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CHAPTER M.
The Trail Of rr.seh,ry.

But young Mr.. law was sole aeen,
Of his own evanishment Just az b.
was nobody's fool. least OF all his own
The hidden meaning Of the trey Of
hearts perplexed him with such Dis
trust that before leaving London. b,
dispatched a code cablegram to hiI
confidential agent In New York
What 10 YOU know about the trey o.
Asarts? Answer Immediately.
The answer forcsialled his arrival
In Liverpool:
Trine's death siEn for your father For
Gods sake look to yourself aud keep
away from America
but Alan had more than once Wis.
Tied America incognito and unknown
to Seneca Urine via a secret route Of
his own selection
Eight days out Of London. a second.
class passenger newly landed from
one OF the C-P steamships. ho walked
the streets Of Quebeo-and dropped
out OF sight between dark and dawn.
20 turn mp presently IN the distant
Canadian hamlet OF Bale st. Paul. ap.
parenily very tenderfootcd American
woodstraveler chaperoned BY tact.
tcrn Indian guide picked up heaven.
knowswhere
Crossing the St Lawrence by night.
the two struck or quietly into tho
hlnierland OF the Notre Dame range.
then crossed tbs Maine border.
On the second noon thereafter,
trail-worn and weary. ~ lean as their
depleted packs. the two paused on a
ridge-pole Of the wilderness up back
of the Allagash country, and made
their midday meal In a silence which.
u normal in the Indian. was one OF
deep misgivings on Alan's part.
Continually his gaze questioned the
northern skies that lowered porten.
tously. foul with snoke-a country.
wide conhagration that threatened all
northern Maine. bone-dry with
drought.
Only the south offered a fair pros
pect. And the fires we're making
southwark far faster than man might
hope 10 travel through that grim and
stubborn land.
Even as he stared. Alan saw fresh
columns Of dun-ooiored smoke spring
up IN the northwest.
Anxiously he consulted the impas.
sive mask OF the Indian. from whom
HIS questions gained Alan little com.
fort Jacob recommended forced
marches TO Spirit lake. where canoes
might be found TO aid their flight;
and withdrew into sullen reserve.
They travelled far and fast by dim
forest trails before shutdown. then
again paused for food and rest. And
as Jacob sat deftly about preparing
the meal. Alan stumbled on TO whip
the little trailslde stream for trout
Perhaps n hundred yards upstream.
the baok-lash Of careless cast by his
weary hand hooked the state OF Maine
Too tired even TO remember the an.
nroDriaie words Alan scrambled
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CHAPTER I.
The Message Of the Rose.

Tapped deep IN the leather-bound
luxury Of an ample lounge-chair.
walled apart from the world by the
venerable solitude OF the library OF
London's most exclusive club. Mr..
Alan Law sprawled Oargely on the
nape OF his neck and. squirting dis
contentedly down his nose, admitted
that he was exhaustively bored.
Now the chair filled so gracelessly
stood by an open window. some twen-
~ feet below which lay stable
walled garden. an old English garden
In full flower And through the win
dow. now and then. half-hearted
breeze waited gusts Of warm air.
sauve and enervating with the heavy
fragrance OF English roses
Mr. Law drank deep OF Il. aud In
spite OF his spiritual unrest. sighed
slightly and shut his eyes
An unspoken word troubled the
depth OF his consciousness. so that
old memories stirred and struggled 10
its surface The word was Rose"
and for the time seemed 10 be the
name neither OF a woman nor OF n
flower but oddly OF both, as though
the two things we're one. His mental
vision. bridging the gap OF year, con.
tured up the vision OF 1.-the. sweet
silhouette In white. with red roses
at her belt. posed on terrace OF the
Riviera against the burning Mediter.
ranean blue
Mr.. Law was duly conscious that
he ought 10 be sorry about something.
But he was really very drowsy indeed:
and so. drinking deep of winescent
OF roses, he fell gently asleep.
The clock was striking four when
he awoke: and before closing his
eyes he had noticed that It's hands
indicated ten minutes TO four So he
could not have slept very long.
For some few seconds Alan did not
move. but rested as he was. incredu.
lousy regarding a rose which had ma.
terialized mysteriously upon the little
tduic ~ MS fiuoNs ne Nhh quite SURF
II had not been there when he closed
his eyes. and almost as sure that II
was not real
And In that instant Of awakening
the magic fragrance Of the rose garden
seemed 10 be even more strong and
cloying sweet than ever.
Then he put out a gingerly hand
and discovered that II was real beyond
all question. A warm red rose. fresh.
plucked. drops OF water trembling and
sparkling like tiny diamonds on the
velvet OF its fieshy petals. And when
impulsively he took It by the stem. he
discovered a most indlspu,able thorn
which did service for the traditional
pinch.
Convinced that he wasn't dreaming.
Alan transferred the rose to his sound
hand, and medtatively sucked his
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oopyrIrAl. lpl.. b. Loul. Jo..pA y.nes

sign from her, so that he had grown
accustomed 10 the uniiattering belief
that she had forgotten him.
And now the sign had come-but
what the deuce did the trey OF hearts
mean?
When morning came. London md
lost Alan Law No man OF his ac-
Quainlance-no any woman-had re-
ceived the least warning OF his dis
appearance He was simply and suf'
feiently removed from English ken.
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Solicits Your Patronage.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.

A. o. Caruthers President b. G. Hale ST. Wee President
c. b. Travis, Cashier. j. H. Russell Asst Cashier
DIRECTORS W. s. Ellison w. NJ Shaw John r. Luten H. =.
johnson. A. Prather Jr, j. j. Glover, c. b. Travis
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When the child is able TO earn
money, IL is but natural that he
will add To the savings himself.
Start an account today. II will
draw interest the same as yours.
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DENIES THEORY OF LOMBROS0
Equally High Authority. Asserts That
There Is No Distinct Type
Of Criminal.

DR.. Charles Goring is the latest
criminologist to combat the theories
Of Lombroso and to assert that there
is no such thing as a criminal type.
DR.. Goring admits that there are some
persons who are naturally criminals,
but he denies that their criminality
shows itself by physical stigmata.
Seeing that criminality is a purely ar
tifciaI distinction, 1t Is hard to under
stand why nature should aid in the
classification. Our social system has
seen fit to select a small number OF
the almost innumerable ways Of be-
ing wicked and to label them as Grim.
inal. The other ways are not labeled
as criminal, although they may actual
ly involve a much greater moral tur-
pitude. It is not the function Of So
ciety to prevent people from being
wicked, but only to prevent them from
being wicked In such ways as are
particularly periodical to the rest Of
the community. There was a time
when it was criminal to read the Bible.
It Is still criminal to do some things
of which the moral sense may highly
approve. We can hardly expect ma.
ture to give her sanction to our arti-
fetal distinctions.
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HOW TO TREAT PIMPLES AND
- BLACKHEADS

For pimples and blackheads the fol-
lowing is a most effective and eco
nomical treatment: Gently NEAR the
affected parts with Cuticura ONT
ment, on the end Of the finger, but
do not rub. Wash of the Cuticura
Ointment in five minutes with Cut-
cura Soap and hot water and continue
bathing for some minutes. This treat.
ment is best on rising and retiring.
At other times use Cuticura Soap
freely for the toilet and bath, to as
sist in preventing Inflammation, irri-
tation and clogging Of the pores, the
common cause of pimples, blackheads,
redness and, roughness, yellow, oily,
notify and other unwholesome condi-
tons Of the skin.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post.
card "Cuttcura, Dept. L, Boston."-Adv.
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ENDS DYSPEPSIA,
F.. INDIGESTION. GAS
"Pape's Diapepsin" cures sick,
sour stomachs in five minutes
Time It!

Really does" put bad stomachs In
order-"really does" overcome indiges-
ton, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and
sourness In five ADMINISTRATIONS
that-makes Pape's Diapepsin the lar
gest selling stomach regulator in the
world. If what you eat ferments into
stubborn Jumps, you belch gas and
eructate sour, undigested food and
acid; head is dizzy and aches; breath
foul; tongue coated; your insides filed
with bile and ~indigestible waste, re-
member the moment "Pape's Diapep-
sin" comes In contact with the stomach
all such distress vanishes. It's truly
acknowledgement marvellous, and
the Joy Is its harmlessness.
A large ffty-cent case Of Pape's Dia-
pepsin will give you a hundred dollars
worth Of satisfaction:
It's, worth its weight in gold to men
and women who can't get their stom-
achs regulated. It belongs in your
home-should always be kept handy
in case Of sick, sour, upset stomach
during the day or at night. It's the
quickest, surest and most harmless
stomach doctor In the world.-Adv.
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Explaining Telepathy.

There are numerous well authenti'
Gated cases on record in which per
sons, suffering a violent death, ap
peared as phantoms to persons who
were dear to them at the moment OF
death. The emotion which a person
who Is conscious suffers at the mo
ment when a violent death Is offered
him in the form Of murder or acci'
dent. beggars every other emotion
Science, proceeding on the lines indt
Gated above, hopes. to unravel the
mystery attaching to telepathy, by
showing how the electric currents OF
the air, when impinged upon by the
electric currents Of the body at a mo-
ment Of supreme emotional excitation'
will transmit that shock over miles
and miles. and deliver 1t safely to the
receiving instrument in the form OF an
other human electric current, attuned
to the first in some way which science
has not yet explained.
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Paris Express, and We want to get
the Great Mystery unraveled before
we SAIL"
Eyes, Captain MacManus," said an
other. please, sir, tell us what this
is," and he thrust into the old mans
hands one of those %antiquated card
board affairs which. in the long past
days of their usage, were designated
as cabinet photographs"
81 found it in an old trunk l was
going through" gasped the apprentice
in awe. IT was afraid to touch 1t at
prst. l didn't know what it might be.
Then I put on my germ proof and
current proof glove and picked 1t up.
It didn't hurt me. So 1 brought 1t
here. I know you could tell us what
it is if anybody could"
Old MacManus twirled his binocu-
lars.
Right you are, kids, in coming to
me- said he. IF anybody can tell
you anything about ancient relics I'm
the man: Why, 1 can remember back
to the days when women couldn't
vote"
While the apprentices were recov-
ering from this awe-inspiring asser-
ton Of antiquity, the captain was hold
ing the object of the commotion off
at arms length and studying it care
fully.
my lads, said he at last, 'ft's a
photograph"
$50 we guessed" said n of the
boys. I'VE read about them in his
tory books. But what Is it OF"
The captain studied longer.
The figure on the photograph was
different from anything eve seen or
dreamed of in the year 1862. Appar-
emily it represented some creature
bearing a faint resemblance to the
women of the day. The p~hysiognomy
was dainty and appealing to the eye,
but it was almost surrounded by a
great mass of material resembling
hair. To the waist the figure bore
some resemblance to the women of
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Snipe, Bird Of Mystery.

Very little is really known about the
snipe. That he is extremely interest
ing, both n%aturalists and sportsmen
agree; that he-is mysterious, nobody
who has attempted to make the slight
est study of his ways and habits will
deny, for, like the wind, n cannot
tell whence he cometh, or whittier
he goeth," neither a one say why
he comes or why he goes. says a writ
er in Country Life. On a given bog
one may find plenty Of snipe today,
and yet tomorrow hunt in vain for a
single bird, and this even when no at
mospheric change has occurred. The
more one studies this bird the more
one realizes how very little one really
knows about him. The snipe is
unique in his habit Of drumming, or
bleating, as it is sometimes called.
The mean by which the sound is
produced is one of the most discussed
subjects in ornithology.
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Robert Burns.

Robert Burns belongs in the very
front rank Of the worlds great men.
AS a song writer he stands along
with Goethe, Heine and Beranger, and
as a satirist he ranks well up with
Juvenal and Pascal. His "Coter's Sat
urday Night" his "Tam O. Shanter'
and his "Holy Fair" Ire simply mimi
table, as great, in their line, as the
most .consummate masterpieces Of the
worlds greatest writer's. Burns was
original in the best ans Of that
word, and his songs, satires, epistles
and many Of his more serious produc-
tons stand forth unique, and fresh,
and powerful as the tints Of Titiap
or the chiseling Of Phidias.
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THE GENESIS OF THE HosBLE.

Captain MacManus, master a1r1ga'
or, leaned idly on the pneumatic star
board rail Of the great New York re-
ceiying float of the Five Continents
& Australia Aerial line and gazed
down at Manhattan Island, 5000 feet
below, as it was in the year 1862.
Down on the. c~aissons of the F. G.
& A. ground terminal a tiny electrical
depot-tender, all glass and wire, was
taking aboard her quota Of passen-
1911 Express for Paris. The Express,
a monster 9%00-footer, that flashed her
red hull across the Atlantic on the
10,000-foot level at the rate Of $50
miles an hour, lay in her clips on the
float, impatient to be released and
tear herself away from contact with
things near-mundane. Tiny 300-foot
express packets from Washington,
Chicago, Pittsburg and other nearby
points were swarming to the float,
d~ischarging their passengers and
mails for the big Express, taking their
release signals and scurrying back
whence they came.
1t vas a scene that the captain had
see year after year, yet he never
tired Of witnessing the silent swift
ness with which the thing was man
aged.
A tiny bell buzzed near him and No.
10 Starboard Clip swiftly opened its
great steel arms and awaited the COM
ing of the boat that had signaled It.
Down below the tender rose up from
the terminal caissons, spiraled upward
in. long curves, and n minute later
No. 10 Clip received 1t in its arms.
Out of the tender came rushing
four boys in the white and green uni.
forms of the apprentices of the line.
kids bound for the training
grounds in the Himalaya's," grunted
Captain MacManus.
The boys instantly made a respect
full rush toward him. .A.
What luck!" cried one. We've
got just fifteen minutes to catch the
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Joshina Waldo.

It was at a Tammany dinner, Just
after Mayor Gaynor had appointed
Rhinelander Waldo police head. Ex'
Comptroller Herman A. Metz was
present. Metz is about as formal as
a Bowery lad. well, Rhiney,'" he
said, holding out his hand, you've got
a hard job ahead of you./ I hope you
make good. But don't forget what
you're up against"
well, it's my intelligence against
theirs; my intelligence against theirs"
replied the police commissioner, and
he pointed to himself significantly.
"'Rhiney,' you lose." retorted Metz.
New York Tribune.
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ences, including Turkish baths, at the
pole. I'll be waiting for you says
she. Hurry back so long says
he; and away he went and was gone
for five long years.
"You see, when he went away wom-
en- were plump, and had hips and
shoulders, and wore long skirts, with
room enough in them to walk. When
he came back it was the year of these
hobble skirts and the women were
altogether different. The young ex-
plorer goes into his apartments In
the little hotel and something that
looks like this picture leaped up to
welcome him, and he steps back and
hollers: Gimme my gun. There's a
strange animal like a seal in the
room And it was only his wife. The
sad part Of it was that he had to pay
the dressmaker next day."
But why did the women let Style
boss them SOP" asked an apprentice.
would it punish them If they
wouldn't get thin OF plump as 1t or
dered them?"
would it! Indeed it would, my
lad; 1t would let them see other won.
en- who were in style!"
"But how did they ever happen to
hit onto anything like this hobble
skirt, captain?".
well. you see, twas in the days
when the ladies were fighting for
equal rights with man. The men
wouldn't let them veal the trousers
as yet, SO the dear women did the
next best thing. They couldn't get
the whole trousers, but they could
get n leg. They took and made 1t
into a skirt as you see in the pic
tuBe."
The young airmen gazed at the
strange picture in amazement. "Why
in the world did they think such
things made them pretty, captain?"
asked one. Fancy one of u women
today wearing anything that would
interfere with their stride!"
"The women of today are free"
Sdlu' Sdpldll NldCnldu 10. 1ACy hofS
thrown off the thrall of instinct. And
yet" he unused smilingly, "and yet,
those old days were good days, after
all. Douse my signal rays! I don't
know but what they were as good as
the present era, so far as the women
are concerned. Yes, lads, in those
days I was once tempted to enter that
old-fashioned and discarded state OF
matrimony.".
What was the matter, captain"
asked one of the boys. wouldn't
the girl have you?"
run along" growled the old man
"Get aboard the Express. You're like
all the boys nowadays; you're too
keen on ancient history"
Copyright, by W. g. Chapman.) ,
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1862. But here the resemblance
ceased. From the waist down the fig
ure was shaped like an elongated V,
with the small end at the bottom,
where the feet should have been. 1t
looked something like a woman who
had been caught and tied so she
couldn't move.
THAT" said Captain MacManus, "fs
an old-time photograph of a woman In
a hobble gown"
What! Ha, ha, ha! Good joke
captain" laughed the apprentices
"Fancy-a woman! But tell us wha,
it really is, captain, please"
II have told you," said the captain
Its a woman in a hobble skirt OF
the age of 1912 or thereabouts."
"A woman" the boys drew forward
and gazed at the picture in amaze
ment. "a woman-in a what did you
say, captain"
"A hobble skirt" said the old man
"You don't know what that is, do you
kids? Never heard of such a thing:
Can't imagine such a thing, Ell? But
that's what this relic of the past rep
~resents, and you can look in any an
cient history and see that I'm right
What do you think the woman had
done, captains" asked the apprentice
What had she done?"
Eyes. To make them bind her W
in that fashion What was she be
ing punished for" 49,.
COR maybe she vas doing penance
of some kind" suggested another.
my boys" said Captain MacManus
"she was not doing penance, and she
was not being punished"
you don't mean to say that she
was wearing that thing Of her OWL
free will?"
mo; she was doing 1t because
she had to; it was the STYLE"
go on, captain" said the boys
I'VE like to hear about those queer
old-fashioned days"
well, Style was the absolute Boss
Of all women in those days, my lads
1t was before they'd acquired the
equal right with men to help worry
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Rather Warm.

At a school in Dudley a teacher with
whom I am well acquainted was TAX
ing his class in their poetry, Casa
blanca" They came to the line, "The
boy stood on the burning deck" He
stopped the class, and asked this ques-
ton, why did the boy stand on the
burning deck?" He had a good show
Of hands, but one lad in particular
seemed very eager to give the answer.
The teacher noticed this, and asked
him, whereupon he got the following
answer, Because 1t a too hot to
sit down.. which put the whole class
in an uproar.-London Tit-Bits.
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about how the world should be run,
and there they went along in the old,
instructive ways of their mothers
that have all been done away with
now-and their instincts ruled Them,
and the Boss Of the biggest instinct
of all was Style"
What was the biggest instinct?'
asked the group.
"The desire to Look pretty and
make other women look plain"
And what was this Style thing that
you mention, captain
"Style was a mysterious power that
changed every year or SO, and when
it changed women had to change with
1t. One year Style would be for plump
women, and all the women would be
plump. Next year it would be for
thinness, and all the women would be
thin. Sometimes 1t said: No hips
and the women promptly didn't have
any hips; then it would say. Let
there be hips and hips there were,
lads, till you couldn't rest. Now, you
young fellows, who live in this age
when women, having finally won their
hard-fought battle to get a finger in
the worlds work, have got plenty of
other things to worry about besides
looking pretty and therefore don't
care SO much for style, you fellows
can tell just about what women will
look like n year after another. It
was different in the old days; you
J had to be ready for anything then.
II remember one sad, sad case that
came about through this, and it hap
pened in this same age, about 1912,
that this ancient lady in a hobbie
skirt belonged to. There was a brave
young explorer who'd gone down to
take the temperature of the south
pole. He had a beautiful young wife
that he had to leave behind in a little
! oli-fashioned hotel named the Knick-
| erbocker that used to stand at the cor
ner Of Fo%rty-second and Broadway,
because this was before they had cleo
trio heat and all modern inconveni.
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His Plan.

How is it, colonel?" asked the
hopeful young bunco ~steerer, address.
ing the hoary-headed master Of the
craft. that you have always been so
successful in picking out juicy suck
ers, and never have to waste your
time on improbable ~subiects?" y
simply wait till I hear a nan say that
he is a pretty good Judge Of human
nature" replied the veteran, land
then I know he Is just what I am look.
ing for."-Puck-
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Pictures for the Living Room.

Get away from the idea of hanging
pictures in your dens and living rooms
that are fanciful. Have something
that will bear everyday associations.
The black and white prints are good,
and those Of the old Italian villas,
wooded scenes or Of some eastern
ports, little brooklets and country
landscapes will be refreshing all win
ter. when the living room must take
the place Of the porch and OF nature.
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More Truth Than Joke

and she wore the funniest hat and
the longest feather in it you ever
saw. l tell you 1 was 30 tickled l liked
to have laughed myself to death"
where did you meet her-at a recep-
ton or on the street," sat behind
her In q street car" ..