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.41weba .4•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.......... MARIE VAN V012 ILLUSTRATIO caw R/c/17 r THE 001383IffRR/2I. CE2 0 /ACYY SYNOPSIS. Lia Comte de Sabron, captain of Trench ipayalry, takes to his quarters to raise by Sand a motherless Irish terrier pup, and lames it Pitchoune. He dines with the Marquise d'Esclignac and meets Miss fulls Redmond, American heiress. who 'hugs for him No Engtish ballad that lingers In his memory. Sabron is ordered to Algiers, but Is not allowed to take servants or dogs. Miss Redmond offers to take care of the dog during his master's tbsance, but Pitchoune, homesick for his master, runs away from her. The Mar- 'Luise plans to marry to the Duc de Crernont. Unknown • Sabron, Pitchoune follows him to Algiei . Dog and master meet and Sabron gets permission from the war minister to keep his dog with him Julia writes him that Pitchoune has run away from her. He writes Julia of PR- ehoune. The Due de Tremont finds the American heiress capricious. A newspa- ber report that Sabron is among the miss- ing after an engagement with the natives muses Julia to confess to her aunt that she loves him. Sabron. wounded in an en- gagement, falls Into th• dry bed of a river, and is watched over by Pitchoune. After a horrible night and day Pitchoune 'eaves him. Julia goes in search of Sa- bron, reported missing. - \ 4 'C1 II APTER XV. Julia's Romance. From her steamer chair the Mar- euise d'Esclignac asked: \Are you absorbed in your book Julia?\ Miss Redmond faintly smiled as she laid it down. She was absorbed in but one thing, morning, noon and night. waking or sleeping: when and where she should find him; how l was being treated. Had he been, take captive? He W1,...1 not dead, of th as sure. \What is the book, Julia?\ \Le Conte dun Speed.\ \Put it down and let me speak to you of Robert de Tremont.\ Miss Redmond, being his guest and indebted to him for her luxurioue transportation, could not In decency refuse the request. \He knows nothing whatever of our errand, Julia.\ \Ah then, what does he think?\ • Miss Redmond on the arm of her blue serge coat wore a band of white. in the center of which gleamed the Red Cross. The marquise, wrapped in a sable rug, held a small Pekinese lap- dog cuddled under her arm, and had only the appearance of a lady of leis- • are ‘ bent on a pleasure excursion. She did not suggest a rescuing _party Her Jaunty hat was enveloped by a delicate veil; her hands , were in- cased In long white gloves. Now that she had encouraged her energetic niece and taken this decisive step, she re- laxed and found what pleasure she might in the voyage. \When we came on board last night, my dear, you remember that I sat with Robert in the salon until . . . \After midnight?\ \Possibly; but I am fifty and he is thirty. Moreciegr, I am his godmother. He is enchanting, Julia, spiritual and sympathetic. I confess, my dear, that I find myself rather at a loss as to what to tell him.\ Miss Redmond listened politely. She was supremely indifferent as to what had been told to her host. This was Tuesday; they should reach Algiers on Saturday at the latest. What news would meet them there? She held in her book the last dispatch from the ministry of war. Supposing the Cap- tain de Sabron had been taken captive by some marauding tribe and was be- ing held for a ransom! This was the Romance of a Spell', in which she was absorbed Taken captive! She could not let herself think what that meght mean. . \Robert's mother, you know, is my closest friend. His father was one of the witnesses of my marriage. I feel that I have brought up Robin . . . It would have been so perfect.\ She sighed. \Ma tante!\ warned Miss Redmond, with a note of pain in her voice. \Yes yes,\ accepted the marquise, \I know, my dear, I know. But you cannot escape from the yacht except in a lifeboat, and if you did it would be one of Robert's lifeboats! You must no' be too formal with him.\ She tapped the nose of her Pekinese dog. \Be still, Mimi, that man is only a sailor! and if he were not here and at his duty you would be drowned, you little goose!\ The Pekinese dog was a new addi- tion. Julia tried not to dislike her; for Julia, only Pitchoune existed. She could not touch Mimi without a sense of disloyalty. The boat cut the azure water with its delicate white body, the decks glistened like glass. The sailor at whom Mimi had barked passed out of • sight, and far up in the bow Tremont, in white flannels, stood smoking. \I had to be very circumspedt, my dear Julia, when I talked with Robert. You see you are not engaged to Mon- sieur tie Rahrnn \ The Or] onlnrafi \The sentimental woman ip me,\ her aunt went on, \has responded to all your fantasies, but the practical wom- an in me calls me a romantic goose.\ \Ah breathed Miss Redmond, open- ing her book, \ma tante, let me read.\ \Nonsense said the marquise affec- tionately. \The most important part of the whole affair is that we are here 1?A TER5 —that we are en route to Algiers, is it not?\ The girl extended her hand grate- fully. \And thank you! Tell me, what did you say to him?\ The marquise hummed a little tune, and softly pulled elimes ears. \Remember my child, that if we flnd. Monsieur de Sabron, the Circumspec- tion will have to be even greater still.\ \Leave that to me, ma tante. - \You don't know,\ said the de- termined lady quite sweetly, \that he has the slightest desire to marry you, Julia.\ Miss Redmond sat up in her chair, and flamed. \Do you want to make me miser- able?\ \I intend to let my worldly wisdom equal this emergency, Julia. I want Robert to have no suspicion of the facts.\ \How can we lie:event-it ma tante?\ \We can do so if you will obey me.\ The girl started. and her aunt, look- ing up at the Duc de Tremont where he stood in the bow. saw that he showed signs of finishing his smoke and of joining them. \Ma tante,\ - said the girl quickly, \have you brought me here under false colors? Have you let him think . . .\ \Hush Julia, you are indebted to him for accomplishing your own de- sire.\ \But I would never, never . . .\ \Petite sotte,\ cried the marquise, \then you would never have 1 e on this yacht.\ Intensely troubled and annoyed, Julia asked in a low tone: \For heaven's sake, ma tante. tell me what the Due de Tremont thinks!\ Her aunt laughed softly. \The in- trigue and romance of it all enter- tained her. She had the sense of hav- ing made a very pretty concession to her niece, of having accomplished a very agreetble pleasure trip for As for young Sabron, he would be sure to discovered at, the right her. moment, to be lionized, decorated and advanced The reason that she had no wrinkles on her handsome cheek was because she went lightly through life. \He thinks, my dearest girl, that you are like all your countrywomen: a little eccentric and that you have a \You Must Not Be Tci Formal With Him.\ strong mind. He thinks you one a the most tender-hearted and benevo- lent of girls.\ - \Ma tante, ma tante!\ \He thinks you are making a little mission into Algiers among the sick and the wounded. He thinks you are going to sing in the hospitals.\ \But exclaimed the girl, \he must think me mad.\ \Young men don't care how mildly Mad a beautiful young woman is, my dear Julia.\ \But he will find out . . . be will know.\ \No said the marquise, \that he will not. I have attended to that. He will not leave his bokt during the ex- cursion, Julia. He remains, and we go on shore with our people.\ \How splendid!\ sighed Julia Red- mond, relieved. \I'm glad you think so,\ said her aunt rather stiortly. \Now I have a favor to ask or you, my child.\ Julia trembled. \Ma tante!\ \While we are on board the yacht you will treat Robert ,charmingly.\ 'I au, always ponte to him, am I not?\ ‘, \You are like an irritated sphinx to him, my dear. You must be dif- ferent.\ \I thought,\ . said the girl in a sub- dued voice, \that it would be like this. Oh I wish I had sailed on any vesel, even a cargo vessel.\ LoOking at her gently, her aunt said: \Don't be ridiculous. I only wish to protect you, my child. I think I have proved my friendship. Re- member, before the world you are nothing to Charles de Sabron. woman's heart, my dear, has delusions as well as passions.\ The girl crimsoned and bowed her charming head. \You are not called upon to tell Robert de Tremont that you are in love with a man who has not asked you to marry him, but you are his guest, and all I ask of you is that you make the voyage as agree- able to him as you can, my dear.\ Tremont was coming toward 'them. Julia raised her head and murmured: \1 think you for everything. I shall do what I can.\ And to herself she said: - That is, as far as my honor will let me.\ CHAPTER XVI. The Duke in Doubt. The short journey to Africa—ever a calm and perfect sea, whose waters were voices at her port to solace her. and where the stars alone glowed down like friends upon her and seemed to understand—was a torture,. to Julia Redmond. To herself she called her aunt cruel, over and over again, and felt a prisoner, a caged creature. , Tremont found her charming, though in this role of dorence Nightingale she puzzled and perplexed him. She was nevertheless adorable. The young man had the good . sense to make a discreet courtship and under- stood she would not be easily won. Until they reach - ea — Algiers, until the night before they disem- barked, lie had not said one word to her which might not have been shared by her aunt. In accordance with the French custom, they never were alone. The marquise shut her efes and napped considerably and gave them every opportunity she could, but she was always present. The Due de Tremont had been often In love during his short life. He was a Latin and thought that women are made to be loved. It was part of his education to think this and to tell them this, and lie also believed it a proof of his good taste to tell them this as soon as possible. He was a thoroughly fine fellow. Some of his forefathers had fought and fallen in Agincourt. They h ad been dukes ever since. There was something distinctly noble in the blond young man, and Julia disc. ered it. Possibly she had felt it from the first. From the moment that the old ducat- ess had said to Robert de Tremont: \Julia Redmond is a great catch, my dear boy. I should like to have you marry her,\ her son answered: \Bien ma mere,\ with cheerful ac- quiescence, and immediately consid- ered it and went to Tarascon, to the Chateau d'Eacjienar When- nee mother had suggested the visit he told her that he intended making up a party for the Mediterranean. \Why don't you take your godmoth- er and the American girl? Miss Red- mond has an income of nearly a mil- lion francs and they say she is well- bred.\ \Very good, ma mere.\ When he saw Miss Redmond he found her lovely; not so lovely as the Comtesse de la Maine, whose invite - don to dinner he had refused on the day his mother suggested the Chateau d'Esclignac. The comtesse was a widow. It is not very, very comme 11 faut to marry a widow, in the Fau- bourg St. -Germain. Miss Redmond's beauty was different. She : , was self- absorbed and cold. He did not un- derstand her at all, but that was the American of her. One of his friends had married an American girl and found out after- ward that she chewed gum before breakfast. Pauvre Raymond! Miss Redmond did not suggest such possi- bilities. Still she was very different from a French jeune 1111e. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Hospital Barges. Northern France is rich in water. ways, and hospital barges are already running between Paris and the battle- front, under the auspices of the Union des Femmes de France. The hold is enameled white and fitted velth 40 beds, and at the end is the nurse's retiring -room. The barge -master's cabin is converted into a living -room for two surgeons. There is an ope-at- Ing-room, too, with washing gear, an electric plant, and a perfect system of heating. To convert a Seine barge into a gondola of this kind costs a bare $500, and the results are beyoed praise—especially ,.to fracture cases, to whom the jolting read Is agony. The wounded are hoistedr in by means of small cranes, and the barge is then towed by steam or motor yachts lent by wealthy persons, who are more than glad not only to lend their boats free of charge, but to navi- gate them In person, thus sharing in the work of mercy. The Old and the New. Inventions have a remarkable knack of repeating themselves. Among the more Interesting patents for 1914 is a specification for a wheelless motor car, propulsion being by means of skids, ahich are alter etely lowered and raised. In the early days of loco- motive history many inventors did not believe that sufficient adhesion was to be 'attained by A smooth ‘.s...) operating on a smooth rail, and weird and wonderful were the devices for overcoming this supposed defect. One ingenious engineer went so far as to design a contrivance in which jointed metal bars worked tip and down on the rails after the fashion of a horse's legs, and there seems to be a certain 'affinity between this device and the motor car referred to above. TWO STORIES OF THE OPAL One Brought Bad Fortune, and the Other, an Imitation, Was Readily Parted With. A husband gave his wife an opal ring. Trouble began. Their two chil- dred died. Sickness came to the wife. The husband lost his job. The wife became an invalid. Just before she died she gave the opal ring to her sister. The sister, knowing the his- tory of the ring, pawned it for what it would bring and burned the ticket. A wife presented ner husban4 with an opal ring. For two year/Jones, who owed him money, had walked on the other side of the street. Jones paid him on the first day he wore the ring. His mining stock went up five points on the second day. The third day his salary was raised. Love nor money could not purchase that opal ring. A man dropped into a Maiden lane Jewelry shop the other day and, tak- ing off an opal ring set with pearls, said: \e pearl has dropped out of my ring. I've worn that opal ten years, and it has brought me nothing but good luck.\ The jeweler picked it up, lens to his eye end said: \Dp you want the truth?\ The man hesitated at the question. \Yes he drawled slowly. \It isn't an opal; it's merely a piece of colored glass. The pearls are imitations.\ \Is that the truth?\ he said slowly. \It is,\ said the jeweler. The man put the ring into his coat pocket. \Much obliged,\ he said. \If I did not know the reputation of your house I would not believe you.\ As he passed out of the door a sud den inspiration came to him. ' \Here he said to the colored at- tendant who held the door open for him, \wear this. It will bring you good luck.\ And he gave the \opal\ ring to the colored attendant and walked out, put his World' rgest Lighthouse, The moat important lighthouse at the present time, so far as actual op- erations are concerned, is the light of Helgoland, from the fact that it is centered In the very heart of the naval war zone. Helgoland was ceded by Great Britain to Germany in 1890, in return for concessions made to Brit- ain in East Africa. The Helgoland light is an electric one, and the most powerful in Ger- many, and is claimed by the Germans to be the most powerful light in ex- istence. The light consists of a clus- ter of three revolving lights, having a lighting power of 40,000,000 candles, a magnitude of light which from fig- eirea eeeeeeIa herd -and-difficult tt realize The lights are on the search- light principle, and the cluster is sur- mounted by a single light of the same kind and size, that can be revolved independently and three times as fast as the three lights. The single light is put into use in case of accident to the cluster of three. The electric power is generated by two steam en- gines and boilers, running belt -driven electric generators. Queer Belgian Village. Surrounded as it is by Dutch terri- tory, Bar-le-Duc, a little undefended Belgian village in the north of the province of Antwerp, has a unique geo - graphical position, for the Germans cannot reach it without violating the neutrality of Holland. It possesses its post and telegraph office, in direct communication with Frenchaled Dutch post offices, and people in Britain can easily correspond with Bar-le-Duc via Flushing and Tilbourg (Holland). For that reason Bar-le-Duc post office has become important, and good use is being made of that fact in obtain- ing help for the Red Cross society. Special postage stamps of the value of five, ten and twenty centimes, are being sold at ten, twenty and forty centimes, of which sums half is set aside for the Red Cross society. The post office of Belgian Monaco has ob- tained such celebrity that there is a great demand for these Red Cross stamps as souvenirs. The Zeigler Turtle. The Zeigler turtle, known to be at least fifty-three years old, has been reported seen again on the Zeigler farm near Kirksville. According to the Express, this was captured in 1861 by Harrison Zeigler, who carved his eame and the date on its shell. Forty-eight years later It was found again by Perry Zeigler, son of Harri- son Zeigler. Pegry Zeigler added his own name and the date to the carving on the turtle's shell and released it. It was again seen three years ago by a member of the family, and now Perry Zeigler saw it a few days ago.— Kansas City Times. School of Forestry in China. It is notorious that afforestation is one of the most urgent of China's needs, and it is, therefore, of interest to learn that a school of forestry is about to be established In the Univer- sity of Nanking. The co-operation of the director of forestry at Manila has been secured, and it is proposed to send two experts from Manila to aid Ir. eeteeelefilling the neteetil. Seer -ten:. American. Gold From the Philippines - The 1914 output of gold in the Phil- ippine islands shows a gain of 39 per cent over the year 1913. The value of the yeavis yield was $1,203,433, a little Over one-half of which is from lode mining, the remainder being the output of dredges. IP ROUGH • QUEZN OF 11 VEN MOUNTAIN, CANTON OST people have 'read highly colored descriptions of Can- ton ap a barbirous city. What the traveler finds within a few yards of the landing - stage, 30 miles up the Pearl river from (Icing Kong, is a solid row of European buildings, public gardens leading to a series of tennis courts, and a British consulate. The appearance of the Shameen, the narrow island of the con- cession, with its churches, its lofty blocks of merchants' offices, its spa- cious tree -shaded boulevards, its hand- some International club, and its nu- merous official buildings, gives an im- mediate feeling of confidence to any Western stranger, writes A. H Fisher In Illustrated London News. After I had seceured a room at the Victoria hotel, I crossed the creek by the British bridge with two resi- dent acquaintances, and entered Chi- nese territory. Tall brick -built go - downs, with shops on the ground floor, seemed pushing out into the thronged roadway along which we walked to a part whence I could get a good view of the Water -town. Here a vast popu- lation lives in various kinds of craft from small Sahtengs or sand -boats to the gaily decorated \Flower boats\ with their gold -fretted fronts stuck bver with mirrors. A Floating City. Along a narrow wooden footway, built upon piles, we walked for half a mile till we seemed to be in the mid- dle of a floating city; but away, farth- er to the west, I could make out an Iron -roofed building, which, I learned, Is the terminus of the railway from Samshin to Canton, and a pair of sheeriegs, which marked the position If the Cantdn-Hankow railway, con- wected with the other by a ferry -boat service and likely, ere long, to become the regular route for reaching the Trans-Siberian line. Looking back to- wards the town, I had pointed out to we a tall, gray stone building as a pawnshop, an institution regarded in China as a kind of bank. We now turned away from the creek up a narrow street where all the build- ing were wholesale rice stores. Almost every street is set apart for one trade or industry. In Sap -Pat -Po (otherwise 'yard 18), however, the chief business street of Canton, the shops were filled with general manufactured, goods— Uermau and Japanese clocks, Amer: - can soaps, gramophones and sewing machines. Here were strange articles diet also—edible beetles, giant whelks, bauibeo shoots and dried cut - tie fish. There were bankers sgak- ;rig coins into trays till each of a hun- lred circular depressions was filled, as a way of counting, dealers in old plc Lures, a lottery chop, where prizes were being paid out for a lottery late- ly drawn, and an ancestral hall or meeting place for some particular clan or guild. Then came a whole street if the makers of \Old -Age Clothes,\ as the Chinese call their coffins; and a street of pewter workers, and a street smiths—and all this time we had only reached a gateway of the outer wall of Canton. Inside this, after passing a small island of shops, we went under the semi -circular arch of the Great West Gateway, where the wall was 17 yards thick. We climbed from within on to the top of the wall, and above there was a sudden peace and quietness. Here and there about the bastions were old British muzzle -loading guns on wood- en carriages. On one I read the date 1812, and on another 1816. We fol- lowed the top of the wall for some dis- tance to the great five -storied pa- goda, and began to climb it from floor to floor, passing through the flap doors which shut down over the stairs of each. On the fourth floor was the official tea house, and on the upper- most a group of figures of Chinese deities. From the balcony a number of people were enjoying the view over the city. In the distance rose the twin spires of the French cathedral, which the Chinese thought would attract dev- ils until they retected that the second spire neutralized the bad effect of the first. Beyond the city we could see the Pearl river, and near it the Normal college for training Chinese teachers, which stands upon the site of the old examination cells. By the lower slopes or the hill called Queen. of Heaven Mountain, we found the fa- mous City , of the Dead, where bodies of defunct Chinese wait in their cof- fins, sometimes several years, before the priests are - atle to determine an auspicious day for interment. The City of the Dead has many mansions. If by that name may be designated the little rooms, eaeli 10 by 15 feet, with whitewashed brick walls and paved with pale -red tiles. Before the coffin hung a curtain, and In front of this stood an empty chair, a table spread with food and—in the case of a man— tall dolls standing on either side to represent girl attendants. Eggs Eighty Years Old. Near the Flowery Pagoda in the old deer park, formerly part of the Tar- tar General's palace grounds, I visited the British Yemen, where English ca- dets studying Chinese used to be quar- tered before it became customary for them to go to Peking. Very different from the quaint charm of these build- ings•was the somewhat squalid aspect of the courts of the famous temple of Su Mong Mu. One evening I was shown a number of the fantan gambling houses, in which the banker puts on the table a double handful of the common coins called \cash and then withdraws them in fours with a small stick, the game being to bet on the last remain- ing being either one, two, three or none. At a restaurant my friends en- tertained me to a typical Chinese feast. Nearly all the dishes were pala- table, and several extremely good, es- pecially some eggs which were re- puted to be eighty years old and tasted like a glorified almond paste. WORSHIP A SPURIOUS REUC - \Tooth\ of Buddha, Venerated by Mil- lions, Not the Sacred Object It Is Believed to Be. At Kandy, in Ceylon, is kept Buddha's tooth, which is the object of the unbounded reverence of more than - four hundred million people. When this holy molar was brought to Ceylon In the sixteenth century. Kandy was only a mountain village. Now thousands of pilgrims go every year to the gorgeous temple where the tooth reposes, bringing gifts of every' kind, gold and silver ornaments, coins, jewels and even fruit and flow- ers. The kings of Burma and Slam send annual contributipns toward the support of this temple that holds the sacred relic, which has a rather strange history. It is said to have been the left eye- tooth of Buddha and to have been taken from his ashes 2,500 years ago. For centuries It was the marriage dower going with certain favored princes. - In the fourth century after Christ It was taken from India then he Malabars secured it. It was after- ward captured by the Portuguese, who took it to Boa, where it was burned In 1500 by the archbe hop in the pres- ence of the viceroy of Indie But a spurious todth had to be pre. ceded to effect In Intertionit mar- riage and the molar of a wild boat or ape was used. Its dimensions show - that It could not be a man's, for it is two inches long and an inch in diam- eter. On Important ,occasions it is, dis- played, but only at a distance. It is sometimes carried in processions on the back of an elephant. Demolition of First Sky Scraper. There has recently been demolished, to make way for a larger structure, a fen -story tower building, at 60 Broad- way, New York city. The building was erected in 1889 and has been in serv- ice for a quarter of a century. Natural- ly the condition of its framework was a matter of interest for architects and engineers. The frame consisted of cast iron columns and wrought iron floor beams. The floors were of fiat -arch, terra cotta construction. The frame- work was found to be in excellent con- dition, the wrought Iron beams show- ing a practical absence of rust, and the cast iron columns, with a three- inch cast iron shell around them for lire protection, showing only a few localized patches of rust and heavy rEnitino nnly at a fan , clInnowlal Scientific American. Woes of Women. \What's the matter, girlier \I have lost my ideal. He has mar ried another.\ \I lost mine in a slight4y - different way,\ said the older woman reflect. tvely. \How was hat?\ \He ruartic.i ale.\ r •
