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« SERI AL STORY 1 W e C o u r ts h ij 1 cTHiles S ta n d ish s f With 111 ns* rs 11* >i*a bv Howard Chumllrr Christy • 4 righi. Tilt* 1 $4 • 11 1 • a Multili T h v L o v e r 's E r r a n d the plow look backward; Though the plowshare out through the flowers of life to Its fountains, Though It puss o'er the graves of the dead and the hearths of the living, It Is the will of the Lord; and Ills merry eudureth for e v e r !" Ho lie entered the house: and the hum of the wheel nml the singing Suddenly ceased; for Priscilla, aroused hy his step on the threshold, Rose as he entered, and gave him her hand, In signal of welcome. Haying, "I knew It was you, when I heard your si* p In lh<- passage; For I was thinking of you. an I sut there ringing ami spinning." Awkward Mini 'l imb with delight, that a thought of him had been mingled Thus In the aarred psalm, that came from the heart of the maiden, Silent tefore In r he stood, and gave her the flowers for an answer, Finding no words for his thought. He remembered that duy In the winter, I After the first great snow, when he broke a path from the village, Reeling and plunging along through the drifts thut encumbered the doorway, , Stamping th» snow from his feet ns lie entered the hou-e. and Pilselllu j l-augli* *1 at his snowy locks, and gave him a seat hy the fireside, ! 'Hateful and p'eased to know he had thought of her In the enow-storm. Hud he hut spoken then, perhaps m l In vain had he spoken; | Now It was all too late; the golden mm merit had vanished! So he stood there nlwiahed, and gave her» the flowera for un unswer. Hi> III» *t route will prevailed, and AI ili'ii went on It 1 m errand, Out of Hit’ it r w t of Hi)' village, nml Into ill» piiiliM of ilm forest. Into the trnni|ull wood*, w h ir l blue birds mill rolilna were tiullilliiK Towne In III« populous Ire«*», will) liit ii KIiiK Kuril* iih of verdure. Peaceful, aerial cities of Joy nml nf ferilon nn*l freedom A ll around him was culm, but wlililn him commotion nml conflict. l.ovi< conti'iwIliiK with friendship, nml Then they rat down nnd talked of erlf with curb |r»tierouB Impulse. the birds and the beautiful spring To nml fru In lilt breast his thouKhls time, were heiivltiK :iml ilnnMnK. Talknl of their friends at home, and As In n foiiml»rinK ship, with every the Mayflower that nulled on the roll of the vessel. morrow. Win*hen the till ter *<n, tin* merciless i ''1 have been thinking all day,” said butk « of the ocean! gently the purltnu maiden, "Must I relinquish It all." he cried j "Dreaming all night, and thinking all with n wild Inmeiitnilon, day, of the hedge-rows of Eng- "Musi 1 relinquish It nil, llio Joy, the land,— hope, the Illusion? They are In blossom now, and the Was It for this 1 have loved, and country ts all like a garden; walled, nml worshiped In silen t»? Thinking of lanes and fields, and the Was It for this I have followed the aong of the lark and the linnet. flyliiK feet and the shadow Seeing the village street, and familiar Over the wintry sen. to the desolate faces of neighbors shores of New England? Going about ns of old and stopping Truly the h*arl Is deceitful, nml out to gossip together. of Its depths of corruption And, at the end of the street, the vil Ids«. Ilk« an exhalation, the misty lage church, with the Ivy phantoms of pnnalon: | ('lim bing the old gray tower, and the Anjc**!a of llscht they seem, hut are quiet graves In the churchyard. only delusions of Satan. All Is clear to me now; I feel It, I see it distinctly! This Is the hand of the !,ord; It Is laid upon me In anger, For I have followed too much the ao very eager to wed me, Why does ho not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing. I surely am not worth the w inning!" Then John Alden begun explaining and smoothing the matter, Making It worse as lie w< nt, by say ing Hie Captain was busy— Hud no time for such things; such things! the words grating harshly Fell on the ear of Priscilla; and swift as a flush she made answer: "Has he no time lor such things, ss you call It. I d tore he Is married, Would lie he likely to find It, or make It, uiter H k * wadding? That Is the way w|t|| you men; you don't understand us, y< u * an not When you have made up your mluils. after thinking of this one and that one, ('boo, leg, sc’cctlng rejecting, corn piirii.g one with another, Then you make known your de Ire with abrupt snd sudden avowal. And are offended and hurt, and Indlg mint perhaps, that a woman Does not respond at once to a love that she never susirecfed. Does not attain ut a bound the height to which you have teen climbing Tills Is not right nor Just: for sure y a woman's a fleet Ion Is not a thing to he asked for, arid had for only the uskl; g When one la truly In love, one not only says It, hut shows It Had he hut waited a while, had he only shower) that he loved me. Kven this Captain of yours— who knows?—at last might have won me, Old and rough hb he In; but now It never cun happen." POKER M0NEy FOR CHURCH How Statesman of tha Paat, With Oambling Proclivities, Helped Out Institution. "Thao Stevens, the Illustrious Penn sylvania statesman, ured to be a faro bank fiend In the old days when lug gambling houses flourished on Penn sylvania avenue." said Mr E W. Creecy, a prominent Washington pat ent lawyer, at the Stafford "The sanies are merely memories now, for gambling Is no longer fashionable with the solons of the present, at least not the kind that was In vogue In old Thud Stevens’ days " If luck went his way Mr Stevens »a s Just as apt as not to tarry all n'ght In his fight to beat the ‘tlgar. and on a certain occasion which I remember as vlvld'y as though It w*-re yesterday, star'll g In pretty early one Saturday « venlng he played until the church tells began ringing the next morning Thoroughly tired, but In a gracious frame of mind, he descended the steps at Teel's re or' bet wen Four and a Half and Sixth s'reets and emerged on the avenue chuckling to the thought of the I Ig roll of bills he had brought away Fortune had he*-n with him and he had hit the hank hard. "H e had hardly turned In the dlre<~ Mon of hfs hotel when a good lady whom he knew In 'he friendliest way accosted him. Little did she bus |K-ct what the grim old senator had been up to during the preceding 12 hours. Politeness demanded that he should listen to her talk " ‘ Mr Stevens,’ she began. ’I am awfully g'ad to see you this morning The truth Is that I want you to help Htlll John Alden went on, unheeding our church a bit. The congregation lx rad and distressed at Ita Inability the words of Priscilla, I'rgltig the suit of his friend, explain to raise enough money to pay off a long due mortgage W ill you kindly ing persuading expanding; Spoke of Ills courage and skill, and ot give us a donation?’ “ ‘ Madam,’ responded old Thad, ‘ It all his battles In Flanders. How with the people of God he had will be a genuine pleasure for me to help your church How much will It chosen to suffer affliction, How, In return for bla zeal, they had take to wipe out the whole debt?’ “ ’The mortgage Is for $2,000.’ made him Captain of Plymouth; He wa« a gentleman horn, could trace ® " 'Here, then,’ said Stevens, going down Into his Jeans. ’Is the exact sum hla pedigree plainly Dark to Hugh Htandlsh of Duxhury Take It with my compliments.’ and before the astonished woman could re Hall, In 1-ancaahlre, Kngland, Who was the son of Ralph, and the cover enough to even thank him he the grandson of Thurston de was stumping down the avenue, re- : peatlng to himself: ’God moves In a Htandlsh; Heir unto vast estates, of which he mysterious way hts wonders to per form.’ w'aa basely defrauded. Still bore the family arms, and had 1 "Th e donation was to a dollar what j he had won at faro, but the good for hts crest a cock argent Combed and wattled gules, and all the church folks had never the slightest : suspicion that they had accepted taint ed money.” IoMlH©]]EJ(SlDS©ILAEll) P/tOfWSJZD CJLPZ C tf/U tL-ZJ N MOKE senses than one England Is said the Olympic ts a bad veasel fo r and America are drawing nearer an economizing head of the eating to each other. The latest phase department, because the very steadi of this approaching nearness la ness of the vessel helps a passenger foretold In a geographical sense to eat three good meals per day. and by Sir Edward Morris, premier of New maybe four, whereas If the chief stew foundland. His scheme Is geographi ard could only rock her a bit, you cal because he proposes to cut off a know— well, quite a number of the whole day In transit between the two hopefuls would be clutching the rail, countries. The saving of a day, 2* gazing at the sea and thinking about hours of time, Is the same thing as a biblical expression that Is quite apro taking up the United Kingdom by Its pos. The principal Items of expense roots and planting It In the middle of In moving the Olympic from South the North Atlantic, at least a thousand ampton to New York are: miles nearer Canada and the United C oal ......................................................... $22.4*10 States. " 'N t » ) o f em plo y *-».................................. 15,0*10 Sir Edward's proposition would be L a u n d ry ................................................. :,u)o M eals fo r first cabin p assen gers...... 17.00) interesting merely as a theory, but the M eals fo r second cabin p assen ger*.. 4.420 premier Is In earnest about It. He F e ed in g th e third cab in p assen gers.. 3.960 F eed in g th e e m p lo y e e ......................... 5.000 proposes In brief to construct first a ! E igh teen tugs fo r d o c k in g ................. 40*) T r a n s fe r r in g th ird class cabin to E l railway from Quebec to a point on lis Islan d ............................................. 75 Cape Sir Charles across the Strait of T r a n s fe r r in g th ird cabin b a g g a g e .. 75 Belle Isle at Its narrowest part oppo Here Is a part of the list the chief site Newfoundland. This railway will connect with two steamers of the Lusl- steward made up to restock his larder | tanla and Mauretania type to run before sailing again: Three thousand between Cape Sir Charles and Llver- pounds of Philadelphia broilers, 3.000 One Tie That Binds. ! pool. The sea distance between the pounds of Philadelphia roasters. 2,000 "In some cases the tie that really two points Is only 1.656 miles, running pounds of capons. 3.000 pounds o f binds Is the same pet superstition.” a between Ireland and Scotland and ducklings, celery fed; 2,000 pounds o f heart's desires and devices, woman said. "Since last Thursday my through the Irish sea. There will be fowl, 600 guinea chickens. 100 dozen WorshlpIttK Ashtoreth blindly, and maid and I have had a much keener a ferry across the straits to Newfound squabs. 7,000 pounds of fish. 30,000 Impious Idols of llnnl. appreciation of each other’s virtues. eggs. 7,000 pounds of butter. 35,000 land. This Is the cross I must benr; the sin Sadie went shopping When she had nnd the swift retribution." "Th is would be by far the shortest pounds of beef, 10,000 pounds of mut been gone half sn hour she telephoned ton, fifty spring lambs, 3,000 pounds 8o throuah the i’ lytnoulh woods John passage across the Atlantic, and with that she had left behind the carefully of veal, 3,000 pounds of pork, thirty Alden went on his errand; , steamers o f the Lusitania type the compiled list of things she wanted to tons o f potatoes. 1,500 quarts of Ice Crossing the brook at thv ford, where buy and was afraid to cross her good voyage from land to land could be ac | cream, 100 Virginia hams. 100 dozen U hr aw led over pebble nt.d shal complished with only three nights at lu< k by coming back for It. Would sweetbreads, 1,000 sheep kidneys. 500 low, It be n o much trouble to look It up In sea,” said the Newfoundland premier. ox kidneys, 200 corned ox tongues, (•atherltiK still, as he went, the May "The route would be open all the year her room and send It by the Janitor's 1.000 pounds o f sausage, thirty bar flowers blooming around him. bov to the store where she was wait round—occasionally drift and floating rels o f clams. 100 dozen soft shell Ice would be met with, but nothing Fragrant. fllllnK the air with a strange ing? crabs, 200 barrels o f flour, 100 dozen and wonderful sweetness, "M.v heart throbbed with sympathy. to obstruct properly built and equipped asparagus. 500 dozen lettuce, twenty- steamers. Children loat In the woods and cov Ssdle had always seemed rather a taci "From Cape Sir Charles to Quebec four boxes apricots, 100 boxes Newton ered with leaves In their slumber. turn i*erson, but that message showed Is about 1.000 miles, and with a line of ! pippin, 100 boxes cooking apples, fifty " I ’ urltnti flowers.” he said, "and the that she was very human after all. : crates cantaloupe. 100 boxes grape typo of I’urltnn maidens. She felt Just as I did about going back standard gauge this could be covered fruit, fifty boxes lemons, 200 boxes at sixty miles an hour, which means Modest and simple and sweet, thq for a forgotten article; therefore no oranges, fifty boxes peaches. 200 crates very ty|>e of Priscilla! service I could perform for a fellow that passengers could be landed In strawberries, fifty boxes peaches, 200 Ho I will take them to her; to Priscilla sufferer could be too much trouble. lower Canada and In the United States ! crates strawberries, fifty crates water- the May flower of Plymouth, The Janitor's boy was out. so I spent twenty-four hours earlier than by the mellons, twenty dozen crates pineap Lusitania to New York today. Modest anti simple and sweet, tut a time and money to take the list to the ples. partlriK gift will 1 take them; store myself. Rut I do not regret I t . ; "This can readily be seen when It Is The Olympic Is the largest vessel explained that the ocean passage llreathlnK their silent farewells, ss j for are not Sadie and I friends for ever constructed. It Is 88214 feet In would be 1.200 miles shorter and that they fade and wither nnd perish. life?" the 1 000 miles will be covered on land ! length, 100 feet more than the world’s Soon to be thrown away, ns Is the at sixty miles an hour, which Is nearly > tallest building, and has a width of 92 heurt of the giver." Splitting Paper. three times as fast as the Lusitania feet 6 inches. Its displacement Is 66,- 8t> through the Plymouth woods John 000 tons. From the bottom of the keel Here are two good ways to split a and the Mauretania travel.” Alden went on his errand; to the top o f the captain's house is 105 piece of paper: First, lay the paper Came to an open space, and saw the The Mauretania's best time is about i feet and 7 inches, while from the bot on a piece of glass, soak It thoroughly thirty land miles an hour. disk of the ocean. tom of the keel to the top o f the fun with water and then press It smoothly Hallless, somber nnd cold with the The period of self-absorption of nel the hight is 175 feet. over the glass. By using care, the American capital In transportation comfortless breath of the cast The vessel Is supplied with electric upper half of the sheet can then be schemes of a domestic nature still con w ind; elevators. Turkish bath and sw im -. : peeled off, leaving the under half on Haw the new built house, and |*cople tinuing. and his partial bridging o f the the glass. When dry It will come off North Atlantic having Its terminals re mlng pool, a squash racquet court and nt work In a meadow ; easily. Be sure that the glass la per- spectively In the mother country and hand ball court, a golf course, palm Heard, ns ho drew near the door, the court and sun parlor. It has a dining j fectly clean. musical voice of Priscilla her colony. It is British capital, con Second, paste a piece of cloth or sequently. which proposes to father room with a capacity of 650 guests Hinging the hundredth Psalm, the atrong paper on ench side of the paper this project, which sounds and looks and a dance hall accommodating 200 grand old Puritan anthem, couples. It can carry 2,500 passengers to be spilt. When It Is thoroughly dry. so much like a dream. Music that Luther sang to the sacred and crew of 860. It has 2,000 win suddenly and violently pull the two words of the Psalmist, But Sir Edward, who has never been dows and the number of Its floors Is 'W hy Don’t You Speak for Yourself, J o h n .” pieces of cloth apart. Then soften the Full of the brenth of the Lord, con- i accused of being a dreamer, said that paste with water and take the two he had discussed the plan with a syn 14. The Olympic was built In Belfast, soling and comforting tunny. Kind are the people 1 live with, and rest of the blazon. Ireland, and cost approximately $10,- Then, ns he opened the door, ho be dear to me iny religion; He was a man of honor, of noble ana halves of the sheet from the cloths. dicate o f British capitalists In New 000 , 000 . held the form of the maiden Still tny heart Is so sad, that I wish generous nature; York. "Th ere are tn New York at the Heated beside her wheel, and the myself back In Old England. Though he was rough, he was kindly; present time,” he said, "the represen Nicknames of Papers. Overwork a Waste of Time. carded wool like a snow drift You will say It Is wrong, hut I can not she knew how during the winter Overstrained faculties can never tatives of a large and Influential Eng Nicknames for newspapers have Piled at her knee, her white hnnds help It: I almost ; He had attended the slek. with a hand bring out the best results. Overwork lish syndicate who have acquired gone out of favor. W hile the Tim es feeding the ravenous spindle, Wish myself hack In Old England. I as gentle ns woman's; Is always a waste of time, and though rights to a railway running out of Que was forme ly Granny and afterward While with her foot on the treadle feel so lonely and wretched." Somewhat hasty and hot, he could not It nmy not seem to be so at first, bec and who have a charter to build a the Thunderer, the Morning Post used she guided the wheel In Its motion. deny It, and headstrong. eventually the *ead truth Is always railway in the direction of Cape Sir to be known as Jeames, that generic Open wldo on her lap lay the well- Thereupon answered the youth: "In Stern as a soldier might he. but manifested. To cut off needed recre Charles and Newfoundland, the width name for flunkeys being attached to It worn psalm-book of Ainsworth, deed I do not condemn you; hearty, and placable always. ation. to curtail the hours of sleep, to of the strait at that point being only In allusion to specialization on society Printed In Amsterdam, tile words nnd Stouter hearts than a woman's have Not to he laughed at nnd scorned, be postpone a holiday Indefinitely, to re seven mllea.” news. When the Morning Herald and music together, quailed In this terrible winter. cause he was little of stature: So far as the steamers themselves Standard had the same proprietor fuse to tnke a rest and ease and Uough-hewn, angular notes, like stones Yours Is tender and trusting, and For he was great of heart, magnani change, under the Impression that are concerned, marine experts say that and to a large extent the same staff, In the wall of n churchyard. needs n stronger to lean on; mous, courtly, courageous; thus time Is saved. Is always a short- the only saving would lie In one day's and used to appeal to each other as Darkened nnd overhung by the run So I have route to you now, with an Any woman in Plymouth, nay, any | sighted policy and often a fatal mis st« anting coal, an economy of $3.0<X> Independent authorities, they were ning vine of the verses. an offer and proffer of marriage woman In England, take. The time arrives when the poor, or $3.50*1 a trip The provisions saved familiarly known as Mrs. Harris and Huch was the book from whose pages Made by a good man nnd true, Miles Might he happy and proud to be called abused faculties take their revenge on a three day trip would not be count Mrs. Gamp. The Morning Advertiser, she sang the old Puritan anthem. Htandlsh, the Captain of P ly the w ife of Mllea Standlsh! and refuse to serve altogether, or do In ed at all. as the organ of trade, has at various She, the Purltnn girl. In the solitude mouth!” The cost of running a great steam times been dubbed the Barrel Organ, so feeble a fashion as to show their of the forest. Put as he warmed and glowed. In deterioration. ship such as the new White Star liner the Tap Tub and the Gin and Gospel Making the humble house nnd the Thus he deliverer! his message, the hts simple and eloquent language, Olympic, pictured above, is tremen Gazette. The Pink 'un scarcely counts modest nppnrel of homespun dexterous w riter of letters— Quite forgetful of self, and full of the dous. T o bring the Olympic from as a nickname, being officially adopt neautlful with her beauty, nnd rich Did not embellish the theme, nor ar praise of hla rival, Persia Bans Jules Verne. Southampton to New York and tie her ed as an alternative title for the with the wealth of her being! ray It In beautiful phrases, Archly the maiden smiled, and, with The censor o f literature In Persia safely to her pier costs in the neigh Sporting Times.— London Chronicle. Over him rushed, like a wind that Is Hut came straight to the point, and eyes overrunning with laughter, has banned a Persian translation of borhood of $100.000. This vast sum keen nnd cold and relentless, blurted it out like a schoolboy; Said In a tremulous voice, "W h y don't Jules Verne's "Voyage to the Moon" on ts mad^ up principally hy the pur Golf and Kisses. Thoughts of what might have been, Even the Captain hltnaelf could hard you speak for yourself, John?" chase of coal, the wnges of the men on the ground that It Is Irreligious, and "Seashore golf seldom amounts to and the weight and woe of his er ly have said It more bluntly. (T o nn c o n t i n u e d .) from hts point of view he Is righ t It board and the buying of food for the much," said H. Chandler Egan, the rand; Mute with amazement and sorrow, will be remembered that a party of passengers. The value of the coal golf champion, on the Wheaton links. All the dream« that had faded, and Priscilla, the Puritan maiden, scientists was shut up in a shell which consumed about 800 tons per day— '♦Seashore golf always suggests to Ths Result. all the hopes that had vanished. Looked Into Alden's face, her eyea was fired at the moon from a great was only a trifle less than the cost of me the dialogue between Jack and All his life henceforth a dreary and dilated with wonder, "I suppose those garden seeds I the food eaten by the passengers. This Jill. tenantless mansion. Feeling his words like a blow, that sent saved you quite a little money," gun. Now the moon Is Mahomet's cof latter Item was Increased about $10,000 “ ‘Oh, Jack, dear, don’t ! ’ whispered fin. and to shoot at the moon Is a Haunted by vnln regrets, and pallid, stunned her and rendered her eald the affable statesman. crime In Persia. It is true that the on the return voyage because the first Jill. 'The caddie will see us.' sorrowful faces. speechless; "N o,” replied Mr. Oroweher, ” 1 and second cabins were filled when “ 'No he won’t,’ said Jack. ‘H e’a Still he said to himself, snd almost T ill at length she exclaimed, Inter hadn't the h eart-to wnste 'em and shell didn't hit the moon, but the In the levlatcan departed. too busy looking for the ball, and It's tention constituted the crime In Pep fiercely he said It: rupting the ominous silence: the result ts that I'm In debt for gar From a chief steward's viewpoint It In my pocket.’ ” ate. "L e t not him that putteth his hand to " if the great Captain of Plymouth la den Implements.”
