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•'What'@ the matter, Lolar' be take/
ra..�'uu look sad and 111, and botthh
ate Wapge tot you. though lately.
it.
I°a se two or tines , y.
s°yWi°a *Pr,
le b1sn, she burst into
iaargeH bo
ad uevesteruatrmemu her do such a
Letter, and be did obi know whist
Is do -
Lite everything with her, her grief
fir• violrut, stormy Mud ptu.iouate, but
uwee d, fool," abe cried, "e child,
trighteued by • shadow. 11 I were to
tall you, you would laugh or be every."
"See if 1 should," be said kindly.
Her husband looked M ber thought -
"A
B
looms up oushadow that seems e
f the past 6be
The remark put her on her guard to
a mumeut.
"Partly tbe pest, partly tl tbe present
•od portly the future," the &celled. "1
bare never played the hostess on such a
scale as I stall have to here to a few
days. and 1 think the prospectof
uu-
serves me."
Is that all?" There was something
his tone wbich made her feel be did
not quite accept the answer, and he
took his 'rut away from roaud her
waist. 'You are • creatures/. moods,.
Lola,- be continued thoughtfully, "and
1 wemetimes thjuk that some orf the
tentircis you pall life which Zero have
gaga'' told me depress yea► •- -
• • Why do you think there is anything
I hoe,- not told you?"
,.You have told me very little."
"Therm ie only little to Wa " slluttr-
. plied, surprised at Ills ward". for be
- bad uever premed ber as to any iucident
of her life with her father, "and �
---t>nuty'nottt4eB
Dee to read in his words • enggeattoq
of doubt roused her into an atutode of
defense.
lie uotloed the obagge, and be stooped
and ki,aod ber.
-When I ttoubt you, child, I will tell
you to openly. I am with you and for
you *gams" the world."
e,a...-..etas. inswess.d
lir-aeea'M - ,
and threw her arms round him an
kissing bim passionately, exclaimed:
"Ah, Jaffray. I think sometimes I
should be a happier woman if I did not
love you as I do."
"Happier if you did Rot love mer" he
goeetmnd and smiled. "That is a puz-
zle 1 can't read. Would you rather that
1 did Dot love you, tbenr'
"Ab. DO, cwt I would rather you
killed me by the cruelest of deaths."
Aud abe clung to bim. I can't
"Then you are • problem
solve," be answered, lacghtug; "but •
problem that is very dear to hie, solved
or unsolved."
While "bey were thus lovemaking the
tri of tbe dinner gongs sounded, and
they bad to batten away to dream
Then at dinner an incident happened
which disturbed Lola profoundly and
marked the beginning of the end.
They had only three guest' -Mn- De
Witt, Beryl Leyeester and Pierre Ter-
tian -and at dinner Lois mw that
Frenchman wastaking a good deal of
wine. Theoouvereati0u turned ou what
each of those prevent bad been doing
during the put few weeks, and present-
ly Lola saw him set down his glass with
au expression which she knew well
boded misoblef to some One and look
in her direction furtively out of the 00r -
nee of his eye% Then he broke into the
conversation ie • tone which drew the
attention of all h him:
"My faith, but I have had an ex-
perience, or rather have heard of one,
which ia, if you like, uncommon l"
"About addle strings?" asked Mrs.
De Witt mischievously.
"No. madame; about human lives
and about something which I am sure
you could not comprehend-wowrn'a
faitblees0on. "
"I have beard of it," amid the little
women t0noeently, "but if it is any-
thing too dreadful do,'t.poll it by tell-
ing us too berriedly-keep lifer by and
by, in the drawing root°.'
"Out with it. man," exclaimed the
baremet.
"It is the story of a friend of mine,"
said tbe Frenchman, pausing • moment
to emphasize his next remark. "1)o you
know the Devil's rook to the Swim
mtmntains? Do you, Lady Waloote?" be
eked wben the others said nothing.
Something in the "tee made Beryl
Leycester look ep, and abe saw that Sir
Jaffny's wife was on the defeneire.
"The Devil's' reek, the Devil'', rook."
replied Lola, repeating the words M if
waiting for the came to strike some
Mord of reoollectiou and -speaking very
naturally. "I seem to have heard of it,
and yit-you know how one's memory
will play trioks-I really can't soy."
And the smiled very sweetly.
"It is well named at any ,rate," said
M. Tertian. "Imagiue • semicircular
lar
background of rough, steep Drags,
here and there thick, dark tire and pines
am them, and in the middle • sham and
pin-
nacle rook standing sheer and g
solitary, jotted to the background by a
narrow patb, each side of which L •
precipice stretching down hundredo of
feet to the bottom of the gorge. Th:;t t+
the Devil's mei!, and the presereee
might be called Ira truth the mouth of
bell- "
"Bot what hal the devil to do with
woman'a faithlas.nese?" asked Mrs. De
Witt with • smile.
"More then n.nal," returned
tuts Prwmehrn.e, lenghimg dryly. "There
was murder done ora that very spot -
murder, so tar ss intent was concerned,
and my friend wax the'Jetim. I went
the plane left mouth with bim• " n
es'�r t "I'm getting a bit mined, protessee,
dd tie baronet.
"My friend was married to • women
wise swat to have got the idea of free
tag herself from Aim. She took bim 60
that place me day. told bim she bad
oeassd to lova him and that she meant
to have him."
"What a very nonventioa1l cre•turer'
ezelaimed Mra De Witt "She was, at
Boos, • worsen of the middle elssus."
"B.arealy eseventde , madame,"
"Wait," resumed the F:ruohwaa.
"In falling be caught bold uta point of
the ruck with one hand and would have
'weed himself, but she, seeing what had
beppeued, stamped on bis fingers with
all her strength. bruiaiug and crushing
them and causing biro to loos bis hukd.
That war murder,"
"Bot you say he didn't die," said the
baronet.
"1 soy it was murder in intent. What
(bink you, Lady Walcoter And he
stopped and looked boldly into Lola's
Oyes.
"I eboeid think your fraud cam iso•
make a mistake as 0110, "'retorued Lola
'gain warmly.
"1 only speak for your guidance, Lo-
la." said her companion, nut policing
the iut0rraptiou, "gaud you ow be very
angry with we if yea like. Never have
ru effrir with a man wbo wawa to
blurt it out right in the teeth of the
world. That man was looking at you
Weight when be wu telliug that cook
and bull story with in expsl.Niou in bis
eyes which said as plaiuly u possible.
'You and I understand one another.'
Aud you are to inesperienued---don't be
sultry, my dear you'll grow out et it
mauolsg, M. Terri u, tj►IlttZh I tsars • in
and bi.
tyour lip hard wbeu beat you even turned a shade
d
look .t you. Of counts I don't doubt
you • bit about hrviug 0o understand-
ing with him, but in that ease I
wouldn't have bim in the hoose an
bout it I were you, for be acts Just as
11 yea both did understand one another
very thoroughly. And one hu to be
very iuuooeut nowadays before one cCu
afford to be respected for nothing. It's
had enough wheu it's for something."
.And Mrs. De Witt laughed again and
Shrugged her plump white 'boulders.
"You Hud it bard, I dare ray, td look
through smoked glasses and see what
you take for smoke and nut cry 'Fire."
directly."
"That may be as you like," replied
the other ourtly, "but iu any care I'm
not such a fool as to let morder
cry'Fr!
Fire)' very loudly Mad plainly
that other people may 'maw themselves
by speculating whether there'' 'smoke
or nut" And Mea De Witt coughed a
little aggravatingly. "Bat tell me who
is he? Whew did Magog pink him up?"
Lola told her shortly.
"An old pupil. Ob 1" And she roughed
again. " You know, Lola. Toa are very
pretty and --well, I have beard of such
a thing as a mule muster falling in
love -you know what I mean. 02
coarse you know best, and it'■ not for
me to say a word. But if I were e7 01
shouldn't Mieonrage Magog in
rimae! ..
Lola limbed tbie time and quite au
restrainedly. YrN DeWitt had gone se
ger ate/••..iu - Wwft
'But what ohos the Eva to
toiede seam
believe that some woweu might be
goaded os� t in such a way to men by
whom tbey-had been i11 treated."
"As there was ao one about to see
her, I can quite believe she did it., and
I've no doubt the man deserved it,"
soil Mrs. De Witt vieionely.
- "As/ pan. Y 1,ryoester?"
"lmliense ed in the casuistry et
murder aef7ee_ g"replied Beryl coldly;
"Bet if thio was such a ghastly plus
bpm did the man escape?" used the
baronet.
"His clothes were caught on • tree
some miraculous way, and after a Uwe
of suspense, iu which his won nearly
left him, be was reecued-"
Lola had schooled herself to reveal
no sign of the painful and absorbing
interest with which she listened to the
story, but at this she could not avoid a
gnyr!k, sga8Cn•tlxeiinnette e
"Ab I"
"This part of the story interests you,
Indy Waicote?" said the Frenchman,
earning and looking Htedly at her.
"No more than the ret" she replied,
keeping-bervoice ander control •with an
effort the strain of which was M•gin-
niug to tell upon ber, and abe gripped
ber bands tightly together on ber lap as
abe saw the calm, cleat, gray eyes of
Beryl Leyosater scrutinising first her-
self and then the Frenchman, as if die
understood that • dual was goiug on be-
tween them.
The scene was photographing itself
on Lola's memory. The soft yellow of
the lamplight. the lovely flowers on the
table, Chore at the table turniug to lie
ten to the Frenchman's words, his atti-
tude as be bent forward and leered halt
threateningly, half jeeringly and all
audaciously, at ber, ■pad through the
��lll
�U'fll6 BICYCLE'
10 aro Yuubnk. to ..rptrtle M war engaged I �) A R .1 I\
1 �j' 1' l L1 In en+uttng thlr Wwptr, wAtuA war wtta► 1,i U
All kN UUU o wA� riore teeth Awuttn bl �ar'wutbern part
`I1 non were oouquerlog ��-
o( Hawaii, where bid owe negative, Kion ,
was then king. Keung soon afterward Re -
Humin Sacrifices °auto dtdhearteud sa
and rze1drred bine
Appease a Bell end her warriors 111 the hapset reedy -
Pagan Deity. Ing life and mercy. tie Dowevsr, mid
main of hes leaser obtetti��- :d���w_�an were
d ale ale and their bodies x1 uu ib.
BBLICS OF THE BOBBIBI.E PAST. i altar of the pew temple
This was the lard human 1.crifiee eves
n the H►wallan 'dead& The vie-
•
made o
thus were executed In the presence of
hewer. Temples eine lessee-if•W Ikethus
hluwl(, who stood at the
Pwpio nave Neon seised to Ohre- door of the house within •atone Inc
tlaony Oat of tyrb.rbm - C•a.00tly to withers tb:a slaughter.
Lipka botw«a the Past tld yre..et There are • few other MMus stilt In op•
arllnnt preservation, one of which is on.
Uncle Seto Deme into pesaalslm of some :Kobel*, 1111 Hawaii, and wutber at Keats-
wonderful'I
ancient h.wthrnMnPIes whtN kakoa Day, which Is said to have been used
be annexed Hawaii, writes Captain Jack-. M Captain Cook to repair his sails. and
sun to the Nan Frenolaeo0tt11, and curios" t by w tow
tourists and aster tide are -beginning tel removed. It was trues this temple that
1n to do with them. Kala°iupuu, then king, took tbatil three
{
ask whet be it going 1 hended god. Lune. off to Ctlpta
Native much
more
regard there as some- %easel the Discovery Whether clew mow
1 the sandalwood altar had been
The Spirit of Mars Among
American Wbeelmetl.
DOGS TO CATCE CYCLE BCOOT'1'l.
•
!Bicycle !clown and Das1eo Kayo ttososr
Itetabu.hed noel.) Twt05.-Advent of
tae !fermi• Handshake Registry Il.ots5
Tor the Hereat of W heelwea.
a
thing much wnr than blstorleea land entente of the past ager will Do kept In
works, something to lick the past with
preserve by Uncle Nair now that we have
the present, and for years the native king- I o m.uarhon of the friends m1" ns
dulri has appropriated money for their I proved.
careful preservation.
Filer Damien, the leper priest of Mo-
t••eeD sr labost wosL
lulaJ,, made • easeful study of several d The penciled kind of meat consumed
by he people of Arabia, both native and
1 foreign, is the mutton of the Somali or
1 blackhead sheep, and no matter by whom
eaten all pronouuoe it the best mutton
ever torted. The 'beep, as its name 1ud1•
cases, Is tromu the Somali country on the
1 Atrium toast. Thew sheep have no wool,
but short,1he most peculiarrr to hingthat of
about
the dog.
them td that they have • large lump of
pure fat growing- root et the root of the
tall, and this fat varies In size and
weight macerating to the oondttton of the
sheep. A medium-sized lump of Ihh tat
weighs about tour pounds. tiuoh a sheep
which weighs from thirty five to forty
pounds, 1. sold at from four to Ave rupees
(dgbty-flue sante to $1,06). The skis
when pun -dried is exported, and Largo
quantities of them go every year to the posed enemy. Whir►won ola
i New York market, where they are known uniforms and w guarded by Pads that they
':lumen' aktms," but like the $tooka are ,.1115 ecu ag ride past or
aye." of commerce:
tura_
1i i6iiYe17 M `, among the dnga, t leirtratandy rush at
.kta kod. iii-Ieh1)110 s-ltlY: .bow men costumed as Frenchmen or livaslsps.
and throw them over. If a dog eltee:u
•kles were imported Into New :Oak b
the vacua d g88s,19d I stake a mistake and attack a repre eentn-
pf tri to a111antro, be la 50501017
yN o1a e. _ -..L1 . w_t a a le
__ - - - -- amailtug the man wbu pdvobateP tttr.Ne
Osiosam Asd.„04�. a PorHoeis ver•/. -_
pais' Yee A►lastlo.
The wnr has materially affected the sate
of bicycles. A New York dealer pays that
no business bas been injured more than
the cycle trade by the uncertain condition
of Watters ooncernine Cuba. ' It has been
an everyday oco0rrenee for several Werke
for • clan to come 1n, look over wheels
Dud almost reach he point of buying, and
I then defer the purchase° "for a few days'
because ho was a member of a reslu)ent
and might be celled out. It U said t
the salts of hlgb grade wheels bate suf-
fered most during this period of Inver
Minty because of tbe feet t
hat aaauf eyeless
national
guardeheen usually buy that
The utility of the wheel 111 actual warfare
U as yet problematic and the welds of
Cuba may nut to a suitable field for pre -
deal tests. 'Phut the too vie Is recognized
a an•trnpltweat of web, however, is dem-
instratcd by tbo attention glleu to the
wbje t in the L'nitui States and Lennie.
The eztel lug use of cycles in military
maneuvers has Induced the German
lary authors'i, 1 to put themsel'es In a
positleitiodeleat the QDylaUabt of attack-
ing cycle corps In 01110 of action. To thea
end they are training dogs to dlatinguieb
between thirteen, Austr'Ien and Italian
nulfuruoa from tbumu of 1•'rtnicb and Hee-
elan soldiers. and when their education in
this respect 1s sufllclently advanced they
are taught to throw tbetasehrta on. the
cyclists who wear the unffurmaof the ersup
DIARRHCEA i
5
DIARRHOA
Free loo. et all
druggists.
Rano*. •U•s"rore•.
'mar r •ag
•RR
truth. • .
"I hell yon what I'iI-dd." she mid,
after a moment's pause. "I'lllend
otherim
to yon. Jaffrey was saying .
day he'd like to see you 'Itet110g 7003
wicked little wits at bim,' and 1'li
give you unconditional leave to flirt
meth him tut =took as 905 eau „ .-
Mrs. De Witt louked • little pleaded
ed
.$ this.
"No, thank you- I ban a. graver
mission than that. I mean to bring
back Magog himself to his boat a11e-
gianoe," rho said audaciously, "You've
mouopolized bim quite long enough.
But I'll give your Frenchman any time
Y can spare from tate more serious but -
nem of my visit."
" Very well," said Lola, smiling.
"I'll give you all of lair Jaffray that -
you can take."
"You're very prodigal with your
gifts," laid Mrs. De Witt in a rather
waspish torte. dee was irritated at toe
quite andtetetandtug Lola.
At that moment the two men were
heard laughing, ■nd directly afterward
they entered the room together.
Lola, mindful of Mrs. De Witt:a
words, was especially guarded in her
Gowen and ages Slr i t °prig" manner toward the Frenchman.
Mud handeardrr iistedil5)j' Die greet, The two men sat down close to sari:
nemUlsnedly al if it were a tale 1 De Witt, who held them in converse -
which in 1Mwiio toadied the fringe et
his life.
How waste -hs look if he knew Wisp
the murderess was?
The thought dashed *crone Lolu'i
brain just as abe freed hereelf to speak
in a tone of polite bot casual iutcreet
Her own voice sounded to her like that
of another.
"And what did be do next?"
tbst was Dot conventional." re-
plied M. Tertian, turning to emiie on
Mr. De Witt, but looking back almost
directly to kola, with the expression
which to Beryl had seemed like • chal-
lenge a0d • defiance. "He went his
way. He said to bimself, 'This is no
common act and the vengeance shall
be like it.' "
-Quit. theatrical," murmured Mrs. 1 Sls Jeffrey, probably loved him now
=see i catrtC* IN HAWAIl-
Itt'it- bull, Mstklong, provisioned with
'canned goods and victor, Capt'
Andrews reoently sailed from Atlantis
City for Europe. in 111s peculiarly con-
etructed craft, known se the Phantomntt
a
be.a1iedtar.1 *Aaoree, D
n -
tion being to leave therefor the'i?nropeai
coast.
Captain Andrews does not know what
fear meant, and, fortified by past ezpet'i-
enoe and • well constructed craft, thor-
oughly provisioned, he expecte
Europe within 00 days, in spite of all
storms.
In Captain Andrews' caw there Is noth-
ing experimental in the performance.
loess interesting tewpies ted gathered • This well be 111s fifth voyage aor'oes the
Atlantic, his first
great deal of material concerning their was in 802 and it esu
history. His last voyage one full of severities and dtaoomffrb. But
The following la one of the legends ob- aside from these minor details, he had al.
beau
and written lbya bim gulch
on ingthat
he ways beau successful to a remarkable de
hclao to the Mepulahu gulch on that Ir r••
Wand: hand. He obtained It from envoi the old- gaHe looked forward to his voyage with
est natives on the and: ''A company of pleasant anticipations.
The Phantom ship was built on the pier
under the supervision of Andrews blmselt
It is 11 feet 6 inches long and 6 feet a){
inobes wide., There is a depth of only 21
!aches to the hold. In the sides of this
frkllerafe+re wateg.tlght compartments, In
which supplies for the trip will be stored,
and s• there are other chambers for air
the boat will not sink even if filled with
water.
A heavy detach4Lle lead keel well be
vent capsizing to heavy seas.
it contains 16 yards ofcanvas,
man. One halyard
and • single block control this and
tion. and Lola, sitting a little apart,
grew thoughtful.
bbe was beginning to realize more
and more clearly how the load that she
was bearing would gall and wound with
ib weight and bow difficult it might be
to carry it at all without its creaking
ber.
4b. had notieed Beryl's tette Medd look
when the girl had asked that question
■boot Montreux, mud abe mw instantly
tbat from that side there might develop
a really serious suspicion fraught with
much danger.
Lula had never understood Beryl. She
could not gauge the strength and poei-
bi:ities of a nature that seemed to her
so indifferent, so sold and so hard to
wound. Sbe knew that Beryl bad loved
Do W d I
please
"He let ber remain, madame, under
the imprepaton that she bad killed him.
He bid himerlf, aud to tbis boor be bas
never revealed the truth. Ile is waiting
until she bu taken some step which
will make big re•ppearapce ber ruin,
and Wen be will strike, cbooaing tote
awn time."
What a pity be didn't diel" ex-
elaimed Mrs. De Witt.
"He's rather • sold blooded brute,
professor. Shouldn't care for many such
friends," aid the baronet
"Does be some from Montreuzr'
asked Beryl, and the Frenchman, tam-
ing hastily round, met the calm, .eurch-
ing gazeof the girl fixed keenly on him,
and in an instant recognised what •
clumsy bleeder he had made, and while
be wu muttering in some oonfneio0 a
vigorous' denial Lola, who had turned
pale oe.pite ber fight fur self coutrol,
ruse from the table, and at the signal
the ladies left the room.
spirits who brought over he atones of t
belsu from Walla°, a gulch on the other
side of the island. Each eptrlt got only
one atone to build this immense betuu.
The name of the oompafy of splrite a5&.
'Kamenehnnt'"
Whatever the legend may be. there is
ample evidence to prove `hire the stereos
came from which went to form this buulld-
Ing. It 1d paid that they were passed
tter
the mountain from the other side of the
Island by natives etendf$g to • row about
six feet apart and banding
Witt. "Bat what was the eu end possibly might never again feel a
P" .park of love for any other man. Such,
sae thought, was sometimes the poral*
once of these self restrained women.
Yet there bad never been a sign of
110.tilit7 or resentment on Beryl's part
at the breaking of that old tacit engage-
ment and the wreokiug of ber life.
Why was this?
(:'. be continued.)
1.14 M. Taman. "Me goaded him with
some hoot, bitter w°fde-'that was cote
ventinual, crf aunts' -and when M
caught hole of bet le take her away
frim the plies die elrwok him in tete
tone with the paitlol she was cars -oma
m4 be .tumbled Mak and till over."
"Q11, gt�uaitse .tot mustier 1 Monk mora
lib1 talofeie," said Mtw. De Wit. "0
* knew Wt-',„ rut 0f a weaIS else wee,
be might r, -- tea what to *OW it
Ea {tied a :-vt • get"
is iaweatin ' n.m.e
ele, M14
n le ean•
ed,ro tthe 1. 1. re snot difficult to ffolllow. Pick
.ill some feature or peculiarity by wnheb
you Dan distinguish that face or person
filum all other tapes or persons and asso-
otate the name with that feature or peonl-
iarfty. No two countenances or figures
are alike, and It 1. by noting how they
differ one from another that you will re-
member them.
In explaining er !teed once meld to a: re -
his remarkable memory
for teres Pew
porter that he never looked I% * a line,
in the
face that some striking peculiarity,
a wrinkle, an expression about the eye, the
set, of the Ilia, the shape of the nose -
something set that man's face down to
his mind eradically and dtstingnlsbd
from the rept rf mankind, so that when a
man epprwnbod him be would think,
"Bore tomes that mane Robinsonowhose
oe
right pupil b bigger
-this as Thompson whose now as so crook-
ed -"-Self Culture.
ab•atd Els Tea Qatek Ter n.
"1t 15M•uld try to Flat you, i snnpow
roe would call for help." he said inquir-
ingly.
If yon am en muttr'sting slow that a
mil for help would do any gond," she re-
pined, •ye would seem Tea ./Wt tILJ$,(1 I
did. "--Chleago Poet
CHAPTER XL
IIgRYL SPLAEa
Almost as soon se the four balk
reached the drawing room old Lac:
Walcote pleaded a headache for an ea
ones to go to ber rooms and cart„
away Beryl Withller.
"Now, then, my dear, let no sett:•
ourselves tow a quiet chitchat in tl:
tl
0prer here," said Mrs. De De Witt as so
es she and Lela were alone, "and let
be comfortable. Tell me, who's year
friend? i like him ratter, but shouldn't
°are to like him much."
"I)o you reed' D1. Torr owe" _ _
Well, I don't i1 cant mean
I7
And when isay friend
a woman, can IP" replied
no fel'
Lela tndl4.rm c- balsams
asks hada "
"Well. my deer, 4f mele1 be m-
ing
a' -
illi she laughed significantly.
"I mean that I do not want hint
hue," add Lola rather warmly, reroute
tag her onnspenioue.
's ern
"Oh, ft's that way, as it? He is the
gnaw,h he? Has it been that wr
with bim long? How long h
ince
70a refused him?"
Lola laughed in her tern.
"Yom think there must sleety" be
that kind of tie, ehr' this ease"Net always, bat in yea
$1 why as he helm, e1 deist Bet bet'.
dot *hre
ear when he drinks, and if the
bat leen 10 people at the table touted
yconid all have team that there war
segos tort of reletlnnship between /011
Mee Other than 11st of mManta anal s
st or friendship."
port as .m'7 for 10 people o
The Idea of • registry book for waycyclists
bas been tried 1n a half hearted
one or two hotel wen, end, so far, as they
Went, they were well patronised. Tho
trouble tea. the books wnr 1n au out of
tbe way plate and oomlrratl%ely few rid-
ers ever learned of their existence. NO
tern was diepiayed itotlfyfng any permit
of the convenience, and the custom never
became general. The idea of having much
books everywhere la strongly advocated.
The objection had been made to 11 that
some persons do not caro to.wrlte their
names at a public. buuse. obese objectors, eine. do u
.
say the attvuu$l t
ot
grasp it properly. Initials. nickels -les or
prearranged uliesea woulel serve, the point
being Chet the books are not to be kept for
the benefit of the hotel or the curious pub-
lic, but solely fur th1-eonvertiene.ot rid-
ers. With theedoptlon of aliases or in-
itials 1t *o td -oho be entirely possible for
one W 1511 only hoe° whom he wanted
TEJLhat he was out and aulug
to a rtadto 1 ace`.
could thus osoap° being foliowataad ever- -
takun by persona wbow they did not oars
aa• :
RACE ANNOUNCING.
this Modern Herald (vont 1 paogaP•,rea
Halt aa Lagar an Htone1.
,s..*he.g1etlal a11uuutlops JAIR,convenienos
of modern racing and at'it etic l itfil:"i4tfe
old days the results were posted up on a
bulletin hoarse, and throe of Ibe spoctaton
who wore blessed with good eyesight could
keep (reeklr
ts. Much nft
was he naturalrss ells. An enter -
priming eastern club het upon he Idea of
departing from the antiquated telegraph
board cutotn, which we inherited from
our English cousins. Inits plaa��ut out
a strong
lunged roan was appointed
the vaults of the several events to tbe
crowd as ten as they were decided. The
scheme made a big hit and has been made
0se of at pia tkcilly all owning tourna-
ments ever since.
At first this insist announcer
A� o�
solely on the carrying power
In discharging his duties.
That
ly w sen not
f
always satisfactory. part ea
Of large creeds. The vocal strain Wad
such that the voice of the announcer often
'systolic lone berme the oonol uta «o the
w
toorineut. Then ell the spec
id
bear was is torten of lemma squawks, which
married me warming to the ear. This (nee
advantage hes been overcome too. The
modern Instrument, known as the mega-
phone, bas been seized upon by the official
announcer, and with Ito std he Dan seal
tremendous volumes of sound to any 'or -
BICYCLE IIASO8RA&E.
my The dogs selected are Great Dane.,
wight anti
th.
Ere specially titled fortheir rtbe-.ervl .t Bugthc
German otflcers, wblle actively pushing
the drilling of this novel corps, are under-
stood to dread ho employment by the env
my of doge ,.o • dmllnr capacity, fearing
that in this ease the anfmala might fight
among themselves, and. losing heir sense
el distinct), . between (needs and foes, b'
as dangerot", to the one as to tfJe other'
The French military authorltfalm-bavebe
come alive to the importance of such an
knee and are now urging the training of
them from one °� fO 1's.° dogs on their own account ae the nodlest
1ha w bite Way of eirouutveuting the intentions of
the other. can be handled by one the their neighbors cn the other side of the
As the tel lure is 400 feet long and 100 Rhine.
feet broad, with an average twlght of 10 topsail, which are bent together. Cnet.iR HtRahMe'@ bicycle was taken
/sat, same ides may be formed of the existed
he desk of the boat lifts out the sides from the Maine wreckage, atter having
Mom population that moot have ezleted I told in, and the bottom doubles up. to the t been to the mud of Havana harbor for live
upon Molokai at that period. ].took near- •bundle about four laches thick can be 1 days, and those who read the feet seemed
ty $O,em cubic yards pat Material to build I made of hand easily carried ander the arm to find some difficulty in imagining s
this temple �_ sailor 00 a bicycle. Yet not only as. the
At present the a Christla ofs, the Hr I officers of the United States navy addlctce
sill h Niels as. Christians, tbhews
stold , / r o the bike habit, but the bluejacket
tem have a look ren them for these ofd (` �_�
onples and look upon them as the drat 1 �f- themselves' are enthusiastic cyclists. On
+ - amount of the cramped living end stow
'connecting link between the put and the 1 - ��- -
present The first mention In civilised �e ;_
� age quarters of 6M men forward on a eau
records of these buildings appears to have I !� �� of -war, the salient In our navy are nut
now permitted to take hikes &beard stile,
been about 1819. Travelers and miso000t y. - _ `
arise were beginning to enter the oouutry, --- v. but it h likely that before very long they
will be allowed to stow their bi►e. 1n uo
r ll the most ani a pt objects were tato- A^ 1 calmed storerooms. The men forward have
rally the Immease other
of stone, totally been agitating this for tome time. At
different from any other balldings Ira the _ r ► least half of the officers, however, are the
world s - owners of b1eyoles, which they take along
.d dhis time ening a d a I had sus- `[ with /hem on their urine's.
seeded to cobs adjoining
and ants athe i_ The influence of bicycling b manifest In
nativ
oh(o(a of been compell lsto and thole• , - social cttatome. Cycle dinners and cycle
his sure a an compelled i acknowledge, these . i'
his supreme authority as king, and thew •- / - dances as. i tnhlfahed institution!' ammog
people, for the find time to their history, ' '. , the athletic set, and a facetious writer
% olalms to have dleoovered a cycle band -
were took neared ander one ooveirnmellsh shake. This sort of salutation, according
thIt nearly a years to a000mp f ► j 1Id the natural
of onunand but li&meerees t e a moa to the welter referred to, "
of iron well 11.101•e the name M offspring of a rotary mend boded 12 hours
bean In Hawaiian history, "the conquer'- I y In the day with its own and other people's
wheels. It mon
or
Total Dspreettr.
t
Stssrvalse Mena -Bay. de daprsv11F d
de human nut Wage steeps 10 me eyes
1 kidding Peter -Woe's up, ..044 r hew
title murder?
Enervated Edwin.- Neer; here's a feller
enmmlte mired* '5+nee M asset est s0
work -New Tort Journal.
es. and women ride wheels
During these years of conquest arida '' • and talk little elm but wheels, It Is only
blwas coming over , �'� natural that they should soon begin to
tem most
•greet change / _ think srbee beets, and thinking wheels makes
the.. most inters. , people,00mpa and the lit y fit,
rib of letae.011 , 00 indantbe by her- i - i S4' thinker look a1 life u a thing circuli,
'ibis' human sacrifices and other abomi-
nable speedy and p
nable custom were peening away.
unoturabin. The bicycle face,
the high and low gear laugh, the puncture
.
TON
Some doubt formerly eutfeted as to CAPTAIN lead keeL
e AND te the navigator
ant'. proof tlonalaability areand
partchat
and'ilea
parcel of
whether cannthallem ever prevailed `ns� minae Littt load kAfter the n&vigator verse 7
Hawaiian group or was practiced y reaches Sumps he wIll take t! ' boat the bicycle ere. And now tbe bicycle
time The natives themselves always around with him In this manner sur ex- handshake adds the final touch of reflne-
maniterted a degree of shame, horror and htbitioq ment. To ride on the meddle of o onven-
eonfusion when spoken to upon the sub- 1 Provisions for three months are taken t'tonalitiend wherlyon must
grasyou mast bim orp the right
hgrigrplef
and this led the great navigator, Cap by Captain Andof
rews, all to wood goods fvats your digital handle bar above your
chin and push off into space with yos
hand and the hand of your friend Io tau
dem. describing a 100 inch sprocket whelel
in the air, while you Indulge in verbal
aootcbing about the weather-andhand ls
ot
In other words, yon grasp the
your friend and attempt to wrest his arm
out of Its 'socket by making a buena).
windmill of bim, as pbown by the dotted
Imes 1n the picture. it you don't indulge
In the bicycle 'handshake -well, you're
Dot • wheelman, and that means 800111
Sind business ostracism."
S ome of the New York bewspapere, par•
Ocularly The Sun, are dlseus.ing the neo
malty of some sort 01tryf�nentks t
pls,etr
hotels and other stopping P
nd by, wbeelfnen. There 1e not a day that
then are not rtingfidehrrhAfee acme
looking for friends, and they are at a lops
to know how tat ahead or behind about
they are. oven when not primitive
esrta i n ainIim s oC Mtge* bead -gat'
rider, would like to know who is abroad
becalmsofthere being • good Mance that
tka11eb+ adjusted d by theof
'seeping would know some rine. couldhis
registers
WI hotels and other points for the sew of
Uhl puok. and tie nffioera, without any
direct evidence, to believe in 11. existence,
but later voyagers disputed this conclu-
sion. Their own hlatortans, however, and
the general acknowledgment of the peo-
ple hese fairly established the eastern to
yond a doubt, though it appears
somewhat abated precious to Cook's 0111
and had gradually decreased until warmly
• vestige of any of the horrible custom re
maind. Ther• can 0. 0 doubt this hu-
manizing Improvement, en different
iff a tntf r
on
h the
heir other habits, as
example and tnetruct.lon received from the
e arliest white visitor, as well as a self
eonvtctlon of Its own abomination. 1
strong public sentiment of dieg i.t in re
yard to it prevailed at that time, and 11
was highly a elitt•bt. mamma ale et viatica
and savage
contemporheetaries
cite l frotn their more
d Yee other groups
Mvags teorttemporearWe.
o• f the Pacific.
:isle was Le tela state eft transition t1•1
1he early ssttlers found thew Islamists,
Tend it eem e0 t down tl. 1� bad el
11Nihen lam.
Of those Hines there still ramaln In per
feet preervaaire, as relies of the horrible
Nast. the stows temples. es bdane. when
Ming to mind the awful state et th1.g•
misting a century ago.
Of the mor: tntereseng of these heathen-
ish building• one la on the island of Mole-
kai. it was built 'rime tenterles aim sad
1m onnafd.rsd one of the oldest temple. In
the Rewritten group. The other game 1e on
the west or Kona wart of Hawaii, is the
Let one eves (0 111, being erected • little
ever 100 years ago.
in 1791 Kemehamell. 1, during his wars
of snhjngation, to show h1e veneration of
the ode and in semen • nnMlnuaneea et
their Pavex and strengthen hie kingdnra,
e tgitg" i le betiding • very torso temple
u ilhwelbee for the wnnhlp of Kani• the
sod of war, sad for offering hntr,an and
sib eller Aces it was built .n • hill and
The captatnlf dinner bill of fan will teed
about like this:
Oyster crackers. Baked boas@ (5.11).
Canned beef.
lard tock. Canned cheers. Centel bed.
Pruner
The captain will drink vlehy on his trip,
taking 60 bottles with hem aaee11 s ho
ee
anal demijohns of urine
ereptlre the bottles he will indite • mes-
sage for each one and consign it to the sea.
He Das always employed this plan of oom-
m u n lwttee.
At night the navlgatr must confine
himself to short naps. An arrangement
of the tiller awakens him should his course
be °banged daring his slumber.
. 7
!as 1s.$ seen d the" 0.01151,
Of all man's Invertlnns, the boomerang
MOMS the strangest and least likely kind
of weapon for the natural man, with ne
knowledge of mechanics, to have hit upon,
and yet It becomes intelligible enhugh
when we bear hel In Au.traya1 where .loo
hbnhutrang was dfacnv'ern_t_, there grows s
tree that shed. a ewdpod of Inch • shape
that 1t whirs away In the air and returns
again as It falls. Ant how many watchedd
fellows" bad watched these sepods b
hir
and gyrate -our own tib thews down
Mingo that try to emulate the gyration -
before cam of them thought of lrhteting
the shape or the pod on a large male and
w make the first boomerang, We do not
know the dab of the first boomerang. but
we know whets Newton discovered greet
Sateen, ane. it 1• likely that ho s wipde
bad been falling stems se hog as apples
-hlaskWeed's Magnate's
QOM TswNll•r.
(1nllIngwcnd-I suppo1 you era fsmihat
with the weeks of Whiny Armed
ramp.rc?nwn-Cev'talnly, and stet sett
MtwR rat Rnbble Reowning, B1117 Sh•ks-
epe•re and Jerk Milton. -London Fon.
ANNOUNCER BURRS AND B10 YROAPAO1tL
nerof the sporting Inolcaurewabout mach
wear and tern of ha thorax. He bolds the
cornucopia looking affair to hL Bps, nim.
1ts muzzle at the persona he is addressing
and talks in en ordinary tone. Ilia roes -
"age le thrown to its recipients am • roar
from • cave.
When bicycle racing became one of the
recognized sports, the ofllcial announcer
played an Important role right from the
start. Not only was he found to be a ma-
mmary adjunct in informing the patrons
of rens meets of what Was going on, lint
be was called upon to help the dirk of the
'mums In getting the contestants out on
Mete marks promptly. Women preparing
for the theater are lean dilatory than a los
of cyclists making ready for their race..
The clerk of the course often verges upon
lneentty In trying to get his men to the
starting point In quick time to as to pre-
venta.1i9ylggekeheys between race..
The oldest announcerTj pr Eli? hf lrevIee
es well as he feet known is Frederick W.
Burn., an athlete or great 'skill in ha
youth end auall around sportsman. His
popdertty tem en &dnoniimm la doe to aft
small ineasere to hit keen sense of hu-
morlee is quick to appreetato en nppor-
tnntty for a witty sally and never tails es
Wim advantage of le
cyclists'. One place where riders welt ev-
ery day for othma end wonder whether the
ones they seek have gene on or have not
yet arrived 1s the rent entree of Propose
perk at the head of tie cycle path. Cycler*
eon De teen welting there fes as Inn' we
half an hour and leaving reluctantly with
On fear that the friend they seek will
BMW along. They look et the granite
poet* and et the dark painted cycle racks
and wish them wee some way to leave •
messes telling their Mende that they
bare Moven therm end tett at ouch and snob
e time to go in a cartel's llrantinn. Some
of the Aright toys who liana around these
p1•rre and etRWRIR ter rim a reglatry book.
ehargin0 a emelt fee for nacthing should
be Rhin to mak. a fairly lox -0
M 1
nese% ora IDs Dade.
De Dade (who does not Hite • very
high onllar)-Tbeaa collars arevery
high. Show the something lower,
Salesgirl (with dignity) -Theis as.+
the cheapest we have, air. We don't
keep alopshop goods. -New York Week-
ly'.
a oapool'I Optional'.
"Proffered Brainard is the brainiest
man that ever lived."
"indeed 1"
"Yew bet. Why, he Dan goy 'i love'
in 89 differentlanguage-iv-0Ahasn't
said it in fay." -New York TToi11L
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