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framell Cooarient.. 113, y few Fubliahing Om ws York ce ening World). MR. JARR HAS JOINED THE TROUBLE LEAGUE. | @UBSS that's bad, eh?” said Jenkins, the bookkeeper, he came in the office with a hui ‘bunoh of that vivid yellow flowering shrub that flares out against the soft greens of spring as though it were the early editions of Nature's sensational horticultural publication—the yellow Journal among the other pretty periodi- cals that April and May publish to an tant world. ‘ome class, eh?’ he added, as he put them on the top of his desk and Peeled off his glov “What's the nam asked Johnson, the cashier, as he sniffed at them. “They haven't any perfume. “They don't need to have any frag- rance,” sald Jenkins, “Those are Forsythia, and I've got two of the finest shrubs of it in Hast Malaria. “Got any Night Blooming Skinker- rithias?” asked Mr. Jarr, who is such & doker. "Or any Double Stalked Dipsydew- dads?” asked Johnson. “Oh, go sit on a tack, you guys!" re- torted Jenkins. “If you fellows would cut the deathless humor a bit and get after those bills of lading and check ‘em up with the shipping clerk we might start the day doing a little busi- ness for the firm!” ‘Now be a nice little ofice pal and Gon’t talk shop,” said Mr. Jarr genially. “T gues it does look pretty nice out your way these days.” “Mice!” sald the commuting book- keeper, falling, as Mr. Jarr afterward eaid, for the bunk, “why, I tell you wi if you fellows could see how Green everything looks around East Malaria—green, beautiful emerald green on every side”. That’ the green scum on the ower round you,” geaid Johnson, with a wink at Mr. Jarr. ini Mr, Jenkins dashed his gloves down with a petulent gesture. “You Harlem slum-dwellers make me eick!" he cried. ‘You live cooped up im airtight tenements so long that when the spring does come and the birds ging and the flowers bloom, you start in knocking real life near to nature's heart.” “Real life in East Malaria is nearer to the give factory,” remarked Mr. Jarr quietly. This was a sore point with every Good Wast Malariaite, for there were @lue works on the outskirts of tho ohoice residential suburban town. “The glue works are outside the cor- porate limits, anyway. They don't an- Boy anybody unless there's a west 4 dering on hysteria, as eveu J, in spite We had read of his ward, too, the & id CHAPTER II. Of may usual obtussness, potices. beautif:l Ming Eveline Bisbee, a distant |i? thelr love of Anery and magnia. ° (ontinued,) “In Prof, Kennedy in?” abe inquired relation. As under the heat of the room| Cent dress, but for all thetr allke and Betty Vincent's The Silent Crackeman. _\terally_ burst anxiously. and her excitement, she ruised her veil, | Yelvets and high Ince ruffs they made y ete on the porch. “Yes ma'am,” I replied, opening the We were very much interested tn her, their mark in the world, Yet no mat- Advice to Lovers “The Beggar Maid.” 1S the girl whose I lover belongs to ment different trom a social environ-| ways calls on me when he comes to Deggar maid tsn't! dancing all the time with one man. Dol trust that uncle would never notice the and antitoxing, a thing which «1 didn't mean to tntrude, I think I'll Imagine his consternation to find his “ Saturday. April 26, 1913 Coprriaht, 1918 { by The Press Pabii my Res (The New York Evening World.) > Say! ALL THE SAME To Lie YouaAD Waen ME WHE THER You i atere ' HITT OR MIdD 17 By Andre Depont {LL CRow> “THe PLATE AN Ss ‘TO mM “THIS GET HIM SO SCARED OF HITTING ‘any eve we a pase! Me “THAT WEL. GWE Me 1 COULDN'T Her HIM IN FOUR witd ones! beauty and coquette. wind, And we don't winds in East Malaria, “Go west, young wind, go w murmured Johnson. “Oh, go ahead and knock one of the ‘best real estate propositions within fifty miles of the city,” said Jenkins sour- ly, “Not having any property there yourselves, you don't care what harm you do to home investors who their money in property there. “We were only kidding, Jenk, mai said Mr. Jarr soothingly. Malaria is one of the garden spots of America" — “Truck garden spots,” ventured the demon cashier. Jenkins slammed up his desk and then slammed it down again, "Go ahead and knock!” he growled. "I only know this: That all you gu; in this office used to fe glad to sp’ out on your dikes in the old days and spend your summer Sundays at my e: Pense. And now, when you sponge a ride from some four-flush who has an fafstalment plan second hand eight- candle power threshing machine he thinks Js an auto you drop in to see me and eat my dinners every bright Sun- day and smoke my cigars and drink my bottled beer and have me get you out of trouble when you run over a Jame man, “Then I'm all right. But I tell you one thing: There's nothing doing with Jonkins's Free Road House for you ip sk: this summe: Holty tolty! What a temper the 1ftle man js in to-day!” sald Mr. Jarr. “Can't you take a little joshing?” Ne T can't, tf you call that Josh ° Absolutely NEW Type The Queen also wore nature were warranted to clear, hung from the girdle, friend coming to see you out beyond the Hackensack brickyards,” Mr. Jarr went on. “How about all the bumming| —(Covyrigtt, 1012, by Dodd, Mead & Co.) commuters get from thelr city friends enone OF PRECEDING boyy 7 . : ail fencody ib 0 detectireccientiot, © orules [Patil Guppers, theatres, stays-ail me so arlaiant iui ‘principles {ote Kennea alleve H pf a ey statute of limitations away diligently on his lecture. I men- in the good old fashioned way 4 ‘Well, you stay from my house and Pe aemewoet = man. Walter Jameson, who eson and myself are tion this conversation both because it More, alther—in fact, they even hired T'll stay from yours!" shouted Mr. Jen- | Sivaue ys ee actly Mermet det Te vohe concerned has already erased this af- pears on my story, by a rather peculiar @pecial rooms to die in. kins, “and this goes for your family G. ictaier, an Thiacthrout. Fletcher bes iF. Walter, will you find Fletcher? coincidence, and because It showed me _ They hired halls for funeral services. | until after fifty. too!” altered it with my nerves so up) throat, but it takes brains to be up to now you have my whole ory. date."? the twentieth « “It may be #0," I admitted, and went people have homes; they had apart-|a pint of wine. had commented on the artificiality of ohne ther Aidn't apenk for the rest of lien put it content meio aprsrendy untowsied, — "Fletche e day. 0 in har ne i Seenanen, cal 46 fm the forrerine At reat is all Mins Bond really needs, It in . we dkt know about the death of ‘What do you think!" sald Mra, Jarr | Goin wae Biche home: They fa ie fe simply & case of overwrought nerves, eee eee stan haur ai But there was nothing when he got home that evening. ‘Mrs. | Mor tas pen 3 ce, ogi Tauid rupee, 204 It will pass off of itself. stil, I qater when the bugger on our hall doot Mysterious about It. It was Just typical ware 4 Jenkins went shopping with me to-day | Certain inqui Reonedy to ay Mis, Would advise a change of scene as soon i - in all Ite surroundings of the fi oad Rhee Zee the mvaery aoe 12 as posatble. Good afternoon, Blisn tond, gounded. Imagine my surprise on open- 1 all Ita surround pdt de decade and we're to spend Sunday with them Ea 4 wo a and my beat wishes for your he ‘tific! eal ! . in the country. She took the children ons ‘which ‘she. breaks erates lta aie etecnaone Se Kenned * artificial clty—a ‘onely death of a great| Elizabeth was a ar with her to-day!” i WO Trom ‘the | ing the door to figure of w! it queen. velled. She was in a state almost bor- could buy. CONSULTED the greatest Fletchers" Kenn lawyer T knew. 1 Dut & 195 eee te eng Oe heve iene diee She advanced toward him, repeating had by ‘this time comple hypothetical case to him, covered in a tin strong-box poked off In inquiry. the lecture on toxins, and asked his pinion In the back ef your uncle's desk!" am Prof, Kennedy. Pray be seat- "There is something about my guar- queen. Beauty Secrets Of Famous Women} Copgright, 1013, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World}, QUEEN BLIZABETH’S PERFUMED GLOVES. nek HE wardrobe of any modern woman, no matter how great her wealtt’ looks very insignificant when we compare it to that of Queen Elizabeth. When she died at the age of seventy over two ti costly contumes of silk, satin, cloth and velvets, richly furred, dam broidered and trimmed with jewels, were found in her closeta, To the end of her life Elisabeth affected And when she was old and wrinkled she forbade @ ailk,” and that the “Good Quten Ress” took’ such pleantré in’ them ‘that had her portrait painted with the gloves upon her hands, _ bs. ea hicken skin” gloves to keep her hands. were her chief beauty, white and soft. It ts natural to suppose name that these gloves were made from the skins of chickens, but this not the case. They were made of any kind of thin strong leather and dreesed with almond off and spermaceti, and “from thet ‘They were very expensive, but were eagerly adopted by the fash of both sexes; not only for day wear, but also to aleep in. : Eligabeth also had her “sweet coffers, that were heavily perfumed and in which any small article could be Jai@ be acented. Other boxes were made of sandal wood or were lined with cakes of peyfume eo that when they were opened a sweet acent would pervade ” the rvom, ‘She was also fond of pomanders and possessed « great quantity, Now, @ pomander was a solid ball of perfume, inclosed in a filigree gold oF silver case, It could be worn suspended from the neck, but was usually Pigeon water was esteemed a @overeign remedy for the complexieng) ' we Ro of both belles and beaux at this time. And the stl 70m ABO worry. | sben 8 Of Detective Sto: not unlike the recelpt for a French luncheon dish “Take the juice of i IMtes, lemons, cucumbers and melons, each one ounce; muccory and bean flowers, each a handfu ntury, No longer did| Put the whole in an alembic apd add the crumbs of three small loaves am@ | said Kennedy, “believe me, on reading, while Kennedy scratched ments, I had wuld. They didn't fall ll] This was distilled and the water used on the face and was sald to pre- serve tho freshness of early youth Mr But the portraits of found dead heart disease in the found the professor pacing up and o - It was a wonder that they didn’t hire) England's great queen certainly do a ta Tees Taser heen” ceeteeses down the aravel Walk lnpatiently, 6 aay mas oC Rennenye Sei. fe graves, It was all part of our twentieth! not show ‘hie effect. And personally said Kennedy, “a nignt's jn bacteria us in chemistry, and the century breakup of tradition. Indeed.]1 think it would have been better for her if whe had eaten the pigeons and bread and drunk the wine and thrown the rest of the ingredients away. areat,| But in spite of all her vanitt fascinating young lady who was heavily ™&n_ surrounded by all that money| surrounded herself by statesmen. The men of ‘her court may have been fops @oor into our study. At least, T am ure that even Kennedy | ter how clever they were they could ly forgotten | not succeed unless they flattered the Sir Walter Raleigh threw down his DING THa bella peo the alts and graces of a coy mirror to be brought near her, as she did not wish to see the ravages that Time had played with her appearanes, Then she commanded her wardrobe women to dress her in her richest at+ tire and, as ahe did not see herselfr ashe could feel that she was still young and beautiful, ‘This famous queen had an inordinate fondness for perfumes of all sorts and all her belongings were scented. Even her gloves, But the glove in thete times was « much more elaborate, ticle of dress than it ts to-day. was inade long in the wrists for bot men and women and was e1 in gold, silver and colored silks, sometimes was even jewelled. nobles gave them sa presente te ti sovereign, And at New Year's : abeth al ‘@ Tecetved many pairs ¢ perfumed gloves. oe Tt Jn recorded In ! manuscript that the ait for Oxté eves! 11 ABE +1 ance presented the queen — “e with fou or carved wooden or tvory. bemedt’ cule for making it soupég, and add eight pigeons stewed, Shd such a way as to make him the will and by the * he said. dian's death,” she began in a low and won't seriously consider giving him up believe Ne was advising me din line thar shone threumh trom the ‘The presence of @ lady in our apart- tremulous voice, “that I am aurg will| Velvet cloak for her to walk upon for for any such reason, how to make an unbroakable will, hall read It hastily. “Thank God!" he ment was #uch @ novelty that really I bear investigating, It may be only aj fear she would get her feet muddy, “He told me of provisions and clauses cried; ‘the school 1s provided for as I forgot to disappear, but busied myself foollsh fears, but--butet|nd even afterward when she was un- $5 72 [A7A TEES “Ww. J.” write “A young man al-| to avoid, particularly in making bene- thought, straightening the furniture and opening haven't told this to a sou! till now, ex-| grateful enough to confine him in the 4 factions, That was what I wanted to in the RALE * murmured Helen. a window to allow the odor of stale cept Mrs. Fletcher. My guardian had,| ‘Tower he wrote that he wai ct I muttered, “An- tobacco to escape, 48 You Perhaps know, spent his summer | dopths of misery becau know, I would put one of those clauses town, but he cannot be induced to he could no ‘alking like Venus, riding like Alexander and hunt to happiness or un-| that ho will do so, but he never does.| that clause as any one could hat CHAPTER III. that you are an adept at rotting ‘at the suddenly about @ week ago. like Diana,” which was certainly laying it on pretty thick, as Elisabeth happiness? Pp Bhould I write ody Hear come, 1 nag Picked out the very swords . bottom of dificult myster “Our friends thought it merely then In her fifty-ninth year, ‘The latter, 1 fear,| (No, you mustn't begin a correspond-|in his own handwriting to practise from. “You fla m he sald in ac. strange whim that he should return to|— in the vast major-|ence. He probably doesn’t like writing.| “Then I went to Paris and, ax you The Bacteriological Detective. y.)\icazment, "Who was ao foollah the city before the suminer Was fatrly ity of cases, The — have guessed, learned to get things ENNWDY wag deeply im- as to tell you that? over, but It wax not. The day before {hat typhold, too. WIN T be the next? Meanee’ oe King | “WW, M." writes: ‘My flancee insists | Ut of @ safe like that of undie’s. Be- mersed in writing @ lecture “A friend who has heard of the Kerr he returned his gardener fell sick of 1 It Just Peeps nd the!on going to a dance every night and fore God, all I planned to do was to on the chemical compositions Parker case,” she replied. typhoid. That decided Mr. Bisbee to BUrsue jor ophetua al v4 get that will, change it, replace it, and of various bacterial toxins “1 peg your pardon,” I interrupted, return to the elty on the following day, “t0P at oe Hall t think T ever saw a foolish fear? Why does it ically. And ‘besides the new wild New York? Why didn't it so worded that i I die without ¢ my million also goes to this living location unnamed. I can't help ‘apt to turn out as: you think this is proper conduct?” ‘Then when he was gone I was as unfamiliar to me 0 out. I'll be back in an hour or two." Valet stricken the Very next morning, Creature more overcome by horror, bY ing about It all happily in real life; No, I don't. But why don't you take ted the will, L'would Kamchatka, but as familiar to Ken- ““spioage,. Mro’ Jamesoneit, fe. Mr, Of courae, he motored to New York im, 2" invisible, deadly fear, That ‘was Thy whould you wonderwat as in legends. Now| her to some dances? have got my full share either by court nedy us Broadway and Forty-second Jameson, Ia It not?" Henne wited time ae News WhY It was Goubly horrible in a girl #9 what other ‘reasons have YOu fOr I ’ Proceedings or by settlement out of street. tomethe: o rte ‘active av’ be dering?” are you wondering why? A Quarrel. court, You T had planned it all “Heally,” he remarked, laying down [paved In murprige and tomathor we opened his apart jistened I felt how terrible it must be WoW 7 can't Ee: ‘The enewer is not far to seek, It 'B.”" writes: “I am very much in| out. ‘The school would have been hia fountain pen and lighting Nis SHAT yay and hear my. story, Tam told “But that was not to be the end of it, £0,b° Puraued by such @ fear | WHA atten ‘all it's only a woman's ally dove not ile jn the fact that yp"r lover, | iove with a girl whom T have known for | founded: would have founded for the hundredth time, ‘‘the more one tra you ang prot. Kennedy always One after another .he servants at Bie. Must It be to be dogwed by @ disease tuition mut oft the rich man's aon, ts ‘nceassrily |, tong time, but recently we had a mise| it, What difference I said, did thirty thinks of how the modern criminal wor together.” ee Mall wens taken withthe iaense Mé_relentiesaly ae the typhold had (Kl. fw g “ghove" you, the working mri—only|Ongertanding. Now she never | miltions oF fifty millions make to an mises his opportunities the more aston> “wtey “Wletcher of Great Neok,” whe until five ‘of ahem were down. then {MKed Mer? ; Oe Ont ay that he 1s probably so entirely differ: Nae peaks! impersonal school—a school not yet ishing it seems, Why do they stick to explained ‘as told me. 1 believe came the last Binbee fell a ,, 08,there @ny one you suspect of LOIN Jel. an careful, when we meet, and I am very unhappy|even in existence? The twenty mil- pistols, chloroform and prussic acid eek nadie nant, Hl inti in Maw ork fart nave t@ caure of etch an epidemic?” he 0 4 Cy Mich to tia Woree coan vou aa tre to Dat>| TWeite hor @ nove acoloteing for your! Watt crit setent ES Cok Tate een mane of fetioed enethods they misnt ems Vie egies Mietanem, though F do Bet Tee Teast last T have been so ROW tat 7 have already. formed) two, Sou tate bo tease leila gt. But he's been brought up in one| share in the misunderstanding. “I had planned to steal the cash in ploy?" have come to you with’ my case, in frightened that I haven't eaten a meal theorles—one perfectly natur 8 other hot typhoid fever of whtell way, you in another, and one might as a anything to divert attention "Give dt up, old man,” I replied help- which I have small hope of obtaining 1m the apartment aince came back, ignonoel, ul me everyth' ; (ea ana : i well try to combin> chalk and chees ‘J. C." writes: “I am fifteen and in will and make it look like @ leasly, “unlens it Is because they haven't aysistance unless you In me. If When I am hungry T simply steal out Pea Ska Seesias i Facey & iaet teea eenten ade she Teele ~ It’e at best a risky experiment to marry inte @ aircle far removed from your to a hotel—a different one ey w plain robbery. I would have done the any tmagination. I hope they don't u iieve with «ir 6 ver soinate than | aitering of the will that night and have them. What would become of my bu ynelf, you please give me some! returned it to the safe before morn- if they did? How would you ever of, Kennedy cannot solve —well, T am afraid nobody can. he paused a moment, then added am dnformed by his lawyer, clear, by his will, and this morning I think ¢t strange too, He had a horror James infectious and contagious diseases, owe, advice ing. But it was not to be. I had get a soally dramatic news feature for “No doubt you have read of the Denny, that a new will had been made, apartment and his country home =o Stop playing at emotions which you! almost opened the safe when my uncle the Star out of such a thing? ‘Dotted death of my suardian the other day." Disinfectants and ge @ It {ts still one imillion. But the re- modajs, No sanitarium could have. ‘lL M." writes; “I am twenty years are not old enough really to feel, entered the room. lines marks route taken by fatal germ; ‘Of course we had. Who did not been used by tae gallon, and still T mainder, instead of going to a number more pun tiltous, He lived what old and I love & young man who cares — “His anger completely unnerved me, cross indicates where antitoxin attacked know that “Jim" Bisbee, the Southern don't feel sate, ven t health aus Of charities in which fe was known to his friends called an a@utiseptic Mie for me. But his left hand is partially) “B, M." writes: crippled by an accident, and my friends, home from sonte place of amusement t advise me to giye him up on that | You. T ask him to come int’ coum. Do you think I should do so?” I think t¢ you really love him you! ( remove my fears, With de interested, goes to form @ tr death T had begun to for the Bisbee Sel and from the moment 1 saw him on the it'-ha! ha! not much for the yellow Culiforma oll magnate, had died sud thorities do floor to this I hav had a sane journals in that, Craig.” dently of typhoid fever at the private my guardian “If a man escorts me fund be I am foollsh, but it Keeps ool of Mechanical closer and closer tome now, ht. I forgot to take the cavh, | | “To my mind, Walter, it would be the hospital of Dr. Bell, where he had feel that possibly it was over, But no. Arts, of which Mr, Denny ts the sole I wish you'd look into t everything but that will. My height of the dramatic—far re dra- taken fi hia magnificent apart- This morning another servant who trustee. Of ave. 1 ao om know eet my mind You may do so with propriety, unless}oniy thought w: = that I must get it poe hearer bebadtbans Gy ptr pare “Kennedy came up from the hall last week was mich about interests nothing 1s 10 too late, nd dootrey it, I doubt if I could Rave Amy fool can shoot a pistol or cut @ andd beg discumed, osois. Lua Waotaeen eich, 04 She doctor pranaunces: while no wes five at Hotes ww 08 if coer dcietia vee Sion cod tie ‘ ' shrapnel ido oly "