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GATHERING THE HARVEST OF DEATH IN EUROPE M S OF n WEEK General Resume of Important Events T h roogM the W orn Belgian refugees in Holland will not be forced to return to their nativity. Turkey has opened war on Russia and begun bombardments on the Black sea. The Governor's , f L/dcQ y ANovelizatlonof Alice B r a d l e y 's P la y <B? GERTRUDE STEVENSON Illustrations from Photographs of the Stage Production Ooprrlsat, IMS IPubUcsUou Ulskls Unssnod) t>j L M t li UeUsoo. S Y N O P S IS . Daniel Stable suddenly advances from a Beginning o f winter in Europe has penniless miner to a millionaire. He la lessened the night attacks o f the op amiiltloue to become governor o f the state. Ilia simple, tinim-lovlng wife falls posing armies. to tlae to the new condltlona. Slade meets Katherine, daughter o f Senator Strick It is reported in Rome that the Ger land, and sees in her all that Mary la not. man crown prince has been wounded Slade decides to separate from ula w ife and takes rooms at hla club. while leading an attack on Verdun. that when he said the word Katherine Strickland would be ready to cast her lot with his. From the smoking room of Senator Strickland’s big house came the stri dent sound of men’s voices, raised In excitement, and, It would seem, ac claim. Now and again the senator’s smooth, oratorical voice would Bound and then Slade's slightly deprecatory, yet firm and pleased. Then would follow the patter of applause, laughter and the sudden dropping of voices that signified earnest converse. To Katherine Strickland, sitting In the softly lighted library adjoining, every sound had Its meaning. Her eyes sparkled with keen interest. In her cheeks glowed the deep rose of excitement and exultation. In that other room she knew they were making his tory. In that other room they were putting up a man for governor, a man Bhe admired and who had aroused her Interest as no other man had ever done. Nothing could stand In that man'i way, she thought, with a catch In her breath, nothing could stop him now that he was fairly started. How dif ferent this domineering, forceful per sonality from Bob Hayes, the man who had first won her girl's heart, and yet for whom she had never been willing to renounce her Interest in the polit ical and social life which obsessed her with tbe same compelling force as It did Slade. With an effort sh- brought her mind back to the present and to Mrs. Wes ley Merritt, who had dropped In on her way from a dance to pick up her husband. ‘‘You simply weren’t listening to a word I said,” Mrs. Merritt complained In her affectedly affectionate way. ‘T was asking If you know Mr. Slade very well.” “ Yes,” Katherine replied, lightly, "we know him very well." “ And does he ever mention his wife?” In Mrs. Merritt's most perfectly feline manner. "Never once," admitted Katherine, without even an attempt at an evasion. "And you have never met her?” Mrs. Merritt was In her glory If she could probe. "No, I have never met her.” "How extraordinary! My husband — why, Wesley Merritt's name spells hearth and home, domestic purity— while Slade's! They tell me he hasn’t C H A P T E R V. The Newspaper of France says the Belgian parliament will be called into Mary Slade eat down to the break session at Havre some time in Novem fast table with a certain sense ot be ber. wilderment. It was the same this England declares the report that the morning as It had been each succes Indian troops in Egypt are in mutiny sive morning eluce Dan’s departure. is false, because there are no such She could not bring herself to the real troops in that country. ization of the tact that Dan had not The Northern Pacific railroad has come home— apparently did not Intend ordered 117 more freight cars to haul to come home. She had waited up the night he had the immense crops, also its president says $1,500,000 will be expended in gone to the club, just as she had waited up every night of tbelr married improving the line. life, no matter where her husband Arguments in the Federal suit to was or how late he might be coming All along the valley of the Marne anil the country about over which the immense armies of Germany dissolve the United States Steel cor home. As tbe night hours lengthened and the allies fought as the former advanced toward Paris and then fell back the French peasants have been busy poration, have closed, and, it is said, Into day sbe was forced to the con with the grim task of burying the dead soldiers. Scenes like those in the illustration were repeated endlessly. At the court may not reach a decision clusion that Dan meant to stay away the right is seen the simple cross marking the grave of a French soldier, his cap and scarf at its foot. until next summer. for the night. That he wouldn't be The Swedish Bteamship Omen, from home at all through tbe day never oc Portugal for Gothenburg, Sweden, hit curred to her. She reasoned that a Reversing Big ban Saves a mine Monday in the North sea, and night’s sleep would clear his mind Lives ot 285 Coal Miners sank off Cuxhaven. Five members of and that he would have recovered from his ‘’tantrum’’ the next day. But Royalton, 111..—The disaster at the her crew were drowned. Dan didn’t “ run In” that day nor the mine o f the Franklin Coal & Coke com A dispatch received from Roosen next The days had become weeks, pany, near here Thursday, in which daal says that 14,500 Belgian refugees yet neither by telephone nor letter had probably 50 men perished, was due to returned Tuesday and 12,850 Wednes he sent as much as a word. an explosion that resulted when a day to Antwerp, but that 5500 o f them Finally Mary had mustered up her miner's lamp came in contact with a have left the city again for Holland. courage and telephoned his club. It pocket of gas that had been noted the All the German army corps on the took courage for Mary to use the tele night before by a mine examiner and left bank of the Vistula in Poland are phone on any occasion. She was afraid marked dangerous. in full retreat, according to an official of the sound of her own voice the mo The loss of life was due directly to report from Petrograd made public in ment she began to talk into the trans the precautionary action of the mine Chief Says Dream ot Opponents Is manager in ordering the engineer to Army ot 300,000 Hollanders Sta Washington by the Russian embassy. mitter. This time she feared Dan’s Jo Constitute Rulers o f Both displeasure and hla possible harsh tioned on Frontier -Cruisers reverse the ventilating fan. To this The London Daily News’ correspond ness. Mr. Slade was out, had left no Nation and States. action, though it caused the death of Ready Rivers Mined. ent on the allies’ left wing reports message, they did not know when he 50 who were rushing toward the air- that a German submarine Float which would return, was the disappointing shaft, is attributed the fact that 285 attacked the British battleship Vener result as she hung the receiver on the Mexico City — The resignation of men who had scattered through the Roosendaal, Holland — Holland is able off the Belgian coast has been hook. workings escaped from the mine alive. sunk. General Venustiano Carranza as pro feeling the presure of the war almost This morning, as the maid served These facts were brought out when A squadron o f British torpedo Float her breakfast, she resolved to try visional president and first chief of the near completion of the work of as much as if she were engaged in it. the constitutionalist army, based on rescue made possible an investigation The report that the Germans are mass destroyers has sunk the Adriatic, a again. The situation was getting un German steamship, which had been bearable. It was bad enough to live the condition that Generals Villa and of the causes of the accident. ing large numbers of troops on the converted into a cruiser, according to In the great house and be surrounded The widows o f two Italian miners Zapata also retire to private Jife, was among those killed in the explosion eastern border is causing great uneasi a dispatch from Barcelona to the by servants with Dan there. Without read to the peace convention at Aguas were found dead in their shacks here. ness throughout the country. Havas News agency. The British res him she felt like a prisoner of state and looked on the servants as so many Calientes Saturday. Physicians declared they had died from The alleged discovery of a tennis cued the German crew. jailers. With scores of court with cement nine feet thick on In the document General Carranza g rief and shock. It is announced in London that when Leaving her breakfast practically others these two women stood at the parliament reassembles on November even expressed a willingness to leave the property of a German in the vicin untasted, Mary again ventured to the mouth of the mine all day and late into 11, Premier Asquith will move a vote the country i f his absence would tend the night, vainly waiting for their ity of Arnheim, and statements that telephone. With faltering voice she for another $500,000,000 on account of toward the re-establishment of peace. husbands. German spies have been active near the war. A similar amount was voted repeated the number. "One-three-nlne- The message caused a turmoil in the Arnheim and at other points close to in August, of which $350,000,000 has four;” with beating heart she inquired for "Mr. Slade;” with sinking courage convention hall, and at one time spec Archduke’s Assassin Gets the German border seem to intensify already been expended. she received the answer that Mr. Slade tators tried to intervene and break up Twenty Years in Prison the anxiety of the Hollanders. The Cologne Gazette says it has had gone out, leaving no message. the meeting. Order finally was re A Dutch army of more than 300,000 learned from Berlin that soldiers of Again and again during the day she Vienna— Gavrio Prinzip’s youth it stored and business proceeded. What was stated here Friday, was what saved trained men is scattered at strategic various general units, which have be repeated the call, only to receive a come exhausted and weakened owing similar reply. The possibility of her action, if any, was taken on the re him from death for the assassination points along the Belgian and German to the long stay in the trenches, are husband having 1< "t such a message signation was not known here. Roosendaal is the principal Fieing sent home on a furlough lasting to be delivered to her, whether he was of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and \ border. In demanding that Villa and Zapata there or not never occurred to the { the latter’s w ife at Serajevo last sum- troop center, as it is the only railway from five to seven days. retire, General Carranza said: truthful, simple-minded little woman. gate to Belgium that is now open. The London Daily Chronicle’s Paris “ There is a greater ambition than ! mer. But Slade did not want to be reached military automobiles correspondent asserts that with a view Prinzip’s trial, together with those Hundreds o f that o f being president o f the republic, by her, and If an untruth, more or and that is to hold such military om o f the persons accused of complicity leave here daily with messages and to detaching France from the allies, less, were necessary, the telephone Germany has made an offer to conclude nipotence as to permit one man to with him in the assassination plot, supplies for the border troops. boy was easily bribed. peace on the basis of the cession of oversway all powers of union. The was finished at Serajevo Wednesday. Meanwhile Slade was eagerly look The mouth of the R iver Scheldt and Metz and possibly a portion o f Alsace insistence of General Villa in keeping O f the persons convicted, four were ing forward to his new life. Never a command of a division supposed to be sentenced to hang, one to life impris all the canals are heavily guarded. A to France. The offer, according to the man to waver, he did not once look all-powerful and at the same time pre onment, two, including Prinzip, to 20 large garrison at Flushing is guarding correspondent, was rejected. back to the wife he had so coolly de tending to re-establish at once consti years in prison, one to 16 years, one the docks and railway station, to pre West Virginia has snow storm and serted. He was being dined and ban tutional order upon the basis of the to 13, two to 10, one to 7 and two to vent any attempt to violate the neu mercury stands at 30 degrees. queted and feted, being everywhere old regime is a clear indication that 3. Ten were acquitted. A dispatch from Berlin claims _Ger- hailed as the candidate for governor. Prinzip is less than 21 years old, trality o f the Scheldt. the dream of this chief is to constitute He was sniffing the first breath of fu The river is heavily mined, and many holds 296,869 prisoners. himself arbiter o f the destinies of and for this reason it was predicted all ture glories with keenest delight. This Mexico, with the faculties to appoint along that he would escape with his Dutch cruisers and torpedo boat de Germany is now a heavy buyer of was the sort of thing that made a man stroyers are lying at its mouth to give cotton from the United States. a president, elect a congress, designate life. feel big! Tbls was the sort of life to any necessary co-operation to the land a supreme court and rule the govern Jerusalen Is Starving. President Jefferson’s friend, Thomas lead—with men bowing and salaaming forces. ment o f all the states. I am ignorant all around him. He walked with a firmer New York — One hundred thousand The horrors of the war have been G. Fagg, aged 93 years, dies in a sani tread. Hie shoulders were thrown of what the pretensions o f of General Zapata are, but believe they w ill not inhabitants of Jerusalem are facing forced on virtually all the cities, towns tarium in St. Louis. back a bit more arrogantly. His chest " D i d Y o u A s k th e S e n a t o r f o r the differ greatly from those o f General starvation, according to Samuel Edel- and country districts by the Belgian $10,000 I W a n t ? ” Products from five states are Fieing was more noticeable as he walked man, American vice consul in that refugees, who are estimated to aggre shown in the Manufacturers’ and Land Villa. down the street. “ 1 wish that my retirement from city, who reached here Thursday. Two- gate 800,000. The Dutch government Show being held in Portland. The Innate conceit and self-esteem seen his wife for weeks, and It’s town power shall not be sterile and that I thirds of the residents of Jerusalem is paying to the cities 30 cents a day of the man made him overlook the fact talk tbat he's living at his club. And Canada is raising a second army of Firt- for food for each refugee. The cities am not merely to relinquish the field are Jews, Mr. Edelman said. that the party needed a rich man. He to think he’s never mentioned her to 15,000 to aid England, which w ill em to enemies of the revolution, to chief many years they have depended upon bear the other expenses connected with was quite satisfied that he was being you!” bark for that country in December. their earnings from tourists and on j the influx. Katherine had quietly rung for a tains with personal ambitions. I con boosted by Strickland and tbe others The refugees are unwilling to return It is reported that 7,000,000 Bel because of his brains, hie unusual abil servant, and as Mrs. Merritt finished, sequently state to the convention that charity for support and the war has cut off all their sources of subsistence. to Belgium, although Holland has gians are facing starvation and that I am disposed to deliver the command ity, his oratory and his power to lead remarked casually: "Martin, see that o f the constitutionalist army and the "There are no industries in the city offered them free transportation. The the food supply will last only two men. He was happier than be had these letters are mailed at once.” and little cultivation of the surround appearance of scarlet fever among the weeks. Unabashed, Mrs. Merritt was moving executive power o f the nation, and if been for years. Every day the new necessary to leave the country, only ing territory. The cold and rainy sea refugees at Flushing is causing some life looked brighter and the old less eagerly about the artistic room, com When dealers advance prices o f po son is now approaching and indications alarm owing to the corwded conditions fortable In all Its appointments, its under the three following conditions: tatoes in Amsterdam, people start riot desirable. "F irs t— A preconstitutionalist gov are that the suffering soon will be in there. If he gave a thought to Mary It was richness enhanced and mellowed with and destroy greater part of stock be tense.” Mr. Edelman said. There is no compulsory vaccination ernment shall be established with the a passing one. Mary was "comfort age, a blend of color that nothing but fore the police arrive. law in Belgium, and Hollanders there support o f the constitutionalist army able.” She had everything that money years can give. fore are alarmed by reports that there A woman, widowed by the Titanic could buy. The servants would be tak Belgian Loss 25 Per Cent. until such time as conditions justify a Fannie Merritt was a decided blonde. disaster, has become the w ife of a man ing good care of her, of course. Of Her decision had been made more legal, constitutional regime. London— The correspondent o f the is smallpox among the refugees. picked up by the lifeboat she was the lump In Mary's throat as she sat than ten years before. It was a de “ Second—General Villa shall resign, Daily Mail in northern France says: saved by. They will reside in Hunt at the lonely breakfast table and as cision that, once made, must be not his candidature to the presidency Battleship Gun Bursts. “ More than 10,000 Belgians have been or vice presidency, which have never London— A dispatch to the Central ington, W. Va. Bhe went through the still more lone abided by, and the woman had been killed or wounded, which is a quarter been ottered him, but military com Judges of the Mississippi Supreme some ordeal of the formal dinner, he living up to It ever since. Her gown of their force operating in the last bat j News from Rome says: mand of the northern division, retiring was the last word of sartorial elegance tle. They have been defending a slip “ The captain of an Italian steamer court heard arguments while clad in knew nothing. Of the woman’s acblng and style. Daringly décollette It clung to private life and leaving the repub Attorneys heart and her eyes bright with unshed of territory from Dixmude to Nieu- which has just arrived at Naples from overalls and cotton shirts. to her long, svelte figure with loving lic, if the convention should vote that port, a region hardly bigger than a big Trieste reports that on the voyage on presenting cases were clothed simi tsars as she tried to keep up before it would be wise for me to do so. The departure from conven the servants and make excuses for his emphasis, and trailed round her ex German farm. Nearly all their wound the Adriatic he observed an Austrian larly. quisitely dressed feet. Her hair did “ Third— General Zapata shall resign ed have been wounded in the back, but dreadnought under way for Pola, the tional dress was the result o f a local absence, Slade was heartlessly ob his command likewise, turning the "cotton day” in furtherance o f the livious. Or perhaps It was self-esteem credit to the hairdresser’s long and pa never were wounds more honorable as Austrian naval base. The dread tient efforts, and long, bizarre diamond same over to a general designated by the bullets hit them as they lay prone nought had come from Cattaro, where “ wear cotton clothes” movement in again, that made him unajils to feel the convention.” for her— the self-esteem of tbe suc pendants flashed and Bparkled from under the hail o f the steel volcano. during a recent action one of her eight- the South. cessful man who feels no wounds her ears. If ever a woman had become Their fate is the tragedy of this war.” inch guns burst, causing a magazine to a slave to her own personal pleasure F. H. Crosby, of San Francisco, has Pinch Due to Economies. explode. The vessel was seriously purchased the entire stocks and Fionds when fighting for what he wants, and and dress, that woman was Fannie London — The economy being prac damaged. Her turret was blown up of the Northwestern Long Distance neither knows nor cares that others Merritt. Too self-centered and selfish War Extension Forecast. feel them. He had a heart, but It was ticed by English women at present is Washington, D. C.— Support for the and there were rents in her sides.” Telephone company for $360,000. ever to crave motherhood, she lavished unpleasantly like Pharaoh's. causing lack of work in certain branch movement to raise $100,000 for fore But of Katherine Strickland's stat a kind of affection on a watery-eyed A thrashing at home with a birch es of trade. A t a meeting of relatively ign mission endeavor next year was M. Max Unreconstructed. uesque beauty and her cosmopolitan little poodle, which repaid her with unemployed people here it was said pledged by the general conference of Brussels— Letters received here in rod was the sentence meted out to manner he was delightfully aware. lap-dog gratitude. that one-third of the 66,000 dressmak Seventh Day Adventists here. Bishop dicate that M. Max, the former burgo three grammar school Floys in Ply Tonight she was restless and 111 at ers in London are on short time be Underwood of Nebraska, urged the master o f Rrussels, is still being held mouth, Mass., when they were found During the weeks since he had left home Slade had been calling regu ease. Like Katherine, her mind was guilty of burglary. cause even the well-to-do are buying conference to prepare to meet the by the German officials. His refusal larly at the Strickland home, partly to full of one thought— Slade, Slade, Slade cheap ready-made clothing. It was conditions arising in the mission fields to turn over to the invaders the fire Seventy-one Japanese held as pris —but thoughts that took a different di also said that one-fourth o f the 14,000 from the European war and decided department tower and ladders led to oners in Germany have been released consult with the senator and partly rection. She was sick of his name, millinery workers are on short time. that next year would be "tenfold more his arrest. He has said the ladders and escorted safely out of the country. for the purpose of posing for the bust which Katherine was modeling. As sick of hearing of bis money, sick of Statistics presented indicated that horrible than the present.” Bishop were needed to protect Brussels. This leaves 38 Japanese in addition to they sat hour after hour, he posing the talk of his power and of bearing there are 3000 more unemployed per Underwood said he felt that other na When later the Germans took the lad a number o f children, who still are be comfortably, she working deftly and him named as "the man of the hour.” sons in London now than a year ago. tions would be involved before the ders by force they found that the Bel lieved to Fie held in Germany. talking even more cleverly, Slade and He was winning the very honors she struggle closed. gians had made them unfit for service. Katherine had come to a mutual un* had coveted for her husband, and tak German property in France, taken Don’t Count Foe. Is Order. German mechanics have repaired them derstandlng. The more they saw of Ing them right out from beneath his over by the French goverment, has not and taken them to Antwerp for use in London - A Petrograd special to the Belgian ( oast is Quiet. each other the more each became con very eyes and nose. There didn't seem been confiscated, but merely taken into Reuter Telegram company says: Amsterdam—The correspondent at directing the fire of the gunners. vlaced that their paths would Inevit to be a doubt of Slade becoming gov trusteeship for its protection, accord “ In the recent fighting near Prze- Sluis o f the Telegraaf reports that re ernor, the very position for which her ably converge. ing to a statement at the French em mysl, two generals reported to their markable quiet prevails along the Hongkong Bars Enemies. Katherine talked animatedly and en husband had been striving for the past bassy supplementing a dispatch from commander, the Bulgarian General coast o f Belgium. The German gar tertainingly of social life abroad and six terms. Slade with his millions Hongkong—The legislative council Radko Dim itrieff. who is leading the risons at Bruges. Heist and Knocke. of Hongkong has passed an ordinance the foreign office at Bordeaux. of the gay times In Washington, and | needed the governorship no more than Russian army investing Przemysl, he says, are not large. The German to go into effect immediately compell The Chinese foreign minister has Slade's heart warmed and his eyes a pampered child needs a new toy, that they were unable to hold out, commander at Bruges has published a ing all enemies of Great Britain resid demanded the surrender of a Japanese flashed as he pictured himself a part while to her husband success or fail owing to the overwhelming numbers proclamation ordering all British sub ing within the colony to bring their torpedo boat with its crew which en of that charmed circle. With keen ure this time meant either the retriev o f the enemy. General Dimitrieff ject between the ages o f 16 and 60 to business enterprises to an end and de tered Chinese waters and substituted penetration he saw the longing of the ing of his fortunes or his utter ruin. replied with an aphorism which doubt leave Belgium. As the railways are part. The government will appoint the Japanese flag for tile Chinese girts nature, her Iron will, her deter Tbe abstraction of the two women less will become historic. He said: occupied with the transportation of liquidators. Any persons purrhasing Dragon and attempted to tow away mination to gain social honors at al was broken by the sudden entrance *• ‘ Don’t count the enemy. Beat German troops, the exodus o f the Brit such a foreign business must show the wrecked German torpedo Float most any cost lie flattered himself s f Hayes. ishers is proceeding slowly. him .’ " their good faith. S -9 0 . HOLLAND PREPARES President Stipulates Condition That Villa and Zapata Go Too. Movements of Germans on Border Causes Grave Anxiety. "W h ew !” he whistled. "They're haw. tng a time of It In there. Uood eve ning, Mrs. Merritt, your husband Is certainty making It warm for Mr. Slade.” “ Indeed,” laughed Mrs. Merritt, grat ified for the moment "Dear, dear!” she exclaimed as she ; watched Hayes gazing wistfully at Katherine and looking very handsome and manly In his well-made evening clothes. “ U’e quite like old times to see you together.” Unhappy herself, It guve her a certain pleasure to make other people unhappy. The jealousy she had long felt .’ or the younger and more beautiful woman found expres sion now In her purring tones, as, with amiable cruelty, she reminded them of their earlier Intimacy. She took delight In making Bob writhe aud Katherine whiten as she recalled their passionate young love when only the senator’« stern interference had kept them from wedding. “ Let me see," she recollected, "when I was your confidante, you wore twenty-one, Katherine, and you, Hob. were twenty-four. I can feel Rob’s band« gripping mine yet: ’O, Fannie— please see her for me— the senator doesn't approve of It.’ And the tears you shed on my shoulder. Katherine — why. It feels wet to think of It.” "O! Fannie!" Katherine's voice was not as firm as usual. "I always said,” the woman per sisted, "Rob, she'll come home to you In tbe end— ” "I think I ’ll go back and listen to the discussion," and Bob flung dis gustedly out of the room. At the door ho almost collided with Merritt. Kath erine had hurried out to see a reporter who wanted the wherefores and the whys of the dinner party to Slade. ” 1 can’t possibly get away, dear," Merritt explained to his wife. 'T v e been buttonholed by some men front up the state. Shall you wait or go home— first?” Mrs. Merritt refused to bo dis missed in that peremptory fashion. ‘T il wait,” she returned with acid sweetness. "Then If you are not ready I’ll run along.” 'Slade’s had an ovation tonight,” Merritt informed her, nodding toward the smoking-room. “ The big out-of- town men are all here. Some of ’em In there yet. He’s big, Fannie. He’« big. We can’t deny that. The brute attacks his point with all the force of a sledge hammer.” “ Yes, that’s what you lack— punch!” hts wife turned on him petu lantly. "You’re snowed under,” she com plained, bitterly. "If you’d taken my advice you wouldn’t have come to this Slade feed tonight. What’s your pa per for," she demanded, “ If you can’t attack your rival candidate In its col umns? Anyone would think you want ed to make him governor—Instead of yourself." ” 1 can’t attack him publicly,” Mer- ritt retorted. “ He’d put up glue fac tories facing our property and, with a lake breeze blowing our way— phew! My position is very difficult. Of course, election's a long way ahead, but I’m the only stick in his puddle.” "Yes, you're a big stick!” she taunted. "W hy don’t you do some thing?” "What cqn I do?” he groaned. " I ’ve been told tonight by no lesB than four men that they won’t support me again. And Strickland's speech introducing Slade was a masterpiece!” “ Yes— Strickland’s masterpieces are concocted by his daughter, we all know that. Just as I write your stuff,” she finished with hateful emphasis on the posseseive. "M y dear, I wish you’d be more careful!” warned Merritt, making sure that the door leading Into the smoking-room was closed. "Your ‘Message to the Farmer’—that made you famous! What did I ever get for writing It?” and with self-satis fied deliberateness she arranged her self carefully In a low-seated chair near the fireplace. “ I never denied that you had a man's brain,” placatlngly, drawllngly, mockingly, "darling.” “ Yes— I ’m the family mosquito that buzzes behind your ears. Ood help us if it wasn't for me. Did you ask the senator for the $10,000 I want?” she demanded. "H e can’t,” Merritt was huddled In the nearest chair. The subject had been causing him appetiteless days and Bleepless nights. When a woman of Fannie Merritt’s persistency and tenacity wants something a man can’t get then that man Is very likely to be nagged Into desperation. "You look out, Wesley,” she an swered, alarm breaking the careful modulation of her voice. "That’s the first time he ever refused us.” "H e ’s broke— dead broke. I don’t know how he can keep this up. The senator's nearly out. That's why he’s sticking to Slade.” (TO BE C O N T IN U E D .) EELS AND SNAILS AS F0UD T h r s e - P r o n g e d F o r k R e g u la r T h in g to U s e f o r " H o r n e d T h i n g s ” in P r o p e r C e re m o n y . Laymen may hesitate to say how far Leviticus has beeu adopted Into the law of Scotland. But there are some peculiarities which suggest that It has probably been adopted Into Scottish practise. Take the prejudice ot the Scot against eating eels, and also shell fish. There is no more obvious reason why an eel should look more like that abhorred snake to a Scotchman than to anybody else, and, taking the objec tion to shellfish Into account, one can not help thinking of the rule In Le viticus that "Whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters. In tbe seas, and In the rivers, them shall ye eat,” while all that move In the waters with out fins and scales shall be an abom ination. Col. Newnham Davis has described the ideal conditions of snail-eating. "At Price’s.” hs writes, "the horned thing Is eaten with proper ceremony, in a silver bowl, with a silver three- pronged fork as a means of conveying the alleged dainty to the mouth, the long, black gelatinous things are brought to the table, very hot, and swimming In a sauce In which lard and onions and garlic seem to be the principal components. 8peered on tt»i fork, the snail goes Into one’s mouth— and then comes one ot tbe critical mo ments of life !"