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.”
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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 !"