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Mr.. and Mrs. George
Howard Return to
Washington.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard and the
latter's daughter. Miss Margaret Perrin.
have returned to Washington from
Pride's Crossing, where they Nave been
visiting Mrs. Clarence Moore.
Il
Congressman Robert L. Henry of
Texas and Dudley Field Malone. son-in-
law of Senator O'Gorman, have been
the guests for a few days of Mr.. and
Mrs. Perry Belmont at Bar Harbor
Russell Ellis sard. of Albany, N. Y.
who has been the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Melville f. Ingalls, at the Virginia
Hot Springs for a fortnight. has re-
turned to his home. He win return to
Hot Springs few days before Septem-
Der %, on which date his marriage Ia
Miss Abbie ingalls, Barnard, a grand
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. ingalls,. will
take place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Algernon Burnaby, OF
England, who have spent the summer
with Mrs Burnaby's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, at York
Harbor, Me-, sailed for their home
yesterday.
Capt. Halstead Dorey, u. S. A., and
Mrs. Dorey have arrived in Washington
from Captain Dorey's former station,
at Fort Crook. Neb.. and have leased
the house at 1724 Connecticut avenue for
the season. The house was formerly
the residence of Mrs. John c. Poor, who
is now at Narragansett Pier. where she
has spent the summer. Mrs. Poor will
spend the winter In travel.
Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Hale, who are
spending the summer in Maine, will
return to Washington early m October
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick w. Pratt and
Mrs. F. w. Dickens are spending a few
days In New York, en- route to Wash.
ington from Vermont, where they spen,
part OF the summer,
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Mrs. Alexander Stewart and the
Misses Stewart, who have spent the
summer at their country place near
Alexandra, Va, have returned tc
Washington,
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brass-bound box OF Oriental work.
manship has lain In the window Of
pawnbroker's for over a year One day
sailor, Jor,n Lindsay, enters the store
and tries to buy IT. The pawnbroker re-
fuses TO let him have II at the price Lind
say can Lny, and theN sailor summons
policeman. claiming the box to be his,
and pointing out the initials on IL. AZ.
L." as proof
The policeman demands time before en-
forcing Lindsays claim. They turn to
leave the store, and encounter Hindu.
who has recognized Lindsay from the
street. The Hindu takes the sailor to his
rpoms, and tells him that the box got to
the pawnbrokers by. reason of the murder
of ite possessor. who with Lindsay and
the Hindu; was part owner.
pawnbroker. This is carried out, and they
return TO Lal Dass' quarters with the
box. The Hindu presses secret spring,
lace of si&ty-three diamonds is exposed.
overcome by greed, Lindsay kills the
Hindu. seizes the box, and makes for
Where he falls asleep. An escaping con-
vet also finds shelter there. and kills
iS lindsay to get his clothes. finding in
placed in q little bag He continues his
hight, but is surrounded by officers of the
law. Dropping the diamonds into a deep
up his hands, and falls dead.
Inc two warders who shot him ride up
70 the body and sit down to await the
W enO ohhIoI5. bdCn III buCCersiou
catches sight Of the diamonds and the
second demands half share AS one
lies down upon his face to reach into the
assure the other crushes his head with
large store, drops the body in the fissure.
recoVers the gems and, after removing
Al evidence Of the crime makes for
nome. He packs UP a few Of his be-
iongfngs and leaves town. In a neighbor-
ing city he meets one Finney an old
friend, who informs him that his crime
mas been discovered and that he Is being
shadowed. He offers to hide him In the
glass works where he, Finney, lie a night
watchman. The warder. seeking to drown
the memory of previous events. drinks
himseh to death during the night Fin
ney hnds the diamonds on the warder's
person, but. afraid Of being charged with
murder, hides the stones in his own cot
tage, and, putting the body into a sack
prepares to threw 1t into the big glass
furnace.
On the edge. of the furnace he is over
come with fright, loses his balance, and,
with the dead body on his back falls
with his burden into the pit.
1t fs found that Finney has let his
property TO Miss Driscoll a milliner In
the town She comes upon the diamonds
In his papers, and decides to use them
IN buying back the family estate In Ire
land. A conference with her lawyer is
overheard by his disreputable SON who
Immediately plans, with the aid of an
artful criminal, to rob the milliner Dis
guised as clergymen they follow her on a
journey to ireland and obtain the dia-
monds.
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the rose gardens: so II set out and flew
for hours till 1t aiighted on a tree just
outside the palace windows. As soon as
the King had eaten his breakfast he
threw up the window to let In the fresh
air and sunlight, and in a moment the
bee had gone into the room and hidden
itself In the velvet hangings about the
Kings golden chair.
Presently a letter was brought in to
the King. 1t was from Breda, begging
for her fathers liberty-that he would
not be sent to prison. But before him
on the table lay the paper which he
would send the father to prison. And
right bv 1t the King laid the paper
which Breda had sent asking for her
fathers freedom.
The bee saw both, and when the King
was about to sign the paper sending
the man to prison, he stung the King
on the hand. In a rage the King sprang
up and chased the bee from the room,
but when he returned to his chair the
wind had changed the position Of the
papers and In his hurry he signed the
one granting Breda's father his liberty.
A servant took the paper at once into
friend of Bredas who had brought the
girls note. The friend was so over
joyed at getting the good news that he
at once told every one he met and soon
there was a great crowd about the pal
ace cheering the King.
II was the first time that his people
had ever cheered him. and the King
did not understand what 1t meant till
he looked on the table and saw that
he had by mistake signed the wrong
paper-that he had given Breda's father
his freedom, when he meant to send
him to prison.
At first he was angry, but when he
listened to the cheers of delight that
the people gave he saw what happiness
II brought to do a kind deed. From
this day will be good king. who will
make my people happy. so they will
cheer me often" he said. So he wrote
an order that all prison doors be thrown
open and not more hard taxes, and this
went far and wide over the happy king
dom.
He sent for Breda and her father and
made. the man chief herdsman of the
royal fiocks. So that Beda and the
people lived happily the rest of their
lives under a good king. But no One
ever knew that this had been brought
about by the work of tiny, unnoticed
little bee.
Tomorrow's story: Crippled Charles s
Crutch."
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FOR LITTLE FOLK JUST BEFORE BEDTIME
The Sandman S Stories
BREDA'S BEE.

~ NCE upon a time there lived III
a far-off country a little girl
~ named Breda. 1t was a lovely
land with high mountains slop-
ing down to green valleys, and the fields
were covered with great herds of cattle
and focks of sheep. The people were
hard-working, but in spite of this there
was one thing which made every one
very unhappy.
This was the fact that the king of
the country was cruel man, who put
such high taxes on the people that theV
found 1t hard to live. The kings officer
would go about taking money from the
poorest. and If any one did not have
anything with which to Tly, the officer
would put him in prison Tor years.
Breda's father was a shepherd, and
had always managed to paw his taxes
but one winter the wolves came down
from the mountains and ate up most
of his fine flocks of sheep. So when the
tax officer came around there was no
money with which to pay him. Poor
little Breda saw the trouble her parent
was in, but could do nothing to help.
So she put on her cap and ran out into
the woods to weep alone.
When she put her head down on a
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CHAPTER Xxx.
Miss Driscoll's WAY.

n n r. NINIAN BAxENDALE, on
M hearing his name so glibly
w pronounced by Miss Drtscoll.
felt his spine turn to marrow.
He had teen considerably upset by the
events of the morning, and was not
feeling at all we'll.
He had drunk a great many more
whisky -and-sodas than were really good
for him on the previous day, and he
had a curious. heavy, dull feeling all
over the top of his head which made
him wonder II by any chance he had
been poisoned.
He could not account for the fact that
he had slept until 10 o'clock; as a rule,
he was a light sleeper and got up rath-
er early, but on this particular morning
he had slumhered drunkenly and had
felt no desire to get up at all.
Then he was disturbed by the defec-
ton of his friend. Mr.. Claye. AS yet
he could scarcely comprehend this but
than that, 1t occasioned him what he
very much disliked at that moment
racking and exercising of his brains
which was inconvenient.
Why on earth had Claye cleared out
like that and left him alone in a dan
gerous place? What did 1t all mean?
Was there something up? Had the plot
| failed-fizZled out?
young Mr.. Baxendale's brain as he
dressed himself in his cufate's clothes
| and put on his clerical collar, and he
found 1t difficult to answer them. The
numerous spirituous drinks of the day
| before had made his brain weak, and
he was more inclined to weep than to
reason.
There was no source of comfort any
where. save in the thought that Claye
| had really secured the diamonds and
/ had judged 1t safest to get away with
them early in the morning. Anyhow,
| all that he could do was to follow
| Claye's instruction and drive to Kings
! bridge.
Mr.. Ninian Baxendale was conscious
of a bad weakness of the stomach when
he had completed his toilet. He sat
| groaned.
II wish l could have a brandy-and-
| thetic walls of his bedroom. But II
| would look so bad If curate had a
brandy -and-soda at this time in the
morning-snd me especially before break
Then a brilliant notion entered the
mind of this unhappy young man. He
remembered that his dear friend, Mr.
| Claye, was indisposed. Indisposed! II
posed person-even a curate-might be
| permitted a brandy-and-soda at any
hour of the day or night. 1t was medi'
cine.
Young Mr.. Baxendale revived at the
mere thought OF a drink and he as
sumed his best curate manner and de.
| scended to the ground floor, where he
! turned into the smoking room, quite OBJ
| liNous of the fact that the manageress
in the office close by had taken stock OF
| his pale face and rather blood-shot
eyes. b..
A Continuation of This Story Will
Be Found In Tomorrow's
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bed of moss under a tree she saw a
bee struggling to get out from beneath
a large stick that had fallen across its
back; so Breda, who very very kind,
lifted the stick. and the bee flew away
in the sunlight. But presently II came
back and settled down on a leaf Just
above the girls head. 1t could hear her
sobs and from the words she said found
out exactly what the trouble was-that
her father would be taken away to
prison because he could not pay the
taxes for the King.
Now, the little bee knew Just where
the Kings room in the palace was. for
1t had often gone there for flowers in
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or satisfactory than one OF these silks.
Dainty white bags will be carried all
winter for theater ana party use, and
there Is still much time to carry them
with white gowns. A store in Market
space is Offering a pretty line of these
bags for 81. There is a choice OF either
lace or leather, and all are clean and
new. The department also offers a new
line Of sl.50 leather bags.
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A Continuation of This Story VIII
BE Found In TomOrrOw's
Issue of The Times.
No Limit.

Genealogist-;So you wont me to trace
your English ancestry? ! suppose you'd
Ike to 20 back to William the i'on-
queror7
Parvenu--Oh, yes, or esrlIer.-Har.
peI's BaZar.
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LOCAL MENTION.

"The Mystery of the Lama Convent"
and La Tosca" today. Virginia Thester
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CHAPTER XIX (continued),

<cT OBBED, madame?" The man.
ageress' eyes went instinc-
lively to the watch, rings
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r. NINIAN BAxENDALE, on
M hearing his name so glibly
pronounced by Miss Driscoll.
- fAl4 Ii.
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Tomorrow's story: Crippled Charles
Crutch."
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1912-12-19
NOT A DAY OF JOY FOR ALL
Those Who Are Happy on Christina
Should Remember the Suffer
ing and Distressed.

Its Christmas time, friend! What
will you do about it," asks L. d,
Stearns in Suburban Life. Mothers!
Aunties! You who love to see your
babies bend, grooming softly, over
their family of dolls, with that grave
little smile of dawning motherhood
fitting tenderly over their faces. just
within a stones throw of babies who
have no dolls, and the mother heart
beats in their bosoms just as it does
in that of your own sheltered darl.
ings' but their faces are grave, an6
sharp and old; and little drawn, white
lines show about their mouths; and
their eyes are not like the eyes of
your children. The other day, a baby
opened it's eyes for the first time
on this old earth; it was one OF our
coolest days; but in the home WAS
TO stove, no bit OF warmth, no food
almost no clothes! On another street.
in the midst of plenty. a woman, with
two small babies toddling about, the
father out hunting for work. cries
with red lids. We've not a dollar in
the house, and nothing to eat!' Oh,
mothers-oh, adoring aunties-life
isn't made up of just prayers and sit
ting reverently in church. keeping
one day in the week holy! There's
a tryst to keep with life that is
spelled in many, many ways, if you'd
make it complete"
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1912-12-19
HIS NEW YEAR THOUGHTS
The Eloquent Hopelessness of the
WeiI-known Author, Robert
Louis Stevenson.

Beautiful in its simplicity and elo
quence is the following gem for New
Year medits<ion, culled from the
magic pages of that lamented master
of English prose-Robert Louis Stew
enson.
ITO be honest, to be kind-to earn
a little and to spend a little less,
to make the whole family happier
for his presence. to renounce when
that shall be necessary and not
be embittered, to keep a few friends
but those without capitulation-above
all. on the same grim condition to
keep friends with himself-here is
task for all that man has of forth
tude and delicacy. He has an am
bilious soul who would ask more: he
has hopeful spirit who should look
in such an enterprise to be success
full"
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1912-12-19
WHEN THE YULE LOG BURNED
Pretty Customs Of Former Times
That Surrounded That Necessary
Feature Of Christmas.

The Yule log on the fireplace roared
The whole hall was aglow,
The great hounds lay before the blaze,
Dreaming of stag and boar.
One of the prettiest sights of the
old.time Christmas must have been
that of the Yule log being drawn
homeward, surrounded with joyous
laughing children, shouting merry
greeting to each wayfarer as he
dotted his hat In reverence to the log
so full of good promises whose flames
had the power to burn out old wrongs
and heartburnlngs. On the arrival OF
the log at the "baronial hall" it was
customary for each member of the
family to greet it in fitting manner
either in verse or song.
In some parts of France there was
also the custom of the Christmas log,
although there has been a different
significance. There the log had sus.
pended from each end the toys, cakes
and fruits for the children of the
house. These were the gifts Petit
Maulet or Christmas child was said
to have brought.
In the mountain districts Of Ger
many the Christmas leg was supposed
to have the power of waTding off dan,
gers from lightning and was kept be
meath tue bed of the master of the
house from one Christmas till the
next, when it was used to light the
new log. On Christmas eve all lights
and FIRES were eStinguished in the
house and a piece of the last years
wood was tsIon to the neighboring
church. where K was lighted at the
faaIes oe tie sanctuary light, signify
ing The new liSht that had come into
the world on this night.
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hidden worth as the miner has found
the blackened, bleak and forbidding
hillside to be threshold of worlds of
cleaning gold. He that receives This
gift comes to himself to find himself
in a friendly world. 1t Is a gift
greatly to be desired, as a fire in
winter, a friend in misfortune; and
by its magic are miracles wrought on
those who dwell far from the king
dom of the Saint Good VIII.
And the second gift is like unto it
a mild spirit of amnesty toward all
pilgrims whose faulty compass taxes
them astray, and those who receive
1t are straightway indicted into the
Order Of the Forgivers. 1t strikes
from the pilgrim as in the twinkling
Of an eye, the cold bonds of hatred,
vengeance, and all the brood of mall
ice, which make their home with .
man but to destroy him.
And the third gift is the Just Judg-
ment, by which the world is vastly
lightened by reason Of the number of
COMBINATIONS being lessened. For as
Is the number Of those we condemn
in this world, 30 is the number of
disappointments we carry about with
US, and the number of the sunny
windows we have darkened for our
selves. There are lights of life which
a just judgment forbears to extin-
guish, and he who bears this gift
walks In a mellow circle of serene
tolerance.
And the fourth gift is that of the
Cheerful Spirit, having which one has
light at eventide, yea and at midnight.
For there is no darkness like unto
the darkness of the spirit bereft Of
cheerful lamps and fires, and there
is no darkness of the spirit that tho
st. Good VIII cannot dispel.
And when the pilgrim has received
these gifts he finds among them an
other, which is the gift of Vision,
whereby he sees the unseen. Indeed,
all the gifts of st. Good VIII pertain
to sight and vision, for as the physi-
cal eye is the chief of the body's
blessings, so is the gift Of vision the
saver of life, which possessing, no man
perishes. For as blind men walk the
way and see neither rivers nor trees
nor men, so he who has not received
these best of gifts walks In great
blindness toward a world which en-
oompasses him with beneicence, guild
ance, protection and inspiration.
And when the pilgrims sailed on, 10!
they were new mortals. And no mat
ter how great the distance they jour-
neyed, the pleasant gales of Christ
mas isle were always in their nos
trils. And they went to many lands,
but wherever they set foot, or built
booth or raised a tent, the people
knew they had been to the Blessed
isle. And Christmas trees sprang as
seedlings from the Tree of Life, and
many kindnesses to friends and the
poor were borne abroad on the wings
of sweetness and light which forever
came forth from the gifts Of St. Good
Will.-Detroit News.
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Christmas Song

now Is the time when holly sprays
Light all the barren, breeding ways,
lind every bell, II sounds noel,
II pean In the Masters praise.
row Is the time when ipIss CLEAN
Like beryI In the morning beam,
lind every bell, II sounds noel,
lind makes the masters praise It's
theme.
how Is the time when mistIetes
Is glossy In the monday glow,
lind every bell, Il sounds noel,
CO praise upon bis name bestew.
now Is the time Of insIe mirtb,
Che blessed day Of Gbrist-Bis birth
lind every bell, II sounds noel,
GO ring Els praise throughout the earth
-(J;otoo CcoU..J fo Ah,eL..S.