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CR is cif Le Rate. “We éa0cdu¥, Sane 11, 1 I Don Know, 1 .IysT missed Squaring the Circle The Man With a Billion A Great Sommer Story of New York. =i wna Ore on Reames ieee Thee Loot ae ‘ay When It Struck New York y O. “4 | : i E [ i : 5 5 He ? t ; E il bee s 2° > I i if +4 . i fr Pd vigk hy il I Hei gee Hi H customs, the | f in New York tn he night. San moving and living in sree aardies of nature, he aié earn One Th Hole te Gein a Fond * @apptaia, 1018,'by The Pree Pullen vee & GAB. | way, that comes from gas tanks. Bad’ that’s all most of us know about & ‘Gual, of course, is the basis of gas. 1g Grought into the works in @antities.. This coal is put-inte eliow woes made of iron or ‘iese tubte are called @ge Attel into tremendous fur- with fires underneath t iatense heat partiy melts the @enfined in the retorte and emok @onrtarce pipes at the top, That te gag; tn o rede state. nag, oot, mee et | & 5 eee i i | ij l if i I i f ; th iit it i ret 8 i H d Hi i i $ t | iH i ct 2 Hl ge a anes f 2 eF i i g Ht ning with the voice of a bull @moky lamp, whizsed knee. A_cab-driver him with a hub ané explained rée were tavent. press wagon stabied, turned t! sharp edge of the building that, by t! cheek of architects, t9 modelled upon pafety rasor. Out of the mass of hurr: ing people his eve picked up, three yards away, the surviving bloo¢y and impiac- able foe of his kith and kin. topped short and wavered for a Ddeing unarmed and shar, Bud the keen mountaincer's Folwelt had picked him out, aden spring, @ ripple of passers-by and ¢! » Cal; I'm durned gtad adway, Fifth Avenue and Twenty-third street the Cumberland Coudiets shook hands. moment, surprised. to ing Every Day of General information tag Os, Mee New Tout Brening World). and small; throug? wi and lime! (doth of whic purify it), and at last Teaches the gas holder or eae tank. Gas, det than aif, rises in the tank. The tank, though it looks so heavy, is nicely Delanced by @ lake of water at the Bottom of it, and by al oo that it rises gently as the gas {t, When the tank is emptying, it ein! sredusily inte Pressure that tl erting upon the gee helps Corce latter through the pipes out fnto the streets, Only seventy years ago people knew ne litte about gas that Queen Victor! commanded the Duke of Wellington cut of the ané atop vp ek the ane aati CYUNOBRS - ALL GHE NEeos is PRimiNG! IMB BRADDON, author of “Lady Antley'e —_ Secret,” Wloxa,” ‘Dead Men’ and seventy ofher novels read by the Gran@methere—and by not a tew grand- children—ie now seventy-six years old. Ghe te Mrs. John Maxwell in private Mfe, and she Hives at Richmond-on- ‘Thames, England, with her son, W. B. Maxwell, @ popular novelist of to-day. “I have an téeal in each of my books, the demonstration of one of the dig things of Ufe, love, honor, loyalty,” says Rachel Swete Macnamara, author of “The Fringe of the Desert,” “but unless {t Mermentes tile story, it 1s not dragged in by the heels.” Miss Macnamara lives in @ Deautiful apot in the south of Ire- Jand, and her study window books out upon @ weeded branch of Cork Harbor. Margaret Cameren, author of “The Involuntary Chaperon,” wrote recently from Child that there ts a great open- ing en the Western coaat of South America for American books. “The de of Americas and English tourists, she writes, “le already swelling, and will more than double after the opening all the books ‘or, are Engi C. Netherscie, author of “Wil- te one of a family of nine, brought old farmhouse—Crizhall Court lying Between the villages of Geodne- stone and Staple, five miles from the Wings of Pride,” denies writing because #he likes to or lp wilting, ‘I write,” she gays, “deca! m uncomfortable if ing that 1 am n tng something possesses me, Beme days ft to @ battle between the guflty con- @clousness and the wish to de things Which I enjoy 'o trim @ hat, for in stance, 6 @ real pleasure to me. Or to drive my little car off through the pring sunshine in search of nothing in Particular. But the guilty conscience Bape S20 Gmew, on ma Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers troduced to another feliow in the same academy, Beoause I would not tell the firat young man the name of the sec- ond, the first has left off writing to me. How can I win him back?’ 1 do not see what you oan do now. You were silly to start a fuss for such & reason, A Mercenary Sweetheart. “HL. 6." writes; “I am in love with a Girl who is continually asking me to take her to places of amusement, But 1 am eupporting my parents on a very emall salary and am unable to gratify her desires. I am aifrati she will pre- fer some other man who can take her around, What shall 1 do?” Be thankful that euch @ mercenary “| young woman has not permanently en- tangled you. The Sensitive Swain. best way toavold being teased on the sudject of one's affections !s not to let the teasing take ef- fect. Of course, if it generally realized that “kid- ding’ a love af- fair te vulgar and unkind the prac- tice would be much less preva- rage indivigual lov- for playful jesting. “G. W." writes: “I recently gave birthday party, and a young man who has pald me attention for a year was (nvited, Do you not thimk he would have Drought me some little gift if he had cared?" He should have done 80 in common courtesy, the fiavor will be gone for the joker, ‘Try it and see! M, K." writes: ® young man, but I hi am tn love with 1d to be in- Warlike Mementoes. “Johnny, are those your father’s old seldier clothes?” “fo, me mother’s. She used te he 'n the thicd rew ef the Black Crock ‘Amazon Guard! Se OER ! TY tation # Style Hints For Summer Fes Nos York Eveclas Wettins 'N summer materials the crepe weaves [« all gredes from gilk to cotton are having an unprecedented vogue. Then, for dressy wear, there are the handsome eitke with faitle, charmeuse and moire as the favorites, the Ight weight serges are modish and in cottons the eponges, Mnens and corded effects are fash- Rot appear in the street without an outer garment or @ semblance of one, and eo there ie « large (iversity in coats and coat effects. Iinen drenses @re made up with the extension bodice that simulates the cutaway coat. Cute ttle flowered oifk jackets are to be worn with the lingerie dress and open mesh novelty materials are used for the dressy coats and wraps worn with the slik gown. As the general adoption of the brassiere has eliminated the necessity of the combination, these jare no longer popular. ‘To wear with the fashionable Balkan blouse Gresreg there is @ specially de- signed Princess slip, It has the lower portion gathered to a yoke and has no under arm curves, thus giving the required blouse fullness above the hip Mine. Below this t fite snugly and bangs tn the desirable long straight Mnee to the bottom of the skirt. Summer prassiores ure made to fit Clonely above the dust line and Gerold of shoulder straps. Thi oth in Hne with Fushion’s decree colors and o44 ‘The Bulgarian colors are, predably, the greatest nov. @ities and where the allover effect: orm briliancy @ border, Nowhere ta tna tashtoa note, mor the shapes of this season's parasols and there. are unique trimming effects. D bag Oh gis DADs -p ~s ey he aa By John A. Moroso x (Coprright, 1918, by Joha A, Moruse,) “| eee cate Michard.” Calvary ond fal $s, nue Senate Lee rece Reistecane. midi ge can eg see nds Sis eed ‘They ate chee be nea Co tunnel to y returns to Lye 6 ™n, we Bret sy te, e CHAPTER XV. RS. PEYTON awoke slowly M wake her, She knew not what, but she was conscious and surely conscious of the fact that her room Bad been en- tered, ‘Coming from profound slumber, the Light ‘wita which a shaded peered into the corridor of ment, There wae @ slight Graft as tf dour Bae Deen apened and immediately closed. Gathering the aftken ritbons of her Might gown tightly at the throat with her left Mand and holding the ready to fire with her right, ehe stepped into the corridor, repressing a shiver as Whether the Violet Widow had any of the fighting blood of the Lees in her, or whether her middle name was @ late addition for the sake of genea- logical exigencios, she showed in the dark corridor that she wae far from being @ coward, Ghe paused and fatene? intemtly, She was near the door leading to the hota! corridor, and at her right hand was the door of the room she had offered Mrs. Bronson, A yellow seam under the latter door told her that the bedroom“f her gnest was lighted, @he opened the door quickly and drew back as she levelted her weapon, ‘There was no one tn the room, She knew that there woull be @ light 5, outside, To protect hernelf of the lighted roo: quick wrench of ti the door opening on She eww no one, but thought that heard, very faintly, soft footfails on the carpeted steps Jeading to the Moor above. The widow drew back and was about to close the door when she heard the elevator buzzer sound, She drew it nearly shut and ned. She timed the levator and was certain that the car nad stopped on the floor above. rhaps, after all, it was Mrs. Bron- son who had entered and had returned to her brother's apartment for some- thing forgotten, She heard the door of the elevator open and close, and then tho elevator operator start It downward, - | Tt a4 not stop until It reached the bot- tom floor. She closed her door an@ turned the switch which would flood the entire spartment with light. In the nearest roam, that of eq few surprise, deside look: she thing which had eo disturbed @ crimson velvet case, and thet whe pi Intend aces sh" Lissie™ to her eo er Going tack to hie offs, dettray 1o the subevilar of the bulkiing, where cut thelr way to the vauits. iettray, get even -* locks Ly &. ey opened easily. at wane oMcials breathed more eastly. congratulated each other em thetr luck and the firemen on thelr goed ‘Those inspecting the vaults found ‘ been ‘infurede f shape on the street 1 lower tier of vaulte was inspested and found all right. i Several officers of the trust com} were for returning to atreet : nd beginning arrangements for Tremere treasure. bottom’ ter,” sald the presiiant Exoelslor. Trust . “in the most C4 ould stretch @ wire and put up several arc lights there so Get We may examine It carefully. It wil de only the work fer The police inspector few minutes an of the fire companied mont ter ana tacked ong put inp e light wae turned on, o sheet of white iight that for a on The and trician from had strung se