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: WHOM SHE LOVED BEST \ 1 ; : ' ? : : By JANE BELFIELD. I j (Copyright.) "It is easy to discover which man the woman loves best." The king of the Scarabee islands sbIfted bls Baze djfa/j ylW/Z from the blue sea j shining above the ' 'j f / broad coral reef, ! j OF* and sneeringly regarded his latest j favorite. "Bring , tAt * *Y(jV y\ out the prisoners. j ijLG Jx \ Four?you said?" ) V S ???'J'/y } "Four were < v | shipwrecked, oh, j , vMlmfuHfJ?w4Vl\\ a child and two , Mm > jmaUlfl lis ?v ) not tel1 whlc^ j \Gre' hU8'|; ' \) ten?"6 wl" n0' : ; The king yawned, j j *Not mudh entertainment for a white j j man to be captured by these savages , and forced to be their chief! Twice ' j Tie had attempted to escape and twice I been Ignomlnlously retaken. Accord- : Ing to their laws?their stupid, un- i changeable laws?the third attempt < meant death. , * He glanced down the long rows of , bamboo trees whence his half-naked : , negroes led forward the group of white j ] prisoners. 1 , A woman, young and beautiful, held fast the hand of a blue-eyed boy. 1 A tall, fair man followed between ? ? ' ?. VI 1 two Biaiwari macM. . , Then another guard and another { man, slight of build, dark of counte* : nance. ; The king beckoned to the woman.1 ; aying: ] 'Tm eorry for all of you?but?do 1 you know their law?" The woman strained hopefully for* < ward. "You are not?" i "One of them? No?but I am their prisoner as much as you are. Ship- j wrecked?saved because I practised a i little easy magic to fool them! I'm still clothed in purple and fine linen, i you see." The king of the Scarabee j islands spread out his skirt of woven J 1 grasses. . , "Can you not save us?" she im-J i plored wildly. < The king shook his head. "Two of you. They do not kill women?un- i less by request This is their ancient 1 law. You may live, and the one you < love best also may live. I will put you < both on the first ship that passes this j 1 most detestable spot." I 1 The woman knelt and clasped the j boy. Over his head her eyes strained i despairingly toward the two men who j ] stood calmly regarding her. j ' For an instant the eyes of the taller | i left hers and lingered upon the boy's ] yellow curls. 1 Two natives with knotted clubs i stepped forward. The king rose. His ( gaze swept the multitude of daxk 1 faces. 1 - ... ? vi- I fectlons. Parmentier persuaded the government In 1778 to give him a farm 1 for^his experiments. Prom the first J flowering of the plants he sent a boa- 1 | tuet to Louis XVI, which gave the ' E vegetable Its first popularity. i1 t .m* r *6?fcV s- - * j NOT ALWAYS PERFECT :i : iC-~T .'533 # ! By CORA WEEMS. I a "As for that," said the girl with the box of chocolates, "there are simply lots of things about myself that I'd like to change if I had the chance. Now, I've never liked my nose. As a mere child I hated it and since I've | grown up my feeling in regard to it is desperately unchristian. It's syph jj a mean nose?it's too long and it is j fat at the end, and there's no way of j disguising it. It's a ruinous nose!" |i "Oh, mercy!" said the girl who was helping the other girl dispose of the j candy. "I wouldn't feel tnat way ! about ltl Why, after one gets used to j It one never notices It, really I Con- . stance, If you are careful to keep your I head turned so thai people don't get1 :j a profile view?." | J "Yes, that'll help a lot," broke In the J girl In blue s6rge. "Looking straight j it you one can't see how fat the tip ! >f your nose really Is, dear, ^nd I've : seen noses so much worse?all over a , person's face! Of course, your head ' Is small, and that makes your nose . more prominent. But I shouldn't feel I 30 bad about It?If we forget our af- j Hictions so much easier?" "Well, I think you have a lot of '[ nerve to call my nose an affliction!" ;j cried the girl with the chocolate. u "You talk as though I were a side- show freak, at the very least! Of course, It has Its faults, but It Isn't 3uch an Impossible nose, I'd have you know! I suppose I notice it more than any one else does, and I must say, Kitty Phlpps, that If I were vcu I wouldn't talk!" "I suppose you are lnsltuatlng something about my complexion!" said the girl In blue serge. "You've heard me mourn over It often enough and say I'd give my head If I could" change it. I'm not claiming to be a beauty and I know there are sometimes a few tiny spots on my face?" "Tiny!" cried the girl with the choc- j slates. "My goodness! I never saw j any one with more things the matter j with her face! If It Isn't broken out I It Is yellow-spotty or Just a gray- ! brown color?" "Yes, I've noticed that," eagerly j broke In the girl In brown. "How j Tunny Kitty's complexion acts some- i times! Did you ever notice that It j gets Just the color of her hair, so she looks all alike? I think it Is most curious!" "The hard part Is," said the girl who was helping dispose of the candy, 'that you can't get away from a bad : ?xL/lexion. There Isn't a thing you can do to distract attention from it, because it is the most prominent thing?" "I'm certainly much obliged to you!" interrupted the owner of the complexion that was under discussion. "I'm glad to find out that you regard me as a human monstrosity! My complexion may not be the finest on earth, but I guess I'd pass in a crowd! It isn't necessary to be an insipid pink and white to be good looking! ArtIsts have been known to rave over the color symphony of a girl like me? all a faint golden-brown, they call it! They?" "Anyhow," said the girl who was helping to dispose of the candy, "I'm glad I'm sensible enough to realize my weak points and not so foolish as to think I'm a regular Venus! SVhat I'd like to change Is my figure, j [ suppose you've noticed?" "Oh. indeed, we have!" interrupted J the girl In brown. "But I wouldn't ; worry over It so much. Of course, the | fashions are bound to change some Say and I suppose when It's no longer the style to look like a lath it'll be bad for you, but Just now you're all right. You're Just the thing! Why, everybody Is simply trying to look shapeless and lank." "I should think you would be glad," said the girl with the chocolate, "to know that you have absolutely no hips nor any shape at all." "Thank you so much!" tartly said the young woman under discussion. Tf you cant appreciate a figure that Is svelte and willowy I suppose that's frour misfortune! It takes a connoisseur to admire some types of beauty?typee out of the ordinary! 3ince you are beefy and billowy I suppose in self-defense you have to run down everybody else! Thank . goodness, I am what I am!" "Well, anyhow," sighed the girl In . brown, "barring my hair and eyes, my | complexion and teeth and figure and pars and nose, I think I'm rather good 1 looking! I'm really sorry for you un- J tortunatee!" Long Trip for Submarines. When Jules Verne wrote "Forty rhousand Leagues Under the Sea" few . >f his readers Imagined that his weird Idea would be accomplished within their lifetime, yet two submarines tiave started from Portsmouth, Eng- t land, for Australia, a distance of 13,- t v?/v ?II ?VI.V IV ?111 - SVU [Dim, WIllCU IUC7 Will HUWUlfllOU mder their own power, created by oil- * Jrlven engines. They are scheduled s :o reach Australia about May 1$, which ? tllcws for no loss of time from start :o finish. Each boat has oil engines r >f l,600diorsepower, calculated to de- i relop 360 revolutions per minute, and 1 K ill carry 11.000 gallons of paraffin as ' fuel and 1,600 gallons of lubricating y >11. They have as armaments four torpedo tubes, and on arrival will be ? itted with wireless telegraphy. They i M*e to be known as AE1 and AE2, be- 1 ing of the E class. They will be ee- J sorted as far as Singapore by his majesty's ship Eclipse. He nesitatea?no?ma luimci CUVW would but change those stolid countenances to furv. "She chooses the boy," he said. 1 The blacks seized the tall, fair pris- J oner. ' "No!" the woman shrieked. "No? J not him! You have another taw?the king's counselor told me?you dare ! not refuse a life for a life! I choose the child, but I claim the right to die 1 in place of this man." She stretched ' out her hand toward the captive whose 1 hair was golden as the boy's. "No! ? no! Do not listen to him. Guard the 1 prisoner! You who are chief here? 1 you dare not refuse. It Is your law? ? your unchangeable law!" < The woman whispered In the boy's 1 ? ear, and thrust his hand Into the hand of the tall, fair man, who struggled ( vainly with his captors In desperate ' protest. ' "Take them away! Take them away!" the king commanded. "This \ man and the boy are free!" The woman smiled and turned her 1 face toward the other prisoner? 3 slight of build, dark of countenance. -1 The executioners bound them to- ^ gether. 1 'T die," she murmured low, "with 1 you!" ' At even, the king of the Scarabee 1 islands listened moodily to the swish of the bamboo trees. "Which man did the woman love 4 best, oh, king?" ' The king of the Soarabee Islands siiently regarded his latest favorite In 1 the glow of the moon. Introduced Potato Into Pranoe. Recently the hundredth anniversary of the death of Antolne Augustln Par- ( mentler, who Introduced potatoes Into Prance, was celebrated by the farmers 1 of his native land. 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