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LOAFING ON A SUMMER DAY. th* lazy boy sprawled on his back and squinted at the sky. Wishing he were the lung-winged bird that slant w I m sailed on high; For day was lapsing swiftly, halt way from dawn to noon, And the breeze it sang, “O, lazy boy, what makes you tired so soon?” But the lazy boy was silent, and he slowly chewed a straw, Vaguely mindful of the thrush that whis tled in the haw, And half aware of the bleating sheep and of the browsing kine Far scattered over slumbering hills to the horizon line. Happy, happy was the boy a-dreatning sweet and long, Fanned by the breeze that tossed the haw and raffed the thrush's song; For ths whole glad day he had to loaf, he and himself together, (While all the mouths of nature blew the flutes of fairy weather. fTbs year’s groat treadmill round was done, its drudgery ended well. And now the sunny holiday had caught him in its spell, fio that he longed, a lazy lout, up-squint- lug at the sky, And wished he was the long-winged bird that slantwise sailed on high. It’s good to work and good to win the wages of the strong; Sweet is the limn of labor's hire, and sweet the workman's song; But once a year a hid must loaf, and dream, and chew a straw, And wish he were a falcon, free, or a catbird in the haw! »-Independent. [ • [ Cupid with a Jimmy J HEN John Trumbull fell In love with vivacious and sprightly Gertrude Moore no one would ever have suspected that lie [was a scholar, a thinker and a settled man of 40. His general actions were those of a youth of 18 undergoing Ills first case of love. The upshot of it "was that when these two became en gaged Miss Moore pulled Mr. Trumbull around by his philosophical nose and xuade him dance to her fiddling as suit- ad her capricious and changing moods. Matrimony found the same condition of affairs. Every domestic question ■was settled by Mrs. Trumbull, no mat ter whether It was the choice of an apartment or the selection of a new coffee grinder. Mr. Trumbull, being still In a state of blinding affection and admiration for the little girl of 20 whom he had wooed and won. let her have her way, with the result that he was being henpecked to the queen's taste. But ns the years went by, as the years have a way of doing, Mr. Trum bull gradually awakened to tlie one sided state of affairs. Mrs. Trumbull, lielng selfish and possessing a thistle down Intellect, fancied that it would not do to let Mr. Trumbull know that she was at all fond of him. Some old lady had told her once that when a man knows a woman loves him his af fection becomes chilled like whipped cream In an Ice chest. So she stuck up her nose—It stuck up of Its own ac cord by the way and went her usual pace of bullyragging and worrying him. She would do this, she would do that what John thoaglit didn't mat ter. But. ns said before, a change finally came over John's heart. He still con sidered that dainty wife of Ills quite the smartest, cleverest woman In the world, but, strange to say, he was be coming aware of her peculiar powers of dictating and laying down the law. John was quiet and Inoffensive, and Just the kind of a mau that offers •plendid opportunities for the woman with a will of her own. For a long time Mrs. John did not observe that lier husband's substantial admiration was growing thin almost to a shadow. But when she did realize It, the blow was something fearful. It had been her opinion that even though she were to sell her best clothes to the rag man or burn the house up or turn his hair white with her everlasting criticisms John would ever remain the same faithful. adoring, enduring. One morning Joliu didn't kiss his wife when he went downtown to busi ness. She moped and wept and scold ed the baby and the kitchen maid, and then decided she didn't care. From that time on things went from bad to worse and from worse to even worse than that. Once In a great while when John's old time vlslou of love for his wife came up he would take her In his arms and tell her that she was the prettiest thing In the world. Follow lug her old-time tactice, Mrs. John would In turn comment on his bad choice of a necktie or let loose the pleasaut Information that his collar was soiled on the edge. John's heart would sink and he'd tramp off to work feeling like an orphan asylum iu a derby hat and creased trousers. As It was not John's nature to war against anyone, he simply kept himself out of Mrs. John's way. Sunday after noons he went out for a walk. Some times he went over to the North Side to see an old college chum of Ills. These trips were Ids only dissipations. One Sunday afternoon, when he and his old friend were discussing some : particular exciting college scrlmm.ige that had taken place llfteeu years l*a< k the telephone bell rang, and a woman's voice begged to apeak to Mr. Trumbull. Ha went to the 'phone. ••Is that you, Gertrude?" "Yea, John. And won't you coma gome, please 1 let Sadie take baby »ver to your mother's and everybody In the building Is out and I'm having i the fidgets. I don't know what I'm I •cared about, but I m Just nervous." , “All right dear," said John, and women who have no Interest there ex brought to her a complete copy of all NO MORE THE GRAND MANNER. home he went, not stopping loug cept to feed their minds upon the stor of the verses, which he had remember ______ enough to finish up the recollections of i ies that fall from the witness stand. ed from hearing her.—Womau’s Home There Are No Longer Gentlemen of Dignity and Breeding. the college tight. Perhaps so, and perhaps not, many of Companion. The “grand manner” has gone from At home he found his wife sitting CURIOUS CROWDS FLOCK TO them belong to the ranks of the legally CHICAGO COURTROOMS. the world and the world seems little curled up on a little settee looking separated, but. if their facial expres GREW HIS UMBRELLA STOCK. very much as she had looked when put out at its departure. Time was sion, either in repose or in expectancy, Influite Pain» of u St. Louisan Be when ft was a token at once of breed five years before he had begged and All Horta of Types Ranged In Exhibi indicates anything, It says they do be stowed Upon a Maple Sapling. entreated and kissed her Into saying ing and education. Scholarship un long there, and even the casual student tion Busybodies Prominent Among A guest of one of the principal hotels adorned with It was held up to naker “Yes.” She was twisting her hand of human nature would be constrained Visitors—Stern and Gentle Se*:es Huve kerchief Into little wads and ropes, to congratulate their late matrimonial yesterday exhibited a curious and •com as naked pedantry; manners with Their Own Funciesand Foibles. and he knew by that that she was dis partners on their escape from such beautiful umbrella handle to a party no touch of the grand air could not of admiring friends. It was a crook cf pass muster in [»elite circles; literature traded about something. barbarians. “I know you think I’m a silly to feel When Moses was building up a sys Every Saturday morning the crowds silver maple wood, bearlug the natural saw In it the sum and substance of its this way when it's not even twilight tem of laws for the government of his at the court house elevators waiting bark, aud its ornament consisted of being. It did duty for a whole lexicon yet. But I know positively that some people he decided that it should be law to be carried up to the several court three heavy gold bands, or rings, en of qualities, but Its outward aspect body tried the kitchen windows while ful for a man to write his wife a bill rooms remind one that It is domestic circling the shaft at equal distances. was unmistakable, depending upon a I was lying down, and 1 Just couldn't of divorce and send her out of ills scandal day, and if anything else Is What made it remarkable was the very simple theory of society aud hu get over it. I always was afraid of house if she proved to be disappointing, wanted to convince one of that fact, a self-»vldent fact that the bands had man life. If men are to wear honors burglars and ghosts.” And then she but he made no provisions for the wife glance at the excited faces will fur been put on when the branch from and successes lightly, the background had a nervous chill. to shut the door against the husband. ! nish evidence. It is pulling and haul which the handle was made was part of ease will come Into prominence, and John said nothing. He took out a But customs as well as laws have un- 1 ing to secure the most available seats, of a living tree, and much smaller in they will study to amuse. And so came copy of Silencer and lighted a cigar. dergone a radical change since Moses’ and when they are secured these faces diameter. The wood had grown that social finesse wlrich our great After a time the baby was brought time. The rule in these degenreate days say. "Now, ring up the curtain.” through and around the confining grandmothers adored, those bowings home and put to bed. Mrs. Trumbull Is to recognize the fact that woman has Meanwhile and during the lulls a metal and bulged out at either side, and smirking» which their grandchil had recovered from her nervousness reached about as great a distance from woman may be seen plying her knit producing an odd and striking effect. dren scoffed at, and the whole pleasing and was peeking out from behind a the Jungle as man has, and another ting needles, and a man here and there “It took me four years to get the ma •cience of the beau monde. window shade listening to a conversa fact Is made clear that four women scanning faces, as If trying to make a terial ready for this umbrella handle,” The tear of sensibility may be drop tion that was going on In the court. undertake to send tlielr husbands out ( selection for a wife—his third of said the proud owner. “I live in the ped over its tomb, but there can be no The servant employed by the family suburbs of St Louis and nave several question of its revival. The most its in the apartment just below the Trum flue maple trees on the premises, lu admirers can do Is to write the history bull»’ abode was in the flat opposite 1893 the Idea occurred to me, and 1 of Its floruit. It belonged to an ago telling tile occupants of that place that had a Jeweler make me these three wheu wealth, leisure, culture and al) she was unable to get into the house. rings, which I slipped over a small tlie good things of life were confined ”1 can't turn the key, and If you branch and tied at the proper distance to a class, and It drooped and with don't mind, ma'am, 1'11 go through with cords. I had to select a very di ered at the advent of democracy. Our your window.” minutive branch, because otherwise modern seriousness and our modern The people didn’t mind at all. They the twigs would have prevented the business-like air killed it, and they even held the girl's parasol and pock rings from going on. and 1 picked out chose the crudest of weapons. It might etbook while she clambered from our one pretty high up so It would be out have survived frank opposition; It window to the other. of the way of pilferers. Then 1 wait could not endure being made to look Then came a crash. It was a ter ed patiently for nature to clinch the ridiculous. rific crash. Had the girl fallen into bands by process of growth. 1 said But with the rubbish went much that the court? No. The sounds that came nothing about the experiment, and the was admirable. At Its best this grand from the floor below were unlike those family often wondered why in the manner meant an exuberant vitality, a heard when Hendrick Hudson played world I climbed that tree so often. 1 genuine zest for life. Its exponents ninepins iu the Adirondacks. At that am a traveling man, and wnenever 1 might fail, but they failed gallantly. point came a shriek, such as the stage returned from the road 1 would lose no It all worked out to a kind of intense heroine gives vent to when the villain time In taking a look at my prospec self-respect, which might be ludicrous, gets after her with a butcher knife. It tive umbrella handle. It was slow but was rarely Ignoble. was sickening. Mrs. Trumbull waiteil work, however, and the fall of J897 Most great men have been many-sid half a second, then stuck her head out had rolled around before I finally cut ed, but with the gentlemen of the of the window, and with the help of the branch. Then I turned it over to grand air it was a social duty, and all half a dozen other feminine voices an expert, who kept it ten months traces of the process must be hidden called: “Mary! Mary! What’s the longer, seasoning and polishing it, and > from sight. matter?” bending the upper end into the crook, Disraeli was almost the last of the The reply was a volley of sobs and which was done by a process of steam “grand manner" disciples, and the squeals winding up with: “The flat's ing. The result is what you see. 1 abuse of him which was current for sc been robbed!” am convinced It is the only thing of Its loug shows how people had come to re Mr. Trumbull was surprised to see kind in the world, and I take good care gard the affectation. For an affecta bls wife with hair streaming down het to keep It away from umbrella tion it was, though a charming and back ami hands clutching the folds of thieves.”—New Orleans Times-Demo- sometimes a noble one. Versatility can A CHICAGO DIVORCE MILL IN ACTION. a bath robe, go scooting through the li crat never be abolished, but a pretense of brary out Into the hall and down the ease and insouciance and a parade of stairs. of the bouse to one man who tries the fourth, more or less. So the divorce YOUNG VANDERBILT TO WED. divers accomplishments may easily be In ten minutes she returned. Her game. And because the one will not court is a place not only where matri eyes were big and black and seared. ’ move out at the bidding of the other monial ties are severed, but also where Hi» Bride-to-He, Elsie French, 1» of an discredited. The splendid impassive ness of the great gentleman has suc Ancient Family. Her teeth were chattering, and her the strong arm of the law Is appealed they are originated. cumbed to modern worry and liaste, An Important society event at some hands were busy with each other. She to to expedite the going. Whether men are, on the whole, curled up on the divan and looked at | Nor are the ethics of tearing matri more manly than women are womanly still undeterminate date will be the and for the most part we frankly con her husband. monial ties into tatters considered a has always been an open question, but marriage of Alfred GWynne Vander fess that dignity is a nuisance and an “John, What do you think? Tlie ’ whit more seriously at this day than It Is true, according to the records of bilt, head of the Vanderbilt mill.ons, anchronism. But the other side of the Smiths' flat has been robbed and they were thousands of years ago. lu the divorce courts, not only in Chica aud Miss Elsie French, whose engage thing—the taste for a liberal culture— shows signs of revival and we may see there’s hardly a scrap of anything left. [ fact, it was not very much of an ethical go, but everywhere else, that the aver ment was recently announced. They came through the kitchen win question then, nor is it now. Then it age man will bear about every indig Young Vanderbilt was botu In 1877 a return to the grand manner, brought dow. They even took some Persian | was wife ownership by the husband, nity before he will face the publicity and graduated from Yale in 1899. He up to date and purged of its silliness.— rugs and Mrs. Smith’s sealskin. And ’ and to-day, according to the secular of a divorce trial. It is equally true was making a tour of the world and Ix>ndon Spectator. the silver's all gone, aud tlie house— I laws, the relation between husband that nearly all men will avoid making had reached Japan when his father oh, you Just should see It! It's knee and wife is largely one of dissoluble the charge of faithlessness if some died. Returning home, he found that deep with the things that they’ve ■ partnership by petition by either one of thing else can be used to secure the his father had passed by his eldest son, pulled out of the dressers aud ward the parties in interest to Judicial au desired end. He has a thousand times Cornelius J„ and had left the ent re robes.” thority. The judicial authority orde:s greater horror of the public knowing fortune of $100,000,(MX) to himself. Very John continued to rend Ills Spencer. that the partnership be continued or that he "has been fooled” tlihn a wo generously, however, Alfred Gwynne The chance of two finger prints being "That's too bad.” he said. dissolved, and when the court has man has for her husband's faithless disregarded this arrangment and turn •like is not one in fifty-four billion. Silence of five minutes. spoken its decree is enduring If the dis ness. The science of social economy ed over some $7,000,000 to his brother. There are nearly two thousaud “John,” she spoke very softly. solution of the partnership is com shows that to be true. Still, there are This action was a noble one. A fam ly stitches in a pair of hand-sewed boots. "Yes?” lie asked, not looking up from manded, but if not tlie belligerents exceptions, of course, which are to be feud over the distribution of the Van San Diego, Cal., has a lemon grove Spencer. suiely will continue the 1 a tie lu an expected as long as a man and a wo derbilt interests would inevitably have covering one thousaud acres. It is said "John, do you know I'd Just be scared other Judicial ring. man are to be found here and there affected many Innocent persons who to l>e the largest iu the*world. It was stiff If you weren't here.” Hear Case» on Saturday». who do not hesitate to break up their were interested lu Vanderbilt proper John smiled sadly. The Chicago courts, says the Chron marriage relations deliberately a.id ties. It seemed proper and co:rect begun in 1890, with 170 acres. “You won't go off on that hunting icle, devote Saturdays to hearing di purposely. Eighteen thousand bills and joint res enough to settle all dispute by giving trip, will you?” vorce cases, aud the mills of these Judi But when such cases come before the away a king's ransom, but how many olutions were presented by members “Well 11—11,” lie drawled uncertain cial gods go at a very rapid rate, but divorce court, if the Judge has had young men are there Just out of college In the last Congress—12,008 in the iy. not carelessly or with indifference. much experience, the court knows who could have done It so quickly and House and 5,855 in the Senate. "I just won't let you, now. They Doubtless very many peop.e will be them almost immediately. The first Table Mountain, Cape Town, South so gracefully. Alfred Gwynne Is a mod might come In and take my old candle amazed when told that 3,000 divorces Africa, Is a magnificent natural curi stick, or the baby, or my grandmoth are granted every year by the Chicago osity. It is nearly four thousaud feet er's set of china. And I'm not a bit courts, and as they hear such cases ■In height and has a level top about afraid when you're here. Honest, I’m only one day in the week It is found three square miles in area. not that after deducting holidays the week Wedding festivities In Cairo, Egypt, John's chest swelled up. This was ly average is great, it is ascertained, usually continue for three days, during something uew. He threw Spencer on too, that four-fifths of the petitions are which time there Is constant feasting the floor and went and lookisl at his tiled by women, and nine-tenths of the • nd Jollification. The guests are ex revolver. Then he tried the dining charges are druukenness. cruel t.eat- pected to remain while the festivities room windows. After that he threw rnent and abandonment. last. his arms out and doubled them up to Nearly all men applicants for divorce see If ills muscle swelled up as It did In the western part of Rrltish Colum make charges against their wives uu- when lie was a lad at school. bia Is a novel railway, two miles in der the guise of “incompatibility.” He walked back ami forth through length. The rails are made of trees, Only occasionally, except in cases of their bit of a flat and held Ills head up j from which the bark has been stripped, abandonment, does a defendant let the high. Then he sat dowu tieside that and these are bolted together. Vpon case go against him or her by default. little tyrant of a wife and looked her them runs a car, with grooved whiels There seems to be a streak iu the na In tlie eye«. ten Inches wide. ture of such people that forces them She giggled hysterically and ran her At Bosco Reale, on the slopes of to wind up their matrimonial relations Angers across his mustache. Just as Vesuvius, near Pompeii, excavation» by flinging mud. so that the other one she used to do when poor John was so have brought up the most remarkable shall go out Into the world besmirched crazy with love for her that she could with suspicion ami branded with let paintings of the Roman period yet dis have pulled out every hair of Ills head ters that spell “vicious,” "devilish,” covered. In the grounds of the Del and he’d never have known It. "beastly,” "fiendish.” When such cases Prlsco villa a great peristyle and four "Hear.” Johu said softly, "I never are on the boards the crowd of specta large rooms have been unearthed, the MTLHONAIRE TO WED HEIRESS. knew before that there was any place tors is always large, for the play deals walls of which are covered by twenty for me In tills house, that I tilled any only In perfidy, hypocrisy, falsehood, large frescoes of rich covering and care want here. But now I flud that I am of the parties In interest is almost sure est young man and is said to have In mud flinging, cusseduess aud human ful execution. The figures are life useful, that 1 am a burglar-scarer. God to present a telltale facial expression herited the Vanderbilt genius for ' depravity. •ize. Ilk's» that man that stole those things It Is said that some men and more and unnatural nervousness and auxlety finance. downstairs. It'll be hard on the Smiths, In which the court sees a conspiracy, Young Vanderbilt Inherited the Van women are afflicted with a mania to A Belligerent Archdeacon, but It's a mighty tine thing for me.” attend funerals, aud that it matters lit and many Is the divorce refused on derbilt millions In accordance w.th the Canon Bellairs, of England, who died And they lived happy ever after. Or tle to them whether It be a funeral of a that ground, but only the Judge aud his traditions of the fam ly. At the death recently, was an old enemy of the bel had for a week, as the burglary only of old Commodore Vanderbf.t. the ligerent Archdeacon Denison. He was friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. God know the real why. took place that far back.—Chicago founder of the family, the buik of h’s a school Inspector before the act of It la enough for them to know that it Time«-Herald. Is a funeral, and that they ate "in It” Wonderful Memories of the Blind. fortune passed to his son. Will am H. j 1870, and East Brent was In his dis Vanderbilt, who was said to have In- I The acuteness of their memories and enjoying the pleasure of the trict. The archdeacon objected to gov Whole Town of Flddle-M«kers. mournful occasion. But however much seems to be a compensation for the herited about $75,000,000 at the age of ernment inspection of his school, taught The only place lu the world where a funeral may charm some people, one blind. One of the visitors to the read 50. the children to sing some lines of ridi vlollu making may I h > said to constitute When William IL Vanderbilt d ed he : cule when his brother clergyman ap must go to a divorce court when facta ing room for the blind iu the National the staple luduatry Is Markneukirchen. which should uot be voiced in public Library at Washington expressed a left the bulk of his fortune to his eldest | peared, and at last wrote to Mr. Bel In Saxony, with its numerous surround desire to learn to use the typewriter. , son. Cornelius, who Inherit d a o..t ' lairs. telling him that be would put him are lielug told. ing villages. There are altogether almut There the article that gladdens the There was none provided, so Mr. $80,000,000 at the age of 42. And now | In the village horse pond if he again 15,000 people In this district engaged heart of such people most la given out Ilutcbesou very kindly sent down his Alfred Gwynne has inherited $100,000.- 1 dared to show his face in that part of exclusively In the manufacture of vio raw and by wholesale. There these vul own. The girl sat down to the ma 000 from h:s father, the latter cutting i Somerset, lins. The Inhabitants, from the small tures And the supreme heights of their chine. aud had explained to her the off the elder son because of the latter's boy and girl to the wrinkled, gray- hearts' delight lu i>athetlc. in luutal position of the letters and the key- marriage, which displeased the father. Hunting the Ditch. headed veteran ami aged grandmother, and in coldly Indifferent rec rials of the board slowly read to her twice. She The revolutionist leader was rapidly His bride-to-be la a daughter of the are all constantly employed making misfortunes of husbands an I wives. practiced for a few moments, and then late Ormond French, who was tenth In getting ahead of bis men in the wild re-’ some part or other of thia musical iu A study of the faces of the habi wrote a letter in which there were descent from Ed was d French, one of treat. « strument. tues of divorce courts Is likely to make only three mistakes, a feat which It the founders of Ipswich. Mass., 1« ltBtl. The private who sprinted Just at hit | DIVORCE CASES DRAW one lielleve that the process of evolu The man who la as honest as the tion has l>een reversed In them, and day la long never gets up at 4 o'clock that they are grinding at the mills of In the morning to be led Into tempta Involution, the grist of which Is tion. hearts that are happiest when misery, Some women are near sighted, but disappointment and cruelty are haul they manage to bear all that's going ing others to and fro In the slough of social and domestic slime and filth. on. Buch habitues are mostly women— I would be difficult for a seeing person to surpass. One afternoon Mrs. Ward, the Kansas vice regent of the Mount Vernon Association, read In the pa vilion While doing so she repeated Iron Quill's well-known verses on Dewey's victory, beginning. "Oh. lH>wef waa the morning." I.ater In tha afternoon one of ths blind listeners She Is an heiress In her own right and Is an athletic young woman, with a fondness for sailing, riding, swimming and tennis. She was a playmate of her future husband in her childhood and is 21 years old. heels managed to say: “Why do yon run? I thought you bragged that you would die In the last ditch?” “I will—I will, my boy; but the last ditch is some distance away, and 1 must hurry if 1 keep my word.” And the little band of heroes con tin- Nothing succeeds like the success of ued to annihilate time and distance.-« a man who has a political pull, Baltimore American.