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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1899)
"ASLAND stood on the crest of the bill ami looked across the waste of tangled gorse. no wipeu his forehead with Jilhls handkerchief and stretched him self at full length ou the sun-baked turf "What weather!" he growled, fumb ling Idly with his sketch book. "Too hot to live, almost, and only May! That girl must be as mad as myself to think of walking on a day like this. He glanced down the winding path with a pathetic curiosity, unbuttoned bis coat, and fanned himself vigorous ly with his sketch book. Then he lay EtUl for fully ten mluutcs. "Hallo!" The ejaculation stilled a ponderous yawn. Ilasland spraug to his feet, pulled off his coat spasmodically, and faced the girl with a flush of embar rassed pleasure. "Miss Thornton!" "I I had almost abandoned all hopes of ever seeing you again," he began. "You know I was away when you left, and " "And what are you doing here In the wilderness?" "Trying to kill two birds with the proverbial stone," he answered lightly. "Endeavoring to earn a living and get ionie fresh air at the same time, and faring badly on both sides. It's too AN AKTIST WAS BUSILY WORKI.VO. hot to work, and tlie heat won't give the fresh air a chance. I suppose you're staying in the village, E:h Miss Thorn ton?" "Yes. at the manor. I have a sltua- . tion there for the summer." She looked down at her dusty shoes, and Hasland realized with a little pang of pity that fortune was still unkind to her. She was wearing the same plain white dress that she had worn the first time he met her wo summers before. "And do you like your new position?" ho ventured. "Oh, yes." She raised her head with a start. "I am companion to n lady, and she is generally very good to me. I have not a great deal to do, but some times " "Well?" asked Ilasland, with eager Interest. "She Is very Irritable at times. Poor soul! she Is lonely, and I think she has had a lot of trouble. I have been here nearly four mouths, and we have never had a visitor. She lives in London dur ing the winter, and I think her niece, Mis3 Colmore " Ilasland was busily engaged in tilling his pipe, but both pipe and tobacco pouch slipped from his lingers, and his teeth closed together with a snap. "Miss what?" he gasped. "Colmore. She was at the last drawing-room, you know, and they say she Is engaged to be married to Lord Flsk erton. She is coming to stay at the manor for a few weeks." He rubbed his chin and gazed away pensively toward the river. The girl held out her hand, but he did not notice It for a moment. "I must really go, Mr. Hasland," she Bald. "It Is almost 4 o'clock. I cannot tell you how pleased I am at having Been you again. I hope you are selling plenty of pictures?" "I shall see you again," he ques tioned, furtively evading her glance. "I am staying at the Inn. Oh, yes, I am doing fairly well," he went on, hastily. "There are some charming bits of landscape down in the valley; It's a regular artist's paradise. But, Ethel Miss Thornton " , "Good-by." 1 "Au revolr, then!" he answered, re luctantly, raising his cap. "I shall see you again one of the days." Stretched there In the sweltering haze ho mused with half-closed eyes over the days ho had spent In the shabby-respectable Loudon boarding-house. Every morning at 0:30 precisely the plaintive creaking of tho unpalnted gate would draw him cautiously to his window to wa ch her set out cheerfully to meet thnt monotonous unchanging round of toll. "Poor little girl!" he said, rising and picking up his sketch book. "And what a coincidence! If I can see Kate Uio fates may tnkc It Into their heads to smile, nfter all." He descended the hill whistling, nnd, crossing tho common, reached the dusty road leading to the village. A rumble of wheels nnd a rattle of har ness made him turn his head luqulsl tlvely, and then a scene almost identi cal with the one thnt had taken place on the hill half an hour before was enacted. "Harold!" Ilasland staggered under tlie hall of questions that followed, but struggled manfully to nnswer them. Giving tho coachman orders to drive slowly, sho tripped down and they walked on side by side. "Have you seen Aunt Carrie?" she asked. "Good gracious, no, Kntlo! It's tho queerest thing In tho world. I only came down here a day or two ago, and I hadn't tho faintest Idea In the world that sho was within 100 miles of the place. I haven't seen her or hnd a lino since our mutual understanding nnd tho battle that followed. I supposo she's as flinty as ever?" Poor fellow," sho said sympatheti cally. "It must be a horrible experi ence to be cut off with n shilling or without even thnt; but I'm sure It would bo Infinitely worse for both of us had we countenanced her pet scheme and married. I am very fond of you, Hal, but " "It would hardly have been a Darby and Joan existence, eh? What does aunt think about your engagement with Lord Fiskerton?" She didn't like it at all at first and gave me homilies by the hour on my base ingratitude In abandoning her in her old age. She declared she would leave every penny she possessed to some home for lost donkeys, or some thing similar." "But she seems more contented since she got this new lady's companion and she never writes me without lauding this person to the skies." tV sudden bend in the road brought them In sight of the straggling village street, and both paused simultaneous ly. Hasland was embarrassed and Irritated. "I I wish you wouldn't call Miss Thornton a 'person,' Kate?" ho blurted out, after an awkward pause. 'Oh. you know her?" 'You see, Kate," he stammered, with sudden resolution. "I'd better make a clean breast of It, for after all you owe mo something. The fact 13, I'm In love with her over head and cars. She's had a rough passage, poor little wom an, but even taking that Into consid eration, I can't ask her to marry me, my pr.ncely salary being something lino !?i,ouu a year. If you can do noth Ing else, be kind to her. Promise." "Of course I will," she answered. The old lady was not in a pleasant temper. She motioned to Miss Thorn ton, who had been reading to her, to lay uown the hook. "I think a little sunshine will do me no harm," she said sharply. "Let ua walk down as far as the river." Tiiey crossed the quaint wooden bridge and turned down the shady patu unuer tne willows. Near the gate that barred the path stood an easel, and an nrtlst was busily at worn unuer tne shade of an um brella. The recognition was instantaneous, anu me oiu inuy caught her breath gaspingly, while Hasland compressed ins ups. Then, for the third time In the three days the little tableau was enacted. "Harold," she said hesitatingly. "Aunt!" The old lady stood Irresolute for a moment, and then extended both bauds, which Ilasland caught In his. That evening, Just at dusk, Harold nasland nnd Ethel stood on tho broad veranda together. Ills arm was about her waist. "It Is all so strange," she whispered, "that I can hardly realize it yet." "It Is strange," ho answered, with a kls3, "but It Is true for all that." Lon don Evening News. REALISTIC LAKE BATHING. Chlcnuo Small Hoy Ucllc l'o I',l,v fc..ft,-ii.. riiithltlir. Rmittnnr Is till) loVOUS SCaSOIl WllCll the small hoy goes down to the hike rnnit. .-limbs over the frowning wall of the Illinois Ualiroad Company, trcs n.isKiw liimn t in rlirlit of way regard- l..ss of tlu warniiiL' signs, and takes oil' his clothes In view of tho audience when he has reached the breakwater. 1-iv.i iiin f'lilioiixi Chronicle. Then ho Junius Into the shallow water uml flounders gleefully In the sand for some time. Passim railroad trains mien with passengers disturb him not. IK' pays no heed to the disturbed gaze of i-.intiiiint mi i -ii;i nvuniie. who views his antics with undisguised U favor. Ho wnnts to Hwlm, and there is the water, and what more Is neces sary? Anon comes the railroad police man with raucous voice and threaten lni? club. hnrtlliiL across the tracks, lilting tlie air with strange oaths and ni-iliiL' crixicmllv us tlliHIL'll lie Wore trying to disperse a riotous mob. Then the small hoy takes his clothing, usual ly consisting of two piece, and hies him along the piling to the convenient shelter of a boat house. If the uniform ed minion of the corporation pursues him he slips Into the clothes with two motions and defies the law. If the eoj per gets tired of tlie Job ami weakens In the pursuit the small boy drops the clothes and dives Into the water again If only one small hoy did this lie might not attract much notice, mit there Is more than one small hoy in Chicago who pants for the cooling wa ters of the lake on sultry days, and when scores of them line the break water pier they occasion some com ment among passengers on the subur ban trains. The boys have never ac quired the bathing-salt habit. Tho law prescribes It, but the small boy never did have much resect for the law and ignores It unless It begins to chase him with a club. Therefore the spectacular effect of the bathers Is a bit startling to the eye as viewed from the Hying trains. They don't give the boy much of a chance In Chicago. If he tiles a kite In the streets lie Is arrested; If ho plays base-ball on forbidden territory he Is chased from It by the police; If he throws stones, one of the prerogatives of all boys In all times, he Is brenk Ingthelnw, and if he goes swimming In the great, cool lake which stretches so invitingly before him lie Is harried by the police and arrested If they get near enough to him. The city eternally for- make shift irttli wlmt ho fliu.s-thc la am the pk-r- ami If ho mien, in a ni ii ' H,m,nior Hpei'tnclo to nil beholders he fi'oln It l not "M Suit in the inoni.tln.0 bathing nun. m from the Plorn with mir h scan mote ctlon from the gaping world as I furnished by the lulvei tlHlng nlgns ami "Sftrulsng-,..,!.., year ly everything jminll buMoi'H or II If Hit 1Hi4tt.l Hi. t 1Ih, r lTl(Vr,e,ll,'li Tho pretty, glt-llni, rr,nJT' 1 ueuuiy once capiivnt,.,! , able men uf Clih 'IIL-II in,. I li society circles, but ,, , ' " '"'jtto KimllMh lord mmM u "rr"'l India, him Just milled i i.r ',','r,l'lllt u nought admirers tin- ,.,,. r - J1Q 0j LADY CUIl'ON. I'OKMKIILY MISS LEITUK OK CHIf 0O ' roi.icE 1 " Sinning a Lolt-Hiunlcd Admission. Three citizens one a lawyer, one a doctor and one a newspaper man sat In a back room recently In tho gray light of tho early dawn. On the tablo wero many empty bottles and a couple of packs of cards. As they eat In silenco n rat scurried across tho hearth Into the darkness beyond. Tho threo men shifted their feet and looked at each other uneasily. After a long pause tho lawyer spoke. "I know what you fel lows are thinking," ho said; "you think I thought I saw a rat, but I didn't!" You can always please a woman by guessing under her age. bids him to swim In the big lake unless surrounded by proper facilities in the way of bathing suits and bathhouses, but It does not furnish the suits or build the houses. If both were sup plied by the munlciaplity the small boys In droves would take advantage of them. There are two or three pub lie bathhouses In Chicago, hut they are not wlmt the average healthy boy wants. They nre all right for the pur- wants to do In Chicago Is against some law. Hut, while the law express.)- for bids bathing In public without the out ward and visible signs of a bathing suit It offers no recourse to the pain ing youngster who, free from school and home duties, wanders about to ward the great, blue, cool looking lake on a hot day and Is possessed of a de sire to "go In." lie sees no reason why he should not. The lake Is public property. lie climbs on the pier or walks out on some rotting Htrlnger, "shucks" his clothing and wades slow ly Into the water. Perhaps a score or a half-dozen go In together. In half an hour a few more boys, drifting Idly along, we the bathers ami are Inspired with the same desire to swim, anil In they go. Policemen oftwi try to arrest the lawbreakers, and there Is n hasty exodus of tlie happy lxys when they see the minions of tlie law coming. I) vclopiiKMit r ICiiuIIhIi Luii-jimsc. If some recently published statistics are to be trusted the English language Is developing more than any other, past or present. While the ( Senium contains 80,000 words, the Italian -I.",- 000, the French 30,000 anil the .Spanish only 'J0.000, Dr. Murray's English Dic tionary Is expected to contain no few- BOYS HATIIIXG ON THE L A IC H ' li' it nx ' c poses for which they wero designated -to furnish bathing facilities In crowd ed tenement districts. Hut tho boy who wants to cool off and snlash around In tho water does not want to go Into a building under a roof and slip Into a warm, nauseating pool, the limits of which ho can see with half an eye, and whoso Bcnnt dimensions are shared by a hundred others at tho same moment. He wnuts to get Into tho lake Into tho limitless, heavlnir body of blue wnter which lies at the very door of Chicago with nothing over him but the blue sky and plenty of room for 100,000 other bathers. Finding himself without the fnnin. ties In tho way of bathhouses and bath- ing suns, tne small boy Is oblVd to er than 250,000 words, more than half tLV ?l .'?V C0"10 ,at0 UH0 llIrlK l?8t m centur'- A great part of l ose additions are, of course, tech- SU n Bclentlflc terms, which tho wiser German translates. die, you n ..f cooll Kopronoh. would I go to heaveu? would!" yCS' darllU8i f courso "And If you should die, would you go to henven, too?" J b "I hope so, dear." "I hope so, too; because It would bo EiShT1 ,fr W0 t0 b0 klowi as -Life 80 MOthor 18 I DurlihuiiKa, one of tin- i mUr na men of lllniloostnn nm! : JaJi! or of Lord Curzun. Thli II r.n0 p- has resp'clftilly plarni m ? i.t- l sposil of Ldy Cureon th .l. u! i bcrj rf elephants that are aiming i vaitp sfMsioim. thus making Lnd l unntbi IMMSvwwr pro tent, of m-ro of thew lordly creatures than any UTv:vm In the world. Her Indyship h.nderti oped a great liking fur th ilcpMsU and frequently takes tu amaue of til friendliness existing hctuiru the t! roy and the iiiaharajah t ride fortb oa one of the gorgeously rnparKoued tit- pliniits of statu. With that happy spirit oi frank friendliness In the company of unfo- lings that only an Aim-rk in woman knows how to Indulge wHlmiit Ion o! dignity, the vicereine has made ucwlf the Idol of the attendants nt tlicpa'ct of the I nil Id ii prince. To pi u- irate '.to reserve of an Oriental of h gi degree li a feat that not every wh!t man or woman, even among the upiH r ten c India, can boast of having nccompllili ed. To Im given the freedom of til magnificent palace of his hlgliticis lt Maharajah of Diirbhungn Is a compli ment even to n viceroy and vicereine. The elephants belonging to the rajah are under the control of an old maa upwards of eighty years of age. Kith elephant rejoiced in nji appellation fnkeii from the names of mythological or historic heroes; and It Is their vcter an keeper's boast that every clepliant Is known to him by name. "' The title dates back only to 1S03, when the then Maharajah Chutlet Singh was formally recognized nnd In vested by the Hrltlsh Government. Ho' the origin of the family can he traced as far back as tho reign of the Em peror Akbar, whoso lieutenants they wero In tho province of Hehar. The growing friendliness of ufh man for Lord and Lady Cirrzon H viewed with pleasure by those Intcreit ed In tho welfare of India, for If t hearts of the natlvo princes are wltn the Queen's representatives the ts" blllty of the Government Is doubly " sural. To have won so emphatic a demonstration of regard from JM Maharajah of niirbhungn shows tbai In the future of the great Imllnn em pire the American wife of Lord Oirzon Is destined to play n significant part. Anecdote of Jtomi Hoiihour. Mine. Itosa Ilonlieur (Hosa stood foi llosalle) was not without a sense o humor, so it is told of her that wul presiding over a school of design it Paris, tho pupils being girls, the nrtis' was disgusted with the class, because. Imitating their teacher, tho yoiinj women had cut their hair short "Grand DIeu!" cried Hosa H"lie"' "how horrid you all look! Tills Is noi a class of boys. You sliiy c " 1.f nlnnn mill do VOlir UCSl 1 JUKI 141. It w - - . ..ftlll as to retain all the advantages of SOX." t.i. nnniinnnllv curls hei hair and starts out fiercely to bo IlaPM in Spite of Fate. (Iy fnto Is meant w I unappreclatlve husbnud.)
