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FALLS CITY NEWS i II b d itty N rn ifi and leaped into the forest from which it had come, while the girl leaned agaiust a tree, one little hand agaiust her palpitating bosom, staring at Roderick. D. L. WOOD » SON. “ You were frightened— there was Publishers | no cause for alarm— but it was no is H m ^ m u n»l1 it »b. po»«>” ^ doubt startling to come face to face ■ ra ils c u t Polk I'ooitit ‘ 'rM 'n . » » a » » ">• * f OlHi(r*M » * March ». IÍ7 ». i» Solved a Problem For with such a wild creature,” he said, talking rather volubly to enable her Tt It phene— News Offkt. to recover herself. “ How is it that Four Persons. T M f \ga ••■'Mcrirtfcvi Rat«a 0»>STear *L*0. ala mortha. you are alone and so far from the g p > M « ' a : t b iw month.. I * e n ta , a l««»«' w r t ••»»■ settlement? Are you not afraid?” P * d r # r t l a l n i Ralae l>\ap:ar 1.' .' c u m an loch asked Roderick curiously. By CLA RISSA MACKIF. j ; » m • » » » NoUets ic a n t a a l i n » . r.-r Sale. « a r t . “ Indeed, no,” she said in a sur J K t e c r m t i* » Wan» anil P «T In t e t t s ln m .o t So Miss Penlow vanned behind her prised tone. “ I know every inch ^ ^ ^ H p a la ta e lla s C et 4 o lT h s n k s Sects. Las* pretty hand ancl blinked her blue of these woods, but I don’t know all ■ »tic c a , la ta ) rat »a •yea at Roderick. “ Dear boy," she the deniiens thereof. Now 1 can t/ C op y to r D t a a d i . an d c h s n g .e sh o u ld ha tan t murmured wearily, “ this is the sev add another to mv acquaintances.” I» Thé Xcwi not lat»r than Wadnaada» en hundredth time, more or less, She smiled in such a friend I v way 5 f f c al Hawapapar o f »ha City at »a lla Cl»» that I’ve said I don’t want to be that Roderick took the compliment married yet awhile. I want to en to himself. Issi ed E very S a t i ’R p a y M o r n i n g joy my single blessedness for an “ Thank you,” he said courteous other year. I want to have a good ly. “ I am proud to be received by time, and I see my way clear to the lady of the forest.” R IS E O F T H E E M B A S S Y . have it now that Aunt Bee has in She blushed beautifully and bit 1 A t First Ambassadors W ars Ratsd as vited me to spend a winter in New the red curve of her lip thoughtful York. Next fall, after the summer ly.” “ Really, it seems such a rude "Honorable Spies.-’ It was not until the close of the fif abroad she has promised me, I'll be thing to say, but 1 didn’t mean you, teenth century that the permanent em ready to marrv you and go to h o u s e sir. I meant the deer was a new bassy became at all common, and not keeping in that dear, horrible, stuffy acquaintance.” until the end of the sixteenth that It little apartment which, 1 am sure, 14 Roderick reddened as he laughed became a generally recoguixed Institu all we can afford.” at his own confusion. “ Serves me tion Spain led the way in the matter. “Y ou have evidently thought the right,” he said emphatically, “ for In 1487 Dr. Roderlgo Gomiesalvl de : PueM a was appointed permanent Span matter over carefully. Your reasons being such a conceited jackanapes ish ambassador to England, and as be are most excellent ones, and I dare If I can be of no further service to i w as still in London in 1500, the Span say you will have a splendid time you I may as well get along after ish embassy in the British capital must with Mrs. Frake. When are you be regarded as the oldest among the going to start on your journey into Ellis.” “Oh, do you know Mr. Ellis?” she permanent embassies of tbe world. the world?” asked. “ Is he here?” Spain was followed by Venice. In “ A week from today. And what “ He’s staying in Anjou for the 1496 the Venetian republic, ow ing to You hunting. I’m with him. Mv name’s the fact that "the way to tbe British are you going to do, Rod? Isles la rory long and very- danger spoke of joining Dick Ellis on his Wakely— Roderick Wakely.” ous.” appointed two merchants resi hunting trip into the north. Didn’t “Then you’re the painter. Mr. dent in London as subambasciatores you say you might get a picture up Ellis has often mentioned your for the republic, but in the summer o f there among the trappers and name to us. He always come* over the same year Andrea Trevisano a r guides ?” Edith Penlow spoke rather to the lodge to see father and me. rived in London as permanent ambas absently, as one who tried to force \Ye have a camp awav back here. sador at the court o f Henry V II. au interest in a very tiresome sub Tell Mr. Ellia we shall be glad to It was about this period that there began to be evolved that ideal of diplo je ct see him and his friend too.” She “ I am planning to join Ellis on smiled back over her shoulder and macy which Machiavelll expounds with such thoroughness in "The Thursday. We shall be gone all win disappeared, while Roderick whirled Prince" and ‘T h e Discourses on Livy." ter. I withheld my answer until I about and tramped back to the cab an ideal best indicated, perhaps, in might know your decision, Edith. I in, forgetting everything save the Sir Henry Wotton's fsmons definition, will sec you before I go.” fact that at last the great picture "A n ambassador is an honest man sent Out in the 6ilent street Roderick was at hand. to lie abroad fo r the good of his coun try.” So universally was this Ideal ac Wakely strode swiftly along the After that the weeks flew rapidly cepted and elaborated that the "corn- frosty pavements, his hands thrust while Roderick worked on his pic- pleat am bassador" of the old school deep in his coat pockets, his eyes ture, tramped the woods hoping for searching the gloom ahead, as if a glimpse of Katherine Deering’* never expected to be believed. In tbe sixteenth and seventeenth cen they were trying to pierce the gray red cloak or joined Ellis in his trips turies the position o f ambassadors was veil of the future that seemed after brown bear and deer. Many anything but comfortable. Sovereigns stretched before him. Before the evenings they spent at the lodge thought It wiser to keep them at a safe veil Edith Penlow's dainty figure with Colonel Deering and his daugh distance. Henry V II. o f England for bade his subjects to bold any Inter seemed to dance alluringly, yet ter. course with them, while Francis I. of with diminishing clearness, until at As the spring came on Roderick’s France adopted the policy o f keeping last she vanished and there was engagement to Edith Penlow seem them aw ay from court. They were nothing but the gray veil and little ed to fade into a dull background j maintained purely on the basis o f the else beyond. that he had called life— before he balance o f advantage. Bach sovereign On Thursday he set forth with had met Katharine Deering and reckoned that tbe advantage accruing Dick Ellis, bound for the Canadian fallen in love with her sweetness j to him for being able to have “honor woods. As they left Boston be and shy simplicity. able spies" in the shape of ambassa Edith’s letters had grown fewer dors at foreign courts more than com hind in a mist of smoke Roderick pensated for the losses which came his thought, with a sharp pang, that until they ceased altogether. Then w ay from having around him the spring would have rolled around be one morning there came a letter “honorable spies” of other powers. So fore he 6aw it again. And Edith— that fell into his life like a bomb the system gradually consolidated it for she would return at Easter be shell. self. fore going abroad with her aunt— “ I am tired of New York,” she It was not, however, until the con would she have forgotten him— wrote rather petulantly, “ so if you gresses of Vienna and Aix-la-ChapeUe. would she learn to care for another ? are ready eady 1 to go to Paris I 6hall pre !n 181.' and 1818, respectively, that di When they reached the hunting pare to be married in June. Aunt plomacy, as a uniform system, based upon generally recognized rules and camp at Anjou Ellis took his gun Bee has given up the trip for this ! directed by a diplomatic hierarchy hav- and Roderick made several sketches year.” ing a fixed international status, was that might develop into the great In his perplexity Roderick laid firmly established. It was, moreover, picture, but he felt no especial en the case before Dick Ellis. The lat only In quite recent times that the sys thusiasm about pushing his work ter gnawed his pipestem and looked tem w as extended beyond Europe to forward. Edith’s attitude had some at Roderick through narrowed lids. ■ the great nations of the east.—Argo how set the machinery o f his life “ Y ou’re all over it, eh, Rod?” he > n au t out of adjustment. He todd himself asked bluntly. that only she could make matters “I ’m ashamed to say I am,” nod- j Children and Books. right agaiD. Every mail he watch ded the other. “ I didn't know I was Dr. Johnson held views fa r In ad vance o f his age on the subject o f chil ed for a letter from her, but t'he let such a cad.” dren's books. The child Itself, he held, ters came rarely and were lacking “ You’re not, only neither of you was the best Judge. “I would put a in the great essential that he craved is in love with the other. Of course : child into a library (where no unfit — her assurance that she muwed it’s Edith Penlow.” His voice low- \ books are) and let him read at bis him in her new life; that she longed choice." he said. “A child should not for the time when they would no ered. “ Y es.” be discouraged from reading anything longer be separated. Rut she nerer “ She doesn’t care a rap for you— j he takes a liking to from a notion that wrote of these things. Her letters never did I She’s in love with me | it is above his reach. I f that be the case the child will soon find out and were mere frothy jottings of her i Fact! No, I’m not conceited, old desist. I f not he. of course, gains the gay life— of her bappiiness— and a j man. It happens I know it, only— Instruction, which is so much the more careless word of affection at the only it was too late. You see, I j likely to come from the inclination end, sometimes forgotten after all. love her, too, but when I asked her with which he takes up the study.” One morning he took sketching she had promised you. What time block and pencil and went forth on does the express leave the junc- J Holes In Everything. the trail of Ellis, who had been tion?” he asked suddenly, spring- j It Is held by mere than one high au gone hours before hot on the track ing to his feet. thority that matter Is neither continu of a brown bear which had invaded “Three-ten this afternoon.” ous nor heterogeneous. Thomson show their storehouse the night before. “ Then I ’m off. Have Rush send ed by an experiment that hydrogen can Roderick paused, to rest on the my traps down. Wish you luck, be passed into a vacuum tube through an Incandescent platinum window, in fallen trunk of a giant beech when Rod. You needn't wish me any. I a similar way sodium passes through his startled glance took in a sceme know I’ll win out.” glass, and this Is a useful fact In the that he never forget. Roderick whistled softly as he manufacture o f vacuum tubes, because Beyond him ir.i a small clearing ‘ carefully wrapped his finished pic ■odium can be passed Into the tube to carpeted with e soft drift of newly ! ture under his arm. “ The Great absorb tbe residual oxygen. Bellati, fallen snow there stood a girl and Adventure,” it was called, this meet the Italian physicist, has shown that hydrogen can pass through cold iron. a deer, quit's unconscious of hi« 1 ing of the timid girl and the fright- 1 Matter may therefore be generally re presence. Ft was evident that each | ened deer, and as he went through j garded as full of holes. had emerged from the woods on the woods toward Colonel Deering’s 1 opposite t ides of the clearing and camp he was conscious that he was j were now poised in startled contem setting forth upon the greatest ad- ' T w * Housatonic«. The first American vessel sunk by a plation 'of each other. renture of his life. When he saw I hostile submarine In w arfare bore the The girl, small and slender and Katharine coming through the ca aame name as the Housatonic, also tbe graceful, wore a long red cape that thedral aisles of the forest toward first American steamer sunk by a G er enveloped her like the cloak of Lit him one glimpse aaf her face caused man submarine after tbe break In dip tle Bled Riding Hood of nursery him to-drop the great picture in the j lomatic relaUons occurred. Tbe for mer vessel was the Cnited States tales, and over her fair hair was snow and take her in his arms. steamship Housatonic, aunk in Charles drawn a red hood, framing the pale End of th* World. ton harbor tbe nlgbt o f Feb. 17, 1864, oval of her lovely young face, out by tbe Confederate submarine H. L of w hich shone eyes as shy and Louis Rabourdin, a French scien H on lay. brawn as those of the deer, which tist, expects the world to burn some Stood in an attitude of pitiable day. Rabourdin says if the earth’s H as Woman W ho Did. fright. crust at the bottom of the seas, iM td u cto i«. I have frequently So they stood for a whole min which is very thin, ever cracks and ■re. I think the a v e r a g e is lets water into the incandescent in ______ year, but 1 am getting hard ute while Roderick transferred their terior, the water would be decom ened on that p o s t. 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