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"Blue-Ribbon Winners"
By Nell Brinkley
Strange Story
of Amber
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By GARRETT P. 8ERV1SS.
; Ainonit the Industries seriously affected
by the great European war, that of pro
ber mining should be Included. The ir rent
rat deposits of amber known to exist lie
along the hors of
I the Baltlo sea, and
particularly In the
province of East
Prussia. Amber is
lone of the moat
remarkable- sub
stances found In
the earth's crust.
It Is fossilized
resin, possessing
such strong elec
j trleal properties
that the ancient
Greek name for It,
electron. Is the
origin of our word
electricity. On ac
count of these properties amber was for
merly believed to possess wonderful pow
ers of protection against disease. 1 I
Everybody is familiar with Its use for
pipe-stems and mouthpieces, for whte
purpose it is unrivalled and also for mak
ing beads and other ornament of per
eon a adornment. Many persons still have
confidence In the ability of a string of
amber beads to ward off throat troubles
from the wsarer. In ancient times am
ber was much employed In the making of
email figure and effigies. Pliny has
recorded the fact that. In his time, little
human figures carved out of amber some
times sold st higher prices than were
commanded by the strongest and healthi
est slaves.
The Phoenicians psld visits to the Bal
tic amber beds, and In the time of Em
peror Nero a Roman expedition to the
earn locality brought back more than
-i -mK UnmhnMt anrrlhed trt
the amoer traaa a very great muucnm
In opening up a eonneotion between the
northern and southern shores of Europe.
Not onljr waa amber carried around by
sea, but It also passed from people to
people across Germany and through the
Celtio territories on both sides of the
Alps, to the To Taller in Italy, and across
Pannonla to the lower valley of the Dan
ube and the Black Sea.
There la no doubt that amber is the
fossilised gum of trees of the pine family,
but precisely what the species waa from
which tha rum was mainly derived Is
still sji unsettled question. These trees
must have grown In abundance along the
BeiUo ooast In the Tertiary Age, probably
at least 1,000,000 years ago.- At that time
the climate of northern Europe was much
warmer than at present. Great changes
of level afterward occurred along the
edge of the sea, and vast forest were
unit. Parts of tree trunks are sometimes
found In association with the masses of
amber. The gum must huv been very
soft, or liquid, when It was exuded, be
cause Insects are often found embedded
in the amber, and the story of their
struggles to escape Is sometimes graphi
cally exhibited, a leg or a wing being
faund detached from the body to which
It belongs.
It is a curious fact in entomology that
the earliest fossil ants known have been
found embedded In the amber of the Bal
tic These ants, although some of the
genera are now extinct, closely resemble
their descendants of today. Other Insects
found in amber are Tarlous species of
flies, some very delicate In structure,
spiders, centipedes, moths, eto.
Formerly amber was gathered along the
shores, having been cast tip there by the
waves. But for the last J00 years it he
been mined, shafts being sunk through
1 strata of marl and sand, and beds of
1 clay and lignite. Into a stratum called
"blue earth." where the amber most
abounds. This stratum, which Is four
or five feet thick, extends outward be
neath the sea, and the masses thrown up
on the shore are broken off by the waves
from the projecting edges of the blue
earth below the low tide. The storms of
autumn are particularly effective In
loosening and casting ashore masses of
t amber.
The pieces are of irregular slse and
form, varying from the magnitude of a
marble to that of a man'a head, and
weighing from a few ounces to twelve or
fifteen pounds. There is a mass of nearly
eighteen pounds in the Royal Museum in
Berlin. Although the Baltic shores In
East Prussia possess the greatest known
deposits of amber, some have been found
In many different parts of the world, as.
for Instance, along the Adriatlo shores.
In Poland, on the Blcillan coast near
Catania, In clay deposits near Paris, In
China, and in this country, near Martha's
Vineyard. Nantucket, Gay's Head, Cape
e'able, several places in North Carolina,
and at Camden and Harrlsonvllle. N. J.
Near the last-named place a slab of am
ber was found an inch thick, twenty
i Inches long and six Inches broad.
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ball bearings bright.
dean. Lubricates perfect
ly. Doesn't gum or gather
dust. Prevents rust. Pre
serves leather seat. A Die-
tionary of a hundred other
nses wttn every bottbj. 10c,
29c, 50c ail store a.
Three-In-One Oil Co.
42 N. Broadway,
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Two of the finest things in the world a beautiful, throughbred girl and a beautiful, thoroughbred dog, fine eyes and hearted, honest, loyal
real as a gold coin is wealth. NELL BRINKLEY.
Read
By Gouverneur Morris
and
Charles W. Ooddard
Cssyrlgat. 1SU. Star Ceasea.
Synopsis) of Pevious Chapters.
After tha tragic death of John Ames
bury, his prostrated wife, one of Amer
ica's greatest beauties, dies. At her death
frrof. aUullier, an agent of the Interests
kidnaps the beautiful 3-year-old baby
girl and brings her up In a paradise
where sbe ses no man. but thinks she
la taught by angels who Instruct her (or
ber mission to reform the world. At the
ae of IX she Is suddenly thrust Into the
world whsie events of the interests are
ready to uretei.d to find hor.
The ene to ieel the lose of the little
Ameitbury girl most, alter she had been
spirited ay by tue Interests, was
Tnmmtf hi,nlav.
Fifteen years later Tommy goes to the
Adirondaoks. The Interests are responsi
ble for the trip. By accident he Is the (list
to meet the Uttle Amesbury girl, as she
conies fortn trom her paradise as Culeslla,
the girl from heaven. Neither Tommy ikt
Celesila recoKnlses each other. Tommy
fluds it an eaoy matter to rescue Celeaiia
from Prof. BtUUter and they hl.ie In
the mountains; later tbey are ursueU
by Blillller and escape to an Ulana wheru
they spend the night.
That night. KUliiter, following his In
dian guide, reaches the lsiaud. found
Celestia and Tummy, but did not disturb
them In the morning Tommy goes tor a
swim'. During his absenos SUUlter st
tempts to steal Cuieaila, who runs to
1 Tne latter St om. realises Tommy s pre
I dlcamrnt He takes advantage of It by
taking not only Celesua's, but Tommy s
! clothes. Htllllter rt.aeb.ea Pour Coi tiers
I with Celestia lust In lime to catch aii
express for New tork, there he places
Celestia In Beilevue hospital, where her
lenity is proven by the authorities.
Tommy reaches Beilevue Juit before blll-
Tommy s first slm wss to get Celestia
away from Utlllller. After they leave
Beilevue Tommy la unable to get any
hotel to take Celestia in owing to her
t costume. Hut later he persuades his
(ether to keep her. When he goes out
! to the taxi he finds her gune. bhe falls
' Into the hands of white slavers, but
escspes and sous to live with a poor fam
ily by the name of Douglas, when their
6o Freddie returns home he finds right
In his own home. Celeutla. the girl for
whtnh the underworld has offered a re
ward that he hoped to get.
Ctjeatla secures work in a large gar
ment factory, where a great many girls
are employed. Here she shows her pe
culiar power, and makes friends with all
her girl companions, iiy hnr tslks to the
girls she is shle to calm a threstoned
strike, snd the "boss" overhearing her is
moved to grant the relief the girls wished,
and also to right a great wrong he had
done one of them. Just at this point the
factory catches on fire, and the work
room Is soon a biasing furnace. Celestia
refuses to escape wltn the other girls,
and Tommy Barclay rushes In and car
ries her OJt, wrspped In a big roll of
cloth
After reselling Celestls from the fire,
Tomrm' Is sought by MsnKer Hh-i If. y.
who unrir-ftakea to persuade Mm to 'l.e
up the Kit), loi.imy refi'oes. uml (' It la
fnl. tin to wed her 1 1 r He .ait
tot d this, as he hsu no f irf1- htiiiltr
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i terle of wealthy mining men, who agree
! to aenrl fVlentln. to i h iolllrti,a
After being diHinherlted, Tommy sought
work In the coal mines. Ho tries to head
off a threatened Mlrlke by taking the
miners' leaders to see Harolay, who re
fuses to listen to them. The strike Is on,
snd Tommy discovers a plan of the own
fr to turn A niHPhlne n-nn lnott on tliA
men when they attack the stockade. This
sets trie mine owners ousy to get rid or
Tommy.
NINTH EPISODE.
Mrs. Ounsdorf felt as If she had been
struck a heavy blow between the eyes.
Was her God-like champion of labor only
a hypocrite and a yny? For a moment It
seemed ss If her knees had turned to
water. She put the telegram back in its
pocket, and having pulled herself to
gether, once more entered the front
room. She seated herself somewhat
heavily between Tommy and her hu.-
band, and .with a hand that shook,
reached for the whisky bottle and poured
herself a stiff drink. Presently she be
gan to take an animated part In the dis
cussion. No one ever remembered her to
have been so bitter against capital and
the crimes of capital, or so Imaginative
In the Invention of horrors by which
those crimes should he punished. She be
came1 so eloquent after her second drink
of whiskey, thst for the first time
Tommy fpund himself regarding ber with
a certain admiration.
It was 5 o'clock when the sitting broke
up with everyone exceot Ounsdorf and
Tommy (who drank nothing) the worse
tor liquor.
Ounsdorf had business elsewhere and
he hustled his gueats out of the house,
feeling rightly that ih?y were sufficiently
primed for the time being.
Tommy and . Mrs. Ounsdorf remained
seated side by side. Mrs. Ounsdorf
reached for the whisky bottle and Tommy
laid his hand on her arm and said
"Don't. What's the user
Her srm trembled under his hand..
"I'm sick." she said In a thick voice;
"sick."
"That stuff won't help any. I'll go for
the doctor."
"I'll be all right. I'm faint That's all.
To Tommy she seemed to be making an
effort to pull together.
"It's the air in this room.' he said.
"I-et me take you outside."
Khe seemed to acquiesce, and he helped
her tu her feet, and toward the door,
Ms left arm around her waist. 81m leaned
more and more heavily against him, until
It took real strength to keep her from
Isllrng. In the front hall she apiear-1
to olla:c entlre'y. Her head dropper
backward as It her neck had been sud
denly dlnhx utej. and she lurched against
Tomrry with all her weltcht.
It wss iierinarv, ho felt, to go f(r the
doctor st mite, out he I'U'iUI iwt leae
lrti im., In the limit ljull. Bj, nut wlln-
out difficulty, for the stair was very
narrow, Uo carried her up to the room
which she shared with her husband, and
laid her on the bed-
Then be was for leaving her, but she
had fluia her arms about his neck and
was. holding him tight. Her eyea had
opened and shone brilliantly In his face.
Her cheeks and temples were crimson.
and there was no longer any fear of him
In her or shame.
For a moment,, Innocent waa Tommy
he thought that her sudden fainting1
sickness had culminated In a sort of fit,
snd It was not until he felt that her Hps
were greedily seeking his that he realised
his position.
He shook himself free, not gently', and
without a word, turned and marched
out of the room and down the stair. He
took his coat from Its hook and put It
in, laid his hand on the knob of the
ront door, hesitated, turned on his heel
and went bark up the stair. He had closed
the door of Mrs. Ounsdorf's room behind
linn. Now he knocked on It, and In a
stein voice, for youth and Innocence are
very stern, said: "Mrs. Ounsdorf."
There waa no answer. He raised his
voice a trifle.
"Do you need the doctor, or don't you?"
This time she answered him:
"1 don't need any doctor, and you can
go to hell."
Tommy shrugged his shoulders, went to
lit own room, bolted the door and pre
pared to read till supper time, iiut he
couldn't resd. The new problem which
had suddenly risen in his life was too
clsturbing.
Presently he heard Mrs. Ounsdorf stir
ring in her room. Bhe came out and
stopped in front of his door.
"Are you In there?"
"YfK"
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm thinking."
"No. I'm not going to do that. Iiut I
mi'st find uoino other place to live."
Silence. Then Mrs. Ounsdorf:
"I'lease don't won't you open the
door? We can talk better."
It seemed such a confession of cow
ardice rot to open the door, that Tommy
opened It. and they faced each other
acroea the threshold.
"It was the liquor," she said. "I'm
like that when I drink. If you won't go
away, I won't drink any more."
Her hair was disheveled and she ha1
been crying.
"If Ounsdorf found out why you went
away, he'd skin me alive. I won't
trouble you any more."
She lookej very frightened and path
etic. Then ' you'd better fl yourself up,"
said Tomniv. 1 ou look as Ifwell, you
look as If you'd make your husband sis-
Irfct something or other."
(To lie Continued Tomorrow t
Commercialism of Matrimony
By DOROTHY D1X.
A young man, who avers he Is of a
sentimental nature, complains bitterly
about what he calls the commercialisa
tion of matrimony.
He says scornfully that In these days
girls do not marry
for love, as their
grandmothers did,
but that they re
gard marriage as a
business proposi
tion, and that un
less a man can of
fer them a comfort
able living they
will have nothing
of him. He further
alleges that when
a man asks the
modern girl to
marry him she
actually has the
nerve to ask him
what he makes,
and what his pros
pects are.
This th young man considers shock
ing, and he opines that the reason that
so many men don't marry Is because they
cannot find any of the sweet, old
fashioned maidens who agree with the
poet that love Is enough and who never
ask for Bradstreet's blessing on their
marriage.
I think this matrimonial cynl" like a
good many other cynics, doesn t under
stsnd the situation at which he scoffs.
In the first place, there were never so
few mercenary marriages made as are
made todsy. The woman of the pert had
to marry for a home and a meal ticket.
Also she hsd to msrry to escape de
pendence snd to have any Individual place
In the world.
In our grandmothers' days the only
gainful occupations open to women wero
domestic service, factory work, rewlng
snd teaching. All were miner biy Ill
raid, and an If grandma wanted a decent
living she had to ms'-ry It. Also nn old
maid was a figure of fun. despised, put
npon, the fringe on some family that
didn't want any appll'i ied edge i f poor
relatives.
Ho if grandma desired a home of her
own and position In society, ami to ad
mired and respected, she had to marry
an establishment, no matter what sort
pf feeling she had about the gentleman
who produced the wherewithal.
The net result of this waa that women
shamelessly married, whether they loved
or not, lecauae msrrisge wss the only
open door to a cereer snd livelihood.
Without doirbt a thousand women In
the past made a sordid, mercenary mar
riage, literally sold themselves In mar
riage, where one woman does now. For
the first time In the history of the world
women are free to follow the dictates ot
their own hearts In matrimony, because
with all the avenues of gslnful occupa
tion that have opeoad up before the
feminine ses ths modern girl can support
herself ss well as the average husband
la likely lu do.
) f Iw.- f-e' . ,
bit of wealth
The girl with a lob ran afford to marry
for love, and the man that sh. says
"yes" to can rest In perfect satisfaction
'that he Is loved for himself alone, and
loved greatly, because the girl of todsy
thinks a good long while before she sur
renders her Individual ocketbook and
freedom. The working girt doesn't marry
to get somebody to pay for her hats and
gowns. On the other rsnd, she expects
to renounre most of these frivols by
marrying, for observation has taught her
that the woman who earns her own
clothes generally has many more of
them than the one whose clothes are
given her by her husband.
As for the cynic's caustlo arraignment
of girls who ask their prospective hus
bands what they are making, why should
they not? It Is surely a question of some ,
Importance to a woman to know what
sort of a partnership she Is going Into,
and what the resources of the firm are
going to be, and what the prospects are
going to tie, and what the prospects for
the future are.
No sensible man would be a fool enough
to put his all Into an enterprise without
making a few Inquiries about It. It
i wouldn't suffice him to know that the
gentleman Interested In the proje't with
him had soulful eyes, and white teeth,
and broad shoulders, and a taking way.
He would want to know how much the
rtuin made, what energy he had, and
whether he wss one of the men with
Initiative who would le sure to get along,
,r a slack Individual who would always
Jimt fall short of success.
Surely, If anywhere on earth good,
hard, practical horse sense Is needed It Is
In the selection of n life partner, snd it
argues much for domestic happiness In
the future thst girls hsve begun to try
to find out before marriage whether a
man can support a family or not, ln
stesd of waiting till aftar marriage tu
find out that he can't.
In poetry und novels romance Is all
that a young couple needs to start house
keeping upon, but In real life it takes a
bank account, and unless that is forth
coming the romance melts away Ilka
mist In a morning' sun. Nobody is senti
mental when he Is hungry and cold and
shabby. And when the t ill collector be
gins pounding on the dior Cupid beats
It out of the window. It takes a full
stomach as well as a full heart, to Inspire
lovemaklng.
There are truisms rta old as civilisa
Do You Know That
The lute Sir Francis Campbell la ths
only blind man was over ascended Mont
Plane.
Russia's net profit on vodka sales In
normal times smounts to more than one
quarter of her total revenue.
I'srafflne-wax models are mad of
every new British battleship laid down,
a no these models are tested In a tana
specially erecjed for the purpose.'
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to have at your hearth, as
tion, and It doesn't kill romance. It pro
motes romance, to bear them in mind.
Of all disastrous marriages none more
quickly ends In misery and disillusion
ment than those which are not sup
ported by an adequate financial plank,
and If girls have acquired ennugn sense
to Inquire Into the ststa of a man'a
pocketbook, as well as lils affections, be
fore they marry It's going to Jo more
than any other one thing to stop dtvoroe.
If this la what the commercialisation
of matrinmony means, then the commer
cialisation of matrimony meets a long
felt want. 1-et's have mora of It.
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