THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTOIUA. OREGON."
MONDAY, FEBRUARY lo, lootf.
Siperstition and
Trio
By EPES W. SARCENT
Copyriht, JSU4, hjr K. A. Watwtaead
"And the one who look over your,
tboutder Into the water is the man you
U1 marry," concluded Mr. Pleasan
ts. "I sever knew it to fall." j
John Pleasantou mulled bt'blnd bisj
Mwspiper. Halloween supcrsuuous
were nonsense, but here was an oppor
tunity for advancing Jem Howell's
thances. If Grace believed In auch
totals what wat easier than sending
HowtU to the spring to appear at tbe
opportune moment And the beat of
the M ould be that bit wife waa
aJdiiig hint to circumvent Harry Pow
eta. the maternal choice for sou In law.
"Bat there la do well to look down,
roteeted Grace. "Our well U a pump.
TIe spring will do even better," waa
th confronting aasurance. Grace salv-
red. .
"Go alone to tbe spring at midnight r
Ae cried.
"Ill go with you!" cried Pax. ber
nail brother, who found eoue relief
II , Latin ,ffom his Puritan same of
Peaceful. (Uta Pleasanton beld up her
tends in norror.
"Indeed you will notT ahe cried In
stacked touea. "That wouM break the
spell. Grace must go alone." And ahe
nailed to bertelf aa ahe thought of her
cleverness In providing Power with
aa opportunity to propose under prop
erly romantic conditions.
She knew that Grace would like Har
ry were It not that Vance Waddell had
gained her fancy. It was merely a
pasting fancy, and with superstition to
aid him Harry would have no trouble
la displacing his rival. It was only her
husband's tubborn Insistence upon
Jem Howell which had prevented her
from ousting Waddell before. She
could have dealt with a single opposi
tion, but the two were against her, and
she must resort to strategy.
' She did not dream that her husband
had paid any attention to her talk, so
ahe -smiled placidly to herself over her
tewing id the thought that on the mor
row ylctory would perch upon ber ban
sera, while on the (opposite side of the
ir ais't polite to scrap aboct mab-
' t , . BIED LADIES."
table her better half chuckled at the
pit she had idug for herself. Neither
thought of Pax.
Jem Howell, pacing up and down by
the stream the following evening, heard
footsteps and became suddenly aiert.
'& mdment and a shadow crossed his
face, ' The firm tread he heard never
could be Grace approaching. He step
ped jbacfc Into the shadow of the big
butternut tree which shaded the spring
tost as Harry Powers burst through a
tangle of brush and approached the
aorinrf. '.'
The letter's quick eyes detected his
rival's, form, though not his Identity,
and with a spring he was upon him.
Til teach you tramps to hang around
jrfvate property," he ried; then his
grip upon the other's coat relaxed as
fiiey came into the moonlight, and he
could see the face of his captive.
f "What are you hanging around here
SsaT he demanded.
;: "1 was Just coming, over from Bas
eom's and thought I'd like a drink of
spring water," was the easy explana
tion. It never would do to let Powers
know that he expected Grace.
"Wonder you didn't stop at the
louse," growled Powers. "You're al
ways hanging around here."
y-1 was afraid I'd run into you," re
torted Jem. "Somehow you always
teem, to be there yourself."
"If I am, I'm welcome," was the re
sponse. "Mrs. Pleasanton was saying
the other nlgbt she never seemed to
have a chance for a nice quiet chat,
' some one else always keeps butting in."
; "You could have all the chance you
want," advised Howell, "If you wasn't
1 bothering Grace all tbe time. Mr.
Pleasanton was saying just the other
Bight that Grace ought to know all
your Jokes by heart now."
. "He .lauahed at that one abput tbe
girl and" trie cow tlie other night," as
sort ed Power ngirresslvely.
"Yes," admitted Jem. "He said It re
minded hint of the first minstrel show
be eter saw-back In the sixties."
"If you want a drtuk," suggested
Powers, abaudoulug the warfare, "you
will find the cup on the tree there."
' I'm uot lu a hurry." was the placid
response. "I kinder like the quiet here.
I'd like to sit here alone for an hour or
so ami Jest sort of thluk things over."
"I think we d both better be getting
iloug," suggested Powers, with a
glaui-e at bis watch. "It's getting on.
I ll go as far as Jeuklns' with you."
"What time is It V deuiauded Jem.
"Half past 11." Powers showed the
watch dial. Howell figured that it
would tuke ten minutes to walk ou to
Jenkins" with Powers. He would go
up the road a little way and theu make
a cut across the fields and be back be
fore IX
Together they turned toward the
road, and after a brisk walk Pew en
turned In at the Jenkins gate, and Jem
kept on up the road. A little distance
beyond a clump of trees threw an Inky
blackness over the dust marked path,
and la tbelr friendly shelter Jem climb
ed the fence and made a bee line for
the spring.
He was still panting from his exer
tions as be reached the butternut and
encountered Powers' wrathful glance.
'Thought you were going to town,"
he Jeered. ...,..
"Thought you had business with Jen
kins," retorted Jem. ' 1
"Jeuklns wasn't hoaae," announced
Powers uablushlngly.
"So you came back to get a drink,"
laughed Jem unpleasantly. "Yea had
better get It and be going en. Tre as
engagement here, to tell the truth, and
I don't want you banging around."
"Your' sneered Powers, abandoning
pretense. "Why, Mrs. Pleasanton fixed
the whole thing up for me."
"She did not," contradicted Jem.
"You must bare heard somehow and
Just come around to spoil things, as
usual"
"Spoil things!" echoed Powers In
dignantly. "1 like that Why, If I bad
less patience I'd have thrashed you long
ago for an Interfering busybody.
"If you bad had more sand you'd
have tried It long ago," taunted Jem.
"IfB because you know you can't lick
me you've kept off. I'd have thrashed
you long ago if it hadn't seemed such
a shame to put it on a chap who can't
defend himself."
Five minutes later two men with
bruised and bleeding faces abandoned
hostilities by common consent to face
a small boy with a broad grin upon bis
face. i
"What you fellows fighting for?" de
manded Pax. You ain't scrappln' about
Grace, be yeT'
"What if we arer asked Howell.
"Nothln" much." was the cool answer,
"only it ain't polite to scrap about mar
rled ladles."
"Whose married r demanded the pair.
"You see," explained Pax. "yon fel
lows ain't treated me right. You could
come an' see Grace and you didn't care
about me. New, ma wouldn't let Vance
come around or let Grace go out with
him, and so he bad to write letters, and
I took 'em for him. He waa nice to me
and you fellows weren't.
"Ijrst night I could see what ma waa
up to, and I could tell pa was goln' to
try the same thing. I figured out that
you'd be out of the way and ma'd not
be worryin about Grace, so she skipped
off with Vance and went to Stillwater
to get married."
S'lentl? Jem and Powers resumed
their coats and together they started
for the village, pax called them back.
"Say." he advised sagely, "nex' time
you fellows want to get married you
remember that I did this and you get
bunks with the brother; never mind
her pa and ma."
Queer Freak of Memory,
The French scientist Uibot In his
work on "DlseaHes of the Memory"
tells of a man thirty years of age of
considerable learning and acquire
ments who was found at the termina
tion of a severe illness to have lost the
recollection of everything, even the
names of the most common objects.
As soon as bis health was restored he
began to acquire knowledge like a
child. After learning the names of ob
jects he was taught to read and after
this began to learn Latin. He made
considerable progress when one day In
reading his lesson with his brother,
who was his teacher, he suddenly stop
ped and put bis band to bis head.
"What is the matter? Don't you feel
well?" asked his brother.
"I feel a peculiar sensation in my
Lead," he replied, "and now It seems
to me I knew all this before."
Strange to say, from that time be
rapidly recovered his faculties and
could never understand bow it had
been necessary to teach him reading
and writing when he was thirty years
of age and proficient in both.
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"He is Just going, papa."
"Janel"
"Yes, papa."
"In precisely sixty seconds you will
ay, 'He has Just gone.' "
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