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l I; SERIAL J1 STORY CJ B - - I 1 ELUSIVE I I "ISABEL" B fcssssBsssssisssssssssBsssssssssssasBj - ! JACQUES FUTRELLE m w H Ittmjtrarionj by M. KETTHER BBjV ttsprrlrht, lax. b T AaoeltM Hunl4 W.iln. Bjl u7rkt lil,lrTllt.blUflllcnuJ Bl B 8YNOP8I8. H Count dl noslnl. tha Italian ambss- BBM aador, la nt dinner with diplomat when BBI a messenger lutnmoni him to the m- BBS taaay, where a beautiful young woman BB uki for a ticket to tha embassy hall. Bfll Tha ticket la mado out In the name of BflJ Villi Iiabel Thome. Chief Campbell of Bfll tha aecret aervtce, and Mr. Orlmtn, hla flfll head detective, are warned that a plot la flfl hrewlng In Washington, and Urlmm goes flfll to tha atata ball for Information. Ills at- flflf , Irntlon la called to Mis Isabel Thorne, flflf who with her companion, disappears. A flfll shot li heard and flenor Alvares of the flflf Mexican legation, la found wounded. Orlmm li assured Miss Tliorne did It; he flfl vlalta her, demanding knowledge of the flfl ' affair, and arrests rietrn I'etroifnnl. Miss J Thorna visits an old bomb-maker and they discuss n wonderful experiment. Klfty thousand dollars Is stolen from tho office flf of Benor llodrlgues, the minister from ; Venexuela. and while detectives are In- vestlgatlng the robbery Miss Thorne np- flf peara as n guest of the legation. Orlmm J" accuses her of the theft and threatens flflj her with deportation. B CHAPTER XI. (Continued.) Hi "nut If I am Innocent?" sho pro- H tcstod. H "You must provo It," continued Mr. H Orlmm mercilessly. "Personnlly, I am H convinced, and Count dl Hoslnl has H practically nssurod mo that " H "H'b unjustl" nho Interrupted pas- H slonately. "It's It's you havo H proved nothing. It's unheard o(t It's H beyond li' H Suddenly sbo beenrao silent. A mln- H uto, two minutes, thrco minutes H passed; Mr. Orlmm waited patiently. H. "Will you glvo mo time and oppor- B tunlty to provo my InnoconcoT" she H demanded finally. "And If I do con- H vlnco you?" H' "I should bo delighted to bcllovo H that I bavo mado a mistake," Mr. H Orintn assured her. "How much time? ) On day? Two days?" H "I will let you know within an hour Bi . at your office," sho told him. HpLSJsW' Mr. Orlmm rose. ( '' "And roeonwhllo, In case of Accident, H I shall look to Count dl Hosing for ad- H Juitmont," he added pointedly "Good- H morning;." H Ono hour and ten minutes later ho H received this note, unslgnod: H "Closed carrlago will stop for you H at southeast corner of Pennsylvania H Avenue and Fourteenth Street to-night H Ho was there; tha carriage was on H tlmo; and my lady of mystery was In- H side. Ho stepped In and they swung H "But If I Am Innocent?" Bit Ki , out Into Pennsylvania Avenue, nolse- B lessly ovor tho asphalt. H "Should tho gold be placed In your fl hands now, within tho hour," Bbo BX quorlod solicitously, "would It be ueo- Bf cssary for you to know who was tbo tho thief?" E "It would," Mr. Orlmm responded ' without hesitation. B i "Even If It destroyed a reputation?" B( ; she pleaded. M I "Tbu Secret Borvlco raroly destroys Hjf n reputation, Miss Thorne, although It B holds Itself In readiness to do bo. I 'j dare say In this caso thero would bo i' so arrest or prosecution, bocausa of K' of reasons which appear to bo good." f ' ' "Thero wouldn't?" and there was a B i noto of eagerness In her voice. "The B' 1 Identity of tbo guilty person would B j never appear?" r "H would becomn n matter of record H In our offlce, but boyond tlmt I think Bmi not at least In this ono Instanco." B'. Miss Thorno sat silent for a block Bv1 or more. H ' "You'll admit, Mr. Orlmm, that you B&V, , have forced mo Into n most remark- B able position. You seomod convinced B, of my guilt, and, if you'll pardon me, K4 without reuson; then you mado It BT compulsory upon ma to establish my BBb , Innocence. Tho only way for mo to BBVl do thai was to And the guilty ono. 1 BBBp have doue it, and I'm sorry, becauso BBmf, Jt's a little tragedy." Ht, Mr. Orlmm waited. F' ' i "It's, a girl high in diplomatic so- r bbEU bT; bbbV BBBBBBf - clety. Hor fallicr's position Is an hon orable rather than a lucrative ono; ho has no fortune. This girl moves In a certain set devoted to bridge, and stakea oro high. She played nnd won, and played and won, and on nnd on, until hor winnings wer.e about eight thousand dollars. Then luck turned. Sho began to lose. Her money went, but sho continued to piny desperately. Finally somo old family Jewels were pawned without hor father's knowl edge, and ultimately they wero lost. Ono day sho awoke to the fact thnt she owed somn nlno or ten thousnnd dollars In bridge debts. They were pressing and thuro was no way to meet thorn. This meant exposure and utter ruin, and womon do strango things, Mr. Orlmm, to poatpono such an ending to soclnl aspirations. 1 know this much Is true, for sho ro latod It all to me herself. "At last, In somo way a misplaced loiter, perhaps, or a word overheard sho learned that fifty thousand dollars would bo In tbo legation bank over night, and ovldently sho learned the prcclso night." 8ho paused a moment, "Hero Is tho address of a man In Hal tlmore, Thomas Q. Orlswold," nnd she passed n card to Mr. Orlmm, who sat motionless, listening. "About four yoars ago the combination on the lega tion safe was changed. This man was sent hero to mako tho change, there fore some ono besides Sonor Rodriguez does know the combination. I have communicated with this man today, for I saw the possibility of Just such a thing as this Instead of your steth oscope. Ily n trick and a forged let ter this girl obtained the combination from this man." Mr. Orlmm drow a long breath. "Sho Intended to take, porhaps, only whnt sho despcrntcly noeded but at sight of It all do you seo what must havo been tho temptation then? We get out hero." There wero many unanswered ques tions In Mr. Orlmm's mind. Ho re pressed them for tho tlmo, stepped out nnd assisted Miss Thorno to alight. Tho cnrrlngo had turned out of Ponn sylvnnla Avenuo, nnd at tho moment ho didn't qulto placo himself. A nar row pnBsngoway oponcd beforo them evidently tho renr entranco to n houso posBlbly In tho next strcot. Miss Thorno led tho way unhesitatingly, cautiously unlocked tho door, nnd to gether they ontercd a hall. Then thero woh n short flight of stairs, nnd they stopped Into n room, ono of n sulto. Sho closed tho door and turned on tho lights. "Tho bags of gold aro In the next room," sho said with the utmost com posuro. Mr. Orlmm dragged them out of a dark closot, opened ono thero wero ten nnd allowed tho coins to drlbblo through his lingers. Finally ho turned nnd stared at Miss Thorno, who, pal lid nnd weary, stood looking on. "Whcro arc we?" ho asked. "What houso Is thlB?" "Tha Venezuelan legation," she an swered. "Wo nro standing less than forty feet from tho safo that was robbed. You seo how caBy 1" "And whoso room?" Inquired Mr. Orlmm slowly. "Must I answer?" sho asked appoal Ingly. "You must!" "Scnorltn Rodriguez my hostess! Don't you boo what you'vo mado mo do? Sho and Mr. Cndwallndor mado tho trip to Ilaltlmoro In his nutomo bllo, nnd nnd I" 8ho stopped. "Ho knows nothing of It," sho added. "Yes, I know," shld Mr. Orlmm. Ho stood looking nt her In silence for n moment, staring deeply Into tho pleading eyes; nnd n cortatn tonso ex pression about his lips passed. For an Instant her hand tromblcd on his arm, nnd ho cnughl tho fragrance of her hair. "Whcro Is sho now?" ho naked. "Playing bridge," rcpllod Miss Thorno, with n sad llttlo stnllo. "It Ib always so at loaBt twlco a week, and sho rarely returns before two or half past." Sho extended both hnnda Im petuously. "Plcnso bo gonoroiiB, Mr. Orlmm. You havo tho gold; dou't de stroy her." Benor Rodriguez, tho minister from Venezuela, found the gold In his safo on tho following morning, with a brief noto from Mr. Orlmm, In which thero was no explanation of how or whoro It had bcon found. . . . And two houm Inter Monsieur nolsscgur, am bassador from Frnnco to the United States, disappeared from tho embassy, vanished I CHAPTER XII. The Vanlshlno Diplomatist. It was tlireo dnya nttor tho ambas sador's dlsappcnranco that Monstour Rlgolet, secretary of tho Frdnch em bassy nnd temporary charge-d'nffnlrca, reported tho matter to Chief Camp bell In tho Socret Borvlco Hurnnu, add ing thereto a dctnlled utntoment of several singular IncldunU following close upon It. Ho told It In order, concisely nnd to tho point, wbllu Orlmm nnd his chief listened. "Monsieur Itolssugur, tho ambassa dor, you understand, Is n man whose habits aro remarkably regular," ho bo gan. "Ho has mado It a rule to bo nt his desk every morning at ten o'clock, nnd between that tlmo and ono o'clock ho dictates his corre spondence, nnd clears up whatover routine work thero Is beforo him. I havo known him for many years, and havo been secretory of tho em bassy under him In Germany and Japan and In this country. I have novor known him to vary this general ardor of work unless becauso of Ill ness, or necessary absence. "Well, Monslour, Inst Tuesday this Is Friday tho ambassador was at his desk as usual, Ho dictated a dozen or moro lettors, and had begun anoth er a prtvnto letter to his slstor In Paris. Ho was well along In this let ter when, without any apparont rea son, he roso from his desk and left tho room, closing the dooe behind; him. His stenographer's Impression ' was that some detail of business had occurred to him, and ho had gono Into tho general oulco to attend to It I may say. Monsieur, that this Impres sion seemed strengthened by tho fact that ho left a fresh cigarette burning In his ash tray, and hla pen was be hind his car. It was alt as If he had merely stopped out, Intending to re turn lmmedlatoly-Txtho sort of thing, Monsieur, thnt any man might have done. "It no happened that when he went out ho left a sentenco of his, letter Incomplete. I toll you this to show thnt the Impulso to go must havo been a siiddon one, yet there wns nothing In his manner, so his stenographer snys, to Indicate cxcltcmont, or any other than his usual frnmo of mind. It wns about five minutes of twelve o'cloek-hlgh noon when he went out. Whon he didn't return immedi ately tho stenographer began tran scribing tho lnttcrs. At ono o'clock Monslour Holssegtir still had not re turned nnd his stenographer went to luncheon." As ho talked, some Inbred oxejto mont seemed to bo growing upon hJm, duo, perhaps, to his recital of facts, and ho paused at last to regain con trol of himself. Incidentally ho won dered If Mr. Orlmm wns taking tho slightest Interest In whnt he wns say ing, Cortnlnly thero was nothing In his Impassive faco to Indicate it ' "Understand. Monsieur," tho secre tary continued nfter a momont, "that I knew nothing whntovor of all this until Into thnt afternoon that is, Tuesday afternoon nbout flvo o'clock. JCjHf I i I. "Now, Monsieur, There Are Only Two Entrances to tha Embassy." I was engaged all day upon somo Im portant work In my ofllco, and had had no occasion to see Monslour Hols segur slnco a word or bo when ho enmo In at ten o'clock. My attention was called to tho affair finally by-hlsi stenographer, Monsieur Nettervllle, who enmo to mo for Instructions. He hnd finished tho letters nnd the am bassador bad not returnod to sign them. At this point I began nn In vestigation, Monslour, and the further I went tho moro unensy I grew. "Now, Monsieur, there nro only two entrances to tho embassy tho front door, whero n servant Is In constant attendnnco from nlno In tho morning until ten at night, and the rear door, which can only bo reached through tho kitchen. Nolther of tbo two men who had been Btatloncd nt tho front door had seen tho ambassador since breakfast, therefore he could not havo gono out that way. Comprcnez? It seemed ridiculous, Monsieur, but then I went to tho kltchon. Tho chof bad been there all day, and ho had not Boon tho ambassador at all. I Inquired further. No ono In the ombnssy, not a clerk, nor a eervnnt, nor a member of tho ambassador's family had seen him since ho left his ofllco." Again bo paused nnd ran ono band across his troubled brow. (TO HE CONTINUKD.) How He Timed His Talk. A successful salesman for a hard ware lino of goods had a novel way last season of exciting at least momontnry Interest In his prospective customers In tho now territory he bad been given. On entering tho olllco of his prospect his first remark was: "Mr. Smith, wo nro both business men with whom tlmo Is monoy, I only ask for throo minutes of yours, as I can o-ly glvo you throe mlnutos of mine. 1-et's bo sure wo keep to the limit." . Thereupon ho pulled from his pock et quickly nnd placed on the desk of his bearer, well within his vision nnd reach, a r?at llttlo nrticlo of tho samo shapo as and patterned nfter tbo well known hour glass, but containing only sand enough to roqulro tlireo minute for Its passage from tho upper to the lower compartment. "You keep tab and don't lot me ovortalk the limit." System. Morgan, Sentimentalist. Tho sontlmentallHt of tho world of flnnnco Is J. Plerpont Morgan. Us glvos money widely and recklessly to help men who think they have somo wonderful Invoutlun or other thing that will be n sensational benefit tc i tho human raco. A few years ago an eloctrlcal oxporlmenter got soroi I friends to obtain n hearing for blta ' with Morgan. Ho hnd plans for th greatest of nil Inventions. Ho had no ' mouey blmsolf; ho had no backing. I Ho went away with n fat check, but returnod for moro again nud again. In tho course of tlmo he received SI 60,000 to perfect his wonder, but it waa not perfoctod oven then. H i mndo a final appeal for 150,000 more. Morgan wanted to send It to him, but some of the other racmberB of the Arm Inducod tho banker to shut down on the supplies until thore should bt I moro signs of tnaklog good. I jl ij "3 j PROGRESS oftheWOl LLD I SOME THINGS THE BUSY WORKER IS DOING I FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION PAYS BIG DIVIDENDS Courtesy Always an Asset in the Conduot of the Modern Busi ness Concern. MAKES AND KEEPS FRIENDS Little Acts That Show Consideration Are Valuable Items, Though They May Not Figure In the Ledger as Accounts to Be Collected. It pays to be courteous. No matter whother you aro an employer, or a worker, you cannot afford to bo dis courteous to those with whom you come in contact. "Courtesy in business pays bigger dividends than any other slnglo quali fication," declared tho head of one of tho greatest corporations in Chicago. "Courteous treatment wins friends and patrons in every lino of trade, and such customers become walking adver tisements of tho storo or Institution whoro that sort of policy provalls. No business can succeod unless It makes friends of its patrons. Frionds mako business, and courtesy makes friends. "It is easy to bo courteous to a friond, but the courtesy that counts for most is that which is accorded strangers. Little acts that show con sideration for persons with whom ono la dally thrown In contact are most important, becauso the one who makes It a habit to be courteous at all times in the most successful employo or em ployer, as the caso may bo. Porhaps moro discourtesy Is shown in answer ing telephone calls thnn In any other way. "Courtesy should be practiced at home, In the office, in tbo storo in fact. It should bo practiced all tbo time. You cannot bo really courteous In ono placo and not In another. It Is never considered servility to go out of your way to do a favor for somo ono else. Llttlo acta of kindness aro the ones that pay the biggest divi dends. They may not be in the shapo of Immediate cash, but thor will como fa lasting credit to you and your em ployer. "It is Just ns essential for an em ployer to be courteous to thoso who work for him aa It Is for hla employes to treat customors with considerat ion. Courtesy on tbo part of tho boss engenders loyalty among work 'ors, and thnt qualification 1b absolutely necessary to business success. Coup tosy Is not so much whnt is said, but how It Is said. A courteous person can dony a request In such a way as to loavo a better taBto than somo other person who grants it. "Courtesy Is In reality an applica tion to every day Uto of tho goldon rule, and Lord Chostorgeld gavo an ex cellent example of It when ho said, 'Whatever pleases you most In others will Infallibly ploaso others In you." Genius Requires Work. Oenlus is a great ornamont to a. man. It is the exceptional endowment which may enhance all effort many fold, but it Is only an lnnat force. It must bo exorcised, it requires ac tivity to develop It. It requires to be worked In harness, as It wero. 1 It has been said of Nathaniel Haw thorno that his genius was nugmented by patient and painstaking effort. For 13 laborious years bo lived n hormlt's life, practicing tho art In which he perfected himself, so that bo could give a wonderful product to tho world. Robert Louis Stovonson prac ticed Just as assiduously his chosen art of writing. Men who do not write soldom leave us records which show bow Industrious thoy aro, but any one who can read In their groat sum of nocompllshmant tho Items which make It has no difficulty in realizing thnt thero havo been steady days of nevor ending labor. A man who has worked thus and at tained, has Bomo roason to bo I inpa tient when a fellow man says, "Aren't you a lucky dog?" Dut waiting on luck novor brought It. In one of Haw thorne's stories he says: "Tho con trast between him and his former partnor may bo briefly marked, for Drown nevor reckoned on luck, yet always had It, whllo Poter mado luck the main condition of his projects and always mlssod It." To Revive Mesopotamia. When Alexander dotormlncd on sending his fleet up tho Tigris ho cut tho earthen dnmn thrown across tho river. Ho put tho boats where bo wanted them for military purposes, but ha destroyed the productiveness of tbo land, and roturned It to the des olation which has broodod thoro ever since. Now BIr William Wlllcocks, tho groat English Irrigation engineer, pro poses to tho Turkish government thnt a portion of Mesopotamia bo redeemed from aridity to productiveness by re storing the ancient dams In the Tigris, This will put nn end to navigation bo tween IlaBraklsh and Ilagdad, but tho water would suffice to Irrigate land on which 137,600,000 worth of cotton could be produced annually. "You will find it is Invariably tho case that tho men at tho head of big business enterprises aro uniformly courteous. This Is not, as many poo plo suppose, simply n veneer covering, but Is a truo Indication of their rent dispositions. True courtesy must bo genuine, and no othor kind Is worth considering. It is a habit that must bo ncqulrcd by constant civilization, and It will be beneficial In any lino of business." 8tranger Quick to 8ee Chances. How tho stranger In tho city finds success whero tho native will not dream of looking for It Is constantly brought to light In Chicago. Samo nine months ago two Arabians camo hero. They landed on tbo west side nnd began to look around for n loca tion where they could start some sort of small business. A cortaln corner, which hundreds of Americans passed up In looking for a business location, "looked good" to theso Arabians. Thoy fixed up a fruit and soda water stand on this corner. That was nlno months ago. Now tho men, who cannot put a sentenco together in the English lan guage, aro making n weekly profit which, It a bookkeeper got It down town, ho would call a pretty good sal ary. Travel, tho novelty which changing of placo nnd surroundings brings with It, was the making of these two Arabians. A couplo of years away from homo, away from tho watchful sollctltudo of a mother and nn older sister, will put considerable backbono Into many a young man who is in need of it. Chicago Tribune. Married Seventy Years. Mr. and Mrs. James Danby of Roso Cottago, Dardney, Lincolnshire, have boon married for 70 years. Although nearly a centenarian, Mr. Dnnby In tends walking down to tho railway stutlon, half a mile from his homo, to help carry tha baggago of bis numer ous descendants who aro going to boo him. Ho worked until he was ninety, nnd claims to bo tho Inst of the cord walnders, or workers In Spanish leather. London Express. MAKE PRICE TOO HIGH EXPENDED ENERGY FREQUENTLY NOT WORTH THE COST. Let Common Sense Rule In Matter Where Much Labor Is Required for a Given End. Naturally cvory ono believes In or der nnd clcnnllnoss nnd tidiness, but It somotlmos comes homo to one thnt splc-and-span order Is occnslonnlly bought nt a prlco which makes a hu man beings somothlng not far remov ed from galley slnvon or beasts of bur den. Ono hears thnt prisoners con demned to tho treadmill dlo of heart break. They plead to bo given worlt which when dono may exist In somo form to represent their labor, mny do somo enrthly good, nnd whon denied thoy wnsto nwny. How credlblo It Is! Coming homo from Italy on a Blow steamer a lady noticed day after day a man whoso sole work It seemed to bo to clean tho brass rims of tho port holes on tho promenado, dock. Theso wero tho portholes of tho dining sa loon, the library, tho smoking room, tholoungo nnd a numbor of deck cab ins, and there was an Infinite numbor of them. Tho man worked from morning until night, dny In, dny out, scouring nnd polishing thoso brass rims, down ono sldo of tho deck up tho other, nnd long beforo ho could got around the clrclo tho first ones woro of necessity dingy nnd splashed with verdigris spots from tho salt spray that blow ngnlnst them. Tho man never stopped cleaning them, nnd yet those portholes wero ncor elenn. What nn cxlstcncol Every ono likes tho sight of bright , .polished brass yes but when It Is bought nt tho prlco of tho unceasing labor of n human being it seems ns If no ono would not prefer thnt polished brass painted over, dono away with, substituted by nnythlng, no matter, how unornnmentnl, which Bhould not represent qulto such wnsto of humnn energy. That special man mny not havo realized tho painful futility of his labor, though Judging by tho doglllto appeal of his oyc.i and tho deprecating pathos of his smile bo did. -nnnr-inrmnni nni.ii ni-i--i-irinnrir-ii"s"i"i"i ---"- METHOD IN ECONOMY ' a Business Man Knows Vast Dif ference Between Theory and Actual Fact. FAKE IDEAS ARE GENERAL Small Savings That Heads of Depart ments May Consider Worth While, If Looked Into Will Be Found . to Figure on the Ledger as a Lobs. "Thore are a great many kinds of economy, and most of them aro ex pensive," said a prosperous Chicago business man recently. "There is a lot or truth In tho old adage: t'Ponny wise, pound foolish.' I know a man that ran a drug storo. Ho couldn't bear to seo anything wasted. Every morning whon he opened his mall he stopped to split the envelopes and savo thorn for scratch paper. Ho kept a clerk busy most of the tlmo picking knots out of tho strings that camo around packngos und smoothing out tho pnpor they wero wrapped In, bo thnt thoy could uso It again. Thoy lost not only tho tlmo It took to aavo tho second hand material, but they also lost enough tlmo In finding tho right pleco of paper and tbo right string whon thoy wanted to wrap up a packngo to pay for frosh material. Incldentnlly thoy lost customers by lulng old stuff. Thnt waa penny wlso oconomy, and cost tho man heavily. I mention him ns nn extromo caso. "I havo bcon guilty of fnlso ecenc my moro than once. Whon I llrst started out on tho road, twenty years ago, I was ambitious to save monoy for tho Iioubo and myself. On ily first trip, I retnombor, I hnd a night run, lenvlng ono town nt nbout 11 and arriving nt my noxt Btop nt 6 In the morning. I decided that I would Bave tho prlco of a sleeper by sitting up. When I got to my town I was so sleepy that I had to get a room at a hotol and go to bed until noon. If I had slept on tho train I would not havo noeded the room, becauso I could havo got out of town In tho afternoon. But worso than that, I lost a big solo that morning. Ono of our competitors called on our principal customer whllo I wns recovering from my econo my and sold him up to the guards. "Another disastrous economy Is lu trying to snve the cost of labor by do ing things yourself. Thoro Is a prin ciple that people aro apt to loso sight of. That Is, thnt you can novor af ford to do anything that a chonper man can do Just ns well. If you can earn 10,000 a year for yourself your time la worth 7 cents a mlnuto, figur ing 300 working days In the year of eight hours each. There are lots of J llttlo things that como to your desk that you feci llko doing yourself. Per haps It won't take you flvo minutes to cloar them off. If you do It, it won't tako many of them before you aro spending flvo or six dollars' worth of tlmo every day doing something that a $15 a week man could do Just as well. So you will bo losing actual money, to sny nothing of tbo loss to your mentality caused by dlroctlng your nttcntlon from the big things. My practice Ib to do nothing that any ono elso enri do, becauso I am tho N highest priced man In my employ. It leaves mo with tlmo and energy for the blggor things that como along. "TJhnt'B the way successful men do. I don't mean to hold myself up as n pattern of success, becauso I nra only moderately successful, compared with captains of flnnnco and such men; but you'll find thnt they novor do anything that any one elso enn do. Can you Imnglne Plerpont Morgan fussing with his trlnl bnlanco? An extreme caso again, but It shows what I mean." Eyesight and Efficiency. A largo percentago of tho workmen whoso eindoncy decreases with mid dlo nge owo tbolr declining earning powers to their eyes. Most persons experience a change In vision nftor thoy paBs their fortieth birthday, tho common trouble being an Increasing tendency toward fnr-slghtodncBs. In not a few manufacturing plants thoro Is an organized Inspection of eyes. In tho best-developed systemB tho eyes of all employes nro examined by n skilled spoclnllst. Tho moro common prnctlco, and an effective ono, Is to In sist upon nn examination whon a superintendent or foromnn finds rea son to suspect that something la wrong with tho oyes. it Is not un- common to seo n workman holding n blueprint or n ploco of work far from him lu order to seo It bottor. Such a condition naturally Blows up the man. Clear vision Is a large nssot, es pecially whero work requiring pre cision Ib Involved. Iron Ago. Maine Squaws' Plug Hats. The Indian maidens of Maine, tbroe-quanen of a century ngo, used to wenr tnll hnts much tbo samo as did Pocahontas, according to a print made in her tlmo. For generations tho village of the Pnssamnquoddy Indians In caster.! alne has been at Pleasant Point, near EnBtport. An seed resident of East port snys: "When I was a boy, tbo joung In dian squaws woro tall black hats with broad silver bands, sliver disks upon their boscms, and, below their short skirts, ngglns trimmed with beadi nr.d scarlet cloth. They always wore bright-beaded moccasins. To us chll dicn they were a gorgeous sight, and they certainly did wear their silver banded, tall bats with dignity."