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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-14
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH IA. 1915

"My word!' says Kemp. "But this is terrible, isn't
it? Pm all trembe from it.
"Youre dom fine,' says l. airy your Etruscan po-
tato masher that bush there
Must have been half an hour kept up that
of thing and we're still at it, without routn out
any robber, when hears someone calm excited from
the front porch 1t turns out to be of the Coun
tess's Swiss maids. She's holdin' up channels bag
and squealin in three languages.
Sci les sonH IcI" she sings out. "Dey neg-laces!'
"Thank goodness" signs the Countess. "My EN-
eralds!' and goes splashin back to the house.
1t was the emeralds too. The maid had dug them
out from under pillow, just where she'd seen the
Countess hide EN-. In her hurry the Countess had
searched the wrong side Of the bed
So the forces abandon the hunt and Twomblcy
Crane and makes careful search upstairs No signs
picious at all.
81 think I'd like few words with that private de-
tective says rwombley-Crane.
"Me too says |.
WYE finds him in the DRAWN room bein served with
~ cigars and drinks by Tiddings and holdn forth
to the ladies how he he someone slide
down of the porch pillars. And, say on gettin
close view only finds that he has bat ears, but
thick under lip. Also he's wearin flown tie. l had
him placed now. But | holds off any action until
Twombley- Crane gets through cross examinin him.
He sticks to his story, that's ALL and says he's glad the
burglar was scared off before he got any valuables
Then takes my turn.
"How it you happened to see him, anyway"
says /.
"Why, says he Il was just passing you know, and"
passing whato' says l. "Its near thousand yards
from here to the front gates You must have been in
the grounds.
"What if was? I'm detective" says he exhibitin'
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but trail along. And, believe me, it's fossy line
of battle puts up advances fan shaped through
four five inches of half frozen slush-Countess Car
in the lead uniformed in Paris dinner gown;
Sister Ann in limsy black net affair trimmed with
silver fringe and with back that gives plenty Of
play to her shoulder blades; all the women wearin
high-heeled slippers; while us bareheaded, all
but Cousin Kemp, who's logged along his napkin and
has draped it jaunty his bald spot.
TWOMBLEY- CRANE keeps on sputterin' how fool
sh il is and warnin the women that they're liable
to be shot something's but nobody pays the slightest
attention to him. We'd only gone few yards when
Tiddings, who has taken his from Sister Ann,
comes rushin out with an armful of assorted back
number weapons which he distributes impartial. Help
full cuss, Tiddings He hands Cousin Kemp wicked
lookn' spiked ball swingin' by chain from long
handle, and on he wishes standardized Turkish
musket with the lock mssin
"May come in useful, Sir" says he
l couldn't just how, but tucks the thing under
my arm
"Footprints!" sings out the Countess. snow be
ready everybody"
pushes up nearer the head of the procession where
the stranger is pontn' out something in the snow.
Then gave start. Bat ears! Now where had seen
a pair like them before? Course it time to
bother about little thing like that; but couldn't get
it off my mind. You know how it is. The mans back
turned so couldn't get view of his face Only
the ears! Another second and he's moved out from
under the light.
Well, did some great scoutn' around the grounds,
pokin among the shrubbery, stealth up sleuthy on
shadows, and gettin' unpy meetn each other
unexpected around corners Once | had the deadly
drop on Cousin Kemp and might have shot him fatal
if the old gun had been in workin order while he
dom his best to brain with the spiked thngumbob,
until we discovers each other.
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ickv @'rhe Carona emerads My precious emerads"
she pants out and numbers toward the stairs with her
elbows wide and her fingers punched.
Before could organize ourselves into council of
war; leave the dnin room, she putin back
"Cione!7 she announces tragic, THROWN up both
hands. "My enerads gone! Where is that man?'
WE'LL what with her and the Twombley Cranes and
Sister Ann, not to mention Tiddngs and three other
funkies all mobilizin' in the front hall, and Cousin
Kemp trippn the draperies and suttern foolish
questions | fingers in the background and only hears
snatchcs of what's said. Among other things | hears
the stranger announce how he's a private detective
who was just passn by and spotted the secondstory
artist maxim his getaway.
q must telephone to the village for the police says
Twombley Crane.
"And leave that scoundrel hiding out there with my
emeralds!" snorts the Countess Rubbish! | am go
ing after thcm-and hinl-now!"
"Of course!" chimes in Sister Ann, stunning big
woman herself but not so lumpy as the Countess.
ave must go armed, though. Here!"
With that she reaches up the hall nantel and
pulls down couple of antique two-sted swords and
big brass shield The fat Countess gathers in sword
with one hand and hikes up the slack of her evenin'
dress with the other
Lead the way, good mani says she to the stranger
ooh, say!' protests Twombley- Crane Don't be
absurd. Ann come back here!"
"We are going to recover those emeralds!
the Countess wavn the big sword wabbly and exposin
arm like baby elephants thigh. "You may help
us or not as you choose.
Certainly" puts in Mrs. Twombey Crane, pickin'
up brass poker. "Im going too"
And Sadie, who's just made quick trip to her
and found her jewel box safe joins the recruits with the
fire longs Mrs. Twombey Crane switches the
yard lights and the stskrt brigade proceeds to charge
in open order.
Course there's nothin' left for the of to do
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Activities of Women.
(To BE CoNTINUED)

+ Women are paid ten cents a day for
making army shirts in France.
OF the 1896 women registered for
war work in England, only 1915 have
been utilized.
Very few Of the nearly 100000
woman school teachers in the United
States are married.
AS soon as the war is over Miss
Genevieve Caulfield, a teacher at the
Pennsylvania Institution for Instruc.
ton of the Blind, will sail for Japan,
where she will devote her life to
teaching the blind there.
Should Dr. Ella B. Everitt of Phila-
delphia accept the presidency of Will
son college, she will be obliged to
sacrifice a large medical practice
which she now enjoys in the Quaker
City.
Mrs. B. Castleton, who has just
been graduated from the Atlanta Law
school, took up law mainly that she
might have an understanding sympa-
thy in the work Of her husband, an
Atlanta attorney.
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"And how much year does Market
Square church take out OF Vedder
court?"
Il was waiting for that bit OF i'm
pertinence," laughed Manning. 81
shall be surprised at nothing you say
since that first day when you char
acterized Market Square church as a
remarkably lucrative enterprise. Have
you never felt any computations of
conscience over that?"
Not once" answered Gail prompt.
ly. She had started to seat herself on
one of the empty benches, but had
changed her mind. IF / had been given
to any such self-injustice, however, |
should reproach myself now. ! think
Market Square church not only COM
mercial but criminal"
I'll have to give your soul a chas.
tisement," smiled Manning. These
people must live somewhere, and be,
cause Vedder court, being church
property, is exempt from taxation,
they find cheaper rents here than any
where in the city. If we were to put
up improved buildings, l don't know
where they would go, because we
would be compelled to charge more
rent"
I'm order to make the same rate Of
profit" responded Gail. out of all
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does the Mldeontinent get to the
Crescent island tube2"
Right here" and Allison pointed to
his map. you come out of the tube
to the L. and c., which has long
time tracking privilege over fifty miles
of the Towando Valley, and termi-
mates at Windfeld. At Forgeson, how
ever, just ten miles after the L. and
L. leaves the Towando. that road"
us crossed by our tracks," Urbank
eagerly interpreted. THE Midconti-
nent, after it's direct exit, saves
seventy-mile detour! Then it's a
straight shoot for Chicago! Straight
on again out west Why, Allison,
your route is almost as straight as an
arrow! 1t will have a three-hundred-
mile shorter haul than even the Inland
Pacific! You'll put that road out of
the business! You'll have the king OF
transcontinental lines, and none can
ever be built that will save one kink!"
His neck protruded still further from
his collar as he bent over the map
Here you split off from the Midconti.
nent's main line and utilize the White
Range branch; from Silverknob- NV
God!" and his mouth dropped oren.
"Why-why-why, you cross the big
range over the Inland Pacific's own
tracks," and his voice cracked
Edward E. Allison, his vanity graft
fed to its very core, sat back com.
fortably, smiling and smoking, until
Urbank awoke.
81 suppose we can come to some ar.
rangement," he mildly suggested.
Urbank looked at him still in a daze
for a moment, and a trace of the
creases came back into his brow. then
they faded away.
you figured all this out before you
came to me-" he remarked. "On what
terms do we get in?"
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inal," repeated Manning, with . sly
smile at Gail, who now wore q little
red spot in each cheek.
Rev. Smith Boyd's cold eyes turned
green, as he glanced at this daring
young person. In offending the dignity
of Market Square church she offended
his own.
What would you have US do?" he
quietly asked.
Retire from business" she in
formed him, nettled by the covert
sneer at her youth and inexperience.
She laid aside new perplexity for
future solution. In moments such as
this the rector was far from minis.
terial, and he displayed quickness to
anger quite out Of proportion to the
apparent cause. 1.-THE whole trouble
with Market Square church is that
they have no God. The creator has
been reduced to formula"
Daddy Manning saved the rector the
pain Of any answer.
You're a religious anarchist" he
charged Gail
Her face softened.
by no MEANS" she replied. 81 am
devoted follower Of the divine spirit,
the divine will, the divine law; but
not of the church; for it has forgotten
these things"
"You don't know what you are say.
ing" the rector told her.
THAT isn't all you mean," she re-
torted what you have in mind is
that, being woman, and young, !
should be silent. You would not per-
NIT thought If you could avoid 1t, for
when people begin to think, religion
lives but the church dies, as it is doing
today"
Now Rev. Smith Boyd could be
triumphant. There was a curl of sar-
casm on his lips.
Are you quite consistent" he
charged. you have just been object.
ing to the prosperity of the church"
Financially" she admitted; but 1t
is a spiritual bankrupt. Your financial
prosperity is q direct sign of your re-
ligious decay. Your financial bank
ruptcy will come later, as it has done
in France, as it is doing in Italy, as it
will do all over the world. Humanity
treats the church with the generosity
due a once valuable servant who has
outlived his usefulness"
my dear child, humanity can never
do without religion" interposed Daddy
Manning.
("Agreed," said Gail; "but 1t out
grows them. 1t outgrew paganism,
idolatry, and score of minor phases
in between. Now 1t is outgrowing the
religion of creed, in its progress to-
ward morality. What we need is a
new religion"
CTO BE CONTINITEDl
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with qualification. A compliment of
this sort from shrewd old Tim Cor.
man, who was reputed to be the foxi.
est man in the world, was a tribute
highly lattering.
That right" approved Tim. "All
know is guess, and | don't tell
guesses, This is a big job, though,
Eddie. A subway to Crescent island,
under proper restrictions, is just an
ordinary years work for the boys, but
this tube pokes its nose into Oakland
bay"
Pm quite aware of the size of the
job" chuckled Allison. However,
Tim, therell be motley enough behind
this proposition to hll that tube with
greenbacks."
Between the narrow-slitted and
puffy eyelids of Tim German there
cleaned trace Of the old-time genii.
Then it's built" He rose and
leaned on his cane, twinkling down on
the man whom, years before, he had
picked as a conner" I've heard
people say that moneys wicked, but
they mover had any. When / die. and
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CHAPTER VlI-Contlnued.

How about the Crescent island sub.
way?"
Ripe any time" and Tim German
hecked the ashes from his cigar with
a heavily gemmed hand. THE boost.
ers have been working on 1t right
along, but never too strong"
There's no need for any particular
manipulation In that" decided ALI.
son, who knew the traction situation
to the last nickel. THE city needs
that outlet, and it needs the new ter.
ritory which will be opened up.
think we'd better push the subway
right on across to the mainland. The
extension would have to be made in
ten years anyhow"
Its better right now" Immediately
assented German. In ten years he
might be dead.
u think, too, that we'd better pro-
vide for a heavy future expansion"
went on Allison, glancing expectantly
into Tins old eyes. WED probably
better provide for double-deck. eight.
track tube"
Tim German drew a wheezy breath
and then he grinned the senile shadow
OF his old-time grin; but it still had
the same spirit.
you got a hen on" he decided. In
Society" Tim could manage very
nicely to use fashionable language.
but in business he found 1t impossible
after the third or fourth minute of
conversation. He had taken in every
detail of the room on his entrance.
and his glance had strayed more than
once to the red streaks on the big
map. Now he approached it, and
studied 1t with absorbed interest.
You're smart boy, Ed" he con-
Cluded. Across Crescent island is the
only leak you could snake in a rail
road. You found the only crack that
the big systems haven't tied up"
"All you can get me to admit, just
now, is that the city needs an eight
track tube across Crescent island, un.
der lease to the Municipal Transporta-
ton company" stated Allison, smiling
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Found That Enemy Could Shoot.

A correspondent, sending news Of
himself, sends this hospital experience
from the British front: HE and
were occupants Of neighboring beds
in the same ward. He had come from
the trenches with hole through Sis
nose. was inquisitive and he re-
sponsive. I got this ere just by Move
Chapel. Pal O. mine said the blighters
could shoot; said they couldn't hit
me if give 'em chance. stuck up
me cad an looked at 'em. e got 8
tanner an l got pipped.' Of course,
the surgeon could only plug the nose
of such a man with cheek"
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G5eRALZg fTI Id
9yGEOpGF RANDOLPH CHESTER.
and LILLIAN CHESTER wv
i. TS;,Ss Soot ILLUSTRATED &~CDR1ODES
SYNOPSIS.

At a vestry meeting of the Market
Square church Gall Sargent listens to a
discussion about the sale OF the church
tenements to Edward Il. Allison, local
traction king, and when asked her opin-
Ion of the church by Rev. Smith Boyd,
says 1t is apparently lucrative business
enterprise. Allison fakes Gail riding In
his motor car When he suggests he Is
entitled to rest on the laurels of his
achievements she asks the disturbing
question: "Why?" GAIL returning to her
Uncle Jim's home from her drive with AL
Ison, finds cold disapproval in the eyes
OF Rev Smith Boyd. who Is calling there
Al bobsled party Gall finds the world
uncomfortably full of men. and Allison
tells Jim Sargent that his new ambition
is to conquer the world. Allison starts a
campaign for cons olldation and control Of
the entire transportation system of the
world. Gail becomes popular and Aunt
Helen thinks 1t necessary TO advise her
as to matrimonial probabilities Allison
gains control of transcontinental traffic
and arranges to absorb the Vedder court
tenement property of Market Square
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Seville Nlahts.

In all the principal plazas and gar
dens of Seville moving picture screens
are erected and small tables and
chairs set out, the exhibitors either
making their profits from the drinks
sold or by rental of chairs at two
cents each. Thousands of people go
nightly to the different plazas and
gardens, and the entire life of the city
for about four months centers around
these moving picture showS.-From
Commerce Reports.
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Sept. 90, 1914.

Germans occupied MoIl and
Malines and bombarded Lierre.
Outer defenses of Antwerp
shelled by the Germans.
Serbs retook Semlin.
Russians swept over northern
Hungary.
Japanese invested Tsingtau.
Chinese blew up railroad bridges
to hinder progress of Japanese.
British warships bombarded
Tsingtau.
German cruiser Emden sank five
British steamers in Gulf of Bengal
and all tank steamers at Madras.
Zeppelin dropped bombs In Bel
gian towns.
U. S. S. Tennessee ordered to
the Adriatlc.
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Sept. %, 1914.

Allies made progress on heights
Of the Meuse.
8eIglans retook AIost and re.
pulsed Germans at Mallnes.
General Hindenburg's army
forced to retire from Poland.
Russians occupied Dembica and
took fort at Przemysl.
Russians crossed the carpathlans
and invaded Hungary.
Japanese approached Tsingtau.
German Congo seized by British
and French.
French warshlp sunk by cattaro
forts.
Russian soldiers occupied Tilsit
estate of kaiser.
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He Dropped Behind to Slip Something
Which Looked Like Money.

this misery, Market Square church is
reaping harvest rich enough to build
fifty million dollar cathedral, and
have sufficient disregard for the par
ticular deity under whom you do bust
ness, to feel sure that he would not
destroy 1t by lightning. l want out of
here"
Frankly, so do l." admitted Man
ming; although I'm ashamed of my
self. It's all right for you, who are
young, to be fastidious, but your
Daddy Manning is coward enough to
want to make his peace with heaven,
after life which put few blots on
the book"
She laughed at him speculatively
for moment, and then she laughed.
You know, | don't believe that,
Daddy Manning. You're an old fraud,
who does good by stealth, in order to
gain the reputation of having been
picturesquely wicked. Tell me why
you belong to Market Square church"
Because it's so respectable" he
twinkled down at her. when an old
sinner has lost every other claim to
responsibility, he has himself put on
the vestry."
He dropped behind on their way to
the door, to surreptitiously slip some
thing, which looked like money, to the
man with the roughly hewn counte-
nance, and as he stood talking, Rev.
Smith Boyd came in, not quite breath
lessly, but as If he had hurried.
u knew you we're here" he said,
taking Calls slender hand in his own;
then his eyes turned cold.
You recognized my pink ribbon
bows" and she laughed up at him
frankly. You haven't been over to
sing lately"
NO" he replied. Twill you be at
home this EVENING""
I'll have our music selected" and,
in the very midst of her brightness,
she was stopped by the sudden SOM
berness In the rector's eyes.
Simple little conversation; quite
trivial indeed, but it had been attend
ed by much shifting thought. To be.
gin with, the rector regretted the me-
cessity Of disappearing of a young
lady so undeniably attractive. She
was pleasure to the eye and slim
illus to the mind, and always his first
impulse when he thought of her was
one Of pleasure. An incident flashed
back to him. The night of the tobog-
gan party, when she had stood with
her face upturned, and the moonlight
cleaning on her round white throat.
He had trembled, much to his later
sorrow, as he fastened the scarf about
her warm neck. However, she was
the visiting niece of one of his vestry-
men, who lived next door to the rec
tory.
Gail jerked her pretty head impa-
tiently. If Rev. Smith Boyd meant
to be as somber as this, she'd rather
he'd stay at home. However, he was
the rector, and her Uncle Jim was a
vestryman, and they lived right next
door
You just escaped blowing up,
Doctor Boyd" observed Daddy" Map
ming, joining them, and his eyes
twinkled from one to the other Our
young friend from the West is harsh
with the venerable Market Square
church."
Again." and Rev. Smith Boyd was
gracious enough TO smile "What is
the matter with 1t this timer"
1T Is not only commercial but Grim.
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THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Sept. 27, 1914.

Allies repulsed German attacks
on both wings, but Germans gained
in center.
French REINFORCED on the Mouse.
Germans bombarded Malincs.
Russians checked German ad
vance into Poland at Suwalki and
entered town Of Przemysl.
Serbs and Montenegrins reached
Roumanlan border
Japanese defeated Germans In
outskirts Of kiaochow.
German aviators dropped bombs
in Paris and Warsaw.
Cholera outbreak in Austria.
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Daily THOUGHT.

Even in ordinary life the unselfsh
people are the happiest-those who
work to make others happy and who
forget themselves. The dissatisfied
people are those who are seeking hap.
piness for themselves-Resan
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Couldn't Be More So.

How was the party last night at
the Gadders' house?"
ooh, the usual flubdub and foolish
ness"
was there no serious note?"
zone. l overheard Mr.. Gaddess tell
Mrs. Gadders in a whisper that an
other blowout like that would break
him"
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HIa Justification.

why did you strike this manT
asked the court
HE told me to use my head" plead
ed the prisoner.
well, that's no crime, is it?"
"But, your honor, was crushing
stone at the time. Buffalo Express.
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Near-PubIicity.

The nearest some men ever come to-
getting their pictures into the papers
is when cross (X) is shown on the
half-tone to indicate where the limo.
cent bystander stood when it hap.
pened.
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Sept. 80, 1914.

Allies drove back both German
wings and retook st. MihieI.
Germans destroyed town Of
Orchies.
Germans failed in attempt to
cross the River Nlemen.
Retreating Austrians surrounded
near Dukia.
Hunsarians retook Uzsok pass.
Japanese reached Lao.Che and
Germans abandoned their artillery.
italian ships sunk by Austrian
mines.
British cruiser Cumberland cap.
tured ten German merchant steam.
ers.
Cadets from Canada Royal Mill
tary college sailed for England.
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There is nothing SO hard to ride as
a young broncho," said the Westerner.
"Oh. don't know" replied tbs man
from back East. did you ever try
the water YRaan3"
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War may be necessary-but there's
no sane reason. why people should try
20 change seats while in rowboats.
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Oct. g. 1914.

Allies checked at Arras.
Germans driven back across the
Meuse.
Two Antwerp forts silenced.
Russians broke German center
and took up new battle line from
Mariampol to Ossowetz.
Germans lombard ossowetz.
Russians took two forts of
Przemysl.
German cruisers shelIed Papeete,
capital of French islands of Tahiti.
French gunboat sank German
auxiliary ships Rhios and ItoIo.
German cruiser Leipzig sank
Union oil tanker Elsinore.
German foreign office accused
French of torturing wounded at
Orchies.
American Red Cross ship arrived
at PauilIac, France.