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CHAPTER II.-continued.

The picture gallery was new, an ad-
dition; and the plain, narrow, unex-
pected door in this place, where all
was high, arched, elaborate and -four
ished, was like a loophole through
which to slip into 4 foreign atmos-
phere. This atmosphere was resinous
of fresh wood; the light was thick
with drifting notes; the carpets
harshly new, slipping beneath the feet
on the too polished floor; the bare
bones of the place yet scarcely COW
cred. But its quiet was after all COM
parative. There were plenty of people
lingering in groups in the center of
the gallery. which was dusky, eclipsed
by the great refiectors that circled
the room, throwing out the pictures in
bright band of color around the
walls. People leaning from this Dor
der of light back into the dusk to
murmur together, vanished and reap
peared with such fascinating abrupt
ness that Flora caught herself guess
ing what sort of face, where this
nearest group stood just on the edge
of shadow, would pop out of the dark
next.
She was ready for something ex-
traordinary, but now, when it came,
she was taken aback by it. 1t gave
her start, that toss of black hair,
that long, irregular, pale face whose
scintillant, sardonic smile was merci-
lessly upon the poor, inadequate pic
flITn-faHn Inn
above the rail was SO abrupt that his
long, lean back was almost horizontal,
yet even thus there was something
elegant in the swing of HMM the
careless twist of his head, around, to
speak to the woman behind him. The
light above struck blind on the glass
in one eye, but the other danced with
a genial, mad scintillation. The light
OF it caught like contagion, and
touched the merest glancer at him
with the spark of it's warm, ironic
mirth. The question which naturally
rose to Flora's lips-"Who in the
world is that?"-she checked: why
she didn't ask herself. She only felt
rs she followed Clara, trailing away
the evening which had promised SO
well, beginning with the Chatworth
ring, had been raised even a note
higher. Her FESTIVE fancy was begin
ming again. All the footlights of her
little secret stage were up.
Clara turned to the right, following
a reckoning fan, and Flora, dallying
with her anticipation, reasoned that
now they must circle the room before
they should face him-the interesting
apparition. 1t was a pilgrimage OF
which he on the other side was per
forming his half. Perfunctorily talk
Ing from group to group, conscious
now and again of the tagging Clara OF
Harry, she could nevertheless keep q
sly eye on the strangers equal prog
ress. The fash of jet, and the volu
BILE, substantial shoulders of the lady
so profusely introducing him, were ar
assurale of how that pilgrimage
would terminate, since it was Ella
Butler who was parading him. She
even wondered before which of the
ford pictures at the far, other end OF
the room, as before a shrine, the cere
mony would take place.
She kept her eyes fixed on the
paintings before her, and as she
moved down from one to another, and
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it as thick as dust 1t was believed
to be talisman of good fortunes
pecially in love.
1t had age; it had intrinsic value;
1t had beauty, and that one other
quality no man can resist-it was the
only thing of Its kind in the world.
At all events, it was too much for old
Neville Crew, when he saw 1t there
some couple of hundred years ago.
When he left India the ring went
with him. He never told how he got
it, but lucky marriages came with 1t,
and the Crews would not take the
house of lords for It, Their women
have worn it ever since"
For moment the wonder OF the
tale and the curious spark of excite
ment it had produced in the teller
kept the listeners silent. Clara was
was the first to return to facts. Then
Bessie" she prompted eagerly.
Kerr turned his glass in meditative
fingers. "She wore it as young Chat
worth's wife," He held them all In
an increasing tension, as if he drew
them toward him.
1.-The elder Chatworth, Lord Crew,
is bachelor, but, of course, the ring
reverted to him on Chatworth's
death"
And Lord only knows" the Judge
broke in, how it got SHIPPED with
Bessies property. Crew was out of
England at the time. He kept the
wires hot about it, and they managed
to keep the fact of what the ring was
quiet-but it got out today when Pur-
die found it was gone. You see he
was showing it-and without special
permission"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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DAME NATURE HINTS
When the Food Is Not Suited.

When Nature gives her signal that
something is wrong It is generally
with the food. The old Dame is al
ways faithful and one should act at
once.
To put of the change ia to risk that
which may be irreparable. An Arizona
man says:
For years could not safely eat any
breakfast. / tried various kinds of
breakfast food, but they were all soft,
starchy messes which gave me dis
tressing headaches. / drank strong
coffee, too. which appeared to benefit
me at the time, but added to the head
aches afterwards. Toast and coffee
we're no better, for / found the toast
very constipaling
"A friend persuaded me to quit the
old coffee and the starchy breakfast
foods, and use Postum and Grape-Nuts
instead. / shall never regret taking
his advice. / began using them three
months ago.
"The change they have worked ia.
me Is wonderful. / now have no more
Of the distressing sensations In my
stomach after eating. and never have
headaches. / have gained II pounds
in weight and feel better in every way.
"Grape-Nuts make delicious al
well as a nutritious dish, and ] find
hat Postum Is easily digested and
lever produces dyspepsia symptoms"
There's Reason"
Get the little book, "The Road To
Vellville," In pkgs.
Ever read the above lefte,s new
ne appears from time TO tiRe. hey
IRE Eenuiae, true, and fall Of szms.
aferest.
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mans backbone. The knife had been
run into the vertesrae, even savage
twist, and brought away with 1t a
piece of human framework"
AS he spoke he approached the gilt
tering, snake-like knife
Don't touch it," | cried you
ought to keep ii in locked box"
He didn't touch it, so far as i saw,
but as he raised his hand the knife
dropped like plummet. and stood
ouivering in the floor within an inch
of his boot.
Look at that" be said. and stood
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PARIS TIED UP BY STRIKE
Sudden Walkout Takes Place at Mid
night Without Warning. Fifty
Thousand Men Are Out.

Paris.-Employes of the Northern
France railway have suddenly struck
and the whole system is at a stand
still. The public was taken wholly
unawares and thousands were pre-
vented from starting on intended
Journeys. Shortly after midnight
the station doors were closed and
mounted and foot soldiers were hur-
ried to occupy the deserted stations.
Troops were also posted along the
lines to guard the locomotives and
the coal depots. The military gov
ernor of Paris and the project police
were summoned by Premier BRAND
to discuss the measures to be taken.
The telegraph lines were cut near
Amiens during the night. 1t is re-
ported that an express train was
stopped near Veryins by the rails
being torn up.
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The Retort Courteous.

Now" said the suffragette orator.
sweeping the audience with her eagle
eye, Il see Mr. Dobbs sitting down
there in the third row--a man who
has condescended to come here to-
night and listen to our arguments. He
has heard what have had to say.
and | think we should like TO hear
from him, and get mans view OF our
cause. Mr.. Dobbs, tell us what You
think OF the suffragettes."
ooh, / c-c-couldn't, m-m~ma'am.'
stammered Dobbs. Il rur-really
c-couldn't. Thu-there are ll-lul-ladies
pup-present. "-Harpers Weekly.
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New pi,tshurp Scandal.

urg.-Andrew w. Mellon,
head of the Mellon National bank,
fIed suit for divorce against his
wife, Nora Mary McMullen Mellon.
The petition charges misconduct and
names one Alfred George Curphey
Of London, Eng. An absolute d.
vorce is asked.
The MELONS were married ten
years ago in County Hartford. Eng
land. Mrs. Mellon is twenty-eight
years the junior of her husband and
is reputed to be wealthy in her own
right
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His lnaIienabIe RIaht.

When Willie goes to school next
week he will have a new teacher.
The new teacher will like Willie
when she begins to know him, but the
process may take several terms.
Whites teacher began to like him
just before the close Of the school
year, and she testified to her affection
by offering him a pocketknife.
There, Willie" she said, you have
tried so hard to be a good boy that
am going to give you this nice four
bladed pocketknife-but you must
promise me never to cut the school
furniture with it,"
Take it back. teacher" said Willie,
sadly.--Cleveland Plaindealer.
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Endless Chain for Dietz.

nigan, a close follower OF the
troubles of John Dietz. has begun an
"endless chain" countrywide move
ment to get funds to pay for the
defense of Dietz in the several cases
that are TO be brought against him
up In Wisconsin. The city clerk is
familiar with Dietz' history through
reading for years of his troubles. He
will write letters to ten of his
friends, asking them to send money
to Dietz at Winter. Wis, and to
write letters to ten of their friends
asking them to send money and noti-
~ their friends. and so on.
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Constantly Sought to Kill

/ have ever seen. 1t as serpentine
in shape. and its downward point is
sharp as needle
What villainous weapon l said
Yes" replied Kipling. and l forgot
the name he gave It: also the section
of India from which it came: that
knife has tried to kill me several
times. It's always on the watch.
When / got it there was affixed TO II,
like a button on a foil. one joint Of q
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at the deer's head. Chalmers dis
charged the lead into the bucks
breast.
Chalmers had first wounded the deer
slightly stunning il Intending to put
it to death he dropped his gun and
reached for his knife. II was gone.
and before he could recover the gun
the buck rose to its feet and charged
him.
Chalmers hands were badly Iacer-
ated by the antIers OF the deer. but
otherwise lie is none the worse for
his exhausting struggle. He returned
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Locked for half an hour on the
horns of slightly wounded and dan
gerous buck, Stephen Chalmers. an
author and magazine contributor, en-.
gagged in life and death struggle IS
miles from here, the last day of the
hunting season. Finally grasping with
one hand his shotgun. the stock of
which had been broken by 9 blow
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What's this / hear about your wife
being robbed of her jewels?" asked
Subbubs at the station one morning
Fact" replied Backlotz, with fire
In his eye. They're gone and Mrs
Kraft Is the guilty party"
What, You don't mean to tell ms
Mrs. Kraft would actually steal"
What else can you call it? She
offered the cook six dollars a week
and the chambermaid five dollars. and
now she's got 'em."-Catholic Stand
ard and Times
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-18

Marseilles-The Paris, Lyons and
Mediterranean Railway system en-
ployes announced meeting and de-
clared that they were ready to fol-
low the strikers in northern France.
The state railroad men held a meet
ing with a similar purpose. The
northern France strike is partly the
result of the coal men demanding an
increase in wages from sixty cents
to 81 a day. From 10000 to So
900 men are involved, and if the
strike becomes general, as it is feared
II will, 100000 employees will be lille.
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cIlna to Inherited Tonnue.

After years of effort to spread the
English language, the home tongue
of the full-blooded Hawaiian Is his
aboriginal jargon Exclusive of the
half-whites in these Islands there Is
but one family that talks the English
language in its home. All the rest
are as true to their inherited tongue
as they are to their racial hue
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Uncalied For.

Il hear the old bridge outside OF
Plunkville has collapsed"
Yes, and the town council can't
Understand IT. We had just given that
bridge a coat of paint. Why, II looked
like new."-Loulsville Courier-JournaL
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yard kipling, as Describes by
Robert Barr.

My mind has flown back down the
years TO London. and into the large
corner room on the second floor, vii
liers street. Embankment Gardens,
writes Robert Barr in London World.
on the wall fronting the Thames
Ia, IS the most vicious looking knife
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Krat In Rucker,s Place.

milwaukee,. - DR.. Frederick A.
Kraft, 1907 Galena street, member OF
the fire and police commission, was
appointed health commissioner to
succeed DIR. w. c. Rucker, resigned.
by Mayor Seidel. The appointment
was confirmed
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Eirst Amerlcan BOOK.

The first American book printed !
the colonies was the Bay Psalm
Book" 1t was printed at Cambridge
Mass, in 1910.
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LISBON IN FLAMES
PARIS RuMORS REPORT THAT
FIGHTING HAS BROKEN
OUT AGAIN.
MANUEL SAYS FAREWELL
Scant Mercy Shown to Monks and
Nuns and Wholesale Arrests Be.
ing Made Jesuit Property to Be
Confiscated.

Paris.-The rumor is current here
that fresh disorders have broken out
In Lisbon, and that the city is en-
yeloped in smoke, No confirmation
of this has been received.
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changes State But Not Name

BelIeviIle.-With their last names
the same, but not related. and the
groom aged "a years, with his bride
aged 66 years, Milton Ross of this
city and Sarah Ross were married at
Tn2eport, Ill
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A Sufficient Excuse.

Why don't you and your wife run
around some time of an evening and
see u.s." Il would. but the cook
won't LEI us have an evening out -
Baltimore American.
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here to-day in company with DR.
Charles Oakley. bringing the buck as
a trophy.-Saranac Lake IN W Spe
,ial to Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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there without moving 2 muscle. until
| saw how nearly the sinister blade
had come to impaling his foot.
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TIE
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AZNlZll4ZYE2UM
CGeyE1N4zr 1905 Gy
6lNHc- MEEHzL "a.
SYNOPSIS.

At private view of the Chatworth per-
sonal estate, to be sold at auction, the
Chatworth ring mysteriously disappears.
the ring to his fiancee, Flora Gilsey, and
her chaperon, Mrs. Clara Britton, as be-
Ing like heather god, with a beautiful
sapphire set in the head. Flora discov-
srs an unfamiliar mood in Harry. espe-
cially when the ring is discussed.
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Love and Laughter

The people who laugh are the people
who love. and those who laugh mes,
love intensely.
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Algy Weakling Wise, Law
that is-Gladys, I-er-desire to-aw! real
ly-
Gladys Wise-Keep right on I'll
consider your proposal and have my
answer ready by the time you have
gotten It out of your system.
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(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
rHE HookwoRM VICTIMS

Editor Herald: Being off duty at
camp one day | took a ramble through
a rocky, wooded, hilly district in q
southern state. After walking two
miles or more I came in sight OF a
dwelling on the hillside. I was thirsty
and decided to call for a drink OF
water. The house was single, one
story log structure chinked with clay.
A chimney of the same material was
at the rear, some toonskins tackled on
boards were hanging on the sunny SIDE
of the building to 0ry, a row or oach-
elor buttons bordered the path to the
front and hollyhocks grew in line near
the garden fence.
Here lived a family of six on whom
fortune had never smiled. Opportunity
passed their door without knocking
and the prosperity of 81 had failed TO
reach them. The children were clothed
in tatters and their sallow, haggard
faces showed their lack of proper food
A baby stationed in horse collar was
trying to eat a stale piece of corn
bread and the boy who brought me
gourd full of water was eating char
coal. On inquiring why he ate the
stuff he replied: "Kase Use got heart
burn" He then informed me that they
also ate chalk and clay for this all
ment In later years / learned that
heartburn was Indigestion which,
brought down to date, is the terrible
malady now known as hook worm :
G. r. LUNA.
Pasadena. Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
MILLIONS FOR TROLLEYS

4 ENCOURAGEMENT that the Los
II Angeles Railway company will in
IA crease Its capital stock from five
to fifteen million dollars to provide
means with which to take care of
proposed Improvements and extensions
is both a new evidence of the leaping
growth of Los Angeles and assurance
of its continued distinction as the
scene of one of the best electric rail-
way systems in the world. With the
proposed expenditure of 100000 900 by
the Los Angeles Pacific this makes the
stupendous total of twenty million doll
lars to be spent for electric transpor-
tation in a city already ahead of a
great majority of large American cities
this is matched anywhere else in the
world we do not know of it.
In one other important respect the
service here differs from that of the
east. In most of the cities the sys-
TENS are waterlogged in degrees rang
ing from what may be designated as
moderate from frenzied finance view
point to actual bankruptcy, as in the
case of the Metropolitan system in
New York city. Money that should
have gone into improvements has gone
into private pockets, with the result
that diiapidation and shameful SER
vice have come to be the normal and
expected things.
So the LOS Angeles way" is a phrase
that may be aptly applied to its ur-
ban and interurban transportation, and
the city and region are justly proud
of it. NOBODY can forget what an
important agency the trolley has been
in the upbuilding of Los Angeles, and
this new guarantee that the railways
propose to keep ahead in the march
will be great stimulation to new and
larger investment by others in every
direction.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
MISS RRoNsoN,s ADDRESS

Editor Herald: I listened last Sat
unrday afternoon to Miss Bronson be-
fore the city club, in amazement, end
ing in disappointment. She presented
the tainnest argument against woman
suffrage | ever heard. 1t was the
apotheosis of inanity, and she pre-
tends to be a wage Garner. If she Is
J. p. Morgan's civic federation pays
her wages and she ought to turn the
money into the conscience fund.
1 wondered If Miss Bronson ever
read the reasons Frances Willard gave
whv she favored woman suffrage. Here
are some of them: "I would take, not
bv force, but slow process of lawful
ACQUISITION through better legislation
as the outcome of a wiser ballot In
the hands of men and women, the en-
tire plant we call civilization, all that
has been achieved in this continent
since Columbus landed and make II
the common property of all the people
recurring all to work and permitting
all TO share alike the advantages OF
education. Competition is doomed
The moment corporations control the
supply of any product they combine
desire that the corporation of hu-
manity should control all production
This is the frictionless way. 1t is the
higher way. 1t eliminates the motives
for a useful life. 1t enacts into our
everyday living the ethics of Christ
gospel Nothing else will do 1T, moth
ing else can bring the glad day OF
universalhood." j. II. RYCKMAN.
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
A DAKOTA HARVEST FIELD

On every side the golden stubble stretches
Looped and laced with silyery spiders webs
From stalk to stalk the swapping insects
leaping
Add sparks of glitterlng fire to gold and
silver haze.
Their clicking flight the only sounds OF
living
In all the deepening solemn hush
OF flooding falling light through dropping
dreamy grain.
The sweet warm light grows every moment
richer,
Ever more sonorous the damp and hollow
And now there comes the clatter of the
And loud the CHEEKY urging of the tired
teams.
Around. unseen, the choir of evening
crickets
Deepens and widens with the fading dusk,
And distant calls to supper reach across
the tangled grain.
The over arching majestic Of purple clouds
grows brighter.
Soaring above In seas OF green and blue.
A tumbied mountain land OF cloud crags,
fired and lighted
To glowing bronze and red and yellow gold.
And through the grain the reaper still goes
forward,
And stiil the crickets chirp ana insects
And overhead the glory of the sunlight
-Hamlin Garland. 'GPrairie Songs"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
THE THIRD DEGREE

Editor Herald: Your editorial this
morning bearing the head opera
Bouffe Detective Work" is like
breath of fresh air after sitting long
in foul hall. Surely every calm, un-
biased man and woman in Southern
California has been disguised beyono
expression during the past three
weeks by the insane editorials as we'll
as the flimsy news items with their
transparent reports of "clews" which
have been most tiresome in their sem
sational worthlessness.
The editor who will lift his voice at
this time to say one word against the
yellow journalism that is being thrust
upon the people in this affair instead
of trying to outdo the other papers
at that same thing, and also against
the same tactics being resorted to
by the officers of the law, should in
deed be applauded. / would further
say that to write that editorial when
the first page of your paper presented
a shoekingly cool account of the ter
rors inflicted upon the woman now
detained in the county Jail in connec-
ton with this happening made the
article more than ever worth Whlle.
One would think we We're envying
the reputation of Russia. This wom-
an arrested as a suspect" grilled un-
til she breaks down and makes a
statement; goaded until she cries Il
do not want an attorney to. de1end
me. Only let me alone and let me
Sleep" Who would not break down?
1t is not necessary to go far for crea-
lures from whom to extort "conLes-
sions" under such pressure. ANA What
is testimony worth obtained by force?
woman trying to Withstand the
methods of the third degree" held
in a remote cell, all interviews denied,
questioned by six detectives and Of
ficers at one time, according to the
account and not having had time TO
recover from the shock of a tragedy
in her own life. And no one dares to
try to see this woman and say to her,
1--WE are a humane people. Be not
afraid until you are proved guilty"
If this be civilization, God forbid
that we should advance to any higher
stage of it. ANNA LENNING.