfr Mo
I'ann's earns" the said next day at bfeak
fost. Hhe knew her mother hsd the, -good
habit of lutenlng to the family conver
sation at breakfast
"I'll toll you why tonight" she said.
That evening he showed her mother a
neat list of n"cefary expenses for any
girl. Opposite the total she placed Heltn
McCann'S wacel. Thore wijs a deficit
Only two dollars by a conservative, est'
mate, but two dollars are a mighty sum
when your wages are five a week And
two dollars, rnuItlpl'H by fifty, the num
ber of working weeks a year became one
hundred dollars, a staggering sum for a
raw rhemtt In the srmy of TVSg earners.
"1 dpn't know what I would do if l
were In Molllo's place.' Mother," we can
hear thp sage of seventeen raying. "I
don't know what 1 would dp.''
That was a masterly move. If women
-3(c YaNDEJRBIL T 35ofef
QJhrtlfJourth Otrcet east atwark CaW&nuc,jJca)Jork
WALTON lKrXAR0rL4XL, Manager.
An Heal Hotel with an Ideal Situation
Summer Tfe.tes'
So what their numbers, their verses,
their dream-weaving, their coaxing, their
silver tougues, tlpptd with romance, their
loving, the. open arms of all mankind
spread below her, It'a a pretty peat bit
of balancing when a mold, U j.o 20 years,
ajid peach-pretty, gets by to', the solid
bank of SI years unmarried.
And then, too, you see. Love's been
flddllpg madly on the rope and a maid's
heart Is warm and quick
Girls
.JJ
ever do military duty thst girl will ha
raited to a general's rank tor her power
of ctragtegy. Hy an Indirect manoeuvsr
she had made a direct appeal. She had
brought Mollie McCann Into the family
circle. She had placed her at tafcle op
posite her mother, had forced her into
the mother's line of vls'on, had aroused
the lawmaker to concentrate on Mollie
McCann and her needs. The result was
the Robinson Minlmunf Wage Bill. I wish
It might bear the name of the girl' whom
Intelligence and sympathy brought It Into
being.
She is a "well brought up girl" we may
be sure. She. had been trained to shsrn
her chpcolate fudge equally with little
visitors. It hsd been Impressed upon her
that If another little girl Cried to hold
her doll It waa a gracious and humane
thing to place the tear-cauelng doll Into
the yearning arms of 'premature mother
hood. Fhe had been taught think of oth
ers, not before herself, thst would be
Utopian and superhuman, but think al
ways of other llvss as linked with her
own.
I heard a well brought up boy propose
to a girl with whom he ws? In love. Ho
said: "I hava great plans for rny future,
dear, and you art In every ont of them "'
He won the girl, as he deserved to do,
and he has been a good husband, as we
would expect htm to he. He hsd been
taught to think of others with, himself
The spirit of teeing ourselves as others
of Jinking ourselves In the great living
chain of humanity, was behind tho Rob
inson minimum wage bill. It Is behind
every movement toward the greater
beauty and usefulness of life.