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By Edith Stevens

from the one he had planned to take. And furthermore, she was so lnsis- tent in her demand that she be al- lowed to go te the station with him that Antonio yielded to her persua- sitn. When he came to tell me that I would have to take later train l was furious.
 As | have said before. if I had known that Antonio was married when I first knew him 1 would never have allowed myself to care for him. I wanted to give him up when l found out about it. He would not al- low me to.
 Then tried tt' give him up when his wife trailed me by the flowers l dropped in the car, which she would find every day. Antonio wouldn't and in fact did give him up refusing to sec him at all, when change came in my heart.
 Just about this time many things happened in connection with Mrs. Cassese, the woman whose husband I was giving up, although l Wor- shipped and adored him-thinss which hardened me. The thought oc- cured to me:
 "Why should be generous to this woman and make the sacrifice of my life for her when she despises me and would hurt me in every way in her power. l will not give him up!
 Wives should handle these affairs better. The wife who has given her life to her husband is the one in the right She deserves all the sym pathy she gets, but she should be more charitable The wife holds all the high cards but so often she plays them badly-all this because of lack of understanding.
 Perhaps some day women will be- come more kindly inclined to eaeh other. hope so.
 When Antonio came to me and told me to take the next train, in the heat of the moment I said that l was not coming al all, and that he "ouldh find me when he got back.
 He went and the next time he saw me I was coming cut of Raymont street jail, to my trial on a charge | of rum running.
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Nothing Ever Happens

In front of the bank he paused to look at shade tree whose lower leaves were badly eaten by caterpil- lars. The fuzzy pests were crawling along the twigs, so many of them that Johnny unlimbered the sprayer for a practice shot. He might as well make sure that the machine was ready for business.
 The caterpillars appeared so dis gusted that he gave them another volley. The breeze carried the fine spray against the side of closed car standing at the curb. The cour- teous Johnny hastened to wipe off the white spots with his handkerchief. The man behind the wheel swore and told him to go chase himself. Johnny resented his rudeness and advised him to seek torrid climate.
 Just then pistol shot was heard in the bank. then another. Out from the entrance, taking the stone steps in leap, came d burly figure Of d man, a small satchel in one hand. a pistol in the other. He charged straight for the closed car at the curb.
 Johnny Beal stood petrified. his mouth open, too scared to budge from the path of the outlaw. The pistol was jerked up to fire and clear the way, but Johnny was quicker. He Qlu nt [ mean to De. one finger nap pened to be on the nozzle valve of the sprayer. That finger frightened convultivelN. The nozzle was point ins straight ahead With plenty of air pressure behind it.
 The fleeing bank robher caught it full in the face, prepare poison. ar senate of lead, d dash of blue vitriol. and a rich seasoning of paris green. Blinded. he sWerved with his hands to his face and crashed into the maple tree. Falling to the pavement he groaned that he was dying just before Johnny Beal banged him over the head with the loaded sprayer.
 He fits the description of Three Fingered Jake Dorsey" said the chief of police after he had snapped the hand uffs on him. though that hells mixture in the sprayer surely did muss his mug up. There's S5000 re- ward out for Jake. dead or alive"
 "Oh, boy" blisSfully murmured Johnny Beal Watch me beat it back to the store. Some snappy town Ito live in, III tell the world"
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find him. he wasn't there"

find him, he wasn't there"
 l was mystified. I felt that sCme thing was wrong.
 After lunch Antonio called up his attorneys to tell him he was back, and learned that the Rippel had been captured off the coast of New York.
 Antonio didn't lose minute in get ting back to New York. We must have driven in at 60 miles an hour. Antonio immediately began to inYes tigate what had happened.
 He found cut iB the papers the next day that an indictment had been filed against him as the owner of the boat. Joe had bought the boat. and he had signed an affidavit that it was his boat Already the authorities were looking everywhere for An tonic for not appearing at his trial and forfeiting his bond. The second indictment made our affairs still uore dangerous. Antonio found oCt what had happened.
 Joe had believed that Antonio was going to prison, and he had thought to make some money for himself. He thought Antonio would be in prison by the time he get back to New York with the boat.
 When he found out in Nassau that he wasn't going to prison, Joe de- cided to bring the boat in and sell the liquor while Antonio was away. He wrote to Antonio to get him out eff New York when the beat docked. While he was away Joe had at tempted to make a landing. But he had had one difficulty after another.
 It was Joe's purpose not to sell the liquor to the men who had or dered it, but to sell 1t to some GUS toners of his own and make the money. While In harbor waiting an opportune time to get in, pirate crew came on board, took large number of cases and loaded them on their boat, as if they were buying them. Joe couldn't make them pay him first. When they got the liquor aboard their craft, the captain said to Joe:
 "If you try to dc anything to col- lect for this liquor I'll report you tc the authorities for being rum run ner and I will be out of sight and they cant do anything to me
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the loose ends of our case and it was time to start closing the jaws of our trap. Care had to be taken, now. ever. that the movement of the jaws as they closed aid not frighten away our suspects so that they would es- cape being crushed. Consequently we fell back on the old method of creating female strife.
 o O O
 The old Game.
 Although Greene had never in so many words promised to marry Mile. Brsson, he had led her to believe that after the war they would be married. (So sure of her conquest was Mile. Brisson that she had boasted of 1t to her other companions). Then sud- denly out of a clear sky and with out any apparent reason. Greene picked a quarrel with Mile. Brisson and devoted his attention tt Madam Boudin. Confiding to her that Mile. Brisson had no reason for saying that they were to be married, he quickly gained Madame Boudfnis good sraces. Greene was liiNable fellow and 1t was not long before he announced that at last he had the right girl for his wife and intended to marry her as SC on as possible The next day after this announmecent, Madame Boudir appeared with solitaire. Greene In order to make good his promise had been forced to purchase 1t for madame; of course. he expected to recover it when the Announcement came. but somehow Madame Boudin secreted it and we never got 1t back. Our expense accc unt for this case re- qured quite bit of explaining to the chief when he went over 1t and found an item which read: "One soil taire diamond ring 800 francs. .'.
 When Madame Boudin appeared with the solitaire the fun commenced. Consumed with rage and jealousy, Mile. Brssen lost her self-control en- tirely. Accusations and counter ac- cusations flew fast and furlously around the head of Greene and he soon had the complete story.
 Cruising along the French coast was a German submarine whose duty it was to pick up the information gathered by the various spies and take it direct to Germany. Receiving word of the expected arrival CT sail ing of a convoy, our trio signalled the news to the Belgian's house across the bay. and the Belgian, in turn, would pass it on to the Point; from there they would pass the news to some other submarine in the Vi cinity.
 If. however, they had what they classed as general information. they would signal in different manner and then the next day would go out in the boat and drop the message overheard in small bottle So weighted that it would sink. but hay ing a small float attached; this bot tie was always dropped in the same place.
 The supposed Belgian would then come out in his boat, pick up the
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This story might be entitled How Rum Runners Can Run" They are so schooled in their own self-confidence and ability to win cut in spite Of the odds against them that they rush ahead where angels fear to tread.
 They have won so many battles when they have been pitted against fate, the clements at sea, the law and the world in general, that they forget that there Is anything that can conquer them. They acquire what the psychoanalists might term the "Napoleonic complex" To the first-class runners, rum running IS a form of honorable banditry, of which history is so full--nCthing wicked about it.
 And good men like Antonio, don't get shocked, for the heroes in school books, memoirs and the present-day newspapers as we'll are full of such good men-will not be fCiled in love. They don't compromise their lives by settling down with woman they do not love. To such men love affair Is the supreme thing of their lives.
 Not many years ago the loss of the Irish cause was attributed to the fact that the Irish leader. Earned, loved Kitty O'Shea when he shouldn't. When it became publicly known that Mir. Parnel loved MrS. U SHed' MI Parnel fell from grace and history. Such men have loved whom they have loved from the beginning of time, and they have been loved in return. These are men who make life instead of accepting it. It is true that Tn many cases it has ruined them. l hope it doesn't ruin Antonio.
 Defiant Love in History
 You may smile at my comparison of Antonio with the great. We'll there are many men who are not known as great men but who have the dominant qualities of great men, and belong to that class.
 Andrew Jackson is an outstanding figure of defiant independence. Noth- ing stood between him and the battle he was winning and nothing nm dered him. when he found the woman he loved, from getting her. She was the wife of another man. He mar ried her and she was not accepted Tn Washington society. To show what he would do to people who did not
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accept her he caused member of his cabinet to resign on account of 1t.
 Many books have been devoted to the romance of Andrew Jackson and his Rachel. It is one of the most beautiful love stories in history
 The story of defiant love is an old one. And it is found in greater pro portion in the high places, among strong willed men and women who the mass of people who have been beaten by the struggle of life and happiness almost before they start.
 I wish I could be comfortable and accept life as it comes, but I cannot. Strong willed. defiant people pay the price-a heavy one-and they are sad people l am sad. Right now l look forward to-what? Antonio in prison-myself alone and unhappy? I haven't found out yet whether l am a crushed woman whose chances for living in this world are taken from me or not Sometimes I think l am sometimes I think I have fight ing chance But anyway, I love An tonic and I shall wait for him to get out of prison.
 In my last story, Antonio was elud- ing the authorities who had indicted him for rum running and we were Tn the Bahamas. We had seen Joe, Cas- sese's chauffeur Cn the street, much to my surprise. I remembered the boat I saw in New York, the ugly boat, before we left. Something was up-some plan. Antonio was fighting for his freedom and for what he con sidered his rights-the right to be free and to carry on his trade.
 For my part I fervently wished we had never heard of rum running. felt that the world was going tC crash about our heads. Later l found my munitions were good.
 O O O
 Life in the Bahamas
 I want to say something of the life that is lived in the Bahamas. l have read in the newspapers many exag- gtrated, fantastic stories of what goes on there.
 In the first place, I would never have been accepted in society there if it were known that l was not An tonic Cassese's wife.
 In the Bahamas, there are the col ored people, the rich people, and the
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the right one. It was occupied by man who claimed to be Belgian who, stranded in Paris by the war and unable to return to his home had finally come here to live, across the bay from Arcachon.
 If we were to keep clCse watch on the man we must place one of our own men under his roof By the time the United States had entered the war Frances secret service in the rear had been sadly depleted for duty at the front The French welcomed the new blood that we brought to such work and at all times co-oper- ated with us 100 per cent. It was simple matter, then, for us to have the French arrest the Beigian's cook on trumped up charge Of desertion and in his place install the man that we suggested.
 We were not obliged to wait very long for the confirmation that at least we were hot on the right trail our chap in the Belgian's house soon discovered that after the women fla shed the signals and the next day took their customary saii' the bei- gian alst' would go out on the bay in his power boat After every time that he went out on such trip he, that same night, would flash signals toward the point where there were more cottages.
 Speedily transferring our men "ho had been watching the cottages on tho opposite shore from Arcachon, we immediately set them to watch the houses at the point. One of the men discovered that one cottage, far re- moved from the others. was sending flashes out to sea at night. These flashes were sent on the even hour and began at 9 o'clock, then at 10, and so on until l o'clock, or until answered by red light flashing from the sea. During the next morn ing after such night Cf slgnaIllns. the man who lived In the isolated house would. while in swimming: mako his way out to ledge off shore. Climbing up on the rocks, he would apparently rest for some little time. then slowly swim back to the shore.
 Greene believed that his hand would be greatly strengthened with the women if he were arrested and then released So we arrested him on a trumped mp charge Of oVerstaylng his leave. With a great show or m dignation, Greene demanded his re- lease and of course we allowed hlm apparently to fool us This. as he thought. gave him added prestige in the eyes of the women. He confided 10 Mile. Brisson, the one to whom he was so devoted. that he intended tt remain where he was as long as pos sihIe. His parents were German born, so he said, and that. while he mad been forced either to take commlS- sion in the army or be drafted. he didn't intend to fight his own flesh and blood If by any means he could aovid 1t. .,u
 We now had gathered together all
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a stake somehow. What chance have got here? You tell me"
 Miss Edna ceased checking up a pile of monthly statements and gazed at the young adventurer with fond amusement. Then she powdered her pert nose and inquired:
 "Why the stake? You can take me cut and buy me one for supper if you like. Whats the hurry to get rich? You have good job for kid"
 "so I can marry you. Edna. Haven't told you that 30 times?'
 q am not fortune hunter. Johnny dear. You better hustle and earn q raise of salary. Heavens. but you are handsome boy when ycu look at me like that. Now run away or I'll do something rash.
 Listen. if I had a stake of 5000 would you marry me?s persisted the impa ssoned suitor.
 "No, for I'd drop dead in my tracks before you could be widower. For the love of Mike, shoo! l am poor working girl"
 As brutal anti-climax, the boss bawled from an alcove: "Drat you Johnny. What in time do l pay you for? You come get this sprayer and load it with bug poison. Then you trot around to pr. Merritt's house
 
 his pcrtater patch. He phoned tha, the mixture was no good and had the nerve to tell me his bugs got fat on it"
 "The old dumb bell don't know how to use sprayer," said Johnny Real "I watched him putterin' in his back yard All right, I'll show him how
 EXpertly Johnny measured proper dose of the prepared poison and dumped it into the two-gallon gal vanized spraying tank. Then it oc- cured to him to make it sure death and so avoid more trouble with the unpleasant Mir. Merritt. Sc he added at random, some arsenate of lead d dash of blue vitriol, and a rich sea soning Of paris green.
 That ought to put a orimp in 'em, said he as he poured the spraNer tWo- thirds full of water and vigorously shook it. He slunk it over his shoul- der by the strap and moved brisklY out of the store. As he walked along he piled the plunger to build up air pressure in the cylinder and get ready for action.
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So Joe had to stand the loss rather than get into a shooting that would end in discovery. The chauffeur was not strong enough to frightcn pi- rates.
 Then Joe arranged with certain revenue officers to let him unload his cargo of liquor for the custom . CTS he had succeeded in getting. IL was then planned-and this is the usual system of getting cargo into New YCrk-to have this particular revenue officer, who had let the boat in, searched by group of revenue officers. after the liquor had been taken off board.
 When the group of revenue officers came on board to search the ship they found 30 cases that had been hidden away by d member of the crew who had stolen them. So thieves stelc thieves and the boat was cap tured The crew was imprisoned and an indictment filed against Cassese. After this we had to do lot of i lodging. Antonio came to New York to live, and every night he took me home. He was not seen in Brook | 1yn at all.
 At one time I wanted to get a Brot klyn edition of a paper. They were all sold out in New York, so l started for Brooklyn.
 Antonio went with me as far as Brooklyn bridge and waited for me there I got off the subway at Bor- ough hall and right there l passed Antonios bondsman, but he didn't see me.
 Sometimes Antonio ran into some of the authorities who knew him, and l they would say:
 You had better get out of here quick"
 All men liked Antonio. He un derstood men. an dhis ma Gnetism at this time was almost a sort of insur- anCe.
 We decided to go to the Bahamas Antonio was eluding the police, and the revenue officers. With two in dictments over his head. he headed once more for Treasure 1sland.' was all packed to go.
 At the last minute his wife per suaded him to take different train
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ginia. There was not time for me to go with AntonioSso he took a couple of thousand dollars and went to Joe's aid.
 A week went by before Antonio returned l met him at the train and we went tG' an Italian place called Caruso's, up in Workers. When we had settled down seriously to lunch and business, Antonio said:
 Well, what do you make of this?'
 q spent $1,000 getting tug to go out and tow Joe in, and when got out to where he had told me to
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We watched them load the cargo. As we saw the Rippel depart slowly out to sea, had the same cid sink ing sensation of What will happen?' Our trip back to the Ambrasters' was rather silent.
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Q Q O The Second Indictment

The Second Indictment
 We took the next boat to Miami and went by rail to New York. We had been in New York three days when Antonio received a letter from Joe, written in Italian. Joe was hav- ng difficulty off the coast Of Yir-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-29
MAGIC OF HARDY NoRSEMEN
Believe That Charms Could Give
Preternatural Strength and
Protection.

Besides the priests, the Norsemen
had their soothsayers, and they also
believed that, by the power of the
runes, the dead could be made to
speak. The runes of the men were
called calder" and another kind of
magic practiced by women was called
"seid."
1t was thought that these wise wom-
en- possessed the power of raising or
allaying storms and of hardening the
body so that the sword could not cut
1t. Some of their charms were sup
posed to give preternatural strength,
others the power of crossing the sea
without the aid of a ship, of creating
and destroying love, of assuming diff
ferent forms, of becoming invisible, of
giving the "evil eye.''
Both men and women thus super
naturally endowed, it was believed,
could charm garments so as to protect
the wearer from injury. They could
set horses head on a stake. and
with certain imprecations throw havoc
into the camp of an enemy-Detroit
News.
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Order Of Merit.

Twenty-one years ago the Order of
Merit was founded by King Edward,
carrying with it the right to add
20. NJ" to recipients name. The
order is limited to "a members, ex-
elusive of foreign honorary members.
Military members include the Earl of
Ypres and Earl Haig, while among the
civil members are Lord Morley,
Thomas Hardy, Sir George Trevelyan
-all octogenarians Sir ]. NJ Barrie,
Lord Haldane, Lord Balfour and Mr..
Lloyd George. The ribbon is blue and
crimson.
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Suddenly Branks was aware of the
put, put, put of a motorcycle right
on his heels. 1t was so close and at
such an angle as to be invisible
through the rear window.
Branks suffered a sudden sinking
feeling in the pit of his stomach and
applied the brakes. He'd been fcol,
Why couldn't he have kept the car
under twenty-five? Here was a cop
now, and arose visions of fines or a
jail sentence.
The motorcycle drew alongside.
Timidly Branks glanced at the rider.
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Silent Admiration.

A clergyman with a large nose was
invited to tea with a woman who had
a laxative child, whom his mother
warned severely not to pass any rude
remarks during the meal.
The boys eyes were fixed on the
clergyman so long that the mother
frowned upon the child. whereupon he
shouted.
ITS all right, mother; I'm not go
ing to say anything. I'm only looking
at i'll"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-29
Giants Causeway

According to legend, the Giants
Causeway was the beginning of ROAD
to be constructed by giants, from re
land to Scotland. It projects from the
north coast of Antrim, Ireland, into
the north channel seven miles, II
consists of 10000 vertical, closely nj
ting columns OF basalt rock, varying
from Is to 10 inches, and is formed
into three sections, known as Little
Middle and Honeycomb CauseWay.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-29
The Millennium.

when" said the lecturer, earnestly,
when will we reach that happy state
of civilization? When will life again
be rich and full, and happy?"
'I know" shouted a voice in the
rear. "We'll get that way when socks
and collars and drinks are two for a
quarter. Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-29
DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN
Aspirin Marked With "Bayer Cross"
Has Been Proved Safe by Millions.

Warning Unless you see the name
'Bayer" on package or en- tablets you
are not getting the genuine Bayer
Aspirin proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians for % years.
Say 'sBayer" when you buy Aspirin.
limitations may prove dangerous.-Adv.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-29
The Answer.

A student annoyed his master by
asking foolish questions.
One day, after he had interrupted
the lecturer several times with irrele-
want remarks and questions, he asked:
"sir, how long can an animal live
without brains?"
swell" was the reply, II really
don't know, Mr.. F.. How old are
you?"
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pleased.

A man was walking down the street
one evening with friend and, paus-
ing to look up at the starry sky, re-
marked with enthusiasm:
''How bright Orion is tonight!'
$50 that is Organ, is it?" replied
Pat. swell, thank goodness there's
one Irishman in heaven, anyhow"