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p. Y FOUND A PARTNER ? ... j Clever Girt Gave Up Work ai Sleuth for Profession That Is Much Older. ViM (]rM'i<> FlftlliinilB wm two year* old. Mies Gracie.; was Monographer and typist for the firm of K. A K., and was so smart that he earned $14 a week. She was receiving $10 when it was discovered that some employe was carrying goods out of the store. Tha detective from headquarters spent a week and did not get a clew. "Here is where I get a raise to $1?," said Miss Gracie to herself; and she shoved hack from her machine and wandered about for half an hour and then said to K. & K.: Tour assistant bookkeeper has just gone out to lunch. "He goes out every day at this hour," was the calm reply. "And the missing goods go with hrm." "Whatl You can't mean it!" Tome with me! I know where he feeds at this hour.** She led K. A K. to a ouick-lnnch room three miles away, and they walked in upon the assistant just as he had ordered his usual spring chicken. ""Has the firm failed?" he asked as he looked from one to the other. "No, but you have!" replied the smart girl with a little giggle of triumph. "Hand over quietly and you may not get over twenty-five years in the jug!" The yonng man, who was the sole support of a widowed mother and six fatherless sisters, and who firmly believed that the moving-pieturp ? shows were filling the jails to overflowing, smiled a gladsome smile and began to hand over bolts of silk, yards and dozens of real pearl hutA i.*l L- 1 3 J li 3 1 iwb, uqui ne nan uepraitra eiwugn on the table to stock a department tore in the Bronx. When the thief had been tucked away in a nice little cell in prison Miaa Grade waa told by the firm : "For your smartness you now get $12 per." -Thanka" "And during your spare time you can watch others." Miaa Grade Hollands stuck to her veal duties, but she imbibed the idea that she was a bom detective. She began to look at all men and women aa suspicious characters. Even when a young man tried to flirt with her on the streetcar her detective intuition was so strong that she almost laid a hand on his shoulder as she hissed at him: -You are a aafa blower, and I know it, and you make your hike or 111 run you ra!" He was a minister's son and a > salesman in a large jewelry bouse, - and had just organised a Bible claaa, but he made his hike just the same. When Miss Grade began her professional career ahe went to board with Mammy Jones. It was a hall % * * * ? . ? oca room ana a starvation table, but as the salary went up things improved. When it reached $10 a week Miss Gracie took the best front room and became the s+ar boarder. 'She did not leave when the salary - became $14. Strangers came and went. It suddenly occurred to the stenographer that she was most favorably situated to continue her detective work and she went right at it. One evening when an old-clothee man called to me if she had any second-hand garments to sell, the won! villain stood out so plainly on his forehead that the girl laid a hand on him and aid '4 "Ketribntion ha* overtaken you at last!" "Vhat iah dot?" wm asked. "Your crime ha* found you out!" **I lick my wife ten year* ago, bnt he don't go by der police." Other callers were put through their pare*, but none of them vras frightened into confessing murder or bomb explosion. The day muat come, however, and it did came. It came three day* after a little incident on the street. A bareheaded young man with a pencil behind his ear, and who seemed to be a clerk in a store, accosted Miaa Oracle at a corner and ashed if she ooold give .him a $10 hill for fire tma. It was her aalftry day and she was carrying home, her $14. Why caot oblige the clerk? The HO was p?ad over for the two's, and it ?mod to the girl that she was beginning to be of soma importance . aa a capitalist. Tto oobbtor took $0 easts far pairing a pair of shoes; a lunch at | a restauran t was 3ft cents; a bit of 1 cheap jewelry that happened to please was 7ft cents. In each, case ane of . the two-dollar bills was handed oat The other two went into her board money, and Mammy Jones passed them along to the grocer and butcher. And then there was the arrival of the strange man. He took a back room upstairs without- board. He was well dressed, but he had a sly look. In looks and talk he was not the average roomer for that quarter ?he was above them. He had plenty of money and paid a week in advance, besides assuring Mammy that be didn't play on a flute or an accordeon. and he was given the room. It was two days before the detectress caught sight of him, and then site aai<l to.the landlady: % "Your Mr. Bennett is a crook !" "My stars!" "He's a confidence man or a wire* tapper!" "Then hell mb and murder us!" No, he Won't!" replied Miw Grade, in a firm voice. "Am I not here? Isn't it a part of my profession to run down crooks?" "Bnt the police?" "Not a won! to them?not a hint! When I have -got this man in my toils Til communicate with police headquarters. Ill shadow him and have a line on him within three day*. You must not amy or do any* thing to frighten the bird away." The Rtranger seemed to slink out and in. He asked no questions of anybody, and if he gave any of the people in the house more than a passing glance it was the stenographer. Each evening for three successive evenings she found him in her hall when she came up from her dinner. She had taken the precaution to lock her door and had not doubt that he hod tried it. "Ah, ha, hut I'll set a snare for the bird!" she exclaimed to herself. It didn't take two minutes to invent the snare. When she went down to dinner the nnt evening ahe left -her door unlocked. When the meal was half over she rose from the table and tiptoed upstairs. Mr. Bennett wasn't visible, but site passed along and opened her door with a bang. Mr. j Bennett was on his knees before her open trunk. Three yells into the hall of "Help! Murder! Police!" and then she grabbed the crook. The room filled with boarders in a moment, but Mr. Bennett didn't seem very mum embarrassed about it "I caught him going through my trunk!*' explained Miss Gracie. "Yea." he oalmly replied. v "Then you are a aneak thief, and we'll hold *you until the police come!" mud one of the valiant actor*. "Not quite a aneak thief," smiled Mr. Hvimeth "Thia badge will show , you that I belong to the governI roent secret aervice." ! "He's a .crook, I tell you t" abot back Miss Gracie. "I was in my line of duty looking after counterfeit money or plates f "Counterfeit money 1" gasped all in the room. "J net so. It'a np to you, Mies Hollands, to do some explaining." "Why doesn't somebody telephone !" she demanded. "Because no one wants to see yon locked up!" replied Mr. Bennett. 'Will you kindly tell me whers you got those fire $2 bills you handed oat the other day?" ; "Why?why?" "Every one of them was a coon trrfeit. I ramp here looking for a plant, I did not want to aak for a warrant foT you, Miss Hollands, until sure of my case." , The next half-hour was as full of explanations as a chestnut is full of life. The police were not called in on the one hand, and on the other it was tearfully admitted that Mr. Bennett was not a crook. The next day he had the good luck to capture the man he wanted, and it was only natural that he should come around to the house to make his report. Then he -called i again to a?k mi? wracie's forgiven??a, and again with some other excuse, and finally the cheeky man got into the habit of calling without making any excuse at all. It war during one at these calls.that he suggested that Miac Gracie.give up. the detective business. She promised to. and then he suggested that ah* give up K. & K. She also promised that, and when Mammy Jones heard f it she exelaimed: "Who ever heard of the likes! Isn't it funny how some girls get husbands T 'Boston Qlabt. 'A ' ' . I < . ' t ESKIMOS > PRIMITIVE RACE N?UVM ThMfht fapkfw AmerJIMI Had DrsppH Among Tfiam From tha Moon. The "North Pole natives" alluded to by Captain Amundsen in a recent lectnre irere discovered by him-while he was navigating his little craft, the Qjoa, through the Northweat passage in 1903-7. He christened them "Nechilli," and considered them to be the most' primitive race on earth. No white man had ever before invaded their icy fastnesses. Consequently, they were ignorant of the use of iron. Their fishing implements were long spears, fashioned out of reindeer horn. They knew no other method of procuring fire than that of rubbing two piecea of wood together. They were, in. short, still in the stage of civilisation reached by our ancestors of the stone age. So cut off were they from' others of their kind that they imagined their tribe was the only one in the world, and displayed the utmost sstonishment when told of populous countries far to the south, where neither ice nor snow was. The Ojoa and her crew they thought to have dropped from the moon, and the first Nechilli to come aboard felt the 4rck, masts, boats, oars, all the while whispering to one another in amassment: "How much wood there is In the moon?how very much V* . t GOING SOME "Alice is a splendid chauffeur." "Is she? How fast does she go?" "Oh, fifty smiles an hourJ" FLICS FOR FI8HINO. Mr. Volker was very fond of tront fishing, and each year tried to hare at least a week of good sport. The day before he was to start on his long looked for vacation his wifa, smiling joyously, entered the roam, extending toward her husband some sticky, speckled papers. "For goodness' sake, Laura," he exclaimed, "what on earth are you doing with those old fly papers?" "Why, I saved them for you from last summer, Jeff," she replied. "You know you said you always had to buy lies when you went fishing." BASEBALL TALK IN 1MB. "Do you know that back in 1918 a pitcher would sometimec pitch a whole game?" | "So tradition eayi," asserted the other manager. "Well, they worked , their pitchers too hard in those days. Now I never let a pitcher go over three innings."?Kansas City Jour:naL i HEARD IT SPLASH. The most popular feature of the menu for dinner had been soup, of I which the little girl had partaken heartily. "Dear me," she sighed, ss she went on with other things, "I've eaten so much soup that every time 1 swallow s piece of bread I can hear it splash." HAVE YOU MET ORIQQST "Does Griggs respect the rights of others ?" "Yes, so far as he will concede mat they hare any rights." PERMANENT UNION. Knicker?The Atlantic and Pacific are wedded. Bocker?And neither of them can : possibly go to Reno. HIS SPECIALTY. "My lawyer friend prefers cats tc dogs a* pets." "It is natural for lawyers to prw far anything m the fee-line species.* THE RULINQ PASSION. "How can the women run aftsi Smith so? He is a marked man." "1 suppose, then, they thought hfl was marked down." - ? . ? . ' / IALKSD ON DMOWNINO. ! A youthful stoker, according to an "English paper, waa brought before Ids commanding officer charged with insubordination. Ha had refused to enter the swimming bath. When ashed what he had to say for himself I the youth gave good reason for his 1 seaming misconduct. "Sir, I've only been in the navy three days, The first day the doctor drawed six of my teeth, the second I was vaccinated, and the third day | the petty officer, be says: 'Come ' akmg; we're go in' ter drown yer.' So I balked I" THE SOMNAMBULIST. Mn Exe?My husband walks in hit sleep. Mrs. Wye?I wish I could get mine-to. His daily work is so confining the poor fellow gets hardly a bit ?f exercise. _ USED CHEESE FOR SOAR. She walked in and banged a hunk * ?f yellow Substanoe on the counter. ; "This," she announced, Mis the soap ?that does the wash in' itself. It's the ; <eoap that makes washing a pleasure; 1 if a the soap that?" "That ain't soap, ma'am," interrupted the grocer as he took the substance in hand and examined it. j "Your little girl was here yesterday for half a pound of cheese and half a pound of soap. That's the cheese." j "The cheese!" exclaimed the woman. "Then that accounts for the other thing." "What other thing?" "Whv. I lav awake tha whnla TiJtrVit "wondering what: made the Welsh rabbit we had taste so queer." "OBJECT MATRIMONY." ' Toung woman of ancient lineage, beautiful aa Helen, prudent as Peneli ope, economical as the Electress Soi phia of Brandenburg, witty as Mme. de Stael, austere as Lucretia, charitable aa St. Elizabeth of Hungary, deToted aa Florence Nightingale, loving aa Virginie, with the voice of an angel, an artistic soul and possessed *ef a splendid fortune, desires correspondence with a view to matrimony. ! = 1 i rfe V Pail i * ' '?: ,l * I , you can do i It's easy to g varnish-gloss f colors. Ai CA is made espec and vehicles of finic h th O f* UM s J i< 1U1 1 tliu L Tf 1, ideal finish for Massej \ > t feMB?:?U:4fl&ws ifc A i la^L1.^ V PLEA MADE FOR CLASSICS Valuable Lessons Are Learned In Contemplation of' Ancient Literature. I advocate the classics because they constitute a retreat in which the spirit may commune with the high . thoughts of the past. Modern liters iUIU ID IIllAICI U J It WUIXIUD I lOCll with actual life, with our distractions, our trivialties, our romance, our getting on in the world, with all onr coarser appetites; but in the remote classics, in that cool, tranquil, distant world, we can surrender ourselves to contemplation, to meditation, to the high influences that always stoop to the soul's call. This remoteness of the classics affects me as my remembrance of gracious figures in my childhood, says a writer in the Atlantic. The people there seem to have a nobler aspect, a more goodly presence, larger sympathies, a wiser and a kinder attitude. We do not apply the lessons we learned from them directly to life, but we know that somehow the most valuable lessons in our lives come from them. We cannot say just what we learned, but we possess a memory of , quietness, or ripeness, of wisdom, of qualities that lie near the center of nie, ana we feel that to them is due whatever gain we have made in grace and moral stature. Greek literature haa a like effect upon us. Tom?What do you think oi Scribbler's latest book? I Dick?I'd just as lief read the citj ' j directory. at "Your ( Carriage t yourself and at ive it a beautiful, inish in black or i :ME QUALL lRRIAGE PAINT (N. lillv nrit^p frv I Ull J LV/ ^1?V LW Ut "all kinds, a tough. II look well and settees, flower star ure, garden tools hat must withstar lard usage. Rea< ind the label tells r's Drug ) rr'rtit I HAY CAPS FOR ALFALFA ~ Alfalfa should be raked and either put In the barn or if it la not sufficientlr drv. nut into bar cocks. It la a mat ter of economy to have two or three hundred hay caps (made of six-cent > cloth one yard square) to nse in case of bad weather. You may think this is considerable bother, bat poor alfalfa is poor stuff, and when we remember that good alfalfa brings as In actual results nearly as great returns as wheat bran, we can better realise the importance of taking care of It. If any of us had 500 "hay cocks of bran" In the field, we would take care of them, but with alfalfa we think of It as "Just hay." These cloths may hare wooden pegs , or some sort of weights attached to each corner to hold them in place; the pegs can be pushed into the hay to hold the corners fast. Hay caps will ' soon pay for themselves in finer quality of hay guaranteed .by their use. A DANGER. [ "Do you believe in corporal pun? ishment?" asked the teacher. "No," replied the parent. "It's i liable to make & boy ao anxious to square accounts aome day that he'll neglect hia studies in order to spend time in the gymnasium." HELPING THE MAGAZINE. "A very thoughtful poet," said the editor. "As to how?" "Always sends me back my rejection slips to use on him again." INEVITABLE. "The young fellow you see yonder is a coming man." "Indeed ! Who is he?" "The rent collector." * WORSE STILL. ? "That horrid woman has broken up my home!" t "Taken away your husband?" "No. the cook." , A ' '? -.' -v ? )wn . 4 : little expense. hard, brilliant, rich appropriate ' : J.,. ':: -. / ty ;al's) lggies, carriages , durable, glossy wear well. An irlc rvArok 1 J. f W 1 V^li IU1 inand all surfaces id exposure and dy to brush on how. Store.