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land A^ademS, . . Jari'et-1 Mercer, young-professor of 'JSnglisih ilfer^tw'te', ' * # £ rhe to r i c , m e e t s on t}ie t r a i n . a^yoUng njtan, A r t h u r F l e m i n g , a l so ,glj»$Ki» w a | . t o the Academy, &a p ro f e s so r otj^a.%h'

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emy. At t h e school" the g r o u S i s s t r uck b y an air, of i f lys ter^p .erVadfr ig t h e lonely place., G o r d o n HasKfell, t h e p r o ­p r i e to r , welcomes, t h e m . W i l t o n P a y n e , t e a c h e r of psychology, comple t e s t h e facu l ty . *

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"Danger — mystery — the. uiiknown; ' the untried." : ; "'" •---—-.-

yJE el6!lsreiyV: What are the manifesta­tions of fear?. Intense silence or wild raucous sound? Oh, I am jesting, of

f«,ourse—-but I do prefer deep silence to shrill iioises. Miss Mercer, will .you have French or Eusslan dressing ^ „

,,,' yoiir ,saiadr-""'-^,;^;',"v" \' "May we see the establishment after

dinner,'Sir?" ; "Well, really, I'd much prefer your

pupils should think of'you as far-off Olympians."

i*. "At ease—4i Parnassus' slopes," Payne remarked with-a lifting of tifa eyebrows.

Haskell had drawn up a chair next to Janet's. She looked lovely, Arthur thought. la his heart he had already

• constituted himself her protector, and he resented with all the ardor;-of a fiery nature the cold, creeping courtesy o^ this strange schoolmaster guard­ing so 3efilously the almost inhuman .discipline of his establishment.1

"Mi£!s Mereer, your pupils will, lore-you," Uaslxri was saying in his soft, purring voice, ~ •

"I .think it is so much more im­portant that they should' love the sub­jects I. teach," she answered crisply, shrinking back from his too close proximity,

"They will love Jbotn.". He rose, fixed them with a"'<l\tee1f Intense,glare of a glance; "I recommend you all to' go to your rooms. The work will be­gin in earnest tomorrow,"

They heard his footsteps echoing down an apparently endless corridor. Mrs. Denver folded up her napkin, and taking a pin from her dress pinned it carefully. Payne was staring at the tablecloth. . Janet's fair face seemed like a gleam of summer In the soft light of the candles and her eyes, wist­ful, half fearful, drew Arthur's heart to that shadowy region where love be­gins. He stepped to the door. "They keep this place very dark.*'

"Come In out of that corridor, Mr. Fleming," .Payne commanded "and let's—talk."

Arthur turned back._ The two wom­en were sitting in a listening attitude. "I thought I hearct-a voice,"TIrs. Den­ver said.

"So did -r,"- Janet echoed. "I want to make a' pact,** Payne an­

nounced, "One doesn't have to teach psychology to "know when a situation rings~strange. Let us hold together here, whatever happens."* \ * \

They .looked" In each other'sMaces ' solemnly. Janet reached out her left hand, and Arthur took it They made a ring. Fan off a bell struck," '"There, at last I've heard a bell,"

Mrs. Denver sighed, "I don't think 1 could -have slept tonight if I hadn't

: heard just one beH."

Her heart beat so violently' that she felt'they^must hear «V All al'ohcetfie naoon went under a clouds and tfoelr. scrutiny" ceased; she stole, into, bed,. and, in spite of her" fears, was-sooh asleep.-' . — •• ..^.Bew long she, had slept she did not jknow^when she-.found herself all" at* once wide; awake, sitting up in bed, and wondering if a„ far-off sound of -feet had been actual or part of a dream/Not hearing it again,she lay back on her piiloyv and w#nt over the events-ef the day, her mind now alert and active. Fear gave way to curi­osity. Why had Haskell segregated his four teachers on this floor? Why had he wished to keep them away from the scholars?

Her curiosity strengthening with every moment, she resolved at .last on a bold move. This strange principal had probably gone to bed. Snirwduld creep down and explore the ground floor of the academy, and probably find "some clue to the mystery. Actlqg at oncer on this resolve, she put on her, clothes, and softly stepped out Into

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* . CHAPTER II .When Janet had said g'ofid night to

Mrs, Denver; she bolted her door and wondered whether she would be able to sleep. Eeady for bed, she-put out her light, and, raising the sliacjes_.iU her windows saw (hat the ra,in was' over, and the moon, a. little past the full, had risen and was illuminating the gardens, casting long ragged shadows., of-> the pines across the un­kempt lawnsi While she looked and "mused over the strange Situation, two

.-• figures.emerged from the gloom of the trees—in one of them she recognised the principal, of the school; but the other was a man ftilly.'six. feet tiTrW*

vv •ih:clies"tnli"^:anT%-ft 4v•4ong arms like a gorilla. Mis-.broad/ whitish face was

- -bored into by black -eyes^and slashed rather'than featured by a great, ted mouth, Bis appearance was so terri­fying she sank on her knees and drew the lace, window curtains between her face and the-window*. Who was he? A nian-of-all-work?

Whatever he was, he was in the con­fidence of his master. They advanced slowly, in. earnest Conversation. At last they paused beneath her window, oeased,talking, and' gazed tip steadily for about two minutes.

Her Heart Beat So Violently That She Pert They Must Hear It

the corridor and made her way down the curvod staircase to the central hail.

There she stood for a moment In un­certainty, but started at last toward a door; • to reach which she had to pass the glass door of the study room where the scholars had been so Indus­triously bent over their books. As she went by she Instinctively glanced In. The room was flooded'with" moon­light. And to her horror she saw the four forms still, leaning their heads over their desks, absolutely, motion­less. " " - ; . . •*

For .a Moment she wanted to scream; to run in terror from this house; Were they still forms of the dead or were they dummies—put there—for what purpose?

Very softly she tried the >doorj It was unlocked; and she entered, clos­ing the door behind her and calculat­

ing the amount of courage It would re­quire to.-Approach the nearest figure, which was that of a young boy,. His head, cqyered with thick brown hair, was supported ifi "hands which had a waxy'look5 End he was "hunched in a, lifelike: manner over his b^k^Very li'oftfy ;she.,;rStolte;-.iow^^d'.'hmii, %'hea,. ^otljjdj^came from '.the^jjail whicfr sent a . ^k fe*h#*ear t r / She; dropped down-behind one of the big desks and close to the %ur"0, which she now saw was a wax" dummy. Peering oat of her shadow she perceived two heads close together," their white faces star­ing steadily through the glass door Into the schoolroom. She recognized the immense gorllia-like man she had seen on the campus, and Gordon Has­kell. ' ' . •'

She shook like a leaf in her hiding placer praying fervently that they would not enter the room. To her in­tense relief, they .turned away, and, she beard their retreating footsteps. A faintness had nearly overcome her; but a rush of the old fighting spirit, when she found herself again com­paratively safe, brought her to full

.consciousness. The waxen boy drew her eyes again,

"half fearfully, half curiously she crept nearer to him. . His face was noble, absorbed," a slight smile on. the firm lips and in the deep, studious eyes over which his long lashes curled. She did not dare rise yet, but she reached up her hand and touched the waxen hand laid with such resolution on the desk. Why did he seem so alive! so vibrant! why did he smile as If he had something to tell her! She no­ticed that all "four figures bore a kind of family resemblance to each other; and on .all four faces was a look Of gentle resignation, as if they had" something to communicate when their hour should come.

•Whoever had made these figures had been ,,a true artist. . They were as far beyond waxwork as a teonardo draw* Ing is beyond the efforts of a school­girl j griefs amazement, exquisite ten­derness, seemed by turn to have guided . their composition. The tw<rha'1"t"e5"~cnn* girls—a little younger than their "brothers"-rwere of a workmanship as subtly calculated to envisage beauty and innocence as was possible. Their lovely eyes in the moonlight were bent upon their books; their curls fell thick about their slender necks—column* fit to adorn some little circular tem­ple of Eros.

Terror of these figures began t& stir In her—terror of them ;in their Immo­bile beauty; their everlasting pursuit of an education that would never be finished; their half wistful, secretive smiles as over some inexplicable mem­ory. She began to move from them, dragging her feet as in a nightmare, and turning her head constantly to look at them lest one- of. them should rise and follow her and try to- detain her, This horrid fancy fade'd; and" as she neared the door a great pity and gentleness replaced the fear. It was foolish! :They. knew nothing, yet she must step softly not to awaken them from their trance-ef-Hstedy;

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ried a good- deal. to be the head: of h ^ r is as hard; as what I have hap! to undergo, ,1 could

.;TL... ^ _ ; _ i . ^'iv&^&S'j-o-find it in my-heart to pit? Satan. hinT self,"- •" '•/ '•"*

Still Hncoln was far better off than •millions., of his f'ellow^citizens during the-GHil war. *TJirnk'Of.the thousands o-f',good Union ~ men starveJL__in.,Libby ^arnt Anderson-salle-prisons; of. the hun-'dreds of fhousaids'whio w;ere_ targets for enemy buDets; «f.the millions wiio .suffered::war--priMions. Lincoln w-as a t least occupying a public office pay­ing $30,000 a year, and lived in a palace provided at public expensed Whether his judgment was good or bad, His salary went oh, and all the time he was accumulating great fame. The war hopelessly ruined many mil­lions, but made Lincoln rieh and famous.

We have lieard of the poverty of his widow; I read the other day she was a rich woman, when she died; and how little she deserved!

I have no sympathy for the woes of statesmen on the public payroll.' From 1800 to 1864 «biillons of Americans had had luck that Abraham Lincoln might-bavejiheir share of good luck. During his four years- in the White House, Xincoln should* have, daily thanked the gods, instead of compiak-ing, • 1 haT~"an uncle George, with a young wife and. baby at home, who had hard luck at Pittsburgh Landing that Abraham Lincoln might get $50,-,000 a year and endless fame.

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Let any man think of the greatest degradations and* humiliations through­out his life, and I believe he must "decide sex was at the bottom'of most of them. It is the one thing we should eMeWor to subdue and; regulate, yet

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• After devoting.many years-to re- , •geareh?''and_.cQ}le:e.ting of d&fa; Prof.;. Oswald Gferhardt, German thepjogist,-announces that the Star of Btthi^ lehem was Tceaily Satttf a*aavd that the actual' birth-date of OfariSt was prob-

Aptil 2 ,1 p , 6>, says Patpnder ~ Accfucding."to; ancient au-

fhjjiitieS, both Jewish and Christian, -thi-f '#?¥%ere-judged to, be .ruled by" -Saturn" so; it" was to. he expected that Jesus<Vfou|d:,.-be. horn um3er the J5ign -^ of tha|"planet/Tracing the maves..;. ments of Sattirn, Professor Gerhardt > show^that^thte planet became visible, 'and- shone ^brightly during; the first wefek of AprH T E..O. ' - ! •

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C a r p a t h i a n M o u n t a i n Boys A r e S e n t t o t h e G o v e r n m e n t ' s W o o d C a r v i n g S c h o o l

The old yanked pastime of whittling kniek-knacks', \\<%- V.^kkn i fe has found its count'ei-phrt 'aJ»- Zakopane, Poland, in the Cnrpathian mountains, where virtually the entire population whittles. and^aj|K?s witli an artistry that pilt§ to "shame the moist ambitious" creations of early ''ship-in-the-hottle" artists, '' ' r—

F'ir centuries-the boys of the region have been carving tables and chairs, spoons an(d e'ups, cheese molds and saints' images. Now a government school oT^vood "work has. been estab-. lis.tjed for the mountaineers, and the remafkalSe; carvipg§.^tuadfi? by" these b(ws of fourteen" fthd/fift#h-, .are amaz-\ns, the iVft'cHti^"-"

More-tiMvn-SUG jnbuntain hoyst-epme down from their showy peaks to the school in the valley,. Before the whit­tling school was organized the moun­taineers used to carve all.sortsof dec;__ orations on their wooden dqors «antl beams,, and- when eve^y conceivable., object of dally use wasj)eantlfied they" carved saints' images. Every .cottage wife prides herself on the large as­sortment of carved woden spoons, each one reserved for a member of the fam-* iiy, relatives and^-frlends. {

A boy's Interest was turned to whit­tling sticks for--his mother tp rub her clothes against as she washed them in

the mountain stream; and then- if he couldn't think of anything- else, Ke carved himself a beehive in the form of a great bear-or some other anlmairf of a million, dollars in two years. He had a perfect mania for expressing himself in wood. He felt an urge to keep forever Whittling. It was thin urge that, led to founding the govera-«ent-sehool. . •

A l a s k a ' * C o n c t a l Ctim&t* Three-fourths .of the territory In

Alaska, is in the Korth Temperate zone. The climate of the eoastai prov­ince ,ls comparable to that of Scotland or .the ScandiMTian peninsula, but la somewhat warmer in the coastal re­gion stretching from Katalia to Se­ward. The average 'temperature ft/r the three summer months is about 51 degrees F. and for the winter months about Sfl degrees F. "" ' • .

let run wild. Our. social system, our literature, encourage wildness in sex rather than regulation. The man bulT is forever permitted to bellow his lust, instead of locking him up until his services are needed. And instead of trying to keep him quiet, the ob­jects-of his bellowing aggravate him

AJI envious dull man once said genius Is Insanity, and other dull men have made the saying famous. It was never true, for genius has always meant special ability. There are. mil-llocts of geniuses; thousands climbing-to distinction, hundreds to great dis­tinction. -I have known several prom­ising candidates in small towns where I have lived. • Among cats, dogs, cattle, and the lower animals generally, a scrub never won a blue ribbon, but It Is characteristic in th'e human family that scrubs oftener achieve great dis­tinction than thoroughbreds. Prob­ably this comes about because there Is no stud hook" among "men, Goethe jhad fourteen mistresses and no great* progeny.

^lozart attracted attention all over EttTop^ as a musleian when sis years oUL Before he died at thirty-five, he had written symphonies and operas now performed somewhere every week in the year. .-. • •

He never sat down to display his genius that he was not disturbed by a bill collector, fay the screaming of a woman in labor, a row with relatives," or some other incident of love affairs. Had he oeeh as free to devote his time to urasie as "Reigh Count" was to devote his time to winning- races, there Is no telling what heights Mozart might have easily reached.- ilany pam­pered race horses have won a quarter

People spend hundreds of millions -of dollars every year going to the' great mineral water health resorts of Europe and America.

Many of these people have to travel thousands of miles. Many of them-were suffering untold pain from "rheumatic'* aches, from . arthritis, from neuritis, from gout. Others suffered" from certain stomach ail­ments or excess acid or sluggishnss_s or a general rundown condition.

"IChe. scientific and medicaT~records of Eur.Qpe.and America show that a very large percentage of these people gained blessed relief and help by these natural mineral water treat­ments.

Today, however, you do not have to travel long distances to partake of the healthful qualities of fine natural mineral water. You do not even^have/ to pay the excessive cost of having ft -shipped to you in quart or gallon con­tainers: For Crasy Water Crystals brihg_tb your own home the precious minerals of one of the world's fine mineral waters -in crystal form i t a

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J* If you, or any of your, friends, suf­fer from "rheumatic" aches or pains we suggest you investigate Crazy Water Crystals at once. Just ask any of the millions of people -who have given them a full and fair trial and-you will realize how beneficial they have been to so many sufferers.

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ry VIII of England with tlie. namihig of sirloin of beef, his favorite roast One evening when it was brought to him, particularly well, roasted, tiie

- happy monarch asked what the joint was, Told it was loin, he arose, stood before .the roast, drew' his glittering sword and said* *T knight thee Sir Loth." •

Slosart - received less than a. thou­sand dollars from "'"Figaro," 'vt\m Giovanni," and the Requiem, and, when he died, was so poor his JuneEaLeost ttsider five dollars.

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Except in the ease of the lateJEhnn*--' as A. Edison I do not at the moment J recall another American who became widelr-pctpilar, and really.-deserved it. Mr. Edison- was . Quiet, weli-Lwhaved, and a.- great worker y~ what little he said was prober for- both young m$ old to remember, but sdmehowiie at­tracted the .pop\ilar fantv. . ' . . It i s a very sore case. Muttons of other popular men have been, unworthy of popularity, as they have acted badly, and taught bad lessons, look, at Jean Jacques Bousseau. He was scarcely a respk-jijfeie man, yet his popalarlty Is growing a long time after his death, ^lllliohs of people in ail parts of the world: regard him as alm°oSr"I"s10nt, and liis teaching as very important Bousseaa was once "kept*" by a woman. Wheu she threw Mm over, he took-ap with «liitehe'fl weachj and sent their children to orphan asylums* he neves later saw one of them. A .

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