tor. though they are no countrymen of I comfort li e had asked her (the old
paused aud looked through at ftie out«
ours, still are they not our brothers? woman who cored tor him) to tell me
stretched form of the Jungle e a t »he
Perhape you’d ll|ie to take a needle
h# bad
to sleep knowing thaf
y y accustomed to Mason s presence
and help. Seems as if every stitch car I would have come.' ‘T h a t’s the way
there aud did not even stir. W ith
ries me hack to that aw ful war when my girl loves.’ he told her."
steady hands be soaked the big sponge
J was a girl. . Tears were mixed w ith
Briskly the old lady pushed back the
with chloroform—the bottle waa large,
the stitches then, honey. But"—her trunk.
’i i S
'
aud the sponge was dripping.
> ? 'V"' 'A* ' *"'■ <•
merry eyas twinkled mischievously— • “Dear, dear!” she admonished. “Too
Carefully he poked the stick between
“probably
you’d
rather
he
aewlng
on
mustn’t cry. honey. Remember, this
By DONALD CHAMBER!JN
the bamboo uprights and pressed it
the dainty things for your wedding all happened over fifty y e a n ago. And
close to the nose and mouth of the
cheat.” '
now yon come right downstairs. The
sleeping tigress. She stirred and. a»
H a ving business lu a amah town lu
Held a Charm That Helped a < Nell caught her breath painfully.
If enjoying the unaccustomed sensa
ladles w ill ba bare to saw and have a
“Auut MlllicenL" she cried, T shall
th»
west I found w it hto Its ttmlts a
tion. grasped the sponge In her huge 3
cup of tea.” ..
Girl to Find Her Heart.
By bike McLake
never sew upon them any morel" And
But even as.Groat-aunt Mlllleent went very pretty park bounded by substan
paws and muszled It sleepily. She did .
then she told her story.
forward to greet bar gueats Nall was at tial Improvements. In Its canter was a
not even stir when Mason squeezed
Quietly the old lady listened, pausing
c o p y r K « . L»1i* - . ^ * C l,‘all' ° * u
a heavy duck bag through the palings
bronze statue of a man in civilian’«
the telephone.
By AONES 0. BROGAN
to fasten a -thread.
"Main 1600!" s h e e r e d . “Mrs. Dare,
and
tossed
It
over
her
bead.
dress, to one band a roll of parchment.
B y C L A R IS S A M A C K IE
« »
’Reckon I know Just J»ow you feeL
to th a t you. and—and has Billie gone?" I fancied that tha original was either
H e hastened to the gate at the end
chHd,"khe said at la s t “for long ago I.
“He has," Billie’s mother responded
of the garden and performed the same
■i n n i u i i i m m i l l i h * w
T h . Wlee Fe.1.
.
The young on* ii stood regarding the too. dreamed my dream and had It coldly. *T have Just toft him a t the a distinguished public man or a phllan-
operation with the fiercer male beast.
“Blessings often come fllnguieed. ob
Maaon tilted back In hla chair and
shattered.” She laughed blithely. “One
throptst—quite likely the totter. Meet
Hla hgnds were trembling now, for girl, whoM gyes Hashed tyck defiance.
station.”
•> t - .
served the sage-
. stared across the China sea. whore a
doesn’t eopnect romance with a little
who appeared to occupy an
“O h r came back a pitiful walk ing a
be roust make haste. He could not “And so you will not go with me?” he
“Maybe ’’ commented the fool, bat
seventy-two-year ’old maid.’ But I had
passing steamer slid through the oily
average position In the town I accosted
And I did aojwnnt to see him!”
trouble« never bother putting on any waters. The little whitewashed hut hope that the anaesthetic would do asked uubo^aylugiy
“Go w ith >ou” —the words were flung
The voice of Billie’s mother changed him and asked him whom the statue
more than stupefy the beasts for
m akeu p.’’
- r
with It« tl^y veranda facing the sea awhile. There was not enough of It, a t him lu contempt—“into that god
perceptibly.
represented.
and Its bit o f garden looked like a nnd the conditions were not favorable. forsaken country? I, Eleanor Stevens,
“Then I ’ll tell you what to do, Elea
“T b eefs a etory connected with IL ”
An Epitaph.
dozen others of Its kind which formed
to
rough
K
In
an
engineer’s
cabin!
nor." she hastily added. “You may
“Just ten^minute«—give me ten min
Baneatta thia sod sleep« pretty Grace
he replied, “and If you w ill alt bealdo
W
hy,
B
lllfc
lo
a
n
the
muddy
little
Chinese
village.
call him up at the Junction. H e hgs
Bho's In the heavenly fold.
utes' start and I ’ll take my chance»
me on one of these benches I w ill tell
Albert Mason had lived there over
F or «he forget to paint her face
“But.” he gently reminded, “you
a tiresome w ait there o f an hour ’’
with sharks rather than stay hero an
Xnd caught an aw ful cold.
•bice the late uprising. He had b e
it to you.” ^.
Gracelessly
the
glri‘
banged
back
thé
must
have
known
It
had
to
come
some
other m in u te r he muttered savagely.
come separated from bbi tourist party
We seated ourselves, and he told me
receiver. W ildly she dashed out to the
The garden gate opened, and he step-' time, NelL T h at Is part of our en
Described.
.
and. to his own groat amaaemenL dis
the following story:
garage-
< •*. -,x
ped over the Inert form of the striped gineer»» Ufflt^Am l. knowing, why did
"What kind of a man Is BUI ?” aah-ed covered himself a prisoner on a pirat
all these college years,
“ I Kant,” she btoathlessly directed
you w ait f<
“This to Rogers’ park, and that to a
guardian..
ical looking craft which fled before the
with the promise of
the old fogy.
„_
tha chauffeur, “to ba token to the Junc
spurring
He
slipped
.and
alkl.down
the
muddy
o f Ben Rogers, who Imillsfl IL
“He 1« one of those lad« who talk «o wind at night and lay hidden In ob
tion!”
bonk until be reached the water’s edge. yourself?”
More than fifty y e a n ago Ben and Bam
much about what be la going to do that scure harbor« during the day.
girl instated stubbom-
Past the rooms of chattering woman
“I didn’t
The fu ll moon guided him to the group
be never gets time to do anything.”
One day the Junk had nosed Into the of fishing boats drawn up on the beach. ly
she crept as stealthily as Aunt MÜ1I- Rogers were hoys, somewhat ragged,
lneers do not always
“C ivil
playing marblCe end ban and such oth
•o ft mud o f the Chekiang shore, and
piled the grooch.
wild lands. It waa
cent of old- Nall’s awn suit case was
In a moment be had pushed off from choose to
er boys’ games right here where this
Mason had been conducted to the lit
the
city
which
I
had
lu
her
hand,
hut
over
her
light
spring
an
office
•here and waa poling hto frail craft
You Know HJm.
nuit was wrapped the old gray cloak. park to now located. I t was then a
RttUe. and a bom» in
tle h u t
_
. Into the track of moonlight that led to pictured fi
An egottat la M r. Pina.
“Here," «aid hla captor, a bland look- ,
Its crimson lined hood had slipped vacant tract and considered worthless.«
we might still have
the
suburbe.
freedom.
W ith self pride he la blinded.
hack from her wind blown hair as she Now the property bordering on it to
tag. cold eyed Celebtlal, “here you
our
friends,
with
the
theaters
near
to
The h at ha wear« 1« Ko. L
Off to the southeast there showed a
faced an astonished and Very despond worth millions.
•tay. thief of the world, until you give
T o t bo la narrow minded.
faint light—some northbound steamer. enjoy and rides in and out In father's
"8am Rogers, the younger brother,
ent young man at the Junction.
cay. 1 want to live a rtvtltaed life!"
up the dragon.”
“D ra g o n r echoed Maaon, hearing for So fearful waa he that he might miss she finished pannlonately.
“ Nell!” he cried unbelievingly, then was picked out for a failure to life b»
' Wolooma!
the precloua opportunity and so ab
rapturously, “Nell!” For. regardleaaof cause he couldn’t hold on to hla money.
The man’s good natnrad mouth
Dear Luke— Dr. Dye. a physician; D r. the first time the charge against him. sorbed was be in the management of
“Do
you
believe
that
I
’ve
kidnaped
the wide eyed station agent the glrl’e H e was what was called chicken heart
closed In Arm. unwonted lines.
Root, a dentist, and A It» U t»
b®8
the strange boat that Mason failed to
arms
went about her Joker’s neck, her ed. and whenever be saw any one to
“I
t
waa
the
life
you
chose,
then.
Nell,
part
of
yonr
menagerie7"
I
tike
to
Join
the
would
a flab atoro.
notice the ominous silence that brood
The
official
shrugged
hl«
«boulder«,
rumpled
head pressed close against hto trouble for wont of money down went
and
uot-m
ysetf.
Well,
this
to
my
Springfield (O.) delegation In the
hla build toto hto pockeL Beu, on the
and hla companion pulled his sleeve, ed over the waters; the shuddering, great opportunity. For thia commis
breast
Names la Names d u b —N. E. D.
■peaking in Chinese, which of course licking sound of the oily wave«.
•Oh, Billie.” «he cried confusingly; contrary, . kos , marked for a rich man.
sion l have studied and planned. Now
Suddenly the moon was blotted out I intend to accep t-It" H e paused in
“I ’m so' glad you’re not dead, and, He kicked out for hliuself nnd rolled
Mason did not uflderstand:
__
Hefcl
by a sw ift onrush of Inky clouds and an effort to control hla voice. “And I
“
Let
the
foreign
devil
stay
here
Billie dear. I ll go with you-aay place op m-inev In a email way from tha time
Oh, place no trust in Oswald Blee
he w:i« tcu ycaro old.
thought yon would be ao glad, N e ll-
awhile enjoying hla own company» the hot breath of the wind.
- t o a desert or a jungle.
Or you w ill sure regret Iti
Surely death stared him In the face.
H e alw ays says. “ Leave th a t to m . “
“ Ben Roger« stayed right here In
why. I hurried over te tell you.”
Soon he will disgorge.”
“Nell." eagerly answered that amaz
It was riding now ou the wings of the
And then be w ill forget it.
this town and accumulated money z
,
“He may escape.” said the other eau
His passing bitterness was over
ed young man: “do you really s
approaching typhoon.
slowly till tho man who owned the land
whelmed by tender longing. “Dear.”
u r
-
- • - *•' -
/
ddusly.
And all the while that red light bob cried the man. “won’t you come? The
W hy the Editor L eft Town.
on Wldeh we ure sitting died, and It
“H e will n ot" said the villainous
Softly shining, tier eyes met hto. T
K. A. Lewis figured In ■ runaway looking captain. “Us cannot go be bed and disappeared, and now the ‘hope cheat’ moat be ready, you’re
u iv u iiu j,w a s bold out fur s song. Ben bought
think.” Neil aaeured uiiu
him ■
solemnly,
bwe Tuesday p. m. What the animal yond the confines of hla own garden. steamer «bowed a blessed green light.
been i>acklng it ao long. We could take
“that 1 meant It all the time, but I | It nnd conceived the Me« of making a
became frightened at 1« not known.— The place la guarded night and day."
He could see them altern ately-po rt
It on with us tomorrow."
hadn't quite fwuqd my heart. I_found park of It- He secured option» an all
Georgetown (I1L) News.
So Maaon stood on the veranda of and starboard. She had changed her
The girl turned away w ith an Impa
It yesterday—oh. Billie, you dear—in a the Ixjrderlug proi»erty. then gave hl»
orlfltual imn-hase to the town on con
the hut and watched the Junk go tee course and was coming before the tient gesture. "‘My hope cheat” «he
trunk lu Aont Mlllleent*« attic."
Thanxl
dition they would mnke a park of IL
tering away to the dim north whence wind, straight toward the tiny sampan mocked, “yes. I’ve been preparing It
Aud
u
little
old
lady
sitting
beneath
Wfcen you feel bad. why Luke M eLuke’*
tipping up and down on the swell.
“Snm R op’ra when about twenty-five
long. 'French lingerie.’ and sntln heel
her
evening
lamp
reread
n
telegraphic
they
had
come.
w
“m
itm
,"
BiOBBLT
ju
r
a
w
B
u
ro
twb
to
p
»
o
* - The greatest doctor. I w ill aay.
One minute after Maaon had been ed shoes—w hut shall I do with them In
year« old loft the town, regretted by
‘DO TOO KKÀLL.Y MBÀM r r r
'
He
never
forgot
that
first
e
v
«
|U
f
message;
H e maMas you roar
when, after he had eaten flah and rice rescued by the great ocean liner tbs your swamp?'' * *
TUI you are sore
“1 have married my ‘soldier of for every lmpecunlou*i person lu It. Tho
more successful citizen« »aid. “ A good
And keeps you happy every day.
and drunk tea. he had stepped on the typho<A etruck with shrieking force
Billie Dare’s face grew white. There my love story, dear, nnd my ’hope tu n e .” It said
"W ill write later
Impulsively she arose
I f laughing’ s good fo r health, you sea.
Perhaps the tidal wave that follow
rMdance." A t the end of a doaen
was au odd glint In hto clear, boyish chest* too."
veranda.
.
T h a t Luka s the really great M. D.
“ Maybe you’d like to m * ItT ’ she sug Lovingly. Nell." 1
year* Kain came back and «urpriaed
ed toeeed the sampan back on Its ns
He
walked
down
the
path
to
the
eyes
“You
nnderataud.
Nell."
he
said
—B. R. O., BvalnSaa M a n s Club.
“I t ’« a ( hanging world." smiled
end of the garden and looked at tfifi tlve shore; perhaps the hungry wave slowly, “that refusal to accept condi gented. “I t ’s a fine day to go up In the Great-aunt MlllicenL “but I reckon every oue by bringing a fortune with
attic.”
him. When asked bow be got It ho
leaped
the
embankment
and
tore
away
moon. W hy not eecape tonight—or
tions now is refusal for ull future. 1
T hanxl »
there's always Just ou»-klnd of love.”
Through the dormer windows as she
Mason’s hut and the snarling guard
said It was by pure luck. This was
must
be
w
ait
until
hla
guard»
relaxed
ihlgbt
deceive
you
by
occupying
for
the
Dear Luke— Any time th« heat w<*-
all they could get out of him, but I
Ians.
H e never knew.
He never present the city -office, but the other flung them wide came the mingled
riea you Just think of M b« Icle Luke, their vlllgance and then make the ef
Piling It On.
learned the truth long after hto death.
cared.
who Uvea at Caldwell, O.—Cambridge | fort?
thtngs. the big things, would only come fragrance of spring flowers. Then
He had be cm op n* hunting expedition
He had loanel a man a hundred dol
They pot him In a cabin and gave later. Railroads mast run through the down upon her knees she drew forth*
“ Now or never,” he muttered and
Reader.
for several dcys lb the backwoods,
lar« to save « piece of property he
pretoed against the gate that opened him What be asked fo r-b o t water and wilderness, tunnels beneath the lnnd. the little old trunk.
‘More like a leather valtoe." Aont roughing It rather severely, and on
owned, the pro;* rty afterward be
soap
clean garments—and be cared
gpon the muddy Lank above th e rest
I t Is in me to construct and build. N ell
Huhl ‘
Mlllleent explained. “But you see this hiking a seat tR fi rallvyay carriage re
came very—valual|le. and when the
not
for
fifty
typhoons.
He
waa
back
lorn
waves.
and
I
must
do
IL"
H e e ou ldu t twat a rug—not koi
turning hoiuewsrd he looked as be owuor died, having no one else to
The gate resisted hie effort»—It was among civilized people. Hs was free
W o rk was hoyond his powers;
The girl’s flaming cheeks paled to the was my second ‘hope chest.’ "
grimed
and weatherbeaten a trapper
‘W
hy.”
questioned
Nell,
“did
you
leave It to, he toft It to Sam Rogers,
H is back was vary weak, you w
as If some great weight held It closed.
from that mysterious ImprtoonmenL
whiteness of his own. ‘T hen I will
as ever brought bis skins Into a settle i “Sam on hto return resumed hto giv
But he’d play golf fo r hours.
•
^e
•
•
•
•
•
Then caipe a bloodcurdling growl,
never go with you,” she said and have two?”
The old lady smiled as she caressed ment.
ing to ueedy persona, only be now gave
and there stepped Into the moonlit
A year later he had almost forgotten placed her ring In his hand.
He happened to find a seat next to < ’ |10 where formerly he had given 10
the worn top.
"That, dearie.” she
The Cheerful Pedeetrlaiu
•pace before the stockade a huge IL He waa hack In New Hampshire,
-For a moment he stood looking down
said, “to my story. I was a Stevens, yonng lady—evidently belonging to cents. Hla brother. Ben. had been sav
Ante accident« multiply, especially on •trlped form with eyeball« like flame
upon the sparkling thing, then fdleutly
going dally to hla business In Concord
you know—daughter of the county Boston—who. after taking stock o f him
Sunday. When the machines were first and a breath like pestilence.
ing hla c:oney aud had got enough to
His family welcomed him home a« oue
Introduced they seemed likely to kill
_
_ _ _ fled to
w the
__ _____
Judge. This In those days meant a for a few minutes, remarked:
gether to begin te think about making
Mason
other _____
gate, and from the grave, and bla children play
“ Don’t you find an utterly passionful an tovootment on a larger scale. It waa
good deal. I t meant rich brocades for
a ll the pedestrian«, but now the
I
tn
the flaming eyes and the
ed with the straw toys be had bought
the ‘bobe chest’ of a Judge's daughter, sympathy w ith nature's most Incarnate
soon after Sam*« return that the orig
era are killing themselves much faster I
«m»n
from the street vender.
than they are killing ua. I f the s ta ll» I
i^ r d e d him by day; a man eat
plumed hats and needlework of the aspirations among the sky topping
inal owner of thia property died. Ben
Albert Mason had other troubles
finest. So the great chest was Joyous mountains and the dim stoles of the
not ha\ lng enough mouey to carry ouf
Oca continue we ehaU b - a ^ d l n 5^e log tlg e ra n d hto mate kept watch by
now.
Business
waa
bad,
a
ad
bank
ly packed to await Ita .time. My lover horizon touching forests, my good
ultimately.—Fredonia (N. Y.) Oso- 1
hla enterprise called on hla brother
nlgbL
ruptcy stared him In the face. Unfor
was a man to be proud of, though he mnnT’
to go In with him. Karn »aid that be
T^ka g madman he flew Into the tunate Investments had depleted hto
did come from u northern family.
“Oh. yes." replied the apparent back
didn’t want to make any more money
bouse and locked the doors.
•suets.
The
years
he
had
wasted
in
When we cantered out upon our woodsman, “and 1 am also frequently
An Immortal.
than lie had already, but h i would
X year and a day passed, and the
ponies ln the morning to view our own drawn Into an exaltation of rapt soul-
n — r Lake—Every
Urne I read
of captain of the Junk came and naked the hqt on the China sea had under
loan Ben all he wanted.
. ~
w « one
7 7 —r
mined his prosperity.
your Nam e. Is Nemos I think ■ o fjto e r |
up the dragon.
house which was building life Itself fulness and liestlflc Incandescent In
“ I wns then studying law with Beil
Ha
went
home
and
talked
It
over
seemed very happy and complete. Near finity of abstract contiguity when my
<44 Quintas Qulutlllkm Quigley of this And Maaon. raving with anger, bitterly
Roger»’ attorney aud know whereof
to my old home the new house was to horse stumbles.”
city, who waa for many years a state refused, although he kp«w not what with hto wife, a helpmate Indeed.
r
I ’m going to tell you. 8am paid no
They smiled at the children playtng
be aud near to those of my friends.”
senator from this district— Paducah, the man m eant And the captain smil
“Indeed T said the yonng tody, much
attention to the securities hla broth«-
on the floor. The youngest brought a
Great-aunt Mlllleent gazed unseeing surprtned “I had no Idea that the low-
gave him nnd one day woke up to
ed and went away.
broken toy to his father. It waa one
over the top of the tallest pine. Her er classes felt like th a t”_Cleveland
learn that lie had been swindled out
And now two years and two days of the straw animals Mason bad
voice fell sadly. ‘T h e n .’’ she said, Leader.
Names la Ni
of all he possessed. - H e never told
had paattrt and the Junk bad not made
came the war. He had to go bock to
brought home from China.
Pkik Green Uvea at Greenville. Ky
any one how he lost hla fortune and
her second visit to the prisoner.
T h e frog and the cat and the bird
the north to fight w ith * ls countrymen,
enjoined secrecy on hla brother’s at
Quite Unaxpactad.
Hla position waa a singular one. He are quite well.” said the baby earnest
while I was left to g rie v e -le ft with
Things to Worry About.
When he bought <toar little Bobby
torney«. By thia time he waa too old
was innocent of having broken any
the unused treasures of my ‘hope the electric flashlight he had been beg
to make another fortune and lived a
Thebe , are 111 distinct species of law of the country—o f having commit ly, “but my dwagon feels very sick!”
••The
dragon.
ehT’
repeated
Maaon.
chest’ and ‘hope’ so for away." Eager ging for ao long” says a south side
precarious life till he finally died from
snakes In the United States.
ted any crime.. In hto baggage there examining the hollow Interior of the
ly she leaned forward. “Oh." cried mother, “we never anticipated that the
want of proper sustenance and medi
waa not a «Ingle thing that he had not curly tailed, red fanged toy. ”1 don’t
Aunt’ Mlllleent. " If 1 could but have first time we had company be would
cal attendance. A number of persona
Our Daily Special.
brought from home, except a few toys, wonder. Molly, look nt that!”
gone with him. there to suffer at his
whom he hud befriended bought a lot
bold It up to the «Best’s ear and say;
A soft m ark la a bard loner.
grotesque strew anltaala, gayly color
side! And after the terrible time of
He'withdrew his Angers and dangled
Oh. I Just want to see If yonr ear to ln'tho cemetery nnd buried him there.
ed. which he had purchased from an before hla wife’s amazed eyes a golden
suspense came a letter. He was woqnd-
“Ben Roger« l>ecnme the moat Influ
clean!” ’—Kansas City Star.
“ P ro I .n g ¡ng” the R abb it.
insistent street vender. The very next chain, from which bung a magnificent
ed. lying clone lu a miserable hut
ential man In the town, and when any
A t chafing dlah suppers It Is almost day he had been trapped w ith some
where
they
had
carried
him.
his
only
girdle dabp of Jade set with diamonds
Important town matter was to be de
Impossible to serve a second portion of hand luggage and spirited away from
H i Bwsineaa.
help an old woman who had given h m
and rubles, the Insignia of some Chi
elded he wiw called upon for, bis opin
the
•Who’s that pTirtly. m a n -w ith
Welsh rarebit because It gets tough as ShanghaL
shelter. But there was no complaint
nese m ilitary official
And carved on
ion. He hutlt a church on a worthless
“I t ’s a case of mistaken identity," he the face of the Jade waa the deep cot
in his letter. He was grateful for the prominent stomach?”
aoon gs It cools. I f « beaten egg Is
tract of lnnd lie owned and sold off th«,
told
himself
over
and
over
again
as
he
P
a
t
am
Colonel
Ro-and-ao.
ash,”
an
roof above his head, ‘though It was n
stirred Into what remains and It la
figure of a drngou Inclosed in a seal
rest of the tract for another fortune.
leaking roof,’ be wrote Jokingly, ‘though swered the courtly colored gentleman, He established other Institutions, con
covered closely and reheated a moment restlessly tramped the garden paths,
“The dragon!” be muttered dazedly.
the wind whistled through the rifled addressed-
over a small Are, using the hot water envying the freedom of the bird«
“You were carrying It nil the time,"
triving to make money out of all of
rafters.’ When he might be removed
“And What to hto bualnesar
pan. it will be found quite sa good aa swinging In space and the fishermen his wife added. “I t must have been
them.
to a plsoe where the roads were pass
“Jest being a colonel, aah.” —Lonl»
•
when first made.—f i t Louis Post-Dis off shore.
within the toy when you purchased I t
“ When he died be toft money for s
able,
where
travel
was
not
so
hopeless
Back
home
there.
In
New
Hamp
vllle
Courier-Journal.
Wbflt a mystery It all toT
patch.
»
suitable monument, desiring that he
shire, his w ife and children were
ly
dangerous,
be
would
send
that
1
“Some oue has palmed off Incriminat
should be buried In the park that-bore
L u k a M c L u k a flays«
Steps te the Pre«4d«ney.
mourning him as dead. I t waa an ago- ing evidence upon roe.” laughed Ms- “ I W B A T P K D M W L F n t T B » , " S U » BATO. might go to him.”
i w * " * » who has three or four
hto name and which It had given him
“ O & K BPIKG o p r W HZM A W i B LK TT
“Pa,"
said
llttto
George,
*Tve
chop
A bright tint of color showed In the
ntslng thought
sou. “I ’ll write to Wayne In Shanghai
_______skirts tells her husband that
so much pleasure to have provided for
ped
down
your
favorite
cherry
tree.”
He went to his worn traveling bags and see If there Is any chance of find
wrinkled
¿heeks.
Aunt
Mlllleent'«
left the room. Through the curtains the
ah« hasn't one that la fit to wear on the
the enjoyment of the people of hto na
listlessly turned over the con- Ing the owner. I f there Isn't—well. girl watched him go. then a q ukk con laugh after fifty years rang tenderly
‘T h a t’s a good start toward the pre»
•Meet she to often telling the truth
tive to w n .' Hto executors had been in
ta. There waa little clothing le ft
triumphant.
“As
though
d
lfltu
ltles
tdency,
aon,”
responded
wise
M
r
Mason A Co. will continue to do busl
fident smile sprang to her drooping lips.
structed by him before hto death to
without knowing i t
That which he wore waa In tatters.
He will come back,” said Nell. BlUle could have held me bach!" she cried Washington. "Now split It Into rail«." provide that statue, for which and Its
The nearest some men ever come to There were pictures of his family, his ness. Hurra h£’
Why. I was almost glad at the —Pittsburgh PosL
Two
months
afterward
cams hud always "come back.” Hto had been
getting their pictures In the papers to
pedestal 160000 had been provided In
case of medicines fo r an emergency, Wayne’« letter, from which 1 quote:
the < oncesslou after each lovers’ quar thought of giving him service! That
when a cross (X ) to shown on the half the straw toys—that was all.
the w ill.” "
if
H is
has
very
ulght
I
decided
to
be
on
my
way
“Impossible to trace. Chlau
rel. W ith penitent grace, be would as
THE HATiOrS CAPITOL
tone to Indicate where the innocent by
When the narrator had finished hto
If unclaimed, were «till In turned over, you know. Mandarins sume her chosen routine of office and Thè money saved from my unfinished
tranka»
stander stood when It happened.
story I expreaaed a desire to visit the
have suicided, been sssssslnated and "home. B ut for the first time in his trousseau Would pay the Journey, and
Ohoenetona «* Our BeauMfel
I t a man’s thermometer registers 106 Shanghai.
grave » f Samuel Rogers. B e told me
The medicines were getting low. He others cashiered. Yon better
my
fam
ily
should
not
know
la
time
to
R generous, unselfish M s Billie disap
Ruildtof Ih Waahlogten.
on a hot day and all the rest o f the had been obliged to take most of the
that the cemetery was not half a mile
pointed.
A
.
weeks
passed
with
no
forbid. A uote left behind could tell
as a reward for y«ur time of imprison
Our natkmal capltol at Washington
thermometers In town regtoter 96 he
away, - «te?* I determined to take a
quinine pills during hto frequent ah
them
where
I
bad
gone,
so
to
tho
attic
word
or
visit
froflg
him.
the
disappoint
to a beautiful and Impressive butMing
knows that ha has the only accurate tacks of chills and fever. There waa a ujent."
stroll to that direction. H e also told
I
ran.
tumbling
excitedly
the
heavy
“But
1
wouldn’t
go
through
the
expe
ment turned to alarm, and when one
It fronts east and «tends on » plateau
therm nmslar In town.
me where to find the grave ln among
little brandy left—he was saving that
allks
from
their
chest
•
This
smaller
rience again for double the price.” said evening Nell reud4n the paper a notice
can't bear to see her poor
elghty-elght feet shove the level of the the lees desirable lots, t thnnked him
for some groat emergency—and two
box
must
suffice
for
my
scant
needs-
Maaon
grimly
of
his
departure
upon
the
following
day
Potomac. The entire length of the
alg mother stoving over a washtnb on
tor hto story and passed on.
\
unopened bottles of chloroform. These
for an extended time abroad, she went the stout boots for rough roads, this building from north to south Is 761 feet
M onday ho daughter gets up early on
When I reached the cemetery I ask
were tightly seeled with wax. and the
Liever
rtenpock«t
old poplin dress, the bandages of linen 4 tnehea, -and Its greatest dimension
white lipped to her mother.
Monday and «ray« downtown the rest
ed a well to do looking person-1 »nw
contents appeared to be Inviolate He
“Just to 11 lustreie how clever ptek-
“I am tired." «aid Nell- “1 aw »otog -th e y must not be forgotten—many
from east to west to 350 fe e t The area
ei the day.
there If be could direct me to the
had brought It to use when adding to pockota are." said a police offlclnl. "let to visit Aunt Mlllleent In the country.* them and carefully rolled.
covered by the building 'ifii 163,112
I f you are denying your w ire a lot
o f RamueLRogers. He looked at
his collection of lepldoptera. but hla
Here they are, honey-«yellow with square feeL
So that evening Eleanor 8tevens ar
ai ptoe— T * so you can toy up some eases and hto butterfly nets and hto me tell yon o f an incident which oc
me doubtfully, then said:
I
curred one night while I was behind rived at the home e f her aged rela age.” From the bottom of the chest
The' dome of the original central
t»iiny for a rainy day, always try to re-
“I reckon you’re looking for the mon- <
pins and other paraphernalia were la
the
desk.
A
young
fellow
came
In
Aunt
Mlllleent
lifted
with
almost
rev*
of
wood,
cov
tive. n saddened- and contrite young ---------------------- -
member that It to not going to rain ev-
M riidlnr w a s --------------------- --- --
the trunks.
__ '
sad complained that his pocket had woman. She nlinoet hated herself for erent touch a gray woolen cloak witn |
copper. This waa replaced in ament of Benjamin Rogers, tbe’ phllon-:
Cbloroforoi a willing « e rran t hs (wen picked while riding on s sayfsce her selfishness and was humiliated by a scarlet lined hood. •
* A woman w ill get mad If yon 1»
i iggoSby the present structure of cast Ihroplst and founder of Rogers |»ark.
It’s In the- center of the town."
|
mused, bis dark thoughts running on. car. H e hud a wallet In hto IQ m M» the sense that «he had proved herself
“I wrapped myself In this," she said.
u W1J competed In 1806. The
■tot that she to contrary. But she wore
eliminating himself from his horrid ex pocket In which waa some money Io Incapable of meeting « <^sta ln
I
passed
on
nnd
presently
at
a
little
»
“creeping out when all slept Into k ( entire weight of Iron zuaed la 8.90fi,200
’ low cut waists all winter, and this sum
The dome la crowned by a distance «nw n gonve covered w ltb j
Mils. The car waa crowded, he couldn't life that perbnpe would mean future night of storm. There were no te l»
mer she to going to wear waists that istence.
~ And then, like a lightning flash to> get a oeot nnd occasionally toe reached happiness or the reverse. Besides, she phones In those days to Inquire wli«n
statue of Freedom, which to 10 ftoweis. Approaching It. I read ou a *
button op all the way and fasten at the
reeling unsuspected avenue« of escape,
fl inehe, high and weighs 14.08» cheap licrdrt’»j:e the name “Samuel
up and held ou to s strap. On one <»f loved B illie Dare, and the thought that a train mlgh't leave er to caH for a i
Rqgers, the friend of the poor."
these occasion« a plck|*wkrt extracted B|,p mt^ht never see hlm «gain filled taxi, «o I must needs walk to the pounds.':
A Her to a man who arrives home came the Idea.
The remainder of the day he waa
the wallet from hto Inside |»ocket. took her w ith unutterable despair. Ths crossroads, there to board the train
The height of the dome abeye the
about 2:80 a. m. and begins to explain
■
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nervously excited
He took the pto
the money out. altpiwd n folded news thought c id ip that she should go to when it should com».- Down th» g a r base line of the east frofit to 287 feet
to hto wife how It happened.
______ The ______
A M B IT IO N .
height from the top of
A married woman likes to feed tramps tures of hto fam ily, the brandy bottle paper Into the wallet nnd put the wal. him, but she remembered that be bad den walk I moved stealthily, the fih.to * Inches.
halnstrade of the building to 217
I t to a relief to have a ««an and the quinine, ttouatraw toys and let Imck. In the victim's |>ocket. Can let ■ week go by without «ending chest clasped In my arms. Near th» I
It has been w dl «a?d. “It is bet
The greatest diameter
word to her. nnd indeed If he had si great gates I fell back, a shuddering. ‘ f<H>t „
■ meal and not complain about the bis one clean shirt aud made a pack you bent I hat T - N e w York gun.
ter to have a high standard and
age. which be belted around hla cheat
rred v left fionse *be knew not where to A lantern was flashed In m i face. Bat at the base to 136 feet 6 Inches. The
Rather Offended.
find him. Thus she reproached her R was only old Jim. the negro mea- rotunda la 97 feet 6 Inches In diameter
Always try to remember that when under hto clothing. He cooked and
drive to reach it than to have a
and Its height from the floor to the top
“I like acting with spirit to IL" an Id self and wept in fu ille despair.
you aay nice things shoot people you ate an enormous quantity of rice and
standard co low -that our ambitions
.
w ill never he forced to eat your words. fish; then he threw himself Into hto the great star, “but that girl has too
From the days of her childhood Great-
“ ‘For you. mtosle.’ be «aid. and of the canopy Is 180 feet 8 toebf».
iMfirer look up ” Ambition in itself
The
senate
chamber
to
113
feet
3
Meat of ua are run dawn because we bammeck aud slept heavily until 10
annt Milllccot had t*« n to lbe
• thrust a slip of paper toto my hand.
-----
.
much spirit to suit m a"
a n always rilmMng hills that are not
panacea Tor nil Ute- N<* trouble, how And there beneath hla awaylng Ian- laches to length by 83 feet 8 Inches in
is no sin. Il is only when we sub
“IIo w no?”
ever darkly bxmdng. could live long In tern mv cloak flapping In the breeze. I width and 36 feet In height The gal-
H e shook himself into wskefulnrea.
ordinale everything else to an am
w ill ,« o m m o d .t« WK» p e r » »
“ lu the third act eh» to supposed to the snnahlue of the old tody « presence. r ^ d the m « « t . M y lover « « • dM d!
Father win go to sleep resolving to ■long a Jug of cold tea from hto shoul
bito» which does not Took tm”
resist
uiy
kissing
her.
niul
the
vim
she
Poor
child!”
murmured
A
unt
Mi
11
1
-
,
The
representative«’
baU
to
139
feet
to
“Dearie." greeted Annt MllHceut. her
• M f « a t the aaa e f ama words. And der and went Into the garden.
white < urto bobbing above her dark, cent softly T o o r youtfg broken thing! length by 98 feet In width find SO feet
ha wakea up la the morning be
In one hand tie carried a large bath puts Into it to fa r from flattering to my
that it may
sponge tied to a strong stick. In the personal prideT—Louisville Courier- undlmmed eyes. “I am so glad you T U t w m I.
ever that mother ha
Back to the bouae I
“
T
be carried • buttle of
bflg a f fnea powder an
j M t o j .W e u r e e e w t o f if o r t b e t o W J s ^ l^ «otaébow, But fctfT
«I
Jouruat.
The Dragon H
Bits of Byplay
Seal
I Its Mystery and
Solution.
DIVERGENT
PATHS
:: The Old Hope
■ ' Chest
Its « >
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