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( r -r ITEN Joe retermrtn and
w
roily May get married,"
tvhs a standing jest In
Plnevlllc.
Joe and Polly lived on adjoining
five-acre lots, with only a fence be
tween them. It was not a very high
fence nor a strong one either, for it was
almost rotted down In many places.
It was said that years ago Joe and
Polly had been sweethearts, but that
they had quarreled aboyt some trifling
matter, and that they had not spoken
to each other since that day.
Jonessy had Just been elected Justice
of Pinevllle, mid was looking around
to see where the fees of the office were
to come from.
As there was nothing for him to do In
the office, he thought that It was his
duty to go outside of it and hunt up
something. In debating the question
with himself as to what woujd be most
likely to bring him In a fee, bis mind,
of course, turned to marriages.
" hen Joe Peterman and Polly May
get married," he repeated to himself,
smiling. "Well, It Is a duty I owe to
this community to end that quarrel of
theirs the first thing, and It is a duty
I owe to myself to see that they get
married as soon afterward as possi
ble." So Jonessy took a walk out to Joe
Peterman's place, and found the latter
at home.
"Joe," he said, after some talk on
subjects in general. "Joe, I came out
to see you on official business."
Joe's eyes flew wide open.
"I haven't been doing anything
wrong, have I?" he asked, with trem
bling voice.
The truth was that Joe had thrown
a brickbat at Polly's cat the night be
fore, and without really intending to do
so. had hit her and knocked her out of
his favorite peach tree, and had felt
rather mean about It ever since,
"Well, I don't know," Jonessy replied,
cautiously, for he could see that Joe
had something on his mind, and
thought to draw him out "You see,
Joe, the right and the wrong generally
depends on the circumstances attend
ing the case,"
"That's what I reckoned," said Joe.
"You see I saw her coming through
the fence, and tried to make her go
back."
"And she wouldn't go?"
"No."
"W hat did you do next' 1
"Soon as I spoke she ran np that
peach tree, and went to clawing and
scratching the bark."
"She did. eh?"
"She did. Then I got mad, like a
fool," said Joe, hanging his head. "I
picked up a brickbat and threw It at
her. and down she came, kicking her
legs'llke drumsticks."
"Didn't she say anything?" asked
Jonessy.
"Who?"
"Why, Tolly May, of course."
"You didn't think that It was Polly I
treated that way, did you?" asked Joe,
"No, hardly. Put who was It?"
"It was Polly's cat, J ne sy. I thought
that perhaps Polly had seen It, and
gone to you and enteruf! a complaint
against me."
"No, she hasn't done It yet, Joe. but
there J.s no telling how soon she may do
so," said Jonessy. Then he added, con
fidentially, "If I were you I'd go over
and see her and settle the whole thing
out of court."
After Jonessy left him Joe stood and
scratched his head for some time. The
whole thing was & puzzle to him. Had
Jonessy known more than he pretend
ed? If so, had Polly told him? And If
Polly had, was It at her suggestion that
Jonessy had come and told him to go
and see her?
"It is ten years since we spoke," he
mused; with a sad smile, while a mock
ing bird was singing blithely In a tree
close by.
Then suddenly he burst out laughing.
"The idea of Polly climbing a tree," he
tried. "And me throwing brickbats at
her, and she fallUig ha-ha-ha!"
But Jonessy walked homeward In
quite a different mood. Somehow he
felt that his mission find Deen rather a
failure. Still, every once Jn awhile, a
gleam of hope darted upward and he
thought that he could see a fee of office
afar off.
As he walked along, musing and
dreaming he found himself suddenly
face to face with a woman carrying a
huge basket on her arm.
"How do you do. Judge?" she cried,
cheerily, Jetting her basket down to the
ground. "I was real glad to hear that
you was elected."
"Thank you, Polly. I was Just think
ing about you when you bobbed up,"
said Jonessy. "Have Just been over to
see your neighbor, Joe Peterman, and
was op my way home with my thoughts
full of both of you."
Polly frowned.
"Joe isn't going to have me to court.
Is he?" she asked.
"Can't say. Polly. I reckon that de
pends as much on you as on hlnj."
"Well, he had no business coming In
through the window like be did," Pol".
cried. " "It served him only right that
the window fell down on blm like it
did and caught h,lr hy the leg. Of
course, when I grabbed him by the
throat to keep him from squalling, and
he cut me on the wrist, I was mad
enough to kill him. But I kept my tem
per, and I didn't hurt him any more
than I could help," she protested.
"But Joe didn't,--" Jonessy began.
"Of course Joe didn't Joe never
would listen to reason." crhjd Polly.
"But Polly, Joe" Jonessy began
again.
"That's all right Jim Jonessy: you
have Joe's side of the story, and I am
going to tell mine," cried Polly. "After
I got him loose I bothered with him all
day, and doctored him, and that night
after dark, I carried him In my arms
to the fenge .and set him down on the
other side."
"Goodness, Polly, you don't mean to
tell me that you carried him In your
arms?" Jonessy exclaimed.,
"Well, I Just did, and r -wear to It
before Joe or anybody."
"I wouldn't do it if I was you," said
Jonessy, earnestly. "Why, there Isn't
a soul in rinevlllo would believe you
could do it"
"Could do what?"
"Why, carry Joe Peterman In your
arms, of course."
"Jim Jonessy, you are a fool!" she
cried, very red In the faco. "It Is Joe's
old Domlnlck rooster I have been talk
lug about."
"Why, yes, of course," stammered
Jonessy, in confusion, trying to smile.
"I was Just teasing you. Polly, know
ing that you and Joe were such old
friends."
"But did Jot? say he was going to
take me to court?" she asked.
"Not exactly, but I advised him to go
and talk the matter over with you. Ray,
Polly, you two ought to make up. You
take my advice," said Jonessy.
Then Jonessy went one way and
Polly went the other, each one busy
with many thoughts.
That evening Mrs. Jonessy asked her
husband how many fees the new office
had brought him.
"This Is the first day, you know," he
smiled faintly. "I have Just been set
ting the wheels In motion to-day, and
the fees will come in after uwhllo."
"Yes; when Joe Peterman and Polly
May get married," she said, laughing.
Jonessy had accomplished something
that day. He had set Joe and Polly
thinking about each other. Joe's long,
'I CAN," SAID A MANLY
lantern-jawed face, usually sober and
solemn, had relaxed luto smiles several
times, and once he had actually caught
himself humming an old song that had
lain forgotten for years within him. On
tho other hand, Polly's round and rosy
face, that was supposed to wear a smile
even in sleep, was very thoughtful and
sad. And while bending above the
steam from the fragrant teapot, at the
supper table, hor eyes seemed filled
with unshed tears.
"Poor Joe," she sighed, as she sat
down to her lonely meal. "I thought
sure that he would get over It and mar
ry some one else, but It seems that ho
doesn't care any more than I do for
anybody, and both of us Just persist In
being wrong, when only a word from
either of us would make things so dif
ferent." Just then a cat came In at the open
door, and whdn Polly saw that It
limped slightly on one leg she sprang
up from the table and caught It in her
arms.
"Poor Kitty," she murmured. "I won
der who hurt you? You can't tell, can
you?"
"I can," said a manly voice In the
doorway, and a moment later Joe en
tered the room. "Jonessy told me to
day that you Intended to sue me for
throwing a brickbat at your cat," he
said.
Pally eyed her visitor closely for a
moment, and seeing that his eyes were
upon her supper table instead of upon
herself, the bard lines that bad come
around her lips relaxed Into a smile.
"Come In. Joe," she said, gently,
"Will you take a cup of tea with me?"
"Then you ain't mad because I crip
pled your cat?"
"Joe," she cried, tryjng to look se
vere, "will you take a cup of tea with
me?
"Yes. You ain't mad, Polly?"
Polly did not reply, but busied herself
refilling the teapot and making room
for him at the table.
When Joe was seated at the table
Polly sat down opposite to him and
watched him In silence for several min
utes.
"So Jim Jonessy has been telling you
that I was about to take you to court
for crippling my cat has he?" she said
at last. "I met him when he came from
your house, and he hinted that you
might have me prosecuted because
your old Domlnlck rooster came over
here and got himself crippled the other
day."
"I never said no such thing, Polly," 1
cried Joe,
"Nor did I," said Polly,
"I never mentioned rooster to him." i
"And I never said cat"
"I wonder bow he found out?" cried
Joe, , !
"I guess our consciences gave It .
away. When I think of It now, he
never sold rooster to me until I bad
told him all about It myself," said Fol
ly, smiling.
"I remember now, that it was the
same with me and the cat," said Joe.
"I know I wanted to tell you how sorry
I was, and it was all I could think of
when Jonessy came to see ma"
"I am sorny, too, Joe," said Polly,
"and I hope you won't think that I
done It on purpose."
Somehow the summer dusk gathered
around them, and neither seemed to
notice It, as they talked on and on
across the table between them. After
awhile, however, Polly rose and went
to the open door, where Joe followed
her.
"Say, Polly," he said, taking her un
resisting hand, "1 have been sorry for"
everything all these years; won't you
say that you forgive me?"
Polly looked up into his face.
"I have been sorry, too, Joe. Oh I so
sorry."
Just then Polly's cat, purring softly,
rubbed herself against Joe's leg, and at
the same moment old Domlnlck crowed
lustily on his own side of the fence.-
Now, In Pinevllle, a good many things
are dated from the time "when Joe
Peterhian and Polly May got married."
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Doctor's BUI.
A good true story Is told of a San
Francisco philanthropist and a doctor
with a conscience. A wealthy lady
several years ago developed an In
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was advised not to have It done. An
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Returning to San Francisco, she hap
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"Do you consider that a roaRonablo
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"That is my charge for that opera-
VOICE IN THE DOORWAY.
tlon; your clrcumstauces have nothing
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air or other motive power. On either
side of the tube radical arms extend,
connecting with the shjp in order to
more perfectly secure the auxiliary
craft to Its greater consort.
The device may be attached to both
sides, to either end, or to whatever por
tion of the ship may seem desirable.
Two of them will propel an ocean
steamer with sufficient force to give it
headway, though very little speed. It
is especially designed for the use of
vessels which have suffered accident,
either to their propelling, machinery or
to the rudder. It will supply admira
bly the place of the steering apparatus,
and seems to be Just about what has
been needed for some time. Nothing
can be more unmanageable than a ship
without a rudder, and the Inventor
says it was really this Idea that in
spired him to conceive what promises
to be a very useful contrivance.
Any vessel can be easily equipped
with tho new propelling device, and
that, too, without complication of any
sort. All that Is necessary Is to supply
the avenuo for the power to reach the
device and to provide for its being se
cured to the side or end of the ship.
When not In use It can be carried on
davits, In the same fashion as the ship's
boats. Thus when It Is needed It may
be easily dropped to the necessary
IKilnt where It Is to be fastened and re
ceive Its connections as easily and gen
tly as when a boat Is lowered In a
heavy sea with proper precautions to
prevent Its being stove in against the
side of the vessel.
Ordinarily the device would weigh
one ton, and be of twenty-horse power
capacity. Its dimensions would be
twenty-three Inches in diameter by seventy-two
Inches in length, though the
Inventor believes that yachts and fast
steamers would do better If the conical
case were made longer so as to slip
through the water more easily. This
would not Interfere with tho capacity
of the motor.
WHO ARE "DE QUALITY ?"
Social IHstinctions of the Old Regime
Still Held by the Free-born Negro.
Lilian Bell givs this characteristic
dialogue between two colored women
In the opening chapter of "Yessum," a
vivid story of Southern life appearing
in the Woman's Home Companion:
"On Saturday afternoon the 'wash'
of the Northern delegates to the Bap
tist convention was being borne
through the streets of Memphis on the
heads of two black, pendulous colored
women.
" TVhat you gwine do, Slst' Richidy,
if dem Northern ladies gibs you fits
'bout scorchin' dat skirt?'
" 1 ain't skeered 'bout what dem
Northern ladies gwine say to me' bout
nuthln', Sist' Golden,' retorted the oth
er. 'Don't you know dey say dat col
ored folks is jes as good as white folks
Is, an' dat up Norf If a colored lady got
a sils. dress she gits Invited to de white
folks' pah ties Jes' like de quality?'
'Git out wid you, Sist' Richidy, I
aln' no sich softy as to b'lieve yo' fool
talk.'
"''Ta.ln't no fool talk, Slst' Golden.
Hit's de Gawd's trufo. 'Cordln' to dat
de ladles won't dare say nuthln' to me
'bout dat scorched skirt, 'case it would
be lake deir sassin' one anurr. An' if
dey did talk sassy to me,' she added,
emboldened by the other's evident ad
miration, 'I'd Jes up an' sass 'em back.
Deed I would. If dey t'ink I'm as good
as dey is, I Jes' gwine show 'em dat 1 is.'
" 'For de lan's sako, Sist' Richidy, I
never did see you so uppity befo'. But
I reckou you wouldn't dare talk so If
It was ole Mis Beauchamp's ruffled pet
ticoat you done burnt.'
" 'Lan d, Sist' Golden, I reckon not,'
cried the woman. 'Mis Beauchamp Is
de quality, one of do sho' 'nuff hl&h
steppln' ladies. I don't reckon de time
will ever come when we'll hyer huh
a-claimin' dat niggers Is huh equals.
She hoi's dat hold up as high as she
ever done when de Beauchamps owned
de whole place. An' when she cornea
In town she llffs huh dress an' pltks
huh way lake she Jes 'splae to touch do
dirt with dem H'll foots of huhs. She
got a look In huh eyes, ole as she Is,
much as to say "you niggers, step roun'
hyer. You may be as good as de North
ern ladles, but as for me, you has been
my slaves, an' In min' you Is still." "
How Barnum Won His Wife.
Barnum was Mayor of Bridgeport
and a widower, ne was lonesome and
his beautiful homo, Waldemere, on tho
shore of Long Island Sound, was not
much visited except by sightseers. He
became Interested In the beautiful
daughter of John Fish, of Southport,
England, a retired manufacturer, and
solicited her hand in marriage. Bar
num was well advanced In years and
knew his fame as the prince of show
men was not sufficient to win the prize.
In fact, the fame might hurt his suit
rather than help It, for Miss Fish great
ly disliked the notoriety attached to
the "greatest show on earth," and after
she had married Its owner, always,
managed to hold herself aloof from the
publicity her husband loved so well.
But the old shqwman's knowledge of
the English leve for celebrity led him
to play a winning card- He had his
photograph taken, with Waldemere as
a backgroun.d. The picture represent
ed hlra seated In a showy landau, har
nessed to four beautiful black horses,
his coachman on the box and two foot
men behind- Under the photograph
were the words, "Lord Mayor. 6?
Bridgeport." A copy of this picture
was forwarded to Miss Fish, and Bar
num always thought it "did the busi
ness." At all events, it was not long
after Miss Fish received the picture
that she became his wife.
A Hasty Conclusion.
Attorney "You say you had called to
see Miss Billings and was at the house
at the time the burglary was com
mitted r
Witness "Yes, sir."
"Then how did It happen that when
the prisoner dashed Into the room and
assaulted you, you leaped through tln
wlndow and went home, making no at
tempt to defend the lady or give tin
alarm?" "I thought It was her father." Life.
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