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rmm I MHBNRY PLAINDEAtEB. MHENRV. ILL. ^ v". *•>-£'i • ••"•j&:& * vr-. *v> r „ • . ,. -tV'J ;NS 'Pj^f The Romance Elaine Sequel to The Exploits of Elaine A Detective Novel By ARTHUR B. REEVE and a Motion Pic- The Weil-Known Novelist and the Cre- ture Drama ̂ ̂ ator of the " Craig Kennedy ** S lories. Presented Si Collaboration Witk tbe Pttk* Players uj tbe Eclectic Fiba Coapaay Copyright. 1914. by tbe St»r Company. All Foreijn Right! Reserved. eSSSSSSSSSiSSSSSSKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSiiSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSi SYNOPSIS. After the finding of Wu Fang's body ana Kennedy's disappearance, a subma­ rine appears the following morrtlngr on the bey. A man plunges overboard from It and swims ashore. It is the entrance of Marclus Del Mar Into America. His mission is to obtain information of Kennedy and recover, if possible, the lost torpedo. At the Dodge home he sooh Wins the confidence of Klaine. Later she ia warned by a little old man to be care­ ful of Del Mar, This warning came just In time to prevent Del Mar from carry­ ing out his plans. I,ater Elaine gives a masquerade balj. Del Mar attends. Neither he nor hiP domino girl can locate the torpedo. A gray friar warns Elaine and Jameson or Del' Mar's purpose, and his plans are up­ set. Del Mar succeeds in petting this gir! in Elaine's home as a maid. She finds the torpedo in the attic, places it in a trunk, which with others Is sent to Elaine'p country home. A holdup on thfc trais takes place. Del Mar's mc,n carlry thf trunk away, only to find on opening it that they have the wrong trunk. i Upon Elaine's arrival in the country she p^ain encounters the old man of mys­ tery. He warns her to do her own un- parkfns- She does, and finds the long-lost torpedo, which she places in a dresser drawer. Del Mar's men enter her room during her absence and escape with the torpedo. They are seen by the old man, who follows them. A desperate battle follows in which the old man destroys the torpedo. That afternoon as Elaine and Jameson are riding through the country Del Mar plarw to blow up a bridge at a time when they are crossing. He would have succeeded but the old man unexpectedly appears and delays the explosion just long enoutrh to permit . Klalne's car to cross safely. TWENTY-EIGHTH EPISODE P>. •* 4v, ;<% fr: i ;WV * ' # v IV m THE CAVE IN THE CLIFF. It was not long after the almost miraculous escape of Elaine and my­ self from the Wowing up of the bridge on the shore road that Del Mar re­ turned from Ms mysterious mission which had, apparently, taken hlra actually down to the bottom of the sea. The panel in the wall of his library opened and In the still dripping sub­ marine suit, holding under his arm the weird helmet, Del Mar entered. No sooner had he begun to remove hia wet diving suit than the man who had signaled with the heliograph tbat we had found Del Mar's message from "below," whatever that might mean, entered the house and was announced1 by the valet "Let hitn come in Immediately," or­ dered Del Mar, placing his suit in a closet. Then to the man, as he en­ tered the^oom, he said: "Well, what's new?* .a, "Quite a hit," returned the man, frowning sifTl over Elaine's accidental discovery of the under-water com­ munication. "The Dodge girl happened to pick up one of the tubes with a message just after you went down. I tried to get her by blowing up one of the bridges, bat it didn't work, some* how." "We'll have to silence her," re­ marked Del Mar angrily with a sinis­ ter frown. "You stay here and wait for orders." A moment later be made hia way down to a private <Tock on his grounds and Jumped aboanl a trim little speed boat moored there. He started the motor and off the boat feathered in a cloud of spray. It was only a moment by water be­ fore be reached the Dodge dock. There he tied his boat and hurried uj the dock. • • • Elaine and I arrived home without any further experiences after our halt- breadth escape from the explosion at the bridge. We were in doubt at first, howevtr, Juft what to do about the mysterious message which \Ce had picked up In tha harbor. "Really, Walter," remarked Elaine, after we had considered the matter for some time, **J think we ought to Rtnd that message to the government at Washington. It may be of great im­ portance." ' Already she had seated herself at her desk and began to write, while I examined the metal tube and the note again. "There." she said at length, handing me the note she had written, "how does that sound?" I read it while fche addressed the en­ velope. "Very gf-od," I replied, hand­ ing it back. ,Sbe folded it and shoved it into the envelope on which she had written: "Chief, "Secret Service, "Washington, D. C." I was studying the address, wonder­ ing whether this was just the thing to do, when Elaine decided the matter by energetically ringing the bell for Jennings. "Post that, Jennings, please," she directed. The butler bowed just as the door bell rang. He turned to go. "Just a minute," I interrupted. "I think perhaps I'd better mail it my­ self, after all." « He handed me the letter and went out. "Yes, Walter," agreed Elaine, "that wou.;d be better. Please register it, too." How do you do?" greeted a suave *oice. |t was Del Mar. As he passed me |0 speak to Elaine, apparently by ac- PHYSICIAN EARNED HIS FEE cident, he knocked the letter from nyr hand. "I beg your pardon," he apologized, quickly stooping and picking the mis­ sive up. Though he managed to read the ad­ dress, hip maintained his composure and handed the letter back to me. I started to go out, when Elaine called to me. "Excuse me just a moment. Mr. Del Mar?" she queried, accompanying me Out on the porch. Already a saddle horse had been brought around for me. '"Perhaps you'd better put a special delivery stamp on it, too, Walter," she ad,ied, walking along with me. "And be very careful." "I will/' I promised, as I rode quick­ ly off. Del Mar, alone, seized the opportun­ ity to go over quietly to the telephone. It was the work of only a moment to call up his bungalow where (he emis­ sary who had placed the submarine bell was waiting for orders. Quick­ ly Del Mar whispered his instructions, which the man took, and hung up the receiver. "I hope you'll pardon me," said Elaine, entering just as Del Mar left the telephone. "Mr. Jameson was go­ ing into town and I had a number of little things I wanted him to do. Won't you sit down?" They chatted for a few moments, but Del Mar did not stay very long. He excused himself shortly and Elaine bade him good-by at the door as he walked off, apparently, down the road I had taken. • • • * • • * Del Mar's emissary hurried from the bungalow and almost ran down the road until he came to a spot where two men Were hiding. "Jameson is coming with a letter which the Dodge girl has written to the Secret Service," he cried, pointing excitedly up the road. "You've got to get It, see?" I was cantering along nicely down the road by the shore, when suddenly, from behind some rocks and bushes, three men leaped out at me. One of them seized the horse's bridle, while the other two quickly dragged me out of the saddle. It was very unexpected, but I had time enough to draw my gun and fire once. I hit one of the men, too, in the arm, and he staggered back, the blood spurting all over the road. But before I could fire at the others, they knocked the gun from my hand. Frightened, the horse turned and bolt­ ed, riderless. Together, they dragged me off the road and into the thicket, where I was tied %nd gagged and laid on the ground, while one of them bound up the wounded arm of the man I had, hit It was not long before one of them\ be­ gan searching me. "Aha!" he growled, palling the let­ ter from my pocket and looking at It with satisfaction. "Here it is." He tore the letter open, throwing the envelope on the ground, and read it. "There, confound you." he muttered. "The government'll never get that. Come on. men. Bring him this way. Hurry up!" „ He shoved the letter into his pocket and led the way through the under­ brush, while the others half dragged, half pushed me along. We had not gone vfery far before one of the three men, who appeared to be the leader, paused. "Take him to the hang-out," be or­ dered gruffly. "I'll have to report to the chief." He disappeared down toward the shore of the harbor while the others prodded me along. Down near the Dodge dock, along the Bhore, walked a man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and a plain suit of duck. His prim collar and tie com­ ported well with his smoked glasses Instinctively one would have called him "professor," though whether na­ turalist, geologist, or plain "bugolo- gist," one would have had difficulty in determining. He seemed, as a matter of fact, to be a naturalist, for he was engrossed in picking up specimens. But he was not so much engrossed as to fail to hear the approach of footsteps down the gravel walk from Dodge hall to the dock. He looked up in time to see Del Mar eomina;, and quietly con­ cealed himself in the shrubbery up on the shore. On the dock, Del Mar stood for some ^painutes, waiting. Finally, along the shol^ came another figure. It was the emissary to whom Del Mar had tele­ phoned and who had searched me. The naturalist drew back Into his hid­ ing place, peeping out keenly at the two men. "Well?" demanded Del Mar. "What luck?" "We've got him " returned the man ^ith brief satisfaction. "Here's the letter she was sending to the Secret Service." Del Mar seized the\note which the man handed to him and read it eager­ ly. "Good," he exclaimed. "That would have put an end to the whole •-.'/V-'-A, X I Like a Novel Prescription, Minister Recovered Health by Taking It. The celebrated Doctor Abernethy, ;*%o lived more than a hundred years ago, not only loathed circumlocution in others, but avoided it himself. Rev. Doctor Tuckerman of New England bad all the Bclf-abscrption that seems to have been a trait rather common in % la* oentopir, %and on these two bits of characterization hangs an amusing story. When Doctor Tuckerman was in London for his health, he consulted Doctor Abernethy and, oblivious of scowls and jerks of the body, exp&ti ated on the importance of health to him, as the pastor of "a little parish in Chelsea, Massachusetts," until the physician lost his patience completely, and cut him short with: "No matter about your little pariah; go home and bulld^a barn!" And nQW comes' tha proof •( tha operations about her*. Owneon. (M into the boat." For some reason best known to himself, the naturalist seemed to have lost all interest in his specimens and to have a sudden curiosity about Del Mar's affairs. As the motor boat sped off, he came slowly and curiously out of his hiding place and gazed fixedly at Del Mar No sooner had Del Mar's boat got a little distance out into the harbor than the naturalist hurried down the Dodge dock. There was tied Elaine's own fast little runabout. He jumped into it and started the engine, fallow­ ing quickly in Del Mar's wake. "Look," called the emissary to Del Mar, spying the Dodge boat with the naturalist in it, skimming rapidly aft­ er them. Del Mar strained his eyes back through his glass at the pursuing boat. But the naturalist, in spite of his smoked glasses, seemed not to have impaired his eyesight by his studies. He caught the glint of the sun on the lens at Del Mar's eye and dropped down into the bottom of his own boat, where he was at least safe from scru­ tiny, if his boat were not. ,, Del Mar lowered his glasfe, "That's the Dodge boat," he said thoughtfully. "I don't like the looks of that fellow. Give her more speed." '* * • * • . * • • Del Mar had not gone long before Elaine decided to take a ride herself. She ordered her horse around from the stables while she donned her neat little riding habit A few minutes later, as the groom held the horse, she mounted and rode away, choosing the road by which I had gone, expecting to meet me on the return from town. She was galloping along at a good clip when suddenly her horse shied at something. 4 "Whoa, Buster," pacified Elaine. But it was of no use. Buster still reared up. "Why, what Is the matter?" she asked. "What do you see?" She looked down at the ground. There was a spot of blood In the dust. Buster was one of those horses to whom the sight of blood is terrifying. Elaine pulled up beside the road. There was a revolver lying in the grass. She dismounted and picked it up. No sooner had she looked at it than she discovered the initials "W. J." carved on the butt. "Walter Jameson!" she exclaimed, realizing suddenly that it was mine. "It's been fired, too!" Her eye fell again on the blood spots. "Blood and--footprints--into the brush!" she gasped in horror, fol­ lowing the trail. "What could have happened to Walter?" With the revolver, Elaine followed where the bushes were trampled down until she came to tb§ place where I had been bound. There she spied some pieces of paper lying on the ground and picked them up. She put them together. They were pieces of the envelope of the letter which we had decided to send to Wash­ ington. "Which way did they take him?" she asked, looking all about but dis­ covering no trail. She was plainly at a loss what course to pursue. "What would Craig do?" she asked herself. Finding no answer, she stood think­ ing a moment, slowly tearing the en­ velope to pieces. If she were to do anything at all, it must be done quick­ ly. Suddenly an idea seemed to occur to her. She threw the pieces of paper into the air and let them blow away. It was unscientific detection, perhaps, but the wind actually took them and carried them in the direction in which the men had forced me to walk, after they had robbed me of the letter. "That's it!" cried Elaine to-herself. "I'll follow that direction." Meanwhile, the men had hurried me off along a trail that led to tbe foot of a cliff. Then the trail wound up the cliff. We climbed it until we reached the top. There in the rock was a rude stair­ way. I drew back., But one man drew a gun and the other preceded me down. Along the steep stone steps cut in the face of the rock they forced me. Below, in a rift in the very wall of the cliff, was a cave in which already were two more of Del Mar's men, talk­ ing in low tones, in the dim light. As we made our way down the breakneck Btairway, the foremost of my captors stepped on a large flat rock. As he did so, It gave way slight­ ly under his foot. A light in the cave flashed up. Un­ der the rock was a secret electric connection which operated a lamp. "Someone coming," muttered the two men, on guard Instantly. It was a somewhat precarious foot­ ing as we descended and for the mo­ ment I was more concerned for my safety from a fall than anything else. Once my foot did slip and a shower of pfebbles and small pieces of rock start­ ed down the face of the cliff. As we passed down, the man be­ hind 'me, still keeping me covered, raised the flat stone on the top step. Carefully he reset the connection of the alarm rock, a series of metal points that bent under the weight of a person and made a contact which signaled down in the cavern the ap­ proach of anyone who did not know the secret. As he did so, the light in the cavern went out. "It's all right," said one of the men down there, with a look of relief. We went down the perilous stair­ way until we came to the cave. "I've got a prisoner--orders of the chief," growled one of my captors, thrusting me in roughly. They forced me into a corner where crusty doctor's cleverness as a diag­ nostician. Although inclined at first to resent the abrupt and unsympa­ thetic dictum. Doctor Tuckerman fol­ lowed the advice, and found it per­ fectly adapted to his case! He got plenty of outdoor exercise and a mechanical employment that oc­ cupied his mind. When the barn was finished, his health was restored.-- Youth's Companion. tn«y tied me. again, hand and foot. Then they began debating in low, sin­ ister tones, what was to be done with me next. Once in a while I could catch a" word. Fear made my senses/ hypersensitive. They were arguing whether they should make away with me now or later! » Finally the leader rose. "It's three to one." I heard him mutter. "He dies now." He turned and took a menacing step toward me. "Hands up!" It was a shrill, firm tfcatraiig out at the mouth of the cave as a figure cut off what little light there was. • • * *. • •' •. *. Elaine passed along, hunting for the trail. Suddenly a shower.of pebbles came falling down from a cliff above her. Some of them hit her and she looked up quickly. There she could see me being led along by my captors. She hid in the brush and watched. During all the operations of the descent of the rock stairway and the resetting of the alarm she continued to watch, strain­ ing her eyes to see what they were doing. Ab we entered the cave, she'stepped out from her concealment and looked sharply up at us, as we disappeared. Then she climbed the path up the cliff until she came to the flight of stone steps leading downward again. Already she had seen the man be­ hind me doing something with the stone that formed the top step. She stooped down and examined the stone. Carefully she raised it and looked un­ derneath before stepping on it. There she could see the electric connection. She set the stone aside and looked again down the dangerous stairway. It made her shudder. "I must get him," she murmured to herself, "Yes, I must. Even now it may be too late." They had just decided to make away with me immediately and the leader had turned toward me with the threat still on his lips. It was now or never. Resolutely she took a step forward and into the cave. "Hands up!" she demanded with astonishing firmness. The thing was so unexpected in the security of their secret hiding place protected by the rock alarm that, be­ fore they knew it, Elaine had them all lined up against the wall. Keeping them carefully covered, she moved over toward me. She picked up a knife that lay near by and start- pat his uoat and hat on tt and set It on the neat which he had occupied be» fore Just then Del Mat's boat ran around the promontory where Wu Fang had met tbe submarine that had brought Del Mar into the country and landed him so strangely. The boat slowed down under shelter of the rocks and Del Mar added a pair of heavy lead-soled shoes to his outfit in order to weigh himself down. Final­ ly he put on the helmet, let himself over the side of the boat, and disap­ peared Into the water. His aide started the motor and the boat shot ahead again, with the dum­ my still occupying Del Mar's seat. As the boat swung out and made a wide sweeping curve away from the point at which Del Mar had gone overboard, the naturalist in the Dodge boat came around thek promontory and saw It, changing his course accordingly, and gaining somewhat. • \ i r * • * • fj / * Del Mar sank upright and rapidly, down in the shallow water to the bot­ tom. Once having his feet on some­ thing approaching firm ground, he gazed about through the window-like eye of the helmet until he got his bearingB. Then he began to walk heavily along the bottom of the har­ bor, over sand and rocks. It was a strange walk that he took, half stumbling, slowly and cumber- somely groping his way like a queer under-water animal. If anyone could have seen him, he would have noted that Del Mar was going toward tbe base of a huge, rocky cliff that jutted far out into the har­ bor, where the water was deep, Hi dangerous point, avoided by craft of all kinds. Far over his head the waves beat on the rocks angrily. But down there, concealed beneath the surface of the harbor, was a sort of huge arch of stone, through which a comparatively rapid current ran as the tide ebbed and flowed. Del Mar let himself be carried along with the current, which was now run­ ning in and thus with comparative ease, made his way, still groping, through the arch. Once under it and, a few feet beyond, he deliberately kicked off the leadeA-soled shoes and, thus lightened, roBe rapidly to the sur­ face of the water. As he bobbed up, a strange sight met his eyes--not strange, however, to Del Mar. Above, the rocks formed a huge dome over the water whioh the tides forced in and out through the secret entrance through which he •y.ijfroM Keeping Them Covered, We Made Our Way Up the Dangerous High Steps. ed to cut the ropes with which I was bound. As she did so, one of the men, with an oath, leaped forward to rush her. But Elaipe was not to.be caught off her guard. Instantly she fired. The man staggered back and fell. That cooled the ardor of the Other three considerably, especially now as I was free, too. While she held them up still, with their hands in the air, I went through their pockets, taking out their weapons. Then, still keeping them covered, we backed out of the cave. Backward we made our way up the dangerous flight of steps again with guns leveled at the cave entrance, Elaine going up first. * Once a head stuck itself out of the cave entrance. I ffred Instantly and it jerked itself back In again just In time. That was the only trouble we had, apparently. Cautiously and slowly we made our way toward the top of the cliff. • • • • • • • One look backward from his motor- boat was enough for Del Mar. He must evade that inquisitive naturalist. He' turned to his man. "Get out that apparatus," he or­ dered. % The man opened a lopker and brought out the curious submarine rescue helmet and suit. Del Mar took them up and began to put the suit on, stooping down in the shelter of the boat so that his actions could not be seen by the naturalist in the pursuing boat. The naturalist was all this time peer­ ing ahead keenly at Del Mar's boat, trying to make it out. He bent over and adjusted the engine to get up more speed and the boat fhot ahead faster. By this time, Del Mar had put on the submarine apparatus, all except the helmet, and was crouching'lew in the boat. Hastily he rolled a piece of canvas into the semblance of a body. WHY CALL LONDON 'LONDRA?' A pessimist is a person who Is tf*a- | sick during the entire voyage of life. Place Names Should Be Pronounced Alike All Over the World, Is Contention Made. When this wkr is over there will he many r^rrangeinents, besides those of territory, says the London Globe. It Is perhaps too much to expect that a universal meridian or universal time will be established, still less that we shall bare universal money or a universal" seconds cv l«nguage. All came. No other entrance, apparently, except that from the waters of the harbor led to this peculiar den. Lying quietly moored to the rocky piers lay three submarine boats. Fur­ ther back, on a ledge of rock, blasted out, stood a little building, a sort of office or headquarters. Near by was a shed where were kept gas and oil, supplies and ammunition; in fact, ev­ erything that a submarine could pos­ sibly need. This was the reason for Del Mar's presence in the neighborhood. It was the secret submarine harbor of the foreign agents who were operating in America! Already a sentry, pacing up and down', had seen the bubbles in the wa­ ter that indicated that someone had come through the archway and was down "below," as Del Mar and his men called it. - Gazing down, the sentry saw the queer helmeted figure float up from the bottom of the pool. He reached out and Kelped the figure clamber up out of the water to the ledge on which be stood. Del Mar saluted, and the sentry returned the secret salute, help­ ing him remove the dripping helmet and suit. A moment later, in the queer little submarine office, Del Mar had evident­ ly planned to take up the nefarious secret work on which he was engaged. Several men of a naval and military bearing were seated about a table al­ ready, studying maps and plans and documents of all descriptions. They did not seem to belong to any nation in particular. In fact, their uniforms, If such they might be called, were of a character to disguise their national­ ity. But that they were hostile to the country under which they literally had their hidden retreat, of thyt -there could be no doubt. How high Del Mar stood In their counsels could have been seep at a glance from the instant deference ex­ hibited at the mere mention ° of hia these things might be brought about It we could only get rid of our preju­ dices. It is not, however, too much to hope that the present confusion of place names should be got rid of". Why we and the French should persistently describe as Cologne and Mayence cities which their own inhabitants never call anything but Koeln and Mainz it is difficult to understand, and there is certainly no excuse for our pro­ nouncing the name of the Bavarian capital as "Munick," as if in scorn of the dwellers tberein^ who (*ll it, ff name by the sentry who entered with the submarine suit while Del Mar got himself together after his remarkable trip. , The men at the council table rose and saluted as Del Mar himself en­ tered. He returned the salute and quietly made his way to the head of the table where he took a seat, natu* rally. "This is the are& In which we must work first of all," he began, drawing toward him a book and opening it, "And we must strike quickly, for If they heed the advice in this book, it may be too late for us to take advan­ tage of their foolish unpreparedness.? It was a book entitled "Defenseless America," written by a great Ameri­ can inventor, Hudson Maxim. Del Mar turned the pages until he came to and pointed out a map. The others gather about him, leaning for­ ward eagerly as he talked to them. There, on the map, with a radius of Boipe one hundred and-seventy miles. Was drawn a big segment of a circle, with Peekskill, New York, marking the, center. "That is the heart of America," said Del Mar, earnestly^ "ft embraces New York, Boston, Philadelphia. But that is not the point. Here are the great majority of the gun and armor fac­ tories, the po wder and cartridge works, together with the principal coal fields of Pennsylvania." He brought his fist down decisive­ ly on the table. "If we hold this sec­ tion," he declared, "we practically hold America!" Eagerly the other Emissaries lis-* tened as Del Mar laid before them the detailed facts which he was collecting, the greater mission than the mere cap­ ture of Kennedy's wireless torpedo which had brought him into the coun­ try. Detail after detail of their plans they discussed as they worked out the gigantic scheme. t It was a war council of a secret advance guard of the enemies of America! • • • • • • • Meanwhile, Del Mar's. man in his boat, cutting a wide circle and avoid­ ing the Dodge boat carrying the nafar- alist, made his way acroBB the harbor until he came to the shore. There he landed and proceeded up the beach to the foot of a rofeky cliff, where he turned and followed a trail up It to the top. It was The same path already traveled by my captors with me and later followed by Elaine. As he came stealthily out from un­ der cover, Del Mar's man gazed down the stairway. He drew bacfr at whAt he saw. Slowly he pulled a gun from his pocket, watching down the uteps *ith tense Interest. There he eosld see Elaine and myself wearily climbing t<v ward the top, our baeks tow«*rd him, as we covered the men in the (Save. So surprised was he at what he saw that he forgot that hib boat below had been followed by the myBterloue nat­ uralist, who, the moment Del Mar's man had landed, put on the last burst of speed and ran the Dodge boat close to the spot where the aide had left Del Mar's. A glance Into the boat sufficed to tell the naturalist that the figure in it was only a dummy. He did not pausi*. but followed the trail up the hill until he was close after the emissary ahead, going more slowly. Only a few feet further along tha cliff, the naturalist paused, too, keeping well under cover, for the man wan now Just ahead of him. He looked fixedly at him and saw him gaze dewa the cliff. Then he saw,him slowly draw a gun. Who could be below? Quickly the naturalist's mind seemed to work. H« crouched down, as if ready to spring. The emissary slowly raised his re­ volver and took careful aim at the backs of Elaine and myself, as we came up the steps. But before he could pull the trigger, the naturalist, more like one of, the wild animals which he studied than like a human being, sprang from his concealment in the bushes and pounced on the man from behind, seis­ ing him firmly. Over and over they rolled, strug­ gling almost to the brink of the preci* pice. • • • • • • • Elaine and I had got almost to tne top of the flight of steps, when sud­ denly we heard a shout above us and sounds of a terrific struggle. We turned and saw two men. Nearer and nearer the edge pt the cliff they rollfed. We crouched closer to the rocky wall, gazing up at the death grapple of the two. Who they were we did not know but that one was fighting for and the other against us we could readily see. The more vicious of the two seemed to be forcing the naturalist slowly back, when, with a superhuman effort, the naturalist braced himself. His foot was actually on a small ledge of rock directly at the edge of the cliff. He swung around quickly and struck the other man. The vicious looking man pitched headlong over the cliff. We shrank back closer to the rock as the man hurtled through the air only a few feet from us. Down below, we could hear him land with a sicken­ ing thud. Far over the edge Elaine leaned in a sort of fascination at the awful sight. For a moment I thought the very imp of the perverse had got possession of her and that she herself would fall over. She brushed her hand Unstead­ ily over her eyes and staggered. I caught her just in time. It was only an instant before the brave girl recovered control of herself. We reached the top of the stairway and gazed about for the victor in the contest. To our surprise he was gone. "Come." l^rged, "we had better get away quickly." (TO BE CONTINUED.) nearly as English letters will reprO duce the sound, "Minchen." Why should an Italian gratuitously mis­ name London "Londra?" We really ought to know how our own capital should be called. As to Polish plao« names, also Przemysl and the like, only an international commission could decide. •. " ' a • j i ' GENIUS NOT INSANITY A89$LUTEt3^C FALMS 4HOULO tee ROOTED OUT*. Theory Refuted as Far ait America ta • y Concerned by the Outstanding ; •] MM; Figures In the History of |Thlf Country. Playing cards are said to have beet invented in 1390 to divert Charles VI, then king of France, wno had tallaa into a melancholy, mood! A mistaken notion, which has dona much to encourage self-satisfied medl- ocrity, is that genius is a form of iij^ sanity. This absolutely false idea ^ needs to be rooted out of the popular ' mind, into which it was implanted, 'f * chiefly by the efforts of a group <ff ' ^ European anthropologists. • These men, headed by the c'el||/W {y brated Cesare Lombroso, arrived • their Insanity theory of genius by ai|r exceedingly simple if- laborious .J method. They scoured through thousands <lt \ A biographies of illustrious men, seek*-" .-V ing evidence that at some period i& ' v ̂ their lives these men had acted "queerly." r : Naturally they found a great many, * men of genius who had indeed actei| , ^ ~ queerly and & great many others whif. had been positively insane. ' With this multitude of horrible e^""^ ^ amples as a convenient Jumping boardi '^ Lombroso and his. disciples then pr«h CJ5 ceeded to leap to the astonishing coi|»- Aj elusion that all men of genius arir more or less Insane. A To the weight of their scholastic a% thority, and to the bulky books thejp have published giving details of tb* vagaries of certain men of genius, f§" largely due the erroneous belief sife 'widespread today. Actually, the proportion of insanity among men of genius is little, if at alt, higher than the proportion of insanitjr among men In general. £ , *.(.; Indeed, a moment's reflection ought' 1'^ - to satisfy anybody as to the absurdity of the insanity theory with regard ti American genius. Was Washington Insane? Or Jeffe£ son, or Hamilton, or Franklin? Waft' insanity the distinguishing mark of, Abraham Lincoln? Can Emerson#- Longfellow, Lowell and Julia Ward Howe be dismissed with a wave of thf hand as Insane persons? Coming down to the present day, would Thomas A. Edison be counteS^ among the world's foremost lunatics?7 Or Charles W. Eliot? Or Lyman Ab­ bott? The sooner people rid themselves of the false insanity doctrine the sooner the way will be cleared for intelligent „ pondering of the question. Is not the man of genius, after all, representative of higher possibilities open to the human race, and is it not possible to some extent to produce more men of genius by proper train­ ing and environment? To this question I for one believe that ultimately an affirmative reply will be given.--H. Addington Bruce. ;Ji >• JrT' '*•> & A Few In Every Age. At a recent fire In the Standard Oil works at Long Island City it took 50 policemen to hold back the women who wanted to rush into the burning building and rescue their husbands. Rumor had it that European agents fired the works and meant to carry oft the employees. All the husbands turned up intact, but it is reassuring, to find that wifely spirit can rise to deeds not unworthy of the past. Everyone remembers what hap^f pened at a Dutch city which, after a terrific siege, fell before the armies of the cruel Alva. The one mercy granted the conquered burghers was that the women might bring out suclt of their most prized possessions as they could carry on their shoulders. When the gates were opened a Una of ladies staggered forth, each bear­ ing a husband, booted and armed, upon her back. May there always/be a few wives of this mind.--From the New York Evening World. -- \ / Needs Farming Implements. Farming implements of all kinds are greatly needed In France Just now, and the honorary secretary of the French relief fund recently re­ ceived a telegram 'from M. Gulllet, honorary secretary of the Secours National, asking permission for the expenditure of 20,000 francs from the money raised by the fund for the pur­ chase of agricultural implements, ur­ gently required for the purpose of getting in the harvest in the invaded districts of France. The necessary permission was immediately given, and the French relief fund authori­ ties, knowing that further supplies of these implements are badly required, make a special appeal to manufactur­ ers of agricultural implements in Great Britain who may not have con­ tributed already to the fund to maks donations in kind. Enterprising Widower. "Tass'm, muh po' wife am done / dead, and t'anky for de 'terrygation, mom!" solemnly said Brother Clapper, in reply to the sympathetic inquiry of Mrs. Colonel White. "She went fo'tb to walk in glory at half past five o'clock yiste'd'y mawnin', leavin' me saturated wid <woe. Never was a bet­ ter 'ooman in de. world, mom, and 1 dunnuh how I's ever gwine to git over de loss. But I'll do muh best. Do Lawd giveth and de Lawd taketh away, and if de Lawd is wid me in muh 'deavors, by next Friday atter* noon I'l' vave a-nudder he'pmeet dat'Hlj do yo' washin', mom, dess as good an<|, desB as lively as de late lamentably Sarvent, mom, and uh-good day!"-- Kansas City Star. Arctic Route to Be Used. Progress in the exploitation of th* steamship route to Siberia by way of the Arctic ocean has been reported from time to time. The United Stately , consul general at Moscow states tha£ interruption of other trade routes bf the war will stimulate the use of tht Arctic route, and that extensive prep­ arations are now being made by th« ^Iberian association for the shipping season of 1915. Hides, flax, hemp an4 other raw materials to a value $500,000 will probably be sent by w*» '" ter to England. The association i|| buildine a_ settlement .«»• Joms#'--^;V-;M k Tfefrisof