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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1918 Panaretoff's Assurance. Stephan Panaretoff, Bul Bulgarian minister at Washingtoo, talks like a man of sense and discernment. "We know," says Mr. Panaretoff, America has gone into the war, for no selfish purpose, but to establish a durable peace in Europe aud the world. The Bulgarian people know that.
No one can say they are ignorant the great principles President Wilson has laid down time and again. These principles have taken a deep hold the minds of the. Bulgarian people. I am convinced that pressure of the people of my country brought directly bear on the Sofia government is responsible for the course Of the prime This from the plenipotentiary of Germany's ally. There can be no doubt that Bulgaria wants peace.
Mr. Panaretoff wants peace, and speaks the sentiment of his countrymen. The Bulgarian nation repents its arith the ITun. Somehow or other Bulgaria is going Tack out. Even though the beaten nation must keep fighting for a time until it is ready to make abject and unconditional surrender, the days of German domination are past.
As Mr. Panaretoff says, the Bulgarian people know that the United States. entered the war to "establish durable peace in Europe and throughout the world. They recognize the futility of further resistance. They recognize, too, the folly of their submission to Germany and they realize the ignoble role they have played as Pots'dam's cat's paw.
Humiliation, deep and bitter, has been Bulgaria's lot. Surrender can add no abasem*nt or degra-, dation, and it will bring peace to a land that is weary and hopeless. Such assurance as that given by Minister Panarctoff must be highly distressing to Berlin. Berlin, like Bulgaria, knows that the game is up. But where Bulgaria frankly admits herself beaten Berlin whines and sceks My shiftiness and hypocritical protestations to and to escape Bulgaria's surrender will not soften the conditions surrender.
No stolen lands will be left in possession the Balkan thief; nor will the measures of reparation mitigated. But Bulgaria gains by not piling her dent higher. As long 38 Germany remains devoted to the Hohenzollern imperial fetish there can be no peace for the Germans and the delayed beginning of rehabilitation a civilized nation day by day makes rehabilitation more difficult. Some day. a German l'anaretof will tell his people's conviction that the sacrifice of all the Hohenzollern ambitions must be laid on the altar of peace, but this will not be while a Hohenzollern sits on Prussian throne.
From Verdun to the Sea. Americans are forging north along the Meuse, and are driving the Germans out of the forest of Argonne. Across the breadth of Champagne, the French are forging ahead in their great new campaign. Mangin's army is still pounding at the Laon defenses, which are the keystone of the German arch of defense in France. A new attack, of great violence has been launched against St.
Quentin. 1 Haig's immense drive against Cambrai and Douai is progressing steadily. In Flanders, the Belgians' are srashing the Germans north of Ypres and preparing to cicar the seacoast. Off Ostend and Zeebrugge, a. British deet is vigorously shelling the German works.
are not alternating attacks. They are all under way at once. The battle rages from Verdun to the sea, and the German commanders cannot shift their strength from one sector to another. All sectors must be guarded with all the might at Germany's command. Complete defeat on any sector will mean the immediate end of German occupation of northern France.
It is all one battle, directed by the master mind of Marshal Foch. A break anywhor*, and the battle is lost. Meanwhile, the allied army in Macedonia, which has so amazingly re-established an "'eastern is advaneing with the utmost ease to the complete annihilation of disheartened Bulgaria. Surrender may save the Bulgars, bat nothing can save the German structure of empire in southeastern Europe from utter destruction. These are the conditions today.
The war in Europe is approaching its crisis so rapidly that no observer can keep fully abreast of the developments. Any day, any hour, tray be fraught with consequences tremendous beyond imagination. To Fight, Not to Vote. A- new view of an old question. is given in Plane News, the weekly newspaper published by American ariators in France, by Sergt.
George W. Lynn, its associate editor. The popular impression in this country has been that our troops in service overseas are anxious to have a roice in America's political decisions this fall. Not so, declares the sergeant editor. Isaac Siegel, a Republican congressman from Now York city, has been in France and brings back a story that the.
men of the A. E. F. want to vote in November. has the wrong idea, says Lynn.
"'The soldiers of the American expeditionary forces have left politics in the hands of you folks back home. We have faith in your decisions. Go to it. We're over here to fight. You've been left behind to run things.
One of first duties is to limit politicians to facts." America has 2,000,000 men in France. The task of setting up the machinery necessary to give each of them a vote at the coming elections is tremendous. In many iostances it has been given up as practically impossible. If Sergt. Lynn is right in what he says, the troops overseas will have no regrets.
if this potential voting power is ignored. And the chances are altogetber that Lynn knows con. siderably more about it than Representative Isaac Siegel can possibly know. As the sergeant says, Siegel was 111 France only a few weeks. "There are hundreds of places he did not visit and thousands and thousands of be did not We are al peace with Russia," 'observes Wilhelm.
And one of the reasons you are not at peace with other nations, Wilbelm, is that the other nations bave that Russian peace constantly before their eyes. It is no longer possible to doubt that lawyers are useful members of society. Two thousand of them have gone to the front from Chicago alone. It would seem strange if the allies crossed the Rhine by WAY of the Danube. luvestigation.
shows that women operatives on drill wrassey are 60 per cent. faster than men. Well, men make 1 anything good else. soldiers, even if they aren't much good asl Sketches From Life Victory Distant; Buy Bonds. No: vietory can be achieved by wishing.
This fourth insue of Liberty bonds will be floated only with difficulty if any -considerable number of Americans act upon mistaken theory that the German monster in already good as dead. Last week was the most profitable seven days of war from the standpoint of the allies, the most disastrous from the Teutonic point of view, but peace in not yet band. A long period of fighting is still ahead. America must still spend billions. America must continue to conserve, to economize, to sacrifice.
Americans must continue to lend their money in Jarge quantities the government; must continue to finance those private undertakings everywhere recognized -as contributing mightily to the victory that means lasting peace. Congress bas prepared 8. reyenne bill calculated to raise in taxes the largest amount of money ever before raised by a single legislative measure in the history of nations. This fourth Liberty loan is the greatest ever asked of any people. Modern war, particularly when waged under the circ*mstances which govern America in the prosent contest, in a vastly expensive undertaking.
We knew this, of course, before we threw down the gauntlet "to Germany. There is no inclination now to draw back; on the contrary, the determination to Bee it through is strenghtened by every day's experience. Americans need to guard themselves against even the thought that victory over their enemies is alrcady Victory is not at hand. It is a long way off. For the United States, it may bo said, truthfully and accurately, that we have scarcely begun to Nothing could better.
serve the German purpose than the creation in America of a widespread impression that German defeat and surrender are near at hand. Such an impression would retard the sale of Liberty bonds, slow down the war industries in this country, check the steady Now of munitions to our armies in France. It would I the equivalent of a P'russian victory at arms. Ono will be fully justified in the three weeks at hand to view with the deepest suspicion any suggestion, whatever be its apparent source, that the war is RO near over that the government does not need the $6,000,000,000 which tho people are asked to subscribe. Such a suggestion is inspired either by ignorance or by pro-Germaniam." Let there be no mistake made on that point.
The government does need this money, In addition, will need billions more. The victory is not at The Jun is hard pressed, but is far from ready to end the war. Buy bonds. It is the answer to Hunnish brutality and JTunnish pretentions. It is the sole road to safety for the American people, Hennessy of Hackensack.
In these days of slogan making, let no one overlook Hennessy of Jackensack. If that alliterative appeal docs not go resounding down the corridors of political fame, one's faith in slogans will suffer a relapse. 33 Ileunessy of Hackensack won the Democratie nomination for the United States senate in the Now Jersey primary the other day. P'erhaps President Wilson: and Secretary Tumulty voted for him, for they both journeyed to Jerscy and set an example of faithfulness to duty which relatively few from their state took the trouble to emulate. History has been kind to some men, linking their names imperishably with habitat or incident and giving posterity a handle to grip their memories by.
There was Carroll of Carrollton, for instance. lad Carroll hailed from lackensack he would no more be remembered than lennossy would be were he from Carrollton. There, too, was Blaine of Maine. That any Jerseyite should ever have the temerity to run against lennessy of Hackensack is almost beyond understanding. What a battle ery, what A clashing of evinbals, what, a chorus of victory.
in compressed into three words. It sounds like a college yell, a popular song refrain. Here is a man famous before the votes aro counted, whose place in history is fixed whether he be chosen to the senate or elected to stay at home. Hennessy of Hackensack! It is a proud moment for Hennessy, and no less for Hackensack. The hour will come because it must come," says Von Hertling.
Von may be a good average German mind, but we have low morons in this country who can think up brighter remarks than that. The allies have captured as many soldiers in the Jast two weeks as there were in the entire, United States army in 1914. In a short time, we shall take as inany as are. in the army now, and then the war will be over suddenly. Wear lust winter's overcoat and buy a Liberty bond with the price of a new one.
But if you can buy a new one and a bond too, send last winter's overcoat to the Belgians. 'The American Expeditionary Force offers its hard. earned pay to the government, in case the Liberty loan is not fully subscribed. Are we going to stand for that! If we were Germany, we should be worrying right now -for fear something tremendous were about to happen on the ominously quiet Italian front. Did you, or did you rot notice that China has a new president! One can remember when that would have been worth a story.
Other Points of View Must All Women Look Alike? Gold lace has had a charm for the fair from time immemorial, and even modest khaki has not diminished the attraction of the uniform in feminine eyes. It was inevitable that, baving admired uniforms, women should wish to wear them. Yeowomen, navy reserves, emergency aids, Red Cross workers--since the fever of war burned botly, the badge of war service has been greatly desired. What wonder that the women in the departments at Washing. ton are beginning to be dissatisfied with mere civilian dress! The war department, in.
particular, envious, perhaps, of the navy's yeowomen, purposes to have all its women workers wear something in dark blue, lines simple and not too far from the prevailing mode, with straight skirt, blouse and separate jacket." It is a perfectly plausible suggestion, but it nevertheless contains the germ of a revolution" in women's fashions. saving clause, not too far from the prevail ing mode," cannot conceal the fact that here is a deliberis standardized, stifle originality, to stamp out variety, ate attempt to standardize women's dress, even as men's to make one girl look like another. The new uniform will be neat and businesslike, no doubt; it may be becoming to most of the wearers; but, when the novelty is worn off, the daily procession of women will be as drab and dull as the daily procession of men. except so far as the ity wolDen enjoy by reason of their sex may enable the 10 defy environment. It will be urged that women have always followed the fashions and dressed more or less alike.
True; more or lees-and generally less. For, while no woman would wear a long skirt while short skirts were in, or a small hat while big ones were the mode, or choose an unfashionable color, or do any one of a dozen things blundering men do, women have always exercised a large degree of individual taste in details, This is war time, to be sure, and nice customs -must curtacy to it. But we are constantly told that it will be a different world after the that habits and manners formed in these days of stress will not be lightly abandoned. Thus, the uniform may be a deadly menace to the infinite variety which has nlways made a woman's toilet a work; of art. It would be a great price to pay for making the world safe for democracy.
'York Tribune. Jet Allied treasure. Cleveland 1115 Envy of Cities Preparedness and System Make Manufacturers Succeed in Sixth City. BY KARL K. KITCHEN.
NEW YORK, Sept. can imagine how jealous the men of other cities are of Cleveland," said Albert R. Davis, the Cleveland Insurance man, in New York yesterday. "There is a feeling all over the country, except in New York, that Cleveland and Clevelanderg have been especially favored in the matter of war contracts, commissions and all that sort of thing. And this feeling is heightened when conditions in Washington are discussed.
It is pointed out that almost everyone who had a speaking acquaintance with Secretary Baker is in the government service at one job or another. course, there are a large number of Clevelanders in Washington--many of them in Important posts. It. 13 only natural that the secretary of war should appoint men he knew in preference to total strangers. And it is true that Cleveland is getting the cream of the war contracts.
But this is because northern Ohio has the best organization in the entire country for turnir.g out war work. Its manufacturers have perfected a clearing house for munitions, war material, that is unequaled in the world. The result is that its manufacturers can turn out, the work more rapidly and at lower figures than they manufacturers in any other, part of the country. The Pittsburg district has been left far behind simply because its manufacturers did not have the foresight do what Cleveland business inen did. Ag for Cincinnati, her manufacturers are trying LO break into the Cleveland "Chicagoans, in particular, are almost gangrenous with envy.
I inet several big manufacturers from the Windy City 011 the train the other' day and their cutting remarks would have made an Incision on the soldiers' and sailors' It was not until had pointed out that Cleveland'; supremacy was due. to the foresight of its leading manufacturerstthat they would consent to' sit in the same smoking compartment with me. "Planning ahead--that's secret of Cleveland's success. And the fact that we've made the rest of the country pretty jealous is A matter for It means something. come from Cleveland these York 13 the most patrlotic city in America if outward and visible signs are a true Index of its patriotism, said A.
Fanning of Cleveland, who motored up to the City of Big Things from Washington last week. "There are more slags flying to the city: block in New York than in any city I have visIted in the last year and 1 have seen about the country quite a bit. There are. more Liberty loan and recruiting posters in evidence than in any other city, Of course one sees inore uniforms to the square inch in Washington but with the exception of the capital New York has the largest soldier and sailor population. 7 "These are only the outward and visiible signs and are not as significant as the patriotic feelings of the people which are expressed in inore Intimate ways.
The New York hotels and restaurants, as far as 1 can judge, seem to be observing the food conservation regulations more strictly than the hotels other cities. It is almost impossible to get more than one small lump of sugar for one's coffee." March is Willing. It Forrest O. March, formerly of Cleveland. who now in the banking business in New York, is intensely ratriotic.
This is his new slogan: "It I'm drafted, I'll go." War Pun, Toronto Globe. jermans will have to fall back be'ore the French from one Important city on the principle that ouly the grave deserve La Fere. The Philosopher of Folly BY TED ROBINSON. Good Night! Farewell, ceptember-for today We Ale away thy Anal fetter; Farewell--and yet, the less we say, Lathinks, about thy ways, the better! Of yore, we held thee more than dear, We found thee fair on lake and Alas: We must confess this year Thou hast been something of a flivver! At Thy gaudy robes are draggled, now, Thy whole attire is dull and dowdy; The prints describe thy shining brow That should be clear, as "partly cloudy." Mud from below, rain from above, Have sadly soiled thy fury ruffles, And ah, that voice we used to love Is muffled with unpretty Farewell! We're glad to see thee go, We do not care to see another; Regretful tears refuse to Now, And joyful cheers are hard to smother. We hall October with a shout, Because whatever her offenses, We haven't got the slightest doubt She has thee skinned ere she com.
mences! The Diary of a Husband. XX. It was nearly 9. o'clock, and the spree I had started on with such high hopes soemed as far away as eyer. And $0 far, I had only been able to spend 15 cents, including car fare.
I sat an casy chair, in the lobby, of the hotel, and lit another of my birth(day cigars. Then I watched the I for, having a miserable time; I crowd familiar faces. began to tihnk of my cozy little home -my smoking jacket, my slippers. Then the thought struck me that Angelina might repent and come back home. She would find the house dark and locked.
Maybe she had another latchkey. But the picture of her there alone smote me to the heart, I arose hastily and went out to the street. Across the way was a. brilliantly lighted candy store, I crossed the street, entered the. place and ordered a box of their best With this in my overcoat pocket, boarded a home-bound car.
I fairly ran from the car to the house, and admitted myself with nervous haste. As I opened the door, I called my, wife's name, but the only answer was the echo of my own voice. She had not returned. I turned on the lights, changed to my slippers, and threw myself into iny. eas; chair.
I was alone. Then there came a revulsion of feel- ing. Why bad I returned? What do next. Anger at my wife, pity for myself and an all-gone sensation in my stomach produced a strange, sencation. I remembered that har no dinner.
I opened the box of candy' and ate a chocolate. Then I ate another other-another-another. Presently, to my great astonishment, the box empty. Then I began to feel very sick. be continued.) GOOD THINGS WE RUN ACROSS.
Science can never grapple with the Irrational. That is wby it han DO future before it, in this world. -Oscar Wilde, Ideal 38 of Well -Bred Stock. WANTED--Duroc gentleman must. weigh from 75 to 100 pounds; must be a good one.
John Dhen, Phone in Ashtabula (O.) Star and Beacon. Barton Again. We mentioned in this column, the other "day, the unique advertising of Carton of Norwalk. And now, Barton prints an open letter to the Norwalk Reflector -Herald, which we reproduce in part: "My Dear Mr. Plain Dealer: The above clipping from your wonderful paper pleases me---it gent a ray of sunshine into my cheerless, despondent life.
To. think that The Plain Dealer--that great newspaper which Barton, of Norwalk, has had mailed for years to his suburban homeshould notice his ad! I like your paper, editorial it's page, great. 3 like And to read like. articles on the babbling brook, the stones. the trees, the plant life, and the speaking of insects, by the way, I've got the greatest Exterminator of bedbugs that you ever saw." (Etc.
Here commercialism steps in, and space forbids 03 to go further.) Turkish Trophies. "When I come back." Writes Cousin Hez, "I'm gonna pack A Turkish F'ez." -Youngstown Telegram. "And writes Bing, my suburban Retreat shall bring. A ditto Turban." And Sprained It, No Doubt. Otto Miller, one of the postal carriers, fell on his route City (la.) Citizen.
Evening Hour Stories Plain Dealer Letter Box Contributions should not exceed 150 words. Send your name and complete address, 11 ho's 10 Blame: Editor, Plain Dealer--Sir: Would the police allow fanatic to run. amuck brandishing a loaded on Euclid avenue: at midday? Yet the speed "of the Inotor car is more, dangerous than the loaded Arearm. Let the prove it. ca car The was wealthy held up.
driver at the of a point of high-powered pistols while on a main country highway and was instructed to drive, down. a side road in order that robbers lieve the victim of his valuables without danger of interference. The driver, with A highwayman. on the running board at elther crowded on all speed, and in a few seconds ens going at the rate miles an hour. "Now, gentlemen," he shouted above the roar, "shoot or jump, If you Jump you will be killed.
It you shoot or attempt to touch the steering wheel I will overturn the car by giving the wheel ever so slight a twist, and we'll all be crushed into protoplasmic miasma. "Keep jour eyes on the speedometer, gentlemen. Note that I will this speed until we reach the police station, where I intend to give you up." Which he did. laving but recently arrived in Cleveland from New York City, I am as. tounded at the laxity In the enforcement of traffic regulations here.
I aIn car owner myself, but would hardly dare drive In your city. In New York I rarely saw an accident. On Euclid avenue, between 9th and 20th streets alone, I have seen many, sometimes two a day. mostly due to carelessness, the "I should worry" the police. This outrageous abuse of pedestrians' and careful drivers' rights -whose fault is it? Ig human life more cheaply held in Cleveland than gasoline? You arrest a driver quick enough for letting his motor run while the car 1s idle.
The lid also seems to be. off in regard to smoke, cutouts and the foolish and unnecessary racing of the engine. Are the autolst's rights so sacred? GEORGE F. BRADFORD. Cleveland.
'The C'onductorets, THE PIONEER CO. Cleveland. 0, C. Wehe, I'res. letters for Soldiers.
Editor Plain Dealer -Sir: We wish' to express our approval of your news item and editorial covering employn ent of condurtoreta and trust you will continue the same stand. We have naturally had the same experience 49 every other manufacturer and are familiar with conditions surrounding employment of male and female help, The state itself bas shown necessity of recruiting man power and replacing nien with women wherever possible, and know of no field where this can be done to better advantage and with less confusion or handicap. Certainly, women are better qualified to All the position of conductor they factorily have than a attempted number to of enter other in their fields efforts to support themselves and dependents and at the same time satisfy their desire to their obligation from a patriotic standpoint. Editor Plain Dealer--Sir: In The Plain Dealer of Sept. 23 was a small nolice: "llave written to some one over there today." We love our boys too much and miss them too much to have to be reminded of the only way Tre can give them pleasure or brighten their lives.
But we would like to know If there is no way our boys can get these letters. Our son left the United States had doven letters from him since he is "over there," and the Inst one, dated Sept. 4, says Tie is still waiting for letters from home. We realize it Is a stupendous undertaking (this mall business) but can't something be dene besides re-. minding us to write? MRS.
CHARLES WEST. Brecksville, 0. With Our Men on Firing Line Letters from American Soldiers in camp OT abroad doing their part for Uncle Sam. Near the l'yrenees, The following letter. was written by Horace P'erkins Babson to his mother in Cleveland.
Je is member of Company Twentieth engineers. Dear Mother: I got your letter with the express order all right, and note what you say in regard to the cameras, but were right in thinkyou ing that we would have to. take what we could get over I got a Brownie box camera, 2A, the same. that we would have to pay $3 for in the States, and it cost 40 francs, or almost $8 here. I haven't gotten very good results with the few pictures I've made, and am inclined to lay it to the French Alms, which are all can get here.
They cost 3fr, 15, for 6. exposures, or about 60 cents and it costs about 80 cents to have a dozen developed and about the same for a dozen prints, 'so you see it's rather expensive, but the pictures will be worth it when I get back. I can't send the Alms home for development. because everything has to be passed on by the censor. and for same reason I can't send many of the pica tures, but I'll do the best I can.
The Alms are very scarce but I can get a roll occasionally, and later I may be able to get a folding camera. As I wrote you on the card Monday, I had a chance to go to Fau, within sight of the Pyrenees, starting Saturday and returning Monday night. The trip was wonderful and the people very nice. The country is different from the Landes district, here we are' now. The people there don't think very much of the Landes, which is principally sand and pines and, of course, not beautiful is the other, To begin with, Fau Was the first stopping point.
It was there that Henry IV built his chateau. is carefully preserved by the French, as they always preserve relics of their great men. It Was unfortunately closed, so that I didn't, see the inside, but the outside was sufficiently impressive. Inside there are beautiful carvings, paintings and tapestries without number, I am told. As one leaves the station at Pau, there is a bank or hill, directly across a square where the electric cars run, and up the side winds footpath for those who are too lazy to climb.
climbed, but I Was pretty hot when 1 got to the top. Along the top runs a boulevard, with a walk along the outside edge, from which one gets a wonderful view of the mountains. There is a park with palms at the foot of the hill, then the station, then a river winding down through the valley, and then the green hills rising to the mountains and shading gray, white, mauve and A thousand other colors, with the shadowy peak behind another until one begins torunderstand the meaning of infinity. Back of the boulevards are hotels, from the grand Hotel de France down to the humbler ones for the persong of mederate means, and back of them is a real French town, although somewhat modernized by the tourists. I had some wonderful chocolate at a little tea room there, but couldn't buy a "thing to eat before o'clock, and I was hungry too.
And after Tau came Lourdes with its Basilica. its miraculous grotto and spring where the Virgin Mary appeared to the peasant girl, and its statues of the Passion. Here the French make an annual pilgrimage, and the waters, which are thought wonderfully healing, are sent all over the world. The grotto is festouned with crutches, like the one at St. Anne de Beaupre in Canada, left behind by those who are cured there Lourdes is right in the mountains, and from the train.
just 'Is a splendid view of the Pic du Midi, one. of the highest peaks. Well, I must stop now but will write again soon. Lots of love to you and W. E.
HORACE. Somewhere in France. BY BLANCHE SILVER. TOut of the tall grasses came the I nierry, chirping of a cricket. Dotty and David stopped to listen.
"I think their song is such a merry one!" exclaimed Dotty. "I bet it's a love song!" But at the sound of Dotty's voice the chirping ceased. "Just like a girl! You've frightened Cricket and he won't sing any Mr. exclaimed David. "I'm sorry," whispered Dotty, tears filling her eyes.
"I didn't think he'd -hear me!" "Sure, crickets have good ears; they hear a sound a long way off," replied David, never mind, we'll keep real quiet and maybe he'll sing again. "Of course he will!" laughed a merry voice, and Happy Giggles, the children's elfin friend, hopped up beside them. "Don't you cry, Dotty, or will spoil it all." "I'm dreadfully sorry I frightened him away," sobbed Dotty. "lIe's not gone very far, and we'll soon And him again," laughed Happy Giggles, touching children with his magic feather until they grew quite "Now keep close to me and we'll tiny. find Mr.
Cricket. They climbed over the tall grasses until they spied Mr. and Mrs. Cricket sitting on a leaf. "Dotty and David were terribly disappointed when you stopped your said Happy Giggles by way of song," introduction.
"Well, you see, I heard talking, and didn't: know but that it was something coming to catch us," Mr. Cricket, bowing to the children, "so I hushed up quickly." "Right in the middle of. your song, too," chirpped his wife. "Bet it was a love exclaimed Ilappy Giggles. "Right you are," replied Mr.
Cricket. "We cricket folks never tire of singing love songs to our wives, and they never tire of listening." Dotty looked at Mrs. Cricket with a puzzled expression on her face, and Mrs. Cricket laughed. "I know what you're wondering." she chirped, "how, can hear.
without ears." Dotty nodded very politely. "You might say Mrs. Cricket listens with her legs," chirped: Mr. Cricket, and, of course, everybody laughed, even Mrs. Cricket herself.
Cricket loves that little joke," 129 she chirped merrily, "but: it's almost true, for see this place on the Joint of my foreleg," and she held up her foreleg for Dotty and David to see. "Underneath the tight skin there is a fine nerve, which, when the air makes the skin shake, changes the motion into sound. So you say Mr. Cricket is right for my ears are on iny legs." "Isn't that funny?" snickered avid. yo who had always pictured crickets' para on either side of their heads.
"Not to us," chirped Mr. Not near so funny as yours look to us. But the male thing is this. if you have ears, use them," and tilting on the blade of grass Mfr. Cricket Anished his little love song, and a cheery, merry song it was, to be sure.
Tomorrow I'll tell you about Linda as a Revelations of a Wife BY ADELE GARRISON. Of course, Lillian was already in possession of the facts concerning the other bizarre messages sent me by the next door, so that she needed no. explanation of the gold for my coin pres- and the imperative summons at the house of mystery. But ence she studied them long and carefully. believe you said you thought that recognized this handwriting.
I you Madge," she said at last, looking up, I don't recognize it," I explained, carefully, "although I have been upon the point of it several have seen it somewhere, certainly, but where Is beyond me. However I am sure it will come to me soon, perhaps Suddr denly." "It would be of help to me just now," Linian said regretfully. "But there's no use crying over spilled milk, and this is a chance I mustn't miss." She rose as she spoke and, taking from her knitting bag the small pistol she carried when on dangerous missions. she thrust it into the loose folds of her gown. "You're surely not going over gasped.
"I most certainly din," she retorted. want to see that outfit for myself, and there never was a better opportunity in the world than this." am going with you," I said spiritedly, rising. "You'll do nothing of the kind." she retorted. "It I satisfy myself that these men are in reality tives your father It will then be. plenty of time for you to go over there.
But if, on the contrary, they belong to Grace Draper's gang, on no account should you go near them. And the appearance of that Jap certainly bears out your inclined her head toward my their evil character. That fellow is a bad actor it ever there was one." "But don't you see, Lillian," I 1 expostulated. "that I cannot let you go into this danger alone for my sake-" "Fiddlesticks, my dear," Lillian returned lightly. "They'll not harm me.
It they're the enemy camp, they're not particularly anxious to monkey with quite so prominent a buzz saw-forgive the seeming conceit--as I am. But remeinber, Grave Draper has personal interest in your injury, and not going to. risk you anywhere again unless I know just where you're going." She picked up the gold coin, but left the penciled lc2t-handed scrawl be; hind her. As she hurried out of the room my mother-in-law spoke irascibly: "I should think you could remember where you'd seen that handwriting, Mar. I garet.
Tve' seen you do lots more dithcult tricks "I only wish I could. mother, I returned humbly, And my heart was chilled with dread for my friend. I wasn't. deceived by her careless The precautions she was taking in the matter of the pistol proved that she recognized a very real danger in her errand. I took the paper, and, seating mysell before a small table, smoothed it out and placed it in front of me.
that I might remember where I had seen similar characters. And then, bit by; bit, it came bark to me. I seemed again to be sitting at a restaurant table, opposite a mani. who was feverishly forming letters upon the back of the menu card in unconsciousness of what he was 1 had wondered then at his facility in writing with either hand. and had been especially fascinated In watching the characters he formed with his left hand.
I glanced furtively at any mother. in-law, relieved to And her standing. at the window. I didn't wish her to know of my discovery just yet. I couldn't understand it.
but I was sure that if memory had not played mo false, Lillian would soon be back. She came swiftly, a few moments later, and 1 had never seon her 80 tenge with suppressed excitement. "They are representatives of your father, Madge," she said, "and I wigh you to come back with me at once." I wasn't disappointed. AR Lillian ushered me into Mrs. Durkee's.
well remembered library, shutting the door almost in the face of the ubiquitous Jap, my father drew me joyfully into his arms. while over the elder man's shoulder smilled. the earnest, kindly face of Dr. Pettit. Tomorrow another story of elations of a Wife" 4 13:.
