ed. "Can you stand up? I want to of necessity. I'm In that happy frame of mind when I'm confident all la for see If anything la broken.” She helped him to arise and he took the beat.” O ty la dying! Float. O »on*. The man with the sprained ankle a step or two. Then he caught at Down the westward river, suddenly frowned. the girl's arm. She held him up. Requiem chanting to the D a y - “ I’d feel a good deal better," he "A little dazed," Bhe said, "but no Day, the mighty Giver. bones broken. Arlie, bring one of the grumbled, “ If we hadn't slipped up on Pierced by shafts of Time he bleed*. cushions. There," she cried as she let our little scheme.” Melted rubies sending "Back to the shop again, eh?" said him down, "you are on the convales­ Through the river and the sky; cent list. Give the gentleman a drink the bandaged man. “But what can be Earth and heaven blending; done about It?" of the blackberry brandy, Arlle.” "Let's ask the girl." growled the As the boy ran for the medicine box All the long-drawn earthy bank* the girl bent over the second man. He man with the lame shoulder. Up to cloud-land lifting; He looked around. The girl stood looked up at her. Blow beneath them drifts the swan, In the doorway. Her face was flushed, "How is Jim?" be asked. T w lx t two heavens drifting. her eyes dancing. “ Doing nicely." W ings half open, like a flower “ You mustn’t get Impatient,” she "And Jack?” Inly deeply flushing, said. “ I am hurrying dinner as fast "Equally well.” Neck and breast as virgin’s pure— "How soon will help get here?" as I can." Virgin proudly blushing. The man with the sprained ankle She Ignored the question. “ I want to see how much vou are raised his hand. tray is dying! Fluat, O swan, “ Young lady," he said in his odd hurt,” she said. "Can you get up?” Down the ruby river; “ I am sore all over,” he answered. way, “ we want to divert a few mo­ (follow, song, In requiem "The left shoulder certainly is the ments of your valuable time. Can we To the mighty Giver. •-George Eliot. sorest place.” do 80?” "Not more than five minutes," said "Move your left hand—your left the girl. "Arlle Is apt to let things arm. Now let me see you stand.” He arose and walked a few steps boll over.” and then leaned for support against The man who had spoken last took the careened car. out his watch. The three men stared at one anoth­ “ Stopped,” he said. er. The man with the bandage fumbled "Hullo, fellow Joy riders,” said the In his pocket. The heavy touring car came around third man, weakly. "Smashed," he snapped. the turn at a rapid pace. There was “ Hullo, Jack and Tom," said the “ Use the kitchen clock," growled a depression in the roadway where the first man. tue man with ttve lame shoulder. recent rains had flooded the wagon "Hullo, both of you,” said the sec­ “ Kind lady," said the man who had track. As the ground slowly drained ond man. His voice was hoarse and spoken first, “ I want you to formally deep ruts had formed, ruts that dried faint. meet your beneficiaries. This,” he and hardened. “ I guess we should be thankful it pointed to the lame shoulder, “ Is Jim. Into one of these a front wheel sank. Isn't any worse," quavered the first The other man, the bandit with the The driver made a quick turn, the car man as he felt of his bandage with an bandage, is Tom. I am Jack.” swerved and went Into the ditch. uncertain hand. The girl courtesled and vivaciously The ground was soft and the ma­ “Optimist," growled the second man. replied with a bright smile: chine came to a sudden stop. Three “ He hasn't any sprain," snarled the “ Happy to know you,” she said, “ I human forms were Hung from the third man. “ W ow !” he shrilly added. am Sis.” seats and fell sprawling on the sloping “ What’s to be done?" growled the They laughed at this and winced second man. turr. afterward. For a moment or two there was The girl had been In close converse “ Now,” said the man who had called silence. It was broken by a twittering with the boy. As she stepped forward himself Jack, "let me tell you some­ bird on a branch above the stranded he darted away. thing. We were on our way to Mon- car. The breeze softly stirred the ik ello when Tom here dumped us out She looked at, the three men leaves. "Our home," she said, “ is close by. rf his car. Our errand was an Im­ Then a boy came down the roadway. I want to get you theie as soon as pos­ portant one— to us, at least. It con­ He stopped short and stared at the sible. You will be much more com- cerns a short line railroad that is to be sold at the county seat to day. We wreckage. Then he plunged down the meant to* stop this sale— it should be Incline. stopped. We were hurrying to Mon- A moment later he whistled shrilly ticello over a road that was unfamiliar — once, twice, thrice He ran back to % ft to us, but which we were told would the roadway. He whistled again. bring us there a little sooner. Now Around the bend a girl came run­ we want your advice. Can you find a ning, bareheaded, her curls flying. us a messenger who by any possibility “ What I h It, Arlle?” she cried. could reach Montlcello by 2 o’clock?” The boy pointed down. She shook her head. “ Three men hurt, Sis," he gasped. “ No,” she answered. “ They look like they're dead.” “ I was afraid you couldn't,” safd the She leaped down the bank and drop­ man. “ It's all off, boys," he at last ped to her knees beside the first man. growled. “ Tom," the man moaned. "Tom .” “ But I can go myself,” said the girl. The girl arose and ran to the sec­ They stared at her. ond man. C i “ Y ou!” cried Jack. “ But how is it "A rlle,” she called over her shoul­ possible?” der, "get a pall of water—and the wal­ "Cut that out, Jack," said the man nut box in the parlor cupboard—and called Tom. “ Sis says she'll do It. . a sheet from the press in the hall. That’s enough." ■Quick!” :<«■ The girl laughed. The hoy disappeared around the 7 “I have a pony," she said. “ He bend, and the girl darted to the third will carry me five miles across coun­ xnan. try to Burbank, and there ttft morn­ In a moment the boy was back. ing train stops on signal. I know the "T h ey ’re all alive, Arlie,” said the station master. He will help me. And “ TOM ,” TH E M AN MOANED. girl. "This one is hurt the worst, I the train reaches Montlcello at one- think. Bring the water. Now raise his head. Don't be afraid.” The girl fortable. I think both the man with twenty.” The man called Jack drew a long worked swiftly. The bruised and the bruised head and the man with bleeding forehead was bathed, a strip the wrenched shoulder can walk. We envelope from an Inner pocket. "Here Is the packet,” he said, “You onslblllty." "I don't mind that," said the girl you!" at them. gravely. A moment or two later, Sis on the “ Hush,” said*the girl warningly. The hoy came hurrying back with pony, clattered up the road. She was on her knees besides the a crutch nnd a cane. Presently the boy came out on the second man, pushing back his thick "You will take these,” said the girl porch. Itray hair and staring into Ills half to the third man, “and my brother "I had to quit In there," he apolo­ closed eyes. will help you. I am going to walk be­ gized. “ Sis said I'd spoil things. She “ What’s the matter with Jim?” said tween you gentlemen," she added to will get the dinner when she gets back. the third man stupidly. the other sufferers. "You will And And If you are hungry there's plenty The girl dashed a little water Into me firm and strong If you need my of cold beef and bread and butter and the second man's face. His eyelids help. Come." milk and sauce and cheese.” Buttered He gave a little gasp. "That's all right, laddie.” said Jack. So the procession took up Its slow- "Let me up,” he muttered. "Where way to the old brown farmhouse that "And now tell us how you two chil­ » r e the boys? Is somebody hurt?” stood back from the road a short dis­ dren happen to be living here alone?” He tried to raise himself, but the "We ain't afraid,” said the boy tance. It arrived In fairly good or­ g irl quietly but firmly put him back. der, the man with the sprained ankle “ Sis has got a gun an' she can handle “ Lie still for a little longer,” she panting a little, and the other men It as well as any man. Our mother «a id . “ Give him a drink. Arlie, but were glad to sink back on the com­ Is at Springfield nursing. Father died don't let him get up." fortable chairs of the cool sitting out West last spring—he went there She crossed to the third man. He because he wasn't very well and we had room. w as blinking as he stared up at her. “ I will get the sprained ankle Into him brought home and buried beside "Angel of mercy.” he murmured, hot water at once," said the girl. "And my baby brother. And— well, It cost “ flitting about 'neath the greenwood then I will look after the bandage and so much that we had to give up our tree. Where's Robin Hood, sweet house In Montlcello and come here the strained shoulder.” lady?” A half hour later the three victims and mother goes nursing to help out, The girl stood before him studying of the accident were as comfortable as you know. It's awful lonesome here him with her keen black eyes. they could be made. They had been sometimes— we're so far away from "Come," she said, "let me see you steamed and rubbed with liniment, everybody— but Sis has some books •tnnd up." and more thoroughly barftlaged, and and she reads to me. an' we go hunt­ "Anything to oblige," the man re­ had enjoyed the reviving effects of a ing. an' there's the garden, an' the plied. The girl gave him her hand cup of hot tea and a plate of excellent chickens, an' the pony. Sis knows »nd he tried to arise how to do a lot of things. She's pretty bread and butter. "W o w !" he eried. nnd he dropped Now they were out on the broad clever at nursing, too. She helped old back. "Something's wrong with that front porch, where the air was cool Dr. Raines a good deal last summer, right ankle." and they were shaded from the sun, an' when the threshing boiler machine The girl was down in a moment all three smoking the cigars from the blew up at Sam Thompson's and hurt studying th» hurt elite, box of the man with the lame seven men, Sis was the first one there. "It's a sprain," she said. “ You shoulder. An' they all say she saved Sam twisted It when you fell. I’ll put It "Clear case of falling Into a Samar­ Thompson's life by keeping him from In hot water when we get to the itan ditch," said the man with the bleeding to death. Sam gave her the tvmee.” pony. Sis would awfully like to move sprained ankle. The man's head was rapidly clear­ "Yea," the bandaged man agreed. back to Montlcello an' go to school at in g He atared about him. His face “ There isn't any discount on little Miss the seminary there— but she says this paled. Is the best we can do now.” Samaritan." “ Are they much hurt?" he gasped. "Fine girl," growled the man with There was a little alienee. “ I think not," the girl hurriedly an •‘You've got a good sister, laddie," the lame shoulder. "Knows Just what ■wered. "The man there has hurt his to do and does It. Never thought I'd said the man called Jack. bead The other man seems to be reach the time when a kid like that The boy nodded vigorously. suffering front the shock." "You bet your life she's a good sis­ could gain my confidence. I’ve had “ Have you sent for help?" two doctors and a pair of trained ter,” he said. “ The nearest help Is live miles nurse« fussing around me for a good "W s're all betting the same way, »w a y ." deal leas than this. And here I am my boy." said the man called Jim. A groan from the man with the cheerfully taking the advice of a It was almost dark when the can­ bandaged head drew her away. seventeen year-old. and a girl at th a t" tering hoofs of the returning pony ware heard. "How are the others?” the man The other man chuckled. telntly asked. "Same here," aald the bandaged I The three men on the porch, still “ Doing very well," the girl answer­ mao. “ I'm not even making n virtue | solemnly smoking, kept silence. And D A Y IS DYING. » presently 81s appeared in the door arOMAJI as P h ila d e lp h ia A FACTO* FO* GOOD P r .a e h .r B e ll.» « F « l» The train was late," »he quietly Se* A n s e l 1 o t «h e E a r th . said, “ but I got there.” With the increasing prominence ot A sigh of relief ran across the poren. the cause of woman suffrage, the ques “ You saw Thorpe?" inquired Jack. tion of woman's work and wernan s In­ "Yes.” fluence Is being much discussed. It is "What did he say?" argued by the advocates of equal "He didn’t have time to say any rights that suffrage would broaden thing until everything was fixed. Me woman's sphere" and "make her a lit­ ran most of the way to the courthouse. ter companion of man," and It la con­ But afterward he was very nice. He tended with equal positlveness by the said I was pretty young to carry opponents of suffrage that it would around so much valuable property, make her less Inclined to attend strict­ and he said something to the judge ly to womanly duties. and the judge-came down and shook Of the many Interesting sermons hands with me—all dusty as 1 was preached from Philadelphia pulpits and he was nice, too. And when Mr. the other day, one by the Rev. Clinton Thorpe took me In bis carriage down B Adams, Congregationalism deserves to the station, and sent you his re­ more than passing attention, the Phil­ gards and symi>athy—and hers Is the adelphia Times says, HU theme was paper he gave me." Woman's Religion,” and She passed it to the man called Jack. ^ "hinge he described worn- “ K you don't mind Sis " he said,! inspire- en as the angels "we all want to shake hands with you, tlon of men ih whatever they under­ too." take and responsible for whatever they She laughingly passed down the line and each of the three men grasped her achieve. Men have accomplished great things hand. without help from or thought of wom­ "And here.” she said, “ is the money en. Other men have failed through I didn't spend. And, oh, I mustn t for­ their very devotion to or their control get. Mr. Tar bell, near the station, Is by Inferior women. Those, however, going to send over his team in the are the exceptional cases. Generally, morning and pull your automobile into woman Is the Inspiration, the cause. the road.” And she Is a tremendous Individual “ Just one moment, Sis." said Jack. factor for good—for all that is good “We have a little business with you that we want settled right here. You and beautiful. In one sentence the clergyman has are going to take care of us to-night, spoken a great truth. He declares are you?” that "men are disposed to be what “Of course," laughed the girl. “Well, we want to settle before the women they love admire In them." obligation gets too big. There are This is profoundly true and in her three captains of industry on this wondrous, indescribable Influence over porch, Sis, who feel particularly grate­ man, she becomes a powerful agent fot ful to you. They are grateful to you good or evil. In both mind and body. I think 1 may say that they are men who believe In putting gratitude into a practical form. To-morrow these men will take a cer­ tain girl and her brother In their car to Montlcello. They expect her to co- o|/eiute with them In several ways. They expect she will do a lot of shop­ ping at their expense, and that she will find a home there that will suit her and her good mother, and that she will realize that a certain amount to her credit In one of the Montlcello banks will take her nicely through that Montlcello seminary. And these \ e u r u ltfla . men want her to understand that they can well afford to do this, and that Neuralgia is a paroxysmal pain In a they do It cheerfully and gladly—be-1 nerve. In most victims of this wretch- ins much richer men than they would ed trouble the same nerve suffers In be if there had been no brave and will­ each attack, although there are pa­ ing courier to carry the message to tients with whom the agony travels Montlcello," from one nerve to another. The first He paused, and they all looked at thing to ascertain in a case of per­ the girl. She was standing In the door­ sistent neuralgia Is whether the trou­ way, her white face gleaming through ble Is due to some underlying organic the dusk. condition, or whether It is simply just She tried to speak, but the words a case of a sick nerve calling for help, would not come. | The neuralgia which has an organic “ I—I’m afraid s-something is going basis is called “symptomatic" neural- to boil over," she half sobbed, and ran I gia, and may be present as one of back Into the house—W. R. Rose, In | many other symptoms In tumors, or Grit. in certain Inflammatory affections or tuberculous lesions which are in such KINKS SEEN IN FLYING FISH. position as to compress the course of the nerve at any point. O verhead F in « In ten ded to M ain ­ Neuralgia pure and simple Is called ta in A e r o p la n e 's E q u ilib r iu m . “ I hope to fly through the air faster "Idiopathic," and may be compared to than any American has yet flown, In­ the screams of an angry baby, who de- *pHE FAH I LI eluding the Wright brothers,” is t h s jclares lts nee•* - Youth's Companion. been made with the two Herring-Bur- i -------------------- —----- — gess machines so far tried out. a few Cltlmatum. modifications will be made, principal],- Mrs' Desmy,he— Yes, my dear, I In­ ly looking to the better protection of ‘ ! nd *’" y daught*r8 be engaged when the ends of the wings and to altering 19 the controlling mechanism so that *h- , ' But suppose they ars engine levers can be operated without n°w „ taking the hands from the steering „ ” , D” n>yth^-Then they remain and balancing controls. 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Hedgewood Boy a n d A bill legalising Sunday amateurs between 3:3« » passed the assembly 1» * — s vote o f 77 to 47- L 1 . the result Speaker played first base for «*• ^ college, surrendered hi! I* In favor of th* W