PTHDD5 WOMAN Author of "BheMTEUR CRMSMAN. RAFFLES. Etc. I1UJSTRATIONS fey O. IRWIN MYERS CQpyRIOHT & P BOBP3 -inWM COWPVl 8YN0PSI3. 2 Caialet, on tha steamer Kalaer Frlti, homeward hound from Australia, crloi out In hla al-ep that Henry Craven, who ten year before had ruined hla rather and hlir.Balr, la dead and ftnda that Hil ton Toye, who aharea the atateroom with him, knowa Craven and alao Blanche Marnatr, a former neighbor and play mat. CHAPTER II Continued. It was a orry (ample of his talk. Hilton Toye did not usually mix the ready metaphori that nevertheless had to satUfy an Inner censor, of some austerity, before they were allowed to leave those deliberate lips. Yet now. In his strange excitement, word and tone alike were on the level of the stage American's. It was not less than extraordinary. "You don't mean" Cazalet seemed to be swallowing "about Henry Cra ven!" "Yep." "You don't mean to say he's dead?" "Last Wednesday night!" Toye looked at his paper, "No, I guess I'm wrong. Seems It happened Wednes day, but he only passed away Sunday morning." Cazalet still sat staring at him there was not room for two of them on their feet but Into his heavy stare there came a gleam of leaden wisdom. "This was Thursday morning," be said, "so I didn't dream of It when It happened, after all." "You dreamed you saw him lying dead, and so he was," said Toye. "The funeral's been today. I don't know, but that seems to me just about the next nearest thing to seeing the crime perpetrated In a vision." "Crime!" cried Cazalet "What crime?" "Murder, sir!" said Hilton Toye. "Willful, brutal, bloody murder! Here's the paper; better read It for yourself. I'm glad he wasn't a friend of yours, or mine either, but It's a bad end even for your worst enemy." The paper fluttered in Cazelet's clutch as It had done In Toye's; but that was as natural as his puzzled frown over the cryptlo allusions of a Journal that had dealt fully with the ascertainable facts In previous issues. . Bom few emerged between the lines. Henry Craven had received his fatal Injuries on the Wednesday of the pre vious week. The thing had happened in his library, at or about half past seven In the evening; but how a crime, which was apparently a profound mys tery, had been timed to within a min ute of Its commission did not appear among the latest particulars. No ar rest had been made. No clue was men tioned, beyond the statement that the police were still searching for a defi nite instrument with which It was evi dently assumed that the deed had been committed. There was in fact a close description of an unusual weapon, a special constable's very special trun cheon. It had hung as a cherished tro phy on the library wall, from which It wag missing, while the very Imprint of a silver shield, mounted on the thick end of the weapon, was stated to have been discovered on the scalp of the fractured skull. But that was a little bit of special reporting, typical of the enterprising sheet that Toye had pro cured. The Inquest, merely opened on the Monday, had been adjourned to the day of issue. "We must get hold of an evening pa per," said Cazalet. "Fancy his own famous truncheon! He had it mount ed and Inscribed himself, so that It shouldn't be forgotten how he'd fought for law and order at Trafalgar Square! That was the man all over!" His voice and manner achieved the excessive indifference which the Eng lish type holds due from itself after any excess of feeling. Toye also was himself again, his alert mind working keenly yet darkly in his acute eyes. "I wonder If It was a murder?" he speculated. "I bet it wasn't a delib erate murder." "What else could It have been?" "Kind of manslaughter. Deliberate murderers don't trust to chance weapons hanging on their victims' walls" "You forget," said Cazalet, "that he was robbed as well." "Do they claim that?" said Hilton Toye. "I guess I skipped some. Where does it say anything about his being robbed?" "Here!" Cazalet had scanned the pa per eagerly; his finger drummed upon the place. " 'The police,' "he read out, In some sort of triumph, " "have now been furnished with a full description of the missing watch and trinkets and the other articles believed to have been taken from the pockets of the de ceased.' Wbat's that but robbery V "You're dead right," said Toye. "I missed that somehow. Yet who in thunder tracks a man down to rob and murder him in bis own home? But ' when you've brained a man, because you couldn't keep your bands oft him, too mlxht deliberately do all the rest to make it seem like the work of thieves." Hilton Toye looked a judge of de- Ilharatlon as he measured bis irrefut able words. He looked something taore. Cazalet could not tear his blue ATTIRE OF MEXICAN WOMEN Poorer Class Accept Without Protest Style of Ores Which Custom Hat Dictated to Their Class. At to the women of peons, Uelr dress Is generally somber hued and modest No scarlet blanket eovers them, ut a blue rebeto, or shawl, which Is generally placed over the head tn Ilea of a hat The women of the poorer class ac cept, with what to the foreigner seems eyes from the penetrating pair that met them with a somber twinkle, an enlightened gusto, quite uncomforta bly suggestive at such a moment. You aren't a detective, by any chance, are you?" cried Cazalet, with clumsy humor. "No, sir! But I've often thought I wouldn't mind being one," said Toye, chuckling. "I rather figure I might do something at It. If things don't go my way in your old country, and they put up a big enough reward, why, here's a man I knew and a place I know, and I might have a mind to try my hand They went ashore together, and to the same hotel at Southampton (or the night. Midnight found the chance pair with their legs under the same heavy Victorian mahogany, devouring cold beef, ham and pickles as phlegmatlcal- ly as commercial travelers who had never been off the Island In their lives, Yet surely Cazalet was less depressed than he had been before landing; the old English ale In a pewter tankard even elicited a few of those anecdotes with thoughtful puckers about his som ber eyes, "If you ask me," he replied, "I should like to know what wasn't dim cult connected with the telephone sys tem in this country 1 Why, you don't have a system, and that's all there U to It. But It's not at that end they'll put the salt on their man." "Which end will it be, then?" "The river end. That hat, or cap. Do you see what the gardener says about the man who ran out bare headed ? If he went and left his hat or his cap behind him, that should bo good enough in the long run. It's the very worst thing you can leave. Ever hear of Franz Muller?" Cazalet had not heard of that Im portant notoriety, nor did his Ignor ance appear to trouble him at all, but It was becoming more and more clear that Toye took an almost unhealthy Interest In the theory and practise of violent crime. "Frans Muller," he continued, "left his hat behind him, only that and nothing more, but It brought him to the gallows even though he got over to the other side first. He made the mistake of taking a slow steamer, and that's just about the one mistake they never did make at Scotland Yard. Give them a nice, long, plain-sailing stern chase and they get there by bedtime wireless or no wireless!" But Cazalet was In no mind to dis cuss other crimes, old or new; and he closed the digression by asserting somewhat roundly that neither hat nor cap bad been left behind In the only case that Interested him. "Don't be too sure," said Toyo. "Even Scotland Yard doesn't show all its hand at once, in the first Inquiry au Hit 1 AT r-f rrilXTklTs:'. ST" A. ! "' f t.MmmtmJ ' man. BRINGS RELIEF FROM PAIN Exposure of Wound to Rays of Incarv descent Electrlo Bulb Has Splendid Effect. An Interesting use of a household tppllanee baa just been given to the medical profession. By exposing a wound to the rays of an ordinary in candescent electric bulb several timet a day, to a total of eignt or nine hours, the Current Medical Literature) says, Doctor Schottellut hat obtained lome Interesting results. The Immediate local effect, he says, was as striking as the general effect from day to day later. All of the pa 7 and piquant comparisons in which his that comes along. They den t give cnnverantlnn was at Its beat. It was out any description of the man that at Its worst on general questions, or ran away, dui you oei u u.ms nr- on concrete topics not Introduced by culated around every pouce emce n himself: and Into this category, per- tho United Kingdom." haps not unnaturally, fell such further Cazalet said they would give It out uartlculars of the Thames Valley mys- fast enough If they had it to give. y tery as were to be found In an evening the way, he was Burprisea to see- ibbi oaDer at the Inn. They included a frag- the head gardener was the same who mentary report of the adjourned In- had been at Uplands in his father's quest, and the actual offer of such a time; he must be getting an eld man, reward, by the dead man's firm, for and no doubt snakier on points ei ue- the aDnrehenslon of his murderer, as tall than he would be likely to aamu. Cazalet Instanced the alleged neanng of the gong as In Itself an unconvlao- ing statement It was well over a hundred yards from the gates to the house, and there were no windows to open in the hall where the gong would be rung, I've dreamed of the old spot so often," he said at length. "I'm not thinking of the night before last I 'jl meant In the ousn ana now to tuins A of a thing like this happening, there, I i- .l . ..... Aar, oil places!" Seems like a kind of poetic jus tice,", said Hilton Toye, It does. It is!" cried Cazalet, fetching moist yet fiery eyes in from the fields. "I said to you the other night that Henry Craven never was a white man, and I won't unsay It now, Nobody may ever know what he's done to bring this upon him. But those who really knew the man, and suffered for It, can gucBS the kind of thing! "Exactly," murmured Toye, though he had Just said as much him self. His dark eyes twinkled with de liberation and debate. "How long Is It, by the way, that they gave that clerk and friend of yourB?" A keen look pressed the Btartllng Question; at least, It startled Cazalet, You mean Scruton? What on earm "You Aren't a Detective, by Chance, Are You?" Cried Cazalet made Toye's eyeB glisten in his s& gaclous head. But Cazalet, though he had skimmed the many-headed column before sit tlntr Anwn tn aunner. flatlv declined to . 0 ' ' I , , , , . tilamiaa tha traeedv his first n cht maae you inmn oi mm ; ashore. 'Talking of inose wno sunereu iur being the dead man s friends, 1 guess, CHAPTER III. said Toye. "Was it lourteen years i "That was It" In tha Train. "But I guess lourteen aoesn i mean Discussion was Inevitable on the fourteen, ordinarily, If a prisoner be. wav un to town next morning. The haves himself ; two strange friends, planted opposite each other in the first-class smoker, traveled inland simultaneously en grossed in a copious report of the previous day's proceedings at the coro ner's court. "A little more than ten." "Then Scruton may be out now?" "Just." Toye nodded with detestablu aplomb. "That gives you something to chew on," said he. "Of course, 1 Th. mArtir.nl evirtfinca was valuable don't say he's our man- nnlv aa txactne the fatal blow to some "I should think you didn't!" cried such weapon as the missing trun- Cazalet, white to the lips with sudden cheon: the butler's evidence explained fury. that the rllnner-hour was seven thirty: (TO BE cONii.NUh.u.1 that, not five minutes before, he had seen bis master come down-stairs and Fossilized Bacteria. enter the library, where, at seven fifty- Marvelous bb were the discoverlet flvo nn mini to aak If ha had heard of mien Drchistoric monsters as thf the gong, he had obtained no answer mammoth, the mastodon ana toe stego but found the door locked on the in- saurus, they are now eclipsed by re side; that he had then hastened round cent investigations which show Hit by the garden, and In through the most minute microbes and OarttiriB French window, to discover the de- In fossil form. The ancestors of oui ceased gentleman lying In his blood. modern Infectious disease germs ana The head gardener, who lived In the microbes have been found In foesllt lodge, had sworn to having seen a of the earliest life on earth Fossil bare-headed man rush past his win- bacteria have been discovered in ver nH nut of tha rates ahni.t tha ancient limestones collected oy ur .m. h in hv tho oinfi. Charles D Walcott. secretary of the ing of the gong up at the house; they Smithsonian institution, in Gallatls often heard it at the lodge. In warm county, aiontaua. The bacteria cue slst of individual cells and appareni chains ot cells which correspond la their physical appearance with th cells of micrococci, a form of Oacte rla of today The world has believed forms o life, but now we are maae 10 rtanze that they existed In the dawa of woritf history, many million years ago weather when the windows were open, and the gardener swore that he him self had heard It on this occasion. The footman appeared to have been 1... nnaltiva oa to 'tho tlmo of a tela. j, mrJ.ni fr phone call he had answered, thought "al fl . .. v.. , h. -J life, but now we are made to mefcbered the conversation very well, The gentleman had asked whether Mr. Craven was at home, had been told that he was out motoring, asked when he would be back, told he couldn't say, but before dinner some time, and what name should be given, whereupon the gentleman had rung off without an swering. The footman thought he was a gentleman, from the way he spoke. But apparently the police had not yet succeeded In tracing the call. "Is it a difficult thing to do?" asked Cazalet, touching on this last point early in the discussion, which even he showed no wish to avoid this morning. He had dropped his paper, to find that Toye had already dropped his, and was gazing at the flying English fields The Costly Elevater. Elevator or vertical travel for th ...-a., muitlatorv faotorr. Boor to floor, la seldom over 15 feet, yet la traversing that distance, together with starting, stopping, and with the sam loartlna and unloading time, we can travel in the same tltae an equlvaleut distance of 100 feet horizontally. On faotorr manager, of aa Inquiring turn of mind, estimated la bis particular plant that the cost of elevator service, wages of operator, power, repairs and Mm. consumed by men using tho ele vators, amounted to about 2 per cent ot bis payroll. Engineering matu. THE. PONTE, DELLA PlETRA HE bombardment of Verona by I war days Is there much use for such. Austrian aviators added a new It suffices if we can quicken the mem chapter to the history ot a orios of some ot our readers or stlmu town which was "no mean late the intorest of others by our ran- clty" in the great days ot imperial dom remarks. The former class will Rome, says Sir Martin Conway In not need to be more than reminded of Country Life. the famous group ot tombs of the Twenty-two thousand spectators Scaltgers, over which Ruskln used to could then have found accommodation pour forth his eloquent admiration in together In the stately amphitheater glorious flood. Right in the busiest which still exists. Diocletian built It part of the city they Btand, close to (about 290 A. D.) of white and red the Piazza doi Signori and yet closer Verona marble, and all sorts ot princes to Santa Maria l'Autlca, which was the have caused it to be restored. Its royal parish church of the family In the days platform has been occupied by who of Its relative obscurity. Whence they shall say how many famous person- came, these Scallgers, we know not, ages, but none of them greater than but thoy leaped Into fame, two of them, Theodorlc the Ostrogoth, who made by having their heads cut off In 1257, this city one of his capitals, and took and four years later their kinsman, his name from it in medieval legend, Mastlno, was elected captain of the Dietrich of Bern. The Veronese In- people. Mastlno In turn was duly mur- deed, ill taught by bigoted churchmen, dered, and his sarcophagus Is the earll- scarcely held his memory in due est of the group a plain affair like honor, If they are rightly represented those of his immediate successors of by the inscription on a sculptured fig- the name. But with an Grande I (or ure of him by the door of San Zeno s. Great Dog No. 1) dolla Scala we come where he is described as an Arian to a gentleman who was magnificent heretlo (which he was) and Is said to in his Ideas, his ways of living, and, to be riding to hell on tha horse given to the best of his opportunities, in his him by Satan! tomb. That considerable three-storied Other Roman memories are pre- edifice forms a kind of portal to uie served by the city in Its ruined theater family church. It showed the prince and In remnants of fortifications and twice over lying dead on his ear- rates. Tho walls, as they now Btand, coplmgus, while above in full armor belong to five different periods of ho proudly riaes nis cnarger. Masiino bulldlni and rebuilding, and the II followed wis Bame type in nis lomD, earliest of these (temp. Gallienus) In a fashion too modest for Imitation were doubtless not the flrBt. Theo- by the sumptuous Can Slgnoria (ob. dorlc's work comes next; considerable 1375), who employed Bonlno di Cam- fragments of Its courses of stone and plgllone to build him a monument four herringbone brick can be discovered stonos nign ana nexagonai in pian, by anyone who hunts for them. A with figured pilasters, allegorical stat- later style Is shown in the work as- ues, a richly carved sarcophagus, and crlbed toXharlemagne; and after that the prince himself on horseback at noma medieval and renaissance fortlfi- the top of all. r-Atinna aaph marklne a nerlod of Dros- Tho rushing Adige, twirling In 8 perity In the city's fortunes. It Is not, form through the city, Is a feature con however, Roman Verona that people Btantly in evidence. In the older parts love and travel to see, but the Verona that remain, the house fronts rise of the middle ages, the Verona of plumb from the waters ; modern lm- Romeo and Juliet, of the Scaligors provements employ the banks for and the great artists Pisanello and streets. Tho Adige is not a river you the rest a city of the south In which can casually punt across, it is in the northern breezes also blow, and violent hurry and insists upon being where between east and west, Lorn- bridged. The Romans built a sturdy bardy and Venice, divergent Ideals stone bridge, now called the Ponte meet and sometimes mingle. della Pietra, and two of its ancient Lombards Were Active There. arches remain, as well as the base of Theodorlc and his Ostrogoths be- some other piers. Of course radical longed by desire and In fact to the last restoration and much rebuilding have age of Rome, but their successors the been required from time to time, the Lombards clearly ushered in the mid- Adige floods being frequent ana mignt die age. They came over the Alps as ly destructive, as generations of Ver- barbarians, but in time Italy civilized onese have learned to their cost. Most them, and during that process Lorn- of the existing bridge was the work of bard architecture was born. Anywhere the famous local Dominican architect, from Clvldale in the east to Pavia in Fra Giocondo, who was employed upon the west, traces of their early activi- it in 1520 in the eighty-fifth year of his ties may still be found barbarous at age. Tho battlumented Ponte di Cas- first, presently growing nobler, till by tel Vecchio likewise calls for mention, the seventh century they wore capable It leads to tho palace of the Scallgers of raising churches which are still de- which Can Grande II built and the folk liehtful to men of modern refinement, of today use as a barrack, At Verona the Lombards were particu- Like Venice, Verona Is a city of pai larly active and, were It worth while, aces, the architecture of which reflects we might display the remnants of the various influences that met within some of their very early efforts. Such its walls, and of those Influences that fragments, however, are Interesting of Venice Is unnilBtakable. Facades only to antiquarians; but when we Impose thomBelvoa upon tho street come to the areat churches, San Zeno, wanderer as obviously Venetian. An for instance, or the cathedral, It Is evident enough that these are works of architecture capable of a far wider appeal. San Zeno's, Indeed, is perhaps of all purely Lombard churches the finest as a work of art. It is simplicity It self in form, but well proportioned and In every way agreeable to look ipon. The existing church was built In the eleventh century, the nave re built in 1138, and the choir in the fif teenth century. The most noticeable exterior feature Is the great portal In the middle of the west end. It Is a plain oblong opening, surmounted by a gabled porch which Is carried on a pair of columns, themselves support ed, each on the back of a grifflu, In traditional oriental fashion. Tombs of the Scallgers. It would be easy enough to refer in turn to a number of other remarkable churches tn Verona, with their mas- Blve colonnades, their dark crypts and other delightful features; but we are not making a guide book, nor In these MOST PRECIOUS GEI ,1 Diamond Always Has Been Con ceded First Place. tlentt told of relief from pain from it. Paper and a sheet are thrown over the whole, and the temperature of the In closed space grows high, but be as cribes the benefit to the light rather than to the heat. The bulbs used were ot 30, fO and 100 candlepower. PLANTS INVIGORATED BY TEA Discovery, It It Believed, Will Be of Considerable Value to the Horticulturist. A new discovery In horticulture claims to make potted plants bloom as they never did before if they are ven an Invigorating cup of tea once day. Lewis Shaw, Jr., the Inventor, sayt: almost a pathetlo resignation, tht stylo of dress which custom hat dic tated to their clast. There it no aping of the rich It their attire. Whether it be the But lace mantilla or tht Parisian hat which the far dlstant-from her tenor Ita wears, aa la tempi or elasa tht taket her dainty way, ur the pretty frock or delicate shoes, the poor wom an ot tht peon, or tht mujer ef the petty thopkeeper, casts no envious glance but ne, that would set be true! She casts them, but she win tot strive to Imitate. It thert ot lomt virtue la tuch non-emulatlot, or it but the telrit of a deadened race? Ttt this rather somber and unattractive anparel it found taort among the peoa elate; tkt Indian girl tn seme tart of Mexico at at Tehuantepee weare handsome native costume, derived troat Aztec dayt, at holiday time. All Through Hletory tht Stone Hat Played an Important Part IU Cutting a Matter of Otrlout Moment Imperfection. Diamond! are always taken at the itandard precious stone. There are many details concerning diamonds, of turpasilng interest, tuch at the dif ferent methods of securing the rough ttonet in ancient and modern timet. the prejudice against Brazilian dla mondi at compared with Indian ttonet, the objections to South Afri can diamonds, based on a theory that ' they were not to good aa the Bra zilian stones, methods of cutting dia monds, etc, Tht cut of the diamond It of great Importance. It it be cut perfectly and regularly ltt value it greatly en hanced. The properly cut diamond has 58 facets, including the table and collet, 32 facets above the girdle and 24 facets below. The surface of the table should be 40 per cent ot the whole. Among the Imperfections for which the diamond buyer should look are rough edges on the girdle, which will cast a shadow through the center of the stone, causing great loss of bril liancy. In set stones they are often covered up by a prong of the setting, but the diamond Is affected nevertheless. A scratch may be found on top of the stone. Thit Is often caused by stones rubbing against each other. If It Is not too deep it may be removed by polishing. There may be a nick in the girdle, which Is often covered by the setting. This detect Is caused either by the brittloness ot the stone or the girdle having been cut too fine. If the stoue has thick edges tbey will cast shadows through the dia mond, which will confuse the color. If there Is a feather In the stone It comes from faulty crystallization and cannot be removed. It may be only a small speck, or so large as to be vis ible to the naked eye. This flaw gives the diamond a hazy, lifeless appear ance. Some feathers take the shape of white subtransparent lines In the body of the stone. Fractures are usually found near the edge ot the stone, and decrease the value greatly, as they deaden the brilliancy. They are caused either by a blow or carelessness In the set ting. Black spots of carbon are usually found In the top or In the lower halt of the stone. These spots often ap pear In pairs, and when visible to the naked eye Impair the value of the Btone. Do not expect to get an absolutely "Twice a day, morning and evening. I give my geranium a drink ot cold tea, from one-fourth to one-halt a cup per plant. While at flrBt thlB wae only an experiment, I was surprised to Hnrl how rnnlillv the Dlants bloomed and how many of the buds took bloom Perfect stone for any reasonable fig at once. In the photograph It will u. '" they are so rare as to com- be seen that five blooms are flour ishing, while there are yet three more buds, not clearly shown in the pic ture, on the way." KM which confine the gtnne'fl color. 5. A feather," cnuBeil hy faulty rrystninia- tlnn. t. A fntclure. 7. Carbon upon hlch oak like hlrick anerka. S, A nun- ble caiiBi-d hy air formation In carhon. 1. Muddy or cloudy pati'hea. UBUuliy found along the grain of uie stone. effect Intended by the builders Verona palaces Is lost to the modern visitor; tho facades of many of them were elaborately painted by fine art iBts, and depended upon such decora tion for their charm. Time has washed most ot it away. News. "What do you think of that case In Chicago where the doctor refused to operate?" "Most unusual." "Don't you think the papers made a great fuss about It?" "Yes, but then a doctor refusing to operate is cortainly news." Reasonable Reason. "Why must you always go out every time one of my woman friends calls?" "Well, my dear," responded her hus band, "i am glad to meet your friends. But you niUHt. remember that I have heard the story of your summer vaca tion about seventeen times now." Judge. THERE WAS A MISSING LINK Ntvtr Worth While. What the self seeker finds It never worth while. Kantat Joint Snake Has a Hard Time Collectina Itself, According to Report. Enoch Chase had a peculiar experi ence last week while taking the logs out of the old dugout on Mel Hicks' south. 80. says the Larned (Kan.) Till er and Toller. He ran across a Joint snake down between the logs and hit It with his spade. Of course, every Joint flew apart and started to wiggle off. Enoch, Just for a joke, picked up one of the Joints and put It In a bucket and then slipped behind the logs and waited to tee what would happen. In about ten mlnutet he heard a sort of low whistle and then a rustling. The head of the Joint snake came out of the weeds and looked around. It then made a peculiar whistle and another joint backed up and fastened on the head. The head whistled twice and joint number two eme out, and so on, so many whittles for each joint, until it came time for the one Enoch had In the bucket. At its call the thing thrashed around In the bucket like all possessed, but couldn't get out. Of course, without the Joint that fitted, the snake couldn't get together. Enoch said tho last he saw of it the head had taken charge of one half and the tall the rest, nnd had gone off in different directions to bunt up the miSBlng Joint. Enoch got almost home with his joint when an automobile tooted down the road. This either scared the Joint or It wsb the coupllng-on signal, for Enoch says it managed to flop out of the bucket and get away In the tall grass. Prlcet Eatler for Poor. Pity the poor millionaires! ex claims "Glrard" in the Philadelphia Ledger. For the frugal wife, five cents now buys as big a loaf as It did two years ago; but Ji.uuu aoesn i ouy ua big a blue foxskin coat; no, not of half. The boiled notatoes on the modest dinner table are rather cheaper than Outline Sketch of Cut Diamond. they were last winter- but when the ' s"mf 4 poor muiionaiiuo niv unvcu uj uw cesslty to buy white fox furs, hubby advances 66 per cent more money for them than he would have done at thlt time In 1913. D..VB, annthpr AAflftntial tn nlUtO- cratic happiness, has risen much more mand excessive prices. If ycu want h.. ....or nr lxmh ohons. Indeed, a good stone seo to it that It is of lual- "0 . . . . , ullll tc. mall Uncle Sam tolls us that the whole fur g"oa coiur u.m..m, . f-miw la ronstini on a higher limb cut. Now York American. than avpr hpfnrn. T.....ir(i. rUA and full mold V w th MIBM Not Be menial oiram. fUUAU' w - I . ... , . ,. .nnt f lnn r-hanee in million- General Joffre s quiet numor is typi hmir .PPminta- hut so far as fled In a story which comes from the th. nnnr man's dinner nail trenches. Some members of the gen- can scarcely tell a financial feast from eral's staff were discussing the nura . n,.pi.l f.mlne ber of officers whose hair had turned from jet UiaCtt W wuuo biulu mo wn, I if. In tha Soil. began, and tney naa aecmeu to uiuir o... Pnttnmlnv. who has die- own satisfaction that the Cause was to covered that ordinary peat treated be found in mental strain. General -,., k.,iiri fnrma a substitute for Joffre was asked for his opinion, and, manure which is 60 times more valu- while agreeing with the conclusion ar .hi. ho. .hnn that soil lives Just as rived at by his officers, naively added do the plants that are bom out of it. that it was also very difficult In war There are 4,000,000 bacteria In every time to omain mo iuhci grain of fertile soli, nnd by separating to which one was accustomed In timet the good from the bad, modern science oi peacoi u wnruim to secure the very nignesf ....... im.ndfwt hv bountiful nature. Office Coat for Women, . m , . , a , The omce coat lor women hub mini- A Woman's Threat. iy arrivea, inougn u uui a mi man- w.n if that ain't tho limit." mused nish. It's made tn black silk or pon- the postman, as he came down the gee. a standard loose coat that's bo- . nrlvnte residence. coming to everybody. You slip it over .lop. w - - - hln... --.I .1.1.. "What't the trouble? queneu we your iruca ui ,uu. mere citizen who had overheard the at soon as you enter the office. It en- postman's noisy thought. velopa you from throat to knee and - ..... . . , ... nlnlhali h.o llttfllllir A n "Why explained tne man in gray, proieum juu """ "u,"W' "u" the woman In that bouse sayt If I It hat the recommendation of being j.'t .nmo alnne earner tne gel nniy iuui"s "v s e' "-".i her letters from some other carrier." that the little feminine person grl- UlaCcB HI WUOlt WW oizi.ua ut ov,iiDiuiw He Was One of 'Em. "Sumbody wuz a tellin' me aa how yew bed fotygraffs uv all th' promi nent men in th' state," said the man with the carpetbag, as he meandered Into an art dealer's establishment. "I have sir," answered the dealer. "Wall," continued the old man, "I be Ebenezer Oatcake, ex-mayor nv Punkville. Lemme hev a look at on uv mine." clothes. Philadelphia Public Ledger. They're So Numerous. Seems to think well of himself, eh?" "Do you know what kind of fellow Identified. Blnks Shafer. do you know thai woman across the street? Shafer She certainly looks familiar. Let me tee. It's my wife t new drets, my daughter's hat and my mother In law't narasol turel lt t our cookl ne iei ur.n N.a "Tell me He IAK6B Block ui u mitten a auzvn Lloht and Alrv. timet a day lor tear neu ovenooa Omar What kind of business ll some of his good points. Inhnann eneAffed In? u.in.Pniiniatlc. 1 Ihlnk. unanaino uuaiom, nm.PnwimHtt(.! Wht I nYrl "Before 1 married," said the old fash hoard of a business like that loned man. my wire maae me prom- Heiny-Well, whatever It la. he's ise to quit smoaius, running It on wind. "And you kept your word?" "Yet. But what't the difference. The Reporter'i Jokt. Cuttom nas cr.an.-eu. nu. i m oora ... ... I t & . at hat f n nmniiia Tint ia What't afoot now?" asked the nr n " w snake editor, as the horse reporter begin. ....nn.lnH tn ilnn hla hat and rcat I ..... . t.l...hnn. n.lt ttttor uiic. HI iri IIDWCI U'B WlVfUUH I .III 1 mm A .-11 T, A1a ln,fthaa aam aa alarawa I Well HiBBlor win i" wu if replied the horse reporter, at be y".'1 dashed down the stairs, three atept at time. It be to late. 1943, when the date will be April J, the latest thai It possible.