ARTI DOCTOR FRANKLIN SYNOPSIS. — Solomon Binkus, veteran scout and Interpreter, and his young companion, Jack Irons, passing through Horse Valley, New York, in September, 1768, to warn settlers of an In- dian uprising, rescue from a band of redskins the wife and daughteg of Colonel Hare of England. Jack distinguishes himself in the fight and later rescues Margaret Hare from the river. Jack and Mar- garet fall in love. On reaching Fort Stanwix, Colonel Hare says both are too young to marry. The Hare family sail for England, and the Irons family move to Albany. Unrest grows in the colonies be- cause of the oppressive measures of the English government. Solo- mon and Jack visit Boston. In November, 177 Jack goes to Philadelphia and works in Ben- jamin Franklin's printing plant. Nearly three years later Margaret writes him from London, remind- ing him that her youth is passing and saying she has appealed to Doctor Franklin. Binkus has re- celved a letter from Washington to be carried across the ocean, and Jack salls with him. Arriv- fing in England, Binkus Is ar- rested, but Jack has the letter and proceeds to London. CHAPTER V sf — London and the Philosopher. The stir and prodigious reach of The thought thrilled him that some- where in the great man beings he had come so far to see. He put on his best clothes and with the letter which had and pinned to his pocket of a maze Doctor of the lodgings Through streets until after a journey of some thirty of the famous bury square. Doctor Franklin was in and would see him presently, so the Hveried servant man after his card had been taken to the doctor's office. He was shown into a reception room wait, where others were waiting. An dusk when all the callers save Jack had been disposed of. Then Franklin entered, well-knit frame and kindly gray eyes of the philosopher. His thick hair, hanging below his collar, was now white. He was very grand in a sult of black Manchester velvet with white silk stockings and bright silver buckles on his shoes. There was a gentle dig- nity in his face when he took the boy's hand and sald with a smile: “You are so big, Jack. You have built a six foot two inch man of that small lad I knew In Albany, and well finished, too—great thighs, heavy shoulders, a mustache, a noble brow, and shall I say the eye of Mars? It's a wonder what time and meat and bread and potatoes and air can ac- complish. But perhaps industry and good reading have done gome work on the job.” Jack blushed and answered: would be hard to fix the blame.” Franklin put his hand on the young man's shoulder and said: “She is a lovely girl, Jack. have excellent good taste. I econgratu- late you. Her pulchritude has a background of good character and she is alive with the spirit of the New World. I hsve given her no chance t» forget you if that had been possible. Since I became the agent In England of yourself and sundry American prov- inces, I have seen her often, but never without longing for the gift of youth. How is my family?” “They are well. I bring you letters.” “Come up to my office and we'll give an hour to the news” When they were seated before the grate fire in the large, pleasant room above stairs whose windows looked out upon the square, the young man sald: “First I shall give you, sir, a letter from Major Washington. It was en- trusted to a friend of mine who came on the same ship with me. He was arrested at Deal, but, fortunately, the letter was in my pocket.” “Arrested? Why?” “I think, sir, the charge was that he had helped to tar and feather a British subject.” “Feathers and tar are poor argu- ments,” the Doctor remarked as he broke the seal of the letter, It was a long letter and Franklin sat for near half an hour thought- fully reading and rereading it. By and by he folded and put it into his pocket, saying as he did so: “An angry man cannot even trust hinmstlf, I sent some letters to America on condition that they should be read by a commit- tee of good men and treated in abso- lute confidence and returned to me. Certain members of that committee had so much gunpowder in their hearts it took fire and their prudence jand my reputation have been seriously damaged, I fear. The contents of those letters are now probably known 22 you." Ii Yon By IRVING BACHELLER “Are they the Hutchinson, Rogers and Oliver letters?" “The same.” “lI think they are known to every one in America that reads. We are indignant that these men born and raised among us should have sald that a colony ought not to enjoy all the liberties of a parent state and that we should be subjected to coercive measures, They had expressed no such opinion save in these private let- | ters. It looked like a base effort to curry favor with the English gov- ernment.” “Yes, they were overworking the curry comb,” said Franklin, “I had been protesting against an armed force In Boston. The government de- clared that our own best people were in favor of it. I, knowing better, de- nied the statement. To prove thelr claim, a distinguished baronet put the letters in my hands. He gave me | leave to send them to America on condition that they should not be pub- lished. Of course, they proved nothing but the treachery of Hutchinson, Rogers and Oliver. Now I seem to be tarred by the same stick.” Jack told him of his prospects and especially of the generosity of his friend Solomon Binkus and of the plight the latter was in. “He must be a remarkable sald Franklin. “With man,” go down there, him. Have you any dinner clothes? They will be important to you." “I thought, sir, that I should best wait until I had arrived here.” “You thought wisely. I shall intro- duce you to a good cloth mechanic. dinner and perhaps two for the street It costs money to be a gentleman here, It's a fine art. and fall in line and go through the evolutions or you will be a ‘North American savage. You shall meet the | Hares in my house as soon as your { clothes are ready. Ask the tallor to | hurry up. They must be finished by Wednesday noon. You had better have lodgings near me. I will attend | that for you." The Doctor sat down and wrote on a number of cards. “These will pro- vide for cloth, linen, leather and hats” Sr cai— he sald. “Let the bills be sent to me. Then you'll not be cheated. Come in tomorrow at half after two.” Jack bade the Doctor good night and drove to The Spread Eagle where, before he went to bed, he wrote to his parents and a long letter to the Pennsylvania Gazette, describing his voyage and his arrival subsequently as the facts are here recorded. Next morning he ordered every detail in his “uniforms” for morning and evening wear and returning again to the ian found Solomon waiting in the lobby. “Here I be,” said the scout and trapper, “What happened to you?” “S8'arched an' shoved me into a dark hole in the wall. Ye know, Jack, with you an’ me, it allus ‘pears to be workin’ “What?” “Good luck. Cur'us thing the papers was on you 'stid of me-—ayes, sir, ‘twas. Did ye hand ‘em over safe?” “Last night I put "em in Franklin's hands.” “Hunkidory! hum.” “Doctor Franklin wants to see you,” sald Jack. "Put on your Sunday clothes an’ we'll go over to his house. I think I can lead you there. If we get lost we'll jump into a cab.” When they set out Solothon was dressed In fine shoes and brown wool stockings and drab trousers, a butter. nut jacket and blue coat, and a big, black three-cornered hat. His slouch ing galt and large body and weathered face and the variety of colors In hig costume began at once to attract the attention of the crowd. A half-drunk harridan surveyed him, from top to toe, and made a profound bow as I'm ready fer to go he passed. A number of small boys* scurried along with them, curiously staring into the face of Solomon, “Ain't this llke comin’ into a sav- age tribe that ain't seen no civilized human bein’ fer years?” “Wot Is 11?" a volce shouted. “E's a blarsted bush w'acker from North Hamerica, 'e 1s,” another an- swered, Jack stopped a cab and they got into It. “Show us some of the great bulild- ings and land us In an hour at 10 Bloomsbury square, East,” he sald. With a sense of rellef they were whisked away In the stream of traffic. They passed the king's palace and the great town houses of the duke of Bedford and Lord Balearras, each of which was pointed out by the driver. Suddenly every vehicle near them stopped, while thelr male occupants sat with bared heads. Jack observed a curious procession on the sidewalk passing between two lines of halted people, “Hit's their majesties!” the driver whispered under his breath. The king-—a stout, red-nosed, blue Jowled man, with big, gray, staring eyes—was In a sedan chair surmount. el by a crown. He was dressed light cloth with silver buttons. Charlotte, aiso in a chair, was dressed in lemon colored silk ornamented with brocaded flowers, The two were smil- ing and bowing as they passed. moment the procession great gate. Then there was a hurried pace, When they had been conducted to the presence of Doctor Franklin he took Solomon's hand and sald: welcome.” boned, right holding It. hand of the scout, still a moment and give me a look at your hands?" he asked. amined them closely, “I have never seen such an Samsonian fist,” he went on. able What a record of hu America. They have been hands. They tell me all 1 need know of your spirit, your lungs, your heart and your stomach.” “They're purty heavy—that's why 1 gen'ally carry ‘em in my pockets when I ain't busy,” sald Solomon. “I saw Sir Jeffrey Amherst this in promise to bring you to his home" “I'd like to smoke a pipe with ol’ Jeff,” Solomon answered. “They ain't no nonsense ‘bout him. I learnt him how to talk Injun an’ read rapids an’ build a fire with tinder an’ elbow grease, He knows me plenty. He staked his life on me a dozen times in the Injun war.” “How Is Major Washington?” Doctor asked. “Stout as a pot o' ginger,” Solomon answered. “I rassled with him one evenin’ down In Virginny an’ I'll never tackle him ag'ln, you hear to me. His right flipper is as big as mine an’ when it takes holt ye'd think It were goin’ to strip the shuck off yer soul.” “He's in every way a big man” sald the Doctor. “On the whole, he's about our biggest man. An officer who came out of the ambuscade at Fort Duguesne with thirty living men out of three companies and four shot holes in his coat must have an engagement with Destiny. Evidently his work was not finished. You have traveled about some. What is the feeling over there toward England?” “They're like a b'llin’ pot every where. England has got to step care ful now.” “Tell Sir Jeffrey that, If you see him, just that. Don’t mince matters. Jack, I'll send my man with you and Mr. Binkus to show you the new lodgings. We found them this morn- ing.” the “] kissed her lips and she kissed mine, and for a few mo. mente (TO BE CONTINUED.) His Excuse A newshoy took a handful of pea. nuts from a peanut stand and was ar- rested for it. “Well, what are you here for? the magistrate demanded. “1 don’t know, your honor,” the cul prit replied, “unless It's ‘impersonate ing an officer.’ ” Truthful “You've been out with worse-look- Ing fellows than I am, haven't you?" (No answer.) “1 say. you've been rut with worse looking fellows than I, haven't you?” “1 heard you the first time. 1 was Just trying to think" ) SPIDER AND MOUSE LD MME. SPIDER had long ago decided that the attic belonged to her, for no one ever came there with a big feather duster and destroyed the home she made with one flirt of that dreadful thing. Up there madam was never dis turbed by childven running about. She had the place to herself and if she cared to rup across the floor she did pot have ts look out for small feet and after 7 while Mme, Spider thought where, “The more webs 1 have the more flies,” thought Mme. Spider. But one day she found a hole in the wall that she thought the very place for a beau tiful lacy web and after she had pot a great deal of time into the her dismay one morning to find it al- most destroyed, Just hanging by # thread, Mme. Spider was thinking very hard things about some one, she didn't know who, for she had seen no one In the “I Didn't Know This Was Your At tic,” Mr. Mouse Said. attic, when little Frisky Mouse He did about to not notice madam and run into the hole with a in his mouth when cross volee called to him: Was bit wool her my attic? I have a good mind to spin a web about you and eat Frisky Mouse dropped the wool, didn't know this was your attic” said. “I thought it belonged to and as for your web, madam, 1 did not gee it. I am sorry, [ am sure.” He was so about it that polite ing to do with the bit of soft wool, “What are you going to do with that piece of wool?” she inquired. “I am getting it for my wife to make an nest for our children,” sald Frisky. Mme crept up on the wall out of his reach in case he did get angry at what she was about to say. “That belongs to me,” she said. “Every- thing In the mttic is mine and If you want wool and other soft bits for your nest you will have to pay me for them.” Frisky Mouse did not stop to think he could run through the hole In the wall and get all he wanted in spite of Mme, Spider. She was so cross and decided in her menner that poor Frisky thought what she told him was Spider true, so he asked how he could pay her, “Flles are scarce up here,” sald madam, “and you must have plenty of crumbs and bits of food down where you Uve, for I suspect you live in the pantry wall, If you want soft, thin every time you come up here. The crumbs will attract flies, "Of course, If you don't I'll make a | Stronger web over that hole and keep you out altogether,” she snapped. Frisky sald he would gladly do this and started to take his bit of wool (“I'll be right back with the crumbs” he said, Barbara La Marr BEOVVIB ED DEVE OPPV IIR P OVEN and sat on the wool crumbs first” &he sald, “You Off ran Frisky to get {but when Mrs Frisky wanted to know where he was carry- ing that nice big crumb and her hus band told her all about his bargain with Mme. Spider. the “Fiddliesticks!” sald Mrs, Frisky. | “She can't fool me that way. You come along and show me where that attic is and 1 will get all I want with- iout paying anything.” When Mrs. Frisky man out hole In the attle wall she did not stop to make any bargains with Mme. Spider, She just tumbled her off and poked the bit of wool into the hole for her husband to carry downstairs and {then she ran scross the attic and took | SOme more, Mme. was high up wall by this time. She kne not have any polite Frisky deal with now, Mrs. Frisky, before she ran (nto the hole In the wall, and sald: not spend Spider on the she did Mouse to looked up at madam “If you are wise you will any time spinning webs Meteoric is the word that describes the rise of charming Barbara La Marr, the “movie” star, who has been suc ceseful in various other fields. At the age of seven her remarkable grace as a dancer was recognized. Her next career was literature—stories for mo- tion pictures; finally she was induced to play parts—her success is known the world over. over this hole, because I shall run In and out many times and a spider's web won't stop me.” “One of those strong-minded. new creatures,” when Mrs. Frisky was “1 just know her husband is = henpecked creature; doesn’t dare to say his soul " sald Mme. Spider, gone, poor is his own, But she made her wehs well floor after that and when mouse run across attie si no more sharp bargains for crumbs. (@. 1924, McClure Newspaper Eyndicate ) off the | € mune 3B vioreD MARSHALL . ROSAMOND RR O3AMOND has nothing to do with a rose, strange it may seem. The name means “famed protection.” and is of extremely ancient origin. The first Hrosmond the fierce chief- tainess of the Gepldae, whom her Lom- bard busband to drink his health in a grisly goblet composed of the skull of her ather, as WHER ie forced slaughtered f and who midnight Out of Rosamond gained great among the peasantry, aad in | mysterious way penetrated the land of the Norman Cliffords, by whom it was | bestowed upon Fair Rosamond of bal lad lore. This lovely lady's history has been much changed by Cervantes, who makes his Persiles and Sigis- imunda encounter her in the Arctic re | glons, fulfilling a dreary penace among ithe wehr wolves, murder, this tragedy the name of some - - - we - l - - - - - - - - - a - - MOON ON ITS BACK HERE are many weather signs re garded as superstitions which are nt superstitions at all but deduce tions from long experience. They are »apable of being as scientifically ex- plained ns the forecasts of the weath- er bureau. The common belief that {f the new moon has its lower horn tilted up it Is g sign of dry weather would, however, appear to come under the head of superstitions. Nearly all our moon superstitions can be traced back to the cult of Isis, the great moon-god- dess of the Egyptians The crescent moon was her symbol and “sometimes ghe represented the earth when fecun- dated by the waters of the Nile” There was a close connection between Ists and fecundating water, thus in- timately relating her to the growth of vegetation and the crops, and a jar of water was always carried in the pro cessions attending her worship. It is not surprising, therefore, to crescent moon connected in with the idea of wetness and dryness | Whatever the esoteric reason known {to the priests of Isis at Karnak or | Memphis why the tilting up of the {lower horn of the crescent moon indi i find the {of that horn a wet month, the reason { assigned by modern superstition has a {primitive flavor which indicates great | antiquity. It is that when the lower { horn is tilted up the water cannot run fout and when it is shortened It es capes easily. when they-—the Indians—could hang their powder-horng on the lower horn of the crescent it would be a dry moon and when they couldn't it wouldn't. A pretty story; but the Indians met by the first settlers knew not of powder horns and the superstition antedates the discovery of America, being clear ly derived from the Isis myth. (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) bambi odin A LINE O’ CHEER By John Kendrick Bangs. THE ALLOTMENT TIGHT hours for wo hours for play, "sight And elght for rest at close of day, But for my loviag give me . Boorse, Plus four, (D by MeClure Newapaper Syndicate.) Sammi Poncsiicnsinis The clergyman's cassock Is a sur vival of the days when nearly all men were skirted, Her name, in tation, gave rise to its supposed Interpre the Latin epigr non Rosa of the world, but n ording to one historian | “Rosa mundi, sed mun mus 3 {the ros rose), ac ballad, t aura of ror of owever, as well ance which bac vl 2s 4 . 3 Rosamond, establi name » nl vel fw vi ewh oo A i popularity in England and (IO by Wheeler nis], } SOOO OOOTO00 B00000C0BBT0: ROMANCE OF WORDS By pedi oom % “JUJITSU” THE word “Jiujitsu™ was lifted as bodily from the Japanese as t of phys cal training has practiced in Japan for the pas’ 2000 years, This system In not only constant exer cise and practice, but also diet ing and careful living. It is bot difficult to learn and is very ef fective in practical use, enabling the small and comparativel weak person Cope SUCCeRS fully with larger and more pos erful opponents, Specifically, Jujitsu is the ar of applying the physical forces «0 that a very slight movemen: will overcome the greatest pos sible human resistance. The Japanese have worked it out 1. such a degree that they utilize not only the strength of the adept in the art itself, but the force generated by the onras of the opposing fighter. In the majority of emergencies a thor ough knowledge of jiujitsn i very effective, but American «ol lege athletes have proven tha football tactics more than offset this centuries-old art of physical defense, The system was introduced in to the United States in 1804 ana the word itself is made up from the Japanese Jiu—-meaning soft. gentle or tender—and Jitsg—a device, trick or art. 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