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"Ves, | need a gardener. Have you had much experience?” wat lady; but | thought I'd Juet etep around to ack if youse really “gure, lady. | peddied rubber plants in Brooklyn for ten yearal” — | * @®idn't | tell you never to come around here begging again?” | ‘hewenlle OFF Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Fvening World). SENSE of humor ta a mental mackintoeh, off which the lemons Fate caste at ue roll tke raindrops. It tan't the lice which people tell adout a man that worry him, it's the harrowing fear that somebody may some day tell the truth about him, a8 Matches are NOT made in heaven. Providence gives us our relatives, Dut we have no right to blame our husbands and wives on Providence, too. After the honeymoon a woman begins to economize on sachet and * gcented soap, and a man to economize on shaves and kiescs. ‘A man's notion of an “ideat love affair” te one that he had lots of | trouble getting (nto, @nd no trouble in getting out of. a0 One reason that the modern man’s love-making lacks sparkle ts that Me sentiments have deen uncorked so carly and often that the have lost Salt their original effervescence, vo The peace that passeth understanding is that which sometimes exists penewrervy detween @ married couple on the etege, When @ woman trifles with the truth she merely covers it with a little chiffon timming, but a man always turns it wrong side out and oor it completely over, on ue dias. > — Never strike a woman, Just tell her that she looks like a freak in her new epring hat. The Man on the Road Dy & T. Battin, Copyright, 1018, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). RATTLESNAKE PETE. SN] *rone every man who makes he had rented and showed me the deed. 60 I made him a sporting proposition that he put up with me at the Powers and travel in style on the train. On| one condition, | “What is the condition?’ he asked, | " That you take a bath,’ I replied. “The old man turned to the old, tumbledown piano nearby and struck up a few chord: “I can't accept,’ he replied sorrow- Rochester more than once vis- ite ‘Rattlesnake Pete’, ex- plained Trapp, the dress goode man. vn 2% went there one night soon after I vegan making Rochester, and Pete was en hand with his akes, They crawled along the bar and drank from they alwaye do, As ” instance. You are to answer back !m- inediately the Grat word that comes into SrNorsis oF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, your mind sug was coming away a astiver-haired | fully. |mtoabalce rant sceeadts betel tothe Twill. aay ‘chain, oo” party with ‘I came away and left him dream- ing ‘evimainal ates VAmosleted probably you will answer ing amid his un jam énemmaner Ben The next thme I de the town IT raa across him at Pete's place. He came at me with the same proposition, I accepted It without the stipulated path. He accepted with joy. I got two rooms 4 entertained him royally.” "When you got to Buffalo with him, what did you get?’ asked Frankel, the | Boed hat man. hed surroundings. and wanted to know if I was a ¥o on, Do you catch my meaning? may seem It ridiculous, no doubt, but Lefore we are through I.feel sure you'll _ port. “4 Flow much does it cost?’ I inquired. “‘One dollar and seventy-five cents,’ he repiied. ‘Then maybe I am,’ ‘What's the proposition?’ “Take me to Buffalo, IT own @ * Nouse there and have deen living on the rent of it, For three months no see how uable such a test ts, par+ ticularly in @ simple case of nervous- ness auch as you 1 don't think she found any sinister interpretation In his words, but I did, and if ever I wanted to protest it was then, ‘but my volce seemed to atick in my throat. I responded. mit, and if Ican| ‘Another ticket home. All the real ae He was beginning. It was clearly up ‘, papa the mot et veil it." tate my protege owned was the small CHAPTER Ii. to me to give in and not Interfere, As told him ry was interesting | quantity he carried around with him, Deuniaed) closely as T was able I kept my eyes riveted on the watch and other appar- atus, while my ears and heart followed With mingled emotions the low, musical voice of the girl. 1 will not give all the test, for there Was much of it, particularly at the start, that was in reality valueless, rince it was merely leading up to the urprise tes From the colorless tions Kennedy suddenly changed. tt ‘was done jn an instant, when Misa Fond had been completely disarmed and put off her guard, rales " gald Kennedy. It was portable.” true, but he took me to an old barn The Silent Crackeman. wm HE smiled languidly as he ad- i] justed a long, tightly fitting rubber glove on her shapely forearm and then encased it in @ larger, absolutely inflexi- le covering of leather. Between the rub- ber glove and the leat) quid communicating by a with a sort of dial. Craig explained to me how ‘he pres: blood was registered most minutely on b the dial, showing the varied emotions as keenly as if you hed taken into the v think the experim called the thing a “‘plethysmograph. nen he had measured “as ential part of thi 7 ‘Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers Relatives. “Day LITTLE while ago I suggested that the girl engaged A to be married would d) well to cultivate a Mking for her future husband's relatives, Now, I urge the young man who has asked a girl to become hia wife to do everything possible for the establishment of amicable re- lations between his fiancee and his family, Don't hesitate to show your affection for both the parties “Horne.” agine a faint herita- concerned, You are the natural mediator, Help your | operation of a very isd fF hi mother to understand your future wife; help the latter to /and this duty was given to m bogie eg make allowances for an older woman who may feel that | flee mare wards followed’ one gation ia Guike she is losing the dearest thing in her world—her son. 1) her succession, There was no rest. She had If actual friendehip is too much to expect at once, a ‘ded the ce to collect herself. ‘ked difference in kindly toleration should be established from the beginning, As L have sald before, it 18 so vulgar to disagree with in-laws, miliar with the process, for when we were in college thees instruments were Just coming into use in America, Kennedy had never let his partioular branch of acience narrow him, but had made a practice of keeping abreant of “X, Z."" writes: ‘T pay attention to a girl whom I like very much, but whom I can't marry. I have been frank with her, but she urges me to keep on being No Kiss. ov, RY writes: “I took a girl home * from @ dance recently, and when she Oe kilos her { refused, Now ey ‘and smeth= Tere ee ee motion men Did 1 do | Tends. ts thin fale 10 heres eeanx, |0u#. in other flelde, Besides, T had read Levi 1 think #0, as you have been frank. cope, the count that question out. rignt” Uniess, of course, you are injuring Mer good many seconds." no reason why you should KI8 I gyoiqiiy. “Very well, let us try again,” he re- on, ae plied with @ forced unconcern, thougn ew. Do owrites am tn love Jeverran if h . "L enjoy the cOM-) with a young man who says he loves [an RL "7 q y bt} », e y ‘Now, pany of a young lady immensely, and Lime, But he has asked my father for a Fr have agreat longing to ver her Wien| pig dowry, Doesn't that prove that he | {cite Was #0, reaaeuring Bare fevelled In an J have been away from her for some) cares more for my money than for shade moi ly than did Kennedy ‘ime. Do you think tnar 1 sa in love| me? paratior He snapped out his words sharply and with her? In this country the dowry-hunter :s sogarded with 8 children’ unexpectedly, thle: & onl) Bay @ word~take ‘dog,’ ter “Light.” Guees 0 GETTER ANSwer tT RIGAT AWAY AND GET (T" dicator creased oction time, 1 noted that it was gro “De you think I'll be able to de anything with my velce, prefecsert” " Peters sty me, Angetina, 1 am connected with some ef the beet fam “Well, might come in handy In case of fire er shipwreek!” Wen yen “Ves, it’e perfectly wonderful what the telephone dees for one!” ~" Got Their Start By HMadison C. Peters, Copyright, 1018, 7 The Prone Publishing Co, (Tho few York Evening World), No. 3.—JOHN J. HUGHES; From Bog Cutter to Archbiehop. |OHN J. HUGHES, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church, pe formed immeasurable services to our country during its, mest crucial pertod. Hie visit to England and France to sesist the American Government in ite efferts to keep those nations neutral luring the civil war was one of the most important measures which Drought vietery to Mr. Beward's diplomacy. John J. Hughes was born in Annaleghen, Ireland, June 34, 3797): We He wae poor. HEY LILY, WHERE ARE You 2 (eer SRE IGnT HERE MY MIND Getermined at fourteen to be a priest. He had no friends. Hie invinoible determination for hie high calling carried bim through—Out over what a read! Years of manual labor, with evenings devoted to study, through muck-hauling, bog-cutting, potato-digging, canal-excavating and mif ing after hie tmmigration to America. He was twenty years old when he arrived in New York, poor and ignorast, On 97 @ month he saved money and gecured a tutor. cat He waiked the ‘OH YES HAReY DARLING PL At forty be WEAR, THAT PINE was Bishop of New York, moving the @ eloquence. And DRSss Yeu UIKs at fifty-two he was made A! Se Much fe be Bishop simpeon stood Archbishop Hughes in t! cause seemed most hopeless. Beecher's England ven matched by the labore of ‘The heart of thte America au tt 44 in loyalty to Charles Carrell, John J, Hughes, Phil Sheridan end hundreds of thousands of others, equally worthy of mention, are denials of the foolish, aesertion that Cathelictem te im conflict with republican institutions, enn AAR ARRRAARAAARA ARISE APD ORDE OECD API jA Glimpse Into New York Shops! HIE woman who feels timid about | that ts necessary is to immerse the sliver washing windowe can now ace | for a couple minutes and then rinse end complish this feat of the heuse- | ary. cleaning process without trepidation, even if she lives on the top floor, One of our housefurnistving stores is showing a simple device of metal that makes it possible to clean every equare inch of less in @ window from the inside and without any etrain, It can be bought for 2% cents. Another handy cleaning utensil is the brush mop. The handle is detachable, and attachments for wet or dry use can be purchased from & cents to $1.35. The handjes are % cents. A chemically sre- pared duatiess attachment that adsorbs the dust precludes the necessity of a @uetpan, and those impregnated wit! ofl are especially practical for keepi hardwood floors in good condition. ‘These range in price from §1 to 91.60, ace cording to size, The woman who dreads the rubbing of the clothes need no longer pair cleanser of metal. It is of nickel-plated, brase in the shape of a pair of tongs 60 to easily manipulate o ball and eoaped and disinfected paper which can then be released never know of it." er know?" er—If In tho end justice Is do Have you the will? Or did you 4 @troy it?” It was a bold atrok A “Yeu, No. Here it is. How could I destroy it, even though it wus burning out my very eoul?" he literally tore the paper from the bosom of her dre and cast it from her in horror amd terror, Kennedy picked it up, opened it, and glanced hurriedly through {t. “Mise ond,” he said, “Jack shall never keow age containing three months' Ané@ now we have a new tine of ing utensils whose wearing such that the articles are dndeatructible. They have ao appearance, very much like {a easily sustained and they anteed non-corrodimle, all qualifications of excelent kitchen atone lta.” Out of the cor- I could that the fi showed a tremendously 1 veart action. As for the r ing Jonger and mor morselessly h Mentally I cursed him, “Rubb i “Steel.” “Pitteburgh,” she cried at significam, Ri his words home, over her inability to secure an eMolent *schtreng bag emanaae & word of thie, J stall tell him that! jgundress. ‘There ts © vacuum ctothee| We A seven-quare ten kettle cam Ge Hoth. ASAIN He anawe the will has been found unexpectedly In| washer that need only be placed in the| Nad at %6. A fry pan ts 62.25 and. © lenge John Fletcher" sk among some other your honor ar thet thie | win was saucepan in $3.60. The chemieaily prepared olotha are a boon to the busy wife, There is one for brass, copper and nickel and another for gold ailver and now there is one for highy finished | wood work and jeather, upe aleter: furniture. A handy ¢ the office. Price % cents, + ee ried‘ wort washboller with the clothes end in twenty minutes everything wih be thor- oughly cleansed without any hand labor whatsoever, This handy device is be- Ing wold at 62.50. The woman who finds the task of silver cleaning so obnoxious should try one of the new silver-clean pane. All ympa' fluttering of indicator, £ An the last word wan uttered he of ye ag deflance w: pt away, With @ cry of anguish she swayed to rt. wearily down inv @ chalr and pressing her ands to her throbbing forehead. By telling me just how you so that when you frarvied 1 may ibe a good ‘ friend, without suapicion, to you an am to him. | think a full santaeadsn would do you good, Mine Bond. Would you prefer to have Dr. Jameson not heae it?" “No, he may‘atay.” “This much I know, Misa Bond. Tast summer in Paria with the Greenes vou nust have chaaced to hear of Pili the Apache, one of the most cracksmen the world has ever produced You sought him out. He taught you how ¢o paint your fingers with @ rubber composition, how to use an electric drill, how to use the old-fashioned jimmy. You went down to Fletcherwood by the back road about a quarter efter eleven the night of the robbery in the Greenes’ Utule electrics runabout. You entered the Hbrary by an un- locked window, you coupled your drill to the electric light connections “of chandelier, You had to work quick! the power would go off at midnight, yet you could not do the job later, when they were sleeping more soundly, for the very same reason. It Wax Uncanny Kennedy rushed #long in his reconstruction of the Almost unbelievable. The girl watched him, fascinated. Fletcher was wakeful that night. Somehow or other he heard you at work, ‘He entered the Iibrary and, by the ight streaming from his bed. room, he saw who it was, In anger he addressed you, and hi better of hi the floor with a stroke of poplexy. As you bent over him he died, But why did you ever attempt eo gloated over, doctor, you must not—you ahe cried with outstretched Why do you, pick out those ‘an it be"'—— arms. words of all others? If I had not caught her I believe she would have fainted, The indicator showed a heart nately throbbing with feveri#i exciie- foolish an undertaking? Didn't you know that ot} Borger’ knew of the will and its term at you were sure to be traced outyin ime end, if not by friends, dean of the new ach by foes? How did you suppose you provided for me in t could profit by destroying the will, of I need millions, which others knew the proviaions? Any other woman than Helen Bond 4 would have bean hysterical long be- fore Kennedy had finished pressing home remorselesaly one fact after an- other of her story. But, with her, the relief now after the tension of y Kennedy, can you not see that ferent trom Jack? Wha‘ with the income of the alter- ment and almost stopping with fear. What would Kennedy do next, 1 won- dered, determined to ehut him off xs s00n as Ipossibly could, From the mo- ment I had seen her I had been under her spell. Mine should have been Fletcher's place, 1 knew, though @ can- hot but say that I felt @ certain grim pleasure in supporting even momentarily euch a woman in her time of need. “Can it be that you have guessed what no one in the world—no, not even dear old Jack—dreama? Ob, T shall go mad, ‘mad, maid! Kennedy was on his feet in an instant, advancing toward her. The look in his eyes Wax answer enough for her, Sho knew that he knew, and she paled ang whuddgred, shrinking away from him Miu Hond,” he said, in a voice that forced attention—4t was low and vibrat- ing with feeling—"Miss Bond, have you ever told @ lle to shield @ friend? “Yon,” mhe said, her eyes meeting his. “So can 1," came back the «ame tense voice, “when I know the truth about that friend.” Then for the first time tears came tn a storm, (Her breath was quick and fever. ish, ‘No one will ever belleve, no one will understand, ‘They will say that I killed him, that T murtered him." ‘Through it all I stood almost mpeech- leas, puzzled. What di it all mean? “No,” 9a08 Reunedy, ‘no, tor they wih everything I wanted. But ét fe ‘ateereet your own money. then I could have t country house, the yacht, the the clothes, the servants that [ whey are as much a part of my your profession |s of yours, I must them. ‘And now It was all to slip fr hands, ‘True, it was to go in way by this last will as to make happy dn his new school. I let that go, If that’ wi so 8 other fortunes that ha my feet, But | wanted Sack, knew Jack wanted me, Dear never could realize how utterly intellectual poverty would have made and how my unhappiness reacted on him In the end. this great and beneficent wus finally to blight both our leve our lives. “What was I to do? Stand by hours of concealment seemed to nerve her to go to the end and tell the truth. What was it? Had she some secret her own reputation? Wh made Fletcher withdraw? Her eyes dropped and her breast rose and fell with suppressed emotion, Yet I wae hardly prepared for her reply when at last she slowly raised her head and looked us calmly in the fac “I did it because I loved Jack. Neither of us spoke. I, at least, had fallen completely undor the spell of thie masterful woman, Right gr wrong, I could not restrain a feeling of ad- miration and amasement. “"Yoa," whe sald, as her voice thrilled with emotion, “strange as it may sound to you, It was not love of welt that made my ife and my love ruined oF. mo do it. T was, J am madly in love Jack for the fortune of a man d a with Jack. No other man has ever love? Helen Bond je not that inapired such respect and love as he has. woman, i said 40 His work in the university I have fairly And yet-ama yet, De, (a Bed had Kennedy "J ie for i af S38 v.28 te