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A n O t h e r. A r E e u II StO]

pleasure in listening to him. He asked
him in a less peevish tone:
"And are you satisfied with your OK.
psdiuonT"
Delighted! All the more as I had
never been present at a case of tho sort.
and I ind that this one Is not lacking
In interest"
NO in that mysterious intricacy
which you prize so highly
And which Is so stimulating. Monsieur
lie JUICE d'Instruction! / know nothing
more exciting han to see all tho facts
coming up out of the shadow. clustering
together. 80 to speak. and gradually
forming the probable truth"
'The probable truth! You 20 pretty
fast. young mani Do you sugse that
you have your little solution of the rid
die rsadyf"
, "Oh. noi' replied Beautrelet with Q
laugh. 'Only-it seems to me that
there are certain points on which It 10
not Impossible to form ~ opinion; and
others even are % precise a. to war
rant-a conclusion"
"Oh. but his IL becoming very
curious n I shall get to know some
thing at last! For 1 confess. to my
great confusion. that / know nothing"
THAT Is because you have not a
time to reflect. Monsieur le Juge din
struction. The great thing Is to reflect.
Facts very seldom fail to carry their
WI explanation
And. according to you. the facts
which We have just ascerttained carry
their wi e~xplanation7"
Don't you think SO y~ourself1 In
any case. I rave ascertained lone be.
sides those which are set down in the
Official report"
Good! So that. II I were to ask you
which were the objects stolen from this
room"
II should answer hat I know"
Bravo. My gentleman knows more
about 1t han the wner himself. NJ.
de Gesvres has everything accounted
for; NJ. Isldore Beautrelet has not.
He misses a bookcase in three sections
and a life-size statue which nobody
ever noticed. And. II l asked you the
name OF the murderer
IT should again answer you that I
know It."
All present gave a start. The deputy
and the Journalist drew nearer, NJ.
de Gesvres and the two girls. impressed
by Beautrelet's tranquil assurance, lis
tened attentively.
You know the murderer's manner"
' Yea" y
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D O lille S t O r. i e
BY Daisy Miller

Mouse, do you seer"
'Oh. OH" said the Toy Dog. holding
his sides. Where IS that Cat?"
Come on. You put the Mouse be-
tween my horns and we will see about
that soft-footed Cat" said the Goat.
They stole upstairs n there was the
Toy Cat. looking out OF the window In
the nursery.
Here. you wind the Mouse up with
your paws. I'M when you are ready
I will hold 1t until you can scratch on
the side OF the door as a real mouse
does" said tho Goat.
SO the Dog wound up the Toy Mouse
md the Goat held him until the
scratching o. the door made the Toy
Cat ook up.
Let 60" whispered the Goat TO the
Dog, and away went the Mouse right
over the floor In front OF the Toy Cat.
And she bounded after It, while the
Goat and the Dog stood outside and
laughed.
And when the Cat caught It she said
to herself:
I'm bet that is some Of my friend.
the Dogs dodngs."
And she went away TO hide the
Mouse.
I'm get even with that Dog yet"
she said.
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chateau and surrounding himself with
ell the necessary Information. he took
the road back to Dspps accompanied
by the deputy prosecutor.
Night foil. A the boudoir was 20 re-
main locked. Jean Daval's body had
been moved to another Two
women from tho neighbnrhood eat up
with It. assisted by Suzanne and Ray
monde. Downstairs young Isidors
Beautrelet slept on the bench in tho
old oratory under tho wstchfuh eye Of
tho village policeman. who had been
attached to his person. Outside. the
gendarmos. the farmer and . dozen
peasants had taken up their position
among tho ruins and along the walls.
All was stiil until eleven o'clock. but
at ten minutes past eleven . shot
echoed from the other nde of the
house.
Attention. reared the ~sergeant.
1.-TWO mon remain h~ere-you. Fossier.
and you. Leoanu. The Others at the
double!"
They all rushed forward and ran
round tho house on the left. A figure
was seen TO make away In the dark.
Then. suddenly. a second shot drew
them further on. almost to the borders
OF the farm. And. all at once. as they
arrived In a band at the hedge which
lines the orchard. a nane burst out, to
the right OF the farmhouse. and other
flames also rose in a thick column. II
was a barn burning. stuffed to the ridge
with straw,
The ~scoundreis!" shouted the ser
geant.
They've set Are to n. Have at them,
lads! They ant be far away"
But the wind was turning the flames
toward the main building and II became
necessary. before all things. TO ward on
tho danger. They all exerted themselves
with the greater ardor lnasmuch as NJ.
de Gesvres, hurrying TO the scene OF tho
disaster. encouraged them with the
promise OF a reward. by tho time that
they had mastered the flames II was .
In the morning. All pursuit would
have been vain.
wen look into Il by daylight" said
the sergeant. They are sure TO have
left traces, We shall nnd them"
And ] shall not be sorry" added NJ.
de Gesvfes, TO learn the reason of this
attack. To set fire to trusses OF straw
strikes ne as a very useless proceeding"
Come with me. Monsieur le Comte.
/ may he able to tell you the reason"
Together they reached the ruins Of the
clolster,. The sergean called out,
"YLecanu!--Fossisrl'
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s t O r Y

The sehsr ssndarmss were airsaAy
hunting for their comrades whom thsy
had left standing sentry. TAsy snded
BY nndins them ~ . few pAoss from
the little door. The swo men were lying
full length IN the Sroond. bound and
gagged. with banAagss ovsr thsls lsyss.
"Mondsur 10 Comts.' muttsrsd the
sergeant. while his msu wsrs bong re-
leased; "Monsieur 10 Oomts. We have
been trieasd IKE children"
How sor'
The shoto-the attack ou tho Saya-
the nre-aii 20 much humhas 70 ~ W
down thsre-A diversion. LurinG that
time thsy were tying W our sWa asa
and the business M aeaA"
What businsaf"
Carrying OF the wounAsd aaA a
courssr'
You dent mean to say yeu think
"Thinkf Why les ~ paatn a. q
pikestanl The hea came b me ten
minutes aso-but I'm Q tool noe h have
thought Of n earlier. We should have
nabbed them ALL" ousviiion stamped
W wv VI eno 8rouhos Win = SUDDEN
attack OF rag But where. o~onfound
Il. where did they 80 through Which
way did they carry him on' For. das'.
It all. We beat the rround all day:
and a mar can't hide In . tuft Of grass
especially when hos wounded It's
witchcraft. that's what II tsi"--
Nor was this the last surprise await
ing Sergt. Qusvllon. At dawn. when
they entered the oratory which had been
used as a cell for young Isidore Beau.
trelet. they realized that young Isidore
Beautrelet had vanished.
on a chair slept the village policeman.
bent in two. BY his side stood n water
bottle and two tumblers. At the bottom,
~ one OF those tumblers were Q few
grains % white powder.
On examination Il was proved, nrst.
that young Isidore Beautreiet had adj
miuistered a sleeping draught to the
village policeman; secondly. that lie
could only have escaped by q window
situated at a height Of seven or eight
feet in tho wall. and lastly-a charming
detail this-that ne could only have
reached this window by using the back
OF his warder as a footstool.
Go he Continued.)
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Hello, Goat ="
said the Dog.
Anything new?"
Yes" said the
Toy Goat. but
you cannot keep
a secret and l am
not going to tell
you what / am
going to do TO
that Cat. because
you would go and
tell her"
NO. o II ! d
not" said the
Dog. What's go
ing on?"
&C o m o with
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What are you doing hereT'
A "why-I'm-rm improving
- my mind"
There are schools for that; yours. for
instance"
'You forget, Monsieur lie Juge DIN
struction, that this Is TIE twenty-third
OF April n that we are In the middle
OF the Easter holidays"
"Well?"
well. I have every right to spend my
holidays as ! please"
your father"
"My father lives at the other end Of
the country, In Savoy, and he himself
advised me to take a little trip on the
North Coast
with a false beard?'
"O,., no! That's my own idea, AT
school, we talk n great deal about mys-
'erlous adventures; we read detective
stories, In which people disguise them
selves; we imagine any amount OF ter
ri1le and intricate cases. So ! thought
would amuse myself; and ! put on
thl. false beard. Besides, ! enjoyed the
Of being taken seriously and
| pretended to be a Paris reporter. That
is how, last night. after an uneventfui
r,riod OF more than a week. l had the
pleasure Of making he acquaintance OF
my Rouen colleague; and, this morning.
when he heard OF the Ambrumesy MUIR
der, he very kindly suggested that l
should come with him and that we
bo,ld share the cost OF a fly"
Isidore Beautrelet said all this with
frank and artless simplicity of which
4 wa impossible not to feel the charm
NJ. FuIeul himself. though maintaining
a distrustful reserve, took . certain
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ne, aIu &c Toy Toat as nc Ted inc
Toy Dog downstairs.
Near the last step the Goat saw a
mouse as quiet as you please.
Hush! don talk so loud. That's a
Toy Mouse. and when you wind 1t UP
II runs k u real mouse. Cat-Toy
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MAY BE woopeN.AgADEp.

Caller-I didn't know your son was
at college. Is this his freshman Year,
Mrs. Bunderby--oh. no. indeed! Hes
= syeArore.-Boston Transcript
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Does Not Propose.

A GIRL who signs her letter "A. Il.
"A L." writes;
"A very wealthy gentleman has
paid me II great deal Of attention Tor
some time. but he has never asked me
to marry him. What am | 20 think ."
You are TO think he does not wish to
marry YOU mntIl he asks Won ".
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ELLO, Dog!' said the Toy
Goat 70 the Toy Dog n
morning.
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o4 Bad Habit.

A GIRL who signs her letter 'F.
n ~" writes:
4 \ II have been engaged to a young
man for some time and love him
dearly. but he has one bad habit, lie
chews tobacco. really think II dis
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gushing to Co so, but how can I cure
him."
Speak to the young nan tacttully and
kindly. | am Suro he will be glad to
give up the habit II by 50 doing he
can please YOU.
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They Qua,relled.

A fOtNG man Wh0 signs his letter
~ &c. $. j." writes;
~ am i'm love with a CIR, whose
father Is wealthy, while | am poor, We
quarrelled once, but now We are friends
again. DO you think 1t would be proper
for me TO invite her 70 a dance
There Is no reason why YOU should not
invite the young lady 10 . dance
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Cheer Up. Cuthbert!"
~ What's the Use of Being Blue?
OK There Is a Lot of Luck Loft.
By Clarence L. Cullen


ovsnss. $50 - n rs P~snAns O. "a ss lA w.sA
CO. JOUR " wma enemy" Is tn fellow who sys that you asi
g A "Bracer" may NUMB the eject Of a Facer, but It
les =: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: : :: :: =: 49,: :: :: %: e: :. :: 2: : : F.: : : :. : : :: 3: !:
>A neUer can HEAL 81
Often Trouble only means to pass IN Time o Day
Nw with youi
liz ~u Our idea of a Berry Spectacle is that II a H Person
V#3M@ audfdy sympathizns with himself
n IT'S a mark of distinction to be btackbaled BY the
t III ItCdntBcDone CIubi
eNNt6 GULL Sometimes it's almost worth while to get Q hard Jolt
for the pure unghng Joy of winning out!
Your trouble probably is a Temporary Embarrassment. o, the fellow sit
Bohemia may have n sea coast but IT'S piufuny easy to 90 to pieces
on its roeksi
When youvc danced % mus pay the Kddsri
"Just a Good Fish in the Sea" is the Balm of tn Beatenl
The difference between us m n fellow whose game we try to buck is
That h always has the price,
Our idea of a sdfstrtnser is he chap who imasnes hat a notary pubucs
seal snature haven nothing to d o with keeping a 200 Resolution intact!
When they say that you mean WE'LL" they don't,
Being a Goo Fellow is mighty hard work when your. reduced to Making
a Business Of I'll
IT'S a good mans fault is thu Last Stand Of the wonr.ou
The True Word spoken in Jest generally is a Javenn,
smokers unpleasanuyi
Keep the Old Book as q Guide on what Not to Do uhen you Turn Over
the Nep LedH
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young man whom | think a great deal
OF. ! am Of the opinion that he thinks
something OF me. lie asked for my
picture and my city address, saying
that he intended 10 write. ] refused to
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Mrs. Solomon
Being the Confessions of the Seven
HundredB Wife.
z.snslz1sd BY Helen Rowland.

Copyright. 1910. by The Press Publishing Co 9Th. New York World.
- AMT CLAUS hear noto my Prayer, and deNrer
me from them that could prosecute and destroy
me In this mine hour OF discontenti
Yea. from mine opn follu delipey me; from the buy.
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Loves Her..

A YOUNG man who signs his let
n ter ~. II. c." writes:
. II am much IN love with a young
lady. but she does not guess / care
for her. How can ] let her know"
Why not tell the young lady o love
her? That Is. II you care enough To
marry her.
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might better have too much pride than no dignity. So II there Is any coui
be done let the man do It, A girl can never win a husband worth ha'
doing all the wooing herself
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from him"
! do not know how you expected the
young man 10 write II you did not give
him your address However. o are
quite right not to give him your
photograph.
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p l..
(Continued.)

NvINCE or not, NJ. Filleul
did not look as II he liked
the story. lie asked, gruffiy:
What are you doing here?"
"Why-I'm-rm improving
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Sometimes It's almost worth while to get
for the pure tlngling Joy of winning out!
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upsnshs uIa = NJ Pns Puhrhhs O. Cs Nw IA waaA
AZ JOUR own worst enemy" Is the fellow who says that you ar
You don't ured a Shovel for the Shows Of the Yesteryear
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his or her own style of hand shake.
and not slavishly follow a rule laid
down by social leaders," declares
| Father.
Some ginks push out hand that
feels more like a slab of dried cod
fish than friendly grip" Son COM
plains. THAT style out to be barred
every place except in prohibition con-
ventions and Quaker prayer meet
ings."
THE good old fashioned Methodist
camp meeting hand shake was about
as cordial a clasp as any," Father AYERS
approvingly.
Too much like six day GO as
you please to make hit with me-" Is
Sons criticism. Especially If a dea-
eeH would set-a stranrie hold on a
favorit sisters lilly white shaker, It
would be good night before the break
away. That style of wrestling match
ought to have referee to call time on
the clinches"
The little courtesies of this kind
meant more when | was a boy than
they seem to nowadays" declares
Father, barking back TO the good old
times before the war. when a man
would meet a friend In the street then
they would shake hands as though il
had some significance"
That significant kind of shake will
never go out Of STYLE puts in Son
Its just as popular to-day as when
you were a kid To the bunch who
know the code It's the only real glad
hand One finger down means Let's
have drink. Two down, with old
pals, sometimes mean a 'souse,' and so
forth. OF the whole raft of secret
signs and grips. the wireless street
code sure has the call"
1 don't know as | care so much
for hand shaking in business affairs"
comments Father.
"Sidestep that busy little business
mitt disturber If YOU can" Son warns
Beat II out the back door if YOU see
him coming first OF all the gold brick
sellers that chap is quite the worst
once he gets his claw tangled up with
his victims wrist and puts his left
hook in the middle of your back call
for help and have the safe locked"
A woman has invented this latest
method of hand clasp" notes Father
Leave 1t to little bright eyes to |
put the fancy touches on the hand |
holding game" Son says But there's |
one form of hand shake more popular |
just now than anything else on the |
mat"
81 guess ! haven't heard about it,"
suggests Father.
Its the hooks OF MIR. ferries and I
Mr. johnson are going TO pass out at
Keno on JULY =" concludes Son
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It has been said that the most beau
tiful and wonderful gift In the world ia
that of finding happiness in everyone
and everything.
And some people really seem TO have
more than their share of this gift. No
matter how many worries and troH-
hles they may have. they smile through
IL all and even find time to sympathlze
with other people whose lot In life may
not be nearly as hard as their own.
OF course, everyone has not this gift.
but II we only like to try, we can
cultivate 1t 10 large extent.
The first thing to do is TO make M
our minds to try and sink self Alto
gether, and think only OF others, SAYS
Home Chat. There are always plenty
OF people worse Off than ourselves to
whom a kind word or even a smile
would mean a great deal. and If We
make up our minds to try and do what
we can TO make them happy we are on
the right road to being happy our
selves
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Dreamers.

I do wish you would break yourself
OF that habit of dreaming" | heard
mother say to her little daughter the
other day.
| suppose very few of us can truth
fully say that we never do any castle
building. Even most OF us grown up
folk like to wander now and again into
the land of Let's pretend, and there
is no harm in 1t, so long as we don't
overdo It.
1t is only when we allow ourselves
to dream when we ought to be doing
that there Is danger
After ALL life is very largely made
up OF Let's pretend" For II does not
always do to let the world know es-
actly what we think or feel Perhaps
we have piece of work to do that Is
distasteful to us. But IL, instead of
grumbling about 1t, we try TO pre-
tend that we like doing IT, sometimes
the pretend" grows to be a reality.
says Home Chat.
Even when we feel dlsagreeable and
cross there Is no need to let every
one know about 1t. 1t is far better to
pretend that we are not, and to keep
any unkind thoughts we may have to
ourselves, instead of pouring them out
TO anyone who will listen.
so don't let us be too hard on the
dreamers. Try to persuade them TO
keep their dreaming within proper
limits, If YOU WILL but don't ask them
to give up dreaming altogether. For
TO try and cure them of the castle
building habit would be to take away
one o. the greatest pleasures of life.
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SUMMER IDLENESS
NY MADISON G. PETERS.

There can be no possible objection,
either on the ground OF morality or
expendiency, to the widely accepted
dictum that summer time Is a period
Of physical relaxation for all those who
can afford to make II such. The wo-
man who does not avail herself of an
| opportunity to relax, to drop temper
arily the more or less weighty burden
which modern life imposes, Is unwise
to the verge OF culpab!lity. She Is
forging for herself chain of physical
servitude which will bind her more
closely as the years pass.
There is danger. however grave dan
ger. in the opposite extreme. The
number of women who take advantage
of the approach of the summer season
to adopt the butterfly idea of life as
far as they are able is constantly on
the increase. They frequen& the sum-
nler resorts in battalions The wide
verandas of summer hotels and board
ing houses are fianked by rows Of
them For the most part they are
women who have abandoned them
selves to utter vacuity. to absolute
hostility to effort of any description.
They not only toll not, but they have
ceased to think.
And the woman who eases TO think
who have ceased TO think ! do not in
clude the happy few who have put
away the memories of things that are
soul racking and even debasing
refer to that class far greater in point
of numbers, that has laid aside for the
summer season all active mental con-
stderation of the thing that II Is in
tended by Providence never should be
forgotten even for a single moment
the things that make for character
and true womanhood. These are the
things which summer relaxation gives
no license to forget.
Why is II that so mary women who
spend the summer at these resorts re-
turn to their homes unrefreshed In
body and nurelieved Of mental tire
1t is because they have confused rest
with idleness tried to make them
synonymous terms. They have not
awakened to the fact that idIeness OF
itself Is likely to become the most
strenuous and wearisame toll In their
efforts to secure absolute freedom from
physical and mental wear they have
overreached themselves.
1t Is we'll enough. and even praise
worthy to step out. for a brief pc
riod, of the ordinary routine of every
day life. but the human machine de-
-
stitution. To plunge into utter vacul-
ty Is as hazardous as II is unwise.
1t is not that part of human be-
ing which puts him at the head OF all
animal creation which Is in greatest
need Of summer relaxation. 1t is
rather the putting aside OF things that
are wholly material and worldly that
brings the rest that Is life giving and
substantial
There Is no rest to be secured from
the summer life at the fashionable re- Z
sorts. She who Is In search of whole
some efaxation-~and all other kinds
are spurious and worthless-need not I
expect to find II AT any of these places +
The very freedom from exertion she (
had craved is not to be found No /
matter how tyrannous the environ
ment from which she has fed tenn
she will find that she as Z
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OF the
Household

placed herself In a condition Of more
abject servitude The very artificiality
of the placer will weary her after the
novelty wears away.
1t is q most unfortunate mistake TO
make-that idleness brings rest. 1t 10
an error into which young girls are apt
to fall. 1t Is true sometimes that n
change of occupation is as restful as
a change of scene. but 1t Is never
true thar tie substitution of idleness
for wholesome occupation turns out to
be profitable exchange.
Then this summer rest is such
golden opportunity to refresh and re-
stock, as 1t were, the mental apparatus
worn and tagging with the problems
of tn every day life, 1T may be made
an opportunity to fill the mind so full
Of the good thoughts OF life that some
of them NAV survive Through all the
years. Do not lose this chance to
gather strength that will sustaia you
In the struggles yet to come.
What sorry spectacle of unrest Is
afforded by the idle woman at the
summer resort, If ever you are tempt
ed to follow her in quest of peaceful
and upbuiiding rest-don't. And she
will be first to advise you against it,
The secret of profitable rest. then.
Is not in being able to stop thinking.
Like an anodyne taken for the relief
of pain, such treatment may bring
temporary inward enthanasia. but the
reaction Is sickrniaE The emily Way
to rest the mind perfectty--and there
will be no bodily rest until this IN
accomplishments 10 feed IL on food
that will nourish and develop II.
Go right on thinking durin. your
summer respite from the stern reali
ties, DO not suffer your mental equip
ment to grow rusty from forced dis
use, but let your thoughts be thoss
which have been crowded out OF your
busy life. the thoughts. perhaps. you
lave longed to think, but have had
reither time nor place for them. DO
this and observe bow speedily your
tired body will respond to the treat
nlcHt.
once more let me assure you that
summer idleness cannot 3riug you rest
The surcease of mental and bodily
strain that you crave must be wooed
and won by thinking--by the thought
that is healing and sustaining