Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1915, Page 9

(Copyright, 19! Star Company.) FIFTH EPISODE. In less than a minute he sreatlly agitated, ‘‘She’'s gone the cab, too."” “Did you take the man’'s number?” Vistons of certain New York pitfalls flashed through Barclay's mind ) Tommy,” he said, ““do what you (‘uni to find her, and bring her here. 1'll look after the police end.” returmed, he crled, this: | What had happened was simply | The moment Tommy had entered his | father's house Celestla had leaned from | the cab window and told the driver to drive on. Why? Because she thought that she was a trouble to him? No. It was because when his arms had .been around her and he had kissed her and #he had kissed him back, almost all thought of her heavenly mission to this earth had been wiped from her mind, and she had felt that the gates of heaven | | were closing against her return And she mustn't fall them. They had told her that when she went to earth from the high places and put on mortal flesh | she would no longer be f from the { sufferings and temptations to which the flesh is helr. And lo and behold—already she had been blistered by the sun, had been cold, hungry, lonely, unhappy, homesick, and had evinced the wish to lie forever Iin a man’s protecting arms kissed and kissing. “Where to, Miss?” The cab had stopped and the driver was speaking to her through the window ‘“This will do,”” she sald, and she got out. “Thank you very much,” and then, her head bare, feet showing below Tommy's raincoat, she started to walk away. “Hold ‘on there™ bellowed the “‘how about my fare “Oh," sald Celestia, turning meekly, ‘The driver pointed to his meter. “Sixteen dollars and fortyreight cents,” he said, with a tone of finality. “But T have no money,” she said. “You haven't, haven't you?’ The driver leaped threatenly from his box, and a crowd began to gather. Through this crowd a strong, loud volced, well dressed middle-aged woman came -pushing and struggling. She caught Celestia by the arm and forced her back driver, toward the cab, the door of which was still open. *“I'll take care of you, dear,” she said, *in with you.” To the driver she gave an address in a voice which none but him heard, and a moment later, amid jeers and murmurs of pity, Celestia was once/nore whirling | through the streets of New York. But the voice of the woman, though coar and vulgar, was brusquely kind, and | Celestia felt that after all her vicissitudes | she had formed a friend of her own sex—a @éitferentiation, bé It sald, of which untll that day she had never before been | conscious. | “Freddie the Ferret” was a remark- able young man. His real name \hus’ Frederick Appleton Douglas—and he came of good Scotch-American stock. If | he hed been bright and bad he might | have been a gansster. But he wasn't | bright and he wasn't bad. He wi neither a half-wit, nor a whole wit, and he had almost &s muoh moral sense as & cat. That is to say, he had none. He had neither more nor less moral glow when he gave candy which he didn't | ‘want to & child than when he took candy | which he didn't want away from ox | His habitual companions, however, were evil. For many such persons in the city | had discovered that on occasion Freddis could be tremendously useful. To begin with, his luck distinguished him as much @8 brains and talent could have done. | Some peopl always finding four-| leaved clovers. Freddie's gift, though he | had never seen a clover patch or lived in clover, was of that sort If Freddle | went through a rubbish heap he always | found something of value. Once he| found a dlamond horseshoe and sold it o an Itallan fruiter for six bananas. If | there was a piece of money or a cigar stump, long enough to be smoked. any where In a gutter, Freddie was pretty sure to find one or the other if not both If Brown was looking for Smith, Freddis Was pretty swe to have seen Smith. If The Goddes Mrs. Baxter, a harpy in the disguise of a friend in ne ed seizes the chance to get Celestia in her clutches. | The Most Imposing Motion Picture Seria Story Ever Create Read It Hefi-——flee lt:! the Movies 1 and : . : B We hadn't, it was his luck that he was| Sometimes he was sent upon definite | Sweetzer had the appearance of a ward Boing to. Freddie had seen more fires | missions, and carried them through to|politician. His hat was high and shiny, more runaways, more horrible accidents | perfection. |his smile was friendly and his eye was than any young man in New Yol He| Flannerman's barroom was Freddie's | shrowd and mean had found more things worth finding, and | headquarters. Sometimes the habitues| “Bin hunting you all over town,” said Deen irresponsibly responsible for more | amused themselves by getting him drunk, | Freddie. | good and evil turns than anybody. | but not often, for they were poor men,| “What for? y, The police knew him well. And al-|and even a mild jag costs money. One| ‘“Mrs. Baxter says to say she's got a though he was often mixed up in repre- | day the proprietor tapped Freddie on the pippin for you." hensible matters, they were careful not | shoulder and told him that he was wanted | «Not so loud. Where is she? | to arrest him, because he was often so|on the 'phone. “Mrs. Baxter?" useful to them, and they knew that at| «yes this is Freddic, all right. | “No, the other.” ' heart he was good natured and not re-| «Tnis iy Mrs Baxter. L 2t o naket you s rount’ fpcoriile for the occasional harm that| ‘Hope you're well, Mrs. Baxter.' They set off at once in the dlrection of e dic Same to you, Freddte, | find Sweetzer all find him?" “Sure; what'll T tell him? “You say to him that Mrs. Baxter say; to say she's got a pippin for him.” ““Mrs. Baxter says to say she's slippin’ toward him?* I bin trying to over town. Caun you | Mrs. Baxter's “Market,' as it was called |by the insiders, Freddic shuffling and ekipping at Sweotzer's side, prattiing and whistling by turns Although she had as yet done nothing that was not helpful or kind, there was something about Mrs. Baxter that rang Freddie's repute with the police began When he was quite'a small boy. Sergeant Rafferty, tall and very serious looking, | encountered him one day and said: | “Say, Bub, have you seen & man round | here with one mnostril bigger than the other and a bit of his ear missing?" | “Sure,” sald Freddle, you mean Peto| " |talse, and the house in which she lived 58 Polesi “Pippin for him—pi-double p |was a strange pl It was a stuffy, Where?" sald Rafferty. “He's shot a| . E-i-double pip—"' {padded sort of house. Every door had tts man up and he's wanted.” THPO-t-n-planty. pair of heavy curtains, every chair was ‘I seen him,” sald Freddie, “‘not five| LiPpin for him. upholstered; every picture had a scarf “You're on, Freddie. | come right round “What for?" minutes ago. He give me a dime to say Yo tell him to I didn't.,” “Where'd you see him, boy?)’ | lor a sash of |corner of it. The house was lighted by | electricity, but the Hghts were not hright, ‘He was goin' into O'Gorman's ice r the pippin.” | Mrs. Baxter's sitting room and office cream parlor with Nell the Flinger,| ‘T mean what for would I tell him?' |was at the back of the house, up one fambly entrance.” “Why for about a dollar, Freddle, if |fijght of stalrh. And here, summoned “If you've spoken the truth,” said|you will bring him round quick.” downstairs by a neat looking oolored Rafferty, “I'll give you a dollar. As Freddle the Ferret left Ilanner-|,.qiq, left Celestia to herself for awhile. may it was his luck to run into Sweet- ser, who was on the point of enterin Ten minutes later the arrest was made and Freddie's reputation was established. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) ribbon thrown across one || Romance of Pre-History ... [—— By GARRETT P. SERVISS. The quality of romance, like that wine, is generally helghtened by lapse of time. Recent discoveries and conelusions !in geology and archaeology (the sclence of ancient things) open up a fleld for romantlo musing as well as for pPhilosophic {thought that {falrly dases the | imagination by the | enormous antiquity of its vistae he immensely admires their gleams of in- telligonce more trustworthy and more lasting than the proudest triumphal arches; the evi- dence that It rests upon has no element of consclous registration or commemora- tion; it was not made by man, but by impartial, uncaring nature itself. It sim- ply recorded the presence, and some of the doings, of antique man as incidents in the development of the planet, which, in themselve were per- fectly indifferent to it. To us nothing concerning prehistoric man appeals with more force than his first efforts at invention. These are the touchstones by which we judge that he was man, and not mere brute. Well, forty or fifty thousand years ago he invented a needle. That happened in what is called the Aurignacian epoch. Tt ‘was at the beginning of a long period of cold in Burope, which geologists know as the fourth glacial stage. The Inventor of the needle, 50 far as our present in- formation goes, lived in southwestern France. LTt 1s not difficult to ses how this great Invention probably me about, for human nature has surely changed less than human surroundin Some of the epochs preceding the Aurignacian had been warm. Then it turned ecold, and such animals as the mammoth, the wooly rhinocerous, the long-haired ocave bear, the flerce, snarling, cave hyena, became common in southern Burope. Man him- There is & book on the antiquity of | man which % | ueets most inte |eating refloctions lon the 1ite and conditions of the members of our race who inhabited the earth during a perfod of two op three hundred thousand years proceding the advent of recorded hist Prehistc which covers all that im mense perfod during which carly man was developing, has one great advantage er ordinary history, and that !s that everybody can look at its actors in a spirit of complete detachnient, and with out disturbment of any of his racial or national prejudices He thinks less of their blood relation- | #hip to himself than of their watonishing | resemblances to human beings, as Af they were not really men, but a superfor lorder of apes. Accordingly the ignorance, brutality and crudity of these ancestors | of his do not cause him a blush. Yet their Ingenuity and their artis- | tic instincts, and in these thing he recognizes himself As one turns over the pages f the [ book on this subject, he sces passing be- | fore him a procession of ages, in all of which man plays his part, exceeding in | thelr aggregate longth fifty old, and perhaps & hundred fold, the entire span of time that has elapsed since 1ocorded | history began. But his vast period is no product of the imagination, or even of tradition; it s attest by monuments vention ¢ Story of Early Man Covers Many Ages, but No Incident in Its Long Course Exceeds in Interest the In- Needle 50,000 Years Ago 1 relf, who In more genlal times had dwe under frail shelters in the river valleys took to the caverns for warm th and p tection He had to fight the brutes for the posseseion of the caves. He had once been more of a fisher than a hunter; he must jow develop weapons of attack The spear and arrow hoads of the Aurlg nacian und closely related epochs are Nk the finest specimens of such weapons that archasologists have found At the same time the closer life of averns developed tre instinct for home decoration, and In the Aurlgnacian epoct many surprisingly effactive artistic works were made. Among thess ono kind Is particularly significant—it is the repre seatation of woman's form in figurines carved out of fvory. Women's empire over the heart of man had, then, began to be acknowledged The climate was growing colder, the fce | was advancing down the mountains, the need of warm clothing was becoming more and more imperative. The matarfals for sueh clothing were at hand, In the skine of slain beasts, and the goddess of the ‘avern hearth, whese ivory Image gleamed in the fire-light over her head had enough of the housewify instinct wout her to make the necessary g ments, if her lord and slave would f nis vith the requisite implements No doubt many generations the women siinply tled the pleces of th o ts together with lengthe inew hide strings, but, at last, some ter, with a more of brain that his fellows, after watching the efforts o his wi asten together the garment he Iren, sat down In the corne )t the cave instead of going out to oty & hyena hunt, and began to think When the idea ocourred to him of put Ung & through the butt end of u sharp bone hodkin, or stylet, such as we know that the Aurignaclennes were al ready accustomed to use, and of thrusting n string through the hole in order that it might be drawn Into the perforations of the marment, the needle was born rom vouthful human genjus, and so wel born that it has undergone no essentia improvement in all the countless ages thaty, have since rollad away. Look at one of these prehistoric bone needles 1 some hueological collection and yo! will botter appreclate the merit of that inknews but glorlous Aurignacian Edi son, whose highest thought, perhaps. was | to pleasd and delight his wife || Astronomy Most [ Majestic Science By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN the most majestic sclence one, the solence of mind, has grown to such an immense magnitude that it is now speclalized — divided into depart- ments or branches Astronomy say Two divisions may be at first men- | ioned—planvctary and stellar. But plan |etary astronomy s a very minute and | inslgnificant department, since only etght are known—Mercury, Venus, the Earth, | | Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Nep- tune T ie. the study of these is important, fally of one, the earth-<4mportant to since it 1s our home, but very insigniticant in comparison with the study of the atare. Thesa are all huge suns, and all are in a state of intense internal or molecular activity, which causes them to send forth floods of energy into infinite space. The caveful and critical study of the stars, thelr properties and facts, since 15869, and more earnestly since 1880, has given greater real wisdom to man than all of the timo since he appeared in earth, at least 1,000,000 yoears ago. The first transcendent event, the seem- Ingly imposesible, was that of measuring the distance of a star. This so expandod In-Shoots " i It is useless to sow words of wisdom on a mental desert. | humans The deadhesd s always the most re- lentless critic of all. 1t is better to hook a few small ones than never fish at all Too much advance courtship is apt to make married life seom prosy. Your brain is no geod If the other fel- low makes more from it than you do None {s fmmune from spring fever But the lary man's symptoms are always the most acute. | the mind ef man that imagination was ut once submerged, as it were, and man became o changed being—he became o | real thinker, and his thoughts rose to hitherto unknown helghts. The oarth was scen as It actually is—in finitesimal in proportion to the universe of atars—while the sun was found |but one of tho smaller grade of a | and so small that although it s 1,710,009 timos larger than the earth it could come to an end and scarcely be missed. And this la true of the carth and the seven | other planets Planetary consints of uring the tue planets froni the sun and {rom each other, the lengths of thelr years, or times of revolution around the sun. and .f thelr days, or times of rotation on their axes? and the |Inclinations of thelr axes to planes of orbits, thus giving the changes of their peasons; oleo welghlng them, or comput- ing the quantities of mutter they con- taln, and from this thelr densities, Next comes the finding if they have a mosphere, or envelopes of air, as in the case of the earth, and an important thing, If these acrial envelopes contain the vapor of water. Then comes the com- putation of the intensities of energy of heat and Mlght received from the sun; also the finding of thelr reflective powers —that s, what proportion of solar lght received Is reflected away, and the force of gravity exerted by their masses upon all objects on their surfaces. These and more data are included in planotary astronomy. Pesides these there Is the monor branoh of finding all possi- 1‘» data regprding the moons revolving | astronomy distances of mes around the planets. And then the study of asterolds hetween Mars and Jupiter on curious orbits. But all of these things deal with our lttle solar system, consisting of one sun, elght planets, twenty-sven moons, 764 asteroids, an unknown number of cometr, and also meteor streams, the Whole mov |Ing in cosmic space as & happy or un {happy tamily. The aarth, at least, is un happy Victrola. The following Omaha and Council Bluffs dealers carry complete lines of Victor Victrolas, and all the late Victor Records as fast as issued. You are cordially invited to inspect the stocks at any of these estab- lishments. Schmoller & Mueller . PIANO COMPANY 1311-1313 Farnam St Omaha, Neb. Hear the Newest Records in Our Newly Remodeled Sound-Proof Demonstrating Rooms on the Main Floor. Nebraska s 334 BROADWAY Corner 15th and Council Bluffs Harney, Omaha. Geo. E. Mickel, Mgr. 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