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THE IRON PIRATE
A Vlatn T ale o f Strxm jm
H a p p e n in g
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*7 MAX PSMBXKTOV
CH APTER XX.
It waa later that Captain Black, Doctor
Oabart and myself entered the 7 -AO train
from Ramsgate; leaving the screw tender,
now disguised, with the man John and
eight of the moot turbulent among the
crew of the n*melees ship aboard her. We
had come without hindrance through the
crowded waters of the Channel; and, styl­
ing ourselves a Norwegian whaler in bal­
last, had gained the difficult harbor with
ont arousing suspicion.
A t the first,
Black had thought to leave me on tbe
steamer; but I gave him solemn word that
I would not aeek to quit him, that I would
not In any way betray him while the trace
lasted, and that I would return, wherever
I was, to the tender in the harbor at the
end o f a week.
I will not pease to tell yon m y own
thoughts when I set foot on shore again.
I could not help bnt carry my memory to
the last occasion when, with Roderick and
Mary, I had come to London in the very
hope of getting tidings of this man who
now aat with me in a Kent Coast express.
Where were the others then— the girl
who had been as a sister to see, and the
man aa a brother; how far bad the fear
o f my death made sad that childish face
which had known such little sadness in Its
sixteen years of life? It was odd to think
that Mary might be then returned to Lon­
don, and that I, whom perchance she
thought deed, was near to her, and yet.
In a sense, more rat off from her than in
ths grave It r r t f______I__________ _
It was after 10 o’clock that the ride
terminated, and, following Black and Oa­
bart Into a*c!osed carriage, I was driven
from the station. W e drove for fifteen
minutes, staying at last before a house
in a narrow street, where we went up­
stairs to a suit« of rooms reserved for us.
A fter an excellent supper Oabart left ua.
but Black took me to a double-bedded
room, saying that hs could not let mo out
o f his sight.
“ Boy, If you make one attempt to play
ms false,” « i d he, “ I ’ll blow your brains
out.”
On the next morning Blade quitted the
house at an early hour aftar breakfast,
but he locked tbe door o f ths room upon
Oabart and myself. “ Not,” as hs aald.
“ because I can’t take your word, but be­
cause I don’ t want anyone fooling In
here.” Hs returned in the evening at 7
o’clock, and found ms aa be had left me.
reeding a novel.
-The following day waa Thursday. I
shall always remember it, for I regard
It aa one o f the most memorable days in
my Ilfs. Black went out aa usual early
In the morning; hit object being, aa on
the preceding day, to find out. If he could,
what the Admiralty were doing in view of
tbe robbery o f the Bellonic. W e had been
left thus about the space o f an honr when
there came a telegram for the doctor, who
read it with a fierce exclamation.
T h e captain wants me urgently,” « i d
he, “ and there’s nothing to dq hut to leave
yon hers. You must put up with the In­
dignity of being locked in. Tbe man wno
owns this house is one of us.”
When he waa gone I sat in tbe great
armchair, pulling it to the window, and
taking up my book. I could bear the hum
o f town, the rumbling of buses, and the
subdued roar of London awake. I could
even see people in the houses at the other
side o f ths leads, and it occurred to me.
What if I open that casement and call
for help? I had given a pledge, it la true;
but should a pledge bind under such con­
ditions?
I was In ths very throes of a mental
straggle when the strange event of the
day happened. I chanced to look up from
the book I had been trying to read, and
I asw a remarkable object upon the leads
outside my window. It was the figure of
a man, looking into my room; and pres­
ently, when he had given roe Innumerable
nods and winks, ha took a knife from his
pocket, and opened the catch, stepping
Into tbs chamber with tbe nimble foot of
a goat upon a crag path. Then he drew
a chair up to mine, slapped ms upon ths
knee and « i d :
“ In ths name o f tbs la w ! I take yon
by surprise; but business, Mr. Mark
Strong. In the first place I have wired
to your friend, Mr. Roderick Stewart,
and I expect him from Portsmouth in a
couple o f boors; In tee second, your other
friend, the doctor, is under lock and key,
on the trifling charge of murder In the
Midlands, to begin with. When we have
Captain Black, the little party will be
complete.”
I looked at him, voiceless from tbs sur­
prise of It, and be went on:
“ I needn’t tall yon who I am; hot
there’s my card. W e have six men in the
street outside, and another half dosen
watching ths leads hers. Yon will be
sensible enough to follow my Instructions
absolutely. Black, we know, leaves tbe
country to-night In his steamer.
The
probability Is that be will com# to fetch
yon at 7 o’clock— I have frightened It all
out of ths people downstairs— if hs doss,
yon will go with him. Otherwise, ha’s
pretty sure to sand someone for yon. and,
as yon at ths moment are onr sols link be­
tween that unmitigated scoundrel sod his
arrest. I ask yon to risk one step more,
and return at any rate as far as tbe coast,
that m may follow him for ths lost time.”
I looked at his card, whereon was ths
Inscri ption. “ Detective Inspector King,
Scotland Y a rd ;” sad I mid at unco:
“ 1 shall net only gs to ths «mot, bnt
to his tender, for I ’ ve given my word.
nay do la the meantime la not
I suppose he’s made a senes
Hear
“ Sensation! There Isn’t another sub­
ject talked o f in say boom tat Europe
hot, road that; and it's ten f bourn ad la
my pocket, any w a y !”
Detective-Inspector King want as hs
coma, passing noiselessly over the
i ; hut hs left ass ■ newspaper, where­
in there was column after column con-
ths robbery o f ths Ballon 1«. A t
w a n an ths trail o f Cap­
tain B lack; yet I saw at once that, lack­
ing my help, he would elude them.'
It eras half past six when at last a man
unlocked the door of my room and entered.
H e waa one of Black's negroes.
“ 8ar will come quick,” said he, “ and
leav# his luggage. Ths master waits.”
Hs gave me no time for any explana­
tions. but took me by the arm, and. pass­
ing from the house by a back doer, he
went some way down a narrow street.
There a cab waited for us, and we drove
away, but not before one, who stood on
ths pavement, had made a slight signal
to me, and called another cab. In him I
recognised Detective Inspector King, and
I knsw that ws were followed.
CHAPTER X X L
W s drove rapidly and took a train for
Tilbury. Ths Journey was accomplished
In something under an hoar; and when
ws slighted and got upon the bank of
tbe river, I saw s steam launch with ths
man John In tbs bows o f her. I entered
the launch and we started Immediately,
going at a great pace towards Sheerness;
and reached tbe Nore after some buffet
with the seas In ths open. A t this point
ws sighted ths tender, and went aboard
her, when we made fall speed towards ths
North Foreland.
Black had mads a colossal mlatake,
from his point of view, in setting foot In
England; but ths crowning blunder of his
life was that fatal act o f folly by which
hs had sought to shield ms from the men.
Now ths object o f letting Black reach his
vessel again waa aa clear aa daylight; It
waa not so much the man aa his ship
which they wished to take.
But were we followed? I had assn
nothing to lead ms to that conclusion as
I cams down ths Thames; and now, fa­
vored by an Intensely dark night, ws
promised. If nothing should intervene, to
gain ths Atlantic In two days, and to bo
aboard that strange citadel which was oar
stronghold against ths nations. There
was no sign of any warship pursuing; no
indication whatever that the tender, then
steaming at thirteen knots towards Dover,
was watched or observed by any living
being.
I waa dead worn out and slept twelve
hoars at ths least, for it was afternoon
when I awoke. Black waa not In the
cabin, and I went above to him on tbe
bridge. There was no land then to be
seen; bat the dear play o f sparkling
waves shone sway to the horison over s
tumbling ass, upon which were a few
ships. Upon one o f these he constantly
tnrasd his glass.
By and by all the crew began to ob­
serve Black’s anxiety and to crowd to the
starboard olds; but hs told them noth
ng, although he never left the bridge. It
was somewhat perplexing to me to ob­
serve that, while the great ship was un­
doubtedly following us, she did not gain
This strange pursuit lasted three days
and into the third night; when I waa
awakened from a snatch of sleep by the
firing of a gun above my head. I got on
deck, where my eyes were almost blinded
by a great volume o f light which spread
over the sea from a point some two miles
away on our starboard bow. W e had been
in the Atlantic then for twenty-four
hours, and I did not doubt for a moment
that we had reached the ns me less ship.
Had there been any uncertainty, the wild
joy o f the metf would have banished IL
I beard ths voles o f Black singing.
“ Hands, stand by to lowsr boats!” At
that moment t|e cruiser allowed her teeth.
Suddenly there waa a rash of flams from
her bows, and s shell hissed shove as—
the first sign of her attempt to stop os
joining onr own ship.
We war# no more than s quarter o f s
mile from safety, bnt the ran was full of
peril, and, as the launch stood oat, ths
usmelsaa ship o f s sodden shat off her
light, if possible to riileld aa in tbe dark.
Bat the pursuer Instantly Hooded as with
her own arc, and. following It with quick
shots, she hit ths jolly-boat at ths third.
O f ths eight men there, only two rase
when the hull had disappeared.
“ Fire aw ay!” cried Black, shaking his
fist, and mad with passion ‘and gat your
hands In ; you’ll want all ths bark you’ve
got just now.”
pawed right under our bow, missing to*
ran by a hair's breadth.
We fired at the cruiser, hitting Wer
right under the funnel, and a second tim«
near her fore gun. Nor did she answer
our firing, but rolled to the swell appar­
ent]/ out of notion.
“ Skipper, are /ou going aboard her
now?” asked the man “ Roaring John.”
“ She’s done b j her looks, and /ou'U get
no oil If j e data/. Karl, there, he lan’t
" f from I t
He waa almost desperate
#T, r i ilk . to plant myself
whsa minut* by minute his stock o f oil B, boyhood’s long-neglected shelf,
grsw less; and hs ran from one to f t « Once mors to ope those volumes wc
other sa though ws had grease la our Wh|ch modern psgsa make forlorn,
pockets, and could give It to him. Mack ■
took duo notice, but did not loos kls calm.
“ You're quite sure she’s dose, John?"
hs asked, turning to ths big man.
“ She's dona I guess, or why don't she
The words had scarce left his lips
when ths cruiser’s aft guns thundered out
almost together, and one shell pa and
through ths vary center of our group. It
cut ths man John In half sa hs might
have bean cut by a sword, and bis Mood
and flesh splashed us, while tbs other half
of him stood up like a bust upon tbs deck,
and during one horrible moment his arms
moved wildly, and there was a horrid
quivering o f tbe muscles o f bis face. The
second shot struck tbe roof of tbe turret
obliquely, and glanced from It Into tbe
see. The destruction seemed to move
Black as no more than a rain shower. He
simply cried: “ A ll hands to cover; I*m
going to give ’em a taste o f the machine
guns;" and we re-entered the conning
tower. Then, as we began to move again,
I swept tbe horison with our ligh t; but
this time, far away over the black waste
of water, the signal was answered.
“ Number tw o !" esid Black, quite calm­ Coma, “ Crusoe,” pretty ragged, you—-
ly, when I told him, “ and this time a bat­ A hundred times read through and
tleship. Well, boy. If ere don’t take that
through!
oil yonder in ten minutes you may say Your woodcuts blurred. While this one
your prayers.”
C H A P T E R X X J I.
Ths nameless ship bounded forward In­
to the night, and soon waa not fifty yards
away from her opponent. Never have I
known anything akin to tbe episode when
ballets rang upon our decks la hundred«,
and the dead and the living In the other
ship lay huddled together, In a seething,
struggling, moaning mam. W e had open­
ed fire upon her before such of her men
aa could be spared bad got below.
“ Let ’em digest that!” cried Blade, as
bo watched tbe havoc.
I, who had not ceased to watch that
distant light which marked another war­
ship on the horison, knew that a second
light had shone oat aa a star away over
tbe sea; and now, when I looked again,
I saw a third ligh t W e were being'sur­
rounded. The searchlights o f the distant
ships were clearer to my view every mo­
ment Black aaw them, and task a sight
from the glass.
“ Boy,” he said, ’“ you should have told
me of this I ess three lights, and tint
mesne s fleet” —
“ Are you going to ran for It?” I asked.
“ Ron for I t with two engines, yes;
but It’s s poor business. And wa’ll have
to fight!”
I saw the foremost Ironclad but two
miles sway from us, and the others were
sweeping round to rat ns off K we at­
tempted flight. W e lay with but two en­
gines working, and s speed of sixteen
knots at the best. Nor did ws know from
minote to minnts when another engine
would break down. A t that moment there
came a horrible sound of grating and
tearing from the engine room, and It was
succeeded by s moment of dead nad chill­
ing silence.
“ The second engine’s gone i” said a
man above, quite cshnly.
We found the crew sullen and matter­
ing, but Friedrich, the engineer’s eldest
■on, eat at the top of ths engine room lad­
der, and tears rolled down hie face. Tbe
great ship still trembled under the «hock
o f the breakdown and waa not showing
ten knots. The foremost ironclad crept
op minute by minute; and before we had
realised the whole extent of the mishap,
she was within gunshot o f ns; but her
colleagues were some miles sway, abe out­
pacing them all through It.
“ She signals to us to let her corns
aboard,” said “ Four-Eyes.”
“ Answer that we’ll see In chips first,”
said Block, end he called for Karl and
Those on ths battleship made quite rare
o f ns now, tor they steamed on and came
within three hundred yards o f ns. Black
watched them as a beast watches tbe un­
suspecting prey. He stood, his face knit
In savage lines, his hand upon the ball.
I .looked from tbs glass, and saw that as
man was visible upon our decks, that oar
engines had cessed to move. We were
Then in s second the bells
m otionless.
rang out. There was again that frightful
grating and tearing In tbs engine room.
The nameless ship came round to bar
helm with a mighty sweep; she foamed
But we had haeled the m s aboard as and plunged In ths osss; eoe earned her
he spoke, and. though two shells foamed ram straight at the other; and, groaning
in the sea and wetted ns to the ekin In aa a great stricken wounded beast, aha
the passage, we were at the ladder of the roared onward to ths voyage of death. I
oameleee ship without other harm, and knew then tbe fearful truth; Black meant
with fierce shoots the men gained the to sink tbs cruiser with his ram. I «hall
decks
never forget that moment of terror, that
For them It was a glorious moment. grinding of heated steel, that plunge into
They had weathered the perils of s city, tbe teas. <I waited for the crash, and la
sod stood where they couu best fees tbe ths suspense hoars seemed to paw. A *
crisis of the pursuit. It was a spectacle lest there was under tbs sea a mighty clap
to move tbe most stolid apathy; ths sight of submarine thunder. Dashed headlong
o f a couple of hundred demoniacal figures from my poet, I lay braised and wounded
lighted by the great white wavs of light upon tbe floor of steel. Tbe roof above
from the enemy's ship, their faces up­ me rocked; tbe walls A ook and wave
turned as they waited Black’s orders, bant; my ears rang with ths deafening
their hands flourishing knives and cut­ roar la tbem; seas of foam mounted;
lasses, their hanger for the contest be­ shrieks sad the sound o f awful rending
and tearing drowned other shoots of man
trayed In every gesture.
“ Boys,” cried Black, “ yonder's a gov­ going to their death. And through all
ernment ship. Yon know me, that I don’t was ths hysterical yelling of Black, his
ran after war seam every day, for that’s defiance, his elation.
(T o be continue«.)
not my business. B et we’re short o f oil,
and ths cylinders are heating. Boys, It’s
O e e M e k F o o l H er.
■wing or tabs that ship and ths oil aboard
M l « D ePlayne (p ro u d ly )— A dosed
men offered me their hands at the sea­
shore this summer.
M l « W leerly— In deed! H ow long
have you boon a student o f palmis­
her tubs, she extinguished bar are, leer­
try? .
ing ns to light ths waters with ear own.
There was no difficulty whatever la fol­
lowing the line o f the deadly message.
“ H a ve pity oh me, darling,” pleaded
“ Full speed astern!” roared Block, and tbs poor but othsrwioo b o n « t young
ths name Is « ship moved backwards, fast­
m an ; “ I cannot live without you.” >
er sad yet faster. But tbs black death-
“ W hat's tbs matter,” queried ths
bearer followed her, « a shark follows a
homely h e i r s « ; “ have you lost your
Job?”
_______________________
tbenttcated Incident Is cited to prove I I
Three young orioles wore captured and
w ere Immediately caged and the cage
w as hung In a tree. Th e mother soon
came, calling to tbs little ones, and In
a little w hile she brought them some
worajp. She continued for several days
to feed them, without paying much at­
tention to the persons who w ere about,
but one day abe brought them a sprig
o f green in the morning, and disap-
peared. In leas than an honr tbe young
blrda wäre dead. An examlnatlon o f
tbe sprlg abowed that 1t waa U m deadly
larkspur, which,. It la M id, w ill klU
fu ltgrow n cattle. Th e re la, o f course,
a posslblllty that tbe motber brongbt
tbem ths aprlg by mlatake, bot to he­
llere that would be to doubt tbe pro-
tectlve Instlnct that naturallata attrlb-
ute to blrda and animale.
A great dual o f harm la dona by M lf-
drugging fo r the relief o f various real
u f Imaginery Ilia
Thera Is nothing sealer. T b e only ob­
jection to the plan la that what la good
fe r the cough may be bad for the
cougher.
^
So It la w ith a headache. Almost any
pain In the head not due to actual
relieved temporarily, by some form o f
| “ headache powder” ; but a frequent re-
j course to this means o f cure may fa ­
u lt y weaken the h ea rt
When this
•tops beating the headaches cause to
. trouble, but ths patient la not in con­
dition to know or cars.
Every man, o f course, believes him-
• e lf a doctor, and often thinks be- is
better able to attack a cough or a case
1 o f rheumatism or a headache, whether
I It be bis own or another's, than those
a ho make the cure o f disease a special
study. A ll be has to do la to make up
his mind what the trouble Is— and any
one can tell a cough when be has It—
and then to take something that la
“ good fo r a cough.”
Leas serious, but not much so. Is tbe
abuse Of tonics. A true tonic is any­
thing that profbotes the nutrition o f tbe
I body. This m ay be done by Increas-
! ing the appetite and im proving dlges-
| tion, which Is the U nction o f the bit­
ter tonics; or by Improving tbe condi­
tion o f the blood by addtng to It the
lior. It has lost; o r by supplying tbs
svatem with some needed substance,
■uch sa fa t In cod liver o il; o r finally
by stimulating the tissues to Increased
And look I Their lonesomeness confessed,
“ Aladdin,” “ Sinbad” and the rest
Peer forth from covers stained and dim.
Awaiting—cheek by Jowl with Grimm I _
Upon this faded back discern
The tempting wieard name o f Veras I
The title? Must be “ rield of Ice” —
Or, n o; some “ trip” of strange device.
Munchausen, here; that, Gulliver;
This, Coffin— truthful chronicler.
(Th e other three, of coarse, are bricks,
But can’ t beat “ Boys o f *76!” )
And yon,. O gift of gentler pen,
Louisa Aleott’a “ Little M en !”
■
And yon, whom kindred soul creates,
“ Hans B risker; or, The Silver Skates!”
Bat duty warns— lake mot bee’s dread
“ Stop, my eon; time to go to bed.”
In vain I ’d beg: “ One chapter more !”
Farewell, dear shelf o f boyhood’s love.
— St. Nicholas. —
A aw »p »lee.
I t was pouring rain, but ths twins
did not mind It one bit, because they
always liked ever so many rainy days
when they were making a visit at
grandma’s.
Grandma had a big attic, filled fa ll
o f tbe most wonderful things that you
ever saw.
There w ere large trunks fu ll o f queer
ruffled coats and velvet knee-breeches.
And there w ere bouncing bandboxes
that held funny green calasbee and tbe
biggest poke bonnets Imaginable. And
then there was the Noah’s ark I
I t was not like your pretty painted
one, which la full to the very top with
a wonderful menagerie.
I t waa only a little old blat^t box
without any cover. And the anim als!
Uncle Jacob cut tbem all out o f some
pieces o f wood with his jack-knife,
ever so many years ago, when hs was
not much older than the twins.
, And these anlmala were Just
as
funny-looking as all ths root o f ths
things up In that queer old g a rre t
Th ere w ere blue cows and pink lions
and red-and-black leopards, and when
Uncle Jacob bad finished them he dis­
covered that all tbe anlmala looked
very much alike, so be w rote the name
on tbe back o f each one In great blade
painted letetrs.
Polly and Patty lied this Noah’s ark
better than anything else In that whole
attic, and they thought It waa every
bit as wonderful as Uncle Jacob did
when be bad finished it so many years
So thla rainy morning, a fter they
had finished their breakfast, these two
little girls hurried up to the attic sad
ran straight to the corner under tbe
eavee to get their precious treasure.
P atty got here first, but when she
looked Into tbe box abe said, “ O h ! o h !
o h !” very loud Indeed.
“ W hy, what's the matter?” exclaim ­
ed Polly, breathlessly.
“ Th ere’s a live animal In I t ! ” w his­
pered Patty. “ There’s a heap o f baby
m ica! A whole nest o f tbem ! And
they’ re pink, ’stead o f gray and furry.
Poop In and nee tbem, quick, P o lly !”
P o lly shivered. “ I don’t darn to,”
she said. And then srmetblng happen­
ed that made both children scamper
down tboee stairs In a terrible ruap
T b e mother mouse came hom e! _
“ I guess w e can’t go up In the attic
ever again,”
said Patty,
woefully,
” 'cause I ’m not ’specially fond o f mice,
Teea they’ re In traps.”
Bnt when Uncle Jacob went up Into
the a ttic w ith her a fte r ulnner. there
stood the Nosh’s ark Just where Polly
bad le ft I t T b e mice were gone. E v­
ery one o f thorn! And tbo twine are
■till wondering I f tbe big yellow pussy­
cat could tell them a secret fo r she
w as washing her face, and she looked
so knowing and wise.— Youth’s Com-
I t has bean said by observers o f birds
that some o f them w ill feed their young
If they a n caged, and I f they fall, after
a time, to release them, they w ill bring
them a poison weed to eat so that death
London cab d r iv e n earn an aggro. m ay end their captivity. Th is Is hard
petitors respectively. Dr. Smith says
that aa soon as be examined before the
games the hearts o f German sportsmen
be could prophesy that they would
prove no form idable rivals, T b e slae
o f the heart was so abnormally great
that In contests requiring strength, en­
ergy and endurance It waa physically
Impossible that they should succeed.
Results proved tbe truth o f this fo re­
cast, and 4 It la notable that the few
German athletes who did win places
were In possession o f ths minimum
slxed hearts.
In tbe American sportsmen the heart
conditions w ere In striking contrast to
those o f tbe Germans. Many o f tbe
a German hospital. 'A n
Invincible
sprinter poeeceeed tbe smallest heart
among tbe American competitors.
A
German-American athlete, rather sig­
nificantly, was found to
have the
la rgest
Among tbe Englishmen examined tbe
heart waa found to be slightly larger
than that o f the Americana, though
■mailer than that shown by any other
nation. A parallel case which occurred
at the games strikingly Illustrated ths
dlfferencs In form betwsen ths English
and the German athletes. In spite o f
an Indisposition ■ German athlete took
part In a certain contest Subsequent
examination proved that his heart bad
increased at ths end o f the struggle
to double Its previous slae. An En
gllshman, suffering from tbe same ln-
disposition, returned from the contest
■■ winner and bis heart had become
smaller. Th e w riter points out that
by a wrong system o f training and In­
judicious livin g German athletes are
doing much to cultivate heart and
nerve complaints on a serious scale.
Tbu scholarly W illiam E.
professor o f mathematics at Harvard,
was once asked by a student bow to de­
velop g retentive memory. T b e pro-
feeeor answered that ordinary mental
exercise was sufficient to secure a
good memory, whereat the student nak­
ed If be might test ths mental capacity
o f his Instructor. Professor B yerly
agreed and tbe student asked him to
listen to and remember several varied
Items fo r a te s t H e began:
“ One quart o f w hltoy.”
"U m I” « I d the professor.
“ Six pounds o f sugar, a pint o f soar
milk, three onions, h alf a gallon o f mo-
and tw o raw eggs”
" U m !” « I d tbe professor.
•T w o green apples, twenty-six pea­
ts sad a h alf cucumbers
four mince pies.”
“ U m !" « I d the profoanr.
“ A package o f starch, sixty
cakes o f yeast and ths skins o f
bananas. Got that down?”
“ Y ss," answered Dr. Byerly.
“ H ow d o w It t a s t e r asked the stu­
d en t
Youth’s Cotnpan-
' The » I r a
ta H a n « .
Instead o f getting angry, Clarkson
was rather amused at tbe actions o f
hla pet waiter. F o r tw o years be had
dined at the « m e restaurant almost
d a lly and August knew hie every wish
and bad alw ays been liberally tipped.
T h a t day, however, Clarkson was
shamefully neglected. H e had to ask
fo r butter, hie napkin was damp and
soggy, the particular enuce he liked so
w ell was not on the table, and, In fact,
August was the antithesis o f a devoted
« r v lt o r .
A ll hla attentions seemed
concentrated upon a man at an adjoln-
In gtable. August hovered around ltim
like a b « around a flower, anticipating
every wish and bringing him sundry
little ex tra s
T b e customers waa evidently a stran­
ger. Clarkson could not recall having
seen him before, and from bis long pat­
ronage o f the piece be had come to
know all the regular customers by
their faces at lea st H is curiosity go t
ths better o f him and as be was leav­
ing, a fter bestowing the customary tip,
hs asked;
“ W hy Is I t Au gu st that you have
been « attentive to that man and so
neglectful o f me? Is be In tbe habit
o f giving extra large tips?”
“ Oh, no, m’eleu’,” « I d Au gu st “ H e
Is a stranger. H e baa never been here
before.” Then be added, apologetical­
ly, “ And I am aura o f you, m’sleu’.”
T h e Ot*
“ Don’t you get homesick fo r t b o «
beautiful old Colonial mansions In the
South?” they asked tbe Kentuckian on
the night that the thermometer froae.
“ N o t this weather," she answered. “ I
haven’t forgotten yet how tbe wind
used to blow through the cracks o f the
windows and doors o f t b o « beautiful
old Colonial mansions and how w e
need to sit In rooms about tbe s i « o f
ballrooms, huddled around a two-by-
four grate, our farae scorching and tbe
bitter blasts blowing through our back
hair.
“ Oh, n o; In such weather aa tbla the
■teem heated luxury o f the Chicago flat
fo r me,” she decided.— Chicago In ter
Ocean.
fm f
Positive.
Berthe— B u t pepe, what have you
against C h a r i« ? W ouldn't be make e
good husband?
Father— H e's e fool, and bM ld w he’s
only a fter your money. -
Bertha— Oh, papa, I know he would
m arry me without a penny.
Father— You era? H e’s even m ore
o f e fool than I thought!— La Peie-
M e l e . ________________________
W e do not like to have any child
coaxed to speak e p i e « fo r us o r to
And when you beer a man boast o f g lv s ua e kies.
bis ancestors It’s a « f a bat that his de­
T ryin g to avoid work Is often the
scendants w ill have no oc east an to
boast o f t ^ ’ ra