TOWER OF BABEL.
Child. Bbe came, and I a»kod her I f
she could get me some arnica. She
ran to tb« house and returned with an
h* Remnants Acs Believed te Stand
"Yea.” said Angela mechanically.
elderly lady, who asked If I had been
Neer Babylon’s Ruins, w
MORO. OREGON.
H e opened the door for her.
Injured.
I t Is doubtful ir there Is any place
"You w ill tat me know nt once?” he
' V -W X '
j, fci;
. ji.'
"Only a sprained ankle from slipping
in the world so rich in ancient remains
asked to such an altered tone that An
off a smooth stone.” I said. "A little
as the valley of the Euphrates, to
gela flashed a glance ut him. H b face
arnica w ill fix IL Indeed, I don’t know S tum er With 227 Passenegert
Mesopotamia. The result to that to ,
was pale • * < stern, and the friendly
that anything ta needed.”
I arose»
archneologtata and scholars the place
Including 21 Americans At
look waa gon4 from his dark blue eyes.
w ith pretended difficulty, took one
b a veritable "Tom Tiddler’s ground,"
I t waa almost «s if he hud guessed
step and s a n k d o w p again.
and new “finds” are constantly being
tacked by Submarine
Angela’s bold'intention.
" I w ill call help.” said tbe lady.
report ed.
" I ’ve got Ip—I ’ve got to look out for
"You must be carried to the house.”
When tt to remembered that tradi
the future,” Yliought Angela all the
New York.—The Cunard liner Ordu-
tion places the site of the Garden of
No. no.” I protested. " I ’m sure I
way home. /
na bound from Liverpool to New York
Eden here, while among Ito many
can walk th at far If you w ill kindly
By D W IG H T NORWOOD
That evening Angela sat and thought
w ith 237 passengers. Including 22 Ä 1
ruins are those of ancleut Babylon, the
allow me to put a hand on your arm.”
and thought a< all the men she knew
without
promising nature of the valley to the
The lady consented. W ith her as Americana, was attacked
who were eligible. When she had
“ Doctor,” »»aid Norman Goodfellow to scientific excavator becomes apparent.
sistance I got to the house and waa warning. It w m learned on her arrival
weighed and sifted them and discarded
Dr. Theodore Colt. “ I aui thinking of
placed to .an easy chair on the porch. here, by a German submarine on the
It Is near the ruins of Babylon that
the lmpoasthlga and the undesirables
"Tum-te-tum, tum-te-tum!”
Having fried various ways of spend
propoaiug marriage to a lady In whose we find what many scholars believe to
The fairy godmother came out. but I
morning of July 9.
there
remained
but
two—Roger
Frame
Angela W inton watched the little fin
ing the month I put aside each year pretended not to notice ber. She start
family there are traces of Insanity. I*> be the remains of the tower o f Babel
Twenty miles from tho graveyatd
and
Dr.
Deering
for
fin
outing,
and
tired
of
them
ail,
I
gers wander uncertainly up aud down
ed oil seeing roe. and I saw color come of the Lusitania, off Otahoed of Kin-
you consider me justified In marrying _an Immense cube of brickwork, called
wus a civil engineer,
Roger
the piano keys.
was casting about for some new meth and go In her face. I made a grimace
by the natives B ln Nimrod
civil one—brusque and
or, rather.
her under the circumstances?’
eale, the Orduna escaped the Lusi
When the pupil had gone Angela bad
od
when I saw on advertisement of a In pretense of Buffering, and her ex
ltecent exhaustive examination of
hut withal a fine,
•‘Not if the Insanity Is hereditary..
tania’s fate by half a second of time
the strange pile and Its site has reveal- closed the piano with a sigh of relief.
cabin situated on an Island on the pression of uneasiness at my presence
und a good friend.
There is a great difference between In
or 10 yards of ip*ce, tbe German tor
ed the fact that the tower that once Twenty years of teaching music had
1 Angela, "it must be coast of Maine. T tu price was so rea gave way to one of sympathy. I care
sanity from a temporary cause and
pedo churning the water that distance
stood here constated of seven stages of worn ber n en es to a fine edge.
fully
concealed
any
recognition
o
f
ber,
e
one's
husband
a
good
< l» » iru b lv to
sonable that it attracted my attention.
from an organic trouble that may be
behind the liner’s rudder. Then the
brickwork on aa earthen platform, each
" I wonder I t It w ill alWays be the friend us
I entered into correspondence with the and she was soon ministering to me
transmitted from imreut to child. I do
Orduna aped away. She was followed
with the others.
being of a different color.
was
her
minister,
the
same?"
she
thought
aa
she
went
to
owner and engaged It.
not couslder that any one suffering
The tower boasted of a base meas
>1 fear?* I said, "th at I f you have a by the submarine, which roes to tho
;or of her church,
from an aliment which is hereditary urement of nearly 000 square feet and o|ieu her letter box. There was a let m iddle aged
My reason for doing so was that 1
vehicle on the premises I shall have surface, manned a gun on bar dock
“1
n
to
theai,“
thought
will
ter.
has a right to marry. Your question
met so many people at home that 1 de to ask some one to drive me to m y
rose to an unknown height Even to
t cheeks, “They will
and shelled tho fleeing steamer. -
A little color flashed into ber pale
suggests a story Involving a case which
sired
to go where I would see no one. cabin. I t la a couple o f miles from
day the ruins rise some 160 feet above cheeks as she read the name to one understand.
as
that
office
girl
»aid.
The attack waa a t 10 minutes to €
came within my professional experi the level of' the surrounding p la in .-
I am only taking ad- All day long 1 was bounded by per here on the eastern end of tbe talaod.”
is leap
corner o f the bustuesa envelope:
o’clock to the morning, when an hut
ence.
___ ...
_
sona edger to get a word with me to
Wide World Magsxlne.
Now, I was quite sura there was no a few of her passengers lay sleeping
vautage of
iv ilega.”
JOHN T. CATESBY
“One day a young roan named Sever
niiig Angola arrayed sell me something, and in the evening vehicle on tbe premises, for there waa
The
Attorney
and
Counselor
at
Law
-
to their bertha. Aroused by stewards,
ance came to consult me as to a caae
st frock, happily a I wo* enguged in various social mat neither barn nor garage. The elder
John Catesby was an old friend of herself in
WHEN YOUTH DIES.
4
similar to yours. He had recently been
ter*. A cabin bidden to a wood with lady Informed me that there wag no the peaeeninrs dres s ed hurriedly and
of
new
one
gray
with
a
hat
to
Angela’s, and she tors open the letter
married and all had gone happily till
went
to
the
upper
deck,
where
they
a
view
of
the
ocean
appealed
to
me.
means
o
f
conveyance
I
t
hand,
and
raa trimmed with
match
one day on returning to his home from Shock ef the First Realisation T h ai with a feeling of Impatience nt her violets.
breast she pinned To lie at night listening to tbe break since tt waa growing dark. I would be put on life belts and took their places
s
w
ift
conclusion
that
John’s
unexpect
One
Is
Getting
Old.
business he found hlx wife lying on the
ers on tbe bench was a pleasing fancy. welcome to remain till qpe could be at the lifeboats.
They heard t h e '
sweat purple bios
The moment when one first frets ed letter was in direct response to her
bed Indisposed. Khe seemed drowsy,
I found the location what I bad found. I pretended to demur to thta, scream of the shells and saw the
and, suggesting that she try to get a acutely that be la no longer young to query of the moment before. Very
The cabin was well but waa overruled. My "sprained” an ocean sptt np columns of water where
Who 'txtal gucae tbe panic to An dreamed It.
nap. be took the evening paper to a bound to make one pause to something likely It bed to do with the bridge gela's lieart when she stood before enough, but tbe furnishings were ex kle waa propped up on a foot rqat w ith
the sheila struck.
club
to
which
they
both
belonged.
The
akin to consternation. For vividness tt
window and sat down to read.
Roger Frame’s office door? All ber ecrable. A cheep bedstead, a rickety pillows. I remembered to wince occa
Ten minutes before the attack a
“ Presently he heard her tossing b like a flash of lightning serosa a letter reed:
principles were In revolt, in arms, bureau, a table on which to eat. a cook sionally. fearful that my benefactors sailing ship, with two American
D
ear
M
b
s
W
in
to
n
—
Pleas«
call
a
t
my
black
sky.
Life
uo
longer
b
all
before
nlxRit on the bed and. looking at ber
stove and a lot--of cheep dtahes com might susfiect tbe part I was playing.
immediately. as I wish to consult against the fear that she would lose
fla^s painted on her side, was seen x.«„
from his i»aper, saw that, though one; even, more dreodful thought. It offlrc
pleted the furnishings. There wee no
Soon a fte r 1 laid got settled my fairy
Uncle Joseph’s money.
w ith you concerning an Im portant m a tter
may
be
mostly
behind.
asleep or at least dosing, there was an
of business. F a ith fu lly yours, .
Faring Roger Frame in his private other abode near me. but scattered godmother brought me out a dainty ahead. Captain T aylo r became sus
A fter the first keen realisation there
JOHN T. CATESBY.
uadulatory motion about her that sug
office. Angela's panic found refuge to about were summer cottages, some of sapper which she (Maced on a stand be picious of this eraft and began man-
gested the movement of a snuke. He follows a bewildered state of mind due
“Dear met I wonder w bat he wants hasty speech. Her words tumbled des which were fairly pretentious. I saw side me. I feit quite confident that cuvoring hta ship. Then came the
had awaken««! her and naked her if to unwillingness—yea. to an actual pus- to see me about? I may as well dress perately from her lips.
no resHon why I ehoukl be troubled by she knew me for the |»mion whose attack, the first warning of which
she had not been dreaming, but she xled inability to accept the troth. With and go downtown now," she t ’pugbt
Roger Frame’# rugged face was the inmate* of any of them so long as cabin she bad visited in my absence, was tho streak of a torpedo which
said she had not been conscious during all the agouy of the startled call of a as she folded the letter.
let them alone, which I proposed but 1 wait equntly sure that she be whirled
gravely tender aa be took her, hands In
throcch
the water
and
cfffld at night the heart cries out, " It
ber nap and felt much better for I t
An hour later Angela presented her hb.
to do.
lieved me to bv Iguorunt that she was mtacol the Orduna’s stern by ten
-
cannot
be;
It
Is
not
so.”
“Nevertheless the young husband
self at Catesby’s office. She was a
I had spent a week with only my the peraou site had favored. In order
“You have done me such a great
yards or thereabouts.
Youth dies hard and fights and strug small, timid looking woman with soft
s em w l to me to have liven much
self for company when one day. after to convince her of thta 1 told her about
honor,
Miss
Winton.”
he
said
gently,
gles
in
Its
dying
like
an
imprisoned
shocked at what he had seen. Were
brown eyes and a wealth of glistening “that I am prou<) of your confidence to a long tramp, on returning to my cab my cabin and h'«vr I was s|>endlng an
It not for this I would have concluded bird. Others, even those near and dear, brown hair. Twenty years o f battling me. BuL you see. I ’ve complicated in I stood on tbe threshold astonished outing then* »lone. She m ade no com
that what he had seen was the work- are older, are even old; we can see th a t with the world had made Angela bold matters by engaging myself to Mrs. at a transformation of the Interior. ment. seeudugly preferring to chat on
lug of his wife's ueuea uncontrolled But bow can tbs stubborn facta be of heart and unafraid, but the a|>peal- Weed, but stt down and let um talk It Disorder had been acmmutating ever other subjc« t*.
true as to ourselves? Very gradually,
since my arrival; the bed bad n<
ing look remained in her eyefi
during sluml»er. I gave him this cause
over.”
I *|>eut n pleasant evening, not men
little by little, fighting Us way inch by
been mode; tbe dtahes bad not been tion lug that I had received kindness
An office boy took her into John
in order to reassure him, but it did not
Augela
smiled
bravely
and
shook
ber
inch, the truth prevails sud gnaws at Gatesby’s private office, and Catesby
However, sluce I could give him no
head. ’I ’ve another name on my lis t” washed. There were enough of the from an unknown i**r*ou, nor did my
Washington. — Secretary Lansing
the heart—though only intermittently,
latter to last one person a week with fairy godmother give any h in t that she
grasped ber Jlttle gloved fingers to hb she said hardily. "The rector.'*
other comfort, be left me, much de
made public a paraphrase of the note
of course—until time numbs this emo
large hand and forgot to release them
jected.
!
“ Dear lady," said Frame earnestly, out belgfi ” »ed more than once, and I had even ever *een off heard of me be presented by Ambassador Page to the
tion as It does every other one.-Robert
Not long after his visit, taking up a
for a moment
“1 wbb you much Joy and success in bad about pntahed tbe lot. I found on fore. No «onveyanee was forthcoming,
L. Raymond in Atlantic Monthly.
British government to conserve the
newspaper, I saw a notice that he bad
You wished to see me?” asked An your quesL Dr. Deering b s good fel my return the bed made, tbe dishes and I was urged to abandon any idea
rights ef American citizens in cases
left hla house a few days before and
gela. and, thus reminded, he drew for low, but I ’d like to wring your uncle’s washed, tbe cooking utensils scoured of going to my efibln till morning, when
Poetry and Noses.
and
hanging
»pick
and
span
on
the
had not been beard from since. The
ward a chair beside his own.
It wus suggested 1 might ride over being tried by British prise courts. It
neck for placing you to such » posi
1 have read that no poem was ever
has no relation, he saM. to the general
«helve*
police had been notified, and an alarm
Listen to this.” he said to an odd tion!”
with a farm er who wnpplled the family
written to a nose. Can you, offhand, tone, picking up an open letter.
had l>een sent out Fears were cuter
I
felt
myself
to
be
tbe
hero
of
a
fairy
note on contraband still in course of
with
milk
each
morning.
After
trying
Angela*« lip qufvered. “ I f Mr. Cates
tained that he had met w ith fool play, recall a single rapturous or even admir
Sydney, Australia, Jan. II, 1W
to step with the Injured *nkle find
preparation. Tho paraphrase Issued
by had only thought of some other story and almost expected to see r 1 lt
Dear 8 1 r-K ln d ly Inform my niece an»
sluce the day before his disappearance ing description of one? I search my
tie old woman drop down the chimney demon*!rating that 1 could not poeai-
by the stole department follows:
way out of It.” she eaid piteously.
only
relative,
M
b
s
Angela
Winton,
that
memory
to
vain,
but
produce
instead
be had drawn a large sum of money
and stand upon the hearth.
( bly use it witlk'iit great agony. 1 yield
"Catesby?
lie
’s
the
lawyer
to
the
“In view of differences which are
It
b
m
y
Intention
to
bequeath
roy
entire
one instance that has always interested
Several days passed, during which ed to perwuaKh u an«i consented to re
from hla bank.
fortune of 11.000,000 to her, provided she la rose?” asked Frame quickly.
said to exist between the two govern
me
by
negiecL
You
recall
that
little
His visit to me, the story be told and
m arried a t the time of my death. She la
She nodded. "You see. I must do disorder was again looming up about main the night.
ments as to the principles of law ap
hla depression l«*d me to suspect that poem of Browulugs. “A Face," the the only old maid In the W in to n fam ily, something, Mr. Fram e,^and with one me. when, after an abse’n« e. I returned
By thta time u stout cane bad been
he .was suffering from some nervous brief aud charming description of a and If she Is still unm arried when the shnmed look over lier shoulder,
to find all set to rights, as before. Still provided for me. sud I Instated on bob plicable In prize court proceedings in
or mental trouble, and I inclined to girl's profile »gainst a background of announcement of my death b made she slipped out sn<l closed tbe door upon a not finding any elew, 1 wrote on a bling to my room without other as cases Involving American Interests,
k dll merely receive a smnll annuity, while
the belief that what he had told me gold. The “matchleas mold” of softly the rem ainder of my estate goes to c h ar very angry mini.
piece o f cardboard a message and sistance. in the morning I came down and in order to avoid affy misunder
purted lips, the neck “three fingers ity. As I am suffering from an incurable
about hla wife was n creation of a dis
standing as to the attitude of the U n it
pinned It up against tbe wall for my stairs. still keeping np the hobbling,
Roger Frame Jerked tbe telephone re
eased brain.
I did not see how I might surround” and the "fru it ahuped disease It behooves my niece to hasten to
next
absence:
ed States in regard to any such pro
and
about
10
o'clock
the
farmer
came
ceiver from It» hook aud called John
would be Justified in making known perfect chin” all receive their due of the a lta r
F airy God mot h e r-T h a n k you vsry much with the ntiik. I expressed my heart
ceedings. the government of the U n it
JOSEPH H EN RT WINTON,
Catesby’s
nomt>er.
my suspicions without mentioning the praise; the nose, a seeming necessity
for your attention. I need only o m thing. felt thanks to my benefactors sad
ed States informs the British govern
n o w utterly absurd!” cried Angela
Dr.
Deering
a
reception
room
was
W
ill
you
riv
a
tt
to
ma?
I
f
so.
lasva
word
in
any
profile.
Is
not
even
mentioned.
cause, and that I did not care to do.
hired Mm to drive me to my cabin.
moot that insofar as the rights of
Severance never turned up, and no It may be as well; each reader supplies as rosy blushes invaded ber smooth bathed to mellow sunshine when a trim whan nost yos coma and I w ill maka tt My fairy godmother was solicitous lest
known.
cheeks.
"The
very
Idea!
H
e
might
American ciUXcns are conerned. it w ill
maid
ushered
an
»gltated
Angela
Into
probable cause was ever given for hla in the lovely face the line that svita
I went sway again very soon, and I would need attention and be with insist upon their rights under the prin
him beet The poet muy have feared as well cut me off with an annuity the room.
diaappearancei When several y
"Dr. I>eeAng ta engaged at presenL” when 1 returned beneath what I had out IL living aio* e ns 1 did, but I as ciples and rules of International law
had passed his wife gave him up for that by its mere mention be would pro and be done with tt!"
Another
letter
had
bejjn
received
by
»aid tbe servant. “ He will be at lib written were itcuclled U4, letters ap sured her that I «vouM be back soon aa heretofore established governing
duce the effect too often given by the
dead, believing that he had been mnr
parently to the hand of an oM person to thank her and the others again for
dered for the money he had with him. nose to real life— a heaviness that mars Catesby on the same subject The law erty in a little While
neutral trade in time of war, without
the kindness that had been bestowed
the following:
yer
had
been
a
protege
of
Winton,
who
-
Left
alone,
Angela
could
hear
the
an
otherwise
charming
face.—
Atlantic.
Four years after hta disappearance she
limitation or impairment by orders in
u|>on me. Then the farmer lifted me
bad
sent
bim
to
school,
to
college
and
Tour
alngle
wish
la
granted:
name
It-
frightened thumping of her heart.
/ married again, aud aa fate would have
council
or other municipal legislation
into
his
wagon
and
1
was
driven
away,
had paid bis way while he studied hb
Before going away again I wrote:
There was the purr of a motorcar
It her second husband was a patient of
Decomposing Water.
followed by smiling goodbye from all
by the British government, and w ill
profession.
Winton
never
married,
and,
Some
one
to
love—me.
outside
and
the
sound
was
instantly
rMHtne. 1 did not know that he was to
W ater b decomposed or separated
the family.
not recognise the validity of prize
marry Mrs. Severance, and I was sat
Thè answer to this waa:
Into Its constituent gases by passing a as stated In hb letter, Angela was hb stilled. Tbe rector hnd another vtaltor
The next day. since 1 did not expect court proceedings taken under re
tailed that 1 had not known It, because continuous
Love la not singular; It Is plural.
current ^ o f , electricity only relative. He was very fond of Angela’s courage waned rapidly. . She
another visit from my fairy godmother
straints Imposed by British munition
I should have been troubled as to what through IL An ordinary sine and cop her aud hnd notl<*ed wbat Angela had had arisen to a panic when the ser
I found on the rude mantel of my
not
even
susjiected—that
hb
protege
taw in derogation of the rights of
vant ushered a man into the room with cabin a skein of fine thread, tangled, and not wishing to spend the day
I should do in the matter, for I was per voltaic battery gives sufficient am
lounging about my cabin. 1 went out American citizens under International
undecided what to attribute her first perage1 and also voltage to separate the loved his niece. He wus lu ho|«es that tbe same explanatory formula.
and pinned to tt the words;
for some deep see fishing. As usual
husband’s disappearance to.
The man waa John T. Catesby.
oxygen and hydrogen. Oxygen goes to the two would mske a match. In thia
Unravel this and you ahall have your
IW.”
I left everything In disorder. On my
W ithin a few months after my I *
"Ah!" he cried quickly. "Have you wish.
the pole connected with the copper eveut they would Inherit bis fortune
return
shortly
before
dark
I
met
with
tient's—Hammond’s marriage he came plate and hydrogen to the clnc pole or together, and John would tnuke a cap seen him? Am I In lime?”
Thta T ilry business was not gratify
PANKHUR3T HEADS PARADE
ital manager of the estate.
Into my office one day with a wild plate. The volume of hydrogen b dou
“I haven’t seen him yeL” admitted ing my curiosity. I spent no time try a surprise. My household had been
put
to
rights
and
the
paper
on
which
Finding
that
death
was
not
far
dis
look in hla eyes and told me a story slm
Angela faintly.
hie that of the oxygen, and botb are
ing to unravel the thread, but spent
I corresponded with my fairy god British 8uffragettes Ask to Be Em
liar to the one Severance hnd told me. chemically pure. Steam, If passed over tant, he had written the two letters,
•Then— then”* - he stammered exett-. considerable thought to laying a plan
ployed in Munition Factories.
H e had had a disagreement w ith hb red hot Iron, surrenders Its oxygen to the oue intending to Influence hb niece, edly. “why ueA-mnry me. Angela? I to find out who wra» my fairy god mother bore a message:
Since you have done neither of the tasks
London.— Enormous crowds of Wom
wife, during which she had become the atoms of the metal, while hydrogen the other to advise Catesby of his de love you. I want you fdr my wife." m >tber. I did not doubt that It waa
riven you by your fa iry godmother you
very much excited. During the vltu
en thronged Victoria embankmeuL de
b given off pure and free.— New York sire to leave them hb property jointly. Ue held out hta hands. Angela placed some girl from one of the cottages— cannot have any one to love you. Tou
In the oue for John's private reading her trembling hands in hla. “I f 1 have possibly several girls who were deriv ahull have one more opportunity TeU
peratkma ahe had hurled at him her American.
spite a drizzling rain, to participate in
he had told him that it was hb Inten to marry any one,” »he faltered: “I ’m
eyes had glittered like thoae of an an
the women’s procession voicing the
ing a lot of amusement to playing how a apralned ankle can be made, well
w
ithin
tw
elve
hours.
tion
to
place
hb
niece
in
a
position
gry serpent H er appearance during
Bad Memory.
fairy. The only plan I could think of
so glad lt’a you!”
demand that the British government
the trouble had made such a horrible
I was dumfonnded. Never had 1 eo
He drew her Closer.
Flatbush— You’ve got a piece of which would place Catesby lu a posi
was to go away early in tbe day find
utilize women in the work of making
tion to marry tier.
im p re—ion upon him that ha waa thread about your thumb.
"Suppose your uncle had never w rit hide near by. This 1 did. There was pridetl myself on playing a (»art as ammunition and in replacing the men.
"Excuse
me
Just
a
moment,”
said
afraid he would lose hb mind. He
ten you? Suppose there bad been no a deuse thicket a short distance from palming myself off as a sufferer. Talk
Beusonburst— Yea, wife put It there
It ta estimated that Ml,000 marchers,
Catesby. rising. " I am called away on fortune Involved T ‘ be whtairared.
asked ma to give him a sedative.
to remind me to mall her letter.
my cabin, and one morning, having about men being deceivers of women!
led
by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurat,
a matter of business."
Here was a worse complication for
"Your love would have been riches breakfasted at 5 o’clock, taking a book. I doubt I f any man ever did any such
"Did you mall ItF ”
founder of the Women’s 8ocial Politi
He went into the outside office, enough.” said Angela, her face against
me than Severance had brought me.
thing.
The
girl
had
seen
through
my
"Sure thing.”
pil>e and tobacco and a lunch, I went
for I waa not sure whether Sever
“Why don’t you remove the thread where a client was waiting for a few hb and her pretty hat all crooked.
Into the thicket prepared to wait and ruse and had played me a fa r better cal Union, were in the ranks, which
words of advice, and Angela was left
ance’s experience had been an hallucl
game than I had played her. or, rath contained many noted women, includ
He smiled contentedly.
then. 7 ’
watch.
nation occasioned by a disordered brain
ing Lady Colebrook, Lady Knollye and
“Then you may rend thta,” he said
“Oh, I'm keeping that on to remind alone with ber startled thoughts.
About 11 o’clock to the morning 1 er, I had tried to play ber.
or had been caused by some peculiar
How glorious to lie the owner of a drawing a caWegrnm from hta | rocket.
Well, the fairy godmother business
te to tail her that I forgot to put a
Mrs. W aldorf Astor.
beard a child’s voice calling. “ He’s
condition in h b life.
But 1 dared stamp on IL *— Yonkers Statesman.
great fortune! What bliss to travel, “ It came half an hour ago.”
geue!” I peeped through an opening was ended. There was nothing for me
not tall Hammond thta, for It would be
to have beautiful clothes, to help the
It was from Sydney. Aaatrnlla. and and saw a girl about ten years old to do but go to ber abode and conf«
Msxieo City » A fain Threatened.
aura to make a wreck of him. I had
needy!
dated the day before. It announced near tbe cabin beckoning to some one myself beaten. Thta I did tbe next
A Haaty Makeup.
Washington.— Mexico City is again
no recourse but to say to him that he
How sordid it was to consider that the death o f Joseph Henry Winton.
Aa actor once waa cast as a brigand
could not see. Presently I saw a morning. I longed for an offering to threatened with attack and the Car
must have been suffering from some
Angela would have drawn away from girl o f perhaps tweuty concealed from take with me. but In that wilderness
to “Ingomar,” and the director told she must marry and lose ber freedom,
ranza forces under General Gonzales
nervous weakness. Instead of giving
but who on earth would marry her? hta arm. but he held he? closely.
tbe hut-by a tree, but visible to me, no such thing was to lie bad? I was
Mm • drug I advised him to go on a him to get a rug. throw It about hb Common sense told her that many un
who drove the Zapata army from the
"And you come to me after that?” evldeutly fearful of advancing. But received with a look of amusement
shoulders and alt by a camp fire. He
trip, but on no account to take hb
scrupulous
men
would
embrace
the
op
capital
10 days ago, have marched hur
mingled
with
triumph.
My
first
words
she nsked.
dkl so, hb face being toward the audi
the child ran into the cabin and out
w ife w ith him.
“Didn’t I say I loved you?” he re again, beckoned eagerly, and tbe young were. “How did yon discover my riedly northward to engage an ad
ence. In a tense situation be stood up, portunity to become the husband of an
H e took my advice as to the trip, but
«
torted gruffly. “ I ’ve been screwing up woman timidly left her bid lug place game?** The reply was: “ Don't ask a vancing column believed to be plaii-
turned around and almost broke up the nelress. “
never returned from IL News of h b
From an adjoining office came the my courage to toll ,vpu. Your beeomipg
woman how ahe djj|iuw»srii thlnga. She n i n ^ B Junction w ith the Zapata
jw . Worked to thta rag waa one
end went into the cabin.
.
having fallen over a precipice in Swlt
aa heiress wfiz a dash e f cold water.”
word. “ Welcomet” —8L Losta Poet-Dto- 'Towered voters of two stenographers.
Now I did uot propose to give away either knows them by intuition or not troops now menacing communication
acrbPd was sent te her over the ocean,
" I saw the le tte rr instated one Im
“But what slmir we *ay to Dr. Deer the advantage I held by cornering my et ail.”
pstch.
with Vera Cruz.
State department
but I have always suspected that he
patiently. " It said she must marry ing?” questioned
Notwithstanding that I did not ao,T# patches announced that General Gon
.*alrjr godmother. 1 watted till she had
arranged for its transmission himself,
before
he
died
or
she
would
lose
the
"Why. we’ll a»< Mm to officiate at left the cabin, then stole cautiously any of tbe riddles. I got some one to zales, with most of his Army, had
Guessed IL
One thing confirmed thta suspicion;
our wedding ncxC weekr' was Catoe- after her. my object being to locate love and to love me.
Inspector, examining a class In gram money! The Men!”
evacuated Mexico City, turning the
hb body was never found.
"As i f such an old maid could find a by’s brilliant au
f
. ...ii . .........
mar, wrote a sentence oo the black
her home. I followed ber and her com
Tw o years after having become s
government over to the civil authori
Most
ValuaMe
Matai.
husband
quick
as
a
wink!”
giggled
the
board and asked If any one noticed
panion for two miles and saw h ei go
hypothetic-si double wWour the Indy In
In estimating the value o f any metal ties-
other. “ Did you ever see such a little
Russia’! M erc h a n t Flag.
■
'
anything peculiar In IL
into a cottage situated on a bluff over
thta case died. 1 confess I was re-
—
The Russian merchant flag ta a hor looking the ocean. Then 1 returned to we are apt to consider ouly the intrin
After a short silence a small boy ex brown mouse of a womanT
Heved. These was now no further
“I wonder If she knows It’s leap izontal tricolor of white, blue and red.
fiwiee Prohibit Gold Exports.
claimed
my habitatiqp to see whHt was her sic money value of a given quantity,
chance of any more o f my clients mar
thto r le < r>W to ««nera1^
“ Yea, Mr; the bad writing.”—Ilk - year and she has the privilege of ask Originally It wan the Dutch flag, and teat message.
P a ris —The Swiss federal council
rying-her. Soon after her death I made
ing some man to marry her? It ’s her Its appearance sg pleased Peter the
1 hnd le ft the tangled skein on the regarded as the most valuable metnl.
has decided to prohibit the exporta
some investigations as to ber rose change.
only chance to get the million, believe Great that he took It with him from
table
and pear it a sheet of writing pa But thta ta a mistaken notion. Value
tion of gold in any form, says a Havas
through the physician who attended
Amsterdam and hoisted It upside down. per on which 1 had sprinkled dropa of constate not merely In pound for pound
me!”
Overcoming Difficulties.
dispatch from Berne.
y
ber. I called on him and gave him the
When Catesby returned to hl* desk Hta plan to distinguish It from the
I find nothing so singular In Ilfs ns
water and written "Tears” and below: money worth, but ought to Include full
. experience of her two husbands as glv-
Dutch
banner
met
w
lth
much
criticism,
be
found
Angela
drawing
down
her
thia, that everything opposing appears
F a iry a c x tm o th e r-I am wearing myself consideration of serviceability
and
en to me. H e accepted a theory I gave
Russia Preparing to Give Up Warsaw.
to lose Its substance the moment one veil. Through the filmy meshes her j however, as tbe flag in an inverted o«t trv tn a to unravel the sfceln. Give me
him and promised if possible to learn
i usefulness. Taking these into account.
London.— Tbe Morning Post’s Buda
actually grapples with IL— Hawthorne. check* were pink and her eyes flashed position denoted a ling of distress, and zomethlng eeeler.
facta that would confirm IL
a scientific writer points out that iron
danger*m*'y. All Angela a fighting In eventually the stripes had to be rear
pest correspondent reports that the
A reply to thta had been written on
H e found an aunt of the subject of
' ta the moat valuable metal because of
gradual evacuation of Warsaw has
None hot the III bred ridicule the pe stinct.« vere «reused. She must have ranged before RueslM adopted It aa a the "tear* bespattered paper:
the many different ways In which It
ssy story who told him that her stater
that
m
r
«
'»
et
the
price
of
her
pride,
national
emblem
Id
le
tears.
Bqqsre
tbe
circle
end
roe
been ordered by the Russian staff.
f
soon after her marriage had been c u lia ritie s Of Others.
I
ta
<rf
greet
service
to
man.
In
thta
re
at air*
■fiall have your wish.
spect
tt
to
e
f
the
greatest
rains,
and
frightened by a serpent. Six drouths
I t was evident that the young tody
A Strenuous Preacher.
Ha Stood.
F t r the time avarice possessed her
after thta episode the child, who be
. . . Tbs Witch’s Traok.
It bappmed in « crowded Market had no Intention of giving rge a sweet- ( the world to fortune e
Whitefield, one o f*th e founders of
came Mrs. Sevcnnce-IIammond. sms
At I ’eel. In the Isle of Man. It to re soul.
street ear one eviulng recently A gsb heart. Anyway I knew enough not to aaaount of tt available.
Methodism, who died in 1770. Waa a
horn. M j theory was that the moth lated that a witch said once the her * “And now. Ml*» Wluton,” smiled
Fighting the Be*,
lant isissenger shifted hta bundles, tackle an Insoluble problem. 1 chuck-1
strenuous preacher.
Hta ustta) pro
- e fs fright at thta critical period affect ring fleet would not return. Every ship Catesby ruefully, “le t us plan bow
1 M 0 mttea 0f great em
•rose. |ire;«*itd<-d to take off hta het and led. for I had her secret and she did j
gram was forty hour*’ solid »peaking
was lost, and she was rolled down tho wo ran agree to your uncle’s eccentric
ed the nature of the child.
sold I«» >ui e«iu»|ly If uot more bur oot have mine. Lighting a p h * In or- j bankmentg to preserve the Nether-
hili in a barrel set with spikes The
proposition. O f course you do not
each week and this to congregations
tbe incursion of the sea.
dened female standee, “ W«w't you take der to sharpen my Inventive faculties,
grass has never grewu since In tbe ber-
want to loae a fortune.”
mefifured In thonsnnd». but be often
I set to work to think out m y next
my
Meat,
uiadaiuK.
' "O f course not.” said Angela crisply.
B be-1 t t t a k t f m Btoke to one of. the pel’s track. ____ ___________ ’
spoke for sixty hour«.
“Oh. thank you *» nonh.’* cried the move. I did not spend much time on
Dom esday Book.
V .
" I shall not lose IL Mr. Catesby.”
A Bad'Old Drcam.
most tacitane and objectionable women
Thta was not all. for “after hta ta
lady, t l. lake the sent with plrcsnre, deciding opon one.
According
to
Stone
s
Chronicle,
the
H e stared at her.
-¿ O r meL H a -W h y do yoe aay that? “Oh. Algernon, 1 dreamed last night
but I <k*n't Want pro •« «tarn! up.”
The next evening Just before dark I title of “Doomsday Book” arose from bors, instead of taking rest, be was «Or
“You
mean
that
you
are
going
to
be
-W hy, at (he elob this afternoon 1 that we were parted forever.”
“(Jee. ittdf.“ in* grinned, hlnahlng. was parnlng the cottage where dwelt the circumstance that the original gaged in offering up prayers and in-
married?” he aaked.
to toil one of the smart
“I'd like to »<-<■<»mtuod.tte you lu both my fairy godmother. The little girl a#coment
"M y darling! Did tt frighten y o u r
to a place to West- tercesskms or In singing hymns, as hta
Augeiu nodded.
things nor Wlttta had said, when she
"Yea. yea I t seemed that I didn’t
way*, but what would the |<eople think who had aided ber in ber visits to my mtnKtwr cloisters called Domna Die, or manner was, In every house to
“Then
tbe
matter
Is
simplified.”
he
story and ascribed It to get any—aay alimony or insurance eb
| he waa invited.” - . • „
î
saM,brusquely. “Perhain you can sr- if you was to «It I*» »«y tap?** — Bun cabin was playing In the yfifid. 8$fit*
little Johnny
—
Age-HecnML
Frauelsrc
ArgoubBL
f
B
t
M
ta< myfiflt UT îUe f*ta> l oMXto
range to.bfi married Immediately so as
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