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~ ~ Life for Its Own Sake By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Copyright, 1919, hatha amends she thn shra ocadhateened EDALLING back from a football game with bis American chum, the Englishman said to him: “What a splendid game we have had this afternoon!” The American, who had been on the losing side, was Quite downhearted, but collecting the enthusiasm of his companion’s remark, replied: “Why, yes; it WAS a fine game, wasn't it?” The Englishman felt the JOY of THE GAME; the American had thought that there was no fun except in VICTORY. Well, there's a pretty big moral to the little colloquy. If we will only have it so, there is gladness in the mere living of our life, apart from all other considerations, a joy in life AS LIFE—life for its own sake. Some digtinguished person, I've forgotten just who, said: “Life is like & game of whist: it has a great many disadvantages, and I am not over- ‘struok on it, but I am going to put my heart in the game and play my cards for ail they are worth.” Said one of the marines to his pal as, touching elbows, they were forg- ing along through the shell#wept Belleau Wood: “Jim, this is sure enough hell, but I'll be damned if I don’t kinder like it.” When Sam thus unbosomed himself to Jim the issue of the fight was still far from being known, but Sam was thinking only of the game, the great, big, ripping, warring game of Yankee against German. Sam enjoyed the battle simply as a battle and quite apart from any consideration of results, And right here we have the secret of life’s happiness, the only happ!- ness that is worth while—the happiness of LIVING. Some men of affairs were once showing Thomas A. Edison their watches, some of them old silver heirlooms, others fine gold repeaters, and when the great inventor was asked to show his watch, he said: “I must confess that I never had @ watch, I never wanted to know what time it wag.” He was too busy, Deeply absorbed {n the work that had been given him to do, Edison was as innocent as a Brahman of any thought of the passing hours. The little children never think of the time of day. Like the Wizard of Menlo Park, they are too busy with their task of living. Thomas tells us in his own delightful way of a certain French Cana- dian woodchopper with whom he became somewhat intimately acquainted while in the northern woods. He “never was tired in his life;” he was never in the “dump: with his axe and his traps he roamed the forests, happier than any emperor on his throne. Not an idle moment during his long day; not a single moment that was not filled to the brim with undi- lated joy. One day he was asked if he did not “want the world to be chauged,” and he answered, with a chuckle of surprise, not knowing that the question had ever been entertained before, “No, I like it well enough as it is.” Work! all-round absorption in the game of living!—that way, and that way alone, lies the summum bonum, the greatest good. |The Turkish Hareem Mystery—Enchantment—Love—Death! T is a word with a mysterious fascina- tion to It, a magic that will never dio, the Arabic word “Hareem.” On Sept 4, 1836, the day we celebrate, the Sul- tan of Turkey released all the inmates of his seragiio, or hareem, from the perpetual imprisonment within his palace, to which they had considered themselves to be condemned for life. It was only the other day that the world was thrilled by the news from the East—from Constantinople—that Yuldez was in flames, It was burned to the ground. Yildez and its immense park and its residences for the Sultan's hareem was the palace on the banks of the Bosporus of the Sultan of Turkey, the formal resi- dence of the famous Abdul-Hamid. Yildez and its hareem was the seat for half a century of intrigue, splendor, horrors and of diplomacy that kept mations from each others’ throats, Its hareem numbered a thousand wom- @. The word hareem, in Arabic, means anything forbidden or sacred, from the word harama, to forbid. The hareem in every prominent Mohammedan house of rank is the suite of apartments, jealously secluded, and to which ascend, set aside for the wives, concubines and female servants of an Islamic household. The Mohammedan is permitted by the laws of his Koran to have four !look in her splendid, “moonlight” eyes legitimate wives und as many slaves|@# she leans forward on the silken for concubines as he may have ac-|couch, Her attire enhances her quired and can support. Practically | charms—a loose robe,of silk and bare to-day the Mohammedan gentler can support but one wife, for Euro- | She wears a ring, a ruby ring of price pean fashions have crept into the |! value. And the foot adorns the hareems and the ladies are demand-|"s-—not the ring the foot. Could ing the luxuries of Occidental ward- her Christian sisters do as much. robes. But it was different in the old 10 Mohammedan woman to-day times, and still to-day the Sultan's|May go out of her residence, but al- hareem numbers lovely women from|Ways wearing the yashmak or veil |that conceals her features—all except the eyes. And she always is closely guarded by the eunuch, ‘The reader is advised to read Loti's pathetle picture of the Kastern har- eem of to-day, The book is called |"Les Desenchantees” (“The Disen- chanted Ones"), Persia, Cashmere, India, the ot the Sea, A lover of mysterious beauty paint- ed the picture called “Phe Flower of the Seraglio.” The Circassian. girl, of great charm, has a wild, frightened | Islands of a military encampment or zone, 7, The proper name of the White House in Washington is the tive Mansion, but it ls now gene: ally and semil-officially called the White House because that is just what it is all white exterior, 8. “The philosopher's stone" is mythical, supposed to be a substance that turned anything else to gold 9%. An avenue in London, England. much frequented by fashionable in- dividuals, 10. Napoleon Bonaparte was first called “the Man of Destiny." NEW QUESTIONS. . Where is the Mammoth Cave? hat is “macaronic" verse? 3. What is the final word in the ex- pression “as blind as a 4. Who were the “lotus eaters"? 5, What was Libby Prison? 6. Where and what is the Louvre? Can you answer the questions asked under this heading? Here are the answers to yesterday's question 1—The completed expression 1s: “Hotter than mustard.” 4—Twenty-six letters comprise the alphabet of the English language, %—Twenty-three letters comprise the French alphabet. 4—Steam radiators are so called because the steam coursing through the pipes of this device radiates the heat. 6—An American First Lieutenant wears the insignia of @ single silver bar. @ The guardbouse is really the jail 8. Who ts Arthur Capper? 9 What is a morganatic marriage? burst? BS ~ | There Is a Mysterious Cross of Diamonds; Watch With a Poisoned Needle; High Voltage Electric Wires; an East Indian; Convict Who Wants to Confess; Girl With Money Who De- fends Indicted Suspect—and—Read the Story (Copyright, 1919, by George Bully Company, New York) secret staircases cy 1 |fect! On the big toedbt her right foot | 7. What is called “pidgin English"? 10. Who is Mrs. Emmeline Pank- | SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS | en tites, Baroy finde ip coun, aks Matment bave slopped at various Limes, iene befor ‘he bad uarreica wii the deed woman. Hight band of whe dead women ni weund in te | f Mrs. Baud belonged to Sita ats, th Haat curiosity shop with his head crushed in. Polvoncd heedle™ Alien Bill, w lady. clerk MM the Jewelry Funning from Darey's bench, Sings ‘Phut ts’ arrested, but dies suddenly in shop, |e shocked by biden electric CHAPTER XVI. HAT did that, Colonel? What devilish thing did Cyn—from Miss Ratchford, saying she has the cross. CHAPTER XVIL 66 that?” and with a * vel Colonel trembling finger Jack 66 Bhan" rasnarhen © opel pf Hap eel ptegeh u geenw nel self, “there are two oF dead dog on the floor of the detective's . three things I've got to do, and do them right away. Which room. Tnles “What killed the poor brute?” I'm very much mista this did,” was the answer in shall I tackle first? I wonder if it Voice. . $01 ‘That ticker killed the dog? Non- wees ye best to have Kettridge come gence! Ile didn't swallow it! He Bre and perform the autopsy on that watch," and he looked toward the closet where he had placed the one that had belonged to Singa Phut. “It 1 can look inside that, and see whether or not the mechanism is so obvious that Darcy must have stumbled on it when he started to repair it-—if he had it in his mouth, but he got it out! That couldn't have killed him!" \. 8," Was the cool response, “And it's the same one Shere Ali had in his hand when he was found | deag!" did—then-—-well, that complicates mat Le! ft to himself, the detective looked " at his timeplece on his table, now ai- [eft Yes, 1 think I must see Ket- lent in its tissue wrapping. rhe Watch of death!” mused the It was evident, a little later, that Colonel. at least no one intended to answer aller was announced. the telephone, and the Colonel hung up the receiver, “Spotty must have robbed the Jew- elry store in spite of what he says about it,” mused the Colonel, "Dut if he did, and got the cross, even if he didn't kill Mrs. Darcy, how in thi Who ts it downstairs. Mr, Aaron Grafton.” nd him up." rafton was plainly nervous as be entered the room, he asked the clerk “Well, I've come to say I don't Tore ould i 0 e think I'l need your services any fom iim and when the last I saw ot it Was in the Police Headquarters safe?” “Is yo’ gwine be Colonel?” asked Shag, “I can't say, I'm going to do a bit of shadow work and \t may take me until sunrise, But you stay right here,” “Yes, sah, Colonel. I will” “And now we'll see, Mr, Aaron Grafton,” said the detective to bim- self, as he prepared to leave, But before the Colonel could leave “Drop it?” the room there sounded the insistent “Yes, the diamond cross has been ringing of his telephone bell, recovered. I just had @ letter from “Hello, Jack! Tus is the Colonel. “But I haven't done anything yet. I haven't—Oh, I see, You are not sat jsfied with my work on your be- half, out all night, “Oh, don't misunderstand me, Col- onel Ashley. I am not at all dissatis- fied,” and Mr. Grafton held up a pro- testing hand. ‘The truth is, I'll not need your services in helping me to recover the diamond cross for Mrs. Larch—or Misw Ratchford, as she calls herself since the separation. You can drop that case, Colonel." *wey. “ a present, “STEELERQS© Yes—what is it? He is? That's un- usual—for him. Guess he's going down and out by the wrong routet Yes, ('ll come right away! You fol- low King and I'll take the trail after Larch, So he's boasting that— Well, iull sorts of things may happen now, Yes, I'm on my way now, You follow King!" “Larch is being pressed for cash, and that may be one reason why he's so thick with Harry King. King’s got cash, if it can only be got at. 1 overheard Larch sounding him as to the chances of raising a big sum.” ‘And what did King say?" “He agreed to try to get it for Larch, That's all I gathered then. But 1 heard them talking of some- thing eve,” “What?” “Larch dropped a hint that he and his wife might be reconciled,” “The deuce you say “That's right, Colonel. I heard him telling King about it. Larch is going to pay his wife a visit—going to call on her at her father’s place in Pom- And he's going to take her out 1 believe that's the usual thing after a quarrel “What sort of prosent, Jack?" ‘A diamond cross. oxcuse me, Colonel, but you are wanted at the telephone." The waiter stood before the table. “What is it?” asked Jack, as the Colonel hung up the receiver. “Why, Kettridge telephoned to my room, and Shag took the and repeated it to me ie Page, the old servant of Mrs. Darcey, has just been killed by an electric shock in the jewelry store!" H Sallie Page had received a severe shock, and had been near to death. Prompt action on the part of the physician on the hospital ambulance had started her feeble heart, which had been affected by the current of electricity, to beating. 1 me more about it," said the Colonel, when he was sitting with Mr. Kettridge in the dimly lighted Jewelry shop after Sallie had beon message CHAPTER XVIIL OWEVER, it was not quite as bad as that, though taken to the hospital, “What shocked her?” “The same electric wires on the showcase that shocked Miss Brill the y other day. The electricians had hewn told to remove them, but had not yet done 80" was queer,” murmured the ‘let me bave a look at that switch.” “And, while you're about It, I'll look too," sald another voice in the dimly lighted store, and, as the two turned in startled surprise they saw Detective Carroll smiling at them “This is important, I rather guess it makes it look a bit bad for your friend, Colonel Ashley,” and there Was a sneer in the words ‘aell, 1 don't know," was the cool rons: The wir I under- stand it, are to run an Colo: Copyright, 191 ‘A caricature of myself drawing Hoffman, in camp.” DEAR KIDDIE KIN’ F we may judge from your draw- Jiccs, camping is a favored way ,” tor Kiddie Klub members to spend @ vacation, I am not at all surprised and very much pleased that this is 80, There is no better or healthier fun than being out in the open all day long. This is what camping out means. Whether sleeping or waking, resting or hiking, eating or doing chores, campers are out of doors, Cousin Maude Downing, who has | been awarded first honors in the eleven-year class, and Cousin Marjorie Strack, whose drawing was consid- ‘ered best among thone by the four- ten-year-old members, both spent their summer or part of it at camp. AUGUST CONTEST AWARD WINNERS. Robert Schwartz, aged seven years, No, 280 Manhattan Avenue, New York, Abner Epstein, aged nine years, No, 115 West 113th Street, New York. Frederick Clarke, aged ten years, No, 126 Hast 75th Street, New York. Maude Downing, aged eleven years, Jornwall Bridge, Conn, Box No, 45, Carmelio Tantillo, aged — twel years, Nos, 202-204 First Avenue, New York. thirteen Ada Handler, a years, No. 114 Seventh Street, Jersey City, Jorie Strack, aged fourteen yeara, No. 74 Beventh Avenue, Brook- yn, N. Y. Hiarry Singer, aged fifteen years, ue, Sal Bergen Street, Brooklyn, HONORABLE }LE MENTIONS. Nine-Year Class—Joseph Schultz, Ten-Year Class—Margaret Mooney, Alice Coach, Louis Snyder, Bleven-Year Class—Francis Carey, Mildred Young, Matthew Satra, Ruby ‘Turner, Twelve-Year Clase—#imanuel Eis- enbeg, Nathan Machtey, ‘Phirteen- Year Class— E stary * and they might easily have become crossed.” “Oh, yes, of course!" admitted Car- roll, “And then, again, they might have been crossed on purpose. It's @ new stunt—electrically shocking an old lady before you bang her over the head or stab hor, but it's # good ‘What do you think about it?” asked Mr, Kettridge of the Colonel, when the store was again dim and quiet, “What do I think? I don't kno I'm going to have a talk with Dare: in the morning, and if I find he’ been deceiving me— Well, I'll drop his case, that's all.’ the watch to be repaired with young Darcy, the East Indian happened to think that he had not warned agairat ! winding it up, which @ jeweler would a most apt to do after making re- ‘#8. Singa Phut had no reason for Wishing harm to Darcy. He arcy exclaimed the | “Col, Ashley intending to warn him to be carefu next day, “I never knew that my “Well, assuming that, what next?” lathe wires crossed or connected with asked Jack Young. any circuit that might shock a person, “Weil, Singa, coming say at 11 It Is true I had the wires run in se- cretly, a8 I didn't want my cousin to know about them. she didn’t favor my experiments on the electrical iene and I had to keep quiet about o'clock to the jewelry store, finds Mra, Darcy there, She has picked up the watch—she must have done that, for it was in her hand, Singa sees it and fearful of what might happen he rushes in and tries to take It away from Bhe, thinking him @ thiot, dhe, fearful that he will be nd arrested a robber, ae struggles to get the watch and to make his escape.” ORARTEE XIX. “But there would have been an alarm—the struggle would have mado jected Jack Young. 6 "remarked Jack {) “Young, as he critically © 221m you going to offer that to the observed the smoke jury to clear Darcy?" asked Mr. Ket- from his cigar curling tridge. upward toward the ceiling in the may have to,” was the colonel's r. “How does it sound to you, Colonel's hotel room, “we have our work cut out for us all right.” “Well, Darcy, you may be telling the truth, and, again, you may not,” and the Colonel's voice was as non- committa] as possibl lemen?” “Very plausible,” admitted Jack “There is only one thing to do, TF ssenene ah gentlemen,” observed the detective, “veg what is it?” who had one finger keeping a certain cram for you, Colonel: place in a certain green book. “And pei aa iki faavan Cot that is— “ onel Ashley rend: Lele “Make an arrest at once!” ex- "spoid) slurgas lias conteaed crervuniee and claimed Young. “He may get away ay we ane Ee from us if we don't, drunk as he is.” “No, there's time enough for that,” ted the Colonel, For the life of me I can't figure out who did the killing,” said Young, "and the only reason I sald we ought to urrest Harry King is because there's some game on between him and Larch, and those diamonds King is trying to dispose of may be part of some of those Darey had, and about which she never said any thing. If King took them he may have killed the old lady and he ought to be locked up and take bis chance with Dare If he did it—yer dmitted the gut 1 haven't said he did, t said Larch did it, I just don't kno “If we don't do something pretty soon they'll so fasten this crime on Jimmie Darcy that you'll never agrees, W extrasince CHAPTER XX. 66 AVE just been informed they are going to put me on trial to-morrow for the murder of Mrs, Darcy, 1 know what this unexpected move on the part of the prosecutor means, but I would like to see you,” “Whew!" whistled the colonel as he read Darcy's note, “I never count- ed on this, Maybe the prosecution has something up their sleeve they're waiting to spring. They're trying to wet ahead of me.” But when the judge took his place on the bench and the criers had pro- claimed silence, there was a whis pered conference among the prosecu- tor and his detectives, in which Carroll and Thong took part, “Have you any cases to move this morning, Mr, Prosecutor? asked the euld Mr, Kettridge, court in’ formal tones, fhe stones may be 1o0ee, ‘They might “Could not Binga Phut have done "May It please your Honor,” bee fall out." ‘ it?" asked Colonel Ashley quietly, gan Mr, Hardon, “I had hoped to “That wouldn's hurt, Colonel E inga Phut!" cried both his audi- move the case of the State against reckon maybe lose one or two James Darcy, indicted for murder, but at the last minute I find that one es. Suppose, after he had loft The Eventee World's s Kiddie Klub Korner Conducted by Eleanor Schoree by The Press Puntishing Co, (The New York Evening World). SKETCHING IN CAMP. By Bob Harrison. Cousin Eleanor’s Klub Kolumn @ brother Kiddie Kiub member, Dick So did a great many honorable men- i tion winni Other Cousins amused § themselves in the country, at the seashore and in the mountains. But where have little Cousins eight years old spent thelr vaca- tions? What have they done to pass the days enjoyably? We do not know, ve know because, while We do not hundreds of dri of all ages from 4 the mails have not brought § one single bit of art work from any in of elght years. ‘This is very strange. Any one who watched our contests from the beginning will know that it has never occurred be- fore, But even if they did not draw 4 ictures about it we feel sure our ‘ Tub mates of eight summers back tg had a nice vacation, 80, a eho} any way. COUSIN Beek OR. Clara Brodie, Charles Carisen, Eth Berliner, Olive Brown, Genevieve - a. O'Bri Class — Jose} Fourteen-Year yphin Israel, Anna Werner, Edith Shine Edward Babor, Jesse Levine, Jennie 4 Strauss, Walter Cook, Sarah Rooney, 4 Anna Baer, Anna Brown, Fifteen- Year thy Ray- ner, Jim Savage. AUTUMN, i Autumn is coming, With its harvest so golden, And then will come winte: With the celebrations of old: Ah! for the spirit, Ah! for the fun, Autumn is coming, And our fun has begun. By ELEANOR WHITTEN, agod thirteen years, College Point, L. L AUGUST DRAWING CONTES AWARD WINNER, By ROBERT SCHWARTZ, ome seven years, New York. HOW TO JOIN vouh KLUS dsr ‘y otf be AND of my important witn s unable to be in attendance, and under those : circumstances I a compelled to i ask an adjournment of two # went by, The col- din his hotel room, his finger between the leaves of a little green book, smoking and reading. The telephone rang sharply. “Hello, Oh, it's you, is it, Basset? So you got back with Spotty, did you? Good! No trouble on the trip? Fine! All right, I'll wait_ here for you, No, the trial went off for two : weeks. » in plenty of time, Fil 7 you soon. Goodby. t r the man he had sent ingon Spotty Morgan entered his room. This man, a detec- tive from the colonel’s office, had been instructed by wire to go to a certain b nd there, without the formality requisition papers, which Spotty bx, or less generously waived, bring ‘ e prisoner, rhere’s the cross," and Basset ssed on the table beside the colonel @ battered cross of gold in which sparkled many stones with the lmpid fire of hidden rainbows, “Did he give any particulars? “Well, I guess it's just as he says— he didn't want to split on 4 pal, But 4 when his pal went back on itn" “What do you mean—his pal went back on him? asked the colonel, and there was uneasiness In hi ce. “And, while you're about it, Basnet, don't handle that cross so carelessly. It’s worth several thousand dollars—« small fortune, maybe—and some on the way back, a like,” (To Be Continued) _ a