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gesture laid before the eyes OF Bibbs-
Look at a lamidaI statueH'
Gazing down the hall. Bibbs saw
heroic wreekage. seemingly Byzantine
painted colossal fragments of a shat
tered torso. appallingly human; and
gilded and silvered heaps Of magnifi-
cence strewn among ruinous palms
like the spoil of a barbarians' battle.
There had been a massacre in the
oasis-the Moor had been hurled from
his pedestal.
He hit at ole lamidal statue" said
George. Pow"
My father?"
"Yessuh! Pow! he hit 'erl An you
ma run tell me git doctuh quick g 1
kin telefoam-she sho' you pa goin'
bus a blood-vessel. He amt takin' on
tall now. He amt nothin' tall to
what he was while ago. You done
miss 1t, Mist Bibbs. DOctuh got him
all quiet down, to what he was. Pow.
he hit 'er! Yessuhv' He took Bibbs'
coat and proffered a crumpled tele-
graph form. Here what come" he
said. Il pick 'er up when he done
stompin' on 'er. You read 'er, Mist
| Bibbs-you' ma tell me tuhn 'er ovuh
to you soon'S you come in"
Bfbbs read the telegram quickly. Ii
was from New York and addressed to
Mrs. Sheridan.
Sure you will all approve step have
| taken as was so wretched my health
would probably suffered severely Robert
| and I we're married this afternoon
thought best have quiet wedding abso-
| lutely sure you will understand wisdom
| of-step when you know Robert better am
! happiest woman in world are leaving for
| Florida Will wire address when settled
will remain till spring love to all father
will like him 100 when he knows him like
do he is just ideal
EDITH IAMHORN.
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it now / couldn't, if l went down
there with you I'd be swallowed into
it I don't care for money enough
to"
No his father interrupted, still
dangerously quiet. you've never had
to earn a living Anybody could tell
that by what you say. Now, let me
remind you: you're sleepin' in pretty
good bed; you're eatin' pretty fair
food: you're wearin' pretty fine
clothes. Just suppose one O these
noisy housekeepers- for instance
decided to let you do your own house
keepin' May l ask what your propo-
sition would be?'
I'm earning nine dollars week"
said Bibbs, sturdily. Its enough.
shouldn't mind at ALL"
who's payin' you that nine dollars
a week?''
MY work. BIbbs answered. 'And
I've done so well on that clipping ma
chine 1 believe l could work up to fif-
teen or even twenty a week at another
job. I could be a fair plumber in a
few months, I'm sure. I'd rather have
a trade than be in business-I should,
infinitely"
You better set about learnin' one
pretty dam quickr' But Sheridan
struggled with his temper and again
was partially successful in controlling
it. 'You better learn a trade over Sun
day, because you're either goin' down
with me to my Office Monday morn
ing-or-you can go to plumbing!"
''An right" said Bibbs, gently. 81
can get along"
Sheridan raised his hands sardon-
icalIy, as in prayer. 80 God" he said,
''this boy was crazy enough before
he began TO earn nine dollars a week,
and now his moneys gone to his head!
Can't you do nothin' for him?" Then
he flung his hands apart, palms out
ward, in a furious gesture of dismis-
sal. "Get out O. this room! You got
a skull that's thicker'n a whales
thigh-bone, but it's cracked spang all
the way across! You're cracked! Oh,
but 1 got a fine layout here! One son
died, one quit, and ones a loon! The
looms all got left Well, mister, loon
or no loon, cracked and crazy or what
ever you are, I'll take you with me
Monday morning, and I'll work you
and learn you-yes' and I'll lam you,
If l got to-untitl I've made something
out of you that's fit to be called a
I'm able to stand. and if have to lay
down to die I'll be whisperin' at you
till they get the embalmin' fluid into
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There are thousands of men fit for the
life you want him to 1ead-and so is
he. It wouldn't take half OF Bibbs'
brains to be twice as good a business
man as Jim and Roscoe put together"
'Whatr Sheridan goggled at him
like a zany-
Your son Bibbs." said the doctor.
composedIy, "Bibbs Sheridan has the
kind and quantity of gray matter that
will make him a success in anything
if he ever wakes up The thousands
Of men lit for the life you want him to
lead aren't 6t to do much with the
life he ought to lead Blindly. he's
been fighting for the chance to lead
it-he's obeying something that begs
to stay alive within him; and, blindly,
he knows you'll crush If out. You've
set your will TO do it. Let me tell you
something more. You're half mad with
a consuming fury against the very
self Of the laW-the law that took Jim
from you. The very self of the law
took Roscoe from you and gave Edith
the certainty of beating yon; and the
very self of the law makes Bibbs deny
you tonight The law beats you. But
=
it to your own ends, to WELD 1t and
twist it"
The voice broke from Sheridan's
heaving chest in a shout Yes! And
by God, 1 will!'
$50 Ajax defed the lightning" said
Quincy.
I've heard that dam'-fOol story.
too Sheridan retorted. fxedly. De
fed the lightning did he, the jackass!
If he'd been half a man he'd "a got
away with it. We don't go shown OF
defyin' the lightning-we hitch it up
and make it work for US like black
steerp'
well. what about Bfbbs?" said Cur
ney. Twill you be a really big man
now and
Journey, you know a lot about big
nessp' Sheridan began to walk to and
fro again. and the doctor returned
gloomfly to his chair. He had shot his
bolt the moment he judged its chance
to strike center was best, but the tar
get seemed unaware of the marks
man
''I'm tryin' to make a big man out O.
IuaI pOOE uuCk JOnQcEs CucEIOdu went
on, "and you step in, Begin me to let
him be Lord knows what don'tl
suppose you figure it out that now
got son-in-law, mightn't need a soni
Yes. 1 got a son-in-law nova
spenderp'
"Oh. put your hand back" said Cur
ney. YEARLY.
There was q bronze inkstand upon
the table. Sheridan put his right hand
in the sling, but with his left he swept
the inkstand from the table and half
way across the room-a comet with a
destroying black tail. Mrs. Sheridan
shrieked and sprang toward IL
'sLet it IayP' he shouted, ferceIy.
LET It IayF' And, weeping, she
ebeyed- Eyes, sir" he went on. in q
voice the more ominous for the sudden
hush he put upon it 81 got a spender
for a soa-iR-lawI It's wonderful
where property goes, sometimes There
was ole man Tracy-you remember
him Doc. r. Tracy. solid banker.
he went into the bank as messenger,
seventeen years old; he was president
at forty-thTee, and he built that bank
with his life for forty years more Gilt
edge, that bank7 1t was diamond
/ edged? he used TO eat = bag c. pea
! nuts and an apple foF lunch; but he
wasn't gti1gy-l1e was Just Hyi1' In his
( business. He didn't care for PIE Ct
suEamoblEsz-sk sG his bEnk e Waz
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Imitation Pearls.

Clever imitation pearls have been
made by filling thin glass bulbs with a
solution OF fish scale nacre. Another
method is TO coat the inside OF the
glass bulbs with a ten per cent gelatin
solution which is allowed to become
only partially dry before a small
amount OF sodium phosphate is added,
then the drying process is continued
slowly. The limitations look much Ike
genuine pearls. but they can be detect
ed by noting the place where the bulbs
have been sealed
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oriaInaI Sea ssrpent.-

The National museum at Washing
ton contains a notable display OF the
bones OF several species OF extinct
mammals which, II seen alive in the
ocean, would be called huge sea ser
penis. They were carnivorous. and
their long, slender jaws were armed
with formidable teeth Although q
few remaining individuals Of the group
may have given actual basis for the
sea-serpent stories, these extinct ami
mails were not reptiles. but mammals
which, like the whale and seal and
otter, had happened to evolve In an
aquatic environment
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an Institution. and it come pretty near
bein' the beatin' heart o. this town n
its time. Well, that ole man used TO
pass one o. these here turned-up-nose
and turned-up-pa pants cigarette boys on
the streets. Never spoke to him
Tracy didn't. Speak to him? God,
he wouldn't "a coughed on hint He
wouldn't "a let him clean the euspi-
doris at the bank! Why. If he'd "a just
seen him standin' in front the bank
he'd "a had him run OF the street And
yet all Tracy was doin' every day OF
his life was workin' for that cigarette
boyi Tracy thought he was givin'
his life and his life-blood and the
blood Of his brain for the bank, but
he wasn't 1t was every bit-from
the time ne went in at seventeen till
he died in harness at eighty-three-
it was every last lick OF II Just
slavin' for n turned-up-nose. turned
Up-pants cigarette boy. And Tracy
didn't even know his namei He died
not ever havin' heard IT. though he
chased him of the front steps OF his
house once The day after Tracy died
his old-maid daughter married the
cigarette-and there amt any Tracy
bank any morei And now"-his voice
rose again-''and now I got a cigarette
son-in-law'
Quincy pointed to the fourishing
right hand without speaking and Sheri-
dan once more returned it TO the sling.
My sOn-in-law likes Florida this
winter" Sheridan went on That's
good, and my Son-in-law better enjoy
II, because I don't think he'll be there
next winter. They got twelve thou
sand dollars to spend, and I hear it
can be done in Florida by rich sons-in-
law. When RoScoe's woman got me to
spend that much on a porch for their
new house. Edith wouldn't give me a
minutes rest till I turned over the
same to her. And she's got it. besides
what l gave her to go east on. It'll
be gone long before this time next
year. and when she comes home and
leaves the cigarette behind-fOT good
she'll get some more Ny name amt
Tracy. and there amt goin' to be any
Tracy business in the Sheridan family
And there amt goin' to be any college
| foundin' and endOwin' and trusteein',
nor God-knows-what TO keep my prop
| erty alive when I'm gonel Edith'n
be back, and she'll get a girls share
when she's through with that cigarette,
/ bI1f-sb
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CHAPTER XIV.

There was sleet that evening. with q
whoeping wind, but neither this storm
nor that other which so imminentIy
threatened him held place in the con-
OF Bibbs Sheridan when he
came once more to the presence OF
Mary. All was right in his world as
he sat with her. reading Maurice Mae
terlinck's "Alladine and Palomides."
And while the zinc eater held out to
bring him such golden nights as these.
all the kings horses and all the kings
men might not serve to break the
spell.
Bibbs read slowly, but in a reason
able manner, as If he were talking;
and Mary, looking at him steadily
from beneath her curved fingers, ap-
peared TO discover no fault. 1t had
grown to be her habit to look at him
whenever there was an opportunity.
1t may be said, In truth, that while
they were together. and it was light
she looked at him all the time.
When he came to the end Of stAlIa-
dine and Palomides" they were silent
a little while. considering together;
then he turned back the pages and
said:
There's something I want to read
over. This:
open on the dawn She has a sogl
that can be seen around heE-that takes
you In 1tz arms Ike an aIling child and
without saying anything 20 yon consoles
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SYNOPSIS.

: The Sheridan family "seIf-made'' rich.
have moved into a magnificent home in
the fashionable part of a Middle West
city in order that the womenfolk might
get acquainted with the best people "
Old Man Sheridan is business leader Of
the community His son Jim is killed &C
scidentaIly His son Roscoe takes to drink
because Mrs Roscoe f1irts with Bobby
j1amhorn, aristocratic rake. who wants
to marry Edith Sheridan. His son Bibbs,
delicate in body, poet at heart, works in
IA machine shop because the old man
thinks he hasn't enough sense TO he a
business member Of the firm Next door
Ito the 5heridans live the Vertrees. brok-
ien-down aristocrats Mary Vertrees and
wanted to marry her Old Man Sheridan
sorders Lamhorn off the premises and
tells Edith to give him up
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Bibbs' father has announced that
hereafter Bibbs will be an official in
the various Sheridan enterprises and
will take up big business career. The
son has refused. The father has just
anerily demanded an explanation Of
the refusal.
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In pouht.

He persists in vhistIing ragtime
songs
yes" replied Miss Cayenne Il
can't make up my mind whether the
whistle is spelling the tune or the tune
is spelling the whistle"
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me! Now go on, and don't let me hear
from you again till you can come and
tell me you've walked up. you poor, pitt
full, dandelion-pickin' sleep-walkerr'
Bibbs gave him a queer look There
was something like reproach in 1t, for
once; but there was more than that
he seemed to be startled by his fathers
last word.
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ferlng with female
trouble and could
hardly do my work
y was very nervous
but Just kept drag
ging on until last
summer when I got
whereI could not do
my work Iwould
have q chill every
day and hot flashes
and dizzy spells and
Inv head Would al
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Once more the forces beyond
the power of human control are
at work confounding and tfwaTt-
ing the mighty business man
and city builder, Sheridan. He
fights biindly, VaIiantly and feels
SURE Es can win How the fates
laugh at his efforts; how love
and hate show their great
strengths all told with great
fIuency by the author in this
instalIment.
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Patience

Patience = philadelphia requires
woman teachers IN public q hOoIs 20
dress their hair without MARCEL
raves, etc.
Patrsce-That means the particular
hair they wear 70 seho0L SUPPOSE
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Sometimes il is easy, and sometimes
il is impossible to raise money on q
bond Of sympathy.
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Its Sort

did you see where IN the storm the
other night the jail was struck"
We'll, what better place for light
ming bolt2'
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Always proud to show white clothes.
Red Cross Ball Blue does make them
white. All grocers. Adv.
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Doesn't it appear NOW that
Old Man Sheridan will set about
to have Edith's marriage 70
Lamhorn annuIIed as soon as she
comes to her senses? Would you
do so If you were her father7
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HUSBAND SAVED
HIS WIFE
Stopped Most Terrible Suf.
fering by Getting HerLydia
E Pinkham,s Vezefa-
bic COMPOUND.

Denison, Texas After nv Httja
girl was born two years ago I began suf-
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CITY BEAUTIFUL BY NIGHT

CTo BE CONTINUED
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derstand it all 1 do not know how it
can all be- but my knees bend in spite of
me when I speak of iC-
New Britain herald., 1916-08-25

work, for though they may have 1 escaped arrest their victims are pretty
 sure to carry their complaint tc station houses and branch detective 1 bureaus, where they are duly reported 1 to the bureaus of statistics.
 Figures Point Out Weak Spots. The department through the help 1 of the bureau, is often times able to 1 learn why certain kinds of crime are
 more prevalent in enc neighborhood 1 than in another. If it is because the 1 police patrol in the complained of area
 is insufficient it Is strengthened and packed up, or if more persistent work on the part of detectives is needed they are encouraged to put forth greater efforts.
 On investigation it is often found that crimes are not so serious as at first reported Many so-ca1led bur e;laries on investigation turn out to be petty larcenies. The bureau through it's statistical work is able to separate the big crimes from the little, the real ones from fancied ones, and thus tighten the work of the police.
 A man reported recently that fruit left by an open window of his home was being continually stolen. It was annoying, he said, to think that every time he left fruit by the window 1t was taken, and this persistent steal ing had got on the nerves of his family. The detective who 1nvesti-
 gated the case discovered that the thefts were committed by two hungry little children. When the complain ant heard this he promptly requested that the matter be dropped and for
 gotten. Tn another case a woman re-
 norted that a cat was being brutally treated by it's owner. The policeman who investigated the complaint re-
 ported that he could find no evidence that the owner of the animal was
 treating the cat unkind1y. It was
 nocturnal prowler, his report stated.
 and had made life uncomfortable for
 the neighbors, but it was a family cat
 and had kittens.
 All station houses today have been supplied with crime maps. These are geogra phical maps of the precincts, showing streets. and parks. When a homicide happens in a precinct @
 small square in red ink Is placed on the locality represented by the map. ] The numeral 4 is the symbol for a homicide. The numera1 1 in red ink 1 is that for @ felonious assault. All mum bers representing other crimes
 are in black ink. A robbery Is repre-
 sented by g, burglary by 51, a grand
 larceny by ', resorts for gangsters and
 ''dope 1ends" by 24, disorderly boys
 by 21, gambling by 8, violation of corporation ordinance by 6, and fatal accidents by the letter A placed in red square. These maps arc replaced 1 by new ones once month, for the | police find that crime and vice shift and change like the sands of the desert. The old maps are filed away 1 each month. By studying them the
 department IS able to tell the crime history of the precinct
New Britain herald., 1916-08-25
BRITAIN AND SWEDEN
 SWAP STIFF NOTES
Smaller Country Undaunted by
 Sharp Replies from London

London, Aug. 25.-The British gov- ernment, following the lead of Swe- den, has made public the entire ccr- respondence with Sweden concerning British parcel post with the United States and Swedish retaliation in stop ping all English parcels in transit to Russia.
 The correspondence discloses that the situation has not yet been satisfac- torily adjusted Some of the letters and notes teem with language so sharp as to indicate that the relations of the two countries at one time ap- preached the breaking point.
 As a result of the negotiations Sweden recently released 60,000 par cels to Russia under agreement with the British government to submit the matter to arbitration after the war The British government demanded that traffic across Sweden to Russia be not tnterfered with again, but Sweden declined this prop osition, saying it was not included in the original negotia- tions, whereupon the British govern- ment withdrew its offer to arbitrate
 The final offer of Sweden was that she would do nothing in retaliation
New Britain herald., 1916-08-25

pleading ordered in one week by the l defendant. Attorney Upson represents l the plaintiff and Klett & Alling the de. fendant.
 Wallace Perzanowski versus Alex ander Perzanowski, plaintiff is ordered to furnish $50 bond to prosecute. A. A. Greenberg is counsel for the plaintiff.
 A continuance of two weeks was granted in the case of E. s. Babcock versus Robert M. Reid. J. G. Woods is the plaintiffs counsel and Judge Bowers of South Manchester appears for the defendant.
 A pleading by the defendant in one week was ordered in the case of G. Palnieri versus T. Cherniak. Judge w. F. Mangan is counsel for the plain tiff.
 In the case of H. U. Thompson against Allen Ptol1ney a continuance of one week was ordered. M H. Camp is counsel for Thompson and J. G. Woods for the defendant.
 A default was entered for the plain tiff in the case of Louis Zevin ct al versus Vincenzo Minello. Judge F. B. Hungerford represented the plaintiffs.
 The defendant was ordered to file a pleading in one week in the case of John O'Brien against Thomas Tobin ct al. Judge Hungerford is counsel for the plaintiff and Klett & filling for the defendants
 The case of Mojak Sowa versus WO- jeck SodJik was assigned for trial next Tuesday. Attorney E. T. Ringrose will represent the plaintiff and M. D. Saxe the defendant.
 The Connecticut Good Roads and Construction company, defendant in a suit brought by the Stakeholder Cor poration, through Attorney A. w. Up son, was ordered to file a pleading in one week.
 A week to file a pleading was grant, ed the defendant in the case of Katie Soborofsky versus Alex Gerry. J. G.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-25

for anything done by Great Britair prior to July "A of this year, which was coupled with the hope that this "conciliatory' attitude would move Great Britain to cease interference with Swedish mails, thus saving Swe- den from the necessity of resorting g to retaliation in the future.' In this last note Sweden threatened to make the entire correspondence public should the occasion arise.
 Great Britain in her last note, which was signed by Foreign Secretary Grey, said the British offer to arbitrate would remain open only on condition that Sweden should continue to for ward parcels between England, Rus sia and elsewhere, and carry out the post office agreement entered into by the two countries in 1904.
 Viscount Grey asked in his final an- swer, Aug. 3, if Sweden would cease to interfere with this traffic, but the only reply has been the publication at Stockholm of the correspondence.
 The correspondence began last De- cember with the first detention at Kirkwall of mails between Sweden and the United States going in both directions. Count Wrangel the SWed- ish minister in London, protested against this action, declaring that the British authorities, far from wishing to minimize the difficulties arising out of the war, find pleasure in increas- ing them"
 Count Wrangel also announced the stoppage of the Russian parcel post until Great Britain should give guar antee against a repetition of the Kirk wall seizures, which he denounced as "contrary to international law"
New Britain herald., 1916-08-25
OWENS ACCUSES (. Q. P.
senator Says Members of Party Are Trying to Block Corrupt Practices Bhl-May Delay Adjournment.

Washington, Aug. 25.-RenewaI yesterday of Senator Owens fight for consideration at this session of his corrupt practices bill threatens to de- lay adjournment of congress.
 It was problematicaI whether this prospective specialization of a party issue might not induce some demo- crats who heretofore had intended to oppose action on the measure at this session to reverse their attitude Senator Owen said he would make a motlon to call up his bill after the revenue bill was disposed of.
 In connection with his plea for ac- ton on his bill, Senator Owen de- clared the existing contributions law was fraud upon the American peo- pie; accused senate republicans of de- iberately trying to defeat his meas ure, and charging that the so-called lumber trust had sent $40,000 into Oklahoma to defeat his renomination because he voted to deny William Lorimer a seat in the senate.