HER GLOWING EYES By GRACE B. WHARTON. (Copyright, 1914, by W. O. Chnpmnn ) Verne Tyson roused up with a start, He rubbed his eyes, he shook himself. Then he stared across the table where his club acquaintance, Colonel Reeves so-called, should have been. No col onel. Then beyond that at the spot where last he had seen the volatile, never-to-be-forgotten Madame Hor tense Vassour. Gone. A discreet wait er, napkin on arm, approached. His well trained face expressed a mild inquiry, a strong suggestiveness of being of service. "How long have I been here?" asked Verne abruptly. "Three hours, sir." "Alone?" "Yes, sir." "And the others?" demanded Verne, with a sweep of bis hand, "They Joked about your siesta and seemed to think It sport to give you the surprise of waking up alone." "So," muttered Vorne, and his face showed that he did not like the sit uation. He arose. The waiter helped Mm to his hat and gloves, bowed his thunks for a careless liberal fee, and Verne walked from the cafe garden Into the street. "It wasn't the wine I didn't touch It," he ruminated. "It was not ennui, for the colonel and bis lady friend were positively brilliant this evening. It was that woman's eyes!" Verne knew little of the colonel, less of the woman. The former lived a mysterious existence at the club. The lady was his cousin, he had said. From the first her eyes had repelled Verne, becausa every time tl:ey cpar- "How Long Hava I been Here." kled they gave him an unaccountably uneasy feeling, She was pretty, witty, winning in her ways. She was Intelli gent, too. The conversation had drift cd towards the occult, hypnotism and all that during the little refection. Then then "I went to sleep," reflected Verne, "and I remember my lady's glowing eyes the last thing. Iirr-rr! It 1b un canny. Perhaps she tried the art mes meric on me. I'll go and see Leila and forget all about It." To Leila he was affianced. Society saw an Ideal love match in their pros pective union. The Boyds were wealthy and Verne was the heir of his uncle, the richest man In the dis trict. The wedding had been set for two weeks ahoad. It was fortunate that Leila had some other callers that evening, for Verne felt dull and uncompanionable. He could not shake off a certain apathetic, letharglo feeling that oppressed him. Leila noticed it, and when he left she whlBpered softly: "We Bhall be alone tomorrow eve ning come early." Hut something prevented. The fol lowing morning Mr. Tresham, Verne's uncle, sent his nephew away on a busi ness mission to a city a day's Journey distant It covered a stay of some weeks, where attention to a lagging lawsuit would require constant vigi lance. Verne wrote a hurried note to Leila explaining the situation. Mrs. Vas sour passed out of his mind, but she was revived temporarily two days later, when to his surprise Verne met Colonel Reeves on the street in Trux ton. "Heard you was here on business," spoke Reeves familiarly. "Some busi ness of importance likely to keep me here for a week or two. If you are going to make any kind of a prolonged stay, we can find pleasant mutual quarters down at the Ramblers club." Verne thought not any too much of Reeves, but time was likely to hang heavy on his hands, the colonel was good company and some very pleas ant days passed. "My cousin, Mrs. Vassour, Is still at Mldvalo," announced the colonel one day. "By the way, she wrote me that he met your uncle at a reception. Fine old gentleman. He was very at tentive and courteous toward her." If Verne had not known that his rich relative was a confirmed bach elor, he would have felt uneasy. As It was, when he wrote to his uncle lie jocularly expressed the sentiment "beware of the vldders!" and gave bis uncle a hint that Mrs. Vassour waa scarcely en regie with upper crust society. I At the and of two weeks there cam m some vast surprises for Verne. For j several days he bad not received any word from Leila. His uncle, too, waa strangely silent. Then there appeared at Truxton a young lawyer who some times did business for Mr. Tresham. "You are to return borne at once," said this visitor. "But the lawsuit here?" remon strated Verne. "I have got It In Just the right shape, I am familiar with Its details and can certainly be ot use regarding It." But the lawyer very gravely and seriously reiterated the unqualified di rection from Mr. Tresham, so Verne returned to Mldvale. It was an Inexplicable and chilling reception that awaited him. He had never seen his uncle so distant. "Yes, I sent for you," he said stern ly. "I suppose I need not tell you why," and he passed across the table between them three checks for ten thousand dollars each. They bore dates a few days apart and the can celled stamp of the bank. They had been made out payable to self or bear er, and they had been cashed through a bank at Truxton. "Well?" questioned Verne, looking up In a puzzled way, "what has this got to do with me?" "Have you the audacity to ask," challenged his uncle stormlly. "Lis ten I know all. You forged my name to those checks. You alone can 1ml' tate my handwriting so cleverly, for on occasions I have warranted your using my signature. You alone had access to the check book In my safe, and those three chocks were torn out from the back of my check book." ur course Verne indignantly pro tested. It was of no avail. His uncle swore that unless he went away to a distant solitude he would disown him, Verne found the Boyd home shut against him. Leila had been sent away to a relative convinced of his guilt, his uncle claimed. A broken man, confronted by a mys tery he could not fathom, Verne re mained In seclusion for a week. One evening a visitor was announced. It was Mrs. Vassour. She was pale, wretched looking. She inquired of Verne whore he had last seen Reeves. He told her at Truxton. She said he had disap peared from there. She broke out into bitter vituperation of the wretch who had borrowed all her money and left her penniless. Verne felt sorry for the adventur ess. He inquired gently as to her necessities and tendered her some money. She took it, started to leave the room, and then, some wild im pulse Btirring her, returned to his side. "You are a gentleman and a friend," she said, her voice quivering. "I con fess all." In amazement Verne listened to her story. A past mistress in the art hypnotio, she had placed him under the Influence of her power that eve ning at the cafe garden: She had forced him to reveal all about his uncle and the details ot his business. While he was at Truxton she had visited Mr. Tresham. Upon him Bhe had worked her spell also. Uncon sciously he had produced the check book and followed her directions. Reeves had cashed the checks at Truxton and had disappeared with the money. "I do not know where he Is," said Mrs. Vassour, "but I know his old associations, and if you promise not to prosecute me I will assist in run ning him down." Which was done, and nearly the whole of the money recovered. Then, amid the amazing manifestation that the signature to the checks -was hit own, Mr. Tresham was more than con trite. He gave the entire amount re covered to his nephew, and Leila be came a happy bride. Invisible, But Supporting. The most wonderful part of a planl Is usually that which Is not visible The roots act not only as anchors tc hold the plant firm in the ground, but as wandering mouths, picking up food and drink for their parent. Roots travel amazing distances li search of their requirements. A tim ber merchant, excavating for a sewei in Gloucester, found an elm root on and a quarter Inches in diameter and 63 feet long running through a bed ol sawdust from the tree to the nearesl water, the Gloucester and Berkelej canal. The aggregate length of root thrown out by some plants is almost incred ible. A cucumber will, within It short life of about half a year, throw out from ten to fifteen miles of roots Clover roots will go straight dowl to a depth of six to nine feet it search of moisture, and coltsfoot, on of the most powerful and perslsteni of weeds, sends its suckers down U an even greater depth. "Toelno the Mark." The phrase "toeing the mark" Is ol fairly old and somewhat obscure orl gin. Several different opinions ar held as to how it originated, but th derivation most generally accepted U that it comes from an old fashioj among military men in drilling to draw a line upon the ground and make th tompany "dress" by toeing this mark The phrase thus acquired the mean ing of "standing up" to something, an so became used in quarrels, when oni ot the parties would challenge tht other to stand up to him. Even now adays in Borne of the country district) in Great Britain It is customary fot lads when quarreling to provoke theii opponents finally to the encounter bj drawing a line upon the ground am tolling them to "toe the mark." Tin meaning of the phrase as now general ly used Is to come right forward an "tan4 up" to anything. COSTLY MILE OF WIRE ERECTED DURING 8IEGE OF PORT ARTHUR, IN 1905. Estimated That Ten Thousand Lives Were Lost and Millions of Dollars Expended In "Condemning" the Right of Way. "There are many individual miles of city-built telephone line that have cost well up In the hundreds of thou sands of dollars," remarked an offi cer of the United States army who saw much of the war between Russia and Japan a few years ago, "but the mile of telephone wire that cost, be yond all comparison, more money and lives than any other line ever built was erected during the siege of Port Arthur In 1905. "For weeks and months the Japs had been eating away at the defenses of the RusBlnn fortress, but with small (success. The hills around the town find harbor seemed to have been fash ioned by nature for defense. The Japs, though they had brought up tnelr great 12 and 14-Inch siege guns, were able to make but slight impres sion upon the forts and none at all upon the town or the Russian fleet that lay safe within the Inner harbor. The trouble was thnt, though the great guns 'Osaka babies' they called tnem, arter the name of the town where they were manufactured could easily carry from their positions into Port Arthur and the harbor, there was intervening a great range of hills from five to six hundred feet in height and crowned with the most powerful fortifications In the world to that ante. Hence, the gunners could not get a sight of their targets. "Suddenly the 'Osaka babies' com menced to open fire upon the town and harbor, and the Russians smiled, for experience had shown them how Impossible it was for the shells to strike their unseen targets. But, to their astonishment, after a shell or two, one lit squarely upon the main building in Port Arthur and shortly after one plunged through the deck of a battleship and sank her like a stone. "In a Bhort time the town 'was wrecked and the fleet, with half Its Bhlps sunk or disabled, had to put out to sea. "For, from the telephone In the hand of the Jap hidden on the sum mit of 203 Meter hill there ran a wire to the batteries where stood the great 'Osaka babies,' and the whole thing became as simple as a kindergarten problem. The man with the telescope observed where the shells from the 'babies' struck; he reported It to the (nan with the telephone, who, In turn, telephoned it to the gunners of the 'babies.' They modified their fire un der these directions and placed their great shells as accurately as though they were firing point-blank at a tar get. "It was the beginning of the end of Port Arthur, that mile of telephone line running up the flank of 203 Meter Hill. It was but a single wire mount ed on poles so small tthat they were Invisible a quarter of a mile distant, but it cost 10,000 men and several mil lions of dollars In ammunition and other war-cost to 'condemn' the right of way." Ichthyol. The Importation of ichthyol, a pe culiar asphaltic material found In Aus tria, which finds application after ap propriate chemical treatment as a very Important medicament, has been, along with many other products, cut off by the war. The raw material comes from a fosstllferous deposit near Seefeld, in the Austrian Tyrol. It Is carefully se lected and subjected to dry distillation. The distillate thus obtained is then sulphonated and subsequently neutral ized with ammonia. The use of this material has greatly increased in the last few years, and it has proved very beneficial. Almost immediately follow ing the beginning of the war its price doubled, going to over 60 cents an ounce. Already, however, a firm in St. Louis has a material on the market, which has been favorably recommend ed as an efficient substitute, closely re sembling Ichthyol itself. United States Geological Survey Bulletin. A Profession and a Home. That a married woman can keep up her profession and her home as well Is being successfully proved by the principal of one of the largest schools tor girls In New York. She has a 12-room apartment run by a capable maid and a Japanese cook. She took up her teaching again when her daughter was two years old and has managed to prepare her laughter for college at the age ot fif teen. Anne Warner, the authoress, also has been married three years and Joes her writing at home by settling her housekeeping by nine In the morn ing and then shutting herself up in her study to write until five the usual hours of a business man to which she considers herself entitled. Difficult "French fashions have stopped com ing over," says a New Yorker, "and evening gowns for the winter will in wnsequence be less decollete. A good thing, too, I said to a woman at a lance last week: "'How beautifully your daughter is iressed. Don't you find it difficult to keep her in clothes? "'Indeed I do!' my friend replied. Haven't you noticed the decollete own ahe'a wearing tonlghtf" I ' ""f ,luu . .;1 This is one of the latest Krupp is. SINKING ii ii T Li) p, n-, ,, ,i. m.i ii .. :i-WwMfcdfos Remarkable photograph of the sinking of four German destrovars in thn on a ooat tnat went to tne rescue of the GERMAN TOWN DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS This photograph of Neidenburg, East Prussia, was made Just after the Russians had left the city. Though unfortified and undefended, it was shelled for two hours and the hospital, the church and many other buildings were destroyed. MADAME PATTI VISITS THE WOUNDED v, wiiiiiMrtwfcaa.jRX. Madame Pattl, the famous singer, visiting the wounded Belgians in the Pattl ward of the Swansea hospital She sang at a concert In London in aid of the Belgian relief fund. NEW KRUPP GUNS FOR KAISER'S ?....'.rJ guns, several of which, it is said, have OF FOUR GERMAN DESTROYERS Boating survivors. Si-- f i FLEET been mounted on the German battle North sea, taken by a British officer FIRING AT A TAUBE British aircraft gun firing at a Ger man Taube aeroplane from an ar mored train in Belgium. The first pic ture to be shown of this guiu- Officer Makes Coward Brave. Paris. Nothing better illustrates the relations between French officers and privates than the following inci dent related by a wounded soldier: "One day under the peppering of mitrailleuse fire," he said, "a soldier fighting in the first rank was over come by panic and turned to the rear. The captain seized him by the arm, led him back to his post and remained beside him until he quieted. Shortly after we charged bayonet, and do yon know who led? It was the very man who wanted to fly. The captain had inoculated him with his own ooui age."