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Kola; Twenty-Three" By Martha McCulloch-WMiam. (Copyright, U10, bf AtsooUted Literary Phm.) My child, are you sure?" Mrs Creston ejaculated with a nervous lift of the brows. . ' Alice Moore, her . daughter, six months married, sat up suddenly, dig- ; ring her fists baby fashion Into much swollen eyes. She was an uncom monly pretty young woman, but had wept and raved herself out of all comeliness In the hour she had wait ed for her mother. Mrs. Creston had answered a tempestuous summons expecting nothing more than the usual after-honeymoon quarrel, and been stunned by a demand to take her daughter home at once, "As sure as one can be over the phone," Alice said, her voice break lng on every word. "To think Joe should act so! I I wouldn't mind so much If It was anybody young and pretty but to slight me for that hateful old thing!" "You forget you haven't told me,1 Mrs. Creston coaxed. Alice had sunk back among her pillows. From them she said: "She's a Miss Smith of all names Joe knew her years ago It seems and actually, she behaves as though he belonged to her. He has made me have her here well, at first I didn't mind though I never really liked her. Still, she was so plain, and ever so much older than he was I couldn't well object. And she has a nice houBe of her own, and one meets good people there the sort I do want to get in with. Her cook Is an artist I said in fun, I meant to steal the cook away then Miss Smith came back at me, laughing hard. "Do If you can. Then I can take Joe with a perfectly good con science." "I must say that was bold," Mrs. Creston interrupted bridling. Her daughter went on: "Joe laughed as much as any of us but he hasn't been quite the same ever since. I told him, coming here. I thought she was an old cat and he said: 'What a pity more women aren't catty. But the next day he brought me a new ring, and the day after took me to the opera so I overlooked things until last week. Then we had box seats for the Savoy and I simply couldn't lift my bead you know what may headaches are how I can't bear anybody about me. I told Joe he must go and he did and took her then today I I " She broke off, shuddering strongly, her hands over her face. "Well!" Mrs. Creston encouraged. Alice sat up again, her hands to her forehead. - "You'll take me home, of course and and have a lawyer to see about a separation. I'll never agree to a divorce It would please hem too well." "Alice! Can't you tell a straight story!" Mrs. Creston asked sharply. Again Alice shuddered: "I'm cpm lng to the worst part," she said drop ping her hands. "This morning she called over the 'phone rather made her maid call that in Itself was bus- picious. When I answered I could hear her, Indistinctly, prompting the girl what to say. And the girl said 'Oh! Mrs. Moore, please tell Mr. Moore, the moment he comes home, he Is wanted amidships kola; twen ty-three. He'll understand you won't forget t Then, of course, I asked, -wno wants nimr and the answer was: 'Just a family friend. But be sure to send him unless you do, he'll lose a great chance.' You see they have an understanding talk in cipher as It were." .' "What did you answer?" Mrs. Cres ton asked. Alice bridled. "I hung up the re ceiver with a bang," she said, begin ning to beat a tottoo upon the carpet. , Her mother sighed, knitting her forehead, but after a minute said: "Well! There's nothing for it but to wait and watch. As sure as Joe Moore commits himself fully, home you come. I wish, though, you could wait a few years he's rising bo, you could get such splendid alimony." An hour later Joe, the culprit, and the ensnaring Miss Smith stood considering covotuously three partic ularly fine rugs. Each was unique after its kind together thye were the pitiful wreck and remnant of a poor gentleman's collection. The col lector was In a hospital, and would never leave it alive. Miss Smith had somehow found out about hla, an was doing her best to Balve his pride. He had friends willing to bury him, but he wanted to bury himself, as well as to pay hospital charges. The rugs, well sold, would do both Joe, who had a house to embellish, a wife to pamper, could not spend money to better purpose. They had talked It over before Joe went West on a flying trip. The purchase was to be kept a profound secret from Alice until her birthday, next month, when the rugs would be spread out to surprise and delight her. She had no discriminating rug knowledge, but waa mightily impressed with the fact that to own rare ones was a sort of hallmark of artistic plenishing. Miss Smith liked her negatively, albeit she bad the . usual woman sense that Joe. ber some time protege, had chosen rather 111." It waa to keep the secret Inviolate the cipher call had been agreed on. Miss Bmlth thought she knew women, but It had not dawned upon her that Alice would be Jealous. She had made the call urgent because another poa- dealer at her elbow to prompt and stimulate bidding. Joe had got the message through his office, to which his friend had sent it as well as his house. He touched the silkiest of the rugs ca ressingly, saying rather low: "It feels like Alice's hair." Then blushing. "You don't mind. Remem- ber I haven't seen her for three whole days." "No, I dont mind in the least brldgegrooms ought to stay foolish year at least," Miss Smith said, pick ing up a second rug. "This is mine,' she went on. "Two are enough for you. I'd limit you to one, only I'm cramped for rug space." "I'm going to pay for the three,' Joe said calmly. "Please, ma'am, you take choice." "You are a fool, Joe in spite of be ing sensible," Miss Smith answered laughing softly. "You can't give me things now you are married not though I did more than half bring you up." "Why not?" Joe demanded.,, "I'll make three thousand out of this west ern business, and it came through you " "Alice will need it all and more In fact, my son, you'll learn In time, that 'all and more' Is the motto of matrimony," Miss Smith Interrupted Joe gave her a hurt look. "I don't believe It asking your pardon," he said, stoutly. "It may be with some wives but Alice! Alice is as gener ous as sunshine." "I hope you are right there may be exceptions," Miss Smith said waving him good-by as they left the meeting place. When he was out of sight, she smiled at first with merry malice. then somewhat sadly. As she walked on something haunted her the bang- ing of the receiver on the hook. She had some way caught it, as one catches weird sounds at the end of messages. Being, wise in women ways, also full of leisure, she decided to see Alice right away. Thus she encountered Mrs. Creston upon the steps. That lady's frigid. yet reproachful eyes, told her that she had done well to come. Smiling mm "This Morning She Called Over the Phone." her best, she put out a detaining hand, saying pleasantly: "Mrs. Cres ton, do please turn back. Your daughter must decide something right away, and I'm sure will want your advice." Mrs. Creston gasped. Here, indeed, was adventure. But before she could make up her mind what to say, she was in her daughter's presence. Further, Miss Smith was explaining. My dear child, surprises are always stupid but don't you dare tell Joe I betrayed him. I wouldn't. only you ought to have choice all the rugs are adorable but one has one's fancies. So please put on your hat and come with me. Eyes are worth so much more than words aa we go I'll tell you the whole story." Late that night Alice looked up from Joe's shoulder, to say, as she stroked his cheek: "You must ask the nicest men you know to dine with us next week I'm going to make a little party then for our dear Jliaa Smith." No Telephoned Prescription. Time was valuable to the dyspeptla who had moved to the suburbs and wasted nn oil prescription Ailed In a hurry, to he telephoned back the pre scription that had set him up early in the summer. Very politely the New York drug gist regretted that he could not ac commodate him. "Why notr said the dyspeptic. "I have given you the number, the date and the name of the doctor, and the druggist in this store Is right at my elbow to take down whatever you say, so there cannot possibly be any mlBtake." "That may be very true," was the reply, "but I cannot telephone the prescription. I will mail you a copy or put up the medicine and send It to you; I'll do anything In fact to help you out except to telephone the prescription. That is out of the ques tion." The dyspeptlo said he would be blessed and turned to the village drug list for sympathy. But he got no sympathy. "I knew he wouldn't do It." said the druggist. "No druggist on earth will telephone a prescription to another slble purchaser had appeared with ajl wouldn't myself." EXPERIENCES OF LUCINDA Queer Way In Which She Unlnten tlonaliy 8wlped" Hatpin From ; Another Woman In Car. "Girls," said Luclnds, "I certalnlj did have an extraordinary experience this morning In a Madison avenue car. Crowded, this car was, full of people, but it seemed not quite so full at the middle, and so I worked lny way there, gently; the beet I could. "Standing about a third of the way down the car on the right was a woman who was holding on to a strap and facing outward, so that her back was toward me as I worked along past her. She was about the same height as I, and when I passed her my hat caught on hers and It seemed to cling there for a minute, but then It got free and I passed on, to reach up for a strap myself when I had got Just beyond her, and then what do you think? "When I raised my arm up to reach for the strap, there, lying on the top of my arm was a hatpin, a hatpin from the hat of the woman I had Just passed! When my hat caught In her hat it caught under the head of that pin and drew it out and snapped it forward Just so that it lodged on my arm. ,. "Well, I handed the hatpin back to her and she smiled and I smiled and that's all there was to It; but really, now, wasn't that extraordinary?" New York Sun. " FORMER EDUCATION OF GIRLS Glance at the Methods of 8lxty Years Ago Shows Great Advance of Present When one realizes the state of fe male education sixty years ago, Its progress as evinced today la marve lous indeed. In the first half of the Nineteenth Century, the policy of "seeming,1 rather than of "being," was followed throughout languages and society manners were considered all import ant there were no games and the only form of exercise was that oi walking, with riding for the wealthy girls. The schools were small and suffered from bad classification in consequence, as classes had to be made up from girls of widely differing ages, while 'teaching" consisted of hearing lea sons "got by heart," often without any explanation. When one reads the report of an examiner of a girls' school only 30 years ago, that "many girls showed a great aptitude for mathematics, but parents discouraged continuance of sound education after the age of 12 or 13 in order to 'keep the girl femi nine,' " the change in the popular est! matlon of women's capacity is indeed marvelous. Christian Science Mon Itor. W flfp'j Danger Ahead. Because the. motorman would not heed their expostulations, but kept the car jerking along within bumping dls tance of the back of the slow-moving wagon which bore a "Danger" sign, half the passengers got off rather than take chances on being blown up In the explosion that was sure to result from the apparently Inevitable collision Out of respect for their determination to save life and limb even at the cost of another carfare the motorman stop ped the car and asked if they were willing to give him another trial on his promise to drive cautiously. They were, and piled into the car. Two minutes later the dangerous wag on pulled off the tracks and allowed them to pass. Then they saw for the first time the name of the combust! ble material that had driven them into frenzy of fear. The wagon waa an Ice wagon. New York Times. Mixed as to Names. A young woman, who has a treach erous memory for names, had a droll experience not long ago. She had encountered in a railway station a face that seemed familiar to her. She remembered that she had met the young man at the house of friend some weeks before, but for the life of her she could not at all recollect his name. Finally, however, hen the young man Btopped to shake hands, she asked: "Surely this Is Mr. Tombstone. whom I met at Mrs. Walker's". The stranger smiled. "You're right as to our place of meeting," Bald he, but somewhat twisted as to the name I am Mr. Stonegrave!" Imorove Machines. The occupation of large punching machines used In boiler shops and similar establishments has been great ly improved In efficiency and economy recently by a simple system of electrio control. These machines heretofore have been operated by a foot attach ment, but this Is cut out entirely az.d the push button placed at a point here it la much more accessible. Two men can. by this arrangement, do the work formerly requiring three, and the work Is said to be done In a much more accurate manner. Mistaken Identity. Smlfkins was, to put it mildly, a boaster, and when he waa giving Brown glowing accounts of the fine holiday he had had in Paris Brown suspected that the veracious Smlfkins had been no further than Folkestone, He didn't say so, however. "And what do you think? Smlfklas rattled on; "as I waa strolling along the Rue de Rlvoli one afternoon a pal hadnt seen for years came up and aid: 'Hullo, old chap, is that your" "And was ltr asked Brown. Ueaa. MISS GAZZAM DISCOVERS ' AND WEDS SWEETHEART And now the dove of peace has come to rest on beautiful Marble Mansions at Corn wall on 'the Hud-' son, where dwells she, ; who, until the ' other , , day was Antoinette Gazzam, the 3, 000,000 heiress who has long searched for her soul mate. The quest has ended; all worry and disap pointment are over, for the ideal com panion has been discovered in the per son of Charles B. Galvin, an employee of New York city, who is engaged on the aqueduct and says he is a civil engineer. Miss Gazzam and her soul mate were united in marriage. The bride, who is still a young wom an, has already been in the limelight. brought into publicity by the results of an earlier search for a spirit affin ity. When a young girl she became Interested in the psychologic and this Interest was increased by the death of her mother. Reaching womanhood she decided that the astral bodies should point out her true soul mate, and thenceforth the hunt was on. But the way was not to be smooth. Going west, to Los Angeles, she consulted a psychlo clairvoyant, Marshall Clark by name, who soon undertook to prove that he, and he only, could satisfy her soul longings. All might have been well if Mrs. Marshall Clark had not been thrown on the screen, but her appearance was the signal for a mov ing picture show in which Miss Gaz i am waa the puppet thrown around by the infuriated wife. bun miss uazzam waa not con vinced that the astral bodies had made a mistake. Clark started for Reno to get a divorce, but before go ing he queered himself by declaring that at last "he had the right pig by the talL" Not so. Miss Gazzam then and there decided she waa not predes tined for Clark, and returned to her home, sadder but much wiser. Quick ly Mrs. Clark marshaled her forces and brought suit for $150,000 for the alienation of her husband s affections. Less than a year ago Miss Gazzam settled the case by paying $25,000 to sooth the wounded wife, who in turn swore not to sue for divorce, not to proseoute the deluded affinity search er further, and that Miss Gazzam'B re lations with the clairvoyant had been quite proper. The first chapter ended thus. As to how she became acquainted with Mr. Galvin and discovered in him her real soul mate, the bride refuses to state, though she declares "it la really very romantic. The soul affinity is described as sturdily built man of about 35, simple In his language and manner, and hav ing the appearance of a very practl cat person. Miss Gazzam's father, once a state senator in Pennsylvania, now lives In Philadelphia. The young woman inherited her fortune and the estate at Cornwall from her mother, who died a few years ago after hav ing obtained a divorce. The Ideally matched couple will have a honey moon tour including Philadelphia, Bal timore and Washington, after which they will tour Europe. CIVIL WAR VETERAN WHO HEADS MILITIA OF IDAHO The governors of the various states have found ed a wise ex pedient to place at the head of the state militia men whose trained army experience fit them to jump mto the saddle at any ': moment In the event of mob disturbances or factional fights that are liable to at any time break out and get beyond the power of the police.' The state militia, or National Guard, is a vital civil-military arm of the people, says Human Life, stand ing for law and order between the peaceful civilian and mob rule. Brig. Gen. A. M. Rowo, who holds the title of adjutant general of Idaho, Is one of the old guard, who, respond ing to the first call of Lincoln, In 1861, fought through the Civil war from Its very beginning until the last bugle call. Most of his service was in the Army of the Cumberland and be par ticipated in the battU s of Shiloh, Per- ryville, Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Rocky Face Ridge, and Resaca, be coming totally disabled, his right arm being permanently disabled by a shell wound In the last fight. Before enlisting In the war, Mr. Rows was a school teacher in Portage county, Ohio, and having given four years to his country, he again took up his study, and entered the preparatory- department of Oberlln college, Ober lin, O. Having graduated, Mr. Rowe again took up his favorite profession, and for many years continued in edu cational work as principal in the high school at Steubenville, O.; as superin tendent of schools at Huron, S. D and as superintendent of the school at Little Falls, Minn., and Payette and McCammon. Idaho. Mr. Rowe was chairman of the department of graded schools and academies of South Dako ta's educational exhibit at the World's fair at Chicago. During these years of educational activity, he was an en thusiastic worker In the Grand Army at the Republic 1 THE FIRST LIGHTNING ROD Bohemian Priest Anterfsred Franklin In Experiments With Conductor for Lightning. Though Franklin will continue to receive the honor that is biB due as the Inventor of the first practical lightning rod, the study of atmospher io electricity goes back v at least to the time of Tullius HosUlius, wno perished in an attempt to "draw fire from the sky." Cicero, in one of his orations aeainst Cat.line. calls atten tion to the destruction of the gilded Btatue of Romulus by lightning as an evil omen. A lightning bolt vividly described by Virgil in the eighth book of the Aeneid damaged the hind legs of the bronze Capitoline Wolf, and the visitor to the Capitoline Mu seum todav can still - discern the marks upon the metal. A learned priest by the name of Dlvisch Is said to have erected the first lightning con ductor in Europe. He set it up at Prendlz, Bohemia, In 1754, and it was 130 feet high. Though the Emperor Stephen and the Empress Maria The resa publicly proclaimed their confi dence in the inventor, a most dlas trous drought that afflicted the coun try a year later was ascribed by the superstitious populace to the new tan gled device, and Divlsch was com pelled to take It down. It Is not prob able that Franklin was acquainted with Divlsch experiment FASHION HINTS This afternoon gown of velvet, which is quite , the thing for dressy wear, shows a pretty waist effect. The lapels are of satin, put on wrong-side-up fashion. ,' ' The overskirt arrangement is also novel Mean Trick to Play on Rival. A characteristic anecdote is told of Cherublni, the most Jealous of the Ir ritable genus of composers.. He had been prevailed upon to be present at the first representation of the work of a confrere, and, during the first acts, which were much applauded by the public, he had kept a gloomy silence. The third act was less favorably re ceived, and a certain passage especial ly seemed to cast a cold blanket over the spectators, when the old maestro. to the astonishment of his friends, waa seen to applaud heartily. "Do you really like that duo?" asked one of them; "I should have thought It was one of the poorest and coldest In the whole opera." "You Idiot," answered the maestro, with genuins naivete. don't you Bee that If I did not annlaud 't he might possibly cut it out?" Too Quick With Scorn. " That marvelous story of the British expedition to New Guinea, with its Idlscovery of a new pygmy race, re minds a writer that in the past stay-at- nome people have sometimes erred in treating travelers' tales with scorn. There was, for instance, the descrlp. tlon by James Bruce In 1770 of the barbarous Abyssinian custom of eat lng raw meat cut from the living ant mal which was ridiculed by everybody. Yet Bruce has even recently been proved right When Paul Du Challlu explored equatorial Africa In 1861 and described the wonderful gorillas and also the nation of dwarfs there he was discredited none too politely by the British Royal Geographical society. Yet subsequent explorers amply vindi cated his veracity. No Cause for Complaint Customer I ordered a gallon of Irish whisky last week, and I find that what you sent me was made in New York. s Dealer Well. I dont see where von have any kick coming. Isnt New York risk enough to suit you? One Theory. "I wonder why the doctor always wants you to stick out your tongue?" rrobably to cut short a lot of cab my dear." IU1 4 Sarsaparilla Acts directly and peculiarly on the blood; purines, enriches and revitalizes it, and in. this way builds up the whole sys tem. Take it. Get it today. In usual liquid fdrm or in chocolate coated tablets called Sarsatabs. AS TOLD slil PLAIN ENGLISH Real Truth About YoOng' Man With "Excelsior" Banner,and SThat '.. Lamb of Mary's, "Excelsior" is a poem about a young man who ; walked one -winter evening through a village. In the Alps. The hotel keeper stood . in his door and told him the rooms 1 were 7 all taken, but anyhow the "young man knew he didn't have enough money for tips. So he went on. He carried a banner reading "Excelsior." One theory is that he was a drummer for an upholstery house and the other is that he was a demented breakfast food inventor. . He was 'f found .next morning near the top of the moun tain and his relative! were; notified. Mary had a lamb that she spoiled by overfeeding and cuddling. She took it to school , with her one day and the lamb bothered the spelling class, so the teacher kicked It out of the front door. Not haying any sense of direction, It blatted around " the schoolyard until finally, the -teacher sent Mary, home with It and told her if she ever brought it again there would be trouble. Next spring Ma ry's father sold the lamb' 'on the ris ing market, Mothers will una Mrs. WlnrtoWs Soothing Syrup the be st remedr to use oi their children luring the teething period. -. A New Napoleon' Statue. " ' Gen. Niox recently discovered In me State statue repository a bronze statue of Napoleon I . by , Seurre, of which the Invalldes only possesses a plaster replica. YeEterday work was commenced In the courtyard of the Invalldes on the removal of the plas ter statue, which is to be replaced in a few days by the bronze original. Paris Press. ' , D.ll!l'. F., C -.(., f:. CI J ! 4 OAT I 9 LC JUIVC I H 31, JUKI III IOU, over 100 years . ago; sale3 increase yearly; wonderful remedy; cured mil lions weak eyes. All druggists oi Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. uccnucu vii irie vug. - A very small boy was trying to lead a big St Bernard dog up the' road "Where are you going to take thi dog, my little man?" inquired a passer by. "I I'm going to see where where he wants to go first", was th( breathless reply. Coroner's Verdict In India. For qualntness it would be hard ti beat the verdict returned in India oi a man whose fate it had been to as sauge a tiger's appetite. "That Pand so died of tiger eating him. Then was no other cause of death." . , For. That Heartburn and smothering sensation after eating you .really ought to take Hostellers' Stomach Bitters. It acts quickly, tones the stomach and aids digestion, thus re moving the cause of .the trouble. Always keep a bottle handy for just such cases. It is also for Indi gestion, Dyspepsia, Consti pation, Liver troubles, Colds, Grippe and Malaria. Try it today. M ft J L OSTETTER CELEBRATED STOMACH BITTER Boxing Children's Ears. Medical men are fuiiv avm nt tti lamentable consequences that often renn r rrnm v . . . wvu. mo pernicious naDll ox boxing chtldrens' ears or otherwise striking them on the head or fur a It is, however, high time that laymen, and especially teachers, should be made acoualnted with these results. Bad BLOOD "Before I began using Cascarets I had bad complexion, pimples on my face, jnd my food waa not digested aa It should have been. Now I am entirely well, and tne pimples have all disappeared from mi tace; I can truthfully say that CascaxeU ere lust aa advertised; I have taken onlj two boxes of them." Clarence R. Griffin. Sheridan. Ind. (??d-c""f S1ekn. WmV or Grip i2,6 N.YW .old ta balk. IWf bM tabkt stuaped C C a GaumntMd to . on r roar manay back. iisiin BEST MEDICINE I Iter Coughs & Colds