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opposite the door and prepares to wait We hadn't
stood there minute, before there comes squeal
from behind, and some one says:
why, Wilbur Cobb! Is that your"
And what do you guess shows up? There at the
curb is big c1en tourin' car,-one of the opuent,
shiny kind,-wth slick lookin' shutter in front,
and, standin up in the tonneau, tart little lady
wearin Broadway clothes that was right up to the
minute, hair done into breakfast rolls behind, and
a long pink veil streamin down her back. Only
by the pug nose and the mouth could guess that it
might be Zylphna. And it was.
There wa Mt any gettin' away from the fact that
she was a little Jared at SEEM Wilbur ookin
cute but that was nothin to the jolt she handed
US. Mr. Cobb he just opens his mouth and gazes
at her like she was some sort OF an exhibit. And
dollar -thirty-ni shirtwast and a sagged skirt.
is down and out. 1t didn't take moren
minute to see that if zyphina has got to the stage
where she pony jackets and rides in expensive
bubbles little pie counter romance is headed
for the ash can.
"Stung in both eyes!" says 1 under my BREATH
Well WE'LL" says zylphina, holdn out three
fingers. When did you hit Broadway, Wilbur
It was all up to Cobb then He drifts up to the
tonneau and gathers in the fingers dazed like,
if he was wa1l<in' in his Sleep but he gets out
somethin about bein' mighty glad to her again.
Zyphina sizes him UP kind of curious, and smiles.
says she. Roland, this is Mr.. Cobb, from Kansas"
Mr.. Shutter grins too, he swaps grins with
Wilbur; 1t was great joke.
Hes awfully nice to me, Roland is, says
Zylphina with a giggle. And amt this swell
car, though? Roland takes me to my boardin'
house in it most every night. But how the
corn and hogs dom Wilbur"
Say, there was topic Wilbur up on. He
throws her grateful grin and proceeds to un-
timber his conversation works He tells Zylphina
how many acres he put in to corn last spring how
much it shucked to the acre, and how many head Of
hogs he has just sent to the ham and lard lab ratory
That brand of talk sounds kind of foolish there under
the arc lights but Zylphina pricks up her ears.
Ten carloads of hogs!" says she. Is that a kid,
you just havn dream!
Il cal'late it'll be twenty next fall" says he,
fshn' for somethin in his pocket. Here's the
packing house receipts for the ten, anyway"
Let's see,'' says she, and by the way she skins
her eye over them documents you could tell that
Zylphina' seen the like before. Also she some
thin of ready reckoner.
"Oh Wilbur" says she maxim fyin' leap and
landin' with her arms around his neck I'm yours,
Wilbur, I'm yours!''
And Wilbur, he gathers her in.
Roland" says 1, steppin up to the shutter,
"you can crank up. Hoxies won out in the
tenth,
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year or so, and then come again. Ever hear of
Wilbur from Hoxie, Kan?"
Whether it 4 squeal or smoker, couldn t
make out; but s.l> was on. AS l couldn't drag
Wilbur up to the receiver, l has to carry through
the talk myself and makes date for him to meet
her in front of the hotel at thirty that evenin
when the day shift of nail polishers goes off duty.
" Does that suit, Wilbur" says |.
Does it? You never saw so much pure JOY spread
over single countenance as what he flashes up.
He gives me grip can feel yet, and the grin that
opens his face of these reg lar connectors
Pinckney was tickled too, and it's all can do to
get him off one side where whisper confidential
Zylphinas likely to have changed some in her
ideas as to what honey boy looks like. Now
Wiburs all right in his way; but amt he little
rugged to spring on lady manicure that hasn
seen him for somet1me!
And when Pinckney comes to take close view
he agrees that Mr.. Cobb is trihe fuzzy; " But we
spruce him up says Pinckney. There are
four hours to do it in.
Pour weeks would be better, says L; tits
considerable of contract.
That don bother Pinckney any. He's got nothing
else on hand for the afternoon, and he can't plan
any better sport than improvin' Wilbur's looks so
Zylphinas first impression Il be good one.
brown costume, drapin' him in couple Of bath
robes, while Swiftly takes the suit out to one of
these pants pressed-while-y ou-wait places. When
it comes back with creases in the legs he hustles
Wilbur into cab and starts for barber shop.
Say, l don't suppose Cobbn ever know it; but
if he'd been huntin' for expert help along. that
line, ne COulQn nave Cu1nDleu HUI DcItel nduoS
than he did when Pnckney gets interested in his
case. When they floats in again, along about six
o'clock, hardly knows Wilbur for the same party.
He's wearin' long black ulster that covers up
most of the plaid nightmare; he's shook the wooly
lid for fall block derby he's had his face scraped
and powdered, and his neck ringets trimmed up;
and he sports pair of yellow kids and silver
headed stick.
"Goshl" says l. Looks like you'd run him
through finishing machine. Why, he'll have
Zylphina after him with net >,
Yes says Pinckney. Il fancy he'll do now. "
AS for Wilbur, he only looks good natured and
happy. Course, Pinckney wants to 60 along with
him. to that it all turns out right; and he counts
me in too, so off we starts. l was little curious
to get glimpse of Zylphina myself, and watch how
stunned she'd be. For we has it all framed up how
she'll act. Havin' that tintype, l cant get it
out of my head that she's still wearin' her hair
loose and lookin' like Miss in the first act.
Hope shell be on time" says l, as we turns the
corner.
There was more or less folks gon and comm
from the ladies' entrance; but girl like the one
we was lookin for. So fetches up in bunch
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By HUBERT M. SKINNER


number as square, and
of the third power cube" and ready
on the instant to draw a diagram to prove
their correc' ness in this. But the fourth power
the Cartesan convention broke down completely.
Like grandfathers clock, @ 1t stopped short, never
to go again"
Why do we not make diagrams of the fourth
power, or of the fifth, or of any higher?
Because, say the Cartesians, it is utterly i'm
possible it is unthinkabe. The Cartesan convention
considers nothing beyond the third power. There
is graphic expression for any power beyond the
third,
Absurdity of the Limitation
HOW absurd is all this! Let agree that any SIM
pie number for instance five, shall be represented
by a line say five inches long. Then, by the Car
tesian convention, the second power of five shall be
represented by square, measuring five inches each
way; and the third power by a cube measuring five
inches each edge. Now, to reach the fourth
power simply multiply this cube by FIVE Its graphic
illustration will be line of cubes, five cubes in
row. To reach the fifth power, multiply the cube of
five by five times five. That is to say form square
figure out of twenty-five of the cubes Thus the
fifth power is square of the cubes. To form the
sixth power form and larger cube of the cubes
which have been dealt with. The seventh power
will be illustrated by line of the larger cubes And
dd minimum.
There is in the Cartesan convention really nothing
occult esoteric intangible 1t is simply convenient
device, applicable in some cases and wholly inap-
picabe in others, of visualizing quantity
There is in the world why it should see
its finish" with the third power.
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change. It's different from wearin' apron, and
the gents what takes their food there steady treats
but she's gettin so she knows her way around
quite we'll now and it would seem funny to 60
back to little one-horse burg like Colby.
And that's all. Nothin about her ben Wilbur's
on demand or anything of that kind Course it's
antique old yarn; but it was all fresh to Wilbur
Not bein much of letter writer he keeps on feedin
for more news. But there's nothin' dom
Then, says he, Il got to thinkin and thlnkn
and this fall, being how was coming as far east
as Chicago on shippers pass reckons "a better
keep right on here hunt Zylphina up, and take her
back with me-"
The way he tells it was real earnest, and at some
points them whey colored eyes OF his mostens up
good an dewy; but he finishes strong and smiIn'
You wouldn't guess, though, that any corn fed
romance like that would stir up such blood as
Pinclzney? A few months back he wouldn't have
listened farther the preamble; but now he couldn't
have been more interested if this was case OF
Romeo Aston and Juliet Dupeyster.
Shorty" says he cant we &c, do Q, something to
DO you mean it" says l. or are you batt1n' up
josh?'
He means it, all right He spells off lot of gush
got strayed; so l asks Wilbur if he furnish any
description of Zyphina. Sure, he can. He digs
up leather wallet from his inside pocket and hands
out tintype of Miss Beck, of these portraits
framed in pale pink paper, taken by wagon artist
that had wandered out to the junction.
Judgin' by. the picture, zylphna must have been
d
loose over her shoulders, and genuine Shy Ann
hat of those teninch brims with the front
pinned back. The pug nose and the big, mouth
want just after the Venus model; but it's likely
she looked good to Wilbur. 1 takes one squint
and hands it back.
Nix, never" says |. I've seen lots of fairies
on 42d-st., but none like that Put it back over
your heart, Wilbur, and try an ad. in the lost
column
But Pinckney amt willin' to give up so easy. He
says how Mr. Cobb has come moren a thousand
miles this tender mission and it's up to us to do
best towards helping him along. l couldn't
just where was let into this affair of Wiburs;
head for way of takin' up the trail
And it's wonderful what sleuth work y you can
the agent of the buildin and finds that the meal
fact'ry has moved over on Eighth-ave. Then l
gets that number, and brings Zylphna's old boss
to the wire. Sure, he remembers Miss Beck No,
she amt with him He thinks she took course
in manicurn and of the girls says she heard
of her doin the hand holdin' act in an apartment
hotel West 35th-st. After three tries we has
Zylphina herself on the phone.
Guess who's here" says l.
That you, Roland?" says she.
"Aw picklesi" saws l. Set the calendar back
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suppose, in the city Of Cartesia; partly
because there never was any such place,
and partly because the famous conven-
ton was never held anywhere. The
convention was not meeting of dele
gates with credentials, raped to order
by temporary chairman. Neverthe
less, there is not one whom the Cartesian
convention has not reached with its in
fuence.
What is the Cartesian convention? 1t
;c q Ia hit of THOUGHT which DIR tea cheers
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of arithmetic inculcated in when we were
pupils at school They derived it, consciously or
unconscousy generally the latter,-from the
great French philosopher who once said, Il think,
therefore am
This Frenchman, Describes, offered simple
scheme for illustrating the first, second, and third
powers of numbers by drawing respectively line, a
square, and cube. This became conventional the
world round but instead of regarding the scheme
as mere convenience of illustration, we have come
to look upon it necessary thing of universal ap
plication.
The reverse is true If one employs five men for a
day at five dollars each the total of wages will
be the second power of the number fve but there
is no particular reason why the wages should be rep
resented by the diagram of square. If he employs
the men for five days their will represent the
third power of the number five but what connection
would they have with cube? A may have
five chains of five links each Strung together their
united length will represent the second power of the
by continuous straight line, and not by square.
Most practical mathematician, however, and
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THE CARTESIAN CONVENTION

most teachers, always speak
of the second power of a
number as a square," and
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VIE Cartesian Con-
vention was not
held, as one might
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27

dogged jaw. ill-eut clothes, and, upon
guage more fitted. to an underpaid
discoursing to the factory at large that
night Of the false alarm at Mokki,
when he chided the Portuguese and tho
swizzie.stlck Smith: Was this the man
she had ever fancied for husband?
No. thousand times no.
She locked the group and the mask
once more into its drawer, and went
back to her cushions and novel.
There was still another great rubber
company on the brink of Notation. This
cured for her the grant OF the land,
and had assured her that the King of
Okky, thanks to his recent improve
title remained unchalienged. Tho prop
osition was, she honestly believed. COM
mercially sound, but the risk lay IN the
British public We're ha they loaded up
to decide. SO far she had not had Il
share OF her companies underwritten.
in spite Of abundant and pressing
offers; But here vas an awkward ques-
tion to decide: Should she insure this
issue, or should she risk having it-not
taken up. and invite a fiasco?
out the arguments for and against. and
to strike a balance between them. But
for once her brain refused to act fven
the novel. which she read and did not
absorb. did not offer her the necessary
hint It was an old trick OF hers. this
reading of dozen charters of weak
fiction. to get an inspiration. and so
far 1t had never failed her She was
mn omniyorous novel reader, She went
through quite two thirds OF the fiction
brought out annually by British pub
fishers and could never next morning
have passed the easiest examination in
a novel she had read the night before.
But all her clever business ideas were
evolved when she was reading these
paltry books.
At last she could endure the vague
things that oppressed her no longer.
She dropped the book on the floor And
then she got UP and went into the sec
retarv's narrow room next door She
found cable forms and sat at table.
Then she wrote glibly enough this mes
sage.
"Burgovne. Monk River West Africa.
Forward this to Cascaes Mokki special
runner want you act our agent Las
Palmas 2 400 commence cable accept
anrn or refusal O'NaiN"
She counted up the words laid down
her pencil and laughed "At any rate"
she said that will rive one a chance.
And George was fool enough tn think
that Mr.. Cascaes was running after me.
Oh, have no patience with men who
can't see further through the fog than
that"
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CHAPTER XVIII.
CARTER MAKES A PURCHASE.

It was Captain Image returning red
and wrathful from an unsuccessful car.
eastern factories that Carter met the
day after his arrival at the Coast Tho
mariner had heard of the deal at Mok-
XII. and felt personally afrronted that
nest OF cargo which he had already
looked upon as his own should have
been handed over once more to the Ger
mans.
so you're on the beach. are you"
with vast disapproval. II must say
you look it Two seen old swizzle-s Stick
Smith come down after jaunt In the
bush and thought he couldn't be beat
for general shagginess and rags. But
you give him points. What did Miss
Kate bounce you for?"
i believe ! resigned"
Same thing, And now you've come
10 ask me to take you home as dis
tressed British subjest, suppose. Well,
Carter-me-lad. deck passage Is your
whaek according to consular under
house and you've sent mo cargo. and SO
I'm going to put my hand in my own
breeches pocket and take you home in
ne second t class AND tel you what;
the foc,s'le that I'm not supposed to
know about, and II you care to go in
y asrf ho ana fs snSuf he r 5 cut to
You're very good"
IT know I am. It puts me about nva
weeks further OFF than hen farm OUT
side Cardiff that want to retire onto.
being good like this. There, run away
out Of this chart house. me-lad. and
SQUARE blowout OF white-man's chop
one-time. I'm sure you need It, I
never saw man with so much of the
hard stewed off him."
Carter laughed. "Wil you let mo slip
WORD, WORD ! in? ~ I've ss cargo for YOU"
I'm afraid you won't hook much
commission out OF 1t. Cappie, as you'll
Catch me-"
"Rut there'll be about seventy tons
OF It as far as can reckon"
My Christian Aunt! do Won tell me.
C cadet, that youye scratched I,t up
No sit. down. Don't talk. I'm not go
Ing to have you going away and calling
tho M'noso a dry Ship
Captain Image had no tariff rate for
tin ore but he invented one with great
readiness. and then knocked OF ten per
dustrv ''Now. where is this mine of
yours9'' he asked genially TELL me.
and warrant I'll find YOU an easier
wav to bring YOUR produce than pad
ding Il in dugouts."
'HIn the river"
'We,l let's look at your charts, mo-
aWhy. hoW' 's that? Haven't you made
ooh i've made one rtrht enough. but
It's inside my skull. and out OF public
sum" said Image. Don't want any
comnnstitors, eh Garter-me-iad7"
why should II
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PUBLIC SALE.

The undersigned will sell at public sale in front
of Hicks store, at Boyds Station. on the Met
ropolitan branch Of the B: and Q. 4 r., on SAT SAT,
URDAY, NOVEMBER SECOND. 1907. AT ONE
O'CLOCK Pm, a tract of land containing about
352 acres and located about one mile east OF
Hoyds Station and along the GAINESVILLE road. 1t
Is known the Bloom tract. and ndioins TIL
lands OF Joseph T. White, Clarence Griffith and
others. Part OF the land is well set In timber.
oak, hickory beech. maple and poplar. and part
Is heavily set in pine. suitable for lumber or
pulp wood This land when cleared Will make
excellent farming and dairy land. There are sew
eral fine springs on 1t and fine stream of water
runs through it. There is q IL room dwelling
and good barn on the land Good well of water
at the house. This land is churches.
good community. The lands immediately around
are among the best in the country. and this
tract Is OF the same eualitS.
The tract will be offered whole and In
two parcels. Persons wishing to'invest In lands
of the above characta1 Will DO well to visit and
inspect this tract.
Terms: One-third cash. balance In equal pay
ments of one and two years purchasers TO give
notes with approved security for deferred pay
ments, or all cash. at option OF purcha sers
Possession given upon compliance with terms Of
sale.
For further particulars address the undersigned
at Hagerstown, Md.
FRANK ". MISH
CHARLES A. LITTLE,
Attorneys in Fact Of Samuel Martin Bloom.
0ol2-d&Stopolinc
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THos. J. OWEN & son, AucrIoxEERs.
TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL ESTATE On
SOUTH SIDE OF + STREET BETWEEN
Bath AND 18TH STREETS. WASHINGTON.

TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL ESTATE On
SOUTH SIDE OF + STREET BETWEEN
Bath AND 18TH STREETS, WASHINGTON
d. G.
BY virtue Of two deeds Of trust dated January
l., 1897 and July &C. 1897 and recorded in
Liber FIST folio 81. and I.iber 2i97 folio 400 of
VIII sell at Inhlic auction In front Of the prem
ises On FRIDAY. THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY
0 OF 0CroBER. 1907. AT HALFrAST FOUR
O'CLOCK PM, all that parcel of ground in the
city OF Washington, In the District of Columbia
described as follows: Begin on south line of Sd
street distant 100 feet west from the southwe vest
corner formed by intersection OF Sd and Frederick
streets and running thence west 16 feet south
100 feet to alley, east Is feet and then to be-
ginning. with use OF 10 feet wide alley In rear
and feet inches wide alley west Of and nd
Joining above described lot one-half OF the
ieet 8 inches wide alley being included In said
~ feet: said lot being part of lots 60. 81 and 62
In Beatty Hawkins Addition to Georgetown.
anu In square 1916. Washington, the same being
improved by house 3il2 L street
. Terms OF sale: Onethird cash. balance In equal
INSTRUMENTS In one and two years. with interest
payable semiannually and secured by trust on
the property or all cash, at option of purchaser.
deposit Of $500 required at time OF
sale -Conveyapcing and recording at cost of
purchaser. Ii terms not complied with in
ten days from day of sale the trustees reserve
the right to resell at risk and cost Of defaulting
purchaser.
WILLIAM A. GORDON Trustee
j. WORDSWORTH GORDON, Trustee.
Oc1S-d&ds eSu
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TRUSTEES, SALE OF AN UNDIVIDED ONE
HALE INTEREST IN AND TO LOTS IN
MERIDIAN HILL n. c.
BY virtue OF certain deed OF trust dated
February 81 A. ID. 1906. and duly recorded in
liber No. 2944. at folio 235 ct seq one Of the
land records of the District OF Columbia and at
the request Of the party secured thereby we
Will sell. at public auction. In front Of the
premises. on TUESDAY. OCTOBER TWENTY
NINTH. 1907, AT FouR-THIRTY O'CLOCK
PM. an undivided one-half interest in and 10
lots numbered fifteen 10 and sixteen (lsI In
block numbered three q, of Hall and Elvans'
subdivision Of Meridian HILL as per plat re-
corded in Liber f. {. f. "a, at folio "a Of the
land records Of the District OF Columbia
Terms: One-thlrd of the purchase price in
cash. the balance in one and two years from the
day of sale. secured by deed of trust on the
property. represented by the notes of the pur-
mum. payable semi annually. all cash. A de-
posit OF 100000 will he required at time OF sale
and If the terms thereof are not fully compliel
with within fifteen days from day OF sale the
trustees reserve the right to raseu the interest
above described at the risk and cost of the
defaulting purchaser after such previous public.
notice as they may deem necessary All convey.
ancing. recording and notariaI fees at the pur-
chaSer's cost.
EDWARD J. STELLwAGEN. Trustee.
1i1i ST. NV.
ocl6-d&ds.eSu 1414 F st. NV
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AUCTION SALES.
FUTURE DAYS.
THos ]. OWEN & son. AUCTIoNEERS

iio-'- - Wv E.1> q SoN, Stt iloNffhS
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE UNIM
PROVED real. ESTATE, ON THE SOUTH
SIDE OF ST. EETWEEN NEW HAMP
SHIRE AVE. AND 18TH ST. NV. -. 5oX
IS TT. To l2-FOOT ALLEY.
by virtue of certain deed In trust duly
corded In Liber No 2S5o folio 80 81 seq. of the
land records of the District OF Columbia the IN
dersigned trustees will sell at public auction.
In froat OF the premises, on TUESDAY. THE
TWENTY DAY OF OCTOBER. AID.
1907, AT HALFPAST FOUR O'CLOCK Pm.
the follow ing described land and premises. situate
In the city of Washington. District of Columbia.
and designated as and being lot SO in Fisher y
Sharon's subdivision of square 1873, per plat
recorded In Liber No. II, folio Ill. of the rec
oT'ts OF the surveyors office of said District.
Terms of sale: one third of the purchase money
10 be paid in cash. balance in two equal install
ments, payable In one and two years. with In
tcrest at per centum per anuHm. payable semi
annually. from day of sale. secured by deed oil
trust upon the property sold. or ali cash. at the
option Of the purchaser. deposit of Sieo viii
be required at time Of sale. All oaveyancng.
recording. etc, at cost of purchaser. Terms of
sale 10 he complied with within Is days FROM
day OF sale otherwise the trustees reserve the
right to resell the property at the risk and cost
OF defaulting purchaser, after five days adver-
tisement of such resale in some newspaper pub
iished In Washington, II. c.
JOHN w P1LLING.
l4lG = st. NV,
CORCoRAN THOM.
Colorado building.
ocl5-d&ds. eSu Trustees