fl
. Our Continent
lias Been Tilted Up
and Down
O. Fredrick Wright In Chicago Record-
'',':.'' - Herald. .
. .The level of the ocean is more constant
than that of the land The expanse of
the ocean Is ; three times as great as
that of the land, and Us depth more
than 10 times as great. If all the land
should be sunk In the ocean. It -would
raise the general water level only about
100 feet - In general we may Bay with
perfect confidence that the ocean beds
represent portions of the earth's' crust
which have been sinking from the earli
est, geological limes, wnue tne continents
represent those portions which, -with
many oscillations, have on 'the whole
been rising. It probably Is not ' true,
. . as is often stated, that the areas of land
and water tiave shifted places in past
time,.; so that t continents . were found
and. oceans swept - without . interruption
ovef the continental areas. - Still there is
thefbest of evidence that large, portions
of the existing continents were at vari
ous, times below the level of the sea. v
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But, 'while" this is true, it seems
equally 'certain that during the. subsi
dence of these areas below the sea level.
they., existed-' either .as shallow water
borders Of , the .main continental areas
tor as internal i' seas. For example, the
great depth ;of sedimentary rocks which
cover the Mississippi basin, ' extending
from the , Allegheny . mountains to the
Rocky mountains, are shallow water de
posits. So shallow, ' indeed, ! was : the
water during long periods that ' it 'was
little more, than a swamp-in which the
vegetation .tha f ornjed . the numerous
seamsof coal could' grow and flourish.
But the level wad not constant. After a
large accumulation of vegetable matter
that could be turned into coal bad taken
place, there was a slight and very gentle
sinking -of the whole area, 'so that mud
and sand . were brought in from the
neighboring higher lands to form a com
plete 'covering for the ooal; so that
when': it was ; turned into rock it was
able to protect it, and preserve it for
future ages.1-This process of slow but
irregular sinking ' of t the Mississippi
basin continued :,until thousands of feet
of. sedimentary ' material . had been
washed Into It, ' the Mississippi ; is
.carrying sediment -into the Oulf of Mex
ico at the present tlme ' These succes
sive strata, like the leaves of a book,
record the various downward movements
of the long coal period. In other coun
tries,, especially in England and China,
there is the same record of long-con-:
tlnued ' downward movements of - con
tinental areas during the .coal period. -
If this downward movement had con
tinued always, the coal would- have been
inaccessible beneath the depths of the
sea, where. Indeed, much- of it does still
remain. - In Nova Soot la the best seams
of coal in mined manv mllea and at
a depth of many hundred feet below the
bottom of the sea. In England ' also
some of the best - seams of coal are
followed out underneath the Sea, and
it is supposed that coal veins are con.
ttnuous from southern England to the
continent far beneath the bottom of
Dover Strait.-, But fortunately the down
.ward motion of the coal area was in
duetime arrested, and the contrary
movement begun, which has brought this
priceless material within easy -reach of
men in the mountains- of Pennsylvania
and China, in the hills of England and
in the plateaus of the central and i west
rn states of America. Other illustra
tions of great changes In land levels
are too numerous to be -mentioned in
detail. In Colorado there was a gradual
subsidence of land below sea level dur
ing i the carboniferous and : cretaceous
.eras until from 12,000 to 15.000 feet of
sediment bad accumulated over the sink
ing area. But at the end of that period
the area began to rise, and this rise has
continued until the present time, when
it stands many thousand feet above the
level of the sea. -r i-.
.'.. Similar witness of such changes of
level Is borne by extensive sedimentary
rocks containing abundant, sea shells of
late geological age, which are found at
height of 10,000 feet above the sea on
the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Caucasus
mountains, and at a height of 14.000
feet upon the mountains of central Asia,
A map of the eastern continent during
.the early part of . the tertiary period
shows a great Mediterranean sea cover
ing al( central Europe and extending into
Asia, submerging the highlands of Thi-
het.and most of the mountains of Turk
stan. But that 'this was not a general
subsidence of the continents is evident
from the simple fact that these areas
o r Mnml with aarilmantnrv at rut A- ' If
mud and sand and gravel are deposited
in water; there must be some area not
far away from which they could ba de
rived. ..." : ; ..
.',v"hlle these general facts concerning
changes In land level in ancient geo
logical times beyond all question are
very Impressive, less attention . than
they merit has been given to the facts
showing that corresponding changes are
till going on, and have produced strik
ing results within recent times, and
point ' to interesting .conclusions with
reference to the future.' In connection
with the glacial period, which- is the
most recent 'of all the geological epochs,
.these changes of level are very' evident
and 'connect themselves ' with the early
nl&lory of mankind. At the close of the
tertiary period, which culminated in the
glacial era, the central and northern part
of North America stood at a level of
2.000 or S.000 feet above that it at pres
ent occupies.' This Is proved by the ex
istence of innumerable channels now
deeply burled by glacial debrlsv or ex
tending out into the ocean across the
shallow,, submerged shelf of the conti
nent both upon the Atlantlo and Pa
ciflo coasts. In Illinois, in Ohio and in
central New York these hurled channels
are found down below sea level, showing
. that the land must have been very much
elevated to allow the streams which
crossed these rocky gorges to make their
way-to the sea irom -these' distant in
land points.' The cities of Cleveland, O.
Open Sores
cart De cleaned out, the" sunpura-
tion stopped, and a cure effected
- by the use of , , . f ,
Only morbid matter is destroyed
by this marvelous germicide, which
allows Nature to build up healthy
tissue. Absolutely harmless. ; r
Used and endorsed by leading
physicians everywhere. - '
, Sold by leading druggists, or trial
bottle sent, prepaid, on receipt of
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Japanese making a landing in Askold, near Vladivostok, under the fire of their guns in warships to the rear. Conflicting reports
actually' unknown as to' whether the Japanese still Jiold this island. r ' 1 ' .
(Drawn v from cabled ' desenption
and Syracuse, N. TV, are built over such
buried gorges. The Delaware, the Hud
son and the St Lawrence rivers then
emptied' into the sea 100 miles or more
east bf ' the , present , shore, running
through deep gorges or canyons, which
crossed a level coastal plain.. The flords
of Oreeland and of Norway' and of the
Pacific coast of North America bear sim
ilar testimony, since they probably, in
most cases, mark the lines of ancient
rivers which coursed through them to
the sea when the land was so much elo
vated that what are now the bottoms of
these channels were occupied by rushing
mountain torrents. In short, these fiords
are drowned river valleys.
But at the close xf the glacial period
the land levels in all, this northern re
gion were much lower than at the pres
ent time.- Oh the southern coast of New
England sea beaches were thrown up
about S feet higher than those which are
formed now. - Along the southern shore
of Maine the land had sunk so much
that sea shells are found in clay de
posits 250 feet above the present sea
level. The Champlaln and St Lawrence
valley was so much depressed that
whales sported in salt water over the
site of Middlebury college, Vermont and
seals ventured into an arm of the sea
extending far up. Into the Ottawa river,
while at Montreal modern sea shells are
found 600 feet above present tide water
upon the top of the mountain which
gives the city its name. ; Oolng farther
north the indications are that upon the
shores of the Arctio sea post-glacial sub
sidence amounted to 1,000 feet Every
where across the continent there is cu
mulative evidence that this post-glacial
subsidence was as extensive as the
glaciated region, and that it Increased
in amount from south to north. This is
a very important consideration to be
kept in mind fn working out glacial and
post-glacial "problems. This differential
northerly depression at the close of the
glacial period caused the great lakes to
flow at first into the Ottawa river across
Lake Niplsslng over the site of North
Bay into the Mattawa river, and so into
the Ottawa along the line through which
the Canadian government is talking of
building a ship canal, and which is al
ready utilised by the Canadian Paclflo
railroad. . This pass is now less than 100
feet above the level of the lakes.
xxfest ornrxoirs o wab.
"There never was a good war or a baA
peace." Benjamin, Frankllni
"A wicked tyrant 1 better than a
wicked war." Martin Luther.
"Necessity makes war Just" Blaa,
"War is the sink of all injustice. "
Fielding. - , . '
"To lead an unlnstructed people to
war ia to throw them away." Confu
cius. '' i . , :v- :'.;''.' -': '
"War is the faro table of govern
ments,, nations ;the dupes of the game."
Thomas Paine. :
"The king who makes war on his
enemies tenderly, distresses his subjects
most cruelly." Dr. Johnson.
"War is hell, and you can't refine it or
civilise it" General Sherman, -
,The existence of war always implies
Injustice In one at least of the parties
ooncerned." Slllua Itallcus. ' v
"Let war- be so carried on that no
other object may seem to be Invlew
except - the acquisition of peace."
Cicero. " - ..''." '': -.: : 'I.-'
"War is the trade of barbarians, and
consists in the art of bring to bear the
greatest force upon a given point
Napoleon 1. :,.:.' '..... ,'; .
Prloe of Japanese "Help. -
From the New York Sun.
Japanese cooks - are demanding from
40 to. $50 a month, and those of special
skill get a good deal more, A yacht
cook expects at least fit a month, and
when the yachting season opens thoy
will be hard io find even at that price.
The only Japanese coachman in town
gets $50 a month. Tou may still have
a general housework Japanese who" 'will
do everythfng .for a small family but
wash at from f 3S to $40 a month. If
the family Is larger than three or four,'
the Japanese general housework man
will have none of you. .- "
To cut a foe, yea to the core, may be
. A thing with joy to contemplate and
u . . dwell on -
But, on the other hand, it seems to me
That I would rather cut a watermelon.
Probably the most innocent-looking
liar in all the' world Is a tombstone with
the usual laudatory epitaph.
The blll-of -fare of Fplly begins with
truffles and ends with horse meat.
Advice is free. Perhaps that's why
we never use it .
; and; photographs 'of scene.) .
HOW RUSSIA TREATS FINLAND
Washington Correspondence New Tork
Evening Post
"It may not be that the domestic dis
turbances in Russia during, the eastern
war will amount to an armed revolution;
but I believe that Russia will .not be al
lowed to 'come out of this war' without a
harness laid on her autocracy. ( The
people, who have suffered oppression so
long, will take advantage of the situa
tion to demand eome guarantees which
cannot be ruthlessly violated at the
whim of a despotic minister of state."
Thus spoke Count Carl Mannerhelm,
formerly a banker in Helslngfors, Fin
land, but now an exile under the ban of
tne Kussian government
"We Finns were happy and contented
up to the time that the Russian tyranny
began," he went on. "Although we had
suffered some lntrenchment upon our
constitutional rights prior to 1809, we
may fix that year as the date of the dis
tinctive changes. . It was then that Rus
sia began to show her hand, by sweep
ing aside ; the constitutional guarantee
given by Czar - Alexander .. L and re
spected by his successors, that three of
the lour orders composing tne es
tates of the realm the nobility, the
clergy, the burghers and the peas
antsshould always agree upon - the
adoption of any fundamental meas
ure of-4aw discussed in the , diet he
fore it ceuld receive the sanction of the
sovereign. There wasonly one mean
ing to. this that the last defense of
Finland from arbitrary and violent Rus
slflcatlon had been broken down. How
the Finns regarded it is shown by the
record of emigration, which between
1892 and 1898 had averaged about 8,000
souls yearly, but sprang in 1899 to 12,
000. and by 1902 had reached 22,000."
. "Are your r people homogenous or
mixed r .
. "We are a mixed people, the upper
and more highly educated classes being
of Swedish origin, while the peasantry
are literally of the soil, though they
can read and write. ' There is a strong
national feeling among us, however, and
a sympathetic bond uniting, all classes.
Ours was an excellent type of popular
government in which the humblest
participant understood his rights and
Cherished them."
"Do you look for an uprising among
the Finns while Russia has her hands
full in the east?" your correspondent
inquired. ., ' : V ' - -
"I should not wish to say 'that Tou
must understand that our people always
used to;regard Russia as their friend,
as well as their colleague under the
crown. The czars, at their . accession,
have regularly subscribed afresh to the
'act of assurance pledging the inviola
bility of the Finnish constitution, and
have ascended the . throne as grand
dukes of Finland as well as emperors
of Russia: and not until the renewal of
the guaranty have the Finnish officials
taken their oath of allegiance. The rad
ical change in Russia's attitude came
to the Finns with a distinct shock.
They were hurt by it . They are a
peace-loving people. The greatest ef
forts have been made by the Russians
to goad them-Into riotous conduct hut
in vain. A passive resistance Is all
they have offered, but that has been
very pronounced. ,
"Why you would be astonished at the
lengths to which the Russians have
gone in this goading. , I have seen, with
my own eyes, unoffending citlsens of
Helslngfors whipped in the streets by
Cossacks, A new conscription law, ut
terly at variance with our constitution,
had been promulgated, f Our courts re
fused to recognize It, and again In de
fiance of the constitution the honorable
Judges were ' dismissed. ' Pastors of
churches who refused to read the: law
to their people -were driven from their
ministry, Thenjeame the conscription.
It waa a beautiful, bright day In April,
1902, and a crowd Of people had assem
bled in a public square to witness the
function. ' There was not even a show
of violence or disorder, and the crowd
was dispersing, when, by order of the
governor,, a troop of Cossacks- swept
down upon the scene. The people, out
of curiosity to see what the v Cossacks
had come for, .turned around and came
back. This was the signal for a charge
upon them, and the cruel CosBack whips
descended upon every one within reach
the aged and crippled, little children,
helpless women, all were treated alike
ill every one who saw the affair waa
sickened at heart" -:'
"To. what, do you attribute the Rus
sian determination to crush Finland f -.
"To two causes. Primarily, the
bureaucracy of the empire needed more
off ices,, more salaries, more authority to
distribute, among its supporters. As
long as Finland was governed by the
Finns this . expansion, was , out of the
question; but the csar was able, by the
mere exercise of his despotic power, to
sweep aside- our constitutional - reserve-
tions ana puti Kussians into our nign
places, till six out of the nine provincial
governors in Finland were Russians, and
the three Finns left were mere minions
of the autocracy. . -
"The second cause is, I suspect a de
sire on Russia's part to use Finland as
a base of operations against Sweden,
She doubtless thinks that the BwedlBh
affiliations of our higher classes, , who
number perhaps . one-eighth' of our pop
ulation, would militate against her am
bition, and Is determined to strangle
our authority.'
"I was visited on the 231 of -April.
1903, at 7 o'clock-In the morning, by the
chief of police, who brought as his war
rant a letter from the governor, saying
that the czar had oonferred upon the lat
ter the right to order out of the coun
try any person whose presence there
was deemed by him perilous to good or
der; and that tinder this edict I was
commanded to depart within five days,
never to return under pain of deporta
tion to. eome place in Russia where I
would be"-compelled to stay under con
stant police surveillance. . ,
"Tou were not the only auffererT"
'"There were scores of others, but
X was the first exile. Some were ban
ished in like manner; others were ue
ported. Of late banishment has been
quite superseded by deportation,, which
the government regards as safer for it
self. Anf exile, you see, can go where
he pleases outside of the csar'a domin
ions and talk as freely as I do. He can
wnlte for the press. He can also stir
up affairs at home in a manner some
times i disquieting to ? the , authorities.
For example, at Darmstadt In Germany,
When the csar waa there last fall, a com
mittee of exiles, with myself at the
head, drew up a memorial to him, setting
rortn tne racts of the Finnish situation.
We did not obtain an audience with the
csar himself, but a minister of the court
accepted our memorial for presentation
to him, and I have reason to believe that
it was duly delivered. Our paper was an
answer to misrepresentations, which M.
de Plehve, the minister of the interior,
who happens now to be at the front of
affairs, had made In a recent publication.
We feared that he had made the same
misrepresentations to the csar directly
and wished to counteract them - while
there was still an opportunity.
- "Tou must not suppose that the three
men Plehve, Bobrlkoff, and Kouropta
kin who 'now are carrying everything
with so high a hand represent the in
telligence and real weight of the Rus
sian government Their Influence has
overcome for the moment the Influence
of a large a very large majority of
, A BIT 01 A XiOVB 80HO.
Uo- (ByH. R. R. Hertsberg.)
ATblt of a love song, a wee little bit
To hold in your heart for the gladness
of it
To stick in your mind as a bud In your
coat.
To hum, without audible sound, tn your
; throat r, .-... ,..,.
. : -. y
A bit erf a love song, tho' tenderly still.
'Tls heard, let the city rage on as it will.
The rumble of trains and the shouts of
the throng ,
Can't hush it this wee little bit of a
. .. songl ... t :
A bit of a lov song you'll find, if you
test . r
The music by which you'll be marching
your best.
To eld you to conquer in battles of life,
A bit f love song beats trumpet and
fife! . . , .-
' Managers tan make "stars." But they
can't make them shine. -.- ... ;
the .imperial council; but there are
plenty of wise and intelligent men in
the Russian government who . feel no
Sympathy with the machinations of this
trio. They know, aa we do, that this
man Plehve is not a statesman, but
merely a big policeman, who believes
In controlling the whtle empire by ter
rorism, as he has hitherto managed un
ruly communities with his secret police
and bis gendarmes. -1 "-.'
'""There is nothing In the form bf the
lettre de cachet to allow for the state
ment of a charge. Tou are simply sus
pectedvaguely, perhaps, and of noth
ing in particular and the first thing
you know you are visited by a function
ary with one of - these orders, or a guard
comes, and carries you off to the place
in Russia or Siberia to which you have
been condemned without notice and with-
out a hearing. ' i
' "In a certain case of deportation two
good and , law-abiding citlsens were
snatched away from their homes and
carried over into Russia, where they
could net communicate with any one,
as they were ignorant of the language,
Here they were Imprisoned a long time,
with a soldier locked in the same worn
with them day and night and never
letting them out of his eight for an
Instant And all on mere unvoiced bus
picionl Think of that you who live
in a free country where, as In ours be
fore this era of tyranny began,' a man
has to be accused and tried before be
can be punished even for the: most ter
rible crimes! ;
"Tou asked me about my own offend
ing. As I said,. Io not know what it
was. But I was a member or tne juaio
lary committee of a diet which refused
to sanction certain arbitrary ana un
constitutional measures. Also, my wife
gave a private concert In aid of a fund
for popular education, two years before
my banishment Into the midst of our
guests strode the governor with an or
der that the assemblage disperse. I re
fused to submit tamely to the insult
and drove him out ie was Kagorlkoff,
a Russian, who had no constitutional
right to his governorship; and this was
his public rebut after taking his chair.
Possibly the Incident ' was cherished
against me, and nursed for two years I
do not know. , It was the same Kagorl
koff ooncerned in this who ordered the
whipping of the people' by tne Cossacks
a year later. He was sued for that last
performance; but the only satisfaction
thrown to the victims of his brutality
was ah Imperial edict which forbade
any appeal against the acts of such a
functionary except by permission of his
superiors in office, ' and even that rule
was made retroactive so as to protect
this ruffian. , ; :
"Are such things still going on In Fin
landr w-v,
- "Evejy day. Summary arrests, depor
tations on - mere suspicion, domiciliary
visits in the midst of the night these
are what my unhappy, countrymen are
enduring. No man can -guess, from one
hour to another, whether he is", safe.
How do X know what ta happening
there? Here is a tittle newspaper as
you see, without a title or a heading,
simply the date and the news printed
in small type on a Si.eet so soft and
thin that it can be smuggled into and
out of the proscribed communities with
out much danger - of detection except
through- treachery. Patriotic citizens
find it in their houses without knowing
where It comes from; it reaches me
regularly through channels known only
to the publishers.. This keeps all parts
of Finland Informed of what- is going
on In all other parts, and tells us who
are now without a country what is
happening at our old homes." ' - '
In the opinion of Count Mannerhelm,
there will be no change in present condi
tions till the people, through their atti
tude toward the : Russian government
in its hour of trouble, wrest from its
authorities 'some .permanent reforms.
In that case, he hopes ehat- the exiles
and the victims of deportation may be
allowed to return. Meanwhile, he thinks
It a duty , to warn the people of other
countries against placing their faith In
the newa dispatches from Russian
sources, representing the popular feeling
as enthusiastically with the government
in its war with Japan. Of Russia gen
erally he has reason to believe that
these stories are false; - in the pase of
Finland he knows them to be.
have been received, but it is
' i
S9
Some Real .
Conversations
. From the Chicago Tribune. '
One trouble with our modern novelists
is that their dialogue is impossible.
Real people never use the stilted Ian-
guage which present day authors put
into their characters. There rematnr
an opportunity for the realist to utilize
the conversation of living men and
women B render Matthews. ,
The tall young woman In the black
skirt and silk waist hurried into theT
halrdressing emporium. - One of the at
tendants looked up from-the novel she
was reading. ,
, "Why, hello, Sadler .
"Hello, Mayme! : - Where you been
keepin' yourself r v
. They kiss noiselessly.'
' "Now, hurry up, Sadie and wash my
hair, i m going, down to New York on
the 8:20) and I've got scads to do before
then." .': '.. .'..
"Must be a hurry up call?"
M'd say It was. I- got to get a hat
too.' Went up to see that Smathera girl
in the millinery to get one Just now.
I wanted one of them little nobby felts.
I told her a week ago to .save one of
them for me. I told her X had plenty of
tulle bats. ' "'
Another young woman puts her head
into the door. She is dressed in black
and without any head covering.
"Why, hello Mayme!, . What you do-
in 7" - , . '
The three giggle In unison.
"Say, did you hear about ' Julius
Smith? Tes, he is, too. To the widow,
Next time you see Julius you tell him
a lady friend of yours seen him out cut
ter riding with, her." ,
Wild and ecstatic giggling In chorus.
"No, I didn't see him myself, but a
lady friend of mine did, and she tole ma
Why, we used to live In the flat right
over Julius' folks when he waa a little
boy. Julius always used to call me
mother."
Giggling chorus. -,-
"And I used to write notes to his
teacher, excusing him from school, and
sign bis mothers name. Used to hitch
the -notes on to a piece of thread and- let
it down out of the window until Julius
got It Then ' I'd wind up the spool
again. Once Julius' maw caught me at
it and she said she'd have me pinched
if I ever signed her name again. ' So I
had to stop. Say, Mayme, that's a swell
waist you ve got on." . . .
" Mayme makes a wild clutch at her
face with both hands.
"What you tryin' to do to me, anyway.
Sadie? Putting put my eyes with soap
suds, and the last time I waa up here
you most combed one of my ears off."
. The three joined In a prolonged and
Joyous giggle.
'That's right, Mayme, you make her
do a' good lob.". --,
"If she don't she knows I'll quit her
old joint Say, how do you like this
waist? No klddln' now."
"It's just lovely."
v "My shirt waif ts don't cost me' hard
ly anything. I got a gentleman friend
ibuys all the wash waists for Anderson's.
ie lets me nave 'em ror almost noth
ing." v-,v ' -:.- ;'.k.' .-.
The three giggle. . ,
' "Say, girls.. You remember that Black
girl in the perfumery? Well, sir, she's
engaged to a gentleman " named Free
land, and they're going to live In-New
Tork."
"Not that homely, little . pockmarked
Black girl?" .
"Tes, sir. that's what she is."
"Well, then,' there ought to be 'some
hope left for us, eh, Badle?"
Unrestrained mirth retgna for a mo
ment ' ' .... ' v.;-. - .,
"Well. I must chase myself or Mo
Carthy'll be if ter me. , He's got it In for
me, anyhow. . Have a good time in Noo
Tork. Mayme. : Tal : Ta!"
"Mayme, how's Aline getting along,
anyhow?. Doing any good for herself?"
"She's doin' all right Next to the
IiaaiI ' In -tha rlhhhna . nrtw . . T.iva Aiif
there la them Law Peteet flats. They're
swell flats, too foe the,- money. Only
pays thirty for hers, put they're kept
up . swell. 1 never seen a : mop or a
broom around the place. .And they got
a hall boy, too-i In uniform. Allne's all
right She's likely to be buyln' by
next year.: Then she'll get to go to Eu
rope twlct a year. Bay, AHne ain't any
body's pretty birdie, though, is she?"
The two giggle.
'.'Bay, Sadlo, who 4ias that gentleman
T . ...... I 1 . T. I . .
ever" - v
"MeT ,Wherer. -.'..;.';:
"Who? Which? What? Poor little Sa
die! She ain't over six. ia she?"
"Tou quit or-I'll flu both your eyes
with soapsuds."
"Tou better not or X'U knock you ta
the manager.", -,.- ,,;..;,'-;. ,'
They giggle. -. , 1
"What's the matter with him. any-
how? Wasn't; he a swell looker, ell
right? Did you pipe the long brown
checked ulster, with the belt?"
On A of them 18 umnli mat frnm
our base bargain stock, eh, Sadler
"Don't - you believe it. He's the real
goods. Evervthlnr made ta order from :
the pike." . ..v'-'fV --'.v-;
The third young woman reappears in
the doorway. - i r ; -f:
"weii. for goodness sake! Are you
here yet: You must be out on a pass."
"Huh! I'm the boss. Don't need no
PaSS." t
"Bay, did Mr. Jenklnson come round
to you today with a subscription T'
yes. sure be did. ' He's tryln' to raise
enough to eend that Cary girl to the
hospital. They raised thirty in the
white goods and eighteen over . in the
handkerchiefs. ." X coughed up one my- .
"Say, Aline, how do you like the new
usher in, your' alsle?": -
"He's ail right ' That's a swell mus
tache he wears, all right"
"I think he's real fine looking." f
They giggle, .iy xw-. ;;,:.fy'v.W,r'-:--
"Who do you think come in' today?
Come right up to my counter and said.
'Show me some of that extra width gros
grain ribbon'? Welt sir, I looked right
at heitfor a minute before I could place
her. ; Who do you think it waa? Do
you remember that tall gawky Irish
girl that was in the soaps year before
last Miss Gavin was her. name? It
was her, dressed just as swell. How
de do, Miss Gavin,' I said, and she gives
me the .icy eye and says, Tou have- th'
advantage of me. I'm Mrs. Forsyth,'"
"Well, for goodness sake!"
"Tes. sir. and X watched when " she
went out She gets right into the swell
est little coop and drives away."
"well, wouldn't that Jar you!" -" ,
"Say, May me, you ought to have one
of them new blouse waists to wear down
in Noo Tork. I'm having one made by
Madam D. Frants out on Indiana avenue.
She's swell. Only $9."
"What cplor is yours?"- a "
"Blue.". "
"To match your eyes?" -.
Prolonged giggling.
"Ain't you through yet?" , v.
"I feel like I was scalped. ' My dea
young woman : (with affected haughti
ness), please make haste. I have an en
gagement to try on my diamond necklace
in ten minutes."
, More giggling. ..- v v,V
"Say, Mayme. when you get down
there don't forget to remember me to
him."
"Who?"
' "Aw! Tou know who. But mebbe
you won't see him?" -
"Don't you believe it. If be want
to hold his Job he'd better be down to
the station to meet me."
"Well, good-by, Mayme." ,
"Oood-hy." ' H. M. H.
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