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esday, November ne, Tu 26; 1912 Ho Por you ARE A WILD +4 AHA! ALHALI Lite HNEW WHERE A RAT HAD BEEN TRAPPED RECENTLY THE VERY THING FOR ATICER! How FORTUNATE! But Donny 1 GROWL OR EAT ANY ONE UP WHAT; KIND OF A TIGER AMI? You STAY IN THERE TILL WE TIGER AND WE sei eauerN Feed You ou! TS The Coming of the Law “THE TWO-GUN MAN’S” Greatest Novel By Charies Alden Seltzer When Cupid Could Loaf. errant, Avid, ‘bbe v1 ‘Un eoing Oo tre New Yort Bronibe Word), By Eleanor Schorer i The Girl of Yesterday = { * “Mere Man” a Hopeless Failure. that i had Jost the trail For a long time he wat quietly in: / the eaddle, trying in the dense derk- Ness to determine upon direction, but he finally guve it up and with @ sud- den impulse took up the reine and pulled the pony to the left, determined to keep to the flat country as long as ponaible. He travelled for what seemed sev- eral miles, the pony gingerly feeling its way, when suddenly it halted and refused to advance. Something was - wrong. Hollis leaned forward, at- tempting to peer through the dark- BY CHARLES DARNTON. UGUSTUS THOMAS must have seen the moon over his left shoulder before A attempting to dramatize the etars that shine irrespective of electric signs, for of all his plays “Mere Man," seen at the Harris Thoatre last night, is the least briitiant. In the dight of this flickering comedy even “The Model,” now nosing--or reposing—in the storehouse, seems perfect. uning that in this instance Mr. Thomas worked under his “eign,” we can nelude that it is a bad one. Under {t an amateur playwright méght have * ate. car ght ‘earl an anonymon office door, war s 1s the answer we might have read in the stars if the name of | cick te hat erening if . Mess ahead, but not suceeding. And ) the author het not stared us in the face. For one thing, an impoastbly imperti- Hane is coming 19 the Ricker office at O orciyek TOW) &8 though having accomplished nent maid “sassed” her mistress in an tw urier Ginn Hollis overcomes “Ten Spot" and ite design by causing Mollis to lose An : tu him from a ovurderoug into a tient. the trail, the lightning flashed again, impossible Irish dialect. Ghe was caught ae eon tied as gits home toward hls Siiuminating tho surrounding county with a pair of gloves that figured much seach a Horm, overtakes BI, for several miles, Hollis had been peering ahead whan the flash came and he drew a di breath of horror And surprise, The pony had halted within @ foot of the edge of @ high cliff whose side dropped away sheer, as though cut with @ too promifently In the first act, only to be caught later on with other goods that she had stolen, This exaggerated incident made one wonder at ‘West- chester society” as Mr. Thomas sees it, this time in Yonkers, Worst of all, It CHAPTER X. (Continued.) The Lost Trail. HEN Norton had provided bim with an outfit the inevitable “took the shine off” the woman astrol- | tarpaulin had net teen meg: Gig rene a ee perape © nun oger who put In a rather late appear: lected. Hollis remembered through which flowed @ etream of ance as the heroine of the play. that this was attached to the water. . ; In the eyes of the law she was merely cantle of the saddle, and so, after hehad To Hollis's right, parallel with the». { a fortune-teller, and in the vulgar lan- proceeded a little way along the crest of #tream, the cliff sloped suddenly down, Kunge that minions of the law employ the rid halted the pony, dis- Aching the wat ge at « distanody she had been “pinched” as such, But mounted, unstrapped the tarpaulin, ‘ana of two three hundred feet. Beyon her conscience was as clear as the eye folded it'about him. Then he remounted tat was a stretch of sloping country ‘many miles in area, and, also on his eight, was a dong, high, narrow ridge. Ho recognized the ridge as the one on with which she read the stars, for she was the true daughter of an astrologer ; who had taught her the sclence of the 4nd continued on his way, mentally thanking Norton for his foresight, The pony had negotiated the ridge; heavens as appiled to mere man and woman. Her lawyer brought her to the home of the district-attorney, whose had slowly loped down ita slope to a comparatively low and level stretch of country, and was travelling steadily fore ward, when Hollis noticed a change in which he and Norton bad ridden some six weeks before—on the day he had had ‘the adventure with Ed Hazelton, Another flash of lightning showed him wife, strange as It may seem, was one the atmosphere. It had grown hot again two cotton-wood trees—the ones pointed of her most devoted patrons, Ada Haw- sultry; the heat @ecmed to cling to out to him by Norton as marking Big ley believed in Esther Lennard, who him. An ominous calm had succeeded Elk crossing—the dead line set by Dun- could read horoscopes as easily as you t eral disturbance. From a great lavey and thie mi q Hollis knew his direction now and ho pulled the pony around and headed tt away from the edge of the cliff and nee came a slight eound—a gentle sighing—gradually diminishing until it died away entrely. ' read Ada headlines of your newspapers. Chrystal Herne as Esther Lennard. also belleved in woman suffrage. | on th the district-attorney's wife was overwrought. ‘Ti ron- we ee tesa of the heavenly aclence, “she 1s passing | Perhaps Cupid's 1. chods of wooing have changed more than any other| maid listened to the lovelorn awain reading verse between heart thrODs.| itary iene caret ue eus premon, coward the flat country which he know throug a rary influence in the planets." ‘ Siz-cylinder courtships and the overerushed business man and pretty and movement. Hollis urged the pony Hollow, where he had taken leave of And just a thunderstorm broke loose and Ilghtning struck the house. hsning in this wide, wide world, Gone are the days when he had time td ste her k id he He’ forward, hoping the calm would last un- Ed and Nellie Hazelton. ‘ tee ANG liehia Want Out th kin WaT Ba: Bue thi ‘ nographer romanges keep Cupid on the jump now. He'e too duey 0/111 he had covered a goodly part of the He wae congratulating himself upon Wyner the Heute mene out tho curtain went down, But this wasn't the end ot | bask in the sunshine under a blossoming apple tree where the brautiful| yawn in 1912, distance to the Circle Bar. Wor a quar- his narrow escape when a flash of 0 8 a a 7 ook a ain cal ang came an extra bolt from] Le ter of an hour he went on at @ good dightning again Hluminated the country the blue, as if to show that lightning can strike twice In the same place, stage 7 pace, Hut he had scarcely reached the and he saw, not over a hundred feet dig- directions to the contrary. By working overtime, in spite of the rules of the j Hi t edge of a stretch of broken country tant, aitting motionless on thelr ponies, union, the property ian provided the real sensation of the evening. His second) 1 The Da y's nts to Which be dreaded even in the daylight @ naif dozen cowboy: thunderelap came as though it were re- h e ( : on ues t S | Christmas "TC dId not come unkodet A. thinds _A1%0 on thle pony, alightly tn advance sponding to an encore, and shook the Good Stories ' Sh Ing flan of lightning illuminated miles Of th® others, @ grin of Gertston on his, . Wetec Pe might easily have ka O f oppers of th wmirrounding country, showing feos, wee Dumarey, ronger play migt y Cc olla the naked peaks of rid d been shattere? by this gratuitous thun- Next Case. The on Ss t a nce 6G TPE deat T think tt ts pergectly, hills around him; gullies: drawe, tae CRAM xi. 5 Ggeboltal Bul (Mere Mant" wan aire gly : | awful the way #0 many people, 'ancas, the levels, lava beds, fantastic In the 5 in confusion, As for Yonkers, it was ba inlaw age gry” “aplasia IT (SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR AT THE HOTEL RICH) feel about giving Chratmas| rock shaper—mocking his ignorance of Picking Up he. tren las cc in darkness. A strike that seemed to pagel nag reer ymonagr presents," exclaimed an indignant wom-| ‘he country, had overtaken Hollie, Potter owe its insplration to Mghtning had have to. pay, benause Eom in.a bury, to pet ob,| @aehter. By Alma Woodward an whom I accosted at one of the shop|,,{1¢ saw them all for an tnetant, and Was unsaddling his pony at the {put tne lighting plant out of bu but T haven't $50 in my pocket, Will you take counters the other day. “It takes all}jien they were Kone bee al rae Circle Bar corral gate, A fit- ) and terror reigned, Even a widow—and | my chee Copprigat, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Erening Werld), [the spirit out of this happy season tolas though @ hase mag Mak ‘etedsnir We later he well on Coe mee a widow that any sensible man would ““Gupe,"* ald the Justice OU ever bin In Brooklyn?" Con-| “Was he the next? take away the pretty sentiment ex{heen thrust before hia eyes. by some lower gallery from the sascle house washing the stains of travel érom his face and hands. At supper he was have gone miles out of his way to stance demanded with all the presved by gift-makin, Woggley drew his check and at once proceeded wiant hand, an intense lmht thrown upon She nodded slowly and pointed to the it and the light suddenly turned off, Unks tn her tailored shirt, ao avold!—wasn't safe in the streets, Brick- | to crank up his machine. savageness of the prosecuting , ail ducing the year I just think bats were hurled through windows until “Hyar, aalater,"” cried the Justice, “they hain't cross-examiner. ie give me them,” aie enld, “ant 1] tim capital fun to make notes of the| Immediately there came « heavy crash tnciturn, hia face Seenly shone ee ‘AGA gave up suffrage and sought safety no need 0? your doin’ that, I'd ought to ha “Tots of times.” Ai nim fade ‘cause he was too mmiie {estes expressed by my friends, und{®# though the Storm Kings, having Outcome of the meeting? These auee- in her husband's arms, The moral of told ye we'll hey to hokl that there car en'| 1 confesaed cheer- | 71 nim fade | he wus too amti-|then at Christmas time It in perfectly] marshalled thelr forces, had thrown tone preyed on hie mind and Drouget tte ike caused’ tn be chat abana gate Sourity til the check gues through,” fully, “Always on ) @bout business. Wuan't 1 Jolly to soe the expressions of surpriss| (nem toxether in one, great, clashing on- ‘towe into his face. D And Y boob? Well, yuh know, It used to } 4 rush, And then, straight down, roaring ant fragist, strong in speech but weak {1 iy the way to Coney |" SOAHInUAWPulle deat and satisfaction when I present a muche| ind shrieking, came the delug At supper he caught Norton watch- the knees, must in the end seek manly Island, dan Ales ahse “2 A vin nant longed-for article. It may be only a} The wise iittle plaing pony halted, 1" him furtively and he flushed gutltily, retection, Mr. Thomas's sympathy "Aw" (she was |°°" FAR BROW, An think ltrine, but then, you know, the pleasure! standing with drooping he ; : for he felt that In spite of Hollis’ or- P lodern Morals. Jany ona ta talkin! about me on Jaughs : K with drooping head, awaiting with “the cause” came to this and fo a Giomusted’ at auy'|i47, tte Walkin staat, aie on fivesn't depend upon the cost of the gift.| the end of the firat flerce onslaught. 1; 2€F to say} nothing to Norton he should nothing more. Bee es ais her day on the levity), “that ain't [inn ay fe ju 4 einant in’ one A) What we have wanted the most gives lasted long and when it had gone an- have told. He Bad alre: ~ bp ed Pe ee en eee | morality of ylitiians was not all that what T mean, 1 | (Mit kesicht thavd wend "em b3-9y lthe most gratifcation, if attained other allence, ae ominous as the pre- Norton thet Hollie intended semalsiag stars, could see nothing in votes for | In politics, es in eome Toes of bustness,"” he mean IN Ite0re |i An’ this guy, ed alwaye be: Cain |qe sees F BAYS @ $0t:6f trendy who ony main acenet uoual, but he had auld nothing about women, and in this unearthly role Miss continued, “the remark of the very cynical young you gots get Of linings to make people talk anout us, | aven't the time to envbroider, and they| king hin way" slowly, for the intended visit of Ten Spot to ehe Chrystal Herne acted both sensibly and woman holds true, the cai ‘ alk @ u always appreciate a bit of hand work, ‘ y Mowly, sor i ry “ti i . oN, r Yuh see, he kep’ a haberdashers 1 the trail was now slippery and hazard. Kicker office, beautifully. Miss Herne has never William Sampson as Throwbridge. | So you ate going to marry George, at last, Not that 1 ean} (Nun see. he i pa rda pJand so my gifts are not auch @ drain}cug, The baked earth had become a Loyalty to Hollis kept Mm from % looked #0 charming, nor exhtbited such the said to a friend, ‘What ix he like?’ 4 ernie eee ed it the Glad Ragger Upon any purse. Perhaps that ts why I) siimy, aticky clay which clung tena- communicating to Norton his fears bd Mee as she did jast night, Her scene with the doctor who knew enough to} ‘He the most uprigtt, high-minded, hon: nm yuh ain't never bin—you'd ‘a’ | pught sounded swell an’ original. Jam auch a @trong advocate of wift-mak-|clously to the pony's hoofs, for Hollis's safety, It was now too ® poiso as orale fellow in the world,’ was the euthusisstic | reme: : An’ he wuz always inventl Bs understans woman, If not the astrologer, gave the play a luman, as well |r rT Peeper neneelec EAT NUR AYR SO ee ee aes ' For another quarter of an hour the late to de anything If he did tell Nor as a fine, quality for a few moments. Mor his part Orlando Daly made the doctor | — ‘Goodness, my dear,’ aald the pretty cynic, |U4NC" In @ private hall over there tas’ [1h rapt Ha aren ‘ ie Ripkene, Jus | Mut then T think It 1s foolish to go}Poty floundered through the mud, ton; whatever aat a n done had been, the only gentleman in Yonkers. Breeding and sill marked his performance. | ‘yuu’ stare td Washingtow Star BIant by one uy the ladies’ maids up in| eke the willing iittie voluntrers [beyond one's moans in atving Christmas| Around Sigantio boulders, over allne Gane slready and there: was Lanting je lounge roon he lab aver’ tharen|% ith their advance salary ees . er 00 cross le ex, for hy 0 do but to Willian Sampson was amusing as a long-suffering husband, but his part owed = Lert Me mie VON OYSE there vay hb did ik wie WHEC Ti lected: [eee CRIT, MAE E ORR ATONE, AGG TOK Manatees eer eerie n ee. atk cae everything to the fact that it was in the hands of a clever actor. True Often Enough. MER ta Renee Sy ard main A PAU AR oth pau aOR jie \Soeea't ‘worry me much what cash into comparatively le stretches of After he finished his meal he drew Lacking both in characterization and tn story, "Mere Man” suggested nothing . ee BE desktp ate Seat aacab ia taba PPT aR rT ORL tare hide an’ (value the recipients place upon the art!) country, Hollis was beginning to think a chair out upon the gallery and plac- iid Rec ctens tallure, tie railway surgeons’ recent dance in |be slows of follers to take me home, {Vest with three buttons on one side an’ ole, “Any one who iw mean enough to do| that ht escape @ tad wetting ing {tin @ corner trom whore hecabutll Polladelphia Dr, B. ©, Bush of | An’ that led me on. She said to get one i t ; we : two buttons on t jthat doesn't deserve @ satisfying gift, | after all when the rain came again. «ee the Dry Bottom trail he seated ville, told, apropos of operating (a) at Nevins street, an’ I did. Ve her, with nite Us cord, an’ then he'd /anyway, But C must hurry end mal, This time it seemed the Storm Kings himself in it and tried to combat the &@ little story, There wuz a uv pills standin’ | SI in the subway an’ n his coat | my tions,” | were in earnest. ‘The rain caine down disquietiog fears that oppressed him, ii . rw old fellows," he began, “wore talking at lat the top uv the steps an’ 1 stepped up )*!4e even though it wux freeain’ out, | And nore 19 what she purchased: Alin torrents; Hollis could feel it striking | Norton had repeatedly referred to t © seaside sanitarium about their ailments, an’ asked ‘em where this joint wuz. L a everybody'd lamp It. We sald |ehild's dress of white linen, for which |#Sainst his turpaukn tn tong, stinging Hollls's absence, and h time Potter etty ELS © hte gee eee erent eae a rae Ne rae De Ld tecte te aan nate ane crm wie te, fae shi ago eam Nm ing Nel seat Att oom See Qn me, but the consulting surgeom vetoed It,’ thelr cigarettes out uv their faces when! “Why, once when he got out a new | ready to wear. had banc¢ f pink {@Md danced atong the ridges and into #90 Shortly before 9 o'clock, whem e “‘Wetoad it, ehtt Whyt! eald the second, 48] they wuz directin’ me! f went the way jKind uy men's garters he give a reaar {and a stamped deslan Whit che feat | the gullies with continu encrgy, the the clouds lifted and the stars began to vice t (e) over Ss he waiched « flahing boat rocking om the bluelene, Duinted an’ turned the corner like [show tn the Siath wvey Pre eant Lee caer sane eee following, crushing in terriflc appear, Potter rove and paced the gal- wares, il Ai CHENG fae COPDAP: Ke rill BYEROD OS: ouas w to embroider in pin' It was uncomfortable, y floor, At % When it had become \ “He considered, was the anewer, ‘that y{they said. Ruby Red Hall wuz the |ie'd be erpped sure! All the tine It| Kor the same price she bought a tittle +, and the entyaomect! enough to see quite a Httle die \ : Sagal attr etic te Sesatens jname, Well, when T landed 1 wus in| Ws makin’ business, uv course, Hut, | white fawn dress, It had @ baby waist! waa that the deluge would down the Dry Bottom trail and / The Old-Time Girl. attention, Otherwise, no matter how | gna difficuit operation,’ "Philadelphia the blackest, deadest street I ever seen, |RO8M, tt wus flerce mortifyln’ fer }and a belt of embroidery. A dainty de-{¢iod-send to the land and. th were still no signs of Hollis, he 4 ; lasible for the |i2noCent she Is of sentimental motives,| Americas, Why, you could ‘a’ heard your own|yuh know, Tho las’ straw wuz when [sign on the walst and sleeves Will be! Hollly began to wish that he rg d out the story of the day's oc I \s 9 Lent pela eeaaved art ¢ {these will be attributed to her by the PERE ie shadow followin’ yuh! he got the Idea fer a man to have his}embrotdered in white. mained in Dry Bottom for the night, Surren moat modest and well- by of) world, | “Now | knew that a place with a|address embroidered on his tandker.| At 49 cents she selected a bi 3 to. ,, The Information scted ‘upon Nerten n ; ‘ u A iF Ne e broid o 4 handker. . 4 she da blue cham-| but of course Dry Buttom was not to t tt a a at | And she will be taughed at—which is Shot for Preference. monnaker like Ruby Red ain't goin’ to | chief, He said it'd be great stuff ‘cause [uray play-apron, — ‘The edges were all/ De thought of now; he must devote ali ke an electric shock. He was on his Would have horr'-| most unpleasant, RATHER tursid orator, noted for bie ver-|hang out in a Kraveyard like that, so I it'd be so handy comin’ home from ait {stamped in scallops and the design at| MA energy to reaching the ranch eet ihetere “Pottar: Dad: Abed ieee fied her erent barr ostty and heaviness, was once assigned | beat it back to the gay White Way with {ting up with alck friends an’ things, | the front and on the pockets will be em-|__!t Wax #low work for the pony. After IRE Krasbing him by the snoulders an mother at her age. | Parental Objections. to do some campaigning in & mining the trolley on it, an’ I seen a cop, I | an’ people moved so often they'd have | broldered im white solid padded work, | Tidine for another quarter of an hour PANN Mill NOURMIY | The spirit of sex- i‘ Tian as camp {o the mountains, There were about fifty asked him un’ he sald: to buy ten times as many handkerchiefs | For @ crepon nightdrese ahe paid s160,| Ll saw, during another lightning hy Ida you say some hg democracy tn dn tha Wy! meson “1 '8m 1B 10V8 With S lalagey ocment then Oe) Wanna, 8 YO, Sl 'Oh, you're way oul uv your aye (en them UMUeliy G10, Mo he cot one for | ior 2 pei tcireas she paid $1.0 | magn, another of his landmarks, und ré he demand hy did yeu air, Coreducation,| Young army officer and he !s devoted to| the end of comple of tours, he gare wo sea] o.. ei itiia ert oo at TT eee ee ncle ane é got on This in to make happy @ girl who can't) atiged that In the last quarter of an Have him? Wasn't there somebody in eee ae Gut abn’ Batenia “abiecl to. the ae tiapkien nattmtioms comtaatieee yo yuld’a’ wot out at Hoy streot, [tir ant | ; na Br [Afford expensive laundry bills," she ex-) pour he had travelled a very short dis) DTY Bottom that you could have sent women into busi-|match. What shall we do?” Some went back to work, tut the majority, YUN beter jump on this car an’ ride way loca i ew Square with 'h {plained ton It was made up in Em-! tan The continuing fashes of ighte pul share, te Mane witihe cursed hees and many less| Tf you are both over twenty-one you| *ifit vlaces to quench thelr thirt, which lad] PACK axain That mus another nlckel ne sues SMO mas tn ‘the inal oar a {nt |Pire affect and had the edges trimmed ‘ning had helped the pony forward, but Givma aharoiy, ‘nin even atiteerine ears direct {nfluencea| May marry Gespite the protest of your Mee sexrareted by the crrase of the discourse, /¥OU know. Gut T did it an’ soy, that (oaeh station the eniddie uv of the |ige deny ate, A stamped floral de-| presently tho Ughtning coused atl & geaty, “Hed have been here. by thie Finally there was only one auditor left, a di.| burg is the blamedest place! When yun |Jus’ when he got In the midd of the | orated the front and the sleeves, dense blackness succeeded bony 4 have brought about| Parents, | pee i | : ' " \ ! time" He was taking a hitch In his lapidated, weary-looking old fellow, Firing his|pay your fare the conductor asks yuh [car he'd drop this rag an’ some one'@ mething new in lace embroid went forward at an uncertain pace; sev- thie atate of affairs, nee Gaze on bi, the orator pulled out @ large six} how yuli like the weather, {f you're a {Plok tt up an say funoy. Tt was a white filet net;| eral thes It halted and faced etout, curtridae belt while talking, angisetens \ Nevertheless | “J. E." writes: “I mate a very un-| shooter and laid it on the table, The old fel-jatranger, an’ if youre a reg'lar - Gira tute vontane the design te partially covered with ners| @Pparentiy undecided about tho trai, Concluding he wee dawn ofthe walle vy je you going to show 0 1A Pour’ ‘i | eo . retoh of fevel country, ” . oben aunderstood roan 9. whom he introduoed me Tl be 8 ss poche (ee ym | tO baby cut over night has my address on it ‘Then the guy'd [the purpowe, and the result Is extremely | Coming to a str oh af MAIrY, Kottom. he called back to Potter, “Ime eS , Y Jover since that eve-| ound to finish my speech, even it I hare to| 2 Suess there's some good left in old [open his mouth anile an’ gape. When| pretty, A plncushlon done in yellow rib. 8 Pony halted again, refusing to rex ‘ant business! I'll be back shortly ferentlate In any way between her young| ning. If T apologize and he dosn't for. | und 0 finish my spend. New York then?" we got to Ninety-sixth we wuz in the} bon, which was displayed as a sample, “P0Md to Hollis's repeated urging to 80 after midnight!" fae ond Net YOURE women. friends, Her | Give me whet seal t gor ‘The old fellow sighed tos tired manner, ang! “Don't mention it,"" she pleaded, “It's|firat car, But that wus my last experi. | was decidedly effective. She selected & (pre Noise ent te une the ne | Leaving Potter on the porch, stating. treatment of the former must be lem | If you make your apology at once and edged slowly aver, suring as he did’ en |aces—that's all! I guess maybe I wuz lence, Tt wuz too dangerous, Say, T]pincush'on “square” at % cents, and a far ge yn lad to urke the ant- after him he ran to the corral, roped bis effusive, She must not seek thelr oon- are eufficiently sincere about tt you will ” “Wen, {f! you want to, I may jest ag Coollsh to throw down that haberdash-|didn't know what he mlgnt {avent sofa pillow at 0 cents, The ribbon for mar ne cull, inreatened ‘ut the pony, threw on a eaddie and bridle and Mdence noj thrust herself upon their doubtless be forgiven, : ! pil ribbon for pony would not budge. Hollis was mounted with the animal on @ run, well be sot as talked to death,"-—Tit-Bita, [ncxt working ls 18 cents a skein, tereed te she uncomfortable realization (To Be Continued)