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To be vain Of ones rank or place Is
TO show that one Is below it.-Stants-
hus
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NOTICE Having qualified as executor
l of the will and estate of WILLIAM P,
WOOLLS, ST., deceased, all persons having
claims agsinst the said estate are hereby mott
fed to present the same, duly verified to me
for settlement. and oil persons indebted to
said estate are hereby notified to make
pront payment Of such indebtsdness to me.
Respectfully.
WILLIAM WooLLs, Executor.
fau4 LOT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
CHAPTER vi. The Gods of Change

THE particularly fateful element in Thurley's
unique adventure in the park not entirely the
effect produced upon young Stuyverant; it quite
much the meeting with Alice Van Kirk.
In addition to being the niece of Major John Phpps,
she of the wealthes uneasiest, and ogi-
nal women in all New York She was likewise one of
the cleverest and hrewdest in gaining her ends. Mar
RED thirty-five, domiced in modern Ffth-ave pal
and consumed by social ambitions never yet wholly
grated she presented study in restless enterprise not
to be lightly ignored
For one brief she had flashed SO brilliantly on
the rainbow peaks of social eminence dazzle the
most base. Scores of the moths that fit to the binding
glare of gold had molted their wings to remain within
the circle. Then had envy successful rivalry,
species of defeat for her. and retirement from the
center of the stage For two she had sought
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

THU RUXTON. a wonderfully beautiful young
who also exceedingly well equipped in all
ordinary branches of athletics including motoring horse
back riding teacher of French and German in New
Haven college. love with Acton Galard snobbish
college On the last day of school, Galard brutally
consigned her college widowhood upsetng all her ideals
and plans. Thurley pulled herself together with
forude. and took position New York with John Phpps.
reminiscent army Major.
Threy rushed to the aid of Robey Stuyverant young
millionaire who had broken his wrist when jumping from
his automobile, and drove him home.
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We almost there-COluTnbuS
Circle she answered. nodding toward the slender
graceful monument, visible beyond the trees. In
a moment you will have better driver. After that
She left the sentence incomplete.
after that!" he repeated. You will certainly let
you again. if only to thank you to
She glanced at him brightly. ooh, but you have
thanked me already quite sufficiently. Where shall
drive you nOw!
He suddenly felt that he could not permit her go
soon-behold her vanish strangely she had
rived, leaving him nothing the memory of sngu-
larly delightful encounter.
If you do not mind perhaps I'd be wiser to 60 home
at he told her tentatively it takes you too
far from your own destination the car is entirely at
your service.
She flushed with pleasure at the thought of proong
ing the Joy already experienced not only with the
but also with its owner She felt herself greatly tempted
1t almost seemed if the Fates had bestowed this OPP
portunity upon her, this opening into the wondrous
world whose gates she was eagerly seeking, -.
1t might be easy to push little forward here, avail
herself of this mans acquaintance attempt to meet and
cultivate Mrs. Van Kirk, and forge toward the gded
social goa But she dared not assume the risk They
would find her OUT she could play the r6le it was
not the path by which she had hoped to succeed As
matter of fact, she unprepared for the develop
ments the Fates had brought about and could follow
But to take this injured fellow being home-that, at
least, barely human She asked him quietly:
Where do you live? On the farther side of the pars?
"Fifth-ave.," he answered, and told her the number
and corner of the street. us it imposition" he
added. Because of course"
"I'n drive you there" she interrupted. Il hope
there's doctor nearby.
And then you'll let me send you home, of course?"
She flushed to the tips of her Permit him thus
to discover the poor old tawdry place that all she
could call her home? She would rather have walked to
the ends of the earth! She gave him the brefest of
glances.
Il shall ask you to have returned to the park
the place where you found me, if you please"
"Oh, but
as it very much to ask9"
It's nothing, nothing, less than nothing; but
hoped rather wished" 1t occurred to him sud-
denly that she might have aighted from car
rage of her own to sit for time in the park. She
might be missed by those who had left her with the
squirres-perhaps man-perhaps some princey
husband! He wondered why he thought of Prince
and glanced at her wedding finger only to find her hand
gloved.
Il wish to do anything to please you to restore you
to your previous enjoyment of the day., he told her
honestly. Are you sure that is all I may dor"
"Quite sure.
THEY were gliding swiftly through 59th-st They
to the Plaza, with its huge hotels, its dull gold
equestrian statue of Sherman and its tide of carriages
and automobiles going into and out of the park.
Thurley turned the entered Fifthave steered
out round one of the huge green autobusses and
tinued northward on her way Stuyverant, more
RED by the thought of presently losing the thrill of her
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CHAPTER v. Temptation and a Crest

Grant did not speak at once, and
Thurley was busy with her task. A
few more carriages and several cars,
enticed thus quickly to the park by
promise of the sun, were met and
passed. Still clinging to his broken
wrist, the man with Thurley watched
her intently, more and more engross-
ed by her beauty.
"You saw my embarrassment
my predicament,' he said at length,
referring to the recent introduction.
Nov that you are acquainted with
mine, don't you think | ought at
least to know your name!"
I'VE are almost there-Columbus
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Had Cost England Many Millions.

Had Cost England Many Millions.
London.-Harmuzd Rassam. the As.
syrian scholar and explorer. whose
cruel treatment by King Theodore in.
volved England in a $45,Oo0.000 war
with Abyssinia, which ended in tho
suicide OF the African ruler. died q
few days ago in the English village Of
Hove. where he had been many years
in peaceful retirement. He was born
In northern Mesopotamia, opposite the
site Of the ancient Nineveh, and went
to England early in life, becoming
connected with the British museum.
In June, 1864, after having held q
British political position at Alden. at
the Indian ocean end OF the Red sea,
he took charge Of the English mission
to King Theodore of Abyssinia, who
had imprisoned and maltreated the
British consul and several other En-.
ropeans. He demanded the release o1
the prisoners. At first he was treated
with consideration, but afterward he
and two of his companions were shnt
up In the fortress of Magdala and
were kept there almost two years IN
chains. They suffered from misery
cold and hunger, and were in constant
fear Of death. When Great Britain
sent to Abyssinia punitive expedition
under Lord Napier, King Theodore
shot himself to death to avoid the hui
initiation Of capture.
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the western towns seemed to have much more self
importance than common sense. In Denver two
OF the camera men were left behind when the
colonel and his party went to the auditorium and
and surrounded by ring Of mounted police To
one OF these they appealed in vain. "But we are
supposed to be with Mr.. Roosevelt's party" said
one OF them finally. WELL" was the chilly re-
spouse, III you are supposed to be with them, why
aren't you?" And the oflcers horse scornfully
switched his tail in their faces
1t was in Denver, too, that one of the most
amusing scenes Of the trip was witnessed. The
Press club gave "chuckwagon" luncheon to the
colonel in park. Here" said the camera men,
rs our chance for some good stuff $50 they put
In fresh films plates and hustled out there by
the dozen. The colonel, in the midst of throng
OF self-nvited Colorado deputy sheriffs, stood at
the rough board table and every time he reached
for bit OF meat or put a morsel of food into his
mouth there was perfect fusillade Of clicks from
the cameras that surrounded him. The photog
raphers were ranged in triple ring about the
chuck wagon. those with little cameras in 'front.'
STOPPING low; next, the men with the larger hand
cameras, and in the rear the local artists, who
had big machines on high tripods It was in truth
a comical sight, but the colonel did not seem to
mind it a bit. and went eating and talking with
the utmost enthusiasm 49, ..-. -
The visit to Cheyenne, Of course, gave the snap.
shelters their best chances for picturesque views
for there the colonel could be caught almost any
time shaking hands with the cowboys coweirls and
gaudily painted Indians. or applauding the work
OF the broncho- busters.
There is Chicago newspaper man who once
had the unique experience Of being the only person
with q camera present at the coronation of a king
The monarch in question was Mataafa, who had
been elected king OF Samoa by majority Of the
inhabitants Of those delectable islands in 1898 His
reign to be sure, lasted but few months for after
gallant struggle he was most unjustly deposed
by the Americans and British. who thereupon parti
toned the Islands with Germany. The perform
ance took place in the open, but the king and
the chiefs who anointed him were not to be ap-
preached within some fifty yards So rigid is sa-
moan etiquette that the one man with the camera
did not dare to break through the surrounding ring
Of natives, and had perforce to be content WITH
such views as could be had from distance.
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educational course at Belgian col
lege, where the English boys we're
fined, almost to the full amount of
their pocket money, If they spoke
heir native tongue. From Belgium
Shepperly passed to Spain, and there,
in the town of San Juan de Luz,
where he was engaged as a CORE
spondence clerk, he acquired knowl-
edge Of Spanish. Latin and Greek
were a part of his school curriculum,
and Italian came to him by study.
From his Dutch wife he acquired some
facility in the language of Holland.
Seven years ago Shepperly found
himself, no longer young man. out
If employment, at the end Of his re-
sources and with no prospect Of OBJ
tanning work. His wife and three
young children. were, dependent on
him, and he purchased a large tray,
stocked it with chocolates, and took
up a corner in the city. He has re-
NAMED in Lothbury ever since, and
would not change his way of living
SACCpL 1OI 6OIAOIA1l1lE dO0O4uIC1y PS4
manent.
Satisfied with an occupation that
procures him a living, he has his
books and his pen for intellectual
companionship. Every morning he
gets up at three o'clock in order to
read and write for some hours before
taking up his stand on the street. He
has written four one-act and two four.
act society plays, one Of which has
been highly praised by London man.
ager and a provincial manager.
His library is small, but select; It
includes a fine copy of "Oedipus Ty'
rannus," in the original; an ancient
copy Of Horace is another treasure
At present Balzac is his delectation;
he tells that he occasionally INDUCES
in such flight literature" Among
modern authors, Carlyle is his favor
lte and Meredith comes next.
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continent Of South America to far of
Patagonia. The journey completed
the weary, emaciated travellers rest
for two weeks before starting upon
the return trip. The long and terrific
voyage over the sea is exhaustive to
the last degree. But the plover lives
ten or even twenty years, moving per
petually, and in the course of q life
time may travel 100000 miles;
record which few species can equal.
Nature has made the bird the great
est travellers In the universe.
The chimney swift, perhaps the
most numerous of bird species and the
most universally distributed over the
earth, goes south from our latitude in
September and for some weeks swifts
are plentiful over the Gulf states,
where they congregate seemingly for
some great purpose: They are seen
there by the millions and millions
Suddenly they all disappear and no
mortal man knows whittier they go.
The winter destination of the chimney
swift has ever been one of the most
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1910-12-03
WAS SIRE OF TEXAS
Moses Austin, Grandfather of the
Lone Star State.
Former Republic Asked to Care fol
Missouri Home and Tomb Of Fa-
NOUS Pioneer Who Made Pos
sibIe Its Founding.

Potosi, Mo.-Washingto county Of
fcials have recently appealed to Texas
state officials to arrange for that COM
monwealth to care for the grave and
home of Moses Austin in this city
Noses Austin was father of Stephen +.
Austin, honored as the father of Texas.
AS truly as Stephen F. Austin was the
father of the former republic and the
late state, Moses Austin was it's grand
father, for he did the preliminary
Wark, made the treaty and planned the
colony that made possible the work
OF his son as founder of the repub-
lie.
1t is believed here that the recent
removal of the body of Stephen F. Aus.
tin from lonely grave in a Texas
village to a state-built tomb in the cap.
ttal city that was named for him, and
the memorial services In several cities
will arouse sufficient interest in the
Austin family to result in arrange.
ments being made to care for the al.
most dismantled tomb and the decay.
Ing log cabin here.
The cabin stands on one corner of
the public square Of this city. 1t is all
that Is left of the once pretentious
Durham Hall, Moses Aust1n's early-day
home. At the time of the Louisiana
purchase there was no more elaborate
private estate in the whole Mississippi
valley than Durham Hall, where the
owner entertained such notable men as
Aaron Burr. Andrew Jackson and
Thomas H. Benton.
Moses Austin, under a grant from
the Spanish government, opened the
first lead mines and built the first lead
smelter in Missouri. He was at the
head of the first bank established in
st. Louis and was member of the
first Masonic settlement period.
He conceived the idea of settling
Texas with Americans, and it was
under a treaty negotiated by him
with the Mexican government that the
FIRST American colony was established
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trated many a time during the
colonels trip through the
west. Several professional
photographers accompanied
him, and a number of the
press correspondents also car
r1ed cameras, and often it was
a wild race for them to keep
up with Mr.. Roosevelt and be
on hand at the time when the
good human interest" pic
lures were to be had.
Whenever Colonel Roose-
welt appeared, unless the po-
lice arrangements prevented,
he was at once surrounded by
a cheering crowd, every man,
woman and child Of which was
trying to get close enough to
grasp his hand or at least to
say Hello, Teddy" At such
times a snapshot usually
yielded only a mass Of heads
and backs surrounding a set Of
cleaning teeth. II Mr.. Roose-
welt was carefully guarded by
police or soldiers, as was the
case in some cities, the task
OF the photographer was al
most as difficult, for the "cop.
pers" and deputy sheriffs of
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perplexing puzzles Of ORTHODOXY.
Some of the old authorities surmised
that these mysterious birds retreated
Into the soft mud at the bottom of
ponds, lakes and streams. Later au-
thorities say they disappear upward.
The swift reappears as mysteriously
as he disappears. "
Hawks and vultures collect in the
upper air and when large congrega.
ton has assembled they move of Sc
lently and majestically at great al
titude and we see them no more until
next spring, when they return one at
a time, without any parade or spec
.tacular performance. Many kinds OF
birds skulk and hide for days before
leaving for the south and then they
leave at night.
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OUR MIGRANT BIRDS
Emlgrants of the Air That Go on
Annual itineraries.
Alaskan Hawk, Which Makes Prodi.
sious Journeys from Top to Bot
tom Of the Hemisphere-The
Mysterious Chimney Swift.

Ch1cago.-No theory yet advanced
by ornithologists accounts for the mi
grafton of birds. Why does the Alas
kan hawk quit his home in the Arctic
regions and journey with such mighty
toll through the torrid zone to reach
the Antarctic ice fields, only to re-
turn In little~while over the same
route to the starting point, spending
his whole life in the repetition of
these prodigious but apparently USE
less Journeys back and forth from one
end of the earth to the other. We
Know more about the forces at play
IN the solar system than we know
about the impulses of the migrant
bird; we know more Halley's comet
than we know of the forces that i'm
pei the flight of the Alaskan hawk
or the golden plover.
The golden plover is one of the
most remarkable travellers in the bird
kingdom. The plover passes north
ward in May to it's breeding site
around the north pole. The eggs are
laid on a cake of ice in June and six
weeks later the old bird and the
chicks start south. They loiter along
slowly until they reach Labrador,
where they make a stand for some
weeks feasting on crow berries and
becoming very fat. Suddenly all the
plovers in Labrador rise as by signal
and make for the sea. The route ia
now over the broad Atlantic 400 miles
rom land, southwark to the Bermu-
das, over the Gulf, through Vene-
zuela and Brazil, across the entire
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IS A HAVEN FOR AMERICANS
Island Of Porto Rico Prophesled as a
Future Mecca for Our Wealthy
Citizens.

Washington.-Withi the next so
years Porto Rico will be occupied ex-
clusively by American millionaires, &C.
cording to the opinion of Alfred Ze-
vas, resident of San Juan, who says
that Americans already are awaken
Ing to the picturesqueness Of the
island, it's climatic Inducements. and
It's generally healthy conditions.
1.-THE weather. people of America
are gradually realizing what a great
acquisition the island is to the United
States. Americans are looking for
places of beauty and rest. They are
seeking places where they can get
away from the ordinary, and for this
reason I say" continued Mr.. Zeyas,
Porto Rico will eventually be desig-
mated as the mecca Of Americas rich.
Here they can motor through miles
of mountains, where the. scenery
equals that Of any part of Switzer-
land. The country is threaded with
miles of good roads, the majority of
which are macadamized.
when the automobilist reaches
certain attitudes in the center Of Por-
to Rico he can look to all sides of
him and view the sea. Not only is
the scenery of the island ideal, but
the climate Is that of perpetual spring.
Not once in the last decade have we
experienced storm which has
caused material damage. This mod
crate temperature, coupled with the
salt breezes, makes the climate exu-
berating. American tourists already
are visiting Porto Rico in large mum,
bers during the winter months"
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STREET vENDER A SCHOLAR
Verses and Dramas Have Been Writ
ten by This London Seller of
Chocolates. .. .-

London.-Outside office hours bust.
ness men of London have a wonder.
full and cheap method Of absorbing
culture. There is stationed on 10th
bury, a street just behind the Bank
Eof England, paragon of learning,
with whom anyone desiring to i'm
prove his French, German, Spanish,
Italian, Latin, Greek or English may
converse by buying a penny worth of
chocolate. ~
William Shepperly, a street seller
of sweets, is learned linguist He
was not always a hawker; that is
obvious at a first encounter. His
French he acquired as a part of the
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KINGS BEARD MODEL FOR ENeL'sHmEN

KINGS BEARD MODEL FOR ENGLlSHMEN.
Boards are at present the order OF the day
among London's fashionable "men-about-toWn
In remarking about the prevalence of facial h1r-
suite adornments prominent hairdresser said:
Zone would not have thought that the coming
Of King George to the throne would have made
much difference to the fashion of current hair
dressing In view of the fact that his father wore
beard for so many years, but can assure you
It has, and very great difference at that.
I'm all probability the present fashion Of the
point beard is due In great measure to so young
man affecting one. have been told that there
was great rage for boards among .men-about-
town when King Edward first grew beard many
years ago.
TN my opinion the average Englishman is
tremendously Initiative. The style Of beard
King George wears is appropriately named the
torpedo In the navy, and since the kings ac-
session many Of the younger men in the service
have started to grow them"
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crazed by Witch's Herbs,

Pottsville, Through medicine
administered by clairvoyant Mrs
John Dougal and Miss Harriet Leggett
of this place have become temporarily
insane. Both Of the women were sick
and were advised to visit the Halle
ton witch" doctor. A warrant was
sworn out for the HazIeton woman
for practtcing medicine without q Ii.
cense.
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IN Texas. The consumation Of these
plans necessitated an overland TRIP
from Potosi to San Antonio, the hard
ships Of which resulted In the death
Of the protector.
Stephen F. Austin continued the
work of his father, led the American
colony into the southwest wilderness
and helped the Texans to establish q
republic.
Moses Austin's body lies In q rick.
ety. weed-covered tomb in the Presby.
terrain churchyard, not a block distant
from the log cabin. A marble slab, not
more than Is inches square, set in q
rustic tomb OF hand-hewn rock, bears
this simple inscription:
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"O0Go AO0TN
DIED 1904

When the condition of the tomb was
jailed to the attention Of WASHINGTON
county officials, it was their opinion
that Texas residents would be pleased
70 have the tomb better cared for.
hence the letter to a state official stat.
Ing It's condition.