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Turpentine Stills and Cups, Sheet Metal Cornices. Sheet Metal Skylights. Dredge Pipe and Fittings. Coppersmiths, General Sheet Metal W m"iflhtr::l‘l‘o-."':?'u Jogucs. Lord & Taylor Sold by All Good Dealers. NEW YORK (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspa- paper Symdicate.) Mary Anne turned from the box of- fice after securing her seat for the matinee on the following Saturday. She would have left the foyer and gone out for the pleasant jaunt through the shops but for the fact that her attention was attracted to the poor little woman who stood forlornly holding a tiny infant fn her arms. The woman had been arguing quietly with the boxoffice man, but to no avail. “I am sorry, madam, but infants in arms are not allowed i the theater. It is against the laws of the house.” There was finality in the young man’'s voice. With her usual impulsiveness Mary Anne approached the woman and made inquiry. “I can’t go in with 'Im and I've paid my way in from Bexhill. friends are up there now. They'll be wondering what’s ‘appened to me.” “Couldn’t I take care of the baby | while you go up and see the panto- mime? 1 have the whole afternoon free. Do let me.” Mary Anne saw the woman through the doorway, then turned with her charge, wondering what her impulsive nature had got her into this time. Mary Anne lived in the suburbs, herself. She remembered the huge open fires that she had seen in the Liverpool station when she had come In the morning to business. She soon arrived beside the warm fire without mishap. She had not been comfortably ensconced there for a pal- try five minutes before the infant showed most positive signs of dissatis- faction with Mary Anne's treatment of him. He walled softly at first but persons in the waiting room stared or, more truthfully, glared at Mary Anne, while one or two men walked disgustedly out of the station. The girl was distracted. She wished she had never wanted to see “Jack and the Beanstalk.” She pined for knowledge of the care of infants and determined to study up Doctor Holt without loss of time. The fact the baby let slip the bottle his moth- er had given Mary Anne brought a deep flush to the girl's cheeks, A young man, who had been surrep- titiously watching Mary Anne's fran- tic efforts to pacify the baby came over and picked up the fallen bottle and presented it to her. “Is there anything I can do for you?” he asked, and he seemed so likely to know more than she did about infants that Mary Annesmiled gratefully. “There may be & pin stick- ing him—have you looked?” “No-0," said Mary Anne. know just where to look.” “Great Scott! Who dressed your baby? Let me have a look?” He took the boby from Miss Anne’s arms very firmly but gently and Mary Anne heaved a sigh of rellef. The young man certainly knew how to handle a baby. “No doubt you have several of your own?” she vouched only half aloud. “No—not guilty. I am a doctor. That is why I had the temerity to offer my assistance. There seems noth- Ing wrong with the kiddie. Wouldn't he take his milk?” “No,” Mary Anne sald with a wist- ful smile that sent & wave of peculiar emotion over the young man. “He didn’t seem to’ want it.” “Maybe you gave it to him too hot,” suggested the doctor. “Hot! It was stone cold.” gazed fearfully at the baby. “Cold milk for an infant! You are a fine mother,” the doctor com- mented. “But I am not his mother,” protest- ed Mary Anne whh a rush of color to her cheeks. “I don’t know a thing about babies.” “Quite unnecessary information,” laughed the dovtor, somehow very much relieved that Mary Anne was not the infant’s mother. He had been wondering how so neat and dainty a girl could take such wretched care of & baby. Mary Anne told him of her adven- ture with a shy smile. She marveled how the baby had become wondertully contented in the doctor’'s arms. “I suppose you wouldn't mind snow- ing me the number of your seat for Saturday?”’ Doctor Cosgrove asked tentatively as they went toward the theater with the sleeping baby. “I have been intending to see ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.'” His guilty expression told Mary Anne that the pantomime had never entered his head before. “My seat is No. 14-D,” she said quickly. Mary Anne blushed hotly and Doc- tor Cosgrove burst into hearty laugh- ter when the little mother of the in- fant came beaming from the thea- ter. “Your misses has been an angel! 1 wish I could give her as much hap piness as she has given me today.” “I think you have done more—for us,” the man said quickly, and cast a glance at Mary Anne. “She is not my ‘misses’—at present,” he added, and went over to the boxoffice to see if be could secure No. 13-D. The smile in his eyes as he returned to her side told Mary Anne that he had been successful, and she, too, smiled. T didn't She Greatest Fault. ‘The greatest of faults is to be con- sclous of none.—Thomas Carlyle. My | A YOUNG MAN's SCHEME By M. QUAD Copyright, 1913, by Associated Lit- erary Press. ! “Gaul durn her picture, but I love her!” The young man who uttered the words was at work in the field, and he straightened up to rest his weary back and mutter: “And I'll make her love me before I'm through with her! She may think I don’t amount to shucks, but all I l’ want is a chance to prove that I do. | Durn farm work! Durn widders! Durn love! Durn everything!” He kicked the fence to show his dis- gust and wearily resumed work. Ebe- | nezer Schermerhorn, hired man, was in love with the Widow Tompkins, whose farm adjoined that of his boss on the west. Ebenezer was twenty- four years old, plain of face and un- | gainly of form and without a hundred dollars® worth of property. One evening as he dropped in to see the widow about borrowing some farm Implement next day he found her read- ing a love story. She read a few chap- ters to him and afterward acknowl- edged that she had always been ro- mantic and that if she ever married | again it would be to a hero. The farmer’s hired man didn't rush right off that night and try to be a hero, but sat down and did some thinking. Three or four duys after Ebenezer's thinking bee a tramp came along the road and, seeing the young man hoeing corn just over the fence, halted for a word or two. Ordinarily Ebenezer would have leaped the fence and run the wayfarer half a mile, but on this occasion he invited him over to the corn and sat down with him for a con- fidential conversation. The result of | that conve tion was that at 8 o'clock that evening the tramp appear- ed before the Widow Tompkins and made threats of what he would do if she didv’t set out victuals, hunt up old clothes and come down with a dollar in cash. Ebenezer was not far away—just far enough to come running up and knock the tramp head over heels and rescue the widow. But as he started to come running he fell down and got tangled up with the bushes, and before he could get away the widow had broom- sticked the tramp into flight. She didn’t say she was glad that the would be hero was so near at hand. What she did say was that she wasn't afraid of any tramp walking the roads. Ebenezer’s first try was a failure, but within a fortnight he was ready for another. Two or three farmhouses in the township had been robbed, and this fact became the basis for his sec- ond plan, One night at midnight he left his bed, descended to earth by way of a window, and, armed with a club, he became a guard for the wid- ow's house. He circled around it and patrolled the garden and the orchard, and he felt that he would give a year of his life if a robber would appear. He would first fell him and then arouse the house, and when the widow came to know that he had been guarding her for love her heart would melt toward him, But no robber came. Instead of that his footsteps awoke the widow, and, Dbeering out, she saw some one walking about, and she got a shotgun and raised & window and blazed away. The gun was loaded with bird shot to shoot hawks that might come swooping down on chickens, but in this case they an- swered just as well for a man. Eben- ezer recelved about twenty of them and ran two miles to a doctor to have them picked out. He also had a va- cation from work for a week under the excuse that he had sprained his back turning over in bed. Ninety-nine out of every hundred would be heroes would have given up right here, but Ebenezer was a man to hang on. 1t was while he was limp- ing around on his vacation and doing a lot of standing up and wandering over the fields that he came upou the widow fishing in the river at a certain point. He did not show himself, but fifty feet from where she sat under a tree he discovered a bumblebees' nest in the grass. It was a large and lib- eral nest, and it gave him a thought. The bees wouldn't bother anybody so long as they were let alone. If stirred up they would look for meat. There was a haystack not far away, and Ebenezer had matches in his pocket. He retired behind the stack and collected a hatful of stones from the plowed land. These he threw one by one at the spot where the bees | were pursuing the even tenor of their ways. The plot thickened. You can thicken a bumblebee plot in a very short time. All you've got to do is to tread on thelr coattails. When the in- sects found the rocks dropping on their heads they swarmed out of the grass to look for the enemy. They should have seen the widow and descended upon her, and at her first shriek Eb- enezer would come charging down with a wisp of lighted hay in either hand. But things went wrong. The bees then went for him alone. They ran him up and down the haystack: they ran him over fences and back: they ran him across lots and in circles, and when they finally left him and he fell down the widow came forward and asked: “But why were you such a fool ?”" “Because I want you to marry me!” he groaned in reply. “And you said you would marry a hero. I thought the bees would attack you and I could rush in and save you.” “Why, you great idiot! I've been ready to say yes any day for the last three months.” “There's nothing so hard to ride as a young broncho,” said the Westerner. “Oh, I don't know,” replied the man from back East. “Did you ever try the water wagon?"—Toledo Blade. No, Indeed. Pix—You may depend upon it that as you have money. Dix—That's right; especially if you have borrowed it from them. g The Reason. ~8. Whittler—What dettghtful man. ners your daughter has! Mrs. Biler (proudly)—Yes. You see, she has been away from home so much.—Smart Set. your friends won't forget you as long | C the | By Allan Hendrickson n ] (Coy ht, 1912, by Associated Literary Pyrig] 0 “I'm the man to look into that ore robbery and find the trouble,” an- the announcement that his name was Henry Dunseith. “Detective?” asked Robert Ogden, with a grin. From the superifority of us own six-foot-two, he looked down with velled contempt on the other man’s five-feet-six, Dunseith looked anything but & de- tective. He was slightly built, and, instead of the hawk-like glance of the sleuth, dreamy eyes of bluegray looked out from under almost color- less lashes. His hair was thin and but slightly tinged with yellow, while the slender, nervous hands suggested the poet rather than the detector of crime. He looked at Ogden, superintendent of the Nardath mines, with shocked surprise. “I'm not a regular detective,” he ex- plained. “I go in for this sort of thing for the fun of it, you know. Colonel Northcote told me that you were hav- ing trouble out here, and as I had nothing to do for a couple of weeks I thought I'd run out and have a try at 1t.” “A couple of weeks!"” exclalmed Og- den. “Why, we've been looking for the last two years to find the leak- age.” “That's all right”” sald Dunseith with his gentle smile. “It's a long road, you know, that doesn't turn some time. I've come to curve the road be- tween here and the smelter. You'll Just explain that I'm a friend of the colonel's. I daresay you've had plenty of his tenderfoot friends out here be- fore. One more will not attract atten- tion.” “It's a cinch they won't take you for a detective at any rate,” assured Ogden, with unflattering emphasis. Dunseith only smiled. “That's one good thing,” he said ibriskly. “Did you arrange about my bunking in somewhere?” “At my place,” explained Ogden ris- ing. “I thought that you might want He Liked to Watch the Games. to communicate with me at times, and if you are right in the house there Is less danger that we will be overheard.” Dunseith was familiar with the sit- uation at the mines. A large quan- tity of high grade ore was found in pockets, and this was too valuable to be handled on the ore cars. It was packed in boxes, and when a guffi- clent quantity was accumulated, these were packed in wooden chests and sent down in a special shipment. The chests were locked and the key holes sealed, but for all of that the end of the run' found most of the chests deficlent fn good ore. The ore was weighed as carefully as gold, and somewhere between the mine and the smelter several hundred dollars’ worth of ore would disappear to be replaced by rock. The other detectives had obtained employment along the line in the hope of discovering the trick, and Og- den wondered what disguise Dun- seith would adopt. To his surprise Dunseith suggested no disguise. When the shipment %of ore was made he showed an eastern- er's .curiosity in the proceeding, then he”strolled off to the saloon just on the limits of the camp where the men gathered when off duty and found re- laxation in cards and drink. Dunseith did not drink and aiter the first visit no one thought of asking him to play cards, for he was a clever parlor ma- glclan and his card tricks were really good, But if he neither drank nor played, Dunseith was willing to buy drinks for the others and he liked to watch the games or listen to the stories the men swapped. The men gathered that he was an author and took a delight in spinning weird yarns for his bene- fit. Dunseith was sitting there as the traln with the express car attached rolled past the bullding on its way to Nardath, the private station of the mines on the main line. “More good ore going into bad hands,” he sald with a laugh as he indicated the yellow car. “North- ———— One Thing He Was Sure Of. “As a matter of fact,” said the law- | yer for the defendant, trying to be | sarcastic, “you were scared half to | death, and don't know whether it was | @ motorcar or something resembling & motorcar that hit you” “It re- plaintift “I was forcibly struck by the resemblance.” Recipe for Peace. And to get peace, if you do want 1t make for yourself nests of pleasant thoughts.—Ruskin. nounced the little man, supplementing y trim him good on | the, . § ooty seywhes 1 wonder how it's | those shipments. ne.” [ du"let would be money in your pocket { " of the men | |1 you knmew, sald one - with a laugh. “There's & Num!lm! v | ward ot $5,000 for the discovery of | | way it goes.” ! {lhfil should think some of you rei:‘ | lows would have pulled that “{“"‘efi i | down long ago,” suggested Dunselth- | | “There must be some one who knr{ws- ! “The ones who are in the know are | getting more than the $5,000,” remind- | ed the other man with a laugh. Some talk of the conversation reached the assistant superintendent, ; Blasser, and he promptly reported it | to Ogden and his daughter. He was | glad of an opportunity to turn Ruth | against the stranger, for until Dun- seith had come Blasser had paid Ruth | assiduous court. Now she seemed to | prefer the man from the east and | Blasser was quick to press his ad- vantage. i --n: going down the road this | morning,” he sald lightly. “I wish you'd fix it so that I could ride in the engine,” said Dunseith one morning. Ogden nodded his assent without speaking, and after the meal the two men went across the grounds to the storehouse. Already the engine was attached to the express car, and (ne‘I messenger was on hand to check up the invoice. Dunseith watched as the boxes were checked off and stowed in the car. Then the seals were put on, and Ogden impressed on the soft wax the impression from one of the seals. At the end of the run these seals were removed entire and re- turned to Ogden, who checked mem‘ up. Dunseith clambered aboard the engine after borrowing a suit of over- alls, and the engine pulled out to hook on to the train of ore cars that completed the load. The express messenger took his t on the ore car nearest the express car, and the train pulled out. It was a twelve-h smelters and it wa ning when the camp w 1 fnto an uproar by the announcement that | the leakage had been discovered, but | beyond the bare facts nothing was known until the following day when 3 | Dunseith turned up on the train and '« hurried across to the office “Did you get Murphy as I wired? he asked as he entered the room. Ogden nodded. *I don't think that i he did it,” he declared. “Not at all,” assented Dunseith, “but he made it possible for the man Who did to get along a bit easier. Did it ever occur to you that you had a 60-foot car that sured a little short of 55 inside?” “What's that got to do with it?* grunted Ogden. “The ends were false,” explained Dunseith. “They contained some plain ore, a pair of steelyards and—a man,” “I don't see what good that was when the boxes were sealed,” was the reply. “Send for one of the boxes,” sug- gested Dunseith, and when it came be knelt on the floor beside it. The shipping boxes were of wood, bound with metal. The metal rims were bolted to the sides and ends and one of these bolts Dunseith rapidly unscrewed with an odd shaped tool that grasped the irregular head like a wrench, “I am something of an amateur ma- gician,” he explained. *“The construc- tion of the boxes seemed to me pecu- liar and this was the first clue. [ sat over here smoking with Murphy and When he went on his rounds to touch the clocks I had a chance to investi- gate.” As he spoke Dunseith drew away the loosened bolt and showed that 1t ran through the side of the box to the opposite metal band. Once the rod Was removed the bottom could be lifted up without disturbing the geals in the least. Ogden uttered a cry of astonishment. “Under cover of the noise made by the train,” explained Dunseith, “the man in the car slipped out of his compartment in the end. He welghed out the ore and replaced it with exact- 1y the same weight of valueless rock. At the end of the run the boxes were undisturbed and of the same weight as before, but there was an exchange of from two to three hundred pounds of ore that ran almost pure gold. “There were three men in the game ate in the eve- | master, the second the station agent and the third the express messenger on another run. After the doctored Ore was delivered at the smelter the Car was run up to the yards and emptied of the stolen ore. This was taken into the freight house by the agent and the express messenger took it up the road and then shipped it to another smelter as ore from a little mine which the freight agent owned. Murphy was taken into the game to make things easy for the man in the car in case there was a | delay here.” “And you knew this all the time?” demanded Ogden. *| thought that you had your suspicions of me.” Dunseith smiled. | perts “It was talk,” he explained, “ana talk that made people look the other way was good to throw suspicion. It I really had suspected you I should have made an excuse for moving over to the Palace and living there.” There was an exclamation from the half-opened door and Dunsieth turned quickly. “As it is,” he went on easlly, “I am going to ask your permission to go on living here until after the wed- dhl‘." 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