Bandon recorder., July 11, 1901, Image 3

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THE MARKED CARDS
suddenly swept away by the thought
if this story. But had be a right to
By OLINTON R0S8.
lCopyri<ht, 1S00, by CUnton B om .]
"A tnan'a past will catch him sooner or later.**
/
They had been five days over
sea. the young man and the girl,
bad forgotteu whether this were
Atlantic or the sea that sweeps
shore of Elysium. Now, on the fifth
day. they were on deck and talking
somewhat lu this way:
“You must walk with me,” she called
from her chair.
“It's a delightful punishment.”
“Thanks! I believe that's a compli­
ment.”
"Truth’s u compliment, eh?” be said,
smiling.
“The best coinplltneuts, 1 suppose,
•re those that pretend to lie truths, but
are lies.”
“I am afraid this is getting rather
too fast for me,” be said.
Walt until
I think nbout It’
“To carry out what you have begun
you should say to me, *1 can’t think
about It. for I have to think about
you.’ ”
"Is it needful to say that?” he said,
looking down at the girl. “How beau-
tlful you are!”
By the rules of conventional conver­
sation It was an utterly Inane remark,
and the girl's laughter rolled out, full
and delightful, but her voice was low.
“I am glad you think so.”
A deeper red tinged bls bronzed
cheeks as lie realized bls temerity.
"You know I do,” he said.
“Oh, do you? This Is the fifth day of
our acquaintance. Today we shall be
at Sandy Hook.”
He drew a long breath, and Ills voice
was earnest. New York and work aud
to see her uo more!
Two elderly persons wrapped to their
ears were watching the two.
“What a remarkable girl Nell Wol­
verton Is!” one, gray and rosy and fat
and Imposing, was saying.
“She’s certainly carrying on a re­
markable flirtation with that young
man. Who Is he?” said the other, with
the severity of position gained by ef­
fort.
“Some sort of engineer In the employ
of the Winfield company. Mary Win­
field Introduced him to Nell.”
“That girl would flirt with anybody.
She seems to flud all men Infinitely
amusing. Isn’t she handsome? Now
you would suppose she was somebody
or other. But the Wolvertons—oh, you
know!” quoth the other lady.
“Her mother was one of the most
pushing women I ever knew,” assented
her companion.
"Of the dead, nihil nisi bonum,” said
the Imposing oue. “She was an ex-
traordlnarlly ambitious woman, Wlth
pluck nnd ten millions and a daughter
like that, an ambitious, clever woman
can do anything lu New York. The
Wolverton money Is said to bo Indefi­
nite millions instead. And now they be­
long In Far Westchester. Ob, dear, how
many men have been after that girl!
There were the Marquis dl Rodlrl and
the little Duke of Sussex and Freddy
Van Brule and—she flirts and laughs
at ’em nil, just ns she does with that
young man.”
Mary Winfield was watching the two
with much the same thoughts. This
poor young man didn’t understand so­
phisticated young women.
It was
abominable of Nell Wolverton; she was
sorry she had Introduced them; she
might have known that Nell would
play with any man as she would with
a cat or a dog. Oh, dear, tills Melville
was so out of It; so busy and capable
and such nn efficient servant of the
Winfield company. But Nell was Nell,
and Mary ought to have known better.
If Nell were Nell, she wns proving it
with a vengeance. She was making
Melville tel) her of himself, and she
was giving hint nothing of herself In
return. They were seated now, look­
ing out at the frothing white and green
In the ship's wake. She was glancing
at him again and again with mild. In­
terested eyes. He was forgetting him
self and wns telling how bls father
left him only money enough for school
and college, which he had increased
by some tutoring; of bow be bad work­
ed and won a positlou In a machine
shop of the Winfield company; of how
he had progressed further and now
“ ff hat did you sup that man’» name Uf”
he anked.
tell her? No; she wouldn't, couldn’t
know; that was so long ago and for­
gotten.
“And your father? Go on; 1 am In­
terested.”
“He might have had the thlugs, the
money, to have put me In your friend
Bertie’s position If luck bad been bls
way and If he hadn't been cheated”—
“I never can think of you as a miui
like Bertie," Miss Wolverton said de­
cisively, with that calm confidence in
her eyes. The eyes may have been
rather more expressive because this
was the last day of all and he would
slip out of her life so soon. She was
fair to look upon, clever, accomplished,
charming. This fence of the sexes
was iter delight. She could no more
avoid ft than she could breathing. Our
unsophisticated young man failed to
understand her. Later common sense
was to reach out from the grim, matter
of fact depths of his nature and grasp
bis sentimentality until It hurt him.
“Oh. It’s a little story of what might
have been years ago in Red Nugget
gulch, California, My father was out
there after gold, like the rest, and he
fell In with a man with whom be made
a partnership In a general store. Some­
times In exchange for goods they took
claims. At first they made a lot of
money, and then they lost nearly every
penny In trying to develop a claim that
(ailed. Well, each blamed the other,
and they decided to separate. They
could deckle on no other way than to
cut the cards. So they sat down one
day and cut, and some things fell to
my father and some to his partner.
And the papers were drawn up and the
division made. A week nfter that a
claim which had gone to my father’s
partner began to develop. It proved n
find
My father’s partner made the
beginning of a great fortune that
way.”
"Well?” said the girl.
“Now, the shanty that served for the
store bad fallen to my father, not the
stock, which went to pay the firm’s
debts. Three weeks after this tny fa-
ther sat talking with a mining expert,
who spoke of the big find on ray fa-
ther’s former partner’s lucky clalm,
and be stated boastfully, to show his
value as an expert probably, that he
had told my father's partner—we will
call him Smith—that the claim was ex­
tremely valuable. This set my father
to thinking. Smith believed the claim
to be valuable. But my father could
but acknowledge that the man had giv­
en him a chance, even If he had dishon­
estly hidden his notion of the claim.
That day my father happened In tie
abandoned store. On the table were
the two packs of dirty cards Just as
they had been left the day of tho dlvl-
sion. They had cut In the bare Inner
room, which hadn't been disturbed
since, My father picked up these In-
struments of his bad luck, and he saw
that the pnek Smith had used had been
marked.”
“How awful!” the listener said. “And
you might have had money If It hndn’t
been”—
“If It hadn't been for Smith’s dis­
honesty, yes. Miss Wolverton. But to
return to the story. My father went to
Smith, whom be accused, but Smith
looked him In the face and laughed:
‘You are crazy, man. And you haven’t
any proof. Who'd believe you?”’
“Was that the end of It?” the girl
asked gently.
“No; not the end of It. My father
could prove nothing Indeed. His affairs
went from bad to worse, He left Cali-
fornia penniless, Later In the east be
accumulated the little money he was
able to leave me. But It was always a
hard struggle for him and my mother,
who died shortly nfter I was born.”
“And Smith? That’s not the name."
Melville hesitated.
“No; that’s not the name. It's a well
known name, but we will let It remain
c. -
Smith. Everything Smith touched be­
came money. He was accused of dis­
honesty many times In the course of
his career, but nothing ever was prov­
en. He succeeded and Is toilny one of
the powerful men of the country.”
They were silent, the girl grave.
"And that's the reason you think you
are not In the class of Bertie Townley.
Well, I don’t want you to be In that
class.”
“It you would care that much.” said
Uow beautiful you are!"
he half lightly, half earnestly.
was near the head of his department
“Oh. I like you," she said cheerily, as
and had been sent to London on nn Im­ ■he might have said she liked a fox ter­
portant mission and—
rier.
A young man came lightly across the
“And the man's dishonesty was real­
deck and bowed and exchanged some ly your blessing. It made you do things.
remarks with Miss Wolverton nnd nod­ Oh, I know. I know a lot of men, and
ded at Melville with a “who the devil the men of the Far Westchester set are
•re you?” air and passed on after u so tiresome.”
moment. Melville's confidences sud­
"Ob, thanks,” said he lamely.
denly chilled. This youngster repre­
“But you mustn't be tiresome. Do
sented what he never had known. The you see that line there? That’s Sandy
girl by bls side understood.
Hook. I know It. I have seen It that
“Don't mind Bertie; he's just Bertie." way a dozen times. And—I must be
“Oh. you know," Melville began. "I’m going below. Oh, I have been so much
so out of that set.”
Interested.”
"It’» the Far Westchester set you
And she went away brightly smiling,
mean.” she said graciously, as If she and he felt suddenly the least like a
would imply politely that there were fool. The feeling was Increased when
many others which he doubtless fre­ he found In the hustle of landing that
quented. "The men are very stupid In she had only a cool hand and a distant
It. It’s all very stupid. It's just sport “8o glad to have met you” and no ac­
and gossip. For my part, give me men knowledgment of the fact that he had
that do things.”
asked to call, which she plainly had
“1 think,” said the young man mak­ evaded. He felt revengeful and a bit
ing Ills way. “that I prefer other men of an anarchist. And the next morning
to do things and lenve 'em to me al­ when he was reporting to Mr. Winfield
ready done. Now, my father”—
hts success In London and being com­
He paus<d. wondering whether he plimented by the company's head his
had better tell her. ami then It seemed success seemed cheap. He had a pic­
to him, now that be remembered It, ture before him of a bright, high bred
that this put film on a sort of equality looking, exquisitely gowned young wo­
with Miss Wolverton, as though the In­ man surrounded by flippantly gay per-
equality that stood between them was | sons whose world was not his and nev­
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er could be, for when one is making Uls
The listener started and moved ti
way ploddingly, with no particular ward the door nnd drew back.
The Wny tie Spent It rreparlng For
capital, he can't reasonably expect that
At last he heard:
Illa llealb.
"Miss Wolvertou—yes. It was so. It ■
way to be made before be may be gray
"Billy Bolton, the Lanilngburg brew­
and all the desire for pleasure, life’s so. and 1 was a coward to tell you.”
er. was a very <ieh man mid one with a
good things, quite gone.
"I am glad you told me.'' ” Nell su.
It may be supposed that Miss Wol­ humldy. for this was uo longer tin host of friend»,” said an up state n.an
verton put the young man of the At­ proud Miss Wolverton She wondered to the New York Suu. "Ill» brew, ry
To be populur requite a good table. Cheap groceries don’t satisfy
lantic out of her mind. Perhaps she at herself, tears wen- lu her eyes, un I In Liiusingburg was a profitable eon
and are poor economy. Buy from uh , to be sure of the beat!
ceru. and be practically owned about
had some thoughts of him or else she self control was far away.
Our goods will trade for you, and eost you no more. See ojien prices,
“I dou't know what made me tell all the saloons in that towu.
never would have repeated the story he
spot
cash.
"One day after ii consultation hts phy­
had told her at a dinner where her fa­ you. and yet I do know. I have lied. I
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"I can’t seem to under make the fur fly while life was left.
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He had never traveled much, and so he
spirited. For she waged a little strife stand.”
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decided to go around the w ihl.
to make the world she knew hold her
"And— Oh, you are crying.
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“He took w ith him a congenial friend
■ •lever Now she couldn’t, try as she hurt you. I wouldn't hurt you
Wholesale prices to all con- 1
U rit«? for full Prive List.
and plenty of money, and away they
would, think of another story than the world."
sutuers. Mall Orders sent
went. They left a Hall of fire and ash­
everywhere.
>t)e Melville had told her.
“Don't,”
25 Market St., Sun francisco, Cal
es through all the capitals of Europe
"Mary Winfield Introduced me to a
But he was saying:
very entertaining man on the Lucanla.
“I know the reason now. It was— and the queer aud strange places of
Asia and Africa. After nine months
a man who does things, you know”—
don't you see—didn’t you see?"
"What does he do, horses or yachts?”
After a moment the listener heard they came back, and Bolton brought
Importers and Dealers In
said Bertie Townley. “Oh, I say, Nell, Nell’s voice:
with him the most marvelous collection
.
Anxious to Du Illa Friend.
BLAKE,
Bock, Nows,
you dou't mean that serious faced chap
"It's best so. If you do, it rights It­ of souvenirs and presents that any
“There are plenty of uieu in this
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you ware mooning about with so self. And—I see It clearly. I know man not a professional collector ever world." said the head of the firm, ad MOFFITT i
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much?”
now why I didn’t want you to be of brought into this country. The duties dressing the clerk he had summoned & TOWNE
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"The very man.” Miss Wolverton Bertie Townley’s class. You aro a amounted to $3,000.
luto the private office, ’ who can trace
STRAW AND HINDERS' BOARD
said without turning color.
man who does things—and will—a man
“Arrived In I.anslngburg. Billy hired their successes directly to what they
BS-a7-rw-« , First st.
And she told Melville’s story.
for a woman to be proud of. and—yes the town hall, sent Ids packing boxes at (list considered failures. I knew a
Tai. main 1»9. «5 SAN FRANCISCO.
"How extraordinary!” gasped Mrs.
tilled with these oriental and European man who 20 years ago was a clerk In
Pemberton. “You do meet such strange
treasures up to the hall and had them a clothing store, Ills employer dis-
SAM MARTIN
people at sea.”
nil taken out and put on exhibition as charged him for Incompetency. lie
Für 23 years with
"Business methods are oftentimes
though for n church fair. Upon each hunted through all the clothing stores C, E. Whitney & Co.
dishonest,” said Judge Torbkl pom­
article he marked the name of some lu town trying to get another Job, but
pously. “Yet”
friend whom lie wished to remember couldn't find one, and at last, almost
NEW COMMISSION HOUSE
"Your story Isn't funny enough,
with a gift. There were hundreds In starved, he got a place as a brakeman
criticised Bertie Townley.
this category, but Billy hail presents on oue of the railroads. Today lie is
Samuel Wolverton I should sa
for them all.
practically the head of that road, draws
“Sam.” the great Sam—held his rose
“On the day appointed for the pres­ a salary of $25.000 a year nnd regards
In his port. He's n thin, sharp featured,
entation he Invited his army of friends the man who discharged him long ago
12 1-123 Davin St., Sail FrtinvlMCo.
sileut man. and looking at him one al­
to the town hall. To each lie turned aS the best friend lie ever had. Now,
ways wonders how he succeeded In
over the present selected for Idm, nnd he Is only one of hundreds of men who
General Commission and
possessing such n daughter.
amid the cheers of his grateful ami ad­ hate had similar experiences. So you
Produce.
Driving home he said to Nell:
miring fellow townsmen the hall wns see what at first seems a misfortune
“If I were you. I don't think I'd try
Specialty» Butter, Eggs und Cheene.
stripped of Its beautiful things.
may often tie a real blessing In dis­
to tell stories at dinner."
“When the last present had beeu guise."
Your’consignments solicited.
“Why. papa?”
placed In the hands of Its recipient.
The young man hid a yawn behind
“It’s undignified.”
Billy went back to Ills home nnd lay Ids hand and, thinking of the live
“Do you think so?” she said petulant­
down to die Within the year Ids phy­ broiled lobster lie had the night before
ly. She usually had him well In hand.
sicians’ prophecy enme true, and the helped a certain soft eyed creature to
“What did you say that man's name
town gave him the finest funeral that remove from the scene, languidly re­
Is?" he asked after a moment.
any mnn ever had.”
plied
"Burke Melville.”
“Yes; I know that has frequently
“Why Don't It Bnitf”
Suddenly she turned.
happened, I >id you want to speak to I
“Papa, you were lu California?”
We quote from The Century an an­ me about anything In particular this
“Yes. What of It?"
ecdote related as otie of "A Woman's mornlug. Mr. Yamsley?”
“Did you ever hear a story
Experiences During the SI- ge of Vicks­
I ou hold the marked curds
“Oh. no; nothing of special Impor­
All the world knows that coffee in
burg:”
that?”
—It’s all clear to rue—I thought 1
tance." the old gentleman replied,
excessive use is injurious. And yet
Speaking of fuses. the rector told ua “only I'm going to give you a chance
“I have heard a lot of stories. Call Just flirting with you. But since
the coffee lover cannot stand taste­
one day a very funny thing that he to look hack some day nnd regard tne
fornia Is full of ’em. Read Bret Harte. night I know It was more.”
less cereals. There has to this time
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As for your acquaintance, he was prob­
Presently the portiere wns pushed ha<l seen during one of his trips to ns your best friend. Goodby. I hope
lieen no happy medium ixtween
town. Every day. as long as the siege you'll have all kinds of success at
ably yarning.”
Cafó Bland till’s the void with the
aside.
"No, no; lie wasn’t.”
liest elements of both. It is richer
Wolverton was possessed of a certain continued, he crossed that hospital whatever yon decide to go at.”—Chi­
than straight cotice, and many w ill
“What makes you think that?”
grim humor, nnd Instinct for the man­ ridge Slid passed over the most expos­ cago Herald.
not be easily convinced that it is
“He Isn’t that kind of a man.”
agement of the quick crisis was the ed streets on his way to the church,
not all coffee. But we guarantee
“Nell. I think that you can take care measure of his success In affairs.
always carrying with him Ids pocket
PnnlcR and Itcllglonn Hooka,
that Cafó Bland contains less than
of yourself, but I don’t believe you can
“I am Samuel Wolverton, and you communion service, apparently stand­
There Is one kind of business, accord
fifty per cent coffee, which is scien­
Judge men."
are Burke Melville,” he said. “I lls- ing an even chance of burying the Ing to a New York man prominent In
tifically blended with nutritious
"Oh, trust me for that.” she said airily, teneil to your conversation. 1 won’t dead, comfortlug the dying or being It, that does not enjoy easy financial
fruits and grains, thus not only
anil at the moment she was Indeed try­ apologize. I am glad I did It. It seems himself brought home maimed or cohl conditions. It Is that of publishing de­
displacing over fifty per cent of the
ing to Judge uo less a person than her to me. Mr. Melville, that your father's In death. Ills leaving was a daily votional and religious literature. This
can'eill, but neutralizing that which
father. She had thought that she un­ son has It back nt me now. It seems anguish to those who watched him publisher explained this anomalous
remains and still retaining the rich
cotlee flavor. To those who suffer
derstood him. Had she? He was foud to me that you hold the marked cards.” vanish over the brow of the hill. One condition as follows:
with the heart, to dyspeptics and
of her. He denied her nothing, and she lie stopped and looked at the two and evening, coming back In the dusk, be
"When everybody
to nervous people Cafe Bland is
loved him But there were depths she then weut ou: “Mr. Melville, what’s It saw a burly wagoner slip off his horse there Is no very great
especially recommended asahealth-
could not fathom, mid she knew no the ministers say? I am not much at nnd get under It In n hurry. His head publications. People
ftil and delicious beverage, so satis­
more of Ills real life, even less, tlimi an going to church. But don't they say appeared, bobbing out first from one they do not go to church to any great
fying that only the member of the
outsider.
side,
then
from
the
other.
Above
him
that when a man lias wronged another
extetd. I’ro.-ielicrs will tell you that
family making the change in the
But now a sudden fear possessed her. the best amends he can make Is con­ In the air, bobbing, too, and with a church attendance Is never so good in
coffee knows there has lieen one.
She rushed up stairs to a little room fession of his fault?"
quick, uneasy motion, wiib a luminous prosperous times as it Is In periods of
More healthful, richer and less ex­
pensive than straight coffee. Better
which she used for her writing table
But although a moment nfter the spark. After a full minute speut In financial straits.
In every respect. 25 cents per lb.
nnd her books, nnd eagerly she looked young man extended Ills hand Wolver­ vigorous dodging the man came out to
“Let a panic come on. however, At
Your grocer will get it for you
for a paper In a certain English magn- ton was conscious that his daughter, piospect. The supposed fuse was still first our business feels It ns keenly as
Ask for
zlne. “American Millionaires. No. X, whom he held tils dearest possession, there, burning brilliantly. “Darn the any other line. People suddenly cense
Samuel Wolverton,” Had she been never would be the same to him, that thing,” he grunted, “why don’t It buying everything except what they
mistaken? And then she rend: “The distrust lay between them, that nt the bust?" lie had been playing hide and are obliged to have. As times fail to
beginning of this extraordinary for height of his success Melville's sou had seek for Go seconds with u line specl- Improve, people take more to going to
tune wns In ’<!<> in Red gulch. Califor turned the marked cards against him.
ium /U of our southeru lightning bug. or church.
Attendance Increases very
nla. Melville and Wolverton were
firefly!
perceptibly. In a few weeks we can
storekeepers who exchanged a sup
Tronble With n Telescope.
tell It In our business. There Is u
CiolnK Into n Safer Hnalnesa.
posedly bad debt for the now famed
Continued observation with thfe tele­
greatly Increased demand for devo­
It was Cassidy's first morulng ns tional books of all kinds. The busi­
Bullfinch mine Wolverton bought out scope of the Yerkes observatory re­
Ids partner."
vealed the unplensant existence of a newspaper carrier. From side to side ness Increases, ami at the very height
For a minute the room seemed to number of curious streaks of light run- of the avenue he hurried, dropping the of the tinancl.il troubles we do the
swim.
alng horizontally, whose appearance moist sheets in vestibules and running largest business. As times get better
Pronounced caf fay—accent on last syllable
“Oh. If mamma were only here!” the !iad certainly never been noticed be­ them In the space between the door you can see our trade In this line of
Finally ho came to a house publications gradually drop off until,
girl said meaningly.
fore anil gave rise to redoubled un­ nnd sill
Vestal VlrMina.
“It’s true—true. This Is all his nnd easiness. And yet everything seemed that wns separated from the sidewalk when prosperity again comes round,
Ovid tells us that the first temple of
not mine, every penny of It. Anil lie right with the glass viewed externally by un urn studded yard Cassidy open­ we settle down to a normal business
knew when he 'old me. He knew.”
and the most searching Investigation ed the Iron gate and walked up the quite different from the boom we had Vesta at Home was constructed of rat­
tled walls nnd roofed with thatch, like
stone path, lie knelt in the vestibule been enjoying."—New York Times.
Aud she stole down to her father.
?ould discover no cause.
the primitive lints of the inhabitants.
She wont toward him. the magazine
At last In desperation the eyepiece aud started running the paper under
It was little other than a circular cov­
Life Aboard no Arctic Boat.
in hand nnd hold it before him. Wol­ end was unscrewed, and Professor the door. An upper window was raised,
The days and weeks pass without our ered fireplace and was tended by the
verton started. He hnd never seen her Ellerman, the slimmest of the party, and a woman's voice cnlled:
like this, and her pallor frightened was bidden to crawl, ns he well could
“Is that you. Harry? You are awful taking any account of them. We get unmarried girls of Hit* Infant commu­
him. And then he saw to what she Jo. along In the tube itself, and see If late. I hear the milk carts rattling."
up at C:30 In the morning. At 7 we nity. It served as the public hearth
pointed.
Cassidy thought it best to remain feed the dogs. At 8 we have breakfast, of Rome, and on It glowed, uuextln-
tie could discover aught amiss. He
and at 12 we dine. Then we work till guisbeil throughout the year, the sa­
“Was the story be told me true?”
•rept along well enough, so wide Is the quiet. The voice continued:
"What If It were?”
“You needn't think I'm coming down 0:30, when we have supper, after cred tire which was supposed to have
tube, till be got beyond the center,
"What If It were?” she said tnocking- when the telescope began to turn over at such an hour! The idea of you, a which we smoke and play cards or been brought from Troy and the con­
ly. “You can’t understand ‘what if It with bls weight, and lie would have married man. coming home at such a chess till bedtime. It Is not at all cold. tinuance of which was thought to be
were.' ”
slid down on the top of the glass bad time! lx>st your key. as usual? Well, Rarely does the thermometer descend linked with the fortunes of tho city.
The name Vesta is believed to be de
below zero Yesterday the sun shone
But the father said quietly, with a sot the other end been promptly seized catch this one."
A heavy piece of brass shot two sto­ gloriously The Ice reflected It with a rived from the same root as the Snr
ind held fast Then he continued Ills
mastery of himself.
skrlt was, which means “to dw
“If It were true, tlint Melville Journey, and In another moment bad ries. There was a heavy fall, and the blinding glare and In brilliant colors.
Tilt* ship has withstood all the as­ inhabit,” nnd shows that alm •■.
couldn't have succeeded. He hadn’t it discovered the unsuspected author of vestibule resembled a pressroom.
Some one found Cassidy smoking Ids saults of the Ice. It Is splendid to see goddess of home, and hot ■
in him. He would have failed nt any­ the mischief, an overindustrlous spider
how It breaks up Ice that Is sometimes hearth ns Its focus. A t
ind her equally hardworking progeny, pipe In the “accident ward."
thing. I cut loose from him.”
,o-
"Going back to the carrier route?" three or four feet thick. At other Is but a lurge family, und
"But you haven’t told me whether who had succeeded In filling up the
times, when It 1« even thicker, the ship mestic hearth was to the hou. ihat.
tho story Is true.”
entire end of the tube with a mass of they asked.
“Nlver once more,” responded Cassi­ Is rushed against It at full steam. The the temple of the perpetual fire, l»‘-
“I won’t acknowledge or deny ft,” he cobwebs In the hope of catching what
snld nt Inst. “What of It? You ought must have been wholly Imaginary tiles. dy. “Ol'ni golu back to wur-ruk in th' shock splits nnd breaks It very often came to the city. Every town had 11»
vesta, or common hearth, and the col­
not to find fault. My money has made The webs and their spiders were care­ quarry. Thor's no fallln kaes thor; for a distance of 40 or 50 yards. The onies derived their fire from the moth­
fully removed, and from that day to only dynomltcil rocks.”—Chicago News Duke of Abruzzi Is alwnys on the
you a p isltlon as fine ns any o' 'em.”
bridge nnd loses no opportunity of get­ er hearth.
this the behavior of the Yerkes 40 Inch
“Good night,” said the girl.
An Abandoned Teat.
Should a vestal maiden allo" the sa
ting ahead. Sometimes he does not
■class
has
been
all
that
heart
could
de-
At the door he called to her:
Sir Hiram S. Maxim was once n vic even come down to his meals When­ cred tire to become extlngul-. ed she
ilre.
—
Good
Words.
“Nell, you haven’t kissed me good
tlm of one of the British war otliee’s ever we get the smallest opening, he was beaten by the grand pontiff till
night."
sudden freaks.
When the Maxim orders us to go on. and we are glad of her blood flowed, nnd the t on (Ire wss
Waste, Rest aud Exercise.
"I can't—tonight.”
quick firing gun wns being tested by
William M. Evarts was a marvel of the government with n view to finding It. because the more we advance nt the solemnly rekindled by nil i. Inc togeth
And she was gone.
er of dry wood or by focusing of sun's
"A woman can't understand busi­ Intellectual vitality to an advnnced out Its weak points. Its Inventor was present time the less wo shall have to
rays. Tho circular form nd uomed
do
next
year.
—
Leslie's
Monthly
ness. She’ll get over It." But he failed age, and be used to explain It by say­ asked to have 10.1MM) rounds tired at the
roof of the temple of Vesta were sur­
to sleep well that night, She was not ing that be slept late In the morning highest possible spied
The expert
vivals of the prehistoric but» of the
Trnpa In French,
at breakfast. He went to her room, and never took any exercise. There nient was successfully carried out. tint
aborigines, which were Invariably
A frequent trap In French for the on
She wns sleeping with a look that Is no advantage In getting up early in the chairman of the committee of In
wary Is the difference of meaning In round.—Cornhill Magazine.
frightened him. Ou his way down the morning If you need the sleep. vestlgotlon was still unsatisfied.
similar
phrases. For example, “falre
town he stopped at liis doctor’s, 'T am Many a man is burning the candle at
“That’s very well tvs far as It goes," feu" means to lire a gun. while "falre
Conl'ln't Follow Hiro.
both ends by getting up at an early
troubled with tnat lusomnla.”
he exclaimed, "but could you guarnn
At a small country church In Eng­
“Mr. Wolverton,” said the practl- hour simply because bls housekeeping tee your gun to go on firing automatic du feu” means to light a tire; "tomber
land a newly married couide were just
tioner, “I have told you again and Is adjusted to that programme. As to ally at the same rate for. say. 24 par terre” conveys the Idea of falling
to the ground from one’s own height, receiving some advice from the elderly
again that you must let up on work physical exercise. Mr. Evarts hnd dis- hours?"
whereas "tomber a terre” means to vicar as to how they were to conduct
nnd worry.”
covered for himself what our physiolo­
”1 can,” was the quiet reply, "anil I fall from any height—In other words, themselves nnd so always live hap­
“I know, I know,” said the great gists are now beginning to teach— will—on one condition.”
to tumble down and to tumble off In pily.
man. “By the way. I wish you would namely, that If n man consumes tissue
“And that Is?"
"You must never both get cross at
the same way “traiter de fat" means
see Nell. I am worried nbout her.' 9f
In hard intellectual work the way to
"That the government finds nnd pays to call a man a fop nnd “traiter en once; it Is the husband's duty to pro­
He kept himself busied down town repair the loss Is by resting and not
for the ammunition."
ml" to treat him like n king. The tect his wife whenever an occasion
until nbout 3 nnd then drove through by consuming more tissue in physical
At first the committee were inclined English word "bore" may be expressed arises, and a wife must love, honor
the park In the parade, n tired faced exercise. To the majority of brain
to dose with the offer, but when It wns
and obey her husband and follow him
man people pointed out.
workers oxygenlzation of the blood Is discovered that 80-1.000 rounds would I n I wo ways- "un raseur” gives the wherever he goes."
Idea of an active bore and "une bass!
As he entered the house he heard far more Important than physical exer­
be fired nnd that the cost of the expert noire" of a passive bore.—Academy.
“Blit, sir"— pleaded the young bride.
Nell’s voice. He paused In the hall and cise, and there are two very good ways
ment would be something like £5.700
"I haven't yet Onisbed," remarked
listened.
to secure tlint: Sleep with your bed­ they dispensed with the trial
the clergyman, annoyed at the Inter­
Mnsi I n wholesome.
“I am glad to see you. Mr. Melville.” room window wide open lu summer
“I think I'll have some of those crul­ ruption.
The Coat nt Mlatnken Identity
she was saying.
and winter, and, if you can afford It.
"She must"—
A man was fined at a local court the lers." said Jones at the lunch counter.
“1 had your note and came here keep a horse and drive In the open air.
“Don’t you want some?”
“But, please, sir (In desperation),
other
day
for
a
queer
assault,
when
he
promptly, I think.”
— Boston Watchman.
"No,” rcpl'M Smith. “They don’t can’t you alter that last part? My hus­
set up n queerer defense. lie wns
“Yes; promptly.”
band Is going to be a postman.”
charged with having slipped np nt the agree with me.”
"1 have passed you several times,
“That so?"
An Easy Matter.
back of t vo women palavering In an
but I don't believe you saw me," Mel
"Yes; I couldn’t even eat the hole In
“The reason some men don't get alleyway nnd knocked their heads to-
A Question.
vllle snld rather bitterly.
“It
one
without getting dyspepsia."—I’bll
along
happily,
”
said
Mr.
Meekton.
Jack's father and mother were hav­
getlier. Ilfs defense wns tlint be
lie wns thinking how charming she
ing a very heated discussion at the
appeared here In her own house. He that they don't know bow to manage a thought In the dnrk one of the women ndclpbla Record.
table one day. They entirely forgot
was Ills wife. He had gone home, the
wns blaming himself for nil that he wife.”
A Good Rrglnnlnff.
“You know this?” was the skeptical bettor half was out. nnd so was th'
him. nnd ns the argument waxed
hnd thought of her. when her world, of
He
(passionately
i—What difference fiercer be looked from one to the other
query.
which he hnd that brief glimpse, had
fire, tile bairns were grootln and the
"Certainly. It Is the simplest thing supper was not rendy. Iln became al­ does It make where we go on a wed with real concern on Ills chubby face.
been shut out.
Presently during a lull he cleared the
“1 sent for you." Nell went on, “t< In the world, All you have to do Is to most trnglcnll.v eloquent as lie pictured ding trip?
8b< ‘—But don’t you think we should air by asking, pointedly:
ask you why you told me that stor; say 'yes’ whenever she wants any a hungry nnd angry man’s misery, but
I
thing and alwnys let her have her owu the assault was not excusable, nnd lie spend enough money to keep np np-
"rapa. did you marry mamma or did
when when you knew tlint your fi-
pearnnees? Detroit Free Fress
way.’’-.Washington Star.
i mamma marry you?”—Brooklyn Life
ther’s partner then—was—my father.'
bad to pav np Glasgow Times.
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