Bandon recorder., May 15, 1902, Image 3

THE CREW OF
YAWL THREE
A Love Story of the Sex
By W. BERT FOSTER.
Copyright, UDI, by W. Bert Foster.
hrough the tog which lay
T
ao't Go rhlt into the kitchen if you
vaut to see Mina.”
"John said she had company there,”
said Terry, brightening up.
“Veil, dat Iss rldt, but It iss no stran­
ger to you. Go in.” And she waved
her hand toward the passage leading
to the kitchen.
The sailor followed her directions,
but as lie approached the kitchen door
his heart failed him. He could bear
voices within—Mina's and a man’s.
They were talking in the girl’s own
tongue, and Terry's suspicions were in­
stantly aroused.
He hesitated a moment. The voices
and laughter grew louder, and his sus­
picion grew to a certainty. He strode
forward and threw open the door. Mi­
na. her
was
little face full of laughter, sat upon
a bench beside and her hand was held
by—Carl Jansen!
“Oh!" she cried and sprang up as she
saw her lover's frowning visage at the
door. Carl sat still and laughed in the
jealous lover's face.
For n single instant Terry stood with­
out motion or speech. Then he turned
swiftly and was out of the house be­
fore either Carl or Mina regained
breath.
•
•••*•«
When Mitchell came down to the pier
to which yawl No. 3 of the Halcyon,
officially known as pllotboat 8, was
tied, he found Terry there before him.
The sailor stood like a statue on the
stringpiece of the wharf, looking off In­
to the fog. Mitchell had to speak to
him twice before he could arouse him.
Then the provisions came down ou a
truck. They put them aboard, distrib­
uting them so that the yawl rode even­
ly, and then Carl appeared. Terry took
his oar with a set, white face and wait­
ed for the pilot’s word to give way.
"We’ve a nasty job before us,” said
Mitchell gloomily, casting off. "I hear
there’s a lot of loose ice coming down
the bay. Attend right to business,
boys, and don’t have any such skylark
lug as you did coming over. Are you
ready?”
“Aye, aye, sir!” from Carl.
Terry was silent, but dipped his oar
deeply, and in an Instant the pier was
out of sight. It seemed as though It
bad drifted away from them and had
been smothered by the fog. not that
they had been swept away from it.
The tide had turned and was running
out fiercely. Occasionally the ynwl
crunched through a little ice drift.
"Look alive, boys,” said Mitchell.
“Be ready to back water on the In­
stant If I tell you. Some of these cakes
we pass might smash yawl 3 like an
eggshell if we give ’em tile chance.”
Mitchell bent low. his sou’wester
shading ids eyes, striving to peer ahead,
but it was all lie could do to see the
boat's nose. Beyond was a blinding
curtain of fog.
The wind, too, had increased. The
tide was with them, but the wind
drove across the yawl's bows and
sometimes made her stagger. The fog
signals of the few craft belated in the
cuter bay sounded as though from a
great distance. The only other sound
besides the swish of the choppy waves
was a low, croonlug noise, which seem­
ed to grow momentarily.
"What is that?” shouted Carl, still
tugging at his oar.
Mitchell's face, such of it as was not
covered by beard, was white.
"That Is ice, boys”’ be exclaimed.
"I've heard it like that up north, it
must be a big Jam coming down the
bay.”
Terry did not appear to hear him.
His face was set aud Ills thoughts
seemed far away.
“Are we in the vay?” bawled Carl.
"Whether we are or not, 1 reckon
we’d better run in shore. 1 guess the
Halcyon won't look for us tonight.”
But as he spoke a change bad taken
place. The wind began to whip a
cloud of fine sleety snow across their
a (lead weight upon the wa­
ter the outline of a great
*all grew slowly. The fog
made it loom Into fairly gl-
gautic proportions, for there
wind stirring, and It crept up In ghost­
ly fashion.
Suddenly the blocks rattled and the
boom creaked and groaned as It swung
about. For a moment the craft hung
In the wind's eye. There was a clatter
of feet, a yawl towing astern was pull­
ed up under the rail, and three men In
yellow oilskins and varnished sea boots
tumbled Into her,
"Good day to you, lads! Drop down
with the tide tonight and we’ll pick
you up off the Hook or thereabouts.”
The hoarse voice of a broad shoul­
dered man bellowed this through the
fog as he leaned over the rail. The
yawl had been east off and dropped
astern. The boom creaked again, the
sail flapped sharply, displaying a huge
"8,” and the pllotboat melted Into the
tog once more, leaving the yawl cour
tesylng on the gray waves.
Mitchell, the pilot in charge of the
yawl, sat squarely in the sterusheets,
a tiller rope In each band. “Give way,
you fellows,” he said, “if you want to
get to Gurnett time enough to have a
yarn with that girl.”
“How in blazes can we know where
Gurnett is in this fog?” growled one of
them, bending his back to the ash.
The bow oar laughed. “Terry’s sulky,"
be said, keeping stroke while be talked
“Mina didn't care mooch to see him last
time he vas there—eh, Terry?”
“That’s a lie!” declared stroke rough­
ly. “She was just as glad to see me as
you."
“Shut up, Carl! Don’t tease the fel­
low,” admonished Mitchell. “And you
needn't be so touchy, Terry.”
“You’d be touchy, Mitchell,” declar­
ed stroke, swelling with his wrongs.
"Those two—he and Mina—jabber away
In their own confounded lingo, and I
can't understand half they say. And 1
knew her long before he ever came nos­
ing round,” he added ruefully.
“Pooh! I wouldn’t be jealous,” said
Mitchell. “It's like the girl would be
glad to see somebody who cau talk her
own language.”
“Well, she can’t have him and me
both,” declared Terry, “and I’ll tell her
that.”
Carl from the bow seat chuckled and
showed a broad, laughing face to the
pilot. “She'll be mooch obliged for
that,” he said. “Then she not have to
—what you call—ship you herself, eh?”
The other’s eyes blazed with passion,
and he dropped bls oar aud with an
oath swung about to get at the Swede,
but the steersman's voice recalled him.
“What d’you mean, you swab?” he
abouted. "Want to swamp the yawl?
Grab that oar, quick!”
With a shamed face the. recreant
stroke plunged his oar again deeply.
“Confound you and the girl both!”
pursued Mitchell. “You'll lose a yawl
next, and no girl’s worth that. If you'd
been a married man’s loug as me, you
wouldn’t get to lighting over a wom­
an.”
The stroke hung Lis head, and even
Carl's merry face looked sober at the
calamity which they bad so narrowly
avoided. He glanced behind him into
the Impenetrable fog bank.
“We can nefer see where the land Is,
even," he grumbled.
“You leave that to me,” returned the
pilot. “I kin smell land. I don't need
eyes along this shore.”
It must have been by the sense of
smell that Mitchell found the loug pier
at Gurnett. He steered the yawl al­
most directly in to the steps, although
they couldn’t see the piles twenty feet
away. Cail stood up and cleared the
Ice drift with his oar so that they could
get in without injuring the yawl. It
was after noon when they landed at
the pier
“Now. we haven't more than an hour
to waste here.” said Mitchell, settling
bls hat more firmly upon his head. “If
you go to see that girl, Terry, don't you
forget. Be back here In ho hour. I'll
go along up street aud buy the provi­
sions we was sent for.”
“And I’ll go along with you,” said
Carl, with a wink. "Then I’ll keep out
of temptation, eh?”
"Just as well you do,” growled Mitch­ He caught the rough coat ulcere Juel ai
the hand »lipped.
ell. "I don’t want you fellows to get
course. The snow stuck to the boat
to fighting; now, mind that."
He and the Swede moved away, and nnd to their clothing In heavy, soggy
after a moment their companion fol­ patches.
“I kin stand fog,” growled Mitchell,
lowed them. But at the end of the pier
be turned Into a side street—a street “but hang me if I like this. I dunno
which fronted the water, with wharfs which way we're headed. We might
and shipping on one hand and a row as well go out with tlie tide, I reckon,
of little shops aud ship chandlers' ware­ and risk the ice. Don't pull too hard,
houses on the other. In this neighbor­ boys. Just keep her steady."
He was obliged to speak again to
hood, over the shops and warehouses
and in the courts and lanes behind Terry to get him to reduce bls stroke.
them, lived senfaring folk, many of It seemed as though the turmoil in bls
mind had shut out all appreciation of
them of foreign extraction.
Terry turned into one of tne little the battle of the elements.
Adding to their danger were the ice
shops where a big Swede stood behind
the counter. After greetings bad pass­ cakes which now thickened around
ed between them Terry looked around them. Carl broke Ills oar short off
M though he missed something or upon one, and only by the quick action
of the pilot were they saved from
somebody out of the shop.
“You lookin' for Mina, eh?” said the capsizing.
“Pull In your oar. Terry, and let mt
Swede. “She vas joost gone to the
kitchen. She back will be In a min­ have it," commanded Mitchell. “An
oar's enough sight better than a rud
ute.”
But the girl did not come In a mln der at such a pass as this."
Almost instantly, it seemed, the yaw
ute nor in several. Terry talked at
random, listening for the girl's step or was in the midst of the ice pack. Thf
voice. Somebody came Into the room snow swept down with fury upon
directly behind the shop, but it was them. They could scarcely see the wa
Mina's aunt, the big Swede’s wife. He ter for the whitecapped cakes. Mitch
asked a question in bls own language ell growled maledictions on ills mem
and at her reply turned to the sailor ory for not putting an extra pair ot
oars In the boat. Terry sat amidships
again.
“She has corap'ny in the kitchen,” he without speech or motion, nnd finally
said. “I guess she vlll be back soon. the pilot’s vexation turned against him
I'll haf the wife tell her you vas here.” and lie cursed him roundly.
"You might he a stock or a stone!"
Mina did not come. The sailor paced
the floor with anxious strides, bis he said. "Are you dumb, man?"
“Will talking mend It?” replied thf
thoughts growing the more bitter as
he waited. She knew he was there and sailor and fell Into silence again.
Suddenly there was a shout from thf
yet did not come. His hour's leave was
fast slipping away. Finally the shop­ bow, and almost Instantly the ynwl
keeper's wife stuck her bead into the crashed Into a huge cake and was driv
en back by the force of the collision
■hop and saw him.
"Veil, veil!” she exclaimed, with a As though it was a signal for a general
laugh. “Ise it you? Vy didn't you say attack, the Ice advanced upon thf
Importer« and Dealerajtn
doomed boat upon either side. She was
A CHURCH LIGHTHOUSE.
I .¡. ini | ,0 THE GORILLA.
Book, Newa,
crushed between two grinding, shoul
Writing and
Charleston, S. C., lint the Only Ona
dering walls of driving cakes, and thf
U » tl 4««1 Africans say Has
Wrapping...
In the World.
th<- ,(<>ul of a Man.
sea began to spurt between the strain A COLLECTION OF HEIRLOOMS THAT
OARD STOOK
The only church in the world so far
ed scams.
« .: . !.' bioitlng is a distinct aenaatlon
WEARIED AN OBSERVER.
STRAW AND HINDERS' BOARD
"We vas lost!" cried Carl, leaping up
¿•ven fir the veteran hunter. This ani­ us is known that is also a lighthouse is
.13-ai-aO-at Flrat St.
The shock which followed threw him
mal. w celt luts become confused some St. Philip’s church. Charleston, 8. C.
Tm. Maia
17 SAN FRANCISCO.
Tlir Syateui ut H«-ntl-ig Out Family what kith fable nnd fiction. Is a reali­
St. Philip's, which Is one of the oldest
upon the ice pack.
Glory
nud
Supplying
Aucritral
churches
in
America,
la
known
as
the
ty and a decidedly unpleasant one to
“Overboard with you!” sang out
Trnpplnu« nt So Much Pur Hour engage. The west Africans are mortal­ "Westminster abbey of South Caroil
Mitchell. "She’ll sink in a minute.
II««
Ils
Drawbacks.
ly afraid of it, believing that the brute na.” because within and about its walls
Get on a big cake, boys.”
But only Terry heard him. Carl had
Two guests were being shown through contains the spirit of a man. They at­ so many distinguished men lie buried.
disappeared. The pilot nnd stroke oi a Philadelphia mansion In which a tribute to it all aorta of ferocities, like Including John C. Calhoun. The history
the wrecked yawl found themselves nouveau riche broker was entertaining tlie carrying off of a human being, who of the old church Is closely interwoven
Is permitted to return after being de­ with that of South Carolina, and many
clinging side by side upon a
a party of fashionable friends. The prived of toe and finger nalla.
of the most celebrated events in the
of Ice.
splendid array of family heirlooms, all
"Skilled hunters have never observed history of the province are connected Bright*» Dlhcflsc und Diabete»
“Where Is he? Where is he?” gasped
bespeaking a lineage of earliest colo­ nny of these doings, but they testify to with it.
the sailor, at last aroused.
Are Positively Curable«
It is one of tlie sights of Charleston,
"Poor Carl! Poor boy!” groaned th» nial origin, deeply Impressed one of the the brute's strength and ferocity," says
party. He was a stranger but lately Allen Sangree In Ainslee’s. “According ami strangers are always taken to seo
pilot.
"He mustn’t drown!" cried Terry arrived from Baltimore. Oddly enough, to a French sportsman, a full grown it and shown Its graves and monu­ John A. Phelps, of the Hotel Repeller, 781
standing upright upon the teterlng Ice his companion, a Philadelphian, seem gorilla can bite through a tree six Inch­ ments.
Sutter street, an old-time San Francisco busi­
The most remarkable feature of the ness man, Interviewed December 21, 1901:
ed flippantly indifferent to these treas­ es thick in order to secure the sap and
"He must be saved! Mina”—
Q.—It Is hard for people to believe Bright*«
The yawl disappeared, sucked under ured relics of a family’s honored his­ twist a gun barrel with tlie swollen old church, however, is tlie fact that
bundles of muscle that serve for arms. Its lofty steeple serves the purpose ot Disease and Diabetes are curable. Will you
by the tide. In tlie swirl of gray water tory.
“Remarkable collection of heirlooms Ills roar is terrifying aud can be beard a lighthouse and is used to guide the let us mention your ease ?
where It went down was a man's up
A.—You may. I’ve told many about it.
seafarer and mariner safely into the
raised arm. The band clung an Instant our host has,” remarked the stranger for u distance of three miles.
Q.—Did physicians declare it Diabetes ?
as lie stopped before a battle scarred
“ ‘1 shall never forget how the first port of Charleston. The use of the stee­
to the ragged edge of the Ice.
A.—A half dozen did. For three years I de­
one impressed me,’ says the French­ ple as a lighthouse dates back to 189-1, clined steadily till finally I had to sell my
Terry swooped down upon It instant­ sword of Revolutionary days.
"Yes,” drawled tlie Philadelphian man. 'for 1 bad a bad attack ot shakes. when tin* United States lighthouse de­ business. The last doctor thought I’d live only
ly. lie caught the rough coat sleev ■
Just as the hand slipped and with a cynically, "very Interesting. But un­ I'be woods had been filled some time partment succeeded by dint of repeated about six weeks and advised me to straighten
mighty heave brought Carl's head and fortunately It lacks the charm of nov­ with a barking roar, but I saw nothing efforts In inducing the vestry of the out my affairs.
Q.—How soon did you begin to mend under
shoulders out ot the Icy water. In a elty for me. Already this season I’ve until my guide clucked softly aud old church to allow a lantern to be the
Fulton Compounds Y
breath they bad dragged their comrade seen the same batch of relics in three pointed to a tree alongside which stood placed in the upper story of the steeple
A.—The spi’citlc gravity soon began to drop,
other
Philadelphia
houses.
”
to
lie
used
us
a
range
light
for
vessels
but
it was nearly a year before I was perfectly
an
immense
male
gorilla.
There
be
re
­
out of the jaws of death.
"How could that be?”
mained but twelve yards away, boldly entering the harbor tnrough tho Jetties sound
The Swede spat out the water he had
(J.—Did any whom you told of it take it ?
“Oh, simple enough. It only means facing us with his huge chest, muscu­ at its mouth.
A.—Several cases of Diabetes aud Bright*«
swallowed and recovered his breath.
Disease, upon heaiiug niv experience, took it
The light used is very powerful and and
“That vas noble of you, old man,” be thut all four families, our host and the lar arms, fiercely glaring deep gray
recovered.
three others 1 refer to, hired their an­ eyes and a hellish expression, until I is placed at an altitude of about 125
Q —Can you recall the names 1
said to Terry.
A
-
I don't like to mention them without
cestral trappings from the same man.” moved.
feet above the ground, so that it is their permission.
"Stow that!" was the rough reply.
One was a friend in Collin­
"Hired
tliein?
“
easily
visible
thirty
miles
nt
sea.
Ships
wood,
Ohio, who was pensioned off by his com­
“
'At
that
lie
dropped
to
all
fours
and
Carl's teetli began to chatter, and
pany as Incurable. lie recovered. Another
"Yes,
hired
them.
We
have
in
this
milking
for
Charleston
harbor
at
night
came
six
yards
nearer,
sitting
up
to
Terry and Mitchell hugged him up be­
was that of a well to-do lady fu this city, who
also given up by her physicians. She is
tween them that the warmth of their city an enterprising collector of coio beat his breasts with his huge fists—a always keep a sharp lookout for St. was
now
perfectly well
bodies might In some measure counter­ nlal Junk wlio makes a business of defiance so that it sounded like an Im­ Philip's light and as soon as they sight
Q What do ou think now of the curability
chronic Bright’s Disease and Diabetes?
act the chill he had received. Tlie renting out family glory to all who mense drum. Ills roar was most singu­ it get it into line with the beacon on of A.
—1 have known for several years that they
snow, which still fell, packed around were unfortunate enough to be born lar, beginning with a kind of bark and Fort Sumter and then make a straight­ are curable.
away
run
for
the
mouth
of
the
Jetties
without
it."
deepening
into
a
bass
roll
that
literally
Q
—
But the books say that they are not?
and over them until they might have
A.—Certainly they do, and f r that reason
"Whew!" was the only comment the resembled thunder. The short hair ou and up through them Into the harbor many
been a part of the ice cake to which
will not at first believe it, but they will
Ills forehead was twitching, his power­ of Charleston.
gradually.
they clung. Mitchell raised his head astonished Baltimorean could utter.
And doubtless many Philadelphians ful fangs showed unpleasantly, and,
St. Philip's church steeple is consider­
occasionally the better to listen.
Medical works agree that Bright’s Disease
"Can’t hear a single horn," lie de­ would be moved to say "Whew!” if feeling lie was about to attack and in­ ed one of tlie handsomest architec­ and Diubetes are incurable, but 87 per cent, are
clared. "We might as well be in the they could learn how many members cidentally being scared green, I shot turally in the world and always at­ positively recovering under the Fulton Com-
iMiunds. (Common forms of kidney complaint
middle of the Atlantic Instead of a mile of the Quaker City social elect are con­ him through the heart. With a groan tracts tlie eye of strangers entering and rheumatism offer but short resistance.)
strained
to
seek
the
assistance
of
the
Charleston
from
the
sea
by
its
com
­
something
human
and
yet
brutish,
be
Price,
fl for the Bright s Disease ami *1 &0 for
or so offshore. I dunno but we’d lietter
heirloom dealer when they wish to fell on his face and died quickly, like a manding height and artistic propor­ the Diabetic Com: o ¡nd. John .1 Fu tou Co.,
shout.”
42U Montgom ry St . s.ui Francisco, sole oom­
give a brilliant function.
tuati. He measured 5 feet 9 Inches In tions. St. Louis Republic.
pounders. Fr* •
is made for patients. De­
"What for?” grumbled Carl.
scriptive pamphlet ma led free
It is a deception that Is forced upon length, his chest was 02 inches, nnd his
“To keep you from going to sleep,
them,
for
unless
you
have
distinguish
­
arms spread 9 feet. 1 was glad to have
NATURAL HISTORY.
younker,” returned the pilot sharply.
Hindoo Wedding!.
ed appearing forbears you stand little the specimen, but somehow after that
"Are you cold?”
Hindoo weddings usually come In the
chance of penetrating the sacred pre­ never eared to kill a gorilla unless he
There
are
forty-eight
different
kinds
“N-not very,” chattered the Swede.
hot month*, when tho families have
cincts of the local fashionable set.
actually menaced me.’ ”
of house fly known and classified.
"It’s death, lad!” cried the pilot.
leisure to prepare for them, but an as­
Ancestry, not cash, is the open ses
The pig is the only domestic nnimal trologer ni.ist select an auspicious day
"Rouse up and keep yourself warm.”
in
which
no
case
of
cancer
has
been
“1 won’t let him go to sleep, sir.” said ame. and even if a man cau claim some
NOTHING WAS LOST.
for the event. The groom is ready for
sort of a family tree his pretensions nre
noted.
Terry.
liis prolhi inary game of diplomacy,
questioned unless he can show some of An OnilHwIon In n Wedding Ceremony
The Spanish mackerel is one of the which is siND-ccly more than a “bluff.”
“You’re very good, both of you,” de­
the furniture or portraits that his
That Didn't Count*
fastest of food fishes and cuts the wa­ 'rids is a pretense to visit the sacred
clared Carl. Then he added in bls
American forefather brought with him
A distinguished officer of tho United ter like a yacht.
mate's ear, “She don’t care uottin’
Ganges at Benares and wash away his
ou the Mayflower or the Welcome.
States navy once told this story on him­
'bout me, Terry.”
Fish swallow tlielr food whole be­ sins in its healing waters. Generally
Of course if the two vessels named self:
“Who?" exclaimed the other, with a
cause they nre obliged to keep eontin- there would not be time before the
had been as large as the Great Eastern
At tlie time of his marriage be had ually opening and closing tlie mouth wedding day to complete such a Jour­
nervous start.
nnd hud been loaded with nothing but been through the civil war and had had
“Why, Mina. We vas Joost teasin’ heirlooms they couldn’t have carried
for tlie purpose of respiration.
ney when tlie groom undertakes it, but
you. It vas her sister I lofe, not her— half the stock needed to launch the de­ many harrowing experiences aboard
Siamese cals, both In appearance and tlie readiness must be shown, and the
ship,
through
all
of
which
he
kept
cour
­
her sister in the faderland. She k 111 be
character, closely resemble pug dogs. company sets out. When tlie bride’s
scendants of Pilgrim fathers Into so­
ofer here In a mont", and we rill be ciety. Hence the need of an heirloom age and remained as calm as a brave Even their tails have the curious curl fat her meets them and dissuades the
man
should.
As
the
time
for
the
cere
­
marry.”
so familiar in these stolid dogs.
groom from such an undertaking, he is
dealer.
mony came on, however, bls calmness
Suddenly Mitchell command'd si­
Animals are found to be subject to very ready to stop. lie Is assured,
He has bls warerooms In Pine street, gradually gave way. At the altar, amid
lence,
in a pnrt of the city which was once the blaze of brass buttons and gold hypnotic influence. Lobsters, it is said, moreover, that ills sins have not beeu
"1 hear something yonder." lit said. tlie center of fashion, but Is now de­
can be hypnotized by standing them so grievous as to need cleansing before
luce marking the full naval wedding,
After several minutes the du|l bark­ serted by that element In consequence
on their beads live or ten minutes.
Ills nuptials. If the bride’s father is
the officer was all but stampeded and
ing of a foot power foghorn leached of the westward movement of the city’s
satlsiied with Ids spiritual condition,
There
is
no
wild
breed
of
fowl
to
what went on there seemed viery much
tlie young man may need say no more,
their ears.
elect.
mixed to hint. Fearing the excitement which the Brahma or Cochin can lie
"The old Halcyon, for u ilollar!"
Ostensibly lie is a curio dealer, but of the moment would temporarily take traced. The gamecock seems to be de­ but lie r<*turns and prepares the tbali,
cried tlie pilot. “Let’s shout.” I
tils revenue is mainly derived from him off bls feet, the officer had learned scended from tlie Cingalese Jungle or gold badge, that all married women
A quavering, long drawn “Abo-o-y!” furnishing and hanging the wails of
must wear suspended from their necks.
tlie marr'age ceremony letter perfect, fowl.
arose from the crew of yawl 3.1 Again fashionable dwellings with century old as lie thought, nnd he remembered re­
The flesh fly produces about 20,000 — Woman’s flume Companion.
and again it was repeated. Occasion­ portraits.
penting the words after the minister in young in a season. The larvae are
ally through tlM|i!ling snow and ever
Too Rrnliatlc.
hatched almost instantly from the egg
This clever manipulator of men's a mechanical sort of way.
present fog thi^Kep. grinding note <4 vanities has ancient, straight backed
During a performance of “Captain
After the ceremony was over and all and at once begin their work of de­
the born cbeeWl them.
It drew furniture and copper kettles nnd snuff­
Lapalisse” at a Valencia theater some
was serene again, including the offi­ struction.
nearer.
years ago an Incident occurred which,
ers for candles and bullseye watches cer's state of mind, tlie kindly clergy­
A Contrast.
“If we don't pass 'em!” groaned and similar relics of uncient grandeur, man citnie tip to him and touched him
for lifelike effect, left nothing to be de­
“Papa, who is that gentleman over sired. During tlie said play some of
Mitchell, standing erect In his eager­ all nt your disposal for a night, when on the shoulder.
there on the porch?”
ness.
the actors mingle with the spectators
you, poor fellow, with money, but no
“Look here, old man,” he said, “you
"Don't you reuiember him. my child? in order to co-operate from the body of
Then a hail through a trumpet readi­ ancestors, want your friends to know didn't endow your wife with any
He
I
b
the
gentleman
we
met
In
tlie
ed them in tlie very teeth of the what an old family yours Is! He also worldly goods.”
the bouse. No sooner had MlralleB, the
restaurant today who chatted so pleas­
storm.
has rare furnishings for libraries and
“What's that?” asked the bridegroom, antly with us while lie watted about actor, taken his seat in the stalls than
drawing rooms which you may rent if with something of astonishment in his
a daring pickpocket robbed him of his
“Aho-o-y!”
twenty-five minutes for his luncli.”
gold watch. Mlralles seized the man
“Help! Help!” roared the pilot. you have the price.
voice.
"He doesn’t seem very pleasant now,
by his cont collar and called out in a
It mutters not from what part of the
“We're starb'd of you—In tlie Ice!”
“Why, 1 repeated the sentence ‘With pupa.”
deep bass voice:
The foghorn kept snorting to cheer country tlie applicant hails or what all my worldly goods 1 thee endow' sev­
"Ob, no. He's at home now. See
“Police! Help! Thieves!"
them, but they soon heard something particular descent he wishes to claim. eral times and despite my efforts you
him tearing the newspaper Into shreds
Tlie audience, taking this little epi­
else—that rattle of oars approaching. Ills needs nre promptly tilled.
would not say it after me.”
and trying to throw hfs hat through
For those who wish to pose ns lineal
Of a sudden the bow of a four oared
Tito bridegroom seemed perturbed for the door. He is very angry because sode to be part of the performance,
boat pushed into view. A man stood descendants of the stanch old colonial a moment, and then a beaming light It lias taken his wife a little over four roared with laughter. Even the police­
men Joined In without stirring hand or
upright in the boat, a « oil of rope in patriots who fought the stamp tnx and came into bls face.
minutes to get hfs supper ready.’’—In­
his hand. Instantly tlie rope was defied the power of King George ut
foot.
“Never mind, sir,” he said. “She dianapolis Sun.
"This is no farce!” cried the actor in
flung to them, and by its aid all three Bunker Hill and drew up the Declara­ didn’t lose a blessed thing by my fail­
tion there is especially attractive stock. ure.”—Washington Star.
tones of despair. “The fellow has got
were drawn lido tlie lifeboat.
A Hindoo Snpcrstltlon.
For the haughty cavalier who “came
“So tills Is tlie way you go ashore for
When visits are exchanged by the my watch!”
The voice sounded so natural that
provisions. Is it?” growled the cap­ over" with Lord Delaware there are
Ko “Tick” Obtnlnnble.
friends of tlie Hindoo bride and groom
tain of the Halcyon as the yawl's costumes and furniture and portraits
Telegraph Operator—I am sorry, sir, to complete arrangements for the wed­ the audience broke into loud applause
af more elaborate style, as befits the but the rules of this company make It ding, great attention is paid to omens, at “such excellent fooling.” Meanwhile
crew scrambled In.
“Well, cap, you come darn near los­ past of emigrants who In England Impossible for me to send your message which are considered especially potent the thief managed to break away from
ing us as well as the yawl and the basked In the favor of the king and "collect." That privilege we are not al­ then.
For Instance, If the groom's his captor anil escaped.
store truck,” remarked Mitchell, calm-, were participants in brilliant court cer­ lowed to extend to absolute strangers.
messengers should meet a cat, a
Lenvei l«e<l For Paper.
ly taking the tiller and Bteering un­ emonials.
Applicant—Do you mean for me to fox or a serpent they turn back and
Leaves of trees were used for writing
The Quaker City allegiance to the understand by that that you can’t trust seek a more propitious time for the
erringly for the pilotboat, whose fog­
purposes very early by the Egyptians
horn growled at intervals to guide honored memory of William Penn is a me?
errand. After tlie bride's father has and probably by tlie Greeks. The Hin­
sentiment that the curio dealer has
them.
Telegraph Operator—Under the cir­ received the offer lie must delay re­
cumstances. sir. It is impossible for me plying until one of the ubiquitous liz­ doos continued tlie use of this material
But Terry put his lips close to the been careful to cherish.
until within a few centuries. Even ut
On his walls he has portraits of stu­ to do so.
Swede’s ear and asked:
ards in his house lias chirped.—Wo­ the present lime books of leaves are
dious looking Quakers. On his shelves
Applicant—Well, that gets the best of man’s Home Companion.
“Is It true?"
not uncommon in the south of India
are modest Quaker clocks that did me! I thought of all places on the face
“Iss vat true?"
and
the island of Ceylon. The leaves of
service
In
the
days
when
the
founder
of the earth a telegraph office was the
H a 11 r<md I u k Terma,
“That about Mina?"
some Asiatic trees, from their size and
Railroading terms in England and
“Of course it iss, and if you a chump was exchanging thirty blankets for likeliest to get anything on tick.—Bos­
smoothness, are admirably adapted for
ton Courier.
America differ very widely. The Eng­
don’t be you vlll marry her when I Philadelphia.
books. If we may Judge from the name
There
are
Quaker
walking
sticks,
tin
­
lish
would
speak
of
shunting
a
train.
marry Sophie next mont'—eh?"
“leaf" being still applied to the paper
der boxes, documents on all subjects,
Hiawatha.
We call it switching. Freight trains
of
books, we should Imagine these
Wellington’« Coolne««.
household utensils a legion.
“Such a confusing variance in the they call goods trains, coaches are car­
It Is true that this system of supply­ pronunciation of ‘Hiawatha’ exists riages, conductors are guards, engi­ leaves to have been formerly the prin­
The Duke of Wellington was one day
sitting at his library table when the ing ancestors has its disadvantages. both in dictionaries nnd in the speech neers are drivers, trucks are boggles cipal material in use.
door opened and without any an­ Contretemps such ns the one revealed of educated men and women,” writes and freight cars are wagons. The
Do Vonr Work Well.
nouncement In stalked a figure of sin­ at the beginning of this article are Elizabeth A. Witbey In The Ladles’ British always say station instead of
Possibly you think your employer
bound
to
occur.
The
hawklike
eye
of
a
gularly ill omen.
Home Journal, “that I have asked Miss depot, ami in that they have the bet­ does not notice you or know about your
“Who are you?” asked the duke In connoisseur, trained to recognize in­ Longfellow bow the word Is pronounc­ ter of us. Rails they call metals and work. Tlie writer of this was talking
his short and dry manner, looking up stantly the value, authenticity and his­ ed by the poet’s family. She says the tracks permanent ways. They do not the other evening to an extensive em­
without the slightest chnnge of coun­ tory of antiques, often pierces the de­ pronunciation which she always heard get their tickets nt a ticket office, blit
ployer of labor, and he talked most of
ception nnd remembers seeing the from tlie poet himself Is Ill-n-wa thn, nt a booking office, and the smokestack
tenance upon the intruder.
the evening about his workmen. Hz
"I am Apollyon. I am sent here to “treasured family heirlooms” some the T pronounced as It Is In ’machine’ of tlie locomotive is to them the clilm- knew all about every one of them, from
where else But In the main people or 'pique.' (lie second ’a’ pronounced as uey. A railroad man going from one
kill you.”
flic head man to the laborers, and not­
nre gullible, and the wealthy but pie It is In ‘far’ or In ‘father.’ ”
“Kill me? Very odd.”
country to the other finds that he has ed their good and bad points. Don’t
“I am Apollyon and must put you to belan aspirant for social honors vnunts
to learn an entirely new set of phrases forget that your employer knows all
the blueness of his blood nnd polntB
death.”
about his business.
about you. When he needs a new fore­
A Rllnd Man's Perception.
with pride to his hired heirlooms with
“’Bilged to do it today?”
man or superintendent, he knows the
One of the priests of St. Francis Xa­
inicnll«
on
Drifter.
"I am not told the day or the hour, out much danger of discovery.
vier's church devotes himself to work
Many years ago, when John J. In­ one to select.—Atchison Globe.
And meanwhile the ernfty Pine
but I must do my mission.”
among the blind and the deaf and galls, the brilliant Kansan, was a mem­
“Very inconvenient; very busy; great street denier smiles, waxes rich and
To I.lttle ProlK.
dumb. He says that, contrary to the ber of the senate, oleomargarine was a
many letters to write. Call ngnln or echoes a celebrated remark of Puck's
“Don't you think I preached a very
general impression, the blind are pecul­ bone of contention. The debate led In­
write me word. I'll be ready for you.” regnrdlng the average Intelligence of
poor sermon this morning?” asked the
iarly happy nnd fond of Jokes.
galls to utter one of those cpigrnmmnt
The duke then went on with his cor­ mortals.—Philadelphia North Amei-I
Illustrative of this, not long since Ic sentences which made him fnmous. new preacher of the deacon, from
respondence.
The maniac, appalled can.
a blind acquaintance of bis whose re "1 have never, to my knowledge, tasted whom he expected a compliment.
probably by the stern, Immovable old
“Yaas, I do” drawled the honest
malnltig senses. Ike that of all blind, oleomargarine,” said Ingalls, "but I
All In the Family,
gentleman, backed out of the room and
are exceptionally keen, was In a room have stood in the presence of genuine deacon, "but It runs in my mind thet
“
Blftley
and
Ills
son
and
the
Widow
In half an hour was in an asylum.
I’ve heard worse, ef I cud only rickol-
Blnglewood nnd her daughter nre going where were some lady visitors. Final­ butter with awe for its strength and
lect
wher' It wuz.”—Ohio State Jour­
ly
one
of
tlie
ladifs
left.
to form n community of interests."
reverence for its antiquity.”
I mbretlK Inconslntenclrs.
nal.
“What remarkably white and perfect
"How
so?
”
"There’s something remarkable about
Trade Craft.
"Biflley marries the widow, nnd his teetli that lady has!” laughingly re­
The Trouble.
this umbrella.” said Jawleigh, exhibit­
"We are turning out some very elabo­
son
marries the daughter.’’—Clevs'ind marked the blind man.
Wicks—There should be a law to re­
ing the antique handle.
“Why, how do you know?" asked rate scales,” said the ngent—“some strain the theaters from printing those
“I suppose,” remarked his friend, Plain Dealer.
Father Stadelmali.
that will attract the attention of your mossy Jokes in their programmes.
“you refer to the fact that while your
"Because for the Inst half hour she customers.”
Ills Tnsfe In Rrtornlalilnic.
Hicks—You don't have to read them.
name is John Anderson Jawleigh the
“Bigson snys he has had his house lias done nothing but laugh!"—New
"Do you suppose I want my custom
Wicks—No, but you usually have to
monogram is F. L. T.? Nothing pecul­
York Times.
era to watch the scnles?” asked the sur­ listen to some idiot behind you reading
iar about that at all, sir.”—Baltimore refurnished during his wife's absence."
"As a surprise to her?”
prised butcher. "Give me the plainest and explaining them.—Catholic Stand­
News.
The center or criminal (mpuiation in stvle vou have,” Chicago News.
“No; ns a shock.”—Detroit Free
ard and Times.
New
York-
the
jx-llce
precinct
yielding
Declining.
Press.
The
Hen's
Plaint.
the largest nunder of arrests—varies
Pretty Slow,
The Friend Is the editor enjoying
"Whnt’s tlie matter?” asked the roos­
Every Individual In tills world Influ each year, it hai followed the ITne of
good health?
When a girl pins a flower on a man's
ter. “More absentmindedness?”
The Poet (sadly)—No; from wliat I’ve ences some o.ie person, ami the greater Broadway, steadily moving up town,
coat, she always tilts her chin up and
"Yes.” replied tlie hen. “I can never
•een of him he has been declining for we make ourselves the greater we since the time alien the Sixth wnrd
looks at It sideways, and the man who
find
things
where
I
lay
them.
”
—
Ph'la-
the last five years.—Philadelphia Rec­ make some one else.—Ladies Home wns by common consent the wickedest
doesn't tumble Is slow enough to get
delphla
Record.
precinct in towt.
Journal.
ord.
run over by a hearse.
IT LACKED NOVELTY
MOFFITT
& TOWNE
Six Physicians
Said Diabetes.