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CROWDER CITY, OKLA.. GUARDIAN
8YNOP8IS.
Tommy North, returning; to hie room In
Mm. Moore'e boarding house at 2:30 a m..
discovers the body of Capt. John Hanska,
another roomer, with a knife wound on
his breast. Suspicion rests upon a man
giving the name of lawrence Wade, who
had been heard quarrelinK with Hanska.
During the excitement a strange woman
who gives her name as Rosalie I^eGrang«*.
appears and takes Into her own home
across the street all of Mrs. Moore's
boarders. Including Miss Estrllla, an In-
valid, whose brother was a favorite
among the other boarders Wade Is ar-
rested. Mrs. LeQrange, who. while plylns
her trade tia a trance medium, had aided
Police Inspector MarMn MoOee several
times, calls at his office to tell what she
knows of the crime. While she Is there,
Constance Hannka, widow of the murder-
ed man. whosp existence had been un-
known. appears. Mrs. Hanska. says she
had left her husband and discloses the
fact that Wade represented her and vis-
ited Hannka on the night of the murder
In an effort to settle their affairs. She
admits Wade was In love with her. Wade
la held by the coroner's Jury for the death
of Hanska. Tommy North, who had been
held by the police. Is released and re-
turns to Mrs. I.eOrange's house. He be-
comes Infatuated at once with Betsy Bar-
bara. and at her urTlm? prepares to es-
tablish the Thomas W. North Advertising
Agency. Mrs. I^eOrange. with Inspector
McGee, examines the house where Han-
*ka was killed and flnds on the Are es-
cape outside Hanska's window a red shoe
button, which she conceals. Mrs. I*e-
Orange secretly examines the sho «5 of her
fcoardera In search of one the red button
will fit. Rhe pretends to go Into a trance
In Miss Estrllla's room and communes
with spirits. Rosalie secures from In-
upector McGee the services of an Italian
detective, to work under her direction.
Rosalie finds evidence to show that Es-
trllla's real name Is Peres and that thev
formerly lived In Port of 8piln. Rosalie
goes Into another trance In Miss Estrllla's
room and gains the young woman's con-
fidence. In succeeding ,<®ances Rosalie
leads Miss Estrllln to believe she Is talk-
ing with the spirit of John Hanska. and
gets information that leads her to pre-
pare for a supreme test. With Inspector
McGee and detectives at the windows.
Roaalle, In a final seance, leads Miss Es-
trllla to tell. In a supposed conversation
with the aplrlt of Hanska. that her broth-
er Juan held the knife that pierced Han-
ska's heart. Confronted bv the officers
Miss Estrllla makes a full confession. She
tells how Hanska secured possession of
her Jewels and fled to New York, and
how she and her brother Juan had traced
him to Mrs. Moore's house.
IkRed Dutton
Will Irwin
OF THE CITY THAT WAS, ETC*
by Harry R.Grissinger
BY
AUTHOR
ILLUSTRATED
COPYRIGHT 1912. BOBBS-MERRILL C?
solely
chapter XVII—Continued.
"i got the window catch open with •
penknife—It was old and Ioo6e. I went
over the whole room that night and
again on another night—and found
nothing. I did discover a little strong-
box In the top drawer of the dresser.
It lay wide open. It had a curious
lock. In that, I was sure, he would
put the jewelB If ho ever wanted to
move them. There was no sign of the
bill of sale. It occurred to me, then,
that Captain Hanska might be carry-
ing It on his person. I knew him to
be a very sound sleeper—he had boast-
ed to me of that, and he proved It by
sleeping through a Ore at his hotel
when he was In Port of Spain. So 1
did a dangerous thing. Without speak-
ing to Juan, I went down the fire es-
cape at two o'clock In the morning of
a night when Captain Hanska was at
borne, and looked through his pockets.
i even examined all the papers In his
wallet by the light of the electric
torch. But It was not there. Juan,
when I told him, was angry with me
for taking such a risk. He made me
promise never to enter the room
again unless Captain Hanska was
away.
And then we found that we must
act quickly, or lose our property for-
ever. Juan was watching Captain
Hanska. following his movements
■very closely. That day—the day and
night when everything happened—the
captain visited a Jeweler In Maiden
Lane—I think you call It. He stayed a
long time. From there he went to a
•afe deposit bank. When he came out.
he had a package in his pocket—Juan
could see his coat bulge. Juan was
afraid that he would go straight back,
to the Jeweler and make the sale; and
then our last hope would have been
gone. Instead, Captain Hanska went
to a cafe and sat alone a long time,
drinking. When he left that place, he
returned to Mrs. Moore's. And the
shape of his pocket showed that be
still carried the package.
"It was plain to us that the package
contained the Jewels, and that he In-
tended to dispose of them at once—
probably the next morning That nigh'
the Jewels would be In his room—and
it was our last chance. Juan came to
ee me Just after dinner. We talked It
all over, and made our final plans. In
the first place, it seemed best for
Juan to do the work himself. I am a
woman, and very weak with grief and
Illness. 1 could do nothing in case I
was discovered. Though Juan had
never been in the roor 1 < culd tell
him exactly where tc iook—there
seemed no doubt that Captain Han-
ska was keeping the strong-box for
that very purpose.
"Then we considered another thing
—how we should both get away. At
first we decldei) that I should leave
the house early, and that Juan, after
getting the Jewels, should follow me.
But he did not dare to make the at-
tempt before one or two o'clock In the
morning, when Captain Hanska would
surely be asleep—even the heaviest
■leepers sometimes lie awake a Ions
time alter they go to bed. Mrs. Moore,
fee knew, was very watchful—she was
afraid of burglars and she had a habit
of running to her doo whenever any-
one entered or Ipft during the night.
She would know that 1-had gone out;
ir Juan left st one or two In the morn-
ing, Mrs. Moore would take alarm,
knowing as the did that l.wa- out of
the house. Helng nervous and Igno-
rant. she was likely, we felt, to selxe
him or to give some Bort of an alarm.
We were'thinklng of every possibility,
you see. Tl.ese things are necessary
for m to tel!, that yuu may under-
stand what happened later."
(This in answer to an objection of
Inspector McGee, who was urging her
to come to the point.)
At about ten o'clock, we decided
Just what to do.
"Juan and I are about of a slue. 1
am large for a woman. He is small for
a man We do not ietj?mble c-ach oth
er in the upper part of ihe face, but
our mouths and chins are very much
alike. It was cr.e of our gar. es at
home to dress In each other's clothes.
"I would put on his ulster, pull his
hat far down over my eyes, and fool
people Into believing that 1 was he.
Further, his voice is light, and he can
talk in falsetto. This was an old
family game. We played eternally on
the resemblance In the charades and
theatricals that English people are
always getting up.
"This was our plan: We were to
change clothes. We had heard people
singing in the parlor all that evening.
The boarders all knew that Juan some-
Mutes Bang falsetto In fun. 1 was to
watch my chance when the hall was
vacant, pass the parlor, sing JuBt a lit-
tle In iny own voice to make them be-
lieve I was Juan singing falsetto, and
go to his rooms, where I was to wait.
The night was rainy. It was natural,
therefore, that I should be bundled up
in a mackintosh and have my hat
pulled down over my eyes.
"Dressed in my clothes, Juan was to
enter Captain Hanska's room, get the
Jewels, leave by the door, go down
the stairs and Join me. 1 used Bome-
times to get a little outdoor exer-
cise In the early morning when 1 need
not fear meeting Captain Haneka, and
when most of the city lights are out.
so that the eyes have less strain. If
Mrs. Moore waked, looked out, and
saw Juan In my clothes, she would
think it was I going for my exercise
and take no alarm.
"In case Juan failed, he was to go
hack to my room and telephone to me,
speaking Spanish and imitating my
voice. Then, etlll dressed as Juan, I
was to return to Mrs. Moore's early
next morning and change clothes—but
that part of our plan does not matter.
"We began everything just as we
planned. As I went down the stairs, I
passed Mrs. Moore. In the hall, I saw
a young man—Mr. Wade, I believe. 1
showed myself at the door and looked
inland eang a little. By the way they
laughed and spoke, I knew that I had
deceived them.
"I went straight to Juan's rooms.
The elevator man In his hotel was
fooled JuBt as much as the boarders,
it seeniB. I waited there a long time.
Then Juan telephoned to me, talking
In Spanish and calling me Juan, as If
he were I. He said that Captain Han-
ska had been murdered and for me to
come at once to him—that he needed
me—he said It all ae a hysterical wom-
an would. Somehow I managed to do
as he asked. I had to pass Captain
closed this window behind him In or-
der to cover up his tracks That win-
dow of the captain's room which led
to the fire escape, was open tor venti-
lation. The rain was drifting through
It. It occurred to Juan that every-
thing would be safer if he closed It—
he v:as afraid that a gust of wind
might blow spray Into Captain Han-
ska's face, and wake him. He did
that; and he fastened the sash with
the catch. Coptain Hanska was asleep,
breathing very heavily. Remember
that.
"You hr.ve seen the room. The bu-
reau, where 1 found the strong-box,
was in the corner farthest from the
window which Juan had just entered.
Between it and the window were *
table and Captain Hanska's bed. Juan
carried our pocket electric torch He
turned It on the inside of the top bu-
reau drawer. The box was there. Also,
the key was in its lock. Juan thought
it would be better to take the Jewels
out and leave the box. By doing that
he could find whether tho bill of sale
was with the Jewels, or whether he
would have to search further for It.
That was his great mistake. It was a
trick box. Inside was an alarm-bell
which rang whenever the cover was
lifted.
"Juan opened it; the bell rang Cap-
tain Hanska awoke at once. Juan had
no time to move, before Captain Han
«ka pressed the button at the head of
his bed and turned on the electric
light. It must have bewildered him
for a moment when he saw what ap-
peared to be a woman standing by his
bureau—but Juan held the strong box
in his hands. When he saw that, the
captain came at him. Juan is a small
man. Captain Hanska was big and
very powerful. Just then, Juan saw
on the table between them that great
knife.
"Juan is a swordsman. He picked
up the knife to etop the captain by
threatening him with it—held the point
toward his chest. Captain Hanska
was a brave man, and very violent in
anger. He had one of his terrible
spells of temper now. He began to
the Bound of rotreating footsteps on
the stairs.
• ••••••
We resume, with the painstaking
Detective Kennedy, the statement of
Margarita 1'erez, alias Estrllla.
"It was apoplexy. But Juan did not
know It yet. He only knew that Cap-
tain Hanska had fallen on tho knife
and died, and that It would look like
murder. He understood your law, he
knew that to get our property he was
committing what looked like burglary,
and that a burglar who commits mur-
der cannot plead self-defense. He wait-
ed by the window to see whether the
fall had disturbed tho house. No one
stirred—probably an elevated train
was passing at the time It happened
Frightened as he was, he still thought
o. tile jewels, and decided to take
or offer of reward or immunity,
in the Interest of Justice.
"MARtiARlTA PEREZ."
I reiterate—this narrative, which to
you may seem to run so plainly and
simply, was broken all along the way
with police questions, with exclama-
tions. with hesitations, with parox-
ysms. mental and physical. At times,
the voice of Miss Estrllla (or Senora
Peres) was a mere whisper of horror.
At times It swelled to a full poignant
note as she tried to make her points
In Juan's defense. Now, as she fin-
ished. It simply run down until It was
silence. And with the tired motion of
a child who falls aBleep, she quietly
fainted.
"Here, Kennedy, get some water!"
exclaimed Inspector Mcfiee. "MrB. he
Orange- Rose—Mrs l/ Grange."
Receiving no answer, McGee
searched the hall. She was not there.
He went downstairs, calling He had
reached the second floor landing when
Mrs. Leary's voice answered .him from
below.
"She went out a quarter of an hour
ago," called Mrs. l^eary. "You said
we were to do what she told us, so I
let her through. Wasn't that all right,
Chief?"
CHAPTER XVIII.
a Ruse.
When Rosalie La Grange named the
Hotel Deldrlch to the taxlcab chauf-
feur, her object sho followed here hut
them, whatever the risk He exam- | an „|,i instinct—was to cover her
Ined the box; the bill of sale was there,
Circumstances had changed now; an
pmpty strong box In th° room of a man
who appeared to have been murdered,
might eet the police on the track He
thought of tills. So he took the box,
open as it was. switched off the elec-
tric light, and started to leave by the
door. The catch of the spring lock
was on. To lock the room from out-
side, he would have had to slam the
door—you know how a spring lock
works. That would have made a great
deal of hoIbh. It might awaken some
one, w ho w ould hear fool steps going
from Captain Hanska's room to uilne.
He put the box under his arm and
fastened back the catch of the spring
lock, so that lie could close the door
without sound. Of course, that left
It unlocked. In doing all this. It seems,
he spilled out of the box the diamond
buckle which I found on the stairs.
"Juan went back to my room be-
cause he wanted time to think. His
first Idea was to leave the house
dressed In my clothes, just as wo had
planned, and Join me. 'l fien we would
escape together. llu! he knew that the
police generally catch fugitives from
justice In the end. We were In a
strange country. Wo bad no friends
to help us. If we were missing from
the house in the morning, if we were
curse Juan. And then his hands went . t , every (me would b(,
up to his head all of a sudden, and he ^ u8 ^ ||(j ^
"In the Hall I Six a Young Man."
Hanska's door. I heard people ma-
king a noise inside. Of course I did
not enter. But right by the door I saw
something bright. I knew it at once—
it was one of my diamond buckles-
one of the Jewels which Captain Han-
ska had stolen from me. I picked It
up, and went on to my room. Juan
was there—In my dress. He kept rac
from fainting or dying while we
changed back to our own clothes. 1
knew the rest from Juan.
(At about this point, occurred one
of thosu irruptions of expletives, brok-
en sentences, pleas, prayerB, which al-
ways mar a confession for legal pur-
poses, and Is, therefore, edited out by
the police before the finished typewrit-
ten statement goes bark to the witness
for his signature. This i^traneous
matter, you see, tends to Create In
the minds of unthinking persons a
false sediment for the criminal.)
"Juan said that he waited until'after
one o'clock. The house was quit#.
From the window of the lumber room,
he crawled to the Are escape. That
window had a spring catch—you had
6nly to pull It down and it locked of
Itself. Slncr he Intended to leave Cap-
tain Hanska's room by the door, he
tumbled over with alibis grjat weight
on the point of the knlK. Juan did not
thrust—'..e Ib sure now lie did not
thruBt—he only held the knife steady
—but It pierced Captain Hanska
through." (In this place, Detective
Kennedy had to edit the statement a
great deal In order to make It seem-
ly for the official archives.)
• **••••
We will 1'avc for a moment the po-
lice statement.
"Fell on it?" asked Martin McGee.
"What'B that you're trying to give us?"
"On my soul and my mother's." sol-
emnly declared Miss Estrllla. "Don't
you see—can't you understand ' A
doctor In Port of Spain had warned
him of It—Juan has done nothlnt
since—nothing—but read medical
booke—he was dead before he touched j they came to take me nway to this
the point of the knife—If Juan stabbed house, no one would have known that
him, he stabbed a corpse—Captain lny garments had been out In the wet.
Hanska died of apoplexy caused by hlB "Wheh they moved me, I took away
anger!" j the Jewels and the strong-box in my
During theBe last dramatic stages of bi dding. Later Juan dropped the box
Miss Estrllla's narrative. Rosalie Le into the river, and sent the Jewels
Grange had slipped Into the room. For to my cousin In Caracas.
a moment, Miss Estrilla gazed full up- I "it was his plan to leave the country
Idea. If 1 could return, still disguised
as Juan, after the body woe discov-
ered, he wpuld have a perfect alibi,
j "While he was thinking about this.
Mr. North came home und fell Into the
blood, as you know.
"Immediately, Juan heard some one
calling murder from below. That was
| Ills chat. to curry out his plan. He
, telephoned me. 1 came. 1 have told
[ you about that. He changed to his
'own clothes I made him go down-
j stairs and offer to help
| which Juan had worn down the tire
' nscape In tho rain, were still a little
' wet. I looked them over carefully;
there were no blood stains on them
I put them by the register to dry; and
| I cleaned the shoes—that pair of red
ones there in the closet. By the time
on her betrayer. For a moment, all
that the tropics had given her of storm
and flame glared from her eyes. Then
that light died away. Thereaf'er. It
was as though Rosalie had not been.
If Miss Estrllla's glance, wandering
from one point to anither In her effort
to concentrate on her narrative,
touched upon Rosalie's figure,
looked straight through It.
Rosalie moved by Imperceptible
stages to Detective Kennedy's table
Casually, she picked up a fountain pen
and a sheet of paper, and wrote:
"New York, NOv. 18, 190—.
"1 am telling to the police all I
know of my part In the death of Capt.
John H. Hanska. I have confessed that
ive followi d him to America to get
Jewels, and that It was my brother
.man who appeared to have stabbed
him."
The Inspector was questioning
gently now upon the apoplexy theory,
hoping to trap the wltnesa Into an in-
consistency. While she talked, Miss
Estrilla (or Sen^rlta Pern*) pauaed
from time to time as though gathering
strength. Rosalie waited for such a
panse. Then she braced the paper on
a book and slipped up to Inspector
McGee.
"You've forgotten this," she said.
"yon were gnln' To git it signed at the
very Urst. jmvi 'knuw."
inspector MclH-e's expression proved
that he was puzzled.1 But h tiad be-
come accustomsdi to •following Rosa-
lie's mental flights without knowledge
of their destination. He nodded, there
fore, and gave book, paper and pen ti/
Miss Estrilla. It wus the best possible
compliment to the inspector's third de-
gree methods, that she signed without
a pioteBt. Rosalie took the paper si-
lently; but she did not d posit It where
it belonged—among the official papers
on Detectlvo Kennedy's table. As she
resumed her station outside tho door,
she was folding It In her fingers.
The police went on, then, with their
searchlngs and questionings. Thev
failed to notice, so absorbed were they,
ns soon as we might do so without
attracting suspicion. But when they
arrested Mr. Wade, I could not agree
to that—I could not have his death on
my soul. Juan was imploring me to
leave; but 1 told him that I would not
until Mr Wade was released or acquit
ted. If It came to the worst, I would
they con'esB. I persuaded Juan that I was
! right. That Is why we stayed. We
had no other reason.
1 make tills statement without hope
tracks In case of many contingencies,
She dismissed the cab, however, at the
north door of the Deldrlch, walked
through the lobby to tho west en-
trance, walked out on Broadway,
walked a block south. There, spying
another taxlcab whose meter displayed
tlici red stun "vacant," sho comman-
deered It, and announced her real ob-
jective.
"Caelno—Central park - so fast;"
sKe said. During tho drWe she stared
straight ahead and talked in low un-
dertones to herself.
Tills was an old habit, born of her
half-believed, half assumed "medium-
ship" In her days of active practice.
In these later days she was still wont
to argue out In soft phrases of her
Hps the problems of her soul. One
who had overheard these scattered
phrases now would havo known that
she was still fighting for a decision.
"Well, uln't the world been good to
mo lately?" she waB saying as they
swept Into the Park entrance. "Can't
I afford to take a chance with myself
—on' happiness?" And then, "Oh.
how will Martin look at It—Martini"
A little later, ns tho taxlcub took
the rolling drlvo beside a park luke,
she was saying:
"I couldn't bear It If he was sent to
the chair—I could never Uv« through
it—I'd die, too." It Bccmod that upon
this statement she made her decision,
for she talked to herself no more un-
til the taxlcab rolled up before the
Casino and slopped. And as eho rose,
her smile broke out for tho first time
in that passage. But It was a grave
smile, whose softness did not reach
to her oyes—as though one smiled
with the hun.Dr of God at the tragic
comtdy In this world.
"An' sho called nm a traitor—an'
t he'll always believe It, what's more."
My clothes j „he
The piazza of the Casino, so gayfnd
colorful In summer, lay bleak and bare
now under the cold November wind
and fading afternoon light, so that Ho-
saile, sensitive to physical impressions
what with the tensity of her soul,
shuddered as she passed from the
steps to the door. Within, only a few
lights were on; the restaurant, plain-
ly, was letting business fade away to-
ward Its winter quiescence. Near the
door sat a couple; then two men; and
there. In the remote comer, was a glint
of golden hair which could be only
Betsy-Barbara's. Opposite sat the fo-
cus of her search—him whom Betsy-
Burbara still thought to be Senor Es
trllla. He was smiling just then, and
Ills hands were playing In swift, ex-
pressive little gestures. As Rosalie Le
i;range waved aside the head waiter
and took her Interminable Journey
across the room, It occurred to her
that however she finished and tied
this complex web of hers, these might
bo the last smiles on Ills lips for many
a weary day.
(TO HI" CONTINUED.)
OLD CONTRACTORS TO QUIT
English Company That Dimmed the
Nils to Retire From Business
Next Yesr.
The passing away of ono of the
greatest contracting firms In the
world, John Aird 4i Co., Is announced
for next year. The firm, wnlrh
dammed the S'lle mid carried out
other great works throughout the
world, will cease to exist next Sep-
tember, by which time nit outstand-
ing contracts will havo been com-
pleted
The decision to go out of business
ha* been taken by the preset.l Kir
John Alrd. who succeeded his father
In 1911, and Inherited froi'n him a
forttjee of over $5,000,000. The rea-
son given Is that, while the risks of
contracting aTe as great as they aver
were, the profits are not nearly so
U ge as they were some twenty or
thirty years ago. Great plants will
be dlstilbuted and a staff of engineers
and workmen, who are said to have
no superiors, will be seeking new
positions a« a result of the action.
UKIMMS
No sick headache, biliousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box.
Are you keeping your bowels, liver,
and stomach clean, puro and fresh
with Cascarets, or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with
Salts, Cathartic Pills, Castor Oil or
1'urgatlvo Waters?
Stop having a bowel waeh day. Let
CaBcarcts thoroughly cleanse and reg-
ulate the stomach, remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases,
take the excess bile from the liver
and carry out of the system all tho
constipated waste matter and poison*
In the bowels.
A Cascaret to-night will make you
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep—never gripe, sicken
or causo any Inconvenience, and cost
only 10 cents a box from your store.
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
have Headache, Biliousness, Coated
Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomach or
Constipation. Adv.
REFUSED TO GET EXCITED
Old Man Jones Philosophically Rea>
soned That Norah Had Right to
Go Out is She Chose.
The topic switched to taking a phil-
osophic view of things, and Congress
man I'ntrlck I). Norton of North Da-
kota told of the beautiful composura
with which one Jones met a rather
trying situation.
One day Mrs Jones rushed into the
old man'H presence with hasty steps
and n wild look of excitement.
"Oh. John! Oh, John!" she es-
claimed with a lot of emotional thrills.
"Norah made a mistake and tried to
light the kitchen lire with gasoline!"
"Gasoline, eh?" calmly responded
John. "Did she get It started?"
"Did she get It started?" cried tha
amazed Mrs. Jones. "It blew her out
the kitchen window!"
"That's all right, my dear," re-
turned the philosophic Jones. "It was
her afternoon out, anyway."
ITCHING, BURNING ERUPTION
Thomasvllle, Ala.—"I suffered with
eczema on my hands and fe«t two or
three years. About eleven years ago I
became troubled with an Itching, bun*
Ing eruption which came on my bands
and feet In little water blisters snd In
about a day or two when I would 1st
the water out or wash it out, using mr
hands, then the places would fester
and Itch to beat the band. I could not
do any work that was rough on my
hands at all. It caused me great suf-
fering and inconvenience.
"I tried everything that I knew ot
or was told and never was really r
lleved until I began using Cutlcur*
Soap and Ointment. I would wash tha
parts in water with the Cutlcura Soap
and then when I dried them I would ap-
ply the Cutlcura Ointment on the sur-
face In the daytime, and at night I
would get a soft piece of cloth and
spply the Cutlcura Ointment on my
hands and let It stay that way all
night. A perfect cura was effected.
No one will ever know how glad I was
to get my hinds snd feet cured."
(Signed) Geo. C. Crook, Not. 26. 1911
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free.wlth 32-p. Skin Book. Address post-
card "Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston."—Ad?.
John Alrd & Co. was started In
184k by John Alrd, a Scottish mason,
v lio came to London from Koss-
siilre. and after following his trade
for several years, was appointed su-
perintendent of the Phoenix Gas com-
I puny at Greenwich. There he learned
the business that gave him his start,
and the first big undertaking of his
| ilrm was the laying of water and gas
i mains for Ixindon.
Left Daddy Thinking.
I.ittle Girl—Papa, didn't you whip
me once for biting Tommy?
Father—Yes, my child, and you hurt
blin very much.
Little Girl—Well, then papa, you
ought to whip sister's music teacher,
too. for he bit sister yesterday after-
noon. right on the mouth, and I know
It hurt her because she put her arms
around his neck and tried U> choke
him.
Something Light.
"I want a book."
"Here's a nice novel."
"Oh, that Is one of those t • -Ible
crime stories. You need smelling
salts with a book of that sort. Give
me something to go with a box of
bonbons."
Useful st Last.
Mable—Mother, may I have your
old merry widow hat?
Mother—What In the world'do you
want with It?
Mable—Martin and I are playing
scouts and we want to mak« a tent
Cows ss a Money Standard,
The Chewsures, a race of 7,000 peo-
I pie. 1n Tlflls. southern Russia, know
nothing of the use of money as a me-
dium of exchange. The unit of value
among these prlmltve people Is the
cow A horse Is valued at three cows
| and a stallion at six. If a Cbewsure
becomes enraged and croaks hts neigh
i bar's skull, he Is obliged to pay 1(
cows. If he breaks a bone in his
friends arm or leg, five cows will re-
habilitate him In the eyes of society,
while a wound in the forehead calls
for three cows.
It will be thus seen that a Chewsure
gentleman with plenty of cows can
havo all the tun he wants la fighting.
Important to Mothora .
Rxamlue carefully every bottla ot
CASTORIA, a cafe and surs remedy for
lufants and children, snd see that It
Bears tha
Signature of (
In Use For Orsr :
Children Cry for Fletcher*! Cutorifl
The average man gets a lot of un-
necessary abuse while be Is alive and
a lot of unnecessary praise after be Is
dead.
K«i Crews Hull Blue will w h double SS
nisuy ©Wlie* hi hiiv other l)oa t put youI
nicusy lula any other. Adv.
In the southern cotton mills ti par
cent, of the women employed sre un-
der twenty-one years of s# .
Few women ever see their Ideal of
feminine ~ • *«stlon outslds a mirror.
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