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a. C u n n in g S c h e m e
By F. A. MITCHEL
TASSELED
SHOES
Copyright by Am erican Prese Asso
ciation. 1911.
Mrs. Rutherford was getting ready
to go out when a card was handed to
her bearing the name of Mr. John
Malnwaring. Mr. Malnwaring was a
very old friend of Mrs. Rutherfotd.
“How do you do, John?” said the
A Story Showing That All Women
lady as she entered the drawing room,
Have Their Little Vanities
offering her band. “Where have you
kept yourself ao long?”
“I. have come, my dear Martha, to
By CLARISSA MACKIE ;; make you a very Important proposi
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Copyright by American Presa Asso- < ► tion.”
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d ation . 1911.
"Dear me!” exclaimed the lady face
tiously. “How sudden!”
“A proposition for your daughter.”
Adelaide Finch looked timidly a t the
“What? An old fellow like you!”
back of her husband's gray head aa It
“For my son. You know that I have
bent over the weekly newspaper. “If a million to leave Arthur, and I wish
I only dared,” she whispered to herself to transmit it through him to my de
—“If 1 only dared apeak to him about acendants. Now, what do you suppose
i t but Luke would make such a fuss!" the simpleton Intends to do with It?
“You talking to yourself, Adelaide T' He has just been admitted to orders;
asked Luke, suddenly throwing aside he la so high church that I fear he will
fall off the apex of the steeple; he In
his paper ahd turning around.
tends never to marry and proposes to
“You talking to yourself?" repeated give my hard earned million to the
Luke good naturedly. ,
church.”
“Yes; 1 was thinking.’’ And Ade
“What nonsense!”
laide blushed guiltily.
“Now, I propose that you propose”—
“Now, that there m atter you was
“That’s very funny.”
talking about to yourself. Was you
“I mean I would like you to find
saying poStry or counting stitches?" some way by which the boy may be
He looked keenly at his wife’s em entrapped into matrimony with yonr
barrassed countenance. “I sort of daughter.”
reckon you w asn't praying,” he added
“My daughter?”
grimly.
“Yea. I’m very fond of Constance.
“Whnt makes you say that?” de I have observed that she has a good
mnnded Adelaide sharply. All the hu head on her. She will not turn out one
mor had fied from her face, and ahe of those women who butt against stone
looked frightened.
“I've notice«^ you ain’t said your
prayers for three weeks—not once,” he
asserted reprovingly.
“No." flashed Adelaide, with sudden
heat. “No; I haven’t prayed for three
weeks to a day, and, w hat's more, I’m
not goings to pray any more ’till—till
some of my prayers are answered." «
"Is that w hat you were talking
about to yourself?” Inquired Luke with
masculine curiosity where a voluble
explanation was not vouchsafed. ^_
“It hid something to do with It,”
Adelaide admitted—thia reluctantly.
- “Like as not the Lord thought It
w a'nt beat for you. Addle. I suppose It
BKA.TKD H XM ILT AS VAX AWAT TBOM HIM
ajb a n a tx )K y a a ia w n .T r o u v f c
walla; ahe w ill make a manager, and
that'» what my son needs. There is
not a practical hair on his head.”
"I nov'T kked airy mob « obat calioo *
wn» something foolish — something
about women'» gear." Luke shrewdly
surveyed her downcast face. "W asn’t
It?” he Insisted.
’’Ye«. Luke Finch, If you will know
•11 about It. It was about clothes! You
can look a» shocked as you like; you’ve
said yourself there wasn’t any trouble
too small to carry to the Lord In
prayer and ask for his help—and so
I asked him about tasseled shoes!”
“Tasseied shoes?” repeated Luke,
aghast.
“ T asseied shoes?"
"Yes. tasseied shoes.”
“You want ’em—for yourself?”
“Of course I do. Did you think I
wanted them for you?”
“Good land, no! But I didn’t know
women wore tasseied shoes, Adelaide.”
Luke was surveying his wife's nest,
square toed common sense shod feet.
“There’s a lot you don't know about
women. Luke Flach,” half sobbed
Adelaide, dropping stitches with every
tear. “I’ve wanted a pair o f tasseied
shoes all my life. Even when I was a
little girl and the other children wore
cunning little boot.: with
nt the
top my father irou'^d '«iu Uu'vu.
And so I thought when I grew up 1
could have what I liked, but until 1
got married father had his say shout
what we girls wore, and he wouldn’t
hear of a pair of tasseied shoes. He
said they were ungodly”—
“So they are—so they are!” inter
rupted Luke warmly. “The serpent’s
snare of vanity for weak women.”
“I don’t suppose those pink suspend
ers you've got on are s serpent’s snare
for men’s vanity,” retorted Adelaide.
Luke thrust his thumbs under the
pink suspenders and snapped the elas
tic noisily. “That’s different, Addis,”
he said loftily. “Suspenders are made
In fancy colors, and I always get pink
because It pleases me better than
some other colors. Tasseied shoes are
different”
“Fiddlesticks! I guess you could
find • pair of plain white ones or drab
ones, like the dresses you pick out for
me.’’
“Adelaide FlDCh, would you wear a
pink drees T* demanded Luke incredu
lously
“Yes, I would.
Why not?”
“Why, Constance la nothing but a
child.”
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“Youth Is the time for love. It comes
then much easier and much quicker
than In later years.”
“Well, John, I feel very much com
plimented that yon should have so
high an opinion of my daughter. Til
talk with her and see what I can do.
Of course you know she has no fortune
to match what will come to Arthur.”
“He has the fortune. I wish him to
marry one who has the brains to take
care of i t ”
“Well, If I can hit on a plan that will
bring the matter about 111 let you
know.”
A tow days later Mrs. Rutherford
submitted her plan. It was this:
‘Tell yonr son that you would like
him to marry Constance—that Is, If
•he will accept him. If she refuses be
shall be free to do with his inheritance,
when he gets It, what he likes and to
remain a celibate. Throw out a fear
that he will attempt to Influence Con
stance to make a sacrifice by declining
him that the church may be benefited.”
Mr Malnwaring was especially adapt
ed to carry out his part of the plan.
He had a talk with his son. In which
he mads known his wishes snd very
skillfully threw out the hint that Mrs.
Rutherford had suggested. He then
left the young man to pursue the mat
ter In accordance with his own meth
ods.
It la remarkable how many young
men and women are brought up to
gether who never think of marrying.
And Is It not that they either grow to
be old maids and old bachelors side
by side or take partners from other
places because of the very fact that
marriage doe« not occur to them? The
curate found himself face to face with
the converse of this proposition. Mar
riage had been suggested. He most
either get out o f ’marrying a certain
girl or give up a pet scheme. He was
in love with the scheme, not with the
girl.
Constance was very young —too
young one would say to play the prin
cipal part in this little comedy. Her
mother chose her daughter's costume
for the occasion, but did not hamper
her with Instructions. The girl was
not displeased at the Idee of becoming
the curate’s wife snd was very much
pleased at the prospect of having a
wife’s Interest In a million. .When she
entered the room where young Main
waring was waiting for her, blushing
and avoiding his gaze. she certainly
looked very attractive. Though her
mother had robed her in the gown
having the longest skirt in her ward
robe It reached but little below the
tope of her boots. Her figure was of
the willowy kind, though she w ss
neither very tall nor very Blender. The
curves of both her figure snd her face
were those of youth. She seemed so
embarrassed that she scarcely knew
what to do. Advancing shyly to the
curate, she put out her hand, all the
while with averted gate The little
member nestled soft and warm In the
Mrs. Rutherford waited to hear no
more. Going to a room where tele
phone apparatus was kept, she dosed
the door anti called up llr. Malnwar
ing, Sr.
”Is that you, John?”
“Yes.”
“I'm M artha The m utter between
A rthur an d ’Coustnnce Is settled.”
“ Settled! W hat do you mean?”
“She’s got him.”
“Good! How did she manage It?
W hat In the world did she say to
him?"
“Didn’t say a word.”
“Well, what did she do?”
“Bawled.”
“ Bawled? Explain.”
- “ The minx listened to his argum ent
until he had come to the polDt, then
began to cry."
“How do you know It’s all settled?”
“ I just heard him auk for one teeny,
weeny little kiss.”
“I told you she would manage him.
And she'll keep It up too.”
The curate had called to convert a
girl to the cause of his being a celi
bate, and Instead she had converted
him to matrimony. When he had come
to her way of thinking her tongue was
somewhat loosened. But she said noth
ing about hdw they were to spend her
expected fortune upon the church.
Later, when they were married and
had Inherited his million, as his wife
she took it under her own wlug, and
the clergyman's intentions for the
church resulted In nothing more than
air castles. He Is an Indifferent
preacher, hut maintains his position at
the head of one of the richest churches
In a large city. If any one expresses
surprise at a man of such small caliber
occupying so Important a position the
toply Is:
- I t’s Mrs. Malnwaring.”
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dozen lrifometera (seven and a half
miles) from Sardinia. It Is a little
more than a mile in length and h is a
population of fifty-five. The »©verelgn-
ty of the Island was accorded In 1836
by King Charles Albert to the Barto-
leonl family. Cp to 1882 Paul I. reign
ed peaceably over hl» little Island
kingdom, but at hla death the Island
ers proclaimed a republic. By the con
stitution of the republic the president
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Mine. Curie's “radium palace” prom-
toee to be one of the most Interesting
buildings in the world. Foundations
for It have been laid at great depth In
the Rue Pierre Curie, in southern
Paris. All her laboratories will be lo
cated there, and- she will carry on the
researches which she began With her
late husband. T h e building will be
lined throughout with a thick layer of
tosK which to impenetrable to ftolbUb
Semis Note to China Meaning
Practically Taking Over of
Outer Mongolia.
Pekin.— -China has a renewal of hos
tilities and the demand of the Rus
sian «overmen t that China recognise
the Independence of Outer Mongolia.
Revolutionists from Shan 81 and
Shen 81, having recaptured the town
of Shen Chow, are advancing on Ho
Nan, while reinforcements have been
dispatched to the imperialists. The
armistice has not been renewed and
early fighting is expected.
In addition to requesting China to
recognise the Kutuktu of Urge, as
monarch of Outer Mongolia, the Rus
sian government has notified China
that the Independence of Outer Mon
golia aa far as concerns Internal af
fairs, must the recognised at once. To
thia note China has made no reply.
Undoubtedly a strong protest will
be made by the Chlneee government
against the action of Russia, but
China Is tumble to defend herself now
or In the future with reference to
Mongolia. Hereafter the Desert of
Gobi will mark the Chinese boundary
on the northwest
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When she had withdraw n from him
•he went to the other part of the
room and seated herself as far away
from him as she conveniently could.
Mr. Malnwaring felt the difficulty o f
addressing a young girl barely seven
teen ofi such a subject. ' I t was his
purpose to dissuade her from m arry
ing him. W hat a situation! H ad he
been on the other side he would have
found his task very easy. H ad she
been older he could have appealed to
her higher spiritual sense w ith more
chance of success. As it was he fear
ed to put himself In a very ungallant
If not unmanly position. He remained
silently turning the m atter bver In his
mind till the silence was becoming
painful, then, clearing his throat, he
began:
“A certain proposition has been
made to me in which you are Involved.
My father has done you the honor to
wish you for his daughter-in-law. I
know you to be worthy of the compli
ment. I am sure there Is in you a
nobility of soul far beyond the aver
age. If you decline a proposition from
me, father will not Insist on my m arry
ing any one else. In th a t case I shall
be enabled to confer a great benefit on
the church and through the church on
millions of beings. No one knows’’—
warming to his subject, he arose and
took a seat beside her—“how many
ImiAortal souls by a decision of yours
may be saved and translated at last to
glory. I think I hear a chorus of
voices of those whom you have saved
exultingiy chanting your praises be
fore the heavenly throne.”
He paused for breath. Constance
seemed very much affected. She did
not look up at him, but rested her
bowed head on her hand, the elbow
resting on the arm of her sent—a sofa
—and Mr. Malnwaring moved nearer
to her and l>eat forward that he might
see the effect of his exordium. Her
hand nearest to him lay limp. That
he might make the rest of his appeal
more successful he clasped It softly In
his own.
“If you choose selfishly in this m at
ter,” he continued, “whnt do you
gain? First, an unw orthy servant of
the Lord; second, that which Is dross.
‘Lay not up for yourself treasure on
earth, where moth and rust doth cor
rupt.’ Choose rather that spiritual part
which will”—
,
The speaker stopped short? Mrs. t
Rutherford, who was ilsteuiug on the
landing above, exclaimed:
“Goodness gracious! W hat is the
child howling about?”
Sobs. sobs, more sobs, came up from
the drawing room. Mrs. Rutherford
waited for words. She waited during
whnt seemed a long while, though It
was only a m atter of hyl{ a minute;
then she heard the curate say:
- “There, there; don’t cry.”
This was-succeeded by a fresh burst
of sobs.
“Come, .^ome; dry your tears, dear
little girl.”
But the more the curate strove to
calm his proposed convert the more she
w e p t.---_ --------- —
“T hat’s right,” m uttered Mrs. Ruth
erford to herself. “Keep it up and all
will be well.”
“Constance, dearest,” came again the
curate’s voice, “perhaps It can be all
arranged another way. Together we
will dispense this blessing which Prov
idence Intends for those who need it
You may be my assistant. Dry your
tears, sweetheart. There, there; put
your head^dpWn on my shoulder. We
shall be very happy together. Now
give me ju st one teeny, weeny little
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sied by Ernest L. Reguin, president one day making a tour through the
of the Federated Shop Employes of empire when an entertainer named
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SU M M O N S—In the Oironit Ooert of the
state of Oregon for Sherman ooonty.
Charles W Hudson, P laintiff,
va.
Chicago.—The whole country north
of the OtAf tier of states for several
daye was in the grli^of Intense cold
and there was intense suffering on
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Thera waa a general, heavy fall of
snow throughout the lake states and
the Missouri and Mississippi valleys,
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situation by tying up traffic In many
Instances and preventing the meas
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prompUy under circumstances more
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with their wires in virtually every
section.
Portland.—Drizzling rain and sleet,
which turned to Ice as It fell*, demoral-
lxed Portland'» streetcar service, left
the residence districts In darkness,
prostrated the telephone and tele
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thousand dollars.
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Y o u are co rd ia lly in v ited to m ake the
p laint filed herein against von. to-wit, for a
deoree diaaolving the bond» of matrimony
now existing between the p lain tiff and yonr
•e lf, on the ground» of w ilfu l desertion,
and ornel ana inhum an treatm ent, and
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duly made on the lfith day of Deoetnber,
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msnt filed suit hers last month, has
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that he would appoint some women
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his office, the exciting race among
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Crosby, president of the Woman’s
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of three women appointed by Sheriff
Harbinger. The others are Miss Con
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