P
♦
o
■ST
how to make allowance», ax you mlgui heard what »<-emed like • liurih a ii ■ COST OF HONEYMOONS «W SHORT STORIES
DIVERS AfTcn FLARLS
say. for some of bis xing'lar behavior. blow in' ui li up In the air; but. though
Their
Work 1» Deadly, and They
Sometimes after xup|»*r he'd set for I look«! Mt- in the sky. I coll Ida t sis-
When Mr. BiWrll -Talked."
Do .Not Live Long.
hours, not replyin’ to things I'd ask nothin' to account for II* sound, an' I HOW THOSE SPENT IN WASHINGTON
The lute Wilson 8. Bissell was a
Fearl fislc-ra do not live long They
MAY VARY IN EXPENSE.
him. but talkiu' In a low mutter to just xtopix-d short where 1 was. wou
lose friend of Ftvsident develaud. and often dive to « depth of 100 feet or
himself, lookin' off over the desert like delin'. Then, off toward« the butte
when
he was a member of the cabinet more, and the strain wears them out
be was gazin' at somethin' miles nn' which 1 was heudii' for, 1 could see at •«WeBroou«, «• • tule, Are He-
the president talked very frankly with before their lives are half over. From
By Edmund Stuart Roche
•
mile« away. Then gen'rally, about th - first ten« an’ then right way» hundreds
••rfflean of the I’rlee uf Thins» »■
him and often at him when be was these depths a diver usually bring»
full of the moon, lie'd cook up mes
of little wavin' columns of Sand, each
«
W-ldal Tour»— How $300 a Da> Ha»
0
ready criticism: some other member of two oyster shells eueb “trip." It is on
of
desert
herbs
an'
bottle
up
tlie
Juice
-
one
in
a
whirl,
growin'
all
the
time
• "i iiriuht, r ' -i'bu f.'hnuiid >tuait Ri*h> 4
•pe»t >• • Hotel la lhe Capital.
from 'em. an' when I'd inquire what higher an' higher an' bigger an' reelin'
the cabinet. Among other things which the mother of pearl in these that the
Why 1» it that so many bridal cou the president did not like were cabinet Europeuu depends for bls sure profit.
he was tryln’ to get at he'd Just give a on towards me. Then the sand whirls,
ples come to Washington to spi-ml their biterview ». aipl one day he express«! Fearls are "plums,” which only oecu-
HE little party nl>out Calkin«' low chuckle way down in Ids throat which first along Just Jostled each oth
•lonally fall to his lot. Divers work
camp tire consisted of the The an’ stare at me wlt'^ut sayin’ nothin', er, all Joined together an’ came sweep honeymoons? Perhaps the question can his mind freely ui>on the subject, say for a wage, and all the shells brought
and
that
was
all
I'd
ever
get
out
of
in'
on
in
a
swayin'
wall
like
waves
on
not
be
satisfactorily
answered,
but
the
osophist, a dried up little man
ing that the constant interviews with up are the property of the 'employer.
with pinched feature« and a him. He had a dirty lookin' old b<K>k. a beach. Blasts of hot. witherin' wind fact remains that the capital is a great cabinet officers In the public press on In “Studies In Brown Humanity''
bound
In
spotted,
black
leather,
with
pareh«l
the
air,
an
’
deep
clouds
of
dust
Mecca for the newly Wedded. Some
waxy complexion, the old lady with the
ali sorts of trivial subjects were undig Hugh Clifford describes Malay pearl
black mitts and myself. The Tbeoso- curious hsikin' writln' on the ynller spread over the sky like a curtain an' people say that it is because Washing
pages,
like
I'd
never
seen
before,
tluM
blurred out the sun. Then It grew ton 1» restful and that at this one pe nified. The day this lecture took place IlHher». They anchor on the oyster
phist hail been discoursing <>X occult
latls or as near them as possible, be
matter» in general, as was usual with he set a heap by. He'd get this old dusk, an' close all round me I could riod In their lives men and women do a newspaper man bad Interviewed Bis •ays. and the diving takes place twice
book
out
an'
read
it
by
the
fire
of
an
hear
the
same
sound
of
flappin'
an'
sell
about
affairs
In
the
postotHce
de
not
care
for
bustle.
They
want
to
be
him when a patient audience was avail
• day.
able, and had but Juxt concluded a lit evenin' for an hour at a time, an’ then rustlin' I bad heard that night by the able t<*> devote some thought to each partment and hail prepared a very good
“All the boats are manned at morn
he'd
take
a
stick
an'
draw
queer
fig
fire,
an'
low
chucklin
’
sounds
like
luna-
other without fear of personal acci story, using quotation marks freely.
tie dissertation on the nature of ele
ing and evening, and the Sulu boys row
mental«, "those strange, almost un gers on the sand, triangles, circles an' tics laughin', an' strange blammerlu' dent. Whatever the reason, the fact 1 here was not much in the interview, them out to the point selected for the
known, creatures of the astral light,” such like, lookin’ at the book now an voices, an’ mixed In with them ull the remains that the annual influx of brides no subject of Importance, and it ap day's operations. The white man In
then, like he was follerin' some par shrill sound of Fete's, like he was there and grooms amounts to at least 20,000
as he expressed it.
peared In different papers under head charge always goes with them in order
Calkins had been listening with th« tic'lar directions, an' mumblin’ to him flyin' round in the air with them other persons.
to keep an eye upon the shells, to resus
self
in
a
sort
of
singsong
way
all
the
invls'ble
Jays
an'
enjoyin'
the
circus.
The munager of one of the hotels of lines such as “Interview With the F.
deepest interest and remarked con
citate exhaust«l divers and generally
M.
G.,
”
“
Discussed
by
Bissell,
”
“
Mr.
time.
“
All
this
had
come
on
In
less
time
the city was asked in regard to the ex
fldentially to the old lady with th«
to lisik after his own interests.
“One mornin’ when I was startin’ out than tt takes me to tell it. An' talk penses of a honeymoon.
Bissell Talks,” etc.
black mitts, "The less you an’ me,
"Fresently a man lowers himself
The uext day a dozen messengers In
“Is a honeymoon In Washington too
ma'am, an’ these here gen'lemen or for the shaft Pete made excuse alxiul about stampedin’ an’ panics! I was
slowly over the side, takes a long, deep
him
not
feelln'
up
to
work,
sayin
’
he'd
that
panic
struck
an'
Beared
clean
formed
the
Interviewer
that
the
¡s>st-
expensive
for
a
man
with
a
moderate
any one has to do with them there slip
slept bad an’ I'd have to run things by through an' through that I Just tore salary,” the reporter asked, “or can It master general wanted to see him. breath, and then, turning head down
pery bein's the better for ’em!”
myself at the claim that day an' he'd back to camp like h—1 was let loose be be reduced to an economical basis with When he entered the office he found ward, swims Into the depths, his limbs
"You don’t really mean to say, Mr
showing dimly In froglike motions un
hold on lit the camp an' rest up. 1
Calkins, that you have personally laid stayed on at the work later’n common, hind me. askin’ your pardon, ma'am, out displaying the limitations of the that official In a state of frenzy. Ills til, If the water be very deep, he is
for
that
manner
of
speakin
’
.
My
bur
bridegroom's
purse
should
be
happen
to
any knowledge of those marvelous be
large face was red with excitement completely lost to sight.
an’ it was after sundown before ever 1
ings of whom my brother lias Juxt spo starti-d on back. The moon was full ros was there, standin’ close side by be of the less wealthy class?”
“In a few minutes he comes into
and passion.
side,
with
their
noses
together,
an'
“
That
question
need
not
be
a
vexed
ken!” exclaimed the old lady, pausing an* shinin' bright In a clear sky, an' It
“What do you mean,” he shouted, view again, his face straining upward,
tremblin'.
Half
blind
with
the
sand
one,
”
replied
the
affable
manager.
“
A
in her knitting, with open mouthed as
yearning with extended neck for the
was deathly still all aliout, except for
honeymoon In Washington can be as “by Interviewing me? What did you air that he now needs so sorely. His
tonishment.
the sound of me shuttlin' on through
put
me
in
quotation
murks
for?
Don't
costly as the purse can buy or It can be
“F’r’aps not. ma’am. Maybe I’ve mis the sand. I could see a fire at camp an'
hands cleave the water in strong down
spent on an amazingly small amount, if yon know that cabinet officers must ward strokes; his form grows momen
took the kind of tieln's the gen'leman Pete movin' round an’ bondin' over
you
will,
of
course,
consider
the
luxury
not
be
quoted?"
And
much
more
to
was referrin’ to. P’r’aps I’m all wrong,” now an’ then, an’ I put it up as he was
tarily more distinct, until the fixed,
afford«! by our modern hotels.
the same effect.
responded Calkins. I’ll give you the hurryin’ round gettln’ the bacon an’
tense expression of his staring face Is
“
At
this
moment
I
have
in
mind
a
story of my slng'lar meetin’ with ’em, coffee ready. But when I'd climbed up
When the newspaper man got a plainly visible. Then the quiet surface
man from Chicago who brought his chance be asked If there had been n of the sea splashes in a thousand drops
an’ then you can Judge about the whole the little slope to camp I seen right
bride here on their wedding trip. Their misquotation and received a negative of sun steep«l light as Ids head tears
thing for yourself, ma'am!
away I'd mistook what was oceupyin'
living expenses amounted to something reply. "Why, I was fixing up a little through It. and his bursting lungs, ex
"Ten years ago come July I was him an' that he hadn’t struck a lick to
like $300 a day, that amount being story for your benefit,” the Journalist pelling the imprisoned air. draw in tlie
work In’ in off the desert from a pros ward gettln' supper, but was Just boil
spent In the hotel. But, then,” the said. “I thought you would want breath which they crave In long, bard
pectin’ trip south an’ east of the Carga in’ weeds an' things in the big kettle
manager added, “this man had an al people to know that you were a mem gasps. If the dive has been a deep one
Muchacha country, where I'd been over the fire, lookin’ wild eyed an' mut
most unquenchable thirst for rare old ber of the cabinet and attending to a little blood may be seen to trickle
stumpin' about chippin' rock all the terin' to himself like he always did
wines and things In season and out of business. Now. really, general, you from nose and mouth and eurs. At
spring without strikin’ anything that when he had one of them spells on.
season. But there is just one thing I ought to feel flattered.”
'd anyways do to tie to. My provisions His black book was layln’ open on a
times even the eye sockets oozi- blood,
wish to say In connection with the
“Oh, I know there's uo harm in it, the result of fearful pressure to which
had about give out. It was growin’ too flat rock by the fire, an’ every now an’
American
bridegroom.
I
cannot
recall
and you meant well, but I must not be the diver has been subjected.”
hot to work, an’ the water was gettin' then he’d look at It an' then drop a
one Instance where the quality does quoted or Interviewed. Cabinet off!
low in the tanks, so I'd give it up for pinch of somethin’ Into the kettle. He
not hold good, be he a man of wealth cers must not talk. And look at the
that year an' was coalin' in to potter was so took up with bls work that lie
CHILDREN ARE SANE.
or one of modest Income. He never headlines," lie continued, flourishing a
round about a little dry ranch I owned didn't seem to know that I'd got back
questions the price of things. This paper. "‘Mr. Bissell Talks,' blankety
near the Duarte. I was travelin’ by to camp an' didn't make no answer
But Grownup People, Mont of Them,
even proves true concerning the en blank it!”
peaks an’ a little pocket compass, by when I asked what was up. Seeln’
Are More or Leaa Innnne,
gagement of our apartments. He
night mostly, on account of the heat, how he was occupied. I reckoned I'd
The newspaper man could stand It
There is one disadvantage which is
spends
his
money
generously
and
with
an’ the country I was goln’ through best not dixturb him an' so lighted a
no longer and laughed outright, and Involved in the very nature of educa
out consultation.
was new to me. I’d been five days fire for myself a little ways off from
finally the good natured Bissell Joined tion—that Is, that we have to assume
“I remember we bad as guests at him, although he was still far from
makin' seventy mile an’ had that many where he was doin' bls fool boilin' an'
the same time with our $300 a day pleased. The Interview and the bead that grownup people are representa
more to get over before ever I'd strike experimentin’. I was turnin' away to
couple a newly wedded pair from New lines, coming on the heels of the Cleve tive. We have even to go the length
‘French Joe’s,’ the nearest place where fetch the coffeepot an' fryln' pan when
England. Their dally expenses were land lecture aliout cabinet officers talk of assuming that grownup people are
there was any white man reg'larly liv
Pete screeched out: ’I’ve got it! Mein
$10.
Now, using these figures, which ing too much, had greatly disturbed sane. When we talk about encouraging
in’, so far as I then knew. This waS
He < inplicd the ore »ack.
Gott, I’ve got it!’ He was dancin'
are entirely accurate, one can quickly him. He was apparently the first man health in children and discouraging
why I was kind of surprised when we
morbidity, wbeu we talk of such and
round the Are like a wild man, wavin’ an' my heart bumpin’ hard, my breath see that luxurious living—It can be
was windin’ up the sixth night's trav-
such a child being abnormal or inter
alsiut gone an' my head in a whirl, I purchased for the latter amount—Is not to violate the new Instructions.
elln’, it bein' Just before sunup, to see his arms in the air, snappin’ his Angers
esting or neurotic or u genius, we are
had Just one clean cut idea left, which so frightfully expensive as our out of
smoke rlsln' from n little granite butte an’ all the time half slngln' to himself.
all the time taking for granted that we
was that the sooner I got out of that town friends picture. Really the
“
1
felt
that
somethin
’
startlin
’
was
lie Took It Qulerly.
about a mile ahead nn’ a figure movin'
there part of the country, away from amount of money to be spent is more a
John Morley in his life of Gladstone ourselves have attained to what is
round a camp fire. When 1 was a few cornin' off just then an’ there. The
stuff in the kettle was bissin' an’ snap Fete an' his invls'ble pards with the matter of taste than the condition of tells how the latter received bls first profitable and eternal In human nature.
pin' an’ sendin’ up silvery sparkles, an' wings, the safer I'd be. I felt, as you one’s purse.”
Invitation from Queen Victoria to form But there Is at least something that
a thin blue column like mist rose up might say. out of my el'ment somehow
At this Juncture the manager reach a ministry. It was In 18(58. He writes: may reasonably be said upon the other
from the top, wavin’ Into the air an’ with such like surroundin's. I bridled ed and threw open the door of the “On the afternoon of Dec. 1 be received side. It may at least very plausibly
growin’ all the time higher an' bigger a burro, threw on an' cinched up my state bridal suit, displaying a verita at Hawarden the communication from be maintained that It Is children wbc
an' kind of fakin' form as It rose. Then saddle in lesx'n a minute, snatched up ble glimpse of fairyland. This cham Windsor. T was standing by him,’ are, age after age, sane and reliable
came a sound like a swishin’ of great a canteen an’ was off with a short ber Is the most expensive room in the says Mr. Evelyn Ashley, ‘holding his and grownup people who are, age aft
er age, more or less fantastic and dis
wings Jhrough the air all about us, an' pitchin' lope, not much knowln* or car hotel. Its size does not differ materi
concerting. The great majority of
you could feel the cold draft they made in’ which way I. was travelin’. The ally from the less elegantly furnished
grownup people in any age will be in
as the Invisible bein’s they belonged to wind an' the sand an’ the gen'ral rooms, but In magnificence It rivals the
all probability slightly insane; for since
swung round the Are. Then all of a whoop up I've spoke of followed me most gorgeous bedchambers of Euro
no human philosophy is perfect, and
sudden It grew Ice cold, though I stood up for a little time, but died out at last pean palaces. One speedily realizes
since every human philosophy natural
there close to the blaze, an’, bein' nat when I'd got clean away, an' the sun that to comprehend Its beauty color
ly treats itself as If It were perfect, the
urally rattled by such golu's on, I just showed up bright once again in a clear temperament becomes a necessity.
chances are In every generation that
cloudless sky. I had a rough time get
toppled over like.
Investigation reveals walls of plain
the majority of educated people will be
“What happened next, of course, I tln' in, but worked on to 'French Joe's' moire damask, the color of which deep
ecstatically certain of something that
don’t know, but I must have been as an' after restin' there for a day went ens from the faintest shade of shell
Is quite untrue. Children, on the other
good as stone dead all that night, for on in by slow stages.
pink to the rich blush of the rose. This
band, it might be maintained, repre
“I consulted my lawyer. Colonel Me effect Is continued in the less rich hang
the sun was well up when I looked
sent the actual primary and untouched
about an' found myself layln’ on my V’ey, as to what my rights was undei ings and draperies of the same tints,
human nature. Whatever agrees with
blankets, with Fete potterin' round the my contract with Fete an’ give him while the carpet reflects the same lines,
that is sane; whatever disagrees with
Are fryin' bacon. He was powerful the best way I could, the queer facts which become lightened by windows
It is eccentric. Children are always
cheerful an' gayer'n ever I'd seen him. In the case, but lie wouldn't take no covered with rare old lace. The furni
children, or, to limit the matter with
but when I got up an' went over to pay for consultin' an’ wouldn’t give me ture Is of Louis XIV. period, the color
more precision, babies, at any rate, are
where be was cookin' he Just looked no advice, except—which riled me con scheme I b carried out In the upholster
always babies. But few will be so
up with n grin an’ made no kind of al slderable, him not bein' asked concern Ings of figured damask In dainty floral
paradoxical as to maintain that men
I'islon to what had gone on nlglit be In' my health an’ bein' no doctor—for designs and scroll effects, while the
are always men or women always wo
fore. After breakfast he surprised me me to go home an’ rest up for a month four poster bedstead, with Its canopy,
men.-- Black and White.
considerable by Bayin' that, bein’ as 1 an’ keep out of the sun.
is said to be an exact copy of the orlg
looked kind of done up. I'd best stny
“I’ve never seen ‘Dutch Fete' again, Inal at Cluny, the cost of the bed alone
Aii Eloquent Peroration.
where I was an’ hold down the camp but I heard of him In less'n a year as being enormous.
“And,” said the rising young poll
an’ he'd go on up to the shaft by him rollin' In coin an’ gamblin' an' brenkln'
“But how do you make the expenses
tlclan as be reached bls eloquent pero
self. Then he went off hummln’ a tune nil the games wherever he travelisl run up to $300 a day?” inquired the
ration, “I predict that our candidate
“Then came a sound like a stclahln’ of Just before sundown he showed up Then next I was told he'd been killed reporter.
will, when the votes are counted, be
ifreat ulnya."
again way out on the flat, cornin' in down In Texas.
"Quite easily enough. This room, in
found to have ridden to success upon
from
the
claim,
an'
I
seen
he
was
trav
cluding
bath,
Is
$25
a
day.
Such
guests
"Now.
I
leave
you
to
Judge,
ma
’
am.
”
hundred yards away, the tall, thin man
a tidal wave, of glory that will have
elln'
slow,
with
some
heavy
weight
in
as
occupy
an
apartment
of
that
sort
de
concluded
Calkins
solemnly,
“
whether
by the tire looked up for the first time,
swept all before it like wild fire break
an', Beein’ me coinin', he balled me, an’ the ore sack slung over his shoulder I wasn’t right In suggestin’ that I'd mand a private dining room, the latter
ing in flying spray upon the strand
the sound of his voice brought It right When he got Ids wind after climbin' run against some of them mysteriously ranging in price according to the elab
where the sun of victory shall blazi
back to me who he was. I'd met him up the steep slope to camp, he told me shadowy bein's the gen'leman was re oration of the room and the table fur
forth its most effulgent rays upon the
some years before down about Tucson, to fetch out the canvas layln’ under ferrin' to an' that It wa'n’t no ways nishing, say $25 for the dining room a
close of one of the most noble, most
“MY MISSION IS TO PACIFY IRELAND.”
where he'd set himself up for a bad my beddin’ an' he’d show me somethin' desirable to be mixed up In any kind day, and $50 Is disposed of at once.
memorable campaigns that have ever
worth
Beein'.
When
I'd
laid
It
out
near
Now,
$100
for
three
meals
for
two
peo
of
dealin's
with
’
em.
There's
them
bur
man an' went by the name of ’Dutch
the tin*, he emptied the ore sack on to ros broke out of the corral again!” ple is not so much, after all. when price coat on my arm while be in his shirt been launched upon the sea of politics
Pete.’
sleeves was wielding an ax to cut down to gather strength and carry all be
"He was as ugly to look at as ever I It an’ laughed when he seen my eyes And Galkins left us on what seemed to less wines are served with luncheon and a tree. I'p came a telegraph messen fore It like the cyclone sweeping across
dinner.
seen a man. He had small black eyes widen out. There was at least two doz me quite an imaginary alarm.
ger. He took the telegram, opened it the broad prairies from which even
“Game, fruit and vegetables out of
“Well. I never!” exclaimed the old
close together, a thin, waxy, big lamed en clean gold nuggets of all shapes an'
and read It, then handed it to me, the orb of day has disappeared in ter
sizes,
from
ns
big
as
a
plum
to
the
size
season
are
worth
their
weight
In
gold,
lady
with
the
black
mitts
after
draw
face an' thick, straight black hair Just
speaking only two words, “Very sig ror.”
of
my
fist.
I
was
that
took
aback
at
so
$100
Is
a
mere
bagatelle.
The
re
Ing a long breath as Calkins departed
grizzlin'. He’d bad considerable school
nificant,” and at once resumed his
in’, so 'twas generally reported, havin’ this showln' that I Jnst couldn't speak I echoed tills somewhat Indefinite aen maining $150 is paid for drawing room, work. The message merely stated that
r/YOinllon of the FoldinK Bed.
for
a
minute.
Then
at
last
says
I.
tinient. The Theosopbist was serlom room and board for maid, exclusive of General Grey would arrive that even
been somethin’ like a doctor In Ids own
Mrs. De Flat—Have you anything
carriage."
country, an’ he could speak a dozen 'Where did them come from?' An’ he and silent
Ing from Windsor. This of course im new In folding beds?
Meanwhile the couple from New Eng
languages like he was born to 'em, an' says, still laughin’, ‘Them come from
Dealer—Only this, madam, and it
plied that a mandate was coming from
me
saracens
mid
the
Moo«.
the
claims.
’
‘
Whose
claims?
’
then
says
land
were
serenely
content
In
their
when he was In camp he was always
The Saracens called the moon Ca- apartment—a bright room, with adjoin the queen charging Mr. Gladstone with really is quite a success On arising in
I.
‘
Whose
but
my
own?'
replies
he.
experimentin’ with herbs an' mln'rals.
the formation of bls first government. the morning you touch a spring and it
bar the Great, and the crescent still
boilin’ an’ mixin' an’ monkeyin’ with kind of short like, and then I quit a«k surmounts the Turkish mosques and Is ing bath and every comfort, which After a few minutes the blows ceased, turns into a washstand and bathtub.
In'
questions
an
’
got
right
away
down
cost them $3 a day. Their meals, being
'em generally, so folks said. He looked
nnd Mr. Gladstone, resting on the han After your bath, you touch another
emblazoned on the green standard of
nt me without «peakin' nt first w hen to thlnkln* what a third of them nug the prophet. Schlegal mentions a story ordered Judiciously from an elaborate dle of his ax, looked up and, with spring, nnd it becomes a dressing case,
once I’d got up to the tin', but he didn't gets an' the claims they come from that Mohammed "wished to pass with menu, amounted to $6, while the com deep enrnestness In his voice and with with a French plate mirror. If you
no ways seem to recollect meetln' me was worth, that bein’ the share I was bls disciples as a person transfigured bined tips of husband and wife reached great intensity In his face, exclaimed. breakfast in your room, a slight pres
before, an’ I didn't let on tbnt I'd ever to have under our contract, as you'll In n supernatural light and that the the Bum of $1, making the total $10. “My mission Is to pacify Ireland.” He sure will transform It Into nn exten
These two young people enjoyed the
seen him. Then, when he’d looked me recollect, mn am.
ded table After breakfast, you pre»'
“Ever since the night I'd been knock credulity of bls followers saw the life in the public dining room, seeing then resumed Ills task ami never said these three buttons nt once nnd you
over, he was no end obligin' an' told
another
word
till
the
tree
wns
down
'
"
moon,
or
the
moon's
light,
descend
up
well dressed guest« at table, which fre
me where to get water for my burros ed out Fete had gone off on a new lead
have an upright piano. That's all it
on him, pierce his garments and re quently proves one of the most pleas
from a big tank Just by camp an' sug altogether. He’d quit camp first thing plenish him.
will do, except that when you die it
ing sights of their trips. There they
llendy For the Tent.
ge.;ted I’d better settle 'town with'Idin nft-r sunup an' would never allow of
can l»c eluingi-d Into a rosewood coffin —
"That tic rat kit. for the moeu which had music, lights aud fiuweis girioTe,
me
goln'
with
him
up
to
the
claims
for a day or two an’ rest up nn' look
A teacher In one of* the Sc-iiObiS UeAt —New York Vi eekly.
still forms a national, or, rattier, reli which they were at as much liberty to
over on the next butte, about a mile
Fhllndelpliia had one day been so dis
gious,
characteristic
of
the
Mohammed
glvln'
out
some
fool
reason
or
other
for
enjoy for their $10 a day as the western turbed by the buzzing of lips and sliuf
away. There wax plenty of dry cotiete
She Won.
grass all nbout camp, an', bavin’ a long wantin’ to go up alone. This had gone ans may perhaps have its foundation couple for their $300 a day.
fling of feet of the children that she
He was a philosopher and a talker
on
for
three
days
’
runnin
’
,
each
night
in
the
elder
xuix-rstitlon
or
pagan
ldola
ways yet to go. I concluded to fall In
“True, our state bridal suit is in con was on the verge of distraction. Fi She was- a woman of action. They
try of the Arabs.”
with his Idea an’ stop awhile before Fete cornin' back like he had the first
stant demand, still a honeymoon can be nally she said: “Children. I cannot stood together on the bridge And watch
time, with a sack full of nuggets, an'
•pent In Washington on a wonderfully stand so much noise. Flease be quiet, ed a tug that wns hauling a long Hue
tacklin' the rest of my trip.
1« to n««rer.
naturally I began gettln' riled at bein'
•mall amount of money without dis for a little while at least. Let me see of bnrges up the river.
“That same mornin' I went over with
laid on the shelf that way, a«' my «1 • Aunt Jane—Helen, I saw that young playing penurious qualities, a trait of
him to the other butte to look nt Vls
If you can't be so still that you could
"Ixxik there, my dear.” said he
rioslty got to workln’. I more'n half man kiss you last evening.
Claims, nn’ they all showed up very
“Such Is life. The tug is like the man.
Helen—I don't think ydu need to com character from which the average hear a pin drop.”
ausplcioned .that Fete's big luck was
American bridegroom Is absolutely
promisin', bein' every ways the best
Instantly every child "became ns still working and tolling, while the barges,
some ways «-elated to them queer jo plain. nuntie. I don’t think he would free.”—Washington Post.
prospects I’d seen In some years, an'
as a mouse. Then a little boy In a like the women, are”—
have
given
the
kiss
to
you
if
you
had
in's
on
Hint
night
by
the
fire.
Then
I
when. In the evenin’, after we’d got
back seat piped out with marked Im
His wife gave him no time to finish
Biade up my mind that I wa'n't goln' been there Instead of me.—Boston
back to camp, he proposed my boldin'
Theory anil Praetlce.
patience:
the sentence. “I know,” she said. “The I
Transcript.
to
get
wiser
by
Just
mopin'
round
camp
on where I was an' workin' in with
Professor of Rhetoric — Here is an
“Well, let her drop!” — Philadelphia tug does all the blowing and the barges
Danirerna».
him for grub an' a third interest in ev an' concluded to rustle almut on the
Item of news I would like In the pa Ledger.
bear all the burden ”
quiet an' Inquire Into things. So next
"An' bow'« yer husband tlie day?” per.
•
erything after I’d put In «'■year's time I omln’. Fete havin' gone off. ns usual.
Why Kitty 1» >'Pa»»."
iXr Official Time.
City Editor (to ofikr boy)—Here. Ben
It ended by my cornin' to the terms he I hung round a couple of hours after asked Mrs. Rafferty of Mrs Muldoon.
A great many yeafs ago the people of
Jerrold—As I was saying, I had $50
propost'd. I didn't much enre for such doin' my chores an' then filled my can "Sure, an’ he’s no better,” replied nie. rewrite thl«. Fix It up to print.—
on Topnotch at 100 to 1. The race was Egypt, who had many idol«, worshiped
a ' -rttier ns Pete, but the idea of get teen an', fakin' along a snack for my Mrs. Muldoon. “The doctor's nfrald Cleveland leader.
the cat among others. They thought
six furlongs and Topnotch won
tin' the Interest In them claims stood noonin', started out on the trail to the morality will set In.”—Detroit Free
Press.
•be was like the moon, because she was
Wkara «he Failed.
.Harold—What was the time?
off all such like objections, an' I start claim.
Maybell—Can you keep a «ecret?
Jerrold—Why—er-1 heard the clerk more active at night and because her
ed In to work next day braced up an'
“The sand was hot an' the air stiflin',
Mot « Bit Aeeonimodatl««.
eye« changed like the moon So they
Ellaabeth—Ye«, eaklly. But I can't •trike 2 Just as I woke up!—Puck
cheerful at the prospect ahead of me.
an' I had an uncomfortable reelin'
“
Meanest
folks I ever saw In the help any one el«e keep one.—Judge.
made an idol with a cat'« head and
"I'ete Was a sullen, notional kind of a somehow that I wns out on a danger
city." growled the man from the way-
Tn Avoid rabllrlty.
naffied it F««bt. The same name they 1
man. an' his goln's on was generally so ous errand an' that I'd be up to my
Young Author (who tMnks hlrufftlf gave to t*e moon, for the Word men*
There Is no daibt that the warns n
altogether out of the common that I'd neck In trouble before ever I'd make back district. “Why, wbefi yofl find a
begun to put him tip as bein' Just a lit the nmnd trip. I'd shuffled along feller goln’ rtcht your way with one o' who love« you forgives you too much. famous!—I believe I should enjoy HIT "the face < the moon.” The word fen«
been clanged to “Paa” and “f*uC and
tie gone, an’ while the l<lea didn't through the sand not more'n quarter them big cars lie won't give you a lift While the wwtnan whom you love for- vacation better If I could go.Jncog*to
Friend Gbgff idea! Trojel undt« t* come at last to be “Puss." the naqw
tnake me no ways comfortable when way to the butte when on a sudden I wltlmut chargin' you a nickel tot lt"~ glveB you too litt!«ar-New At-b'ans
Exchange.
roUF nom de ph in>*
Ttmea-Democrat,
the most of us give to the cat
>e was together, it brought me some
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SWORD EVOLUTION
The Tra nail Ion I'rom lhe Aneleat <o
the Madera Blaffa.
A great many imslern sword forms
are really nothing more than de
scendants, or. rather, improvement», ou
the |H-euliar boomerang sjiap«l sword
of the aih-ii'iii Egyptian», the parent
of the «clmder. yataghan, fak-hiou and
saber Afrii.i south of the Sahara,
u as perhaps the greatest museum for
old swords In the world, lu the Su
dun ami central Africa the old sickle
and boomerang shap«l sword«, which
the ancestor» of the modem uegroes
receiied i-euturie« ago from the Egyp
tian». were still made and In use. More-
or er. the knight» of Malta were at one
time famous awordmaker», and their
peculiar long, double edged blades, such
as the crusaders carried, were exported
to the Barbary states, where they were
In large demand. From there they
were taken across the Sahara to the
Sudan and exchanged for Ivory, and It
w as on this account that they were still
found in central Africa.
In the sixteenth century u peasant
living on the outskirts of Toledo, Spain,
invented the famous Toledo rapier,
which soon became the popular weapon
air over Europe. Prior to that time
the swords used In Europe were heavy
affairs for hewing, slashing and cutting,
but with the advent of the Toledo
rapier men liad to learn to thrust as
well as to hack and slash. With the
rapier came the art of fencing, the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries be
Ing the age of the sword par excel
lence.
MORAL SUASION,
The l-:>nerlen<*e of n School OIBctal
Who Advocated It.
This story is told at the expense ot
a teeently appointed supervisor of a
public school in this city:
One day she happened to be visiting
a school where a young Incorrigible
wns undergoing punishment for a se
ries of misdemeanors.
The teacher cited him as "the worst
boy In the school—oue I can't do any
thing with. I’ve tried everything In
the way of punishment.”
“Have you tried kindness?” was the
gentle inquiry of the other lady.
"I did at first, but I've got beyond
that now.”
At the close of the session the lady
asked the boy if he would call and see
her ou the following Saturday. A boy
arrived promptly at the hour appoint
ed. The lady showed him her best pic
tures, played her liveliest music and
set before him a luncheon on her dain
tiest china, when she thought it about
time to begin her little sermon.
“My dear,” she began, “were you not
very unhappy to have to stand in th«
corner before all the class for punish
ment?”
"Please, ma'am,” broke In the boy,
with his mouth full of cake, “that
wasn't me you saw. It was Pete, and
he gave me 10 cents to come here and
take your Jawing.”—Philadelphia Ledg
er.
A Lti Ins Book Marker.
The mystery of life has rarely fur
nished the thinker with so strange
a problem as that which arises out of
a tact Instanced by Mr. W. H. Hudson,
the naturalist. Mr. Hudson had a piece
of snake skin, which for years he used
as a book marker. It changed color
periodically and shed Its scales. It con
tluued to shed its scales in this fash
ion for ten years, each succeeding set
of scales being smaller than the last
Some fairly recent books would make
even a hippopotamus hide book marker
change color were it to find Itself be
tween their leaves. The sensitive book
marker capable of blushing rose red or
paling with emotion may no doubt be
a feature in lhe literary life of the
amazing future and perhaps in the
literary world. "Some Emotions of a
Moral Book Marker” is a thinkable
title when we consider the strides of
modern "thought.”—London Outlook.
The Compna» riant.
On the western prairie Is found what
Is called the compass plant, which Is
of great value to travelers. The long
leaves at the base of Its stem are placed,
not flat, as in plants generally, but in
a vertical position, and present their
edges north and south. The peculiar
propensity of the plant Is attributed to
the fact that both surfaces of Its leaves
display nn equal receptivity for light,
whereas the upper surfaces of the
leaves of most plants are more sensi
tive to light than the lower. The leaves
thus assume a vertical position and
point north and south. Travelers on
dark nights are said to feel the edges
of the leaves to ascertain tlie point of
the compass.
Anliclpnted by Bhakeapenre.
“Is Baunerly as egotistic as he
looks?”
“I think so. He wrote to a friend
not long ago and In the course of the
communication remarked that William
Shakespeare seemed to bave anticipât
ed in n somewhat rude and unfinished
form one of his (Bannerly's) pet theo
ries.”—Cleveland I’la in IX'aler
A Smnll fir» in nine
d.ong before the Revolution a young
printer In Fhllndelpliia. when he had
taken off bls working apron nt night,
u»«d to sit poring c «!-! mk dozer, of cld
volumes by firelight. He soou knew
them by heart nnd hungered for more
But books were costly, and he bad bm
little money.
He had eight or fen cronies, young
men who. like himself, wore eager for
knowledge. Ranging his books on a
shelf, lie Invited bis friends to do the
same, that each of them might have
the benefit of them all.
Ben Franklin thus laid the founda
tion of the first circulating library in
this country.
Monrnln« In Korea.
Koreaigi wear full mourning for their
fathers. The dress Is of hemp cloth,
with a hempen girdle. A face shield Is
used to show that the wearer is a sin
ner and must not apeak to any one un
less addressed. The costume is re
tained for three years, the shield for
three months. This is worn for a fa
ther only. Secondary mourning Is worn
for a mother nnd no mourning at all
fwa wife. The hat 1» of wicker. Dur
ing the China-Japanese war the United
States minister ordered every Ameri
can citizen to have In readiness a drea«
Of tuts sort for disguise in case of flight.