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Show ?- - thfukinP h8r,.i mU8t hav beonf manded. It has always been, ana a: shall be, my method to fijht In open. This, not fiom principle. nr from expediency, men SomO l(t whirled out of fight best In tho brush; I don't. Sol I : my reverie at the window . . , . ... by a always 'bought like a pistol thrust Into my w'oods. race What If 'they should include No," he said, me by his Roebuck! And just as a man be- Instant fraukaena.amaxlng announce"The gins to defend bituseif from a sudden ment has boon postponed, danger before he clearly sees what Why did ho not lie to me? Why j ' S hegtut to act be-- j did he r.ot put me off the scent, as ho ton I even questioned whether my j might easily have done, with some suspicion was plausible or absurd. I shrewd evasion? I suspected t owed went Into the hall, ran the bell, It to my luck in catching him at slipped a light weight coat over my family prayora. evening dress and ut on a When will tho reorganization bo Sanders appeared, 1 said; lm annoincf d. I asked. going out for a few minutes s I can not he answered. an hour If any one sbould Some difficultiessay" labor dlfll chiefly ask." A moment later I was lu a cultiex have arisen. Until they are hansom and on the way to Roebucks. nettled, can be done. Come The door of Roebuck's house was to me nothing and well talk about opened for me by a maid a it." would have been a sinful" luxThat is all 1 wished to know," said ury, a man servant might be the hire- I, with a Uood friendly, easy smile. ling of plotters against his lire, I may night." add that she looked the It was his turn to be astonished cheap and her manners were of and he showed It, where I had given the free and fresh sort that Indi- not a Wbat was the report sign. cates a feeling that as high, or higher, you htard?, he asked, to detain me. wages, and less to do could be got That you and Mowbray Langdon elsewhere. had conspired to ruin me," said 1, I don't think you can see Mr. Roelaughing. buck, she said. He echoed my laugh rather hollow- "Take my card to him, I ordered, J ly. '"It was hardly necessary for you and Ill wait in the parlor. to come to me about such a a state"Parlor's In use," she retorted with ment. a sarcastic grin, which I was soon to 'Hardly," I answered dryly, Hardunderstand. ly, Indeed! For I was seeing now all So I stood by the coat that I had been hiding from myself and hat rack while she went since I became Infatuated with Anita In at the hall door of the back and made marrying her my only Soon Roebuck himself real business In life. parlor. We faced each other, each meascame out, his glasses on his his glance nose, a family Bible under his uring the other. And arm. "Glad to see you, Matthew,' quailed before mine, I turned I way to said he with saintly kindliness, giving conceal my exultation, in a comme a friendly hand. "We are just parison of resources this man who had about to offer up our evening prayer. plotted to crush me was to me Come right In." giant to midget. But 1 had the Joy I followed him Into the back parlor. I of realizing that man to man, I was Both it and the front parlor were I tb8 stronger. lighted; in a sort of circle extending aim f the warn,n8 lift br d ought, , for, perhaps half) the tiipoom..,; 8 4a hour after she but I t, , !at hat-Whe- CT2AI IAM PHEUF Author of (c&x&SfiT 1305 XXII- ,.pTER - you hissed. her her appearance of the graI care-Late- d go - You gut-- , ,5 ejelone-- of hate. for God will punish you iJeyoii have brought upon us! tue door and bowed, witheven desire the without . isgua. Pres A City i Frld: U for Insult had not again nad finally re-iAs and chosen me? the 'ed Into the private hall I ;!!' to come and let jr Sanders 1 turned back Into When i Anita was seated, I waited until ,3mg a book. to speak. she was not going "What time will you ggjd; must Hut my face ianor? of some the joy expressing lfen She has atltude that filled me. l was saying to myself over insult Ifideitrv , t the tyze s repo o e ! elesrai, H fron fe, and accepi lrd of ref. ederatK Long She had resisted lief of what I said. You may think that Is vanity, appeal to her to re-t- o She had cast In her went on. But will learn, sooner or them. The rest can be left to b me. said I to myself. And, review-tha- t had happened, I let a wild roots ffeep Into tend tenacious o Hot often Ignorance Is a bless-often knowledge would make tp falter and the heart quail! Cm noking-room- made graph ' Prob Vales: to XXIII. h :klock city own i 4 talk-Silenc- e clow left se-be- h oneo! the the that e J mar: s Anjf re--m- y messsi wife! d rece, d ip formally responsive, and brief in answers, vol-H- a The servants nothing. a on us no doubt laid her man-;- o thyness; I understood it or ht I did but I was not troubled, as natural for me to hope as to ie; and with my knowledge of acter, how could I take seriously .oods and Impulses of one whom arded as a child like girl, trained Jse pride and false Ideals? has chosen to stay with me, to myself. Actions count, not t or manner. A few days or i. and she will he herself, and And I went gaily- - on with lorts to interest her, to make her and forget the role she had sanded herself to play. Nor was toll? unsuccessful. . Again and thought I saw a gleam of Ini'- In her eyes or the beginnings mile about that sweet mouth er. I was careful not to overdo as to ;art as only oma'l the : e pewrr ed at sage i mad that bilsb ice f ires. Wr aid u e Ur r e, cor M f" tions j untry e arc 'chio; on nplo'" ha t rein ere f Vill t a. path Its s 1 Suit' rhe i as re io. trial' h aM part' 1,'hfs r ver vie Dir! ate tl ftlfj rday( in i3 threti ind (r ipeca th " n Slone the in 1 drawing-roo1 1 ni Hr sir.oke hero" she Interrupted; "1 don't ' cigars and tho windows oo open. Besides, 1 camo for moment just to say she Ht about for words to carry M drtw up a chair for her. Rt 11 uncertainly, seuted 1( 'When mamma was here hermH,." she went on, iho me to to do what abe And after she had used she said somethin 1 blinking It over, and It nusht la fairness to tell Wnd ted. r ftottld: ent A d Shies d, ea ,e t'1 'In a few day more he' you 'he will be ruined. the worst Is over for fact theyve only be- - d ti ire' etfIt I ft u, t a Toured the World with an Team Years Ago It Now a Successful Banker at Charleroi, Pa.' Chicago, John K. Tener, one time ball player, pieslilent of the First national bank In the little town of Charleroi, Pa., and newly elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, was once an Interesting figure (n the world ' of , sport, John K. Tener owes his fame and fortune to a phenomenal right arm; his popularity to his unaffected good fellowship, which remains to this day a tradition on the dusty diamond of America. Tener was one of the first great Antericau pitchers, and he show-ethe royalty and nobility of Europe what, a strong man can do with little liorsehide sphere. To them It was like the legedermaln of the They saw him conjurers of India. twirl his long arms above his head, writhe his long body Into position and foice the little sphere to describe arcs In the atr in apparent defiance of the laws of gravity. It was their Introduction to the curved ball so familiar in America that It has ceased to excite comment, , Capt. Anson stoutly repulsed the Idea that Tener's curves would fall to excite comment , John could do anything with a ball that any of your diamond stars today can do," he said, "and I'd back him just for sake; to He was a Areat go them one better. ball player and one of the best fellows 1 ever met." Tener was a green boy, uncommonly tall and uncommonly compactly built, when Capt. Anson of the Chicago National team discovered him Langdons? he replied with an did not aay Ite told , ? I d s In 1SS8. JOmf Spalding In arranging for a tour of The tour of the wrorld Australia. which later was expanded to embrace the islands of the Pacific, Ceylon and the more Important continental countries, was la Its Inception much less ambitious. After deserting the diamond Tener settled In Charleroi, a small town not far from Pittsburg, and engaged tn the banking business, lie was always a loyal Elk. and In 1809 he or ganlzed the Charleroi lodge of Elks, serving three yeats as Its treasurer In 1902 he. was elected Its exalted' ruler. In 1904 he was elected grand treasurer of the grand lodge, holding the position until bis election this year as exalted ruler. In addition to being president of one bank, he Is secretary and treas urer of the Charleroi Savings bank. Prior to the recent state convention he was mentioned as a candidate fot I t i f r t n 7 y - thaa Ufrt . " ' fli. Arirt ' -- r CTh.n.J .W ?"'' a' 'JJ; e peer ,l hy BASEBALL STAR. game to Australia and the old world. Tener went as one of the two pitchers carried ly the Chicago team in Its series of exhibition games, played with team picked to opthe pose it by Johnny Ward.' then capHis tain of the New York team. partner In the box was Mark Baldwin, now Dr. Mark Baldwin of Pittsburg, bis lifelong friend, and one of his most ardent supportets for the leadership of the national body of Elks. Tener Joined the Chicago team in 18S8, and, under coaching, became one of the best known twlrlers In the big league. He was already a seasoned veteran when Capt. Anson was introduced by Lee Lynch of Jackson, Mich., a famous theatrical promoter of, those days, to Join with him and A. G. Like all well grown American boys, tence with a face so smiling that he a taste for outdoor sports, must almost have believed me un- he had baseball above all. Capt. Anson saw conscious; and also, It had not even him play one memorable day when he entered my head, as I listened, to was pitching for the old Pittsburg for would mercy. Not that there beg Athletic team, an amateur organizahave been the least use in begging; was In good trim that as well try to pray a statue Into life, tion. Tener unconscious that he was beand, day, as try to soften that set will and pura man who had the watched by ing pose. Still, many a man would have of making big players, he weakened and I had not weakened. reputation his best. Anson was imtwirled But when I was once more in my He went again to see tho apartment In our apartment per- pressed. and made an offer. boy finally play w that there was a haps I was how John K. Tener came That weak streak through me. I fought to give up the pen which he was pushagainst the Impulse to see her once none too energetically, over the more that night; brt I fought In ing of a big Pittsburg steel convain. I knocked at the door of her ledgers week and leap Into promicern all sitting-rooa timid knock, for me. nence. Tbe trip abroad and the No answer. I knocked again, more The trip abroad and the more loudly then a third time, still came about through the ambiloudly. The door opened and she tious plan of 9 successful theatrical stood there, like one of the angels to Introduce the American state treasurer. promoter that guarded the gates of Eden arter the fall. Only, Instead of a flaming sword, hera was of Ice. She was in FAMOUS CORNWALLIS CAVE. NEW EMPEROR OF. KOREA. or tea gown, white a dressing-gowand clinging and full of intoxicating Ruler Who Succeed Used by British Officers Before Surhints and glimpses of all the beauties Son of Deposed to the Throne. render of Yorktown. of her figure. Her face softened as I Iook at me, and she continued to Toklo. The crown prince of Korea, Norfolk, Va. The famous cave entered. wbo succeeds to the throne because used by Lord Cornwallis and his aids No please dont turn on any more for their meeting Just before the bat-ti- e lights, I said, as she moved toward of Yorktown and his surrender Is the electric buttons. "I just came still It has carefully preserved. in to to see if I could do anything for changed little. If at all. In a century you." In fact, I had come, longing and a half, either as regards its enfor her to do something for me, to trance or tbe general appearance of show In look or tone or act some the interior. It was here that Lord me loneliness in for my sympathy met his officers to hold Cornwallis and trouble. the long and anxious meeting before "No, thank you," she said. . Her the battle. The entrance to the cave voice Beemed that of a stranger who at that time, as It Is to day, was very And wished to remain a stranger. well concealed, as the photographs she was evidently waiting for me to Indicate. Interest tn the faclearly go. Yon will see what a mood I was has been revived by the t mous retreat in when I say I felt as I bad not since which has Jamestown exposition, ran away I, s very small hoy Indeed, from home; I came back through the chilly night to take one last glimpse of the family that would soon be realizing how foolishly and wickedly I WAITED." unappreciative they had been of such Roethe were all treasure as I; and when I saw them a rooms both Into boasting later, the difference betweenfactfour servants.- - "This sitting about the big fire in the lampthe and bucks Tou of and simple statement Vs hat light, heartlessly comfortable and un Is my friend, Matthew Blacklock, will learn that 1 do not boast the Roebucks In the cir- concerned, it was all I could do to and said a he, for than boast a I said Is no more a keep back the tears of strong self-pit- y can walk. cle gravely bowed. He drew up of the forcible abdication of his faman with legs to say, I ourselves. we seated and and I never saw them again. me, for chair nlY Y1 Syek. He Is Because you have known a I to read said seen he chap'Tve Roebuck," Anita, ther, bears tbe name Amid a solemn lmsh, the who exaggerate a son of late ? the Min, you Empress men, less me ter from the big Bible spread out up- because I must say something. If in 1895, and was was assassinated of walking. It's us easy for o-- on his lean lap. My glance wandered on. as to stay Is for some U, make money as it Her born on the 25th of March, 1874. Lit she inquired. Roebuck? from face to face of the Roebucks, It." ,8 tonwn rer- tone reminded me that his naae con were as their pie to spend dressed as xcepf..a, plainly me to say was given what little he It Is hardly necessary for mine to look freoly, vants. I was able veyed nothing to her. anything and that Insinuating not aftords, the country was I He and I are in an enterprise to-- 1 training 8t being tho only eyes not bent upon Hut she a of Is man not he opinions. strong people. her against tho floor. lie is the one gether," I explained. would seem to bo obvious when then supersenslttve on the So absorbed was I In the study of man who could seriously cripple me." This him It not suspect are willing to place him master-characte-r the Japanese terrible his of though I did Oh," she Bald, and her Indifference, on the throne. It Is not have any the Influence alleged that Yl to flushed hotly- "You will closest It, forced upon those on that though I thought It, wounded. 8yek never recovered from the shock Lot said: he when cause to sneer at uy people 1 started waa that 1 setCornwallis Cave at Yorktown. "Well," said I, "your mother he received at the time his mother account hereafter," she said. us pri7 " I followed the example right" at of tbe was because Blatn, brutality The audible tled that risen only a few miles away. During I pro of the others and knelt She turned full toward me, and even "I was not sneering at them, was offered 'up by hla oldest . in the dimness I saw her quick syra- - tending her murder. She was first tho summer the cave has been visprayer of cut down with swords, then taken to a widow, tested. "I wasn't even thinking of Mrs. Wheeler, impulsive flash Instantly a courtyard, wrapped In silk and ited by tens of thousands must know thut Its daughter, each paragraph them. And-y- ou runctuated Roebuck thPre! becn u had me But ask to ( borne to a grove, where, after wood a favor to me for anybody I camo In here," 1 went on, "to pay was will please yo- uGeraniums Are Sociable. piled on the body and kerosene amen. When she prayed to do anything that that Anita, It doesn't In tho least toured over tbe mass, it was set on see how your genera I dou't led haa Thou whom Kr the stranger In this world, no ono nlums bloom so well when tho box fire. our little matter. No one Into chance by seemingly and nothing, could hurt mo except why ' I Is so croft ded with them, said ber I see I'd bettor tell you I lnslsUd circle, he whispered tbe amen more Even If Poor. So long as I have you, Stylish . you. thiough visitor. "They ara beautiful. The them prayer and repeated It go with You'd think, wouldn't you, that tho rest all of them together bavt fervently they That's the secret of making gerafhat serthe our on us feet, give back all they ended and, wouldn't be at all stylish over niums bloom," she explained. can't touch me. they ! 15U all "They vants withdrew; then, awkwardly, yo. where 1 live," said the woman who are sociable flowers. We were both silent for several minTho more of That to go. Is, Roebuck. refused I except the family fused, of New them uscd. two utes. Then she said, and her voice lives on tho ragged edge you put together the better they hy yo'i re I don't care they dosed the doors between the of tho York's East Bide, "but there's where bloom. surface ara smooth I I. tho was like said I learned that In England. I in alone me you refused, rooms and left him and You where the boiling rtplds run you'd he awfully mistaken. could see th flowers In river wish ' IMt you to wKb SSJft the front parlor. haven't me und should see the style of my roof peo- the window boxes In th houseboats "But you' fl0'P Mr. T shcl not detain you long, pretty girls who dress In ther on tho Thames. You can't ss h"But you inliumloi stand It," she an- Roebuck, said I. "A report reached never shall have. I've told you that ple, The No doubt you white with blue sashes and come up a crumb of earth they are so I warned you long ago. crowded, me this evening that sent ms to you will pretend, and people will say, that on the roof and alt with their sweet and they nearly bloom their hiadc J . 1 once. at you lost your hearts between the chimneys, and the off." I loft you because uiderstund It.' was my "If possible, Matthew," said ho, and money. But It won't be bo." children with big pink bows on their look-i- n could not hide bis uneasiness, put Korea May Bt Land of Cotton. he wss hair and short, white dresses and her I beside was lnstsntly, !to 'to until to morrow. My mind In their clean white suits, U Is estimated that tho urea of land business off do little boys face. "What you Into her . room Is not la the tjn I trust It's very stylish on my roofs, I tell In Korea which cun profitably b put I asked, and I did not speak cun lm-S- -y- outs. too, love1' now.' mean? or at least b avc loved,to m. frame for that kind of thoughts especially hue of an afternoon undur cotton Is cumible of producing you, an- gently. how It made moled "Is tho Cost organization to bo do-the sun has one down and they about I30.000.0ot) jMitmds when ginned Continued.! bo 1 j (To cotton annually. nounced the first of July?" use them as a sort of park. dim-cutt- It. I called Jt finished a small cigar when 'tame a timid knock at my door. away the cigar and opened. 0llsbt It was you, said I. 'Tut sf with the knocks of all tho "s And this was new like a lnd tapplug with a flower fission at a closed window." touglu-with a little raillery, 'to imllui. colored, tried to seem N hostile again. w 1 o with you to your i went on Perhaps , sitting-room- to lit dessert loaihe cigar smoke, so I'll myself in niy den. Sanders will i you the cigarettes." I had for a supply of her sly in the day. made a polite protest for the 1l of the servants; but I was nd left her free to think things ? j mot be as we finished "Yon ' f In ant con XXIV. "MY WIFE MUSTI As I drove away, I was proud of myself. I had listened to my death sen- . OHN K. TENER, ONCE A FAMOUS did-sho- my-the- n ne, i of s ind if dinner I bore ag ! came ir attends family prayers. the whole conversation though bur-di- d not find it. Like most close-,,men, I am extremely sets people to won-- ? and prying; he hides his who hides them at the bob If my splr-i- , a river of words. j 1 often talk aloud to there is no one convenient bow could my spirits be anything tigh, with her sitting there op-me, mine, mine for better or wrse, through good and evil ago, amed re . rents' Anal WIRES e man-serva- i without 'line the her exact words -- as far as I can." Well," said I, "and why didnt you you usually have it," she tificates or a bag of money. I am looking up. You had here, and I tapped my forehead. icven o'clock, then. She forced a faint, scornful smile. tell Sanders. for him and went Into my She did not wish me to see her be- jfBever fence! fd n si u aswg-rooi- have per-hap- She pressed her lips firmly together, rinally, with a straight look into tny eyes, she replied; "I shall not discuss that. You probably misunderstand, but that Is your own affair. "You believed what she said about me, of course, said I. I neither believed nor disbelieved " she answered Indifferently, as she rose to go. It does not interest me." Come here, said I. I waited until she reluctantly Joined me at the window. I pointed to the steeple of the church across the way. "You could as easily throw down that steeple by pushing against it with your bare hands, I said to ber, as they, whoever they are, could put me down. They might take away my money. Hut If they did, they would only be giving me a lesson that would teach me how more easily to get It back. I am not a bundle of stock cer- youth swallowed up Eg of THECQSlfMc cwrtzvyy C03s-rzks?z- Continued. el " she Jdv shaking and sconndi tv NEW RULER OF ELKS r |