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Wells 3/nltlv odded down the main guiltily back over the where straight rows of to- their broad leaves ripe for There was deeper guilt in his when he thought of the pro- which he was bent. Never had he done anything that he have been ashamed to tell out »-meeting at the little cross roads where he was one of the younger , The tall, gawky shadow he >ng the white road seemed a sort nonitory figure of that beMer self ould follow him the rest of his e an accusing angel. And it was account of a woman; not that she blame, except for the fact that she >ft white skin and fair hair, and liest of -feet that made his own ponstrous, and the daintiest little the kind that a big muscular fel- ;e Wesley yearns to hold in his ley had never been a ladies’ man he school teacher came into the ^orhood but he bad been captured the evening he drove to the sta nd she had sat beside him in the ipring wagon during the five miles lad to go in the September twi- The scent of her gauzy handker- played about his senses for a week Hard; it was different from any ne that had entered his nostrils, : acccustomed to the odors of t basil,” marjoram, and a gen sprinkling of musk in the closely 1 little chapel of Sunday mornings, pinquity, that strong promoter of ender passions, sealed his doom, le school teacher boarded in his house and came to bear upon him e varied and wonderful charms of nan. felt himself the most highly fav- man in the universe to be able to inder the same roof with her, and ep the little box behind the sheet stove filled with wood sawed and to a nicety, to handle a refractory behind the school house as an ex- : to all others who should dare to the teacher’s authority, and a hun- other offices that a big, strong man perform for a young and fragile her of his household, that brought unspeakable joy. far, however, from believing these !S were gaining for him the desired ir, Wesley would have dispensed Silas was seated on a high chair behind the counter regaling himself with the latest postal card news that had come in. “Howdy, Wes’," he greeted, reluctant ly placing the cards in their respective pigeon holes as the visitor came behind the counter, “Air ye through cuttin’r" “Well, I-I ain’t clean through,” was the embarrassed answer—“but I lef’ off for a little spell, as I got a matter I want fixed up, an’ I thought this would be the bes’ time of day to ketch you—” “Well, ef it's that little loan, I reck’n—” “No, I ain’t after pesterin’ you ’bout that, Si,” Wesley interrupted, to the other’s relief, and tattooing awkwardly on the desk, he blurted out: “Si, I’ve come down here to git you to do sump’n I can’t do myself, an’ that’s to write a letter fer me I” “Oh, that’s it, is it?” Silas asked, with a grin, noticing the other’s embarrass ment. “Well, I reck’n I kin ’commodate you," he added, taking his pen from be hind his ear. “Who’s the lady?" eye ing Wesley suspiciously. “I reck’n you know,” was the answer, with a responsive grin to hide his em barrassed flush. Then as Silas began to drawl the school teacher’s name, writing it at the same time with many flourishes at the top of the sheet he had spread before him, Wesley grinned broader, and con fessed with more blushes that that was the young lady in question. “Now about the beginning?” was Si's next question with his most professional air, making ready to start. “You kin make it a little stronger by adding some words on the next line.” Silas indi cated with his pen the line below the one upon which the lady’s name was in scribed, for the benefit of the uninitiated Wesley—“but that’s accordin’ to your in tentions to the young lady.” He paused for Wesley to intimate. “Then you might make it a little stronger,” the other suggested sheepishly after a pause. “To the young lady that has my heart, how is that?” Silas poised his pen inquiringly. Wesley nodded approvingly. “That’s it,” he said, and as Silas waited for further instructions he squirmed awk wardly in his seat and began to wipe the perspiration off his face. “It’s kinder hard to know what to say when you ain’t exactly certain ’bout the look her in the face, but began to walk at her side, forgetting to offer to take her books as usual, until they had gone some distance and he made an awkward attempt to relieve her, dropping half of them on the ground in his confusion. As he stopped to gather them up the fateful letter rolled out from between the pages of one of the books, and there was nothing for him to do but to pick it up and hand it to her. A shamed, side-long glance at her face told him that his doom was to be set tled. He walked along, waiting for the verdict like a hero. “Did you tell Jack Crawford to put that letter on my desk?” the school teacher asked, at last. “Yes, Miss Elmira,” was all he could say. “Then I presume that you want my answer?” was the next question deliv ered in a suppressed tone. “I-I—come here to git it,” Wesley stammered. “Then I’ll give it to you now, and it’s just no!” she said bluntly, not slackening her pace and looking straight ahead of her. It came like a thunderbolt, even though he was in a measure prepared. “Miss Elmira, I’m sorry, but—" “I hate Silas Mansur, and he hwd no business writing that letter,” she in terrupted. Wesley hung his head, his face flushed to the roots of his hair. “I didn’t know you’d be able to tell by the writin’, ’deed I didn’t; I reck’n it wam’t actin’ square, but Silas kin write an—” “I don’t care if he can write,” she in terrupted again. “Do you suppose I’m going to marry a man just because he can write; and after all, I’d rather mar ry the man I loved if he couldn’t write his own name than one I don’t care a straw about, even if you are so anxious to make the match for Silas Mansur, and I thought you’d be the last one to—” She broke off with a sob, turning to dash away the tears that sprang to her eyes. Wesley felt the earth slipping under his feet, the sky seemed a dazzling, crimson vortex whirling above him through the dark tree tops. “Miss Elmira!” he cried at last, “did you think that was Silas’s own letter? ¿or it wam’t. ’deed it warn’t!” he pant ed. “It was my letter, Miss Elmira, every word of it, only I got Silas to write it fer me, ’cause—’cause,—well, I ain’t shamed fer you to know now, I can’t write my own name.” n7/if Geese Killed in Flight. SUCCESSFUL WOMAN BUILDER. Mrs. Theodos a Beacham,of Michigan tnterpriains Railroad contractor. There are few fields of endeavor In which woman has not acquired a foot hold. She is conspicuous in the arts, sciences and professions and she makes her presence felt in trade. Yet it is believed that one of the few of her sex to essay and succeed in railroad contracting and construction is a Mich igan woman—Mrs. Theodosia Beacham. 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Sometimes, when the cold weather sets in late up North, as in all proba bility it has this year, the wild geese suffer from their devotion to their na tive place. They may at this late season fly right into a streak of real winter, with driving snow to blind their vision and bitter frost to halt their flight. If there is storm, their way leads right through it, until the leader’s eyes are closed by the freezing of the snow about Its head or its feathers become too heavy weighted. When the sight has gone and the birds are wearied, it is easy to see how misleading is much of the talk about the leadings of an extra sense. Like a ship without a rudder, the V-shaped flock will make for any low places. Once a flock came tumbling into the street of an Eastern township’s village, where the half-blinded things became the easy prey of the boys and the dogs. In another place a farmer chanced one spring to find the frozen carcasses of more than thirty fine geese in a drift in one of the fence corners. The birds had evidently come to earth in some blinding storm, and, imagining they Royal Quarrels Over Chess. were nearing water, found instead the hard, snow-covered ground. King Edward, we are told, is devel There are several instances recorded oping an enthusiasm for chess. In that of flocks of geese in a storm running case, according to a writer in Tid-Bits, full tilt into the ends or sides of farm he is only following in the steps of buildings. A large brood flew at full many of his predecessors on the throne, speed against the rigging of the whal including his namesake, the first Ed ing steamer Dart this month off the ward. Says the writer: Newfoundland coast. A damp, snow Whether or not players were more laden wind was blowing at the time, irascible in those old days than now, it and eleven dead or dying geese flut is a curious fact that chess was often tered on to the deck, the others alight j more stimulating to the royal tempers ing in a half-dead condition upon the i than is golf in these latter days, and “MARRY A MAN JUST BECAUSE HE CAN WRITE”? waves. 1 many a game peacefully begun ended A more pleasing story is of domestic in broken heads. When Prince Henry rith half of his muscular power to re young lady’s feelin’s,” he stammered, geese in a large, well-appointed farm —afterward Henry I.—once paid a vis “ but I like that beginnin ’ an ’ I reck ’ n lace a deficiency that he feared would e an unsurmountable barrier between you kin put it more fancy like; but I yard hailing with their hearty honks, it to the court of France, “he wan so want you to be sure to say I’m waitin' a short time ago, a passing drove of much at chesse of Louis, the king’s im and the young school martn. It was a common enough falling In for her answer very patient, an ef she'll twenty-two black bills. The strangers eldest sonne, as he, growing into chol- the neighborhood in which Wesley lived, say yes, I'll be ths happles’ man in came down and followed their tame re ler, called him (a naughty name) and and six months before, the fact that he Chinkapin Hundred, an’ ef she says no, lations into the stable, where they have threw the chesse in his face. Henry takes up the chesseboard, and strake could not write his own name, would it'll drive me to do what it will hurt her since stayed. Louis with that force as drew blood, not have embarrassed him a great deal. Tell her I’m able to take kere of her, that I ’ m workin ’ the place on sheers and had killed him had not his brother Since the school teacher had come into Re-Using Old Shoes. Robert come in the meantime and in his life, however, it had become a real this year, but pa, he’s promised to deed me a strip of lan ’ down by the fur gate, Janitors collect the shoes cast away terposed himsclfc, whereupon they sud thorn in the flesh. Vainly he struggled an ’ ef she ain ’ t a mind to live with the by tenants and send them to auction denly took horse and gat away.” with the little imps of the alphabet in King John in his younger days had a his room by candle light when all the old folks I’ll, build her a house on my rooms, where they are sorted into piles own lan ’ , an ’ say I ’ ll make her a sober, marked “Men,” “Women,” “Children.” similar experience; for a game of chess other members of the household were industrious husband, an ’ ’ ll treat her in which his opponent was one Fulk In a recent sale in one of the big wrapped in slumber; but the goal of his ambition measured a distance that was like the apple of my eye, which she is, cities, says the “Shoe Retailer,” several Warine ended in a royal row, during beyond the feverish impatience that pos an' ever will be, even if she don't rerip- poor people made fair bids, but the which Fulk gave the prince “so griev ercate my affections, an’ then you kin auctioneer did not seem eager to sell. ous a blowe as almost to slaie him on sessed him. Wesley had Seen trembling on the win’ tip, Si,” he finished, taking the first Finally, a red-faced man pushed his the spot.” John never forgot the blow verge of a proposal many times and breath, “only as I'm partic'lar ’bout way through the crowd and offered to nor forgave his iraclble opitonent, and would have committed himself long ago folks signin’ other folk’s name, suppose cents apiece for the whole lot. His bid punished him, when later he came to the throne, by withholding his heri but for this barrier. For the idea of you jes say good-bye, my angel, till I j was successful. I “I was killing time with talk waiting tage—Whittington cartie—from him. addressing the school teacher in writing hear from you, an’ that'll do.” It seemed an age before Wesley had William the Conqueror more than for that fellow,” said the auctioneer seemed to have fixed itself in his mind as being the only method of procedure converted all this in a sure enough let afterward. “He always pays High for once lost his tempet over the game, ter, even taking into consideration the ■ these shoes and he does not want them and on at least one occasion with ser through which he could hope for a re He was playing ciprocation. So it was an overwhelming beautiful flourishes with which it was for wearing, either. He wants to beat ious consequences. embellished, and he had it in nis coat i them out for the leather in them. He with the son of the king of France desire to settle his fate, coupled with a hopelessness of attaining the educational pocket on his way to deliver into the j gets what material there is, puts it when a dispute led to hot words, and qualification of being able to pen his hands of the school teacher. Then it through a process and makes stamped culminated in William bringing down own epistle, that led him to procure the seemed another age after he had in frames, bags, pocketbooks, penknife the board so heavily on his opponent’s agency of another party, upon which trusted it to the care of one of the j holders, and even chair backs and seats. bead as to render him nnconsciotw. children and watched through the i He finds a ready sale for these novel Louis XIII. of France was so infatu errand he was bound this afternoon. * school open window to be sure it was laid on ties and gets a good price for them.” ated with the game that wherever he The party he had decided to utilize the ’s desk, before school was let went he was accompanied by his chess * - was one Silas Mansur, postmaster and out, teacher though at last when he saw the board and men and invariably played it general groceryman combined; and as children There Is a eberry stone at the Salem, pouring out the door, the pret in his coach when he took drives Silas was under obligation to him for school martn bringing up the rear, a Massachusetts, Museum wblc„ con- ' abroad. Charles I. found it so fascin- a small loan, Wesley thought he might ty I tains the fac similes of one dozen sil | ating that he almost literally played it be glad to have it canceled in this way. real stage fright possessed him. The idea of flight presented itself, but ver spoons. They are so small that I to the foot of the scaffold; and when He had choser, a time of the day when once his game was interrupted by news he would run the least chance of en he dismissed it with a manly determina ■ tbelr shape and finish can only be die- I I that the Scots had decMed to sell him to countering loungers about the store, and tion to stand his ground. When the tlngulabed by the microscope. | the parliament he proceeded with his sure enough the coast was clear and teacher came up by him he could not STEVENSsmSHOTGUNl FREr? BOYS! He Has Thrown Away His Bottles and Scales for 24 ounces developer for Velox, Cy ko, Rotox and other developing papers, or 60 ounces plate or film developer. 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