THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO, PA.
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of WaliuHka. Minn., who hail m-on
turn i-iish iulir:tith's ilu-ok In Hot tank.
Charlotte rer 'Ktilzen (irlswoM, hut lt
eldcs to rit.- in Ciallirallli ntl'-r tlian
dVriourn-e thn robber to the cupiulii. She
ihe liruial mule rt-Hfiir'l from ilrowti
ln hv lirlmvonl ami ilelaVH Ki-mllnif Iht
letter to tialhrallh. Shu talks to (Irm
Wulil and hy Ms ailvli-e minis her letter
of betrayal to Galbrntth iinonymoitHly.
QrtaAoM la m-rested on Uia hitIvh! of the
boat at St. IxulM hill em-apes from his
rapture, (trlswohl !.- i. I . h on Wahankn.
Winn, as a lilillnic plm e, ami nft.-r out
flttlni? hlmxelf properly, takes the train.
Margery rlerwnn. ilaimhter of Jasper
iJiierHon, the nmtm-ial magnate of Wa-tiA-skn.
starts a campaiKn for sm l:l reeoe
Iilllon by the "old families" of the town
CHAPTER IX Continued.
"Oood-morning. doctor," she began
cheerfully, bursting In uiion the head
of the. First church board of adminis
trator as a charming embodiment of
youthful enthusiasm, "I'm running er
rands for poppa this morning. Mr.
Rodney was telling us about that
little First church mission in Pottery
Flat, and poppa wanted to help. Hut
we are not Methodists, you know, and
he was afraid that Is. he didn't quite
know how you might "
U was an exceedingly clever bit of
acting, and the good doctor capitulat
ed at once, discrediting, for the first
time In his life, the Intuition of his
borne womankind.
"Now that Is very thoughtful and
kind of you. Miss Margery," e said,
wiping his glasses and looking a sec
ond time at the generous figure of the
piece of money paper. "I appreciate
It the more because I know you must
have a great many other calls upon
your charity. We've been wanting to
put a trained worker in charge of that
mission for I don't know how long,
and this gift of yours makes it pos
sible." "The kindness is In allowing us to
help." murmured the small diplomat.
"You'll let me know when more is
needed? Promise me that, Doctor
Farnham."
"I shouldn't be a good Methodist if
J didn't," laughed the doctor. Then he
remembered the Mereside, reception
and the regrets, and was moved to
make amends. "I'm sorry we couldn't
be neighborly last night; but my sister-in-law
is very frail, and Charlotte
doesn't go out much. They are both
getting ready to bo to PaHS Christian,
but I'm sure they'll call before they
go south."
"I shall be ever so glad to welcome
them," purred Miss Margery, "and I
do hope they will come before I leave.
I'm going to Palm ISeach next week,
you know."
"I'll tell them." volunteered the doc
tor. -They'll find time to run In, I'm
sure."
Put for some reason the vicarious
promise was not kept; and the Ray
mers held aloof; and the Oswalds and
the Barrs relinquished the new public
library project when It became noised
bout that Jasper Grlerson and his
daughter were moving in It.
Miss Margery possessed her soul In
patience up to the final day of her
home staying, and the explosion m ht
have becg Indefinitely positioned If, on
that last day, the Haymers, mother
and daughter, had not pointedly taken
pains to avoid her at the lingerie
counter in Thorw alliens. It was as
the match to the fuse, and when Miss
Grlerson left the department store
there wen red spots in her cheeks
and the dark eyes were flashing.
"They think I'm a Jay!" she said,
with a snap of the white teeth. "They
need a lesson, and they're going to get
It before I leave. I'm not going to
sin, small all the time!"
It was surely the goddess of discord
who ordained that the blow should be
truck while the Iron was hot. Five
minutes after the rebuff in Thorwald
en'a. Miss Grlerson met Raymer as
he was coming out of the Farmers'
and Merchants' bank. There was an
exchange of commonplaces, but In the
midst of it Miss Margery broke off
abruptly to say. "Mr. Itaymer, please
tell me what I have done to offend
your mother and sister."
If she had been In the mood to com
promise, half of the deferred payment
of triumph might have been dis
charged on the spot hy Raymer's blun
dering attempt at disavowal.
"Why, Miss Margery! I don't know
that Is er really, you must be mis
taken, I'm sure!"
"I am not mistaken, and I'd like to
know," she persisted, looking him
hardily in the eyes. "It must be some
thing I have been doing, and If I can
find out what It is, I'll reform."
Itaymer got away as soon as be
could; and when the opportunity of
fered, was besotted enough to repeat
the question to his mother and sister.
Mrs. Raymer was a large and placid
matron of the In.movable type, and
her smile emphasized her opinion of
Iflsa Grlerson.
"The mere fact of her saying such
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a thing to you ought to be a sufficient
answer, I should think," was her mild
retort.
"I don't see why," Raymer objected.
"What would you think if Gertrude
did such a thing?"
"Oh. well; that is different. In the
first place, Gertrude wouldn't do it,
and"
"Precisely. And Miss Grlerson
shouldn't have done It. It is because
she can do such things that a few
think she wouldn't be a pleasant per
son to know, socially."
"Hut why?" Insisted Itaymer, with
masculine obtu'seness.
It was his sister who undertook to
make the reason plain to him.
"It Isn't anything she does, or
doesn't do, particularly; it Is the at
mosphere In which she lives and
moves and has her being. If it weren't
for her father's money, she would be
well, it Is rather hard to say Just
what she would be. Hut she always
makes me think of the bonanza
people the pick and shovel one day
and a million the next. I believe she
Is a frank little savage, at heart."
"I don't," the brother contended,
doggedly. "She may be a trifle new
and fresh for Wahaska, but she is
clever and bright, and honest enough
to Ignore a social code which makes
a mock of sincerity and a virtue of
hypocrisy. I like her all the better
for the way she flared out at nie.
There Isn't one young woman In a
thousand who would have had the
nerve and the courage to do it."
"Or the intpudeiice," added Mrs.
Uaymer, when her son had left the
room. Then: "I do hope Edward Isn't
going to let that girl come between
him and Charlotte!"
The daughter laughed.
"1 thould say there Is room for a
regiment to march between them, ns
It Is. Miss Gilman took particular
pains to let him know what train they
were leaving on, and 1 happen to
know he never went near the station
to tell them good by."
CHAPTER X.
Good Samaritans.
Since sho had undertaken to show
Waliaska precisely how to deport It
self in the conventional field, Miss
Grlerson had telegraphed her father
to meet her in St. Louis on her return
from Florida.
When Jasper Grlerson traveled alone
he was democratic enough to be satis
fied with a section In the body of the
car. Hut when Margery's tastes were
to be consulted, the drawing-room was
none too good. Indeed, as it transpired
on the Journey northward from St.
Louis, the Anita's drawing-room
proved to be not good enough.
"It Is simply a crude Insult, the
way they wear out their old, broken
down cars on us up here!" she pro
tested to her father. "You ought to
do something about it."
Jasper Grlerson's smile was a capi
talistic acquirement, and some of his
fellow-townsmen described It 83 "cast
Iron." Hut for his daughter it was
always indulgent.
"I don't own the railroad yet,
Madgle; you'll have to give me a '"tie
more time," he pleaded, cltpplt. , the
tip from a black cigar of heroic pro
portions and reaching for the box of
safety matches.
"I'll begin now, if you are going to
smoke that dreadful thing in this
stuffy little den," was the unfillal re
tort; and the daughter found a maga
zine and exchanged the drawing-room
with Its threat of asphyxiation for a
seat In the body of the car. Half-way
down the car one of the sections was
still curtained and bulkheaded; of
course, the occupant of the middle
section must be 111. Quite suddenly
her interest became acute. Who was
the sick one, and why was he, or she,
traveling without on attendant?
With Margery Grlorsor, to question
was to ascertain; and ihe Pullman
conductor, once more checking his dia
grams in Section 11. offered the readi
est means of enlightenment. A few
minutes later Margery rejoined her
father in the private compartment.
"Do you remember the nice-looking
young man who sat at the table with
us in the Choteau last night?" she
began abruptly.
The gray-wolf Jasper nodded. He
had an excellent memory for faces.
"What did you think of him?" The
query followed the nod like a nimble
boxer's return blow.
"I thought he paid a whole lot more
attention to you than he did to his
supper. Why?"
"lie Is on this car; sick with a fever
of some kind, and out of his head. He
is going to Wahaska."
"How do you know it s the same
one?"
"I made the conductor take me to
see him. He talked to me in Italian
arid called me 'Carlotta mla.'"
"Humph! he didn't look like a dago."
"He isn't; it's Just because he is
delirious."
There was a long pause, broken
finally by a curt "Well?" from the
father.
"I've been thinking," was the slow
response. "Of course, there Is a
essential service. Making two blades
of grass grow where there was one,
or none, is the useful task of a fer
tilizer plant. It serves men, not only
by what It produces, but by what It
saves. Into Its mixture go sub
stances derived from otherwise use
less waste, the dregs and refuse of
great Industries. Millions of pounds
of trimmings from factories using
leather and rubber and felt are turned
into ammonlates in Its great Incinera
tors. From the pomace left from the
making of cottonseed and castor oil,
chance that he has friends In Wa
haska, and that someone will be at the
train to meet hlui. Hut It is only a
chunce."
"Why doesn't the conductor tele
graph ahead nnd find out?"
"He doesn't know the man's name.
I tried to get him to look for a card,
or to break Into the suitcases under
tho berth, but he says the regulations
won't let him."
"Well?" said the father again, this
tlmo with a more decided upward in
flection. Then he added: "You've
made up your mind what you're going
to do: gay It."
Margery's decision was announced
crisply. "There Is no hospital to send
him to which is Walmska's shame.
Maybe he will be met and taken care
of by his friends: If he Is, well and
good; if he isn't, we'll put him In the
carriage and take him borne with us."
The cast-iron smile with the Indul
gent attachment wrinkled frostily
upon Jasper Grlerson's heavy face.
"The Good Samaritan act, eh? I've
known you a long time, Madgle, but I
never can tell when you're going to
break out In a brand-new spot. Didn't
lose any of your unexpectedness In
Florida, did you?"
Miss Margery tossed her pretty
head, and the dark eyes snapped.
"Somebody In tho family has to
think of something besides nicking
money," she retorted. "Please lend
me your pencil; I want to do some
wiring."
All other gifts apart, Miss Grlerson
could boast of a degree of executive
ability little Inferior to her father's;
did boast of It when the occasion of
fered; and by the time the whistle
was sounding for Wahaska, all the ar
rangements had been made for the
provisional rescue of the sick mail In
lower six.
At the station a single Inquiry Berved
to give the Good Samaritan Intention
the right of way. There were no
friends to meet lower six; but the
Grlerson carriage was waiting, with
the coachman and a Mereside gardener
for bearers. From that to putting the
sick man to bed In one of the guest
chumbers of tltr lake-fronting mansion
at the opposite end of the town was a
mere bit of routine for one so capable
as Miss Grlerson; and twenty minutes
after the successful transfer Bhe had
Doctor Furnham at the nameless one's
bedside and was telephoning the col
lege infirmary for a nurse.
Naturally, there were explanations
to be made when the doctor came
down. To her first anxious question
wmmm
Ml ii
"You've Mads Up Your Mind What
You're Going to Do; Say It"
the answer came gravely: "You have a
very sick man on your hands, Miss
Margery." Then the Inevitable:
"Who la he?"
Sho spread her hands In a pretty af
fectation of embarrassment.
"What will you think of me. Doctor
Farnham, when 1 tell you that I
haven't the littlest atom of an Idea?"
Charlotte's father was a small man,
with kindly eyes and the firm, straight
lined mouth of his Puritan forbears.
"Tell me about It," he said concisely.
She told him.
A Bhrewd smile flickered for an In
stant in the kindly eyes of Wahaska's
best-beloved physician.
"Almost anyone else would have
found plenty of other things to do or
not to do," was his comment. "Are
you prepared to go on, Miss Margery?"
There were fine little lines coming
and going between Miss Margery's
straight black brows. "We needn't
do It by halves, doctor," she said de
cisively. "If It would be better to
wire St. Paul or Minneapolis and get
a trained nurse "
"You'd stand the extra expense,
of course," laughed the doctor. "You
are all the world's good angel when
you set out to bo, Miss Margery. And
I'll send somebody before bedtime.
Meanwhile, there's nothing to do but
to keep your patient quiet; and he'll
do that for himself for a few hours. I
gave him a bit of anodyne before I
came down."
Margery went to the outer door with
her kindly counselor, playing the part
of the gracious hostess as one who Is,
or who means to be, precisely letter
perfect; and after he was gone, she
went slowly upstairs and let herself
softly Into the room of shaded lights.
The sick man was resting quietly, and
hn did not stir when she crossed to the
bed and laid a cool palm on his fore
head. "You poor castaway!" she mur
mured. "I wonder who you are, and
from the horns and hoofs of the
slaughter house, from the remains of
fish and meat canneries, are made
meals which tho soil greedily swal
lows, to give back to us later more
abundant crops of grain and vegeta
bles and flowers.
"This waste and Us transformation,
the making and using of acid, all pro
duce smells which cause an active
and painful nausea to the unaccus
tomed. When men first go to work In
the plants they are often unable to eat,
or at least to retain food, for wok
to whom you belong? I suppose some
body has got to bo mean and sneaky
and find out. Would yoj rather It
would be I than someone else who
might care even less than I do?"
The sleeping man opened unseeing
eyes and closed them again heavily.
"I found the money, Carlotta mla; you
didn't know that, did you?" he mut
tered; and then the narcotic seized
and held him again.
Ills clothes were on a chair, and
when she had carried them to a light
that could be shaded couinlctely from
tlie bed and Its occupant, she searched
the pockets one by ono. It was a little
surprising to find all but two of them
quite empty; no cards, no letters, no
pen, pencil, pocketknlfe, or purse;
nothing but a handkerchief, and In
one pocket of the waistcoat a small
roll of paper money, a few coins aud
two small keys.
She held the coat up to tho electric
and examined it closely; the workman
ship, the trimmings. It wns not tailor
made, she decided, and by all the little
signs and tokens It was quite new.
And the same was true of the other
garments. Hut there was no tag or
trademark on any of them to show
where they came from.
Falling to find tho necessary clue
(o the castaway's Identity In this pre
liminary search, she went on resolute
ly, dragging the two suitcases over to
the lighted corner and unlocking them
with the keys taken from the pocket
of the waistcoat.
The first yielded nothing but cloth
ing, all new and evidently unworn.
The second held more clothing, a
man's toilet appliances, also new and
unused, but apparently no scrap of
writing or hint of a name. With a
llttlo sigh of bafflement she took the
last tightly rolled bundle of clothing
from the suitcase. While she was lift
ing it a pistol fell out. '
In times past, Jaspor Grlerson's
daughter had known weapons and
their faults and excellences. "That
place's him a llttlo," she mused, put
ting the pistol aside after she had
glanced at It: "He's from the Kast;
he doesn't know a gnu from a .piece
of common hardware."
Further search In the tightly rolled
bundle was rewarded by the discovery
of a typewritten book manuscript, un
signed, and with it an oblong packet
wrapped In brown paper and tied with
twine. She slipped the string and re
moved the wrapping. The brick
shaped packet proved to be a thick
block of bank notes held together by
heavy rubber bands snapped over the
ends.
While tho llttlo ormulu clock on tho
dressing case was whirring softly and
chiming the hour sho stared at the
money-block as If the sight of It had
fascinated her. Then Bhe sprang up
and flew to the door, not to escape, but
to turn the key noiselessly In the lock.
Secure against Interruption, she
pulled the rubber bauds from the
packet. The block was built up In
loyers, each layer banded with a paper
slip on which was printed in red the
name of the certifying bank and the
amount. "Hayou State Security, $5,
000." There were twenty of these lay
ers In all, nineteen of them unbroken.
Hut through the printed figures on the
tw entieth a pen-Btroke had been drawn,
and underneath was written "$4,000."
Quite coolly and methodically
Margery Grlerson verified the bunk's
count as Indicated by the paper
bands. There were one hundred thou
sand dollars, lacking the one thousand
taken from the broken packet. The
counting completed, she replaced the
rubber bands and the brown paper
wrapping. Then she repacked the suit
cases, arranging the contents as nearly
as might be Just as she had found
them, locking the cases and returning
the keys to the waistcoat pocket from
which she had taken them.
When all was done, she tiptoed
across to the bed, with the brown pa
per packet under her arm. The sick
man stirred uneasily and began to
mutter again. She bent to catch the
words, and when she heard, the light
of understanding leaped swiftly Into
the dark eyes. For the mumbled
words were the echo of a fierce threat:
"Sign it: sign It now, or, by God, I'll
shoot to kill!"
The robbery of the Bayou State Se
curity bank was already an old story
when Mr. Matthew Brofftn, chief of
the New Orleans branch of a notable
detective agency, took over the case
of the bank robbery a few days after
his return from Central America.
Since two members of his own staff
had fired and missed their mark In St.
Louis, there was a blunder to be re
trieved. After a week of patient groping,
Hroffln was obliged to confess that the
problem of Identification was too diffi
cult to be solved on conventional lines.
It presented no point of attack. With
neither a name nor a pictured face for
reference, Inquiry was crippled at the
very outset. None of the many board
ing and rooming houses he visited had
lost a lodger answering the verbal de
scription of the missing man. Very re
luctantly, for bulldog tenacity was the
detective's ruling characteristic, he
was forced to the conclusion that the
only untried solution lay In Teller
Johnson's unfortified Impression that
the chance meeting at his wicket was
not the first meeting between the rob
ber and the young woman with the
draft to be cashed.
It was the slenderest of threads, and
Hroffln realized sweatlngJy how diffi
cult It might be to follow. Assuming
that there bad been a previous meeting
or meetings, or rather the pausing ac
quaintance which was all the young
woman's later betrayal of the mnn
made conceivable, would the writer of
the accusing letter be willing to odd to
her burden of responsibility by giving
or more. I have never found a doctor
who thought this nausea had any more
than temporary effects, like the ordi
nary seasickness. It Is, however, a
painful experience and should be re
lieved. If possible."
Why Men Eat More.
That men eat 6 or 6 per cent more
than women not becauso they are
gluttons, but because they actually
require that much more nourishment
appears as a result of an Investiga
tion made In the nutrition laboratory
the true name and standing of the man
whose real Identity if she knew It
alic had been careful to conceal In the
unsigned note to Mr. Gnlbraith? Drof
fin read the note again "a deck-hand,
whose name on the mate's book Is
John Wesley Guvltt," was the descrip
tion she had given. It might,, or It
might not, be an equivocation; but the
longer Broflln dwelt upon It the more
he leaned toward the conclusion to
which his theory and the fow known
fucts pointed. The young woman
knew the man In his proper person;
she had been reluctant to betray him
that, he decided, was sufficiently
proved by the lapse of time Interven
ing between the date of her note and
Its postmark date; having finally de
cided to give him up, she had told
only what was absolutely neccesary,
leaving him free to conceal his real
name and Identity If be would and
could.
Having come thus far on the road to
convincement, Hroffln knew what he
had to do and set about doing It me
thodically. A telegram to tbe clerk of
the Hello Julie served to place the
steamer In the lower river; and nonfil
ing a night train he planned to reach
Vlcksbuig in time to Intercept the wit
nesses whose evidence would deter
mine roughly how many hundreds or
thousands of miles be could safely cut
out of the zigzag Journeylngs to which
"You Poor Castaway!" She Murmured.
the following up of the hypothetical
clue would lead.
For, cost what It might, he was de
termined to find the writer of the un
signed letter.
CHAPTER XI.
The Zweibund.
On his second visit to the sick man
lodged In the padded luxuries of one of
the guest rooms at Mereside, made on
the morning following the Grierson
home-coming. Doctor Farnham found
the hospital status established, a good
natured Swede Installed as nurse, the
bell3 muffled and Miss Margery play
ing the part of sister superior and
dressing It, from the dainty, felt-soled
slippers to the smooth banding of ber
hair.
An hour later, however. It was the
Margery of the Wahaska renali
sance, Joyously clad and radiant, who
was holding the reins over a big Eng
lish trap horse, parading down Main
street and smiling greetings to every
body. By one of the chances which he was
willing to call fortunate, Edward Ray
mer was at the curb to help her down
from her high Beat In the trap when
she pulled the big horse to a stand In
front of her father's bank..
"I'm the luckiest man In Red Earth
county; I' was Jimt wondering when
I should get In line to tell you how
glad we are to have you back," he
said, with his eyes shining.
"Are you, really? You are not half
as glad as I am to be back. There Is
no place like home, you know."
"There isn't, and there oughtn't to
be," was bis quick response. "I've
been hoping you'd come to look upon
Wahaski as your home, and now I
know you do."
"Why shouldn't I?" Bhe laughed, and
she was reaching for a paper-wrapped
package on the trap seat when he got
It for her.
"You are going somewhere? may 1
carry It for you?" he asked; but Bhe
shook her head and took It from him.
"Only Into the bank," she explained;
and she was beginning to tell him he
must come to Mereside when the sick
man episode obtruded itself, and the
Invitation was broken In tbe midst,
very prettily, very effectively.
"I know," Raymer said, In Instant
sympathy. "You have your hands full
Just now. Will you let me say that It's
the flneBt thing I ever heard of your
taking that poor fellow home and car
ing for him?"
Gertrude Raymer had once said In
ber brother's hearing that Miss Grler
son's color would be charming If It
were only natural. Looking Into Miss
Grlerson's eyes Raymer Baw the refu
tation of the slander In the suffusing
wave of generous embarrassment
deepening in warn, tints on the perfect
neck and check.
"Oh, dear me!" she said in pathetic
protest; "is It all over town so soon?
I'm afraid we a) still dreadfully
'country' In Wahaska, Mr. Raymer.
Please cut It down to the bare, com
monplace facts whenever you have a
chance, won't you? Tbe poor man was
of the Carnegie Henedlct and L. E.
Eames, says the Literary Digest. The
reason for the discrepancy Beems to
be that women have a smaller propor
tion of active tissue than men of tbe
same weight and more Inactive mate
rial, such as fut. The Investigation
disclosed that the average woman
generates only 1,355 heat units In the
twenty-four hours, as against 1,638
produced by the man, or about 2 per
cent more for the latter per pound of
body weight. When groups were com
pared, after careful selection of lndt-
slck and nobody knew him, and some
body had to take care of him." .
LIko the doctor, Raymer asked the
Inevitable queetlon, "Who Is he, Mlas
Margery?" aud, like the doctor again,
he received the same answer, "I
haven't the smallest notion of an idea.
But that doesn't make the slightest
difference," she went on. "He Is a
fellow human being, sick and helpless.
That ought to be enough for any of ua
to know."
Raymer stood watching her as she
tripped lightly Into the bunk, and when
he went to catch his car the conserva
tive minority had lost whatever coun
tenance or support he had ever given
It.
True to her latest characterization
of herself, Margery had a nod and a
pleasant Bmlle for the young men be
hind the brass grilles as she passed on
her way to the president's room In the
rear. Bhe found her father at hia
desk, thoughtfully munching the un
burned half of one of tbe huge cigars,
and named her errand.
"I want a safety-deposit box big
enrtiah to hold this," she said briefly,
exhibiting the paper-wrapped packet
Jasper Grlerson, deeply Immersed In
a matter of business to which be had
given the better part of the forenoon,
replied without looking up: "Go and
tell Murray; he'll fix you out."
As on any other business day, Presi
dent Grlerson was solidly planted In
his heavy armchair before a desk well
littered with work. He nodded absent
ly to his daughter as she returned,
and knowing that the nod meant that
he would come to the surface of things
her surface when ho could, she
turned aside to the window and wait
ed. Though she had seen him develop
day by day In less than three of the
thirty-odd years of his western exile,
her father offered a constant succes
sion of surprises to her. When Bhe
opened the door to retrospection, which
was not often, she remembered that
tho man who had stumbled upon the
rich quartz vein In Yellow Dog Gulch
could scarcely sign his name legibly to
the paper recording his claim; that
In those days there was no prophecy
of the ambitious present in tbe man,
half drunkard nnd half outlaw, whose
name In the Yellow Dog district had
been a synonym for but these were
unpleasant memories, and Margery
rarely Indulged them.
Just now she put them aside by turn
ing her back to the window and taking
credit for tbe tasteful and luxurious
appointments of the private office, with
Its soft-piled rug and heavy mahogany
furnishings. Her father was careless
of such things; totally Indifferent to
them in business hours; but she saw
to It thut his surroundings kept pace
with the march of prosperity. Here in
Wahaska, as elsewhere, a Utile Judi
cious display counted for much, even
it there were a few bigoted persona
who affected to despise it.
She was In the midst of a meditated
attack upon the steamship lithographs
on the wallB sole remaining land
marks of the ante-GrlerBon period
when her father wheeled in his pivot
chair and questioned her with a lift
of his shaggy eyebrows.
"Want to see me, Madgle?"
"Just a moment." She crossed the
room and stood at the end of the big
dcek. He reached mechanically for
his checkbook, but she smiled and
stopped him. "No;'lt isn't money this
time; It's something that money can't
buy. I met Mr. Edward Raymer at
the front door a few minutes ago;
does he have an account with you?"
Jasper Grlerson's laugh was grimly
contemptuous.
"The bank isn't making anything
put of him. The shoe is on the other
foot."
"What Is the matter? Isn't he mak
ing money with bis plant?"
"Oh, yes; his business la good
enough. But he's like all the other
young fools, nowadays; he ain't con
tent to bet on a sure thing and grow
with bis capital. He wants to widen
out and build and put in new machin
ery and cut a bigger dash generally.
Thinks he's been too slow and sure."
"Are you going to stake him?" Mar
gery waged relentless war with her
birthright Inclination to lapse Into the
speech of the mining camps, but she
stumbled now and then In talking to
her father.
"I don't know; I guess not. ..Some
how, live never had much use for
him."
"Why haven't you any use for him?"
"Oh, I don't know because, until
Just lately he has never seemed to
have much use for me, I guess. It's
a stand-off, so far as likings go. I
offered to reincorporate his outfit for
him six months ago, and told him I'd
take fifty-one per cent of the reorgani
zation stock myself; but he wouldn't
talk about It. Said what little he had
was his own, and he proposed to keep
It."
"But now he is willing to let you
help him?"
"Not much; he don't look at It In
that light. He wants to borrow money
from the bank and put up the stock
of his close corporation as collateral.
It's safe encugh, but I don't believe
I'll do It."
The chatelaine of Mereside came
abruptly to the point.
"I want you to do It," she said, de
cisively. "The devil you do!" Then, with the
dry, door-hinge chuckle: "What's In
the wind now?"
"I do want you to put him' under ob
ligations to you the heavier the bet
ter. His mother and sister have gone
out of their way to snub me, and I
want to play even."
Grlerson wagged his huge head, and
this time the chuckle grew to a guffaw.
(TO RE CONTINUED.)
viduali of nearly the same height and
weight, the men were found to pro
duce about 12 per cent more heat
than women.
His Proof.
"Pop!"
"Yes, my son."
"Was Noah kind to animals?"
"Oh, yes, my boy."
"How do you know, pop?"
"Because there IB no record that h
carried a phonograph or a pianola In
the Ark."
(Conducted by the National Woman'i
Christian Temperance Union.)
WAR AGAINST ALCOHOL.
"Get on the water wagon!" Is now
the slogan of the New York heain
department. Its head, Dr. Siglstnund
S. Goldwater, says that "anything
which affects the health of the people
of a city is a subject of concern to
the health officials," and In accord,
ance with this view he has declared
war on liquor. "It is nonsense," h
says, "to go on fighting disease and
crime If we don't do something to abol
ish tbe chief factor in causation.
There are too many poople sick from
liquor In New York city that's enough
for me. ... I want It understood
that this Is to be a real fight. It li
not enough to make occasional depre
catory mention of alcohol and its re
sults; we must have a definite aatlal
coliol program. The twork of the
health department In this field will
henceforth be systematic, aggressive
and unremitting." Every means of
publicity will be utilized In this cam-,
paign. It will be spectacular and la
the vernacular, the rich man's cham
pagne and highballs, as well as the
poor man's "third rail" whisky and
beer, will be the object of attack.
For months the New York Btate
board of health has been giving out
to the press of the state, under the
title "Health Hints," strong state
ments concerning tbe injurious effects
of alcohol. Therefore tho action no
taken by the Now York city board li
not a great surprise. It Is being warm
ly commended by members of the
medical profession, and without doubt
health officials of other cities will fol
low the lead.
CHICAGO GOING DRY.
Billy Sunday's message to Chlrapi
to tho effect that "Batter Booze hat
three balls and two strikes called on
him," prompted Chicago Tribune to
interview some of the downtown sa
loonkeepers. This what ono oldtlmer
said:
"Three balls and two strikes Isn't
putting It strong enough. The bat'i
half swung on the third strike now,
way over the ball. You can go from
one end of the loop to the other and
crisscross, nnd you won't find a single
saloonkeeper making money. In some
where between three and Ave years
this town's going to bo dry as Evan
Bton. The women are going to do It.
nnd I don't much blamo them. It's
the women tho thing's hit. Who suf
fers when a 'good fellow' making (11
a week, shows his sporting blood
by spending four or five of It over
tho bar on pay day? Say, It's a trar
edy for that woman! So, what's ha
going to do? Just stop It, put her foot
down and her vote down. Three balls
nnd two strikes, eh? You can Just
call that third Btrike now."
"There's no doubt about It," said
another, "Chicago Is going dry. We
all know that, and so far as we are
concerned down hero In tho loop, It
might as well be dry now."
DO IT ALONE.
The Rotary club of Manchester,
England, recently gave a dinner at
midday to Harry Lauder, the come
dian. A Scottish menu was served
in his honor, the baggls figuring promi
nently. The "Cock o' the North" vas
duly played by a piper and on the table
were beer, wine and spirits.
Said Harry to his hosts:
"We, as Rotarians, meet as a busi
ness proposition In the middle of the
day, when drink Is not necessary
You may take one, two or three and
go back to business 'muzzy.' You
can't do your business If you are In
state of 'muzzlness.' When you nave
finished you can drink as much as you
like but do it alone. If you are going
to hell, go by yourself; don't drag
anyone with you. I have gone into
clubs not often, thank God and
seen a fellow come In when every
other pjace was closed. Ho was re
garded as a Jolly good fellow, an!
everybody clapped him on the back
and laughed. Did his people at home
laugh?"
PROHIBITION PROHIBITS.
Incidentally, one of the Interesting
reults of the prohibition sweep which
Is causing comment here is indicated
by the New York stock market reports,
saya a Washington (D. C.) correspond
ent. About ten months ago the shares
of the Distilleries Securities companf
were quoted around nineteen b'
twenty and on one occasion twenty
two. Then they tobogganed down to
fourteen, fluctuated there a short tlnw
and took other drops, until they ert
quoted two and a half and five and
half. This is the lowest record ever
reached, and Is credited to the faJ
that many distilleries In the dry and
prospectively dry Btates have go"9
Into voluntary liquidation, while I"
Ohio and Illinois many brewery com
panies have been placed In the bands
of receivers.
HAVE YOU NOTICED?
"Did you ever notice," says an e
change, "that when the booze Inter
ests want to put one over on the peo
ple they always work under on alias"
'Manufacturers' and Dealers' associa
tion' is a fair sample. Also they
ways clothe their proposition in a hlga
sounding antf pleasing name a catch
name such as 'Home Rule.' And did
you. ever notice how many Ignora
muses 'fall' fo sucli a name? Isa'i
strange that such a powerful interest
never presents a square front, but r
waya proceeds by circumvention.
BEFORE AND AFTER.
Kansas, "the dryest state In the
Union," has a death rote of 7.6 to.tw
I.OOOt-300 per cent lower than
neighbor, Missouri. Before the d'
vent of prohibition its death rate w
17 to the 1,000.
SURE TO COME.
There is every lndlcotlon that tn
experiment of nation-wide prohio'i"'"
Is going to be tried. Opponents of th
plan might as well face the facts
and
get ready for a drought. The CblcaS"
Journal.