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for baked beens and a skooner of beer. You see von, as he is affectsionately called, al ways called for skooners and the answer is, he is now Secretary of the Navy.
 A persun who expects to do enny verry classy shining in American polyticks can not be too careful about selecting the plasc he is to be born at. Moor of our grate pol vtisians have blundered ovver this appar- ently triffling detail than enny thing else. Abrelem Lincoln and Wllyum Henery Har- risun weer both born in log cabins and both wint rite out and got elected to the presi- dencv of the United States. It is now the ambision of every polytisian in the United States to be as much like Abrehetn !.incoliI as possibull. Teddy Roosefelt seys that Ee is like Lincoln and he has sed it 50 oftnn tbat he is beginning to beleeveit. y'lt there IS Sclry iittie resemblance e:,Ey bcddys
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mint of the Navy" Evidently you thought that Bostun would be siffisient, and that being modest he wouldn' f overdo the thing.
 Being born in Bostun, of corse von was educated there. He first attinded the or dinery schools in Bostun, if there air enny such schools there and then wint to Har- vered, there he graduated.
 Now because yon is Secretary of the Navy is no reesun- for you to beleeve that he used to be sailor Not much. He was also Postmatul Gennerak once and he nev- yer was q postmastnr. The cabbinet off sers of this country air usuely selected moor on account of there winning ways than for enny special qualifications that they may have for the jobs they get. Not that we meen to say that von is enny slouch of Secretery of the Navy far
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fNTISTUR EDDITUR:-Th is prob W. abully no one in this broad land Gsszsg of polytical freedum and religus thought and Rural Routs, who is so dens ly ignerent and lonsumly sequestered that they have not herd of Bostun. We take it that it will not be at all necessery for us to stop and explane enny thing about Bostun, and that we may presume on the uenneral nolledge of the publick on that score
 Bostun, which has been maid famus by it's fervid brand of baked beens and cramp collick, Beecun street and Iris Speaker Bostun, where if you fail to eat your Pork and Beens in correct University Eng lish you air gazed upon as rude persun and a ruff neck. Bostun, which boasts of Fennell Hall, and Dog Fennen and uther ansient landmarks, and easy marks. Bos- tiln where the minnit men turned out and decorated the butifull landskape with English redcoats, with careless abandun and bell mouthed blunderbusses. Bostun, where if you presume to say, ''I have saw on the streets you will get pinched by . college proffesser disgized as poliseman. Bostun, where Jo Wood hopped into the limelite in one breef summer and a worlds series and beet Genneral Warrens record into pulp and maid tn Bunker Hill mon llmint look like wart when measured by him.
 Bostun, where forty thousend hy- browed spectackled, playhouse spectaturs ha1aJ Inv 4ba Si1x,o, par1 and bark themselves into a frothy frensv ovver Jake Stalls red legs, and only 250 rapsodized or subsidized souls will hike ovver to hear Henery Cabbage Lodge give a correct immitasion of a refined lecture on polytica economy. Bostun, where they think that evvery boddy west of Jersey City eats there soup with fork in F mynor and lives on R. F .D No. 1. Bostun. where there air moor survivors of the de- sendints of the pilgrim farthurs and those that cum ovver in the May Flour" than there air Irish Poliseman in New York, and where they swell up so ovver Harvered University and the Bostun Communs when they incidentally mension them to a ,'isiter that two of them going in oppersitc directslons on Beecun Street would block the traffic.
 
 undertaking scyence, and held the entire System of Fynanse, including himself, up stripped of evvery thing but it's eorkscrew curves, before the American publick.
 But it is not of Bostun we would speek. Bostun Is meerly an insident -an introduc- sion, so to speek, to becloud the reeders' mind while we Iced up to the dark mystery -exsept there is no mystery-and the hero, in the most approved litterery style. Bos- tun is simply the place which our hero se- carefully considering the claims of uther towns and communities to be born at. With wunderful forsite he selected Bostun so that Bostun could he maid famus in two or three differint di- rectsions at the same time So, gentle reeder, while you air in the dark and wot not of the answer, was in the same fix till looked it mp Il was no better wotter han you-hut enny how it was in Bostun, and in 1858 that George won LenGerky Meyer first came to bat, and loudly yelled
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1ISTUR EDDITUR:-There is prob s abully no one in this broad land
 y of polytical freedum and religus
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-04-18

r,.~S AZ men Ii evening. ios.. al
tnIkine and gssticulating together. ap-
psafed 4 man who seemed very calm
M displayed 4 . pleasant sfaces AL
mini and chubby-checked. crowned
with curly hair and lit up by . pair OF
wonderfully serene blue eyes. Mer-
e,ar the acting-manager. called the
Vicomte de Chagny's attention TO MIN
and said:
/ This IL the gentleman to whom you
should put your question, monSier
I ,ek'F me introduce M. MifFoid. the
commissary OF police"
"Ah, M. le Vicomte de Chagny' De-
lighted to meet you. monsieur, sara
the commissary. would you MIND
coming with met AND now
where are the managersI :
where are the managers?
Mercier did not answer, and Kenny
the secretary. volunteered the infor-
nation that the managers were locked
nm An their once and that they knew
nothing as yet OF what had happened
"You don't mean to say so! Let us
70 ND to the office!"
And M. Mifroid. followed by an ever.
increasing crowd, turned toward ING
business side OF the building. Mer'
cier took advantage OF the confusion
to slip a key into Gabriel's hand:
"This is all going very badly ne
whispered. "You had better lei
Mother CRY out"
And Gabriel moved away.
They soon came to the managers
door. Mercier stormed In vain: the
door remained closed. !.
"Open in the name Of the law,
commanded M. Mifroid. In loud anO
rather anxious voice.
At last the door was opened. Al
rushed into the ONCE, on the commits
sary's heels.
Raoul was the last to enter. AS n'
was about to follow the rest into tn'
room. a hand was laid on his shoulder
! and. he heard these words spoken II
his ear: -
"Erik's secrets concern no one bu'
himself" $50.
He turned around, with stifed ex
clamation. The hand that was lal'
on his shoulder was now placed OF
the lips Of person with an eDon!
akin. with eyes of jade and with al
astrakhan cap on his head: the Pei
sian!
The stranger kept up the gestur'
that recommended discretion AM
then. at the moment when the aston
ished viscount was about to ask Tn
reason of his mysterious Intervention
bowed and disappeared.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-04-18

The careful mother. who wascnes
closely the physical pecullatlue.ss - tra
most important thing in connection with
= chfld's constant good health is to keep
the bowels regularly open. Sluggish
s'oSvala viii be followed by loss of appe-
tie. restlessness during sleep. irrlt tia
b,litv and a dozen and one similar eVl-
Sences Of physical disorder.
At the first sign of such disoroer s si,,o
the child a teaspoonful OK pr. 81 4
s-,-,,ra Pepsin at night on retiring and
rsneat the dose the following night y
neceesarv--more than that will scarceiy
~ needed. You win hnd that the enii l
Iii recover its accustomed good spirits
- once and will eat and sleep normally
This remedy is a vast improvement
over salts, cathartics, Laxative Ma tsl
! and similar things. which are @Atossens'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-04-18
Bowels are Basis
of Child Health

too powerful for child. The homes Q.
H1rs n walters, Mulberry, Kas.'
az alwava supplied with DR.. Cald-
S-sI,.s SvriIp Pepsin, and with them,
Is with thousands Of others there
is NO substitute for this grand laxative :.
n is really more than a laxatives fof "
contains superior tonic properties Wnlch
help to tone and strengthen the stoIna -sls
i,,,sr and bowels so that after briet
nse of II all laxatives can be dispensed
~-ith and nature will do its own WORK
Anyone wishing to make trial OF I ,ls
remedy before buying It in the resulaE
way OF q druggist at fifty cents OF one
dollar large bottle Cfaniiy ~ - go
tree OF charge By simply addressing - IS
w B. Caldwell, eos Washing to4 a -
Monticello, Ill Your name ana aoole1-
on a postal card win do
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-04-18

.SevsffheIess. they had bsen - ~
aoIuteiv tricked that they were bound
to snfieF q certain detection. And.
upon my word, q, was not dinlenlt' 20
understand. we must not forget that
the MANAGERS had an idea at the back
OF their minds. all the time. that TINS
strange incident might bean unpleap-
ant practical joke-on the part Of their
predecessors. and that It would NOT
do to divulge II prematurely. On the
other hand, Moncharmin was some
times troubled with q suspicion Of
Richard himself. who occasionally
took fanciful whims into his head.
And 80 they were content TO await
events. while keeping an eye on
Mother Giry Richard would not have
her spoken to.
.If she is a confederate" he said,
1.-THE notes are gone long ago. But
in my opinion she is merely an idiot"
"She's not the only idiot In this
business" said Moncharmin pensively.
"WeII, who could have thought ifT'
moaned Richard But don't be AFRAID
next time. shall have tafon
my precautions"
The next time fell on the same day
that beheld the disappearance. OF
Christine Daae. In the morning q
note from the ghost reminded them
that the money was due. 1t read:
Do Just as you did last time. It went
very well. Put the twenty thousand IN
the envelope and hand It to our excelien1
And the note was accompanied BY
the usual envelope. They had only 70
: insert the notes.
This was done about half an hour
before the curtain rose on the nrs1
act Of Faust. Richard showed the en-
yelope to Moncharmin. Then he count
ed the twenty thousand'franc notes !"
front of him and put the notes into
the envelope, but without closing II.
And now" he said, >"let's have
Mother. CRY in"
The old woman was sent for. Sns
entered with q sweeping courtesy
she still wore her black tafieta dress
| the color OF which was rapidly turn
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CHAPTER XIV.
chrl..lnsl' chrIstInel

" Raouls first thought, after Christine
lraae's fantastic disappearance, was
~ accuse Erik. He no longer doubt
led the almost supernatural powers 81
Iahe Angel Of Music, in this domain OF
,the opera in which he had set up mis-
empire. And Raoul rushed on the
stage. in q mad At Of love and despair
christine! Christine!" he moaned'
.ralIlng to her as he felt that she must
Ne calling to him from the depths OF
Mat dark pit to which the monster
had carried her. Christine! Chris
lline!"
N And he seemed to hear the girfs
inereams through the frail boards that
separated him from her. He bent
FORWARD, he listened, ne wan
lNered over the stage like a mailman
Ian. to descend, to descend into that
Init Of darkness every entrance to
(which was closed to him, Tor
the stairs that led below the stage
kvere forbidden to one and all that
might!
'Christine! Christine! :.
People pushed him aside, laughing
fThey made fun of him. They thought
3ahe poor lovers brain was gone!
BY what mad road, through wha'
passages Of mystery and darkness
known to him alone had Erik dragged
Athat pure-souled child to the awfu
haunt, with the Louis-Philippe room
kDpening out on the lake?
christine! Christinei VIII
don't you answer? Are yo'
alive? ;" ht
Hideous thoughts flashed througl
RaouPs congested brain. OF course
ERIK must have discovered their g
,cret, must have known that Christin
mad played him false. What yer
geance would be his!
And Raoul thought again Of the ye
low stars that had come, the night b
fore, and roamed over his balcony
why had he not put them out 10
GOOD? There we're some mems eye
shat dilated in the darkness an
shone like stars or like cats eye'
Certainly Albinos. Who seemed t
have rabbits eyes by day, had cat
eyes at night; everybody knew that
Yes, yes, he had undoubtedl
ared at Erik. Why had he not kille
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-04-18

ing TO rust and lilac, to say nothing
al the dihgy bonnet. She seemed IN
a good temper. She at once said:
"Good evening, gentlemen! It's for
the envelope, / suppose?"
eyes, Nine. Cry" said Richard
most amiably. For the envelope
and something else besides.
"At your service. M. Richard, at
vour service. And what is the some
thing else. please?"
First of all, Nine. CRY, ! have .
little question to put to you"
"By all means, M. Richard; Nine.
CRY is here to answer YOU
"Are you still on good terms with
the ghost?"
Couldn't be better. sir; couldn't
be better"
"Ah, we are delighted. LOOK
here Nine. Cry" said Richard, In
the tone of making an important con-
fidence. 1--WE may just as well tell
you. among ourselves you're
no focl!"
why, sir" exclaimed the box-keep-
err. stopping the pleasant nodding OF
the black feathers in her dingy DON
net, 81 assure you no one mas ever
doubted that"
1--WE are quite agreed and we shall
soon understand one another. Tne
story Of the ghost is all humbug, ism
Il? Well, still between our
selves, it has lasted lons
enough"
Nine. CRY looked at the managers
as though they we're talking Chinese
she walked up to Richards table anO
asked, rather anxiously:
What do you mean? l don't un
derstand."
"Oh YOU understand quite well. II
any case, you've got to understand
And, first Of all, tell US hi
name"
''Whose name?"
1.-THE name of the man whose &C
complete you are, Nine. Giry!"
IT am the ghosts accomplice? l
His accomplice in what
pray?"
'You do all he wants"
"Oh! He's not very troublesome
you know"
i "And does he still tip your
81 mustn't complain"
"How much does he give you 10
bringing him that envelopes"
.Sran fraucsp
you poor thingl That's not mucl
is it?"
"Why?"
"Pu tell you that presently, NM
CRY. Just now we should Ike
know for what extraordinary reaso
Won have given yourself body and sol
70 this ghost Nine. Glry
friendship and devotion are not TO
bought for i've francs or ten francs
That's true enough. Ana
, can tell you the reason, sir. There
no disgrace about 1t. on u
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CHAPTER Y.-Consternation 70 ceused
@,S % Sy ' pebienne and Poiigny because Of
81 appearances OF ghost. said @ nave
Seen n evidence on several previous &c.
asions. Later in the evening SSe Ocsp11
sHauet - found Dead nAS'ns
\ CHAPTER II.-Christine Daae, mem
- on the opera company. r. called upOn
ali 4 very important part and scores
= brother Raoul are among those VINO
hpplaud the singer. Raoui tries 20 see
SnabIe 70 DO so and later discovers that
cine one is making love 20 her. she
msrEss 81 alone, and upon entering the
6som he 6nds It empty.
CHAPTER uI.-While the farewell
waromony for the retiring mane9crs y
6Olng on, the Opera Ghost appear sTc
&ssth. Richard and MOncharnln. the
Sauce In the contract which SRtiRuAataa
mat q certain sum shall be pai9 g ne
wed Tor nm.
CHAPTER 1v.-Hox No. s ID sold with
imSaatroue results. The managers receive
y letter from the Opera Ghost calling az
kontion to the error. The box keeper y
Sailsd in and 6. res her experience w1th
~ ghost.
CHAPTER v.-chris.ins Daae writes
that she has tone to s yIs1t s tns
n the night follows her to the church,
wonderful violin music IL heard. Raoul
4 found next morning almost frozen.
4 CHAPTER .-Moncharmin and Rich
lnEd Investigate box No. 8 and decide 70
koo the performance OF Fausr Tom
kront seats Of that box.
CHAPTER VII.-CarIotta, who sings
1--we the part to Christine. CarIotta, re:
knslnE, loses her voice in the middle OF
y cong and the main chandelier crashes
aown, killing woman ana woundlnS
6many. ~.
CHAPTER VIII.-Raoul searches for
hEtstine who has disaPpear aS IA Az, sfe
6ppOintment for q masked ball
CHAPTER Ix.-RaOul meets Christine
dnG the ball and sees person IN the Dis
lIlsO Of Red Death. Of whom he D seal.
5um. He hears her converting with some
Gna whom she calls Erik. He makes Ms
sssence known and Christine vanishel
Arough mirror.
CHAPTER x.-Raoul visits Christins
Dad tells her he knows the name OF ths
&ansSen man whom she calls the Ange
1t Music. Christine lmploros him 70 for
ut the .voacs and the name he heard.
CHATTER xI.-Christine and Raoul Be
syBe@ae secretly engaged prior 70. q polA
expedition that Raoul IL to make.
CHAPTER xII.-ChFlstine relates (
as1Emngo adventure with the unseen Ell
6mA promises 70 run away with RaOu
As following night.
CHAPTER xI!I.-Raoul announces hi
1Atention Of marrying Christine, whicl
a<|lDmNN00An Philinn0. In the ml0nt 0f
DorfOrmance the stage 10 enveloped Il
darkness and Christine disappears.
CHAPTER xIv.--No trace OF her 1
found. Moncharmin and Richard behav
strangely.
CHAPTER xv.-- laaoul searches madl'
Bor the niiasine singer.
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CHAPTER XVI.

Nine. Glry'e Astounding Revelations
AZ 70 Her Personal Relations
With the Opera Ghost.
Before following the commlssary
into the managers Office must oe-
scribe certain extraordinary occur
rences that took place in that once
which Remy and MERCER had Valny
tried to enter and into which NM.
Richard and Moncharmin had Aockec
themselves with an object which tne
reader does not yet know. but wnicn
Il IN my duty, as an historian, tore
veal without further postponeInent.
/ have had occasion to say that tee
managers. mood had undergone DIS
agreeable change for some time past
and to convey the fact that tnis
change was due not only to the ran
Of the chandelier on the famous night
Of the gala performance.
The reader must know that the
ghost had calmly been paid his nrst
twenty thousand francs. Oh, there
had been wailing and gnashing OF
teeth, indeed! And yet the thing had
happened as simple as could be-
one morning, the managers found
ON their table an envelope addressed
to Monsieur o. G. (private)" and &C.
companied by note from 0. g. him
self:
| The time has come to carry out the
clause in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. tlease
put twenty notes OF Thousand traits
i
| own seal and hand 1t to Nine Hlry' "no
/ will do what is necessary.
The managers did not hesitate;
without wasting time in asking now
these COMPOUNDED communications
came to be delivered in an once
which they were careful to keep
locked. they seized this opportunity
of laying hands on the mysterious
blackmailer. And, after telling the
whole story, under the promise OF Sc
crecy. to Gabriel and Mercier, they
nut the twenty thousand francs INTO
the envelope and without asking Tor
ordinations, handed it to Nine. CRY
who had been reinstated In her func'
lions. The box-keeper displayed no
establishment. need hardly say tnat
she was we'll watched. She went
straight to the ghosts box and placed
the precious envelope on the ntue
shelf attached to the ledge. The two
managers, as we'll as Gabriel and Mer
cier were hidden in such way tha'
they did not lose sight OF the en-
velope for a second during the per
formance and even afterward. for, al
the envelope had not moved, those
who watched it did not move eitneri
and Nine. CRY went away while tn
managers, Gabriel and Mercier were
still there. At last. they became tiret
Of waiting and opened the envelope
after ascertaining that the seals MAJ
not been broken.
At first sight, Richard and Mon
charmin thought that the notes wef
sim there. but soon they perceiVe'
that they were not the same. In
twenty real notes we're gone and ma
been replaced by twenty notes OF IN
4 Bank Of st. Farce!"
The managers rage and fright wer
}. unmistakable. Moncharmin wanted :
e send for the commissary Of poiic'
a but Richard objected. He no douf
: had a plan, for he said:
D. Don't let us make ourselves ridi'
% ulous! All Paris would laugh at u
o. G. has won the first game; we WI
win the second"
e He was thinking Of the next month
a allowance.
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ntmT Inc muhDNOA -..a.A
eitter-spout like a cat OF a convie'
who-everybody knew tnat aisU
would scale the very SKIES WIN tne
heln Of a gutter-spout. ~
do,ht Erik was at that time contem
plating some decisive step asains.
pao,,I hit he had been wounded anu
had escaped to turn against p
Christine instead. 80.
crch were the cruel thoughts tna'
haunted Raoul as he ran 10 tne Si
er's dressing-room.
"Christine! Christine!"
ghter tears scorched the boys eye
uds az he saw scattered over tne .u
n,.,,re the clothes which his Deautiul
S.sda was 10 have worn at the nour
n their flight. Oh, why nau sn0
fused to leave earlier! 80.
Whv had she toyed with the threat
s.n.ne catastrophe !? Z Why toye& 49, W.,
,hs monsters heart? Why, In nnal
sccess of pity, had she insisted ~
Ninging as a last sop to that Demon .
soul. her divine song:
1yo,v areel In heaven blessed,
A., srIrit longs with thee to restI
poou, his throat filled with sobs,
oo4hs and insults, fumbled awkwaroly
a. the great mirror that had opened
one night before his eyes, TO let Cn,ls'
tine pass to the murky dweihns De
! low. He iBushed, pressed. gropeu
about. but tie glass apparently oDeyeu
- ono hut Erik. Perhaps Ac-
t,ora were not enough with glass ..
the kind? Perhaps he was expeceeu
10 utter certain words! Wnen Nc
/ was a little boy, he had heard !nA'
there we're things that oDe!ed ING
spoken word!
Suddenly, Raoul remembered sOme,
thing about a gate opening into tne
Rue Scribe, an underground passase
running straight to the Hue scI.Oo
1-ovo thA lake. Yes, Christine
had told him about that. Anu
when he found that the key Was nc
longer in the box, he neVertneieSS tN
to the Rue Scribe.
Outaide. In the street, ne pASscu
hSs trembling hands over one as
stones. felt for outlets !. me'
Nth iron bars were thoes
theyf Or theseI -.
could It be that air-hole3 he
plunged his useless eyes through 'no
hora How dark 1t was II
.h.ro, He listened.
! All was silence! -. ne Wen
! round the building ana ca"'
to bigger bars, immense gates!
: II was the entrance to the Cour a.
. administration. -,,
Raoul rushed into the doOrkeeper'
lodge.
II beg your pardon, madame coul'
Won tell me where to md gate y
door made Of bars, iron bars, openlnl
into the Rue Scribe ana leau
ling to the lake? You Anov
the lake mean? YES TN
!. underground lake unuer ="
r opera" -.
, ayes. sir, know there is q lax
under the opera, but ! don't know
! which door leads to it. have neve
:. been there" \.
"And the Rue Scribe, madame, Tn
I Rue Scribe? Have you never Oeen
i the Rue Scribe?'
: The woman laughed, screamed VII
!. laughter! Raoul darted away, roal
ing with anger, ran upstairs lou
a stairs at a time, downstairs, rusne
: through the whole Of the business sid