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iJUST GOSSIP
First Assembly of the Season Will Be Held This
Evening in Bellevue-Stratford Ballroom.
Matters of Social Interest
aND onrp tnnie will the Drllcvuo-Strol-A
ford hnJIi ntul entrnnees be fenced off
that only Hip Sheep may enter In by
Chancellor street, while the Ooats to
main outside, and incidental luuo Just
is BOOtl a time
r o b n b 1 v. y
though not os
much satlsfac
Hon There Is
(otnothliiB in
the fact that
you reallv can
have the priv
ilege of plant
ing down $t
when your in
come U onl
t w 1 c o that
much a month,
perhaps, where
as your neiph
l,or who hn"
thousands o f
d o 11 a r s ft
month, though
ha may pull nil
the strings ho
can posslblv
come In con
tact with, can
not buy the
prlvllcgo of he
longlnB to the
Assembly,
though It onlv
costs the small
subscription of
fifteen humhed
pennies.
Well, to re
turn to tho sub-
Photo In- l'lillllp Htudlo.
MRS. GEORGE J. HARDING, JR.
Mr. nntl Mrs. Hardin;: will entertain tit din
nor before tho Assembly tlila'cvening.
i '(ant m.itter for
tonieht. the
camphor balls
have been taken out
brocades and peai I
of the satin
passementerie
trimmed gowns nnd tho middle aged and
the aged nnd the younsr mauled people
and tho for mire really filnhtened debu
tante will mlnglo together tit this historic
meeting of the scions of old Philadelphia
families.
IT IS nn ordeal, you know, for the debu
tante, because tho olibfashloneil ens
; toms of curtsying nnd such hnvo been
j itrictly adhered to for tho Assemblies, and
I not to make one would bo n fearful "faux
pas," even If In tho dolns ono steps on
one's escort's feet ns ho Is bursting bis
collar bowing profoundly to tho six bob
bing patronesses who, dressed to tho
nines, bedecked nnd bellowored, must nm
tho gantlet of a continuous piocesslon
of people from 11 o'clock until supper
time, which Is usually around 1.
It Is n relief, though, when ono realizes)
that those who form tho committee of
thpso two yearlv balls do actually stick
to tho old tiaditlons, and though soma
persons who It is known did not suhscribo
until of late, nnd of very late, at that,
have been admitted as subscribers now,
tho committee and the pattonesses ie
main still "the cienm of cream" of tho
city's oldest families, whosu names hnvo
appeared year after year on tho books of
the ball, and whoso ancestors were, among
those who started them, wuy back In
Revolutionary times.
And let mo tell you that Important as
tho committee Is and Important as am
Personals
Mr. and Mrs Itlchard Wood, Pr. and
Mrs Henry K. nillard nnd Mr. nod Mrs.
Armltt Drown will compose a dinner party
t the rtltz-Oarlton this evening, to ho fol
lowed by tho theatre, beforo, going to tho
Assembly
Mr. nnd Mrs Walter Waring llopkln
ton, of 2210 Spruce streit, will entertain at
dinner tonight beforo the Assembly. Among
the guests vlll be Mr. and Mrs. llobert
Logan, Miss Angela Newbold, Mlfc.s C!n
brlella lopkinson, Mr. William Delaware
Nellson, Mr. Knilen Hare Miller. Mr. Vernon
Coates and Mr Itobert Morris Kempton.
Owing to the fact that tho troops h.iva
not yet been dismissed from III l'asu. Mr.
Ilopklnson will ho unable to bu present
One of the most nttractlvo of the week's
intertalnments was tho dlnner-daneo which
Mr. Charles I.ongstrclh, of lai Locust
ttr'eet, gave last night In the ballroom of
the Itltz-Carlton In honor of his daughter.
Miss Bllanor Longstreth. Tho guests, num
bering 200, were seated nt tables arranged
for ten, the centerpiece artistically banked
With flowers of arlous kinds, which proved
to bo corsage bouquets for tho girls and
tardenlas for the men. Miss I.ongstroth
was charming In n frock of white laco and
ellver cloth with a tunic of cerlao net. Kha
carried an ami bouquet of gardenias.
A number of out-of-town guests attended,
mong them Miss Kduarda Gambia, of Ual
tlmore, alio Mr Itlchard Nash and Mr. Par
kef McComas, of Baltimore; Miss Oraca
Chanley, Mr. Charlton Chanley and Mr..
Bernard Chanley, of New York; Lieutenant
Merrill, V S. N , of Uoaton. Among this
year's debutantes were Miss Dalnor Owen
Balrd, Miss Marie Louise Fairies, Miss P.llz
abeth Grtbbel. Miss Anna Walker Melts.
Miss Katherlne Putnam and Miss Lola
Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Plsston, Jr., and Mr.
and Mrs. Harrison K. C'aner, Jr.. had tlto
flUtlnctlon of being tho only tparried peoplo
invited.
From 8 30 until 10:30. durinc dinner, a
continuous vaudeville performance was ar-
gea to take place on tho stago at the
i of the BUDDer 'room. General danclmr
k place at 10.30.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Coale. of Tor-
tesdale. will irlvn n. nmnll iliinpo nn WprineR-
Btoy, January 10.
Mr, and Mrs. Robert Meigs, who have
been living In nttsburgh, have taken a
houee In Wayne, Mrs. Meigs will bo re
membered as Miss Margarpt Corlles Hous
ton before her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Itlchard Mc3herry have re
turned to thdr home in the Qreen Spring
alley, Haiti nore, after spending the holl
??y?,ith tl"F Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rolllit
H- Wilbur, ot St. Davids.
v.U' .an(1 Mrs' Buchanan Ewlng, of West
VlTBlnia. arn vlalllniy nr l2..-ln..o ., ,nna
ur- and Mrs. Maskell Kwng, of Vlllanova.
DC. ailfl ATt-a rianrtva Tl.a n ,t.n. ,.A
Old Oaks, their homo In Hoemont. yaster
fy.to spend the remainder of the winter
al their cottago In Ikewood, N. J.
,M1m Christina Stockton, daughter of Mr,
aa Mrs. N Allen Stockton, of 2300 Plna
wet, and her nance, Mr. WUUam Hopkins,
vno have been vUitlng in Washington,
ii , bey were extenalvely entertained by
r. Hopkins's cousins, returned to town
u week
Miss n.r. . ..,.. . .... .
It,r- - i wis. m joa norm
a sueet euteriaiiud lant aveuius In
aooor of Mrs V B Francis and her dauEh-
ABOUT PEOPLE
the pnlioness, even old Charles him
self, who used to call with the suhserlp
lion book nt the vnflou.1 houses, nnd
wlm would darkly t-eittsd til allow the
addition of any now name, was hot
of more impor
tance than the
present ilnMi-
o m p lexloned
keeper of the
d o o r, W b o
knows over v
u bsrtlber so
well he finds It
iinnecessniv to
n s k for tho
uilm-jrlp t I o n
card which one
nrvci shows,
but still would
not care to go
without.
akki:n
tA-nnmilnt
dis
appointment
to tunny of the
w I v o a o C the
troopers on the
border Is' t b e
fact that they
will not be
b 0 in e tonight
ror tho ball, us
many had ex
pocted them to
be; la fact. 1
mil wondering
what rhoobo
Harding will
do to replace
Roddy and
Neddy Page,
t b o u k b per
haps they came
up on furlough
for the hoIUIajF, ns Nick Ulddlu did. I
hope so. for Phoebe's sake, as It Is the
limit to get enough men to replace two or
throe nt tho last minute.
TONIGHT the patronesses will boost of
two brides on tho list. Kllzu Kox Tllgh
man Is the latest, as sho was married In
Juno Just before lien Tllghmau left for
tho border. Tho wedding, by tho way,
wns not bun led by tho war rumor, ns tho
date had been already decided upon be
foro the Mexico scare started. If tnv
memory serves me right the ceremony
was (Hit forwnid two days; but It seems
rather ridiculous t,o call Mrs. Tilghman a
wnr hi Ide. Knto rtirnoss Jayiie Davis
will bo the other bride patroness; nnd the
mother of a dehutnnlu is Mrs. Heauveaii
liorle. dr. Tho other tluee patronesses
aio Mis. Aitbur Iilddle, Mrs. llornco
Itlnney Ilaio and Mrs. Kdward Ingersoll.
EG'
OW amusing people are and how llttlo
hey realize what joy their conversa
tions, overheaid, glvo to their neighbors.
Yosterd.iy morning, when tiding down in
tho car, two women were talking back
of mo, and one was telling the cither shu
had been dancing tho evening beforo at a
cafo and "My dear, 1 had a most dreadful
time. I had a Inrge hat on and It was so
In tho way!" "In tho way a big hut
well. I should say so," replied her com
panion, "why, 1 never wc.ir a hat. I
even tako off my glasses." She evidently
helluved In ptepaicdness!
NANCY WYNNE.
ter, Miss Knthryn
more.
It. KrauclB, of linltl-
Mr. and Mis. lllchnrd Cadwalader, Jr., of
Falrfold, tholr country homo near Camp
Hill, havo taken a house on Locust street
foi- tho winter months.
Mr. nnd Mrs. J. Lewis Kctterllnus, ot
20IC Ppruco Btieet, hao left for Atlantic
City, where they will spend several days
at the Mailborough-lllenbelm.
Mrs. Samuel Illspham Ilowen, of C107
Wayno nenue, Uerinaiitown, and her
daughter. Mrs. Walter, furl, of Iloston,
Mass., have left for Atlantic City, where
they will spend several weeks before Mrs.
Call leturns to Iloston b'ebtuury 1.
Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Walker and family, of
Valley Kails, near Meadowhrook, hnvo
closed their country homo and have taken
an npattineut In tuwu for the wlutor
months.
Mr. nnd Mrs. llayard T. Butler, nf Over
brook, announce tho engagement of tholr
daughter, Miss Dorothy Kllzabetli llutler,
to Mr. Alan Hurst Lungren.
Mr. nnd Mrs. S. J. Grcenbauni, of 413
Catharine street, announce the engagement
of their daughter. Miss Jane Greciiiiauni, to
Mr. Mitchell M. Cohen.
Mrs. Horace Delauy nnd her daughter.
Miss Florenc3 Delany, of Wyneote road,
Jcnklntown, b.ivo returned from New York,
whero they havo been spending several
days.
Weddings
I'lHNCK LOUGHLIN
Tha marriage of Miss Kathleen Mario
Loughlht and Mr. Uurllng Dultleld Prlnco
took placa Wednesday evening at tho resi
dence ot the brldo's parents, 2215 Hunting
Park avenue.
The ceremony was performed by tho llav.
D. A. Corhett, of St. Charles's Seminary,
Ovcrbrook.
Only the immediate families were present.
After an extended trip through Florida,
Mr. and Mrs. Prince will live at 152 Up
land terrace, Bala.
ALL l?OR NOTHING
mi
"Oh, gracious ! After all my
trouble."
"ssB
3SI
Blif"aAfef-J'viiviiWMlllfili i i r-"" -
EVENING LMjDGMR-PmLADMLPIIlA. FRIDAY. JANFARY 5, 1917
wz&:x,jW?',s:.
CaJ-ss
lb I'll Mi!
Farmer Smith's
Column
MY NEW DOC
My Dear Children I havo n hrand-nei"
dog and I must tell you about him, be
causa he may go away or his owner ran
come noil not him. Kverywheri' I Ii.im'
been lings ie came nnd made their honn
with me I think they come to town -mu
ask other dogs wheio thero Is a good home,
and the dogs always toll the stranger to
go and see mo
It's a great thing to linve a dog love vtu
I do nut tlilnlc any one is eiy hint when
a dog loes him. d t you?
The llrst dog which came to see me
this year must have hud a eiy nice hnnie.
Kiinny, Isn't If You enn tell what kind
of a home a dog has had 11 Y HIS IIAUIT.S.
Doggie number one always wanted to
sleep on the couch where your editor cui'U
up In the cvi-nlngs and takes n sno
Doggie number two prefers the cellar.
1 took uumtier tuo downstairs Inst night
and Intnidiicvd him toll large clulheshnskct.
IIh wagged lib, two-Inch tall and refused
to get Into the basket. Then 1 made a
bed for him and lie turned aniuiid three
or four times and lay down Wlirti I went
upstairs he followed me, mid I knew, being
a dog-obiglst, that ho wanted something
to int. s 1 got u hum- and went iluiu
tellur Willi It. I -vurefully laid It on the
floor and lie carefuMv took It and put It
tu his bed, then he culled up and I le
parted.
This illuming I Introduced him to another
bono.
1 know this dog likes me.
If we can tell what kind of a home a
dog has had by his habits, do ou uupuisa
peoplo can tell what hind of u. home you
liavu had by ,iur habits?
I was Just wondering, as editors vlll
do, for what makes an editor think nill
also make YOU think!
Lovingly,
FAUMKIt SMITIi.
Children's Ddltor.
.MODERN FAULES
The Contented Donkey
Hy Purnivr Smith
Thero was onco a Donkey feeding peace
fully In a field neur a pond. A Duck obaneed
to pass tho Donkey and she wpoko to tho
Donkey just to pass tho time of day.
"It seems to mo that you are very con
tented," eiitured the Duck.
"Indeed I am," replied the Donkey, "I
have not a caro In the world, f couldn't bo
made to caro about anything."
"And how do you obtain this wonderful
contentment" asked tho Duck.
"I never bellevo anything unless I seo
It," answered tho Donkey, starting to eat
ouco more.
"Then you will bellovo a,' thing you kee
ls that tho Idea?" asked tho Duck, who
really was not very busy.
"You hao.sald It," replied tho Donkey,
paying no moio attention.
The Duels walked on to whero the Tur
key Gobbler was nnd asked him thin ques
tion: "Do you bolleo everything you see?"
"Seeing Is believing, but not ol ."
"How is that, pray? I would llko to
know, for that stupid Donkey la contented
because bo will not believe anything that
he does not see."
Tha Turkey Gobbler thought a while and
then said:
"Tr' this on the Donkey, who may not
be so stupid after nil- Do yon see that
inihoad track over there?"
( Jo."
"Do the rails meet In tho distance?" The
Turkey Gobbler eyed his visitor keenly.
"It would seem that they did."
"You may think that they do, for they
even appear to do so, but you know and I
know that they do not. Therefore, ask
your friend, tho Donkey, to look at the
tracks and then seo what IHJ thinks."
The Duels did ns ho was told and tho
curiosity of the Donkey was aroused so
that bo went oer to the fence to take a
good look nt ther all road tracks.
"Those tracks DO meet," ho decided and
proceeded to Jump oer tho fenco.
"What are you going to do?" asked the
Duck.
"I am going to prove to you that seeing
Is believing." ha said as ho walked acruss
the Held In tho direction tho tracks ex
tended. The Duck went over to the Turkey Gob
bler and they soon were having a good
laugh, for in tho distance they buvf the
poor Donkey trudging along the railroad
track
And for all that Is known, tha poor Don
key is trudging along still, or perhaps, per
haps The next day the Turkey Gobbler went
to the edge of the pond and he inquired of
tha Duck:
"Have you seen our friend, trie patient,
contented Donkey?"
"No," answered the Duek.
"Ah!" replied his visitor, who laughed
and said:
"SELF-CONCEIT IS A DANGEHOUS
THING EVEN FOH A DONKEY."
"yhafs Doing Tonight
Lecture by Jud llo 11. I.lndMj-, Dnr.
on "What the Juvenllo Court ot Denver Sundt
For," Wltbwtiwon Hall.
UmlneM ScUnce Club dinner and dltcuwlon
on "Ftnauw and Oankinf." AdelpbU HeuJT
first Auemkly BaU. Bclleine-Stratford
rnlloionblcal Sxlty, 101 Buuttj Fifth trect.
9 o'clock
I'hliadelpbU Ohepter Americ&n Institute of
Bokloir, ariftUh lij.II. Croir OuildUw: i
o'clock.
ayvr 'svftiK2isv i?iiwfifflKr&m,vttm:c. :.xwjifflm&wtxL&iw
i:-s IMS i i.i , on Cnrvrinh: I iff I it ..litis CVmp n-, 11, priiif,-,! lnl nrrntmniniit
-J"i-i
FREDERICK ENJOYS THE FLOWER SHOW IN OUR
lV4ilc j!s CiTfeJur ---,.-.. v m r " .--3.- .. .- -,-.
,BkmiWpBMBBBS8BBa; -u. --Sg;.
BEYOND THE GREAT OBLIVION
(Sequel to "The Vacant World")
lly GKOIIGH ALLAN ENGLAND
utirf(if. Ifl'I. I'll ''. A. Mnntu romjimii.
OlI.U'TlIlt Xl. (fiintlniieil)
"yur do not nn
JL Ihn iiiitrlnt'i h
mm ili.n iimn' ex.'inimcu
m rni-ih. "I It now mm: .-
... . t.i...t t J i tli .it
would be nnd lus slnv every lltng tiling in
this community Hum ylel'l "e snimicsi
atom of pnwir In any other."
He arose wearily and gathered his man
tle all about lilm, then reached for his
stun that leaned beside the outer door.
"Peace "' be exclaimed "Ah. when shnll
we have peure and lenrnlttg and a better
life ngnln? The teaching and the learning
uf the English speech and all the arts you
know, now lost to us to us. the ubandoiieil
Folk in tho ahss? When? When?"
lie raised the curtain to depart; but even
then he paused once more, and tinned t
her. , , .
"Vorllv, vou hne spoken truth.' snld he.
"when yi.u'haxe said that all, nil here are
with us, v ltd yuu anil this wondrous man
now Mtig wea' and wounded In my bouse
Hut Kntnrou Is different. Alns. M.u know
him not vou know him not I
"Watch well over my sou. heie! Soon
must he grow strong again Soon, soon
Soon, against the coming of Kumroii. lor
if the chief returns and my son bo weak
still, then who to lilm. to yuu. to me. oi
to us all ! Woe ! Woe '"
The curtain fell. Tho patriarch was
.rone, initslde. llentrlce heard the click-cllck-clii'k
of his Iron staff upon the smooth
uml llluty rock Moor.
vn.i i hnr nnrs. minded with the far
roaring of tho flame, drifted tho words:
"Woe. woe to him! Won to us till
woe woe'"
CIIAI'TEIl XXX
KX1H.OUATION
TTNDKIt the ministering care uf llentilce
U and the patt larch. Stern's cotivaleseeiic
was rapid. The old man. consumed with
terror lest the dreaded chief, Komroii. re
turn ere the sti anger should hnvo wholly
recovered, bpetit himself la iffolts to hasten
the cure. And Willi deft skill ho brewed
his potions, made his salves and concocted
revivifying medicines from minerals which
only he despite his blindness knew how
to compound.
Tho blow that bad so shrowdly clipped
Stern's Bkull must havo inevitably killed,
ns an ox la dropped In the .tauBlitor-liousc.,
a man less powerfully endowed with splen
did energies uml full vltalitv.
Even Stern's wonderful phvslquo nan a
hard light to leguln Us finely ripened forces.
Ilut day bv d.i he gained -we must speak
of days, though there were only sleeping
limes nnd waking times until nt length,
upon the tlfth. ho was nblo for tho llrst timo
tb leave bis seaweed bed and sit a while
weakly on tho patrlaich's bench, with Hta
trlco hesldo him.
Hand In baud they sat while Stem asked
many iiuestlons. and the old man smilingly
answered such as ho saw lit. But of hnm-
rou neither ho nor tno gin yei uremucu
ono syllable.
Next day and tho next, nnd to on every
day. Stern was ablo to creep out of tho hut,
then walk a llttlo. and Anally sometimes
alone, sometimes with ono or both his
nurses go nil among tho wondering nnd
admiring Tolk. eagerly watch their labors
of all kinds, try to talk with them In tho
fow halting words ho was abla to pick up
and h-aru many things of.uso and deepest
Interest. A gravu and terlous Folk they
were, ahnoit without games or sports, seem
ingly without religious rites of any kind,
and lacking festivals such as on the surfaco
every barbarous people had alwajs had.
Thoioughly ho explored every nook and
corner of tho village. As soon us bis
strength permllted bo even penetrated parts
of the surrounding reglun. Ho thought at
timea to detect among tho Folk who fol
lowed and burrounded him. unless ho ex
pressly waved them away, somo hard looks
hero or there. Instinctively bo felt that a
few of tho people, hero one, there one, still
held hate and bitterness against him as nn
alien and un Interloper.
Hut tho mass ot them now outwardly
seemed so eager to servo and caro for lilm,
so quick to obey, . so grateful almost to
adoration, that Stern elt ashamed of his
own suspicions and oftha revolver that ho
btlli always carried whenever outsldo the
patriarch's hut.
And in his heart ho burled Ills fears as
unworthy delusions, us tho Imaginings of a
brain still hurt. Tho occasional black
looks of ono or another of the people, or
perchance soma sullen, muttered ward, he
set down as tha crude manners of a primi
tive and barbarous race.
To Deatrlce be spoke no word of his
occasional uneasiness, nor yet to the old
man. Yet one of the very first matters
ho attended to was the overhauling
of tha revolvers, which had been rescued
out of the melee of the battle and been
given to the patriarch, who had kept them
with a, kind of religious devotion.
Stern put in half a day cleaning and
oiling the weapons. He found there still
remained a hundred and six; cartridges
in hUt bandolier and ths girl's. These he
now looked upon as his most precious
treasure. He" divided them equally with
Beatrice, and bade her never go out un
less sha had her weaponsacurely belted on.
Their life at homo was BlmpU In tha
extreme. Beatrice had tha Inner room of
tba hut for her own. Stern and tho pa
triarch occupied the outer one. And there,
often far Into the hours of the sleeping
time, when Beatrice wai resting wltjiln, lia
and the old roan talked of the wonders of
tha past, of tha outer world, of old tradi
tions, of tha abyss and a thousand fasci
nating speculations
Particularly did tha old man saak to
understand some notions of tha lost uu-
ihiin- on wliioi! tlie strangeis hail cnine from
the outer world ; but. though Stern tried
most patiently to make him grasp the prin
ciple uf mechanism, he failed. This talk,
however, set flteni thinking verv serlouslv
about Un. biplane ; and lie asked a score
of iiupslloits relative In the qualities of tho
native oil. to currents In the sen. locations,
di-pllis, and so on. -
All that ho could learn t.e noted mentallv
wltu tho precision of the ti. lined engineer.
With accurate sclentllli' i b-.orvatli.ii he nt
nee began to pllu up Information about
the people nnd the iluBe. the sea, the
abyss everything. r.t, t,nt . ,.,,,,1(1
possibly learn. He felt that everything
depended on a sound understanding of the
topogniphv nnd nature of the incredible
community where he and the girl now
round themselves perhaps for a life st.iv.
Heatrleo and ho were eliul now like the
Folk: woro their hnlr twisted In similar
lashlou nnd fastened with h. aw pins or
Hilkes of gold, cleverly graven; were shod
with sandals like theirs, made or the skin
of a shaik-llko fish, nnd carried torches
evei vwln-ro they wont torches of dried
need, i-loso packed In a metal basket and
impregnated with oil.
This oil paitlcuhiilv Interested Stern. Its
peculiar blue llamo ntrtick him us singular
in the uMuune. It had, moreover, the prop
erty of Induing a v,.rv nB time wit bout
being replenished. A wl.-k Immersed in it
was never consumed or even chimed,
though the heat produced wns Intense
"If I can't set up Home kiml of ap
paratus to distill iluit inlo giis-eiinlne fuel
Philadelphia
New York
Newark
S
Taken from
Wool Velou r Coals
9.75
Regular Prices to 12,75
Belted coats of checks
and wool velour, in
attractive st3'!es with
fur trimmed collars.
jjnrvl
Girls' Tub
Two - piece, Russian "I
and smocked styles in
various materials;
white and colors,
Special J
VILLAGE
I'm no rinrliii'or, that s nil," said Stern to
himself "All tu tune, all in time hut llrst
I must tain thought how to raise the old
I'iiuilliie from the sea."
Alreadv the newcomers' lungs had becoino
absolutely nceiistonuil to the condensed
air. so that they breathed with entire enso
and comfort. They even found this nlr un
usually stlmulnting and revivifying because
of its greater amount of o!.ygcn to the
cable unit ; nnd thus they were nblo to en
dure greater exertions than formerly on
the surface of the earth.
Tho air never grew foul. A steady cur
rent set In the direction that Stern's pocket
compass Indicated an north. The heat no
longer oppressed them ; they wero even get
ting used to the constant fog nnd to tho
darkness: and already they could see far
better than a fortnight picviously, when
thev had arrived. '
Stern never iiiuld have believed lie. could
learnl to do without simllKht and starlight
and t'ho freo winds of heaven; but now ho
found' that even these were not essentia to
human life.
Certain phenomena excited Ills srlentlflc
interest very keen!) such as tho source
of the great gas-llarc la tho village, tho
rliylhmli' variations in the ah -current, tho
small but well-marked tides on the hea. the
diminished force of gravitation Indicating
a veiy great depth. Indeed, toward the
center of the earth the greater density of
the sea water, the heavy vaporization, cer
tain singular rock strata of the cliffs near
tlie village, and mans other matters
Tho vlllugo llself. bo soon determined,
was about hair a mile long nnd peril, ips a
quarter mile across, measuring from the
lortliled gate directly back to the huge
ll.ime near tho dungeon and the plaeo of
huues
lie found. Incldentnlly. that more than
ICO flt-hlv liolleil ami lieiilliss skeletons
wmc now dangling from tlie lion rods, Imt
Chestnut and 12th Sts.
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Velveteen Coats
12.75
Regular Prices to 18.00
Smart coats of velve
teen with fur trimmed
collars; also zibeline
and broadcloth coats.
Dresses Sizes 6
Dresses of
pique, unene aqd
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gingham in
stripes and
iiWarrv, irttfrrlMMT muPMttiUtmam
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wntly held hid peao.- concerning thn !c
did 11 o patriot eh volunteer nny Intermix-
lion nboat tho lois of llfi of tho folk In
tho battle Stern estimated there vrero now
some 1300 pcMjna nun, women and chlt
dren still len-alnlrg In th community,
but sliiro ho knew nothing of their miribor
when ho had arrived, ho could not form
mnro than a rough Idea of tho total
slaughter.
Ho found, however, on one of his excur
sions! outsldo tho walls which at a ills
tanco of 2G0 yards from tho sea stretched
In a vast Irregular arc abutting at enolt
end agalncs t'io cliff tha graveyard of tho
Folk
This nwesomo nnn peculiar placa con
sisted or heapM of fmoolh black boutdera
Piled upon tho dead, each heap sur
mounted hy a stone with somo crudo cm
blem rut tipoti It, surh ns a circle, n squnro,
a cluster of dots, even tho nido flguro
of a bird, n (Mi, a tortolsa nnd so on..
fcrlnln of the figures ho could malts
nothing of; but be concluded rightly they
were totem-signs and that they repre
sented nil which Rtlll remained of tha art
of writing niunng thoso barbarous rem
mints of tho onee dominant, powerful and
Hghlv cultured tnco of Americans.
tie counted more than 200 freshly built
Piles of stone, but whether nny of thcaa
nnifllncri mnro than ono body of tho Folic
he could, of course, not tell. Allowlnc.
however, that only :00 of tho Folk and
I fill of tho Lan.iknnru had fallen, ho read
ily freelved that, the battlo had been, for
Intensity nnd high percentago of killing,
sanguinary beyond all battles of his own
time.
I'nder tho walls, too. tho vast numbers
of boulders which had been thrown down,
the debris of broken weapons, long and
j.iggedly barbed iron spear points and so
on, Indicated tlie military ardor nnd tha
boldness of tho lighting men he now had
to domlnato and master.
And In his soul he knew tho problem
or taming, civilizing, saving this rude and
terrible people was certainly tho very
greatest ever given Into tho hands of ona
man and ono woman since timo began!
Along the beach ho rouhd a goodly num
ber of empty revolver shells. These ha
picked up, for possible leloadlng, In cnero
he should be aide at somo later time to
imiuufncturo powder and some fulminating
mluure
Ho asked tho patriarch to havo search
mndo for all such empty shells. The Folk
eagerly and Intelligently co-operated.
Willi Interest ho watched tho weird
sight of scores of men with torches rolling
the great stones about, seeking for tho
precious cartridges. Fiom the beach they
tossed the shells up to lilm aH he walked
along the lop of tlie fortifications so lately
the scene of hurrlhlo combat; and despito
lilm his heart swelled with pride In hl9
breast, to be ohcadv directing them In somo
concerted labor, even so slight as this.
With mniinislieil numbers, but Indomit
able energy, the Folk went on with their
dally tasks. Stein concluded tho great fu
neral ceremony, which miifat have taken
place over the fallen defenders, nnd tha
horrible i ites nttrndlng tlie decapitation,
boiling nnd hanging up : ! the trophies of
war, the Lnndsknarn skeletons, certainly
must have formed a series of barbaric pic
tures mora ghastly than any drug llcud'a
most diabolical night mare. He thanked
God that the girl had been spared theso
frightful rcenes
He could get tho old man to tell him
nothing concerning theso terrific ceremo
nies. Hut ho discovered, some thirty yards
to southward of the citclo of stono posts, a.
boiling geyser-llko pool In tho rock lloor,
whence tho thick steam continually arose,
and which nt times hurst up In tcrrlflo
seething.
Hero his keen eye delected traces of tho
recent rites Heir, ho knew, the enemies'
corpses nnd pel haps even homo living cap
tives had been bollid.
And as he stood on tho sloping, slippery
edge of the great natural caldron, a pit
perhaps forty feet In diameter Its mar
gins all worn smooth and greasy by In
numerable feet he shuddered hi his boul.
What was It, premonition or sheer re
pulsion, that caused him, bravo ns he was,
to linn away with a peculiar and intenso
horror?
Ho seemed ttlll to hear tho groans of tha
wounded, the shrlelrti of the prlsour rs being
dragged thither, being hurled Into tho
spumy, scalding water
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Fur T ri mined Coats
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Regular Prices to 32,50
Attractive coats of ve
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