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Bile returned to pleasantly surprised at the turn aff One of the leaders in American so And the clear blue eyes from his «un her perusal of the album, with startled fairs had taken, she pretend«! to be daily low in order to boom stock prices browned face aqd at other tunes to bid interest ratet ciety is Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, whose eyes and a face of furious red. utterly indifferent, and edged away OREGON BANDON happily up to me. to absurd heights, to the injury Oi husband, a prominent financier, is the I Smiled A tnoment or twb later, Dick Mel- from tier husband. held him close as the twilight fell, President commerce and Industry. Its demoral son of Hamilton Fish, drum looked around cautiously and, “It was a capital thought of your% And called him “my dear little son A sheath stocking? Shocking! izlng effects come from the fluid capita Grant’s secretary of state. She was Then 1 said : “I have wondered for many seeing Ethel with her back toward him. Milly,” said Charters, with admirablo of the United States being used foi before her marriage Miss .Marian G. still apparently absorbed In her book, tact Love at first sight often proves a gambling purposes and taken iron .Anthon and has been for many years Where days it is that my baby’s gone!” thought it was a good opportunity for "What?” said the little woman, sur- Slight case after the second meeting. legitimate Industry. The morals oi prominent in the society of New York escajie. He moved toward the door prised out of herself. Wall street, whether by day or night and Newport. Recently Mrs. Fish re “Whom I rocked just as I do you, with great caution and his look of an “Shutting them up together,” said The only thing wrong with money is ure matters of little more pilblic in turned home after a long • motorin* I'd a baby once, in a long white gown. ger and astonishment on finding it lock her husband. "I cleared out of it my- that there isn’t enough of it to go terest than the personal habit* uf book tour in Eurtqie and at once submitted His hair was soft as yellow silk, ed changed to one of embarrassment at self directly after you left, Trust a round. to an interview, which is of particular And his eyes were like violets blue, ‘ • ?♦» ” makers. the thought of ids unfortunate position. woman to think of the right thing! his little hands were like pink-tipped And interest to women, or, at least, to that Instinctively, as he dropped into the Milly stared vacantly, and then flowers— An expert in drawing need not neces Bishop Frank M. Bristol declare« portion of the sex which is striving fot brown. nearest armchair, lifs eyes wandered smiled sweetly. She looked up at her sarily be an artist—he may be a dentist at the Rock River Methodist confereuct woman suffrage. Mrs. Fish does not See, yours are so strong and brown, lie has slipped away and is loot, I fear, to tlie dignified little figure at the far husband, and put her bend on one side instead. believe in woman suffrage. in Chicago that the superannuates Do you know where my baby's gone?” ther side of the room. After a short knowingly. "America,” she said, “is the great fund is the easiest one to get money "It was so dreadful, you know’, You can’t Judge the brutality of for. Undoubtedly tills is true, at a est country in the world. We are the Did my voice half break as the thoughts contemplation of the lsmt golden head, a strange feeling of tenderness swept ■ome people by the horsepower of their gathering of preachers. It is to bt greatest in our style, our dress, the Frank, ” she said. "I couldn’t bear would come over him. That the fastening of the them to treat each other so.” automobiles. Of the sweet and sacred day» hoped that Bishop Bristol's assert iot grace and beauty of our women, our door was some trick of Charters to “Disgraceful!” he agriad, stealing an is becoming generally true of the Meth mode of life even, and our men. I When motherhood's first joys were mine? bring them together again, he could arm round her waist. "We have taught A Grand Army veteran has married. odist laity. There are signs that it liave seen life on both sides of the At Was a shade of regret on my face? We hope it will not prove a case of is. There are reasons for the indlffer lantic, and my opinion is the result For close round my neck creeps a sturdy not doubt; but what would Ethel say them to follow a good example to-night arm, if she knew? She would feel angry, —eh, Milly?” re-enlistment. ence toward tlie claims of the worn of observations here and abroad. And the l>oy who is “half-past three” hurt and embarrassed even as he was; “Oh, Frank, dear—don't!” cried “It is rather a strange thing that I Said. "The baby—he went to Boyland, out preachers which lias been largely and he could not bear to see her any of Milly, trembling suddenly on the verge Twenty thousand dollars was paid complained of, and for the awakening saw nothing of the suffragette or the And—didn’t you know?—he's me!” those things just now. No; at all costs of tears. "I’ve been a horrid little yesterday for a collection of butter from that indifference which is now movement for women’s suffrage either —North American. he must keep from her the knowledge wretch to-night. I know, and I’m sorry flies. Verily riches have wings. becoming manifest. Many laymen havt of that locked door. —I am Indeed! But it wasn’t all my not realized that, while there are in this Now, ft is a characteristic of the ma fault, You’ve been cross, too, haven’t There are few chances of becoming country as wide opportunities as ther« jority that to be forced into doing a you?” a hero nowadays unless you get into ever were for young men, and wider thing is Intolerable, even if it Is some “I’ve been a brute!” he declared, the fire department, or marry a chorus there is not the chance there once was o thing one wants to do; and Dick Mel kissing her. “But that’s all done with lady. for men past middle life to attain ma drum made up his mind there and then now. Let’s go down and congratulate terlal success in a new calling. This that the base instigators of tlie scheme them. •• ’ The four Singer children of Pittsburg change comes inevitably when the wild should be thwarted of their purpose. “I don’t want to detain you, Ethel, divided >16,000,000 among them the erness is conquered and the land really Of course, after what might be deem dear,” said Mrs. Charters, the quar other day. For this quartet life is a populated. Then, again, many laymen Milly, my pet," announced Frank ed a suitable Interval, the door would tette having suddenly foregathered in •ong. have had their Interest, not in religion, Charters, as his wife met him in the be surreptitiously unlocked, and, In the the hall. “You know I love to have but in the church and its condition, hall for the homecoming kiss which is meantime, he must use every endeavor you; but if you would rather be go A New Jersey court decides that it cooled by the attitude of some conspic indispensable when one Is only six to prevent Ethel from finding out that ing----- ” is not unlawful for a man to swear at uous preachers, and Hhelr numerous months married, “I’ve Just accomplish she was a prisoner. Miss Cheriton, who had hastily with his wife. Perhaps not, but many find imitators, toward themselves and their ed an act of pure Chrnstian charity. ” drawn her arm from Meldrum’s on That was ills thought, and the only It dangerous. business. When the preacher becomes "That’s just like my dear, big-heart way to accomplish it, he judged, would their sudden appearance, hung her head a lecturer, apparently striving to ed boy,” responded the lady, linking a be to endeavor to engage her in a for and blushed. The man who prides himself on al preach everything but the gospel, deny dainty arm affectionately in his, and mal conversation, so as to cover tlie “I expect you would like to be go ways saying what he thinks, seldom Ing the authority of his office, and ask pulling him into the dining room. "But suggestive absence of the Charterses. ing, too, old man?” said Charters, with succeeds in saying anything any one ing to be taken simply as a man in his what was it ?” Accordingly, he launched himself with great gravity’. "The last train leaves else wants to hear. profession, others cannot be blamed for “I’ve invited Dick Meldrum to stay out further delay on this doubtful en just before 11, you know. So sorry Judging him on his individual merits, you can’t stay.” with us for the holiday week-end,” he terprise. Some day, perhaps, science will just as they do men in other profes “Poor chap! he would have had For answer Meldrum slipped his arm tire. said, evolve the perfected automobile “ Our host and hostess seem to have sions, and losing respect for the divine such a beastly depressing time of it. deserted u^.” he remarked, in the most about Miss Cheriton’s waist, and drew Up to date it still lacks several thous calling which the preacher has virtual Good heavens, Milly! Aren’t you well?” casual tone he could assume. "It takes her to hts side. and miles of having done so. ly repudiated. There is an Increasing “If it’s all the same to you,” he said, The little woman was Indeed very some men a long time to find a box of public consciousness of the change in You may have observed that an material conditions which makes it al in England or in Paris, No, I am not white, and gasping badly, as if for matches, Perhaps I ought to go and “we—we think we would rather stay; and I think we can promise them—■ office-seeker is a man w'ho shakes the most impossible for a man past middle thinking of enrolling Ln the suffragette breath. hunt him up. what do you say, Ethel?—that we can voter’s band before the election and life who has not achieved reasonable ranks. Why should I ? A woman’s “You’ve invited Dick Meldrum— The last remark was Introduced as rights? here?’ she i cried, as soon as she could a blind, to lull her, if need be, into a prove better company than we have as shakes the voter afterward. success in his calling to change it -for “I believe that a good husband is articulate. “O Frank, how could you? yet to-night.” a new one. And there Is a growing false sense of security, He had scarce- A discharged laborer caused some woman. Of He mustn’t : come—he can’t, really!” “Yes,” whispered Miss Cheriton, shy the best right of any t! ! ” exclaimed exclaimed Mr. ly expected an answer from her at ly, “I think we can.” German contractors to lose $875,000. public awakening to tlie truth that the course, I make the proviso that she can "Mustn't :—can’ t As this does not get him another job, Christian ministry, to be worth while, get a good one, and she can if she isn’t Charters, in some irritation, “But I once, and was somewhat astonished, “That’s all right!” said Charters. What’s the therefore, when, in a quick, strained “Then we shall have a Jolly week-end it is hard to figure where his joy comes must be not merely a profession chosen foolish. tell you I've asked him ! like the lawyer’s or the engineer’s, but spoke, “Woman's power in the world is tre meaning of all this fuss, Milly? Wliat voice, she after all.” tn. a response to a divine call to deliver “ I don't think you need trouble,” she mendous, especially if she exercises have you got against him?” And they did.—Harry Shell In Spare a message which its bearer cannot Necessity being the mother of inven O, said, turning her face toward him. Moments. “ Nothing — nothing — only----- that power for good. What more could tion, it is likely that the woman who know and be silent about. With the she do, even if ‘rights’ were given her? Frank, I have asked Ethel Cheriton. I “They will be back in a moment, I ex More than She Coal«l Bear. Invented the “hookless waist” has a purging of the ministry that is slowly Through her husband and her children thought she would be so sad and lone pect. Mrs. Charters has gone to give The shriek of the fire whistle had husband who rebelled and “yumped his but surely going on—with its lnereas- she has always a great and a constant ly, and----- ” some orders to the servants, I believe.” ing restriction to men who know they ly increasing power for good. She in almost demoralized the sewing circle. yob.” Miss Cheriton ’ s blood ran cold at the un- “Well, of all the confounded, have the message, as evidenced by that All the ladies sprang up, pale and nerv thought of his discovering that locked That's a wise doctor who says that very decline of candidates for it so fluences her husband; the two minds hoard of----- ' ous at the general alarm. But as the door, and, rather than he should at “O Frank, please don’t swear.” It's the comfortable old shoes, not the much lamented—there should come a work together, and through the man whistle proclaimed the box,— one, two, the she sends out her power to Influence wasn ’ t swearing ! ” snapped “ I i tight, new ones, which hurt women's new birth of respect for the real three, four, five, six,—member after greater man who had so recently sworn to feet. He ought to do a rushing busi preacher of the gospel—for the man for good or evil. Isn’t hers a member sank into her chair witli sighs and cherish an angel in human power than the vote? love i ness. who must and does preach the gospel of relief. Nobody lived in the Sixth “I don’t believe that women as vot guise, “I hope”—with biting empha- because he cannot be silent without district except Italians and other for as the ers would be as easily bribed sis — “ that I am equal to expressing my “Asthma and society” drove an old feeling himself a traitor to himself eigners. man West to begin life over again and to God. And so the claims of men. They might be Influenced by feelings in the presence of a lady with But two were still on their feet and Jewelry or through clothes or even the out the aid of bad language. But, among strangers, Of course asthma the worn-out preacher, whose devotion then every one recollected that the old sometimes demands heroic treatment, to his mission and his message lias led heart, but by money—never. But I do hang it all! Milly, what's to be done Cartright place was just inside the not believe in suffrage or that women now? Why, those two haven’t spoken but he could have escaped from society him to live for his faith, anti that sixth. The two elderly spinsters, by merely disposing of his automobile. alone, through all the years until old would be any better if they had th« to one another for nearly three known yet to certain old inhabitants months? IIow could you be so fool age comes and he can do no more, are power to vote.” is the “Cartright Sisters,” agitatedly ish?” It is said that there is enough coal pressing home to the hearts and souls took their leave. New Maine I ml mat riew. “Me, indeed! retorted Milly, hotly, In Alaska to put off the fuel famine of men as they never did before. “Let us wait calmly for the car,” Though the Maine farmer has foot, “I like your style! Why, I asked from the exhaustion of coal which had POLITE TO A msAGBEEAllIj: DEGREE. said Miss Esther, tremblingly resolute and clothing enough for immediate Ethel nearly a week ago. It is you been predicted at the end of the pres Relnctnnt Englloh Courtray. wants of himself and family, though who have been idiotic enough to ruin tempt to leave the room, she would to keei» her bead. ent century, This news will be a great “O sister, there's none in sight! We'd That gifted publicity man, A. Toxin he pays no rent and never knows the the whole thing.” even make a temporary pretense of re relief to present coal consumers who better walk—or run!” cried Miss Mar Worm, made the preposterous claim in tight pinch of poverty that is often lenting in her attitude toward him. return- "That’s just like a woman!” have been alarmed over w’hat they had London last winter that he would see felt in the tenement districts of the ed Charters, witheringly. "Shifting all “By the bye,” she went on, smiling tha Louise, hysterically. to expect in about ninety years. “My dear, we must be calm—” to it that there was no “booing” of big cities, he frequently lacks for ready tlie blame on to somebody else! But slightly, "now that I have the opportu “Oil, I know, Esther, but think of the actors at tlie opening performance money and in order to relieve this con the question Is, what the deuce are we nity, might I remind you that you have It was from New York that Horace by E. II. Sothern. This popular Eng mother's linen and all father’s sermons dition he resorts to various expedients, never returned my copy of the song to do?” Greeley advised the young man to “Go lish diversion consists of bellowing still In manuscript, and—” "Do!” echoed Milly. "Why, you must ‘Hearts at One,’ which you carried West!” Tlie advice now comes from through the hands and no “first night” says the Philadelphia Record. worrying only “Martha Louise, In the last dozen years a score or put him off somehow. Say we've got home by mistake some time ago?” three thousand miles farther eastward, is supposed to tie complete without vo We must—” makes things worse. more of new Industries have lieen un whooping cough or measles or some Dick Meldrum gave a slight but un and Is addressed by Israel Zangwill to cal interruptions. “ And grandfather's clock and the dertaken in rural Maine. There are thing in the house—anything, so long mistakable start. an audience of Jews in London. He Marr ietta china — oh, why did we leave On the night of Mr. Sothera’s first five times as many hens kept in Maine as he doesn't come.” "I do not need your reminder,” he told his fellow religionists the other with a gasoline stove, and Ignorant performance some forty-five evil-look today as there were ten years ago. “No, I am hanged if I do!” said her answered, after a moment, “because I foreigner like that!” day that they ought to migrate to the ing men, bearing blackjacks in their Three large firms are canning rabbits husband, indignantly. “You must had not forgotten, The fact is—er—I Western States of America, where there “Martha Ixmise, whatever confronts sleeves were distributed throughout for shipment. Ten years ago a man make some excuse to Ethel, so that she meant to keep it.” la room for them. us, we must bear up. Remember, wor- the gallery and pit. There was no in couldn’t sell rabbits for ten cents a postpones her visit.” “To keep it! Why?” rylng only—” terruption from the audience that carload. There are three condensed "I am going to keep your song.” he "I shall certainly do nothing of the German interests In Argentina and night, but only the occasional dull thud milk factories, more than eighty cream And so it continued, a« they flow sa id, tensely, “ because — well, to make Brazil are so great that German cap of blackjacks upon knuckles. Every eries and over 100 corn and apple can kind!” answered the lady warmly. along in tlie trolley car and then bur- "Well, it is equally certain I sliall sure that no other fellow sings from ried along the rest of the way on foot, italists have decided it Is worth while hand that was raised as a preliminary ning establishments in active operation that copy with you. ns I have done in Investing six and a half million dollars to the "booing” process received a where there was not one twenty’ years not tell Dick to say away.” At the bottom of the big hill, with "Very good! Then I foresee a most the past. I I want something, too. to one accord tlie two palpitating in a new telegraph cable connecting the quick blow. Mr. Worm says that he old ago. enjoyable week-end for all of us. Ethel carry with me through the remainder Indies leaned against the fence to catch fatherland with South America, Th® never saw so many limp hands and so Popcorn in the ear is shipped from won’t speak a word to him, I’m sure. of my dreary existence, even if it is imperial government will protect the many bewildered faces assembled in their breath. Maine now’ by the carload. Ten years He was entirely too blame in the mat only a memory. I----- " Investor* from loss. This is one of the any one place as he saw that first “We must be calm," began Miss Es- ago more than half of the corn that Ills voice had grown suspiciously ter; and, from all I can gather, he be ways by which the ties between the night among the crowd that left tile ther with the first “caught breath,” was poj»ped in Maine was raised in haved disgracefully to that poor girl.” thick toward the end, and now it "and bear up. Worry only—” Germans abroad and those at home are theater. New York and Massachusetts. One censed altogether. Miss Cheriton Dick told me "Nothing of the sort ! preserved, as well as one of the meth "Esther,” broke out Miss Martha At the close of the week that dlg- ods adopted for fostering the expansion nlfled Journal, the Times, commented county in Maine has increased its yield all about it, and Ethel was in fault sprang from her chair and faced him. Ixmise tearfully and with unwonted of potatoes by over 5,000,000 bushels breathing hard. from first to last.” of German commerce. spirit, I wish you’d let me alone— gravely u;>on the growing courtesy of within the decade. Last blocks, han “It was all your fault!” she crktl The dinner partook of the nature of English audiences toward American dles for axes, hammers, brushes and a nightmare feast than a social gath hysterically. “You were ridiculous, to ’ w-worry in peace. I can’t help During the current flseal year, which actors, and witnessed the case of six brooms, veneers of hardwood, excelsior, It!” began with July, the Department of productions by Mr. Sothern without a starch by the trainload, canned blue ering of friends. Charters and bls wife and high handed, and unfair! I could When finally the two stood panting studiously avoided speaking to each —I mean, I might have forgiven you. Agriculture will expend fifteen million single ’'boo.”—Success Magazine. on the hill and beheld the old home- berries by the shipload, canned clams other, while their two guests seemed only—Oh, where Is my handkerchief?" dollars. When one compares this sum stead standing calm and smokeless. and bottled clam Juice, sealed Jars of to be utterly unaware of each other’s In her haste and confusion she could with four million dollars which was Self-Evident. "liearlng up.” Just as it had done for a sweet sardines by the million are also spent In 1902. one gets an idea of the Once when Chauncey Olcott was In among the new articles which Maine existence. When Charters spoke to not find it; but—there are other meth century, they both promptly “broke Ethel, she answered him In monosylla ods. Perhaps he employed these. At down”—with thankfulness inexpress rate at which tills department is grow Ireland he visited the wishing well at produces and sends away for sale. bles ; and when Meldrum ventured to any rate, so engrossed were they in ible. ing. With the jxisslble exception of Klllarney with two plain, elderly spi ns- address his hostess, that lady was po each other during the next few mo the Postoffice Department, no other de ters. Beside the well sat an old Irish "Esther.” sobbed Martha IxmLse, re Th» Worst. partment comes so near to the people, woman, who looked up Into Mr. Ol “Doctor, you may ns well be frank lite to a disagreeable degree The end ments that, had not the key turned in gaining her speech, "I trust I didn’t of the dinner was marked by absolute the lock with extreme clumsiness, speak hastily to you. but if we ever do snd none touches the ordinary citizen cott's handsome face and asked: with me. Tell me the worst,” said the silence. neither of them would have heard it. on so many sides. The forestry serv “Phat are you wishing for?” pass through a similar ordeal, I hope patient nervously. In the drawing room afterward it As ft was, the suggestion that they you — My strength Is limited and I ice. the bureau of animal industry, the “What do you think I wish for?' “I can do nothing f said was. If possible, worse still; and Char should bunt up their truant host and testing of foods, the study and predic he good naturedly inquired. have to economize It, and the worry the doctor, calmly, but f ters was scarcely surprised when his hostess emanated from both slmultane- tion of the weather, the development "Och, thin, for a beautiful young itself takes so much that if I must, in “Nothing.” wife, under a pretext of giving some ously. of new plants, the building of roads, swateheart. of course,” she said. addition, bear up against it,—why, sla “Absolutely nothing. There’s noth- orders to the servant»», escaped from • • • • • • the crop reports—these nre only a few Ho pointed to the two spinsters, who Ing the matter with you.' ter, it's almost beyond my endurance." the room. Her disappearance gave him Having turned the key In the lock. of the many ways In which this depart stood at a little distance, and said; Greatly relieved, the patient went out whit lie thought was an inspiration, Frank Charters fled noiselessly up the —Youth's Companion. ment Is helping the ;>eople of the whole “Don’t you see that I have two with tn the back yard and sawed wood.— and. watching his opportunity—when stairs to await developments. On the The Clarion of Victory. country. One item of ten thousand dvl- me?” Mrs. Railfence (at the supper table) Ethel was poring over a postcard al landing he came face to face with bls lars to be «pent this year may result in “Ah, thin it’s the grace o’ God Milwaukee Sentinel. —There’s an auttymobile horn a-tootfn’ bum. and Dick was assiduously exam wife. the saving of millions. It will be used you’re wlshln’ for.” replied the sympa Reliable. ining S' me ancient china on the slde- “What are you doing? Have you like mad. for testing plants believed to be suit thetic old woman.—New York Times. Mr. Rail fence—Darn 'em! Must ’a’ "Rufus, you old loafer, do you think board- -he slipjM'd by noiselessly and gone mad?” she said sharply. able for paper-making. It is as bad to give a compliment that It’s right to leave your wife at the . softly turned the key in the lock. "S-sh!” was all he said, pointing killed a cow tew be crowin’ about it that much!”—Puck. Tlie two occupants of the drawing downward Into the hall. The Wall street evils of which the with a “but” attachment, as it is to washtub while you pass your time fish public complains are not In morals, hut give a present and grumble about the ing T’ room were considerably embarrassed The drawing room door, had sudden Detainini« Love. “Yessah. Jedge, ’s all right, Mab when tiny suddenly found themselves ly opened, and Meldrum and Miss In eeonomli’s. If the stock exchange cost of It. Knlcker—What should be done when were simply a place where 1,100 brok No doubt economy is a great virtue, wife don’ need no watchin’, She’ll i me. Each, however, pretended to t>e Cheriton Issued forth, arm-in-arm Poverty comes in at the d<s»r? ers matched dollars among themselves but some people have a lot of money sholy wuk jes’ ez hahd ez ef Ah wuz b Ivlotis of the fact. After a few mo- Their looks were conscious, and, ns Bocker—Equip the house with car dar.”—Judge. ^.cots Ethel closed the postcard album they turned In the direction of the windows.—New York Kun the community at large would uo< b* ttag Keser have any use for. • • BANDON RECORDER THE LOCKED DOOR * • • • • • * • • • • •• f 4 • • • •• * • • % •• • • • z • » • • ♦ *
