MAKE. VAN VOB ILLU5TPATI0; aifirAKrrar Tt 60BBs-tintiUQQrtfHY 8YN0P8I3. L Comt d Sabron, captain of French cavalry, takes to his quarters to raise by hand a motherless Irish terrier pup, and names It Pitchoune. He dines with tha Marquise d'Escllgnac and meets Mlsa Julia Redmond, American heiress, who sings for him an English ballad that lingers In his memory. Sabron Is ordered to Algiers, but Is not allowed to take servants or dogs. Miss Redmond offers to take care of the dog during his master's absence, but Pitchoune, homesick for his master, runs away from her. The Mar quise plana to marry Julia to the Duo de Tremont. Unknown to Sabron, Pitchoune follows him to AlgterB. Dog and master meet and Sabron gets permission from the war minister to keep his dog with him. Julia writes him that Pitchoune has ran away from her. He writes Julia of Pit choune. The Due de Tremont finds the American heiress capricious. A newspa per report that Sabron is among the miss ing after an engagement with the natives causes Julia to confess to her aunt that she loves him. Sabron, wounded in an en gagement, falls Into the dry bed of a river, and is watched over by Pitchoune. After a horrible night and day Pitchoune leaves him. Julia goes In search of Sa bron, reported missing; CHAPTER XV. Julia's Romance. From her iteamer chair the) Mar quise d'Escllgnac asked: "Are you absorbed in your book, Julia?" Mies Redmond faintly smiled as she laid it down. She was absorbed in but one thing, morning, noon and night, waking or sleeping: when and where Bhe should find him; how he was being treated. Had he been taken captive? He waj not dead, of that she "was sure. "What is the book, Julia?" "Le Conte d'un Spahi." "Put it down and let me speak to you of Robert de Tremont." Miss Redmond, being his guest and indebted to him. for her luxurious transportation, could not in decency refuse the request. "He knows nothing whatever of our errand, Julia." "Ah, then, what does he think?" Miss Redmond on the arm of her blue serge coat wore a band of white, in the center of which gleamed the Red Cross. The marquise, wrapped in a sable rug, held a small Pekinese lap dog cuddled under her arm, and had only the appearance of a lady of leis ure bent on a pleasure excursion. She did not suggest a rescuing party in the least. Her Jaunty hat was enveloped by a delicate veil; her hands were in cased in long white gloves. Now that she had encouraged her energetic niece and taken this decisive step, she re laxed and found what pleasure she might in tha voyage. "When we came on board last night, my dear, you remember that I Bat with Robert in the salon until . . . well, latlsh." "After midnight?" "Possibly; but I am fifty and he is thirty. Moreover, I am his godmother. He is enchanting, Julia, spiritual and sympathetic. I confess, my dear, that I find myself rather at a loss as to what to tell him." Miss Redmond listened politely. She was supremely indifferent as to what had been told to her host. This was Tuesday; they should reach Algiers ob Saturday at the latest. What news would meet them there? She held in her book the last dispatch from the ministry of war. Supposing the Cap tain de Sabron had been taken captive by some marauding tribe and was be ing held for a ransom! This was the Romance of a Spahi, in which she was absorbed. Taken captive! She could not let herself think what that might mean. "Robert's mother, you know, is my closest friend. His father was one of the witnesses of my marriage. I feel that I have brought up Robert . . . it would have bees so perfect." She sighed. "Ma tante!" warned Miss Redmond, with a note of pain in her voice. "Yes,, yes," accepted the marquise, "I know, my dear, I know. But you cannot escape from the yacht except in a lifeboat, and if you did it would be one of Robert's lifeboats! You must no be too formal with him." She tapped the nose of her Pekinese dog. "Be still, Mimi, that man is only a sailor! and if he were not here and at his duty you would be drowned, you little gooee!" The Pekinese dog was a new addi tion. Julia tried not to dislike her; for Julia, only Pitchoune existed. She could not touch Mimi without a sense of disloyalty. The boat cut the azure water with Its delicate white body, the decks glistened like glass. The sailor at whom Mimi had barked -passed out of sight, and far up in the bow Tremont, In white flannels, stood smoking. "I had to be very circumspect, my dear Julia, when I talked w'th Robert You see you are not engaged to Mon sieur de Sabron." The girl colored. "The sentimental woman in me," her aunt went on, "has responded to all your fantasies, but the practical wom an in me calls me a romantic goose." "Ah," breathed Miss Redmond, open ing her book, "ma tante, let me read." "Nonsense," said the marquise affec tionately. "The most Important part of the whole affair Is thai we are here that we are en route to Algiers, is It not?" The girl extended her hand grate fully. "And thank you! Tell me, what did you say to him?" The marquise hummed a little tune, and softly pulled Miml's ears. "Remember, my child, that if we find Monsieur de Sabron, the circumspec tion will have to be even greater still." "Leave that to me, ma tante." "You don't know," said the de termined lady quite sweetly, "that he has the slightest desire to marry you, Julia." Miss Redmond sat up in her chair, and flamed. "Do you want to make me miser able?" "I Intend to let my worldly wisdom equal this emergency, Julia. I want Robert to have no suspicion of the facts." "How can we prevent it, ma tante?' "We can do so if you will obey me." The girl started, and her aunt, look ing up at the Due de Tremont where he stood in the bow, saw that he showed signs of finishing his smoke and Of joining them. "Ma tante," said the girl quickly, "have you brought me here under false colors? Have you let him think . . ." "Hush, Julia, you are Indebted to him for accomplishing your own desire." "But I would never, never . . ." "Petite sotte," cried the marquise, "then you would never have been on this yacht." Intensely troubled and annoyed, Julia asked In a low tone: "For heaven's sake, ma tante, tell me what the Due de Tremont thinks!" Her aunt laughed softly. "The in trigue and romance of it all enter tained her. She had the sense of hav ing made a very pretty concession to her niece, of having accomplished a very agreeable pleasure trip for her self. As for young Sabron, he would be sure to Le discovered at the right moment, to be lionized, decorated and advanced. The reason that she had no wrinkles on her handsome cheek was because she went lightly through lite. "He thinks, my dearest girl, that you are like all your countrywomen a little eccentric and that you have 1 said: "Don't be ridiculous. I only wish to protect you, my chtld. I think I have proved my friendship. Re member, before the world yoa are nothing to Charles de Sabron. A woman's heart, my dear, has delusions as well as p&asiens." The girl crimsoned and bowed her charming head. "You are not called upon to tell Robert de Tremont that you are in love with a man who has not asked you to marry him, but you are his guest, and all I ask of you if that you make the voyage as agree able to him as you can, my dear." Tremont was coming toward them. Julia raised her head and murmured: 1 think you for everything. I shall do what I can." And to herself she said: "That is, as far as my honor will let me." TWO STORIES OF THE OPAL One Brought Bad Fortune, and the Other, an Imitation, Was Readily Parted With. A husband gave his wife an opal ring. Trouble began. Their two chil dred died. Sickness came to the wife. MUSIC PAINFUL TO BISMARCK CHAPTER XVI. in 1 "Yu Must Not Be Tco Formal With Him." strong mind. He thinks you one of the most tender-hearted and benevo lent of girls." "Ma tante, ma tante!" "He thinks you are making a llttl mission into Algiers among the sick and the wounded. He thinks you are going to sing in the hospitals." "But," exclaimed the girl, "he must think me mad." "Young men don't care how mildly mad a beautiful young woman is, my dear Julia." "But, he will find out . . . he will know." "No," said the marquise, "that he will not. I have attended to that. He will not leave his boat during the ex- cursion, Julia. He remains, and we go on shore with our people." "How splendid!" sighed Julia Red mond, relieved. "I'm glad you think so," said her aunt rather shortly. "Now I have favor to ask of you, my child." Julia trembled. "Ma tante!" "While we are on board the yacht you will treat Robert charmingly." "I am always polite to him, am not?" "You are like an Irritated sphinx to him, my dear. You must be dif ferent-" "I thought," said the girl In a sub dued voice, "that it would be like this. Oh, I wish I had sailed on any vesel, even a cargo vessel." Looking at her gently, her aunt The Duke In Doubt The short Journey 'to Africa over a calm and perfect sea, whose water were voices at her port to solace her, and where the stars alone glowed down like friends upon her and seemed to understand was a torture to Julia Redmond. To herself she called her aunt cruel, over and over again, and felt a prisoner, a caged creature. Tremont found her charming, though in this role of Florence Nightingale, she puzzled and perplexed him. She was nevertheless adorable. The young man had the good sense to make a discreet courtship and under stood she would not be easily won. Until they reached Algiers, Indeed, until the night before they disem barked, he had not said one word to her which might not have been shared by her aunt. In accordance with the French custom, they never were alone. The marquise shut her eyes and napped considerably and gave them every opportunity she could, but she was always present. The Due de Tremont had been often love during his short life. He was Latin and thought that women are made to be loved. It was part of his education to think this and to tell them this, and he also believed it a proof of his good taste to tell them this as soon as possible. He was a thoroughly fine fellow. Some of his forefathers had fought and fallen in Agincourt. They h ad been dukes ever since. There waa something distinctly noble in the blond young man, and Julia discov ered it. Possibly she had felt It from the first. From the moment that the old duch ess had said to Robert de Tremont: "Julia Redmond is a great oatch. my dear boy. I should like to have ou marry her," her son answered: "Bien, ma mere," with cheerful ac quiescence, and immediately consid ered it and went to Tarascon, to the Chateau d'Escllgnac. When his mother had suggested the visit he told her that he intended making up party for the Mediterranean. "Why don't you take your godmoth er and the American girl? Miss Red mond has an income of nearly a mil lion francs and they say she Is well- bred." "Very good, ma mere." When he saw Miss Redmond he found her lovely; not so lovely as the Comtesse de la Maine, whose invita tion to dinner he had refused on the day his mother suggested the Chateau d'Escllgnac. The comtesse was a widow. It is not very, very comma 11 faut to marry a widow, in the Fau bourg St. -Germain. Miss Redmond's beauty was different. She was self- absorbed and cold. He did not un derstand her at all, but that was tha American of her. One of his friends had married an American girl and found out after ward that she chewed gum before breakfast. Pauvre Raymond! Miss Redmond did not suggest such possi bilities. Still she was very different from a French Jeune fllle. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Hospital Barges. Northern France is rich in water ways, and hospital barges are already running between Paris and the battle- front, under the auspices of the Union des FemmeB de France. The hold s enameled white and fitted with 40 beds, and at the end is the nurse's retiring-room. The barge-master'a cabin is converted Into a living-room for two Burgeons. There is an ope-at- lng-room, too, with washing gear, an electric plant, and a perfect system of heating. To convert a Seine barge into a gondola of this kind cocta a bare $500, and the results are beyond praise especially to fracture cases, to whom the Jolting road is agony. The wounded are holBted in by means of small cranes, and the barge is then towed by steam or motor yachts lent by wealthy persons, who are more than glad not only to lend their boats free of charge, but to navi gate them in person, thus sharing In the work of mercy. - "Melodies Cling to Me," Said the Chancellor, "and I Find It Diffi cult to Release Myself." Talking of the arts, Bismarck said: "Of music I am very fond, but now I have to abstain from hearing it, be- The husband lost his job. The wife cause tears come only too readily Into became an Invalid. Just before she my eyes. My heart is stronger than died she gave the opal ring to her my head. Indeed, what self-control sister. The sister, knowing the his- I have has been bought by experience." tory of the ring, pawned it for what Many Instances occurred during our it would bring and burned the ticket, conversations which gave the truth to A wife presented her husband with this assertion. an opal ring. For two years Jones, The extreme mobility or his coun who owed him money, had walked on tenance and the various Bhades of ex- the other side of the street. Jones presslon which passed over it told ot a paid him on the first day he wore the sensitive, emotional temperament ring. His mining stock went up five "But I have a fire within me still which: points on the second day. The third burns at times with fury." Upon that day his salary was raised. Love nor I asked: "Are you in reality the Iron money could not purchase that opal Chancellor?" "No," he said, not natur-. NOVELTY THRILLS Wrecking of Trolley Car Is Some thing Unique. ring. A man dropped into a Maiden lane jewelry shop the other day and, tak ing off an opal ring set with pearls, said: 'A pearl has dropped out of my ring, I've worn that opal ten years, ally; the Iron I have created to use when necessary." And that I believed to be true. I asked him If he knew Wagner per sonally. "Yes," he answered; "but It was quite impossible for me to care for him or to encourage his society. I had and it has brought me nothing but not time to submit to his insatiable good luck." vanity. Before breakfast at breakfaBt, The jeweler picked it up, put his before and after dinner, Wagner de- lens to his eye and said: "Do you want the truth?" The man hesitated at the question. "Yes," he drawled slowly. It isn't an opal; its merely a piece of colored glass. The pearls are imitations." "Is that the truth?" he said slowly. "It is," said the jeweler, manded sympathy and admiration. His egotism was wearisome and intoler able, and his demand for a listener was so Incessant that I was obliged to avoid his company. I was too busy with my affairs to be able to give htm all or even a portion of the demands he would have claimed upon my time. But I admire his music greatly, though The man put the ring Into his coat I have been compelled to give up go- pocket. "Much obliged," he said. lng to the opera, because the beautiful "If I did and touching melodies I cannot get not know the reputation of your house out of my head; they cling to me, and 1 would not believe you." 1 nna it aimcuit to release myseii irom As he passed out of the door A sud- them, and now it tires me 10 oe so den inspiration came to him. much moved." Tom conversations Here." he said to the colored at- Wlttt wince msmarcK, Dy w. n, tendaat who held the door open for Richmond, the EngliBh Painter, In the him "wenr this, it will brine you North American Review. good luck." And he gave the "opal ring to the colored attendant and walked out. World's Largest Lighthouse. The most important lighthouse at the present time, so far as actual op erations are concerned, is the light ol Helgoland, from the fact that it is centered in the very heart of the naval war aone. Helgoland was ceded by Great Britain to Germany in 1890, in return for concessions made to Brit ain in East Africa. The Helgoland light is an electric one, and the most powerful in Ger many, and is claimed by the Germans to be the most powerful light In ex istence. The light consists of a clus ter of three revolving lights, having a lighting power of 40,000,000 candles, a magnitude of light which from fig ures alone is hard and difficult to realize. The lights are on the search light principle, and the cluster Is sur mounted by a single light of the same kind and size, that can be revolved Independently and three times aB fast as the three lights. The single light is put into use in case of accident to the cluster of three. The electric power is generated by two steam en gines and boilers, running belt-driven electric generators. Splendid Memory. Recently Philip O'Day, a coal deal er ot Brooklyn, died and it was found that for nearly twenty yars he had kept complete tally of his' business In his head. He had not the slightest knowledge of arithmetic, as taught but according to his own methods was able to remember who owed him and whom he owed, down to a cent His sons associated with him in the business kept a private account book, but they never dared let their father know about it. Just before his death the coal merchant told them the names of all debtors and the amounts due. Even In his dying moments he spoke with scorn of the need his sons found for using pencil and paper to take down what he told them. After their father had passed away the sons found hlB memory was even better than their account book, for they had neglected putting down certain' sums the old merchant had reported to them. Here Moving Picture Designer Have Produced a Truly Exciting 8cne Profit Shown In the Rent ing of Films. One of the most exciting scenes in motion pictures is contained in A Prince of India." To inject the nec essary "thrill" deemed essential by all' . producers for "movie" plays, the di rector of thlB melodrama resorted to the unique expedient of wrecking a trolley car. In the average modern "thriller" the villain invariably finds a waiting auto mobile or one within easy hailing dis tance to convey him from the scene of his misdeed to safety. But here is developed a different situation. The villain, escaping with Borne precious booty, fails to see any motor car, but finds a convenient trolley car, without passengers, conductor or motorman. He immediately boards It and, turning on the power, dashes away, barely In time to escape his pursuing victim. The latter, however, is not to be balked so easily. Meeting some friends In a powerful automobile, ha Induces them to take him in and pur sue the robber. The chase which follows is Indeed thrilling. When the automobile catches up with the trolley car the pursuer leaps from it on the running board pf the speeding street car and a fight between the thief and his vic tim follows while the car is in flight. When it reaches a trestle, the car Buddenly jumps the track, veers, crashes through a railing and is pre cipitated headlong B0 feet to the gorge below, to its utter destruction. The villain is presumed to have been killed in the wreck, but his victim, for tunately, leaped from the car before it reached the trestle, taking with him the Btolen property which he had recovered in the struggle. Queer Belgian Village. Surrounded as it is by Dutch terri tory, Bar-le-Duc, a little undefended Belgian village in the north of the nrnvlnra nf An! worn has a uniaue eeo- graphical position, for the Germans -often used as a synonym for common Coroner's Ancient Nuisances. Somebody Invented coroners three centuries before Columbus discov ered America. It was a job of much distinction and there were no fees at tached, says the Philadelphia Ledger. But even when Oliver Cromwell was a lad, folks in England began to abuse coroners and call them grafters, or whatever It was they called folks in that day who got something for noth ing. And Blacltstone, whose name 1b cannot reach it without violating the neutrality of Holland. It possesses Its post and telegraph office, in direct communication with French and Dutch post offices, and people in Britain can easily correspond with Bar-le-Duc via Flushing and Tilbourg (Holland). For that reason Bar-le-Duc post office has become important, and good ubb is being made of that fact in obtain ing help for the Red Cross society. Special postage stamps of the value of five, ten and twenty centimes, are being sold at ten, twenty and forty centimes, of which sums half is set aside for the Red Cross society. The post office of Belgian Monaco has ob tained such celebrity that there is great demand for these Red Cross stamps as souvenirs. law, declared that coroners were not only an unnecessary nuisance but that they often stood in the way of justice Several states are now trying to abolish coroners, but progress Is slow, If It were as easy to eradicate an old office as a new one, I fear no coroner would survive the slaughter. When I asked an eminent Judge what cor oners are good for, his reply was: To draw salaries." Films Re"t for $40 a Day. A popular feature film generally rents for $40 a day, while it Is new and fresh, and from twenty-five to thirty-five prints are sent out. That means a gross return of from $1,000 a day, or from $7,000 to $9,000 a week. The life of the average feature film is about three months (at a lesser rental during the last month), So It is easy to see that the gross return is very large. Some films, such as Hackett in "The Prisoner of Zenda," or "Ralney T int," have continued popular for mere than a year, fresh prints being made. , ' The copyri'.ht lawB are still lax and rather chaotic concerning motion pictures, and the Authors' League of America 1b wr-rklng better to protect authors whose books and Btories are used for films, Blnce a popular book often makes as good a movie drama as a play. But these conditions will doubtless be corrected and It may be said that the author and perhaps the dramatist of the Immediate future, if he writes the kind of books or plays which have Interesting plots, and espe cially if the scenes can be put into pictorial setting, will have a new source of revenue from the motion pictures. Walter Prltchard Eaton, in the American Magazine. The Zelgler Turtle. The Zeigler turtle, known to be at least fifty-three years old, has been reported seen again on the Zelgler farm near Klrksvllle. According to the Express, this was captured in 1861 by Harrison Zeigler, who carved his name and the date on its shell. Forty-eight years later It was found Soldiers of the King. The change which education has made In the British army in the last quarter of a century comes out again in the craving of the King's Liv erpool regiment for magazines to read "always acceptable in tha trenches and defenses." The Illiterate private of Mr. Kipling's early Btories has van ished, leaving in his place a man as physically capable and as high-spirit ed and also of quicker and better-fur nished intelligence, who has tri umphantly shown himself to be able to make a success ot the new military training, with its wisely bold policy of evoking the soldier's capacity for making the best use of himself on the battlefield. The needs are not Keeps Audiences In Mind. Francls'X. Bushman, Essanay screen star, commenting recently on his suc cessful career as a photo player, at tributed his popularity chiefly to one thing. He Instinctively feels his au dience before him as he enacts a scene before the camera. "The Importance of carefully presenting my part for the screen was never more Impressed upon me than when I made a lecture tour of the country," he said. "Wherever I appeared the theater patrons seemed to be thoroughly familiar with every film star and looked forward to seeing their favorites In their most suitable plays. They criticized and praised their interpretations. When I discov ered this I determined to bear my au diences In mind In all film productions." acain by Perry Zelgler, son of Harri son Zeleler. Perry Zelgler added his those of the old Mulvaneys and Lea- own name and the date to the carving royds if these ever existed but thoBe on the turtle's shell and released it. of sensitive, highly-clvlllzed men. It was again seen three years ago by a memoer or me iamuy, ana now Perry Zeigler saw it a few days ago. Kansas City Times. Manchester Guardian. Changes Character Part, Charles Ray is taking the lead In the photo play, "Not of the Flock," be ing produced by Scott Sydney, and Enid Markey ie playing opposite him. For the second time In his connection with the pictures Mr. Ray is taking the part of a clergyman, and it Is some thing of a change after the warlike character he played last, He makes a good looking minister. The Old and the New. Inventions have a remarkable knack of repeating themselves. Among the more interesting patents for 1914 is a specification for a wheelless motor car, propulsion being by means of skids, which are alternately lowered and raised. In the early days of loco motive history many inventors did not believe that sufficient adhesion was to b attained by a smooth wheel operating on a smooth rail, and weird and wonderful were the devices for overcoming this supposed defect. On Ingenious engineer went so far as t design a contrivance in which Jointed metal bars worked up and down on th rails after the fashion of a horse's legs, and there seems to be a certain affinity betweea this device ail th motor car referred U abova. Effective Water Sterilizer. Two ozone water-sterilizing plants at Nice supply 40 and 80 gallons of ab solutely germ-free water per Becond. The ozone generator Is of copper School of Forestry In China. It is notorious that afforestation is one of the most urgent of China's plates, with glass sheets between, and needs, and it is, therefore, of interest the air between the plates is decom- to learn that a school of forestry is posed by a silent electric discharge of about to be established in the Unlver- 70,000 volts. The nitrogenous products slty of Nanking. The co-operation of being removed by a filter, the ozone Is the director of forestry at Manila has passed into a chamber into which the been secured, and it Is proposed toH water falls as rain through gravel-cov- send two experts from Manila to aid ered netting, in establishing the school. Scientific American. Film Secures Praise of Critic. The film version of Wilson Barrettla play, "The Sign of the Cross," which was recently filmed by the Famous Players, with William Farnura In tha role of Marcus, which has Just been re leased in Great Britain In order to fill bookings obtained as far In advance as lust spring, has received unusual praise from all the English trade periodicals. Air Over Land and 8ea. A report on the atmospheric-electric observations made during the second cruise of the Carnegie Is published. Gold From the Philippine. The 1914 output of gold in the Phil ippine islands shows a gain of 39 per The radioactivity of the air over the cent over the year 1913. The value ocean areas far removed from land of the year's yield was $1,203,433, a is small, compared to that found over little over one-half of which is from land; while the Ionization over the lode mining, the remainder being the ocean was at least as large as that output ot dredges. found over land. Injured In Auto Accident. William Humphrey of the Vitagrapb playerB was injured In an automobile accident at Asbury Park, N. J. Mrs. Humphrey, who accompanied him, was Beriously Injured, having three ribs broken and suffering internal in juries. Their machine skidded and turned turtle on the sandy baach. and Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey wtrf taught underneath, , .1