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encountered financial difficulties tu>u-
perabe. The billboards t1ankinG the
entrance to the Theatre Max cont!n-
ued to display posters announcing the
reopening early in September with a
musical comedy by lyman Dodd; but
the comedy was not even in rehearsa
by September Is.
Ember went darkly about his vari-
Gus businesses, taciturn-eyen trace
more than ever reserved in his COM
munication with Whitaker-preoccu-
pied, but constant in his endeavor to
enhearten the desponding husband.
Mary Whitaker made no sign. Now
and then Whitaker would lose patience
a1d write to her. He received not a
line of acknowledgment.
Sometimes, fretted to a frenzy, he
sought out Ember and made wild and
unreasonable demands upon him.
These failing of any effect other than
the resigned retort, II am detective,
not q miracle-monger," he would fly
into desperate, gnawing, black RACES
that made Ember fear for his sanity
and self-control and caused him to be
haunted by that gentleman for hours
once or twice for days-until he re-
sumed his normal poise of sober and
civilized man. He was, however, not
often aware Of this sedulous espto-
mage.
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DRIVEN FROM THEIR COUNTRY
Barbarous Penal Code Was the Cause
of Many Irishmen Forsaklng
Their Own Soil.

Some writer has said "that during
the eighteenth century in Ireland the
chief social feature was political op-
preston and emigration" The treaty
of Limerick was signed October 3,
1861, but despite the protests OF King
William, who was apparently a brave
soldier and an able statesman, the
treaty was soon ignored as q mere
scrap of paper. The odious, barbarous,
prescriptive legislation known as the
penal code was in full swing shortly
after 100, and large contingents, rep
resenting the flower of Irish manhood
and chivalry, began to fly to the con-
tinent of Europe and the shores of
America These unhappy children of
10, maddened by the English gadfly,
fed into all lands, carrying with them
a memory that enabled them to recog-
nize the gadfy wherever encountered,
and a spirit that prompted them to
swat it remorselessy whenever 1t
crossed their path.
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QUAINT BELIEFS IN IRELAND
Leprechaun and Banshee Have Been
Recognized constitutions" OF EN-
eraId Isle for Centuries.

The two preternatural beings most
spoken about in Ireland are the lepre-
chaun and the banshee. The lepre-
chaun is only the artisan of the
fairies. But he knows where their
crooks of gold are hidden. He is a
very little fellow, aud he is always en-
gagged in his trade of shOemaking. If
YOU are near "rath' or an old castle
YOU may hear the sound of his ham
ilering. If you discover the fellow
draw close to him without making a
sound that would betray you. If you
are lucky you may be able to take
him in your grasp. Then ask him
where those creeks of gold are hid
den. Insist upon his telling you, and
do not let your mind be dissipated by
his excuses But in the end he will
cheat you. He will say or do some
thing that will distract your attention,
and when you look again the lepre-
chaun will have disappeared.
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Easy for Trouble Man"

Every telephone company has a
''trouble Department. where all com
plants of bad service and defective
equipment go. The men who make the
repairs and adjustments are known
as "trouble men," and they have to be
not only expert workmen, but chaps
of intelligence and common sense, for
they meet many problems that are not
set down in the books. ThoughtleSS
people can do many things to put q
telephone out of commission and some
of them are sinple-a wet umbrella
leaned up against the wiring in such Il
way that it grounds the current, and
of course makes the phone useless
In this particular case the umbrella
remained where it ought not to have
been while the owner of the phone
fretted and fumed because he could
not get Central, and then went to
neighbor's and called up the telephone
company When the ''trOuble man"
arrived he saw at once what the mat
ter was and picked up the umbrella.
'Now call Central," he suggested, and
the irate patron got an Immediate re-
spOnSe.-LeSlie's.
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0 THE |
DESTROYING
ANGEL I
II - By II
LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE Il
CHAPTER xVII-Continued.


At six that evening, returning to his
rooms to dress, Whitaker found an
other note waiting for him, in hand
writing that his heart recognized With
n sensation of wretched apprehension.
He comprehended its contents with
difficulty, half blinded by swimming
mist of foreboding.
My Dear: I find my strength unequal
to the strain of seeing you tonight In
deed, / am so worn out and nerve-racked
that / have had to consult my physician.
He orders me Immediately to a sanato-
rium,- to rest for week or two Don
worry about me. l shan't fail to let you
know as soon as 1 feel strong enough to
see you. Forgive me. love you dearly.
MARY.
The paper slipped from Whitaker's
trembling hand and fluttered unheed-
ed to the floor. He sprang to the tele-
phone and presently had the Waldorf
On the wire; it was true, he learned:
Mrs. Whitaker had registered at the
hotel in the morning, and had left at
four In the afternoon. He was refused
information as to whether she had
left a forwarding address for her
mail.
He wrote her Immediately, and per-
haps not altogether wisely, under
stress of distraction, sending the let
ter by special delivery in care of the
hotel. 1t was returned him in due
course of time, embellished with pen
ciled memorandum to the effect that
Mrs. Whitaker had left nc address.
He communicated at once with En-
ber, promptly enlisting his willing
services. But after several days of
earnest investigation the detective
confessed himself baffled.
''If you ask me-" he commented at
the conclusion Of his report, 'the an
swer is she means to be let alone until
she's quite ready to see you again"
Whitaker ragged. "She-she loved
me there on the island She couldn't
change so quickly, bring herself to
treat me so cruelty, unless some in
fernal influence had been brought to
bear upon her."
'It's possible, but Il
"Oh, l don't mean that foolishness
about her love being q mans death
warrant. That may have something
to do with it, but-but-I conquered
that once. No; somebody has
got hold of her, worked on her SYM
pathies, maligned me :"
"Do you object to telling me whom
you have in mind?"
''The man you suspect as well as I
the one man to whom her allegiance
means everythfng-the man you uamed
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Crossbar taffetas, in soft weaves,
made up in simple designs, are among
The unpretentious afternoon gowns that
make an instant appeal to most wom-
en-. There are several models Of this
character among almost every repre-
sentative showing Of spring styles. The
silks appear In all the colors used this
season, with crossbars in fine lines of
white. They look like fine ginghams
translated into silk. Designers take
their cue from this suggested likeness
and q sort of playful resemblance to
an apron Is evident in some of the new
dress models.
A typical frock of crossbar taffetas
is shown in the accompanying picture.
1t is one piece, but has the effect of
an overdress and skirt. There is a
panel extending the length of the dress
from neck to hem at the front and one
at the back. In the skirt portion, the
panels have a plait at each side, but
In the bodice this is omitted. At each
side of the skirt larger pockets pro-
claim the frock as mindful of fash
ions requirements. They are gathered
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bly, the cretonne, are as radiant in
color as a tropical garden. The in
PRODUCTION of black and white in stripes
adds to their brilliance and gives them
character.
Kindergarten cloth, in narrow stripes
of white with one color, is an excel
lent material for the practical skirts
gingham and chambray, in plaids and
stripes, and in the plain colors, it goes
without saying are the choice of many
who know their various good qualities
They are altogether trustworthy and
maybe the most practical of petit.
coats for everyday wear. But the
brilliant newcomer is novelty and In
this alone lies one of it's charms.
The petticoat shown in the picture
is fitted about the hips and cut with
out fullness. Comfortable room for
walking is provided for by the ruff1e
This is cut in scallops about the lower
edge and finished by crocheting mar
row edge with black mercerized
crochet cotton. This same finish for
the edge is pretty in white and colored
striped petticoats when the crochet
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- - - as es
to his nrefaca as follows

to his preface as follows: 0s
81 had conjectured that it should -
be sought near the Severn or the Se
Bristol channel. The existence Of
three places named Banwen (Which sl
may represent Bannaventa) In Gla-
morganshire opens a prospect that tx
the solution may possibly lie there" a.
The reader is now in possession Of SS
the names of the chief authorities a.
modern and ancient on the subject, q
and he may weigh O'Sullivan and @e
Lannigan against Doctor Healy and q
Cardinal Moran, or Colgan and @a
O'Flaherty against Keating and e.
O'Hanlon. Or he may weigh Profess @H
sor Bury and Sir John Rhys against y
them all. Whatever the merits of "a
the question 1t cannot be dogmatic "
assertion on either side. But even "a
If st. Patrick had been born in what "
is now called Scotland or Britain, We
in neither case could it be claimed -
that he was what is meant by either SS
of the modern terms, "Scotchman" as
or "Anglo-Saxo The word Scotus *
in those days meant Irishman pure a.
and simple, and was only given to q
Scotland owing to the Irish colonies DE
which undertook civilizing work on S1S
her west coast (Argyle means liter q
ally Arergaedhal, the land of the "
Irish). AS for the "Anglo-Saxon," Oe
that peculiar breed had not yet left "
the German forests. When they q
came to Britain they drove the Brit ~
ish Celts westward, but eventually Na
adopted their name Of Briton. 1t ~
is safe to describe st. Patrick as 80
a Romanized Celt, whether he was
born In Irish-Scotland, Celtic Brit -
ain or in Unbranded Gaul. Wher- -
ever his upbringing, he came in ~
touch and understanding with both =.
the Roman idea and Gaeldom. He *
was the first to realize what a spir- a.
itual combination they were likely *
to make. History has justified his O.
experiment, for. today there are *
more bishops in the Roman church Ga
Of Gaelic blood than of any other *
branch of the human family.-From Ca
the Magazine Ireland. *
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tor Healy's theories, and then ask
yourself if there is q shadow of the
Scotch claim left. Yet we are con-
tinually dinned with the dogmatic
assertion that "St. Patrick was born
In Scotland"
On the other hand, to quote from
Archbishop Healy of Tuam:
Phillip O'Sullivan Beare, a man
of learning and authority, declared
that Patrick was born in Bretagne.
He was the first writer of note who
put forward that opinion, for no an
cient writer known to us ever ad-
vanced it." The difficulty has been
to settle where exactly Bonnavem
Taberniae is, which is the town Pat
rick mentions in his Confession"
as his home
Lannigan believed in a French but
not Breton birthplace. Doctor
Healy states that his view was n
modification of O'Sullivan's. = HE
says that the Bonnavem Taberniae
of the confession was the same town
as Boulogne-sur-mer, in Picardy and
was the birthplace of our saint. But
the confession does not state that
Bonnavem Taberniae was Patrick's
birthplace, but that it was the place
where his father had q villa from
which he himself was carried off a
captive"
Doctor Healy himself states: SIT
appears to us to be quite clear from
the account the saint gives of him.
self that he was q native Of the Ro-
man province of Britain, and in all
probability was born on the banks
of the Clyde in Scotland"
To turn now to Professor Bury.
He writes as follows in his "St. Pat
rick: :" SIN the absence of any trace
of q Bannaventa in north British
regions, we must, think, give deci-
sive weight to the general probabili-
ties Of the case and suppose that
Bannaventa was south of the Wall
of Hadrian somewhere In western
Britain, not far from the coast"
After his book was in press he
received q communication from Pro-
fessor Rhys, which led him to add
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ALWAYS of Lofty Ideals.

The Celt undoubtedly was the most
purely moral and religious Of all the
barbaric races, and this necessarily
grew out of his lofty ideals and lively
which demanded pleas
future food and raiment. This made
for improvidence, but who will say the
gain is not greater than the loss2
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in across the top with two rows of
shirrings.
The very wide belt is finished with
a narrow cording at the edge and is
loosely adjusted in the most approved
style. 1t fastens with buttons in the
color of the frock and white. The
bodice fastens under the panel and on
the shoulder.
A small sailor collar and narrow
cuffs are of white satin and there is
lust the merest bit of embroidery on
them. The white silk cord and tassels
make Just the right finish for the neck.
Any frock that carries suggestion
of youth and refinement about it is
sure to create an enthusiasm for itself,
especially when it manages at the same
time to be so unasSuming.
Gay stripes in cotton goods are used
for petticoats this spring along with
others less gay. Some of them, nota-
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Hoping for the Best.

A Chicago music and art critic who
is suing for divorce makes the predic-
ton that fifty years hence the men
of this country and the world will
have to arise and band themselves to-
rether to maintain their own rights"
We trust that they will attack no fe-
male prime minister, blow up no rail
way stations, and respect monuments
and art collections.-New York Sun.
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Ireland'S Patron Saint
- - - ssss sssss s.

CT. PATRICK: "a stone lay deeply
bedded in the clay until one of
N strong hand uncovered it, heaved
it aloft and made it the capstone of a
noble edifice." This is his description
of his life. He was a centenarian watt
ing for his death when he wrote 1t, and
to his eyes the career of the Apostle
of Ireland was a blend of human
worthlessness made capable of lofty
achievement by the call of God. 1t is
a great mans humble estimate of his
share in remaking great nation. And
tits correct as to the humble beginning,
and the mighty accomplishment, and
the abiding of humility in the bosom
of the man who wrought SO nightly.
Not without reason has the name of
St. Patrick been held in veneration
through these many generations.
There is nowhere a teacher whose
services for learning exerted so wide
an influence In time so critical for
all culture. There is nowhere states
man whose activity so completely
reformed the character of any people.
There is nowhere such national hero
whose fame is sounded across fifteen
centuries and can still stir emotions of
ardent enthusiasm far beyond his
nations shores. There is nowhere a
saint whose teachings are blended like
his with the destinies of his nation, so
that the invocation of his name can be
at once the cry of patriotic devotion
and the expression of religious venera-
tion.-Rev. T. P. McDonough.
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?
Students at Berlin.

There are more students at the Uni
versity of Berlin than Il year ago. At
present there are S,G19 students, of
whom 1,133 are women. There are
14g Austrians, sixty-three from Swift
zerIand. 81 Russians, 80 Roumanians,
81 BuIgarians, 26 Turks, II Greeks.
8 Italians and Englishmen. Africa
is represented with IS and Asia
with %.
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7. PATRICk'S PLACE
OF BIRTH LONG
In DISPUTE

\ ~ ROM Boston bitter cry that
= - the mention of a Scotch birth
place for st. Patrick is not to
4 be tolerated The controversy
is an old one, and this is not place
for taking sides, so we will merely
\ present the rival views to the inter-
D ested reader. 1t would appear that,
J like Homer, more than one spot is
> prepared to do battle for the honor
y of being Patrick's birthplace
; land, Wales and Brittany being all
!. contestants.
First let our well-read correspond
A ent speak:
Il have read every author worth
! reading on the question and with
! only one desire, namely, to find out
4 the truth, and have no more doubt
\ on the question that he was born in
1 Brittany than | have that he was
! real live human being. English and
d Scotch desire to appropriate every
thing and everybody worth while, is
the cause of the error in the case.
! For every line that can be said
B about his French birth one hundred
} are written on the British (fslanU
side, but such claimants have no
} critical argument on their side. 1t
is all q part of the so-called anglo
= Saxon" propaganda, and l hope that
: when the paper again alludes to the
:. question, it will go into the facts
of the case, which the Scotch claim
4 ants never do. See Heating, O'Han-
\ lon, Professor Moore (PrOtestant),
4 Lannigan, Don Philip O'Sullivan,
\ Father Morris, Canon Fleming, Miss
4 Cusack, Father O'Farrell and host
\ of others, for the full analysis Of
] the case. Then read the best that
can be said on the Scotch side by
Archbishop Healy; read Professor
\ Bury for q complete disposal of Doc
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Kino's Blue Is Worn,

Kings blue, that beautiful color one
sees in pansies and bachelors buttons,
is used in the new evening dresses.
It is so becoming to some women that
1t is a pity not to take advantage of
1t, for all women do not look well in
light evening gowns.
A very amusing new fashion, decid-
edly extreme, is to have the lower
half of q skirt or coat attached to
the upper part by enormous cartridge
plaits. In a light beige coat of velour
lie lnine this effect was achieved by
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re iUfTiSQ dfiu Od" tbs "Iic
time, as the one who'd profit the most
by keeping her from leaving the
STAGE"
well, if it's Max, you'll know in
time"
I'll know before long. AS soon as
he gets back in town"
$50 you've been after him?"
"Why not? But he's out on the Pa
citic coast; or so they tell ne at the
theatcr. Expected back about the
middle of .Ju!y-they say in his Office"
'"Thcn that lets him out"
But it's a lie."
"Well--?"
I've just remembered: Max was at
the Fiske place, urging her to return,
the night before you caught Drum
mond ut the bungalow. / saw them,
walking up and down in front of the
cottage, arguing earnestly: | could
tell by her bearing she was refusing
whatever he proposed. But | didn't
know her then, and naturally | never
connected Max with the fellow / saw,
disguised in motoring coat and cap.
Neither Of 'em had any place in my
thoughts that night"
Ember uttered q thoughtful "Oh?"
adding: There may be something in
what you say-suspect, that is. If l
agree to keep an eye on him, will you
promise to give ME a free hand?"
''Mcaning-?
Keep out of Max's way: don't risk
q wrangle with him."
"Oh-go ahead-to blazes-as far
as you like"
Thanks" Ember dryly wound up
the conference; but these passing
flirtations with your present-day tenn
per leave me with no hankering for
greater warmth"
Days ran stoiiEIiy on into weeks, and
these into Il ir9nth. Nothing happened.
Max did not return the VI hispered ru-
mor played Wiidfirc In thratri'Hi cir
:ia, t!a,s: he ocrentric manager had
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OUGHT To.
DO the Turks

DO the Turks practic.. cremation?
mot that l know OF. Why should
theyY
'Haven't they wives to hurn?"
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cotton is selected to match the color
of the stripe. Flounces in silk petit
coats are cut in small scallops and
buttonhole-stitched with heavy silk
thread.
For silk petticoats flounces cut in
deep points are most successfully fin
ished with the picot edge. Since the
flare has vanished from petticoats so
completely that 1t hardly fingers In
the memory, the picot edge has come
to the front as the best for straight
hanging skirts and f1ounces.
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made in extremes. You may clothe
the Irish in rags, as Curran said, but
they will not wear chains.
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taking a band Of fur and attaching II
to the coat in these standout loops
On brown velvet dress the seal-ful
band was attached in these huge SEMI
cylinders just at ffnger-tip depth
Though these folds stand out from the
dress, they are not stiffened, and end
by falling irregularly into negligen
folds.
Among the new pockets that deco
rate the sides of skirts and coats, one
of the most original is a new moon
shape, outlined by. narrow bands o1
brown fur material.
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Fashion Is for the Few.

The mere introduction of a new fash.
ion does not mean that every woman
in the country can or should wear it
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September waned and October
dawned in grateful coolness: an exqui-
site month of crisp nights and enliven-
ing days, of mellowing sunlight and
early gloamings tenderly colored.
Country houses were closed and the
aters reopened. Then suddenly the
town blossomed overnight with huge
cight-sheet posters on every available
boarding, blazoning the news:
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JULES MAX

beqS TO announce the return OF
SARA LAW
in a new Comedy entitled "Faith"
by JULES MAX
Theater MAx-Friday October 18th
But Whitaker had the information
before he saw the broadsides in the
streets. The morning paper propped
up on his breakfast table contained
the Illuminating note under the cap
ton, "News of Plays and Players"
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Jules Max has sprung another aid per-
haps his greatest surprise On the theater-
going public of this city. The astute
manager has been out es town for two
months secretly rehearSinE the new COM
edy entitled Faith" OF vfich he is the
author and in which Sam Law will re-
turn finally to the stage. Additional in
terest attaches to this announcement in
view of the fact that Miss Law has au-
thorized the publication of her intention
never again to retire from the stage.
The opening performance of Faith
will take place at the Theater Max to-
morrow evening, Friday, October Is.