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Evening star., 1912-09-14

"Oh-h!" The girl fairly wriggled will
eagerness, and he had to smile at her
as she leaned forward, waiting Tor De
tails. Fancy! What did he do? was
he a tall, dangerous-looking man? Die
he grind his teeth at your
mo, nor Norvin briefly explained the
very ordinary happenings of his trip with
the chief of police.
You won't have to testify against hil
in those what-do-you-call-e EN- proceed
ings?" she asked, as soon as he had fin
ished.
"Extradition?"
why. why. they'll blow you up. OF
do something dreadful"
II suppose I'll have to. Donnelly is
bent on arresting him, and owe some
thing to the memory of Martei Sayigno.
You mustn't!'a she exclaimed, with a
gravity quite surprising in her. when
Bernie told me what it might lead to. IL
frightened me nearly to death. He says
this Malta is "a perfectly awful affair
You won't get mixed up in it. will you
Please?"
The girl who was speaking now was
not the Myra Nell he knew: her tone OF
real concern struck him agreeably.
Il can't answer that: rather feel
Hes dead! That sounds brutal.
Il owe something also to-those he left
behind
You mean that sicilian woman-that
countess? / suppose you know I'm hor-
rfbly jealous Of herr? 81
Il am. just think Of tia real .coun-
tess, with a castle. and doIen-thou-
sands of gorgeous dresses Was she
beautiful
&"Don't say it that way. J. Goodness.
co be continued tomorrow)
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prepared to find the missing slipper any
where between the hammock on the
front gallery and the kitchen in the rear.
However. full half hours search failed
10 discover II. He had been under most
OF the furniture, and was both hot and
dusty when she came bouncing in upon
, him.
Here ] am, Bunny. decked out like an
empress. she announced. 'The new
dress is duck. and I'm ravishing-per-
fectly ravishing. Eli? What?"
He wriggled out from beneath the
spiration from his brow. pointed with a
There! There it is" he said, in a
terrible tone. That's it on your foot i"
"Oh. yes. I found it right after you
came downstairs" She burst out laugh
forgot you were looking. But, come, ad-
mire me!' She revolved before his eyes
and he smiled. delightedly.
In truth. Miss Warren presented pic
ture to bring admiration to any eye She
was a madcap, fy-away creature, whose
| mop Of dark hair, which no amount of
attention could hold in place. Little
dancing curls and wisps and ringlets
were forever escaping in coquettish fash
ion.
Bernie regarded her critically from head
to foot. absent-mindedly brushing from
his own immaculate person the dust
WHICH bore witness to his sisters house
keeping. In his eyes this girl was more
than queen. She was sort of deity.
and she could do no wrong.
You didn't comb your hair he said.
severely
..Oh, did. / combed it like mad. but
the hairpins pop right ont. she exclaim-
ed. Anyway, there weren't enough"
Well. found some on the piano." he
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two suitors is model Of the conven-
tlopai type. successful self-centered
man of business. The other one is a
prodigal. returned from far wanderings
| to rebuild the fallen house of which he
| is a bastard offshoot. He is. too, a GRIM
| fnal. half-forgotten forger disguised by
time and the new name under which
! he is retrieving the fallen fortunes OF
his adopted house The surprises of the
story and its suspense lie in the half
glimpses of this crime and it's effects.
Mary Pechell, discerning girl. discovers
| big man in this second suitor. and. de-
spite the disclosure Of his early offense.
very sensibly prefers him to the narrow
gauge mechanic perfection Of the other
one. The English setting of this romance
is a pleasant one. It's lesser people are
Charnwood, a mid Victorian spinster, Is
charming. Lady Susan Baliol, the clever,
warm-hearted. termagant dowager. is
simply captivating. An excellent story
along common levels.
THE COURT OF ST. SIMON. BY
Anthony Partridge. author of The
Golden Web" etc. Boston: Little.
Brown & Co.
Why is it that an author. when he
wishes to write a particularly scandalous
story, more often than otherwise sets 1t
down in Paris as the spot most likely to
give it the essential quality of believ-
ability? II. as the camp-meeting hymnal
refrain dolorously asserts,
We reap what we soo-w.
Why! then, to reap this malodorous hos
pitality. Paris must have sinned nightly
and scurvily.
Mr.. Partridge. to make this specially
bizarre romance, besomed the criminal
cutters and dives of Paris. With these
sweepings he organized a secret order,
sardonicaily called court" This band
he pledged to low villainy of every sort,
murder included. Over this court he set.
pleasure seeker. Valentine Simon Vicomte
de Souspennier Thence, 1.-The court of
ST. Simon Contrary to the rank and
file of his order, ST. Simon had notions
about social service, unique notions
whose methods were swift and summary.
His plan was nothing less than to kidnap,
fog and rob rich and unphilanthropic citi-
zens, turning the plunder over to the
poor. A turn in the tide of St. Simon s
life came when he went deep in love with
beautiful English girl of great innocence
and purity of life. Prior to this befall-
ment, however, he, ignorant OF the kim
ship. had been the direct means of lead
ing astray this young woman's brother.
precocious, world-wOrn lad, a conceited
ass. tainted with criminal and decadent
strains. Without going further, 1T is easy
to see that upon this foundation almost
anything of horror might happen, fast
and furious. 1t did. Nonsense!
FRAN. BY John Breckenridge Ellis
Illustrations by w. b. King. Indian
apolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Company.
The girl Fran, herself, is under every
one Of the sudden turns and swift sur
prises of which this lively matter is
wholly compound. From the moment, in
the opening chapter. when her open
laughter breaks mockngly in upon the
moaning conversions of a country
camp meeting, to that, in the last one,
Evening star., 1912-09-14

the Pocona mountains with his friends
Horny" and "Rache." To tell what nap
pened when she got there wouio pe 70
spoil the story. With all her putterny
at last with the discovery that she Is
really a good. ordinary girl. with ca
pacity for home-loye hidden under Tue
mask and wig of her profession. Inc
man-sized cloud dissolves In the suhshine
of a better mans love and the actress Is
lost in the wife. The descriptions are
vivid and the dialogues yivaciously clever.
THE LONELY QUEEN. , Ey,,aL BY H: G: G.
Stoughton.
SO intimate portraiture of this royal
heroine evidences minute study OF the
court records Of Queen Elizabeth's time.
The most casual reader of English MIS-
tory has some sketchy idea of the family
life of Henry VIII: his series OF wives
his daughter Mary, by the queen he d.
vorced his daughter Elizabeth. by the
queen he beheaded and his son EDWARD
by the queen who was clever enough 10
die. To this framework of general knowl-
edge the author has added the detail OF
intimate day-to-day life in the years tnat
changed Elizabeth from neglected chlio
in a palace garden to England 1mmortai
queen. History does not credit her with
an overallowance Of beauty. but some Ola
chronicle must have been more natterins'
since Sir Thomas Seymour-in peach
colored silk, clasped with emeralds al
neck and knee-rhapsodizes over her swift
grace, her body Of alabaster, the flame OF
her eyes and the red gold treasury of her
hair. Elizabeth is also shown to possess
the ordinary womans capacity Tor love-
TO such a tropical degree as. to make one
feel that, perhaps, she refrained from
marrying any one of her admirers for the
reason that she could not marry them
all. Each page is vitally alive. with the
men and women who came In contact
with Elizabeth at every stage OF her early
career-for the book closes before she
has dyed her throne with Stuart blood.
The story is Elizabeth's own, but the title
Of the book applies with equal pathos
to Queen Mary, whose shadow, for time,
darkened Elizabeth's ambition. Mary. at
! least. was humanity devoted to the Span
ish husband, whose cruelty branded her
reign. The author pictures her a short.
drab woman with no eyebrows and a
memory of undying hatred for the woman
who had taken her mothers place. He
also does Mary the justice to show that
she spared Anne Bolyns daughter when II
was in her power to send her to the
block. The story is told with dramatic
tensity and literary charm.
Evening star., 1912-09-14
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!, customer knows, walks up and says:
"Dick, or Tom, or Charley, l ate Is
cents worth; pay you tomorrow or next
day.
Deception is believed to be rarely pra-
ticed under this honor system. and if a
man should be caught paying for less
| than he took from the refreshment coun-
ter it would create a sensation that would
shock the Iunchroom to its foundations.
A few Washington lunchrooms display
the sign: ITO avoid mistakes please pay
when served" Few persons heed this
sign. For so accustomed is the town to
eating and then paying that man feels
that all eyes are on him when he walks
away from his. coffee mug or milk mug
or pie or sandwich plate without going
over to the counter to tell the man there
how much he owes him. The man who
pays when he takes his food feels under
suspicion when he walks out.
The old honor custom Of taking what
you want, then eating it and then telling
the counter man or the cashier what your
debt is is the general custom in the
Washington luncheries.
MORE than hundred bushes of rho-
Av> dodendron are growing at the
southwest end of the Treasury garden On
the south and west they grow up against
the iron picket fence and on the east are
bounded by the brick and granite drive
way that leads from the street level at
the south Of the Treasury to the base
ment of the national treasure house. Up
and down this brick-paved grade the
wealth Of worlds comes and goes. The
rhododendron bed extends from the south
west corner about fifty yards northward
to the watchhouse at the gate by the
giant scales opposite the White House
grounds.
few yards west Of the point at which
18th street touches the Monument lot b
street is divided by a narrow parking,
granite curbed on each edge and set with
street lamps at the usual intervals. On
the south side of the parking B street Is
paved with asphalt and on the north side
rough paved with granite blocks. The
ends of the parkway slip are thus posted
This Side for Light Traffic Only and
This Side for Heavy Traffic Only"
This midway plot is grown with grass
until a hundred yards east Of 18th
street hedge of rhodendronS begins.
This hedge continues to 18th street, makes
skip and begins again, continuing to the
intersection Of Virginia avenue with the
north roadway Of Potomac Park. or Is
street continued. At that point the mid
die parking and its long bed of rhododen-
drons disappears, and the north boule-
ward. narrower than B street, RUNS on
ward to the river.
Evening star., 1912-09-14
Experiments With Alfalfa.

IF you walk west through the glass
house lane at the north boundary of
the Department of Agriculture you Will
see boxes and frames with thick and
flowing and luxuriant crops of q Towering
plant that even the botanical layman
will half identify as something like
clover" Some of the patches of this
plant are yellow with small blossoms
some are purple and some are white. 1t
is alfalfa. 1t is a plant on which a great
many incomes have been built in the
western states and on which the hopes of
many farmers in the Potomac region are
founded.
Plant scientists believe that alfalfa will
play as big a part in the history that is
making as it has played in the history
already made. Alfalfa is an Arabic word
meaning best fodder" Historians Of
this remarkable and prolific plant have
written that 1t probably originated In
Media, "as folklore tales from lands on
different sides of this area point toward
Media the place when it came
When the Persians invaded Greece they
carried the plant along with them. st be-
ing the custom for the advance ennis
saries to plant fields for the sustenance
of the herds which helped support the in
vading hosts" From Greece alfalfa went
to Italy and Spain and was taken into
Mexico by the Spaniards. From Mexico
it spread to South America and it entered
California about 1854. 1t has been march
ing eastward and is now the most i'm
portant forage crop in Nebraska and
Kansas. Some fields of alfalfa are grow
ing in the country not many miles from
Washington, though numerous difficulties
and failures have attended its introduc-
tion in this neighborhood.
Evening star., 1912-09-14

able bits OF mystery writing that has
been put forth in recent years. His read
ers will not find enlightenment untl tne
end and meanwhile the always engaging
Chester Kent develops some fascinating
tricks OF divination.
UNQUENCHED FIRE. novel: BY
Alice Gerstenberg. Boston: small
Maynard & Co.
Having the real spark Of genius. the
quality that makes a great actress, Jane
Darlington could not be kept down by
affluence or by poverty. From Chicaso
she fed when the social world laid at her
feet and a marriage with most unoe-
niably eligible man had been arranged.
To New York she went and there she met
discoura ragement and almost death. but
fortune favored her and at last she ar
rived" and in arriving had her lui,
realiza ation of her powers She sunereo anu
through her suffering she became greater
and developed at last into dramatlc
star Of the first magnitude. Much OF the
inner life of stage people Is reflected In
this well balanced and effectively present.
ed story.
HIS RISE TO POWER. BY Henry Rus
sell Miller. With Illustrations by
NJ. Leone Bracker. Indianapolis:
The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
1t is generally conceded that few Will
always think for the many. In doing so'
however, some OF the few will use their
power in a selfish way. The struggle OF
a young lawyer against powerful poiiti-
cal machine, the product Of one mans
brain. is ably portrayed by Mr.. Miller In
"His Rise to Power One is led to
assume it to be study in novel form
of the political conditions existing IN
Pennsylvania following the last demo-
cratic administration. John Dunmeaue.
as district attorney, succeeds In e1ectine
the IMPRISONMENT of some. and causing
considerable dismay to the county ana
state bosses by turning against the party
influential in putting him in office. After
a few years the novelty of his reforms
having lost interest with the people-,hls
people," as he called them-John Dun
meade wanders between the two camps, a
lonely voice, preaching honesty. decency,
liberty and equity. Finally, as he learns
TO make use of friends and enemies alike.
he is no longer a voice, having passed
from the wilderness to the haunts or men,
where actions, not preachments, achleve-
ments not prophecies, are the currency
of life. OF course, there is woman
whom he eventually marries. but the love
story is almost lost in the story OF
politics.
GEORGETTE. BY Marion Hill, author
of "The Pettison Twins" etc. Bos-
ton: Small, Maynard & Co.
This is a breezily cheerful story which
threatens, at one point. to be darkened
n a cloud that measures trifle larger
than the traditional "man's hand" To be
exact in dimension, it is the. size of
man, himself; a married man. Tne
heroine is a young actress, who. between
the stage and the general allurement OF
the white way has burned both ends of
that candle we know about. and her
physician has prescribed four months IN
Evening star., 1912-09-14

when she takes the triumphant part OF
| lion tanner in a travelling show, Fran is
! an unceasing thrill and shock to the
| small community in which she plays like
girls errand to this neighborhood is the
| ques@ of father. Him she finds the
| head and front of the religious mission
ing zeal OF the wakened countryside. To
this father the girl is only forgotten,
| or unknown. by-product of early tnstinc-
| tive love. Tired of being show girl
Fran starts this story by making secret
but emphatic demands upon him for a
| father and home. She moves the mat
ter forward. and on to a good issue, by
her own capriciOus originality. Delight
| full, 1ovable. innocent and worldly wise In
one. Fran herself is the whole show here
The other people, good and ordinary
folks. commonly shocked but always be-
dazzled by her, sit up and lie down at her
behest. Fran is one of the few who are
able to step out of their own books and
take places in the living company of one S
friends Though she may be welcomed
with an occasional reservation, there is
no question at all about the welcome.
BUCK PETERS. RANCHMAN. BY
Clarence E. Mulford, author of
"Bar-20 Days" etc. and John Wood
Clay. Chicago: A. c. McClurg & Co.
Mr.. Mulford is an old hand at the
ranch story. In this instance, perhaps
to fill up tagging imagination, he takes
on Mr.. Clay as literary partner. Between
the two they turn out an all-around
model OF the encrimsoned western tale.
In this sort of writing the faintest trail
of plot will serve. It does here. In no
other particular than that of plot, how
ever. is moderation of any kind to be
tolerated. Villainy must be of the super
lative brand. courage of super-mannish
quality. Hair-breadth escapes must be
shaped to curdle the blood, and foul muir
horsemanship blanket illimitable spaces.
A picturesque and prodigal use of pro-
family litters the scenery. A love round
up may, or may not offer diversion from
those of sterner sort. The Buck Peters
Of this adventure. well-nigh buried under
ruff1anly conspiracies to oust him from
his Montana ranch. is the prince OF cow
punchers, the essence of wild west
heroism. His story follows the common
pattern After these new tales Of the
west one naturally reaches over after
''The Luck of Roaring Camp" or "Ten-
nesSee's Partner. or another, just to
remind himself that Bret Harte could do
this thing in picturesque realism with
neither orgy nor welter as an accom-
paniment.
MARCUS HOLBEACH's DAUGHTER-
BY Alice Jones. autnor OF buppies
We Buy" etc. New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.
Wholesome, rugged. tonic. These are
the essences Of this picturesque romance
Of the Canadian woods. The situations.
robust and spirited; the people, plainly
real and tinglingly alive; the straight,
swift movement of eyents-all are as fit
to their setting as glove to hand. The
animating force here is AN uncommonly
engaging love matter. The daily work
and play of this winter-stern and sum-
Evening star., 1912-09-14

Cambridge. England, one of the leading
Investigators of Mendelian phenomena
on reconciliation, on f1uctuating varieties,
the running out of varieties, vegetative
propagation, self-fertilization, cross-fer-
Hlization. heterozygote and homozygote
characters Karl F. Kellerman and T. X.
Robinson, Psychologist and assistant phy
siologist, respectively. have produced vol
umes on legume inoculation-for alfal1a Is
one of the legume family.
Anybody interested in alfalfa can see
many varieties of it growing in the gar
dens of the Department of Agriculture
and can spend golden hours in inquirins
into the experiments being made with
and on this plant, a plant not yet famil-
lar in the region about Washington put
probably destined to become an important
factor in the economic uplft OF the capl-
tails adjacent territory.
Evening star., 1912-09-14

ments who devised a means to control the
vibrations of light. sound and heat within
wide area. Against the man Of politi-
cal power this unfortunate cracked
Drained scientist conceived q relentless
hatred and began the process designed
to drive him forth from the city that he
thought he owned so absolutely. Wire
less messages began to come to Mccarthy,
the boss. telling him in archaic phrases to
leave forthwith Mccarthy cursed and
paid no heed. Then came young scien-
tifc investigator who became interested
in the mysterious messages and followed
them through their developments and
watched the warnings as they progressed
from mere words to shocking phenomena
which the unknown proceeded to cause.
Mr.. White develops along these lines a
story of thrilling interest that reaches its
climax at pitch of excitement scarcely
equaled in recent fiction. incidentally he
demonstrates how dependent is a mod
ern city upon means of transportation
and communication.
THE INHERITANCE. By Josephine
Daskam Bacon. author Of THE Mad
ness of Philip" etc. Illustrated.
New York: D. Appleton & Co.
Mrs. Bacon has here told a compare
lively simple story in terms that involve a
long narrative. In the telling, however.
she reveals with delightful vividness a
long range Of years, the dress and Gus
toms and manners of a period well nigh
forgotten though within the range of the
living. To America is brought, by his
supposed nurse. little English boy. or
phaned since infancy. BY good chance
she falls with him under the influence of
a kindly physician in a small suburban
town near New York, and 1T is virtually
as a member of this good mans family
that the boy develops into manhood. A
mystery regarding his parentage is not
solved fully until the end, and it is this
mystery that constitutes what there is of
plot in this altogether interesting and
charmingly written novel. Many striking
characters are drawn and pass along over
the stage of action-Englishmen, Ameri-
cans, Bermudans, scientists and educa-
tors, village ne'er-do-wells and servants,
a wide range of human exhibits, each de-
veloped with the clear. sure touch of
Mrs. Bacon's power Of NATURALIZATION.
THE SECRET OF LONESOME COVE.
BY Samuel Hopkins Adams, author
of Average JONES'" etc. Illustra-
tion by Frank E. Schoonover.
indianapolis: Bobbs-MerriI Company.
1t would appear from dedicatory note
that Mr.. Adams has basis in fact for
this strange story, which treats with the
discovery of a manacled body found
lashed to grating on the shore of Lone
some cove on the New England coast To
the natives who surround the gruesome
find 1T is not profoundly mysterious, but
the trained eye of Chester Kent, who has
appeared heretofore in other stories from
this pen detects evidences of something
more than the usual drowning or even
the usual crime. Thanks to his investiga-
tions, the suspicion that is directed upon
young artist who is at work in the
neighborhood is not permitted to climax
in his accuse ton of crime tLat he never
committed, and at the same time ro-
nance is facilitated through great diffi-
culties to a happy conclusion. Mr.. Adams
has presented one of the most unguess-