Emeraldt in Old Egypt
i Tli emerald em to Imvo buo th
favorite (ton of ancient Egypt. Old
omerald mlnei hnv bn discovered
o extensive ttmt hundreds of moo
must Imvo worked Id them ut a time,
much the work In the dlnmond
mines of Houlh Africa todny. Many
rlnm of Cleopatra,' lime are sot with
eimirulds deeply cut with tier portrait
These the ! mid to have bestowed
on forclKii ambassadors m mark
of her fiivor.
f No WonJ.r It', Coitly
To obtain the sIiikIo grain of radium
which the women of Amerlci gave to
Madame Curie whim ihe visited this
country In 11)21 required the working
of 000 tons of ore and the labor of
600 mvn for els months, During the
process of effraction thnre were con
aumcd 10,000 tona of autlllod water,
3,000 tone of roal and Boo tone of
chctnlcnli. (las Logic.
Vain Search for Motto
London, the Smart of the Ilrltlah
empire, la one of the faw big cities
of tho world that haa no motto. For
timny yenre now the London county
council haa been diligently atrlvlng to
Bud one. A aubcoinmlttee of the gen
i nil purposes committee, which bad
the matter In hand fr nearly fifteen
jtmra, baa given It up aa a bad Job
World'e Population
The population of the entire world
la estimated, roughly, at l,Bo),000..
The population of China, eatlmuted In
the aame manner la SOO.OiXVXK). Tbua
bout oneslstli of tke world'a popu
lutlon la In China. Tim population of
India la aim about .H),oxMi0. One
third of the population of the world
Uvea In China and India.
' lla$ Known Many Change
Texaa haa paid alb-glance to the
Dourbona and the Ilonapartca, the
llupiitmrgs and the Monteiuraaa. It
haa several tlrnea bwn a kingdom,
twice an empire and all timet a re
public. It haa now reached Ita goal
aa a king of rmplree In the greateat
republic the world baa ever known.
Happineet in Thrift
Pave a little of thy Income, and thy
lilde bound pocket will toon begin to
thrive, and thou wilt never cry again
with an rmpty etomacn; neither will
creditor! Intuit thee, nor want oppress
thee, nor hunger bite, nor will naked
Beta frees thee. itenjaniln Franklin.
Arlington Amphitheater
In the pit of the Arlington amphi
theater S.oiio can be tented; In the
gallery, l.0; In the hoiea, 480, and
en the tpeakera atand 60. This makea
toial of T.130. The atruetnre la
built of marble, and coat $1,01)0,000
Houston Saw CUarly
The rapid growth of Texaa recalla
Ihe prophecy of Sara tloutton In
1H.T2 that Texaa wit capable of tup
portlng 10,000.000 pertont. At that
time there were fewer than 1,000
Americana In the Lone Star atate.
Religious Appeal
.' A teontplcuoua atgn delayed on
tratiacomlnentnl motor highway In the
titale of Washington reads aa followa:
This la God's wintry. Don't aet It
on Are and make It look like bell."
Wall Street Journal.
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When a girl doetn't marry nntll
she' thirty thete daya the'e hard to
catch. She flnda out how well aha
can get along without marriage and
been met very chootey. Atchlaon
Gtobe.
F urther Refuge
Old Doctor Johnson aald patrlotltm
waa the Inst refuge of scoundrels. Hut
In caae that falla nowadaya there la
atlll a writ of error, or certiorari, or
whatever It la. Detroit Newa.
V$e for Spider' Webi
Btranda of the web of apldera art
Oted for cross llnea In mlcroacopee,
range flndere and other exacting In
atrumenta, The web la wound on
card Ilka thread.
Are You an Honest Man?
Too may think you are an honeat
man. Rut If there la prejudice In
your heart, It la crowding the truth
pretty hard. Atchlaon fllobe.
Dog and New Tricke
Jud Tunklna any an old dog that
waa any good In the. flint place, know
plenty of tricke. .Why try to teach
him new onetT
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CHAPTER X Continued
He drew a long, deep, quivering
breath. Well, he would have an ex
planation of thla myttury If he bad
to drag Meely by force Into the parlor
car to face either her empty chair or
her living counterpart!
"Meely I"
She turned with a bound and at
eight of him, her dull face expressed
aurprlte and pleature, "Well -of
all thlngal Mr. Crelghton yet I
Well, me, I'm that took hack, Mr.
Crelghtonl Whnt brang you to New
Tork over? Come on," ihe laid, mak
ing room for him bostdu her, "and aet
down here, aide by each ain't? My
land'a aakeal" the exclaimed aa he
obeyed her, "ain't you feelln' good,
Mr. CrelghtonT You look that pale)
Moat like a dead one! What alia yon,
anyhow? Are you mebby car-tick? I
got awful car tick goln'. Hut comln',
I'm feelln' light good. I waa to New
Tork over to look for a place. ' I'm a
right good cooker and I heerd they
paid god cooka In New Tork aa mucn
aa live dollare week. With room
and board yet I Bo I aaya to I'op, 1
aaya"
She atopped abort, reached for a
coat that waa crushed between her
and tho window, slipped It on and
atood op. "Come, Bt. Croix." the
apoke naturally, "the game'a up of
course. Let'a go hark to our chain
If you're not emliarratacd to walk
through thla train with my pompa
dour I I thought thla the qulckeat,
easiest way to make you aee how I
do It I For I'm In the way of being a
profetttonal actress, St. Croix, and
make-up' It my atrongeat point."
Iler countenance waa concerned and
aympathettc aa, altttng oppotlte htm
In the parlor car, ahe considered ble
white-faced suffering. Waa ahe cruel,
ahe wondered? Hut aurely, thla waa
"coming to him" he deterved It I
And yet he looked ao gliaatlyt Per
hapa he might kill hlmtelf and It
would be her fault I Well, would that
be aa had aa what he had plotted to
do to1 "Jleely Schwenckton"? It would
Dot!
"I'll tell you. St Croix, all about It
If yoo want to know," the augi-cated
la a troubled voice, her face almott
aa pale aa hit own. "I'm aorry If I've
hurt you terribly, but think how yoo
were going to hurt me!"
"Not you I the girl you pretended
to be," he aald huskily. "And auch ft
girt would not have been hurt I A girl
like you can't Judge for one like Mce
of the Schwenckton breed 1"
"Better than yoa can. St Croix I
Ton would have ruined her life for
her!"
"Not If ahe'd been what ahe
aeemed!" he Inflated, hla voice low
pitched and hoarse.
"What ihe aeemed waa an Ignorant,
etupld. but perfectly decent girl I And
after the pitiful note Mr. Schwenck
ton wrote yoa which you thought waa
about me I It waa about hla daughter
Nettle, who he knew waa In love
with you. It waa ahe that acnt you
that fudge."
"How the h I yoo ever managed
the devilish coup!" he exclaimed dot
perately, "The queer thing, St,, Croix, waa
that there watn't thing premeditat
ed about It It all Just happened. I
Just fell Into the thing atop hy step.
I'll tell you. I'll begin with the molo.
I knew that waa a -landmark for you I
Bo I put flesh-colored court platter
over It and powered the tpot with
Bonn-colored powder."
He atnred at her helplessly.
"The big mlttnke you made, St
Croix, waa In not knowing I waa the
teacher of William I'cnn achool. Net
tle Schwenckton watn't You had ua
mixed. I waa the teacher; and I
boarded at the Schwenckton farm."
"Put but," he atammcrcd, "then
Marvin helped you put thla thing over
on mel"
"Oh, dear, nof ne had nothing to
do with It 1"
"Do you ewear to me he didn't know
who you were?" St. Croix demanded
with Joaloue suspicion and resent
ment "Well, he certainly did suspect me
for a fraud and a blurt when he heard
me teach United States geography I
But he didn't know anything more
about me than you did. Now, I'll tell
you ALL) I've alwaya been mad to
go on the stage or the terpen. I man
aged to icrape together enough money
to go to Parla to study dramatic art
few months. Then I got a email
part In an English repertoire company
that played In the provinces and I
earned enough to buy my passage to
America, the only place, I was told,
where acreen atara earned anything.
It waa an awful risk, my coming here,
I had ao little money. Hut I rena
aured my anxloua parents by tolling
them that If I got stranded I'd lend
out an S 0 8 to the Cretghton fumtly.
Meantime, aa Marvin haa Jilted me,
Mother and Father decided there waa
no obligation upon ua, now, to tell
your family of my adventure and my
ambition, until we tnw how 1 suc
ceeded on the acreen, If at all 1"
"Hut It haa aurely been understood
all along, Sylvia, that I was eager to
take Marvin's place".
"There watn't any place to take,
Bt Croix. Marvin may think, In his
prldn, that he Jilted me hut the fuel
of the case Is that I Jilted him first 1
never would hoar of marrying either
of you I liut my poor parents needed
your money so badly, they alwaya
hoped I'd chonge my mind, and ao
they never broke It to any of you that
I'd backed out Well, I cume over
to America In the utmost Ignorance of
everything I ehnuld have known;
rather expecting to take Hollywood
by atorm I feeling quite condescend
ing In offering my talents (which I
myself greatly admired) to the Amer
ican managnre; and not knowing that
Hollywood waa three thousand miles
from New York. Fortunately, I
learned a few needful facta on the
way over. My deck chair happened
to be next to a young American wom
an who had been a country teacher.
8 ho told me all about herself how
ahe had gone over In June with the
atudent-tent-her excursion and had met
and fallen In love with a man on the
ahlp, young college professor. Aa
toon aa they'd landed at Plymouth,
they'd gotten married, traveled alt
m miner and were now on their way
home. She told me the first thing
she'd got to do when the got homo
was to send In her resignation to the
country achool ahe waa to have taught
If she had not met her fate and gotten
married. When she mentioned the
atate, county and township where she
waa to have taught I recognized them
"You Made Love to That OH and
Would Have Dtspolltd and Rav
lihtd Her
aa the address of the Crelghtona.
Next thing I was telling her my story;
and when ahe learned how little money
I had, ahe waa appalled; and when
ahe told me Hollywood waa three
thousand miles from New York and
that It took five daya and five hundred
dollara to get there. I waa panlc
atrlcken. So we fixed up a plot Her
parents' home waa In Heading, Penn
sylvania, and her husband and ahe
were going there until hla college
opened. She Invited me to go home
with them and she would give me her
normal achool diploma and lend
me the use of her name, Amelia
Schwenckton (now no longer her
name), and I could go and appropri
ate her achool for a few months, until
I'd anved enough to go to Bollywood.
"She waa really a young woman of
quite a feverish Imagination, I do al
lure you. Her Schwenckton relatives
had never eocn ber (they're very dis
tantly related) ao I could pasa myself
off to them aa their cousin. The thing
appealed to me not only aa a solution
of my penniless predicament but aa a
Jolly adventure, especially at I knew
the achool waa In the neighborhood of
the Crelghtons' hornet I'd have a
chance, I thought to look them over
without their knowing It
"Of course, St Croix, I meant to
make myself known to your family
very soon. Hut I had not realized
how difficult that was going to be. I
got In deeper every day. And It wat
such fun, I didn't want to give up my
lark and my freedom and become
Lady Sylvia I And It waa all auch a
marvelous achool of acting for me; I
wai proving to myself that I could
act mastering that dlntect with Its
extraordinary Inflections; and suc
ceeding In taking you In, St Croix, to
far beyond my highest hopes I
"It wni when you were pointed out
to me, St Croix, at that barn dance
that the Idea first came to me to
pass myself off to you aa a Pennsyl
vonla Dutch girl for I thought It
would give me auch a chance aa no
girl had ever had before to lenrn to
know my possible future husband 1"
"I'm afraid," St. Croix murmured,
"you think you learned to know hliu
too well I"
"I'm afraid, Bt Croix, I did 1"
"Do you think It was fulr to take
me mi ii wares like that)'
"Why not?"
Suddenly a new realisation came
to htm that turned him a degree cold
er than he already was. "Ilut If you
were the teacher," he exclaimed, "why,
then, It wni you that Marvin waa all
the time seeing at that achoolhousel
It waa to you my father paid Ave thou
sand dollars to get away I My O d 1"
"Yes, wasn't that a aprlghtly acenel
That'a what I'm going to at your fa
ther about. I ran home to England
with that money to feed my etnrvlng
parents. Now I'm going to make a
clean breast of It all to your father
and then If he'll let me l.orrow what
I'va, still got of that five thousand, I'll
go to Hollywood with It The only
blot on my family escutcheon," she
sighed, "Is my having taken thBt bribe
from your father I Hut I needed It"
"WH1 you tell me," demanded Bt
Croix, frowning darkly, "la Marvin In
love with your
"I'm sure I don't know. lie never
told me ao, the one time 1 met him
unprofesalonally."
"And you are perfectly confident,
are you, that Marvin bad no suspicions
at all aa to who you were?"
"I funcy be had several suspicions.
Oh, Bt Croix, (fa going to be awfully
embarrassing, facing them all 1 Espe
cially your awful father after my tak
ing that money from him I It makea
me ahuddcrl When we get there, Bt.
Croix, let me walk In behind yoo, will
you? and I promise to bring np a
good, aolld rear In the procession!
Oh, but I'm nervous about It I"
"To aee you sitting there looking
like Meely Schwenckton and talking
straight English ! It's the d t knock
out I've ever experienced 1" Bt Croix
almost groaned.
"Didn't I do the part to the lifer
the amazingly appealed for applause.
"Now I can go to Hollywood not only
to offer Myself, but my Tlece aa well
for I've written a scenario of this
weird, wild escapade, St Croix, that
they can't resist I You'll aee yourself
In a 'movie' and find out Just bow
Just what you're like!"
"Sylvia!" He leaned forward and
took her hand. (They had their end
of the cor pretty much to themselves.)
"Give op this Hollywood Idea! You
know bow t love yoo
"'How.'" she repeated thoughtfully,
as she gently withdrew ber band.
"Yes, I know 'how'."
"Mut look here! You're not going
to bold me to account for treating
you like the creature you pretended
to be!"
"What sort of a creature waa I
pretending to ber
"You know what I mean, Sylvia V
"Yet you made love to that crea
ture 1 A man'a standards," ahe shook
ber head over It "are certainly low T
"They're high enough when It
cornea to choosing a wife, 8ylvlar
"Then let a woman'a standards be
as high when choosing a husband V
"You don't know life, my dear, or
you wouldn't say such an Impossible
thing! My own atandarda are far
more fastidious than the averager
"Gracious !"
"If you'll marry me, m worship
and reverence and adore you all my
life long!"
"My dear St Croix. I can't Imagine
anything more uncomfortable than be
ing 'reverenced' heavens I You've
known Meely Bchwenckton much
longer and better than you've known
Cousin Sylvia and I'm afraid If yoa
married me, you'd be far more likely
to bully and browbeat the meek and
lowly Meely than to ."worship, rev
erence and adore' the Lady Sylvia I
You're ao used to bullying me, I
couldn't risk It r
"You actually believe I could ever
for a moment confound you wltli the
stupid, vulgar girl you pretended to
ber
"You made love to that girl and
would have despoiled and ravished
herr
He winced and looked shocked.
"Please! Such words ou your lipti"
"Bunk! Bosh! You would have
done to her what you consider Inde
cent even to speak of to me I Do you
think I forget what you told her of
your feelings, about your marriage?
You aald to her- T will marry my cous
in because I shall enjoy the prestige
this marriage will give to me and to
my children.' You weren't even hop.
Ing for love In your marriage. That
you would find outside of marriage
with glrla like Meely Schwenckton I"
"I hadn't seen you then, Bylvla!"
"You were planning, fi marry one
girt while you were trying your best
to seduce another! And In the face
of that, you dare to speak of marriage
to mer
"Yes! Because I love you! I was
mad about 'Meely and you are ahe
with Just the difference that turna de
sire into worship 1"
"I'm afraid, St Croix, that Marvin's
repudiating me Is more to my taste I
You aee, my dear cousin, I know too
well how unchlvatroua you are to
womanhood, how you dishonor It and
ravage It 1"
Again he winced and drew back. "I
cannot bear," he frowned, disgust In
hla eyes, "to hear such coarse lan
guage on the lips of a glr! I respect I"
(TO UK CONTINUED.)
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"Big Business la Too Busy," aaya
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"Sixth day He created animals;
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