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B JEANNETTE SCOTT BENTON.
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TUB FIUST tlmu Jack Kerens,
of Clilcnpo, electrlctnn, met
Mies Uoteler in Hoston ho
wns delighted.
"At Inst," he UiotiRiit, "I
hnve met the Ideal Uoston
Khl; coldly Intellectual;
rigidly precise, overwhelm
ingly correct," and being a blase young
man to whom iv new sensation was a
boon, ho devoted himself to her us
Blduously. The next time ho saw her ho made
up his mind that he had seen a good
many girls in his time, but never one
with more life, verve, and swing than
seemed characteristic of this same
young lady.
lie watched her In curious aston
ishment. "What an exuberant mugnl
ilcent little animal she is," ho thought,
"hut where Is the other one?"
With characteristic Chleagoan di
rectness he launched at his point at
the earliest opportunity.
"I beg your pardon," ho said, "but
I never saw two girls so different as
you the other night and today, let
alone one girl. Arc either of them
you? "What's your idea for that sort
of thing?"
Miss Grace looked at him In admira
tion. "What bad form you nre," she said
in a tone of great satisfaction. "It U
very seldom I nm asked about It In
that brutally frank fashion. To re
gard you for it I believe I will tell
you the facts In the case. I know It
I seems quite unbelievable, but both aie
me. A long time ago I and the peo
ple closely around me discovered that
I had two distinct personalities. The
one quiet, light and worldly. Under
stand, they nre not moods, but dis
tinct personalities, which come and go
as they please, while I nm simply the
helpless vehicle for them. Of course,
both have been a trifle modified by be
ing educated and environed as one In
dividual, but still they have different
tastes, In dress, alms, amusements,
everything. People say that I 'try to
appear striking,' that I 'pose' and all
sorts of things. Very few know the
truth of would believe It If they did.
Are you psychological enough to ap
prehend the situation? I don't konw,
though, Chicago people me. so grossly
materialistic."
"By Jove, but that's unique," be ex
claimed, Ignoring the slur. "I never
met a girl yet who afforded variety
enough to be Interesting for any length
of time. Now you are genuinely two
girls, with the added piquancy of
never knowing which you will bo, and
without tho trials attending the cul
tivating of two girls. He assured I do
appreciate the situation, nnd you, too,"
which was a remark ho would never
have made to the other girl, and theie
In lay the vivid zest of his wooing, lie
was obliged to court her In such var
ied styles. lie wondered when he
cumo to the proposal which girl It
would be to, nnd how he would do It,
but ho finally ascertained that when a
man Is exceedingly earnest ho pro
poses according to himself and not
the girl.
Before Jack was married it com
forted him greatly to think his wife
would never grow monotonous to him;
that ho should not be obliged to meet
a stereotyped individuality all the
days of his life.
Two instances, shortly after his mar
riage, confirmed his impression. Jack
was the nominal head of the Chicago
Electrical House, but it wns heavily
backed by a New York man, who
came In qulto unexpectedly one day.
He was a solid old gentleman with no
nonsense about him and a stern dis
approval of it in any one else.
Jack, to whom his approval was a
consideration, took him up to dinner
to meet his new wife. It seemed
to him tho young woman had never
appeared so frivolous, gay and incon
sequent In all his acquaintance iwith
her. "If It had only been the other
one tonight," he groaned.
ire could see the disapproval gather
ing on the old gentleman's face. After
dinner over the cigars ho remarked:
"Kerens, that wlfo of yours is a pret
ty creature, but I don't know. I am
afraid women are terribly undermin
ing creatures sometimes," and Jack
saw a long vista of cheese paring sur
veillance in the future which tried his
soul.
The other was a cosmopolitan young
friend of? Jack's who appreciated tho
world and tho flesh above tho line nrts.
Ho, too, went to dinner and met a Bos
tonesque highly Intellectual, rigidly
formal Mrs. Jnck, who froze tho blood
In his veins.
"Why couldn't she have been the
otlver one this tlm?" again he
grouned.
.Some wny the Imp of perversity
seemed to tun things most of the time.
She was so often to his moods "tho
other one." He began to feel like a
shuttle cock between two battledoors.
Not being born to suffer In silence,
one day ho said irritably: "I wish you'd
try and be one or tho other, Grace,
long enough for me to begin to feel at
home. Then, too, when I want you to
bo one of you you are alwnys the oth
er." "That never bothered you before we
were man led," Grace suggested.
"No; before a man Is married ho
sort of eliminates his own moods. He
simply takes the impressions tho girl
Is giving him without any counter cur
rent of his own. Afterward, of course,
he lakes his Innings. Now, before we
were married I thought your unexpee
cdness would correct the monotony of
married life. It docs, but there Is Just
tho trouble. A man llnds out that he
wants his married life to bo monoton
ous. He gets enough of the other out
side. The unexpected In matrimony
Is not desirable. It keeps him Jump
ing around like a toad under a har
row." "I am very sorry," said Grace,
simply; "but I don't see how It can
bo helped."
In a dim way, though, Jack did. Th
thought seethed and he worked in the
wire meshed laboratory of the electric
al building down town days and nights,
too.
Ho came homo one day with a blaze
in his eyes and triumph In his face.
"Grace," he said, "I hold tho millen
nium in my hand. I have discovered
something which will adjust the woild.
In studying a way to equalize your
temperamental pecullaiitles the thing
has revealed itself In all its magnifi
cence. I will take you down to the
laboratory tonight and explain It."
In the electric gemmed laboratory
that night Jack explained.
"The foundation of It all," he said,
"Is the X-ray. A Veil, hclence Is begin
ning dimly to lenllzu the wonderful
powers of that lay. They have found
that turned on tho parts of the body
in which they sunrm it will kill the
microbes of disease. Now, I have
reasoned i this way. There are llulds
tilling the brain cells which nre
charged with all the human passions
as they predominate In the Individual.
They ate a pait of life. All life must
have organism. All organism Is com
posed of microbes. There you have it.
Isn't It simple? Be eaieful; don't touch
medicine. You might hurt it. There
Is a secret in It In the manipulation of
tho ray which I have barely caught.
It Is what does the business and will
make me famous.
"You don't understand it? Why, it
Is this .way: You turn It on a person's
head and you kill the predominate mi
crobes. For Instance, there Is a big,
brutal truck driver about here; swears
like a pirate all the while. I got him
in here, fixed him In the chair and
turned the ray on him. When ho got
up his whole countenance was chang
ed. He looked like a Quaker. Then
theie's old Bogers. He'd skin a Ilea
for Its hide and tallow. Gets a five
cent glass of milk for lunch every day.
I fixed his head this morning and ho
bought a tiO-cent lunch. 1 saw him get
It. Then I tiled Miss May, our type
writer. She's a mighty pretty, vain,
lUrtntlous little girl."
"She Is," Interposed Mrs. Kerens.
"She was always rattling the boys
around the ofllce. I turned It on her
last night. You'd think she was a nun
If you'd seen her today. But the biggest
triumph of all was Hall. You Know
tho conceit of the fellow, Grace? He
had the big head past all enduring. I
got him there. They all thought It
was some Roentgen ray business to
photograph brain. Meek and mild!
Well, rather. I could hardly get along
with him before, but today ho de
ferred everything to me.
"Oh, It works. Of course, It has
only been i mining a couple of days,
but haven't I proof enough? By Jove,
It's the discovery of the century. It
will empty all our prisons nnd reform
schools.
"Now, my darling, as regauls your
self, when one of you Is In I will turn
on tho ray and reduce your cxtremo
characteristics trifle. Then I will
servo tho other In Its, turn in tho same
way. In that way you will become one
very charming person nnd a fellow
will have a little Idea what to expect
when ho comes home to dinner."
"Yes, that will bo very nice," said
Mrs. Kerens. "Will you show me how
It works?"
"It Is very simple," Jack explained,
"but bo careful, it Is so delicate. Do
you see now how It 1b handled? This
chair the patient sits In Is another lit
tle invention of mine. It looks ordin
ary, but a person sits down this way.
The head naturally falls lnfto this
place for It. Now very often they mny
bo unwilling to take tho test when
they know what It Is, but Just hooking
that wire behind on the bacK of tho
chair and they are belted around with
such a strong electric current no mor
tal could break through, so they have
to stay until you fix them. Did you
hook It on? Oh, I say, Grace, unhook
It. What are you going to do with tho
machine?"
Mrs. Kerens leveled It at him delib
erately.
"I am going to kill off a few of those
microbes of conceit for you and see If
I cannot reduce your head a little,
too."
Jack writhed In agony.
"Grace, for heaven's sake stop, don't.
I have no predominating microbe''.
That's tho fault of the machine. Turn
It on a perfectly well balanced per
son and it might reduce him to cither
Idiocy or leave him In a comatoso
state."
"I don't think myself there'll be
much left when I kill tho microbes I
mentioned," and sho calmly continued
her manipulations."
"Giuce, don't, don't! "What can I
say?"
She regarded him coolly
THE DYING CENTURY
PASSED IN REVIEW
SOME ACCESSORIES OF MODERN
WARFARE.
Invention nt a Premium Alternately
In tho Deadly Accuracy of Arms
and In tho More Than Equal Means
of Defense.
i'rom the Clilcaeo TlniM-llcralJ.
Two naval victories for tho United
States will stand out In history us
marking the nineteenth century, and
as between tho two one mny seo at
a glance what this age of Invention
has done for war. In 1813 Commodora
Perry won his famous fight against
the British on Lake Krle, his fleet ly
ing almost within pistol shot of tho
enemy. At Manila, In lR'JS, Commo
dore Dewey destroyed tho Spanish
fleet at such .a distance as made It
Impossible for him to sec the result of
his broadsides, two miles away. More
than eighty years of military and na
val progress lie between the two vic
tories, but only In the manner of ac
complishments have results been ef
fected. Perry's llagshlp, the Law
rence, might have stood a tBrltlsh
broadside at the water lino and still
floated to victory; one Spanish shell
against the hull of Dewey's Olympla
might have sent that floating fortress
to tho bottom.
With tho muzzle-loading flintlock
and tho single-barrel pistol, the cen
tury opened upon tho great battle of
Marengo, which will go down to his
tory as one of the most destructive
conflicts In the annuals of war. No
greater gluttony for blood could have
"You mlcht nay that you arc and prompted the early experiments with
will continue to be perfectly satisfied I the percussion principle In exploding
with me as I nm. whatever way It la.
nnd you might say that I can mash
this old machine."
He started up, then fell back with a
shriek of agony.
"No, no!" he shuddered.
"Very well." Again sho leveled it.
"Grace, don't you seo I may become
a driveling Idiot?"
"Yes, I know, you don't drivel now,
but that won't make very much dif
ference if you only keep your hand
kerchief by you. There, now, I am
all ready."
"Mash It mash it," ho yelled.
"No, on second thought I believe I'd
rather try It. Now. he a good boy
and tako your medicine. Let me see
self-esteem yes, there's the bump."
The expression of painful apprehen
sion faded slowly from his face.
"How very deft you are. Grace!" he
said admiringly. He seemed to have
forgotten tho concsntrating rays nnd
was gazing at his wife.
Sho disconnected the rhnlr nnd
touched the Instrument gently.
"Now, Jack, dear, you may try It on
1110."
"Try It on you, daillng! Why should
I? You don't need It. There Isn't a
single microbe In your dear little
head which I'd have disarranged."
He looked carelessly at the mlcrohl
clde on the table.
"Come, let us go home, I like your
Jolly mood, Grace, but then you nro
delightful which ever one you are."
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such as have perfected the modern
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COLT AND HIS WSVOLVER.
France was the first to displace the
lllntlock with tho percussion cap and
nipple. In 1820 tho cap and nipple
were common to firearms, but not till
ten years later was the rifling prin
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one of the first successful breechloader?
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Scores of bieech-loadlng rifles were
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to o cumbersome to be practicable. The
civil war In the United States was an
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number of good, serviceable weapons
were perfected." However. muzzle
loaders were not seriously displaced In
that conflict. The Spencer rifle was
one of the successful magazine arms
and the Sharp's rifle, too, wns exten
sively used. Since then, working upon
tho magazine principle, breech-loading
rifles have been perfected to a remark
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Germany, In 18S3. adopted the famous
Mauser rifle, resulting in a change of
arms for many other governments.
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but In the late war with Spain and
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powder. In some engagements United
Stntes troops have had to advance half
a mile under fire of Mauser rifles In or
der to get nn effective range for the
Springfield arm.
MACHINE GUN'S INTRODUCTION.
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modern rifle has rendered the bayonet
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generally have served to Increase the
firing ranges until a bayonet charge
would be Impracticable.
But tho magazine rifle has accen
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adopted by Fiance in 1870, the Prus
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automatic death machine, which, after
tho first shot, goes on loading nnd fir
ing Itself nt the rate of ten shots a
second until tho ammunition belts are
exhausted. Unlllio the Gatllng gun
nnd mlltrnllleuse, the Mnxlm gun has
only one barrel, making it almost ns
light and portable as an ordinary mus
ket. Nothing has done so much for mod
ern guns and high explosives, perhaps,
ns hna the armor plate, evolved from
the rude plating of railroad rails which
protected the sides of the Confederate
Merrlmac in the civil war. Steam had
taken tho plnce of sails in the maneuv
ering of vessels of war, and to protect
this machinery armor plate became a
necessity. Ifrom the beginning It has
been a trial of Inventive genius be
tween tho gunninkcr nnd tho armor
plater. No sooner has a shcllproof ar
mor been made than nn nrmor-plerclng
gun has been built to pierce It. Today
it may bo questioned If In the evolu
tion of the modern navy there has been
progress giving to tho fittest more
chances of survival than obtained nt
the beginning of tho century. Paul
Jones went into a fight a hundred
years ago, confident of keeping afloat
even after tho hull of his vessel should
bo pierced by shot after shot. Today
tho commander of a battle ship knows
that one chnnco shot from nn enemy
may send his gigantic lighting machlno
to tho bottom of tho ocean.
GUNS AND SMOKKLKSS POWDHIt.
With the modern Harvcylzed plates
and with tho Increased fighting range
that has como with modern war ves
sels the growth of big guns has been
phcnomennl. A gun weighing a hun
dred tons and throwing a 2.000 pound
shell from 1,000 pounds of powder Is
common. Around each or these wea
pons a whole machine-shop must oper
ate, until tho modern battlo ship Is a
mechanical complication compared to
which tho duties of a sailor aro as
child's play. With tho use of smoke
less powder has como the range-Under,
until now the future engagement of
navies Is to be one of engineering skill,
not the lenst Important feature of
which will bo vessel mancuverlngs. For
without the possibility of maneuvering
the modern battle ship would stand
small chance against modern i;uns and
gunnery. One of the wondeis of the
modern big gun Is that It Is forged
from a single bloelc of crucible cast
steel, and, carrying Its steel missiles
almost In a straight line, the Impact of
one of these shells ngjlnst a plate of
nickel steel often fuses the point of tho
shell with the plate. Hilling of these
guns nnd the use of nltro-powder have
brought about these phenomena. Gun
cotton and dynamite, both pioducts of
tho century, have been the tubjeet of
experiment In gunnery, but the dyna
mite cruiser of which the United State.
government expected so inuch In tlu
Spanish war has been pronounced a
failure.
THE TORPHUO IN WARFAltU.
The torpedo has come to be a fact r
In naval battle, and one of the mest
di ended agencies of war. At the same
time circumstances have not allowed
of 11 full Justification of these fears, la
none of the recent naval engagements
of tho world has tho torpedo boat
seemed to acquit Itself as it might
have been expected to do In view of Its
Increasing popularity. The torpedo has
been of slow growth, and seems to
have reached Its limit In the self-pro-,
pelllng Whitehead pattern. The swift
torpedo boat Is designed to hurry with
it in range of a fleet and to discharge
tho missile under water at the hulk of
a battle ship. Cover of night wns ex
pected to protect the boat. With It.
however, has come the electric search
light and tho rapid-fire gun. and these,
with the torpedo netting, have
almost neutralized tho new weapon.
One of the most picturesque fea
tures of the battlo In Manila
Bay was in the attempt of
two torpedo- boats to slip upon the
Olympla out of the dense cloud of black
smoke that hung over the water in
front of the American fleet. Once dis
covered, however, the quick-lit i:ig guns
of tho fleet riddled them.
The Whltehend torpedo is a compli
cated mechanism In Itself, being 12 feet
long, IS Inches In diameter and self
propelling by means of compiessed air.
Wet gun cotton is the explosive, from
200 to 500 pounds being usd. Tho mis
sile ordinarily Is discharged from a
submerged tube, continuing Its course
by means of double propellers driven
by compicssed nlr. When the torpedo
strikes a piston strikes n fulminating
cap and explodes the wet gun cotton.
TKimiBLK WEAPONS OF DIC
FENSE. If the torpedo of offenhe has been
popular tho torpedo of defense baa
been even more so. Electricity has
como to the aid of naval experts until
It may be only a matter of time until
the 100-ton guns and 13-Inch shells of
the modern fleet will have to be out
done. One of the necessities for these
great cannon has been the laying of
torpedoes in defense of harbors, mak
ing it Impossible to ronch fortifications
with moderate-range guns. Today, in
the movement of a fleet against a sea-
poi t. tho nggressor hus more dread of
the burled mines In the water than of
a score of steel-clad vessels behind
them. The destruction pf the Maine
In the harbor of Havana Is an exam
ple of the terrible efllelency of the
sunken torpedo, which needs only the
touch of an electric button to explode
it.
The submarine boat Is one of the
promises of the future in naval war
fare. The Holland boat In the United
States Is considered to bo a success,
and Is fitted with torpedo tubes. Simon
Lake has perfected a "submnrlne wa
gon," capable of being propelled over
the ocean's bed nt a depth of fifty to
100 feet. These boats may bo kept un
der the surfnee for hours, and unless
Invention la to come to the aid of tho
battleship as It did In the case of the
torpedo boat naval warfare in tho
new century will be under a very ser
ious handicap.
Looking back upon the accomplish
ments for war as chronicled In the last
hundred years, It looks as If the ques
tion of expense Is to do more for uni
versal peace than are the multiplied
dangers of tho battlefield. Wnr Is
growing more costly every year. It
costs hundreds of dollars to flro one
s,hot from a mo lew IS-Inch gun. Per
fected arms nnd pvmunltton cost 111010
t'uvi they ever did, and it Is to be
doubted If tho modern battle forma
tion Is attended with so grent a loss of
life an was tho hand-to-hand struggle
at thp beginning of the century.
Smokeless powder and the two-mile
range of tho Mauser bullet Iihvo not
duplicated tho horrors of a bayonet
charge in the Ameilcan civil wnr. Hut
they have Increased the cost of a cam
paign, nnd when war shnll cost suf
ficiently more than It comes to, even
the most pessimistic may begin to hope
for peace.
A Mother's Peril
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ClitM How Help Came After
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