PARADE
-fly-Evelyn
Campbell
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CnitrimTiimniuLnnitfcr.iMl
CHAPTER XII Continued
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She startled htm by saying, sud
denly : "You don't believe I meant to
cheat people, do yon?' and he hastened
to assure her that he did not. "It
was because somebody once told ine
a wrong law of living. And I be
lieved It and here I am!" She
glanced around as If her surrounding
had just begun to matter. A small note
of terror crept Into her voice. "It was
like walking the narrowest path be
tween two precipices. One slip and
you're gone. That Is what happened
I slipped. And now nothing can ever
put me back again !"
O'Hara looked out of the cab win
dow. He knew where they were to
the fraction of an Inch. Two blocks
south and three east and around the
corner Sleet bad changed to a
steady rain, more miserable and dan
serous than the first; turning the side
walks and street Into a sheet of Ice.
On a night like this the place would
be full What would they do with tier
a fine, soft creature whose perfume
filled the musty cab like a bunch of
little spring flowers? And nothing
could ever put her back again. She
was right about that. For there was
lot he badn t told her. . . . There
were the other women
As If his thought had called Into
action one of the sordid epochs of such
a night, at this moment from the
street on the right arose a bnbub of
confusing sounds; the nproar of a mo
tor pushed beyond Its will, the scream
of brakes jammed at a dangerous an
gle and two headlights streaming In
the rain.
The two cars veered dangerously
together. A huge black bulk beside
the smaller taxi elbowed It violently
and for a second the man and woman
were given a glimpse of one of the
etchings of belL . . the Inside of a
patrol wagon Jammed to Its' doors
with women.
Where had tbey been found and why
had God made them? Faces without
age and without soul; bod'es wrapped
In sordid finery, evil as the flesh It
concealed. Desperate ejes; sodden
eyes eyes that langhed rlbaldly and
eyes that did not care. They huddled
in the lcng black box with Its Iron
screened sides flung there anyhow,
from God knows what beginning, and
Jimmy O'Hara saw, with the chills
down his back and the sweat under
his collar, what It was going to mean
to the woman beside him when she
was locked In a cell that night. He
had time to think, "all of them In
there together." and to get a vision of
slim white hands trying to bold the
filth away
The two cars careened together, al
most touching the taxi driver swear
ing loud and plaintively; Impossible
to put on the brakes with the street a
skating rink. The clank of slipping
chains, the ceaseless vibration of his
wheel confused him and the ugly Black
Maria clung there like a beetle I No
night for racing. The taxi driver
glanced almost pleadingly at the rush
er trying to crowd him Into the curb
and then he tried to run for It. Two
ghastly cargoes bound for the same
port; never to reach there.
Sirens I No time to turn. Nowhere
to go. Hurtling through emptiness,
the long red shining truck dotted with
clinging figures of men was upon
them. One moment the terrible truck
wheels were against the opposite curb
and then the front ones plowed their
way through a splinter of wood and
glass and bodies that tumbled like rag
dolls here and there upon the bitter
pavement.
Two wrecked cars and a hook and
ladder equipment slowly righting Itself
tinder the Impatient guidance of men
anxious to be on their way to the
work of saving a few floors and walls
from a threatened blaze.
A policeman taking charge nodded
the permission to go on. Nobody's
fault, of course. Hysterical women
were crying; some of them cursing bit
terly between their sobs. A curious
crowd, retrieved frou pool balls und
third-class restaurants, pressed eager
ly forward. The accident was bad
enough to draw them from their warm
shelters.
The patrol wagon rested grotesquely
on two wheels and a bent axle, but the
taxi was a complete disaster. Some
body was wiping blood from the
driver's head and declaring over and
over again that he wasn't dead, as If
he was the only one that mattered.
'What's this!" The policeman bent
down to look at two figures that lay
side by side. The man's coat, fallen
open, displayed a budge shining on
Ids breast. The discoverer was Im
pelled to a more vital Interest. "A
man from Central ofllcel" be cried,
agha; '..
Detective Jimmy O'Hara opened his
eyes, slowly. His mind was perfectly
clear, becuuse his head had not been
Injured at all. The rest of him was
dead, quite dead, and he bad seen
enough of death to know this for him
self. He knew what had happened, too.
The crash of Impact still lingered In
his mentality. His brain wna clear and
ns resonanl as a bell which has Just
been rung, but his numb body was
conscious of a heavy weight pulling
against one shoulder. Ho managed
to turn his eyes downward and saw
a face there a dead face with dead
yellow hair and spots of rej paint on
the chock bones. A horrible thing to
be dragging a man down.
"Who was with you officer t" de
manded the policeman, with his note
book under his hose. "Did you have a
prisoner?"
Jimmy O'Hara remembered. He re
membered perfume, white hands and
soft slenderness, fine as silk, lying
against his shoulder for a second a
the crash came. He remembered duty.
He lifted his heavy eyes again and
saw her like a dream standing over
him, pitying, like a person too horri
fied to move. And he remembered
duty again. Rut what is a man s
duty? Is It the thing he has prom
ised other men to do, or the prompt
of that Intimate stranger who sits In
Judgment when the body sleeps?
Jimmy O'Hara, who all his life had
done the right thing as right Is ac
cepted, beheld now a sort of white
light, a highway opening beside his
nnrrow path. Nearly everything was
dead as the world calls dead about
him, but this was the clearest vision
he had ever known.
"Here she Is." he said with a wen
motion toward the heavy thing upon
his arm, and shut his eyes for good
and all
CHAPTER XIII
"Because I Love Her"
T.rlan Anstey, making his way
through the long rooms, evaded suc
cessfully the Inveigling efforts of peo
ple he knew. A good-looking chap with
the right sponsors may not, at such
time, reach a given point In a given
time without encountering all the op
position that soft eyes, softer smiles,
detaining murmurs may throw In bis
way. Beyond a bulwark of black
shoulders Daisy Fentress sent a wist
ful glance. She alone might have
called to him but she would not. He
saw Simon, apart and taut; less than
other men In stature, yet towering
above them, a personality on stilts.
He saw a dozen men whose names and
words were making history, and saw
them for the first time as Individuals
who annoyed him by getting In his
way. And at last he got a glimpse
of the man he was looking for.
Converse was paying ponderous
compliments to a Brazilian lady. He
seemed to admire ber olive shoulders,
frankly pasted with snowy shellac,
more than anything In the world. His
high color was nndimmed; bis small
eyes were bland and avid as ever, yet
Brian spoke to him without hesitation.
"Come with me," be said In a low
voice.
Converse looked around In surprise.
He was amazed to be spoken to In that
manner. Cut when he saw Brian's
face he excused himself to his com
panion and followed.
They went to the room that Brian
had left a few minutes before. The
atmosphere of Linda Itoth still lin
gered there In some strange fashion
as If over the thousand perfumes of
the crowded rooms beyond, her own
clung intangibly to the drooping fern
fronds or trembled somewhere In the
golden haze of shaded lamps. It
forced them to admit her presence.
But they were alone there and
Brian could endure to see the great
bulk of Converse sprawled upon the
frail settee where she had rested. The
faint shattering of one of the Imita
tion pearls as It perished did not move
him as It might have done, so far
was he removed from the sentiment
of little things.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Spanish Hornet
Of all the Mediterranean styles of
architecture In use today, there la
probably none more popular or better
known, especially for residential pur
poses, than the Spanish with its Ufa
and color.
The Spanish, having apparently been
a bomelovlng race, developed their
residential architecture to a higher de
gree than any other type of building.
Where the Greek masterpieces are
found In religious buildings, as Is the
case In most historical styles, the
Spanish seem to have studied archi
tecture from a livable point of view.
Their principal contribution being res
idential, the Spanish house was de
signed for Its owner's comfort In every
way possible.
No Roofee, No Rente
Yes, Indeed, J arrears three months
rent. If you were I should you pay
and keep mouth shout, who Is like
d n fool to pay the thing unsatis
factory. Unless you pjitch the roof and put
new paper on wall then I clear that
Later If you do not do I shall sue you
damage for working hours. Many time
the worked had done how ever mid
night rain, next morning all clot hers
wet I have start all over and waste
my time for nothing. Letter from a
New Jersey Chinese laundrymun to his
landlord.
Early Magazines
The first magazine published In
America was Issued In Philadelphia
February 13, 1711. It was the Ameri
can Magazine, or a Monthly view of
the Political State of the British Col
onies, published by Andrew Bradford.
Three days later Benjamin Franklin
Issued the General Magazine and His
torlcal Chronicle for all the British
Plantations In Amerlca.-Detrolt New
On the
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FIRST HAS NO CHANCE
A party of travelers were relating
their experiences on sea und land.
Only one man of the crowd sat silent
to his corner. Presently some one ad
dressed him.
"Have you traveled much, sir?"
"A little," was- the meek reply, "I've
been round the world seven times,"
"Then you must have been through
lome exciting adventures. Perhaps
rou would tell us about soma of them. '
"Well," said the stranger, "prolmblj
my most remarkable experience wai
during my last voyage. At one time
we found the heat so terrific that w(
used to take turns to go down Into
the stokehold to get cooled."
Then everybody divided It was tlint
to go to bed.
ENTOMOLOGIST SHOCKED
"The great entomologist was ter
ribly shocked today."
"How was that?"
"He was out after butterflies and
somebody asked him If he was the
dog catcher and used the little net
to catch puppies with."
Revelations
If people always spoke the truth
It wouldn't make us glail li'r
The world would vintr he. In tooth.
But likewise vastly sadder.
Sharing Responsibilities
"What do you understand by coali
tion?" "It's supposed to give the back seat
driver a chance," said Senator Sor
ghum. "You keep the wheels of leg
islation going without knowing exactly
who Is running the machine." Wash
ington Star.
Quit So
"Pardon me, I'm sure I've seen yon
somewhere before. You're so niuib
like Jones, the chauffeur."
"I am Jones."
"Ah, that accounts for the remark
able likeness." Faun, Vienna.
EASY RUNABOUT
"Jack says he has a dandy little
runabout"
"Yea, It'll run about two miles and
then quit."
Rest in Pieces
Here lies what't left of
Adolph Mcl'harr;
lie bumped a mule with
Ills midget car.
Payments Overdue
Servant There's a man to see you,
sir.
Master Tell him to take a chair.
Servant He has, sir. He's taken
them all, and they're moving out the
piano now. He's from the furniture
store.
Fault of Chewing Gum
Barber How iild you get your mus
tache in this condition?
Customer I tried to steal a kiss
from a girl who was chewing gum.
An Expensive Curiosity
"You don't love me any more. When
you see me crying now you don't ask
Why."
"I'm awfully sorry, my dear, but
these questions have nlreudy cost me
such a lot of money."
Lost and Gain
"Did your husband find that golf
Improved his health?"
"Yes. It Improved his health. But
unless he learns to play better, It will
spoil his disposition."
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How Bilbao
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Social?, Wulilnslun. I). C)
HOW a city awakes Is one of the
most outstanding characteris
tics by which a traveler can
catalogue It
Bilbao, on the northern coast of
Spain, has certain noises and activi
ties all Its own. When most northern
Spanish cities wake up In the morn
ing certain fixed and recognized noises
are heard, certain events transpire,
ind certain movements of th popu
lation tnke place, and In Spnln some
how these little Incidents differ con
liderally from similar ones taking
place at the same hour In other coun
tries. The whistle of locomotives Is heard
announcing the departure of early
trulu.. and, in Spain the best trains,
lpparently with fixed Intent, manage
to depart at about Ave o'clock. Tluy
electric cars rumble through narrow
streets and across the plazas. under
the dusty palm trees, tinkling their
little brass bells, or perhaps they
haven't any bell at all, the conductor
limply blowing from time to time a
small tin horn as sign of warning.
The worker appears on the streets
with his long blue blouse hanging to
the knees, hurrying along noiselessly
In his ulpargatas, like ranvus tennis
shoes with soles of colled rope, and
his bolna, a tiny blue cap with no
visor, like a small tam o' shunter, with
a piece of string an Inch long replac
ing the pompon, set at a rakish angle.
Shops Open, People Appear.
In the older parts of the town the
Iron curtain covering both door und
single window of the little stores,
taverns, and wine shops of the poorer
classes Is pushed up with a rattle
and the place Is then open for busi
ness. The church bells call the faith
ful to early mass, and among them
are many women garbed In black,
further Intensified by the black man
tllla over head and shoulOrs, who
slip like shadows through the early
morning light
Movement commences along the wa
terfront where the rattle of donkey
engine Is heard, the clanking of large
chains, and the hoarse cries of the
second mates starting their gangs at
the day's work of cargo-handling.
All that tukes place In any of the
Spanish cities on the "Mar Canta
brlco," as the Bay of Biscay Is called
in the mother tongue. But at Bilbao
there are two Incidents that occur In
the early morning which apparently
are unique to this, the largest of the
Basque cities of Spain.
Number one. The oil lamps of the
anguleros are extinguished. Now,
anguleros are fishermen who since
midnight have been engaged In a pe
culiar branch of the fisherman's urt.
They have been catching nngulas, and
angulus, In turn, are a very peculiar
brand of fish little white, utmost
transparent worms (perhaps It would
sound better to cull them miniature
eels), only two Inches long. When a
batch of them is fried however, In
olive oil and served In an earthenware
dish, with the oil still popping when
brought to the table, most connois
seurs will agree that there Is method
lu tiie anguleros' apparent madness.
This delicacy inhabits the River Ner
vlon and Is caught along the stone
walls of the quuys, being uttructed In
to nets by the fishermen's oil lumps.
Women Stevedores of Bilbao.
Number two. The shrieks of bare
footed, llly-clolhed women stevedores
are beard.
This requires tha explanation thut
Bilbao, the most Important port of
Bpuln after Barcelona, derives its
prominence from the heavy outward
bound truille In iron ore from nearby
mines and the correspondingly heavy
imports of coals from Newcastle to
furnish fuel for the many Basque Industries.
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Narvlon River, Spain.
The Iron ore Is loaded with modern
equipment along the rlvr, but the coal
Is often unloaded by hand or, per
haps to be mors explicit, by head.
Women almost eicluslwly are em
ployed In this dainty occupation. Kvery
day a continuous line Is to be seen
moving up one gang plunk, with bush
el basket In hand, and down another
to rtie coal bills on shore, with a
heaping basketful of coul balanced on
each head.
When these tollers gather, shortly
after daybreak, to begin work, there
Is a great row that has to do with
preferred places In the line, there be
ing tome gang planks slightly nearer
to the coal lii-Hps than others.
Bilbao Is eight miles up the Hirer
Nervloti from the sen. Numerous
towns, some of them devoted to ship
building, iron foundries and smelters,
line both sides of the stream between
the port and the tea. At the mouth
of the Nervloti are twin cities, Lst
Arenas on the right bank, snd I'ortu
galete on the left. People are trans
ported between the towns In a unique
manner.
Flying Ferry Is Unique.
On each river edge is a great tower
of steel, something like a wireless
tower, but more massive, over two
hundred feet In height. These towers
support a light Iron bridge one bun
dre and fifty feet above the river,
under which the largest steamers puss
and repass night ami day. From this
bridge Is suspended a "Hying ferry"
supported by a network of floe wire,
wblrh Is pulled buck and forth across
the river. It bungs to within a few
feet of the water.
One crowds onto the ferry, the
whistle blows, the bell rings, the Iron
gate clangs shut, away one. moves
smoothly out over the river through
the air, as It were. The opposite shorn
is reached In a minute, but It Is a
rather delightful little minute at that.
Portugalete has narrow streets, and
Its balconied houses st retell pictur
esquely up the hillside, while at the
top Is an enchanting little (Jothlc
church, which Is alwuys the way In
Spanish towns. They uiwuys si i
to cluster around a church or two for
protection. Indeed. In Bilbao, there
are no less than seventy five of these
protectors.
Lus Arenas, opposite Portugalete, Is
a modern village of seashore villas
which has become populur ns a sum
mer resort. Here the Club Murltlmo
bus Its pleasant club house, overlook
ing the harbor enlrunce.
For administrative purposes Spain
Is divided Into forty-nine districts or
provinces. Regionalism Is so strong
that one may almost continue and
state that there are also forty nine
national languages, forty nine nation
al costumes, forty-nine national dances,
and, last but by no means least, forty
nine national dishes.
This would, perhaps, he a slight
exaggeration, but the fact remains
that the Inhabitants of each district
differ noticeably In characteristics
from all the others. A man from Bar
celona Is first a Catalan and second
u Spaniard. Likewise an Inhabitant
of Corunu Is less Spanish than (in
llego and a person from Bilbao places
his Basque nationality before his Span
ish adherence, and so on.
Thus, tho Bllbalno holds that no
dish can equal In excellence his hue
nlao Vizcaino, and tho citizen of Vigo
turns up his nose ut ull foods except
his own native pote gnllego, a con
coction of potato and cabbage boiled
In water with lard and eaten with
bread und garlic. The Valenclnn has
his urroz valenclatio, which g really
excellent rice cooked In oil, to which
tender bits of meat und sweet peppers
are udded. The proud CuhIIIIim stlcki
through thick und thin to the puchcr
the Sevlllano to his beloved guzpuclu
that
sluggish
reeling
Tut yourself right with nature bf
chewing Fern-a-mint. Works mildly
but effectively In small doses. Modera
safo scientific, i'or the fumlly.
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FOR CONSTIPATION
Noted English Writer
Won't "Play" Typewriter
When I was In l.omlmi In l'.i.'S
John (lalsMorthy showed me the
manuscripts of nearly all his hoot,.
He cannot dictate urn! cannot play
tho typewriter: thus I hey are all In
pen and Ink, and their commercial
value) must be prodigious.
Prof, Carlton Wells of the Culver
ally of Michigan calls my attention
to nil article in a review, quoting
the Mati'diester (iuarduin, as follows:
They are worth a small fortune
and fhey are certain to appreciate
great !y In years to come. No other
Kliftllih writer, with (lot pomlhle ex
ception of Shaw, has such a vogue
abmnd, and almost eiery month lee
an advance In tho prices of his first
editions.
"Ualsworthy Is one of the few mod
ern authors who write everything In
their own hand. He oncti told me
Hint he found It lmpo!hlu to think
with a typewriter in front of him,
and be raised his eyes In mock hor
ror when I mentioned the dictaphone.
"In bis study at Hsiupsteud all his
manuscripts are enrr fully preserved
In a row of red morocco boxes shaped
like book covers. Those he has pre
sented to the British nitixcuin sre to
Ih si-en In the (irevillt room." Wil
liam Lyon Phelps In Hcrlbner's Mas
xlne. Fault and Misfortune
tilling AiIh once remarked thut
you couldn't blame a loan for having
club feet, but that Midi; whiskers
were bis own fault. --American Mag
azine. Human Nourishment
Tho amount of food artd drink
consumed by the average mun each
venr weluhs shout n ton
FARM WOMAN
BENEFITED
After Taking Lydia E. Plnk
ham'a Vegetable Compound
Lirkdale, Pa. "Beforn I w:-s iwr.
ied, my mother and H-trr und I did all
"1 tho lanning work
on n iil-ucro f.irr.i
foM'leV'i II year. I
nmrriiHl a fiirm- r
and now in nd li
Uon to my bonne,
work and tlm raro
of my children I
help l.im with the
outside work on
our farm. After
my last child was
Imrn, I begun to
stiller as many
somen do. Finally our family doctor
lolil mo to try Lydia M. Pitikham's
Vegetable Compound. I did and now I
wn anew woumnand I know thut good
health is bettor than riches." Mrs..
Cltdb I. Siikiiman, K. I, Lit kJule, Pa.
Giant Thermometer
In VIsiiIIii, Cullf., where the mer
cury frequently tllrts with the cen
tury mark, Harry llunsncker, thenter
manager, claims to have the world's
largest thermometer. It Is twenty
six feet In height with tubing three
Inches In diameter. The thermome
ter, mounted above the marquee of
the theater on the outside, Is used
to display to potential patrons the
temperature Inside the Icecooled
theater.
Slolen sweets are best . f'lbber.
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