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By CECELIA A. LOŒAUX
“ I tell yon, Mary, I cannot afford
it, and that’s all there ia to it !"
John Brent unfolded his evening
paper end held it under the light,
which wpa shaded to an artistic dim­
ness by many ruffles o f crape paper.
His wife brought her hand down
upon the piano keys in a crashing
disoord that made him shiver ana
set his teeth. Presently she seated
herself in a low chair at the other
side o f the table, the soft light fall­
ing full upon her. pretty, petulant
face as she bent over her fancy
work.
John Brent foYgot that he had
been reading the political editorials
and looked over the top o f the pa­
per at his wife
"W hat makes you want a diamond
ring, Mary f " he asked gently.
Her blue eyes brightened. She
thought he was relenting.
“ Why, I’ve wanted one all my life.
When I was a little bit o f a girl I
had one with a glass set, and when
I grew too old for that I used to
dream o f the time when I would be
old enough to be engaged, so that
my lover, would get me one.”
“ T on should have chosen a richer
lover,” said her husband, with a
tinge o f bitterness. “ Y oung hard­
ware merchants can’t quite go at
the diamond ring pace.”
His wife hardly heard what he
said. She stretched a dimpled
white hand out across the table and
was admiring it.
“ See,” she said, with a flash o f Co­
quetry, “ it's pretty enough for dia­
monds, isn’t it? That Mrs. Bur­
rows on Tenth street has hands that
are big and red. She has one dia­
mond as big as a robin’s egg— al­
m ost”
“ Her husband can afford it,” smil­
ed John, looking at the dainty hand
that lay in his rough palm. He was
wondering just how long he was
going to be able to keep it from do­
ing any work, hardly considering
the diamond question. Then he
put it gently down and leaned on
the table, looking at his wife
closely.
“ Perhaps I haven’t told you so
that you fully understand, Mary,”
he said after, a minute. “ Y ou’ re a
good deal o f a child about some
things, and you don’t think. But
business is bad— not mine only, but
every one’s. There’s that new store
here, a branch o f the big one in the
city, and they are cutting prices
murderously. And we have heavy
expenses too. I don’t know how,
but we manage to eat and drink and
wear almost more than we can pay
for. And then there was the hos­
pital bill as well as the doctor’s. It
took months to pay those."
“ I suppose you wish it had been
a funeral bill,” said Mary sulkily.
“ Mary! Don’t you dare to say
such a thing again as long as you
live! You shall not twist my mean­
ings in that way. Can’t you be a
little reasonable ? Then you decid­
ed that the house was too shabby
to be lived in, though the things we
had bought when we were married
seemed very fine to us at the time,
and it wasn’t so very long ago.”
“ We were awfully green,” she
said.
“ Well, you’ ve got over the green­
ness,” said her husband dryly. “ And
ind h
the rugs and furniture and
hangings
have not vet got the last payment,
and the furnace needs fixing, and
the house needs painting. We must
go slow, little girl.”
Mary Brent’s lips quivered for a
moment, and then, hiding her face
on her arm, she sobbed like a spoil­
ed child. Her husband was first
sorrv, then angry. This was too
lish.
childis
"T h e trouble with you and all the
rest o f the women like you is that
you haven’t enough to do to keep
interested. Y ou sit around ana
think o f yourselves until you be­
lieve you are martyrs, when a little
work would be better for you. It
isn’t all your fault, though,” he add­
ed slowly. “ I f the baby had lived
you would have been more grown
up"
His wife sprang to her feet. “ I—
,e didn’t live,” she
I’ m almost glad he
sobbed. " T wouldn’t want him to
hear his father talk like that to
me.” / And she whirled from the
room.
John Brent spent a wakeful, un­
easy night, but by morning he
thought he had found a solution.
He ate his lonely breakfast— Mary
never got up to breakfast any.more
— and went downtown early. Dur­
ing the forenoon he went over to
the office of Jftn Reade, the most
prosperous attorney in the town and
nis best friend. The two were clos­
eted in the consulting room for over
an hour, and as he came out into
the reception room John said: “ I’ll
A -V .
take good care of it, Beade, and
OUR PYGMY EARTH.
IT WAS A GOOD PLAY.
bring it back tomorrow. The fact
that you aren’t married makes it Compared With the Sun It Is as s Pee That Much at Least the Aoter-CrKie
to a Two Feet Globe.
easier. I wouldn’t want any other
Was Fereed te Admit.
woman to know.”
, A dime held at arm’s length from
John Hare, the English a cto r,'
As soon as hfe got to the store he the eye will much more than cover once went to see one o f Beerbohm 1
went straight into his private office the entire disk o f the sun. I f it Tree’s infrequent performances of
and called up the police station. were placed at the exact point of Hamlet. He would willingly have
Within a few moments a detective coincidence and its diameter and avoided Tree for some little time
whom John Brent knew well passed distance fitun the eye accurately afterward for reasons obvious to
through the store and into the little measured it might be used as s others who, like him, had seen this
room. The clerks looked at each means o f determining the sun’ s di­ least impressive o f this actor’s roles.
other furtively and applied them-^ ameter, its distance being known.
Hare chivalrously remained in his
selves vigorously to their work. The foremost philosophers o f long box to the end o f the play. As the
They could not help hearing the ago would have been appalled at the curtain descended on each act he
burst o f laughter that came from true statement o f both the sun’s had dreaded the invitation o f his
the office, however, though the en­ distance and its sise.
fellow player to his dressing room,
suing conversation was too low to ■ The sun’s diameter is about 866,- where the usual courtesies would
be heard.
000 miles. It is bewildering to be have been expected.
G U A RAN TEE D Q U A LITY
That evening John Brent went assured that it would take 1,300,000
Act by act slipped by without any
home a little later than usual and earths to equal the sun in volume. word from the stage, and Hare grew
sat down to the waiting dinner table I f the interior o f that truly gigantic proportiodately relieved. As the
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without changing his coat, which he globe were hollow and the earth last curtain fell, however, and Hare
usually did to please his wife. Mary, were placed at its center with the retired from the box he found a
apparently entirely recovered from moon revolving about it at its usual messenger at the door with Mr.
the headache she usually bad after mean distance o f nearly 240,000 Tree’s compliments, and wouldn’t
such stormy times, sat opposite to miles there would still exist a vacu­ he come home for a bite o f supper
him, dainty and pretty in her pale ity between the moon and the in­ with some friends?
pink house gown. The dinner table closing shell o f the sun o f nearly
At table Hare parried opening
was attractive and daintily set, and 200,000 miles. This is perhaps the after opening, yet not once did Tree
“There It a House With a Bathroom”
Nora, in a clean white apron, lum­ most graphic and impressive illus­ refer directly to his Hamlet. Hare
was an expression at one
bered awkwardly around the table tration possible o f the sun’ s colossal on 'his part dreaded every break, in
tim e calculated to arouaa
serving the simple dinner.
bulk. We must note, however, that the conversation would bring the
interett, but n ow , condition «
John seemed to be very nervous. the density o f the sun is only about dreaded topic. After a decent time
are entirely different. T o
He ate little and kept glancing fur­ one-quarter ghat o f the earth, so he drew away from table to go
build a hou«e w ithout a bath­
tively at his wife, who was seeming­ that it would weigh only as much home. * Tree accompanied him to
room m erely raiaei a ques­
ly indifferent, but who knew the as 330,000 earths. In very round the hall to put on his coat. S now ’ s
tion a« to the g o o d judg­
signs and thought he was about to numbers the sun’ s weight may be my hour,” thought Hare. Not one
m ent o f the builder. People
present her with a peace offering. stated at two octillion tons, which if word from Tree. They shook hands
know that he has either not _
She wondered what it would be.
expressed in figures would require on the threshold, and*Hare started
considered o r else m isjudged
They had reached the pudding almost as many ciphers as a news­ down the steps in happy relief. Tree
the im portance that an up- __I
and Nora had retired to the kitchen paper line can accommodate.
to-date bathroom has
followed him to his carriage. Hare
when the doorbell rang, and John
A very comprehensive illustration heard him in dread. Still the topic
increasing the value o f
started to his feet as if he had been o f the pygmean dimensions o f the was avoided.
house, both as to ren
Tree, trith cordial
expecting some one. He sat down earth as compared with the sun is courtesy, opened the door. Hare
and selling value.
again, however, as he heard Nora’s to represent the latter by a globe slipped into the cushions o f the car­
F or the finest plum bing
step in the hall, and in a moment two feet in diameter and the earth riage, joyfully heard the door slam
c uipm ent at reasonable cost
she opened the door, and Jack Bur­ by a dainty pea. And yet the little and drew a deep sigh.
w e recom m end 9 t a n M *
net appeared in the doorway.
plum bing fixtures and w ill
pea weighs more than six quintillion
But before the horses started
“ Come in ! Come in !” cried John tons. As to the solar surface, it is Tree’s head was in at the window,
be pleased to show you the
heartily, a trifle too heartily, his some 12,000 times that o f our plan­ and he said, with blighting suavity:
m any artistic designs in
w hich they are made. A sk
wife thought.
She wished ' John et. Y et the sun when compared
“ At least, John, you’ ll admit it’s
fo r illustrated book let.
would not associate with this class with its true peers, the stars, is not a good play.”
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only not o f extraordinary size, but
Largest Grave In the World. -
“ Sit down and have a bite,” said in all probability is only to be rank­
her husband, and she was forced to ed among the medium self lumi­
The largest single grave in the
echo the invitation, though she felt nous bodies which Bparkle in “ heav­ world occupies just exactly one acre
greatly relieved when the man re­ en’ s ebon vault.” And because o f of ground, which is surrounded by
501 F IR S T S T R E E T
fused. He leaned over the back o f its spoltedness it has a place, al­ ■n iron railing.
This enormous
a chair, seeming at a loss how to though a humble one, among the grave is located at Puerto Cortez,
begin. His feet shuffled nervously.
in Honduras, and is the burial place
“ variable” stars.
“ I— I just dropped in,” he stam­
o f a woman. The tombstone occu­
pies the center o f the ground in-
mered. ’T a c t is. I ’m working on a
Haw It Faala to Fraasa.
case. Can I see you alone, Brent ?”
Freezing to death is preceded by dosed, and several wooden figures
“ Oh, fire away!” said Brent. “ My a drowsiness which makes the end representing the deceased are ar­
wife would find it out sooner or painless, the body actually feeling ranged in statue-like form in differ­
later.”
warm and going comfortably to ent parts o f the ground. There
“ WeU, some one stole Jim Reade’s sleep. Experiments have been made are sixteen o f these figures, which
diamond ring this morning. They with animals to show just how in the evening give the place a
got me working on the case, and freezing to death proceeds. In one ghostlike appearance. The deceas­
I’ve got to do my duty.”
o f these experiments, in which the ed had died rich and in her will
Mary Brent, looking across the animal was placed in a temperature had specified the amount o f ground
table with a sudden, lurking fear in of from 125 to 150 degrees below to be purchased for her grave and
her eyes, saw John’s hand make a zero, the breathing and heart beats the manner in which it should be
sudden involuntary movement to­ were at first quickened, the organic decorated. She had many curious
ward the breast pocket o f his coat. heat o f the body actually rising notions, and'the size and ornamen­
She turned white.
above the normal, which is 98.6 de­ tation o f her grave were among
“ O f course you must do your grees F. This showed a sudden them.
duty,” said John. “ Who is the and intense effort on the part o f the
Looking Backward.
thief?”
He tried to look uncon­ functions to preserve the body’ s
How far hack in one’s life can one
cerned and natural, but something temperature. Then violent heart
clicked in his wife’ s throat, and she action gave out suddenly, and death remember? Herbert Spencer used
was not surprised when the detec­ came when the temperature o f the to recall faint pictures o f playing in
tive laid a hand heavily on her hus­ body dropped to 71 degrees F.— the garden with a sister, a year his
junior, who died at two years old.
band’s shoulder.
Popular Mechanics.
His most vivid recollection, howev­
“ John Brent, I place you under
er, “ worth mentioning because o f its
arrest,” he said solemnly, and then,
Man and Slasp.
I hate to do it, John.”
t
How much sleep is necessary for psychological interest, is that o f cer­
“ I’ll .get my hat and come with a man? The question was raised tain results caused in me by being
you,” said Brent, rising. “ Mary” — centuries ago by Montaigne. “ Phisi- left alone for the first time.” The
No, you won’t,” she interrupted, tians,” he wrote, “ may consider nurse went out and locked him up
It was the
running around the table and stand­ whether sleep be so necessarie that alone in the house.
evening
o
f
the
week
when
the bells
ing in front o f him. Then she our life must needs depend o f it, for
stepped back and put her hand we finde that Perseus, ring o f Mace- o f A ll Saints’, Derby, was rung, and
through John’s arm. She looked don, prisoner at Rome, being kept they were going all the time the
steadily at the detective, her small from sleep, was made to die, but child suffered in loneliness. “ All
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face very pale and her blue eyes Plinie aleageth that some have lived through the earlier part o f my life,
om eter, s e lf starter, p resto tank, tire irons, top and top fo o t, clear
flashing.
a long time without any sleep at and even in adult years, I never
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“ I f any one has to go I will. It all. And Herodotus reporteth there heard these bells without a feeling
isn’t his fault; it’s mine. I— I made are nations where men sleep and of sadness coming over me.”
CADILLAC, fu lly equ ipped, very m uch im p rov ed , equal to
him do it. He told me he couldn’t wake by halfe yeares. And those
Parisian
Gay
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ca r o f any price.
afford it, and' I acted like a little that write the life o f Epimenides
Speaking
o
f
the
so
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beast, and so he did it to satisfy the Wise affirm that he slept the
L e t S. A . M ills tell you abou t eith er o f them .
me, I suppose. He isn’t a thief. continuall space o f seven and fifty of Paris, Theodore Dreiser says in
the
Century:
You know he isn’ t a thief.” She yeares.”
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“ Consumption, cocaine and opium
appealed to the detective.
maintain their persistent toll. This
Warships In Oldsn Timas.
He stammered, “ But the ring” —
“ Take the ring back,” she said,
Although a warship o f today is is a furnace o f desire, this Mont­
“ and I will come and explain the useless without her guns, artillery martre district, and it burns furious­
whole thing to Mr. Reade. He was not always used on board shin. ly with a hard, white hot flame until
wouldn’t let you arrest John any­ It first appears to have been made there is nothing left save black cin­
way if he knew who it was. Oh, use of about 1100 B. C., in a battle ders and white ashes. Those whq
lease g o !
Give him the ring, between the Phoenicians and Iber­ can endure its consuming heat are
ohn.” she begged.
ians, the former winning and oc­ welcome to its wonders until emo­
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John drew the ring from his pock­ cupying Cadiz, or, as it was then tion and feeling and beauty are no
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us an opportunity to furnish you with anything you need in our line.
tablecloth. She picked it up and the north o f Spain, believed that
M a tch ««.
handed it .to the other m*n.
their enemy had lions on board
Matches have not been in use for
“ I don’t ever want to see a dia­ which belched forth fire. The ar­
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out the secret o f putting the sul­
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phur o f the igniting mixture direct-
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how as if he’d been robbing widows non ever cast in England appears to
y on the wood ana the match was
and children. He looked back once have been made in 1543 by Ralph
made. They were called 'lucifer
as he reached the door and then Hogge.
matches at first, because the word
hastily let himself out.
while applied usually to Satan real­
Courtship In Oshimo.
“ Gee!” he said to himself as he
ly means light bringer, from the
went up the street. “ It was a mean
On the Japanese island o f Oshi-
Latin lux, light, and fero, I bring.
trick to play, hut it did the work. ma, in the sea o f Japan, the young
I’ll bet tnat by tomorrow morning people enjoy more freedom in the
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that little woman will be thinking matte! o f courting than in central
“ Press agents are all very well,”
A ll th e sam e as city folk s, the fam ily w h o lives on a
she’d rather darn his socks than Japan. They are left to themselves said Alfred Noyes, the English poet,
rural m ail route m ay have a daily paper to read the sam e
make tidies1”
to select their own mates, much ‘but a press agent won’ t advance
day it com es from the press. Read our clu b b in g o ffe r:
after the fashion o f the west. When you to success unless you have the
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“ Does your poetry come back?” o f his choice the girl declines two
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asked the young woman.
or three times as a matter o f form and he resumed:
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