THE GIRL WITH
A MILLION
By D. C. Murray
CHAPTER V. (Contlniied.)
Ha carried the little secretaire up
tairs and there, locked in tits own room
tin wrote a letter which was destined for
St. Petersburg, but traveled in the first
Instance to the care of one Dr. Brun,
of llollington place, London. In the soli
tnde of his own chamber Mr. Zeno per
mitted himself an accurate and intimate
acquaintance with the French language,
tittle of it as he allowed himself for his
present purposes to know outside.
t ,, ...
.liennwnne t Dings were going more
pleasantly in the garden. Angela, with a
little twinge of conscience, had Informed
Austin that Major Butler would be de
lighted to meet him and had expressed
toi great regret that he had been unable
make the call he had contemplated that
The fact that the major had charg
8. her with this message did not help her
winch, for she knew its hollowness. The
najor rather dreaded the ndvpnt of a
man who wrote books and regarded Aus
tin as a. fellow who would be likely to
fcuw a lot of things and expect other
pople to know them also.
"Oi'd meek wun of the porty meself,"
raid Eraser, with his own invaluable sang
fruid, "but oi've meed up me nioind to
brick to-morrow."
ro-tuorrow?" said O'Rourke. "That's
a little sudden, isn't it?"
"I wish you'd come, O'Rourke," said
Maskelyne. "But Major Butler is a
dreadful Tory, and I am not sure that
you'd care to meet each other."
"Major Butler might convert me. per-
naps, said O Rourke. "No, no. Clearly
I am impossible." ITe spoke with so per
fwt a gayety and good humor that he
nurt nobody. But a little later he con
trived to get Maskelyne apart, and to
fluestion him about a matter which had
puzzled him a good deal. "How does your
dreadful Tory's niece contrive to be fa
miliar with Dobroskl, when a mere Home
Ruler like myself Is quite too terrible for
the old gentleman? I call him the old
fcentleman with no dishrespect," he added,
with bis delightful smile. "And, of
course, "he may be a young gentleman,
and still be the lady's uncle, though,
ftjrain, he is her guardian, and probably
elderly."
""Dobroskl and Miss Butler's father
ww dear friends," said Maskelyne, re
peating what he had heard from Angela.
"When Dobroski escaped from Siberia
he landed in England without funds or
friends. Miss Butler's father found him
out, maintained him, so far as I can i
Cearn, for years, and was a stanch friend
t "him. She has known him from child
foooa, and has a great affection and ven
eration for him. It is a difficult posi
tion, for he and her uncle are at daggers
now. But Dobroski seems to worship
her."
; Tes, I can see that," O'Rourke an
swered. "A charming girl," he added,
jwrftty, and in so natural a way that Mas
nceJyne supposed him to be ignorant of
Jils own interest in her. "There's ro
mance in the situation, too," he continued,
In a lighter tone. Maskelyne, with a mere
-nod in answer, made a move in Angela's
direction. "No," said O'Rourke, putting
an arm through one of his. "You don't
-acape me in that way.' I have something
to say to you. and I know that you will
b.ilty and evasive and underhanded
'r!niyOT ways until I have said it. Let me
wcwak, old fellow. We shall both be
naaier. I can't tell you what I think and
feel atiout that splendid loan of yours.
I was really desperate. I don't know
what 1 should have done without it."
""Very well," said Maskelyne, pressing
Ta?s trompanion's arm with a gesture of
aifection, but speaking very dryly ; "it is
ver now?"
Xo, my friend of outward marble and
toward tenderness, it is not over. And it
ever will be."
"Once for all, O'Rourke, bury that con
founded thing, and" have done with It.
"Well, there, the thing is buried. I'll
nay no more till I can pay you back again.
Hut I suppose you don't forbid me to
think of It in the meantime? It was the
only kindness in that way I ever had or
er wanted. I sha'n't forget it; that's
1L And now It's buried."
Oa the following day O'Rourke took a
quiet walk by unknown ways across the
fields. He was a born townsman, and had
but little love for rural tranquillities by
nature, but he was already weary of the
ork of the session, and was glad to es
cape to fresh air and silence for awhile.
One gentle little hill after another drew
him on. He would see what lay beyond
thin gentle eminence, and then he would
ee what lay beyond the next, and In this
fashion be sauntered on until he came in
?-ht of a most exaggeratedly castellated
Jwuse of gray stone standing in the midst
a dark pine woods. The building was
rfT . moderate size, but its peaks and tur
eer dwarfed it, and from a little dis
tance made it look at least as much like a
ciiilT toy as a dwelling house for real
people. This was the chateau of Roufoy,
and the present residence of Major But-
The wanderer, who had fairly good
taste in most things, stood for a moment
to smile at this preposterous edifice, and
then walked on again. It was a day of
cloudy soft light, and the air was won
derfully sweet. The woods were in the
freshness of their greenery, and the dark
boes of the contrasting pines set off the
lighter foliage. A few hundred yards he
Core him lay the first link of a river
which went winding in a rounded zigzag
until it lost itself to view behind the
nhoulder of a wood-clad hill.
He strolled down to the river side, and
there cast himself upon the grass, and
ctared op at the soft motionless clouds.
Tae stream ran through narrower banks
than common near where be lay, and kept
up a pleasant drowsy gurgle. Listening
to this, he lay there enjoying all the de
lights of leisure after labor In every
fiber of hia body, until he fell Into a light
dose. From this he was awakened by a
ruartle and the sound of an execration
gretly breathed. Bitting up he was aware
of a gentleman of British aspect, florid,
tardy and well set, who stood on the
cbar aid ot th river, rod la hand, per
suasively pulling at a fly which had lodg
ed in one of the branches of a bush. Ly
ing down he had been hidden from the
angler, who, seeing him rise, gave some
thing of a start.
"Pardon me, sir," said the stranger,
in labored and very English Bounding
French, "cau you detach that fly for me?"
"Major Butler." said O'Rourke to him
self. "Is this Major Butler, I wonder?"
He answered, also speaking in French,
that he would do his best, and walked
to the bush. O'Rourke secured the branch
to which the fly was attached, and cut it
away, after which he disentangled the
hook, and the angler and he raised their
hats to each other.
Major Butler, for O'Rourke's not un
natural guess had hit the mark, express
ed his obligations with some little diffi
culty, and O'Rourke, who was Paris bred,
responded that he was infinitely delighted
to be of service. If this were Slajor But
ler, thought .Vt. O'Rourke, it would be
good fun to conquer his prejudices, and
apart from the amusement, it would be
agreeable to have a country house to call
at during his stay. Then he thought of
that charming girl.
He began by asking after sport, and
the qualy of the stream and the fish,
and the major, who was an accessible and
friendly soul when once the ice was brok
en with him, displayed his take, and floun
dered on with his French in a very cour
ageous and adventurous manner.
Presently he hooked a half-pounder,
who behaved in a very lively manner, and
was finally grassed workman-like.
O'Rourke looked on with interest.
"They give plenty of sport," he said.
"Capital sport," replied Butler, heart
ily. "They're not feeding well to-day.
though. Two or three days ago a young
friend of mine, an American, who's stay
ing at my place, fetched out seven pounds
in half an hour. Used a fly quite strange
to the water, too. a gaudy American thing,
but very killing."
"There can't be any Americans over
here."
Only one that I know of," said the
major. "Maskelyne." He had time
enough to think that this was the novel
ist, ten to one, and a very different sort
of fellow from the man he had expected.
Pleased to meet you," he said. "Shall
be glad if you'll look me up."
"Thank you," said O'Rourke, sweetly.
'Thank you very much indeed. Maske
lyne and I are very old friends."
"Xot the novelist," said the major, si
lently. "Of course not. Spoke much too
ntimately from the first mention of him
only to have met him yesterday."
"You are Major Butler?" asked
O'Rourke. There are" ways and ways of
putting this sort of interrogatory. But
ler bowed assent. "Maskelyne told me
with whom he was staying. My name is
O'Rourke."
"Oh !" said the major, blankly ; "you're
not the "
"I'm afraid I am," answered O'Rourke,
with so admirable a good humor that But
ler could not refrain from a smile. "We
needn't talk politics if we differ, as I
dare say we do."
Honestly, if Major Butler could have
withdrawn his invitation he would have
done so', and he was a little annoyed
with himself for having given it. But
he bethought him, the man was a friend
of Maskelyne's, and Maskelyne spoke of
him in the very highest terms. But then
again, there was something about people
talked they said the Irish members were
here to make terms with that infamous
old scoundrel Dobroski, a rascal who
thirsted for royal blood and wanted chaos
to come again.
"Do you stay long?" asked Butler, with
a diplomatic purpose.
"Yes, a week or two, perhaps more. A
friend of mine I dare say you know him
he's really a very distinguished man
Farley, the novelist is staying in the
same hotel with me at Janenne, and so
long as he stays I shall stay."
Angela and Maskelyne were each a good
deal surprised half an hour later to see
Major Butler coming down the avenue
toward the chateau side by side with
O'Rourke. Perhaps at bottom the major
himself was a little surprised, but he was
certainly vanquished. He confessed that
he had never met a pleasanter man in His
life than this Home Ruler, whom in ad
vance he bad been prepared to detest.
CHAPTER VI.
Dobroski and O'Rourke sat together in
a chamber of the Cheval Blanc .
"You thought my scheme a madman's
vision when you heard it first," said the
old man, in his tired and tranquil way.
"But now? Speak without fear, and
with perfect candor."
"I see a practical possibility in it,"
returned the other. "A bare possibility,
but still a possibility."
"Possibility enough to make it worth
while to strike when the time comes?"
"Possibility enough to make it worth
while to strike when the time comes.
Yes." There was something in O'Rourke's
manner of repeating the phrase which
made the repetition seem weighty, reflec
tive, and full of respect for Dobroski's
years and qualities. "But " He paus
ed with a look of thought, and drummed
upon the table with his fingers.
"But ?" said Dobroski.
"We must not lose the cause. We must
not lose for want of a little candor. You
have laid your scheme before me given
me facts, names, numbers. You tell me
that I have your perfect confidence, and
that I know now all you have to tell."
"There are details," answered Dob
roski "countless details. But the main
facts are yours."
"I am not disputing, sir," said
O'Rourke, with a amile which seemed to
say how impossible that would be. "I
am only recapitulating. But you see,
Mr. Dobroskl, I get these things from the
fountain-bead, and I am assured of their
verity. But when you ask me to be your
emissary at home you forget that I have
neither your years, your first-hand knowl
edge, your history, nor your authority. In
short, I am Hector O'Rourke, and you
are John Dobroski. If I carry this pro
digious schema to tha men la England
and In Ireland who would be ready to
receive it and to take part lu It what
credentials have 1?"
Dobroski turned his mournful eyes full
upon O'Rourke and regarded him in si
lence for a time. O'Rourke bore th
semtiny with nn admirable candor and
modesty.
"That does not speak well for your
opinion of the scheme," said Dobroski,
after a noticeable pause. "I know, and
no man knows better, that when we strike
we strike for life or death. I know that
a single indiscretion may min us. I have
weighed the chances and counted the cost
for years."
"I recognize the dangers, too, said
O'Rourke, "but we must face them and
outface them." He spoke lightly, but
with an underlying resolve so clearly
iuda-ated that there was no doubting him
"No, it is not the danger of the schema
that gives nie pause. But it needed all
your close and intimate knowledge, all
the authority you carry in your name and
your career, to make the existence of so
vast a plan seem possible. I accept the
scheme," he said, vividly, half rising from
his seat. "I bind myself 'to It without
reserve. Win or lose ! But, except upon
the fullest exposition, I would not have
taken it. Except upon the loftiest au
thority, I would not have given credence
to it. No, Mr. Dobroski, you must come
yourself to England. Leave me behind
to work as your lieutenant there, if you
think me worthy of the post, but come
yourself and bear the news and make the
first appeal."
"I will go," said Dobroski, "if you
think it needful."
"I think it actually needful." O'Rourke
answered. "I will write and will make
arrangements. We had better not travel
together."
"Good," said Dobroski. "I will start
to-night. The longer the interval be
tween my going and your following the
less cause to suspect that we have a com
mon errand. Perhaps I cau be doing
something in the meantime. I may tell
your friend Mr. Frost that the plan car
ried your adherence with it? Your entire
approval?"
"That it carries my entire approval
with it," O'Rourke answered, slowly and
weightily ; "because it promises nothing
precipitate, because it promises cool and
cautious preparation, and good generalship."
"You think he stands in need of that
warning?"
"Most of us stand in need of it," said
O'Rourke. "We are too eager. We frit
ter our chances on affairs of outposts.
That has always been our trouble."
"I understand," said Dobroski. "I will
not forget your warning. Rut now, sir,
I will say farewell. We shall meet again
n a little while, I trust. We have not
seen much of each other as yet, but I am
not slow to read a true man, and I know
that I have done well in trusting you. I
have fought in this war for now this forty
years and more. We have done but little.
but at last the hour is coming, and all
will soon be done or undone."
When he first said farewell he took
O'Rourke by the hand and held him so
until he had spoken his last word.
O'Rourke looked back into the sad and
passionate eyes that gazed into his own,
and his glance was affectionate and wor
shipful. The little toy train at the toy railway
station at Panenne was getting- up steam
to be gone, and was making as niiich noise
of preparation as if it had a thousand
miles before it. Dobroski emerged from
the doorway of the Cheval Blanc, followed
by a stout female domestic, who bore a
portmanteau in either hand. The old
man caught siht of O'Rourke and bowed
to him. O'Rourke returned the salute,
and turning round when Dobroski had
disappeared, saw Austin at his open win
dow.
CAN PHOTOGRAPH THOUGHT.
"I got scared out of a year's growth
I yesterday," said the counter clerk, con
fidentially, to the young man la the
glove section.
"I told you how It would be If you
did any practlcln' around the house,"
said the young man In the glove sec
tion. ."If it was anything else but a
cornet It would be all right."
"Oh, cut It out about that cornet!"
said the tie counter clerk. "That don't
bother anybody but you and It wouldn't
bother you If you heard It I'm getting
to be a swell performer. Besides,
don t practice daytimes. No, It was
'Whiskers.' "
"Ain't your sales comln' on?"
"It wasn't the sales ; It was Fan. He
saw me huggiu' her and he told me
about It."
"Well, that's all right He don't
pay you wages for that."
"If he did I'd just as soon work over
time once In a while without extra
pay," said the counter clerk. "Ain't
she the little cutie? All the same, I
nearly got heart failure. I didn't no
tice him until he'd started down the
aisle and then I didn't want to break
away like I'd been stealin' sheep. But
thinks I, 'This is where I get a short-
week envelope.' Here he comes, whis
kers standing o-L stiff on both sides
and eyebrows bunched and cheeks puff
ed out and neck swelling over his col
lar. Ain't he the awful sight, though?
"'Ain't you busy?' he says, glaring
at me.
" 'I haven't any customer,' I says.
"'I see,' he says, "Not having any
customer, you find time hanging heavy
on your hands, eh? You couldn't get
your stock out and dust It and put It
back again, I suppose? There ain't
nothing you can do to create the Im
pression that you're earning your sal
ary?' "'No, sir,' I says.
"He swelled up some more and his
neck got redder. 'Is there too little
room for you behind that counter?' he
says. 'Do you feel cramped for room
that you can't stay there? Would you
like to go out on the street and walk
Plato So Irnaltive that It ItewUtera
tho Ml nd Hit Heeu Invented.
A photograph plute so sensitive It
registers thought has been Invented by
Dr. II. Travers Cole, a Chlctigoun.
This sensitized plate of mysterious
composition will, when placed In utter
darkness near the forehead of one man,
register his thoughts by pulsations of
light, changes of color, and rhythmical
vibrations, changing as his thoughts
about? If you would, just say so and , " , , J " , i 1"
I'll fix it so you can.'
" 'I've got plenty of room there, sir,'
I says.
changes are easily perceptible by an
other.
It Is a simple device, but It seems to
" Then get back there,' he says, 'and Prove conclusively that thought is an
I .. l,.,. fniua 1 1b-A slontrloHv Hint
don't let me see you on this side of It
again. Miss Pheeny, If he bothers you
and Interrupts your work again Just
you report him to me.'
" 'Yes, sir,' says Fan.
"I got back and began wrastllng
boxes and he struts off to Jack some
body else up. Phew 1 I ain't got over
It yet. I thought he was going to eat
me alive. He got after one of the
warehouse men about a week ago and
he's still sick abed. I had a little fever
myself and I'd be shaking yet If I
hadn't seen his wife."
"Whose wife?"
"Whiskers'! She was In the store
this morning, and he got his, all right
all right. He was standing by the door
when she came In. He had his stomach
pushed out and his thumbs looked be
hind his back, and say! When he saw
her he shrunk four sizes. Honest, his J
waistcoat bagged on him, and he turn-1
ed pale.
" 'My dear,' he says, 'I forgot
"She ain't a big woman. You've seen
her, ain't you? There's material enough
In him for four of her and soma rem
nants, but If you'd heard hLm say
that! What It meant was, 'Bring out
your boiling oil and your red-hot pinch
ers. I'm it Hanging's too good for
me. I own up. I'm a worm and a
yellow pup, all right. I'd like you to
overlook it If you could, but I don't
hardly hope for It' His sideburns were
as limp as a rag.
" 'Yes, you forgot,' she says.
" 'Would you mind stepping this way
a moment, my dear?' says Whiskers.
"She stepped, and he took her Into
the office. I don't know what happen
ed In there, but I've got an Idea that
he didn't have a very comfortable time.
And you've noticed the thermometer
standing at 02 degrees, ain't you?"
"What's that got to do with it?"
"Nothing, only after she'd gone he
sent the boy for a No. 17 collar out of
the stock and put it on. He needed it
too." Chicago Dally News.
active force, like electricity ; that every
thought has Its own form, color and
motion ; and that the rhythm and color
of thought sent out from the mind may
be recorded upon a plate yet more high
ly sensitized, no that It may be read by
another long afterward.
Should Dr. Cole's discovery admit of
further Improvement, he believes that
PHOTOGRAPHS THOUGHTS.
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ii ii aa p aga ag ty ii jf"
GOOD I
torles
An English tourist traveling In the
north of Scotland, far away from any
where, exclaimed to one of the na
tives: "Why, what do you do when
any of you are ill? You can never get
"Farlev," he said. "I believe our old ; a doctor?" "N'ae, sir," replied Sandy.
revolutionist is leaving us. He has just
gone off to the station with a couple of
portmanteaus. Has he said nothing to
you about it?"
"Nothing," said Farley, smiling.
"Doesn't he take his fellow-conspirator
into confidence?"
"Well, you see," returned O'Rourke,
smiling also, "I haven't asked him for his
confidence. And even if I did, he might
prefer to keep it."
"Likely enough," said Farley, smiling
still. "Hillo ! Here are our friends from
iiouioy. Meet tnem tor me, tnere s a
good fellow. I'll be down in two min
utes."
(To be continued.)
Frenzied Finance.
Joax (at the phone) Hello! Is this
Dr. Plllsbury?
The Other Yes.
Joax i nis is joax. i wisn you
would come up at once and see what
you can do for the baby.
The Other What's the trouble with
him?
Joax He's financially embarrassed.
The Other Financially embarrass
ed!" Joax Yea He just swallowed a
penny.
Merely a SiiK('Mloii.
His mother-in-law had been with
them for three long weeks.
"To-morrow," said his wife, "will be
mamma's birthady. I wish I could
think of something appropriate to give
her."
"Why not give her a ticket back
home?" suggested the husband.
Needed a New One.
"That story," remarked the man who
had been listening to his wife's latest
bit of gossip, "strikes me as being made
of whole cloth."
"So much the better," rejoined the
wife of his bosom. "All the old eossln
We've Just to dee a natural death!"
A man who is always on the lookout
for novelties recently asked a dealer
In automobiles If there was anything
new in machines. "There's a patented
Improvement that has Just been put on
the market," replied the dealer. "A
folding horse that fits under the seat,
for use in emergencies."
A city man went hunting. After he
had banged' away for some hours wlth
oi succors two boys who had been fol
lowing him approached him and the
older said: "Say, mister, If you're out
for sport and ain't afraid to pay for it,
my brother"!! let you shoot at him for
two hours for a quarter.
A little boy told his friend, another
youngster, that his mother was accus
tomed to give him a penny every morn
ing so that he should take his medicine
in peace and quietness. "Well, what
do you do with It?" Inquired the little
friend. "Mother puts It in the money
box until there Is a shilling." "And
what then?" "Why, then mother buys
another bottle of medicine with It."
President Itoonevelt at a Gridiron
Club dinner Is said to have reported
this Incident: "Two women," he said,
"were discussing some new neighbors
who had moved into one of the most
sumptuous houses In their city. 'They
seem to be very rich, said the first.
'Oh, they are,' said the second. 'Shall
von call?' 'Decidedly.' 'You are sure,
are you, that they are er quite cor
rect quite er good form?' 'Oh, my
dear, I'm positive,' m tne second
woman. They have thirty servants,
eighteen horses, twelve dogs, eleven
automobiles and one child. "
"That was rater slighting," said Sen
ator Beveridge of a certain speech. "It
was like the speech of the old Adams
butler. When I wus a boy In Adams
In the neighborhood has been worn
threadbare."
Jnat the Thin.
"When I was young, my dear, girls
were not allowed to sit up so late with
young men."
"Then, papa, why do you allow me
to do so? It would be so much more
interesting If you would only forbid
If Judge.
Nolaeleaa Serearaa.
Edyth Jack Hugglns actually had
the Impudence to kiss me last night
Maynie The Idea! Of course yoo
tried to scream?
Edyth Yes every time.
'County, Judge BlanK was taken very
111. The doctor called regularly, but
the Judge kept getting worse, and final
ly the crisis came. The morning after
the crisis the doctor rang the Judge's
bell at sunrise. 'I hope your master's
temperature Is lower than It was last
evening,' he said to the butler anx
iously. "I'm not so sure about that'
the man answered. 'He died, air. In
the nlghf"
Dad Kevra for Criminals.
Cumulative sentences of Kansas
courts for two separate Crimea, even
If the trials are at different terms
of the court, are held to be valid by
the Supreme Court In affirming the de
cision of the District Court In Finney
County in the appeal of Ormal W.
Finch, says the Kansas City Times.
Finch was convicted of manslaughter
In Finney County in 1904 and was sen
tenced to a terra In the penitentiary
for two years. He appealed to the Su
preme Court in this case, and while at
liberty under a bond broke into a
house, was detected and convicted of
burglary and larceny In 1905 and was
sentenced to fifteen years In the peni
tentiary, the sentence to begin when
the former sentence expired. He ap
pealed to the Supreme Court on the
ground that there was no statute
which permitted cumulative sentences
except when tried for two offenses at
the same term of court. The court
held that the two sentences were not
concurrent In an opinion of Justice
Smith.
The points Involved In the case are
much the same as those decided by
Judge J. C. Pollock of the United
States Circuit Court In the Capt. Klrk
man case. Kirkman was convicted of
conduct unbecoming an officer In the
army by two distinct courts-martial
He served one sentence and then tried
to get out of the penitentiary under a
habeas corpus on the ground that the
sentences were concurrent and not
cumulative.
it will be possible to bring about men
tal correspondence without the aid of
speaking or writing, through the fixed
impressions upon a sensitized plate re
produced like a photograph of things
material.
To gaze into this little dark cham
ber which Dr. Cole has Improvised so
that the sensitized plate he has Invent
ed may be In utter darkness, and watch
the small point of light, faint and soft
as that of the glow worm, change from
pale star color to red, then to pale
blue, then to violet, growing larger and
smaller with a rhythmical tide of Its
own, and to think that another being
sitting several feet away with a small .
tube In his hand Is producing those
changes of rhythm and color by his
thoughts, Is to feel one's self groping
on the confines of the soul.
It Is an eerie feeling. But It is sci
entific, and It may be that this modest
Investigator In Chicago has found a
new path Into a more luminous field of
life than has hitherto been traveled by
the greatest of scientists. Chicago In
ter Ocean.
OIL PORTRAIT OP LINCOLN.
BALL PLAYERS' DIET TOO HEAVY,
Chief of Plttabnra; Team to Try New
Plan to Cot Down Meala.
In that It has been decided that base
ball players eat too much Just because
they don t have to pay for It, Pitts
burg has decided ou an innovation In
feeding Its ball team which may cause
a change In the present system all
around. Players of the rittsburg base
ball team will be compelled to eat on
the European plan while on the road
this season Instead of getting their
food In Job lots, as has been the cus
tom heretofore.
Barney Dreyfuss, chief of the Pir
ates, has seen the light He says base
ball players eat too much when others
pay for It, and In consequence they do
not keep in the best of condition.
In an interview Drey fuss Is quoted
as saylny :
"I think the players eat altogether
too much at noonday meals. Not that
there Is any objection to the price, but
It gets them out of condition.
"Now, my Idea for the coming year Is
that the player be put up at some
good European plan hotel and allowed
to feed themselves. Give them $3 per
day for food, which will be as much
aa most of them will want to spend,
and a lot more than some of them will
spend, I am convinced.
"When a hungry ball player falls
down before a menu card at an Ameri
can hotel and knows be can eat every
thing on tnat card be Is likely to eat
more than be should, especially If he
la going to play ball that day.
"Our Idea la an experiment: If It
doesn't bring good result w will re
tarn to the old style of forglnf.'
JelTeraon In a Koaclnnco Coat and
Other Rellca In Fay Collection.
James Fay, an antiquarian among
whose art objects collectors have been
wont to delve and burrow, has placed
bis entire collection on exhibition In tho
former building of the Harmony Club
In West Forty-second street, says thu
New York Herald.
Among the paintings the most con
spicuous Is a life-size portrait of Lin
coln In oils. It Is well known that
Lincoln never sat for an oil portrait
But this is by William Mathews, who
was the choirmaster of the church that
Lincoln attended, and it is assumed
that lie had opportunities for making
sketches from which the portrait was
painted. For years it bung In the Cor
coran gallery. A marble bust of Lin
coln was his own commission to O.
Lazzerenlnl, and was presented by Lin
coln to his friend, Morris Ketehum.
There Is a portrait of Thomas Jeffer
son wearing the fur-lined coat given
by Kosciusko.
From the Jumol mansion Is a high,
curious combination of secretary and
sideboard of mahogany, with a falling
shelf and drawers and cupboards of
different sizes above and below. From
the Tuckorman house, In Washington,
Is a colonial couch, which Is vouched
for as the couch the pleasant duty of
which It was once to give casual repose
to the father of his country. An un
usual variant of the Empire chair, but
railed the "Washington chair," Is seen
here. Its mark Is the glided head of
Washington, almost half life-size, which
finishes each of the arms of tho chair.
Large square Jacobean and Flemish
clothes presses, oak chairs with the
:rest of Henry Clay and many similar
objects of curious and historic Interest
complete the collection.
Hotv It Slrnck Her.
"You seem greatly Impressed," said
the minister, "with my description of
liow they brought the head of John the
Baptist before the king on a salver."
"Y'es," sighed Mrs. De Style; "I was
thinking how much hotter they trained
servants in those days. Now, mine,
when tbey bring me things, are forever
forgetting the salver." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Snarareatl ve.
"Mabel," said the girl' mother,
that young man has been calling upon
you every evening this month."
"Yes. mother." replied Mabel.
"And I'd like to know what hi In
tentions are." '
"Well er manrmn," replied Mabel,
blushing, 'we're both very much In the
dark." Philadelphia Ledger.
A Poke at Her.
Miss Knox I don't like her. She's
forever talking about herself.
Miss Wise (pointedly) Well, that'
better than talking about aome one
else. Philadelphia Ledger.
Too t rue.
Dreamer Do you ever see pictures
n the flames?
Realist No, but I see coal bill.
Broadway Magazine.