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THE GEO BOHAN’S MAGAZINE RAGE
“Initials Only By Anna Katherine Green
.4 Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
(Copyright, 1911. Street X- Smith )
(Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead Ar Co.)
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT.
“You're better this evening he heard
In those kindly tones which <•» confused
and Irritated him.
“Yes.” was the surly admission Rut
It's stifling here If J have to live long
in this hole I’ll dry up from want of air ,
It's near the shop nr I wouldn’t sta\ out
the week ” Twice this day lie had seen
Brotherson n tall figure stop before the
window of this shop and look .n at him
wt his bench But he *;< d nothing about
that.
“Yes.' agreed the other ' it's nd way to
live. But you're alone I’pstairs there's
a whole family huddled into a room just
like this Two of the kids sleep in the
closet. It's thing* like that which have
made me the friend nf the poor, and the
mortal enemy of men and women who
spread themselves over a dozen big rooms
and think themselves ill-used if the gas
burns poorly or a fireplace smokes I'm
off for the even.ng any thing I can do for
you ?''
"Show me how I •an win my way into
nuch rooms as you've just talked about.
Nothink lose will make me look up I'd
like to sleep in one tonight in the best
bodroom, sir I'm ambit ,m;.« I am”
A poor joke, though thev both laughed
Then Mr Brotherson passed on. and
Sweetwater listener] till he was sure that
his too attentive neighbor had really gone
down three flights between him and the
street Then he took up his auger again
and shut himself up in the closet
There was nothing peculiar about tin*
closet It was just an ordinary one with <
drawers and shelves on one side, and an
open space on the othei foi the hanging
up of clothes Very few • lotiies hung
there at present, but it wa in this por
tion of the closet that he Mopped and ho
gan to try the wall of Brotherson'* room,
with the butt end of the tool he carried.
The sound seem er t<» satisfy him. for very
soon he was boring a hole nt a point ex
actly level with his ear. b r not without
frequent pauses and much attention given
to the possible return of those departed
foot-steps He remembered that Mr
Brotherson had away of coining back on
unexpected errands after giving out his
Intentinn of being absent for hours
Rweetw’ater did not want to be caught
in any such trap as that, so he carefully
followed every sound that reached him
from the noisy halls Hut he did not for
sake his post, he did not have to. Mi
Brotherson had been sincere in his good
bye. and the auger finished its job and
was withdrawn without any interruption
from the man whose premises had been
thus audaciously Invaded
“Neat as well as useful.” was the gay
comment with which Sweetwater survey
ed his work, then laid his ear to the hole
Whereas previously he could barely hear
the rattling of coals from the coal scuttle,
he was now able to catch the sound of an
ash falling into the ash pit
His next move was to test the depth of
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Jbfr* anty\ 7 ; pfefiM
(yW drudge V<
Anty Drudge Gives the Conductor
Pointers.
Conductor— “Beg pardon, ma'am, for dropping the nickel;
I’ll get it for you right away. Those gloves make
my hands so clumsy, but if 1 didn’t wear them my
hands would be as dirty as my linen. What with
handling money, and the pushing and shoving, my
things get so dirty, my wife doesn't like to wash ’em.”
Anty Drudge—“ Well, that’s a sad state of affairs. Get
her to try Fels-Naptha and she shall complain no
more about washing your clothes. No backaches
from Fels-Naptha or hard work either. Your wife
can do a day’s washing before noon if she uses it.”
When Fels-Naptha soap is used the
hanging out is the hardest part of the wash’
ing
No Boiling, either winter or summer.
No fire to keep red hot; no tiring and
tedious rub-a-dub on the washboard.
Fels-Naptha itself does the hardest part
of the washday work —loosening the dirt.
All the human aid necessary is a few
rubs, a quick rinsing and the clothes are
ready for w ringing.
Out they go on the line, sweeter and
whiter than if a whole day were spent
trying to grind out the dirt on a washboard.
For further information read the inside
of the red and green wrapper.
the partition by inserting his finger in the
hole he had made He found it stopped
by some obstacle before it had reached
half its length, and anxious to satisfy
himself of the nature of this obstacle, he
gently moved the tip of his finger to and
fro over what was certainly the edge ts
a book.
This proved that his calculations had
1 been correct and that the opening so
roe.-sible on his side was completely , veiled
'on the .ither by the books he had seen
i packed on the shelves As these shelves
j had no other backing than the wall, he had
■ feared striking a spot not covered by a
i book. Hut he had not undertaken so
risky m piece of work without first noting
how nearly the tops of the books ap
proached the line of the Sb'df above them,
arid the consequent unlikelihood of his
striking the space between, at the height
he planned the hole He had even been
careful to assure himself that all the vol
umes at this exact point stood far enough
forward to afford room behind them for
the chips and plaster he must necessarily
push through with his auger, and also
important consideration for the free
passage of Hip sounds by which he hoped
to profit
As he listened for a moment longer,
arid then stooped to gather up the debris
which had fallen on his own side of the
partition, he muttered, in Ids old self
congratulatory way
"If the devil don't interfere in some
way best known to himself, this oppor
tunity I have made for myself of listen
ing to this arrogant fellow's very’ heart
beats should give me some clew to his
secret \s soon as I can stand it, I'll
spend nty evenings at this hole.”
But it was days before he could trust
himself so far Meanwhile their acquaint
ance ripened, though with no very satis
factory results. The detective found him
self led into, telling stories of his early
home like to keep pace with the man who
always had something of moment and
solid interest to impart This was unde
sir abb*, for instead of calling out a cor
responding confidence from Brotherson, it
only seemed to make Ids conversation
more coldly impersonal
in consequence, Sweetwater suddenly
found himself quite well and one evening,
when he was sure that his neighbor was
at home, he slid softly into his closet and
laid his ear to the opening he had mu<h
there The result was unexpected. Mr
Brotherson was pacing the floor, and
talking softly to himself
At first, the cadence and lull music of
the tones conveyed nothing to our far
from literary detect ive The victim of his
secret machinations was expressing him
self in words, words that was the point
w hich < (Dinted with him. But as he Ils
tened longer and gradually took in the
sense of these words, his heart went
down lower and lower till il reached his
boots His inscrutable and ever disap
pointing neighbor was not indulging in
sell < ommunings of an\ kind. He was
reciting poetry, and what was worse,
poetry which he only half remembered
and was trying to recall an incredible
occupation for a man weighted with a
criminal secret.
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
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vet fur wrap. Panels of rich
embroidery will be seen on
many autumn wraps. This model
shows a splendid bird with out
stretched wings
The center picture shows a state
ly gown carried out in rose-colored
miroir velvet, fur and embroidery.
The skirt is gracefully draped and
Little Bobbie’s Pa <
Ry 11 'illiam /< K/rA
I\\ AS III'EI iI’XG a artiekel in th*’
Sunday paipei the other day. >eu
Ma to Pa when we was having our
bl ekfust. vvivh toald hovv every t'atif- r
shut! maik a ilium out of his son At
tell ‘tint how to succeed in the grate
battel of life
The artiekel must have been a good
one. sed Pa. beekaus, after all, it is
the father that shaips the destiny of>
his child. The mother can not know
what the father goes thru. Pa sed.
You must have went thru a lit tel
today, sed Ma You had ten dollars
wen you left the house last nite. &
this mottling wen I was looking for a
farthing to tip the boy that brought
the'eggs all I end find was a groat.
A groat ain't much to find out of ten
dollars, sed Ma W hat did you do with
all the other littel gloats:
I had to pay sum bills, deerest luv.
sed Pa. If 1 bad not had to pay the
bills I wild have hail more munny than
I had after you had went thru my
jnakets. sed Pa.
You ate giving that word HAD a
merry game, -ed Ma. At it mite have
rung true to mo if you HAD sed it a
few less times. Do you know, husband,
sed Ma you are what I mite vail a
HAD husband You HAD so much
I inuny on a eerting day w didn’t have it
iio show the next day You HAD a
chanst to rite a Comtek opera until the
producers got a other man. You HAD
a bank account oust You HAD a
chanst one time to marry a heiress.
Why doant you stop beeing a HAD
guy and be a HA \ E husband .’ Have a
home, have a automobile, have sum
Up-to-Date Jokes
Enthusiast at Musical Recital We
shall hear more of this young man.
Sufferer Not tonight. 1 hope!
Mi- Nextdore Professot Adagio
vailed al mil house y esterday . and my
daughter p aved the piano for him He
just laved over her playing
Mis Peprey How rude! Why
couldn't he conical his feelings the wav
the r< st of us do .
Aon say you are in love with Miss
Baggs
"I'm sure I am."
"Rut I can't see anything attractive
about her."
Neither can I. but it's In the bank,
all right!" j
She How do yrm Ilk* my new dress ’
He Huh! It reminds me of a popu- ■
lar theater’
She Whst do you mean
He S' <nd mg room only '
I 'Yout husband has nearly fainted "
Dea: de;.'' These men always do;
things by ha lx es! "
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a very rich effect is gained by the
fur edging the embroidery that re
veals the white satin of which the
under robe is formed. Embroidery
decorates tha corsage and the
sleeves are edged with fur.
Heavy fur trimming is shown in
horses At stables At have sum seets tn
the opry. etc. Thats the kind of a
person to lie if you want to be a rcgler
married man At a noable husband At
father. You can do it if you want to
etn enuff munny.
> vs. yes. I see, sed P i. but let's stop
talking about munny At talk about that
Sunday artiekel. Doant you think the
. artiekel was rite wen it sed that a man
slmd make a ehum of his son .' Doant
you think that 1 have done that evvei
since littel Bobbie got oald enuff to
trail around with me'.'
I have toald Bobbie moar in the last
two years, Pa sed. than my father ewer
toald me. tlf course he went away wen
I was lour wars old. &• dident cum back
until 1 was grown up. on account ol
sumthing wlcli he had did to the Eed
eral Guvverment, but wen he did cum
back he dident tell me anything much.
son newer toald me that yure fa
ther was in a Federal prison, sed Ma.
I dident say that he was. sed Pa. 1
meen that he was away beekaus hi
dident want to be in a Eederal prison.
He was too proud to stay in a prison.
Ac he dident have enuff munny to git
Brite.s disease. Pa sed. like sum peepul
I know that got out of doing thare lit
tel bit
But I warn you to keep that in yure
mind every minnit. the part about mak
ing a chum out of your son. Ma sed.
Cherish that thought ewer.
All rite. Bobbie, sed Pa. let's go to the
ball galm.
Rut you was going to talk me out
this afternoon. Ma, sed.
Sure, sed Pa. you are my chum, too.
All of us is going.
All the Difference
Senatm Ogle. a member of the Penn
sylvania assembly had been deputed
to compose an address to the newly
elected president. Andrew Jackson
When the bluff old wa rim submitted
his document to the house a fellow
member, a dappet little man from Phil
adelphia. observed:
"Pardon nm. genera! I hesitate
about making any suggestion to so dis
tinguished an individual, but 1 can not
r train from saying that it Is custo
mary with cultured lettet wrlteis to
write the ft st personal pronoun with ,i
capita! instead of a small '!.' "
l General Ogle returned a look of seora.
"Sir," said he. "when I wrltt to so
great a man as General Andrew Jnck-
; Son. Democrat!. president of the I'nited
States, I abase myself I abase myself,
sir I us, as small an '!' as I can put
or- pat,, '. But. si: if eve: I shoulii have
Ito write to a rittb snip, like you’. 1
I would US. an 1. si., that would fill two
| Iges of foolstUg.
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the model on the right. The Paris
models are showing an increasing
amount of fur trimming on gowns
of all descriptions. Pour fur bands
surround the skirt.
The Danger of Imitations.
An Ohio druggist writes to “ The Practical Druggist,” a prominent New York
Drug Journal, as follows: " Please furnish formula for Castoria. All the formulas
I have worked with are either ineffective or disagreeable to administer.”
To this “The Practical Druggist” replies: “We do not supply formulas for
proprietary articles. We couldn't if we wanted to. His experience with imitative
formulas is not surprising, but just what is to be expected. When Castoria is
wanted, why not supply the genuine. If you make a substitute, it is not fair or
right to label it Castoria. We can give you all sorts of laxative preparations for
Children, but not Castoria, and we think a mother who asks for Castoria would not
feel kindly toward you if you gave her your own product under such a name.”
No mother with a spark of affection for her child will overlook the signa
ture of Chas. H. Fletcher when buying Castoria.
Children Cry For
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ft?? nessandßest.Contailisneittwr and has been made under his pcr-
Opium. Morphine nor Mineral sonal supervision since its infancy.
KXjWC' Not Narcotic. Allow no one to deceive you in this.
o mnniauttrHPrrrpni All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” are but
JteptcfOldteWLOPrnxni Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
g * \ Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment*
Hi What is CASTORIA
' Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil. Pare-
Ei’goJA ; 1 goric. Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
fc“X?O Apprfecl Remedy iorCcmsHpa contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
Knit a ! lion.SourStomadl.Diarrhow substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
I Worms Coiiwlsioiis-Feverish ? nd a " a ' s . 1-exenshness. lor more than thirty years it
mess nidi nss OF SLEEP b . een lu i o,,staut u «® for the relief of Constipation,
I-3.QX nfSsandLOSSOt SLKtF. , i atulency> Wind Colic, ail Teething Troubles and
She-a FarSinnte Signature of Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
fsSvft- assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
E° to; rhe Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
’“ntwyobk*”’ GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS BEARS
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GiT nineteen yeuis of age and in
| love with a young man aged 21.
i He runs the passenger elevator
In the building where 1 am employed
and receives ten dollars a week, while
1 am a stenographer making eighteen
dollars a week.
"He says he loves me and wants me
to marry him. but does not want me
to go on working."
That is a letter written to me by
K. .1.
The day the first man told the first
woman that he loved her and wanted
her for his wife, there was introduced
into this world a disturbing ailment
tvhich might be called love’s madness.
While it prevails, its victims are rarely
resp< risible, and in that condition they
labor under the hallucination that it
always will be moonlight.
Such vulgar and prosaic matters as
meat and groceries are forgotten, and
no lover’s vocabulary ever contained
these words: "Rent day."
This is unfortunate, for they could be
just as happy, more sane and suffer
less after marriage if the practical
questions were discussed; if he, for in
! stance, in the telling of his love, gave
! proof that in addition to that throb
■ bing heart that beats foi her he ha:
i two hands strong enough to keep the
I wolf away.
A Test.
The girl who writes the above letter
j gets eighteen dollars a week. I take it
i for granted that she has this money all
; for herself. Like all sisters and daugh
| tei «. she undoubtedly buys many luxu
| rles for the home and many little treats
I her family would not otherwise enjoy.
I But the bulk of her income is for her-
I self and. though she helps others, she
helps them to just such an extent as
shd chooses.
A gh l who gets eighteen a week and
tastes the independence that goes with
it will find it a hard test of love to give
up that independence and live on ten
dollars with a man. If he gave her
j half, w hich few men ar< know n to do.
I tills w ould mean less than a third of
| her former income, and out of it she
I would, have to help buy for the table.
: Indeed. I doubt if the rent man. the
I grocer and the butcher vvoufd leave
I enough of that ten for this girl to treat
her-elf to a ten-cent ribbon.
Love is worth any sacrifice. There
is nothing in life greater than love. But 1
in this case the girl is asked to make [
three-fourths of the sacrifice.
1 contend that if the man loved her
as purely and unselfishly as every nice
girl deserves.. be wouldn’t ask her to
subject herself to the biting privations.
The Prosaie Side
fiv Beatrice Fairfax
tlie self-denials, the narrowed outlo,,
that marriage on such a meager saluiy
would entail.
If she loves him, she will wait till hr
gets more. It is a wait that in t ;
light of after events is often the hap
piest period of life.
Too Precipitate.
Neither is he*a man of enough pride.
1 would like him better if he rlirj nr,
declare his love for the girl until hi
wage-earning ability, compared wi'ii
hers, made a better show ing.
My stand on a question like this is
not approved by the young and rminn
tic. but it will appeal to those in whom
fancy is subdued by fact.
One can not say to one's mate for
life. "I love you." and with that decla
ration satisfy a hunger for such mate
rial things as meat and potatoes.
There never yet existed twm man
and a woman) who could find pear,
and satisfaction in the declaration. ,
adore each other." while the rent man
pounded on the door.
A little good, hard sense will make
love no less sweet. A sane contt in
plation of the market basket will not
rob that little god Cupid of any of hts
halos.
This girl is young. Km a girl of
nineteen sh> is doing rema kably well
in getting eighteen a week. There ar.
few girls her age who are doing a*
well.
And so I declare, w hile admitting tlirr
love is greater than the dollar, that .-K
will not be doing as well if she gives u<>
her position to marry a man who gets
only $lO a week.
Even Love would concede this much.
SENT TO THE MAT.
A great lover of animals. Fiofe-sr
Dryasdust was much given t-> having
his pet dog sitting beside him at men’
times, and eating tid-nits from his own
little plate.
The other evening he was at a dim, r
pa : tv. and his partner was a very great
lady, who was proud of her title.
Rut the professor paid absoluteh no
attention to her. Hi- mind had switc i ■:
off on to some abstruse point, ami h--
was lost to the world over the problem.
The Duchess did not approve of t i:
and presently, to attract his attention,
she pulled him gently by the sleeve
Then the professor woke up. Grab-
I bing a half-picked chicken hone f nm
] his plate, he thrust it under her stat tied
nose.
"Don’t bother just now. Eido!" he
said curtly. "He-e, take this and K"
and eat it on the mat, like a good dog
gie! "