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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
BY H En- RY WIN SLOW

terrupted the girl. But of course. you haven T.
Oh, boys she addressed the Price brothers, 1--WE
must show Professor Matthews the lake"
Harry Price coughed to smother laugh. "Joe
and l have some letters to write he said, "and
we'll join you later. You take him, Edith" and
the two brothers walked off. their shoulders shak-
lug convulsively. The professor eyed their re-
treating figures in dismay, and for moment look
ed as though he would like to follow them, but
Miss Norton had already descended the steps
and was waiting for him.
That's shame laughed Joe Price, as he
and his brother turned a corner of the porch,
Eve ought to go back and rescue him"
Harry dropped into rocking chair and rocked
frantically, holding his sides "Oh. let him CO."
he gasped, between subdued spasms of laughter;
somebody should have taken him in hand be.
fore. It's unnatural for young fellow like him
to bury himself in heap of musty tones Edith's
a good sort; she won't hurt him much only open
his eyes"
Meanwhile the professor, his scholarly mind in
a maze, was being led an unwilling victim to the
little pond the hotel booklet designated as the
lake" Mothers of homely daughters hocked to-
gether on the porch and buzzed about "the way
that Norton girl had run off with that new young
man" and spoke truer than they knew when they
said he didn't seem to like it.
Down to the edge of the pond "that Norton
girl led her captive, and before he knew it he
was seated in rowboat with his coat off, pull
ing at pair of oars. The professor looked at
his coat, as it lay on a seat, and at his
sleeves in mild surprise. He could not remember
how he had come to divest himself Of that gar
ment in the company of this strange young wom-
an, but he hoped that if he was obedient and
rowed real hard he might not be expected to talk.
Apparently the young woman was both willing
and able to talk for two The oarsman gradual
" felt himself lulled into a sensation of almost
security as he listened. Little by little he real
lied that his vis.avis wac a woman of more than
ordinary attanments. in spite of her outward
frivolity, and he was emboldened to nterject
remark here and there
Commonplace as the pond was in daytime, on
a moonlight night it was really thing of beauty,
and almost justified the name given it in the
booklet Under the svery light of Old Luna
the trees along its bank were sharply silhouet-
ted against the bespangled sky; the opposite
mountain reared its huge bulk out of the valley
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A Partisan burglar, recently arrested, had in
his possession what the police called an electric
bludgeon. II operated by a storage battery
carried in the mans clothes, and was capable of
shocking, and instantly stunning a person.
Another thief, of the confidence" trickster va
riety, who also arrested by the French police,
was in possession of a powerful battery, connect
ed by wires to plate grasped in the palm of
his right hand. Anyone who was fool enough to
shake hands was at once struck helpless with
a numbng shock, and his pockets rihed with ease
An amusing point about this ingenious machine
was that it was made in Germany"
Scotland Yard chuckled consuniedly over Mr.
Gerald Bafour's valuation of the average bur
glars kit at $500. The detective-inspectors put
the value of Bill Skies tools at from two to
FIVE pounds only. But even the police do not
deny that there exceptions.
II will be remembered what stir was caused
by the great English banknote forgeries of three
years ago There was science and to snare about
the methods of the daring criminals who turned
out so many thousands of pounds worth of coun
terfet paper in the shape of 8, 10, 80 and 100
pound Bank of England notes The plant seized
in the East End of London was simply marvel
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below, through which a noisy stream tumbled,
and in the brightly-lighted hotel the orchestra
was playing of Strauss waltzes
The professor felt as if he were intoxicated,
and with that feeling came the false courage tbat t
the liquid stimulant brings. Before he knew it
he was talking as he had never talked before
to woman-nor ever thought he would When
the boat reached the middle of the lake he ship
ped his oars and rested and, unguided, the little
craft drifted in toward shore and under the
overhangng branches of a big tree
Not until the boat bumped against the bank
did the professor realize where they were. Then,
for moment, his bashfulness returned as he
saw they were in the shadow of the thick foliage,
in a spot admirably designed by nature for a
lovers retreat
Don't" demonstrated the girl as he was about
to push out from the shore. '1ts so nice and
comfy in here, and we can sit and watch the
other people rowing about without their seeing
us.
"I'll wager some of them will be mad though, /"
she added roguishly, "for we have the choice spot
on the lake, and I'm surprised it wasn't occupied
already. You see," she elucidated, "this is call.
ed Lovers Umbrella and all the spoony cou-
pies fight for it. Isn't it odd that we should have
drifted in here?"
Had he been anything but trained observer
the professor might have thought it was odd-as
he, of course, hastily admitted it was~--but even
In the spell OF his new and delightful experience
this habit of observation had not left him, and he
had noticed that Miss Norton had been gently
padding in the water on one side OF the boat
1t was not hard to figure out why the boat had
landed where it did.
To his surprise the professor found that he was
in nowse alarmed. He had no impulse to clam
ber ashore; rather, he found the situation un.
usually pleasant, and he scowled when another
boat headed for the retreat, only to give sigh
of relief when it swerved away.
Never since she had first awakened to the now
er of her beauty and charm mad Edith Norton
been anxious to interest man, and never
before had she won complete triumph. With
her knowledge Of men she read, as from an open
book, the swifty-changing emotions of the man
in front of her; saw him respond with the
guilelessness of child and with chld's delight
to her coquetry.
Gradually the veil of the professors reserve was
drawn aside, and before he knew it he was tell.
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away from her prolonged Spree and at such
| times her mental worry about him il enough to
put her in the grave.
| Perhaps he comes home in the small hours OF
the morning, and in his drunken rage cruelty
maltreats her.
It may be that night after night she is
obliged to go out to search for him in one saloon
after another, and in bitter modification to bring
him home
Through all this her love for this low creature
never fails; she is as loyal to him as though he
were the best husband in the world And her
friends and relatives sneer at her, saying, 'Why
doesn't she leave hmp She hasn't bit Of self
respect"
But she never does leave him, until he either
drinks himself to death, kills her by his drunk
en- cruelty; and as to her selfrespect, she con-
siders that it is saved because Of the kind word
let fall in his intervals of sobriety.
Perhaps he has weakness for cards, and
CANDLES away most of his slender salary on
Saturday night. The rest of the week the family
has to live on a mere pittance, but she econo-
mizes and sacrifices and smiles, making excuses
for his weakness all the time, and promising both
him and herself that next week he will do better.
But next week the same thing happens again;
still her faith inShim is not destroyed.
1t may be shaken or even seriously weakened.
but still she clngs to the last shreds of it des-
peratey, for she knows that it ia absolutely the
only anchor to which she can cling
For weak men lean wholly upon their wives,
trusting them to buoy them up and to keep them
decently ahoat. Without this moral support and
encouragement they suffer themselves to be en-
quilted and to drown.
The more Mary gives her husband this neces-
sary encouragement, the more her friends deride
her for being fool.
If he is untrue to her, she forgives him again
and again, even unto seventy times seven.
Her mother is scandaized, and loudly demands
that she shall have sense enough to get divorce
but her daughter, with Johns words of repent
ance still ringing in her ears, only smiles wisely
and holds her peace She has made excuses for
him, and believes in his repentance and in his
promises.
But suppose that either the man she loves
never returns her affection, or else that having
once loved her, he ceases to care for her. Even
under these circumstances, her love, if it be of
the right kind persists in spite of her efforts to
conquer it; she hides it as carefully as possible
ashamed and afraid to have him or any one else
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
KaGnEr HIM AGAIN AND. AGAIN

guess it, but secretly made somehow happy by it,
She may have bitter moments sometimes, but
after all she does not regret them. They are part
OF the secret glory of her life. And the best of
1T is that no friends relatives can tell her she
is fool for caring much about a man that
doesn't give snap of his fingers for her. She
knows that their estimate of her would be per-
fectly Just, but she is glad, anyhow that they
are not in position to make it. and, with the
inconsistency which is woman's privilege, she is
rather proud of being a fool
do not mean to say that all women are capa-
BILE of loving like the woman have been talking
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
The Governor scared 'Em

New Hampshire people have not yet forgotten
the reign of terror which the Inauguration of Gov.
Goodell, Is years ago. gave to the liquor dealers
of the State.
New Hampshire's temperance Governor began
his administration by public proclamation, warn
ing the liquor dealers of his intention to enforce
the laws against the illegal sale of intoxicants.
Then he discovered that, while New Hampshire
was aaprohibition State. there were no legal tools
at hand, in the shape of administrative laws, by
which the Governor could prohibits" but the
rumsellers did not know this, as the Ex-Governor
recently explained to the writer.
There was a rumor," he said, that was
going to Manchester to seize all the liquor and
although / had not the least intention of doing
So they packed up all the liquor in their pos
session and sent it out Of the city.
'But the funniest thing happened when,I did
go to Manchester The report of my actual APP
proach to the city did not arrive until the even
ing before. When reached the city l met
very weary and morose looking sheriff.
"T have you TO thank for being kept up all
night, he said Much astonished, 1 asked him to
explain. why, those fellows didn't have time TO
pack up this time, SO they got their creditors to
attach all their stock in hand, thus preventing
your seizing the wet goods, 1t has taken me
all night to serve the papers.
This has furnished the Ex-Governor With laugh
that will last him the rest OF his life. Later
effective legislation gave the New Hampshire sa
oonkeeper, for while, well founded grounds for
his fears.
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about, nor that all women capable of making
such sacrifices; for, on the contrary, the depth Of
woman's affection and her power of sacrificing
herself depend upon her own individual char.
acter.
All mean to say is that there are women who
Will go to the lengths which have described
and that such women prove clearly by their man.
ner of life that the ultimate reason why all women
love is not because of any intrinsic worth in their
husbands or lovers but simply because of love
itself.
1t is natural and necessary for them to love
and 30 they do it.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

her choice, and who can see wny she has fallen
in love with that particular young man.
The reason for their insight is not far to seek.
1t is because the young man happens to ap-
proach their own individual ideal, or at least
to possess few characteristics of that ideal.
If, for instance, she has picked out man with
sufficient push to get along in life or one with
no vice to speak of, they applaud her good sense,
and tell her that her chances for happiness are
quite promising
II, on the other hand she picks out young
fellow who does not possess these qualities, they
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
BY PH BE FOR r E S T

throw up their hands in horror, tell her she il
doomed to a life of misery, and ask her how sh'
can think of being so foolish as TO throw herself
away like that.
And the chances may be that they are per
fectly right, and then the reason for her love
is an obscure enigma.
II she is old enough to know her own mind no
amount of advice or persuasion can move her
and she marries the man TO her own lasting I'M
happiness.
ii he has no business ability whatever, no
push, no ambition she will strive TO instil some
into him by the force of her own active person
ality; she will gladly live on ten dollars week,
and. moreover squeeze out living for several
children, just for the happiness of being with
him.
If he loses his position through laziness, tardi
ness, negligence, or some other fault, she is capa-
bic Of getting something to do herself, and so of
keeping the family going until he is on his feet
again.
II he is taken sick, she nurses him indefatiga-
bly,, even to the risk of her own life and takes
care of her house and her children at the same
time.
If his thriftlessness and her energy combine to
keep him permanently without position she
gets to work and supports him, making excuses
all the time about Johns terrible bad luck"
and Just as soon he gets something to do"
ETC.. etc.
These excuses she makes even to herself, for
either she cannot see her husbands faults, else,
seeing them, she pities him and loves him all the
more because of these faults, for an angel would
be rather unpleasant to live with anyway No
task is too menisl when performed for him, or
for the sake of their home, and she who perhaps
never scrubbed floor before her marriage con-
siders it privilege afterwards, because of smile
or look which more than rewards her efforts.
And all her friends and relatives say, "Dd you
ever know such fool as Mary"
She may, perhaps, even have a suspicion that
they are right but nevertheless she glories in
all that makes her what they call a fool, and
in the midst of her sordid surroundings is su-
premely happy.
But the man for whom she thus sacrifices her
self may be worse than merely shiftless: he may
have a vice that makes her life and his nothing
short of misery.
Perhaps he is drinking man. sitting around
the house all day with his bottle beside him. pre-
senting as disgusting sight as one can well
imagine. He may spend his days and his nights
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- and the girls in the crowd eyed the
lSXsgSNI bus with interest, for while it con-
tanned only one occupant, that occu-
pant was man. And when the stepped out
and assembled the hotel steps approving glances
were exchanged.
The professor was tall and well-made, with a
shapely head and strong profile. He was young
man, and even his spectacles gave no hint of his
eruditon nor of the seriousness with which he
regarded life.
A little group Of girls near the steps were the
most interested in the new arrival, and they
scanned his trunk as the porters carried it into
the house. 1t a stout, sober-looting trunk,
and on each end was the inscription: "J. B.
Matthews, Boston"
The prettiest girl in the party turned toward
her friends with gesture of delight. isn't he
a dear?" she remarked. 'I wonder if he knows
anybody here"
Sam Potter overheard the remark as he ap-
preached the group, and he smiled at the speak
er as she greeted him.
'rNow look here, Edith" he said, '1et that
fellow alone"
Edith Norton raised her eyebrows. Good
gracious" she said, '1'm not going to hurt him.
Is there any objection to my characterizing him
as dear"
"There is" replied Potter promptly, "for it
shows that you consider him as game. Now lis
ten TO me-" he continued seriously, Il don't
know Professor Matthews, but I have hard OF
him. and Young as he is he has already made
his mark among scholars. He has written sew
eral books, and he is looked upon as one of the
most brilliant minds in the faculty of his uni
versity."
"If YOU have any idea that because he is
good.looking, well-set-up chap he ought TO be a
target for your darts, l wish you would get it
out Of your head; really do. Why, it would be
a shame to firt with Matthews; an act OF posi-
tive cruelty. Take fellow your size, Edith"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

E9AA undiscovered THEFT OF the GatIlsborough
H0G09pI portrait from Messrs. Agnew, spent no
- less than twenty hours in drilling the
solid steel plates Of the strongroom of the
Selby Smelling Works, from which he abstracted
$340,OOO worth of gold. Your modern safe
burglar would have done the work in one-twen-
tieth of the time. He no longer burdens himself
with heavy and costly set of tools. His outfit
consists of small cylinder of oxygen, few feet
of rubber tubing, and blow-pipe
Affxing the tube to the gas-burner he rapidly
rigs up an oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe, directs the
flames on the safe door or lock, and hey prestol
under the terrific heat the solid steel drops away
like water, and In very brief space there is a
hole large enough to thrust his hand through
Supposing that electricity, not gas, is the
lighting agent of the strong the task of the
scientific cracksman is equally easy He CON
meets up couple of wires with the electric light
terminals, and with the aid of a carbon eectrode
produces heat amply sufficient to fuse any
metal 1t was thus that two daring robberes
were perpetrated in st. Petersburg not long since.
In one case the safe attacked was that of a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

HE porch Of the Mountain House was
crowded when the professor arrived,
and the girls in the crowd eyed the
bus with interest, for while it con-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

ESXV0T Is not always easy to see just why
l&I | woman loves man, and very often she
S does not know herself She also does
49, not care to know, for charm dissected
and analysed ceases to be charm.
1t is only her friends who seek for the why and
the wherefore, and only her relatives who re-
mark from the heights of their superior wisdom
'1 can't possibly imagine what you see in that
fellow"
Once in a while, however, it does happen that
one or two persons may be found who agree with
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
H OW w
S C E N C E

NY0T is known that Raymond, the daring
l#l crook who was responsible for the long
k@A undiscovered theft of the Gainsborough
H0NN9pI portrait from Messrs. Agnew, spent no
49, less than twenty hours in drilling the
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GbrIi4fsit Oie bette poIitif.

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perbeferuns ser Sauoftrueen.l

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Gtelbafts tpuritbsrsituns in Osn
Cruit S4lddtereien.

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bot cine GiOeBerrlaruna iiber bic
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fen entnebmen:
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