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tube, and the scientist never tells the
| microbe the result of the experiment.
| Out of it all the Great Scientist will
make something wonderful-some
thing worth keeping
| There are some men on whom the
knowledge Of affinity between them
selves and any woman dawns grad
ually, like the point of joke on a
| slow-moving brain. There are others
who know what place woman is go
ing to take in the story of their lives
after five minutes conversation, as
we'll as though they had passed
through every phase, from acquain.
| tanceship to intellectual friendship;
through soulful silence to love itself.
1t is matter Of intuition, in which
| women are seldom surprised into a
mistake. They diagnose emotional
symptoms admirably, and, just as ad-
mirably, conceal their knowledge till
the proper or improper moment arises
to stop fencing.
| Fabian Dare was one of the men
who decide Immediately whether a
woman attracts them or not. 1t would
be wrong to say that he fell in love
with Elsa at first sight, but he felt
that he would fall in love with her if
he saw much of her. If Won larsen
helm had cared to explain such triv.
lal matter as human affinity in it's re.
lation to love. he would have demon.
strated to Fabian that his soul and
Elsa's inhabited the same star, and
that they were, therefore, liable to be
attracted towards love by the spirit
ual road, the entrance to which is sc
hidden by subtle mists that few ever
find it,
The following extract from the
diary of Fabian Dare, on the fourth
day, shows that he recognized this
spiritual affinity, though his percep
ton was slightly blurred by Elsa's
physical beauty. The extract is from
a page in which he had tried to write
down some meaning for all the suffer
ings he had undergone:
| Meaning! Isn't Elsa meaning
enough?
i Every pinch of hunger! i THANK
you.
Every crushed hope! / give yol
my gratitude.
"Humiliations! sordidness! grin
have led me to Elsa. have not falle1
III ioSe WIN YOU d. ulSt Si5ul, Elsa
that is not possible. have known
you always. recognized your voice
before saw you. knew everythins
about you, except-except that you
name was Elsa.
II knew that your hair streamet
; down in a FURNISHED plat, for l hav,
seen molten gold escaping from tn,
furnace Your face is luminous Will
the hazy dawn of womanhood,
have had such visions at dawn-gold
en- with the intangible lights of sun
set in wood. l have seen such Wis
ions in the clouds at sunset.
1.-THE blue of your eyes begins be
fore come to them. as I have seel
the azure lights in forest glade fore
J, | shadow the wonderful pool at the end
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love for him, and, as far as she knew,
he had none for her. Their relations
were more those of master and sery-
ant.
1t was the sixth day Of Fabian's i'm
prisonment in st. Martins street. for
the occulist never left the fiat with
out locking the door and taking the
key
speaking rather angrily to Elsa while
diary:
"Elsa's not real woman" he wrote.
"She Is not yet in contact with the
earth at any point. Only the nebula
of woman, drifting down towards /
reality see her as a crystal takingt
shape. Will it be my touch which
shall dictate her form? She
He was interrupted by the entrance
of the girl herself. Her pretty face
looked troubled The young man
wondered whether it had anything to
do with the alteration he had heard
between herself and her father.
She came and stood in front Of
Fabian you must tell me, Mr.
Crawley," she said, earnestly, what
is this experiment in which you help
my father? | ask him, and he only
laughs" There was suggestion os
terror in her wide open eyes.
The young man rose from his chair.
Wont you sit down."
mo, no! Tell me! 1t is some
thing must know!"
But Well. the fact is, l don't
know anything about it,
'Then how can you help him? You
cannot she said, getting more agi-
tated. 81 tell you, you will be the ex-
pertinent He is my father, but he liz
not as other men. He will do terrible
things to you. He will hypnotise you,
and take something out of you and put
things into YOU. What he will do I
do not know, but it will be terrible!
You must go-quickly, before he
comes back-and you must never let
him see you again. / have key my
| father knows not off,
In her excitement she came UP to
him and took him by the arm 1t was
the first time she had touched him.
He knew now she was real woman.
She tried to push him towards the
door, repeating, "You must go! You
must go!"
"But you do not understand.
cannot go! l am pledged have
taken money-it would be most dis.
honorable! But it is very kind of
you, all
"Oh, yes. Elsa is always most
| kind" Abdul Won Tarsenheim stood
in the door, smiling on them .sBut
our young friend will not care to tear
himself away, for tomorrow is the
day arranged for the so interesting
experiment, which will make us all So
RICH
i Ito be Continued.)
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AN oTTuMWA CASE.

E. Marble, ITO w. Main ST., ottum-
wa, la, says: For some time was
often in misery from the severe pains
in my back. If sat in one position
for any length OF time it was almost
impossible for me to arise without
assistance as anv attempt to do SO
caused sharp twinees to dart through
my body. Accompanying this was an
annoyance from the kidney secretions
and though l doctored considerably,
was unable to rid myself of the diff
Guilty. ! finally procured Doan's Kid
ney Pills at Sargent's drug store and
they helped me at once, disposfng OF
the pains In my back and strengthen
ing my kidneys. I give them my
hearty endorsementn
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out, and l am one of the TOOLS" He
murmured the last words aloud.
Whats that you are mumbling
about?"
Il was agreeing that you won't
need my help, Adelaide, and I was
damning myself"
How seriously you take it! But l
have always heard that men who
have-gone the pace become the worst
kind of Mrs. Grundies. RIVE, you
are getting to be Mrs. Grundy."
"You don't understand" muttered
Ancestor.
'Now, as for me, morality has long
since ceased to have any meaning. 1t
has merely become dreary habit,
| like-like-'
immortality with me-" suggested
Ancestor
II think l was going to have said
like shaking hands and saying How
do you do? And, do you know, look
ing back On my life, it is more the
| things / haven't done, than the things
l have done, that regret. wonder
| If you realise now, RIVE, that was
much fonder Of you in those old days
than I ever dared let on? You were
a poetical, high strung boy, and were
never meant to wallow. If l had run
away with you when you wanted me-
| wonder, RIVE, how it would have
turned out? But | had married for
love, and there was something sacred
about it still, in spite of the sacrilege
that had been done. But l believe
would have been a better woman to-
day If | had been worse woman
| then"
Ancestor took her hand sIt's not
too late, Adelaide" he said, but there
was no tremor in his voice.
"That was wrung from you, RIVE
But she did not withdraw her hand.
1T would never do. The prodigal
lover-and the two of us sitting down
to cold collation.! And if morality
has become dreary habit-still, !
can't shake it off at my age"
"And there's a better reason yet,
sighed Ancestor, coming down the
staircase
He watched Vandraken's face Gag
erly, hoping to discern some look of
Indifference.
"If you don't give me this dance,
shall feel that l didn't do justice to
The Frivolity' after ALL" the young
man was saying. Ancestor thought
he had never looked so attractive as
that moment. Gle has changed" he
thought. "He is wearing the mask of
an idealist over his own face"
II wish I could really wish I
could Mr.. Vandraken. It's two.
step, and you are an American. Oh,
wonder If he would mind! But l do
hate hurting peoples feelings"
He will only think he has made a
mistake. Do give it to me, Lady
Kitty!"
well, in the interest of economy
for it's Mr. Slimsmore, and this is
my best dress-come on!'
ri won't need your help RIVE l
won't need your help" Lady Donoyle
rose. 81 must go back to my guests.
listen to their last words, their fare
well speeches, and that sort of thing.
A dreary habit, like my morality"
CHAPTER VIII.
Lady Donoyle and her daughter
were having tea together. They were
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N CHAPTER VII. Continued.
i II say. Adelaide, / vote we discuss
this matter seriously. After ALL you
know. the fact that my life has been
Ia rotten one, and yours an unhappy
tone, is no reason why we shouldn't
Eguard another generation from our
mistakes. You know what it means
Ito marry a wrong 'un, If anyone
does"
J But that's different, RIVE" She
was toying with the fringe of her
ostrich feather fan and listening to
the music of an old valse which float
ed in from the ballroom. 81 married
for love-I got cheated That valse-
the one they are playing now-was be-
ing played when l first met Hugo. l
married for love-"
tsFor Gods sake!-don't mention
that man to mel" said Ancestor, grip
ping her wrist.
II married for love- she persisted.
81 mean to guard Kitty against my
mistakes. That's my wrist you are
cquashing, RIVE"
Sorry" He kissed the place light
~. you are right in way, Ade-
laide. Love is dangerous horse to
back in a race we are running with
fate-in our set. I'd rather see Kitty
marry some pally sort of chap =
plenty of money, and no sentiment on
either side-and if he had walked &
bit large at odd moments, that would
be all right. But Vandraken isn't that
sort. Besides, he doesn't mean to
marry for five years at least. At the
end of that time"
"Of course he doesn't mean to mar
ry! Men never do, unless they are
Indian civil servants with six months
leave in which to find wife. Of
course he doesn't mean to marry; but
that's all the more reason why he
should be married. He's pink baby
now, and if Kitty gets him she is
clever enough to keep him pink
baby Marriage is the only thing for
man like that
4 "a week ago | would have agreed
with you. | would have helped you
Lave shot at it. But now-you
must simply take my word for 1t that
Vandraken is not manageable.
can't tell you any more-but 1 don't
help you in this, Adelaide"
The music had stopped the dane
ers were drifting out of the ballroom
into the sitting-out places. They pass
ed the two in the window seat. The
second couple which went by were
Lady Kitty and Vandraken. He had
evidently said something which had
amused her; she was laughing merrily
and looking radiant Vandraken
checked in front of the window seat.
s'Not there, Mr. Vandraken. know
a much better place. But only take
very amusing partners to that retreat.
It is called The Frivolity' Can you
do Justice to it?" She looked up at
him and laughed
'sIt is solemn responsibility, Lady
Kitty. / will try to be worthy of it,"
AS they passed up the staircase,
Ancestor noted the adoring look on
Vandrakenfs face
II don't think l shall want your
help after all, Rivie,' said Lady Don
oyle, triumphantly.
"And brought him here-and Kit
ty has taken a fancy to him-and L
There is some CHASTITY fate working
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rails in love with me, he will conceal
1t under laughter and jests. But what
pity SO exquisite a thing as love
should be handled as we are handling
it at this moment 1t is like grasping
butterfly and finding its fairy plum
age left on your fingers
Lady Donoyle finished her tea, and
put the cup down, before she replied:
1T was not exactly love We wera
talking about, dear; it was marriage.
1t is better not to combine them. The
kind of life we lead Is too complicated.
Love in cottage must be charming,
II you are lucky enough to be born a
Is the good of wishing? You can't
nave everything. | married for love,
SO speak from experience"
But unless Mr.. Vandraken falls in
love with me. he certainly won t
bother to marry me-" Kitty went
over to a. mirror and pinned spray
of orchids on her breast. She had a
charming figure. Almost too good for
girl in her first season. her moth
er thought, as she watched In the
mirror her daughter, and the reflec-
ton of her daughter, who was in
turn, a reflection Of herself at the
same age-the same gold hair, and
blue eyes, which had not looked on
trouble.
ooh, but OF course he must fall in
love with you, Kitty You must be-
come necessary to his existence, and
marriage is the only price which he
will be allowed to pay. That is why
he will put his finger too deep in the
crows nest. A man who is used to
having everything he wants, and pay
Ing for it, is apt to forget that there
is other coinage besides money He
must love you so much that you can
do with him-anything- like. Let
the man do the lavishing, In your
generation, Kitty"
The girl turned round and looked
at her mother with surprise, such
note of fierceness had come into
her voice.
Turn about, Kitty; and it is our
turn, this time Make him love you
child, till there is only you in all his
world Take everything he has to
give, and dole out In return, not love,
but that most excellent imitation of
the article"
ooh, stop, mammal" The girl came
over to her mother.
"Lovealine, Kitty--lovealine! That
is how you will be happy-at least,
how you won't be unhappy, and will
have the satisfaction Of knowing
for you are only myself, projected into
the future-that your fathers sex
can't always win"
1t was the first time Kitty had seen
her mother drop her pose of cynical
calm. Some nerve in her own gentle
breast vibrated in sympathy with the
storm. She, too, spoke excitedly,
hardly knowing what she said
But if the devil in him-the little
devil who is painting on the back Of
the canvas-calls to the angel in me,
and the angel answers? What then.
mamma?-what them"
"Why Kitty! My dear child" an
swered Lady Donoyle, Immediately
Gained by the answering note. "This
is Eaton Square, and we pay rates to
the London county council, and you
have been properly brought up and
brought out. But 1t only shows we
ought to keep the bandages on"
She looked at the card again. eve
that is to say, you-will be at home
this day week, won't you, Kitty,
dear?"
Lady Kitty nodded her golden head.
Then I will let Mr.. Vandraken
know"
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CHAPTER TX.

clergyman, but he had never really
been orthodox 1t was not so much
that he did not believe in revealed re.
ligion, as that he dreamed that more
was being revealed to him than had
yet been written in the Bible. He
was too vague and poetic to notice
whether the ideas which came to him
clashed with accepted theology Or
enriched it. His experience of life
for the last few months had made him
drift more than ever from the church
as he knew it; yet his first thought
was, that If he got this ten thousand
pounds, he would resume his studies,
and be ordained All his sufferings
had only increased his longing to de-
liver his message. The church was
the only channel he could conceive Of
He was too numbed by suffering to
entirely realise what terrible thing
he was doing by submitting his will
to be experimental on by hypnotism
If the temptation had come in any
conventional manner-if he had been
told that what he was doing was
very near selling his soul to the devil
in the medieval fashion, he would
probably have resisted. But there
were no horns or hoofs on the devil
who had tempted him in Leicester
Square, and after all, he was not
much more than boy
Every day Won Tarsenheim threw
him into a hypnotic sleep for at least
two hours. The fact that he always
woke up feeling none the worse, en-
caI hin, n ho&
going to earn his money easily
en- caused him wonder.
Won Tarsenheim was kind enough
to Fabian, in his curious, mockine
way. He sent out and got clothes
for him, to replace his rags, and al
the little things a gentleman needs he
provided. Also, Fabian noticed thai
the food was of the best. and calcu
! lated to build him up. His host also
gave him some tonic drug which wa.
magical in it's effect.
Each day which followed remained
blurred dream in Fabian Dares mem
DRY. He did not even distinguish be
tween waking and sleeping. The
dream simply went forward.
He had always kept journal since
the writing impulse had come to him
1t was not the orderly diary of tn,
l,methodical man, who jots down eacl
night the commonplace doings of tn,
I, day, in an effort to save the nothing
ness of his life from kindly oblivion
but a fragmentary record of bizarr,
/ sensations. During the last few
months it read as though an electro
pen had been attached to the end
of his tortured nerves. All through i
rang the cry, 81 can feel so much
can do SO little! Where does 1t lead :?
| The first night under Won larsen
helms roof he wrote:
Il begin to see meaning in it all
have sold myself to be experiment,
ed on. Why not? We are all bein;
experimental on, and without pay
We are only microbes in the cultur
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ITO be Continued.)

Reduces Discount Rate.
Berlin, June 4-The Imperial banl
OF Germany reduced the rate of dis
count from 5 to 4 " per cent.
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CHAPTER VIII.
Lady Donoyle and her daughte
were having tea together. They wer
The Washington herald., 1908-04-15
A Poor Plea for Pay

Many and sometimes ingenious. argu-
ments have been put forth by army and
navy people to promote the cause Of in
crease Of pay. which seems on the verge
Of realization. There is no question OF
the need Of such relief any more than
there is doubt concerning the justice and
necessity of increasing the pay of the civil
an employees OF the government. There
Will be little sympathy, however. with the
information which is conveyed to Wash
ington in a newspaper dispatch from San
Francisco giving the reasons left by a
lieutenant of the army signal corps for
committing suicide the other day. He is
quoted in the dispatch as having said
70 his commanding officer a few days
prior TO his self-destruction; My pay in
the army will net allow me to support
two families; as l must provide for my
mother and sisters. that bars me from
having a family Of my own" In other
words, not being able to support two fam
lies on his military pay. this officer with
drew himself from the responsibility and
task Of supporting one family. Of course.
there Is no occasion to look for logic in
the reason with which any suicide seeks to
justify his act. because the avoidance
OF ordinary cares and responsibilities by
suicide is an indication Of abnormality. if
rot feebleness. Of mind
But It is mistake to permit a perhaps
casual remark Of a junior army officer
to be sent forth to the country as an
indication that army pay should be in
creased. Such a proceeding can only be
with the idea Of encouraging the public
impression that suicide is a natural and
iustifable result of small service pay. It
IS much better to dwell on other things
which are more reasonable and which
have greater truth In them-and there
are plenty Of them-to show that the pay
of the military-naval personnel, whether
commissioned or enlisted. should be in
creased. It is not necessary to go to the
morgue for convincing statistics.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-15
Track Gambling Disgrace Ended.

The spring racing meeting Of the Wash
ington Jockey Club is ended.
May its like never again be scent
horde OF allen gamblers. come to prey
upon the National Capital. with touts
and tipsters and other types of crooks in
their train. completed their three weeks
roundup yesterday, and with the setting
sun. departed hence. their pockets bulg-
ing with iIl-gotten gain.
That they were harbored all this time.
protected in their iniauitous business. and
not driven out as common criminals, Is
due to a vicious law absurdly inter
preted; to an easy-going. reluctant lot Of
stand-pat law officers, and finally, to
group of considerate statesmen IN Con-
greSs, who, after these bookmaking
olaeklegs had come and installed them
selves for business al some expense. felt
kindly constrained to withhold action
pending the three weeks racing. rather
than impose hardship" upon the whole
corrupt and corrupting outfit
The record of the spring meeting now
closed is disgracefuI in the extreme-dis-
graceful in every aspect of it, in spite Of
the attractive environment and inviting
auspices under which it was conducted.
II race-track gambling is so abhorrent.
so destructive of business and morals. as
10 reall for stern suppression by States
and municipalities il should be doubly
abhorrent as it is doubly disgraceful.
when carried on in the District of CO.
iumbia. It's tolerance means govern
mental sanction and protection. Yet
Washington, the Capital of the Nation
the city that should be the model and
exemplar-was the tardiest of all cities
10 take stand against the evil. and
Congress the least impressed Of all law
making bodies. save only the New York
senate, with the urgent necessity Of doing
its duty by wiping out the evil.
But this Benning meet is the finish.
The blacklegs will prey upon this COM
munity no more forever. Racing. sup
ported by crooks and thriving upon un-
clean money, will give way TO clean,
wholesome sport that thrives upon Its
merits as such. If the suppression OF the
blackegs, the wiping out of the public
gambling evil. means death 10 horse rae
ing, then IT deserves death.
It is the sort of sport to KILL 1t ought
to have been killed long ago.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-15
The Issue in the Empire State.

GOV. Hughes is now engaged in con
test Of far more than State interest. for
It has some features characteristic of
both the best and the worst sides of our
political life. The issue arising out Of the
defeat of the anti-gambling legislation
is simply whether the State shall be ruled
by political bosses, or petty satraps."
as the governor designates them. or bv
the legitimate representatives of the peo-
pie; for the defeat OF the anti-gamhljng
and other reform legislation desired bv
the governor was accomplished at the
dictation Of the Republican machine lead
ers. and the responsibility for il was
brought rather definitely home 10 then,
These men, because they cannot "do
business" with Hughes, have become his
worst and most .treacherous enemies
From them and from the consequences
of their interference with the work of the
legislature the governor has appealed di-
rectly 10 the people, with what success
it remains with the future to demon
strate,
In taking this course, Gov. Hughes
shows his abiding faith in the popular
sense Of right and justice-a faith as
strong as that of a Jefferson or a Bryan.
What he most Of all desires is that the
popular Will, whatever It is, shall have
accurate and untrammeled expression
In the mouths Of the peoples representa-
tives. The vote Of last week in the state
senate on the race track bills registered
the will of political bosses. It was the
result Of Intervention of outside authority
unknown to the constitution or to the
law. 1t was the manifestation of an
alien ana malign power which the Ameri
can people everywhere are fighting in
order that the forces OF democracy may
have free play. Gov. Hughes, therefore.
stands for the vindication Of democratic
government under representative forms
for the right Of the people TO govern and
be governed in the manner prescribed by
the constitution. instead of by self-con-
stituted satraps, each with a self-ap-
portoned measure Of authority, con-