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• ^ f t > * « • > - ^ f * 'M? iiiaiiifM tffiwti mm £5E MIT" mm m*. &*.|.i.¥!> f S$C«K no fear ft Jh- Cvnus TOWNSCND ..< V v BRADY ••- -'•Y»OPSI«* ' ' I A youn* mm o«ft ubm on a lane- x Xi' Jr island. Cnda a solitary Inhabitant .ja young white man, dressed lilt®.* savage, and not able to speak (a any known las guage. Bh« de«M«ji fc*1 wteeate bis:, life# finds him to an attitude of prayer, bab­ bling an Incoherent jarfsn. She ftodi ft human skeleton and the skeleton of a doff. She finds a Bible and a silver box bearing the name of John Revell Char- nock, with a date 25 years before her landing. She concludes that her com­ panion is an American and that ho was cast ashore on the Island when, a child. CMAPTMt IV-Centliwed. The fh*Bt impulse of the woman was to laugh. The next impulse was to take oST the palm leaf hat ead stand with bowed head an«i clasped hands. What marvelous miracle waa this that throughout the years which she could no looser doubt this man had been alone on the Island, there had survived the one childish habit Of prayer and that the one vestige of language which had remained to him was the language of petition. She did nc»t believe in it, of course. It was absurd to- her, but it was none the less wonderful. It filled her with a certain awe. It wai as if some power had maintained a hold upon the conscious- «*«"• **:*- ZZZZ-t~ ZZ* «W-' "Now I lay" me down to sleep!" How lqng it had been since she had said that? She believed nothing, she cared for nothing, but the woman hid. her face in her hands for a moment. She clenched her teeth and forced out of her mind that which at that moment was striving for birth. She was to teach this man everything. She was to make him know life and history. She was to bring him in touch with ail the glories of to-day and she recog­ nized in that hour, although she did not and could not admit it, that per­ haps he might teach her something as well, something that she had not known or something that she had for­ gotten, Without the knowledge of which all her science was a vain* a foolish, a futile thing. The little prayer was ended. The man rose to his feet. She took her spade and went back to the place where the bodies had lain and there i>egan carefully to scrape away the earth, examining scrupulously every ehovelful ere she threw it aside. In one place where the hand had lain, •he remembered, her labors were re­ warded. fi&e came across two rings, a diamond and a plain circlet of gold. These she placed in her tunic with the collar and continued her digging. It was growing late and growing dark, but she left no square inch of jreund unexplored. She found noth­ ing else. The rlngB belonged to a woman evidently. Her surmlBe 1ft that particular was right. There were no other metal parts of her apparel left The nails In her shoes, the steel of her corset had rusted away and left no sign. There was nothing remaining but the two little baubles pressing against her own warm flesh. So intent had she been that the- sun had gone down before she ceased and upon the island there descended that quick and Budden night of the tropics. The wind had risen, the old ocean was thundering on the barrier reef and a heavy sea breeze was , shrieking through the trees. The sky on the horizon was overclouded and the clouds were rising rapidly. There would be a storm, which was develop­ ing with tropic rapidity. Quickly she retraced her steps along the sand toward the cave on the other aide, the man following. They had progressed not more than half way when the storm bust upon them, Peals of thunder and flashes of lightning filled the air. It Was such a display of the Titanic forces of na­ ture as might have appalled the stout- eat. heart. It filled the woman with a vague terror. She noticed with sat­ isfaction that the man was entirely unmoved by the terrific demonstra­ tions of nature. By the flashes of lightning as they stumbled along in the otherwise total blackness die could see his face serene. In -a mo­ ment of apprehension she caught his hand with her own and clung to It tightly. It was the unconscious appeal of the physical weaker to the physical stronger. Her hand had clasped the hands of her fellow creatures many times. Never before had his palm met the palm of human being, much leas a woman's. She could feel that tremor run through him, but by in­ stinct, as it were, he met Ipr hand clasp with his own, and together they made their way to the cave. They had scarcely reached it when the rain burst upon them. The heavens were opened, the floods descended, they beat upon the sands in fury. She could not drive him out there inthat flood for the night. She motfbned bim to come within the entrance of the cave which was sheltered from the wind and which was dry and still. She made him lie down near the entrance And then, withdrawing herself into a recess at the side, she disposed of the •oars, which she had carried home on her shoulders, in front of her from wall to wall and lashing them with •the rope to her person made another feeble barrier, but which would yet give the alarm to her and waken her if it were moved. And presently she went to sleep. She was too tired even to speculate on her discoveries •or to piece them together; that would "fee occupation for the morning.. ' * CHAPTER V. . H. - •<-- v\ The Voices of the Past , It rained hard during most of the night. The woman slept lightly »"d whenever she woke she could hear -outside of her ̂ sanctuary. the roar of! the storm. The man. as usual, slept j the long hours through as undisturbed! by the commotion as a child. It was •apparent to her that he had absolutely i Whether this was dae to Hh temperament she could not say. Was fear, after all, under the conditions in which his life had been lived, a purely artificial quality, or waa It natural and Inherent? He had 'avoidances, abhorreaces5 antipathies, as the skeletons in the coppice which she had'burled. Was that. avoidance fear or was It something else? Wtt it instinct or did It arise from recol­ lection? She riather fancied the last. If so, it was evident that the man had bees on the Mud a long time.; It would have taken years for the metal that must have been about that woman's perssa to rust away, for the steel clasps of Uw collar ntt(t> lyto disappear. . . , , ^ Upon that faint memory takt he cherished, upon that prayer that he prayed, sixe could build the foundation of his.education. She had feeea so suc­ cessful fa training him and In restrain­ ing him, in influencing film and sway­ ing him so far that she had abundant confidence in her ability to de to the end. It was quite evident that life would be easily supported under, the conditions in which it must be lived on that island. She need have no physical concern as to her material well being or comfort, and here was mental education and stimulus which made her for the time being forget the rest of the world. 1 Indeed, she thought bitterly, as shf» lay awake during the long watehdi of the night, that the' rest of the world was nothing to her and that she hated it. She, therefore, not only was be­ coming t« v«» waa rejoicing in It. She would teach this taan all she knew. She would teach him to think, to reflect, to rea­ son. She would teach him to talk. Since she had a book, albeit a sorry one, s-h^ would teach him to read. The rain fell more softly now. Her eyes drooped. She slept again only to wake and muse once more. She could have slept better had he been outside. How could he lie there in the complete and steeping insensibility of slumber? Her hand fell against her breast.. There was the treasure trove of her exist­ ence the day before. What would they tell her? She could scarcely wait un­ til morning to look. So she woke and slept and woke and slept until the day broke. ' It was bright and sunshiny out, al­ though there were ominous clouds all about the western horizon. It was probable that the rainy senses was at hand, if not upon them. 8he re­ gretted that she had not given more time to the study of nature, to the fauna and flora of the South seas, to the conditions of wind and weather under which life was lived there. Much philosophy would she gladly have parted with for such practical infor­ mation. She had to piece her ideas of affairs out from scraps and tags of knowledge, unclassified, incoherent; from vague recollections of childhood stories and romances; from carelessly scanned collections of voyages, books of travel and adventure. The result was unsatisfactory. In some particu­ lars the instinctive man before her was her master. At the things which went to make up physical comfort and well being in a state of absolute na­ ture he certainly surpassed her. She was thankful when she walked abroad that she had the shelter of the cave, for everything was drenched from the terrific downpour. If it was the beginning of the wet season she knew that the rains would soon come again. Still she luxuriated in what freedom she had. Without removing her single garment she plunged into the lagoon for a refreshing bath. The man followed her and swam about her moving slowly, with less skill than Bhe, but as easily as a porpoise plunges about the bow of a progress­ ing ship. Refreshed, she came back to the mouth of the cave and brought thence for a careful inspection all her worldly possessions, save the little heap of clothing which she had care­ fully piled upon the jutting shelf in the shadow of the cave for time of need. She ranged them on the sands before her. There was the Bible and the little silver box which she had found in the cave. She examined more critically its contents, wondering what they might be, and finally there came into her mind recognition that they were flint and steel. When she wished, she could make a fire. She was happy for the moment in the knowledge and then the uselessness of the power came across her curiously. What did she want of fire? There waa nothing to cook. Its warmth was un­ necessary. Still she was glad to have the ancient flame klndlera and she laid them aside carefully in the box, not knowing when they might be use­ ful, under what circumstances invalu­ able. At least she might regard them as apparatus which would be helpful In the curriculum through wftich she meant her savage pupil should pass. Then there was her watch which she guarded as the'apple tit her eye. tt wa3 an American watch of the very best make, and although It had gone with her through the waters such was the workmanship of the case that it had taken no barm. It was ticking away bravely, marking time." She thought that for her time had stopped, and yet she was glad, indeedj for the almost human sonnd it made when she laid it lovingly against her cheek. The Man Followed Her and Swam About Her, Moving fclowly. enabled her to keep her hair in order. She had a wealth of glorious hair, black as the midnight sky. With the aid of the mirror and of the comb, which also was a priceless treasure, she arranged it carefully according to the mode which best became heir. Sometimes when she had finished her toilet, she shot a glance at the watch­ ful man, a human, natural instinctive glance, but she was able to detect no change in his mental attitude, which was that of such complete and entire adoration* mingled with timidity and hesitation, that no transient change apparently was able to modify it He looked upon her as he might have known what a god was and had there been such a thing to look at. There was also the pair of scissors, together with the little housewife with needles and thread. Mirror, hairpins, scissors, sewing materials, comb-- woman's gear and the Bible, a woman's book, she reflected with a cer­ tain bltternaRH, unconscious of the truth of her thought--a book for chil­ dren, old women, and women-led men! Well, that philosophy upon which she prided herself must come to her as­ sistance now and she could not afford to disdain "the volume which was ail that the world of many books offered to her for her purpose, because she did not believe in It. The truth was in her and she Could tell him what it was despite the assertion of the printed pages. In the leather bag there was abso­ lutely nothing except broken glass and scratched bottle tops of silver and the bag itself was ruined. She sepa­ rated the pieces of metal and the metal fittings of the bag, which were also of Bilver, and filling the rotting leather with sand she presently sank it in the lagoon. LaBt of all she examined what she had brought from the other shore of the island the night before. The sil­ ver was tarnished, but by rubbing it In the sand she soon brightened It "It was heavily engraved and she had no difficulty in making out the words: "John Revell Charnock--His Dog." After that was a date "July 22, 1875." John Revell Charnock then would be 21 years old, assuming that this was he and that the dog had been given him when be was born. It was more probable, however, that he was from three to five years old before he became the owner of a dog, which would make him about 26. The man before her looked younger to her scrutiny than that. Care and trouble had passed him by. With nothing to vex him he might have been any age. He would probably look just as he was for 20 years or more. Still fancifully adjusting ex­ ternal relations to internal relations, which, after all, she realized was the secret of life according to her favorite philosopher, she concluded that the mas was 25, three years older than she at that moment, a proper differ' ence In their ages for . . '. Her faee flamed. She scarcely knew why, and she turned to an inspection of the rings. The first was a diamond, a solitaire, of rare beauty, she judged. Although she was not especially expert in such matters, the deemed It must be of great value. There was no inscrip­ tion of any sort within the narrow hoop of gold, although she searched keenly the Inner surface. The diamond was curiously set. There was an ex­ quisite tracery of a little coat of arms on either side of the setting, done in Siiniature but with a skill to marvel t, too small even* for her brilliant vision to decipher in detail. The other she recognized with a' sneer as one of those fetters of con­ vention, a wedding ring. It was a heavier hoop of gold much engraved within. She washed it in the stream and rubbed it In the sand until she could make it out "J. R. C.," she read, "to M. P. Ik." There was a date _ after, September 10, 1869, and then There were the hairpins, also, f« these cabalistic words, "II. Cor. 12:16," which she was most grateful. They -which she presently divined to be a refer^ce to some text in the Bible, fit soutoe from which to select the "posy of a ring," agreeable to those who submit to such ancient follies as the well-named bonds of matrimony. She reached for the Bible and with unfamiliar fingers searched through it until she found the place: "I will very gladly speo£ and 'be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved." The beauty of the phrase caught her fancy. She read with a strange new Interest the chapter in which these words were shrined. The touch of human passion came to her across the long years and with the ring sparkling in looked upon a god. ahe thought, had he her own white hand she embodied Its tradition in personality and the wom­ an who had been so leved stood be­ fore her. Her eyes fell again upon the man and the dream was broken. She pieced together now all that she had of him,-smiling as she did so at the thought of certain strange stor­ ies she had, read wherein men, of mar­ velous deductive powers had brought to solution problems which appeared as impossible of detection ae thin pro* sented to her. John Revell Charnock, evidently the rattier of the man of the island, had married one M. P. T. on the 10th of September, I860. Perhaps within a year afterward this John Revell Char­ nock, assuming him, as was likely, to have borne his father's name, was born. The best English stock in the colony were Massachusetts and Vir­ ginia, The stern piece of the boat borne the name of a Virginia river and of a Virginia town. The man before her waa a Virginian, therefore. Say he was born in 1871, it would make him 25 years old, in accordance with her first guess. The father and mother, possibly ruined by the results of the civil war, had embarked on some vessel to seek a fortune in a new land. Something had happened to the ship and the woman, the little boy and the dog had landed in some way upon these shores alone after some horrible voyage, perhaps like that she had passed through. The boy must have been five or six years old, else he would have died being deserted. The woman had, indeed, died, and the dog with her, and left the lad alone. Alone he had been for a score of years on that island. What watchful Providence? . . . Stop! She be­ lieved in no Providence. What strange mysterious fate kept him from the fate of the other two, had preserved him alone . . . for her? So she. wove a history out of her treasure trove for this man, a history which at least satisfied her and which the more she reasoned about it and the more she tested it, seemed abso­ lutely adequate and entirely correct Well, she had opportunity now and she was glad. She faced the future calmly, recognizing her chance and her work and set about with syste­ matic method, order and persistence to teach this man'what it waa to be a human being, to give him, as rapidly as she might communicate it and as he might receive It, all the learning she possessed, to compensate him with no further delay for those 25 year* of silence. - Was4t for this she had been trained and educated at great cost of time aiid money and effort? That she being a woman should give it all to (his one man without money and Without p r i c e ? ^ • - • ; . i n against which she fought Sex equality was the supreme good to be desired in her scheme of right relationships be­ tween the individual and the universe. While she rebelled against her sex. yet she rejoiced in It. Glad was she sometimes on that very account that to her was given the opportunity to prove her superiority to the limita­ tions, disabilities and man-made tram­ mels of womankind:" Born of two fanatics on the same subject, whose Insanity was modified and mollified by brilliancy of Intellect in every other field of investigation and experiment, Katharine Brenton had been trained to the hour for her profession, for the exploitation of her principles. The greatest of universi­ ties pointed to her with peculiar pride as one of the children of the free; free from everything in thought and determined to be free from everything In action. Much was expected from her and the world was net disap­ pointed at the first result cf he? istsR tfcl labor. There were certain old- fashioned people who deplored the perversion of so much talent and even genius to the defense of error, but these did not count. The world bought her book in thousands, read It avidly and regarded it as the last word of the last woman of the end of the age on the sex problem. Cleverly disguis­ ing her philosophy in the form of fic­ tion, with one bound she had leaped to the fore front of all the writers struggling for recognition. Publishers sought her. Magazines pursued her. Another book took shape in her mind. Sinerularlv onmi»K ha* ndimntUn and the erratic bent of her mind had left her primarily quite unspoiled. She was the product not merely of her age, her environment, her parents, but of a long generation of people to whom her thoughts would have been as ab­ horrent as her person was agreeable. The unconscious Christianity which surrounds the world and especially the world of woman kept her pure and sweet and lovable--these in spite of, not because of, her perverse and perverted philosophy. Though ahe defied convention in its spirit, she was naturally subject to it in its exercise. For instance, to her the marriage bond was, indeed, a bond, the marriage vow a confession of weakness- on the part of the woman, at least--and the mar­ riage delation an acknowledgement of inferiority--again oh the part of the woman. She would have none of these things in her life. Yet, as she thought, she had given her heart to a man-- alas, the submission to the eternal law!--and although their relationship was sanctioned by nothing but their affection, it was to her as pure and as holy a thing as if the contract had been witnessed and blest by a thou­ sand priests. What was it to htm? She counted without the other se*. .Many other women unfortunately fiifcire done the same. , Not cohtent with the writing of books, her intense devotion to her cause, coupled with . her unflagging energy, bad found vent upon the lec­ ture platform. The curious crowded to her feet at once, so bold, so radical, so beautiful and so Innocent One of her first converts had been the only son of a multi-millionaire, bygone ; bo­ nanza king of the Pacific slope. His conversion was cot so much an effort of pure reason as of primal passion, although that fact was in no wise ap­ parent to her. She would find that out later. This modern Hypatia, skilled in the learning of the schools, burning with exhaustless zeal, per­ meated with fiery energy, was yet as innocent in some ways as any of her humbler sisters. As that good Book which she disdained in the newer illu­ minations which had come to her, might have said of her, she waa In the world but not of It. Unconsciously she fulfilled many in­ junctions of him who had she but known it was the greatest of philoso­ phers. Naturally she kept herself unspotted from the world. Tet when the young man who had engaged her affections proposed to her that they should put her theories in practioe. after some hesitation she had aecefiad' >to his proposition.- It was a species of self-immolation not far from ^«rol«m that made her consent Indeed, ahe did not realise how heroic it was. With no other eeremony than a clasp of the hand and an unspoken, wordless promise of trust, devotion, sias!? hearted alliance, publicly and before God and man,. without a thought for the one and with no full realisation of the thoughts of the other--at least on her part--they had gone away tc» gether, hand in hand; he and she to­ gether, In love like any other pair since Eve mated with Adain in the dawn of the world's first morning. Y<st there h*s never been --s SssS of which man has known without its serpent. In the cabin of that gorgeous yacht, Sathanas reared his head. The first week or so of th® adventure had been filled: with idyllic happiness, hap- pinesH so great that it was strong enough to quiet certain low, still, small voices of conscience which the woman rightly ascribed to a strange atavism of ancient prejudice to which her phil­ osophy was as yet unequal. However, such. conditions did not long persist 'Her disciple was in­ clined. presently she found to her sor­ row, to take a somewhat tower, view or the situation than, suited t^er own high-souled views. The ardor of he* devotee cooled as his passion in­ creased. Shut up in the riarroW con­ fines of a ship--great and splendid though this yacht was beyond imagine tion--little characteristics heretofore unsuspected developed in the mere man. The course of true love was not so smooth as the summer seas ovet which they sailed. The air in which they lived was ruffled by flurries in which experience would have found presage for coming deeper storm. Tht Image that had feet of clay sought fot similar earthly alloy in the eompSBloa image which was made of pure gold all through, and finding it not, re> sented It desperately. The convert having gained his desire, weakened lo his principles. There was no relaxa­ tion in his devotion, in his tenderness, in anything outward and visible, but the high philosophy which had n>ttd€ the joint effort almost a self-sacrifice of demonstration was slowly vanish log from one heart while the othef clung the more tenaciously to It It was the old, old story. In a little the catspaw developed Into the tem* pest. When it appeared it came with surprising swiftness. The woman found that in neither abstract thought nor mental speculation was there any protection Tor her. There might be no God tn heaven, but there wae a con­ science in her breast. Finally she broke away from the man so far as she could do so when they were both in the same ship of which he was lord and master. She would have nothing more to do with him save that which common decency and the bare civili­ ties of life demanded of her. Denied the privileges upon which he had counted, the man grew savage and showed the cloven foot The disagree ment became a quarrel. The quarr •1 ran through several phases. Ashamed of himself he had recanted at first Then he had sworn again allegiance to the specious philisophy which she now realized be had only professed, consciously or unconsciously, that he might possess her. But she was not deceived. There was no truth in his words; his asseverations carried ne conviction to her soul. Again he stormed and raged; once more he apologized and appealed, but the periods of calm grew shorter and the periods of storm grew longer and more vehement The woman alone was steadfast. She was overwhelmed with shame, the horror of the situation ?re« rising upon her. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The MaMesr-Hew OtfMjffe* you were under lire? Dlt y«s shrink?. The Soldier--I don°t know as I shrunk, but I tried to small aa I could. AN INTOLERABLE ITCHIM Wi . "Just about 'two Tears ago. writs# form of humor appeared on my The beginning was a slight itching but It grew steadily worse until, when I combed my hair, the scalp tmmmm raw asd the ends of the corob»t.e®fte would be wot with blood. Most of time there wax an Intolerable itehl&g,, in a painful, burning way, very much as a bad, raw bum, it deep, will IfceEi and smart when first be^anfeg f@ heal. Combing my hair was posit!:?® torture. My hair was long- and tan­ gled terribly because of the Mood ami. scabs. This continued growing wors« and over half my hair fell out 1 wm In despair, really afraid of becoming totally bald. "Sometimes the pain was eo greet that, when partially awAe, I would scratch the worst places so that my finger-tips would be bloody. I e«*i<t asl' troii «au, aiter oeliig asleep • ' ^ a short time, that awful stinging pain --rwould commence and then I would ' 'wake up nearly wild with the torture, A neighbor said it must be salt rheum. J Having used Cutlcura Soap merely as , a toilet soap before, I now decided to ^ order a set of the Cutlcura Remedies •*> --Cutlcura Soap, Ointment and Pills.1 I used them according to directions for perhaps six weeks, then left oH,-; as the diseass seemed to be eradi­ cated, but toward spring, eighteen months ago, there was a slight re­ turn of the scalp humor. I com­ menced the Cutlcura treatment at once, so had very little trouble. On my scalp I used about one half & cake •, of Cuticura Soap and half a box of ^ Cutlcura Ointment in all. The first Vi time I took six or seven bottles ot Co* " ticura Pills and the last time threes bottles--neither an expensive or to- ^ dious treatment Since I !>•*§. - -• ^ had no kcalp trouble of «ay kind.' Standing up, ttflj- say hair unbound. Its" <mmm io my knees and had ft not been for Cutlcura I ahould doubtless b*-- wholly bald. ^; , ̂ "This Is a vrtuntarr, iiMolicited tea*' tlmonial and I take pleasure In writing! It, hoping my experience may tielp< someone else. Miss Lillian Brown. R. P. Di 1. Liberty, Me.. Oct 29.1*0** ' • . v 'v.? . Ending of '^rash-Water Eel. The straits of Messina are channels; »f immense depth, through which a wild form of whirling eddies have thn' effect of bringing up from the depths below many marine creatures which1: are rarely seen except in the deep mm,': trawls. It was here that the fresh­ water eel was first discovered, an in­ cident which threw a blaze of light on the life history of a very mysteii-! ous fish.--London Daily T« m Tit for Tat. ̂ Stranger (to prominent deig,yman>- --I came in here, sir, to criticise your church management and tell you how. it ought to be run. ' Prominent Clergyman (amased)--- What do you mean, sir? How dara you? Who are you, anyway? "1 am the humble editor of the par* per you have been writing to.**---Life*. MyvVSWl'MlAAMMH Tha Baseless Fabric. ^ True philosphy is ascetic. It may j ag^ociations best be practiced under conditions in which the material is in abeyance. It exalts the spiritual. It Is distinguished by indifference to environment. There is nothing so fatal to its profession as extravagance. Frugality is to the philosopher what modesty is to a woman--the essential thing without which it and she cease to be. The atmosphere into, which Kather- ine Brenton was suddenly plunged by her bold step was the very antithesis of these requirements. It was un­ healthy, and like unhealthy airs it bred disaster. She had been trained to independence of conditions, to dis­ regard of circumstances, as well as to disdain of restraint; but there was that within her surroundings which, from her first experience of them, she felt Instinctively to be vitiating, which tended to deprave, which precluded the exercise of clear, uninfluenced mentality. Especially in her case was this true since the luxury with which she had been surrounded appealed so subtly to the preponderant, and It must be admitted, immortal feminine in her composition. Sex distinction, sex difference was the one thing THE CURFEW AT CHTRTSEY Romantic Association a» Vpretty En§. Ilih Village with tHI down left. r ' At sundown the little Surrey village of Chertsey will re-echo to the toll­ ing of the curfew bell, which, in ac­ cordance with ancient custom. Is aounded every evening from Septem­ ber, 29 to March . , It is appropriate that Chertsey should thus maintain the custom, for the village has interesting "curfew" The curfew bell which hung in Chertsey abbey tolled for the funeral of Henry VI., murdered In the Tower of London and hurried to Chertsey to be burled "without priest clerk, torch or taper, singing or say­ ing." The abbey was also the scene of the romantic legend which relates how Blanche Heriot to save her lover Neville, nephew of Warwick the Kingmaker, condemned to die at sun­ down, climbed the curfew tower and held the clapper of the great bell. The story, always popular locally, attained wide fame when Mr. Clifford Harrison embodied It In his poem "The Legend of Chertsey." Since then reciters' au­ diences have probably uad their fill Of it.--Westminster Gazette. ~ When he* had engafed the attention of a domestic for 25 minutes and had brought her just to the verge of buy* lpg, despite protestations that she didn't want the books, the mistress In* truded. v "I wish you would leave," she said, severely, "Can't you see that the poor girl doesn't wish buy your books?";!, „ f • A . •' The agentbo*ed^> "Madam," be said, "If I had jrtabed to speak to you I would have called at the front door. Good-by!" The mistress left him alone to lsh his sale.--Cleveland Press. Unfailing Nerve. A book agent who is working the esst end doesn't inquire for ^the lady of the bouse." He rings the bells at side doors and directs his persuasive words to the domestics. His books are "How to Rule the Kitchen" and "The Mistakes of the MlstresS and How to Meet Thent.* They are said to be very helpful* Imprisoned for 8neezing. » An Alsatian conscript named Aim# Hugelln, serving in the German artil­ lery at Mayence, had the misfortune to sneeze ^t the moment when the non-commissioned officer was lectin* ing him and calling him a "noodl» headed Frenchman." Hugelin's explanation *£at he had 4 severe cold did not avail ^}im and he was sentenced to four munths' im prisoument, a finding that aaa been upheld on appeal. A Reliable Plan. "Whenever 1 don't like a man ver> well," remarked the cynical person, "I five him-a tip on the races. I don't care how much it loses for him." "But suppose he wins?" "Then he's unhappy because ,he didn't bet more." * "And if he doesn't bet at all?" •*1 keep on giving tips until eo* does win and then he feels as if he had missed the chance of his life." Flowers Frozen for ShipmsMk Frozen flowers are ' aam shipped long distances. Remedies Too Costl] Get out the old-fashioned remedy book and scratch out two jj/pff remedies, one advising raw beefsteak v spread on a bruise and the other i vUing bacon for a felon. We cant J - ^ waste beefsteak and bacon on bruises» * - {j and felons theee days.--AtcMwnn Qtybe. Propoeed PsrtnersMp. Father--You want to marry my daughter? Why, sir, you can't sop- ' port her. I can hardly do it nqp» ̂ self. -- - .rC Suitor (blandly)r--C-cant we efcip ha , > together?--Pick-Me-tFfc, ' Circumstances Alter Cassst?* • The trouble is that too mahy peefffir give expensive presents. That's where 1 the mlchief comes in." * V- "Rot! My wife's father gave her a "'J, • hoase and lot" The Limit. Knlcker--The price of evo&thlas has gone up, Docker--Yes, we even get a smaller '"y - hole in a doughnut.--N. Y. Sun. « , , -n---i--a ti' •« • • 1 " • • i • "|T •• , What Thinking Takes Out Of the brain, and activity out of the body, must be Put Back by Proper Food Or brain-fag and nervous prostration are sure to follow. If you want to^kntaBLjhe^ keenest joy on earth--the joy that conies with being Grape-Nuts ^There's * Reason" POSTUM CBRKAL CO., Udl Battle Creak, Mich. m