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{ tion day. Yor Bitng Werte MR. JARR IS PLAYING TROPICAL POLITICS. Epistie No. 12—To Hon. John Heal- er, Democratic Leader, Mr. Jarr's Home District, from Edward Jarr, Travetier-at-Large. Ban Jose, Costa Rica, recently. Y Dear Senator: M Received your letter urgently desiring to know if I will be thome in time to register, in order that you may get an obliging friend to do It for me in case I am delayed. ply would say that you had bi ter attend to the matter for me as you And in case IT am not back in time Rangle or Gus, or any of the oye Who are not too busy casting bal- lots for themselves and other. absent friends, may also vote for me on Anyway, as reganis registering, 1 am you know ardent for equal auffragc, New York. However. and for the Presidency of Costa Ri ail three political have made tenders for my vote thaee partics are the Fernandez, or Bluo and I would take a keener interest in registering for the coming election if one could register before the election eupervisors as I do ut hotels while 4ravelling—"Edward Jarr wife, I may atay here and vote @t Gan Jose (pronounced “San Ho-zay"), ae there ia a hot campaign going on and organizations here The Party; the Igiesias, or Red Party, and Dura: or Green Party. writing the Blue Party seems to have a @hade the best of It. At this Last night the blue party held a torch- points up th eoborts of dacking a torchlight parade, Visiting paraders were to come from Cartage and other creek by train. the Red, or G. O. P. Party, alded by come of the Long Green Party, the Duran or Movement, soaped the rallroad tracks on Bull But the Moose @ ateep grade out of Cartaga and the were three hours making epecial trai ‘wizteen mites. his ta Wise constituency likes it, I gu . PAfter atrong passages comes the glad! Hvery committee full up to the neck. h This delay annoyed the reception com- gaittee at the depot here and they broke ‘every pane of glass in the atation in a ner greatly to be deplored. except the local Slavinskys in the gla ut-in business, ‘The indignant citizens, or the riotous The Candidate. Coprright, 1013, by ‘The Preae Publishing Co, (Tie New York Rrening World), “LATHEELY the candidate puffs his) Drinking the health of him gladly, ‘mia clgar, al DD staking each handy dato—bright |8] gwittly the wealth of him melts Mame—why, the fist of her points at him straight, Siminy Christopher, jen’t it great! eres of sausages, oceans of booze. ‘tou Ta (Gras DIVIDE WITH You mob, just as you vote, also attempted) to rock the train despatcher to sleep. | There ts not much mud slinging in Costa Rica politics; but the stones do fly. Finally, the dig parade was pulled off) An at midnight. the paradera, all carrying umbre! (for it rains amartly several times a day in San Jot marched through the town ghouti “Viva, Fernandes!" and enapping tneir| fingers at the mounted police (who wore ®& red cap and wide, red trousers) and then disbanded to the cafes to drink auger r and sing the national aa- them: "God Save The Bananas!’ San Jose is about midway between the Atlantic and the Pacific, up on the mountaing of Costa Rica, five thousand feet above sea level. The Costa Rica women are renowned for their beauty. The seat of Government ts here, the in- habitants are almost entirely of pure Spanish deacent. ly lacking, do people, the country is verdantly fer- courteous and honest as the day. lant! Politics and mining leading and only Jndustries. There are from the sotl—coff cattle, and gold and silver, An Ameri- can dolar ta worth two Colona, or Costa Rica dollars, and you are given fifteen cents premium on every Ameri- fan iron man besides, Spanish style ts to Mill the stage go full of furniture there is no room for the actors to out of the prompter’s hear- Ing, it Is near here that Andrew Carnegie bullt his Peace Palace for the Central American States. An earthquake shook it down and now souvenir hunters are carrying away pleces of the Peace F ace, The houses are concrete and are never over two atortes hieh, excepting churches, jails or opera houses, Everywhere I go while travelling 1 {Mark with what fluency rolls his ad- dress, Fame with a toss of her head leads the phiicsopher simply gets gay am taken to jails and churches, Why? Yours for @ straight ticket, BD, JARR. By Eugene Geary. & FLOP — 20 AND you cer $5- Then fr divorce hee And local ‘color, 19)" Yeimont’ at once pressed Her with the way of @ negro population, ts total-| questions and Yvot the cattle are fat; th | a eo Deomte Port riantelplece in’ my bedroom, where I had put it a minute before and, hunt for Hit as 1 might, { could not find it again. So I ordered another, no factories or products other than anything about it. . - flax, bananas, fat) one, on my hand . “Did the real rt wedding ome? The method of producing » drama in| p, Now Here's THe pore! WE SPAR ARQUND FoR TWO MINUTES AND “THEN 1 LEAN Get THE (NEA AKE |'ONE ON YER CHIN AN YouRE GONNA Box fu i (Copyright, 1013, by Doubleday, Page & Co.) SYNOPAIG OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS. d’Origny, who ‘The Countess has Tong suspected that her husband etes ber” senda ber ithe wn to Tait his grandmother, erseit toc @ntery the boudoir and binds her hand She frees hervelf fi a, V ‘Where are your Jewels jorace, t onoe aid her in any crigie she sends an nt the envelo the chance it may hughand’s conduct CHAPTER Il. (Continued,) The Wedding Ring. ELMONT reflected, “Has that conversation "I don't see any.” “My husband has sold them ail."" “You have nothing at ail left?’ Which “Which her flush “Could + no ton, your “"y “And “Thie He perceived a silght hesitation in @ confusion which, in point of @he did not try to conceal. “T implore you,” he exclaimed, “don't ide anything from me. * * © You see fone in @ few min- ic and calmness, or fact, n hi necessar: “tam of tmportanc attainin, hurry. “1 hav proudly period humii tlons, wh with is acon to be neglected by her hu ie your ia my s. wedding ring din as she stammered: it be possible? + + + he doesn’t know . stood silent anxious-faced, At last, she re- The town ts the residence of weli-to-| plied, in a low voice: This is not my wedding ring. One ® ago, It dropped from the second?’ one has no date.” Are you sure,” whe sald, “that it te yn" eure that the nd th gz our object. This is a cruci: e nothing to conceal," she raising her head, past deta wretched and the most dangerous While suffer ation at home, outside I was ai my life. pitfalls, pe, out ot be delivered Velinont appears in answer to ber ap- questions her shrewdly i Be, that her tying ry a " in onder to eeite ber o's huberit to the possibl He learns meaning that throws a (ight upon your husband's plans?” wedding . . ." She stopped, nonplussed, Velmont saw . + + But no without saying and this ie the ing bear the date of the 23rd of October.” 5 The Confessions of Arsene Lupin |] mother will be here at 12 o'clock, In the Presence of witnesses hi you to take off your ri way he will obtain the approval of nis able to obtain his divorce, be wil have the proof for which he was “; seoking.”* “I am lost!" ™e that ring will find another th another which I will @end you, to reach you before 12, and which will b date of the 24 of October, s He guddentiy broke off. White he Speaking Yvonne's hand had turned ice cold in his, and, raising his eyes, he saw that the young woman was pale, terri- bly pele. “Whal beseech you es ¢ Bhe ylelded to a fit of mad despatr. “This ls the matter, that I am lost °° © This is the matter, that T can't wet the rivg off! It has grown too small for * ¢ * Do you under- stand? © © © It made no difference and I did not give it a thought * ° But today * * * this proof * ° ¢ this accusation * * © Oh, what tor- ture! * © © Look * © © it forms part of my finger * * * it has grown into my flesh © © * and [can't * * * I cant eo or She pulled at the ring, vainly, with all her might, at the risk of injuring herself, But the flesh awelled up around the ring, and the ring did not budge. “Oh!" she cried, seized with an idea » that terrified her. “I remember * * * with the other night © © © 9 nightmare I had, * © © It seemed to me that some one entered my room and caught hold of my hand. © * © And I could not wake up. * © © Tt was he! It was he! He had put me to sleep, I wae sure of it * © © and he was looking at the ring. © © © And presently he wiil pull it off before his mother's eyes, * *& * Ah! I understand every thing: that working jeweller! * * © He will cut it from my hand to-morrow. * © * You seo, you see ® © © Tam jot? © © oF She hid her face in her hands and be- fam to weep. But, amid the allence, the clock @truck once * © und twice * © © and yet once more, And Yvonue drow herself up with a jerk: to the matter? 1 any mo- the “There he is!" ahe cried. © © It te 8 ololock! greece jrabbed her cloak and ran to the @oor, © * * Velmont barred the way and, in @ masterful tone: “You shall not go!" ee T want to see hin, to take him back.” ¢ ¢ © You don’t even know where he ist” want to go." ou shal! go! * * © Tt would be madness." * * & He took her by the wrists, She tried to release herself, and Velmont had to employ a little force to overcome her resistance, In the end he succeeded in getting her back to the sofa, then in laying her at full length and, at once, without heeding her lamentations, ho took, the canvas strips and fastened her wrists and ankles: "Yea," he said, i ke "it would be mad- band, Then I remem» eM ness! Who would have xet you free? marriage & mi Who would have opened that door for ns a naa a A you? An accomplice? What an argu- and ¢ alne! oO a heers— Of that man engraved tnide the Fok ee husband would make Of tt toto [and T wore It aya talisman. There Was Ait, ny mother! So 8 8 And bee py no love tn me, because Twas the wil® vidion whale the Kind? To run away of another, But, in my secret hearts ineune accepting divorce * * * and was a momory, a sad dream, \\. Mea sos @ oe Tickling his vanity—innocent soul! seething, aweat and’ gentle that pror Vik Cum: NAL Dnt land tO? And with urbanity “touching” sted me——." ad: 1 “roll? ne had spoken slowly, without, ein: frightened — I'm frightoned! varrassment, and Velinont did notdouut 4 _ T irene ik tale Graft for the cityful, signing Dares saieeny Siar 1 hig ring burns me! Break al for & wecond that she was telling the f ean lak His and check. Absulute truth, He kept silent; and hee ih ewer! Don't iat Gime Ba becoming anxious ee oe “And if it is not found on your finger, 19 You suppose howho will have broken it?) Again. an Henchmen eay breesily that he will win,| band * ¢ °? wade ead wale ain Accomplice. * * © No, you must tet ” He took her hand and, while examin- the co 8 8 © and face It Then—oh, how easily!—“touch" him]. plain gold ring, maid: again. here Your husband, Still, tho’ he's cheerily moving about, Ott he asks wearily, “Wil it pan out?’ » knows of the + thing. oi to tackle His Comtesse d'Origny bodily and thus te door of the boudoir and @ few minutes YAMADE THa’ THERE CHILD & PROMISE LiSSEN- You sIT THe BONS CRY Wo EASILY. Ter. ME WHAT HAPPENED AND J Witt GETHURT THE SAM WAY, AND WATCH: HEY- How mucH bo AY 6ET OUT OF das 207 New Adventures of The Thief Genius. lay the interview, © ¢ © If I had to come myself before noon * * * it is the real wedding-ri that shall be taken from your finger—that I swear!— and your son shall be restored to you," Swayed and subdued, Yvonne inatine- tively hv out her hands to the bonds, ff By Maurice Leblanc “Then,” aaid the countess, “the ring Twenty Gems wae mon sun Of American Humor fn exchange for the real one, Acting on my instructions, Bernard, my , man, after jong ecarching, ended by diecovering in the outakirts of Paria, When he stood up, she was bound as where he now lives, the litte jeweller she had been %efore. to whom she went. This man remem. He looked around the room to make vere perfectly and te willing to bear sure that no traco of his vinit remained. witness that his customer did not ¢ell No. 6.—MRS. PARTINGTON, by B. P. Shillaber. OW limpid you walk!" said a voice behind us as we were making a Then he atooped over the countess to engrave a date but a name. “Ty hundred and fifty horse-power effort to reach a table whereon repesed again and whispered: “He hee forgotten the name, but the ® volume of Bacon. ‘What is the cause of your lameness?” s Think G your son nd, rye man who used to work with him in It was Mra. Partington’a voice that spoke, and Mrs, Partington’s eyes that appens, fear nothing. am hie shop may de able to remember it. | met the glance we returned over our left shoulder. watching over you.” This working She heard him open and shut the by} seve ier pas Bees in by letter that I required hie erie and he replied » pincing him- @elf at my depos. went to breed aim oe’ o'clock thie morning, ey are waiting {1 ‘etudy.” He turned to his wite: es “Gout,” eaid we, briefly, almost suriily. “Dear m eald she, “you are highly flavored! It was only rich people apé @picace in living that had the gout In oklen times. “Ah!” we wied, partly in response and partly with an infernal twinge. “Poor soul!" she continued, with commiseration like an anodyne im the tones Of her voice; “the best remedy: I know of for it is an embarkation of Reman later the hall door. At half-paat three a motor-cab drew. up. The door downstaira was slammed again, and almost immediately after Yvonne enw her husband hurry ia with a furious look in his eye: to her, felt to eee if at fastened, and snatching h amined the rii Yvonne fainted. . ee ee e e © @ She could not tell when she woke how long she find slept, But the broad light of day was @iing the boudolr, and she Perceived at the first movement which she made that her bonde were cut. Then she turned her head and saw her husband standing beside her, looking at her: “My aon * © © my non * © * ghe moaned. “I want my gon, © © He repited,in a voice of which she felt the Jeering inaolenc “Our son ‘a in place, And, for the moment, it's a question not of him, but of you. We are face to face with each other, probably for the last eine, ‘and the explanation between us will be & Very rerious one. T must warn you that # will take place before my mother. Have you any objection?" she sald, “from the othor night, that it ¥ finger.* won't come of my “In that case, oan I have ple bird has the necessary prac Bory] "Yen," eh whines @ eald, in @ volce faint usa She was resigned. She con: the future as in a vision; Felony the decree of orce —pronou ‘ainat herself, the custody of the child] awarded to the fa'her; and she accept. ed thin, thinking that she would carry off her son, that she would go with him fee eae of the earth and that the of them ASABE Would live alone together Her mother‘n-lew eaid: Vang oiave ‘been very theughtices, Yvonne was on the of confess- point ng to her and asking for Drote thor But what was. the mnt Yow he gout or not I really fraction of the arm I could jest know how to subscribe. We looked into her eyes with a determination to say something severely Git- ter, because we felt allopathic just them, dut the bind and sympathising leek that met our own disarmed severity, and, sinking into a seat with eur coveted Bacon, we thanked her, It was very evident all the while that she, or @hey, eyed, that Ike was seeing how near he could come to our lame member Rot touch it He did touch it sometimes, but those didn't count. o 08 © © ee © © © © © @ @ ‘@ always noticed,” eaid Mrs. Partington on New Years Day her voice to the kay it people adopt when they are disposed “I've always moticed that every year added juat af @ man who goes a journey jogs on, that every mile goes brings him nearer where he is further from where he started. 1 am not eo young as I was once, and £ Gen't @elieve I shall ever be, if I Mve to the age of Sameon, which well as I do I don't want to, for f wouldn't be « centurian or urvive my factories and become idiomatic by any means, But then there no knowing how a thing qil! turn out till tt takes place, and we an end some day, though we may never Hive to see it.” up ee ees Se vente tried to hide her agitation and shuld the Comtasae 'Origny posalbly be. f mere wee 6 Fogel on the looking-glass that hung upos the wall, fol- answered: Innocent? od natantly Snesner, “None at all." Resides, the ouat at oo arent, “Gracious!” said whe, “what's that? I hope t! Jan't fractioned, for “Can I send for her?’ followed by hie serv: “Yes. Leave me, in the mean time, I at and by & man carrying a bag of tools under his arn. shall de ready, when she comes." ‘And the Count said to the ment “My moth “Your mother is here?” cried Tvonne, 1 ‘in dismay, remembering Horace Vel- that’s grown too amall, mont's promise. easily done © * * A tough of “What le there to estonish you ta ‘he nippers”— that?” nd then you will eeu” sal@ the “And fa R now © © © te & et ence 1 the inscription inst@® he ring e a he one that you want to © © © ? Troma ne Zou engraved. ® gure sign of calamity, and mercy knows they come along full fast enough without helping ‘em by breaking looking-glasses. ‘There was another tap and she caught sight of a white bean that fell om the floor, and there, reflected in the glass, was the face of Ike, who was blowing t | beans at the mirror through @ orack in the doot 3 ee © © 8© @ * e © ‘Mrs. Partington et els.!* said Mrs, P., os Ike read @ oulogistic thus headed. “Ia that’ 0, Tesact* nent eles,” restos De; taraetion the cat's head through che pages, er, was | a Pe looked at the ane ten minutes to levee “I never ate ale in my Mfe that I know of, thor vay * Why not thie evening? fen minute joven th am mee that one might forget. ‘erm all anlece ee © Why not to-morrow?" “To~lwy and now," declared the count, “A mather ourfous incident happened in the course of last night, an incident which I cannot account for and which dectted me to hasten the explanation, Don't you want something to eat first? raised in ; aplte of herself, she folt'e thea fe ye Perhaps Velmont nan sucoseded, °'* * 9 @ound was renewed; and peeves that tt nd produced by A} ingers passing unde: \° dow and moving farther on” her "No ® 8 8 nae } “Then I will go and fetch my mother." , 1t Was all over, Horace Vetmont had . | He turned “to. Yvonne's” bedroom, °0*D Unable (0 aasist her. And ehe How They Differed. aun wi understood that, to recover he @he must rely on her own strengths for the promises of others are in vain. She made @ movement of recoil. She hed con the workman's heavy hand on er hand; and that hat volted her. stills The man apologised, awkwardly, count sald to hie wife: Es es “You must make u; koe iP your mind, you Yvonne glanced at the clock. It marked twenty4ive minutes to eleven! “Ah,” ghe anid, with @ ehiver of tes ‘Twenty-five minutes to eleven! Horace Veilmont would not save her nobody in the world and nothing in the world would save ‘her, for there was no miracie that could place the wedding ring upon her finger. The count, returning with the Com- WO touthers named Chalmen, one « wintster oad the other physician, lived tagether @ Western town, One day 0 man called the howe and asked for Mr, Chalmem, The OO — A Spotted Character, “TY Tou know what “No, brother you want to oe; he . ‘Then she put out her allm a . ee LUE SOT EDE SeNed ae ie at Sone bitng hand fo the workman, who (hak Deainie thought hart fore moment, eee an a, Woman it, turned tt over and rested It on the He Deserved It, wish ieuing ‘seestiuante, Wu ace) table, with the palm upward. felt the cold ateel. then and there, The operation did not take long. In ried on the wlant, the little at hed ¥vonne wed to die Ing to Yvonne, She didn 1 her daughter-in-law good showing that her mind was made up wards the accusation: "1 don't think,” she maid, “that we need speak at length, In two words, my son inwlntatna!—— “I don't maintain, mother," sala the =. Count, “I declare, I declare on my oath that three months ago, during the houl- days, the upholaterer, when laying the carpet in this room and the boudoir, found the wedding ring which I gave my wife lying In a crack tn the floor, sMere ta the ring. The date of the ud of October te engraved inside.” A Bhe Io: tn Bs early morning labore when suddenly | apeekied!"—Youngstown Te he came face to face with the owner of the ————_-— fener, who, naturally Hil thought, atil! lay abert ‘aro ves the trachea ofthe turing ww tao} A Vocal Similarity, redoubtable squire eyat the uninvited guest, who LITTLE miss who lives in the counter much overjoyed recently when @ vy oe ter arrived at her home, ammered cut & Rerrous greeting “G.qod morning, az, What—what brings you A peighbor, meeting the Uttle aitt © day ep ap with | later, inquired: out 00 rariyt”” "Oh," replied the bord of the tend, “Did the stor being @ baby to your howe she 'l came out) other might?" ry hanghty stare ood ep unconscious testing of the | why, may] "No," repiied the ttle mie; “when 5 Map NK moming Rill the Poacher was engagel| ‘Ma’ TT bet Jimmie Jecksua's O oul do dunt two ends had only to be #i rated to remove the ring from the finger, The workman did ao. ‘The count exclaimed in triumph: