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PRIMITIVE CURRENCY. ’ i Professor aod i Dead Letter! : By NELLIE CKAVEY 0ILLM3RE J ' ♦ »♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ »♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ » Belinda’« introduction to the new professor was a distinctly uncere monious one. Tripping lightly across the mud sogged pavement, «lie suddenly caught one foo t in a tangled heap o f wire— flung down from the telephone and telegraph lines by the ravaging hand o f a re cent hurricane— and stumbled pre cipitately into the arms o f a blond giant, who supported her valorously till she bad Dlushingly recovered her ir poise. “ Thanks, aw fully," she said. “ Yon have doubtless saved my life ." “ You r frock, more likely,” he re plied, liftin g his hat. “ I am no end glad I happened along at the pro pitious moment." Belinda returned him a little combination smile and nod as she lifted her dainty, crisp skirts and pursued her way cautiously across the slippery street. Hardiman restrained his eager ness until a reanonably safe length ol time had elapsed before turning to look around. H e had gained the opposite sidewalk by this time, and his glance back at the girl betrayed instantly to the casual pedestrians that the professor had been abrupt ly shaken from hi* phlegmatic at titude o f mind. Belinda turned into Oak street all unconscious o f the scrutiny that fol lowed her, and Hardiman contin ued his way in a tumult o f chaotic reflections. H e reached his hotel in a state o f mind that was quite impossible. T h e very first look into the girl’s face had thrilled him startlingly. The accidental contact o f her delicate form against his had finished the job. H e told himself that it was a case o f love at first s ig h t So much fo r the explosion o f his lifelon g theories! Then a per fect regiment o f doubts and fears assailed him. Perhaps, after all, she was not a girl, but a married wo man. * The professor ate his dinner in si lence. Afterw ard he went to his room and fo r some inexplicable rea son exchanged his dark suit fo r one o f lighter and more b o o m in g tex ture. H e brushed his hair painstak ingly, placed a soft gray alpine hat on his head and sauntered forth in uest o f— fresh air. It was almost ark before he returned, disappoint ed and oddly depressed. Meanwhile Belinda had reached home, put on a pair o f dry boots and xettlcd herself fo r a quiet after noon. School would open on Mon day, and «he would not have many more afternoons to lounge, as they would be given over to outdoor rec reation after the trying hours o f the morning. Th e town clock, striking 6, aroused her. She tore up the last letter— old love letters they were— and tossed the bits into the grate. Then she made a careful toilet and went downstairs to din ner. • Sunday morning she selected her most becoming gown and hat. It was a perfect day, and her satisfac tion was almost complete. She cre ated the usual stir as she walked up the aisle o f the village church and took her seat near the front. Less than five minutes afterward the professor came in and sat down in the pew opposite. H e had been waiting Outside half the morning, unobserved, but alert. A fte r service Belinda gave him a fleeting smile o f recognition and for some reason that was new to her turned and hurried home as fast as her pretty patent leather covered feet could carry her. When school opened the follow ing day the first person she en countered on entering the faculty hall was the new professor. She blushed to her ears and tried val iantly to retain her scholarly demean or, but the dogged crimson showed persistently through the tanned cheeks, and her eyes were puxxles. Hardeman made no effort to con ceal his gratification, or i f be did he was not at all successful. The rest o f the teachers looked on in very quiet afcd good natured amuse ment. In a month the acquaintance grew to intimacy. In two it became a serious proposition. A fte r three the only things lacking were the words and the ring. The professor had at last made up his mind to propose. H e had' meant to restrain his ardor till the close o f the term, but when it be came manifest that the adorable little instructor o f grade No. 4 re ciprocated his affection prudence was thrown to the winds. H e sat in his study pondering. Suddenly he got to wore disposing o f his reports 3 „ ' s Neils. Eggs, Tebaooo and Codfish as Mediums s# Exchange. A curious medium o f exchange In Friend** wbo wvut through the hor rors o f the rtao Francisco earthquake dcotlmid not many years ago waa In 1K06 slid kept their spiritual senses bandmitde nails. This la equaled by alert tall me that its most poignant UwitxerlHfid. where eggs are still cur experience was not one o f horror or o f rant coin. Eggs would be rather risky pity, but o f the almost miraculous at coin to deposit In tbe benk fo r sev eral reasons, but not so wheat and tainment o f human brotherhood. "Just a fter the disaster, when rich oats, which bave been used fo r ail par- and poor w aited In lino together fo r poses of sale and purchase in N orw ay their allow ance o f bread and milk. I and bave even been banked. T h e na saw ." says a friend, " a rich woman tional corn crop o f M exico Is mates from the 8L Francia hotel lyin g asleep and not very long ago form ed tbe chief on a doorstep w ith her bead oa a muff. money o f that republic. In tbe tim e o f our ancestors to A long sable coat was thrown o ver her. and under one com er o f It a young bacco was used almost exclusively la Japanese boy. a perfect stranger to Virginia Instead o f gold and silver, in Newfoundland dried codfish was at her. was curled up asleep. • • • "E veryb od y was everybody’s friend, one time a great medium o f exchange. and. though wo w ere all dog tired, It bad tbe advantage o f keeping In there waa not a w ord o f complaint or definitely. and It Is aaid that tb e N e w ill nature. T o bivouac together in the foundland miser got as much pleasure park and care fo r each other's babies from tbe odor o f his possession as around Area o f d riftw ood gathered on though it w ere from . Araby. , In savage lands they used m ote curi the beach transform ed men and w o men into defenseless children o f the ous things as money. Balt circulated earth, revealed each to each by their In Abyssinia; cubes o f beeswax w ere tbe medium In Sumatra, cubes o f tea Innate lovableness. w e n used In T a rta ry; In some o f the "Common danger and mutual help fulness, common misfortune, common Portuguese possessions tbe coin con work, common confrontation with the stats o f straw mata. In tbe islands o f elemental, brought a s w ift achieve the Pacific they depend upon feather«, ment o f almost Ideal brotherhood. A w hile In Madagascar the natives count crushing blow made all the w orld fo r their wealth in Iron shovels. China baa had varied forms o f currency, not a tim e kin.” —A tlantic Monthly. the least curio os being tbe coins made o f d a y . while Japan used the slightly more expensive substance realu-—N e w York S u n .___________________ So Easy Nowadays That It PesHively Peeved the Old Tim er. " I ’ m In an organisation where the members are expected to furnish the Early Calou 1st ions Hava secretary with photographs o f them Steed the Test of Time. selves." T b e first astronomer to demonstrate “Yeer satisfactorily tbe speed o f light was "W e ll. I hadn’t been to a pbotogra d o Roemer. a Scandinavian scientist, pher’a fo r tw enty years. 1 bated to go i remembered the old bead clamp, and wbo reed bla immortal paper on this tbc twlated spin e and the aw kw ard subject before tbe Academ y at Parte Koemer*s calculation* bands, and the depressed chin, and tbe July 22. 1675 silly sm ile It seemed to me worse and conclusions have stood tbe test tban tbe dentist’s But 1 bad to go. I | o f time Hod subsequent Investigations walked Into the photographer‘a big on all Important points. K n ow ledge as to the velocity o f room like a Christian martyr, and the operator pointed out a chair, and I sat tight was o f tremendous importance to down, and be said. T h a t ’s alL’ 1 ask astronomical science, since It enabled ed him to repeat i t H e did. Then I astronomers to estim ate accurately tbe got out o f the chair and w ent baek to enormous distances w ith which their science deals. Roemer found that light my o ffic e " traveled at tbe rate o f 188.000 milee in " W e lir "W e il, 1 don’t feel right about It. it e second. T b e snn. being distant from didn’t seem to me w orth w h ile 1 the earth 92.000.000 miles, flashes light don’t think tbe photographer treated to oa In eight minutes and fourteen me r ig h t It looked to m e as I f be had a disagreeable jo b on his bands and Y e t tbe sun te a near neighbor com wanted to shirk I t H e should have pared with tbe so called fixed sta re fussed o ver me m o re W hat do 1 know which In reality m ove with Inconceiv about posing? Besides, there w is n ’t able velocity, although the Boost pow tim e T h a t’s all.’ he said, and flipped erful teleecopee w ill not show that m e out o f the chair. T h ey didn't snob velocity as anything but re s t Beyond me that w ay tw en ty y e a n a g e n a the outskirts o f our Insignificant solar a i r r —Cleveland Plain Dealer. system are other systems, and beyond them still others, so fa r as the sight o f man. aided by Instruments, may bridge Mad# tha Mote o f Hta Hate. When Lord M ilner held his first re the ghastly chasm o f tbe Infinite. Distances beside which the 1m caption at Pretoria the officer» and leg islators w ar* given to understand that line stretching from eartb to sun te an frock coats and tall hats w are expected Invisible point, are now measured by o f them. Th ere waa only one shop In means o f Room er's special discovery as tbe place in which silk beta w ere sold, to tbe velocity o f M g b t-E x c h a n g e i Whan Disaster Cams All Wars Kin and r, (quality Rsignsd. duties fo r anything. Then he drew forth a square envelope and sheet o f white paper to match. This seemed to him the most direct and final way o f settling matters be tween them. Belinda was a coquette — there was no getting around that fact, even in one’s most gen erous moments— and Hardiman was determined to corner her complete ly. H e composed his lines careful ly. They were inspirational. And now that he had broken the ice at last he meant to carry things to a rapid finish. The professor was nothing if not businesslike. He fished in a drawer and pulled out a teacher’s resignation blank. This he put in a separate envelope and directed' both to the dearest girl in the world. T h e following morning the post man’s shrill whistle brought Belin da herself to the door. She took the mail and glanced through it hastily, rivers o f scarlet flowing over her cheeks as she recognized Hardi- man’s fam iliar backhand. She tore open the envelope eagerly and scan ned the contents with whitening face. The paper fe ll from her fin gers, and she leaned limply against the banister rail. So she was asked, TAKING A PHOTOGRAPH. in the briefest possible way, to re sign. and she had dared to dream— she nad been so sure— she had been such a fo o l! She smothered the sob in her throat and in quick scorn o f herself dashed the hot tears from her eyes. Then she pulled herself together sharply and went upetairs. W ith trembling fingers she filled out the blank and directed it to the board. Drab weeks followed. Every e f fort the professor made to gain an audience with Belinda failed. H e had mortified and insulted her fla grantly, and she would see that he got no more chances to repeat the indignity. As to Hardiman, he was on tue rack. Fool-like, he reflected, he had rushed in and frightened her away with his maudlin, im portunate lovemaking and thus lost her fo r good. But perhaps, after all, it was not fo r him that she cared. What a dolt he had been to presume upon the affection o f a matchless creature like that! L ife grew to be a bitter struggle to him, and he began all at once to look his thirty-five years. I t was in May, almost the dose o f school. The day waa warm and oppressive, and a lazy breeze was °P bit owing. The professor made his way in absent weariness towafd the schoolhouae, stopping on the way to get his mail from the postoffice. There were several circulars in his box and— his breath stopped — a communication from the dead letter and this had but four o f them. Th e office. H e broke the seal anxionftly, Transvaal legislators rushed o ff In a an intuitive knowledge o f what it body to buy these four, bat tb e batter, contained making his heart thump not being mad. saw hla opportunity thickly. Sure enough, “ Miss Be-! I d their extrem ity. H e knew there linda Maxwell, Greenville, Colo.” 1 was no time to get bats from any And this was Alabama! Unadul where else, so be resolved not to sell. H e offered to let them out on hire at terated stupidity! I f living in a the rate or 10 shillings fo r ten minutes. place five yea n could make one re H U shop waa close at band. Four sponsible fo r an idiotic blander o f gentlemen could present themselves this sort, what else had he not before hla excellency. A fte r ten min done? H e walked out o f the post- utes they must silently steal aw ay and office in a daze. A ll waa clear hand o ver their hired finery to another enough now. She had never receiv panting quartet. It waa done, and tbe ed his letter at all, only that wretch batter still repeats dream ily as be re ed, confounded blank! N o wonder calls the moment o f bis Ilfs, " I t would not have been fa ir to have sold them, she had frozen the very air about not fa ir to my customers and not fair him— no wonder! Out in the open to m y s e lf."-L o n d o n Globe. air, he quickened his footsteps. It j was already 8 :20, only ten minutes I "Th a Corsican Bandit.1* before the opening o f school, but he I Only those w bo have traveled a good turned directly into Oak street and deal In Ita ly can realise tbe depth o f forgot that he had ever been such a the resentment that te still felt there thing as principal o f the Greenville at tbe losses tbe country suffered through the “ Corsican B a n d it” as Na high school. ' j poleon baa been dubbed. T b e Italians In the distance he caught sight o f have a aaylag about tbe French. “ Are a familiar blue tailor made go w n .! tbe French tblevee?” “ No, but bona H e doubled his pace and was quite parte <a good part o f them* a re." And up with Belinda before she realised , when a visitor goes to one city after his nearness. T o her haughty another, seea one building a lta r anoth glance, her cool drawing away from , er that was robbed o f Its ch ief tres s area by Napoleon, be begins to under him, Hardiman paid no atten tio n , stand this savage sentim ent I t te even whatever, but thrust the letter into 1 stronger In Malta, which Island was her hands in a determined, master- j virtually swept clean o f Its splendor» fnl way which ahe conld not resist, i o f medieval and renaissance art by Hypnotized, she opened it and tb s conqueror. Th e Maltese loot te all read the lines through, the crimson som ewhere at the bottom o f Alexan drte bay. the ship on which Nipoteou moving in her cheeks: loaded It having foundered there. U y Darling—1 want you to gtvo up | touching and lot ma do It for both. 1 am not mlatakan In thinking that you will Wat Tyler»# Rebellion. com« to ma? Juat a fin*, giving ma tbo Attem pts to fix by statute tbs wages right to apaa£. and I abaU attampt to tall you In a different way. In n thousand dif o f agricultural laborers In England ferent wayt, how much 1 worship you. ware largely responsible for tha great Moat earnestly. R. W. H. revolt o f 1881. or " W a t T y le r’s rebel Belinda caught her breath in lion." It represented the despairing effort o f landowners to get beck to something between s sob and a tbe level o f wages before tbe black laugh as she lifted her eyes shyly death came to make labor dear. But to his keen, appealing, apologising tbe lord o f tbe manor over»h ot tbe and at last commanding glance. mark. H e wanted the day w ags kept Th e professor was tardy, very down to 4 cents to 6 cents a day. Had tardy, tnat morning, but he gave be put 6 cents to 8 cents In tbe ached his excuse o f t headache glibly and ole there might have been no rebellion mendaciously and dismissed pupils and teachers for a holida J - This he spent with Belinda. Spurred by Nsoaaoity. “ Whv do «o many young men leave the farm ?” “ W ell.” replied Farmer Corntoa- sel. “ in most o f the cases I have observed it was because they couldn’t earn their salt as farm bands an’ wasn’t fixed to ps j board.” — Washington Star. Badly Expressed. Mother-in-law—it te so kind o t you, Joseph, to take the trouble to drive me borne! Mon-ln-law—Don’ t mention Itl It’s no trouble at all. On the con trary. It te tbe moat delightful drive I have bad for some tim e!—Loudon Telegraph T h e wise prove and the reoiteh con fees by their conduct that a life of employment is the only fife worth lea d in g.-W illia m Palsy. For Goodness Sake gull Information. I d the smoking room o f an bound Pullman, tbe other evening, there w ere tw o men—one o f them grouchy, tbe other one receptive. A ft er smoking tw o Indifferent cigars tb e latter said to tbe form er: "H o w (h r are you going." “ Buffalo,” acknowledged tbe other one, taken o ff bte guard “ Is that so? W ell. Buffalo te a great town I Have a cousin livin g there, and I’ve been there myaelt several rimes. T h e test tim e w as tw e lv e years ago and aver, ter—what are you going to do In B a ffalo T ' “ Change cars.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1 ______________ - W illing. Outside one o f tbe recruiting depots In an Engilab town a sergeant saw a smart young milkman and, thinking to get a fresh recruit, said. “ Young man. would you like to servo tbe king?” “ Rather!” nak) tbe milkman eagerly. “ How much does he want? A pint?" Cynieal. "1 alw ays «aid that political rival or mlDe would stoop to any falsehood Now I can provq I t ” "How?" “ He «ea t me a mcxMage saying o* congratulate* me on tuy election.” - Washington Htar. 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