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A VILLAGE SLEUTH
By WARREN L. TR"HAM.
iCupjriabt, mm, l, Writ.ru NrWMliii.fr tui.iu.i
"lMpli," Iiin fiiiiilHiii-H ciiltcd him, I
III full imuii' wiih AiI.iI.Iui.h Harrlity,
uixl "tin- l. -mli" he wit iliiMii-fl hy
cerliilii ilrrlsivf tVHiilt'titM uf ItriM.lv'liilf.
He lut 1 1 wnii Hit hi.'lhition fulily, fur
liiqulKlUvfiii'MM itn (I u huMt of follow 1
It iK up thai diariu'tcrlNllc with prying
wuyw hud bccniue u part of IiIh nature.
Itolph hud llmilly engendered a dis
tinct detective ambition, but the local
scope, waii limited and he was com
pelled to accept what offered, which
was a half-salaried position as a eon
table on the Muff uf the sheriff.
Here I'olph uliuue, or fuuded he did.
At all events he worked up a deep
mystery about once a mouth. It usual
ly ended lu smoke, but the amuteur
man catcher wus diligent. He Invest
ed ordinary civil cases with u tinge of
ULlqueiiesM and Importance, discerned
purMm'8 of arson In a common bon
fire and the occaslonul thefts of
trumps us the operations of a leugued
clique of bandits, bent upon deviat
ing the district.
Dolph confessed to u sneaking fond
ness fur Marguret Dunn, who thor
oughly despised hint and his meth
ods. They merely spoke and Dolph
never Ventured to go further thun
that. He hud high hopes, however, of
some day coming across a ifaystery, a
tragedy, where his professional acu
men would arouse the Interest und ad
miration of the pretty daughter of old
farmer Dunn.
That's strange I" muttered Dolph
one afternooit, as, near to the Dunn
home, he observed a young mun enter
the yard of the little farm and lift
his cap to Margaret. A conversation
ensued. Dolph i lured not venture near
enough to overhear It. He could only
trace that Murguret wus fairly cor
dial to the stranger. She went around
to the burn, reappeurlng with old Dub
bin hitched to a light wugon.
The young man carried one arm In
a sling. They drove down the road
for about a mile. Then the young mun
alighted. He went In among some
bushes, reappeared with a suitcase,
placed H In the wugon and the trip
back home was made.
The young man was evidently In
vited by Marguret to tea. Dolph,
sneaking closer to the house, observed
them both seated at the table In the
dining room. Dolph edged his way
around to the front mhyii. The mys
terious sultcuse had been left there by
the stranger. Dolph observed that It
was only strapped. His Inquisitive
temperament urged him to get a
glimpse of Its contents. He nlftily re
leased the straps, opened the satchel
and
"A spy worse!" he breathed, his
eyes sparkling, his face eager. Inspir
ited. "At lust n famous catch !" Then
he restored the suitcase to Its orig
inal condition and made off down the
road In feverish haste.
The stranger of military bearing,
arm In sling, as though some returned
war hero, had politely, addressed Mar
garet. He told her that he was due
In the village at seven o'clock, tltat he
had made a mistake In leaving the
trolley and had been unable to carry
the suitcase more than a mite on ac
count of his Injured arm. He told
eqough of how Its transient useless
ness came about to not only Interest,
hut to enthuse Margaret, who nt once
offered to recover the ubi.udoned ob
ject, give him his supper as well, and
then drive him to tho village, for was
not she to meet her futher there and
accompany htm to the war meeting in
banal f of the Red Cross nt the town
halll
Meantime Dolph Barclay raced dcryn
the turnpike, never letting up on his
speed until he had reached the office
of the sheriff. "I'vo made a marvel
ous dUcovery," proclaimed' Dolph, and
told his story graphically to tne point
" here he had opened the suitcase.
"Weel, weel, go oil" urged the sher
iff impatiently. "What did you find
Id r
"The outfit of a regular spy, a dy
namiter)" declared Dolph In ponder
ous tones. "I found la that suitcase M
"Yes, yes ; go on 1"
"An enemy flag, an enemy helniat
and an explosive shell. Say. It would
turn you pale to see its deadly slxe.
Oh, I've made a catch this time, be
lieve me !"
"Oome on," said the sheriff, "we'll
find this mysterious stranger and ex
plore the contents of that suitcase."
"There they are I" announced Dolph,
as half a mile down the turnpike he
saw the wugon approaching, and on
the front seat, chatting and laughing,
Margaret and her stranger guest.
"Halt I" ordered Dolph, springing
Into the road. "Sheriff, I denounce
this man as a spy and the proof of It
will be found In that carpet bug I"
Margaret uttered a slight laugh.
Her companion broadly grinned. This
, somehow discomposed the sheriff.
"May I ask," he inquired, "what you
have In that sultcnset"
"Burely," answered the stranger wlib
; bruMiOLuv, "au noiiiy 4n. helm
such as our foes wear, and a sample
of thu ekpbwlve shells we use on the
front. I have Just come from there,
and am asulstlnt; your lecturer at the
war meeting tonight by sxhlbttlng
these trophies uf warfare."
"Why, yes, Mr, Barclay," added
Murgnrvt sweetly, "and we In rite yon,
as a imbllr official, to have a scat on
the platform."
So the groat discovery of the ama
teur sleuth went op, as usual with his
cases, Ut smoke, but tt brought about
a later further companionship for
Margaret and her soldier guest
If a baby could say what ii thinks
when people kiss il, one kiss would
be sufficient.
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THE OATH.
I will nui diink I'rnni u iiTin.in cup
Or lji Iron) ;i (imnnn plate;
I will mil deal unit a (lernidii iii.in
All Imil wiih ( iiTin.in huiu.
I'll use no drug wiih a (iermun name,
Thai's grown mi Herman land;
I II cai no loud .mil drink no beer
If made hy a (irnn in hand.
I will inn um: a (iei'inan tool
Kaznr, knife or saw;
I will not irade wiih a German shop
Thai lives by German law.
I will not sail on a German ship
Where German songs are sung;
I will not breaihe, where God's clean air
Is soiled by a German tongue.
I will noi forget those awful deeds
To girls and hnle hoys;
No nioii: I'll lum; on Christmas trees
Those blood stained German toys.
1 will noi take a German's word
He'll break it if he can;
There is no luie in a German heart
Or fan 1 1 in a ( ii mi in uiiti
This is my oath, wii n war is done,
I'll swear to keep i: iru.-;
And since I know y 11 feel tin- sa i.e
I'll pass it on to you.
SOARING ABOVE THE CLOUDS. :
Av'ator Tells of Wonders
Up In The Air.
iiiKh
The trials for my military brevet
were by far the most interesting
thing I have done in aviation. On
Mulshing the tiO-horse power Wer
iot class, I was told that 1 would
have to do my brevet work on a
small Caudron biplane, as there
were no Bleriois available.
Old 2887 is a bully bus. I was
oH' the ground and heading up in
40 yards. It was raiher an occas
ion lor a beginner who had never
before tlown over 2,500 feet. I he
little Caudrons, of course, are not
high powered, but she climbed
splendidly. In 1 0 minutes I was cir
cling over the camp at 3,800 feet,
and in 20 I had reached Oi.OOO,
just under the roof of the clouds.
There was only one blue hole
through, so up this funnel I climb
ed, until I finally burst ouiimo the
gorgeous upper sunlight.
At 8,000 feet I began to float in
a world of utier celestial loneliness
dazzingly pure sun, an like the
water of a coral atoll, and beneath
me a billowy sea ul clouds, mi etch
ing away to inliniiy. Here and
there, from the cloudy piaines
great lauiustic mountain ranges
reared themselves; foothills and
long divides, vast snowy peaks,
impalpable sisters of Onable or
Chimboraza, and deep gorges.evei
narrowing or deepening, across
whose shadowy dephis drove rib
bons of thin gray mist. Charles
Nordhott'in Atlantic Monthly.
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About
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women differing from
womanly trouble, have
been benefited by the uie
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offlayne, N.C. "1 could
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she says. "As my suf
fering was so great, and
he had tried oilier reme
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Eet Cardul. . . 1 begun
nprovir.g, and It cured
me. I know, and my
doctor knows, what Car
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nerves and health were
bout gone."
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CM do my work, i he!
owe It to Cardul, for I wis
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II!
THE UNWELCOME ANGEL.
lake the Dare and Leave the
Kest to Clod.
One evening afier dinner Ro
bert Sanderson walked into his
lather's siudy with a troubled face.
"What's the matter, my boy?"
asked the older man.
"Nothing very serious, I guess,"
said ihe son, "only I'm up against
a decision, and, as you know, 1
don't like to be driven to that. It's
against my nature. "
"What's the decision that you
have to make, Robert?"
"Just this," replied the younger
man. "The firm has offered me
ihe managership of the branch in
St. Louis, and I don't know
whether to accept or not. They
want my decision to-morrow morn
ing, and I don't know what to do.
You see, I'm not worried about
the branch in itself. It is success
ful. The thing that troubles me
is whether I'm big enough to swing
ii. There's more money in it
than in my present job, and 1 shall
have a chance to show what's in
me, if ilicre is anything. Hut I
know my job here as superintend
ent, and Oils other is a leap in the
dark. And ii seems to be thepari
of the ways: it's either lake this
now or settle down in the present
job forever."
"I know what you're facing,
Robert," saul i!ie fi'ther kindly.
"None of us likes to be driven face
to face wiih a difficult decision, and
yet all grow ing men have to face
it. It is only the static persons
who arc never troubled by it. I
should be anxious about you if,
alter rive years as superintendent,
they hadn't een fit 10 oiler you
this position. Decision has been
forced on you by opportunity.
And let me say further that the
greater responsibility that oppor
tunity opens up always leaves the
right sort of man anxious and so
ber. You'll pardon my illustra
ting what I mean from the Bible.
"Do you remember how young
Gideon was threshing wheat by a
cave one day to hide it from the
Midianiies, who were oppressing
his people, when the angel of the
Lord came and told him to go forth
as leader and redeem his people?
And he said, 'Alas, O Lord God !
for because I have seen an angel
of the Lord face to face.' That
angel was about as welcome to
Gideyn as this larger opportunity is
lo you. He accepted ihe respon
sibility and succeeded, but just at
that time he wished the angel had
appeared lo some one else.
"As 1 fulluw the siories of hihle
leaders 1 find that nearly all of
them had this shrinking in the face
of new responsibility. Moses had
it when Ciod lold him to go lo
Pharaoh. Isaiah had il when God
lold him to preach to the
people of Judah. Jeremiah
had ii when he was called lo
prophesy, and said, 'Woe is me!'
Saul had il when he was called to
preach, and he hid his face and
sank lo the ground. Yel none of
hose men failed. I think that
their very modesty was part of
their qualification for big things.
They knew a big job when they
saw it. And no man is fit for a
big job until he has measured it
it and learned lo respect its impli
cations. On the other hand, only
a craven backs away when a big
opportunity challenges him. You
know the old saying ; 'To dare
to fail is noble; to fail lo dare is
ignoble.' I d take the. dare and
leave the resi wiih God. IF He
has called you, He'll equip you, as
He did those of other men."
1 PASSING DELUSION
By CECILLE LANGDON. it
1
" "l'HMIil. I'.'IV W.l.ln ..,!,,, ,
"Uucliir llurilix what la th,- hhuiit
with pupil V"
"HypMi-hiiiiilrlusls."
"Oh. wlmt u (Ircmlfiil wiml! nnil
plciisi', clm'lcir," plMuli.d Vlnlu Clar,',
"wlmt (lues it menu;"
"Iiimijiimtlon mainly, Btluiuhiicd hy
an IiIh' miinl, iiverTri'dliii; anil tin
wlilmsteulltlcM only u rlrli mail nm uf
loiil. Your futliiT hull tin' hli'ii nni'
limli huil turned to kIiiks unlil I pur
pi'Hcly dropped n paper weight mi It.
Then holh lining were, uoiie. lie de
elureil, anil lie could not walk. I Imd
my uutomohlle break down tin. miir.
from uowhere und lie niauaued to font
it for home. Ilia lust lanp'in Is u
ehniiKe of personality, lie eluhns lie
Is Napoleon Iloniiparto."
Viola bi-Kun to cry. Whim or dis
ease, u wry twist of the nerve or u
hideous deluslou, the fuel remained
that her father wus drifting- Into an nh
Domini mental condition thut alar d
her. He became Irrational nl Ii
lie insisted that tile (luni-s and win
down bo kept closed, that all visitor
be excluded, even Viola s llainv, Mil
ton Itoss.
Viola was sorely distressed and Mil
ton cruvely anxious. He unbunleni'il
his troubles to nn ohl-llnie dnmi ,,ne
day, Ned Danvcru. The Inner liste I
with Interest. He was a brlhl, rollick
ing; sort of u follow, but true blue to 11
friend. For a year ho hud been nmu
QKer of a movie studio.
"It's fuuny, Milton," ho observed,
"but strange Ideas lilt us movie men.
I was Just thlukluK I had un uncle mice
who was taken the siime vvuy us Mr.
Clare. They cured him drustle tivm
ment did thu job. lie was the czar of
Kussla. They cutered to his whim to
the point uf getting up u mock Siberian
exile, nearly froze und starved him,
und one morning in n fuked up prison
in the woods he awakened to a per
manent dislike for czars and all classes
of royalty and got back to normal.
Soe hero, it may take stringent meth
ods, but If you will leave this matter
eptlrely to me I'll guuranteo a cure.
You kuow, It's a sort of luiury to these
pampered old fellows, with time hang
lug heavy on Uielr hands, to nurse
along some ridiculous fancy. They
need waking up. Tfo you want me tu
do the wuklng?"
"If you can bring Viola'B futher back
to common sense, go ahead."
Ned Dnnvers went uheud. Ten miles
distant wns.his studio anil camp. Here
were staged initially any number of
movie playlete, and the equip) it was
complete. Ned ns manager bad free
swing. Ho did not write any narlo,
but he did block out a plot with many
fellow conspirators to put It through
John Clare, wandering In the woods
one day, rested himself upon u fallen
tree. A stranger came along, sat down
near to him and a casiiul conversation
ensued. Finally Mr. Clare got back to
Ills hubltual obsession.
"1 see you look at me pretty closely,"
he observed. "You've sceu me before,
eh?"
"I don't think so," replied the struii
ger. "Oh, yes you tiavu, my ptcturo Is In
hali a dozen histories. I'm Nujioletm
Bouu parte."
"What?" crier the other, springing
to his feet and displaying thu wildest
excitement. "Why, you miserable Im
postor I I'm tTie orlgtuul and only Na
poleon Honnparte in the world !"
"Vou I hat ha," chuckled Mr. Clare.
"How can that be, when Napoleon
Bouaparto has been dead fur over half
a century?"
"Where's your sword and u il' jriu?"
"They took them away from me at
St. Helena."
"You old fraud I Why, 1 tell you I
am the reul Napoleon, and I'm going
to huve you prove your cluliu. Ul,
there! this way."
For the next hour John Clare wus In
a maze. Three men wearing the uni
form of Freueh soldiers burst from a
thicket. They Jabbered, they seized
him rudely. They bound, they gagged
him, they threw him lulo un automo
bile. When the blindfold was renun ed
Mr. Clare uhd himself tu ull uppt-ur-unces
In the reception room of a mag
nlllcent palace, tie was apparently ou
trlul before a royul court of France;
he confronted stern am) serious judges
urrayed lu Imposing robes. The mun
who hud met him In the woods In due
form made thu iiccusutlon of tlagrunt
Imposture, t'pon a tuble were thumb
screws, knlvea, rops all the menacing
purupheruuliu uf n veritable torture
chumher. A cold perspiration bathed
the prisoner at the ominous present
ment. After an elaborate dlscussinii
ihe high court of royully condemned
him to perpetual exile on un arid des
erl Isle In the mld l'uclSe. John Clure
passed twenty-four hours supplied
only with hard bread crusts und water
lu H cell holding tt wretched cot. tits
accuser finally appeared. He unfolded
a pretentious looklug documeut. "Sign
this, your abdication., your avowal of
lmpnturv on1 I will help you to es
cape," he submitted.
"I'll do anything to get away from
this bloodthirsty crowd and back to tho
comfort of my home" grouned the
hypochondrluc, eagerly.
John Clare never told a living soul
of that fearsome experience. To the
relief of Viola be besame his old ra
tional self, to the delight of Milton hi!
expanded In n spirit truly fatherly.
What Mr. Clare thought, surmised or
analyzed remained unspoken. He Pun
ished every history In bis library and
went out Into the back yard one day
with a .tatuctte of the real Napoleon
Bonaparte and proceeded to demolish
It with a hatchet
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