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INSTALLMENT XIV.
Charm.

~ ELLA would have liked to set
out on the morrow ana wan
der over the whole world as
~ he had suggested. Surely
that was charm-the thing
that had worked such an amazing
change in her. and so swiftly :.
Charm of which charmingness
is the very poorest relation.
She slipped suddenly from bed. and
went over to her writing table on
which was d small edition OF Stor'
wolfskin before the fire. she tiuttered
the pages quickly, reading by fire.
light.
e. Charles's-Wain char
lock charm - She muir.
INJURED over the definitions as she read
them.
Charm . anything supposed
TO possess u magic power or spell,
that which can subdue or delight
to exercise irresistible power
over; TO please or delight greatly; to
yield exquisite pleasure to mind or
senses: to fortify against evil =. -
She went back to bed and lay smil-
ing again at the creamy lady with
her unicorn. Yes. that was what
Padraic O'Shea had-charm. And the
cNli ne WOulu AoItliS AicI d5dAASt was
boredom.
For Celia had come to the conclu-
sion that the smoke in her chamber
Of life rose from boredom.
It would have been different. she
now reflected. If Hilary had needed
her. say as he needed his eyes; but
he only needed her as he needed his
eyebrows, which were not essential,
merely becoming, The patness of this
idea amused her, but she was quite
unaware Of it's bitterness.
Think Just think what It
would be If there were no conven-
TONS
IIilary's eyes were densely black
like his hair. Very kind-very soft
but very inward looking. She
couldn't imagine a light leaping into
them when they were not fixed
on the beauty of some work of art.
they were fixed on his thoughts about
art =. You are at heart a
wandered. as i am - I'VE two
over the wide world {.
wanderer comrades . :"
No sooner had she at last fallen
asleep than she found herself under
a hedge-row with Padraic O'Shea
a loaf of black bread and
honeycomb lay on a red kerchief be-
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boot. Nothing irritated him more
now than to see in u newspaper the
picture of some famous man or in
famous monarch with his foot on the
head of q slain beast.
Yet on this Sunday morning, when
his anxiety about Celia had nageed
him out of his chair and muddled
two important pages, he almost
wished that he hadn't lost his taste
for such sport. What relief it
would be to chuck all responsibilities
and set out for some wild country
where he would have to use his body
as well as his brain for the mere priv
ilege of living.
Up and down his library. for lack
of wider space, Hilary went striding.
1t had come ever him with horrid
suddenness that he was utterly sick
Of the book at which he had worked
with such Zest for so many years.
Even its title sickened him-"The Art
Of the Middle Ages"
He decided to cut work for that
morning, call up Maestro Giannini at
his lodgings and ask him to come for
10 minutes saber practice and a bout.
"'phe Art Of Middle Age is what
I'd better get TO work on" he Growled
as he unlocked the receiver. To
Maestro Giannini's Isl, 81. signore,
Con motto piacere." he responded in
Il hearty "Benone"' Then went up
to the long gallery to put on his
fencing clothes.
This gallery was u paneled room
at the top Of the house where Hilary
kept odds and ends Of earlier days
heads OF beasts, skins Of beasts, q fine
collection of swords and daggers OF
different periods. Among these hung
his fencing saber and mask. His
white canvas jerkin and trousers
were in a cupboard at one end with
his ttin-soled fencing shoes. He kept
another outfit at the Sala Ill Schema,
but when he had no time to go there
Maestro Giannini came to him in off
hours.
Copyright. 1926. by Amelie Rives)
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at once they were in u great desert.
swimming through the ribbed sands
as through ripples OF water. and
Padralc was saying:
Yes, this is the great secrets
And these words gave her such an in
describable shock Of joy that she
awakened to find Donovan standing
at the bedside with her breakIst
tray and the sound of running water
coming from her bathroom.
That's what made me dream of
swimming" she thought drowsily.
but an ineXplicable sensation Of
sheer joy remained with her all day
long.
Padrais, too. did not go 10 bed till
very late the night that he had talked
with Celia. He had made a discov.
cry. and discovery especially of a
rare or fascinating woman always put
him in a creative mood 1t was n
great pity that she didn't understand
music. Padrais felt deeply aggrieved,
even irritated, not with Celia but with
the hooking powers that had given
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Constipation!
How to Keep
Bowels Regular

To Dr.. w. 3. Caldwell, Of Mont.
cello. IT,, a practieing physician for
AZ years, it seemed cruel that SO
many constipated men, women. chill
dren, and particularly old folks. had
to be kept constantly "stirred up
While he knew that constipation
was the cause Of nearly all head
aches, biliousness, indigestion and
stomach misery. he did not believe
that a sickening purge" or "physic'
was necessary.
In Dr.. Caldweii's Syrup Pepsin he
discovered q laxative which helps to
establish natural bowel Regularity"
even for those chemically consti.
pated. Or. Caldweil's Syrup Pepsin
not only causes gentle, easy bowel
movement but, best of all. il never
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MRS, FERGUSON WANTS
PROOF IN RUM REWARD
Must Have Evidence That Vio-
lators Have 5000 Before Pay
ing $500 for Conviction.

By the Associated Press.
AUSTIN, Tex, March 1o.-Before
Gov. Miriam a. Ferguson pays re-
ward of $500 for the conviction Of
Texas liquor law violator worth more
than 5000, she must have good proof
Of the financial status Of the person
convicted.
Mrs. Ferguson made this clear to-
day when informed that G. Z. Harri-
son. a Federal prohibition agent at
San Antonio, would apply for the re-
ward in the case Of a farmer who was
fined 5000 in Federal court and whose
tax ae''o" men elbows him to be
wort.I * :, y u43ic than $1,000. Har-
risVn >;.:c-:cd that he was for
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SYNOPSIS.


Celia Gibbs is left an orphan by the death
OF Oh per father who beqNeaths her to ne care are
friends friends! >, Eilary's sister. Laura Eyersha ham
taking her into her home to live. I've years ;r
turhed AS to what TO do about Celia:
young Knssien sculptor proposes to her but
ton. proposes 70 her himself. IN order that
overhears some gossip about herself ar, and her
time that her father had left her penn,les,s =.
burg Of the sieburg Theater, who agrees to
gives up her lob the day before Hilary is due
back in the country She tells ,, him !. OF Gaefr
amused Ivy it, Celia becomes restless ~ the
inactivity, of the life she leads in Hiiarys
house. She meets q young musician. Padralc
o Shea. who is greatly attracted to her.
Continued from Yesterdays Star)
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WCAP. The quar-
tet, composed OF
Bernard Spille,
first tenor; ]. l..
Mitchell. second
tenor: Howard =.
Bailey. baritone.
and j. +. Shick,
bass. is scheduled
10 appear before
the nlicrophone
from 7:l5 to 7:35
o'clock. Il. Dea n
Shure, director of
IN u ic at the
church will be the
accompanies.
Queer Quirks
OF Nature" will he
s1aSr,-ihnl Inv ID -
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Plant Yields Soap.

Should the present supply Of raw
materials from which soap is manufac-
tured be cut off, the world would not
have to go dirty for lack of soap. The
soap wort plant found in many hedge
rows, produces a Shiny juice that
makes lather Immediately it is mixed
with warm water 1t has cleansing
properties also and fabrics suffer no
deterioration when washed in it. Gyp.
sizes and the peasants of Italy, Spain
and France use the soap wort plant
for washing clothes.
Twelve million Americans attended
The Is circuses exhibiting last year.
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TONSILINE so, ri Hsi Mssi S:a.a,
INCR0WN NAIL
Turns Right Out Itself

A few drops OF "Outgro' i'll tho
crevicc OF the ingrowing nail re
duces inflammation and pain and So
toughens the tender. sensitive skin
underneath the toe nail that it can
not penetrate the flesh, and the nal
turns naturally outward Amos
overnight.
"Outgro" is a harmless antiseptic
manufactured for chiropolists. How
ever, any one can buy from the drug
store tiny bottle containing direc
tions.
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Eidsdale, editor of Nature Magazine.
Just preceding the quartet'S program.
The talk will be given under the
auspices of the American Nature AS
ISOLATION, which has arranged a series
OF hroadcaStS on nature subjects.
Charles w. Darr to Speak.
Charles w Darr vice president Of
the Washington Chamber of Com
merce will give the final talk on his
series on matters of interest to the
National Capital. The talk tonight
viii be on Public Utilities"
WCAP will connect with WEAF' in
New York for its closing attractions
the weekly concert OF the A. & 7.
Gypsies and tabloid version of the
opera. The Bohemian Girl" by the
NEAF Grand Opera Co.
Music Recital at 5 O'Clock.
In the category of recitalS WCAP
has billed Phyllis Price, soprano. and
Miss Louise Lenore Jones. concert
pianist Miss Price will sing at s
O'Clock and Miss Jones will give her
recital at $50.
Ethel c. Ciglatzki. soprano. and
George f. Ross. pianist. will provide
the musical setting for WRC's after
noon program Dorothy Townsend will
conduct the 'Housekeeper's Half
lIour." and Mrs. Nina Reed will dis
tuss Things Talked About"
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gripes, sIckens. or upsets tire syS-
tenn. Besides, it is absolutely harm
less. and SO pleasant that even a
cross, feverish. bilious. sick child
gladly takes it:
Buy a large 60-cent bottle at any
store that sells medicine and Just see
for yourself.
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The Adopted Wife
By AmeLie RiDes
lrsiseess TroubetzkeyJ

tween them And he cut them
with q big knife. flashing his white
smile at her When she tried to eat
them, however, they had no taste, and
suddenly the bees came buzzing in a
swarm about the honey But
no, it was Padraic's violin He
was flddling for pennies Hun
dreds, thousands, Of bright coins came
spinning about them Then all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-15

warding documentary evidence to the
governor to support his claim.
Although several persons have re.
ported obtaining convictions Of
wealthy violators Of the prohibition
law, none followed up with proof. so
no rewards have been paid. Gov. Fer
guson said.
The reward has been standing more
than three months. In offering it
Mrs. Ferguson declared that viola
ton OF the law by wealthy persons
was winked at. while poor persons
were being prosecuted.
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OF the $50 films passed upon and
for showing In Finland last
wear. 339 were of American origin.
OF the entire number only five films
were rejected by the censors. After
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American films those made by Fin
land, France and Sweden followed in
popularity.
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Church QUARTET
ON WCAP TONIGHT
Editor to Speak on "Queer
QuirkS of Nature"-MuSic
TO Be Featured.

The male quartet of the Mount
Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church
South will sing tonight as one of the
features of the program of station
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Music Recital at 8 O'Clock.
LocalRadio Entertainment
Monday, March Is, 1926.

NAi-NavaI Radio Station, Radio, Va.
1915 Meters).
3:45 pm.-Weather Bureau reports.
9:55 p.m.-Time signals.
1905 p.m.-Weather Bureau reports.
WRHF-Washingto Radio Hospital
Fund Committee (2j6 Meters.
Temporarily discontinued.
WMAL-Washingto Radio Forum
t212.6 Metersl.
Silent.
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Early Program Tomorrow.

1855 am.--Arlington time signals.
12 noon-Organ recital, broadcast
from the Homer l.. Kit studio.
p.m.--Irving Boernstein'S Hotel
Washington Orchestra. broadcast from
the Hotel Washington.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Radio Hospita
WRC-Radio Corporation of America
1855 MeterSl.

m.-"Housekeepers' Half Hour
by Dorothy Townsend, under the aus
pieces OF the Department OF Agricul.
ture.
5I5 p.m.-Ethel c. Ziglatzki, So
prano; Wilmer Bartholomew at the
piano.
$50 p.m.-George +. Ross, pianist.
$40 pm.-'Things Talked About,
by Mrs Nina Reed.
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Tourists are swarming into India:
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Stop Guessing

You need not guess what Tonsiline
contains. We print the ingredients on
every bottle. They are known to be
reliable for the treatment of infiamed
conditions of the threats and mouths
of children and adults and have been
favorites in tho prescriptions of ply
sicians for ANY years. Over -
thirty years use proves Tom k
slime is the perfect combine
ton of these valuable drugs. ID
Don't accept a substitute. IA
Insist on the bottle with the
long necked fellow on it. "a
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~ ELLA would have liked to set
out on the morrow and wan
der over the whole world as
~ he had suggested. Surely
that was charm-the thing
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Finland Likes U. S. Movies.

Continued tomorrow. J
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31

"'Oh, he goes back into quod,' said TIE
stranger, and in time he probably shut
files off The relatives can hardly wait,
for the poor crazy devils got money
A sigh went round the group. Then
Jack spoke up. We'll, mister, he said,
you were dreaming. Sorry you can't find
your man.
'And the man was hidden, all the time,
in the wall panel behind where Peg Leg
sat. In time the stranger went. And
many night followed after, in which the
poor devil Spoons suffered the torture Of
his conscience for murder he never did.
"We weren't always as hard boiled as
our eputations-there at Jacks. And
some of the crowd there felt they had
done Spoons great favor, perhaps at the
loss of a reward to themselves, by keep
ing still that night 1t seemed too much
like giving up pal to the police. But as
for me, I've often wondered if it wouldn't
have been easier for poor Spoons had the
panel stuck that night and the stranger
got him in time and taken him back to
Chicago.
''To be sure, they came and they went
at Jacks-lesser ladies of the evening,
the gangster, the dopester and the limou-
sine madames from the handsome houses
on Park avenue. out stunning with their
men.
But now no more For the last drink
was passed out and the last song sung that
night when Peg Leg and his crew proved
all over again the truth or that old verse
about death and the wages of sin. He
found death there, when the lights were
snapped off and the music had died and
the terror fell on us all, there in the cabs-
ret room at Jack Stickem's, which is close
now forever"
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your share where it belongs and if you
don't
"Peg Leg smiled. And Peg Legs smile is
not pleasant. My gentleman friend told me
the rest, for he heard all the details. The
deal came off all right that night, and by
four in the morning, Marcko's pals had
shared up evenly with him. And by six
he had taken his to his mother, just as
Peg Leg had ordered
"Now and then thered be little grim
humor, there in the back room where they
dance. And sometimes the light of love
blooms on a knife slashed face, and all
present feel the glow, for a moment. Or
again, sometimes they all smile. Which
happened when Hans, the Bully, stood up
one night at Jacks and took off his
sailors blue jacket and barred his arms to
the elbows, displaying the red blonde hairs
of his forearms, and shook his great fists
and threatened.
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people were, though we all were sure he
came from fine folks. And, after he'd been
coming to Jacks for some time he'd
always choose the seat by the panel in
the wall which gave into snug hiding
place, and always-always, he'd jump
whenever anybody entered the cabaret
room. And sometimes when he would
tell of his murder over again some ner
vouS girl would urge her sweetheart
'ch, throw him the price of his snow and
let him forget! We all pitied Spoons.
''Well, one night as Spoons sat in his
place beside the panel, tall, square
shouldered man, with broad-toed boots
came in. He was, so to speak, New
man and no ladies. So soon as he took
his seat he looked at Spoons, faint MEM
DRY stirring. But the big stranger was
not quite himself and needed time to aid
his recollection. Still, when the big man
looked, Spoons trembled. And the next
moment the lights went out in the back
room at Jack Stickem'S cabaret. And
when they came up again, and the strang-
er got up with plunge toward the table
where Spoons had sat, Spoons was not
there any longer, but Peg Leg Lonergan.
He looked straight at the stranger, who
grasped his head.
"I could have sworn he began.
"Let's have it, said Peg Leg. What
could you have sworn
THAT a chap was sitting there who
imagines he did murder. He's million
aire from Chicago, escaped from private
santarium, and when find him I'll get
five thousand dollars reward
'All eyes at Jacks cleaned brightly.
"'Well,' somebody asked, what hap
pens to the man?
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Sailor Hans and His Girl.

"Hans came from Norway, where blue
eyed men grow large and blonde and bass
voiced, and grow the well known Nor
wegian crouch. As lad, he came ashore
to some such place as Jacks, and the
cabaret girl and the man behind the bar
would have their usual quarrel as to who
could get the most of the thirty dollars
which Hans brought off the ship in his
pocket. Thirty dollars-his months pay.
"But later Hans learned their tricks.
And how much either of them loved him:
He had left his ship and was captain of a
fast little affair which ran into remote
Long Island coves at night, its lights
darkened. Hans made money-and saved
it. Later he married wife, decent
little brown eyed girl not long from
Sweden. The mystery of it was why Hans
came to Jacks after his marriage. May
be he knew of no other place where he'd
feel at home amidst music and bright
lights; and as for his brides maybe he
figured her utter innocence was her strong
protection. And that she'd find fun at
Jacks in the cabaret, never realizing the
undercurrent. On the surface at Jacks,
things are mostly fairly conventional.
Now Hans, the young sailor, had been
a lamb to be sheered, but Hans the Bully,
who saved his money mysteriously made,
was no lamb. The slim, short, sleek hair
ed Italians, with the coats that nipped in
at the waist knew the roar and the Drawn
of him, and even in their drink they left
Hans alone. Also, they let his young wife
alone, though every dark face of them
and every oily eye admired the brown of
the girls hair and the dimple of her fresh
cheek and would have asked her to dance,
had she been wife to any man but Hans
the Bully.
$50 things went on. Night after night
Hans came, with his bride. Night after
night her little toes tapped off the music,
as the sorry piano ground out its jazz.
Night after night her eye lit for the one
step and the fox trot, but no man ever
led her out. No, was she not the property
the great, blond Hans, and he was not
the bully?
"Once, during this time, Hans danced
with his wife himself, but they never tried
again. He tramped all over her little toes
till he led her back to their table, in tears
for the pain of his heavy tread. OF course
Hans was sorry, but that hardly helped.
"And then, one night, came the slum-
mer again, ladies and gentlemen from the
world of Fifth and Park Avenue Two
Gmousines gave up four ladies in frothy
evening clothes and four gentlemen in fur
collared evening coats and silk hats. Dress
clothes always impress folks at Jacks, par
ticularly when the visitors wear black
shoes to go with their evening attire.
Then, at Jacks, we are sure the swells are
genuine, if their shoes are black, and not
brown. Well, that night, the ladies looked
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bath, clean clothes, 20 to church, decent
married woman, my wife, good as any
body-sight better. What's matter no
body dance with my wife?
"'Now you gotta dance with my wife,
you all gotta dance with my wife or
break everybody's back Pretty soon
look out, l bane think get mad
at wasn't necessary. The gentleman
with the monocle led her out first and
then every other man in the place. The
bully's wife never lacked partners after
that.
'But there used to be souls in torture
who came to Jacks for respite; respite
which they hardly found. Like the chap
from Chicago.
"Spoons came from Chicago, and his
weakness. when we knew him at Jacks,
was dope. When he was completely
under the influence of his SNOW Spoons
was a quiet, likeable fellow. Before he
shifted his stuff, he was quiet enough,
too, though glum and gloomy. But when
he was halfway into his drug, Spoons was
a nuisance And often the money he had
would buy only enough to put him half
under and poor Spoons would sit between
his right mind and his doped mind for
getting and rehearse in agony a murder
he said he'd done, or he was afraid he
had done, or he hoped to the Lord he
really had not done in Chicago.
"I never had a gun in all my life,'
poor Spoons would explain, and yet.
when came to, he sat there opposite me,
dead and toppled over. And the pistol
was smoking in my hand
"Then the tears passed down the poor
fellows face as he suffered the agony of
a remorseful mind. But Spoons would
never say who he really was, nor who his
craat Rriialn Rirhts Rasrrrnd
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ty-just ten minutes from
the time which Tweezers
had fixed for ending it
all, for H oppy. But
TweeZers was watching.
He never had a way with
lovely ladies himself. He
could only admire at a
distance her rings and her
pearl necklace and the
broochy sort of affair
that CLEANED in her gown.
Insane, these limousine
ladies, when they wear
real jewels to these places.
Then all at once, just five
minutes before it was time
for Tweezers to blaze
away, he got sensible
and practical and sent
Hoppy a message to meet