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woman fuffed into the offs and said she
wanted to be a nactress. Believe me, I
was dippy about her from the moment |
lamped that dame. She had me goin'
from start to finish. We got married,
on the quiet. and / put all / had into
maxim her happy-I mean. maxim her
what she wanted to be, a star. 1 done
it. too; but by that time she had me
runnin' round in circles and foamin' at
the mouth every time another man took
squirt at her. And then we had a
coupla failures and my money gave out,
and she chucked me cold"
He rolled his great head to and fro in
mournful wonder. 1T beats me what
dubs we men are about women. Now
just told you how this dame treated me,
but, it's the Gods honest truth, I'd come
right to heel and charge like good
dawg If she was ever to give me the
whistle That's what egged me on to try
a turn at this plant l figured 1t out l
stood to make KILN If we could put it
through. and all the time / had in the
back Of my mind picture of me walkin'
up to my wife with wad of dollars and
sayin': Kid, take me backs - You
see. she never wasted any money gettin'
a divorce from me, and there wouldn't
be nothin' to prevent our beginnin' again
Her right name was Letitia Sa-
varan.'' said the red man. quietly, but
l reckon you'd know her better as Lefty
Noon.'
After many silent minutes. during which
the sunset faded In the darklng sky and
the evening shadows closed softly about
the two men. hiding their faces from
one another, Rhode sat up in his chair.
'.Well," he said, huskily, Il guess l
gotta be goin. Macklin said take my
time. but -
You understand said Crittenden.
controlling his voice with difficulty.
what this means to me-what l am to
infer from what. you've told me?'
''Well5 yes: at least Isthink I do. OF
course, since 1 was Lefty Moons hus-
band when you married her. 1t follows
that the second marriage wasn't legal.
That's all there is to it. You're as free
as air.
The speaker laboriously hoasted hina-
self upon his feet Crittenden rising to
face him.
IT been meanin' to tell you this ever
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der of bright pink. mopped his face with
II, and sighed second time. and verita-
bly, like q furnace.
'.WheW-ew!'
He glanced askance at Crittenden. FUN
bled nervously in his coat pocket and
brought forth a Tremendous black cigar
BAD quarter Of an hour. eh?" asked
Crittenden, amused.
Bad The red man worried off the
end OF the cigar with his teeth and cast
It from his mouth with a vicious Miss
Bad He rolled his head YEARLY from
shoulder to shoulder. my boy. my boy!
he observed, with a falling infection
There's a limit to all things. and ma
dums it on two legs and cane. She's
just been goin' round me. and round ana
round and round, like a cooper round
barrel-bang bang bang! with the ham,
mer. Gee-e! I'm sore all over.
He paused to rake a match beneath his
thigh and light the cigar.
STILL" he conceded. less .passionately
I'VE gotta make allowances for a woman
All women are crazy"
you've said that before
II know; but it's like all them-what
d'you call 'em?-epfgrams: II there's any
solid truth in 'em, they'll stand a lot of
repeatin. . . All women are crazy. The
more times say 1t the more I realize It's
one Of them immoral truths. Not
that there's any real harm In women
Only they amt sensible, like men. Now,
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weave what save for its sixteenth CEN
fury setting. is a truly modern story of
spiritual and political insurgency. There
is a hero here, one who, protesting. de-
velops into substantial and workable
spirituality. \ love story runs. some
what inconsequentially. along with the
main current The chief feature Of the
romance however. is Luther himself.
working out strongly with one and an
other through his native environment.
Mr. Davis has done very feeling and
artful piece of work in putting Martin
Luther back into his flesh and blood
out OF the reading with a real and re-
newed acquaintance Another fine phase
Of the romance;is that it brings up out of
the past its most significant example and
Illustration Of exactly WHAT'S going on
in the present-that is. the first modern
insurgency and it's dramatic and power
full agent.
THE ROSES OF CREIN. BY Beryl
Symons New York: u. Appleton
& Co.
we'll built, stirring adventure OF the
middle ages, with old Provence the
battle ground between priestly lord and
feudal The escort Of a noble and
beautiful lady from the north of France
to its south makes ripe occasion for the
custom of the time to exercise itself in
deeds of knightly daring against intrigue.
espial, ambush and open attack Every
day crowds with combat and every night
broods with menace. Love, in conven-
tional criss-cross. completes the pattern
OF pure warfare. Raymond of Toulouse
figures in this emprise and other men
whom history has named carry it for
ward. A good feeling for the spirit of
this period and fair use of it's facts
OF record give a color Of believability to
this uncommonly rich and interesting in
vention.
MULTITUDE AND SOLITUDE. BY
John Mansfield. author of Captain
Margaret" New York: Mitchell
kennerley.
The bulk of this adventure takes place
In Africa, where the hero is led by Sc
ries OF divinely conducted accidents that
seem as weird as .witchcraft to make a
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A Miracle of Thrift.
,c New Orleans T,moslpcmocrat.


The city Of Paris opened bids for .
loan of &41,oaO90 the bonds carrying
interest at 2 per cent and the issue price
being fixed in advance at %. II is an
nounced that the loan was subscribed
eighty times over. and that the subscrib-
ers deposited slf5.OooO00 in cash to guar
antee their bids. II Is impossible to
make a hard-and-fast comparison be-
tween the two sales, because the Paris
bonds were helped by a lottery scheme
and the prizes, spread over series or
years. must be reckoned into the ultimate
rate of interest. But, with all allow
ances made. the transaction exemplifes
the wonderful thrift and wealth which
characterize France.
Certain it is that no other city on earth
could evoke such a responce from invest
ors. 1t is equally certain that there is
no other country where SO large an
amount of cash could be tied up, even
for a few days. without cramping the
money market. But, in this case, most
of the cash came out of armoirs and
stockings: the banks were, therefore, lit
tie affected. if at all
There is special reason why any,
body should be astonished by the miracles
OF French thrift and wealth. Bismarck
Ho tpittpuou IA the IhtciFdtF ISt-
pies resources when he named the
amount of the historic indemnity. But
the world has meanwhile seen France
pour out milliards public works and
extra budgets, while she was lending
milliards to Italy and Spain. Russia and
Japan. And SO need not marvel that
the city OF Paris, asking for $i1.00o.0OD.
is offered eighty times much. Nor
need We marvel that a great power like
Russia so shapes her diplomacy as to
have free access 10 the bias de laine
1t is easy to see that, without this
miraculous thrift and wealth, France
could not have kept her place at Eu-
ropes council board. Mere valor would
not have enabled her TO reconstruct the
army and fortresses. after Metz and Be-
dan. Nor could France have survived
the long drain OF the Napoleonic war;,
IL she had not possessed q vast secret
reserve. Toward the end OF the Boer
war England was hard put to IL TO sell
consols, and, as matter OF fact, a con-
siderable part Of the last issue was sold
In Paris. England is enormously rich.
but her wealth is in forms which cannot
be converted into cash at a pinch. Ger
many and the United States are rich.
but the average German, like the aver
age American. is unwilling TO face the
loss OF interest which the secret hoard
implies Either system may be car
ried to hurtful extremes and France is
too rich in cash for her own
good. Yet the rest of US should be
glad that one reservoir of capital has
no bottom.
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you take madum; she don't mean bad.
I'm strong for her, if we do fight, and
she's always been pretty strong for me
in her way-except when / came through
with piece of work that's so coarse it's
gritty. Yes. Did l ever tell you l
was married.
Il believe you did mention 1t once:
Nine. Savaran said you deserved to be.
II guess there's somethin' in that. too.
Not that ] had any kick comm about
the matrimony thing. while It lasted: !
liked it. Honest. you wouldn't believe
how much l liked it.
He turned staring stOnily at the cloud
bound sunset that burned like some vast
celestial holocaust above and beyond the
low. swelling hills of Somerset.
His pensive silence endured SO lone
that Crittenden's impatience moved him
to break In upon 1t.
Nine. Savaran said you had some
thing to tell me?" he suggested.
Yes. The red man swung round
again settling comfortably into his chair.
I'm comm to that he said.
But Crittenden thought he was going a
singular route toward it, whatever it
might prove to be.
You're kinda all In about Miss Gym
thia, amt your Rhode demanded. sud
denly. Excuse me IL l seem to butt in,
but l gotta nobject.''
Well" Crittenden laughed, trifie un-
easily. Il don't know that 1 really mind
telling you what Nine. Savaran has prob
ably told you already. Yes, I'm in love
with Miss Grayce."
Want to marry her, Of course?"
when I'm able. / believe you under
stand I'm not free, precisely
'Uh-huh: heard somethin' about that.
oncet.'
But why"
Nov. listen: l wanta tell you about
my own matrimonial experience. P'rhaps
It'll help you some. This amt none of
my business, l know: and yet. on the
other hand. In a way it is
He gnawed his cigar thoughtfully for
some moments ere proceeding. 1T comes
down to a sorta history of my life," he
said, apologetically at length Il was
in the th'atricaI business in them days
Sterner & Rhode? Well. we done we'll
for a good while. . = One day a young
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as she was best known. became the moth
er of five interesting children. and she
| and her husband and these their offspring
form the center of this delightful little
tale, together with certain others who
supply the romantic interest with which
the sentimental reader is placated. Mrs.
Eli is a sort Of Mrs. Wigs in her orig
inality of view and loquacity OF CONVEX
sation. There Is in this simple story q
quality that grips and holds the interest.
1t is we'll to explain that Policy Ann"
whereby Mrs. Els second son is known.
had been originally presented with the
heavily burdened youth plays a Cupid 8
part in the development of the romance.
Mrs. Eli and Policy Ann will be one
Of the most popular stories Of the season.
THE ISLE OF STRIFE. BY George c.
Shedd. author Of "The Princess OF
Forge" etc. Illustrated. Boston:
Small. Maynard & Co.
This story was printed as a serial in
The Star some months ago and held the
attention Of readers continuously with
its rapid changes of situation, its in
genuity OF plot and it's strong character
izatiOns. 1t is in a manner a sequel to
Mr.. Shedds 1.-THE Princess of Forge, "
carrying onward the adventures of
Charles Woodworth in connection with a
certain map Of fortress that he found
in the effects of an Englishman who had
come to grief in frontier mining camp.
The scene is laid on an island on the
coast of Maine, peopled chiefly by de-
scendants of the French. and the tale is
exciting from start to finish.
THE OWLS NEST; d Vacation Among
lsms. By Annie Gilbert. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Company.
1t is, of course, hardly probable that SO
strange a combination Of summer guests,
including practically all the present "olo-
gies" and 'isms'' that are in competition
today with the simple Christian faith
that sustains the majority Of the people,
would have been effected through the SIM
pie means of advertising a comfortable
vacation resting place. 1t is, however.
quite permissible device to bring these
ecceHtrics into relationship. so as to throw
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them into contrast and to give emphasis
to the fact that the world is really in no
need OF strange doctrines or perverse
readings Of old texts in order to be happy
and good. The story has its amusing
qualities in that it presents some ener-
tanning characters. which, though rather
highly colored are yet acceptable as
types.
THE BARMECIDES FEAST. BY John
Gore. illustrated by Arthur Penn.
New York: John Lane Co.
The English people must be in a very
serious situation If their literary amuse-
ments have to be given the form that
seems Of late to be in vogue of which Mr..
Chesterton's '.Manalive'' and Mr. Beer
bohm's ''Zuelika Dobson" and John Cores
present offering are examples. All OF
these are supposedly humorous works.
Certainly Mr.. Cores can have no other
purpose than to amuse. 1t is amusing,
but not to the extent OF striking that uni
versal note Of comedy that is the true
test of a laughing success. This Is merely
fantastic bit of idiocy, without point or
reason. without motive or lesson. 1t lacks
even the coherent structure Of a good
joke. 1t has no consecutive strain of
cause or effect. So much for the tale. In the
matter Of the telling Mr. Gore has some
lucid moments, when he quips quite ciev-
erly at some phase of British social or
political life, but no one can look upon
this work as satire. 1t has no real func-
ton except raising a giggle. II this sort of
thing goes in England. then truly that
country has become dangerously neuras-
theflic.
THE BIG FISH. BY H B. Marriott
Watson. author OF Hurricane Is
land" etc. With frontispiece by F.
vaux Wilson. Boston: Little. Brown
& Co.
The Big Fish" is not a member of the
finny tribe. but is the designation of
hidden South American treasure. To seek
1t go forth two young Englishmen and
another. who has forced himself upon
them after an exciting adventure in
which he plays the part OF a burglar.
There are others after it also, desperate
men and crafty. Also there is still a
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since I seen how things was with Miss
Cynthia and you, Only - . well. some
how. l didn't want to. 1 guess you I'M
derstand how I felt
Yes" Crittenden agreed, simply. He
put forth hand that was promptly en-
quilted in one almost twice its size. L
thank you for
"Oh. that's all right Rhode interrupt
ed, uncomfortably. "Of course l had to
wise madam up to how things stood.
She's on. She never had much use for
Letty-hasn't seen her in a good many
years. But 1t begins to looks il 1
wasn't never goin' to get over it. -
Well, take care Of yourself So long"
He gave Crittendens hand a parting
wrench, dropped it and numbered hur-
riedly away. "G'd-night," said he.
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Forms of the Oath.
rom the London Chronicle.

The first appearance in an English d.
vorce court of the Chinese form OF oath
by breaking a saucer recalls other quaint
forms of swearing. In Assam the oath is
taken by standing within a rope circle,
to imply wish to rot as the rope does
If the swearer does not tell the truth.
In lawsuits between Russians and the
Ostiaks of Siberia a bears head is
brought into court, and the Ostiak. max
ing the gesture Of eating, calls on the
bear to devour him II he lies. There are
tribes Of India that swear by the head
OF tiger. while others chop dog in
two as emblematic OF the fate of the
perjurer. And the simplest method is
that Of the Quaker. who swears not at
all, but Just tells what he thinks.
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are by the northeast gate or by follow
ing the steep gravel road that leads down
from the rear of the mansion into the
deep woods and rayines to the north.
The east entrance leads between two
TALL urn-capped. white columns inscribed
with the names of two Federal generals,
Ord and Wetzel. A watchman's cottage
surrounded by shrubbery and flowers is
on the left. The road passes around a
brilliant flower circle gorgeously illumi-
mated this season with geraniums, YER
benas, roses and petunias. To the west
ward stretch the ranks of marble head
stones. some dark-stained by rains and
frosts and some gloomy under a coat
OF moss. Over all spread somber spruce
and sad pine trees. About twenty -five
hundred graves are here. One large plot
is given over to the graves of contra
hands, runaway slaves who died under
the protection of the Union forces around
washington. There has long been an
agitation among the colored posts of the
Grand Army of the REPUBLIC for the
erection of a monument to the negro dead
in this part of the great burial ground.
but the shaft has not been reared
Il X
Inc field of graves lies between the
Seneca sandstone north wall and a little
stream on the south that trickIes down
through the impressive Notwithstanding
yet untouched by the grave digger's
spade, and which covers the rough ter
ram north of the mansion. The timber
there Is white oak, and the trees, though
tall, are not old Their age is probably
forty or fifty years, but the depth Of the
humous or forest mold would indicate
that this is very old. If not primeval,
woodland. This woodland is a dreamy
place. The sun does not shine there in
summer and the snow sits softly down
in winter.
The hard rolled gravel road that runs
through these acres of graves and the
! nearby woods show few wheel tracks
and days and days pass without any
body moving there, except watchman
going his lonely rounds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-17
The Lack of Amusement.
rom the Chicago Journal.

IN" NUlFAgO
Social students have often noted that
lack of amusements leads to immortality.
They might have added that lack OF
amusements leads to other less serious
but quite as absurd consequences.
Ten thousand girls q week go to the for
tune teller because their workaday lives
are so dull and drab that they must
needs seek amusement In dreams and
visions.
The shrewd clairvoyant t1ows this. He
or she may not state the generalization
In words. but he practices It His standing
announcement that the caller IL going
to make a change is one case in point
The condensed version of a Laura Jean
Libbey romance which he deals out to his
dupes Is another. g!N0
The average human beirE neede not
only food. clothes and shelter, but a bit
of excitement as WELL II he doesn't sst
II one way, he does another.
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study of the sleeping sickness among the
natives, instead Of philandering as man
OF letters In the heart of literary London.
The African adventure Is an amazing
transcript OF peril, and loneliness and
desolation, a haunting picture of half
human people falling away in a sickness
OF sleep. while two white men fight the
disease and then themselves fall down in
tive. out Of which this African experience
stands as a shrine set up to the memory
OF a woman. urgent that mems lives
should be useful and arduously benefi-
cent: 1t Is a vigorous story Of work
manly build. so serious Of intent that its
effect is sombsr and hopeless.
A WOMAN's WINTER IN SOUTH
AMERICA. BY Charlotte Cameron.
Illustrated. Boston: Small, Maynard
& Co.
A plain conscientious piece of pure in
dustry-making record of half a year spent
in South America. AS a whole, the book
features. It is markedly a sightseeing
book, with almost nothing of personality
to color and warm it. In this respect it
resembles a guide book Of the average
sort. One looks in vain for any feeling
for the essentials of life here. for the
people in the climate and soil that pro-
duced them. for industry. politics. so
ciety and national promise. However,
with South America looming SO steadily
in the pubic eye. any reliable study OF
this country is welcome. This one Is UNI
deniably authentic, so far as 1t goes. 1t
is, moreover, simple and informal in
treatment, giving an advantage to first
readers Of this subject.
MRS. ELI AND POLICY ANN. BY
Florence Olinstead. Chicago: The
Reilly & Britton Co.
strange combination was that made
by Mr.. and Mrs Aphronike Eliathenes.
The former. Greek fruit seller with q
small stock Of wares and smaller sup
ply of English, had married buxom
American woman who eked out his
slender income by sewing and more than
compensated for his taciturnity by her
cheerful, Astounding speech. Mrs. Eli,
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

A RACES REDEMPTION. BY John
Leard Dawson. Boston: Sherman.
French & Co.
EDWARD IRVING, MAN, PREACHER,
PROPHET. By Jean Christie Root.
Boston: Sherman, French & Co.
to Girls. From Eliza NJ. Mosher.
NJ D.. member American Medical
Association, etc. illustrated by
Helen Mulheron. New York: Funk
& Wagnalls Company.
LAME AND LOVELY: Essays On Re-
lixlOn for Modern Minds. BY Frank
]. Crane, author of Human Confess
sions,'' etc. Chicago: Forbes & Co.
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n the way to Alexandria 100
yards beyond the green little
railroad station at Arlington
Junction uhipb ic uith{p the


railroad station at Arlington
Junction. which is within the
limits of what was Fort Run
yon. one sees on the right hand a long
deep hollow in the land in which many
locust trees are growing. stream runs
through it and the electric cars cross on
brick culvert. A few yards further
along. the ditch reappears on the left
hand. There it is shallow. In places
1t has been filled in either by being level
ed or by having broken bricks-debrfs OF
the brick yards-dumped In. This shall
low trench continues with a few Interrupt
lions, to Addison, about half mile away.
At Addison a wagon road has been filled
across the trench. but after this the
ditch pursues it's southerly course through
tangle and thicket with the electric rail-
way tracks paralleling it on the right
and the Washington-Alexa wagon
road on the left.
Directly to the left of the wagon road
runs the Old line OF railroad from Wash
ington to Alexandria. Along the wagon
road and the old railroad stands a triple
line Of telegraph poles carrying hundreds
of strands of wire. THIS railroad line
was used until the relocation In recent
times of the tracks further to the east
ward. 1t was double track. but iron
remains on only one track. Where the
second track was rotting cross ties lie
scattered helter-skelter and these are fast
being hidden by vines and coarse grasses
From Addison the abandoned, almost
forest-overgrown trench may be traced
as far as Four-mile run. On it's course
faI Ia
and only one house, a decrepit. clap
board shack. That is near Four-mile run.
The railway buildings at that place stand
where the trench once was and beyond
the most southerly Of those buildings
the trench again takes it's way until 1t
is obliterated by improvements northward
Of Alexandria.
This trench is what remains Of the old
canal which separated from the main
stem of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
at Georgetown. crossed the Potomac by
means of the Aqueduct bridge (hence the
name of that brdge). passed southwark
through the low lands east of Arlington.
nearly touched the southwest salient or
Fort Runyon and entered the Potomac
river above Alexandria and nearly OPP
posite Shepherds wharf.
The Aqueduct bridge was begun in 1885.
The Alexandra canal did business for
many years. but the reason for this
undertaking is hard for moderns to under
stand. Perhaps If one went deeply into
the question IL might be Gear. Canal
boats are locked into Rock creek and
thence towed to Alexandria by the river
route. Why a great aqueduct should
have been built across the river and a
canal dug to Alexandria may perhaps be
explained i'm some moldy reports. The
city of Alexandria, which helped finance
the enterprise. lost heavily. The water
was let out of the aqueduct in 1861. and
Ii was used by marching columns of
Union troops. After the war Congress
authorized July q. 1859 the Alexandra
Canal. Railroad and Bridge Company to
erect and maintain a highway bridge In