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Teller as representatives to battse at
the last ditch or make the surrender
complete.
Take that stroll down Fifth avenue
from Fifty-ninth street, for the fun of
it. Then it was one fine long row of
mansions-granite and marble and
brownstone-every one a palace and
every n inhabited by an a%ristocracy
as great as America a ever furnish.
But now, walking down the street
from the park entrance, you meet few
er mansions than shops even for the
first three blocks. A count shows five
brokers, three real estate offices, two
corset concerns and a French modiste
between the Plaza and the residence
of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt to the
south. And in Fifty-seventh street.
not far from the Vanderbilt mansion
and just west Of the Harry Payne
Whitney, residence, the famous old OIL
yer Hartman mansion is to be made
over into a store for a dressmaker. The
fact that this new neighbor is said to
have been a Virginia beauty before she
entered the trade, however, may ap-
peal to the social taste Of the Whit
neys and vanderbilts.
Just below, the famous old Andrew
Zabriskie house has gone into the
hands of Schumann's sons, who are
making it over into fine business quar-
tiers, with apartments above. And
right there, also, is the Coils P. Hunt
ington mansion, with a new gilded art
shop across the way.
This little jaunt down Fifth avenue
shows, in addition, an amazing display
of glittering signs, with stately back
grounds of brownstone and marble, ad-
vertising trade where New York's real
society used to hold levee. Signs are
everywhere. One of them even adver-
tises coal from the basement OF an old
mansion that wreckers are destroying
overhead.
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course of action, l am not one to turn
back. Warner drove me; he was
plainly disguised, and he steered the
livery horse as he would the Dragon
Fly, feeling uneasily with his left foot
for the clutch, and working his right
elbow at an imaginary horn every
time a dog got in the way.
Warner had something on his mind,
and after we had turned into the road
he voiced it.
Miss Innes," he said. Il over
heard a part of a conversation yester-
day that / didn't understand. It<wasn't
my business to understand it, for that
matter. But I've been thinking all
day that I'd better tell you. Yesterday
afternoon, while you and Miss Ger
trude were out driving, l had got the
car in some sort of shape again after
the fire, and l went to the library to
call Mr.. Innes to see it. / went into
the living room, where Miss Liddy
said he was, and halfway across the
library 1 heard him talking to some
one. He seemed to be walking up and
down, and he was in a rage, ! can tell
you"
What did he say?"
"The first thing / heard was-ex
cuse me, Miss Innes, but it's what he
said, The damned rascal he said,
I'll see him in'-well, in hell was
what he said, in hell first Then
somebody else spoke up; it was a
woman. She said: I warned them,
but they thought I would be afr, ID"
"a woman! Did you wait to see rho
1t was?
ri wasn't spying, Miss Innes," W. r
ner said with dignity. But the mex
thing caught my attention. She said:
I knew there was something wrong
from the start. A man isn't well one
day, and dead the next, without some
reason / thought she was speaking
| of Thomas"
"And you don't know who it was!" I
exclaimed. Warner, you had the key
to this whole occurrence in your
hands and did not see it,"
However, there was nothing to be
| done. I resolved to make inquiry
when l got nome, u IN the mean
time, my present errand absorbed me.
| This was nothing less than to see
Louise Armstrong, and to attempt to
| drag from her what she knew, or sus-
| pected of Halsey's disappearance.
But here, as in every direction I
turned, l was bafled.
A neat maid answered the bell, but
she stood squarely in the doorway,
and it was impossible to preserve
ones dignity and pass her.
Miss Armstrong is very ill and UNI
able to see any one" she said. did
not believe her.
"And Mrs. Armstrong; she also
ill?"
"She is with Miss Louise and can
not be disturbed"
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A CORN EATER
New York Officer Gets Away With
81 Ears in 3 Hours and 5
Minutes.

New York.-Policeman William
Ornstein won the $40 purse and the
corn eating championship of the world
when he disposed of sixty-one ears of
the ~succulent "roasters." Red" Du-
gan. former champion, who has been
driving a horse ands was out of form.
did not much more than u half way
to Ornstein's figure. William Schwartz.
who has always been a rival of Du-
gan, was merely IN "also ran"
Ornstein is a newcomer in the corn
eating field. After the feat he an
nounced that he had saved" some
room If n contestants came late"
The corn eating contest was the
event of the season on the East side.
Edward Rozenstein, known all over
the East side as Rosy" had ar
ranged the event. It was In celebra-
ton Of his ~forty-eighth birthday. and
took place in his saloon at Broome
and Clinton streets.
Ornstein is ready to receive chal-
lenges from all comers
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Kinu Midas Found for Once That All
Things Did Not Always Come
His Way.

With a nonchalant air King Midas
allowed himself to be led upon q shop
ping expedition for q new hat for the
queen.
What cared he?
He knew perfectly well that all he
had to do was to touch anything
handy and convert it into gold where
with to settle the bill.
However, they arrived at the store,
and the queen tried on a hat after
another until at last she selected 2
perfectly lovely creation resembling
an inverted waste basket surrounded
by the ruins of q flower garden.
~That viii suit exactly said King
Midas. "And now, my young friend,
he said to the saleslady. = shall show
you how to pay millinery bills. Don't
bother to tell me the price 2 fthis
hat"
with / lordly air he touched the
hat and Instantly It became solid gold.
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#NR|l

Tell her 1t Is Miss Innes, and that 1t
is a matter Of the greatest impor-
tance."
1T would be of no use. Miss Innes,
my orders are positive"
At that moment a heavy step sound
ed on the stairs. Past the maids
white-strapped shoulder l could see q
familiar thatch Of gray hair, and in .
moment / was face to face with DR..
Stewart. He was very grave, and his
customary geniality was tinged with
restraint.
"You are the very m | want to
see,' he said promptly. Send away
your trap, and let me drive you home.
What is this about your nephew
He has disappeared, doctor. Not
only that, but there is every evidence
that he has been either abducted or
- / could not finish. The doctor
helped me into his capacious buggy
in silence. Until we had got a little
distance he did not speak; then he
turned and looked at me.
Now tell me all about it," he said.
He heard me through without speak
ing.
"And you think Louise knows some
thing?" he said when ! had finished.
Il don't-in fact, I am sure of it. The
best evidence Of it is this: She asked
me if he had been heard from, or if
anything had been learned. She won't
allow Walker in the room. and she
made me promise to see you and tell
you this: don't give up the search for
him. Find him, and find him soon.
He is living"
Well" l said, "if. she knows that,
she knows more. She is a very cruel
and ungrateful girl"
tShe is a very sick girl" he said
gravely. Neither you nor | can
Judge her until we know everything.
Both she and her mother are ghosts OF
their former selves. Under all this,
these two sudden deaths, this bank
robbery, the invasions at Sunnyside
and Halsey's disappearance, there is
some mystery that, mark my words,
will come out some day. And when
it does, we shall find Louise Arm
strong a victim"
Then we drove slowly home. ! had
the doctor put me down at the gate.
and | walked to the house-past the
lodge where we had found Louise, and,
later, poor Thomas; on the drive
where l had seen a man watching the
lodge and where, later, Rosie had been
frightened; past the east entrance,
where so short a time before the most
obstinate effort had been made to en-
ter the house, and where, that night
two weeks ago, Liddy and | had seen
the strange woman. Not far from the
west wing. laXAaD- hlackened ruins OF
the stables. l felt like a ruin myself
as | paused on the broad veranda be-
fore / entered the house.
Two private detectives had arrived
in my absence, and it was a relief to
turn over to them the responsibility
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HOW TO CLEAN WHITE SHOES
Comparatively Simple Matter to Re-
store Footwear to Original Per-
feet Whiteness.

Many a girl discards her white
shoes when they are good and dirty,
without knowing that a little enort
will restore them to their pristine
purity.
The first requirement for complete
restoration is not to get the wnlte
shoes too soiled, for they never look
so well as when they are taken in
hand before the discoloration becomes
too deep. After wearing canvas shoes
they should be given a good brushing
with a stiff brush, the sole edges and
heels freed from mud and washed on
with plain water. But do not let the
water get on the canvas, for this VIII
only serve to fasten the soil the tight
or. For whitening the canvas there
are many bottled liquids in the mar
ket, Chinese white being a favorite
and the most eficacious one. A nome
made whitener which Is just as good
If put together according to the Iormu-
la Is made of half an n OF gum
arabic dissolved in 40 ounces OF water;
to this add an ounce of white vinegar
and 20 ounces of powdered chalk
Shake the bottle well before using,
and put the white on with a brush,
going over the shoes with a second
coat a ter the first one has drled IN
If they seem to need 1t.
Where 1t Is desired to match a snoe
to the dress tint, old white canvas ties
or satin slippers may easily De
changed to any color wanted by add
ing a little dye to the gum arabic wa
ter and vinegar instead OF the chalk.
With any of the bottled liquids they
may also be made tan or black.
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CARE IN sTRlNGlNG BEADS
Simple Precautlcn That May Result u
the Saving Of Valuable
Ornaments.

The owner of any beads valuable
for their own worth or their associa-
lions might well take a lesson from
the pearlstringers. Their cardinal
principal is to tie a frm knot be-
tween each two pearls. Then II the
string breaks no more than n pearl
can Be lost. This applies just rs well.
81 course to other beads. / know of
one girl who lost nearly all Of a val
liable string Of coral by not taking this
nrecaution. The string broke In the
street and most of the beads rolled In
- the gutter and down the sewer be-
fore the owner or the bystancers
could get them again.
Neither wire % catgut IL good for
the stringing Of any Jewels where q
sti1f appearance IL out Of place. IN
stead. either surgeons silk-which Is
woven like braid. instead Of twisted.
and comes In several numbered thick
nesses-or nnely and flexibly woven
npld o. platinum chains are used.
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Really the silk is the more desirable
Of the two.
In stringing any precious beads, and
pearls especially, lever use a needle.
Simply wax the ends of the silk and
pass 1t through the hole. The knot
ting Is also an important point. It
must be large enough to hold the
bead, but not large enough to show.
Pearlstringers use an intricate knot
Of their own, and that is why it is,
IN the whole. better to have very ex
pensiye Jewels strung by a profess
sional. When there is a c~ollarette or
something of the sort to be made. this
is absolutely necessary.
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the neck. The length Of the sleeve
must be determined according to the
figure. When that is done the dis
lance from underarm to bottom, b, q,
is bisected at c. and the triangular
portion, a., b, c, which is cut out, Is
turned right around to form the gore,
d. C.. e. If the gown is made of fg-
ured material, a yoke of plain goods
would be pretty. If the jibbah is OF
plain cloth the yoke may be beauti-
fully embroidered, making a pretty
and becoming house gown.-Good
Housekeeping Magazine.
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New characterization.

If something new be your aim in
matter Of the ornamentation of a
blouse, drawn work is suggested by
some of the most successful makers
as an effective relief from the peren-
NAL insertion or embroidery. The
coarse meshes SO much in use this sea-
son offer stability and an unusual
GOODNESS to which characteristics Is
added the easy drawing" quality.
When marquisette Or wolfe is drawn
and worked with coarse linen thread
in some of the simpler ~drawn-work
patterns the decorative value is o
derfully increased. Squares. lines and
pointed plastrons are attainable, and
when the whole blouse is built over a
contrasting color to bring 1t into har-
mony with the skirt the result is de-
cidedly successful.
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To the

It is said that hemstitching Is going
to be used extensively as a finish for
waists and gowns. This Will be vel
come news to the woman who likes
the clever effect made by a row of
even, open stitches. The hemstitched
edge will be used chiefly on chiffon
garments.
Save every scrap of trimming, for
even a tiny piece may be exactly the
finish for some garment when you r
In sore need. Save all pieces of linen
and silk, for most of them may be
used In some way, either as fancy
work or trimming. Have a scrap box
always ready for them.
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There Is nothing prettier In q room
than a bowl of gold fish. The bright
colored, lively little creatures darting
In and out of the green vegetation in
the bowl makes a picture that one
never tires of studying. But gold fish
+ delicate things and it is depress-
ing, when one has left them full of life
and energy the previous night, to dis
cover them dead in the morning. l
find that many novices have trouble In
the same direction and In some in
stances have given up the attempt to
keep fish in the bowl. So / decided to
get expert Information on the subject
for the benefit of the readers of this
column.
I'm the first place." said the expert,
don't make the mistake that one
woman did who came complaining to
me today. / questioned her concern
ing the food she had given the fish
and found that she had fed them moth
ing but bread. That is a sure way
to kill the fish, for the bread contains
yeast and this sours the water and it
would be necessary to change 1t every
half hour or so to keep the fish alive.
IF you will watch a fish that is fed
with bread you will see him eat it
for q little time. but as the bread gets
sour from the action of the water he
will take it in his mouth and cough 1t
out very quickly. Common sense
ought to teach one that when the fish
splits out the bread it is not the right
food for him. Oatmeal makes good
fish food, but the prepared food make
especially for the purpose Is the best
thing to feed them with.
Don't overfeed the fish. They don't
require a lot of food. Give them
enough to have a good bite Oh two all
around, but don't keep the fish food
floating all the time on the surface of
the water. 1t fouls the water and the
fish will overfeed themselves and
probably die.
when you see the fish seeking the
top 1t is a sure sign that the water is
getting stale and should be changed.
The fish will naturally stay neal the
bottom and as long as the water has
SuIlClGuI OAySCu AOT tAClI uCCuS IuCy
will swim around in any part of the
bowl. But when the oxygen is getting
low and the water used up you will
see the fish crowd to the top and be-
gin to gasp. When they do this. thrust
ing their heads half out Of the water
and gulping In the air you will know
that they need fresh water, and If you
do not give it to them quickly you will
find your fish floating at the top, dead.
Don't keep the fish bowl in a dark
corner. The fish require sunlight, and
If they are given plenty of light and
air, the water will not need to be
changed so frequently. Remember that
the fish are accustomed in their ma
tive habitat to sunlight and air all
around them. From this. they are
taken and confined In a small bowl.
and this bowl is kept in a close room,
into which the sun seldom Or never
penetrates, and the consequence is the
oxygen in the water Is used up rap
idly and the fish die for want Of air"
Chicago Inter Ocean
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Crib Cover.

A pretty CRIB owe may be made
from a yard each of white and pale
blue or pink flannel. On the colored
flannel embroider a flower and bow
knot design; on the white a conven-
tional border and a large central mon
ogram. Bind the two together by
means of wide satin ribbon and put a
bow or rosette in n corner, with the
colored side considered as the top.
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Headache Powder kun.

Wooster, Os-Mrs. D. ]. G. Hanna
Of Big Prairie. died a few hours after
taking an overdose Of headache medi-
cine. Suffering with q eve pain,
the woman went to her husbands
medicine case and took a tablet. It
had no effect and in half an hour she
took another. There was enough
poison In the two tablets to cause her
death in spite OF her husbands eff
forts to save her.
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of the house and grounds. Mr.. jamie
son, they said, had arranged for more
to assist in the search for the missing
man, and at that time the country was
being secured in all directions.
The household staff was again de-
pleted that afternoon. Liddy was wait
ing to tell me that the new cook had
gone, bag and baggage, without wait
ing to be paid. No one had admitted
he visitor whom Warner had heard
in the library, unless, possibly, the
missing cook. Again l was working in
a circle.
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Short PIeated FriIi.

Many of the new fall waists display
the short knife-pleated frill down the
closing. The shorter length-from
neck to bust-is more generally be-
coming, especially when the width
graduates to nothing at all at the low
er end. It will be noticed that the
short frill IL more graceful looking
when trimming q waist that closes q
little to the left side rather than
down center front
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CHAPTER XxVl.
IHaIsey's Disappearance.

Mr.. Jameson came back about
eight o'clock the next morning; he
was covered with mud, and his hat
was gone. Altogether we were a sad
looking trio that gathered around a
breakfast that no n could eat. Over
a cup of black coffee the detective
told us what he had learned of Hal
sey's movements the night before. Up
to a certain point the car had made it
easy enough to follow him. And l
gathered that Mr.. Burns, the other de-
t~ectiye, had followed a similar car
for miles at dawn, only to find it was
a touring car on an endurance run.
HE left here about ten minutes aft
or eight" Mr.. Jameson said. "He
went alone; at 500 he stopped at DR..
Walkers. 1 went to the doctors
about midnight, but he had been
called out on a case, and had not
come back at four o'clock. From the
doctors it seems Mr.. Innes walked
across the lawn to the cottage Mrs.
Armstrong and her daughter have
taken. Mrs. Armstrong had retired,
and he said perhaps a dozen words to
Miss Louise. She will not say what
they were, but the girl evidently sus-
poets what has occurred. That is, she
suspects foul play, but she doesn't
know of what nature. Then, appar-
emily, he started directly for the sta
ton. Along somewhere in the dark
stretch between Carol street and the
depot he evidently swerved suddenly
perhaps some one in the road-and
went full into the side of a freight.
We found it there last night"
He might have been thrown under
the train by the force of the shock"
I said TREMENDOUSLY.
Gertrude shuddered
I'VE examined every inch of track.
There was-no sign"
but surely-he can't be-gone!" /
cried. aren't there traces in the
mud-anything?"
There is no mud-only dust. There
has been no rain. And the footpath
there is of binders. Miss Innes, l am
inclined to think that he has met with
bad treatment, in the light Of what
has gone before. / do not think he
has been murdered" / shrank from
the word. Burns is back in the coun-
try on a clew we got from the night
clerk at the drug store. There will be
two more men here by noon, and the
city Office is on the lookout"
1.-THE creek?" Gertrude asked.
"The creek is shallow now. If it
were swollen with rain 1t would be
different. There is hardly any water
in it. Now, Miss Innes," he said,
turning to me, II must ask you some
questions. Had Mr.. Halsey any pos
sible reason for going away like this,
without warningg'
None whatever"
"He went away once before" he
persisted. "And you were as sure
then"
HE did not leave the Dragon Fly
jammed into the side of q freight car
before"
mo, but he left it for repairs IN
a blacksmith shop, a long distance
from here. Do you know If he had
any enemies? Any one who might
wish him out of the way?'
Not that ! know Of, unless-no, ]
cannot think Of any"
aWas he in the habit of carrying
money!"
He never carried 1t far. No, he
never had more than enough for cur
rent expenses
Mr. Jameson got up then and be
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GIVEN UP TO TRADE
Only the Old Guard Holds Forth
on Fifth Avenue, N. 7.
Fashionable Thoroughfare Has Been
Almost Completely Sold Out to In
vadIne Mercenaries-OnIy Few
Prominent Families Remain.

New York.-Imperious old Fifth
venue has gone-noI into clay, but
into trade. At Fifty-second street the
Va~nderbilts. the Sloanes and the Shep-
ards, buttressed behind their massive
mansions, have been making the last
stand of the old guard against the In
vasion Of m~ercenaries. But now, un-
like the old guard. they have surren-
dered, and within a year Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt will have for third
door neighbcr a French modiste with
fine, big electric signs to enliven the
famous mansion at Fifty-seventh
street. where for years and years the
destinies of social America have been
swayed.
1t is well within the memory OF
most New Workers when Fifth avenue
from Fiftieth to Ffty-ninth street was
SO exclusive that only the Knicker.
bockers could live there, whatever
their wealth. Then policemen frowned
~creaseless trousers off the street. Now
folks of all classes mingle freely, and
there is only one block in all the ten
where trade has not intruded. In this
block within six months an apartment
house with a promised height of some
hundreds of feet will crown the neigh
bOrhoOd.
The whole story of it all is that the
'old Fifth avenue" has sold out. 1t has
received more money! consideration
from trade for moving up town into
the new Fifth avenue than the senti-
mental satisfaction of preserving it's
ancestral homes was worth. 1t has
emigrated northward-or to Europe,
therefore, leaving only the three Van
derbilts, the Sloanes, the S~hepards,
the Huntingtons and William Rookie.
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AND NOW COMES THE JIBBAH
II You Don't Know What 1t Is, Reao
the Following Description OF
Garment.

MY friends admire my jibbah. 1t Is
much prettier and more graceful than
an ordinary kimono, and it takes only
half a day to make one. The material
should be at least A inches wide.
There Is absolutely no waste in cut
ting, except the circle or square at
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Well Matched BY Milliner

sTake your change out of that" or.
dered King Midas.
The saleslady took the hat away.
had it assayed and weighed and the
value of the gold computed. Then she
returned.
"Thirty-eight dollars and Is cents
more, sir" she demanded.-Chicago
Evening Post.