through the hood: “Here's the flash.
“THE DECIDEE”
War s declared."
The general twitched with suppress A New Trap for Women Who Hesi
ed excitement. For a moment longer,
tate About What to Buy.
he watched the picture in the reflector.
An ingenious attempt Is now being
Then he saw that the fleet bad the
news. Across the Atlantic tbe in uinde lu some of the big department
stantaneous service had carried the de estublisbmeuu to ussUt the opinions
of uudecided women who come to shop.
claration of war.
Every salesman and every sales
Far below him waa the chief city of
-
_
___
his nation, now subdued in the know woman knows the woman who haunts
Courtesy TechntcafWoTiiT'
ledge that it and tbe nation had been the bargain sales, flutters from count
psif of Chapter! I and II.
sins. “We'll feel better In the open.” brought to the final test. In the send er to counter, is shown goods until the
are driven to distraction,
Before they could step out of the ing station was the man on whom his attendants
United States is about to go to i door, a messenger came in.
nation’s hopes depended. He firmly thinks she will buy everything, and
finally Invests In a yard and a half ot
-ith a foreign nation. The era- “Curtis reports," he said. “The fleet pressed the button.
of the government power sta- has left Kiel. He will send location."
in the reflector he saw the enemy’s pink ribbon, simple because she 1*
rhlch supplied Washington and , “Tell Curtis," said Montrus speaking squadron move. He knew that It had absolutely Incapable of making up her
I York with electricity for light, low-voiced, “that the outcome of this been in readiness to start, and on tbe own mind as to what «he want*.
Drapers Rave long tolerated this
land power, are expecting orders war depends on him. We want the lo Instant of the receipt ot the tidings
jpply heavier current. Atsins, an cation. We must have it. If he can was setting forth. If it came unmo form of mental weakness. Now they
Fician at the station obtains leave ■ send electrographs, send them; - but lested, as it had every right to expect have revolted, and the day of the “De
Ice an invention of bls before the first the location.”
it would, there could be but one result cider" has coma
The Decider is an American insti
I of the United States Army at
W'tb Atsins, he walked out into the to his nation.
Lington. He obtains an interview | night. The sky was black. The air
It seemed an eternity of time as be tution, and Glbsonlan at that. She is
beautiful as to face and features, and
[the General who Is favorably lm- was heavy and wet. A gentle drizzle watched the reflector.
[ed with the annihilating appara- was starting.
Suddenly one of the ships disap- always gowned to perfection. Her
Ind gives directions for its instal-
The two men took a few deep peared in a blotch which sent confused duty la to Induce the doubtful to buy
To the customer she appears as a
under the supervision of its in- I , breaths, and then turned to each other, shadows over the reflector. Montrus
customer, with the earnest Intense
Neither spoke, but each held out his trembled in his excitement
hand. Ono close grasp, und they
The pictures grew clear for an in “sale face" that one now sees every
Chapter III
parted, Atsins for the sending station, stant Then another blur—a quick day In the big stores.
She sees a customer a little worse
the surprise of the nation, Con- Montrus for the tower.
succession of blurs, between which he
dressed thaa hereelf hesitating ove-
l held back during the day, a nar-
When the latter stepped off the ele could see nothing.
frlnge of conservative members vator at the top. he found two assist-
He grew dizzy, and held tightly to the purchase of a dress length of chif
ling between the country and nts bu*y with the reflector. Far away the supports ot the reflector to steady fon velvet. The shopman has done his
The news service, which had 1 the drizzle were the lights of Wash himself. His unblinking eyes were so best to persuade the lady that It la the
id up again and was voluminous ington and the Capitol. The general held by the grim, silent chaos of de superlative bargain of the season.
"You ought to take It at once, mad
detailed once more, still carried glanced at the bulletin, but it told him struction portrayed before him, that
prediction that war was Inevitable nothing new. The roll-call was being the seeing faculty seemed a thing apart am,” he says, eagerly; "if you leave
’-'layer’ by members who insisted on from him and separated completely by It to think the matter over, you will
could be only delayed,
regret it."
anwhlle the stolid helplessness t explaining their votes, notwithstand- his dazed condition.
IV'ar Department, which had blan- 1 _ that thej and the others had reach The tumultuous heaving and blur "I suppose so," the lady says, “but I
Ll even the energetic efforts of the ed the limits of human endurance. He ring on the reflector cleared away. It want to look about first; It Is so hard
krtment chiefs to do the best they glan -er’ at the other board, which I revealed a torn and shattered fleet— to decide—an evening gown is so very
id at the eleventh hour, had give- woulr give him in duplicate any word I two-thirds of the ships had vanished important.” And she surveys the
[y to a feverish activity extending tha. mlgh come from Curtis. It was completely, others beating feebly and dress length again from three different
departments unaware of th blank; but as he looked, it flashed out in their last efforts, others slowly angles.
with
sinking through the air, a few trying
Entrapping the Victim.
to escape from an unseen terror.
“52 30 17 N. 0 53 34. 9 E.”
had taken a fast express ship
It Is now the Decider's moment tc
General
Montrus,
veteran
though
he
"We
’
ve
got
1
’
’
he
almost
gasped;
■< to Susquehanna, returning at top
step In. Pretending to have noticed i»
fcd with the concentrator, the plam. and then he turned to the assistants, was, shuddered at the horror of the the chiffon velvet, for the first time. 11
sight. Unseen, unheard, softly through she thrusts out a perfectly, gloved [ I
■vhich he had shown Shod and Mon jerking out his commands:
“Ready there. We ought to get some the thick darkness, the wireless death hand, and eagerly catches hold of an
te. and which, many months before,
thing from Curtis in a moment. Tell had swept that proud aerial fleet out end of the material. She hangs It up
[had constructed.
ONE DI8T1NOUISHINO FEATURB OF THE
Bl od had bis orders regarding the Capitol we must have Instant no of existence in one tense Instant. And against her fingure, and looks at it
Atsins, the shock-headed youth, was admiringly. The doubtful lady looks
arer, orders which carried a sig- tice of the declaration."
Remington
Typewriter
At another televue he got Atsins at the destroyer, sitting calmly up there annoyed, gives the chiffon a tug, but
U THAT IT L.ASTM
Icance to him but to none other at
It does good work when It 1» new, and conttoUM
In the sending station, with one soiled the Decider holds on.
Sending Station No. 10.
e power station.
to do good work when it U old.
There they also had a duplicate of hand on the lever of his great, terrible
kt No. 10 Sending Station, Atsins,
“If you are not going to buy this
RBVUIQTON TTFIWMTIB CO., Ml Br*»4wV, Itw 1OKB
My Ntw Obesity Food Quickly Reduces
concentrator.
It
was
he
who
had
uti
th an army of electricians and Curtis’ message giving the longitude
dress length,” she says, “I will take it.
Your Weight To Normal, Requires
lized the means formerly used to send It is the only one I suppose,” she adds,
¡chanlcs under him, worked at nerve and latitude of the hostile fleet.
messages, to bear intelligence across turning to the attendant, and is told
“Ready?” asked the general.
Eking speed during the day. Mon-
No Starvation Process aad
boundless areas, which, Increased a it is.
“Ready,” said the electrician.
Is, possessed by a devil of lui-
Is Absolutely Safe.
Montrus enveloped his head In the hundred thousand-fold In voltage, had Meanwhile the genuine customer has
tience, foreboding, and fear, could
A Romance of Darkest London
t contain himself either In the otllce hood at the reflector—hardly a necessi I now carried absolute destruction.
observed the exquisite “turn out” of
Still breathing heavily, Montrus the eager "sale-hawk," o* «he Im-
BY ARTHUR APPLIN.
at the station.
ty, 30 black was the night. Across the
TRIAL PACKAGE MAILED FREE.
The work progressed; the death Atlantic, day had broken, and Curtis threw off the hood, coming back to the agines the Decider to be. If si ele
My
new
Obesity
Food,
taken
at
mealtime,
The Greatest English Story of Modern
iling concentrator went into place; had the light he needed in his electro- [ utter blackness and the drizzle of the gant a person is anxious to buy tte
perfect assimilation of th* food «nd
I Washington night.
Times.
stuff it must be worth securing, she compels
sends
th*
food
nutriment
where
it
belongs.
A bulletin was flashed on the board argues, so without further doubt she
It
requires
no
starvation
process.
You
can
*at
which carried the duplicates from says sharply;
Lady Letty. the nine-
all you want. It makes muscle, bone, sinew,
teen year old daughter
, Curtis.
“But 1 am going to take It.” The nerve and bruin tissue out of the excess fat, and
of the Duke of Harford,
tfoee into the East end
“Fleet gone—Vanished in Convul transaction is closed, and the seeming I quickly
reduces your weight to normal. It takes
or London nnd lives and
sion—Pictures Actual and Accurate ly chagrined Decider disappears,
toils with the poor. A
I off the big stomach and relieves the compressed
thrilling ory of life in
Disturbance not caused by defects but
Having settled this little business of condition and enables the heart to act freely and
the greateet city in the
by destruction of fleet—Can’t explain the chiffon velvet she sails off to the the lungs to expand naturally and the kidneys
world; it should be read
by everyone desiring to
it, but America is saved.”
fur department.
learn of the
I and liver to perform their functions in a natu
Montrus turned the wireless televue
secrets and su
Here she fixes on a sallow-faced ral manner. You will feel better th* first day
und
weakneHMcfi
on to the sending Btatlon, and saw At- young wife, who has brought her hue you try this wonderful home food, fill out
man nature.
»t* u t e n c e <»
sins sitting quietly on a box in one hand to help in the choice of a set of coupon herewith aad mail today.
fiory li mm «
corner of the little room, gravely furs.
It carrriea you out of
the humdrum of every
smoking a short pipe, his shock of
“Do you like It, dear?” the lanky
day existent*«* into a
blonde hair badly rumpled, a smile on girl-wife asks, holding up a white boa
sphere of enthusiasm
Rial response.
his freckled face. “Atsins”—the com-
“Is |22 too much for this, and the
TI1K IlkHOlNE-A
man<ler-in-chlef was trying hard to con muff?
IcnriesM ulr) oft he
”
JUlEK-
trol his voice—Atsins. You have saved
She has $400 a year of her own, and
unroy
us. It is all over. Their fleet was an he has his pay as a lieutenant in the
r own
nihilated.”
artillery, so he decides to be gracious
H EH O-l.ord
It seemed to the old soldier, veteran
“No, $22 isn’t too much.” he re
of a dozen campaigns, absurdly impos piles, but isn’t the whole thing a bit
slide that the safety of a great nation too light—for—” he stops.
should have been put into the hands
Then another Is brought out but he
FL" ik S’nt '¿¡t A y '-A h K xm K*a ft-ieadet
of that grimly boy In blue overalls.
objects to it too. “I hate these ashy
-Lj’tiy’a.
“It worked nil right, didn’t it?” At colored things,” he says petulantly.
B.LIt Al/IAH—The Terror.
sins answered calmly.
You afiould read this stoi
’ “ on live In the
“Olil take it off.”
country, you should have
tn read it. so
“Come over here,” Montrus went on
“Well, dear, what am I to do? You
they may understand
"Hurry and come. Tomorrow Con think the first one is too lleht and
wlmt lite in a bitr city
really
menus.
They
gress’ll be giving you a vote of thanks; the other one is too ashy.” The tone
should read I his story to
learn w hat Lady Letty
you’ll be a bigger man than old Dewey is despairing.
learned In her effort to
ever was.”
reform London’s East
“Try this one on again madam,”
end. She sees there the
frown came on Atsln’s says the saleswoman, and the wife
▲ troubled
_________
motly crowds thronging
face. “Excuse me, please, general,” he turns to take it but It I h gone. She
the streets; the ragged
hungry looking
said. ‘'I'm _ going
_ ’ back to the shop Hints herself confronted with the el - The ¿km niostnHUii Shewa the SeeaartoMe W- and
children touch a chord
WunSerrel Obesity I' oih I-SS list It
in her heart. As you
I’ve just thought of a big Improvement gant figure of the Decider, who ha< FectaerThla
Ilea Itene For Others It Will Do For You.
read this wonderful
on my concentrator. Good, night.”
narrative of the condl-
arrayed herself in the boa and atol
ti na of life in a great
ster muff.
city, you appreciate
FREE
I
more
fully the bleMdngs
The young wife looks at her hits-
This o^npon la prood for one trial package of Kel-
of the country.
Longest Climb in tbe World.
’s (tbtt-liy F«x>d with teatimoniais from hun
band and sees his eyes fixed on the lopg
The squalor and suf-
dreds
who
have
been
»neatly
reducetl,
mulled
free
Imagine making the ascent of Mount charming vision of bright hair, bright in |>luln pnekue-f. Rliuplv fill la your name and ferlngs uro pictured by
the author of this won
Washington by means of a staircase. eyes, gleaming teeth, and warm com addrene on dotted linen below and mail to
derful story; th«’ m< n
J. F. Kelton, «AMM Kell«.«* Bld«..
and women searching
But a feat akin to this many travellers plexion, set off by the fluffy softness
Butt"« Creek, Mich.
the turbulent sea, reach
in China have accomplished in going of the boa and muff. Entirely for
ing out nnd Having lost
souls; also the great
to the top of the holy mountain, some getful of her own sallow appearance,
work of the Salvation
six thousand feet above Taingan-fu. she quickly makes up
„„ „.
___
_
„
Army.
Lady Letty tie
her mind to
dimes so strangely fas
The road leading to It Is the best in allI baV0 'tbat boa—la Bo Very becoming,
cinated by the new
views of life that she
the kingdom. About a mile north ot | ..j thlnk d(,„„,, ghe Bayg to ber hug
almndons her own pal
the city walls stands a large gate amid ' band. «that thlg lg jurt. what I want
atial home, forsakes and
denounces the aristocracy and takes up her life
the ruins of a once flourishing suburb. f gm gure mamnia wouid like r Her
among the lower elements of modern life. The
Leading from this gate the road Is hu8band tg „till gatjng at the pretty
npiry fascinate« strangely but it also«dm atea. It 1«
|h<; grrutr
>t„r,
written.
lined with temples, convents aD<
and | I "Decider
«noeia**,» 1 arrayed in
...
the boa, and
It iius been
ie London city govern
shrines, where pilgrims stop to pray 11 answers her jerkily.
ment recognizing the
Wonderful work
the
they are fortunate enough to rid them-
Bal vat Ion A t my tn ex-
‘ Yes, it’s pretty.” he says, absent
tsndlng to General
selvos of the hordes of beggars.
mlndedly, "awfully becoming to—to—
Booth the freedoan oF
Where the real accent begins there yes. It is so clean and fresh-looking
London.
If you love your chll-
is a stone portal which is inscribed isn’t It?” Yon can’t do better; have
oren, ana of course you
with the fact that here the great Con It.” In another second the boa and
do, yon will want th» m
to read thia story that
fucius baited 2,600 years ago, not hav muff are both in the shop girl’s hands,
they may know the hor
rors. th« dangers and
ing the strength to ascend the *ix and the pale wife is giving her
the temptations of city
Te Preve It, I Send a Trial Package
thousand stone steps leading to the dress.
pfe. If they are dlsaat-
isfl< d w 1th the old farm
top. These Taischan stairs are by far The Decider is llberably paid,
Free By Mail.
this 1« the story they
the highest in the world, for taking draws a regular salary, and in
Should read that they
INSTRUCTION Of THE GREAT GERMAN AIR FLEET,
may more fully under-
the number of steps in one story of an dition ______
receives
a
commission
on
_____
reinforcement was added to every de photography and transmission. Some ordinary house to be twenty, the num sales effected through her Interference.
tail of the station; Its capacity was where above the hostile fleet, Montrus her of Taischan steps equals three The profession opens up a new vista
Increased to the limits of possibility knew, the scout hung precariously in hundred stories. The coolies will carry for attractive women whom circum
gaze out
Night had come and was advancing. a position to send not only informa a pilgrim up the stairs and back, a dis stances auve forced into the labor
I hlch
? throng at the
inty of Lady Letty
Still Congress held to Its tense debate. tion but a continuous reflection of the tance of twice sixteen miles, tor thirty market.
Li> a strange envy.
Jbe teachings or the
Ten o’clock came; and Atsins sought movements of the airships. He might cents—fifteen cents for each coolie.
story point to the ideals
Montrus, finding him nervously pacing be discovered, but that was the hazard When the ascent is made one finds
Of ChrlaL ft is grand,
Fine
Indian
Pbolograpbe.
of
his
occupation.
If
he
were
well
fnatmctlvft,
fascinating
himself
upon
a
large
plateau,
which
Is
back and forth In his office. The young
id awakening. Every
We recently published an illustra
electrician was calm and charged with concealed by distance, and out of the covered with numerous temples and
■turu drawn by the
llicd pen of Arthur
path of the enemies’ scouts, he would stone monuments. The main temple is tion of Indian Twins which should
quiet confidence.
Applln. its author, will
“If we can get their location, they win out If otherwise, he at least had that of the holy mother, consisting of have been credited to Major Lee Moore
iITo???»? Ml bat yon caajet «¿1
will not leave," he said. “Maybe you done his duty to the best of his ability. several buildings surrounded by a house of Pendelton, Oregon, who has
With one finger on a button which stone wall. The several courts are perhaps one of the best collection of
cannot furnish It?”
„
year* for 2ftc. Don’t miflR the opening < h«pte
‘"We can If we can get Curtis again, would give the signal to Atsins, the adorned with magnificent statues and Indian picture« of the north weet
Cbrne it is fHMinating from Uie veiy Aral lluea.
general waited word from the Capitol. monuments of bronze, with a huge Major Moorehouse’s famous pictures of
Oth<T «tori«« of od-
said Montrus. “What If we
venture, trafferlr. l«ve
Sixty
second*
after
the
vote
had
been
statue of the holy mother on the altar the Cayuse Twins has bad more re
and mystery will crowd
“Then we shall have to take them
the
page». Wo already
taken
and
war
declared,
the
world
These doors are opened once only cognition, perhaps, than any other
when we get It,” replied Atsins.
It
have pnrchaeod and
have ready for early
would bs safer to annihilate them be would know it. The hostile fleet would each year, when an Imperial commis Indian photograph ever taken and be
uae the fol lowing:
know it almost as soon as Montrue. It sion comes to collect the money offer has now issued an album containing
“The Etigllahman’a Jd-
fore they start."
MUfitra,"
“Try for Curtis ajaln,” ordered the was In the arrogance of superior force ings of the pilgrims. By means of a other striking pictures. "The Last
tha
‘
the
enemy
bad
waited
the
formal
substantial “tip" the guard may be In Outpost of a Dying Iiuce” Is a pictur My diecovery sottwily grow* heir, «top* hair “The Mmiar’g Jfanu-
general, turning to ths aide In the
of hostilities.
duced to push the bar of the main esque pliotogriqdi of a lone Indian tepee
room. They waited for an answer, beginnint
Ripple* of light were chasing each gate aside, on that one may have or wigwam with a background of dark falling out, remove* dandruff and quickly r*- “The Brrfcan /*>Kar.”
which came back presently. The ope other
the reflector; shadowy a glimpse within. The floor of this landscape, suggestive in the extreme •tore* luxuriant growth to shining scalps eye
rator at the Bending Station No. 5 re forms across
appeared and disappeared In large temple is usually • filled with a of the title of the picture. Many of brow* and eyelash**, and quickly reetorea gray
FMalirni,"
ported that hla efforts were not sue vapors and
fr~S- Then came an outline heap of coins of every description, the Moorehouee pictures attracted or laded hair to Ita natural eolor. Write to-day. and amrea <rf other*,
cessful. and he advised against many growing
distinct, and presently size, and value, probably represent much attention at the Lewis and
really too many to Dat
repetitions.
..
MR.
had the picture again.
ing 110,000 in American currency. Clarke Exposition.
We want to Include
CUT
OUT
THIS
COUPON
’
“It endangers him,” he said.
He he Outside
the hood was the black, The money Is divided among the con
you in tbe ihoua«nda
for this offer may not appear again Pill out I who are now regular
will report wh*n he can.”
drizzling
nlgH;
inside,
the
face
of
the
th« blank« «nd ma<1 u
J
fttnkee, Mar.. I readers of onr rnaga-
With nothing to do but wait, in reflector was glowing with a picture vents and beggars of the holy moun
Foao Building. Cincinnati, Ohio, end os 4 nne. You wont waat
tain. but the largest share go«« In
nervous tension, they saw the hours of
to miea any of these
Ing
a
2-cent
stamp
to
help
cover
postage.
1 | Morh-t, ao rememher
clouds
lighted
by
the
mrly
rays
of
mount to U. Then came a bulletin the sun and of a fleet of airships lan to the pockets of that enterprising
th» aubKrfptioD price is
ladv ’he Dowager Empress.
I have never tried Foeo Hair and Rcalp
from Congress The vote was about to
floating at rest
full year, but w« can-
Retn«'l y. but if you will send me a trial pack
be taken. Of tbe result there conld te guidly
not agree to Htrniah
age by mail, prepaid, free, I will uae it
Montrus oc’-’d *se the flags floating
back copies f->nd your
no doubt, and there was none In the from
In all Cuban clear factories in the
shins, conld see their torpedo-
autMcrtption in to^lay
minds of ths men sitting In the office. I tubes the
apd get the opening
West Indies. Key West and Tampa, a
oeeteooei
and
the
graceful
movement
of
rhapferw f t the rtettoai
There had been none from the start, or<> br>r. and there as it changed posi public reader la employed. This man
—dzal** with the deciieX*
r - I «*.
toff, thrilling >«nd rdocatL’.i
and yet now that the moment bad tion slightly.
'•l
•nurni>-
occupies a high seat and reads aloud
tton today Ad drees ;
<-ome.Tthev looked at each other, pale
One of the assistants at bls side newsnepers. magazines and novels
ilOCrtKllOl.D MO
K. N.
faced and beavy-eyed.
Dernrrmeut 1
to the cigar-makers as they work.
Give foil address write plainly.
‘2PI-3 Csagress Krreet, •
“Come outside,” said Montrus to At- ■ stooped over and shouted at him
Don’t Be Fat.
“RAGS AND RICHES”
i
Marvelous
Growth of
New Hair
THE pl
unless me:’
waste anu
F®ry dlreeff
Malthus. J
Mthus, st'
the hu
’ come .
ory was t
ngs increa-
means V
disaai.
»1 course ov
,u to forese*
su bslstencm
1 the lnvea.
L‘ry, the rtte-
tnethods et
'Vement ç*
■esent-tlint
Io derogm
althug u
Ignorano»
r“sourc*B
Maith ug^
Justlfle*
must be
>«iple
9 urgent
outlet«
the soil
>tlon so
ike the
■uurcee
’gethe.*’
Prolifln
ibtlMe
’ new
*er of
■scape *
ist do
vhich
Pros.
S of
that
an-
nto