WILSON HAS MADE
HIM MAJOR GENERAL
WILLIAM L. SIBERT.
A MATCH
FOR SATAN
Br MARTHA V. MONROE
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One night at a masquerade ball two
persons appeared, a man and a woman,
who excited considerable interest The
man represented Faust, the woman
Marguerite. Presently a third person
entered, representing Mephistopheles.
The interest was heightened by Me
phistopheles and Faust talking togeth
er, both at the same time casting
fiances at Manguerite.
"That girl wil lose her heart" said
a guest representing Bob Boy to an
other dressed as Martha Washington.
•The feilew got up as Faust is a lady
kfUar."
"And I know the girl," said the other.
"If Faust tackles her shell make him
aegui It"
4 TU tell yo* what you do. Tell Mar
goerftte to go for Faust I'll tell Faust
Id so for her. I'll bet you a dozen pairs
ot gloves against a box of cigars that
I win."
The_bet was mad.Q, thoughjt was ex
pec ted that it would result In a draw,
for it was not likely that a definite re
sult could be obtained. Faust naturally
gravitated toward Marguerite, and the
two disappeared In an unfrequented
part of the house, where occasional
passers saw them sitting tete-a-tete,
unmasked. They seemed very much
absorbed in each other.
Faust left Marguerite to keep an en
gagement to dance —he had broken two
engagements for Marguerite, but the
woman with whom he had the third
came for him—and Mephistopheles
Joined her. When Faust finished his
dance he came back to continue the
tete-a-tete and, finding Mephistopheles
in his place, scowled. Mephistopheles
scowled back. Marguerite gave the
latter a nod, indicating that she pre
ferred the former, and Mephistopheles
went away sullen.
Later Marguerite danced with Me
phistopheles, while Faust was seen
standing apart evidently in no good
humor. Whenever the couple whirled
by Faust Mephistopheles gave one of
those "ha, has'!" for which the devil is
famous. Faust involuntarily fingered
the Jewel hilted dagger in his belt
By this time this version of the poem
of "Faust" not intended by the author
began to attract the attention of a
small coterie who were in the secret of
the bet
Those who knew Marguerite beet
were of the opinion that she would
plunge Faust down into the fiery fur
nace without the slightest injury to
herself, and there were those who con
sidered her a match for the devil.
It I fl astonishing when
made mad by woman, will forget that
he is an intelligent human being. And
there are cases where no time is re
quired to turn his head. By common
consent Marguerite was left to her
love® of the poem and the party to
whom he had sold his soul. To all ap
pearances Faust seemed to be playing
hhi part well, but Mephistopheles was
evidently paying more attention to
Marguerite than does his prototype in
the poem or in Gounod's famous opera.
Faust instead of being under Mephis
topheles' influence, seemed to be an
tagonized by him.
It was shortly before the first glim
mer of dawn, when the dancers were
at their gayest that Marguerite went
up to one of the men and excitedly
whispered something in his ear. The
rrmn calling another, the two hurried
ly left the ballroom In company with
Marguerite. As soon as they were out
at sight and hearing of the dancers she
said to them hurriedly:
•Those two men are going to kill
each other r
"Hie deviir exclaimed one of the
**Ym, the devil and Faust—Mr. Bur
se! and Dr. Welle."
''What torV
"Well, I suppose it's about me. Go
quickl Stop them!"
"Which way did they go?"
"They're out on the tennis court"
The two men ran out through a back
door. It was Just light enough to see
two dim figures on the tennis court
hacking at each other with the short
knives they had worn in their belts
during the evening. The two men and
the girl ran to where they were, and
the combatants, seeing that they had
attracted attention, desisted. One of
those who had interfered took Faust
by the arm, and the other, a large,
powerful fellow, took Mephistopheles
by the ear and led them back to the
house and Into the ballroom.
The dancing had ceased, and the
dancers were promenading or resting.
On seeing Faust and Mephistopheles
led in like two naughty schoolboys
there was a shout of laughter. Mar
guerite made for a door, but she was
caught and brought back.
Even the absurdity of the situation
did not prevent the rivals from scowl
ing at each other, and Mephistopheles
was unconsciously playing the part of
Satan to perfection.
"Hello, Jlml" said one of his chum 6.
"When did you come up from below?"
Jim cast a malevolent glance at the
speaker, but made no reply.
"Kate," said the lady who had made
the hit "I knew you were a match for
any man, but I didn't think you were
superior to Satan."
"Come to the supper room!** cried
the man who had lost the gloves.
'Tve a toast for you all."
The rivals and the girl they had
fought for were pushed into the supper
room, fresh champagne was opened,
and this was the toast given:
a To the only girl that ever lived who
has been too much for the devil."
m ' " j
How She
Won Him
By RICHARD MARKLEY
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When Donald Barker had been grad
uated at college with high honors and
cam«' down to May side with a Phi Beta
Kappa koy dangling at his watCu
chain Evelyn Clarke and I became
rivals for his favor. We girls had al
ways considered Evelyn booky, bat
rather to show off than possessing any
depth of knowledge. She, Donald and
I were sitting on the porch one morn
ing, I with my crochet work, Donald
strumming his mandolin, while Evelyn
was holding in her lap a wor'- recently
issue on the cave man.
Barker," she said, "do you real
ly think that mail has lived on the
earth hundreds of thousands of years?"
"I don't know," replied Donald, still
picking away on his mandolin, "hav
ing only been here about twenty years
myself."
It was plain to any one that he had
no desire to air his knowledge, but
Evelyn persisted:
"Here's a picture in this book of a
bison painted on the wall of a cave.
The animal has been extinct for many
thousands of years, and yet the pic
ture must have been painted by a
man."
"How about the baseball team of
your college this year?" I asked him,
with a view to changing the sub
ject
"The best we've had in many years,"
he said, brightening up at being able
to talk on an ordinary subject. "Our
fellows have got a new twirler, who is
going to develop into a wonder."
Evelyn was turning the leaves of the
book, but I noticed that she was look
ing at the pictures.
"Here's a man," she said, referring
to a picture of a primitive man that
somebody had built of plaster on a
Jawbone found in a cave, "who lived
not less than 25,000 years ago."
Donald frowned. It was evident that
he wanted to get away from heavy
subjects and feed on light ones. I,
having failed to turn Evelyn from
what was going on many thousands of
years ago by introducing modern base
ball, concluded to try another tack. I
didn't know much myself, but I re
solved to utilize what I did know.
"Don't you think, Mr. Barker," I
■aid, "that the spectroscope Is a won
derful Invention?"
He cast a quick glance at me and
caught on at once.
"You mean," he said, "that spectral
analysis is a remarkably scientific de
velopment"
Evelyn looked blank. She knew no
more about a spectroscope than I did
and was evidently uneasy lest she
should be compelled to display her ig
norance.
"What do they do with a spectro
scope, anyway, Ev?" I asked.
"What do they do?" she repeated in a
patronizing tone, as though she was go
ing to enlighten my ignorance. "Why,
they break up a ray of light and in that
way find out what the substance that
gives out the ray is made of."
"How do they do that?" I asked.
"Why, Just as I have said, by break
ing tip a ray of light."
"But how can they do it that way?"
I asked.
She was stumped. I started in to
talk of something else, but in a few
minutes she interrupted me to say:
"Oh, I remember now. They do it
through certain lines that appear on
the rainbow of colors from the break-
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"How do these iinos show it?" I nsk
ed. I had been obliged to learn ti
short statement of what I was asking
her. I didn't understand it, so I wa>
obliged to commit it to memory ana
repeat it in recitation iike a parrot.
So I was ready for Evelyn in case she
was flunked. She was flunked and
owned up with a very bad grace.
"Isn't it something like this?" I ask
ed. "A glowing gas gives out rays of
the some refrangibility as it absorbs
when light passes through it*"
By this time Ev saw that I had
crushed her. Donald's hitherto frown
ing face broke into an uncontrolled
smile. I looked demure as a freshmau
in college sitting at the feet of Gama
liel. Ev colored, then darting a hate
ful glance at me got up and flounced
into the house.
"I don't think she'll try to teach you
physics again," said Donald. "That
was a pretty compact statement of
yours. If Ev had been putting It up
me I might possibly have shufßed
through to an answer, but I couldn't
have made one like that."
"And if you should ask me to illus
trate it I would answer, 'Not pre
pared.' "
My victory over Evelyn was com
plete. She had tried to attract Donald
by a display of knowledge she did not
possess. As for me, I was only trying
to head her off from subjects that we
didn't care to talk upon. But I never
could persuade Donald that I was not
a very bright girl. If he so chose to
think of me it was his affair, not mine.
I told him the plain truth, saying that
my definition was all Greek to me,
but he said where there was so much
smoke there must be fire.
At any rate, either what he consider
ed my smartness or what believed
to be my modesty quite won him. Sinco
then he has Invn devoted to me. 1
confess, however, I am always on the
anxious seat for fear that he will dis
cover how shallow I am. But so long
as he thinks that my keeping my knowl
edge to myself arises from a dislike to
appear to be showing off I am in no
great danger. After our marriage, if
he learns the truth, it won't matter.
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