Lincoln County leader., June 08, 1900, Image 6

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MARGARET'S LOVER. I
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UNT TRUE, how proud you
must have felt when you won
that $100 prize in your first story
competition. I wonder what you did
With all that sudden wealth."
"I have never yet told any one what
I first did with the money, Margaret,"
replied Mrs. Morris, "but It can do no
harm to tell the story now. It all hap
pened ten years ago.
"As I was on my way home with the
two crisp $30 bills In my pocket, I met
a young man who had been one of my
pupils two or three years before. lie
was quite a favorite of mine, and 1
had known his people for many years.
On this day he turned and walked with
me, and I soon guessed that he was in
some deep trouble. After a while I
won the story from him. lie had been
speculating in stocks and had 'bor
rowed,' unknown to his employes, a
hundred dollars of the firm's money.
He had lost, and In despair at being
unable to refund the money, had
forged his uncle's name to a check,
which, however, he had not yet found
courage to present for payment.
"Well, the end of It was that the crisp
$30 bills In my possession changed
the forged iliui-k was destroyed,
and Charlie left me, with broken words
of thanks and a few earnest promises
for the future."
"Did he ever repay you the money,
auntie?"
"Yes, he paid it all back In a few
months. I believe he has always lived
an honest, upright life since, and I have
never regretted the first Investment of
my prize money."
A short time later as Margaret IUm
nier was on her way home, she heard
a deep, manly voice say, "Good after
noon, Miss Margaret," and Professor
Hay fell Into step by her side.
"1 have Just been calling on my Aunt
Prudence," said Margaret, as they
walked on slowly. "I have spent a de
lightful afternoon reading some of her
old stories. You know she won a hundred-dollar
prize once with one of her
first stories."
"Yes, I remember." said the profes
sor, somewhat absently, looking down
as he spoke at a few Unify curls that
escaped from beneath the brim of his
companion's hat. "I remember that I
met your aunt on that day that she
received the prize, and he allowed me
to walk part of the way home with her.
You know she was my teacher In the
old high school."
"No, I did not know It," replied Mar
garet, slowly, with a shock of surprise.
To herself she was repeating with a
sick heart, "This is the end of auntie's
story; his name Is Charles Hay, and
It was he who walked home with
auntie that day. lie must never know
thnt I know." She forced herself to
take some part In the conversation, try
ing to put aside for the time the
thought of what this knowledge trust
mean to her, that she could never again
look up to him with the old respect,
that the sweet fancies that had of late
begun to come to her, of a dearer
friendship between them, must be reso
lutely crushed out. No, it could never
be Just the same again.
When, a few days later, Mr. Hay
called on Margaret, and In a few maii
ly words told her of his love, Margaret
gently, but decidedly, refused his offer.
She would give lilin no reason,, except
that It could never be. No, she cared
for no one else-but It could never be.
So the professor went sadly away, and
Margaret, with pale face and eyes dim
with .lushed tears, sought her room.
For hours that night Margaret Kim
iner lay awake and wrestled with the
problem-was It fair to condemn the
man of ISO, honest, respecte. who had
won his place In the world, for the
folly and sin of ten years ago? Had
lie not nobly redeemed the past? Hut,
still, how could she respect him as she
might If she had never heard that
wretched story? A forger, a thief.
No, she could never trust her life's hap
piness to one whom she could not rev
erence as nobler, greater, than herself.
Margaret was calling on her aunt a
few days later, when Mrs. Morris re
marked: "Hy the way, you remember
the story I told you about the young
man whom I helped out of trouble with
my prize money?"
"Yes," said Margaret, faintly, won
dering what was to come.
"He called on me yesterday, and
brought me a photograph of his two
children."
"His children!" exclaimed Margaret.
"Yes, he Is married, and has a lovely
wife and a pretty little home."
Margaret listened as If In a dream.
"Then then it was not Mr. Hay?" she
stammered.
"Mr. Hay! No. Indeed. Charles
Hay Is the soul of honor. Why, what
In the world made you connect hlni
with this story?"
"He he said he walked home with
you on the day you received the prize
money. And he said he was one of
your old pupils "
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Mrs. Morris looked puzzled. "I may
have met him that afternoon, and he
may have walked part of the way home
with me, but why, Margaret!"
For the girl had thrown herself down
beside her aunt and, with her face hid
den In the folds of Mrs. Morris' gown,
was half sobbing and half weeping.
The older woman patted the girl's
bowed head, -while her face lit up with
a sudden understanding.
The next time Margaret met the pro
fessor she smiled on him so sweetly
that the poor man was bewildered.
They met frequently, and at Mar
garet's request the professor resumed
his calls. At last he ventured once
more to tell her of his love, and this
time her reply must have been a favor
able one, for when 'the professor left,
some time later, he walked as one who
had received a crown. And so, per
haps, he had, for a man can win no
better crown than the love of a true
woman. Boston Post.
JUST THE FORCE OF HABIT.
Illustration of How Completely One
Habit May Supplant Another.
"Habit la a curious tiling," said Mr.
Joggleton, "but the completeness with
which one habit can be supplanted by
another seems more curious still.
"I had a chair that I had used for
years, and which, as I was firmly con
vinced, was by long odds the most com
fortable chair ever made. After break
fast, when I read the paper, I used to
sit In that chair, and after dinner at
night 1 settled down Into It, with a
cigar, In peace and happiness and
thought there never was a chair that
combined so many good points as to
height and pitch of seat and slope of
back, and nil that; I had never seen a
chair that suited nie so well.
"But one day this chair was tipped
over, or something or other happened to
It I don't know what but something'
so serious that it was put out of com
mission. With our usual conservative
slowness, we put off from day to day
and from week to week getting that
chair repaired, and, as a matter of fact,
It was two or three years before we
had It fixed up and brought Into use
again. Meanwhile, I had singled out
another chair which I came commonly
to occupy. This didn't begin to be, at
first, so comfortable as the old one had'
been, but gradually its objectionable
points disappeared, and I'm blessed if
it didu't begin to develop good points
that I had never suspected In It, and I
came at last to look upon It as a very
comfortable sort of a chair, Indeed. But
at last the old chair, the good old chair,
was fixed up again and brought back
Into use, and the day It appeared I
looked forward to settling down In It
at night with all the old-tline comfort.
"But when, with all those pleasant
anticipations, I cntne to sit In It again
I did not find the pleasure that I had
expected; It was too high, or too low,
or the seat sloped too much, or some
thing I don't know what; It wasn't
as It used to be to me. I tried It once
or twice more after that and then gave
It up and went back to the new chair.
My new habit had become firmly fixed.
1 liked the new chair better, and now,
as I settled down In It, Its good points
were at once emphasized, and softened,
and rounded Into completeness, and I
accepted It In full as the chair of satis
fying comfort, and wondered ns I
looked across at the other what I ever
could have seen In It to make me like
It so much.
"Such Is the force of habit." Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Stamps Spread Consumption.
It Is stated by a responsible medical
Journal that a surgeou In the French
army has Just discovered that stamp
collectors may be the means of dlssem
Inatiug tuberculosis by means of the
stamps. A man In his employ was a
great stamp collector and occupied his
spare time lu fixing the stamps In al
bums or on sheets of gummed paper
for sale, moistening the stamps for the
purpose with his tongue.
Three hundred of the stamps were
placed lu sterilized water, and with
some of the water eight guinea pigs
were Inoculated. F.aeh died with char
acteristic tuberculosis lesions. Chil
dren, saysthe Journal, should be warned
against placing any stamps near their
mouths in order to moisten them and
forelgu stamps should be disinfected
In a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic
acid before adding them to collections.
Consideration Tor Wheelmen.
Public pumping stations are to be es
tablished In all the bicycle paths
around St. Paul and Minneapolis. By
dropping n penny in the slot the rider
with a deflated tire may have the use
of an air pump as long as necessity
may require.
It Is supposed that people like their
own home because of the sentiment
attached, but the real reasou Is that
they do not have to luove.
FREAKS OF THE TYPE.
SOME FUNNY THINGS THAT GET
INTO PRINT.
headers Frequently Encounter Pas
sages that Uo Not Express the Writ
er's Ideas in the Slightest Degree
Mixed-Up Account of a Wedding.
Dreadful execution Is done some
times by the man behind the types.
Once a newspaper man wrote an "ad"
for a theater, and lu It said:
From half-past eight till half-past' ten
You luugh and laugh and laugh again.
The style on that paper called for ex
pressing the hours by figures, so when
the "ad" appeared It read like this:
From 8:30 to 10:30
You laugh and laugh and laugh again.
Sometimes the proofreader fal.s to
correct,, and sometimes he doth correct
too much. The sporting editor of a San
Francisco paper had among his notes
uu item which said, "The young salmon
are beginning to run." The next morn
ing the statement was printed on his
page that "The young salmon are be
ginning to swim." When the ed.tor
asked how It happened the proofreader
said cheerily:
"That's all right, Billy. You had that
mixed up with your turf stuff, but I
straig'hteux.'d it out for you."
. "But why didn't you let it go as I
wrote it?" persisted the editor.
"I couldn't," was the reply. "Who
ever lipnrd of n fish running?"
One morning the readers of an es
teemed' contemporary were perplexed
to see In type the announcement that
"The jScotus handed down an import
ant decision yesterday." The afternoon
paper! of the town, with whom the
morning paper for years had held a
bitter (Controversy, interesting none but
themselves, laughed that day, as the
poets; say, "in ghoulish glee," and It
was u,p to the morning paper the next
day to explain that "the types" made
them say that the Scotus did so and so,
when jthe telegraph editor should have
known that that word was merely the
abbre1 latlon of the telegrapher for Su
preme Court of the United States.
One Sunday a preacher In McKee's
Hocks Pa., took for his text, "Bo ye
therefi ire steadfast," which, being In
terpret ed In the weekly paper, meant,
"Be ytjl there for breakfast."
It was the mistake of a make-up man
that put a face powder puff between
two death notices, and the telegraph
editor, who stayed late that morning,
saw It and had it routed out of the
stereotype plate.
Style is everything in a newspaper
otlice, and some papers spell "theatre,"
I "centre," "llvre," and so on with a
j final "er." That Is why one of these pa
pers a while ago announced that a cele
brated French actor received a salary
of "300 livers."
It would be a long story to tell in de
tail how mix-ups happen, but that they
really do happen can be doubted by no
newspaper man whose knowledge of
the business ever led him to explora
tions of the mysteries of the composing-room,
as well as the somewhat In
dicate mazes of the editorlal-rooin. And
lo this heart-breaking account of a mar
riage may be vouched for as an actual
occurrence:
"The church was finely decorated
with holly and evergreen, and the altar
was hidden in a wealth of flowers. Out
of the recesses rose rare tropical plants,
and from the ceiling hung fifteen West
ern veals, which at this time of year
are scarce and corresponding dear at
Wl8k cents per pound. There was also
nu active demand for choice lambs,
and farmers east of the Mississippi
Blver can profitably turn to sheep rais
ing nud take the bride, who wore a
gown of white corded silk, a creation
uf Worth's, with peafl ornaments.
"Then cane the maid of honor, the
cousin of the bride. Miss Henrietta
Blower, of Chicago, wearing a dress of
white tulle, with diamond ornaments,
and she was followed by a small bunch
of Montana sheep, which bleated most
plteously as they were driven on board
and shipped to the winter hotels iu
Bermuda. They will there be cut en
tralue and slightly decollete, and after
the rest of the party had reached the
rail the minister turned and said Im
pressively: 'I caunot bid more than ti3
cents for State veals, but cablegrams
from Loudon quote refrigerated beef
nt a price that will enable nie to pay
J4.1H) for a car of choice Iudlaua beeves,
and hearing this there was a rush for
the young married couple, and the
bride fell Into the arms of her father,
who Is known to bear a striking resem
blance to a Connecticut ox weighing
1.S75 pounds. The market here took
an upward turn and advanced lf2
cents, and the guests, who numbered
about 200, were served with a sump
tuous dluuer at the house of the bride."
Submarine Boat.
Should the submarine boat take the
place In naval warfare that some na
tions expect, one of the chief precau
tions taken by the world's navies will
be an Immense Increase lu the number
of balloons, with duly trained staffs to
work them, carried by war vessels.
The balloon." rrled by these battle
ships are of exactly the same material
and pattern as those In ' lu the
army, only smaller. They have a use
far in advance of any mere long-distance
observational purpose, for, though
the wake of a submarine boat sunk
deeply in the water can only be traced
with difficulty from such un elevation
as that afforded by a ship, both such
wake and the boat Itself can be seen
with absolute and undevlating clear
ness from a captive balloon. This Is
the result of a scientific and optical
law, and when ship balloons were first
put to the practical test In regard to
this matter, the results attained were
of the most surprising kind.
Even where the water Is distinctly
cloudy, objects of a much smaller kind
than a submarine boat, and painted of
neutral color, could be seen from a bal
loon with the utmost clearness at a
depth of five fathoms, or thirty feet,
though the surface was rough. No sub
marine boat could In the daytime get
within striking distance of a threaten
ed ship that had a balloon without be
ing observed.
i cience i
rerlhellon means when the planets
are nearest the sun. Aphelion means
when the planets are farthest from the
sun.
The flow of sap Is caused principally
by transpiration of leaves and wmmu,
Its course Is the xylem (woody portion)
of the vascular bundles. Sap obtained
in tapping maples flows, under certain
conditions, both, ways, but more up
than down. i
In the Century Magazine, John Bur
roughs writes: "I have never seen the
snake swallowing Its young. It is a I
moot question whether or not the snake
does swallow its young, but if there
is no other good reason for It, may they .
not retreat Into their mother's stomach
to feed? How else may they be nour
ished?" When pure water becomes slightly
turbid by extremely finely divided
white or colorless particles floating
therein, they reflect, even in the ease
of ground mountain crystal, a yellow i
light, which unites with the natural .
blue into a brilliant green color, such
as Is exhibited by the Neuenburg and
Boden lakes.
E. A. Martel, the French explorer of
caverns, whose discoveries under
ground have attracted much attention
within the past few years, reports that
he has found In the department of
Hautes Alpes a cavity lu the form of a I
"natural well," whose depth exceeds '
that of any other known. He has
sounded It to the depth of about 1,017
feet, but he believes that the actual bot
tom has not yet been reached. !
T . ., . . i . . I
r reucii engineers nave lately maae
successful tests of wireless telegraphy
between the lofty observatories on the
crown of Mont Blanc and the Valley of
Chainonix. It had been feared that
the absence of moisture in the frozen
surface might Interfere with the earth
connection, but no such trouble was
experienced. The only difficulty arose
when the alternating current dynamos
of the electric light system Chainonix
were at work. At such times the wire
less messages could not be transmitted
nor received.
The meridian of Greenwich is gener
ally accepted as the starting line from
which to reckon longitude and time all
over the earth. But objections are,
from time to time, raised against the
universal adoption of the Greenwich
meridian for such purposes. Recently
Italian savants have emphasized these
objections by pointing out that on the
meridian of Greenwich clouds and bad
weather are frequent, Interfering with
astronomical observations. They sug
gest that the civilized world should
agree to adopt the meridian of Jerusa
lem as a common reference line, be
cause there the skies are clearer, and
the possibility of making Palestine
neutral territory would eliminate polit
ical objections.
The const and geodetic survey has re
cently completed some very careful
leveling operations which show that
the surface of the Gulf of Mexico lies
perceptibly higher than that of the
Atlantic Ocean. Between the surface
of the ocean at St. Augustine on the
eastern shore of Florida and the sur
face of the Gulf at Cedar Keys on the
western shore there Is a mean differ-'
ence in level of nine-tenths of a foot.
This is considered to be sufficient to I
account for the outpouring current of
the Gulf Stream, which, in the narrow
er parts of the Strait of Florida, touch
es bottom. The surplus of water which
raises the Gulf above the level of the
ocean Is apparently received through
the Yucatan Channel, being driven In
by the prevailing equatorial currents
from the east
Wanted the Heal Hensatlon.
In a Berlin mercantile establishment
recently a woman, when arrested for
stealing articles, offered the plea that
she was engaged upon a work of fic
tion and, wishing to Introduce a shop-
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Cures Talk
Creat Fame of a Creat Medicine
Won by Actual Merit.
The fame of Hood's Sarsaparilla has
been won by the good it has done to those
who were suffering from disease. Its cure
have excited wonder and admiration. It
has caused thousands to rejoice in the en
joyment of good health, ana it will do you
the same good it has done others.' It will
expel from your blood all impurities; will
give you a good appetite and make you
strong and vigorous. It is just the medi
cine to help you now, when your system
is in need of a tonic and invigorator.
Sores "Last spring I had sores on
my face. I began taking Hood's Sarsa
parilla and continued with it until the sores
were all gone and 1 was stronger and
healthier than ever before." John E.
Modnqovan, Point Arenu, Cal.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is America's Greatest Medicine.
Foxhunt Ended in a Church.
As the congregation was assembling
the other day at Broughton Astley
church, near Leicester, where a daily
service is held during the war, a fox
and the whole of the Atherstone pack
of hounds ran into the sacred edifice I
where the fox was quickly dispatched
by the hounds. Some minutes elapsed
before they could be cleared out of tha
church. London Mail.
Will Cure you. Dr. Plunder's
QREGONfiWDpURlhER '
A popular remedy for the bite of a
mad dog, at the beginning of the 19rh
century was for the victim to take an
ounce of the pulverized jawbone of the
dog that had bitten him. After the
administration of this remedy the ani
mal was never known to bite any one.
Mothers will find Mrs. Wiuslow's Sooth
ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their
Children during the teething period.
A new automatic machine gun is be
ing tested by the United States army.
It weighs only 12 punds, can be car
ried by one man, and fires 450 shots a
minute.
Somebody, very learned, once took
the trouble of weighing the brains of a
number of animals, and found that the
brain of a tame rabbit weighed less for
its size than the brain of any other
known creature much less than that
of a wild rabbit.
Advertising is not a luxury,
but rather an economic busi
ness proposition, recognized
by all the btst and most suc
cessful business men the
world over.
A new method of preserving tele
graph poles is to surround the portion
in the ground with an earthenware pipe
like a drain pipe. Into the space be
tween the pole and the pipe is poured
a mixture of sand and resin.
By a simple twist of the wrist you can line
up the eutter bar on the
Champion Draw Cut Mower
You can't do it on any other. And there are
other points too. Bend tor Catalogue.
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