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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-09-22
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SYNOPSIS.

Baralxa, q Tartar girl. became enamored
Of a golden bearded stranger who was
prospecting and studying herbs in the
vicinity OF her home in central Asia. and
revealed to him the location OF a mine
OF rubies hoping that the stranger would
love her in return for her disclosure
They were followed TO the cave by the
rir's relatives. who blocked up the en-
trance, and drew on the water supply,
leaving the couple TO die. Baraka's cousin
Saad. her betrothed. attempted to climb
down a cliff overlooking the mine; but
the traveller shot him. The stranger was
revived from water gourd Saad car,
departed, deserving the girl and carrying
q bag Of rubies. Baraka gathered all the
gems she could carry, and started in pur-
Cordova). a famous prima donna, became
engaged In London TO Konstanun ko-
fotheu, wealthy Greek financier Her
known as Lady Maud. whose husband
had been killed by bomb In St Peters
burg, and Lady Maud's most intimsts
friend was Rufus Van Torp, an Ameri-
can. who had become one Of the richest
men in the world. Van Torp was In love
with Margaret, and rushed 70 London as
offered Lady Maud sS.0oo0o0 for her pet
charity II she would aid him in winning
the singer from Logotheti. Baraka sp-
rubies to sell. He presented ruby 70
Margaret Van Torp bought yacht and
sent II 10 venice. he was Nlsltcu Dy
Baraka in male attire. She gave him a
ruby after the American had told her OF
having seen in the United States man
answering the description of the one she
loved. The American followed Margaret
10 the Bayreuth "Parsifal" festival. Mar
garet took a liking TO Van Torp. who pre-
scented her with the ruby Baraka had
given him. Count Kralinsky, Russian.
arrived at Bayreuth. Van Torp believed
him TO be the one Baraka was pursuing.
Baraka was arrested in London on the
charge OF stealing from Pinney. a Jew
eler, the ruby she had sold TO Logotheu.
Two strangers were the thieves. Lady
Maud believed that Logothet's associa-
tons with Baraka were open to suspi-
cion. and so informed Margaret. Van
Torp believed that Kralnsky was the
cowboy he had known in his young man.
hood. Logotheti secured Baraka's re-
lease. and then, with her as his guest.
went to sea on HIS yacht Erinna Baraka
explains her plans for revenge on the
man who had deserted her and left her
20 die. Logotheu succeeds in moderating
her rage. Lady Maud arrived in Bay
feuth- Margaret and Van Torp entered
into an agreement to build a tremendous
opera house in New York. The thief who
stole the ruby from Mr.. Pinney Is arrest
ed in New York and the stone recovered.
Lady Maud confides TO Van Torp that
she believes Kralinsky to be the husband
she had believed dead. Van Torp prom
tses his help to unravel the mystery.
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I Margaret's request the light had been
put out, though II was only a small.
opalescent one, placed under the avn.
ing abaft the wheel-house and bridge.
I'VE must be going very fast" said
Lady Maud" for the sea is fat as a
millpond. and yet there's a gale as
soon as one gets out OF the lee OF
things"
she's doing 20. believe" replied
Van Torp, "and she can do % II
pressed. She will, by and by. when
she gets warmed up"
Where are we going?" Margaret
asked. AT this rate We are sure to
get somewhere"
Il don't know where we're going,
I'm sure" The millionaire smiled in
the gloom. "Bdt as you say. 1t doesn't
take more than FIVE minutes to get
somewhere In a ship like this"
You must have told the captain
what you wanted him to dol You
must have given some ordersl"
why, certainly. | told him to look
around and see II he could find anoth
er yacht like this anywhere In the
Mediterranean. So he's just looking
around. like that. I suppose. And II
he finds another yacht anything like
this. Wen see which OF US can go fast
est. You see I don't know anything
about ships, or where TO go. so just
thought of that way OF passing the
time. and when you're tired of rushing
about and want TO go anywhere in par
ticular. why. I'll take you there. II
the weather cuts up wen 60 In some
where and wait, and see things on
shore. VIII that do!"
Of such a rowing commission. but Lady
Maud looked toward her friend in the
starlight and tried to see his express
sion, for she was sure that he had a
settled plan In his mind. which he
would probably put into execution.
She rose. do you mind very much
II go to bed. I'm rather sleepy after
the journey. Oh, mustn't forget ts
tell you." she added. speaking to Mar
garet. 81 always lock my door at
night. so don't be surprised II you
want to come in and talk when you
come down just call. or knock. and I'll
let you In directly"
"All right" Margaret answered.
Lady Maud disappeared below, leav-
ing the two together. for Mrs. Rush
more and Kralinsky had found pleas
ant sheltered place to sit, further aft.
and the Count uoo axnlofpfnO m the
good American lady the delicious Rus
sian mysteries OF "Borshtsh," "Shtshi,"
"Kasha," and "Smyetany," after ex-
tolling the unapproachable flavor OF
fresh surgeons roe, and explaining
that "caviare' is not at all the Rus
sian name for IL and is not even a
Russian word; and Mrs. Rushmore lis
tened with intense interest and stood
up for her country. en- a basis Of
Blue Point oysters. planked shad. can
vas-backs, and terrapin done In the
Philadelphia manner, which she
maintained to be vastly superior to
the Baltimorian; and each listened to
the other with real interest.
Van Torp and Margaret had not
been alone together for five minutes
since they had left Bayreuth on the
previous day, but instead of talking.
after Lady Maud was gone. the prima
donna began TO sing very softly and
beautifully-nothing grand nor very
difficult; not the waltz-song that had
made hsl famous, nor the Good Fri
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ner. Yet there was still a shadow of
doubt, though she could not have told
exactly where 1t lay.
She longed to lead him into a trap
by asking some question to which II
he were Leven. he would know the an
swer, though not II he were any one
else, a question to which he would not
hesitate to reply unexpectedly II the
answer were known to him. But Lady
Maud was not ingenious in such coz
versational tricks, and could not think
of anything that would do.
The outward difference Of appear
ance between him and the man she
had married was so small that she
could assuredly not have sworn in ev-
idence that Kralinsky was not her
husband. There was the beard. and
she had not seen Leven with a beard
since the first months OF her mar
riage four years ago, when he had cut
Il of for some reason known only to
himself. OF course a recollection, al
ready four years old, could not be
trusted like one that dated only as far
back as three months; for he had left
her not long before his supposed
death.
There were the hands, and there
was the left hand especially. That
might be the seat of the doubt Pos
sibly she had never noticed that
Leven had way Of keeping his left
little finger almost constantly crooked
and turned inward as II it we're lame.
But she was not sure even OF that,
for she was not one Of those people
who study the hands OF every one they
know, and can recognize them at a
glance. She had certainly never
watched her husbands as closely as
she was watching Kralinsky's now.
Margaret was in the best OF spirits,
and talked more than usual, not stop
ping to think how Van Torp's mere
presence would have chilled and ST.
fenced her three or four months
earlier.
On the whole 1t was a gay dinner,
and Mrs. Rushmore and Kralinsky
knew that II was a very good one, and
told each other so afterward as they
walked slowly up and down the great
promenade deck in the starlight. For
people who are very fond of good eat
ing can chatter pleasantly about their
food for hours, recalling the recent do
lights Of a perfect chaud-froid or q
faultless sauce; and IL was soon enr
dent that there was nothing connect
| ed with such subjects which Kralin-
sky did not understand and appreci-
ate, from a Chinese bird's-nest soup to
the rules OF the great Marie-Antoine
Careme and Brillat-Savarin's "Physi-
ology Of Taste" Kralinsky also knew
everybody. Between gasTonomy and
society, he appeared to Mrs. Rush
more to know everything there was
to be known.
Lady Maud caught snatches OF the
| conversation as the two came near
her, and then turned back; and she re-
membered that Leven used to talk on
the same subjects with elderly women
on whom he wished to make a pleas
ant impression. The voice was his,
| too, and yet she knew she had q doubt
somewhere. a very small doubt. which
1t was a sort Of slow torture to feel
( was still unsatisfied.
Mr.. Van Torp sat between her and
Lady Margaret, while the two others
walked. The deep-cushionsd straw
chairs stood round low fixed table
on which there had been coffee. and at
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-09-22
CHAPTER xIII.-contlnued.

She had already come to the conclu-
sion that II Kralinsky was really Lev.
en-, the latter had seized the opportu-
nifty offered him by his own supposed
death to disappear from ST. Peters
burg, and had taken another name.
Leven had been a ruined man when
he had tried to divorce her; when he
died, or disappeared, he left nothing
but debts, which we're extinguished
with him, for no one attempted to
make his widow responsible for them,
since there was no estate and she had
no fortune beyond the allowance her
father made her. Lord Creedmore was
far from being rich peer, too, and
what he gave her was not much. al
though It would more than suffice for
her simple wants. now that she In
tended to live with him again.
But II Leven had not been killed and
had turned into Kralinsky. he now
had plenty Of ready money, though
It was not easy to guess how he had
obtained possession of a quantity Of
valuable Asiatic rubies within the few
weeks that had elapsed between his
supposed destruction by the bomb and
the date of Van Torp's transaction
with him in New York. That was q
mystery. So was his possible acquaint-
ance, or connection, with the eastern
girl who was looking for him, II there
was a shadow of truth In Logotheti's
story. Lady Maud did not believe
there was, and she felt morally sure
that the tale had evolved itself out Of
the Greeks fertile brain, as a fantas-
tic explanation of his atrocious con-
duct.
While she was thinking over these
matters and rehearsing In her
thoughts the scene that was before
her, she saw a gondola making
straight for the yacht across the fast
fading green of the lagoon that lay
between the vessel and the Piazzetta-
1t came nearer, and she drew back
from the rail against her cabin door.
under the shadow of the promenade
deck, which extended over the gang
way and was supported by stanchions,
as on an ocean liner. The Lancashire
Lass, with her single yellow funnel,
her one short signal mast, her turret-
shaped wheel-house, and her generally
business-like appearance, looked more
like a cross between a fast modern
cruiser and an ocean greyhound"
than like a private yacht She even
had a couple Of quick-fring guns
mounted Just above her rail.
Lady Maud looked at the gondola.
and as 1t came still nearer, she saw
that it brought only one passenger.
and that he had a fair beard. She
quietly opened her cabin door, and
went in to dress for dinner.
Meanwhile Mr.. Van Torp had COM
pleted his toilet, and sent for the cap
tain.
Il suppose you're ready at any mo-
ment. captain" inquired the million
aire.
"Yes, sir. The pilot is on board,
and the gentleman you expected is
Just coming alongside"
Then you can start now" said the
owner, after a moments thought.
where are we bound, sir?"
"Oh, well. don't know. I wanted
70 say a few words about that, cap
lain. Do you happen to know anything
about . yacht called the ErinnA b.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24

eyes shine timorously amid rosy cheeks
like APPLE blossoms in warm June days,
crowned with hair much like the roll
inng clouds of autumnal night. Inc
fragrance of the perfume of the spirit
is Intoxicating, full of phantom whlsp-
like memories. When alone with this
''ideal' youth surmounts all obstacles.
There is a feeling that some day they
will meet, that the destined ways Of
futurity will sometime mingle In rhyth-
mic tune, meeting as does the brook
the flow of the river Life, joining that
great river as it slowly winds its way
along the uncertain passage of life's
struggles and merging into the delta
of the other world of which no man
knows the truth.
Within the mind of the maiden there,
too, lie such thoughts as these, where
fiimsy clouds passing slowly through the
dusty halls of memory resolve them
selves into the mass and bulk of ye
olde time cavalier. There is a noun
famous massing of muscle and brawn.
It is the youthful ideal" of the maid
en-. In her .boudoir she dreams of this
knight. and some day-in June per-
haps-she feels certain. that they will
meet.
The ideal" always remains in the
state of celibacy. Pots and kettles,
the concrete of its masonry and
strengthened by the girders of faith
it means to those who seek the expec-
tancy of hope the fulfillment of the
future. Like the pot of gold at the
foot of the rainbow. 1t is the unseen
beings word of faith to those who
struggle against all seeming Odds
Diatetic Gazette.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
A ROOSEVELT DOG STORY

Several times recently, when the
name of thb American ex-president-
sportsman his been mentioned, have
been asked: You've heard the dog
story, of course?''
l like to hear all the variations on
dog stories, so l asked (which dog
story?"
"That one, you know, that Buffalo
Bill tells about Roosevelt hunting
bears in Colorado. II seems that he
had hired man and dog, but neither
seemed to be very successful in get
ting him the desired bear. At last
he lost patience and inquired: isn't
there good dog to be had in this
country?
..Oh. yes-Smith down below here has
the best bear dog in the mountains"
'Well, go and get him. urged the
presidential hunter Lets see II we
can't have some sport with a bear"
''Smith won't hire his dog"
"Tell Smith to come along and JOIN
the party for hire or on any terms he
likes" The story runs that the guide
departed and returned with report
of non-success. Mr.. Roosevelt's inn
and he went himself to secure the
adamantine Smith and his valuable
dog.
.sThis is Mr.. Smith. I understand you
have a fine bear dog, Mr.. Smith,"
None better in the Rockies was
the assurance. -.
Cant hire him or buy him
"He amt for hire and / wouldn't
sell that dog for no price you could
offer"
ssWell, won't you come with the dog
allow me to hire both you ana the
dog?"
mo, amt hirin' out now. l got
10 90 after bacon and flour and some
more things my folks wants for the
house."
Report has it that President Roose-
welt felt trifle nettled at the man
obstinacy.
who I am?"
mo. 1 don't know-whats the odds7
''I am Theodore Roosevelt, president
of the United States" A pause TO
await the desired effect and yielding.
smith dexterously deposited some TO-
hacco Juice on the ground just be
yond the presidents nearest hunting
boot. -,
..Wel." he said slowly, II don't care
n Won are Booker T. Washington, you
can't hire my dog
And all the little innocent pears
went to bed happy that night, giad
they had escaped Smiths dog'-Na-
tional Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
PSYCHOLOGY OF DREAMS

It is due to the genius of Prof. Sig
mund Freud of Vienna-today the most
daring and original psychologist in the
field of morbid psychic phenomena
that we owe the neglected recog-
milton of the large place of symbolism
in dreaming. Scherner had argued IN
favor of this aspect of dreams, but he
was an undistingulshed and unreliable
psychologist and his arguments failed
to be influential. Freud avows h'mseif
a partisan of Scherner's theory of
dreaming and opponent of all other
theories, but his treatment of the mat
ter Is incomparably more searching and
profound. Freud, however, goes far
beyond the fundamental-and. as I be-
lieve, undeniable = proposition that
imagery is largely symbolic. He
holds that behind the symbolism or
dreams there les ultimately wish;
he believes, moreover, that this wish
tends to be really of more or less SEX
uaI character and, further, that 1t Is
tinged by elements that go back to the
dreamer's infantile days. AS Freud
views the mechanism of dreams, 1t is
far from exhibiting mere disordered
mental activity, but is (much as he
has also argued hysteria to be) the out
come of desire, which is driven back
by a kind of inhibition or censure q. e.,
that kind of moral check which is still
more alert in the waking state) and Is
seeking new forms of expression.-Dr
Havelock Ellis in the Popular Science
Monthly
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
unclE JOE coMMIrs HIMSELF

our Uncle Joseph Cannon has com
mitted himself. There are persons VINO
viii dispute that Uncle Joe ever did
anvthing subject to reproach while in
congress, but the whole world will now
sing it in chorus, loud and energet-
icaily, that uncle has made break.
Our uncle has said, as boldly as II ne
were uttering simple truth, tnat 70
anv voung man who has anything in
him a college course is not fatal to
success. AS if anything of the kind
could be thought of by people who
know.
II is too bad that Mr.. Cannon has
gone wrong at this late period of life.
Altogether, in spite of a few misspent
years, he has been a most likable char
acter. The public has been watching
his declining years with great concern
and anxiety. 1t had hoped that he
would get along and away without
slipping into any pitfalls. 1t is too bad
rnat he has had to do this.-Exchange.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
our IDEAL

There exists within the inner self Of
every human being a vague, wonderful
and beautiful vibratory thought called
for reason of no better name, "our
ideal" The texture of this thought is
like the eiderdown of the Scottish hills;
its substance the silver mist of dew
kissed goldenrod. No Raphael or Mu-
rillo has ever reached the sublimity of
its features. So mysterious and Won
derful is this distant phantom thought
being which we call "ideaP that the
more we study and ponder over it's
complexities the less we understand.
The ''ideal' is fanciful; for If it were
real it would cease to be ideal. Celes-
tial associations seldom reconciliate
with earthly environments and affilia-
tions.
To the mind of the youth this mental
vision is the tingling musical vibrations
of a fairy harp. 1t appears from out
the east where rises the glorious dawn
of day, in neither definite shape nor
form. Only in the dreamland of life,
when the days cares are over does it
fit across the wearied brow with all the
memories of the sweetness of the aroma
of the magnolia bud. In the youth 1t
assumes the vapory cloud specter of
beautiful maiden whose reproachfui
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
A READY MADE VERDICT

Fargo, N. D., once boasted a COM
posite postmaster and coroner. He
was called one day to give his verdict
upon the case of stranger who had
been the victim of a fit on the main
street. AS the man was known to no
body he was hurried to the much
priced 'city hospital" There the case
was diagnosed as appendicitis, but
when the operation took place the at
tending surgeon discovered that the
patient had already been previously
relieved of his appendix. The doctor
endeavored to retrace his steps, but
the strange man died from the effects
of the operation.
The postmaster-coro In rendering
his verdict, filed in the space after
cause Of death" with a rubber stamp,
which read: "Opened by mistake. -
Success.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
EGG POISONING

Instances of egg poisoning appear
from time to time in periodical liter
ature and the subject is referred to in
some, but by no means in all works
on dietetics.
While cases OF acute poisoning are
rare, writes a physician in the Med
ical Record, some susceptibility as re-
CARDS eggs is not so very uncommon.
People constantly assert that eggs
make them bilious, and while in some
this is often imaginary, in others the
condition actually exists.
This is notably true of infants ana
young children. Not only do many in
fants and young children digest eggs
with difficulty, especially when first
eaten, but many more are made ill il
this particular food is partaken of too
freely, or, in the case of older children.
if the egg diet is kept up too contin-
uously.
This inability of young children to
digest eggs is probably in line with
the well recognized fact that the in
fants stomach or digestive juices must
be taught to digest most dietary ar
ticles other than the maternal milk.
Cows milk, for instance, is veritable
poison to some infants, while many
newly born requires some practice
and education before it can thoroughly
Individual susceptibility as regards
eggs is extremely variable; in some
persons eggs always act as poisons,
while in others the toxic influence
may be marked at one time and at an
other much diminished or entirely
wanting, especially when the subject is
in sound condition.
The susceptibility may be observed
in eggs of every degree of freshness,
nd in nt1Ix q
of certain birds. Changes in eggs may
also be brought about by methods of
cooking; for while some persons mani
fest their susceptibility only when the
egg Is raw, others are poisoned when
it is cooked or prepared in some un-
usual and unaccustomed manner.
In most of the reported cases the
white of the egg appears to have been
the offending element. The symptoms
of egg poisoning differ greatly in de-
gree; in some cases only nausea and
headache occur; in others the most
violent symptoms, suggestive of frr1-
tant poisoning, are observed.
Sometimes, when the use of eggs is
long continued, they give rise to the
symptom group which we call bilious
ness, which after all is but form or
auto-intoxication, due possibly to. the
presence of some alkaloid in the blood.
The symptoms of egg poisoning are es-
sentially those of so-called ptomaine
poisoning.
1t Is true that the eggs giving rise
to toxic phenomena are in most in
stances apparently fresh when eaten.
but when we recall that the porous
shell of the egg will admit the micro
organisms that cause the egg to rot,
as we'll as various strong odors, 1t is
easy to comprehend that an egg may
appear fresh and yet contain bacteria
that in susceptible persons, and in GER
tain conditions of digestion, may pro-
duce changes which may cause toxic
symptoms.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
JULY "a, 1910
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Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
FRIGHTENING THE WALLS

Sometimes the physician orders all
the pictures removed from the walls, in
cases of bad contagion. If this is so
try to make up for the lack of bright
ness by pinning here and there bits of
scenery as found in the magazines or
pictures cut from the Sunday papers
and the like They can be burned af-
terward and help to divert the pa
TENTS mind from his own malady
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
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