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A TAKER OF CRUMBS By Charming Pollock Copurlaht, 1PC4, by Chsnning Pollock "The red sun slipped over the edge of the earth and left her fitting there. She was very lonely. After a moment she walked to the window and begau rending her letter for the fiftieth time. 'Dear Lady o' Mine' was its first Hue Dear Lady o' Mine.' " Anne Staoey's laggard fingers drop ped from the typewriter keys into her lap, and she whispered the last words of the paragraph to herself almost lov ingly. The story was too nearly fin ished to be written all over asnuu. ami yet that was the very phrase which opened the note lying at her side. To epitomise the roir.aiuv of her own life was one thing, she thought: to use its language was another. For .vu in stant she was disgusted at the nw'ltv tion that she had intended to o:er any part of the little history for s?Je. and she was about to tear the page from the machine. Then came the reset ion. She rentes: tvred hew inar.y empty hours slie had spent in an attempt to force foutething purely imaginary from her brain. She knew the story she had lived and written was an interesting story and that she could dispose of it. ifter awhile the tired finsers returned listlessly to the keys, and the sentence ! ner ver' own. In her mind staggered across the white sheet before her. The end of the procession had been reached when the dinner bell rang. Anne Ptaccy laid the completed manu script cm her desk and added the note to n small bundle locked in her bureau drawer. Then s-he stood before the mir ror aud i in tied her .soft brown hair in .several places. The face that stared back at !.! v.-as a plain face r-weet and honest, but far from, beautiful. The mouth was too large, the nose too small, the eyes sufficiently far apart to denote in' !;. tuality, but not near ly close enough for that pret tineas which is worth so much more to a wo man. Anne had been told these things almost from the time that her eldest brother hit I n able to talk, but she sighed as s.d.e crossed her tiny room and walked into the hallway. A mingled odor of cabh. Mid burned beef as cended the ::!. with the noise ot mrjiy voti-es. The:' the b-H r:iug again, and Anne wer.t to dinner. She had o.v.c Uu to make corrections ue creature had pliea numnerTess dance programmes, fans with names scrawl cd across them and a couple of period icals containing verse from the pen of the irrepressible Will. Of the three men Will had been most In earnest. The afternoon of the mar riage he had gone west to work for a i Chicago newspaper and to forget. The latter part of this purpose was set. forth, beautifully in one of the letters In the packet. Anne Stacey, who had written "on space" for a living since girlhood and who had never had a sweetheart, had rescued the bundle from the Japanese wastebasket. She recalled Will aa a fine, broad shouldered young fellow who up to the time that he had ceased visiting her chum, a few months be fore, had paid no attention whatever to the large mouthed, sir.' 'I nosed, intel lectual girl who alwa. ;!e a point of having an engageme:: -'where with in ten minutes of ti.. - .or of his ar rival. Anne had m-rer been noticed, and she didn't expect it. She prompt ly forgot being snubbed and remem bered only lh."t once Will had pressed l.er hand qr.it tightly while he said, "Little woman. I think you understand what this means to me." Recollecting this, Anne had adopted the letters. At first she had enjoyed them only as love letters letters which were real and which said just what she had been making her people say for ever so long. Then, as the deser tion of the bright little creature came to be realized as an endless desertion "Well," said the head waiter, "we usually has, but I regrets to say, sir, that the last we had was broke this morning." Washington Post. Animal That Shed Tears. Humboldt states that he bad a mon key that shed tears when it was seized with fear. Itengger noticed that the eyes of a small South American monkey filled with tears when it was prevented from getting some coveted object or was much frightened. Darwin cites a third case of a monkey from Borneo which in the zoological gardens was frequently observed to cry when griev ed or even when much pitied. Sir E. Tennant, describing the capture of le phants in Ceylon, says that when hound some of them lay motionless with no other indication of suffering than the tears which incessantly ,flow ed from thefr eyes. The keeper of the India?, elephants in Regent's park has several times observed tears rolling down the face of the old female ele phant when her young one Was taken away from her. A Woman's Ruse Original. Many years ago Edward Bixby left a loving wife and their little ones to seek "And now," said Mrs. rnxuy, -r wr lieve the picture of the woman Clark hid with the other articles to have something to do with the murder. Re lease me, and I will endeavor to find out" Mrs. Bixby was released and set about the task she had assigned her self. It was not long before she discov ered the picture to be that of a woman who had left her husband for Clark. The erring woman's husband was ar rested for the murder, but he was not brought to trial. The sympathy of the people was in favor of one who had simply avenged a wrong in a way that they considered legitimate. The pris oner confessed that be bad long looked for Clark and when he found him gave him a fair chance for his life. But, fearing arrest on charge of murder, he had fled as far as possible from the scene of his revenge. There was a great deal of sympathy for Bixby, who had come so near being hanged for a murder he had not com mitted, and a great deal of admiration for the woman who had saved him. lie remained in hiding till Ills wife had un covered the real facts of the tragedy; then, on an invitation from the people of the region, he returned, took up the work on his mine where he had left j it and became rich. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Don't be a misfortune teller. If you can't do anything else, try to keep out of the way. You don't have to be impolite to peo ple because you dislike them. Don't think up mean things in your mind which you Intend to say if you get the chance. Don't tell your wrongs to your friends unless you want to discover that their enthusiasm is very weak. When an accident happens, there la always some one present to tell how it could have been avoided. f A man never knows till he gets out of the rut how many jolts and bruises he would have missed by staying in it. It is figured that one rich man's son who has all the money he can spend will spoil ten poor young men iu the course of his life and not half try. Atchison Globe. Wrunjtel and the Artist. Adolf Menzel did not care much for women, and he was apt to treat them with scaut courtesy, no matter what their rank. When he was making his picture of the Konigsberg coronation the Empress Augusta came to the con clusion that the women in it had not been sufficiently considered, so she sent Field Marshal Wraugel to tell him so. the name of Clark. One day Clark took and as she made no new friends, those j Bixby to a little pocket of rocks neat in l.cr rir when she ride. Ivt; iv afterward and to post it wcr.t ori for her usual car ad. f-h.e i.uleet-ed the drawer. Jr.. 'ma - ' I, ."-. '''' - l!yiii-y$':i;,ji,i!iifljitt iWU& ""'wiliililllk .tin. HI ft ft 28 ardent notes had commenced to seem Their author was her lover. She read them over and over j and over, making them more personal , with each reading. For three years ! she fed her hungry soul with them. ! and then, being temporarily destitute of ideas for stories, it had occurred to her that they were the clew to one ready made a story of which she was the heroine. "A Taker of Crumbs" was duly fin ished that very night and dispatched to the mail box in charge of the young woman in the room adjoining, who was going out to buy ice cream. Anne thought about it a great deal in the days that followed. A dozen times she would have given the world to have had it back, if only long enough to have substituted fanciful terms for the oues she had taken from the letters. "Dear Lady o' Mine!" Twice at night she dreamed that Will had come out of the west to rebuke her for stealing his love words aud to take the packet out of her keeping. At the end of a month she got a check from the maga zine to which the manuscript had been sent, and after that she merely waited for the appearance of the story in type. When it did appear, illustrated with a picture of a very tail girl hold ing two extremely long arms toward an astonishingly lowr door In the middle distance, she was surprised that no one seemed to take the least notice of the tale. Anne went back to her work and wrote other stories. By grace of these and a kindly providence she whs able to pay $7 to her landlady regularly on Saturday evening and to take three car rides a week. Every Wednesday morning she walked uptown and drew a little money from a newspaper for which she wrote a column called "libit. for Home Makers." She dined at 0, revised manuscripts until 10 and cried awhile over the bundle of letters before going to bed. Now and then the st jo.I at the window, looking out upon the hurrying throng and remembering that not one person in all that throng eared whether she lived or died. Three weeks after the publication of "A Taker of Crumbs" she found lying The Bixby case produced a great his fortune in the west. Bixby became change for the better in the court be- j The artist took the criticism very ill a prospector in Colorado and bought a foi"e wnicl1 It was tried. The court had , aud bluutly told the marshal that he claim which he worked with a im.n hv i Deen Piacea in an aDsurtt position in iiaa oetter nimu nis military auaim ' I il At i . i 1 . -a convicting uie wrong man, dui naa been set right by the trickery of a wom an. Circumstantial evidence was there after not in favor. MARY ALICE BOND. the mine and showed him where he had placed some articles he did not care ta keep on his person. There were some money, a revolver, a gold pencil case a bunch of keys and a picture of a wo man. "I want you to know where these things are in case anything happens to me," Clark said, and, having covered the pocket with a broad, flat stone, left no sign of the concealed articles. Some time after this Clark was taken ill and, having no relative to leave any property to, made a will leaving his interest in their claim to Bixby, though there was then no great apparent value in the hole they were sinking. Clark re covered, but the will was not destroyed. One day Bixby left the claim for a day to buy provisions, and when he came back he found that Clark had been murdered during his absence. There was no trace of the murderer, and Bixby was much puzzled as to whe had done the deed. Bixby went on dig ging and finally -tiuek very valuable ore. Then he filed Clark's will. He had been suspected of Clark's murder, and now that it appeared he had a motive he was arrested. He could not prove that the murder was committed during his absence, and no one else was known to have an inter est in Clark's-death. Persons who had sold him and Clark the claim they had worked when It was thought to be ol little value, hoping that if Bixby waa hanged they might get it back, manu factured evidence against him, and he was convicted. The usual efforts were made by his lawyers to sava his life, but they were all failures, and finally they told him he must prepare for death. It was only a few days before the execution was to take place that a young man, an effeminate, apparently half witted fellow, entered a saloon at the county seat where Bixby had been tried and was to be executed. Going to the bar, he called for a drini and in payrtent offered a revolver and leave art to artists. After a vio lent altercation Menzel pointed to the door, and Wrangel, red with rage, re tired with the word, "You are a nau seous1 lr nancMHwrwuij The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per- Afyj sonal supervision since its infancy. -""ww- 7llov no one to deceive vnuin tint). - v All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trille with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance, its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Dowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTOR! A ALWAYS Bears the Signature of r SHE LOCKED THE LKTTK. ENVELOP!! AND ALL, JN UEH Dl'REAU. took out the packet of letters and be gan reading them. An observant by stander would have noticed that none of them was Inclosed in an envelope. There was every reasn why all should have teen hidden from the prying gaze In that manner, for they were love let ters. Anne had burned the envelopes three years before, doing her best to avoid seeing w bat was written on each. Not one of the lot had been addressed to her. Not one of the lot had been meant for her. Tbey were the oxs let ters of another woman. "What's the ham?" Anne had asked Lers-elf when she had adopted them. The other woman had been married the day of the adoption uud not to the au thor of the letters. She M-as a bright little creature, fluffy from the hems of her various skirts to the topmost curl of her fair hair, ami she had kept as many men wrapped around her small est finger as there were rlngn around the other seven. An author of love let ters more or Jess had not meant very much to her. So, when she finally de cided upon Fred, the epistles of Joe and Will had found a mutual resting place at the bottom of an extremely dainty Japanese wastebasket which occupied at least a twentieth of the floor space In the room the girls had tenanted to gether. On lop of .them the brihMit- on the table in the lower hall an en velope without the name of a newspy j The barkeeper while examining it no per on it. The postmark was New ( tlced scratched upon the handle "Jar York. She climbed the steps leading : vis Clark." the name of the man who to her room and sat down on her couch to read the letter. "Dear Lady o' Mine" yes, it was addressed to her. "Who would have believed that there was so loving a little woman in the world? May I call tonight? That's rather soon, I admit, but well, I am very lonely too. Will." Anne Stacey got up and dropped the packet of letters in the Japanese wastebaaket. She locked the one let ter just received, envelope and all, in her bureau drawer in a place left for it Juat Oat of Them. A lawyer who Is fond of a joke went to supper after the theater with a par ty of friends, and he ordered coffee: "Please bring it in a cup with the handle on the left side," he said confi dentially to the waiter. "I'm left land ed, and I can't use any other kiDd of a cup." "Yes, sir," stammered the waiter. "I will, Fir." lie was seen to hasten away and con fer with the head waiter. The head waiter bore down on the party. 'What sort of a cup was that you wanted, sir?" he asked. "Cup with the handle on the left Hide. I'm left handed," said the lawyer. The head waiter disappeared to re turn a little later obviously perturbed. "The cup you" he began. "What?" said the lawyer. "Do you mean to tell me that in a first class cafe you haven't such a thing as a cup with the handle on the left side? Ab surd! Why, I couldn't p sibly use anj other kind. You must have plenty had been murdered. The barkeeper took the revolver in payment for the drink and immediately sent it to the authorities. The young man who had offered it was arrested, aud on his per son were fouud two of the other articles Ciark had buried, the gold pencil ease and the pit-tore of a woman. Tht man coukl give no account of himself, and since Clark had shown the picture to several persons they were enabled to Identify it as his property. Bixby was released aud the young man was put on trial for the murder of Clark. Bixby's lawyers advised him to spare no pains to convict the accused, thus vindicating himself, but Bixby declar ed that his misfortune had shattered his nerves and he would go east to be nursed back to health by his wife. The prosecuting attorney had objected to his being permitted to depart Bix by, however, got away before any legal move could be made to detain him. He had had plenty of time to reacb: a safe distance when the young man who was about to be tried sent for the prosecuting attorney. When that offi cial appeared the prisoner said to him: "I'm not a man. I'm a woman and the wife of the man you hoped to hang. My husband wrote me where Clark had concealed certain articles. I came here, found them and produced the revolver for the purpose which has been achiev ed. I had arranged It all with my hus band." The astonished official ordered the prisoner to be examined by a woman,' who fouud her claim to be. true.. The KM You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. 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