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CHAPTER I. Tno gas was turned up to its full height and flared noisilyth the front parlor of a lodging house in the sub rbs of London. Just underneath it, so that the bright light illumined the varying shade of her auburn hair, sat a girl, with the advertisement sheet of the Daily Mail laid upon the table before her. One finger passed rapidly down the columns. "I wish I were a cook, Neville. Here are cooks required of every size and shape, no limit to either age or sex, apparently. I could get a dozen situ ations tomorrow if I could roast a joint properly, and I could earn a for tune If I could do made dishes." The brother that Janetta Howard addressed was a good-looking lad about 19 years old, with dark appeal ing eyes, and closely-cropped curly liair. The face was spoiled by the purposeless, weak mouth and the char acterless chin. He reclined in an easy chair, and was smoking a pipe, with his hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets. "What nonsense, Jennie! As if 1 should ever consent to your going out as a common servant! Besides, I don't tielieve you could do a red herring properly." "Given a goed fire and a toasting fork, I would evolve the way to do the herring," retorted Janetta merrily. "But that I dare not draw out our last penny of capital I would go in for a scries of cooking lessons, come out at the top of the tree, and take a place as cook in a high family, I tell you. I would not adopt the title of 'lady help.' I'd be cook, and rule my kitchen with a rod of iron." And she clenched hor hand, as if she really gripped th! rod of which she spoke. "And, falling this, what do you pro pose to do?" asked Neville lazily. "Anything that offers," replied Jan ett quickly, resuming her search through the paper. is quite clear that, if yon are to accept this chance f a Btool in an accountant's office, I must supplement your salary in some way you can't live on It." "I need not accept It I can wait for (something better." "Walt, until we come to our last penny, in fact!" cried Janetta impa tiently. "No, Neville you must taki this clerkship, and I must got some thing ur.d help you all I can. You know I'm ready enough to do It but" with a little break in her voice "you'll koep steady, dear, when I'm gone?" Her tone implied that the boy's past had not been altogether blameless, and he Btarted to his feet, as if stung by her words. "I know I'VCJ been a beast, Jennie. I've wasted a lot of money but If I hadn't had such bad luck I should have won it back on the last Derby." "That's just ityou'd no right to rhsk it," replied Janetta despairingly "but you'll leave It alone nowyou must promise me to try and koep straight. I think it would break my heart if you turned into a drinking, Jbettlng man like father!" The last words were brought out sadly ami reluctantly, briefly telling the tale of the present low ebb In their fortunes. "He's dead you need not bring up 'his sins against him," said Neville, :rather sulkily. "And I would not, except that I love you so dearly that 1 must give you one word of warning. You've nobody else, you see," said Janetta, with a smile that was almost a caress. "Let mo see, where was I? Bent upon finding that wonderful situation 'that is to make both your fortune and -mine," she continued, with an effort to irogaln her usual light-heartodness. "What do you say to this?" 'Wanted immediately, a young lady as companion, good-looking and good-tempered. Photo must accom pany every application. References re quired." "Humbug!" ejaculated Nevtlln. from *he depths of his easy chair. "Come and look for yourself. If you don't believe rae," said Janetta, with laughter in her eyes. He rose and peeped over his sister's :shonlder. "Why. yes! It's there safe enough. It's a hoax, of course. You won't be green enough to answer it?" "This very night," said Janetta brightly"at least, if you honestly can assure me that fulfill the re quirements. I'm not old at two-and twenty, am I? "I'm averagely good-tempered, and could attain perfect self-control If an occasional outburst meant a loss of situation. And"as she spoke she glanced at the common little mirror above the mantel shelf"don't mind my feelings, tell me truly am I good looking enough?" "Oh, as to that, you'll do," replied Neville, with the bluntness of a brother. The face that the mirror reflected was framed in a cloudy mass of hair. JBet like an aureole round the dalntily .poised head. Hazel eyes, half veiled r*y the long lashes, looked wistfully Srom under level, clearly-defined eye brows a creamy complexion and a *milh*g mouth, whose half-opened red lips disclosed the whiteness of the small, even teeth, completed the pic ture. Beauty was the one possession lefi to Janetta, and tonight she prized it saore than she had ever done before Kr, a possible means to an end. What if the simple fact that she was pretty A TKETTy J9 |s COMPAjVIOW Bj/- LouUe "Bedford. should win for her the situation she so longed to obtain? "I shall send her my prettiest photo, Nevlfte," she said, after her brief self survey. "You don't even know the sex of the advertiser. It may be a Widower advertising darkly for number two," suggested her brother. Janetta laid down her pen in some alarm. "I don't care," she said "I shall write and send my photo and refer ences. The answer will tell us all about it. I think it's a very rich old maid, with a poodle and a parrot. I shall probabiy have to wash the poodle, and play pretty Poll with endless lumps of sugar, and get my fingers well packed in the process. There! my letter is at any rate short and to the point. Will It do?" she said, tossing it over to Neville. "A man could not have put the thing better. Old maid or widower, I would close with you at once if I were the advertiser. You write a short note and a pretty hand." "Very well, we'll go out and post It," said Janetta, stretching out her hand for her hat. "May good luck attend it!" She received an answer by return of post. The pointed handwriting in which the letter was written was of the style prevalent about 40 years ago. "An old maid! Look at the writ- ing!" cried Janetta triumphantly, as she opened the envelope. "There is a modern brevity about it," said Neville, peeping over her .shoulder. "Read it out, there's a dear." "Dear Madam: I think you seem likely to suit me. The salary I offer is 60 pounds a year but I shall be willing to raise it at the end of tha first quarter if we find v/e get on to gether. Will you come for a month and see how you like it, beginning on Monday? "Can you leavo by the train which starts from Haddington at 2 o'clock? I shall be sending to Northcliff Sta tion meet a friend, and you could come by the same carriage. Wire reply. "Believe me. faithfully yours, "(Mls3) Clarice Seymour." Janetta and her brother burst into simultaneous laugh when she finished the letter. "Either the woman is a lunatic or it's a hoax," said Neville. "I'll go and see for myself. It's too good an opening to miss. Sixty pounds a year for doing nothing, apparently. No mention even of the poodle or the parrot. Anyhow, it's a genuine place: I've looked it out in the 'Gazetteer.' Thus it came to pass that, on the Monday following, Janetta and Neville paced up and down Paddington sta tion together, both their hearts too full of the approaching separation to trust themselves to speak of it. Instead, they talked of trivialties, watched the other passengers as they hurried down the platform to the train, commenting idly upon them, "Look. Neville! what a handsome man that is getting Into the first-class carriage not far from my humble third. If he were a girl, and applied for my situation, I should not hav a chance, should I? He's so very good looking!" The man In question turned, as if he had heard the remark, glancing at the brother and sister, who had come to a halt before the carriage in which Janetta had placed her rugs. The glance was but momentary. He signed to the porter, who followed him, to hand in his belongings, jumped into the carriage, and closed the door. "I believe he hoard you, Jennie," said Neville quickly. '.'If he did it can't matter. We shall never meet again, and it can't be the first time that he's heard he's good looking," said Janetta, with a little laugh. "Oh. Neville, I must grt In! I don't know how to say good-by. I will write tonight. Qood-by, dear good-by. Jump in a minute. I must kiss you and you'll keep steady, for my sake?" The last words were said in a whis per. "All right, don't bother!" said Ne ville, horribly ashamed of the fact that there were tears In his eyes. CHAPTER II. In a few minutes more the train was puffing slowly from the station, and Janetta. who had craned her neck from the carriage to obtain a farewell smile from Neville, sank back into her cor ner, with plenty of time before her In which to consider her prospects and her fellow travelers. The latter were singularly uninter esting, with the exception of a little girl not more than two years old, who aat just opposlt? Janetta, regarding her with thoughtful eyes. "Pretty." she said presently, stretch ing out her arms to come to her. And Janetta, with a reassuring nod to the mother, stood the child by the window and talked to her for the flrst hour, only handing her back to her natural guardian when the little thing wa3 tired out, and showed signs of drop ping off to sleep. A glance at her watch told her that she could not be many miles from her destination, and she looked out of the window to notice the sort of country through which they were traveling, fancying that in the fast-fading light of the February afternoon she could catch the shimmer of the sea in the distance The thought had scarcely framed It self before she was conscious of a curious swaying to and fro In the car riage, then- a shlvorlng vibration ran along the train as if the brake had been applied with unwonted force and, be fore she could do more than read the awful alarm that was written upon the faces of her fellow travelers, there came a crash and a total cessation of movement. The earth Itself seemed tottering under her, and she was thrown from her seat to the floor. She was too stunned for a few minutes to realize in the least what had happened but when at last able to collect her senses, she knew that there must have been an accident, the nature and character of which she was incapable of gaug ing. The air was alive with sounds more or less distressingthe hissing of the engine, the shouts of the engine driver, the piercing shrieks of women, and close to her, making itself heard above the din, the pitiful, frightened wall of a little child. "Poor little dear! it must be the little child I was talking to," said Janetta, trying to raise herself on to her knees so as to see better what bad happened to her fellow travelers, and much relieved to find that her own limbs were whole and sound. The carriage was jerked off the rails and was pitched half over on Its side, and the struggles of others to free themselves were beginning to be un pleasantly felt when, from her kneel ing posture, Janetta caught a glimpse of the man whom she had seen get ting into the first-class carriage a lit tle beyond her own at Paddington. "Hallo!" he said, with a pleasant smile, "You seem to want help hore. Don't be frightened I don't think there is much harm done, barring the .smashing up of a carriage or so. No, no! don't ctruggle behind there! Ladies first, please. I must help you out through the window, as the door is jammed, and beware of broken glass." "The child flrst," said Janetta, with quivering lips, who had laid hold of the little frightened heap that had been propelled right under the seat opposite to her own. "Hand her out, please!" cried tho man, depositing the child high up on the bank near by. "She's scared out of her wits, as well she may be. Now give me your hands, and place your feet on the handle of the door I'll keep you steady as you climb through and lift you out." Janetta obeyed every direction swiftly and deftly. With her arm about the child, Janet ta sat and watched the strange scene with dazed, bewildered eyes. The hugo engine, which had run off the line, stood half embedded In the bank at tho side, snorting and puffing as If in dignant at finding himself in such an Ignominious position. Men with scared faces hurried hither and thither women stood in groups along the line, sobbing in helpless ter ror. Tho mother of her little charge lay stretched at full length on the grass close by, borne thither by the strong arms of her rescuer, who seemed al most the only man who kept full pos session of his senses, except a fair faced, falr-halred young doctor, who hastened forward towards the pros trate figure, kneeling by her and feel ing her pulse with professional calm. "Fainted, that's all," ho said, look ing up at the man by his side. Then a quick glance of recognition passed over his features. "Why, Merlvale, you here?" he exclaimed. "On your way to the George, I suppose?" From a certain hardening of the voice Janetta gathered that, for some reason unknown, the falr-halred doc tor did not like the handsome stranger, whose fine physique and pleasant bear ing seemed so attractive to herself. (To be continued.) "TELEPHONE EAR." Operator* Say Answering Call* Does Not Affect ih Hearing. Chicago girls who listen to the click in the telephone receiver for eight hours every day In the week laugh at the Idea that their New York sister operators are getting a "telephone ear," or a deafness, from the constant snap ping of the call signals, says the Chi cago News. "A 'telephone ear,'" re marked one girl who has operated a board in the central office for three years, "Is the most acute oue in the world, and the more noise there is in the phone the more trained our ears become to detect what is being said." "There are a great number of girls in this office," said the chief operator. "I sat at a board myself for several years, and I never heard a girl oomp'.aln that the sound of the phone affected her hearing in the least. know It never did mine." In speaking of the effect of the click on an operator's hearing A. S. Hlbbard, the general manager of company said "I do not care to say that the New York people are wrong in their con tentions that they have had cases of deafness due to the sound made in connecting and disconnecting the tele phones, but it sounds improbable to me. We have had the signal system in Chicago for about Ave years. Al most every phone in Chicago now calls the main beard without twisting a crank, and yet I have never heard of a complaint." Cat That Never Tnrel Meat. A kitten has been brought up en an exclusively vegetable diet by a family of vegetarians. The result Is that it will not touch animal food and It pays no attention to rats or mice. Almost any evil can be remedied I! you face it fearlessly and honestly try to removt It, THE WILY TRAMP. After Tear* of Wondering. Me Strike* the Only Game. "Saiue old story of starvation and that sort of thing!" exclaimed the cook as she answered a knock at the kitchen door and found a forlorn looking tramp on the step. "No, cookie, old girl," he said, with a debonair manner, "you're off your stovelid this time." "Well, what do you want?" she ln qu&ed, bracing herself against the door "something to buy liquor with?" "Off again, cookie, thou queen of the starry firmament," he warbled, and tried to chuck her under the chin. "Get ofjft!" 'she Ecreamed, "or I'll throw a kettle of hot water on you." "Prithee, empress of the range," he murmured, "don't do that and destroy my usefulness." "Well, tell me what you want then, or leave the place." "You won't tell any of my pals, Pearl of the Pearl river?" he asked, smil ingly. "I don't know any of your pals, and don't want to," she snarled. "You lovely thing," he twittered "I fain must tell thee all." "Why don't you, then, you lazy Idiot?" she inquired, with tender em phasis. "Well, then, onllest of my heart," he whispered, "I want to sift half a ton of cindersa whole half-ton, mind ye because, you see But she didn't see. The shock was too much for her and she fainted dead away, and the lady of the house gave him a shilling to run for a doctor. "It pays better'n anything I ever tackled," he said, softly, to himself, as he went out of the area gate. i ODD LOTTERY PRIZE. Proved a Source of much Embarrasa uient to IU Winner. At Dieppe a "tombola" was drawn at the Menagarie Pezonthe prize, a liv ing lion. Immediately the winning number was announced the holder cried out: "This way!" and held up the lucky ticket. "All right," said the manager, "the Hon is yours." There upon the winner approached the cage a pair of scissors in hand, and stretched forth his hand, evidently to "mark" the right lion, but was stopped by an employe, who cautioned him to be care ful or he might "smart" for his haste. "Very well," said the winner "I will sleep over It, and let you know to-mor row how I have arranged for the de livery." "No, no," said the manager, "the lion must be taken away seance tenante." "Well," replied the winner, "you have kept your word in offering me a live lion, but I would rather have a dead one! Give me five minutes to get a gun and I will soon settle the matter." The manager said he had no objec tion to that plan, but added: "What will you do with a dead Hon? You will only get the skin. Now, I have the skin of a dead Hon, which I will give you, and you can let me keep the live lion." This arrangement, which saved much trouble to everybody, was joyfully accepted by both parties. No More Mademoiselle*. The cause of woman sweeps on re lentlessly. The Woman's Suffrage so ciety of Paris has jii3t legislated the appellation of "mademoiselle" out of existence. Henceforward they decline, as a body and as individuals, to an swer to anything but "madame." Mar ried or single or widowed, 10 years old or a hundred, it is just the same no reply, or at any rate, none that could be printed, will escape them so long as they are addressed as "mademoiselle." They have discovered a suggestion of inferiority, their resolutions even say of servitude, in the custom that would refuse their sex a collective and all-embracing title. A he, of whatever age, Is always "monsieur." Why should not a she be always "madame?" The heroines of Racine. Cornellle and Mo liere, married or not, were never any thing but "madame," and the "dignity of the sex" demands, apparently, that the Invidious distinctions of modern usage should be dropped. As a matter, of fact, they have already been Hopped, partly, 'at any rate, in the 'American Athens." The street car onductors of Boston are compelled to address all tbeir women passengers asj 'madam," without reference to age.i color or race, previous condition of servitude or present condition of cloth ing. The Empress of Japan. In the matter of the emancipation of Japanese women It Is not generally known that the lady who has done .nore than anybody else for her sex In the land of the chrysanthemum Is the present Japanese Empress. Her Influ ence has been exerted in small things is in lhrge. She has entirely revolu ionized the education' of girls, and' ,he corner-stone wli be put on the sys :em early next year by the opening of a university for women in Toklo. It vas she who. in the early seventies, iy her example, put an end to the old custom of married women blackening i heir teeth. From the western point of view the most commendable inno vation for which her majesty has ee responsible Is the Introduction of European dress In place of the fault-' ess costume of Japan. Still, there is ven a reason for this, the contention being that a Japanese lady is treated more respectfully by her husband when she is in European dress than vhen retaining her national costume. i a Work of Salvatlo.j Army. The Salvation Army Is floating an, issue of $150,000 of bonds to provide homes for the poor. On file are appli cations from more than 1,000 families' onxlous to leave New York city and settle on farming land. We read of the seven ages of man, 'tut ono age is ample for the average woman. N A Doctor's Litfle Daughter Cured of Drip by Pe-ru-na. Dr. R. RobbiDs, Physician and Sur geon of Muskogee, Indian Ter., writes: I have been a practicing physician for a good many years and was always slow to take hold of patent medicines, but this winter my little girl and my self were taken with the grip. I was so bad I was not able to sit up. I sent for a doctor, but he did me no good* "Finally I sent and got a bottle of Peruna and commeuced to take it. I took two bottles and my cough was gone and my lungs loosened up and my head became clear. My little girl took the Barne way. "It looked as though she would die, she was so sick. I gave her medicine, but it seemed to do her little good, so I sent and got one more bottle of Pe runa and commenced to give It to her. It was only a short time until she was getting along all right, so 1 give your medicine, Peruna, the praise for what It lid for me and my dear little daugh ter. "Dr. R. Robblns. Grave Offense. "There is going to bi? more trouble down here," remarked the South Ameri can. "That so?" interrogated the North American. "Yes, indeed. Beth armies are going to be courtmartlaled for fighting during the hours 3et aside for the national si estas-Chicago News. i PATENTS. Llat of Potenta laaued La at Week to lYortlivrcatern Inventora. Charles Anderson, Minneapolis, Minn., combined billiard and dining table Otorge Case, Minneapolis, Minn., back Tor stools: Henry B. Cramer, Minne apolis, Minn., staging bracket or sup port James Oerber, Minneapolis. Minn., distributing spout for grain elevators Hannah Johnson, Braddock, N. D.. clothes line and detachable support Arthur Munch, St. Paul, Minn., travel ing lawn sprinkler. Lothrop & Jolinacn. patent attorney*. Oil 912 Plone-i Praxis Bids.. St. Paul. Minn. Mlareproaented. Mr. Perfume1 thought when you sold mc ibis automobile you guaranteed it to be a first-class hill-climber? DealerU'm! Mr. PerfumeWell, the only thing it har shown any tMdnc to climb has boon telegraph poles.Puck. 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Mrs. Schafer, 436 Pope Ave., St. Louis, Mo., writes: "In the early part of last year I wrote to yoa for advice for my daughter Alice, four years,of age. She has been a puny, sickly, ailing* child since her birth. She had* convul sions and catarrhal fever. I was always doctoring until we commenced to uss Peruna. She grew strong and welL Peruna is a wonderful tonic the best medicine I have ever used."Mrs Schafer. Mrs. C. B. Long, the mother of little Mina Long, writes from Atwood, Colo., as follows: We can never thank you enough for the change you have made in our little one's health. Before she began taking your Peruna she suffered everything in the way of cough, colds and croup, but now she has taken not quite a bottle of Peruna, and is well and strong as sho has ever been in her life. She has not had the croup once since she began taking Peruna, and when she 44 has a little cold a few dotes of Peruna fixes her out all right. We can never praise it enough "Mrs. C. E. Long. Mrs. G. W. 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