BANDON RECORDER
“She I* sure t*
»•»!"*
and eranjyles of the old houw
When
wore her friends coming? i*er!i«j» some Briefly.
“Suppose she didn'tf”
thing had occurred to detain them to-day.
"In that case we sim’1 find t,t*>»
This motuing such‘a thing w ould have aj>-
P«*ar<sl toober to be an impossibility, but □icans to bring her out. Wa have ¿u*
now that the tini* had come when she had gjne so f*r to break do*u •••» • trau*
4
o expected^ them, it appeared probable 4t the, last momeut.'.'
"1 feel •> cold •> i«* Ami •• eevwou»
HPmething might have qplay-
» a o eniÀr.h
endùch that
t
? cl them To morrow at latest they couid as a «at. i cuu’t understand how
if you *ere going
not fail to come. She wondered what look so uucoacei aed
they w told do if tliey iji l arrive. Wo lid to sign an invoice or audit an *c< ouut or
of buainea« you
thi j
.11 •. ai• i
‘ana claim anything else in the
het frotu the Girdlestones, or would they could not take it more calmly, i w iah
o
♦ .-. dea-.or to communi'ate with her first? the time would «vine. Tbie •ait-MA -e
ft was »aid of the ancient Jews that
What' el* tie v
alisi upon would be Mrrible.*’
on«* generation stoned the prophets
Ezra, leaning back in hia chair with
sure to be for the liest.
and .the next generation built niotiu
• V
• She went to the window om-e and look- the firelight flickering over his haggard
ments tn their memory. Something
e.l out. It promised tp be a wild right. i but still handsome lace, looked across at
like this might lw said of the American
A CONAN DOVL.I
Far away in the southwest lay a great bis father with a puzzled expression. He
peopl«* and -their forests. . The last gen
:«nulus of rjjged clouds from v^hi'ji | had never yet been uble to determine
dark stc amers i:.dinted over the sky. like | whether the old man was a* consummate
oration wantonly wasteil and almost
the advance guard of nn army. Here and hypocrite or a religious mouomaniae. Burt
destroyeil th«* virgin forests of tin
there a pale star twinkled dimly out lay with his feet in the light of the fire
country, and the present generation
through the rifts, birt rhe greater part and his head sunk back across the arm of
atones for It by trying to reidace them.
of the heavens was black and threatening. the chair, fast'asleep and snoring loudly.
At one'time It really looked as if these
CHAJTER XX.—(Continued.)
"Isn't it time to wakp him up?” Ezra
It was so dark that she could no longer
“Of course. What could be more de see tlie sea. but the clashing, a bootning asked, interrupting tlie reading.
forests were so extensive that defor
estatlon was Impossible. But the tim? lightfully simple? Friend Hurt here does sound of the great waves filled the air
“Yes, I think it is,” his father auswer-
has already come when white pine and ins work, we I airy her through t !"• '-'r And the salt spray came driving in e«l.
Ezra took up- the candle end held it 1404—Jamaica discovered by Columbus
the hard woods have almost disappear leu gate, and lay her on the darkest throuzh the open window. She shut it
part of the rail». Then we miss her gt
and named St. Jago by him.
ed and when the barren hillsides. In the house. There is an alarm ami a and resumed her seat by the fire, shivering over the sleeping man. "What a brute
stead of absorbing sn«l bolding the search. The gate is found oi»u. We nat partly from mid and partly from 'some he looks!” be said. "Did ever you see 1662—Queen Mary 11. of England born.
such an animal in-your life?” .
rains, have turned the water courae» urally go through with lanterns, and find vague presentiment of eval.
1670—The Hudson’s
I'.ay
Company
The navvy was certainly not i a pretty
An
hour
or
more
had
passed
when
she
into alternate thods and dry beds, her on the line. I don't think we need
formed in England.
heard a step upon the stairs and a knock sight. His muscular ayms and legs were
r, or any one else, then''’
thereby destroying the water power and fear tli# in'
crime to her door. It was Rebecca, with all a sprawl, and his head hung back at a 1707 Legislative union of England atid
"He's
a
arp
'un,
is
the
guv
’
nor,
”
Inflicting low« Instead of producing
Scotland put into effect.
a cup of tea upon a tray and some breittl strapge angle to his body, so that his tiery
wealth. Almost every newspaper and cried Burt, slapping his thigh enthusias and butter. Kate was grateful at this at red beard pointed upwards, exposing all 1775—The Queltec Act became law, pro
magazine that 1« now issued contains tically. "It'a the downiest lay I have ti ntion, for it saved Iter from having to the thick, sinewy throat beneath it. His
viding for the government of Can
ada by Governor and Council.
an alarming article or item in regard heard this many a day."
go down to the dining room and face Ezra eyes were half open ami looked bleared
“Mr. Hurt can do his part of the busi
to the ruined forests, The heat the ness out of doors. We can entice her and his unpleasant looking companion. and unhealthy, while his thick lips puffed .1776 Adoption of the Pine Tree (lag by
great aud general court of Massachu
present generation can do Is to chwk out upon some excuse. There is no rea Rebecca laid down the tray, ami then to out with a whistling sound at every ex
ills 'dirty brown coat was
setts.
deforestation and plant more' trees son why any one should have a suspicion her mistress' surprise turned back and piration.
shut the door. The girl's face was very thrown open, aud <5ut of one of the pock 1788—Maryland ratified the Constitution
Happily both the United States govern of the truth.”
ex- ets prptruiied a short thick cudgel with
of the United States.
"But they know that she is not mad.” ; ale. and
merit and many of the State govern
a leaden head. John Girdlestone picked
cited.
“
They
will
think
that
she
did
it
on
ments are now doing all they can to ac
1808—Spanish organized a revolt against
it
out
aud
tried
it
in
the
air.
“Here's a note for you,” she said. “It
Napoleon... .Charles IV. of Si>ain
compllsh these ends. In 1895 the Ia*g purpose, The secret will be lucked up in
"1 think I could kill an ox with this,
wns given Mrs. Jorrocks to give you. but
night's
our
three
breasts.
After
one
abdicated in favor of Bonaparte....
islature of Illinois enacted the follow
he.
said.
colo- I am better at climbing stairs than she-
Union Temperance Society formed
"Don't wave it about my bead,” cried
ing law: "The Governor shall annual V<>rk our friend here goes to the fi rm i<. so I brought it up.” She handed Kate
nies as a prosperous man. and the
in Saratoga county. New York, this
Ezra.
"As
you
staud
in
the
firelight
ly, In the spring, designate by official of Girdlestone holds up its head once a little slip of paper as she spoke.
being rhe beginning of the Prohibi
brandishing
that
slick
in
your
long
arms
proclamation a day to be designate«! more, stainless and irreproachable.”
be
that
her
A note for her ! Could it
tion movement in the United States.
you
are
less
attractive
than
usual.
’Arbor Day,' to be observed through
“Speak low 1” said Ezra, in a whisper, fi¡ends had arrived and had managed to
John Girdlestoue smiled and replaced 1827—French National Gourd disbanded.
out the State as a day for planting "I hear her coming downstairs.” They send a message to her? It must be so.
the
cudgel in the sleeper's pocket. "Wake 1854—First railroad opened in Brazil.
As
she
did
trees, shrubs and vines about the homes' listened to her light springy footstep as She took it from, the maid,
up, Burt," he cried, shaking .him by the 1856— Montmorency bridge fell.
so
she
noticed
that
her
hands
were
shak
"Come
here,
Burt,
”
it
passed
the
door,
and along highways and atsout publh
aim. "It's half-past eight.”
grounds within this State, thus contrib be said, after a pause, "She is at work ing ns though she had the ague.
The navvy started to his feet and then 1856—Colorado river expedition ended.
“
You
are
not
well,
Rebecca,
”
said
Kate,
utlng to the wraith, comforts and at on the lawn. Come and have • look at
fill
back into his chair, staring round ’.865—Sir Samuel Cunard, founder of ths
kindly.
Cunard steamship line, died.
lnm vacantly, at a loss as to where he
tractions of our State.” This law, her.”
They all went over to the window and
“Oh. yes. I am. You read your note
187-7- -Occupation of Bayazid by the Rus
albeit It does not appear to have been looked out. It was then that Kate, glanc- and don't mind me,” the girl ansjvered in might be.
"I’ve been asleep, guv’nor,” he said
sians.
drafted by any professor of English ing up, saw the three cruel faces survey- her usua.1 surly fashion. Instead of leav
hoarsely. "Dird you say it was time for 1878—First elevated trains run on Third
literature, Is one of the most salutary ing her.
ing the room she was bustling about the
the job?”
avenue in New York City.
statutes in the State code. From the
“She's a rare, well-built ’un.” said lax' as though putting things in order.
"W'e have made arraugeuieuts by
day when It was instituted. Arbor Day Burt, as he stepped back from the wiu- Kate's impatience was too great to allow which she will be out by the w ithered oak '881—First sod turned in the construc
It is the ugliest job as ever I ber to wait, so she untwisted the paper,
tion of the Canadian Pacific railway.
has been duly observed, and with great dow.
al nine o'clock.
which had no seal or fastening. She had
enthusiasm. Tree planting is an a«‘t of was on.”
"Come on, theu !” said the navvy. "Who 1882—Charles S. Parnell, the Irish lead
"But we can rely upon you?” Girdle hoped in her heart to see the name of her
er, released from Kilmainham jail.
philanthropy. For the man who plants
is a-comin' with me?”
stone asked, looking at him with -puck lover at the end of it. Instead of that her
"W'e shall both come,” answered John 1885—Col. Otter attacked the Canadian
a tree hardly expects to enjoy the ben
ered eyes.
eye fell upon the signature of Ezra Gir Girdlestoue, firmly. "You will need help
rebels at Cut Knife Creek.
efit of it. Ills thought Is. or should be,
“You bet—as long as you pay me,” the dlestone. What could he have to say to
to carry her to the railway line.”
that almost every good thing that he navvy answered phlegmatically.
1888
—
Henry M. Stanley found Emin
her? She moved , the solitary candle on
"Surely Burt can do that himself,’
Pasha on the' shores of Albert Ny-
enjoys is the result of the labors and
to the mantelpiece, and rend the following Ezra remarked. "She's not so
very
anza.
forethought of previous generations,
CHAPTER XXL
nr.te roughly scribbled upon a coarse piece
heavy.
”
1894—Many lives- lost by earthquakes in
The grey winter evening was beginning of paper :
and that, therefore, the least he can do
Girdlestone drew his son aside. “Don’t
Venezuela. .. . International bimetal
is to provide In some little way for the to steal in before the details had all been
“My Dear Miss llarston—I am afraid be so foolish, Ezra," he said. "It must
lic conference met in London.
at
ranged
by
the
conspirators.
It
had
generation that is to follow him. The
your confinement here has been very irk be done with the greatest carefulness and
cynic who says, "Posterity never did grown so chill that Kate had abandoned some to you. I have repeatedly requested precision, and no traces left. Our old 1898—-Spanisih fleet destroyed in battls
her attempt at gardening, and had gone my father to alleviate or modify it, but he
of Manila bay.
anything for me and I do not mean to
business watchward was to overlook ev
back to her room. Ezra left bis father
do anything for posterity” ought to be and Burt by the fire and came out to t* has invariably refused. As he still per erything ourselves, and we shall certainly 1903—Landslide at Frank, B. C., with
sists in his refusal, I wish to offer you
the loss of seventy-five lives.
made to feel mean.
open ball door. The grim old trees looked my aid, and tov show you that I am your do so now.”
“It's a horrible affair!” Ezra said, with 1905—A score of lives lost in a tornado
gaunt and eerie as they waved their naked sincere friend in spite of all that has
a shudder.' "I wish 1 was out of it.”
at IA redo, Texas. ... Steamer Falk
SHOOTING WITH MORTARS.
arms about in the cutting wind. A slight passed, if you could slip out to-night at
"You won't think that to-morrow morn
wrecked off ixinds End, with loss of
fog had come up from the sea and lay nine o'clock and meet me by the withered
ing when you realize that the firm is
nearly 100 lives.
I. Simply a in light wreaths over the upper branches
Hittiae the Targrt
oak at the head of the avenue, I shall see saved and no one the wiser. He has gone
Matter of Mathematica.
1907—'Attempted assassination of Presi
like a thin veil of gauze. Ezra was shiv
How do we hit with the mortars? ering as be surveyed the dreary scene, you safe to Bedsworth, and yon can, if on. Don't lose sight of him.”
dent Cabrera of Guatemala.
you wish, go on to Portsmouth by the
They
both
hurried
out,
and
found
Burt
An observer near the shore who sees felt a hand on his arm, and looking round next'train. I shall manage so that you
standing in front of the door. It was
the target communicates the horizontal saw that the maid Rebecco was standing may find the door open by that time. I
blowing half a gale now, and the wind
and vertical angle at which to lay the beside him.
shall not, of course, go to Portsmouth was bitterly cold. There came a melan
"Haven't you got one word for me?" w ¡th you, but shall return here after drop- choly rasping and rustling from the leaf
mortar and the Instant of time at
which to fire, and the gun does the she said sadly, looking up into his face. ping you at the station. I do this small less wood, aud every now and again a
rest If you were standing at the cen “It's but once a week, and then never a thing to show you that, hopeless as it may sharp crackling sound would announce
be, the affection which 1 bear you is still that some rotten branch bad come crash
ter of a large clock dial laid flat bn the word of greeting.”
“I didn't see you, my lass,” Ezra an
ground and wanted to hit with a base swered. “How does the Priory suit you?" as deep ns ever. Yours, E. Girdlestone.” ing down. The clouds drove across the
Our heroine was so surprised at this face of the moon, so that at times the
ball a man walking around on the out
“One place is the same as another to epistle that she sat for some time dang
side, you would notice how long it took me,” she said drearily, “You asked me ling the slip of p;i|H‘r between her fingers cold, clear light silvered the dark wood
and the old monastery, while at others
the man to get from I to II and again to come here and 1 have come, You said and lost in thought. When she glanced
all was plunged in darkness. From the
from II to III. Then you would de once that you would let me know bow I round. Rebecca had left the room. She open door a broad golden bar was shot
cide whether if the ball were thrown could serve you down here, When am 1 rolled the paper up and threw it into the across the lawn from the lamp in the
Construction work on the line of the
f'.re. Ezra, then, was not So hard-hearted hall. The three figures with their long
over a point halfway between IIII and to know?”
“Wlty, there’s no secret alxiut that. ns she had thought him. He bad used fantastic shadows looked eerie and unnat Erie and Jersey road and the Genessee
V Just as he arrived opposite IIII the
River road is being pushed rapidly.
man and the ball would roach the same You do serve me when you look after my his influence to soften his father. Should ural in the yellow glare.
The South Dakota railroad and ware
“What if she fails to come?”
spot at the same time, it being under father as you have done these weeks slu accept this chance of escape, or should
From the spot where they stood they house commission has decided to order
stood, of course, that he maintained back. That old woman isn't fit to man- she await some word from her friends?
Perhaps they were already in Bedsworth, had a view of the whole of the Priory. freight rates reduced west of the Missouri
age the whole place by herself.”
uniform speed and direction and that
meant, but did not know iiow to communicate Kate could not come out without being river. A new tariff is now being worked
“That
wasn’t
what
you
the ball was thrown with proper force, though,” said the girl, looking at him with with her. If so, this offer of Ezra's was
seen. Above the door was a long narrow out.
Instruments give ua the range and ob- questioning eyes. “I remember your face just what was needed. -In any case, she window which opened upon the staircase.
The balancing of the books of the Penn
servatlons, nnd mechanical devices now as you spoke the words. You had could go on to Portsmouth and telegraph On this Girdlestone and bis son fixed their sylvania railroad for 1907 shows that,
give us the range differences, increas something on your mind, and have now, from there to the Dimsdales. It was too eyes, for they knew that on her way while the system earned $30.000,000 more
ing or decreasing by certain short in only you keep it to yourself. Why won't good an offer to be refused. She made down she would be visible at it. As they than in 1906, it paid $19,5dO,(XM) more
up her mind that she would accept it. It locked, the dim light which shone through for labor, or 65 per cent on the increased
tervals of time, too short for a ship of you trust me with it?”
"I have a great deal to worry me in was past eight now and nine was the it was obscured and then reappeared.
earnings.
any size to escape by attempting to
Those opposed to closing the Red rive»
“She has pass«sl!”
change direction or speed. Our observ- business matters. .Much good it would hour. She stood up with the intention of
petting on her clonk and bonnet.
do telling you about them!”
to navigation had a majority at the hear
“Hush !”
er’s circle has 36,000 divisions.—Cap-
"It's more than that,” said Rebecca,
ing before Major Schtink of the United
(To be continued.)
tain Howell In Scientific American.
doggedly. "Who is that man who has
CHAPTER XXII.
States engineer corps at Fargo, and they
ccnte down ?”
Ezra and his father had composed the
are confident that the plan to dose the
A Watch of the mind.
Iflitb American Inna,
The novel watch for the blind Invent river below Belmont will Is- rejected by
“A business man from Ixtndon. lie lias letter together, and the former handed it
A traveler who recently returned to
Philadelphia was narrating some of his come to consult my father about money to Mrs. Jorrocks, with a request that she ed by George Meyer, a German <vatch- the federal government.
should deliver it. It chanced, however,
Roads running east from Chicago seem
experiences in South America at a ban matters. Any more questions you would that Rebecca, keenly alive to any attempt maker, is designed to supply a reliable
tike to ask?”
to
be all nt s< a regarding the policy to
timepiece
at
a
much
more
moderate
quet of globe trotters the other evening.
"I should like to know how long we at communication between the young mer
be adopted on the testing of the consti
He had skirted the entire coast of are to be kept down here, and what.the chant and mistress, saw the crone hob cost than any yet used by the sightless.
tutionality of the 2-cent maximum rate
South America and had found the inns meaning of it all may be.”
bling down the passage with the note in The dial has an ordinary minute hand, laws passed by many of the States. The
while the hours are indicated l>y twelve matter was taken out of the hands of
or hotels in most sections very poor.
"We are going back before the end of her hand.
"What's that', mother?" she asked.
buttons in relief, each button sinking tite passenger officials by their executive
So bad were they In Peru, ite said, that the winter, and the meaning of it is that
“It's a letter for her,” wheezed the old into the dial in turn with the passage officers some time ago.
one American, who had been thrown in Mis« 11 arston was not well and needed a
The usual cut-and-dried proceedings at
to Jail pending some dispute over his change of air. Now. are you satisfied?" woman, nodding he'r tremulous head in of the hours. To find the time, the fin
gers are passed over the dial, when the meetings of the Grand Trunk Railway of
pajiers and after his release had sought He was determined to allay as far as pos the direction of Knte’s room.
"1'11 take it up,*' said Rebecca eagerly.
depressed button makes known the Canada were varied at the s mi-annual
the hotel of the town, returned the next sible any •uspicions that the girl might
“I am jdst going up there with her tea.”
previously formed.
gathering of the directors of the road in
day to the Jail and bogged that he have
"Thank ye. Them stairs tries my rheu- hour, and the hand gives the minute by Londoto, by heated charges of mismanage
"Ami nhat brings you down here?” she
might lie taken in.
its position. The dial covers a circu ment, and the report of the board was
asked with the same searching look. “You matiz something cruel.”
The most curious sign he had »«w*n don't come down into this hole without
The maid took the note and carried it lar plate which takes the place of the only adopted after earnest appeals for
was in the window of a restaurant in some good reason. I did think at first upstairs. Instead of taking it straight to ordinary hour hand, as its circumfer unity of interest for the company's credit
.Buenos Aires, which read; “American that you might come down in order to sec Lor mistress she slipped info hey own ence has a notch into which each but Jtd been made.
cafe—champagne and fried potatoee." me, but you soon showed ni» that ij room and read every word of it. It ap ton drops in turn as the movement of
An order for 200 refrigerator cars wa»
wasn’t that. There was a time when you peared to confirm her worst suspicions. the works causes the plate to revolve.
—Philadelphia Record.
placed recently by the Northern Pacific
Here
was
Ezra
asking
an
interview
with
waa fond of me.”
as an addition to its equi| nu-nt in order
the woman whom he had assured her that
('•»■•t OS »•» ■■■•
Utah Altitude* for a Kiir.
"Bo I,am now, lass.”
to be fully prepared to handle the annual
The Judge llMened Intently to the
The highest altitude ever reached'by fruit crop of the Northwest. It is ex
"Aye, very fond! Not a word nor a he hated. It was true that the request
was
made
in
measured
words
and
on
a
itMtn's Htory. says a writer In tlie In- look from you last time you came. You
a kite In this country, according to pected that the demands on the roads this
dianapoHa New«. The man was the must hava aome reason,- though, that plausible pretext. No doubt that was ITof. Henry, of the weather bureau, is year will be heavier than ever, and for
.merely to deceive any other eye which
!:!::g the fruit dis-
plaintiff, and had ctxargod his wife with brings you here.”
that recorded recently at the Mount that reason those reai chi:
might rest upon it,. There was an under
"There's
nothing
wonderful
in
•'man
trict are all providing extra equipment,
cruel and abusive treatnwnt. He wws
Weather
station
In
Virginia,
when
an
standing between them, and this was an
hia own father.”
a stuall man. atsl his wife --well, it coming- to
altitude of slightly over 23.060 feet One road which began in 1899 by hand-
"Much you cared for hint in London." a-stgnation. The girl walked swiftly up
ling 118 cars, expects to haul 3.500 tliif
wns at least, evident that tl>e charge
was attained. • At that height a tem
•he cried wlt!| • shrill laugh. “If he was and down the room like a caged tigress,
year.
was
rested on s twtwls of i»*«lblllty.
perature
of
5
degrees
below
zero
striking
her
head
with
her
clenched
,
hands
under the sort yon would not I* the sad
Some of the eastern roads are said to
After the plaintiff had flulatied his dor. It'a my l*lief as you come down in her anger, and biting her lip until recorded. Prof. Henry says that ex fw working out a system whereby ths
blood came. It was some time before she perlments in kite flying have been oar National Educational Association not
testimony the Judge decldsd to sak a after that doll-faced missy upataim.”
■ A* the light faded and the grey of could overcome her agitation sufficiently rled on in other countries where an only will be given a rate of It, cents a
question.
"Mr. Frotible,” Mid lie. "where did evening deepened into darkness Kate sat to deliyer the note, and when she did so altitude of 23.000 feet was recorded. mils for the round trip for its annual
her mistress, ns we have seen, noticed that
you meet your wife, wi»o h*e trrat»d patiently in lier bare little room. A coal her manner was nervous and wild. .She That means a height of about four and convention, which is to be held this year
fire sputtered and sparkle«] in the rusty
at Cleveland, but will continue to receive
you thia way?”
one-third miles.
grate, and there was a. tin bucket full of little drenmed of the struggle which was
the $2 memltership fee which the roads in
“Well, judge.” neturneff ths ftnW'
beeide the fonder from which to re going on in the dark-eyed girl's mind
past years collected for it. without getting
Why the Weaker Sea f
soiiMWvbat meekly, "yxMl •rw if» thia planish it. She was very «mid. so she against the impulse which sirged her to
“Pg. why do they call women th« into conflict with the ruling of the Inter
I
never
did
inent
her.
.Wie
seize
her
imagine«)
rival
by
the
white
way.
JuM drew her single chair up to the bfaze and
state Commerce Commission that it is
weaker sex?”
kiml of overtook tne.
held her hands over it. It wsl a lonesome throat and choke the life out of her. ,
illegnl for the roads to collect this fee
‘
¿That's
something.
I've
never
Been
"It's eight o'clock now," Ezra was sag
and melancholy vigil, while the witid
in connection with the sale <,f tickets and
A well-Informed physicist!
fra whistled through the branches of the ing downstairs. 'T wonder whether she able to figure out mysel?,” responded the* turn over
the amount thus collected
the
fend
parent.
—
Detroit
Free
Tress.
queatiy U1 informed
UM wu<i tweutd drearily u> the cracks « ill come it”
In a grog) sum to tlw aAgociatiu*.
•>*’!, •» far aS tnsy be. give to tbetr
HHI<trf*i tfiw fsmlly names worthily
burnt »•» tiie
and women <>f Vester
daj 4 reki»ccted name gathers about
t*ra«r<
IX UHnuml'ttJ association*? a "Grand
cbh . cn * mottle was tliO best woman I ever
BANDON
Anew," Mid • young mother to her
huebit u<l "X want baby named after
From a literary point of view if la her, and then we will try to pass on
a great pity that Victor Hugo newer grandmother* virtues in another wom
aaw an American tornado.
an, as «all «• on a tombatony ”
Perhaps Mrs. Alfred Gwynn# Van-
derbllt doesn't like a husband 1 who
comes in every night smelling hoi ray.
You can't always tell. Sometimes -a
man who boasts that lie never worries
is being supported by Ills wife or her
relatives.
The Cornell co-ed -who won the col
lege oratorical prize spike on "Men,
Women and Human Beings.” This
hits the most of us.
According to the Atlanta Georgian,
TOO. churches have been found with in
adequate -fire < scapes. Still, that may
not be tlie reason why so many men
•tay away from the services.
'Rte discovery that that “tired feel-
tng" is hereditary leaves very little that
has not been charged up to our dead
and gone ancestors who have no chsn<?e
to say a wprd In self-defense.
Mr. Bryan predicts that Ireland will
her freedom. The- London
Time« will at once decide that Emper
or William has Iwen egging Mr. Bryan
cm to try to make trouble for England.
regain
The mandate having issued that
women must wear flower hats this
year, the lady milliners will now ahow
Dame Nature a few of the opportunl-
tlra aha overlooked in creating the
Aural kingdom.
A number of young men in Kentucky
have formwl a club to abjure smoking,
awes ring, chew ing and drinking.
If,
in addition, they cut out night riding,
for their fel
they may become models
low citizens.
"Uncle Ham's armada Is a success,”
th« St. Louis Gioite- Democrat,
"and all the more because Its mission
ia friendly to all other nations.” Sure.
Ala» because Its target practice at Mag
dalena Hay show* how we behave when
VS get angry.
•ays
It la alleged that the Illinois Central
Railroad Company has cheated the
State of Illinois out of »15,000,000. if
the charge Is true the outrage can nev
er be forgiven,
Illinois might with
that money have bought dukes for five
or alx of her daughters.
Ao many persons have patronized the
free public library In the Jewish dis
trict of Brooklyn, New York, that work
on the new building for it has been
•topped, and architects are drawing
plana for a much larger building than
was originally designed.
On Wash
ington's blrthdrty when the i*en have a
holiday, the temporary library was
erowdud all day, and a waiting line
was formed outside. So long as immi
grants are so eager for learning as this
indicates, they will not endanger
American Institutions.
News Items from various parts of
the country must lead the i aonghtful
parent to wonder what has become of
the sort of dlscfplne he was used to In
hie own youth. Because of the exclu-
•ion of a student from a theater in a
Western town, the other students of
the State university wrecked the place
of amusement, and defied both ponce
•nd faculty. A few days later the
Students of the New York I'nlversify
organized a strike because a member
of one of the up|»er classes was sus
pended for ducking a freshman. About
the same time ten students of a Massa
chusetts high school defied the school
committee by holding, an entertainment
which they had been expressly forbid
den to hold. The Interest of parents
in such acta lies In the fact that no
organized rebellion of thia sort can
succeed without either the open or ,.ie
tacit approval of the parents. Those
who have the real welfare of their
•ons and daughters nt heart will ask
themselves 'whether ft Is wise to en
courage the tendency to revolt against
law and order whenever It conflicts
With personal desire.
Juliet's contemptuous exclamation,
•What's In a name?" does not Apply to
the Christian name of the new baby.
The family councils over the choice of
it may well lx* serious ones. Eccen
tricity must be avoided. Whoever will
“make up" a name should rememlier
the tribulations. of Rose Terry Cooke's
little hero, who was named "Amandar"
by his grief stricken father, In an at
tempt to enhrlne the memory of the
boy'» dead mother. Amanda. The Bible
lx no .longer the one snfe source from
which names may Is- drawn. David
• nd John ami Mary and Benjamin and
Anna have still a firm hold off the
memory and the. Imagination, of good
folk the world over. Rut the mother
who should to-day name her daughter
Keren-happueh or Keturah, or her son
Beznleel or Merodach Baladan, would
be a strange survival of the taste of
former times. The romantic names of
the eighteenth century have fortunate
ly gone out of use But the old fash
ioned ones suggestive of virtues still
remain Inspiring Constance ami Hope
and Ernest, ami even Faith and Pa
tience, sound a call to noble living. If
the wisest negntlrt counsel In regard
to the baby'» name Is tfiat.kt shall not
be ecqgntrlc, perhaps the best [HWltlve
Ad vice I* that th* generation .of to-day
1 i * The
Firm of
Girdlestone
»
o
.•
•
3>
•
0
e
o
o
«
0
• • ••
• •
V ••
e
•
%
o
•
•»•
:
• •
o
o
O
o
o
O
o
o
o