“Kola; Twenty Three” dealer at her elbow to prompt and stimulate bidding. Joe had got the message through his. office, to which his friend 'had sent: it as well as his house. He touched the silkiest of the rugs ca ressingly, saying rather low: “It feels like Alice’s hair.” Then blushing. “You don’t mind. Remem ber I haven’t seen her for three whole days.” “No, I don’t mind in the least; bridgegrooms ought to stay foolish a year at least,” Miss Smith said, pick ing up a second rug. “This is mine,” she went on. “Two are enough for you. I’d limit you to one, only I’m cramped for rug space.” “I’m going to pay for the three,” Joe said calmly. “Please, ma’am, you take choice.” • v “You are a fool, Joe—in spite of be ing sensible,” Miss , Smith answered, laughing softly. “You -can’t give me things. now you are married ■ - not though I d^d more than half bring you up.” “Why not?” Joe demanded, ‘•I’ll make three thousand out of this west- ern business, and it came through you----- ” *• “Alice will need it all—and more. In fact, my son, you’ll learn in time, that ‘all and more’ is the motto of matrimony,” Miss Smith interrupted. Joe gave her a hurt look, “I don’t believe it—asking your pardon,” he said, stoutly. “It may be with some wives—but Alice! Alice is as gener- ous as sunshine.” “I hope you are right—there may be exceptions,” Miss Smith said, waving him good-by as they left the meeting place. When he was out of sight, she smiled—at first with merry malice, then somewhat sadly, As she walked on something haunted her—the bang- ing of the receiver on the hook. She had some way caught it, as one catches weird sounds at thè end of ipessages. Being, wise in women ways, also full of leisure, she decided to see Alice right away. Thus she encountered Mrs. Creston upon the steps. That ‘ lady’s frigid, yet reproachful eyes, told her that she had done well to come. Smiling EXPERIENCES OF THE FIRST LIGHTNING ROD LUCINDA MISS GAZZAjyi DISCOVERS AND WEDS SWEETHEART Bohemian Priest Antedated Franklin She Unlnten Queer Way Irj- Whfch tIonaIly/'Çvyipèd’’’Hatpin From imgri In Xar. Another In Experiments With Conductor And now the for Lightning. dove of peace-has come to rest on Though Franklin will continue to \ '“Girls,*’ said 'ffliednaa^’“! certaifily beautiful Marble receive the honor that is his due as did have an extraordinary experience Mansions at Corn- the inventor of the first practical Acts directly and peculiarly By Martha McCulloch-Williams this morning in a Madison avenue car. on the Hud- lightning rod, the study of atmospher on the blood; purifies, enriches Crowded, this car' was, full of people, (Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Press.) where dwells ic electricity goes back at least to and revitalizes it, and in this but it seemed not quite so. full at the who, until the time of Tullius Hostllius, who way builds up the whole sys middle, and so I worked my way “My child, are you sure?” Mrs. other day perished in an attempt to “draw fire there, gently; the best I coufii? Creston ejaculated with a nervous lift Take it. Get it today. Antoinette from the sky.” Cicero, In one of his tem. “Standing about a third of the way of the brows. In usual liquid form or in chocolate Gazzam, the $3,- down the car on the right was a orations against Catline, calls atten- coated tablets called Sarsatabs. Alice Moore, her daughter, six 000,000 heiress tion to the destruction of the gilded woman who was holding -on to a strap months married, sat up suddenly, dig who has long statue of Romulus by lightning as an and facing outward, so that her back ging her fists baby fashion into much- searched for her' evil omen. A lightning bolt vividly AS TOLD IN PLAIN ENGLISH was toward me as I worked along swollen eyes. She was an uncom soul mate. The described by Virgil in the eighth past her. She was about the same monly pretty young woman, but had quest hs$ en.d^d; all worry and disap book of the Aeneid damaged the hind height as I, and when I passed her wept and raved herself, out of all Truth About Young Man With my hat" caught on hers and it seemed pointment are over, for the ideal com legs of the bronze Capitoline Wolf, Real “Excelsior comeliness in the hour she had wait ” Banner, and That to cling there for a minute, but then panion has been discovered in the per and the visitor to the Capitoline Mu ed for her mother. Mrs. Creston had Lamb of Mary’s. it got free and I passed on, to reach son of Charles B. Galvin, an employee seum today can still discern the answered a tempestuous summons, up for a strap, myself when I had got of New York city, who is engaged on marks upon the metal. A learned expecting »nothing more than the “Excelsior” is a poem about a just, beyond her, and. then what do .the, aqueduct and says he is a civil priest by the name of Divisch Is said usual after-honeymoon $ quarrel, and young who walked one winter you think? engineer. ‘Miss Gazzam and her soul to have erected the first lightning con evening man been stunned by a demand to take through a village in the Alps. “When I raised my arm up to reach mate‘were united in marriage. ductor In Europe. He set it up at her daughter home at once. for the strap, there, lying oh the top The bride, who is still a young wom Prend! z, Bohemia, in 1754, and it was The hotel keeper stood in his door “As sure as one can be over the of my arm was a hatpin, a hatpin- an, has already been in the limelight, 130 feet high. Though the Emperor and told him the rooms were all •phone,” Alice said, her voice break from the hat of the woman I had just brought into publicity by the results Stephen and the Empress Maria The taken, but anyhow the young man ing. on- every word. “To think . Joe passed! When my hat caqght in her of an earlier search for a spirit affin resa publicly proclaimed their confi knew he didn’t» have enough money should act so! I—I wouldn’t—mind— hat it caught under the head of that ity. When a young girl she became dence in thé Inventor, a most dias- for tips, So he went on. He carried so much—if it was anybody young pin and drew it out and snapped it- interested in thé psychologic and this trous drought that afflicted the coun a banner reading “Excelsior.” Ona and pretty—but to slight me for— forward just^so that it lodged on my interest was Increased by the death try a year later was ascribed by the theory is that he was a drummer for that hateful old thing!” arm. of her mother. Reaching womanhood, superstitious populace to the new tan an upholstery house and the other is “You forget you haven’t told me,” “Well, I handed the hatpin back to she decided that the astral bodies gled device, and Divisch was com that he was a demented breakfast Mrs. Creston coaxed. her and she smiled and I smiled and should point out- her true soul mate, pelled to take it down. It is not prob food inventor. He was found next Alice had sunk back among her that’s all there was to it; but really, and thenceforth the hunt was on. But able that Franklin was acquainted morning near the top of the moun pillows. From them she said: “ 'She I ’s tain and his relatives were notified. now, wasn’t that extraordinary?”— i the way was not to be smooth. Going with Divisch’s experiment. a Miss Smith—of all names—Joe Mary had a lamb that she spoiled New York Sun.’ ***- •' west, to. Los Angeles, she consulted knew her years ago it seems—and b by overfeeding and cuddling. She a psychic clairvoyant, Marshall Clark actually, she behaves as though he took it to school with her one day by name, who soon undertook to prove belonged to her. He has made me and the lamb bothered the spelling FORMER EDUCATION OF GIRLS that he, and he only, could satisfy her have her here—well, at first I didn’t class, so the teacher kicked it out ’of soul longings. All might have been mind—though I never really liked the front door. Not having any sense Glance at the Methods of Sixty Years well if Mrs. Marshall Clark had not her. Still, she was so plain, and ever of direction, it? blatted around the Ago Shows Great Advance been thrown on the screen, but her so much older than he was—I couldn’t schoolyard until finally the teacher of Present. appearance was the signal for a mov well object. And she has a nice house sent Mary home with it and told her ing picture show in which Miss Gaz of her own, and one meets good if she ever brought it again there When one realizes the state of fe- zam was the puppet thrown around people there—the sort I do want to would be trouble. Next spring Ma male education sixty* years :ago, its by the infuriated wife. get in with. Her cook is an artist— ry’s father sold the lamb on the ris progress as evinced today is marve Still Miss Gazzam was not con- I said in fun, I meant to steal the ing .market. lous indeed. vinced that the astral bodies had cook away—then Miss Smith came In the first half of the Nineteenth made a mistake. Clark started for Mothers will nua Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing back at me, laughing hard. Century, the policy bf “seeming,” Reno to get a divoi’ce, but before go Byrup the best remedy to use for their children “Do—if you can. Then I can take rather than of “being,” was followed ing he queered himself by declaring luring the teething period. Joe with a perfectly good con- throughout—languages and society that at last “he had the right pig by science.” manners were considered all import the tail.” ’ Not so. Miss Gazzam then A New Napoleon Statue. “I must say that was bold,” Mrs. ant—there were no gameq and the and there decided she was not predes- Gen. Niox recently discovered in Creston interrupted bridling. only form of exercise was that of tined for Clark, and returned to her /he State statue repository a bronze Her daughter went on: walking, with riding for the wealthy home, sadder but much wiser, Quick statue of Napoleon I by Seurre, of lhughed as much as any pf us—but girls. which the Invalides only possesses a ly Mrs. Clark marshaled her forces he hasn’t been quite the same ever The schools were small and suffered and brought suit for $150,000 for the plaster replica. Yesterday work was since. I told him, coming here. I from bad classification in consequence, alienation of her husband’s affections. commenced in the coprtyard of the thought she was an old cat—and he as classes had to be made up fr.om Less than a year ago Miss Gazzam Invalides on the removal of the plas said: ‘What a pity more women girls of widely differing ages, while ter statue, which is to be replaced in settled the case by paying $25,000 to aren’t catty.’ But the next day he “teaching” consisted of hearing les sooth the wounded wife, who in turn a few days by the bronze original.—* sons “got by heart,” often without brought me a new ring, and the day Paris Press. swore not to sue for divorce, not to any explanation. after took me to the opera—so I prosecute the deluded affinity search When one readâ thé report of an overlooked things until last week. Pettit’s Eye Salve First Sold in 1807, examiner of a girls’ school only 30 er further, and that Miss Gazzam’s re Then we had box seats for the Savoy over 100 years ago; sales increase . years ago, that “many girls showed a lations with the clairvoyant had been —and I simply couldn’t lift my head yearly; wonderful remedy; cured mil quite proper. • great aptitude for mathematics, but lions weak eyes. All druggists oi —you know what may headaches are The first chapter ended thus, Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. parents discouraged continuance of —how I can’t bear anybody about sound education* after the age of '12 to how she became acquainted with me. I told Joe he must go—and he Depended on the Dog. or 13 in order to ‘keep the girl femi Mr. Galvin and discovered in him did—and took her—then today—I— A very small boy was trying to lead nine,’ ” the change in the popular esti her real soul mate, the bride refuses I—She . broke off, shuddering a big St. Bernard dog up the road mation of women’s capacity is indeed, to state, though she declares “it is strongly, her hands over her face. “Where are you going to take th< marvelous.—Christian Science Mon- really very romantic. “Well!” Mrs. Creston encouraged*. The soul affinity is described as a dog, my little man?” inquired a passer Alice sat up again, her hands to her sturdily built man of about 35, simple by. “I—I’m going to see where— forehead. “You’ll take me home, of in his language and manner, and hav where he wants to go first,* was thf course—and—and—have a lawyer to Danger Ahead. ing the appearance of a very, practi breathless reply. see about a separation. I’ll never Because the motorman would not cal person. Miss Gazzam’s father, agree to a divorce—it’ would please heed their expostulations, but kept the once a state senator in Pennsylvania, Coroner’s Verdict in. India. *hem too well.” car -jerking along within bumping dis now lives in Philadelphia. The young For quaintness it would be hard tc . .“Alice! Can’t you tell a straight tance of the back of the slow-moving woman inherited her fortune and the beat the verdict returned in India oi story! ” Mrs. Creston asked sharply. wagon which bore a “Danger” sign, estate at Cornwall from her mother a man whose fate it had been to as Again Alice shuddered: “I’m com- half the passengers got off father than who died a few years ago after hav sauge a tiger’s appetite. “That Pand Ing to the worst part,” she said drop take chances, on being blown up in the ing obtained a divorce. The ideally so died of tiger eating him. Ther< ping her hands. “This morning she explosion that was sure to result from matched couple will have a honey was no other cause of death.” called over the ’phone—rather made the apparently inevitable collision. moon tour including Philadelphia, Bal afternoon gown of velvet, her maid call—that in itself was sus Out of respect for their determination timore and Washington, after which which is quite the thing for dressy picious. When I answered I could to save life and limb even at the cost they will tour Europe. wear, shows a pretty waist . effect. 'hear her,- indistinctly, prompting the “This Morning She Called Over the of another carfare the ‘motorman stop The lapels are of "satin, pu t on wrong girl what to say. And the girl said: . ’Phone.” ped the car and asked if they were side-up fashion. ‘Oh! Mrs. Moore, please tell Mr. willing to give him another trial on his The overskirt arrangement is also and smothering sensation her best, she put out a detaining Moore, the moment he comes home, CIVIL WAR VETERAN WHO promise to drive cautiously. novel. after eating you really .he is wanted amidships—kola; twen hand, saying pleasantly: “Mrs. Cres .■ They were, and piled into the car. HEADS MILITIA OF IDAHO Your Two minutes later the dangerous wag ty-three. He’ll understand—you won’t ton, do please turn back. ought to take Mostetters’ forget?’ Then, of course, I asked, daughter must decide something on pulled off the tracks and allowed Stomach Bitters. It acts The governors Mean Trick to Play on Rival, ‘Who wants him?’ and the answer right away, and I'm sure will want them to pass. Then they saw for the the various A characteristic anecdote is told of your advice. ” quickly, tones the stomach was: ‘Just a family friend. But be first time the name of the combusti states have found Cherubini, the most jealous of the lr- Mrs. Creston gasped. Here, indeed, ble material that had driven them into | sure to send him—unless you do, he’ll ed a wise- ex ritable genus of composers, He had and aids digestion, thus re •lose a great chance.’ You see they was adventure. But before she could a frenzy of fear. The wagon was an pedient to place been prevailed upon to be present at moving the cause of the • have an understanding—talk in cipher make up her mind what to say, .she xcd wagon.—New York Times. at the head of the the first representation of the work of trouble. was in her daughter ’ s Always keep a presepe©. • as it were.” state militia men a confrere, and, during the first acts, “What did you answer?” Mrs. Cres Further, Miss Smith was explaining. bottle handy for just such whose trained which were much applauded, by the .Mixed as to Names. “My dear child, surprises are ton asked. cases. It is also for Indi army experience public, he had kept a gloomy silence. A young woman, who has a treach- , , Alice bridled. “I hung up the re always stupid—but don’t you dare fit them to jump The third act was less favorably re gestion, Dyspepsia, Consti ceiver with a bang,” she said, begin- tell Joe I betrayed him. I wouldn’t, erous memory for names, had a droll .nto ine saddle at ceived,/and a certain passage especial ■. hing to beat a tottoo upon the carpet. only you ought to have choice—all experience not long ago. 3ny moment in ly seemed to cast a cold blanket over pation, Liver troubles, Colds, She had encountered in a railway Her mother sighed, knitting her the rugs are adorable—but one has Try the event of mob the spectators, when the old maestro, Grippe and Malaria. forehead, but after a minute said: one’s fancies. So please put on your station a face that seemed familiar disturbances or to the astonishment of his friends, was it today. •::*‘Well! "There’s nothing for it but to hat' and come with me.. Eyes are to her. She remeinbered that she had fights seen to applaud heartily. “Do you > 'Wait and watch. As sure as Joe I worth so much more® than words—aS me.J; the . yQung man at the house of ■ that are liable to at factional any time break really like that duo?” asked one of Moore commits himself fully, home ; we go I’ll tell you the whole stpry.’’,. a. ■ friertd'*stSjp©. ^wee^s.-.before, but for Late that night Alice looked . up: theVijfe • oY. her ¿stie^ceuld ndt/ftf all Out and. get beyond the power of the them; “I should have thought it was you come. I wish, though, you could from Joe’s shoulder, to say, as she recollect his name. Filially, however, police. The state militia, or National one of the poorest and coldest in the , ry.sii.ib --lie’s rising so, you stroked his cheek: “You must ask? when the young man stopped to shake Guard, is a vital civil-military arm whole opera.” “You idiot,” answered .could get such splendid alimony.”’ . of, the people say§ JJpnjan Life, stand the maestro, with genuine naivete, hands, she asked: nicest meh you know to dine ' An hour later Joe, the culprit, aAh* ing for law and order between the “don’t you see that if I did not applaud “ Surely this is Mr. Tombstone, with us next week — I ’ m going to the ensnaring Miss Smith stood peaceful civilian and mob rule. *t he might possibly; cut it out?” whom I met at Mrs. Walker ’ s. ” considering covetuously three partic- make a little party then for our dear Brig. Gen. A. M. Rowe, who holds The stranger smiled. “You’re right 'uiarly fine rugs. Each was unique Miss Smith.” as to our place of meeting,” said he, the title of adjutant general of Idaho, Too Quick With Scorn. after its kind—together thye were “but somewhat twisted as .to the name is one of the old guard, who, respond That marvelous story of the British the pitiful wreck and remnant of a ing. to the first call of Lincoln, in 1861, expedition to New Guinea, with its —A am Mr. Stonegra^e!” No Telephoned Prescription. poor gentleman’s collection. The col fought through the Civil war from its discovery of a new pygmy race, re Boxing Children’s Ears. Time was valuable to the dyspeptic lector was in a hospital, and would • ‘ • • . f < • vefy beginning until the last bugle minds a writer that in the past stay-at- Medical men are fully aware of the -never leave it alive. Miss Smith had who had moved to the suburbs and Improve Machines. somehow found out about him, and wanted an old prescription filled in > ’ The occupation of large punching call. Most of his service 'was in the home people have sometimes erred In lamentable consequences that often Army of the Cumberland and he par treating travelers* tales with scorn. result from the pernicious habit of a hurry, so he telephoned back the pre was doing her best to salve his pride. machines used in boiler shops and He had friends willing to bury him, scription that had set him up early in similar establishments has been great ticipated in the battles of Shiloh, Per There was, for instance, the descrip boxing childrens’ ears or otherwise ryville, Stone River, Liberty Gap, tion by James Bruce in 1770 of the striking them on the head or face. It but he wanted to bury himself, as well the summer. ly improved in efficiency and economy Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Rocky barbarous Abyssinian custom of eat is, however, high time that laymen, Very politely the New York drug as to pay hospital charges. recently by a simple system of electric and Resaca, ‘ be- ing raw meat cut from the living ani and especially teachers, should be The rugs, well sold, would do both gist regretted that he could not acr control. These machines heretofore Face Ridge, coming totally disabled, bis right arm mal which was ridiculed by everybody. made acouainted with these results. —-Joe, who had a house to embellish, commodate him. have been operated by a foot attach a wife to pamper, could not spend “Why not?” said the dyspeptic, “I ment, but this is cut- out entirely and being permanently disabled by a shell Yet Bruce has even recently been proved right. When Paul Du Challlu money to better purpose. They had have given you the number, the date the push button placed at a point wound in the last fight. Before enlisting in the war, Mr. explored equatorial Africa In 1861 and talked it over before Joe went West and the name of the doctor, and the where it is much more accessible. on a flying trip, The purchase was druggist in this store is right at my Two men can, by this arrangement, Rowe was a school teacher in. Portage described the wonderful gorillas and to be kept a profound secret from elbow to take down whatever you do the work formerly requiring three, county, Ohio, and having given four also the nation of dwarfs there he was “Before I began using Cascareis I had Alice until her birthday, next month, say, so there cannot possibly be any and the work is said to be done in a years to his. country, he again took up discredited none too politely by the his study, and entered the preparatory British Royal Geographical society. a bad complexion, pimples on my face, when the rugs would be spread out mistake.” .mjo.ch.imore accurate manner. department ..of Oberlin, college, Ober Yet subsequent explorers amply vindi and my food was not digested as it should . ' ____________ • _______ to surprise and delight her. She had “That may be very true,” was the have been. Now I am entirely well, and lin, O. Having graduated, Mr. Rowe cated his veracity. no discriminating rug knowledge, but reply, “but I cannot telephone the , ‘5- the pimples have all disappeared from my again took up his favorite profession, 1 '• ’’/Mistaken Identity. was mightily impressed with the fact prescription, I will mail you a copy face. I can truthfully say that Cascareti No Cause for Complaint. and for many years continued in edu Smifkins was, to put it mildly, a that to own rare ones was a sort of or put up the medicine and send* it are just as advertised; I have taken only Customer—I ordered a gallon of two hallmark of artistic plenishing. Miss to you; I’ll do anything in fact to boaster, and when he was giving cational work as principal in the' high boxes of them.” Irish whisky last week, and I find that Smith liked her negatively, albeit she help you out except to . telephone the Brown glqwing accounts of the. fine school at Steubenville, O.; as superin Clarence R. Griffin. Sheridan, Ind. Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. had the usual woman sense that Joe, prescription. That is out of the ques holiday he had had in Paris Brown tendent. of schools at Huron, S. D., what you sent me was made in New Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken or Grip«, her some time protege, had chosen tion.” •" suspected that the veracious Smifkins and as superintendent of the school York. 10c, 25c, 50c. Never sold in bulk. The gen Dealer—Well, I don’t see where you uine tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed to rather ill. The dyspeptic said he would be had been no further than Folkestone. at Little Falls, Minn., and Payette and cure or your money back. McCammon, Idaho. Mr. Rowe was have any kick coming. Isn’t New York It was to keep the secret inviolate blessed and turned to the village drug lS“ He didn’t say so, however. ’ rish enough to suit you? chairman of the department of graded the cipher call had been agreed on. gist for sympathy, But he got. na; ^..‘‘And what do you think? Smifkins rattled on; “as T was strolling..along schools- and academies^ of South Dako Miss Smith thought she knew women, sympathy. One Theory. “I knew he wouldn’t do it,” said the the Rue de Rivoli one afternoon a pal ta’s educational exhibit at the World’s but it had not dawned upon her that “I wonder why the doctor always Jalr at Chicago., _ During these years Alice would be jealous. She had made druggist’, “No druggist on dearth will* ’ hadn’t v§8^tjffr..?3?ga,rsL came up and of educatton^l /activity, he was an en- wants you to stick out your tongue?” BEST MEDICINE e&apZfs t that you ?’ the call urgent because another pos telephone a prescription to euother. ^Baid: ¿husiaattey-wofker in the Grand Armj “Probably to cut short a lot of gab, * : L < And*ws^'ft;iL ’ ••g¿j¿¿ Brown. — IdeaS^ myself. ” . - • *< • I wouldn ’ t sible purchaser had appeared with a I my dear. ” for C oughs & C olds of the Republic. Sarsaparilla FASHION HINTS For That Heartbum Bad BLOOD