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THE QUEST OF
GENTLE HAZARD
Being the Adventures in Love and
Chivalry tf Lord Richard Jocelyn
$ 4> By H. M. EGBERT $ $>
I
Sauce and Gander
"The trouble with you, Richard,"
said his new stepmother, "la that you
don't look for the right sort of a girl.
Wealth Is not always associated with
ostentation. There are plenty of
aweet and charming heiresses who
have never seen the Interior of any
of those gaudy Fifth avenue palaces
In which you fared so badly. Hut
you have never had the luck to meet
them."
Richard shrugged his shoulders mood-
ily. Since Uio advent of his father
and stepmother I he subject of the
necessity of his making a wealthy al-
liance had been pressed on him more
urgently than over.
"Now," she continued, "I have pick-
ed out a wife for you. All you will
have to do will he to go In and win
her. She Isn't 'In society,' and she
hasn't a string of admirers dnngllng
after her, because Bhe's too sensible
for that sort of thing, and. I may say,
because she Isn't one of those flashy
girls who attract men In the multi-
tude. And If I didn't believe that you
would fall genuinely in love with her,
I wouldn't help you to meet her. But,
money apart, you were made for each
other, Richard, and I want you to
marry her."
"What's her name?" asked Jocelyn
moodily.
"Mary Davenant."
"Never heard of her," he groaned.
"Is she a good looker?"
"She's a nice, pretty, sensible Amer-
ican girl," said his stepmother. "And
Bhe's worth a couple of millions—
pounds, not dollars. Of course, you
haven't heard of her, for she lives a
very secluded life, and has no use for
fashions and follies. And I must tell
you, Richard, that she is a little dis-
illusioned by the experiences she has
had. You'll havo to show her you
want her for herself and'not for her
property."
"Well, whero Is this paragon to bo
found?" Jocelyn demanded.
"She's staying at Atlantic City
with her companion, Miss Constnnce
Grice—at the Charlevoix. I had a let-
ter from her yesterday, for she and
I were schoolmates and are still good
friends, and I have promised that I
shall come down and bring you with
me. But of course I have no Intention
of accompanying you, Richard; I want
you to go alone. Now, pack your suit
case, go down, and fall head over
heels In love with her. And don't fall
In love with the companion instead."
The first part of this Injunction
Jocelyn obeyed readily enough. As to
the probability of the second or third,
he was sceptical. His experiences In
the search for a bride who should re-
store the waning fortunes of the Joce-
lyns had been bitter ones; still, when
duty called he would not shrink from
following her. And so, on the follow-
day day. he found himself Installed at
the Charlevoix and gazing out of his
window moodily at the melancholy Oc-
tober sea.
The season was over, the hotel
almost empty, and, even had Jocelyn
gone to Atlantic City with no ulterior
purposes, It would have been difficult,
without churlishness, to have avoided
making the acquaintance of the two
ladles. They sat at the table adjacent
to his own ; they met on the deserted
board walk; before the week was end-
ed the three were fast friends. Joce-
lyn wrote to his stepmother:
"I believe that I could love either
of them. They are evidently well ed-
(Copyrlght, by W. (J. Chapman.
I is masquerading as the mistress, the
mistress as the companion, I am Bitre.
Tell me, in heaven's name, which is
I which and what their purpose Is."
"Dearest Richard," the answer came,
two days later. "Mary Davenant is
the girl with the dark hair and gray
eyes. I do not know MIkh Grice, but
I Imagine that she is fair-haired and
has blue eyes, If she Is the young
woman I once met at MIsb Davenant's
house. And now I will let you into a
little secret, Richard. I told you that
Miss Davenant was disillusioned. She
has had the same unhappy experiences
that you havo had. And sho has
known the purpose of your visit to
Atlantic City, as you truly surmised.
Like you, sho has a duty to her fami-
ly, and that Is to marry a title—but
she would never marry a man who
had not proved his devotion. That is
obviously the cause of her mas-
querade. You must marry her. Rich-
ard; sho Is not Indifferent to you and
you would learn to love each other."
But to have the most charming girl
In the wotld rammed down one's
throat Is an attraction that Is apt to
cloy, and Richard, ever perverse, soon
discovered that the blue-eyed compan-
ion, already more attractive to hi in
that the dark-haired Mary Davenant,
had made a profound Impression on
his heart. The knowledge that she
was forbidden to him, addej to the
sense of hlf ybligatlori to marry the
heiress, rapidly began to render him
a hopeless victim to Miss Grlce's
charms. He paw that, unless he could
bring himself to propose to Mary
Davenant Immediately, he would never
do so, and, in despair, selected his op-
portunity one clear and warm October
night, when the moon was not yet
arisen and profound darkness reigned
outside the well-lit hotel.
Hitherto ho had not betrayed his
knowledge of their masquerade, but
now, seized with a sudden resolution,
he stopped In his walk as the three
paced the piazza side by side.
"Miss Davenant," he said hoarsely,
turning toward the dark-haired heiress
nnd desperately nerving himself for
the attempt, "will you come down to
the stone seat at the end of tho
grounds with me? Let us listen to
the sea together."
Without any further explanation or
apology to the othor for his seeming
discourtesy, he led the way to tho
end of the grounds, until they stopped
nt the stone bench beneath the wall
which maintains the green of the grnss
against the encroachments of the sand.
He felt Miss Davenant follow him, al-
most by some sixth sense, rather than
anything else, for he could see noth-
ing In that intense darkness, and her
slippered feet made no sound upon the
turf.
At the seat he turned, and heard tho
light rustle of her scarf as tho wind
blew it around her.
"1 want to nsk you to be my wife,
Miss Davenant," he said nervously.
She made no answer, but seemed to
await his further words, motionless,
silent, as though she were herself a
part of the darkness. Jocelyn felt for
her hand and caught It In his own.
"I love you, Mary," he stammered.
"Will you give me my answer?"
He drew her toward him and felt
her arms circle his neck. Then her
head lay on his breast, and, bending
down, he kissed the lips of—Con-
stance Grice!
A feeling of Intense despair over-
mastered him. lie had played his
cards, and fate had proved too pow-
erful. But this was followed by a
sudden delirious joy. Well, if Con-
stance Grice had by this miracle been
given to him, why should he place
ucated women, and either would adorn ■ duty to his family before the dictates
Doublewlth Manor. But I shall follow cf his heart? Rent by two conflict-
up the heiress. jng ©motions, ho stood gazing out into
And as the days passed he found the tumbling sea, heedless of the girl
attractions of the blue-eyed, brown- j who 8tlll lay silently in his arms,
haired Mary Davenant Increasingly al- | Presently Constance Grice disen-
luring. They spent many a pleasant gnged herself and looked up at him.
hour together, Miss Grice watching "Why are you so sad?" she asked,
the growing interest of the one in th*- jt j8 because you have learned that
other with evident s>mpathy. Miss
Grice was not pretty, but still an ami-
able and attractive girl.
And then occurred an Incident which
completely upset Lord Jocelyn's men-
tal equilibrium.
It was a trivial affair, and yet It
awakened in him dormant suspicions
and recalled other and sadder circum-
stances In which he had found himself
I love you?"
"That has made me happier than
anything in tho world, Constance," he
answered.
"'Constance!'" she repeated. "Are
you thinking of my oompanion? Why
do you call me that?"
"Because I have penetrated your w iso
little secret, dearest," Jocelyn answer-
d. "I have known for days that Miss
the victim of feminine duplicity. I n- Davenant had persuaded you to change
tering the hotel late one evening, he
perceived the two ladles strolling to
ward their apartment a little ahead of
him. They had not observed him. Of
a sudden Miss Grice stopped.
"My shoe is coming unfastened,"
Jocelyn heard her say.
Promptly Mary Davenant bent down
upon her knees and tied It for her.
Jocelyn went to bed and meditated
for a long time before sleep came to
him. On the following day he wrote
to bis stepmother;
"I told you that I had come to like
Mary Davenant, as I thought her to
be, Immensely. I have loug suspected
that she was not wholly ignorant or
the object 1 had In view in coming to
names with her, so as to test me. For
she knew I loved her and she feared
that it was for her wealth and not for
herself." He broke off abruptly. Ho
was like a swimmer in treacherous
waters. He could not think clearly.
Dared he pursue this Infatuation to
its irrevocable termination? Could he
Indeed settle himself to marry this
companion, dearly as ho loved her,
without some further proof of her de-
votion? Suppose she, too, had tried
to trick him into his proposal?
By revealing his knowledge of her
secret he had shown in the clearest
possible manner that he loved her for
herself alone. But. If he defied his fa-
ther and married her—considering his
deceiving her In putting her to the
proof?
These thoughts ran through hla
brain like lightning; hardly an appre-
ciable Interval had elapsed before he
continued:
"You asked me why I am sad," he
said. "Constance, darling, will you j
give me your word of honor that you |
love me for myself alone? That you j
are not enticed by the glamor of my
name?"
"Why, no, Richard," she answered
wouderlngly.
He led her to the stono bench nnd j
sat down. "But suppose that I wero
dishonorable," he said. "Would you
still love me?"
"You dishonorable?" she whispered,
laying her cheek against his own.
"You could not be dishonorable, Rich-
ard."
"But I am," he said with a groan. !
"I am a masquerader. I am not Lord
Jocelyn. Listen, Constance. 1 am
one of those Englishmen who, having
somehow acquired a knowledge of the
ways of gentlefolks, frequent this
country under false titles for tho pur-
pose of gaining wealthy brides. I
came to Atlantic City to pursue Miss
Davenant. But love claimed me and
I am happier In my failure that If I
had succeeded. But I am no lord."
"Then what are you, Richard?" his
companion demanded.
He hesitated, casting round in his
mind for the occupation which might
most easily arouse disgust In her.
How could ho put her to tho hardest
test, something commensurate with
the sufferings that h must endure for
her? "Tinker—tailor—soldier—sailor
—" the jingle ran through his mind.
Then, with an Inspiration, he answer-
ed:
"I am an undertaker, Constance.
Could you love an undertaker?"
"I could love any honest man, Rich-
ard," she answered. "And I honor you
only the more for having confessed
the tryth to me."
"But what wifl Miss Dnvenant say?"
asked Jycelyn with a sudden qualin
of regret.
"Poor Mary!" said Constance, smil-
ing. "Richard, will you let me break
the news to her?"
She parted from him at the entrance
to tho hotel, saying good night there,
and left him sitting meditatively with-
out, pondering over this new problem
that hud arisen so swiftly and yet had
been so happily solved. It was past
midnight when he went to bed.
Miss Davenant received the news
with equanimity. At the breakfast ta-
ble on tho following morning she con-
gratulated him and his fiancee kind-
ly. Both ladles were in traveling
dress.
"And so you're not Lord Jocelyn aft-
er all?" sho said. "Well, you must
come and visit us Just the same. It Is
too bad that your engagement should
have cut short our happy time togeth-
er here."
"But why should it be cut short,
MIsb Davenant?" Lord Jocelyn asked.
"When do you leave?"
'This afternoon," she answered.
"It would hardly be the thing to
leave you two young people together
here unchaperoned."
In this decision sho proved inexor-
able, and sho bor© her companion
away on the early afternoon train,
promising Richard, however, that he
might visit tho ladies at Miss Dave-
nant's town house on Fifty-fifth street.
New York, on the third day, when
they had finished the autumnal house-
cleaning. When they had gone he sat
down and wrote a letter to his step-
mother.
"1 havo made a glorious fool of my-
self," bo wrote. "I have become en-
gaged to tho companion. And yet I
am glad of it, for I know that this
time I have met a girl who is exactly
suited to me and that we are destined
to he very happy together, for I havo
told her that 1 was only masquerading
as a lord and that I am really an un-
dertaker, and she still loves me. Will
you keep up the Illusion, in which
MIsb Davenant believes, Intercede
with my father for me—and forgive
me?—Richard."
No answer camo until the third
morning, just as he was feverishly
packing his suit case for the run up to
town. Then, by the last post to ar-
rive before the train started, Jocelyn
received a note from his stepmother.
Richard," it began, "I could not
bring myself to write to you before.
This disgrace is too terrible for me
to bear and I dare not break tho news
of It to your father until our own
honeymoon Is over; he is so proud of.
you and believes so fully in you. Rich-
ard, break it off like a gentleman.
Poor fellow, you do not know what
you have let yourself In for, for, If
you thought that you deceived that de-
signing Grice woman, sho deceived
you tenfold. She Is only a companion
In training. Miss Davenant has cu-
rious whims and is now attempting to
make a lady out of a scrubwoman.
Yes, Richard, it is a scrubwoman
whom you have engaged yourself to,
nnd If you will take the trouble to call
at the Davenant house unexpectedly
you will find your inamorata In all her
native clement, down on her knees,
and very red In tho face, polishing
floors."
Ho flung the letter from him with a
derisive gesture.
"So even ray stepmother turns
against me!" he Bald bitterly. "I
don't care what she is. She's an an-
gel. anyway, and fit to scrub the floor
of heaven. I must be in love badly,
for I am becoming quite poetical about
her," be added, as he made a dart
after the hotel omnibus.
Nevertheless, once ho was back in
Atlantic City. And I have discovered past experiences in love, might he not
that a trick has been played upon me be Justltied in proving her also? And
Miss Davenant and Constance Grice j since she had deceived him in the
have changed places. The companion [testing, would he not be Justified in
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Lord JoceSysx Was Put
to tho Te5t °s His Life
CHIEF OF THE PAPAL GUARD
Col. Repond, Retired Officer of the
Swiss Army, Their Commander-
Pontiff Lauds Soldiers.
London.—Col. Repond, the retired
staff officer of the Swiss array, who
has been called by Plus X. to succeed
the late Baron Meyer von Sehauen-
see as commander of the Pontifical
Swiss Guard, is decidedly a martinet.!
The Swiss Guard was formed In
1505, and now consists of 103 men,
rank and file, who still continue their
traditional duties of mounting guard
at the bronze door and In the papal
ante-chambers. As soon as ho assum*
ed command the colonel set about
thoroughly reorganizing the corps.
He realized at once that the artistic*
uniform designed by Michael Angelo|
; ;
saic surroundings of conventional life,
he should find that he had been blind
to ConBtance's defectB? He recalled
each speech of hers, each gesture, and
could remember nothing unworthy.
But he longed to put his love to the
teet by observation, and the hours
seemed torture to him.
He had written to the ladles to ex-
pect him at three o'clock that after-
noon, and about that hour, attired in
a black frock coat, black trousers and
a sable tie, as befitted his new occupa-
tion, he rang the bell of the Davenant
mansion of Fifty-fifth street. After an
unusually long delay a livered serv-
ant opened the door to him.
"Kr—I've come to see Miss Grice,"
stammered Lord Jocelyn, conscious
suddenly that he had no cards suit-
able for his new alias.
"Well, young feller, this ain't tho
place to come," said the footman
haughtily. "Down that alryway and
ling the kitchen bell." And he slam-
med the door in Jocelyn's face.
For a moment, speechless with fury,
Jocelyn meditated an assault upon
the mahogany panels; then, control-
ling himself, he descended the stairs
and rang the bell of the area, as he
had been directed. A stout cook in a
blue dress came to the kitchen door.
"Walk right in, young man," she
shrilled, extending the door invitingly.
"And wipe your feet. Miss Mary's
particular. You'll find Connie In that
room back there."
Lord Jocelyn passed through a dark
passage, thinking he heard whispered
giggling from every side. Once, too,
he fancied he heard the odious words,
"Connie's new beau!" But he disre-
garded these external signs of his fian-
cee's position in the Davenant house-
hold and passed on into a small room
at the end of the hall—to find Con-
stance, clad In a bulging print dress,
busily sweeping the carpet. As he
came in she scrambled to her feet,
red and confused, and stood facing
him, still clinging to the broom.
And then and there Richard, Lord
Jocelyn, was put to the test of his
life.
Down by the waves at Atlantic City,
wnen tho two women had associated
on terms of practical equality, Joce-
lyn had been wholly Ignorant of and
indifferent to social ratings and ranks.
It was enough for him that he loved,
and that nature attuned herself to his
wooiug. But here, in these abodes of
men, recalled with suddenness to
those customs and ideas which a
thousand years of civilization had
hardened into a traditional code—how
could he stoop to raise this servant
in the ill-fitting dress to his own social
level? How could ho take her to
wife, bring her back to Doublewlth
Manor, introduce her to the country-
Bide?
And yet he had been trained In the
conventional code of honor of a gen-
tlemnn. Whatever he did he must do
quickly, for Constance Grice had read
the struggle In hlsfacoand.no longer
ashamed, was watching him curiously.
And then, instead of disgust and
self-pity, Jocelyn felt only love new-
risen, and stronger than before. Ho
clasped her in his arms and kissed
her, and his fears dissolved like shad-
ows before the sun.
"Connie, darling, I must tell you
now," he said. "I really am Lord
Jocelyn, and not an undertaker. I
wanted to test your love and now I
know it as surely as I know mine for
you."
"Well said, Richard," cried a voice
outside the door, and out of the dark
amateur actress in New York. Now,
don't you dare to scold her, my dear
boy. If you blame anybody you can
blame me, but it was your own sus-
picious nature set the trap, and you
yourself walked into it. I gave the
order to the footman to turn you away
from the front door. And Mary was
acting strictly under my own orders,
too, for she, like yourself, wanted to
test your love for her."
"But I knew you loved me, dearest,"
said Mary Davenant, smiling through
the tears that stood in her eyes. "Be-
cause you did want me for myself aft-
er all."
Then all I can say to you young
people," said his stepmother, "*ls go
and trust each other henceforward al-
together for the rest of your lives."
"But you—you deceived me all
along," blurted out Lord Jocelyn an-
grily.
"I did, Richard," said his stepmoth-
"Tbey say they have to drive a
donkey backward to get him any-
where, and since you wouldn't be
driven the way you ought to go, why
—O, how true It is that it takes a
woman to manage a man!"
Invisible Airship
passage emerged his stepmother. Rich-
his apartment on Madison avenue, j ard looked at her in little surprise. So
surveying the face of Talbot, his mtl- many astonishing things had been hap-
ancholy servant, an Insistent mlsgiv- | penlng that one more hardly counted,
ing forced itself upon him. \ "She was testing you, too, Richard,"
What if, the romantic environments j his stepmother said. "This is Mary
of the seashore replaced by the pro ' Davenant, my half-sister, and the best
Invisibility has long been the dream
of scientists, and though it has been
found almost Impossible to make
things invisible on land and sea, it will
not be so difficult as far as the air
Is concerned.
Dark gray Is extensively used for
painting battleships, yet though diffi-
cult to the ordinary eye, the skilled
seaman can spot such a warship,.when
stationary at a distance of six miles.
When moving and belching forth
smoke, it ia practically hopeless for
a big cruiser to expect to hide itself
within range of telescopes.
Tho Invisible airship has already
been patented by its inventor, Baron
Roenne. Baron Roenne Is well known
as an airship and naval engineer, so
more respect must be paid to his ideas
than to those who try inventing with-
out any technical knowledge. He has
already designed and built a number
of dirigibles, and has put forward
many ideas for making airships safer
and more efficient.
Baron Roenne has submitted his
idea to the officials of the Greenwich
Royal Observatory, and they declare
that it is based on scientific principles,
and most certainly practicable. The
way this remarkable airship 1b made
invisible is as follows: Take a white
wall and paste a white sheet of paper
on it. At a distance of a few feet you
may be able to detect where the pa-
per leaves off and the wall begins. At
100 yards the wall looks all wall. You
would never suspect the paper of be-
ing there if you did not know already.
That is Baron Roenne's idea.
The outside covering of his airship
is made of chromium, a metal the com-
position of which is a secret. It is
almost as strong as steel, yet it
weighs ouly one-fourth as much,
hydrogen can leak from a vessel made
of It, so the danger of an airship ex-
ploding from that cause disappears.
It is due to the discovery of chro-
mium, in fact, that the invisible air-
ship is possible. The most important
thing about the metal as far as Baron
Roenne is concerned, Is that it pos-
sesses a very highly polflshed surface.
This surface is covered over with
a thin coating of transparent varnish.
The whole surface of the dirigible, in
fact, acts as a mirror, and reflects the
same color as Its surroundings. If the
sky Is dull, so Is the airship. If the
sky is blue, so is the airship. The
sides of the keel of this new airship
are also reflecting mirrors, and by an
ingenious arrangement of them, the
darker shade reflected from the earth
is made lighter. The keel will taper
to a point, and thus there will be no
shadow on the bottom of the airship.
In fact, it will be like the chameleon,
and always take the color of its sur-
roundings. In other words, it will be
Invisible.
Baron Roenne's new terror of the
skies will be as large as the steamship
Olympic. The Olympic, If it could
float in the skies, would easily be de-
tected at a height of four or five miles,
yet Roenne's dirigible would be abso-
lutely invisible, even to telescopes, at
a distance of less than a mile! '
It Is designed to carry 400 passen-
gers, or their equivalent In cargo, and
it will be fitted with fifteen motors,
developing nearly 2,000 horsepower!
What this new sky scraper will
mean in time of war can hardly be
realized. It could carry enough am-
munition to utterly wreck any city, or
blow the world's biggest navy to
pieces. What Is the terrible part about
it, the enemy couldn't retaliate, for
they would be unable to detect the air-
ship. The only thing would be to fire
Into the air at random, a pretty weak
defense, to say the least of it
Bands to Mark Oranges.
The cigar-band idea is about to be
utilized by the orange growers of
California for the purpose of marking
the fruit in order that consumers may
readily recognize the brands which
Bult their taste best. Some time ago
it was decided by the association of
growers, which largely controls the
shipment of fruit, that the golden
spheres should be wrapped in tissue
paper, which was designed to accom-
plish this purpose, but it was found
that the mission of the wrapper was
not successful in this respect, in that
the papers were removed without so
much as a glance. In many cases the
removal took place before the fruit
was delivered to the consumer. It Is
thought that a decorative circlet like
the cigar band will accomplish tho
desired purpose, for it will In all
probability be allowed to remain on
tUe fruit until it reaches the consum-
er, and in this way those who are
partial to oranges will become ac-
quainted with the qualities of the dif-
ferent kinds and those of different
growers.
Spider on the Payroll.
A St. Ijoulsan who has recently re-
turned from the Isthmus of Panama
tells this story of the canal zone.
One day his wife found a huge taran-
tula In the bathroom. The creature
was almost as bfg as the palm of one's
hand, and presented a truly tarrlble
aspect.
The woman fled In terror, and her
husband went In and crushed the big
spider with the heel of a boot.
On going down to dinner they en-
countered the proprietor.
"We have just killed a tremendous
tarantula up in our room!" said tho
American.
The proprietor started excitedly,
and clutched at his hair.
"Great Scott!" he cried. "You
shouldn't have killed it!"
"Why not?" asked the American.
"We keep them all over the hotel,"
he explained. "They catch the flies
and the other insects. Why that
spider you killed was on the payroll!"
Copyright, Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.
Members of Guard in Uniform.
was not adapted for drilling and bo
provided his men with a serviceable
plain uniform to bo worn for fatigne
duty. The colonel likewise discarded
the old Remington rifles used by tho
Swiss Guards and had them replaced
with modern Mausers. He relegated
the traditional halberds, cross hllted
| long swords and steel breastplates
i and helmets to use exclusively on
j great ceremonial functions.
I The men aro now drilled for sev-
eral hours daily, they have target
practice once a month and every week
they are marched for many hours
around the Vatican gardens, whero
they also havo physical drill.
Evidently the men complained of
too much work. The Liberal papers
took the case up and ridiculed the
cfllonel's warlike spirit, which they
said was useless, since the Pope was
in no danger and the Swiss Guards
would never be called to protect him
or defend the Vatican since the Ital-
ian army was always available.
The Pope reads all the Roman pa-
pers, and when Col. Repond was re-
ceived In audience recently to con-
I gratulate the Pope on his name day
I on the Feast of St. Joseph he said to
him:
! "Dear Colonel, I must congratulate
you on making my Swiss Guards earn
their pay and at the same time I thank
i you for training them, as I rely moro
I on them for the defense of my person
I than on the Italian army."
ETHICS IN JAPANESE SUICIDE
Hara-KIrl Out of Date—Modern Meth-
od to Jump Into an Active
Volcano.
Tokio, Japan—The Japanese are
now busily debating the ethics of buI-
clde. The case out of which the con-
troversy has arisen is that of the sta-
tion master at Moji, who because of
a mishap to the imperial train which
made it necessary for the emperor
to adjourn for half an hour to a wait-
ing room showed his repentance by
throwing himself under the wheels of
the express.
Th© station master's devotion hav-
ing evoked a wave of popular admira-
tion which took shape in a proposal
to erect a monument to his memory,
tho nation has been rebuked by the
president of the Kyushu university for
thus glorifying the act of self-destruc-
tion; and the latter, finding himself
out of tune with public opinion, has
resigned his position.
It is a singular thing that among a
people bo cheerful as the Japanese
suicide should be so common. Ten
thousand destroy themselves every
year in Japan, and the figures cannot
be said to be diminishing. But hnra«
kiri as such Is out of date.
Tho modern victims of the suicidal
mania, when they do not throw them-
selves in front of a train, jump into
the crater of an active volcano.
Asama, In central Japan, and Aso-san,
in Kyushu, have both acquired a sln«
Ister reputation in this respect.
It Is, however, a disquieting sign of
i the times to find the student class re-
! sorting bo largely to suicide—especlal-
< ly of the spectacular sort, and this, no
| doubt is Dr. Yamakawa's motive In
protesting against the exaltation of an
I act which the Christian world regards
as a grievous sin.
At Last, the Rich Man's Bible.
The purchase of a copy of the Bible
! for $27,000 shows plainly that this
I highly commendable publication has
now been brought within the reach of
i all. Henceforth there is no reason why
i the multi-millionaire should be wlth-
| out his Bible, any more than the wid-
ow who supports her children by tak-
ing In washing.—New York Evening
i Post.
White Man's Friend Dies.
Cheyenne, Wyo.—Chief Scarface.tho
oldest of the Arapahoe Indians, is
dead, He was 103. Chief Scarface
was noted for his desire for peace with
the white men, and his readiness to
adopt the white men's customs. He
prevented his tribe from participating
in the massacre of General Custer's
soldiers.
(.*>
To Prosecute 80.
Seoul —Eighty conspirators, most of
whom it is alleged are native Presbyte-
rians, are to be prosecuted for an at-
tempt made in December, 1910, on the
life of Count Terauchl, governor gen-
eral of Korea
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