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ming around-like this-but there is
rot servant in the house. They
have gone, the entire lot"
That's odd" he said slowly. Gone!
Are you sure?"
In reply | pointed to the servants
wing. Trunks packed" I said trag-
ically, rooms empty, kitchen and pan
tries full of dishes. Did you ever
hear of anything like it?''
Never" he asserted. at makes me
suspect" What he suspected he did
not say; instead he turned on his
heel, without a word of explanation.
and ran down the stairs. l stood star
ing after him, wondering If every one
IN the place had gone crazy. Then
heard Betty Mercer scream and the
rest talking loud and laughing. and
Mr.. HARRISON came up the stairs again
two at time.
How long has that Jap been ailing.
Mrs. Wilson," he asked.
Il don't know" replied HELPLESS
ly. What is the trouble, anyhow"
Il think he probably has something
contagious" he said, and It has
scared the servants away. AS Mr..
Brown said. he looked spotty. I sug-
gested to your husband that it might
be as well to get the house emptied-
in case we are correct"
"Oh, yes. by all means" l said
eagerly. I couldn't get away too soon.
I'll go and get my" Then stopped.
Why, the man wouldn't expect me to
leave; would have to play out the
wretched farce to the end
I'll go down and see them of" /
finished lamely, and we went together
down the stairs.
Just for the moment l forgot Bella
altogether. found Aunt Selma
bonneted and cloaked, taking a stirrup
cup OF Pomona for her nerves, and the
rest throwing on their wraps in hur-
ry. Downstairs Max was telephoning
Tor his car, which wasn't due for an
hour. and Jim was walking up and
down, swearing under his breath.
win the prospect of getting rid of
them all. and Of going home comfort
ably to try to forget the whole wretch
ed affair, cheered up quite lot.
even played up my part of hostess, and
Dallas told me, aside, that was a
brick.
Just then Jim threw open the front
door.
There was a man on the top step,
with his mouth full of tacks, and he
was mailing something to the door.
just below Jim's FIorentine bronze
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knocker, and standing back with his
head on one side to see if It was
straight.
What are you doing?" Jim de-
manded f1ercely, but the man only
drove another tack. 1t was Mr.. Har-
bison who stepped outside and read
the card.
1t said Smallpox"
Smallpox" Mr.. HARRISON read, as
If he couldn't believe it. Then he
turned to US, huddled in the hall.
1T seems it wasn't measles, after
ALL" he said cheerfully. 81 move we
get into Mr.. Reeds automobile out
there, and have a vaccination party.
suppose even you blase society folk
have not exhausted that kind of diver
sion"
But the man on the step spat his
tacks in his hand and spoke for the
first time.
mo, you don't" he said Not on
your life. Just step back, please, and
close the door. This house is quar-
antined."
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copyrightIOOs, by the Bobbs-Merrin Co.
SYNOPSIS.

James Wilson or Jimmy as he is called
by his friends. Jimmy was rotund and
looked shorter than he really was His
ambition in life was to be taken seriously,
but people steadily refused to do so his
art Is considered a huge joke, except to
himself. If he asked people to dinner ev-
eryone expected a frolic. Jimmy marries
Bella Knowles; they live together a year
and are divorced. Jimmy's friends ar
range to celebrate the first anniversary
of his divorce. Those who attend the
party are Miss Katherine McNair who
every one calls Kit, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas
Brown, the Misses Mercer Maxwell Reed
and a Mr. Thomas HARRISON, a South
American civil engineer. The party is in
full swing when Jimmy receives a tele-
rive in four hours to visit him and his
wife. Jimmy gets his funds from Aunt
Selma and after he marrieS she doubles
his allowance. He neglects to tell her of
his divorce, as she is opposed to It,. Jim
my takes Kit into his confidence he tries
TO devise some way so that his aunt will
not learn that he has no longer a wife.
He suggests that Kit play the hostess for
one night. be Mrs. Wilson pro tenn. Kit
refuses, but is finely prevailed upon to
act the part Aunt Selma arrives and the
deception works out as planned. as she
had never seen Jim's wife. Jim's Jap
with spots. Bella, Jimmy's divorced wife,
enters the house and asks Kit who Is be-
ing taken away in the ambulance? Bella
Insists II Is Jim. Kit tells her Jim is well
and Is in the house. Bella tells KIT It
wasn't Jim she wanted to see. but Taxa
mira, the Jap servant, as she wished to
secure his services.
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CHAPTER w. (continued.)

IT'S immoral" l protested. Its
immoral to steal your"
my own butler!" she broke in inn
patiently. You're not usually so
scrupulous, Kit Hurry! l hear that
hateful Anne Brown"
So we slid back along the hall, and
] rang for Takahiro But no one came
Il think l ought to tell you, Bella"
! said as we waited, and Bella was
staring around the room-'T think you
ought to know that Miss Caruthers is
here" Bella shrugged her shoulders.
Well, thank goodness" she said,
Il don't have to see her The only
pleasant thing l remember about my
year of married life is that did not
meet Aunt Selma"
rang again, but still there was no
answer. And then it occurred to me
that the stiffness below stairs was al
most oppressive. Bella was noticing
things, too, for she began to fasten
her veil again with a malicious little
smile
'One of the things l remember my
late husband saying" she observed,
was that he could manage this house,
and had done it for years, with flaw
less service. Stand on the bell, Kit
/ did. We stood there, with the
table, just as it had been left, be-
tween us and waited for a response.
Bella was growing impatient. She
raised her eyebrows (she is very
handsome, Bella isl and flung out her
chin as if she had begun to enjoy the
horrible situation.
/ thought l heard a rattle of silver
from the pantry just then, and I hur-
rled to the door in a rage But the
pantry was empty of servants and
full of dishes, and all the lights were
out but one, which was burning dimly.
could have sworn that l saw one of
the servants duck into the stairway to
the basement, but when l got there
the stairs were empty, and something
was burning in the kitchen below
Bella had followed me and was peer
ing over my shoulder curiously.
There isn't servant in the house"
she said triumphantly. And when we
to be right. 1t was in disgraceful or
der, and one of the bottles of wine
that had been banished from the din
ing room sat half empty on the floor.
Drunk" Bella said with conviction.
But I didn't think so. There had not
been time enough. for one thing. Sud
denly l remembered the ambulance
hpz - - 1OT1 To-
pearance-for no one could believe
her silly story about Takahiro.
simply left her there, staring helpless
~ at the confusion, and ran upstairs
again: through the dining room, past
Jimmy and Aunt Selma, past Leila
Mercer and Max, who were flirting on
the stairs, up, up to the servants bed
rooms, and there my suspicious were
verified. There was every evidence Of
hasty fight; in three bedrooms five
trunks stood locked and ominous, and
the closets yawned with open door,
empty Bella had been right; there
was not a servant in the house.
As l emerged from the untidy empti-
ness of the servants wing, l met Mr..
HARRISON coming out OF the studio.
wish you would let me do some
OF this running about for you, Mrs.
wilson" he said gravely. You are
not we'll and can't think of anything
worse for headache. Has the but
ler's Illness clogged the household ma
ehinery?"
Worse / replied, trying not to
sTeathe in gasps. Il wouldn't be run
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Nrtlr .Nruts 8
ot Yr6tRt .911y
by f. =. FAnrarns

On the other hand as a banker there
are. to be sure. great responsibilities.
but very great and honorable oppor-
from the annoyances. vexations and
uncertainties of political career, and
surely be able to gain a comfortable
competence for myself and my family
as long as live. | will turn my back
upon politics.
That is just what he did-and
YOU know the rest Frederic p. Oh
colt. four years after leaving the
comptroller's office. reached the pres.-
dency of trust company and made
that the greatest institution OF its
kind IN the country. Dan Manning
was chairman of the Democratic state
committee. helped greatly to bring
about the election of Grover Cleveland
as governor in 1882. and the very
same year that Mr. Olcott became a
trust company president the political
astuteness OF his old friend, Dan
Manning, did wonders in securing the
Democratic presidential nomination
for Governor Cleveland.
Personally" concluded Mr.. Lamont,
al have always believed that Mr.. oil
colt might have been president in
1884 had he not decided to turn to
banking in 1879. And Dan Manning
was of the same belief He told me
so himself"
Copyright. 1910. by e. J. Edwards An
Rights Reserved.)
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CHAPTER v.
From the Tree Of Love.

FROM the Tree OF Love.
There is hardly any use trying to
describe what followed. Anne Brown
began to cry, and talk about the chill
dren. (She went to Europe once and
stayed until they all got over the
whooping cough) And Dallas said he
had a pull, because his mill controlled
| forgot how many votes, and the
thing to do was to be quiet and com
Portable and we would get out in the
morning Max took it as a huge joke,
and somebody found him at the tele-
phone, calling up his ,IN The Mer-
Ger girls were hyste. ALLY giggling,
and Aunt Selma sat on a stiff-backed
chair and took aromatic spirits Of am
monia, AS for Jim, he had collapsed
on the lowest step Of the stairs. and
sat there with his head In his hands.
When he did look up, he didn't dare
to look at me.
The HARRISON man was arguing
with the impassive individual on the
top step outside. and / saw him get
out his pocketbook and offer crisp
bundle of bills. But the naA from the
board Of health only smiled and
tackled at his offensive sign. After
a while Mr.. HARRISON came in and
closed the door, and we stared at one
another.
Il know what I'm going to do"
said. swallowing a lump in M throat,
I'm going TO get out through a base
ment window at the back. I'm going
home"
Home" Aunt Selma gasped,
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Story About WhistLer's Father

medals from the scientific bodies of
the old world and the new.
You probably know that, in order
to make survey. II Is necessary, first
OF all, TO FIX upon base line, or start
ing point" said Mr.. Laying, at that
time yice.president OF the Big -Four
system. Having got that. you can
then measure with your instruments
the distance between the starting
point and some prominent object.-a
mountain. for example. Thus, you OBJ.
tain two sides OF triangle. and geom.
etry teaches us that If you know the
length of two sides of triangle you
can at once and out what the length
of the third side is
When the coast survey had at last
been scientihcall organized and thus
born anew, party of engineers was
sent out to find a convenient and
good starting point for the survey
that is to say. base line. They were
engaged In this task for quite awhile
Ia number of months. In fact-and In
the course of It they fell in with an
old friend, Maj George Washington
Whistler. of the United States army,
a distinguished engineer. whose pro
fessional services we're then In high
favor with the pioneer railroad capital.
lists of the country. Most OF the early
work of surveying the routes for and
constructing railroads in this country
was done under the supervision OF
IA
err native engineers equal 10 the work
To the father Of Jimmy Whistler the
artist. who was then freshly launched
on the voyage of life. the elder Wits
tiers friends cOnflded that they were
looking for base line for the reor
ganized and practically new coast
survey project; and they added that
they had searched for base line in
several places-Long Island was one
but had found none that was feasible
Come with me and will show yol
what you want said Mai Whistler
who constructed the first long railroad
Ia the country, the Boston g. Albany
They were willing. and the next day
he took those federal surveyors to a
point on the Boston & Providence
railroad-then under course of con.
struction-near the town of Mansfield
Mass. He led them up the railroad
track little way and then pointed te
the north.
There he said. Is stretch Of
railroad ten miles in length. by care
full measurements absolutely straight
and with no grades II ought TO be the
best kind Of a base line for you
1T didn't take the coast surveyors
long TO decide that Mai. Whistler was
right They accepted that ten mile
stretch as a starting point Of their
work and from 1t reached q point with
their instruments some 60 miles away
The gigantic task of surveying the
coast line OF the entire country was al
last under way on scientific basis
thanks to a kindly and wise suggestion
on the part of Jimmy Whisuer's ia
Their And II may be- interesting to
note that the first measurement given
by the surveyors instruments was
found afterwards by field measure
ment TO be- so nearly correct that the
deviation was only about two inchef
IN the 90 miles
Copyright. 1916, by f. ] Edwards Az
Rights ReservedJ
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Revenge.

Did that poor. heu-pecked little man
give any explanation Of why he de-
clded 10 cremaJe his late wife Instead
Of burying herr"
Yes He said It was his only chance
to get even with her for the way she
elV aya roasted him"
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Another Kind.

Hal" said the Russian count. With
a fierce scowl on his Muscoyite fea.
lures. This worm Of an American
writer has insulted me with his peni-
Has he written a biting satire
about you?" inquired the fair charme.
10 whom he spoke.
Nothing so Sentlemanly yelled
the count He mas named his pis
after mel"
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The Lucky Man.
yyidgins

so you attended the Widgins
Wooster wedding"
"Oh. yes. ! was there
And did you congratulate the
lucky man?'
Sure. ! remarked 20 the minister
that was glad 20 see him making q
little money on the side
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10
ANYTHING TO
BEAT WILSON
THAT'S THE GAME BIG BUSINESS
Is PLAYING AMONG DEMO-
CRATIC POLITICIANS.

The following is from the Sioux City
Oowa) Tribune:
Democratic politics is assuming the
aspect of anything to beat Woodrow
Wilson" Eight months in advance Of
the national convention it is evident
that every artifice known to politics
will be employed by big business and
Its agents in the Democratic party to
prevent the nomination of the pro-
gressive governor of New Jersey. Al.
ready the tactics which will be used to
accomplish this result have been dis
closed.
1t is the ancient "favorite son. game
Local and sectional pride are to be ap-
pealed to in an effort to elect delegates
who can be handled for a reactionary
candidate in the national convention.
In any contest where men are elected
for "favorite son" as against Wilson,
the very fact that they have lent them
selves to an anti-Wilson movement
will be- a guaranty that they can be
voted as desired by those who would
foist on the party some other candi-
date satisfactory to Wall street.
Big business is vitality interested in
the selection of the Democratic NOM
inee because of the general belief that
President Taft, even if renominated.
cannot be reelected. The New York
f-1 ~"i-ror of Wall Streets
Stsws, shows that it is unde-. NJ de-
l----- failure on his present
trip to win back the lost confidence
of the Republican rank and file.
The possibility, therefore, that a
Democrat will be elected, renders it
certain that privilege interests, which
are fighting for life, will resort to
every known means to control the
Democratic nomination. Governor Will
son, of all Democratic possibilities, is
the one man whom they wish to keep
Aout of the presidential chair. If he is
to win the nomination, it will be able
to force his nomination.
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CHRISTMAS DAY
IN THE ARMY.

~HRISTMAS in the various forts
81 garrisoned by United States
~ troops never passes without a
cut and dried celebration. Prep
aration for the event is made long in
advance. Every soldier knows that
something extra is going to be his
portion for that day. The Christmas
dinner, with savory extras in the way
of food, is not the only special provi-
sion for the soldiers celebration. There
is a relaxation of the rigor Of military
discipline, which to many enlisted men
is even more welcome than the turkey
and cranberries. On Christmas day the
man in the barracks may do pretty
much as he pleases.
But pigs is pigs and soldering is
soldering, so it follows that a few Of
the men are shut out of the general
hiIarity of the holiday because they
must perform a soldiers duty as on
other days. The guard mount is for
Christmas as well as for all other days,
and military regulations cannot ferego
this requirement, no matter how much
the victims may growl under their
blouses. Even the extra dinner in the
barracks. while it is rare treat to
most of the men, makes work for some
Of them which is regarded in the army
as about the most calamitous detail in
the business.
Guard duty and kitchen work are
things studiously to be avoided by the
Sc 1anf rlnoconf n
soldier to be kept on guard, walking a
beat or pacing up and down in front
of headquarters when the rest Of the
fellows are inside the barracks sing
ing songs, telling stories, eating tur-
key or out on the parade ground play
ing baseball or doing skylarking stunts.
Accordingly the experienced soldier
makes it a point to escape Christmas
guard duty if possible. There are sew
eral ways of doing this. The first
sergeant Of the company sometimes, it
is limited, helps the veterans out by
passive cooperation, which throws the
burden of the day upon young recruits
who are passing their first Christmas
in the service. He permits the old
timers to swap dates for guard duty
with the recruits so that the latter
will find themselves detailed.
Santa Claus also comes to the SOL
der. This is true literally and fgura-
lively. He comes through the mails
or the express companies in the shape
Of boxes or packages from the home
folks. On his $13 month the soldier
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hitting to the laws and ordinances
there prevailing and particularly to
the regulations in force concerning
commerce"
This article makes it very plain
that no discrimination was to be made
by either of the two countries against
any one citizen of the one or the other
country on account of religion, race or
color. Since the ratification of the
treaty, our government has faithfully
and informally adhered to and per-
formed all the provisions thereof. No
Russian subject has ever been barred
from entry into or sojourn in, the
United States except in those cases
where the immigration laws-which
laws, however, govern immigrants
from all other countries as well-for-
bade the admission of a man on &C
count of sickness, crime or absolute
lack of means of support for at least
a few weeks after his landing. On
the other hand, the government of
Russia has uniformly refused, in at
least one respect, to conform to the
provisions of the first article.
1t is well known to all familiar with
the diplomatic history of the United
States that Jewish citizens of this
country, as well native as foreign born.
have been subjected by Russian Off
Gals on our own soil to an inquisition
concerning their religious faith or
racial anteeedents which is totally
foreign to the spirit of our govern
ment and to the tenor of its constitu-
ton and laws. Moreover, after such
inquisition made, the right guaranteed
to citizens of the United States under
the first article of the traety of 1882
has been uniformly Withheld.
For reasons of public policy, "ne
government of the United States has,
through many administrations, pre-
served an attitude of respectful pro-
test against Russia's violation of the
first article of this treaty, though on
one occasion (see foreign relations,
1895, Up. 1912, 1074,) it was intimated
to Russia that unless her consuls de-
sisted from their inequistorial practice
with respect to our Jewish citizens we
might feel constrained to withdraw
their exequators.
German Jews Favored.
What adds to the irritation produced
by RuSSia'S trea tment of American
citizens who are Jews, is the fact that
has become known to us that it is in
contrast with that accorded to Jewish
citizens of the Ger IN empire, whose
passports for Russia are freely vised,
and this principle extends also to the
Jewish agents of German Jewish mer-
chants who desire to visit the Rus
sian empire on business
The halls of the national capitol
have more than once resounded with
congressman, against the great humiI-
iation, and more than once have reso-
lutions been introduced calling upon
congress and the government to break
the treaty which Russia refuses to
live up to.
The demand for breaking the treaty
fnlInJryc he 10
it is better and more in accord with
our national self-respect to have no
treaty at all than to have one which
one of contrasting parties has already
broken by violating its provisions.
Also, there is the recognition that by
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does not have much Of a surplus to
spend in buying presents to send
home, but this fact does not initiate
against his receiving mementos from
the old hearthstone. 1t is always an
event in camp or barracks when some
man receives hefty package 'jes'
fore Christmas" As a rule, the con-
tents are shared with the soldiers
cronies if they happen to be Of the
edible variety and any of the cronies
fail to receive similar remembrances.
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abrograting that treaty Russia viii be
forced to take stops to make amends
for her injustice to America, and a
new treaty would then doubtless be
formed which would make any such
lapses on the part of Russia in the
future impossible.
Has Broad Meaning.
This is not merely a question of
treaty rights; rather is it one involv-
ing the prestige of our republic
abroad. A country that is impotent
to protect her citizens in foreign lands
must be regarded as a weakening in
deed. And her weakness abroad must
be interpreted as an evidence of weak
ness at home. 1t is the laissez-faire
attitude of our government in this
matter that has brought upon US the
humiliation of being regarded as
mere money making people, with no
particular interest in the home.
The American is respected in Europe
only so long as he is able to pay for
that respect with American dollars. As
soon as his money is gone he need
expect no such special consideration.
1t is thus the American dollar. and not
the American government, that is
plotting the American citizen safely
through Europe. How long this condi-
ton of affairs is to continue is prob
lematical, but certain it is that Ameri-
can people is getting extremely tired
of this stand-p pat policy on the part
Of the government, its turbulence to
the commercial interests of the few,
and it's sacrifice of the rights and in
terests of the many.
Sooner or later this vexed Russian
problem will have to be solved, and it
will be solved in the only way which
will prove acceptable to the sense of
patriotism of our people. Either Russia
Will ait wit he full
respect due to people of a great land,
or the treaty of 1882, will be term
mated. The nations dignity and honor
can permit of no other course.
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ner with us, it's dinner time now
Thank you sir, I brung mine with
me-"
of cold corn dodger reposed safely in
the back pocket of Johnny's breeches.
DO you come here often?"
"Bout every day. I reckon I'll be
goin' now, good mornin'. Come Jinsey"