Corvallis gazette., July 12, 1907, Image 4

His Delayed I
Proposal, f
f By H. M. KERKER.
J Copyright, 19OT. by M. M. CnnninKham.
For a moment Nell's hand faltered.
The pounding of the machines and the
endless click of the shifting stencils
eeemed to pierce her very brain. She
cast a quick "g'ance down the long
workroom of the Kotary Addressing
company.
; Out through the windows at the other
end could ho seen a ptch of blue sky,
blurred no-.v and then by a puff of
Bteam from the p;;e; of the adjoining
building: a modest seven story struc
ture. Here and there some building
larger than their own reared its head
to cut the skyline, and through the
open window there came occasionally
sounds from the street below, sharp
notes in the monotone of the machines.
Within, long rows of girls leaned
over their work, their deft fingers forc
ing envelopes into the hungry maws
of the machines with only a pause now
and then when a fresh stack of ten
Cila were needed. Between the aisles
paced the sharp eyed forewoman. A
man had been in charge of the room
once, but the firm had found that he
was too easy, too commiserate of the
women under his supervision, and they
had moved him into the office, sending
In his stead the angular Miss Pettit,
who forced the girls in her charge to
the limit of their endeavors. Her sharp
eye detected Nell's pause.
"Bun-owes," she called acidly. She
never wasted time on "Miss." "If you
have one of your silly headaches, put
In your time at the oilice and go home.
This is no hospital."
Nell's-nervous Augers clutched a fresh
package of envelopes, and the pound
lug of h.T mat-Line added its noise to
that of the others. She could not af
ford to g homo. Tno pittance that
IT S ONLY MISS rETTIT," HE OKOWLED.
came to her each Saturday was little
enough without indulging the luxury
Of an Tnfternoon off.
Jimmy Nelson, coming into the room
to consult with Miss Pettit about an
order, looked with kindly sympathy at
the tired lil. When he had had
charge of the room, he had been more
gentle. She had told him something
of her story iu the noon intervals,
when he had insisted upon standing
treat to hot coffee to augment the scan
ty sain". wiih that usually constituted
her hutch. CoftVe costs 5 cents a day,
and the ctiaa.l girl who made the trips
to the Iuik '.i room must be tipped in ad
dition. The Kotary Addressing com
pany paid only from $3 to ?r a week,
and coffee was a luxury to those who
did not Ih e at home.
There had been a time when Jimmy
had dreamed of a little Cat whereia
.Kei! should be mistress. That was just
after he had been promoted to the of
fice and had had his salary raised to
$15 a week. He had lacked the cour
age to make his proposal in person and
had v l'ittea her a note.
"I shall consider silence a polite neg
ative," he had added.
unco Jimmy Lad aspired to the stage,
and he had obtained the phrase from
the advertisement in the dramatic pa
pers that he studied with religious
.care. It had struck htm as being a
phrase of singular eie-ance. She need
not refuse him. She could just ignore
the note. He was sorry afterward
tuat he had not asked for an answer.
It would have beeu something to keep.
As it was, she was as pleasant as ever
to him, treating him with the same
old friendliness and giving no hint of
her reason for the refusal of his offer.
lie lonued to repeat it. He wanted
to be a- to take her out of the place,
from under the very nose of Miss Fet
tit. yet he la; ked the courage to speak
and lie contented himself with coming
lino tae room as often as his business
with the forewoman gave him an ex
cuse. Of course it would never do fo"
the ofiice force to chum with the girls
from the operating room during the
noi-a hour, and iu the evening it was
Jimmy's duty to see that all were out
before lie locked up.
So Nell struggled on. Just so man
thousand envelopes must be completed
to constitute a minimum day's work.
A record was made each evening and
the advancement or reduction of sal
ary depended upon that. She had
rbarely managed to complete the task
when the gong struck and. the girls
began to cover their machines and pat
their tables In order. Nell staggered
slightly as she took the last of her
work to the timekeeper, who entered
her record in the book. Miss Pettit
eyed her sharply as she went back to
her machine.
"Unless you are feeling better you
had better not come tomorrow," she
said crossly. "I can put on another
girl who will make faster use of the
machine."
"I will be all right in the morning,"
Nell answered. Miss Pettit could not
know that the girl had had no break
fast. There had been medicine to buy,
and until pay day came again she
would have to walk to her home and
make dry bread serve for food.
She wtss slow in preparing for the
Street and even Miss Fettit bad gone
when she stepped Into the elevator.
The street was dark and lonesome.
Most of the places closed at 5, and
there were few persons moving along
the narrow strip of sidewalk as she
stepped out.
On the corner a little knot of people
had gathered about some object of
Interest, and she peered curiously over
the shoulder of the office boy in front
of her. The next moment she was
pushing the men aside.
Miss Pettit had slipped upon the
greasy sidewalk and lay moaning and
half unconscious with pain. The girls
had all gone on and a bootblack was
trying to make her comfortable until
the attention of a policeman could be
attracted.
Nell pushed him away and took the
woman's head into her lap, disposing
her so that the wretched ankle was
more comfortable. Then she turned
to the lad who had stuck to her side,
determined to at least share the In
terest with the newcomer.
''It is my forewoman," she said.
"Run up to the Rotary Addressing
company and ask Mr. Nelson to come
Quick."
The lad's statement that a lady was
almost killed and was-asking for him
brought Jimmy on the run. White
faced he tore his way through tho in
creasing crowd of ; curious people to
come to a dead 'stop, when he perceived
the situation. f . .
"It's only Miss Pettit," he growled
hi mingled relief and disappointment.
"1 thought it was you."
"We must get her home, Jimmy,"
pleaded Neil. "She says she won't go
in an ambulance. Please call a cab."
"The ambulance is plenty good for
her," he growled, though to them the
ambulance was but a shade less dis
graceful than the patrol wagon. "Did
not she talk to you like you were s. dog
this afternoon?"
"Get a cab for me," pleaded Nell,
and Jimmy turned away.
It was not far to Miss Pettit's board
ing place, and Nell hustled about mak
ing the tiny hall room more comfort
able. Jimmy stuck doggedly, too, wait
ing to take Nell home. Miss Pettit
sank back on the bed with a sigh.
"That will do very well," she said
faintly. "The doctor will bandage my
ankle, and then the girl will" put roe to
bed. You were very good to ma, my
dear."
"It's all right," said Nell coldly as
she turned to go, but Miss Pettit
caught her hand.
"Wait a minute," she said. "I want
to tell you something. Jimmy here
gave me a letter to hand you some
weeks ago. I wasn't going to have
any flirting in my room, so I didn't
give it to you. Jimmy is a good boy,
my dear, and here it is."
She sank back upon the pillow as
Jimmy sprang forward. In his excite
ment he had forgotten Miss Pettit and
his wrath against her. Now he only
realized that Nell had not received his
letter.
"And silence ain't a polite negative?"
he asked. Nell smiled. Jimmy had
loaued her some of his paper, and she
recognized the phrase.
"If .you want proverbs, Mr. Nelson,"
she said primly, "I can give you a bet
ter quotation 'Faint heart never won
fair lady.' Ask me to my face like a
man, an' mebbe I'll say 'Yes.' "
Give the Chef a Chance.
It is my belief that the man who has
dined in the best Parisian restaurants
without finding them wonderful, says
Julian Street, is either a dyspeptic or
a self reliant ignoramus who did not
give the chef a chance. You know the
story of the miner who, having "struck
it rich," arrived in New York and,
anxious to "do it right," went to Del
monico's for dinner. After studying
the menu with growing despair he
turned to a patient waiter with. "Just
bring me $45 worth of ham and eggs!"
Some of our fellow countrymen give
similar performances in Paris. I have
known them to go to famous restau
rants and order plain broiled chicken
or steak and fried potatoes, dishes so
elemental that the greatest chef could
hardly cook them better than Maggie
iu the tiat at home could do it. A
Parisian chef broiling a chicken makes
a pathetic figure. The asking him to
io so is like requesting a learned pro
fessor of higher mathematics to add a
laundry bill. Travel Magazine.
O'ConneSl's Hat.
At a meeting of the County Kildare
Archaeological society some years ago
a hat worn by Daniel O'Conuell was
exhibited. O'Conuell's name in his
own handwriting was written on the
inside of the hat, which was of large
dimensions, the width inside being
eight and one-half inches and its lon
ger diameter ten inches. The chairman
of the meeting put on the hat, which '
entirely covered his head and went
Cy.ai his chin. ,
What He Took.
Mrs. Badi;iy Good morning, sir.
Will you take a chair? Installment
House Collector Xo. thank you,
ma'am. I've come totake the pla40.
Philadelphia Eecord.
THE GREAT CITIES.' . THEODORE TILTON'S WIT.
Of the world's great cities Paris Although the last years of Theo
haa the greatest number of inhab-' jjore Tilton's life were spent in re
jtants per acre. For its 2,731,000 tirement and poverty and he ayoid
inhabitants an area of only 19,275 e(j the society of all but a few of his
acres is available, so that each acre most familiar friends, he never
has 143 inhabitants. - ceased to enjoy the eompany of
Berlin is almost as thickly popu- young people, punning and joking
lated, inasmuch as its city ground rth the merriest of them. One
(now almost entirely built up) com- y0ung member of the American col
prises only 15,5G8 acres, and in this onv m Paris who knew him well has
space 2,034,000 people live, or 131 related some of his quaint- wit
to each acre. ticisms. s I
Tae conditions are considerably -t remember nce," she said a
better in London, where 4,536,000
people live in an area of 75,370
;;cres, or GO to the acre.
Vienna has only 39 inhabitants
per acre, the city ground comprising
l?;503 acres and the population be-
ing 1,075,000.
Of the great cities New York has
the smallest ratio of population to ,
the acre. Its 3,716,000 inhabitants
have an area of 203,866 acres (by
tar the largest city territorially in
the world), so that there are 18 peo
ple to an acre.
Why He Was Spared.
A motor bus without passengers
came tearing into the Boulevard des there and to let him, know the re
Italiens, Paris, from a side street, Bult- jjr Tilton's reply was :
ran into a Cab, knocked it to pieces ..My Dear Friend Do not ask for a too
and threw over the horse, the cab- frank criticism on that two franc dinner.
man having luckily just got down, Tours- T- T-
lurched across the road, then back ; Going Qut on strikes.
again, spreading terror, hurtled off; , . th- . th , anv
into the Eue Drouot, apparently
bent on demolishing the iigaro ot-
bent on aemotisiung the iigaro 01-
flees, but changed its mmd and
charged into a bakery at the corner
of the Kue ltossmi. It stopped at
last in a wreckage of loaves, rolls
and broken glass. By a miracle no
one had been hurt But the crowd
which had collected was m a temper
to damage the chauffeur. lie was
dragged out of his seat and things
looked ugly for him. But he yelled:
"Spare me! It was my first trial
trip !" And' the crowd was tickled
and disarmed. Paris Cor. London
Telegraph.
Patent Office No Pauper.
More patents were issued during
1906 and more money collected by
the United States patent office than
in any single year previous, with the
exception of 1905, since the estab
lishment 0 the patent office in
1836. It is shown that the receipts
reached a total of $1,790,921.38 f or j Tattooed Dogs,
the twelve months, while the ex- j For a lon time dog o'wners have
penditures of the office were $1,654,- been at a loss to know just how they
S91.20 , making a net gain for the couU lace permanent identifiea
year of $236 030.18. The patent . tion markg their ts Dog
office is one of the very few self sup- collars are out of the questi0n on
porting departments oi Ithe govern-: aecount of the numerous petty
ment. The amount of the patent thieYes who make a specialty of
fund to the credit of the office m stealing them from dogs all over the
the United States treasury is now cit An invelltive Chinaman of
$6,427 021.86. During the past tle Tenderlomj who heard of the
year there were 5b,483 applications thieves' operations, has hit upon a
for patents for inventions, designs : plaa which makes collars useiess.
and reissues, and a total of 31,965 His name is Len Hung, and he is
patents were issued. Technical . an expert in tattooing. Len reads
World. the lost and found columns in the
A House With Walls of Wind. newspapers and gets in touch with
Percy A. Eoekefeller, son of Wil- ? s a11 7ef th fe
tuu- j l tattooes the master s initials under
John D. Eoekefeller, is building a
' M
country home m Connecticut which
is unlike any other ever planned.
Perhaps the most extraordinary fea
ture of it is a confined air space in
the walls, forming a nonconductor
of heat, cold or moisture. The air
space, it is said, will make the house
warmer in winter, cooler in summer
anu urier nu uiejeai aioiuiu umu :
any other man s home, rich or poor
It is said that if all the windows and
doors were closed on a hot summer ;
day, air being introduced pnly
through the basement, the tempera-
ture woukl be from lo to 20 degrees j
lower inside the house t.ian without. ;
Only Half the Time.
"That is no defense at all," said
Senator Curtis during a discussion
of emotional insanity at dinner.
"What you have just said, sir, is as
weak a defense as the young auto
mobilist's. "The young man's father said to
him:
'"Look here! I am ashamed of
you. You spend all your time ehoo
chooing around the country in a
motor car.'
" 'Xot all my time, father,' said
the youth gentlv, only half of it.
And the other half ?' asked the :
m ledi-d an- 3
'"that is passed unaerneath, sir,
delphia Record.
A French Railway Story.
Chairman Knapp of the inter
state commerce commission told in
New York the other day a French
railway story.
"A traffic manager," he said.
"came to the president of the line)
and exclaimed disconsolately:
" 'We are having no end of tro-
ble with the public, sir, about those
old dark blue cars. Everybody says
they bump so frightfully in com
parison with the new light blue
ones, which, of course, ran very
smoothly.'
Humph ! said the piesident.
We must attend to this matter at
once. Have all the old can painted (
light blue immediately.' " (
few ,jayS ag0, "that he had been to
the hairdresser and had his long,
flowing white mane considerably '
shortened. As soon as we saw him
we an called out, 'Oh, Mr. Tilton, '
wnat aid you have that done for?' '
For 50 centimes,' he quietly replied, !
th a merrv twinkle in his eve.'
-Qn another occasion he received 1
a ietter from the late Philip Mars- j
ton, the blind poet, who was very
snvions to -live in Paris, but who
was not certain that he could do so
on his slender means. Accordingly,
he wrote to Mr. Tilton, asking him
to go to the Palais Eoyale and to
test the two franc dinner served
cuse for a man going out on
stTik remarked a large, smiling
youns 'nlan on an Eddy street car.
"uh-hugn, observed a passenger.
"That's one of your bloomin' capi
talists. That's their talk."
"When he can't reach 'em," re-
snmed the j y a fd
j M to sem - but when
fl come Mg he M to
h hig chjmce andW em d
, , - h , wortn .
"Gosh!' I thought he was a cap
italist, but he talks like a red eyed
anarchist."
The car stopped. The large,
smiling young man headed for the
Olympic club.
"Wonder who that is ?" queried a
passenger.
"Him?" said another passenger.
"Why, that's Jack Gloason, manager
of 'the San Francisco team." San
Francisco Chronicle.
thf dog's left ear and also any pn-
vnro TrtaTlr that rnrt rfama-n riociria
vate mark that the owner desires.
The marks are guaranteed to last
as long as the ear or until the an
imal is ready for dog heaven. Phil
adelphia liecord.
A Great Fish Story.
D. B. Bundle f Eockport says j
rQad wag buflt a t of tLe Missou. j
ri riycr ran bv thdr kce and tlmt
his Lrother j r aiding in
Ks gct hi3trout Une one ni-ht, :
ugi miuno,vs for blit. 0n exam- ,
inij2' tho liue next morning they ;
found the catdl deluded a 140
d catfis, whieh Jlad swallowed
the hook. When tho hook was pull-
ed from its mouth it brought with j
it a while perch weighing five or j
six pounds, which had previously ;
swallowed the hook, and in remov- i
ing the hook from the perch it was- 1
found a chub weighing one or two i
pounds had swallowed the minnow. !
Mr. Eundle says his former neigh-
bor and schoolteacher, Hon. John j
P. Lewis, will verify the correctness j
of the above. Kansas City Journal,
The Apparent Reason.
Statesmen in Washington over
ldnnlr onWoa nrirl rnrra-rc nrti
o1l;tl(r ahn nwf jint TlW
'of the United States supreme court,
rnho nh;nf ,., art th t
met an old time friend and after a
hearty hand clasp Mr. Fuller re- j
marked: j
"You are looking exceedingly ;
well. Aren't you filling out a lit- j
tie?" !
"Xo, indeed," replied the friend, j
"You probably think so because I'm j
looking Fuller in the face." Judge, j
The Message of Japan. I
Within twenty years Japan will j
send her missionaries to London for !
the conversion of England. They
will come claiming a morality that j
is higher, an idealism more lofty ;
and a philosophy of life more sane
than Christianity can show. "We ;
will briu" von not the vellow Deril.
but the vellow blessing," Japanese
teachers "declare. Londm Stand- j
ar(L . j
As Arranged
By Archie.
"By Carson XCfillard.
J Copyrighted, 1937, by Mary McKever. J
"Had trouble with si's?" Archie re
garded Deerlug with a sympathetic
S:txe. Bearing utxuluJ. They were
good chums, these twor A eou;i!e oi'
rears before Dwriag had talked MfM.
J
.
'y into ttiUiug Atviiio out of tlie
muster urowu suits he detected, and
fcini-e tkca ArcUe tad beeu Vtuiee
Lt je.'ii:.'s swoi'u uily.
l'.".t evea Archie uouid ujt he'; uiiich
wKii I.ctty SUfihy. At ho.'.it Lt-tty
loved li!iriug; but she was u;,t t.) be
easily won. and, though Vauce had
liropaed a score of times, she had
turned aside the question without giv
ing a decided negative.
l.etty was only nineteen, and site had
formed a theory that it would be fool
ish to marry early.
'T like you," she admitted to Vance,
"but you see a girl who marries so
young loses an awful lot of fun. None
of the boys pays any attention to a
young matron." . t
"If you really loved me," he re
proached, "you would not care for
their attentions."
"My dear Vance," she smiled, "unless
I had some attention paid me, how
could I learn to value j"our devotion?
It is through contrasts that I shall
learn to appreciate you best."
Peering gritted his teeth. In the face
of such arguments he was powerless.
Somehow Letty's way of quietly set
ting aside his protests was aggravat
ing in the extreme. They could not
even quarrel comfortably, for she had
a way of qtiietly retiring when the ar
gument grew too strong for her and
throwing the blame upon him in a way
that was maddening.
That was. just what happened. She
had swept from the rootrf with an Im
perious air and a remark that she
should be glad to see Jlr. Decriiig
again when he had a better command
of his temper. That she was at t!uj
moment subbing out her regret iu the
security of her own loom was a thing
he could not know.
lie was preparing to let himself out
when Archie strolled into the room in
'THREE MEN FIB ED THEIB GUNS AT JIE!"
blissful defiance of his bedtime. His
sharp eyes quickly sensed the situation,
and he sat down to talk it over with an
odd assumption of elderl3- dignity that
would have been amusing- had Deering
beeu less upset.
Archie had mixed more with his
elders than with children of his own
age and had acquired an odd faculty
of observation. Xow he swung ' it's
stocky legs to and fro from the high
est chair he could find and regarded
Deering with the impression of owl-like
wisdom.
"You see," he explained, "Letty is
odd. I heard mother say so. When
she gets mad the only way is to get
her scared. Then she'll come around
quick. The time she got mad at me
for losing that invitation I set the dog
on her and then grabbed him quick.
She was frightened and thought I
saved her, and she cried over me and
gave me candy and said I was a dear."
"I don't believe that it would work
in my case," said Deering, with a
smile.
"I'll fix it for you," offered Archie,
"if you'll make me one promise."
"What's that?" demanded Deering.
"You remember when Tommy Mul
len's sister got married they made him
wear white satin pants and hold up her
train?"
"I remember the ornate Master Mul
len," chuckled Deering as he recalled
Archie's pointed remarks at the time of
Ihe wedding.
"If I fix it so you can marry Letty
I don't want that sort of thing done to
me."
"It's a promise," said Deering.
"Shake hands."
Archie shook hands and slipped from
the chair. "I guess you'd better be
going now," he said hospitably. "You
come round Thursday."
Archie solemnly superintended Vance's
departure and then disappeared down
cellar. It was nearly 11 when at last
his sister remembered that be was sup
posed to be In bed at 7:30 and found
him innocently reading in the dining
room.
"I thought you was with Vance
Deering." he remarked casually, "and I
didn't like to disturb you."
"Mr. Deering is not comijg here
again," Letty said severely, but W
eyes filled.
But for all of that a box' of flowers
and a note preceded his arrival, and
Thursday evening found him In the
Shelby parlor and not at all happy over
the fact. Letty wore her most Im
penetrable armor of reserve, and the
slightest suggestion of reconciliation
was met by a frigid silence that was
most depressing.
Mr. Shelby had gone out of town,
and Mrs. Shelby was calling on a
neighbor. Archie was safely tucked
away in bed, and they had the lower
part of the house pretty much to them
selves. Suddenly from the basement enme
the sound of pistol shots and frighten
ed cries, followed an instant later by
the appearance of Archie in pink and
white pajamas and bare feet.
"I slipped downstairs to get a drink
of milk," he yelled, "and three men
fired their guns at me! Go down au i
kill them. Vance!"
A wink from Archie conveyed a deal
of meaning, and Vance headed for tho
stairs leading to the cellar. l.etty sat
in the parlor with her fingers in her
ears and could not possibly have heard
Archie's whispered injunction.
"Hilly Widner's pistol is at the head
of the stairs," he explained as he pat
tered oUi. into the dining room after
Deering.
Feeling half ashamed of the subter
fuge, Deering carried out Archie's ob
vious scheme. The house was some
distance from the street, and his ar
tistic simulation of a fight attracted no
attention. Archie was doing a solemn-
i ly ecstatic dance in the dining room
when Vance came back up the stairs.
"I saw 'em from the kitchen running
across the back yard," Archie explain
ed. "Xow, stick to it."
Letts' shrieked as Vance came into
i the dining room and threw herself sob
bing upon his neck.
. "I was sure they had killed you!" she
cried. "It was awful, A'ance!"
"Did you care so much?" he asked as
his . arms went around her. "Did you
rer.lly care, little woman?"
"I didn't want you to be killed," she
sobbed.
"And you do love me?" he Insisted.
"Was that why you cared sa much?"
"I guess it was," she confessed. "I
do love you, Vance, but it wasn't good
for you to tell you so."
"It was the best thing in the world,"
he insisted. "I've been two years try
ing to get you to confess, dear. Don't
you think that my patience ought to be
rewarded with 'yes?' "
"Perhaps," she admitted. "Suppose
they had 'killed you, Vance?"
"There was no danger," he laughed
shamefacedly as he bent and kissed
her, consoling himself with the reflec
tion that all is fair In love and war.
"It was not half as bad as you think."
"Anyhow," she dimpled, "it showed
me just how much I loved you."
"And that is all important," confirni-
The Benardites of Jamaica.
There is probably no other race In
the world so enthusiastic over religion
and who enter so heartily Into Its
forms and ceremonies as the negroes.
They seem to lose all thought of their
surroundings and throw themselves
body and soul into their own peculiar
forms of worship.
In Jamaica there is a very large
religious sect called, after their leader,
Benardites. Four times a year the fol
lowers of Benard are baptized in the
water of the river Mona. Hundreds
of these religious enthusiasts meet on
the banks of the river before day
break, and as many as GOO have been
dipped in a single morning. The price
of a dipping is a shilling, so that at
the rate of COO a quarter the income
to the loader and his church Is a tidy
little sum.
After the baptism the freshly cleans
ed and purified of sin form a line, and
with gold embroidered banners and
! silken streamers waving above the
j long line of men and women they
: march, singing, to the church, which in
situated a short distance back from the
j river. Hundreds of these negroes
i make up the long swaying and wind
ing procession, which sings as it moves
and eventually enters the church doors
or distributes itself outside near win
dows and doors. X'ew York Herald.
Origin of "Hoodlum."
"Hoodlum," America's equivalent of
the English word "hooligan," was coin
ed at San Francisco very early in the
seventies, but did not become general
ly popular in the United States until
about 1877, by which time all certainty
as to Its origin was lost. One version
is that the leader of the San Francisco
"larrikin push" was a man named
Muldoon, whose name a newspaper
writer ingeniously reversed to christen
his gang "noodlums," and a composi
tor's mistake of "h" for "n" did the
rest Another explanation Is that
"Huddle 'em!" was the San Franclso
rowdies' cry when the police appeared,
and a third alludes to a curious fez or
"hood" worn by an eccentric character
which the young rowdies adopted as
their uniform.
China's Priority.
Friority in the Invention of not only
gunpowder, but also of tho art of print
ing, is attributed to the Chinese. Ac
cording to Du Halde and the Jesuit
missionaries, printing was practiced in
China nearly fifty years before the
Christian era. Books in the Celestial
empire were made out of slips of bam
boo 500 years B. C; tn 150 A. D. pa
per was first made; by 745 books were
bound into leaves, and in 000 printing
was general In China.
Spiteful.
Miss Elderleigh Jane Jones is a
mean, spiteful old cat. Miss Yomsgsr
What's the matter? Miss Klderleigh
I told her that my family came over
in the Mayflower and she askel me It
I was seasick. Cleveland Flain Dealer.'