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M A R G A R E T B L O V K T . ^ CHAPT^H X.--(Continued.) ^Mr. Cowley* Jaw dropped. Hts face Would have been a study for a painter as be gazed at his unearthy visitants, with his hands resting upon his knew. He had threatened such visitors with the tongs, it is true; but pinch­ ing their noses was the thing furthei- est from his thoughts at that moment. With his heart beating almost to suffocation, he watched their move­ ments. He longed to speak, bu{ the words died upon his lips, and his throat felt parched and hot. „ Slowly they advanced towards his chair--the nun's sad eyes fixed silently on his face--the outstretched hand of the black man pointing towards his heart. He bore it manfully for a moment; but nearer, still nearer, they came--; the hand almost touched his shoulder! It was too much for poor flesh and blood to bear. He gave a sort of stifled cry--threw himself back in his chair--evaded the shadowy grasp, and dashed headlong from the room. Up the dark stairs he flew, and find­ ing his own door, rather by instinct than by sight, he blundered in, upset­ ting two chairs, and startling Mr*. Cowley from what was apparently her •first and sweetest nap. "What is the matter, my dear?" she . said, sitting up in bed and rubbing her eyes. "Have you hurt yourself?" | "Oh, don't talk to me!" groaned Mr. j Cowley. "Not one ghost have I seen, ' but two; and we'll get out of this in- j fernal place tomorrow!" i Rose and Catharine hearing this In 1 their awn bedroom, had a hearty laugh j and then went after the two ghost*. I who were putting out the candles j down below, and making themselves ' in many ways extremely useful. 1 Before the clock struck one, all the house was still--each inmate wrapped in a sound and peaceful sleep, includ­ ing Mr. Cowley, who had recovered a ; little from his fright, and was trou­ bled by no black man or murdered in, Ms dreams. / g»- . - •---- hi ' *1- CHAPTER ±1. % From that fatal evening a new life began for Mr. Cowley. He was no longer "monarch of all he surveyed," for in every darkened room, in every obscure corner of the haunted house, larked something unseen and unheard by others, but full of mysterious life and motion for him. If a mouse squeaked behind the waiascot, it wouli send hftn scurrying along the passage at the rate of ten miles an hour; if a door shut suddenly it made him trem- ble and turn pale; if a light shone in a window, if a board creaked unex­ pectedly beneath his feet, he was apt to start, and exclaim, "Lord, bless me!" in a tone that did Mrs. Cowley's very heart good. In one word, the worthy banker, from a snug, good- tempered denizen of Meeklenhnrgh Square, had become transformed into that strangest of animals, a haunted man! His sleep was no longer peaceful, for he was perpetually dreading a ghostly visit; while Mrs. Cowl ^y snored placidly and provokingly at his side. His coffee lost its relish; his tea its flavor, and his nightly glass of Holland and water was taken more to screw his courage up to the sticking point rather than for an actual pleasure it gave to him in the peculiar and unwonted state of his mind. "Your father will never own he Is afraid, my dear; and I can see )that we are killing him by inches. He is getting so thin; and, really lie does not eat enough to keep a sparrow alive. If we should worry him into a fever or a consumption, I should never for­ give myself." "No fear of that, aunt, while his ob­ stinacy lasts," replied her nephew, cheerfully. "But I wish to goodness he would get frightened and give us a chance of seeing a little more of this round world than we can expect to see while we are cooped up here. For my part, I feel as if I was a kind of iron mask. You ought to make, me a handsome present for undergoing this imprisonment, aunt" "So I will, my dear, if it ever comes to an end." J "There's the worst of It." j "I wonder if he suspects," said Mar- I jorle. j "My love, how should he?" "True! If he was a woman, aow, I should feel sure that he had discovered i our secret. Being a man, I suppose there is not much fear." "Well," said Rose, complacently, "I . think I can set you all free." i "How?" . "By inventing a new ghost, which I I shall patent" i They all laughed. I "You see he cares little for the cra­ dle now. In fact, I think we ai€ all getting used to it. But if you will only do as I tell you--we will bring this old room into use--and take the letter and the lock of hair we found here, and scare him so he will be ready and will­ ing to go out of the house the very next day.' Rose then entered into all the de­ tails of her plan, which was pro­ nounced an excellent one by every body present In obedience to her in­ structions, Catharine had a toothache and Mrs. Cowley a headache the next evening, which forbade them sitting up later than nine o'clock. Mrs. Ma- earthy and Rose also retired at thai .dearly hour, to wait upon the inval ds, ;sand Mr. Cowley was left alone in his glory, without even a cat to bear him company. He did not object to the solitude, however. He mixed himself some more grog, smoked one or two cheroots, and finally took up a hook to keep himself awake It was a volume of American tales, and this was the story which, by ill-luck, he happened to select: "While I lay one night In the first distempered visions of my illness, I heard those who watched beside me telling an old tale of a family long since extinct in our settlement "An old and wealthy man had won j a fair young girl for his bride, and j brought her from her native England • to this distant country that he might j separate her forever from an early j lovef--a cousin to whom her hand had j once been pledged and--so said the j gossips--her heart always given. "Gold is no less powerful in the mother country than this; and for its sake the father of the lovely Ginerva took back his pledged word, and gave his daughter to a stern and moody man, who Uttle knew how to value the prize he had gained. "So for America he sailed and built a stately home for his pale bride. on the very place where our quiet little village now stands. 1£ttl I _ i. butiil'dwiiigt® liy joy» till the hill road the hills and descended v*aey»--I waded through the mor- : iwfcWithout a sickening fear when f saw the brown and black water snakes glide lovingly in pairs around me. "At length I Mood upon the brow of the last hill and saw what I had n$t before discovered--that a precipice lay at my feet, jagged and rough enough, it Is true, to admit of a careful de­ scent, but still a fearful thing to look at and attempt. Other way, however, there was none; and holding my breath and uttering an inward prayer to God, I began to descend. Slowly ten feet of the bottom. I looked back at the height I had descended, and with a gay laugh grasped at a bough which grew near, and swung myself from the rock on which I stood. "But I was prematurely excited. The shrub to which I had entrusted my life and safety, though seemingly strong, was in reality decayed, and but slightly rooted. I felt it grinding up from the ground, and knew that in another mo­ ment I should fall below. I clutched frantically with my free hand. I shrieked aloud in my frenzy and de­ spair when I found I could not hold my precarious footing. I looked be­ neath me at the rocky bed of the brook and thought how soon I should lie upon it, stunned and motionless; it might be dead! The shrub broke In my hand--I was gone! "But at that moment of my tell, terror gave me strength, and with a tremendous muscular effort I threw my body out from the bank in a fran­ tic leap for life. "My presence of mind probably saved me; for in the place of falling directly belOw and upon the rocks, the impetus of my leap sent me far out into the stream, where a bed of soft sand re­ ceived me, and the cool water, to# shallow to engulf, rippled around me in separate streams. "How long I lay there 1 cannot tell; but when at last I unclosed my eyes and looked up at the calm, blue sky, that seemed to bend, close above me. the hot sun, though veiled behind a pavilion of fleecy clouds, dazzled my eyes and burned my cheek. ViM (TO be continued.) SNAKE SAVES MISSIONARY. Crawls ••a BMtut Orsr His W--t, Indian* Ran Awmy Among the earlier colonists in New England was one, a most devout man, a preacher, whose zeal soon led him to go as a missionary among the red men of the forest. Although the In­ dians lived all about the little settle­ ments of the whites, this man decided to go far into the wilderness and to live entirely among the rude people, to whom he wished to preach the gos­ pel. So he took his tent and set it up at a place many miles from the nearest white man's town. He learn­ ed the Indian language and every day preached to the unlettered sons of the forest. At length the Indians becama alarmed at the encroachments of the whites and decided to rise and mas­ sacre them. The lone missionary could hardly hope to escape. One night several Indians, with their tom­ ahawks, started forth to kill him. They crept silently up to the tent and peeped in. There sat the good man, pouring over his Bible by the light of a flaming pine knot. The Indians raised their tomahawks to strike him, when their arms fell helpless to their sides. A huge snake, feeling the warmth of the Are that glowed near the missionary, glided out of his hole,' He was horribly frightened. He j dictate or lavish wealth supply. But hated that house with shivering ha- luxury was not what the Lady Ginerva tred; he told himself that if he saw an- i desired while love was offered to her. other actual apparition there some- 1 Swiftly as they sailed across the bright thing dreadful would happen to him; blue sea. one followed close upon their he would have a fit--an apoplectic one. track, and Reginald, the deserted lov- very possibly--or perhaps a stroke of eif, aOon fOund his ladr's fair retreat palsy,, whiclr would leave fiim with his j, \.|- r face awry! It was a horrible thought; but he kept it manfully to himself. He would have suffered those slow tor­ tures of agonized fear a hundred times over «rather than own to the wife of his bosom that he had erred in select­ ing such a place for hts residence. He might have said as much to some gen- crawled harmlessly over the mission- Nothing was spared that taste could • ary's 'ee*; and disappeared. The In­ dians turned and fled, feeling sure that they had witnessed a miracle. The Great Spirit, they said, was the friend of the good man and had preserved his life from the fury of the poisonous reptile. In the bloody war that fol- ,lowed the uprising of the red men the good rrissionary was left unharmed, no Indian daring to touch him. This story, said to be true, was told for many years afterward by the colo­ ur CHAPTER XIL "Beautiful she was. but frail.' \nd targeting all womanly honor and duty she fled from her beautiful home, and from him who had given it to her. The injured husband discovered her treach­ ery too late, for their horses' hoofs were spurning the pavements of the tieman friend, if one had chanced to I outer court before he left his room; come in his way; but his wife--never was a concession too great by far for the worthy Englishman to make. No, toe husband: like the king, could do no wrong, and he was determined to uphold that doctrine to the last fBsp in his own family circle! i Do you think that same circle, mean- 1 while, was unaware of the struggle-- ' unconscious of his fear? Not a bit of it! Mrs. Cowley, as she awoke each morning from a refreshing sleep and saw him lying pale and uneasy upon his pillow, smiled grimly to herself and wondered how long he would take to come to his senses again. His 1 daughters, too, were rejoicing in the pangs their own mischievous arts had caused, even when they asked after t "poor papa's headache" In such mel­ lifluous tones Mich morning at the breakfast table. And Mrs. Macarthy-- deceitful old sinner that she was-- laughed till she cried sometimes over the broths and jellies which she made each day and which she pressed upon bis acceptance with a face as long as undertaker's. ; The whole house was in league • and the poor Wretch knew it not. Yet he stood it out manfully; rnd there seemed some danger that be­ tween his uneasiness and his obstinacy •'fouid grow seriously ill. Besides, ,, Christmas was fast approaching and the girls wanted to dance the New Tear in and the Old Year out. at their #wn house in Mecklenburgh Square. and when he hurried down the stairs and to the hall door, an iron glove lay there, defying him to the last At th's sight his strong heart gave way and the pitying servants bore him back to his room a raving maniac. For three long years they watched h'm-->» in the fourth he needed not their care, but was at rest Of the lost lady, no tidings were ever received, and as years went by, and the old ha!l began to decay, some enterprising settlers tofe it down, and from its ruins, Phos- nists of New England.--Chicago Rec- tyd-Herald. » ' 5- . ? *• , T&3 t No political convention, not even a World's fair, ever produced the condi­ tion that today exist in Beaumont, the head center seat of the oil industry in Texas, so far as food and lodging are concerned. There are no hotel run­ ners here, says a correspondent, writ­ ing from the scene of quick money making. If the newcomer, with tender­ foot Innocence, forces his way through the crowds that eddy around the two hotels, and asks for a room, the over­ worked clerks will laugh at him, and advise him to hustle for the outskirts of the town if he expects to stop in Beaumont over night There are no rooms to be had. A cot in the hallway of the hotel will bring its $5 per day, and would bring $10 if the hotel pro- prietors asked It Nearly all the houses in the town have been turned Into boarding houses, and they all are over­ flowing. The new arrival's only hope is in some one of the tents which are springing up in every vacant lot, and where he may, if he is fortunate, ne­ gotiate a cot or a blanket .^read on the groiind. Every night crowded spe­ cial trains leave Beaumont for Sabine Pass, Port Arthur, and Houston, car­ rying the overflow population that can­ not .find even these accommodations. Houston is a three-hour run from Beaumont, but one can find a bed at the end of it, and hundreds make the trip twice a day. Not only is a bed a treasure of great price in Beaumont, it is equally dif­ ficult to obtain anything to eat Tha practical-minded do not even dream of sueh a luxury as a square meal. A neweaoMT who can secure an option on * *ai£ tft &s fifth table of a third- rate boarding house Is the envy of his fellows, and ing a pull. are a number at restaurants in the town, butguards are stationed at the doors of each one to see that only those who can give the countersign shall pass Inside. The places on which tha tenderfoot must rely for food are those Where sand­ wiches and cups of coffee are handed from the rear end of a covered wagon. But when oil Is in the nostrils and for­ tunes in the air, the lack of food and shelter is not felt so seriously as it might be under other conditions. The demand for hotel and restaur­ ants is being supplied very rapidly, especially since the fact Is evident that the oil boom is no temporary affair-- that it is merely the beginning of nev­ er ending prosperity for the regions af­ fected. y 7MU- young women In a|t is Xtias Edith i* a fine is the of Mars • f t ' ® * # BlAlrT LA VJ4CHIJSfG OF Beside perpetuating a name which Must ever have a prominent place in the history of the world as written In these later days, the launching in Philadelphia of the new battleship Maine is to American hearts a sad reminder of one of the most terrible tragedies of modern times. It is now three years and more since the enactment of that horror in Hava< na harbor, and since then the survivors have been scattered to all Quarters of the globe. :4 Capt Charles.D. Sigsbee, who com- manded the Maine at the time of her destruction, has applied for the com­ mand of the new Maine, and it is more than likely that the request will be granted, and that she will fly his pen­ nant when commissioned for service* Of the 25 officers who were attache^ to the Maine at the time of her destrue* • 1 - s r 10 numbers for his gallant work in destroying the Spanish destroyers. Between the new Maine and the old are few points of resemblance. The first was rated as a second-class battle­ ship, with a displacement of only 6,682 tons. Her namesake is nearly twice as large, displacing 12,300 tons at normal draught a speed ol 18 knots for four consecu­ tive hours. Krupp armor--the kind which has recently given such striking proofs of its resisting qualities--is to be used throughout. The armor belt, which la to be 11 Inches thick at the top, taper­ ing to IVz inches at the bottom, ex­ tends to within 60 feet of the stern, shielding the sides 3% feet above the water line and four feet below it The casemate armor is to be six inches thick; the barbette armor 12 Inches in front tapering to eight inches In the r«»ar The protective deck will he 2% inches thick, while aft, where there Is no belt armor protection, it is thick­ ened, being four inchea ea the slepe and three on the flat ' -.v* '•» i CITY PEOPLE CURIOUS. Catered Man's Sens Nwrtjr SlMb Traffic In Nsw Yoifct It was only a song, and an old one at that, but it came near causing a block on the Broadway cable line the other day. The singer was as black as the coal in the cart he was driv­ ing, but that fact cast no shadow on his exuberant spirits. As he swung his chariot from Broadway into C6rt- landt street he raised bis voice, says the New York Mail and Express. Then the trouble began. When the notes ..of "Old Blacff~}fee" rang out high and nii-like. sprang up our pretty village j clear above thV^din of traffic expres- of brighter days. j sions of blank amazement overspread "This, or something akin to it, was ; the faces of the hurrying pedestrians the tale I heard, and in all my fever­ ish visions after that night, the Eng­ lish Lady bore a conspicuous part. They tell me that I called for her in­ cessantly; that » fancied myself, now the successful lover, now the forsaken husband; and could only be pacified by the assurance of her speedy return. "Be this as it may, 1 can remember ' who thronged the sidewalks. Necks were craned in a vain, search for the location of some newly patented phon­ ograph. Crowds collected and gazed i vacantly into the air, as if they ex- j pected to locate the sound in some of­ fice window. Teams were drawn up j until a long line of trucks extended i into Cortlandt street to Broadway, well how often I saw her standing by I barring access to the street, that their my bed, an airy, impalpable shape, of 1 drivers inicht ascertain the cause of which I could not possibly d agpver a j the crowd's curiosity. Suddenly a s§p\ single feature; but all seemed % gl t- tering array of misty loveliness. And when, in a voice that I could under­ stand (though on the duller ears of my attendants it fell like the whimpers of the evening wind) she bade me seek her at the Hall, how could I disobey? newsboy cried: "Ah, rubber! Dontcher see It's only de nigger a-slngln'?" The crowd laughed. The darky, now lus tily holding forth on "The Suwanee River," turned sharply Into Church street, totally oblivious to the excite­ ment he had caused. The crowd then • ^ -i L " 1 A M W&k'- - tion, four are dead, Lieut. F. W. Jen- kins and Engineer Darwin R. Merritt -*1 - losing their lives in that tragedy, Lieut. "f John J. Blandin )i , d y i n g s h o r t l y afterward in his B a l t i m o r e h o m e , ' and more recently ! ,r > 1 Chief Engineer • '> Charles P. Howell • died in this city. | • Bill Anthony, who was the first to no­ tify Capt. Sigsbee explosion"0# that fatal night In Havana harbor, sui* cided in New York last year. Capt Sigsbee, who was given com­ mand of the St Paul when the war broke out and who did some excellent service while commanding that vowel, is now chief of the naval intelligence office in Washington. His most efficient first lieutenant of the Maine, Lieuten­ ant-Commander Richard Wainwright, he who commanded the Gloucester In that bloody reprisal off Santiago, is now superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, with the rank of commander, having been advanced "Pari* Theater'*. The very best Paris theaters are not as comfortable under any circumstan­ ces as American theaters. Much has been done, and is being done, to im­ prove matters in all those respects, but much more remains to be done. The reconstructed Theater Francais, the re­ built Opera Comique, Mme Bernhardt's " The principal dimensions of the battleship are: Length, between per­ pendiculars, 388 feet; length over all, 393 feet 10% inches; extreme breadth, 72 feet; mean draught, 23 feet 6 inches; displacement at normal draught, 12,- 300 tons; estimated displacement at full load draught, 13,500 tons. As to type, the new vessel is to be an im­ proved Alabama, two knots faster than that fine battleship, equipped with a more powerful armament and hedged about with a greater area of armor protection. In the contract it is stipulated that she must on her official trial maintain theater, the Porte St Martin, under M. Coquelin's son, and the new Athenee are improvements. The people who have no carriages are worse off in Paris than in New York or Chicago with their lines of transit All these reasons combined are militating against prosperity of the Paris thea­ ters. con­ ning tower will lave 10-inch ar­ mor, and the signal tower 6-inch armor. Leading from the conning tower to the protective deck is a steel tube in­ tended to protect the voice tubes and telegraphs extend­ ing from the com­ manding officer's ^ station to the sta- , - .* » tions below. This tube Is l2 inches In diameter inside, and Is protected by a steel covering; seven inches thick. The engines are of the twin screw, triple expansion inverted vertical type. The 24 Niclausse boilers, which are al­ ready well advanced, and which will be nearly completed when the ship strikes the water, are expected to give 16,000 home-power. The vessel will have a bunker capacity of 2,000 tons. This, at an eight-knot speed, will give her a steaming radius t>f 8,350 knots--almost sufficient fon two round trips from New York to Queenstown, Ireland, or a trip half around Cape Horn. Married Four Time*, 'D t)orceA Three. John and Mary Burkett of Kokomo, Ind., began marrying each other about forty years ago, and have kept it up at Intervals ever since. They have had three divorces and four weddings, neither having wedded another in the meantime. 1 only watched my opportunity and ' dispersed, and the long line of wagons counterfeiting tieep one hot summer j began to move once more. "Well!" afternoon saw them all leave the rooms ! exclaimed a Jersey man on his way ^ -- » VMVU* VV VUV IWIIIN I -- -- -- •--- • jVliat was to be done with the banker with noiseless steps, and I knew that 1 to ferry, "New Yorkers call coun- j people curious, but--" He shrug­ ged his shoulders and passed on. to make him strike his colors, desert ills ship and own himself soundly ! ieaten? . It was Rose who formed a fresh plan, Which she thought might be suc- SMS tel. She proposed it that even- tag when the conspirators met, as asual in the turret char v r, to hatch *ew plots against the peace of the mas­ ter of the house. But at fiivt, Mrs. Cowley had somewhat to say. "I'm afraid we shall have to give It as a bad job," she remarked, shak- -tag fcsr head dolefully. mamma?" asked Catharine. . j v. & I was free. "The glass door at the lower end of my apartment led into the garden. From that, the lonely road led over the hill, and to the site of the Hall was easily gained. I drew my dressing gown around me, thrust my feet into a pair , of embroidered slippers and passed out | "Oh, the glad thrill that shot through my veins at the first free breath of the j summer air! Oh, the delight with which my parched lips quaffed the clear water la the fountaia by the ar- boi1! I spilled it over me ia my feverish haste! I threw it over mv hi* York's Improvements < astir. » Improvements already authorized or contemplated in New York city will cost the tremendous sum of $277,800,- 000. This Includes $40,000,000 for a vast scheme of dock improvements aleng the rivers. Half a dosen enor­ mous bridges are under way or being planned. Tm Moil Water in s Meet of Taper. An experimenter has lately discov­ ered that water can be boiled in a pa­ per vessel. O u t o f a s h e e t o f strong paper c u t a disk a b o u t s i x inches In di­ ameter. Next take a piece of wire, not t o o t h i n , making at one end thereof a Ting about three inches in diameter, wrapping the other end spirally around a candle and keeping it in place by sticking a pin into t|»e candle just be­ low the lower end. By pressing the disk of paper into the hollow of one hand it is given a bowl shape. In placing this bowl in the wire ring care must be taken to let its rim project about an inch above the support, as this makes it possible to pour into the paper disk so much water that the surface of the latter is slightly above the wire--this being absolutely nec- It is also necessary that the flame of the candle almost reaches, or even slightly touches, the bottom of the bowl. In a few seconds after lighting the candle the water will begin to boil, the paper remaining intact be­ cause the w|.ter absorbs the entire heat of the flame. An American Custom* Vnlon* Wharton Barker, recent candidate for the presidency on the ticket of the Middle of the Road fxopulists, has written an open letter to Frederick Fraley, president of the National Board of Trade, advocating trade ex­ pansion In the Americas rather than In Asia. He combats the Idea of territo­ rial expansion and thinks that posses sion of the Philippines will not give us a great trade In China, because Chi­ na is going to do its own manufactur­ ing more cheaply than any western nation can do it. He says both Ohio* and the Philippines are too neartjr 1* the same latitude with the United. States to make their trade profitable for us--that the eommeree of the fu­ ture will be between countries ot Op­ posite climates, and dlrene products, and will move along nurth and south Train the waitress to hold * . . •Kk u, ******««.°t t h e c x p M t m . W . , t o e * ' » t h ^ « » • > w t u * 1 1 » « Swiftest Hoeing Mound »»* Selwood Morven, the champion deer- hound of the world, has just died at Joppa, near -. Edinbu r g h. He was only seven, and death was due to a re­ cent acci­ d e n t H i s record con­ sisted of 152 first prizes, thirty championships, thir­ ty-six medals, eight cups, and Deer- hound Challenge plate. For four suc- cesslve ysam be also won the medal for the champion deerhound of the world. A &a*y Mmperor. Emperor William is investigating the problem of equipping the street car lines of Berlin with fenders and safety attachments. The emperor found that none of the devices pre­ sented met Ms requirements. He con­ sidered that what was wanted was a self-acting life-saving device, so that the motorman could give his undivided attwtkn to the operation of the oar -at the hog*;* the but now, as the preseat seareta*j lad a charming daughter, he presumed he would have to iinie stern-oideni' to keep them away from the secretary's home at times when they should be m duty. Miss Boot is rather petite, but grass ful and well formed. She has glortous dark eyes and hair that the "seven sisters" could envy. According to her own story Hiss Edith ia still heart whole and fancy free, but there are n- ***** «*d they concern a gallant sol­ dier lad who goes more frequently to the Root mansion than official obliga- TM« young girl is full tion iV/ EDITH ROOT. of life and good humor and can torn ? * a phrase as neatlly as her brfllfaat father. It was she who told a gallant ^7 at the inaugural ball of her difficulty in getting into the building, owing to some misunderstanding with the door­ keeper. "Why," she said, "he kept me standing there so long that when I did 1 ^ get in I found that my gown was en- fclreiy out of fashion." - 1 ' Outrage* on the •Street** , r J;s v The meeting held in a Chicago west side synagogue, where the members of **" v IV: , 4 ft-I: -/.*• the Chicago Protective league bled to protest against the inflgnWI-- heaped upon people of the Jewish race. brings prominently to notice a condi­ tion of affairs not generally known. From the testimony of many Jews who are engaged in the humbler pur­ suits It appears that they are sub§scted not only to Insult and abuse, but even to assault, while peacefully going their way upon the public streets. The ton- duct of the rowdies and tough youths Who assail them amounts to a eon- 1. ff stant persecution of the race, one > , ^ ";r-. speaker asserting that the Jews in Chi- , \' ̂ cago are in a worse plight than the .* j,-'j: Jews of London, Berlin, Paris or St, <• ; Petersburg. Mabel I*oi)et Yrettte*f " iltem'iiil fl in London. The prettiest woman in London ia )' an American girl, Mabel Love, the m actress. She has made the biggest ; hit in the British capital that has ever • , been scored there. In the past six months more than 30,000 photographs ¥ 'i % •• MABEL LOVE. * of her have been sold in the shops, ' ;='• of London and Paris alone This la ' li­ nearly ten times as many as have been . soid of the next in popular demand. • y Miss Lovo is said to be as perfect a t ' j type of beauty as there is is the world ? •' today. She has a very fine figure, - - large lustrous eyes, a Cupid's bow. . ( month and a wealth of beautiful hair. •. . ;v It is not to be wondered at that this ' ^ j • pretty American girl has beconae thA idol of all London. fSf • Snap Shot from China*" „ * V? The clash of the eastern and west-' > ern military methods in China during, t h e " p a s t year has b r o u g h t m a n y s t r a n g e things into the public eye None of t h e m , p e r - haps, Is more a m u s i n g , f r o m t h e w e s t e r n p o i n t o f view, than the camel cavalryman shown in the , , accompanying picture. The rider is a % Sepoy of the Twenty-sixth Baluchistan regiment--a British East Indian sol­ dier--and bis steed is taken at Patachu. part of the loot? Policeman Clarence Rattth 'of Orleans has been offered $1,500,000 forjjT. innif which he owns in the Texas oU*,<'. ' region. He has refused the offer and t. 5 remains on the force, but is keeping ̂ hi* mva. an hiindrsd. acres.. , ' r ' •:%