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Motion Picture Serial and
Romance of Pre-History
Ntorjr t Karly Man Covers Many
Age. Imt, No Incident In II I Ainu
t'otii-wo Kxceocls In Interest the ln
volition of Xp11 50,000 Year Ago
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Mrs. Baxter, a harpy in
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FIFTH EPISODE.
In lew than a minute he returned,
really agitated. "She's gone," he cried,
"the cab, too."
"Did you take th man's number?"
"No."
VIMona of certain New York pitfalls
flashed through Barclay's mind. '
'Tommy," he said, "do what you can
to find her, and bring her here. I'll look
after the police end."
What hal happened was simply this:
The moment .Tommy had entered his
father's house Celestia had leaned from
the cab window and told the driver to
drive on. Why? Because she thought
that she was a trouble to him? No. It
was because when his arms had been
around her and he had kissed her and
ehe had kissed him hack, ' almost all
thought of her heavenly mission to this
earth had been wiped from' her mind,
and she had felt that the gates of heaven
vere closing against her return. And
she mustn't fall them. They had told
her that when she went to earth from
the high places and put on mortal flesh
he would no longer be free from the
sufferings and temptations to which the
flesh Is heir. And lo and behold already
she had hoen blistered by the sun, had
been cold, hungry, lonely, unhappy,
homesick, and bad svlnoed the wish to
lie forever In a man's protecting arms
kissed and kissing.
The cab had stopped and the driver was
speaking to her through the window.
'This will do," she said, and she got
out. Thank you very much," and then,
her head bare, feet showing below
Tommy's raincoat, she started to walk
away.
Hold on there," bellowed the driver,
"how about my fare?"
"Oh." said Celestia, turning meekly.
The driver pointed to his meter.
' "Sixteen dollars and fortnight cents,"
he said, with a tone of finality.
"But I hava no money," she said.
"Tox haven't, haven't you?"
The driver leaped threatenly from his
box. and a crowd began to gather.
Through this crowd a strong, loud
voiced, well dressed middle-aged woman
came -pushing and struggling. She caught
Celestia by the arm and forced her back
toward the cab, the door of which was
till open.
Til take care of you, dear," she said,
1n with you."
To the driver she gave an address in a
voice which none but him heard, and a
moment later, amid jeers and murmurs
of pKy, Celestia was owenon whirling
through tin streets of Kew York. But
the voice of the woman, though coara
and vulgar, was brusquely kind, and
CelesHa felt that aftor all her vicissitudes
she had formed a friend of her own sex a
differentiation, be1 It raid, of which until
that day she had never before been
conscious.
"Freddie the Ferret" mas a remark
able young man. His real name was
J-Yederlck Appleton Douglas end he
cam of good Scotch-American stock. If
he had been bright and bad he might
have been a gangster. But he wasn't
bright and he wasn't bad. He wss
neither a half-wit, nor a whole wit, and
ha had almost as muoh moral sense as a
cat Ttiat is to say, he had none. He
had neither more nor less moral glow
when lie gavs candy which he didn't
want to a child than when he took candy
which ha didn't want away from one.
His habitual companions, however, were
vli. For many such persons In the city
had discovered that on occasion Freddls
could be tremendously useful. To begin
with, hli luck distinguished him as much
as brains and tali nt could have done.
Home people are always finding four
leaved clovers. Freddie's gift, though he
had never seen a clover patch or lived
In clover, was of that sort. If Freddie
went through a rubbish heap he always
found something of value. Once he
found a diamond horseshoe and sold it
to an Italian fruiter for six bananaa If
there was a piece of money or a cigar
tump, long enough to be smoked, any
where In a gutter, Freddie was pretty
i aura to find one or the other If not both.
If Brown was looking for Hmlth. Freddie
i was pretty su to have seen Hnitu. If
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the disguise of a friend in ne
he hndn't. It was his luck that Jie was
going to. Freddie had seen more fires;
more runaways, more horrible accidents
than any young man In New York. Ha
had found more things worth finding, and
lieen irresponsibly responsible for more
good and evil turns than anybody.
The police knew hlan well. And al
though he was often mixed up in repre
hensible matters, they were careful not
to arrest him, because- he was often so
useful to them, and they knew that at
heart he was good natured and not re
sponsible for the occasional harm that
lie did. ,
Freddie's repute with the police began
when ho was quite a small boy. Sergeant
Rafferty, tall and very serious looking,
encountered him one day and said:
"Say, Bub, have you seen a man round
here with one nostril bigger than the
other and a bit of his ear missing?" ,
"Sure," said Freddie," you mean Pete
tho Polaxe."
"Where?" said Rafferty. "He's shot a
man up and he's wanted."
"I seen him," said Freddie, "not five
minutes ago. He give me a dime to say
I didn't."
"Where'd you see him, boy?'
"He was goln' into OGorman's lea
cream parlor with Nell the Fllnger,
fambly entrance."
"If you've spoken tha truth." said
Rafferty, "1 11 give you a dollar."
Ten minutes later the arrest was made
and Freddie's reputation was established. t
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Sometimes he was sent upon definite
missions, and carried them through to
ierfectlon.
Flannerman'a barroom mas Freddie's
headquarters. Sometimes the habitues
amused themselves by getting him drunk,
but not often, for they were poor men,
and even a mild Jag costs money. One
day the proprietor tapped Freddie on the
shoulder and told him that he was wanted
on the 'phone.
"Yea, this Is Freddio, all right."
"This Is Mrs. Baxter."
"Hope you're well. Mra. Baxter."
Same to you, Freddie. I bin trying to
find Sweetser all over town. Can you
find him?"
"Sure: what'!! I toll him?"
"You say to him that Mra Baxter says
to say she'a got a pippin for him."
"Mra Baxter aaya to say she's sllppln'
toward him?"
'Pippin for him pi-douWe p."
"P-l-double pip"
. "P-l-p-p-l-n pippin."
"Pippin for him."
"You'ra on. Freddie. Ton tall him to
come right round."
"What for?" .
"Why for the pippin."
"I mean what for would I tell him?"
"Why for about a dollar, Freddie, If
you will bring him round quick."
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man's, it was his luck to run into Pwset
ser,. who was on the point of entering.
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Celestia in her clutches.
Pweetzer had the appearance of a ward
politician. His hat was high and shiny,
tils smile was friendly and his eye whs
fhrewd and mean.
"Bin hunting you nil over town," said
Freddie.
"What for?"
"Mrs. Baxter says t' say she's got a
pippin for you."
"Not so loud. Where la shot"
"Mrs. Baxter?"
"No, the other."
"I'm to take you round.'
They set off at once in the direction of
Mrs. Baxter's "Market, as It was called
by the Insiders. Frcddlo shuffling and
skipping at Swcotzer's side, prattling and
whistling by turns.
Although ahe had as yet done nothing
that mas not helpful or kind, there was
something about Mrs. Baxter that rang
false, and the house In which she lived
mas a strange place. It was a stuffy,
padded sort of house. Every door had Its
pair of heavy curtain, every ohair was
upholstered: every picture had scarf
or a sash of ribbon thrown serosa one
comer of It. The house was lighted by
electricity, but the lights were not bright.
Mra. Baxter's sitting room and office
was at the back of the bouse, ;ip one
flight cf stalrp. And here, - summoned
downstairs by a neat looking colored
maid, left Celestia to herself for awhile.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
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By C.AKHKTT F. KKKYlftS.
The quality of romaivc, like that uf
mine, is generally heightened by lapse of
time, llerent discoveries and conrluslons
in geology and arvhneology (the srlrnce
of ancient things).
open 'p a field for
mmantlo musing
as well as for
philosophic
thought, thst
fairly dsses the
Imagination by the
enormous antiquity
of its vistas.
There is a book
on the antiquity of
man which us
g Hefts most Inter
esting refit" tln
on the life and
conditions of the
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members of our race mho inhnhlte.1 th
earth during a period of two or three
hundred thousand years preceding the
advetit of recorded hltor.
Prehistory, which covers nil tiist im
mense periiwl during which mrl man
mas developing, has one great .idtantago
over ordinary history, and thst Is thst
even body can look at Us actors In a
spirit of complete detachment, end with
out dlsturbment of any of his racial or
national prejudices.
He thinks less of their hlood lelatlon
shlp to himsnlf than of their astonishing
resemblances to human beings, as If
they were not res 11 y men, but a superior
order of apes. Accordingly the iKnorsnrc,
brutality and crudity of these ancestors
of his do not cause him a blush. Vet
he Immensely admires their slcnnis of In
telligence, their Ingenuity and their artis
tic, instincts, and in these thing he.
recognises himself.
A one turns over the pages of the
book on this subject, ho sees pssslng be
fore him a procession of nges, In all of
which man plays his part. exeedlng in
their aggregate length fifty fold, and
perhaps a hundred fold, the entire span
of time that has elspwd since leconled
history began. But his vaxt period Is no
product of the Imagination, or even of
tradition: It Is attested by monuments
more trustworthy and more lasting than
the proudest triumphal arches; the evi
dence that It rests upon hsa no element
of conscious registration or commemora
tion; it mas not made by man, but by
Impartial, uncaring nature Itself. It aim
ply recorded tho presence, and
some of the doings, of antique man as
Incidents In tho development of tho
planet, which, In themselves, were per
fectly indifferent to it. i
To us nothing concerning prehistoric
man appeals with more foroa than his
first efforts at Invention. These are the
touchstones by which we Judge that ha
was man, and not mere brute.
Well, forty or fifty thousand years ago
he Invented a needle. That happened In
what Is nailed the Aurtgnaclan epoch. It
was at the beginning of a long period of
cold In Europe, m-hloh geologists know as
the fourth glacial stag. The Inventor
of the needle, so far as our present In
formation goes, lived In southwestern
France.
It Is not difficult to see how this great
Invention probably camo about, for
human nature has surely changed less
than human surroundings. Some of the
epochs preceding the Aurtgnaclan had
been warm. Than It turned cold, and
such animals as the mammoth, the wooly
rhlnocerous, the long-haired cave bear,
the fierce, snarling, cave hyena, became
common In southern Burops. Man htm-
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The Fox Trot, Castle Pol
lea, and all the other new
dances-all played loud and
clear and in perfect time.
There are Victors and
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of styles from $10 to $250
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relf. who In more genial times hud dwelt
under frail shelters In the river valleys,
took to the caverns for wsrm th and pro
tection
He had to fight the brutes for the
(csaenvion of the caves. He had once j
been nioii of a fisher than a hunter; lie ,
miisi now develop weapons of attack. I
The spear and arrow hoHds of tho Auttg
n icisn anil closely related epochs am
among the finest Seciiiens of such
meapnna that archaeologists hnve found
At the same time the closer life of
caverns developed the instinct for home
decoration, and In the Aurlgnartnn epoch
many surprlslnsly effective artistic works
mere made. Among these one kind Is I
psrttcularly significant It Is the repre-
se.itHtlon of woman's form In figurines j
curved out of Ivory. Women's empire i
over the heart of man had, then, began
t. be acknowledged. I
The climate mas growing colder, the Ice
mas advancing down the mountains, the
need of warm clothing was becoming
more and mora Imperative. The materials
for such clothing mere at hand. In the
skins of slain beasts, and the goddess of
the -avi rn hearth, wbese Ivory Imajm
glivimed in tha fire-light over her heed,
hsd enovgh of the housewlfy Instinct
Astronomy Most
lly F1XJAII LUCIKN LAHK1N
Astronomy, tha moat majestic science
save one, the solenoo of mind, has grown
lo such an Immense magnitude that It Is
now specialised divided Into depart
ments or branches.
Two divisions may be at first men
tionedplanetary and stellar. But plan
etary astronomy Is a very minute and
Insignificant department, since only eight
aro knewn Mercury. Venus, tha Earth,
Mars, Jitptter. Saturn, I'ranus and Nop
tunei True, the study of these Is important,
esieclally of one, the earth Important to
humans since It la our home, but very
Insignificant In comparison with tha study
of the atsrt. These, aro all huge suns,
and all are In a state of Intense Internal
or molecular activity, which causes them
to send forth floods of energy Into Infinite
space.
The careful and critical study of tha
stars, their properties and facts, since
19, and mors earnestly since 18H0. has
given greater real wisdom to man than
all of the tlmo since ha appeared In earth,
at least l.OuO.Ono years ago.
The first transcendent event, the seem
ingly Impossible, was that of measuring
tha distance of a star. This so expanded
In-Shoots'
It is useless to sow words of wisdom
on a mental desert.
Tha deadhead Is always the most re
lentless critic of all.
It Is better to hook a few small ones
than never fish at all.
Too much advance courtship is apt to
make marrlod Ufa aeom prosy.
Your brain Is ao good If tho other fel
low makes mors from It thsn you do.
None la Immune from spring fever.
But the lasy man's symptoms are always
the most acuta.
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Mr. ausd Mrs.
Vcumoa Castls
damans,
ths Cutis
Polk
iihoiit fer to make the necessary gnt -nients.
if her lord and stave would fur
nish her vlth the requisite Implements.
No ilotiht f.ir many generations the
iiiii"n simply tied the pieces of the
skin gnrments together with lengths of
sinew, or hide strings, hut, at last, sonii'
hunter, with sn ounce more of brsln than
his felH's, al'U-r watching the efforts of
his wife to fasten together the garments
of her hlldren. sat down In the comer
of the enve Instead of going out to Join
a hyena hunt, and began to think.
When the idea occurred to him of put
ting a hole through the butt end of h
sharp bnie bodkin, or stylet, such as me
know- that the Aurignsclennes were al
ready scruatomed to use, and of thrusting
a string through the hole In order that
It mUhi be drnn Into the perforation
of the gsnnent. the needle wss horn,
from youthful human renins, and so well
born thst it has undergone no eescntis!
Improvement In all the countless ages
that, have slnro rolled away, book at
one of thes prehistoric hone needles In
sonic archaeological collection and you
will better snrreclate the merit of thai
iinknow" but glorious Aurtgnaclan F.di-s-iii,
hos highest thought, perhaps, wss
to plcHsri and cVHitl.t hla wife.
Majestic Science
tho mind or man that Imagination was at
once submerged, as it were, and man
became a changed being he became, ti
real thinker, and hla thoughts rose to
hitherto unknown heights.
The earth was seen as it actually is In
fltilteslmal In proportion to tha unlversa
of star while the sun was found to be
but one of tho smaller grado of si are.
and so small thst although It Is l.yio.ioi
times larger than the earth It cculd come
to un end and scarcely missfd. And
this is true of , the earth and tha seven
other planets.
Planetary astronomy consists of mcs
tirlng the distances of tua planuta frpnl
tho sun and from each other, the lengths
of their years, or times of revolution
around the sun. and it their (lays, or
times of rotation on their axes? and tha
Inclinations of their axes to planes of
orbit a thus giving the changes of their
seasons; also weighing them, or comput
ing the quantities of matter they con
tain, and from this their densities.
Next comes ths finding if thay hav at
mosphere, or envelopes of air, as In tha
case of tho earth, and. an Important
thing, If these aortal envelopes oontaln
th vapor of water. Than comas tha com
putation of the intensities of energy of
heat and light received from tlwr sunr
also the finding of tholr reflective powers
that Is, what proportion of solar light
reualved la reflected wav, and tho foroa
of gravity exerted by their masses upon
all objects on their surfaces.
These and mora data arm Included In
planetary astronomy. Besides these- there
Is tho monor branch of finding all possi
ble data regarding the moons revolving
tround the planets. And then ths study
of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter
on curious orbits.
But all of these things deal with our
little solar system, consisting of one sun,
eight Planets, twei.ty-ven moons, 7M
asteroida an unknown number of comets,
and also meteor streams, tho Whole' mov
ing in cosmic space as a happy or. un
happy family. Tbs iartn, at le.ut, la un
happy. II f 'II (,' .lill I II I
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