“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
<
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