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(PHIS STORY BEGINS TO-DAY AND WILL END ON SATURDAY.) (By Permiesion of George Munro's Gons.) CHAPTER I. I Lose My Heart and My Money. JACK MARTIN, Manager of the English Bank at ‘Whittingham (capital of the South American Republic 9 of Aureataland), found myself in a quandary. My fate hung in the balance between love and fortune on ene aide, jail or suicide on the other. And this is how it all | had come about: ‘Though only twenty-six years old, I had, through family interest, secured the place of manager and aole resident lrector of the Aureataland Bank. Aureataland was not vastly different from any other mushroom republic of the ! Bouth. Its president was a Virginia adventurer, Marcus W, ‘Waittingham (the capital of the republic had been named in honor of him; the leader of the Opposition (there is always @n Opposition) was Col. McGregor; and the third—or perhaps I may say the first—person of importance in the capital was “the Signorina.” The Signorina had come thither a few years before as prima donna in an opera company, and had elected to stay, with her aunt, Mrs. Carrington, in the thriv- ing republic. There she speedily became a power. Her “‘sa- lons’ at Mon Repos (as she called her villa) were the fore- mgst feature of local society. ‘The Signorina was, as‘a mat- ter of fact, no aignorina at all, but just Christina Nugent, an Englishwoman. But she was beautiful, brilliant, and a born diplomat. It is, perhaps, needless to say I was head over heels in Yove with her. At one time the dark, honest eyes of Donna Antonio, daughter of the local Minister of Finance, ‘had almost drawn me, but the Signorina's more dazzling charms had hejd me fast. Both the President and McGregor were gala to be suitors for the Signorina’s hand. Morais and honesty in Aureataland were some points be- “yew par. In fact, the two only really honest men there were ‘Thomas Jones, cashier of my bank, and Johnny Carr, a x Engtish landowner, who had an exalted admiration the President and who served as that worthy's private jecretary. Early in my stay in Aureataland, the home directors of my bank were reluctantly induced to make a $500,000 loan, “for public improvements,” to Aureataland. The Preskient then asked them for another loan of almost equal size. This they promptly refused, as they were in doubt as to thelr Ukelihood of receiving interest on the money already ad- ‘vanced. A few nights Inter the President invited me to dinner at huis Executive Mansion, which he called ‘The Golden House.” After dinner he begged me to use my influence in negotiating the second loan, I explained to him that my directors had Already refused it. He then asked me to advance the money from funds at hend, and on my own responsibility. This T of course refused. He urged me further, having learned by Yome means that we happened to have $200,000 on hand in the safe, in negotiable securities. At last he made me the following strange offer: “Kindly give me your attention, Mr. Martin, and I will “try té satisfy your very reasonable requirements. You have $300,000; that you qill hand over to me, ‘receiving in return government 6 per cent. bonds for that emount. I will then hand back to you $6,000. Forty-five thousand you will retain as securlty for your interest; in the event of any failure on the part of Aureataland to meet hor obligations honorably you will pay the ‘nterest on the whole $200,000 out of that sum. That secures you for more than two years against absolute failure of interest, which in real- ty you need not fear. Till the money is wanted you will have the use of (t. The remaining twenty thousand I shail beg of you to accept as your commission, or, rather as a token pf my esteem. Twenty thousand absolutely—forty-fivo thousand as long as Aureataland pays interest! You must admit I deal with you as one gentleman with another, Mr. Martin. In the result, your directors get thelr interest, I get my loan, you get your bonus, eW are all benefited, no one ts turt! All this fs effected at the cost of a harmless stratagem.” The President rose and put his hand on my shoulder. “Better say yes. I might take it, you know, and cause you to disappear—belleve me, with reluctance, Mr. Martin. It 1s true I shouldn't Hke this course. It would perhaps make my position here untenable. But not having the money would certainly make it untenable. I make the most of my opportunities, Mr. Martin,” I did as I was bid. ‘That same night the bonds were transferred secretly by me to the President. A forged cablegram, allegedly from my @rectors, authorizing the deal, was prepared by the Pres!- dent, next day, to allay Jones's doubts. ‘With all the ready money with which I was thus pro- ‘vided through my services in negotiating this second loan, I was able to cut a distinguished figure in the gay society of the capitol. I gambled heavily and lost as heavily. For & year or so the President paid the intedest on the loans, | and, as far as my reports to my directors went, all was well. ‘Then came rumors of change. Col, MoGregor, in the House of Assembly, formally démanded that the sokiters be pald, and declared hiy belief that the government had no money. In a few days I would have to forward $15,000, semi- annual interest on the loan, to my directors. I saw alight chance of getting It. I had but $10,000 éeft in ready cash. The crash seemed at hand and jail and disgrace threatened THE FOLLY OF THE “DARE WEDDING.” BY HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. HE girl who marrios a man on a “dare” is not entitled to much sympathy when, as it ts natural to expect, she appears in the divorce court and asks for a dissolution of her marriage vows, There is so much real heart trouble and so many marital shipwrecks the re- | sult of inexperience and Inok of judgment, where both partles entered into the new relations with an entire honesty of purpose, that, however palpably un- sulted to each other the man and woman, oriticism ds submerged in sympathy for tha two foolish creatures who mistake a fancy or passing attraction for the congentality of apirit which alone makes a true unton possible. The obstinate conceit or bravado, or whatever you choose to call it, that urges a man or Woman to commit an act of supreme folly matber than ‘take a dare’ betokens a vanity and an ignorance of values fairly trritating. I once saw a pretty girl at the seaside risk her life and make a spectacle of herself because, as she explained to me afterward, ‘no one could offer her a dare." This girl was beautifully gowned in a Paris frock which must have cost her father a cool three hundred. Bhe stood on the pier, and a man, in a spirit of fun sald, jump into the water and swim to that post. Quick as a flash the girl cried, “I won't take a dare from any one,”” the water she went. Bho was a good swimmer, but her Mimsy skirts got tangled aljout her feet and ehe would have been drowned had not the man who had been {dlotic enough to make the dare Jumped in after and rescued her. As it was they both got beautifully scared and thoroughly drenched and very much talked about fn an uncomplimentary manner, Jumping into the ocean on a dare was a allly enough performance, but jump- ing. into matrimony because some weak-minded person dared a couple to such an act of madness is worse than silly; it is crim{nal. Marriage is a sacred ordinance and should be approached by even the most trivial-minded with reverence and respect. “I dare you to and into to be my portion. At last the crash came. I was sitting in my office one morning, engaged in the diMoult task of trying te make ten into fifteen, when I heard the clatter of hoofs. A moment later the door was opened, and Jones ushered in Col. MoGregor. “Would you be surprised to hear," @aid the Colonel, adopt- ing a famous mode of spepch, “that the interest on the debt would not be paid on the thirty-first?" sald he, calmly, “wil, on the thirty-frst instant, repudiate the national debt!” I had nothing left to say. I fell back in my chair, and @azed at the Colonel, who wes now employed in lighting @ clgarette. At the seme moment a sound of rapid wheels struck on my cara. ‘Tihen I heard the Signorina’s sweet, clear voice I knew #0 well saying: “Have you told him?" “I have just done so, Gignorina,¥ ‘he replied. The Colonel and the Signorina both smiled gently. “You do tt very well, Martin,” salt the former, “but it will save time if I atate that doth Signorina Nugent and myself are possessed of the details regarding the’— (the ‘colonel paused, and stroked his mustache.) “The second loan,” said the signorina. “Ab, and how did you find that out?” I asked. “The President told me," ead that Jady. “Yen,” said the Colonel, “when the first loan wae raised I lent the Preakient $100,000. We were thick then, and I did 4 in return for my rank and my eeat in the Assembly. Bince then I've bought up some more ehares,"’ “‘And what do you hold now, nominal?’ “Three hundred thousand dollars,” said he, shortly. “I understand your interest én the matter, But you, Signorina?” “I don’t care {f I do tell you. When I agreed to: here, he” (we knew whom she meant) “gave me $100,000. fe I had $50,000, or thereabouts, of my own.- He persuaded me to put it all—the whole $160,000—into his horid debt. And ff that goes, I am penniless—penniless." » mee looked enchanting. But business is business, and I “What are you going to do?” “We are going, with your help, Martin, to prevent this national disgrace. We are going to start a revolution!" “Kindly unfold your plan, Colonel,’ I resumed. “Tam aware that out here you think tittle of revolutions; bat to @, newcomer they appeér to be matters requiring some manage- ment. You see we are only three." “Have you got any money, Martin?" “Yes,” said I, “a Httle.” “How much?" ie thousand,” I repited; ‘I was keeping it for the in- “Look here, Martin; give me that ten thousand for the troops. That will insure us the army's devotion, Stand tn with us, and the day I become president I'll give you back your three hundred thousand. Just look where you stand now. I don’t want to be rue, but ien’t it a case of’ — He drew his chair closer to mine, and, leaning forward, sald: “He's never spent the,money. He's got it somewhere; much the greater part, at least. We practically know where. Give me the ten thousand. You shall have your loan back, and, {f you like, you shall be Minister of Minance. We prac- tically know the money's there, don’t we, Signorina?” She modded assent. “Lt we fail?" sald I. He drew a neat little revolver from his pocket, placed it for a moment against his ear, and repocketed it. “Most lucldly explained, Colonel,” said I, ‘Will you give me half an hour to think it over?” “Yea,” he said. ‘You'll excuse me if I etay tn the outer office? Of course I trust you, Martin, but in this sort of thing’’— “All right, I see,” said I, “And you, Stynorina?’ “T'll watt here," she said. As McGregor left the room the Bignorine crossed to where I sat. She stood behind my chair, and, leaning over, put her arms round my neck. Bewtldered with delight, and believing I hag won her, I sald: “Your soldier titi death, Signorina. (To be Continued.) — 66 HE average American gir! is more than a match I for any ‘masher.’ "’ Inepector George W. McClusky says so, and be ought to know. McClusky has charge of the Detective Bureau at Police Headquarters. Besides belng a thief-catcher, he is an inveterate ‘chaser’ of mashers. McClusky saye mashera are no more harmful than cows. “There isn’t very much in this mashing business,’ he said ter and artist for The Evening World Home Mag- ‘3 largely a bugaboo. Of course, there is the funny ttle old chap on Twenty-third street, who can be ind every pleasant day smirking at women; but, then, he’ t ‘all there,’ Bo to speak. Usually he is senile ang ready for the old men's “home, “Then thore’s that ‘rubber’ fellow of the street cars. He is the most obnoxious of all the army of mashers; but he is usually very easily squelched. "The fellows who stand on the street corners, and who bout, are’ not mashers in ea oat wae “They are usual “touts,” or just MCLUSKY AND THE GOTHAM MASHER. Plain loafers, and should be kept off the streets on general principles, “When you find a man who exhibits the markings of a ‘masher’; you can put trim down for being a little emp mu Ga aoe story somewhere. Not once in ten nag phere cree’ 2°! Emme @ Tot 9 mA Aa Petig~ Typ henagpeedye pia eum aayemre of DUTIDg inna nese relation with another which entatis a possible loss or disgrace on @ “dare.’’ No woman would in life's ordinary affaira be ‘Wared” into a transaction that might oost her great phystcal pain or the loss of her good looks. Pergons who say they wMll not “take @ dare,’ especially women, would be sure to back-water if there were any chance of the ‘Mares’ entailing a loss of Vemuty. ‘Whet is there to say at the doors of the divorce courts of a man and a woman who were willing to take upon themselves the most sacred of vows— ‘willing to pledge thomasetvos for a lifelong contract to abide together in the holiest of relations man and wife—because some one “dared them to?” ‘Nothing, except that they have reaped as they sowed whon disappointment and bickerings, even hatred, !mpel them to the law with a prayer to put asunder those whom it were sacrilega to say God had joined together. Cruelty ts the allegation of the woman who fvould not be dared and who now would undo her rash act. Cecilia Glouck wi), I assume, obtain her freedom—the law will divorce her from Gustave Gleuck. It ts to be wished, but scarcely to be hoped, her matri- montal expertences will have the result of teaching her, even in @ very rudi- mentary way, a lesson not alone In common sence but in womanly conduct. One would think there were enough misery, enough wretchedness, in the world the result of ignorance and youthful folly—more than enough baby unhappines: ‘as the outcome of ill-assorted marriages, even where the man and women wer honest in the marital intentions. No one should waste swmpathy on the “dare” marriage aspirants for divorce. ‘But some one of authority should set to work to make it iMegal for such mar- Tiages to be solemnized. ———————— DO BRAINS SPOIL BEAUTY?. BEAUTY and brains may be the possessions of one woman, but those German B wise men who delight in long researches have established the fact that in- tellectual development of women is almost without exception accompanied ‘by loss of physical loveliness, This is strikingly shown tn the portraits of five Chicago women printed above. Three are in society, one is a Young Woman's Christian Association officer and one the valedictorian of a high school graduat- ing class, The society girls’ faces conform to the conventional idea of beauty. ‘The thought that they must appear attractive is the only serious thought in thelr lives, That thought docs not make wrinkles, does not strain eyes or distort mouths. Tho intellectual women are not ugly; they are indeed fine types of womanhood, but thelr lives have been centred on other things than thelr own ‘beauty; they have cultivated their brains and have not cared to pay even so much court to the goddess of feminine loveliness as to tearn how to dress thelr hair. to NEW YORK PLAYS. IN A NUTSHELL. “THE VINEGAR BUYER."’ ANY people have not the time to attend all the plays that come to New M York, but at the same time like to know what such plays are about. lers The Evening World pvbllahes the salient na nutshell.”” To-day's play ts: For the benefit of*such reai features of a few of these plays Name-—'The Vinegar Buyer," Author—Herbert Hall Winslow. Theatre—Savoy. Style of Play—Character comedy. Place of Action—Bascomb's Corners, Ind., and Indianapolis, ‘Time—Present. Plot—Joe Miller (Ezra Kendall), optimist and altrutst, of Bascomb's Corners, becomes acquainted with Mrs, Arlington (Ida Darling) and her daughter Mildred (Lottie Alter), who aro at a sanitarium. Miller detects the trickery of Mra. Arlington's attorney, Willlam Henry ‘Tripe (Frank Lander), who wishes to marry Mildred in order to secure the property left by her father to the male representatives of the family, Mildr engaged to Walter Talbot (Walter Thomas), but throngh Tripe's wiles breaks off the engagement. Miller tricks ‘Tripe by pretending to be engaged to Mrs. Arngton and future owner of the fortune. In the development of the story Miller (under an assumed name, who becomes a vinegar buyer for Mrs. Arlington's brother, whose relation- ship to her he does not know), really becomes engaged to Mrs, Arlington and Mildred to Walter. The whole story 1s a background for Ezra Kendall's humorous charaeter work Principal Character—Joo Miller (Eara Kendall), Bright Lines—Miller (when Iquor falls opt of bell that Sandy (Charles Bouser) rings—“That bell's ringing wet.” ‘1 bet I've drunk so much vinegar I've soured my face.” What's your favorite flower.” uck wheat,"’ “ell, that’s the flour that takes the cake." “The valleys are covered with a beautiful green carpet."’ “Yes, and the sheep are eating up the carpet, to make wool to pay the warpet tax.’ “You look I!ke a change in the weather.” Will you rest your hat, sir?" t had a long nap when I first got it.” don't know whether to break my ermmagement or let etter Tet It cool off till ft freezes, then break it.” CASTORIA For Infants and Children, Talbot It cool off.” UNREAGONABLE. Mamma—Why, Herbert, what in tho world is the matter with sister? Herbert—Aw, we was just a-playin’ haunted house, an’ she was the ghost, No man tlving will enter a bual- TORENT TT EVENING » WORLD'S 2 HOME .2 MAGAZINE AA Pair of Nowell Costumes for the 1903 Summer Girl, Unique Travelling Dress and Party Gown Worn by the Hengler Sisters, T ts rather unusual to cite costumes worn in a musical | comedy as excelient models for the gowning of young Girls, but two of the costumes worn in ‘The Runaways” are worthy of this notice. They were designed for the Hengler Sisters and they are extremely simple and girlish. ‘The travelling or coaching dress is of champagne broad- cloth in very Ught weight and of a silky texture, so that it hangs in graceful folds. The skirts are plaited, the front gore being a graduated box plait which flares at the foot and makes the waist appear small by contrast. The loose three-quarter coats are cut on Monte Carlo fines, and have no plaits in the back. The sleeves are known as the large muff sleeves, and are of three-quarter length, the better to display the fetching bishop sleeve of the mousseline bilo worn beneath, The only trimming on the coat consists of velvet revers, turn-back cuffs and buttons in a shade of rownlsh-black velvet which harmonizes with tho cham- pagne tint in the broadcloth. The mousseline blouse ts opened in the front with @ soft double box-plait, and has a 'finely tucked crush collar and cuffs. The box-plait 1s fin- ished with five velvet buttons which match those on the coat. The hat worn with this costume is @ modified shepherdess TROATTRACTIVE, GOWNS BY THE FIEDLER WITERS! MONDAY. MAY 11, 1908. of simple design. The brim 1s of point Ventse, and the bandeau, as well as the edge of the brim, 1s formed from rolled chiffon in the champagne color. A twrst of the epiffom around the crown and a shower bow of champagne-colore® ribbons of narrow width to etmulate chenille fringa come plete the decoration. ‘The second costume lends itself admirably to a dozen mae terials for wear at the summer hops. The underskirt és of pale blue chiffon, accordion platted and finished at the foot with a frou-frou of rose-plaited chiffon in the same tint, Over this is hung a nine-gored skirt of blue Hberty taffeta in the same tint as the chiffon, and spangled Mghtly with silver. Each gore {ts cut in the form of a graduated panel, and they separate at the knee, to permit the chiffon skirt beneath to show as an inset flounce. The seams are outlined by a narrow spangled passementerie, and at intervals, to helghten the flounce effect of the entire skirt, are fastened pure white chiffon roges, The bodice, which is nearly 9 | sleeveless and cut with a low round neck, ts of accordion- plaited chiffon over the blue liberty taffeta, with a bolere ee of silver-spangled net which comes up to a sharp point tm the front and is finished with a spangled sunburst. The shoulder straps and belt also are spangled. % If the low neck is not desirable, a dainty guimpe could be made from gauged or shirred chiffon, and lace may be sub- stituted for the spangles that outline the gores of the skirt and for the bolero. The hat worn with this gown is of blue tulle, with a pale blue plume on ejther side of the up-turned brim. “OLD GLORY.” Upon the evacuation of Nashville, February, 1862, by the rebels under Gen, Albert Sidney Joanston, as the result of Gen. Grant's victory at Fort Donel- ____ Amusements. 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