Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 46, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 August 1906 — Page 3

The Trail of the Dead: 58 THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE Of DR. ROBERT ttARLAND Br B. FLETCHER ROBINSON and J. MALCOLM ERASER (Copyright, 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles;

CHAPTER V. XI. TIIE MYSTERY OF TßE LEMS- - DOKF II AM. How Rudolf Marnac, tl;e venerable arant, brought about the death of his rival and critic. Professor Von Stockmar, of Heidelberg University, I have already explained. I Lave, moreover, related the accident by which my cousin. Sir Henry Graden, the famous explorer and scientist, chanced to be visiting me, a student of medicine at the German uni versity; and I have endeavored to outline the 6teps by which the baronet arrived at the discovery of the crime that had been committed. I have now to tell of the pursuit of Marnac, the murderer; a pursuit as strange in its outset as it was terrible in its conclusion. For this, the first adventure in the chase of this inhuman monster, it may be said that I ha7d chosen a fanciful title. Yet "The Mystery of the Lemsdorf Ham b too appropriate to be neglected for that reason. At the first the Heidelberg police met our theory of Von Stockmar's death with Incredulity. When they moved in earnt it was too late; all trace of Professor llarnac had Leen lost. It was discovered that he had taken from his rooms a small traveling valise and a considerable sum in ready money; but beyond these facts nothing was known; even his manner of leaving Heidelberg was a mystery. For myself, the weeks that followed were in every respect intolerable. From a peaceful student I found myself transformed into a secret ally of the police, an unhappy being whose privacy was liable to be disturbed at all hoars bsome inquisitive official. Even wors the authorities had detained my cousiu. and those who are intimates of Sir Henry Graden will understand that I suffered at his hands. In the capture of the murderer as we knew Marnac to be he took a passionate interest. He was forever in my , rooms, denouncing the authorities for their delay, advancing theories, or cursing his own inaction. The lieutenant in charge, of the Ileidelberg police went in absolute terror of the Englishman, and, indeed, refused all interviews in which he was not adequate- , ly protected by his satellites. On a calm October morning I was sitting reading by my window, thankful of the momentary qaiet I enjoyed, when the door burst open and my cousin come frolicking into the room. I admit the absurdity of the expression when applied to a middle-aged giant of sixteen stone; but frolicking describes it. Without a word of apology' he seized my book, a new edition of "Digestive Organs of Molluscs," and flung it into the fireplace. It was too much. "Henry Graden, said I, starting up indignantly, "you are my cousin, but you presume on that relationship. These fchool-boy antics are insupportable." "Capital, Robert! capital'" he answered, regarding me with a comical expression. "I say ! there's stuff in tho boy! You'd like to punch my head, I suppose?' I was somewhat ashamed of my outburst, and picked up the book, which was greatly damaged, before I replied. "It's all very well. Cousin Graden," I said, sulkily enough, "But between yoa and the police, I am worried to death." 'Good! Then you can have no objection to leaving Heidelberg this afternoon. "Leave Heidelberg! Why should 1 leave Heidelberg?" He strode over to where I' stood arii laid his great hand on my shoulder with a touch that implied an apology. A Rcboolboy you called me jut now. That's jast what I am, a schoolboy let loose on the playground. The police have ra?fed their embargo. An address which wxil bring me when thej have need of my evidence that is all they ask. Now, I want a traveling companion a man I cm trust. You can guess my errand. Cousin Robert, Before a week is out I shall have my hand on him, I shall, by heaven! You will come with me? Good lad. I knew it. The train leaves at three. I'll call for you." "But where are we going?" I shouted, running to the Joor; for already he was down a score of stairs. "St. Petersburg. You have a passport?" "Ye but Cousin Graden, Co'usin Graden. I say " It was no use. I heard the street door slam behind him. St. Petersburg and the winter coming onl Eugh! I had always detested cold. But next to escaping misfortune it is best to possess a philosophic mind. I commenced to pack my basr with my warmest underwear. At thirty-Sve minutes past two Graden sent up word to say that he had a cab waiting my pleasure, and in three minute more my luggage was upon it. Halfway down the main street we chanced ujKn Mossel. the fat lieutenant of police, lie glanced at us keenly, with, as I thought, a certain suspicion. Graden saluted him coldly, muttering maledictions upon him for a stupid ass. There wt no great friendship between the two. I paid the cab while my cousin saw to the tickets. Five marks provided us with a subservient guard and an empty carriage. "And what are your plans for th Intolerable Petersburg expedition?" asked, as the train thumped its way of the station. "We are not going to St. Petersburg. We are going to Lemsdorf." "To Lemsdorf! I have never hiard of the place." "No more had I an hour ago. Allow me to discover it." He pulled a red-bound Baedeker. out of hl3 pocket and fluttered through the pages. "Here we have it 'Lemsdorf: fourteen to fifteen hours from Berlin. Rising town in West Prussia; 12,000 inhabitants. Large - dye-works. 'Prinz von Preussen,' 'Goldcer Adler' hotels well spoken of. Cab from the station, 75 pg. Little of historical interest. Excursions to Denker and the Huren, a wild and desolate district with several large lakes, on the Russian frontier. Not altogether an invit'ng prospect at the latter end of October, eh. Cousin Robert? I did not imagine we were going there for pleasure." "Pessimist! Do neither the 'Prinz von Preussen nor the 'Goldner Adr, 'well spoken of,' as Baedeker describes these hostelries, attract you? Then the dyeworks, they are sure to be interesting." "Henry Graden." cried I with determination, "you try me too far! I am as eager as yourself that this criminal should be brought to justice. For this reason alone I have every right to kno the why and wherefore of an expedition which will entail upon me, as I see clearly, the most extraordinary discomfort." "It seems a pity, my dear cousin, that Nature, which endowed yoa with, so many admirable qualities, should have omitted the sarlng grace of humor," he rejoined. And then changing his tone to a greater sobriety: "You shall hear all that I know or conjecture. It will, at least, help 'us a our journey. "First, as to the facts At my disposal. Tor myself, I bad heard much of Rudolf Marnac, but only as a Heidelberg professor of distinction, whose stupendous Sort, 'Science and Belief, had set edurited Europe by the ears. From you I .lrrrl of r'1 auarrel with. Von Stock-

mar, a quarrel originating in the latter's attack on the work in question, of which Marnac was inordinately vain. Then came the chain of facts that proved to our mind at least that Marnac had murdered his colleague with a diabolical ingenuity. Could such a crime be inspired by a quarrel so 'trifling? It was almost past belief. Further evidence was necessary; and this evidence the investigations of the police have supplied. "When I learned that his father, Jean Marnac, had died in a Faris asylum.

began to see my way. But it was tu. statements of his servants that cleareJ up my last doubt. An eccentricity which at one time amused them Lad of late been changed to a violence that filled them with terror. lie had presented them with copies of the book, elaborately bound. A housekeeper who had served him for twenty years was loaded with abuse and discharged because the old creature admitted that she could not follow his arguments. He was the victim of a partial mania. Such cases are not uncommon. "Whither had this dangerous creature fled? It seemed a mystery Insoluble. He was well provided with money; on all topics but one be was admirably sensible. The. police admitted that he had beaten them. But only yesterday I obtained a clue. It may bo valueless; but for myself I think otherwise. At least it is worth the journey I am asking you to make in my company. "At my urgent request the police admitted me to his rooms. His papers they had already examined, without result. I found that he possessed a fine library. I am a book-lover, and my fir' step was to examine it. Tucked away i. a corner of a shelf, yet within easy reach of his customary chair, I found a volume. It was typical of the man that it should be elegantly bound.' Within were collected the hostile criticisms with which his book had been loaded. The more severe were scribbled over with the vilest epithets. Von Stockmar was personally threatened, as was also a certain Mechersky, a professor of the Imperial University at Petersburg. I abstracted the volume. You may like to examine it." He drew it from the capacious pocket of his traveling ulster and gave it to me. The cover was of the choicest morocco; upon it, in gold, were emblazoned the arms of the university.. It was a triumph uf the binder's art, yet I handled it with a singular feeling of disgust. The interior was oddly divided. The greater part consisted of clippings from papers and magazines, neatly gummed upon blank pages. But here and there were interpolated pamphlets, held in their by elastic bands. In contrast with; this orderly arrangement, scarcely a page but was defaced by penciled remarks, satirical or abusive. I ran through tieai hastily until I came upon the article which bore Mechersky's name, extracted apparently from some French review. Its severity seemed to have lashed Marnac to fury. It was covered with a maze of pencilings. But my attention was soon centered on a portion of the text which, being underlined in red, stood out from the page with some prominens. "The author of 'Science and Belief," for thus it ran, "seems to have lost touch with humanity. His deductions might be correct if men were bloodless, merciless automatons. He regards them as might some reptile let us say.'a toad scientifically Inclined." Across this criticism, which seemed to me unnecessarily severe, was written in German: "Infamous -eoundrel! Would that I might crush i like a toad!" 'A curious wish, I said, pointing to the passage. "And from Marnac a most dangerous me," be answered. "I can only hope we ihall reach Lemsdorf in time." "Lemsdorf again! And why Lemsdorf?" "For the excellent reason, Cousin Robert, that Mechersky, who comes of landowning Polish stock, is holiday-making at Castle Oster, a place he has in that neighborhood. And as sure i's I sit hero, where Mechersky is, there will be that madman, Rudolf Marnac. If he means to murder the man, he will have had nigh on a month to bring it off. Heaven grant that we're in time!" The tone in which be spoke thrilled me with a dreadful anxiety. The danger was indefinable; but fear draws its dark est terrors from the unknown. "One thing more," I said. "How did you discover Mechersky's whereabouts?" "I had thought him at St. Petersburg; but a wire to a friend there gave me the information I required." CHAPTER VI. I have neither the necessity nor the inclination to dwell on that journey. It was very late when we rolled into the station of the good town of Leipsic, where we spent the night at a convenient hotel. Yet it was ct an early hour that Graden roused me from a tired sleep to catch the Posen express. The country through which we now journeyed was of a melancholy similitude, and the broad plains, though reasonably cultivated, af fected me with a mental depression which the cheery efforts of my companion could not conquer. The day was draw ing to its close as we reached Posen and passed through that fortress city into a land of desolation. Gloomy pine woods, at lakes on which the dying sun threw .tches of ruddy gold, forlorn heaths nd swamps that, as I imagined, could scarcely be equaled for sheer dismalness of aspect, slid by ns in a never-ending chain. Save for the eastern sky, glorified by the fiery sunset, the heavens were obscured by ponderous clouds of muddy grey that foretell the first snow of winter. Darkness had fallen when we changed carriages at a junction; but it was close npon midnight before my cousin, who had been sitting with a Continental Bradshaw on his knees, thrust his head out of the window and cried that the lights of Lemsdorf were in sight. Our luggage was piled upon an antiquated cab and in ten minutes more the host of the 'Goldner Adler,' a thin, handsome role, was bowing a stately welcome to his guests. Supper and then to bed. The room assigned to me was an oakpaneled apartment of considerable size, and the single candle with which I was provided seemed only to deepen the lurking shadows round the walls. The huge china stove failed to warm a place so thoroughly ventilated by draughts. At another time the cause of our journey, combined with the uncanny nature of these surroundings, might have acted on my nerves. But I was too weary, too angry with my present discomfort, to "e opportunity to fanciful terrors. The 1 was small, and in all probability .mp. I took off my coat, rolled myself in a thick traveling rug, Jieaped the clothes upon me, and blowing out the candle I had placed on a table at my elbow, lay down to sleep. How long I may rave slept I cannot say, bot I was awakened by a sudden flash of light that struck like a blow through the darkness. For a score of seconds, it may have been, I lay motionless. The room was in utter darkness and silence. Then I heard a footfall, a creaking of a door. I sprang from my bed, only to trip and fall heavily over the rug which I had carried with me. I groped for the table, found it, and lit the candle, crouching, half expectant , of soma attach vrtn I should reveal say-

self. I looked keenly about me tht room was empty. But I had had a visitor, for the door

was still ajar. I ran to it, shading tne light with my hand, peered down the passage. There was no one visible. I returned to the room, this time locking the door securely. Perhaps, after all. I reasoned, there had been no cause for my alarm. Some fellow-guest might have mistaken his chamber, retiring quickly on discovering his error. This argument heartened me, for, to be honest, I was shaken not a little. I examined the room carefully, without result; and then, after a composing cigarette, slipped back into bed, leaving the candle burning in the center cf the room. (To be continued.) DEED OF A MERRY RASCAL. Posed as a Detective In Order to Get Money from Victim. One French became acquainted with Gerry Harlow, a leading citizen of Dlxfield, while the two were spending n few days In Portland. The two seem-, ed congenial and decided to be com rades on a little excursion to Rangeley. They passed n happy week at Maine's lake resort. One morning French came back with the story that he had found a moose In the woods. He asked Harlow If he did not want to help him bring it in in the after noon, iiariow assented ana tue two started off. When they reached a lone ly spot they left the road and weut Into the woods ; French suddenly pointed a pistol at Harlow, and told him to hold up his hands. French showed a United States de tective's badge and told Harlow that he was under arrest on the charge of passing counterfeit money. Harlow at tempted to escape, whereupon French shot at him, the bullet striking Har low's neck, where it Is still embedded. French told Harlow that two other officers were In the woods watching his every movement and should he attempt to escape would shoot at him. French then said he was going to town after a team with which to take the prisoner to the Farmlngton JalL Harlow was completely terrorized. French compelled him to give up his money, his diamond ring, two signed checks and then forced him to write two more checks o his (French's) order. French then left Harlow in the woods and was gone about two hours, returning, as he said he would, with a team. Then came an all-night drive, with a brief halt for a few hours' sleep, and in the morning French reached Farmlngton with his prisoner and marched hlra Into Jail. French showed his badge and told the jailer that the prisoner was a desperate man and no one should be allowed to see him. French went to the bank In Farmlngton and tried to cash his check and this Is where he made his mistake. The man from whom he rented the team appeared with papers for his arrest and then quickly the plot was untangled. French was discovered to be a bogus detective. Harlow was given his freedom, and after a short trial French was sent down to State prison to serve a long sentence. Lewlston (Me.) Journal. Arboreal Dentlatry. Considerable Interest attaches to the cement filling In the trunks of the great oaks near St. Charles avenue and many questions have been asked about this method of arresting the decay of trees, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Horticulturists have found that they have been able to prevent limbs from decaying by wrapping them In cloth. This helps to exclude dampness. Carrying their experiments one p int further, it was found that cement would preserve the trunks of trees from rotting. Just as filling In a tooth prevents further decay. The question arose last year as to what could be done to preserve the great oaks at Audobon park, which were losing their growth and verdure by reason of big holes In their trunks, and It was accordingly decided to fill the aperture with cement Several cartloads of sand, mortar and brick were used In the operation, which has boon attended with great success. Old oaks regained their strength, new branches began to grow, and altogether they put on signs of renewed life. The art of "arboreal dentistry" lias since then been perfected to such an extent that even a new bark can be given to a tree. It Is proposed at some future date to cover the filling with a layer of cement the color of the oak's bark, which can be so worked as to resemble a natural covering. It is said that this will preserve the tree even better than with ordinary cement, while at the same time It will add to Its beauty by hiding the mortar. Ilonpltalltr. "Talk about hospitality," observed the portly passenger, as he lighted an obese cigar with a red and gold life preserver around its stomach, "they certainly have It down fine In Atlanta. During a three days sojourn there recently they wouldn't let me spend a cent" "Must be something like Chicago," rejoined the tin-can drummer. "The last time I was there they didn't let me spend a cent, either." "So?" queried the other, skeptically. "It Is even so," continued the can man. "They held me up half a square from the depot and took every cent I had away from me." Under Water. "Look here." shouted the stormy Individual as he rushed into the real cslate office, "when you sold me that suburban lot you said It was such a beautiful place It was a fit abode for fairies and nymphs." "And haven't you found my assertion to be correct?" asked the land agent "No, sir; you should have said it was a fit abode for mermaids." A Good Sermon. "There!" exclaimed the Rev. Mr. Gasaway, as ho finished writing bis sermon. "I flatter myself that very few preachers could beat that bit of eloquence." "What's your text dear?" asked his wife. "'Let nothing be done through vainglory. " Philadelphia Public Ledger. Even the liena. "A hen out in Ohio Is laying eggs inside out" "So It seems that even the hens are geling down to the skin game." Baltimore American. i The largest mass of Ice in the world Is probably the one which fills up nearly the whole of tho Interior of Greenland, where it has accumulated ilnce before the dawn of history. It Is believed to now form a block about 600,ooo square miles In area, and averaging mile and a naif In tMckner ;

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The Wife Income. It does not seem to me consistent for a man to say at the marriage altar: "With all my worldly goods I thee endow," and four months later make it necessary for his wife to use diplomacy to g-it GO cents from him to pay the ice man. The husband who dolorously doles out dollars, under protest, on the Installment plan to meet family expenses, Is viewing home in a w rong perspective. Many men who pride themselves on the care they take of their families feel that in permitting their wives to "run bills" at certain stores they have done all that is necessary. Iiut a store account Is not cash; it Is not negotiable; you cannot buy tickets for a concert and have them charged on the coal bill, or put an extra trolley ride with the children on dry goods store account. Some women, rather than submit to the humiliation of "asking for money" from their husbands, do without little things that would add greatly to their happiness, says the Delineator. Others, after studying their husband's mood, as a mariner watches the weather, by policy, flattery, wheedling, or other artifice, secure as a concession what should be given them as a right Others stint on the housekeeping money, save at the expense of their own energy, health or strength in order to get a little money of their own. Xot Idle. Anybody who thinks woman a frail creature, fitted only for playing bride and doing fancy work, would better read these statistics from the last census, showing some of the strenous occupations American women have taken to: Stock raisers and drovers 1,047 Lumbermen 100 Wood choppers 1 13 Civil engineers and surveyors 84 Longshoremen IS Stevedores 21 Watchmen and policemen STD Boatmen and sailors lo4 Pilots 5 Carriage and hack drivers. 43 Blacksmiths 195 Railway baggageman 10 Brnkemen Conductors .. 31 i Switchmen and yardmen Ship carpenters Masons Plumbers and fitters.... 2(3 C If 57 12t5 Fishermen and oystermen 1,SX Miners and quarrymon.. T 1,370 Authors and scientists 2.1510 And 1,320 women as "guides, trappers, hunters and scouts." About one-third of the women In the United States, it Is estimated, are earning their own living, and this estimate Is exclusive of farmers' wives and other wives who are more than earning a livelihood at cookie, sweeping, sewing and raising a brood of children. Girl and Deaaty Food. Much of the "muddy," coarse, or other complexion blemishes are produced by the Inordinate craze many girls have for acid flavorings (1. e., vinegar, etc.), and the strong-tasting sweets' which contain sugar substitutes that directly produce Impurities in the blood. Probably. few girls know that their craving for sweets and acids can be satisfied In lulte a natural and beneficial way. Recently, the King's physician urged the public to make a more plentiful use of dried currants, which, he states, provide nutriment for brain and body much In excess ct any other foods. As currants contain a very ' delicate and agreeable acid, and are almost entire ly composed of the nourishing grape sugar, Intelligent girls should take the hint and see that their food contains this Important little fruit as often as possible. There Is no doubt that currants so enrich the blood as to produce the beautifully smooth skins and healthy tints so noticeable In the maidens of modern C recce. The Short Sleeve Fad. , Mrs. Os.born, who conducts the fashion department of the America n-Jour-aal-Kxamlner, makes some pertinent reaiarks on the senselessness with which women take up every new fad In dress. "There should be a limit to the following of fashion." she says. "Xo woman fchould be foolish enough to wear a garment which makes her look absurd. When one sees a woman with an arm like a blacksmith, or with a fat red arm, or with one like a tlT.n stick. In ?11kw sleeves, one realizes to what lengths foolish women will go In following of a fashion. One also realizes that feminine vanity entirely blinds such women to the fact that their arms are not presentable. "If a woman has not a decently pre5?utabIo arm hc should wear long 'Jeeves, business day in a It Is also silly looking for a girl to work in an office all short-sleeved waist" Empire Xesllirce. An empire negligee with a V-shaped seek and lace-bordered collar. Women Art; Surer. Women are savers rather than spendDrs. And when they spend, they spend to, good advantage. A dollar In a woman's hands goes twice as far as a dollar In the hands of a man. If you want .to save money, let your wife be the banker. This Is fur the man who ?ets wages out of a Job and for t.'ie man who gets a salary out of a position. This Is for the worklngman, whether he labors with hU hands or tolls with his brain. This is for the married man and for the man about to be married. It Is for men In .every class of life and every walk of life. It Is the best advice for the average man everywhere. Exchange. . "White Woodwork, Whito woodwork is greatly , In demand for small dining rooms. Several narrled couples without children have

had the dining rooms done over in

white to comply with fashion demand The white lends an air of cleanliness, wholesomeness and brightness that nothing else dots and the white dining room, properly furnished, bas something of a paradisiacal appearance to It that is a charm to all who enter. In some of the dining rooms the walls and the entire woodwork are In white, as are also the panels and furniture, while the floors are iolIshed. In others only the walls and woodwork are done In white, the panels helng In a delicate shade of colonial eld rose and the furniture of very light mahogany. In such cases the floor Is carpeted gen erally In a deep shade of rose. The ef fect in each case Is very beautiful. One might sum up the needs of babies In three words frth air, regularity, quiet. Babies are bat little animals. It is true; but after all they are little animals with a great deal to do for themselves, and they should receive all the assistance possible from those la charge of them, to enable them to perform this work properly. In the first year of life great changes are going on in the body, and the baby needs all the help pssible to meet the demands made upon Its tiny system In the way of tissue formation. A baby cannot speak up and tell us that Its meals do not seem to set well, or that a dissipated evening gives It a disturbed night, so there is nothing for parents FOB EVENING to do but to watch carefully for all the small but unmistakable signs that things are not going well. Fresh air comes1 first In the list of requirements, because it Is probable that very few babies Indeed get all of It that they are entitled to. It has been noted by a wise physician that babies with pneumonia do best If they are kept In the open air as far as possible, and he even tells of nurses clad In fur-lined gloves and coats because the sick-room Is kept f cold. But the pick child who would die In n warm. clo.e room recovers under these conditions. As to well babies, never mind what month they are bom in. wrap them up warmly, shield them from direct draft, but let them brer the outside air day and night If the weather Is really too terrible to face, then wrap them up in a south room and open all the windows. Whatever the bav's d'.et may be, natural or artificial. It should be administered with unwavering regularity. The tiniest specimen of humanity Is an Incarnation of artful cunning where Its appetite Is concerned, and If It finds that bawling results in feeding. It will bawl, and uali blame to it. But the enviable child Is the one whose mother is not disturbed by this fact and who rigidly adheres to times and seasons. Youth's Companion. Fashion ?ote. Ilurllngham and the various silks of the iMjngee class are made up for street wear, not only in bol-ro models, but In pony coat and basqued models ; and such silk, in the natural tone, trimmed simply with soutache the same color, Is very successful In the hand? of a clever tailor. Street frocks of the most severe tailored description in the ubiquitous light gray mixtures, wit a no trimming save collar and cuffs of anue, are shown by several of the most exclusive tailors, the r-iim? being usually In some contrasting shade, the collar of the rounded shawl sort One of the novelties of the season Is the extremely pretty striped white mohairs. The striping Is, of course, in the weave, and is In all widths, from pinstripe to a good half-Inch. The mohair Is of the best quality, as pliable and soft as serge, though with the old dust-shading surface and luster. Foulard is once more tremendously chic, and the material appears In several' new guises, crepe de chene foulard being one of the most attractive. In connection with both volle und foulard, and Indeed with alu ost all of the popular materials, one must note the inrlstcnce of combinations of materials. Embroidered Irnen trimmings are often Introduced upon the simple linen frock, and. while not so modish as embroidery done upon the frock material, "lve good results. Linen trimmings upon linen, strappings, battlement designs, Greek key designs, etc., skillfully tailored, are also liked for the morning costume of linen. The women , who buys a very smart belt and blouse and hat can look extremely modish In the plainest and least pretentious of frocks, and frequently It will 'jay to give what seems a high price fot some ready-made dress accessory because through this outlay an effect may be obtained that would cost much more if secured by employing a high-priced dressmaker. Soft rose, the equally soft blues, al mond green, buff and all the. natural

linen, biscuit and string colors are popular in linen, but whate, as usual, holds the first place. The ecru, straw color, and yellowish tan shades are much in evidence In batistes and other wash materials, as well as in linen, and as the season advances the early popularity of the yellow tones is emphasized.

Girls Flrnt. The best husband I ever met came out of a family where the mother, most heroic and self-denying woman", laid down the absolute law, "Girls First." Not in any authority, but first to be thought of as to protection and tenderness. Consequently, the chivalrous care which these lads were taught to show to their own sisters naturally extended useir to an women. They grew up true gentlemen gentlemen, generous, unexactlnpr courteous of speech and kind of heart. In them was the protecting strength of manhood, which scorns to use its strength except for protection; the proud honesty of man hood, which Infinitely prefers being lovingly and openly resisted to being "twisted round one's finger," as mean men are twisted, and mean women will always be found ready to do it, but which, I think, all honest men and brave women would not merely dislike but utterly despise. "John Halifax." The Small Caller. A correspondent of Good Housekeeping has a happy suggestion to make: "Who has not been annoyed by the sm.il! boy or girl neighbor who loves to visit and unconsciously outstays his welcome? Without offending either child or mother, home may be made more attractive by a transparent arti fice: 'Bobby, when you get ready to go home remind me to give you a bun dle, I have one for you to open when you get home.' In five minutes at the longest the little fellow thinks he has got to go home now and trudges away, smiling, with his closely wrapped par cel. Cookies, candies, fruit, anything JATJNTINGS. liable to please and remove any disagreeable taste of being 'in the way' may be used, and the most cheerful re lations letweon neighbors will be as sured." Pity ono couldn't .shorten too lengthy' calls from adults In the same fashion I Traveling Dresa. A traveling dress of figured foulard with pipings and buttons of dark blut taffeta. Smart blue sailor hat, with brown and white feather. Itlcu Woman'a Fad. "If you are going to be conspicuous. be so In a whole-souled mi.nner," says a society woman who gave to her jew eler a commission for a necklace which shows she carries out her own Ideas. The necklace will be of fine gold links, from which will hang golden miniature reproduction. of the heads of her es pecial jets, encrusted with diamonds. There are throe dogs, two cats, a pony and n parrot. The clasp Is a copy of a pet lizard, with diamond eyes. Women who like novelties may think the neck lace Is well worth copying, for an or dinary dog collar or rope of. pearls I an t a patch to it when It comes tc causing comment Hovr Woman Keep Voodk. She eats threoe warm meals a daj at regular hours. She takes fifteen minutes In a dark ened room after luncheon. She never rides when she can walk the distance comfortably. She Is careful to spend at least hall an hour every day In the oien air. She sleeps eight hours, and as öfter. as possible two of them before mid night. She begins each day with a cole bath, followed by a glass of cold oi hot water. About Cleaning Faint. To clean paint, dampen a clean clot! in hot water, dip it In whiting anc rub the paint until the dirt is removed Illnse well In clean water, dry with a soft cloth and polish with a chamois leather. Paint cleansed In this way looks like new.

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CAN YOU FIND THE BALANCE?

It I a Prettr Little Problem O-rm Which Experts Disagree. One of my customers is a man who has lucid intervals most of the time, but has occasional paroxysms of insanity, says a writer in the Business llan'i Magazine. One afternoon about two weeks age he came into my office after everybody else had gone home. I had just finished writing up my cash book and had ruled It off and brought down the balance on the debit side. lie said he wanted to pay something. on account, but that It must be entered on that day and not on the next To humor blm (as I needed the money) I agreed to scratch out my figures and lines and to enter . his payment that day. He started by asking me what bal ance 1 had on hand, and, rather than have a row with an Insane man, I read the figures to him. He wrote them on a scrap of paper and divided the amount by three. He then said that he could dlvidt any number by three that had certain Ieculiarltles ; and he said that if any number that was exactly divisible by three should be subtracted from the quotient he had obtained by divid lng my cash balance by three the remainder would also be exactly divisible by three. For Instance, $S.70 was exactly di visible by three. So, . having divided my balance by three, he subtracted $8.70 from the quotient ; and he showed me : that the remainder could be divided by three. He then remarked that he was 50 lng to pay me a whole lot more thin that and so he multiplied the remain der above mentioned by Itself and gave me his check for an amount equal to that product He then took out of his pocket a check that he had received for $40(5.26 and indorsed that over tc me. I aow noticed that my new balance, after entering these receipts, would bt exactly ten times my original balance I started in to make my entries, and had proceeded only so far as to gel the old balance and the lines erased from my cash book, when something happened. I found but afterward thai the lunatic had been taken with a vi olent frenzy and had suddenly struck me a terrific blow on the side of uij head. When I recovered consciousness tht man had disappeared. He had taken the checks he had given me, as well a! every cent from the cash drawer. Even worse than that he had tort up my cash book and thrown it Into th open grate, where nothing remained ol It but a bunch of ashes and a few charred cinders. Absolutely the onto fragment that, remained of it was th credit side of that last day's work. which lay on the floor near the fire place. This contained only a few Items. Tht figures brought forward had beer, burned off, and as J had scratched oul the balance (In red) 'and the buqi (ir black), I had no record of what my balance was, and I could not and I can not remember it But I recollect his peculiar way : II divided my old balance by three, anc .from the quotient so obtained he, sub tracted $8.70. The remainder he mul tiplled by Itself and he then gave ni a check equal to the product, be sides a check for $400.20, and I no tlced that, after I Rhould make thes entries, my new cash balance would bt just ten times my old balance. I have had two expert accountant' figure at this thing, but their calculi tlons of my original balance do no) agree. There Is neany $20 difference between them. Preeautlonary Treatment. ' . The Dutch peasant lives with canah all about him, and reaches his cottagt by way of a drawbridge. Perhaps it ii In the blood of the Dutch child, says s writer In M. A. P., not to fall into t canal. At all events,. the Dutch mothei never appears to anticipate such a pos sibility. One can Imagine the average Engllsl or American mother trying to bring ui a family in a house surrounded bj canals. She would never have a mo ment's peace until the children wer in bed. But then the mere sight of canal to the English child suggests th delights of a sudden and uuexpectec bath. An Englishman inquired of a Dutct woman, "Does a Dutch child ever bj any chance fall into a canal?" "Tes," she replied, "cases have beei known." "Don't you do anything for It?" continued the questioner. "Oh, yes," she answered. "We hau: them out again." "But what I mean is," explained tb Englishman, "don't you 00 anything to prevent their falling In? To save them from falling in again?" "Yes," she answered, "we spank them." Hon Deep I the Alrt One hundred and thirty -one miles ii the height of the atmosphere, as measured by Prof. T. J. J. See, who determines the thickness of the air envelope by noting the difference between the time of sunset and the complete disappearance of blue from the sky. The moment at which the blue changes into black can be observed quite easily with approximate certain ty by the naked eye when the air is dear, and by trigonometry may be as certained the distance below the horizon of the sun at the moment of change. By this means may be calculated the height of the smallest Il luminated particles of oxygen and ni trogen, which give to the sky its bluest tint by the reflection of the smallest wave lengths of the sun's light The Instant of change from blue to black Is possibly a little difficult of exact observation, but the method Is not more doubtful than that based on the observation of shooting stars. The shooting star method gives a result not greatly differing from the vanishing blue method. The former gives the height of the atmosphere at 109 miles. lie Found the Sepulcher. "When you go to New Zealand I wish you would inquire after my greatgrandfather, Jeremiah Thompson." "Certainly," said the traveler, aTid wherever he went he asked for news hi the ancestor, but without avail, according to The Dundee Advertiser. One day he was Introduced to a fine old Maori of advanced age. "Did you ever meet with an Englishman named Jeremiah Thompson?" he asked. A smile passed over the Maori's face. "Meet him?" he repeated. "Why, I ate him!" Xew York Tribune. Somehow, life seems to hold muca greater possibilities for a barefoot boy than for one who has braid on his clothes.

"Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Macmillan), was publUbed in 180S. It was reprinted twice in that year, and six times in the "year after. Since then It has gone thiough three editions and many repriuthjgs. It is now brought out with a number of colored illustrations, which are not so sat!sfacjor3' as the original photographs, though they are likely to be more popular. Dukes have now -Joined In the literary crusade against the sins of ciety, led by IÜ3 Grace of XewcarJe, who la the preface to a novel w'alch he considers written in a style which will bring clearly before the public the evils of divorce says: A sad change has come over the spirit of the home. A lamentable decay has taken place in the moral sense of societ,'.' The Duke attributes the deterioration he finds so apparent In society of the present day entirely to divorce and its facilities. Sidney Lee prophesies that Somewhere about 1915 America and Great Britain will In all likelihood each own about the same number of copies of the Shakespeare First Folio, Marsden J. Terry, of Providence, It. 1 and IL C. Folger, Jr., of New York, are now the. keenest collectors of Shakespearlana In the world. Mr. Folger Is said to have acquired as many as eight copies of the First Folio in the last few years a record number for any private collector. Since 1902 the Americans have bought ten copies from British hands. I saw Montaigne upon a stand: lie smiled a Gallic smile quite blar.d And beckoned me. Had I the time, . I might have stopped. But 'twas a crimt To waste upor. Montaigne a look When I'd not read the latest book. As I sut waiting ia a room, Oppressed with some ances--fal gloom, I looked, and lo! in binding rare I saw Cervantes pining there, ' Brooding alone in dusty nook, Nay, friend! For me tht latest book. - There's Shakspeare, Homer, Goethe, too And others quite a cultured crew. They say their wit is fresli to-day As ever. But to read them ! Nay I It cannot be! By hook or crook, AYhy, I must read the latest book. Tom Masson, in Life. Most people in England nnd many In America are of the oi:nion thit English authors in the old days received small If any pecuniary returns for their works published In this country. It may be, therefore, a matter of Interest, though of little significance under the changed conditions, to know that Charles Dlckeus received from Harpers 1,000 for "A Tale of Two Cities," 1.250 for "Great Expectations," and 1,000 for "Our Mutual Friend. Thackeray was paid 4S0 fot "Tho Virginians," Trollop received 700 for "Sir Henry Hotspur," and George Eliot received 1,2U0 for "Middlemtrch," and for "Daniel Deronda," 1,700. When Macauläy's "Life and Letters" was published In 1S70 l,O0C was paid for the use of advance sheets for the American edition. WEDDED IN: SECRET. Mystery In Mattns of Famoui Seaatr nnd Hidlnc Matter. Mystery, which the smart set of New York and Newport is unable to solve, attaches to the marriage of Mrs. BurkeRosche, daughter of the millionaire horseman, Frank Work, of New York, MKS. ACKEL BATOXYL and fcr more than a generation famoui as one of America's leading sxletj dames, to Aurel Batonyi, a wealthy Hungarian, who goes under the title of count The marriage was performed last August in New York, the an uouncement, however, having been with held until recently on tbe eve of the couple's departure for Europe. Whj the seciecy was maintained is not known. Mrs. Batonyi and her husband were each married before. Stand on One Leg. There appears to be no end to th variety of health exercises, and tht latest is the most novel of them alL 'Standing on one leg. asserts Stylltes, "is the finest exercise In the world." He devotes a quarter of an hour by thi rlock to It every day, and on one misrulded occasion he actually kept hli balance for twenty-five minutes at a treten. "It exercises every muscle In the body," he declares, "and keeps m In tip-top condition. I should advls rour readers to begin with a minute at 1 time. They will find It quite enough." Tit-Bits. Found Cannoa Dall of 1034. A cannon ball, which had lain burled since 1C34 was recently recovered from a field on a farm at Acton, Nantwlch, England. The ancient town of Nantwich played a considerable part in the civil war, as the headquarters In Cheshire of the parliamentary Generals Fairfax and Breretou, and mu:h fightlug took place at Acton, where during a portion of the siege of Nantwlch the royalist forces were located. On some of tbe masonry of both Acton and Nantwlch churches there are still visible marks caused by cannon shot In Search ot a Slate. Clarice Miss Wrinkles Is going tc Ei.rope this summer. Virginia Ah, 6he's tried every resort In this country. I suppose sha hopes to cure her trouble abroad. Clarice Her trouble? Why, what IS it? . Virginia I suppose you might call it Involuntary singularity. Pueblo Chieftain. The average married woman is not rery well suited with her husband, but she thinks almost any girl would be glad to gft him. Notice to editors of magazines: We farmers are becoming very tired ct stories of artists studios.

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