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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-04-01
CHAPTER xxx.
Birdman.

biroman.
About eight o'clock in the evening of
the same day a motorcar deposited at
the Hotel Monolith a gentleman whose
weather-beaten and oil-stalned motor
ing-cap and buster covered little cloth
ing more than shirt and trousers and
assorted oddly in the eyes of the desk
clerk with the rather meticulously
turned-out guest known to him as Mr.
Arthur Lawrence and to the manage
ment of the hotel as Mr.. Alan Law in
cognito.
Eventually persuaded, the clerk
yielded up the key to Mr.. Lawrences
suite of rooms, together with two
notes superscribed with the same nom
de guerre.
Alan's impotence was so great that
he could hardly walt to examine these
communications until he was quit Of
the pull nc eye.
The first proved to be a character
istic communication:
Dear Ulysses-Thanks for the jail
delivery. got in this morning just In
time to motor over 20 Jersey in hopes
OF seeing your finish as bachelor;
instead. was favored by being made
an involuntary witness to your spec
tacular ascent. following your almost
equally spectacular high-dive.
But to business. my time is lin.
tied: in half an hour more am to
double in black-face for the purposes
OF the author lof this rielodramatic
farce which you, no doubt, call the
history of your grande passion.
81 mean to say--well. several things,
to.wit When | saw you snatched out
OF the North river was engaged IN
sailing pale-faced villain In a motor
ear concerning whom you probably
know far more than J: he on his part
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-04-01
CHAPTER xxx.
JaiIbird.

JaiIbird.
The period of restraint In durance
vile suffered by one Thomas Barcus
In consequence OF conduct riotous' I'M
seemly. and In general prejudiced 70
the public peace OF the New Bedford
waterfront at half-past four in the
morning, proved in the upshot tar
more brief than had been fondly
hoped, not only by his just judge, but
singularly enough, by the misdemean-
ant himself.
Taking everything gravely into con-
sideTation, including a person any
thing but prepoesessing, the judge
reckoned that, In default of a fine OF
one hundred dollars. ten-day layup
for repairs and repentance was not too
much to mete out to the prisoner at
the bar.
He was sentenced at 10 a. m. and 1t
was little short of 10 p. m. when his
post-prandial repose was disturbed by
the rattle of key in the lock of the
door to his cell.
Conducted with every evidence OF
disesteem on the part of his jailers to
the Office of the warden, he was ac-
quainted with the fact that his fine
had been paid by no one less than the
Judge himself: then present in portly
and soiicitous person.
"If only you had told me you were
q friend of Mr.. Digby's," the judge
fastened to say as soon as the two
were ensconsed in the privacy Of the
judicial limousine, Il would have
known better how to guide myself in
this unfortunate affair.
"And if you will be good enough TO
indicate how else | may serve you
2"
"Digby didn't offer any suggestions
In his wire, gather?"
Zone moment: ! have it here"
Naturally I'd like a bath and a
change Of clothes" Barcus pursued
while the judicial breast-pocket was
being explored; and could do with
transportation to New York by the
first train out OF this God-forsaken
hole, and"
This is what Mr. Digby says" the
fudge interrupted, laboriously de
ciphering the message by the light OF
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-04-01
landscape. Only at the third cast aid

landscape. Only at the tnlrd cast dlu
they succeed in picking up the line OF
the Santa Fe. And II was some hours
later. though still daylight. when they
picked up the special train. flying like
a bunting across the levels.
There was scant room for doubt
that 1t was the train they sought. Spe-
Gals are not common. Moreover Alan
contrived with considerable difficulty
to focus binoculars upon the rear plat
iorin OF the car, and caught fugitive
glimpse CT white-coated figure with
black face that was watching the bi-
plane in the same manner. that Ia.
with glasses.
The man in the white coat, Alan as
sured himself, was positively Barcue.
And hardly had he comforted him
self with this assurance when his sar-
donic destiny struck the motor dumb
In response to his look of dashed
inquiry the aviator merely shook a
weary head and muttered the words:
Engine trouble"
Swiftly the earth rose to receive the
volplaning mechanism. Under Coaste
admirable handling ii settled down al.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-04-01
Salt Not Essential to Life.

If salt is not essential to life, why
40 those who have little or none of it
crave for it? You should see, as
have seen (writes correspondent,
the whole population turn out of an
African village on the approach OF
white prospectors in the hope of OBJ
tanning salt. The men demanded it,
the women clamored and the children
cried for it, Even the coffee-colored
babies slung astride their mothers
backs, thrust forth their tiny hands
and devoured it as greedily as our Eng
lish children do sweets A spoonful
of salt all around established amicable
relations, and when it came later to
bartering ! found salt by far the most
valuable medium. Value for value.
salt procured three times as much az
calico or fancy goods.-London Chron'
icle.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-04-01
When a Doq Drinks.

"a dog drinking is the emblem OF
alertness," says an observing writer.
Watch him! If leaf rustles he sees
it and starts Sights and sounds which
elude your powers of observation ar
rest his. The most conspicuous dis
tinction between the dog and the OK
at water is this: The OK never needs
his master until his thirst is quenched;
the dog never heeds his thirst till his
master is obeyed. have seen a hound
painting with heat his black lips baked
his tongue cracked, dart toward the
cool spring. But his masters whistle
arrests him at the brink and he darts
back without a drop. l have watched
drovers call, pound, goad oxen at the
ford, but the beasts would not bulge
until their thirst was slaked."
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-04-01
CHAPTER XXI.
Via Air Line.

Not once in The course of tie next
sixteen hours but a thousand times
Alan questioned land, It will readily
be allowed. with all excuses) his san
ity In permitting himself to be In
fiuenced to humor Judith's insistence
and make her a party to this wild
aerial cross-country dash.
Between whites the plane few fast
and high, cutting a direct line, as the
crow flies, athwart the eastern and
western states.
Chicago they raised as a smudge on
the northern horizon about one o'clock
In the afternoon; thereafter some lit.
tie time was lost in descents to ascer-
tain the identity OF the many railroad
lines that criss crossed the swimming
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-04-01
Copyright, 1914. by Louis Joseph Vance
SYNOPSIS.

The o. Hearts Is the death sign
employed by Seneca Urine In the priVate
war OF vengeance which, through inc
agency of his daughter. Judith. "a woman
OF violent passions like his own. he wages
against Alan Law, son of the man NOV
dead) who was unintentionally respons'-
BILE for the accident which rendered Iriue
q helpless cripple. Alan Is In love , Wlt n
twin and double, but In all else her oppo.-
site. Judith vows 10 compass A lin ;
death. but under dramatic circumstance
he saves her life and so, unwiihngly wins
her love. Thereafter Judith Is by turns
sctuated by the old hatred. the new love Sr
and jealousy of her sister. Rose ile
latter Is kidnapped by her fathers ORDERS ORDERS
and conveyed to a low dive In the Sums
OF New Jersey, from which Alan rescues
her after accidentally setting the tehe-
pent on fire.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-04-01

Land.
a match: please see to immediate
release OF ore Thomas Barcus, prob
ably IN Jail in your jurisdiction for riot
ing on waterfront this morning. Pay
his fine and instruct him to report to
me in New York at earliest feasible
hour. Give him all the money he
wants and look to me for remunera-
ton"
'Eh?" Barcus interrupted, sitting up
smartly; what's that last AGAIN."
Patiently the judge repeated the
sentence from the message.
Thanks. Please don't read farther.
You might come to something that
would spoil 1t. It's almost too b-auti.
full as II stands" Barcus observed.
Law owes me five thousand or so
iiquidated damages-but I'll be rea.
sonable. Frlsk this burg for ffth of
that sum before train time-and l
promise to ask nothing more!"
His private comment was: i've sus.
pected that this was a fairy-tale all
along Now know II Isl"
And this phase OF Incredibly per
sisted In coloring the complexion ~
his mind until the moment. some
hours later when the train connecting
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-04-01

the pontoon Of the hydroaeroplane,
pulled himself up out Of the water,
and clambered to the seat beside the
aviator.
Before he was fairly seated the plane
was swinging back into its fastest
pace.
With the ease OF wild goose it left
the water, mounted the long grade of
an air lane. described a wide circle
above the bluffs of Weehawken, and
swept away southwark.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17

Do not dodge. Whatever the diff
culties to be met, they are not made
easier by trying to dodge them. In
trying to dodge a missile from one
direction you may come in line with
one from a different direction. When
we dodge trouble we are more than
likely to get into other trouble no
less easy to endure. Look with cour-
age on what must be met. Faced
with courage difficulties are half con-
quered. Better to meet and conquer
difficulties than to dodge them. Dc not
dodge duties that devolve On you.
Duties performed add strength and
dignity to character. 1t matters lit
tie what these duties are; though they
may be of the simplest and humblest,
we'll and truly done, they acquire dig
nifty. Stand up bravely and squarely
to meet the difficulties Of life. With
courage you will conquer. You will
come through life with fewer scars
than by trying to dodge duty or diff
Guilty. Trying to evade begets in a
man a cringing spirit. He gets a
habit of trucking, and upright, self
respecting manhood is gone. Don't
dodge if you would hold yourself
above Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17
ONLY A HINT OF MILlTARISM
to Extremes In Styles-New Tuf-
ban Models.

Though there was, before the Paris
openings, much talk of the military in
fuence in hats and clothes, it has been
accepted, especially in suits. only in
a conservative way. Today, the smart
est tailored suit is much palmer than
it has been for many seasons, for it
has borrowed line rather than trimming
of the military coats. The pocket and
the belt have been adopted, to be sure,
but in their simplest form.
Among the first spring offerings in
millinery were small dark turbans
trimmed with white wings in a rather
daring amer and turbans with a
light or white top, accented by a bow.
The well-gowned woman has chosen
these two models in preference to the
more somber ones Flowers are GER
tainly worn and so are cockades of all
kinds, but the bow on a dark hat is
usually white or beige and the wings
are almost invariably white.-Vogue.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17
First Head Of PoIIcewomen.

Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells, the po-
licewoman of Los Angeles, was elected
president of the National Congress of
Policewomen at their recent meeting
in Baltimore during the National Con-
ference of Charities and Correction.
In forming the new organization of
p~olicewomen Mrs. Wells outlined a
new system Of police work. She urged
that policewomen be mutually ex-
changed between cities so that going
about incognito they might be better
able to discover in strange cities con-
ditions hitherto unexpected.
The other officers elected were Miss
Mary Steele Harvey, policewoman Of
Baltimore, vi~ce-president; Mrs. Geor-
giana Sherrot, policewoman at Mime
apolis, secretary, and Miss Anna Nc
Gully, the policewoman at Dayton.
o., as treasurer.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17
DEFENSE OF BOILED CABBAGE
Writer Who Appreciates the Delieacy
objects to It's Being classed
Among the Nuisances.

The decision of the supreme court
of West Virginia that 'the wanton
and needless cooking of cabbage and
sauerkraut for the purpose of annoy
ing a neighbor is a nuisance" is very
poor law so far as the cabbage is
concerned, because there can be no
such thing as the wanton and need
less cooking of cabbage; o would
it be possible to annoy any sane per-
son in that way. The redolence that
issues from a kitchen and permeates
the household during the boiling OF
cabbage is a great delight. The peo-
Pile who say mean things about 1t do
SO because cabbage is a modest vege-
table and has too much ~self-respect to
insinuate itself on the boards of the
aristocrats.
We common people. whom God
made SO many of. and which might
not be were 1t not SO, love boiled cab
bage, not only for its noble self. but
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17
PARTISAN MODELS
UMBRELLA OUTLINE NOTICED ON
THE LATEST SKIRTS.
May Signify Change in Forthcoming
styles-Lemon-YeIIow Linen Prom
ises t. Be Popular-smart Lit
tile cherry-Red Coat.

Redfern is making some practical
and attractive white serge suits for
seaside wear. He has always been
in favor of plated skirts, but on some
of these white suits noticed the UNI
brella outline, and l found it admira-
BILE, writes Idalia de Villiers, Paris cor
respondent Of the London Globe.
One model which pleased me espe-
cially had an umbrella skirt which
buttoned up the front and which had
large side pockets. The coat was half
length, with a shaped basque and a
waist belt which buttoned on at the
side seams. There was a plain roll
over collar and wide turn-back cuffs.
Both collar and cuffs we're caught
down by ivory buttons and the coat
was lined with chintz silk which
showed pale blue and pink flowers on
a white background.
Some of the more elaborate Redfern
suits have pipings and buttons made
of glove kid. This idea was success
fully carried out on a large suit in
hedgesparrow-egg blue, which was ac-
companied by a shirtwaist made of
fine white organdie muslin. All the
pipings on the coat and skirt were
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17

means self-possession and a sense of
beauty. A Frenchwoman rarely turns
up her veil unless 1t be one of the
very heavy mourning ones; she takes
1t OF, knowing that a veil turned I'D
leaves an ugly line either across the
brow or On the ose Neither does
she twist it into a funny little knot
under her chin, because she is con-
scious that it looks untidy and is bad
for the veil. She adjusts it on her
hat SO that 1t a be quickly and cas-
lily taken of, and she pins it over her
hair precisely so that she knows
where to find the pins when the taking
off momen arrives. 1t sounds such a
little thing and is. in fact, a trihe light
as air, but it is one of the details that
may just as well be mastered.
Some of the wells now are OF the
finest lace, very flmy and becoming;
others are in almost invisible net. and
a few women wear the strongly pat.
termed veil. So much depends upon
which kind of a veil suits a woman
best. Some women lose all distinc.
ton in a heavy veil; others seem to
gain their distinction from it. A safe
veil is the fine meshed one in black,
for 1t keeps Grant hairs within bounds,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17

In 1t was a happy party of ladies and
gentlemen, who were laughing and
chatting about some people they had
just run over.
Lohengrin saw them coming and
stopped still in the middle of the road.
Then he hung his head as low as he
could, and l believe If that horse had
been supplied with hands he would
have put them over his ears.
The people in the Bubble began to
shout at us, and l began to shout at
the horse, and friend wife began to
shout at me, while Lohengrin stood
there and scratched his left ankle with
his right heel.
Then the machine made a sudden
jump to the right and hiked by us at
the rate of about a 500 fine, while
the lady passengers in the cabin de
luxe stood up and began to hand out
medals to each other because they
didn't run us down.
Ten minutes later Lohengrin came
to and looked over his shoulder at us
with a smile as serene as the morning
and once more resumed his mad ca
reer onward, aver onward.
We were now about two miles from
home, and suddenly we came across a
big red touring car which stood in
front of a roadhouse, sneezing inward
ly and sobbing with all it's corrugated
heart.
Lohengrin saw the machine before
we did.
He knew there must be an automo-
bile somewhere near, because he
stopped still and quietly passed away
1 jumped out and tried to lead him
by the Coroner's Delight, but he plant
ed his four feet in the middle of the
road and refused to be coaxed.
l took the horse by the ear and
whispered therein just what thought
about him, but he wouldn't talk back.
l told him my wife's honor was at
stake, but he looked my wife rel and
his lips curled with an expression
which seemed to say, Impossible"
1t was all off with us.
Lohengrin simply wouldn't move III
til that sobbing Choo 'Choo Wagon had
left the neighborhood, 80 l went in
side the roadhouse to find the n
/ found him. He consisted of a Ger.
man chauffeur and eight bottles OF
beer.
When l explained the pitiful situa'
ton to him the chauffeur swallowed
two bottles of beer and began to cry.
Then he told the waiter to call him
at 1880, and he put his head down on
the table and went to sleep with his
face in a cute little nest of hard-boiled
cigarettes.
l rushed to the telephone and called
up the liveryman, but before l coult
think of a word strong enough to Fl
the occasion he whispered over the
wire: 81 know your voice, Mr.. Henry
l suppose Lohengrin is waiting fol
you outside"
Forthwith ! tried to tell hat livery
man just what l thought about him
and Lohengrin, but the telephone CIR
short-circuited my remarks and they
came back and set fire to the wood
work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17
South American OIL.

According to a recent government
report the production of petroleum at
COMMODORE Rivadavia. Argentina, in
1914 averaged mor than 5000 tons
per month, the total output during that
year amounting to 10000 tons. 1t is
estimated that in 1915 the production
of these oil fields will exceed 10000
tons. The petroleum deposits of
Bahia Blanca and Rio Negro also give
promise of increased production dur
ing the present year. The Argentine
government is taking active steps in
developing these deposits on a larger
scale than heretofore.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17

~overtaking a telegraph pole every once
10 a while, when suddenly we heard
behind us a very insistent choof-
choof-choof-choof!
TITS one of those Careless Wagons"
l whispered to Peaches, and then we
both looked at Lohengrin to see If
there was a mental struggle going
on in his forehead, but he was rush
ing onward with his head down, watch
ing his feet to make sure they didn't
step on each other.
Choof-choof-choof came the Torpedo
Destroyer behind US, and l wrapped
the reins around my wrist, in case
Lohengrin should get uneasy and want
to print horseshoes all over the auto
mobile.
The next minute the machine passed
us, going at the rate of IA constables
an hour, and as 1t did SO Lohengrin
stopped still and seemed to be biting
his lips with suppressed emotion.
/ coaxed him to proceed in English,
in Spanish and Italian, and then in a
pale blue language of my own, but
he just stood there and bit his lips.
believe If he had possessed finger
nails he would have bitten them too.
| gave the reins to friend wife with
instructions how to act If the horse
started, and l jumped out to argue
with him.
Just when / had picked out a good
sized hunk of ice which was to be my
argument, Lohengrin came out of his
trance and started off, but Peaches
forgot her instructions and spoke
above a whisper and he stopped
again.
Then took the reins, cracked the
whip, shouted a few paragraphs OF
the language General Villa uses In
Mexico when he captures a Federal
soldier, and away we rushed like the
wind-when it wasn't blowing hard,
The hours few by and we must have
gone at least half a mile, when an
other Kerosene Wagon came bouncing
toward US from the opposite direction
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17
Wells AS MORN IN PARIS
These Accessories is Worth
Copying.

A close-dtting little hat on windy or
rainy days is completely covered with
a veil drawn up into the center of the
crown like a flet with which we go
marketing. A nautical person de-
scribed these young women as meat
little craft" and they really look SO
workmanlike and tidy that they would
certainly brave the weather by sea or
land and never fear to look untidy, for
there is no vulnerable spot in the hat
and veil. in the coat. or in the tight
skirt or h~igh-laced boots.
1t is the veil in this picture which
is interesting, for the fine weather
must do away with the weather coat
and the high boots; but the veil will
merely change its movements. APP
parently this feminine necessity or
adornment is to play quite an impor-
tant part in woman's dress this spting
and summer. To know just what to
do with a veil and when to do 1t
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-17
SEEING LIFE with
fNNaJOHN HENRY
NSShWG eo1peV Hobart
KNxXKXW John Henry Goes Sleighriding
John Henry Goes Sleighriding

CAYi isn't it great to get all wrapped
y up in fur robes in a fine old sleigh
and let q fine old horse drag you over
the fine old snow on a fine old coun-
try road7
Answer: 1t is.
It's great If all the ingredients are
properly proportional, but nine times
out of ten something goes wrong with
the horse or the sleigh or the snow or
the road and you find yourself four
miles from nowhere, sitting on an ice
hummock and screaming for transpor-
tation, while the harsh winds of win
ter are biting their initials on your
southern exposure.
Peaches and l went to visit Uncle
Peter and Aunt Martha upstate, and
when friend wife found the ground
covered with snow, right away she
began to sit up and beg a sleigh ride.
She said that the sweet iingle-jangle
Of the bells would bring rest to her
nerves after a season of trying to
cross the streets in New York without
being struck by a taxicab, so Uncle
y NOlu AAiO nhCAO ~ hhAd O ANSlJ
stable and off l hiked.
Anyone who has never lived in a
semi-rural town will doubtless recall
what handsome specimens of equine
perfection may be found in the local
livery stable-not.
The liveryman in the town where
Uncle Peter lives is named Henlopen
l. affnnuyo11 nnd ha 1nOEo fha mort
/ judged from the excited manner
in which he grabbed my deposit
money hat he had a note falling due
next day.
Then Henlopen shut his eyes, count
ed six, turned around twice, multi
piled the day of the week by 10, sub
tracted 7, and the answer was a ream
a frightened face.
The gargoyle gazed at me sadly,
sighed deeply and hen backed up
into the shafts of a sleigh that looked
something like a BARRIERS chair and
something like the tumbril Marie An
toinette used the afternoon she went
TO the guillotine.
1H0 llNtIyLudu Sdlu JldI tue Hdule Vi
,he horse was Lohengrin, because ii
seemed to go better in German.
l drove %Lohengrin up to Uncle Pc
ter's residence and all the way there
We ran neck to neck with a coal cart
Lohengrin used to be a fast horse
but quite some time ago he stopped
eating his wild oats and now leads a
slower life.
When l reached the gate l whistled
for Peaches. because l was afraid to
get out and leave Lohengrin alone
He might go to sleep and fall down.
Friend wife came out, looked at the
rig and then went back in the house
n babe everybody an affecting fare
well.
There were tears in her eyes wheI
she came out and climbed into the
sleigh. She said she was crying be
cause Aunt Martha wasn't there tc
see us driving away and have the
laugh of her life.
We started off and we were rushing
along the road. passing a fence ant