Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 148, Hammond, Lake County, 6 April 1908 — Page 3

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he Captain of I the Kansas. By LOUIS TRACY. Author of 'The Wing of the Mornicj!. Copyright, 1S06, by Edward J. CI ode. Z CHAPTER VII. FT TALKER was about to take BjI her to the salon, whence an Inner staircase communicated with the principal state rooms, but she knew that the door leading to the promenade deck had been left unlocked, so she signaled him to lead her the speediest way. Speak she could not. Although there was a perceptible improvement in the weather, Elsie found the wind even harder to ' combat than when she traversed the deck with Courtenay. This apparent contradiction arose from the fact that during their early dealing with the g boats the sailors had cut away the greater part of the canvas shield rigged to protect passengers from adventurous-seas. Nevertheless, all flustered and breathMess as she was, she held Walker back when he would have left her in the Bhelter of her cabin. "Do spare me one moment," she pleaded. "When I have put on dry clothing, what am I to do? Where am I to to go? I will do anything rather than remain alone." Walker jammed himself in the doorway to break the violence of the unceasing deluge of spray. "Well, missie," he said. "I'm examin- ' Ing the engines, Mistaw Tollemache is fi-wing up the donkey boiler, and Doctaw Chwistobal is with Mistaw Boyle. You know whe-aw the captain is, so" I ' weckon yo best place is the salon." "Dr. Christobal said you were making a raft?' "That s wight. But when the ship i got off we tackled othaw jobs. She is ow-ahbest waft." ."May I not look after some of the injured men?" "That you can't, was Walker's prompt assurance. "You'd bettaw stick to the salon. I'll tell the captain yo' the-aw." "Tell him? Are you returning to the bridge?" "Telephone!" shouted Walker as an i unusually heavy sea caused him to i slam the door unceremoniously. He ' bolted It too. Not if he could help it ' would his charge come out on that -storaswept deck unattended. The electric -light glowed brightly in Elsie's cabin, exactly as she had left it an hour ago. This , was one of the anomalous conditions of the disaster. 1 1t lent a queer sense of midsummer madness to the night's doings. In a few days it would be Christmas, the Christmas of sunshine and flow- , ers known ., only to that lesser portion of the habitable earth south of ,the line. In Valparaiso the weather was stifling, yet here, not so very far away, it was bitterly cold. And the ship was driving headlong to destruction, though electric bells and switches were at command in a luxuriously furbished apartment, while the engineer - had just spoken of the telephone as a means of conversing with the captain. Away down in her feminine heart the girl wondered why Courtenay himself , had not come to her. Why bad he sent .Christobal first and Walker subsequently? Oh, of course he had more .urgent matters to attend to, though In the helpless condition of the ship it was difficult to appreciate their precise degrees of Importance. Anyhow, he had sent word that she .was to change her clothes, and he must be obeyed, as Dr. Christobal said. Then she discovered as a quite new and physically disagreeable fact that her skirts were soaked up to her knees, while her blouse was almost In the same condition owing to the quantity of spray which had run down Inside her thick ulster. She busied herself In procuring fresh clothing and boots. The outcome of the pleasant feeling of warmth and comfort was such as the girl herself would not have guessed la a week. The mere grateful touch ef the dry;, garments induced an extraordinary drowsiness. Ehe felt that she must lie down Just for a minute. She stretched; herself on the bed, closed her eyes and was straightway sound asleep. At " the captain's suggestion Christobal had given her a strong dor of bromide, in thewine. . It was better so. If the ship wore dashed to pieces against the rocks which unquestionably lay- ahead, Elsie wouia oe wniried to the life eternal before she quite knew what was happening. If, on the other hand, some miracle of the sea enabled the men to construct a seaworthy raft in, time or the rising tide permitted the? Kansas to escape in so far to run ashore again la a comparatively sheltered position, ehe would be none the worse for an hour's sleep. And now that, the ship was afloat. thereswere"thlngs. to be done which only men could do. The salon, the decks, the fore cabin, were places of the dead. Fearing lest" Elsie might pass, Christobal before attending to BoyJehad thrown; tablecloths over the bodies, of' men slain in the salon, for Gray-ancr Tolleaache 'had sternly but .vaf2jy;jBtriven' to repress .the second refrclu1: Tollemache and Walker had dragged out of the smothering spray near the port davits three men who eeemed to be ;. merely, stunned. These, with the chief officer and perhaps four survivors of the explosion, made up the list of living but noneffective members of the ship's company. There was one other, Gciglisimo Frascuelo. who was fcawllag for dear life In his bunk In

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"the forecastle, but in that dark hour no one chanced to remember him, and It needed more than a human voice to pit Itself against the hurricane which roared over the vessel. The unhappy wretch knew that something out of the ordinary had taken place, and he was scared half out of his wits by the continued absence of the crow. Luckily for himself, he did not appreciate the real predicament of the ship or he would have raved himself Into madness. Walker in his brief catalogue of occupations had suppressed one. - To make sure Christobal closed a water tight bulkhead door which c,it off th principal staterooms from the salon. Then he and his two helpers carried out a painful but necessary task. Ii was his duty to certify whether or not life was extinct. There were very few exceptions. The three men lifted the bodies and threw them overboard. When they reached the corpses of the second officer and a Spanish engineer who had been knifed In the defense of the jolly boat his comrade had scrambled Into one of the lifeboats Tollemache took possession of such money, documents and valuables as were in their pockets, Intending to draw up an Inventory when an opportunity presented itself. Though they knew not the moment when a sickening crash would herald the final dissolution of the shlr. thev proceeded with their work methodically. In half an hour they had reached the end. All the injured men seven nondescript sailors and firemen wera carried to the salon and placed under Chrlstobal's care. Walker dived below to the engine room, where he had al ready disconnected the rods broken or Dent by the fracture of a guard ring, which la turn was Injured by the blowing out of a junk ring, a stout ring or forged steel secured to one of the pistons. He could do nothing more on deck. Whether he was destined to live fifty seconds or as many years, he was 111 content to hear his beloved en gines knocking themselves to pieces with each roll of the ship Tollemache, who undertook the firing of the donkey boiler, which was situated on the main deck aft of the salon for the "Kansas was built chiefly to accommodate cargo during his wanderings round the world had picked up sufficient knowledge of steam power to shovel fuel into the furnace and regulate the water level by the feed valve and pump. The small engine, more reliable and quite as powerful as a hundred men, was in perfect order. The Kansas rolled heavily. The roll was caused by an experimental twist of the wheel. Courtenay, peering Into the darkness through the open-window of the chart house, saw that the weather was clearing. He had evolved a theory, and, for want of a better, he was determined to pursue it to a finish The Kansas was being swiftly carried along m a strong and deeD tidal cur rent. Happily the wind followed the set of the sea, else there would-be no chance of success for his dariner rlan His expedient was the desperate one of keeping the vessel in the line of the current, and if day broke before he reached the coast he would steer for any opening which presented itself in the fringe of reefs which must assur edly guard the mainland. With his hands grasping the taut and in one sense irresponsive mechan ism or a steering wheel governed by steam a sailor can "feel" the movement of his ship, a seaworthy vessel being a living thing, obedient as a doc ile horse to the least touch of the rein But in the unlikely event of fortune ravonng courtenay to the extent of giving aim an opportunity to see the coming danger it was essential that the ship should have a certain radius of action apart" from the direction and force of the ocean stream. The two sails were helpful, and it was to assure himself of their efficiency that he put the helm to starboard. The Kan sas obeyed with an answering roll to port, showing clearly that she was traveling a' little faster than the inrushing tide would take her unaided. He brought her head back to nor' east again and glanced over his shoulder at the ship's chronometer. It was a quarter to 1. Two hours must pass before he would discern the first faint streaks of light. At any rate, If 'he were spared to greet the dawn It would be right ahead, and, as a few seconds might then be of utmost value, that was a small point In his favor. Yet, two hours! Could he dare to hope for so long a respite? How cculd the ship escape the unnumbered fangs which a storm torn land thrust far out into the Pacific for its own protection? He was quite sheltered from the wind and spray In the chart house, and all at once he became aware of a burning thirst There was water in a de canter close at hand, so he Indulged in a long drink. That was wonderfully vivifying. Then his mind turned longingly to tobacco. For the first time in his life he broke the strict rule of the service in which he had been trained and smoked a cigar while on duty. Now and again he spoke cheerily to the dog: ' "Well, Joey, here we are; still got a bark in us!" or "You -.-id I must have our names on the admiralty chart, Joey 'Channel surveyed by Captain Courtenay and pup; details uncertain. How does that sound, old chap?" And again: "I suppose your friend. Miss Maxwell, is asleep by this time. If she calls you Joey, do you call her Elsie 1 I rather fancy Elsie as a name. What do you think?" To all of which the dog, who had found a dry corner, would respond with a smile and a tail wag. The long wait In the darkness would have broken many a man's nerve, but Courtenay was not cast In a mold to bo either bent or broken by fear. When his cigar was not In his mouth ha whistled, he hummed snatches of

longs and delivered short, lectures to Joey on the absurdity of things in general and the special ridiculousness of such a mighty combination of circumstances centering on one poor ship as had foregathered to crush the Kansas. Ever since he was aroused from sleep by the stopping of the screw his mind had dwelt on the unprecedented nature of the breakdown. Even before he discovered its cause he was wondering what evil chance had contrived to cripple the engine at such a moment id the worst possible place on the map. "Joey," he said suddenly, his thoughts reverting to a chance remark made to him in Valparaiso by Isobel's father, "what did Mr. Baring mean by saying there was a difficulty about the Insurance?" Joey gave it up, but he cocked his ears and looked toward the door. Christobal entered. "Boyle will recover," he said when he had wiped the spray off his face. "He had a narrow escape. The knife Just grazed the spinal cord. The shock to the dorsal nerves induced temporary paralysis, and that rather misled me. He is much better now. Under ordinary conditions he would be able to get about In a few days. As It is, he will probably live as long as any of us." Christobal waved a hand toward the external void. He was not sailor enough to realize the change In the weather. "That is good news," said Courtenay. "I thought you would like to know. How are things up here?" "Better. The barometer has risen an Inch In less than two hours. Possibly nearness to the. land has some effect, but wind and sea are subsiding." "You surprise me, yet that is nothing. I have had several surprises tonight. What Is the position? Of course we must hit the South American continent sooner or later. Can you fix an approximate time?" "We are making about six knots, I fancy. If we are lucky and avoid any stray rocks we should see daylight before we reach the coast That is our sole hope. The 6hip is In a powerful tidal current, and it is high water at 5:30 a- m. At a rough estimate Hanover island is twenty knots distant Now you know all. The outcome is mere guesswork." "Why did the furnaces blow up?" "I was cross examining Joey on that point when you came in. He reserved hi3 opinion. My own view is that, by accident or design, some explosive substance found its way Into the coal." "Shorn, Ham and Japheth ! Explosive substance! Do you mean dynamite or gunpowder or that sort of thing?" "Something of the kind. That Is only a supposition, but when I whispered it to Walker he agreed." "Walker! Is he the man who speaks so queerly?" "If you ever go to Newcastle, don't put it that way. I told him to take Miss Maxwell to her cabin. Did he do so?" "Yes. I have not seen her since, so I assume that the bromide plus the wine was effective. Well, I must return to my patients. Can I get you anything? I am storekeeper, you know." "No, thanks." "Nothing to eat or drink?" ! "Nothing. I shall be ready for a square meal when I am able to come below, not before." Christobal smiled. Though he was a brave man, he thought such persistent optimism was out of place. Neverthe less he could emulate Courtenay's cool ness. "Let me know when you are ready. I am an excellent cook," he said. Then the captain of the Kansas re sumed his smoking and humming, with occasional glances at the clock and the compass and the barometer. At 2 o'clock he felt -the ship slipping from under tne wheel. The compass showed that she was heading a couple of points eastward. He helped her and telephoned instantly to Walker: "Go forward and try, if you can make out anything. Report to me her." "Aye, aye, sir!" came the reply, and anon Walker appeared. "It's main thick ahead, sir. but I think we-aw passin' an island to port, said he. "I thought so. You ha'd better re main here, Walker. We -have not long to wait now for the dawn, and four eyes are better than two." Walker Imagined that the skipper was ready for a chat. "Things are in a dweadful mess be low, sir. I can't make head or tail of the smash." "Well, that must wait. Don't talk. Keep a sharp lookout" The engineer could not eruess that the captain's' pulse was beating a trifle more rapidly with a certain elation. They were undoubtedly passing White Horse island. It revealed its presence by deflecting the tremendous sea river wmch ferried the Kansas onward at such a rate. In fifteen or twenty min utes Courtenay expected to find Indications of a more northerly set of the tide, and he watched the compass In tently for the first sign of this return to the former course. If the shin cross ed the current one way or the other she would certainly be driven ashore on some outlying spur of the Island or detached sunken reef; hence he must actually guess his way, with something of the acquired ' sense of the blind, because the slight chance of ulti mate escape for the ship and her occu pants rested wholly on the assumption tnat some ocean byway was leadintr her to a deep water Inlet where It mignt be possible to drop the anchor. in eighteen minutes or thereabouts the needle moved slightly. Courtenay once more assisted the shin with th helm. She steadied herself, and the compass pointed due northeast again. walker, thousrh an eneinr. impw enough of navigation to recognize the apparent Impossibility of the captain

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being able to steer with any real knowledge of his surroundings. The wheel twisting therefore savored of magic. But his orders were to look ahead, and he obeyed. Soon he thought he could discern an Irregular pink crescent with the coa cave side downward, somewhere in the blackness beyond the bows. Speedily It was joined by two others equally irregular and somewhat lower. "Captain, d'ye see yon?" he asked In a voice tremulous with awe. "Yes. That is the sun just catching the summits of snow topped hills. It not only foretells the dawn, but Is a sign of fine weather. There are no clouds over the land or we should not see the. peaks." Ere long a silver gray light began to dispel the gloom. The two silent watchers first saw it overhead, and the vast dome of day swiftly widened over the vexed sea. The aftermath of the storm spread a low, dense cloak of vapor all round. The wind had fallen so greatly that they could hear the song of the rigging. Soon they could distinguish the outlines of the heavy rollers near at hand, and Courtenay believed that the ship in her passage encountered in the water several narrow bands of a bright red color. If this were so, he knew that the phe nomenon was caused by the prawa like Crustacea which, sailors call "whale food," a sure sign of deep water close to land and, further, an indi cation that the current was still flow ing strongly, while the force of the sea must have been broken many miles to westward. Suddenly he turned to Walker. "Do you think you could shin up to the masthead?" he asked. "I used to be able to climb a bit, sir." "Well, try the foremast Up there I am fairly certain you can see over this bank of mist Don't get into trouble Come back If you feel you can't man age it If you succeed, take the best observations possible and report" Courtenay was becoming anxious now. If he dared let go the wheel he would have climbed the mast himself, Walker set about his mission in businesslike manner. He threw off his thick coat and boots and went for ward. Halfway up the mast there was a rope ladder for the use of the sailors when adjusting pulleys. The rest of the journey was not dlfll cult for an athletic man, and Walker was quickly an indistinct figure In the fog. He gained the truck all right and instantly yelled something. Courtenay fancied he said: "My God, we-ah on the wocks!" Whatever it was, Walker did not wait, but slid downward with such speed that it was fortunate the rigging barred his progress. And then, even while Courtenay was snouting some explanation, a great black wall rose out of the deep on the port bow. It was a pinnacle rock high as the ship's masts, but only a few feet wide at sea level, and the Kansas sped past this ugly monitor as though it were a buoy in a well marked chan nel. Courtenay heard the sea breaking against It. The ship could not have been more than sixty feet distant a 'My God, tce-ah on the wocks I little more than her own beam, and he fully expected that she would grind against some outlier in the next instant But the Kansas had a charmed life. She ran on unscathed and seemed to be traveling in smoother water after this, escape. Walker's dark skin was the color of parchment when he reached the chart house. "Captain," he said weakly, "I'll do owt wi' engines, but I'm no good at this game. That thing fairly banged me. Did ye see it?" "Did you see land?" demanded Courtenay imperatively. His spirits rose with each of these thrills. He felt that it was ordained that his ship should live. "Yes, sir. The-aw's hills, and big ones, a long way ahead, but I'm no' goin' up that mast again. It would be suicide. I'm done. I'll nev-ah fo-get you stone ghost no, not if I live to be ninety." (To be Continued.) Wanted a Full Load. Pat had taken a contract to carry brick, the agreement being 13 bricks to the load. Finally he came to the last hodful, when to hi3 great distress there were only 11 bricks to go in it. Then a happy thought struck him. "Say, Mr. Contractor," he called to the boss in the third story, "throw me down two bricks." Illustrated Sunday Magazine,

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FOR MADAM AMD MADEMOISELLE By BEATRICE IMOGENE HANSEN

POCKET, BIT WHERE f It is said that pockets are to return with the fashions of the spring, but in spite of the. rumor no one has ventured to foretell where these comforts to femininity will be placed in the costume. Is it that they will be fastened as of old to the underskirt, or will they take their old position at the placket or. perhaps, will they be cunningly placed in the belt of one of the new semi-princess gowns? Perhaps they will find a nesting place at the end of the long sash ends, so popular this year, or, again, there is a possibility they may be sewn to the hem of the dress. Of course no matter where they are it will only be possible to use them to carry the dainty mouchoir. THE BEAUTY SLEEP. An English actress who is long past her 40th birthday and yet is as clear skinned and bright eyed as a girl, always sponges her face with hot milk and eau de cologne before lying down for her afternoon nap. Then she dries her face thoroughly, puts on a loose wrapper and makes herself comfortable in a darkened room. "If one cannot get the proper amount of sleep at night," says this actress. one should make up for the loss in the daytime." One woman, who believes in eettinsr all the fresh air she possibly can, takes her beauty sleep out on the lawn of her home. She spreads a rug on the grass, fixes an unbrella over her head to keep off the sun. if the sun Is shin ing, and gets a much more refreshing nap, she says, than if she took it in doors. Even a slight rain does not keen her from her outdoor sleep, for she has an awning large enough to protect her. It s making a new person of me." she says. "I don't know why I don't become a child again, for if feelings are anything I am five years younger eacn time I rise from my grassy couch." Home women cannot sleep well for the simple reason that they never do enough work to make themselves healthily tired. There are German rest cures that know how to deal with such women. They make them work that is all. If a patient has insomia she is set at sweeping off the garden walks, raking up the cut grass, at all kinds of light outdoor tasks calculated to make her physically tired. And she does it all cheerfully, because it is the thing to do, she is told, and soon, to her great delight, she finds herself ready for her healthy sleep at night, and generally quite willing to take a nan In the daytime also. LATEST COAT STYLES. There is a strong tendency in the fashionable new coats of short or medium length to dip decidedly at the back. Shawl points are becoming very familiar in costumes with little pre tension to dressiness. The cutaway front and pointed back are often joined in tailor-mades of more or less severe finish. But they are becoming only to girlish figures, and If unbecoming easily become caricatures. Most of the suit coats of strict tailor finish are of the semi-fitted order. A goodly number are fitted, and now and then one finds the always useful little box coat ever so slightly fitted with single or double breast. IX TRAINING FOR GRACE. "Dancing school trains a girls feet, but it ought to teach her how to use her arms ,too," said an observing Bos ton mamma. "I noticed at the dancing school assembly last night that most girls are apparently Ignorant that arms have much to do wijh balancing the OGOOOOCCOOOOOCOQCOOOOGOQO Jimmy Stinger's Mistake OOOOCXJOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOO Copyright. Young Jimmy Slinger, down on Cher ry 6treet, was only fourteen years old. but had come to have a great admira tion for the law. He knew that cer tain detectives took their whack, and he heard a professional bondsman affirm that the police got a divvy on all his cases. As for doo! room men. srnm. blers and pickpockets, Jimmy knew that they owned the town. Now and then there was a patrolman or detec tive who would not shut his eyes when there was a case of pocket picking or a con game, but a complaint to certain politicians soon brought about a trausrer. At the age of fourteen Jimmv was to be apprenticed to a cobbler. He bolted from home In consequence. He had made up his mind as to his future career. He had decided to stand In with the law. Jimmy had no sooner bolted than he began to look around for a job. It so happened that a couple of voune men who had just graduated in law had formed a partnership and hung out their sign. They didn't want police court cases, and they didn't want to be classed among the shysters, but the want of better patrons forced them to appear in the lower courts quite often. Jimmy made their acquaintance there. He didn't catch them at any shyster tricks, and he heard certain policemen sneering at their straightforward way. The boy didn't give the lawyers credit for this. He simply took it that thev had a trick up their sleeves and were the sort of men he was looking for. In a month after he knew them he was their office boy. He didn't carp how humble the beginning as lonz as the aroma of law hung about the place. He didn't ever expect to be a leading member of the bar, but he felt that he could pick up enough law to enable him to do a3 others were doing. One day the boy picked un a Dointer. The partners had been consulted about

figure. There is no habit that will make a girl so awkward as that of holding her arms closely to her sides or of keeping the elbows at a sharp angle from the waist line. "Often awkward looking arms may be traced to unsuitable corsets, which may be too high or too tight or absolutely the wrong shape. They should be low enough to alow the shoulder muscles full play, for unless the shoulders can move easily the arms are certain to be held stiffly and appear to be burdened with superfluous elbows, and the consciousness of looking awkward will cause the most self-possessed person to feel so. "Or the belt may be too tight, although the girl may not realize that the waist is being pinched until she tries to touch the floor with her finger tips by swinging the arms straight from the shoulder. Any girl under 20 years of age should be able to accomplish this simple feat at the first trial, and those who cannot should persevere until they succeed and continue the practice indefinitely. They should also make a point of daily lifting the arms above the head, for that gives the chest muscles full play and legnthens the waist."

MILLIXERY CHOICE. Happily the choice of millinery is considerable tills season. We are not tied down to one shape, as we were last summer, when 99 In . every 100 women appeared in huge mushroom cloche. It is strange that many fashionable women remain true to the cloche shape. But the milliners do not recommend that the woman who has to economize, invest in cloche shapes this spring, as this syle has been done to death, and it Is Impossible for it to remain in style much longer. The cloche shape, slightly turned up In front and at one side, continues to be amazingly popular, and this shape is wonderfully becoming. The upturned brim allows the hair to be seen to advantage, and attractive effects may be gained by an artistic arrangement of soft feathers around the crown. ONE DAY'S SIEXLT. BREAKFAST. Sliced Oranges. Cereal and Cream. Soft Boiled Eggs. Rice Muffins. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Bean Cutlets. Tomato Puree. Toasted Muffins. Lemon Jelly. Pecan Cookies. Tea. DINNER. Mint Cocktail. Roast Mutton. Mashed Potatoes. Creamed Turnip. Assorted Cake. Coffee. Bean Cutlet. After pressing two cupfuls of cooked beans through a sieve add sufficient beaten egg to blend the mass together, form with the honds into cutlet shape, and set aside for a short time, roll in beaten egg and then in bread crumbs and fry in hot fat until brown. Serve on rice, and pour around the dish good tomato pruee, sieve canned toimatoes, season with salt and pepper, and add a small piece of butter. Pecan Cookies. Cream one teaspoonful of butter with half a cup of sugar; add two eggs, one scant cup of flour, one teaspoon of baking powder, one-half teaspoon of salt, four tablespoons of milk, a cup of chopped pecan meats and vanilla to flavor. Drop with a teaspoon on buttered pans about two inches apart. Bake in moderate oven. Mint Cocktail. Crush a bunch of mint. Pull In bits, a big case. If they could win it, they had their start on the road to success. The bar to the winning was certain papers in the hands of a certain citizen. If they had those papers, their case was sure. Without them it was no use to take a single step. Jimmy felt that the success of the firm would be his success, while failure would send him adrift. It was perfectly natural that he should sit up and take notice. He couldn't figure out how the papers were to be got unless he got them. The only way he could get them was by robbing the house. It didn't take him five minutes to come to a decision. It might be going a little further than the police when they perjured themselves or a little further than the shyster lawyers when they juggled a case, but he would take the risk. He spotted off the house, hung around for a few days and then one night effected an entrance and secured the papers. He hadn't had much preliminary experience In the burglar business, but he brought off this trick like an old hand. He didn't even leave a half burnt match behind for a detective to pick up and examine through a microscope and announce that It had been scratched on the right leg of a red headed boy with a cockeye at exactly the hour of midnight Jimmy had to He to get the papers into the hands of the firm, but that didn't trouble him in the least He had heard shyster lawyers lie a thousand times over. He claimed to have found them on the street and the young attorneys drew long breaths and declared that Providence was surely with them. They won their case and jumped Into Easy street ' Jimmy Slinger was not forgotten. He was patted on the back and called a lucky young dog and his salary raised, and but for his learning law so fast he might have held down his job indefinitely. After he had been at it six months he began to give legal advice and to express legal opinions around the courts. In fact, he arranged to stand In with the police on certain things, but found too late that he could not deliver the goods. This brought about strained relations and an exposure, and tha law firm and the

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I Practical Fashions GIRLS' AND CHILD'S DRESS. Paris Pattern No. 2316, All Seams Allowed. This dainty little frock la developed in fine dimity, flowered with small pink rose buds and their foliage. The full waist is made with a wida tuck on each shoulder, which give the required fullness to the front, and! may be made with high or with DutcbJ square neck. It is gathered Into th upper edge of the narrow belt, anct the full sleeves may be la full orj three-quarters length. The short sklrtf is gathered to the lower edge of the belt and is finished with a deep hemJ Bands of cream-colored filet lace trim the Dutoh neck. The pattern Is Inj six sizes two to twelve years. For a child of six years the dress reauirea 3Vs yards of material 27 Inches widej 2 yards 36 inches wide, or 2 yards 42 inches wide; one yard of in sertlon to trim. t , To procure this pattern send 10 cents t "Pattern Editor." office of this papery Write name and address plainly and be. sure to give size and number of pattern. No. 2316. SIZE NAME...... ADDRESS, then soak half an hour in the strained Juice of two lemons and the grated yellow rind of one. Put a pint each of water and granulated sugar to cook untol the syrup spins a fine thread, take from the fire and stir in the juice of a large orange and the lemon and mint. Let stand on the ice until very cold, then serve in small glasses, a spoonful of chopped ice being placed in the bottom of each. Rice Muffin. Sift 2 cups of flour, add quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one cup of cold boiled rice, add 1 cups of milk, or well beaten egg, a little lemon extract and a quarter of a cup of melted butter. Bake in a hot oven 40 minutes. student of law had to part company. From thence forward for the next three years Jimmy traveled. He traveled as a lawyer, as a pickpocket as a con man, and now and then butglared a bit for a change. No, it wasn't burglary. The law says that entering an occupied dwelling before sunset is only robbery, and Jimmy never let the sun flimflam him. At the end of three years he returned to town to make a great mistake. The sun got in a hurry to go down or Jimmy's watch was ten minutes off or the witnesses swore falsely. At any rate, he was caught with the goods on him and felt rather homesick until arraigned. Then he chirked up. The judge was one of the old law firm. He had stolen the papers for that firm and had given it its start The judge must remember it He couldn't go back on him. It would be black Ingratitude. Jimmy went ahead and made his plans for 1he future, and tlJere was a smile oa his face when the evidence was all in. It bore hard on him, but the judge would find a wayt He had seen lots of judges find lots of ways. "James Slinger, I sentence you to ten years at Sing Sing for the crimo of burglary!" Jimmy is up there still. He will tell you how he fainted away on hearing the sentence, how he was rewarded with ingratitude, how a rosy career was cut short, and he will then add: "But what I can't understand 13 what the gang was doing to get him, an honest man, up there on the bench. Say, things must be getting whizcy wazzy. M. QUAD. Question Still Undecided. Writers in magazines are still dabating the question as to whether women are more responsible than men for the low tone of modern literature, not only a3 the writers of books, but as the readers. One writer suggests that novelists should be licensed and that they should give evidence of wholesomeness and purity of thought before the coveted privilege to pub-. Hsh could be obtained.

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