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How dare you!" began, turning around and
doubling up my fist.
There might have been real fight and a crowd,
If it hadn't happened that just then the ticket
puncher yelled Express for New York." and
everybody in the station made a bee-line for the
door-that is, nearly everybody. There were three
who didn't go. The Beast grabbed Mrs. Chamber
lains arm, reached for the bag had and salu
Hurry, Alice'
held on to the bag, put my hand on her other
arm, and whispered, You don't understand, Mrs
Chamberlain, The Doctor has been hurt in ire
Let me- take you home"
Just then the train whizzed in and the Beast
actually tried to pull her towards the door, but
l kept my hand on her arm and stood STOCK stlll'
"Oncc for ALL" he said, in low, hateful tone
"aPe you coming with me- or are you going 10
listen to that young idiot, You know perfectly
well that the Doctor went to Chicago on the noon
train"
Poor Mrs Chamberlain was white sheet
and trembling she could hardly speak
Has anything really happened, Teddy" she
asked, so low that could just hear her.
There was big fire at the North End, and q the
Doctor didn't go to Chicago, because he was in it"
/ hestated a second and then blurted out, lie
was nearly killed" 1t was brutal, know, but
ratified by that time that didn't know how
else to tell her.
She gave little scream and dropped back on
the seat almost fainting, just as the train pufed
out of the station.
The Beast deliberately turned his back her.
and sail "Damn!" under his breath, but 1 don't
think she heard him.
Perhaps it isn't so very bad after ALL sald'
You we're going to Chicago to surprise him, weren't
YOU: Think how dreadful it would have been if
had missed you, and you had gone on and
hadn't found him!"
Dreadful indeed" said the Beast, and then
according to his regulation custom when decent
people specially serious, he laughed.
Mrs. Chamberlain gave him one long look OF
mingled and righteous indignation, and
then took my arm.
Take me home. Teddy" she said
Sorry to have missed the pleasure of escOrting
you to town." said the Beast, walking along with
US. "I'll go by the next train and send back
your luggage"
sweetness she apologized to the Beast for giving
him much trouble. She held out her hand, but
he didn't seem to see it.
"Good-bye he said, II don't believe you'll need
me any more" and he shut the door, lifted his
hat in his usual Johnny fashion, and walked away.
When we were fairly off, Mrs. ChambeIlain's
wonderful self-control gave way, and she cried
hard that scared out of my wits
That drive was the longest one ever took.
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EDITH D. HUBERT.

bIockhead and tried to rub her hands until Anne
the waitress, came in with wine, and cologne, and
smelling salts and other stuff. She fused around
for a while, and then said very unfeelingly,
aren't you able to go to the Doctor now Ma
dame? He's been asking for you this half hour"
He was OH the big leather sofa in the office and
looked about the same as usual except for a BAN
dage that came down over his forehead When he
saw Mrs Chamberlain he smiled and held out his
hand.
Poor little grill" he said, you are quite pale
Forgive NE for frightening you So"
Now, that really quite decent of him AL
though noi much more than was up to him under
the circumstances, and l couldn't for the life of
me understand why it should make Mrs Cham
berain go all to pieces as it did. She actually
screamed, ooh, Horace! forgive you"-as if she
were in mortal agony, and dropped her knees
by the sofa and buried her face in the pillows
The Doctor looked scared at first, and then
ratified Then all of a sudden his eyes popped out
as if he'd found gold mine, and he lifted her
head and stared at her as if he wanted to hypno-
tie her.
Alice he said if it hurt him to talk, do
you really carc?"
don't know what she said, for somehow felt
rather queer, and l took sneak for home
struck Uncle Dick in the hall. He had been
in town all day, and had just heard about the
accident and was going over to ask if there was
anything he could do 1 told him he needn't
bother, for the Doctor was getting along SWIM
mingly, and that thought may be it was good
thing for him, since it had opened his eyes about
his wife,
Uncle Dick looked if you could knock him
down with a feather.
Good Cod Ted" he said. Have you gone
mad? 1t will kill him!'
Il guess you're the one that's mad" I said;
"why will it kill him to realize what magnif-
cent woman she is?"
Uncle Dick grabbed me by the shoulders and
gave a shake.
For the love of heaven Ted" he said; tell
what you mean"
1 gave him the whole thing from the beginning
and no never spoke word till finished, though
he looked libraries. Then he shook hands with
me- and told very solemnIy that l had done
Of mi hut hat T
must never mention the matter to a living soul
above ALL not to the Chamberains to Mr.. Della
field.
That idea didn't strike at ALL for had
planned to lay for the Beast, and thrash him at
sight, and didn't care who found it out Certainly
Mrs Chamberlain wouldn't care after his disgust
ing conduct. Uncle Dick wouldn't give any
reason why not, either Then he made me wait
while he wrote note to Mrs. Chamberlain, and
take it over.
have been these every day since, but have
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good lift in the direction of Kingdom Come.
1t took me half an hour to get back, and the
first thing | saw was the loveliest pale face with
the saddest big blue eyes, and the softest sweetest
voice said THANK God, he still lives His blood
is not my hands"
Then 1 felt about saventy-ive knives going
through my right shoulder. and it got dark again,
and somebody crying, and stern voice said:
This is time for hysteria Alice"
Things Strengthened themselves and after bit
I found l was in the Doctors Office and that he
had been setting my collar bone, which had been
split in the miX-up.
found out, too how the accident happened
They left me alone for a few minutes, and
heard the Doctors voice in the next room saying
in very decided tones: II shall question Rogers
very closely, and if I find that he was exceeding
the speed limit or was careless in any way, shall
discharge him"
Then Mrs Chamberlain said, Rogers was not
there Horace; Mr.. Delafeld was driving the car,
and he didn't exactly understand the brake"
Now, would you believe it-instead of getting
into laundering rage with the numskull who had
dared to imperil that peerless creatures life by
monkeytng with machine he wouldn't under
stand in a thousand years. the Doctor never said
even so much as Fool" ''Villain!''-either of
which expressions would have been perfectly pro-
per for him to in his wife's presence Though
1t seems incredible he actually laughed little
short unpleasant laugh, and came into the ofice
struggling his shoulders
The mater happened to be in Boston, go they
insisted my staying all night, and after had
been put to bed in great big blue room. and the
Doctor had fused over me little, Mrs. Chamber
lain came and sat by me till got to sleep.
1t was positively thrilling the way she described
her feelings when she realized that the car was
actually going to run me down.
I wanted to tell her that was very sorry for
the fellows that she hadn't run over but Was
afraid she would laugh. How misjudged her!\
She explained to me after I came to know
her better that every true sentiment no matter
how 1t was expressed, touched a corresponding
chord in her nature The Beast wasn't there to
sheer, SO I expressed some of my ideas about her
as we'll as could, and she didn't laugh BIT but
smoothed my hair two or three times and said
ooh, Teddy" as If she were going to cry.
Mrs. Chamberlain is passionately fond Of music
Why. she was awfully affected once when the
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midst of a vulgar crowd like the academy bunch.
You see Uncle Dick, who lives with u.s. is a
clubman, and no end of a swell, and he rather
fances me; so 1 understand all about points of
honor and how gentleman should act when he's
half-seas over, and how he should always lie when
the truth would embarrass lady, and that sort of
thing.
was a little uncomfortable about the row with
Joe, because, knowing the world as do. feared
that if it got around, it would compromise Mrs
Chamberlain. When told Uncle Dick about it,
he locked at me very seriously for a moment and
then said Lets see, Ted, you were sixteen last
April, weren't you? And Mrs. Chamberlain must
be'-and he stopped and looked at me again.
'She doesn't look it, but she must be twenty
fve," said; "She couldn't know much and
have such ripping manner much before that"
Well Uncle Dick simply yelled-why, don't
know. But my face got as hot as blazes, and my
shoulders went back the way they make you fix
them in the gym. All of sudden he sobered down
and grabbed my hand.
BEG pardon for interrupting you, Ted old
man." he said Che and Mrs Chamberlain are the
only ones who seem to realize that am no longer
boy), something screamingly funny just hap
pened to strike me. I think you are right about
twenty-Gve-nine years ahead of you SO your
little passage at arms won't jeopardize her reputa-
ton. plucky little knight-errant like you is
not to be disdained by any fair lady"
lied" she said to me one day, looking at me in
that way she has that makes fellow feel as if
he'd played hooky for week, and stolen chicken
coops for bonfres; I'VE should ask our
selves what we wish to do, but what is right to do"
The Beast laughed, and drawled in that nasty
way of his, Such sentiments harmonic beauti-
fully with that baby blue frock you are wearing,
and won't deny it's your most dangerous color
But for the love of heaven compromise on pale
pink tomorrow, and a corresponding pose"
oh, forgot I hadn't mentioned the Beast be-
fore. In fact, haven't told anything started out
to tell. unless I have CHANGED to convey to the
mind of the intelligent reader that Mrs. Chamber
lain Is an angel of beauty and goodness, doomed to
exist in the midst of bunch that are-wel differ
emf.
She is married to glum old saw-bones, who
neglects her shamefully and is, besides down
right brutal to her. Sis says he has eyes of
haunting melancholy and that he looks like
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A Misjudged Woman 8

Sothern in '"The Proud Prince" What idiots girls
are anyway! I often blush for my sister,
Uncle Dick says the Doctor is good fellow. and
he doesn't often slip up things, but don't
know?
Didn't he leave his wife all alone in the house
with only one maid the night the Tompkins' baby
had Group, just week after there had been sneak
thieves i'll our street? And didn't that fragile,
sensitive woman have nervous headache the
whole of the next day in consequence? And didn't
he refuse to give her ether chloroform any
thing when she smashed her finger in the door,
and just bind up her hand as if she a charity
patient?
/ was scorching along the river road one day,
wondering how could work the governor to let
me go up to Canada after big game this Fall,
when all of a sudden-zip! a red streak came
around the South Bend, struck the back wheel Of
my brand new motorcycle with about eight hun
dred horsepower, knocked it high that the
pieces are still on the way down. and gave me a
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Before I was fairly the ground though,
rogers came flying across the lawn, and I saw by
the width of his grin that things couldn't be in
such awful shape.
It's all right, Mrs. Chamberlain - whispered
as turned to help her out. But she didn't an
swer, and as she evidently wasn't able to walk,
Rogers and carried her up to the house.
Only matter of couple of ribs and bit of
couch In the library. mot the sign of a burn.
He'll be as good in week or two Don't
be frightened, Mrs. Chamberlain"
She Just moaned little and didn't open her
eyes. Rogers gave short whistle and slid out of
the room. stood still and stared at her like
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onlv seen her once just for minute. It was late
Yesterday afternoon after I shook Boswell. She
looked lovelier than ever, and said she was sorry
Nto have missed often, but that the Doctor
couldn't bear her out of his sight.
| don't see that sickness has improved him
much--only made him selfish in a different way.
But when I told the family at dinner about her
devotion, and that l afraid she would make
herself i'll, they all snckered except Uncle Dick
The queerest part of the whole thing is that the
Beast hasn't been in town since the day of the
fire. I imagine it's because he is afraid will
knock him down for his confounded insolence to
Mrs Chamberlain and to me. Perhaps Uncle
Dick knows
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coeyrishs. 1907. BY ThOmGs H. Mckee.

:" YER since I've known her, I've been
aware that one appreciated Mrs
Chamberlain; but it wasn't until yes
n terday afternoon, when the governor
kept me in from hockey to wade
through five chapters of Boswell's Life of Johnson
Just because old Davis had funked me in Eagh-
teenth Century Lit, that realized had a sacred
mission TO perform.
1t has fallen to my lot to write the life, or at
least part Of the life, of one who is a thousand
times misunderstood than that old stir of a
DR.. Johnson ever thought of being
Whew! Didn't do up Joe Fuller the day he
said Powder and peroxidel" when she passed the
academy at noon recess. He wasn't around again
for three days, and when he did show up he said
was a blithering idiot to think he meant it. I
told him that what he meant had no bearing on
the case-that could not permit the name of any
lady respected to be mentioned at all In the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-15
MOTHER JONES MELODIES. :
A REAL BURGLAR-PRooF SAFE.

i've been in the fire-and-burglar-
proof safe business for 30 years." said
veteran salesman. land I have sold
my goods in nearly every state In the
Union, but until I recently visited a
Western town of 5000 inhabitants I
never had seen a really safe safe-one
that was proof against any and all
forms of assault. It was the first time
I had visited the town, and I went
there because I learned they had open
ed a new bank. ] got into town about
5 o'clock and strolled around to where
the bank building was located just to
have a look over the situation. 1t was
a modern. up-to-date structure, and
had a boiler and engine to give the
power for water, electric light and
steam heat.
There was nothing remarkable about
this, but at the rear of the building I
saw a plain brick. extension, 25 feet
high, with large windows on its four
sides, giving full view of the inte-
rior. Right in the center, between
heaven and earth, five feet below the
ceiling and Is feet above the floor, hung
a big safe suspended to a heavy anchor
chain. 1t was an entirely new wrinkle
TO me, and after studying it awhile
I went to the hotel. The hotel clerk,
after the manner of his kind, knew it
ALL and when he had finished his eluci-
dation had learned that the bank peo-
pie instead of spending their money
on a high priced time lock, burglar
proof, stone-walled vault and safe that
might be dynamited full of holes, had
bought a good cheap big safe, and hav-
ing put it in the high room they had
built for 1t, had rugged a chain and
pulley and attached the combination to
the engine in the cellar.
"At closing time the safe was drawn
m between floor and ceiling, out Of
reach from above or below, and left
tn swing until time to begin business
again next morning. The steam was
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-15
BIBLE IN THE COLLEGES.

Clayton s. Cooper, Brown "a, in
talk to the students in the Brown
chapel on Bible study, gave some fig
ures of Bible study in American col
leges.
In 595 institutions canvassed he
found that there were 34,494 men in
Bible classes. In III institutions there
were 3,O22 fraternity men who knew
the Bible from the inside. There were
some detailed figures of the study in
241 colleges where there were:
Glass Presidents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 614
Members of college glee clubs. ,o51
Members of baseball teams. S15
Members of football teams. $50
Members of track teams. $50
Members of basketball teams. Az
Editors of college papers. -........ $50
Prize and scholarship men........ e46
IOIat % 8 80
No attempt is made TO draw a moral
from these figures, although it might
be inferred that college editors are less
than basketball players.
track athletes, class presidents and
honor men, for instance, and that the
football man manages to take time
enough off from his signal study to
read his Bible pretty thoroughly.
Mr.. Cooper has some other figures 10
show the growth of Bible study from
1901 to the present year. In 1901 there
were 1o,ST men engaged in the work;
in 1902, 1929; in 1908, 1880; IN 1904
%, $50: in 1905. 50,19s, and in 1906, 35'10''
The greatest gain was directly after
1908. Yale University is the most &C.
voted to Bible study: next the Uni
verslty of Illinois.-New York Cor.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-15

George Richardson, an assayer, was
discovered to have 1900 pounds or
high grade ore worth S. a pound buried
in his cellar under some rubbish. It is
believed to have been stolen from the
Consolidated and Florence properties.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-15

down by o'clock, and then the only
possible way to get at the safe was
to get up steam and let the safe down,
a job the most skillful burglar could
not perform without detection. Next
morning, after I had taken another
look at the working Of the arrange
ment, packed up my traps and got
out of TOWN.. Y. Press.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-15

Florence Nightingale, the English
philanthropist, has been r decorated
with the order of Merit by King Ed
ward.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

New York, Dec e.-No~ that Richard
Mansfield has passed away, Edward II.
Sothern is left the foremost, if not the
only. American play-producing actor
comparable with the dead Henry Irving
and the live Reerbohm Tree. David Be-
lasco completes with the Englishmen in
dramatic craft, but he is not an actor,
although 1 here and now ask him why
he. having fitted roles to players, and
players to roles, won't create a charac-
ter for himself to enact. A joke? No,
indeed. The theatrical public has be-
come so fixed in the habit of acclaiming
all that he does that it would accept his
acting as great anyway; and who
knows but, If he were to create a char
acter embodying the mannerisms of his
first-night speeches, it might be a
sweeping victory both artistic and pop
ular. That thought came to me when
on Tuesday evening, he was called out
vociferously between acts of 1.-The War
rens of Virginia At the first sight
OF him in a clerically straight-front
coat, with band of collar around his
neck. 1t seemed to me that the role for
him must necessarily be a priest and
there flashed on me the scheme of
drama with the heroine telling her past
to him in the confessional. Then came
the business of bashful embarrassment,
with a pulling at his fOrelOck, sailor
fashion, and my fancy flew TO a jolly
Jack tar as the right chap for him to
personate in melodrama of the raging
main. When he uttered his thanky-
kindly, with tremors in his voice and
shakes in his pose. l said to myself that
a masculine part as fervidly emotional
as those he had provided for Louise
Leslie Carter and Blanche Bates is the
one for my friend Davids debut as an
actor.
X
But let's get down from things that
might be to things that are. Here in
New York we got on Monday a new
drama from SOtheTn's hands and on
Tuesday one from Belasca' s, thus plac-
ing their work as stage directors in
comparison, and I am sorry that Meth
er presents a play calling for such en-
Enlistment, such pictorial expansion,
such extra, interleaved illustration as
the one achieved in, say, THE Sunken
BELL and the other in fThe Darling of
the Gods So IL is more pertinent to
set up Sothern's stagecraft in THE
Fool Hath Said There Is No God, "
against Mansfield's ''ROdion the Stu
dent" as both plays are made from
Dostoieffskfs novel. Crime and Pun
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

in her simple faith, though weakly I'M
able to give logical reasons for it; by
giving to Rodion the brain and culture
with which to argue eloquently for his
unbelief. and by making mutual lovers
or the two, Irving evolves a pro and
anti-Christian drama. with the student
anti getting the better of many dispu-
tations until the play reaches II o'clock,
when the girl-pro converts him to her
religion with suddenness that is more
surprising than convincing. Nor am /
sure that reverent Christians will find
satisfaction in the final minutes of 1.-The
Fool Hath Said, There Is no God "
Rodion can escape punishment for the
murder by quickly quitting Russia. He
implores Sonia to go with him. She
won't, and she begs him to confess and
eXpiate his crime Hitherto she has
been meekly mute under his agnostic
harangues. Now she makes a naive but
earnest plea for her faith. Rodion still
holds out against her. In her despair
she drops on her knees and, in concert
with her baby brother. repeats the
Lords prayer. There are those who
will be shocked by this stage use of
ChriSts prayer, and there are those who
will deem its use righteous because it
shifts Rodion from agnosticism TO
Christianity. He declares his guilt and
promises to return from a term in ST.
IBERIA to be Sonia's Christian husband.
/ don't know what to think of this
plays value as an entertainment.
x X X
David Belasco's share in the making
OF the plays he produces usually
amo' nts TO collaboration, but THE
Warrens of Virginia" is ascribed wholly
TO William c. DeMillo by the program.
The author is a son of the late Henry
C. DeMille, who wrote two greatly and
two fairly successful plays with Be
lasco; his mother is a literary woman
of fairly active tendencies: and so. as I
suppose, DeMille, the son, was reared
in ways qualifying him to write a Be
lasco sort of play. By no means brash
is he with INFESTED matter. His drama
is of our civil war. and its hero and
heroine are a northern soldier and a
southern girl. Did your father or
grandfather know of one marriage of
lovers loyal opposedly to the United
States and the confederate states? Do
you believe that, in all the war from
Bull Run to Gettysburg. so many as
ten betrothals came of the awful car
mage? Yet Bronson Howard in the first
war play, Shenandoah" William Gil
lette in the second, Held by the En-