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SA ERXXe-Continued. ughperhaps he bad written does not know that I to::New York." -Le.WO. course. Um-um! By thini the colonel is a cork the most amiable thorough I've:ee come across. Ripping. re'ner said anything to me about car atipath toward him, but I can 1rh-talf an eye that he is terribly about it. Can't you get to some wayon r. Wrandall, you are en im ion to a point must fail you," :p ftelvy. Booth could - aLchu1ckle. ~omginS on my part," ith onitton; falling ut obvious ' "I-sup liels ioming over Reziseks or so. -We be OOd friends before we Mou should hear him d's will! The I couldn't take it does E~ tiUi and all that pknow oing up'like ai0:1 n and bemting In-plain e never squeaked. Tanghed rtish attribute,*I dare say. -know that-he is obliged $I tt n Ireland?" - She could not con uame that leaped In tknow," she murmured. i ut 'quiit a shock to you. Sit You look very pictur chairs were made Shiwhichever Is proper. Aftg-ed. his shoulders. tand,uif you don't mind suggested, It, old clbp, dt have overl the YTe Miss Cast! .on, he ~oii~n toBelfast s." There was f his mind that - t In -a tactful je~this property at al about It, Mr. she, with a pleading as If to Inquire Sheshouldtake in this dis Senlasld he can't sell It," said Leslie, some -7U with a .mag - cowered a multiude of ~add Of course, I am fInseeing thagtou are protected, Miss Castleton. medbt: Ou bold an interest in an7t wel sdiscuss a thing!I a 4bsolutely nothing about," she ~" - necinetly. Vosto t siii J building lots. and fc~lin epefast, of course.- It was lironbepnature of. a question than adecliratldn..-"Ther old famIly castle Jstrynuhaof an asset, I take it."' ~I ini~yyo~can trust Colonel Cas t oldn ake the biest possible deal - ansaid Booth drily. ~..- so" said Ethe-otherre I~is~sshriwdbeggar,I' ftbat. Strange, however, f'enetard aWord fromhim be5ian .dnd~on. I've been gcaledadm from him every -neaily a. fortnight, letting m'e *Iwjae to'exiect him." ~ eou going to California this ~L ~nterontlie flying?" asked Hetty. Saaenered ~at that juncture, and ev~sat down to listen for half an Leslie's harangue on the way - D~nl meet was being niis ~ ~ end of which he de NBO~1*8Ywih hmmuch t~jong~iau'-disgust. ~Doy know, Brandy, old fellow," ~dhas they.walked down Fifth-raye ~the gathering dust of the early -Asteinig, "ever since I've begun - ~ mispet hat danedadld humbug of .hers, I've been congratu ~ ~y~elthat there isn't the re .c ces of his ever becoming ~e~4naw.-And, iby George, never' know h'ow near -I was to eaigblindly Into' the brambles. rWhat'a close call I had!" Booth's sarcastic smile was bidden bythe dusk.: .He'made no pretense of Sresenting thie mnanness of ,~~tthat moved Leslie to these cad ieh narkL~. He merely announced, 4adqcuttig voice: think Miss Castleton is to be con gratulsthtat hekI-njury is no greater thauiatureimade It In the beginning." hWat do-you mean by 'nature?'" ~"auegave her a father, didr't' "Obviously," K"Wu1W why add Insult to injury?" Brovei Oh, I siay, old man!" -T hrted at the-next corner. As ,th'started to cross over to the *I~s, Lsli called out after him: 'I say~ Brandy, just a second, please. Ae- you going to nfarry Miss Castle "Then, I retract the scurvy things I sackhethere. I asked her to marry mne three times and she refused me t e e times. What I said about the krginbies was rotten. I'd ask her again if (hbught she's have me. There you are, old-fellow. I'm a rotten cad, but 1T apologize to you just the same." -NATURE'S WORK AT FAULT Recent 'Quake That Startled the East Due to imperfect Formation of Rocky Section. To understand the shock which this 'art of the country received one must -ealize that "Logan's fault'-the line af weakness in the underlying rocks that extends from Canada well down toward the .Gulf of Mexico-plays .muclk the--same role as do- the care \~l~ provided solutions of continuity which' every observing person who crosses the Brooklyn bridge has no dced. These points of overlapping permt the structure to expand on hot days and to contract on cold ones without breaking' any of its parts. ~%ature) being a clumsy engineer, 21as-made for this -section of the cool 1ngeal-th fa, much less nearly perfect dro'ison- for contraction in the crack #rbicj Sir Wlilam E. Logan of the Canadian geological survey, was the fi~rst to discover and describe. The earth foint wor'ks just as does that In the bridgA~ but It works stiffy and ,i2y-?.on Itervals w~hen the strah .Th "You're learning, Leslie,"'said Boot taking the hand the other held out 1 him. While the painter was dining at h club later on in the evening, he wI called to the telephone. Watson wS on the wire. He said that Mrs. Wra dall would like to know If -Mr. Bool could drop in on her fdr a few'.mi utes after dinner, "to discuss a. vel Important matter, if you please, sir At nine o'clock, Booth- was in -Sara library,'trying to grasp a ziew and r markable phase in the charact'er . that amazing woman. He found Hetty waiting for ht when he arrived. "I don't know what it all mean Brandon," she said hurriedly, lookir over her shoulder as she spoke. "Sar says that she has come to a. decisic of some 'sort. She wants us to hea her plan before making it final. I don't understand her at all tonight." "It can't be- anything serious, dea est," he'said, but something- cold an nameless oppressed him just'the sam "She asked me if I had finally d cided to-to be your wife, Brandon. said I had asked you for two or thre days more in which to., decide. teemed to depress hr." She said s didn't see how she boula'give me u: even to you. She wanfs to be nea me always. It'is-It is really tragi Brandon." He tookiCr hands in his. "Weas fix that,"-.said he confiden l7. ~saf can live with us if she feel that-j'y about it.' Our home shall b h when she liiee, and as long a ooses. It 'will be open to her a e, to come -and go or to sta: s she elets. Itit that the wa to put it?" -"I suggested something.of the sor but she wasn't -very much Impressei Indeed, she appeared to be somewha -yes, I could not have been mistake -somewhat harsh and terrified whe I spoke of It. Afterwards she wa more reasonable. She thanked me an -there'were tears in her eyes at th time-and said' she' would think : over.- All she asks iS that I may. b happy- and-free iand untroubled all th rest of my life. .,This was before dir her. At dinner> she appeared to :b brooding over something. When w left the table ahe-*ook me to her room and said that she had come to an in portant decision. Then sh6 Instructe Watson to find you if possible." -"'Gad, It's Vll very upsetting-P" h said, shaking his head. -"I think her -conscience is troublin her. She hates the Wrandalls,.but I I don't know why I- should feel as do about It-but I. believe .she wani them- to know!" He stared for a moment, and the his face brightened. "And so do I, He ty, so do I! They ought to know!" "I should feet so much easier If ti whole world knew," said she earnesti: Sara heard the girl's words as si stood. in the door. She came forwar with a strange-even abashed-smi after closing the door behind her. "I don't agree with you, deares when you say that the world shou] know, but I have'come to the conch slon that you should be tried and a quitted by a jury made up of Chall Wrandall's own flesh and blood. Ti Wrandalls must know the truth.". CHAPTER XXI. The Jury of Four. The Wrandalls sat waiting and wol dering. They had been sent for an they had deigned to respond, much i The Wrandalis Le'aned Forward I Their Chairs. their own surprise. Redmond Wra: dali occupied a place at the head < the library table. At his right sat h. wife. Vivian and Leslie, by directio took seats at the side of the long tabl whchhad been'cleared of i mass books and magazines. Lawyer Ca roll was at the other end of the tabi perceptibly nervous and anxious. He ty sat a little apart from the others, rather forlorn, detached member of t? conclave. Brandon Booth,. pale-face and alert,- drew up a chair alongsid Carroll, facing Sara who alone r< maned standing, directly opposite tb four Wrandalls. Not one of the Wrandalls knew wb they, as a "family, were there. The had not the slightest premonition < what was to come. had become enormous enough 1 break down what a surgeon might ca "adhesions." The result Is that th readjustment of the earth surface I a smaller circumference, Instead C being continuous, is by widely space jumps or jerks. Upon their exter depends the severity of the consi quent "quake." That of a few week ago was remarkable for the easter seaboard, but it would have passed fe trivial on the other side of the col tinent. The Charleston earthquake an those which have several time wrecked Kingston, Jamaica, were< a wholly different sort-the movin down a mountain slope of an alluvii plain.-New York Times. Ancient Forms of Soap. It is probable that some of the i: gredients, especially the essential oil which enter largely into the compos tion of modern soaps, were employe in early times for the same purpos Soap in the form of vegetable ashe mixed with grease was in vogt among the acient Egyptians. A sir tar.Drepara Iwas used by the H iollON +of] 6or e Bar. r xa SW R( : / //N CO i, The Wrandalls had been routed :o from their comfortable fireside-for what? They were asking the question Is -of themselves and they were waiting 68 stonily for the answer. a "It is very stuffy in here," Vivian i- had said with a glance at the closed h doors after Sara had successfully x- placed her jury in the box. 7 "Keep still, Viv," whispered Leslie, !" with a fine assumption of awe. "It's a 'a spiritualistic meeting. 'You'll scare D- the spooks away.". f It was at this juncture that Sara rose from her chair and faced them, n as calmly, as complacently as if she were about to ask them to proceed to a, .the dining-room instead of to throw a g bomb -into.their -midst that would shat a ter their smug serenity for all time to n come. With a glance at Mr. Carroll r she began, clearly, firmly and without -I a prefatory apology for what was to follow. r- "I have asked you to come here to d night to be my judges. I am on trial. a. You. ar about to hear the story of my 3- unspeakable perfidy. I only require of I you that you hear me to the end be e fore passing judgment." [t At her words, Hetty and Booth start e. ed perceptibly; a quick glance passed 4 between them, asif each was inquir ,r ing' whether the other had caught the 3, extraordinary words of self-indictment. A puzzled frown appeared 'on Hetty's brow. t- "Perfidy?" interposed Mr. Wrandall. s His wife's . expression changed from e one of bored indifference to sharp in s quiry. Leslie paused in the act of l lighting a cigarette. ', ' "It Is the mildest term I can com Y mand," said Sara.. "I shall be'as brief as possible ffi stating the case, Mr. t Wrandall. You will. be surprised to L hear that I have taken it upon myself, ,t as the wife of Challis Wrandall and, a as I regard It, the one most vitally 1 concerned if not interested-in the dis 8 covery and punishment of the person d who took -his life-I say I have taken e. It .upon myself to shield, protect and -t defend the unhappy young woman who e accompanied him to Burton's inn- on e that night In March. She has had my L constant, my personal protection for e more than twenty months." . 8 The Wrandalls leaned -forward in a their- chairs. The match burned Les I lie's fingers, and he dropped It without d appearing to notice the pain. , "What Is this 'you are saying?" de a manded Redmond Wrandall. "When I left the inn that night, after g 'seeing my husband's body in the little ~ upstairs room, I said to myself that I the one who took -his life had unwit S 'tingly done me a service, Bie was my husband; I loved him, I adored him. 'To-the end of my days I could have gone on loving him in spite of the cruel return he gave for my love and e loyalty. I shall not' attempt to tell Fyou of the countless lapses of fidelity eon his part. You would not believe me. d1 -But he .always came back to me with ' the pitiful love he had for me, and 1 forgave him his transgressions. .These 'things you know. He confessed many d things to ypu, ' Mr. Wrandall. He 'humbled himself to me. Perhaps you > will recall that I never complained to you of him. What rancor I had- was e always directed toward you, his fain fly,, who would see no wrong In your king but looked upon me as dirt be neath his feet. There were moments when I could have slain him with my own. hands, but my heart rebelled. 1There were times when he said to me d thatlIought tokllhim ifor the things he had done. You may now-understand what I mean when I say that the girl who went -to Buton's Inn .with him did me a service. I willinot say that I considered her guiltless at the time. On the contrary, I looked upon her in quite a different way.' I had no means of knowing then that she was as pure as snow and that he woulct have de spoiled her of -everything that was sweet and sacred to her. She took his life 'In order-to save that which' was dearer to her than her own life, and she was on her way to pay for her Sdeed with her life if necessary when I came upon her and intervened." "You-you know who she Is?" said IMr. Wrandall, in a low, incredulous Pvoice. I"I have known almost from the be ginning. Presently you will hiear her story, from her own lips." Involuntarily four pairs of eyes shift ed. They looked blankly at Hetty Cas tieton. Speaking swiftly, Sara depicted the nscenes and sensations experienced dur ing that memorable motor journey to New York city. - "I could .not believe that she was a pf vicious creature, -even then. Some s thing told me. that she was a' tender, 1, gentle thing who had fallen, into evil , hands and :had struck because she if was unevil. I did not doubt that she '- had been my husband's mistress, but , I could not destroy the conviction that t- -somehow she had- been justified ~in a doing the thingS she had done. My e gravest mistake was in refusing to d hear her story in alI of Its details. e I only permitted her to acknowledge y that she had killed him, no more. I e did not want to hear the thing which I assumed to be true. Therein lies y my deepest fault. For months and y months I misjudged her'in my heart, f yet secretly loved her. Now I under stand why I loved her. It was because o brews, and when Jeremiah said: il "Though thou wash thee with nitre e and take thee much soap,'" he referred o to "borak," procured from the ashes f of the saltwort and other "washing d herbs." Borak is in use among the t Arabs to this day. s 'Balker's Dozeri. 2 The custom on the part of bakers r allowing 13 to the dozen dates back to L- medieval times, when bakers were carefully watched. The trade was sur d rounded by many laws, and the most s severe penalties were imposed for any fshortage in weight. In order to avoid g the possibility of falling below the Istandard measure it became cus tomary for bakers to allow an extra loaf with every dozen. Artistic instinct. "Why did that pretty little artist -break her engagement?" d "Because she did not like the color .combination of the match." S"What do you mean by that?" e "She did not see how she could -make her rosy future harmonize with hispalne nat"~ Fler Ha r McCutcl she was innocent of the only crime I could lay. at her feet. Now I come to the crime of which I stand self-% accused. I. must have been made all these months. I have no other defense to Qffer. You may take It as you see It for yourselves. I do not ask for pardon. After I deliberately had set about to shield this unhappy girl-to cheat the law, if you please-to cheat you, perhaps-I conceived the horrible thought to avenge myself for all the in'dignitles I had sustained at the hands of you Wrandalls, and at the same time to even my account witb the one woman whom I could put my finger upon as having robbed me of my husband's love. You see I put It mildly. I have -bated all of you, Mrs. Wrandall, even'as you have hated me. Today-nbw-I do not feel as I did In other days toward you. I do not love you, still I do not hate you. I do not forgive you, and yet I tlink I have come to see things from your point of view. I can only repeat that I do not hate you as I once did." , She *paused. The Wrandalls were too deeply submerged In horror to speak. They merely stared at her as if stupefied; as breathless, as motion less as stones. "There came a day when I observed that Leslie was attracted by the guest in my house. On that day the plan took root in my brain. I-" "Good God!" fell from Leslie's lips. -"You-you had that In mind?" "It became a fixed, inflexible pur pose, Leslie. Not that I hated you as I hated the rest, for you tried to be considerate. The one grudge I held against you was that In seeking to sus tain me you defamed your own brother. You came to me with stories of his misdeeds; you said that he was a scoundrel and that. you would not blame me for 'showing him up.' Do you, not remember? And so my plot involved you; you were the only one through whom I could strike. . There were times when I faltered. I could not bear the thought of sacrificing Hetty Castleton, nor was it easy to thoroughly appease my conscience In respect to you. Still, if I' could have had my way a few months ago, If coercion had been of any avail, you would now be the husband of your brother's slayer. Then I came to know that she was not what I had thought she was. She was honest. My bubble burst. I came out of the maze in which I had been living and saw clearly that what I had contem plated was the most atrocious-" "Atrocious?" cried .Mre. Redmond Wrandall between her set teeth. "Dia bolical! Diabolical! ,My God, Sara, what a devil you--" She did not' com plete the sentence, but' sank back In her chair and stared with wide, horror struck eyes at her rigid daughter-in law. Her husband, his hand shaking as If with palsy; pointed a finger at Het ty. "And so you are the one we have been hunting for all these months, Miss Castleton! You are the one we want! You who have sat at our table, you who have smiled In our faces-" "Stop, Mr. Wrandall!" commanded Sara, noting the ashen face of the girl. "Don't let the fact escape you that I am the guilty person. Don't forget that she owed her freedom, If not her life to me. I alone kept her from giving herself up to the law. All that has transpired since that night Ii March must be placed to my account.. Hetty Castleton 'has been my prisoner. She has rebelled a thousand times and I have conquered-not by threats but by love! Do you understand? Be cause of her love for me, and because she believed that L loved her, she sub mitted. You are not to accuse her, Mr. Wrandall. Accuse me! I am on trial here. Hetty Castleton Is aewit ness against me, If you choose to call upon her as such.-- -If not, I shall ask her to speak in my defenee, If she can do so." "This Is lunacy!" cried Mr. Wran dall, coming to his feet. "I don't care what your motives may have been. They do not make her any less a mur deress. She-" "We must give her over to the po lice-" began his wife, struggling to her feet. She staggered. It was Booth who stepped quickly to her side to support her. Leslie was staring at Hetty. Vivian touched her father's .arm. She was very pale but vastly more composed than the others. "Father, listen to me," she said. Her voice trembled in spite of ner effort to control It. "We are condemning Miss Castleton unheard. Let us hear everything before we-" "Good God, Vivian! Do you mean to-" "How can we place any relianc4 on what she may say?" cried Mrs. Wran dall. "Nevertheless," said Vivian firmly, "I for one shall not condemn her un heard. I meanto be asfair toher as Sara has been. It shall not be said that all thie Wrandalls -are smaller than Sara Gooch!" "My child-" began ;her father In credulously. His jaw dropped sud denly. His daughter's shot had landed squarely In tie heart of the Wrandall pride. "If she has anything to say"-said Mrs. Wrandall, waving Booth aside and sinking stiffly Into her chair. Her REFLECTS LIFE OF SECTION Homespun Language Well Described as Having Race-Old Distillation of Wisdom. The life of every section Is reflected in Its speech. Why should it not be taught pride in the very archaisms It possesses? We have a storehouse on which we can never afford to turn the key. Take a lower Mississippi sen tence that Clemens might have cop ied: "There's been a fi-ay .on the river-I don't know how the fraction began, but Dan and Bill feathered into the Joneses with their rifles." Agincourt bowmen would have under stood "feathered into." In the tongue of the Appalachians storm is tempest. gay is gamesome, strong Is sur-vigorous, the air Is the element, agriculture is tilth and hus bandry. medicine is physick. The peo pe speak in metaphor as readily as the Tudors. One can hear in the Great Smokies. as in Marlowe. of cowards whose blood is snow-broth Iand heroes bold as brass. bec meashamed of speech with L44 fld5 1eon /y husband sat down. Their jaws se hard. "Thank you, Vivian," said Sara, su: prised in spite of herself. "You ar nobler than I-" "Please don't thank me, Sara," sat Vivian icily. "I was speaking for Miu Castleton." Sara flushed. "I suppose it is us< less to ask you to be fair to Sar Gooch, as you choose to call me." "Do you feel in your heart that w still owe you anything?" "Enough of this, Vivian," spoke u her 1cher harshly. "If Miss Castlf ton desires to speak we will listen T her.. I must advise .you, Miss. Castli ton, that the extraordinary disclosure .made by my daughter-in-law do nC lessen your culpability. , We do not 1E sist on this confession from-you., Yo deliver it at your own risk. I..wan to be fair with you. If Mr. Carro is 'your counsel, he may advise yo now to refuse to make a statement. 'Mr. Carroll bowed slightly in th general direction of the Wrandalls. ' have already advised Miss Castleto to state the case fully and completel to you, Mr. Wrandall. It was I wh originally suggested this-well, wha you might call a private trial for hei I am firmly convinced that when yo have heard her story; you, as he judges, will acquit her of the charg of murder. Moreover, you will be cor tent to let your own verdict end th matter, sparing yourselves the sham and ignominy of having her story tol in a criminal court for the delectatio of an eager but somewhat implacabl world." "Your language is extremely uit pleasant, Mr. Carroll," said Mr. Wrar dall coldly. "I meant to speak kindly, sir." "Do you mean, sir, that we will le the matter rest after hearing the-" "That is precisely what I mean, Mi Wrandall. You will not consider he guilty of a crime. Please bear 1: mind this fact: but for Sara and Mis Castleton you would not have know: the truth. Miss Castleton could no be convicted in a court of justice. No will she be convicted here this eve ning, in this little court of ours." "Miss Castleton is not on trial," it terposed Sara calmly. "I am the' of fender. She has already been trie and proved innocent." Leslie, in his impatience, - tappe sharply on the tpble with his seal rin "Please let her tell the story. Per mit me to say, Miss Castleton, tha you will not find the Wrandalls a harsh and vindictive as you may hay been led to b'elieve." Mrs. Wrandall passed her hand ove her eyes. "To think that we hay been friendly to this girl all these "Calm yourself, my dear," said he husband, after a glance at his so: nd daughter, a glance of unspeal able helplessness. He could not ur derstand them. As Hetty arose, Mrs. Wrandall ser fr lowered her eyes and not once dil she look up during the recital tha followed. Her hands were lying limpl: In her lap, and she breathed heavil3 almost stertoriously. The younge Wrandalls leaned forward with 'thel clear, unwavering gaze fixed on th earnest face of the young Englisi woman wh-o had slain their brother. "You have heard Sara accuse hei self," said the girl slowly, dispassior ately. "The shock was no greater t you than it was to me. All that sh has said is true, and yet I-I woul "And So You Are the One We Hav Been Hunting for All These Months." so much rather she had left herse: unarraigned. We were agreed that should throw myself on your merc: Mr. Carroll said that you 'were, fal and just people, that you would nc condemn me under the circumstancej But that Sara should seek to take tb blame is-" ."Alas, my dear, I am to blame," sal Sara, shaking her head. "But for is your story ,would have been tol months ago,s~the courts would h~as cleared you, and all the world woul have execrated my husband for tb thing he did-my husband and yot son, Mrs. Wrandall-whom we bot loved. God belleve me, I think I love him more than all of you put t4 gether!" She sat down abruptly and burie her face in her arms on the edge< the table.. a colloquial flavor is to becofl ashamed of the very speech that : primitive thews and muscles. TI homespun language has a past; in beats the heart of democratic feelinj and its sayings and phrases have race-old distillation of wisdom.-Ne York Post. Oldtime Criminal Trials. Criiiinal trials used to be conducte with wonderful speed in London, esp' cially after the court had dined. A old observer of the ways of the cel tral criminal court cites a case I which a prisoner had picked a pockt of a handkerchief. Two witnessE were called, the man robbed and constable, who stated the facts in few words. Then the judge addresse the prisoner. "Nothing to say, I sul pose?" The summing up was as fo lows: "Gentlemen. I suppose you hay no doubt? I have none." Jury "Guilty, my lord." Judge to prisoner "We have met before--we shall nc meet again for some time-seve years' transportation." Time of tria two minutes fifty-three seconds. ] t "If I could only induce you to for give her," began 'Hetty, throwing f: her hands to the Wrandalls, only to be 3 met by a gesture of repugnance from the grim old man. I "Your story, Miss Castleton," he 5 said hoarsely. "From the beginning, if you please, added the lawyer quietly. "Leave !ou1 L nothing." Clearly, steadily 'and with the ut most sincerity in her voice and man ner, the girl began the story of. he D life. She passed hastily over the ear ier periods, frankly exposing the .un happy. conditions attending her hor4 life, her subseqiynt activities as B performer on the London stage afte: t Colonel Castleton's defection; the fev months devoted to posing for - Hawk L right. the painter, and later .9u .he engagement as governess in : ihi wealthy Budlong family. She devote( some time and definiteness to her firs encounter with Challis. Wrandall - or board the west-bound steamer, an in cident #at came to pass In a perfectli natural way. . Her deck chair .stoo next tq his, and he was not s19w Ix making himself *agreeable. It .did nol occur :to her till long afterwards tha he deliberately had traded positioni with an elderly gentleman. who occu r pled the chair on the first day out Before the end of the voyage the] were very good friends. "When we landed in New York, he assisted me In many ways.. After wards, on learning that I was not t< go to California, I called -him uV ox the telephone to explain my predica ment. He urged me to stay in Ne York; he guaranteed that there woult be no difficulty in securing a splendic position in the east. I had no meant of knowing that he was married. ' accepted him for what I thought hin to be: a genuine American gentleman They are supposed to be particularl3 considerate with women. His conducl toward me was beyond reproach. ] have never known a man who was sc courteous, so gentle. To me, he wa the most fascinating man In the world r No -woman could have resisted him, am sure of that." She shot a quick, appealing glani at Pooth's hard-set face. Her. 111 trembled for a second.. "I fell madly in love with hiw." shE went on resolutely. "I dramdi o: him, I could hardly wait for the fim< to come when I was to see him. Hi never came. to the wretched little lodg ing house I have told you about. I met him outside. One night he tol< me that he loved me, loved me pas rsionately. I-I said. that I would, bi his wife. Somehow it 'seemed to mi that he regarded me very curi'iusl; rfor a moment or two. He seemne. t be siurprised, uncertain. I remembel that he laughed rather queerly. I did not occur to me to doubt him. Oni day he came -for me, saying that hi wanted me to see the little apartmeni he had taken, where-we were to -11v4 after we were married. I went witi him. He said that if I liked it, IcolE move In at once, but I would not con sent to such an arrangement. For thi rfirst time I began to feel that every Sthing was not as it should be. I remained in the apartment but a fev minutes. The next 'day he came ti me,- greatly excited and more -demoa strative than ever before, to 'say th~ he had arranged for 'a .quiet, jo. little wedding . up. In the eountry SStrangely- enough, I experienced queer feeling that all was not, es i should be, but his eagerness, his per sistence dispelled the small dloub that had begun even then to shap Itself. I consented to go with him ol the next night to an Inn out In th country-, where a college friend whi was a minister of the .gospel would meet us, driving over -from hiss parisi a few miles away. I said that I pre ferred to be married .in a church. H< laughed and said it could be arrange when we got to tha inn and had talkei it over with the minister. Still ur easy; I asked why it was necessar: to employ secrecy. He told me tha his family were in Europe and that hI Swanted to surprise them' by' givinj them a daughter who was actually. re lated to an English nobleman.'. -Th family had been urging him to marr: a stupid but rich New York girl and he-oh, well he uttered a great dea of nonsense about my beauity, m: charm, and ,all that sort of. thing-' She paused for e, moment. No an< spoke. Her audience of judges, wit] the exception of thA elder Mrs. Wrar dall, watched her as if fascinated Their faces were almost expression , less.. With a perseptible effort, ahi resumed her storf', narrating event: t that carried it up to the hour whex she walked into tie little upstairl room at Burton's ihn with the'i max who was to be her irusband. d(TO BE CONTINUED.)' dpoets Put to Hard Labor. e The sixth grade of a certain schoc in a foreign settlement in South Da kota was learning the use of posses! ives. h The book required the pupils to cox rect and expand into a' coDiplete' seE - tence the following expression: "Mil ton and Shakespeare's works." Josep Nikodym handed in thiis sentendie f "Milton and Shakespeare work 'in coal mine."-Youth's Companion. e did not average more than four'mix tes each. t Right to Bear Arms. -- The words from Article II., amenc a ments to the Constitution of the Util ed States, "A well-regulated milti being necessary to the security of free people, the right of the peopl to keep and bear arms shall not 'b infringed," evidently have a commi - nity meaning; but they also carr ci along with them they right of- the ix -dividual to safeguard himself an his house by keeping himself ar-me twith the necessary means of defense s The 4aw against carrying conceale weapons, now' on the statute books a a most of the states, its'a matter quit foreign to the broad jprinciples of th - right, of keeping anida bearing arms. "I just saw"a1 c ture of the Peaq Palace atThe H e. I wish mywil and I could get job of caretakers. " 'They wouldn' allow say ma~ b Ljlive there with wife." '"Why not?" SOUTH SEA JSLAWOSI Recall Adventures of Daniel De Foe's "Robinson Crusoe.' Cannibals and Pirates Have Gone, But Islands Are Still Rich in Romance as of Yore-Civilization Has Done Little There. New York.-Almost every one who can remember his "Swiss Family Rob inson," "'Treasure Island" or "Robin son Crusoe" has some knowledge of the existence of innumerable little tropical islands -in the South Pacific ocean. If he can recall his boyhood impressions of - these islands and. the stories of romance and adventure with which he associated them at that time he will remember some of the .inost thrilling and delightful moments of his life. .Growing older, he has drifted away from the pleasures of his early youth and has probably not lived over in his mind the experience of Robin son Crusoe for many years. And if he has he has put aside the thoughts as childish fancies, outside the bounds of reason and not to be considered in the day dreams 'of a mature mind. If he has learned more of these islands thanwas taught by the authors of in teresting fiction he has probably be lieved that all the romance has gone out of the South Seas, that the tropi cal verdure ha's been replaced by cul tivated lands and that commercialism has destroyed all that which so ,ap pealed to his imagination in youth. To those who have visited them within recent years the South Sea islands are still as rith in. romance, If not in ad venture, as in the days of which Stev ensbn wrote, and more beautifulthan ,they -have ever been painted by brush or pen. It is trie ther'e are no canni bals on the islands, nor pirates In the surrounding seas, but if one Is search ing for adventure * It can easily be 'found,.either in accompanying a-pearl diving expedition to one of the numer ous atolls (coral Islands), climbing the gigantic peaks or exploring the mysterious caverns that extend to un known depths beneath the mountains. -Also a three months' cruiseon a pearl * lt the Southi Seas. trader'!s s'chooner will affordhamPle, opportunity for excitement and ad venture.-.. Outside the principal villages on the larger Islands, the islands themselves have undergone- little or no changel Civilization has done little in the South Sea islands outside of putting an end to cannibalism, except to put more clothing on the natives who live in town and to erect a few liuildingS to mar the natural scenery. SSemi-civilized, yet retaning almost all their native simplicity, the- natives are still the South Sea islanders of a hundred years ago. They are still children of -nature, although they are forced, to obey the laws of the -white nations which now rule them. Their simple nature has not rebelled against this invasion and they have gone on under the new order, living their easy going lives-as before. One of the principal groups of the Australaslan archipelago is the So ciety Islands, and In. this cluster- Is found the gem of them all, the pearl -of the South Seas-Tahiti. Beautiful ,as the. artist's conception of the Gar den of. Eden. with a -climate that: Is surprisingly temperate the year round, producing all.the tropical fruits known to the world, there Is probably not an other, spot on the face of the globe so favored by nature as Tahiti, the "Para dse' of the Pacific." The shores of -the- Island, fringed with cocoanut palms, are surrounded ,by coral reefs which protect them from the heavy seas. High mountains shield the m-'ost densely populated side of the Island from the trade winds, and over all looms Mount Orohena, towering 8,000 feet above the sea, and which, so far as Is known, has never been scaled by man. Gasoline Explosion Hurts Man, Passaic, -N. J.-After knocking over -a- milk bottle containing gasoline, Thomas Donohue struck a match to see what had happened. H e will live. Want Fourth Marriage Annulled. -Patchogue, N.. Y. - Wed for the Ifourth time- a week ago, Morton E. Jones, sixty-five, wants his marriage Ito Miss Ellen Lee, thirty-five, annulled. -Vaccinate 125,000 Puplls.' New York.-With the approval of the priests in authority the health de partment will vaccinate 125,000 pupIls in parochial schools here. Urges IWives Not to Kiss Husbands. New York. - Mrs. Havelock Ellis urged suffragists not to kiss their hus bands until they obtain the vote. Aged Woman Casts First Vote. Syeamore. Ill.-Miss Margaret Swin bank, one hundred and one, cast her first vote here. She voted "dry." I!Smouldering Smoke. Albany, Ore.-On the twenty-fifth Ianniversary of his marriage, 3. N. Cowan smokied the last cigar of a box given him .on his wedding and pro nounced it excellent. It was - saved for the occasion. Seeks Court Aid go Stop Golf #laying. Yokers.-Complaining that ,he had lost one eye .playing golf anid she was afraid he. might. .lose the other, drs.' Mary Holwik 'asked the court to re strain her son, Max, fr'om playing the FOR CEB n3 A CRUSHEB IC And Was Not EvenAlowed Fr liege of Sitting Up, but Imray -M sou. Kaplan, La.-Mrs. Casamear Burk hart, of this town, gives out following for publication: ."I feel that-I owe my life to Cardui,. the woman's tonic. 'I was married last April. and was in fairly good health.- Shortly after marriage my health began to fail, and for three long months I was threat-,. ened with serious sickness. .I passed most of my'time' In with a nurse at my bedside. At fast I was told an operation was neces sary.* I was so weak I could Atain nothing on my stomach but citshed ice, and was not even allowed t6 sit up in bed. A friend of mine advised me to use Cardul, the.woman's tonic, and they got a bottle.for ne, as a last resort. After taking CarduLfor one week, I was able to be u. In my. room. After continual use for t*o-months, I -was In perfect health, and could do all of my work without tiring. I taie an Occasional dose Cardu! and Black-Draught now, to keep my system ii good condition. Several of my. friends.ar'e .*sing Cardui with good results. I am never S without it in the house." Thee's a botle of Cardui 'waint for , you at your nearest druggists'. Get it and begin taking today. YoU, wmU never regret it.-Adv. EFFICENCY- OF A FIREFLY Artificial Illuninant Very PoorSecofnd to That .of the Natural>. - Organisms. It is sometims- said that if 'we. could arrive at the 'secret of the firely-Or of the other ogansms which rodue physiologic *'light-we should bave reached -a great Asconomionlisco!ery because the lighthas such an-eIraor dinary high efficiency. itethir wrds all the energy expene InIproducing it -goes to make;ightfasi t heat The efficiency has Meistiuiatdat 96 per. cent by' Ires anlaCbbiets, and even higler byLanglej,.En e This is the mote remarkable Wen It Is cotisidered that the best tLfl ilumiant'has a-umImious ficied f. only 4 per cent, and most ofa them reach only.about 1 ier cent, the- re maning 99 per cen$'of the energy go ing to produce-hest or other subordi nate effects. - But even If we should discover the means by which the Ore fly produces its light we should scarcely care to use It in our homes Professor McDermott in asrecenttudy of the subject .observes that whlle the insect has Indeed reached the highest possible radiant efficiecy it has 'Only accomplished it at a sacrifie of color 'that makes the light much worse than the imercury vedor arc. Anything not within a very limited range qE yellow ~~, and green' tones wud appear bfac President Wilson Is thiedi-st "b~are. faced" occupant. of the -White Bouse.' - since ~President Mcainley. Ind~dee -these have been the only Osmooth~ faced presidents sindeath'e Civil war~ The faces of the: most 'onspicuus members of the cabinet are wbisk0--' less, as Is the mobile countenance of the- speaker..of the house. The sn sible fashion ist especially' noticeable In the medicalProeaninn, owing .to the fact thatfformeiriy 'ts ineibelfs res garded whiskers as' an .Iidsesble part of their equipment, on a par~with the stethosco and c1imicaI tliermom-a eter and odor of carbolic acid. The Idea then was, of course, to 10010 old. Now they try to appear young. 'Other business and profesfsia menarefol. lowing the exampjle of the doc~oe much to the gWatffication ot-the bar bers and razor manulaeturers. 'It Is not likely that we shall soon again see 'the day 'when whikers cover a multi tude of chins. - Muel!.Needed lnvention. Mrs. Bacon - The '4d-fashioned feather duster and the vacuum clean er have been comlbined b Pnsy vana Inventor for removing dustrtm< '6 small articles. . Mrs. JEgbert-I hope now some 'one will get busy and Invent soeiething that will pick up the pIeces and glue em togpther' ," Wrong Gue s ~ till-And so you proposed to her? Jill-Yes. - "Was her answer .In two or three letters?" "-Three." "Good. Then It was 'yes." "You're wrong; It was 'nIL"' H ER MOTH ER-IN-L.AW T Proved a Wise, Good: Friend. A young woman out In Is. found a wise, good friend In her mother-in-law, jokes notwithstanding. She writes: "I was greatly troubled with; .ny stomach, complexion was blotchy and yellow. After meals I, often suffered sharp pains and 'would have tole down. My mother often told me It. was the coffeeldank atlmeals.' But when I'd quit coffee I'd have a sever~e headache. "While 'visiting my mthe4n-lawI remarked that she always made such good coffee, and asked cherto tell Ine. how, She laughed and told-me It was easy to make good 'coffes' wbed you got hoe afoirw av he am~ good 'coffe (Postum) every clay, and I have no more trouble. IndIgestion is athing of the past, andmy com plexion has cleared up beautifully. "My grandmzother sufered a great deal 'with her stomach. Her doctor ~ told her to leave off coffee. - She-theit took tea but that was -just as bad. "She finally was induced to try Poisf umn which she has used for over a year. She traveled during the winter over the greater part of Iowa, visitig, sorething she had not bedn able (to do for years. She says she owes her present good health to Postum." Name given- by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road-to.WeU- - yille," in pkgs. - Postum now comes in-tweforms' Regular Postiunmust be well boiled. 15e and 25c packages. nstant Postum-Is a' soluple p0 - der. A teaspo du ,lssolves quiegly In a cup of hot waterand, with cream nd sugar, mnakes afdelcious beverage instantly. ;30c and 50c tIns. The dost per/'cup of both kinds IS 'obot the same. alteason" for Postam.