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LUBBER LAST By Grace II. Bovrtelle EVER since they had come to PerklnsTllle De Peyster and his mother had failed to ad Just their respecUve stand points to a mutual harmony. To begin with. It was spring. With the delicious odor of resinous smoke from the boughs that bad banked the house assailing one's nostrils, who could resist Joining the dancing sil houettes that circled the bonfire and daring one's fate by leaping across it In swaggering competition as the flames died down? But she drew lurid pictures of his certain fate If be should repeat the offense. Blind defiance rose insurgent within him. He would go. And then all of a .sudden he remembered what his father said and bung bis bead to think bow those grave, kind eyes of bis would look at blm now. Take good care of mamma," be had said at the last. "You must be ber big brother and never let ber worry about you. she's so little and delicate." And then be bad whispered over two or three times. "My pretty little wife, my dear little plrir And De Peyster had tried with all his might to remember. But often It did seem as if it would have been a little easier If she could have under stood that one was disgraced If on did not keep neck and neck with "the other fellows" in every prank they played. There was a long and weary period of dooryard discipline after this epi sode. There were a good many times when De Peyster had to clinch bis fists as tight as be could and remem ber his father very hard. By and by June came, quitering with gold green sunlight perfumed with a universal blossoming and pun gent with the Joy of living. At this time every true Joy thrills with the half realized rapture of It all and finds the fullest expression of bis ecstasy In going swimming. Every bright morning In some part or the town .toe re was sure 10 De a group of boys toeing a line, tbeir necks bobbing eagerly forward and their bodies giving anticipatory jerks and twitches as they waited for the word. When the leader said "Go!" they dart ed forth, and there was a kaleidoscop ic and dissolving view of legs racing .... l I . i A the river. Then collars came off. coats followed, as they ran with undimin ished speed, the fellow who wss far thest ahead sometimes slowing up wltu magnlncent daring to get off bis shoes and stockings while the others were still hampered by shirts and trousers, and by the time tbey tumbled in headlong competition over the bank the nimblest carried tbeir entire ward robe on tbeir arms and flashed white ly Into the water while the lagger fumbled at their shoe lacings. The unfortunate who popped into the river, flushed and panting, after ail tbe rest were la was greeted with taunting cries of: -Lubber last! Lubber last: De Peyster had never been told not to go In swimming. It bsd not oc curred to his mother as among the list of bis possible perils, as she wss In blissful Ignorance of the fact that "tbe other fellows" did It , So It wss with tbe thrilling exult ancc of the Greek runner that be set bis toe oo tbe tine with tbe rest and burled himself forward, head up and elbows la Tbe first few rods It felt like flying. His feet scarcely teemed to touch tbe ground. Tbeo a pair of legs flashed fa him. and another and another. lie gathered bis strength and abot for ward again, but another pair of legs went by. and another and another. They were tearing off tbeir coats tber were stripping off their shirts. De felt at bis collar, wrenched It off and flung It away, to have both band free for bis coat and shirt. They were almost at tbe bank now. Us could Hlrky Daly's white skin dsule lnthr tun at be took a splendid dive abesd of tbe rest. Ills own feet were grow. Ing heavy, and there was a tnlst be fore bis eye. The knot la bis shoe lacing would not come untied. A ssr age rsge Sited him. If be could have cut off bis foot to rid himself of tbe hampering shoe, be would scsrcely hits hesitated. You were ruled out If you weat Into tbe water with anything left oo. At be struggled and per spired and agonized tbe two or three whom be bad distanced leaped past blm, and at be snook tbe shoe off it last and made a dive be beard the air ringing with "Lubber Isst! Lub ber last!" and slowly realized that it was meant for blm. lit tried manfully two or three other dsys, but it wss always the asm wsy. Ills Dusrles were flsbby from tbe dooryard discipline, and he could not plrk up la few weeks what tbe crfh era bad acquired through Joyous years of summer vagabondsge. lie took It quietly and good nature ly. but It went deep. tilt mother found out the custom shortly and forbade bits to go sear tbe water. At for De Peyster himself, the Dumb ness of detnalr fttled apoa blm, Now be could never learn to redeem himself, to bavt tome dsy perbspt tbe ineffable Joy of being the first to ahrad of Jlmmr fprstt. ahead of Ml' ky Daly, ahead of everybody, flls i csreer wis ended before It bad begun.! "But I got to not let ber worry.") oy. was t&e rueful conclusion be aJ ways led. reached.' And thon ho Drear nea nara and wlukod fust. Jimmv was bis constant friend and brought hliu allevliitltig messages from time to time, such as that "the other fellers all say be has lots of sand and kin do as well as the next feller if he has half a chance." When even these encouraging re marks ceased to comfort, be gave him bis cwu homed toad as a last desper ate resort. The effect was wonderful ly efficacious, but transitory. "I'd oughter been a gin," sam u Peyster many times to himself, "but I wish she didn't want to make believe I am one when I ain't" This was the nearest to a reproach that he allowed his loyal little heart to entertain, but a baffled, unehlldlike look grew la bis eyes as he watched his mates go off without blm day after day. In July a light epidemic of scarlet fever prevailed. Tbe oldest Inhabit ants called It "walking scarlatina," the Illness was so slight Mrs. Van Voort kept De Peyster In the house. One day De Peyster caught It lie regarded It rather In tbe nature of a festal occurrence than otherwise. for all tbe boys who bad bad It came no to see him, and, although they were aot allowed to stand long, it cheered him amazingly to hear what they were doing, for he had constantly the hope that these new delights they told of one after another would not be on the forbidden list wuen he was out am In. But after a while he did not teem to care whether they came or not and one day when told that Micky Daly waited below said languidly: "l guess don't care about seeing blm Just now. I'm sorter urea, out ten uiuj u u be bully to have him come tomorrow But when tomorrow came no one was admitted, for be was tossing about in a weakening struggle with tome- thing be did not understand that those who watched by him realized only too well. lie heard a voice aa If from very far away. "You'd better tell him. doctor,". It said. "1 can't stand It to see him fight for bis life like a little Trojan when it Isn't any use." Tbe voice broke and then went on "He's a brave little chap, brave enough to face anything, and it isn't treating him squsre not to let blm say goodby De Pevster ODeoed hit eyes. Tne doctor waa standing over him. "You don't have to tell me. said De Peyster. for be dimly saw that tbe old doctor's llns were Quivering. "1 I guess 1 know." lie felt for bis mothers band. "I'd like to bear you ting Just once first mamsie." he said. "There's a bully song one of the fel lers taught me. "One Wide River.' I've liked It specialty much since eluee It worried yon to bave me go In awim-i mine.' Hit mother sobbed out a few lines. faltered and stopped. A' look of patient disappointment came over his face. "XeveJ: mind, mamsie; yoo needn't"! be gasped. "I'm going to tee It yon I know, to It don't matter. Wont tbe I cool water feel good, though! And don't yon worry, mamsie. Who s afraid? Father 11 find mer lie lay quite still a moment; then be I whispered: "1 would 'a' liked to try one more run with tbe fellers-Micky Daly was most always ahead. He's a peach sprinter. Yoo tell him snd Jimmy and tbe other fellers about-about me and tbe wide river. Telt 'em this time 11 I ain't lubber lastr And be slipped away to find that oa known river, the bravest of little pio neers. Trouble In the Royal Palace. Tbe Shakespeare, club of JJew Or- leans naed to give amateur theatrical performances tbst were distinguished for tbe local prominence of tbe actors. Once a social celebrity, with a gor geous costume, at one of tbe krd la waiting bad only four words to say. "Tbe oueen bss swooned." As be stepped forward bis friends applauded vociferously. Bowing his thanks, be faced tbe king and said In a very blgh pitched volco, 'Tbe swoon bss queened." There wss a roar of laughter, but be waited patiently and made another at tempt: "Tbe sween bss cooned." Again tbe walls trembled, and the stage manager said in a vole which could be beard all over the bouse. "Come off, you doggoned fooir But tbe ambitious amateur refused to surrender, and In a rasping falsetto aa be wss assisted from tbe ttagt be screamed. "The woo bss sweened!" Success Magazine. A Wasted Exertien. "You must eicuse me for leaving yoo to abruptly tbe other day when 1 suddenly crossed tbe street" "What wss tbe I rouble r "I t bought saw my wife coming, but It wss only a creditor."-CIevelaod Plain Dealer. Juit the Point. FredJy does not ofien hate an idea, but alien ho docs he sticks to it tenaciously. For instance, lie came out with this conundrum the other day with a glow of self con scious pride: "Why is an eagle like a man T Everybody gave it up, when Fred dy exclaimed with a chuckle: "He-sue it is Laldlir adt'd." "Hut," p'i aom:body, "all eaglei are not baldbeaded." . "That's nst it." reinondeJ Fred- "Neither are ail men baldhead- THE DURHAM AT BECAME A CERTAINTY By DONALD CHAMBERLtN. ICopyright, 1909. by American Press Amo .-- elation. J When about 1S30 In Virginia a little girl baby came to Colonel and Mrs. St Leger the colonel, whose ancestors bad come to Virginia from Georgia, in sisted on naming bis daughter after the latter state. Little Georgia was assigned a nurse, a slave named Rose. There are certain children who seem to have been transplanted from heav en, and Georgia was one of them. From the time she could toddle sne wss adored by ber father's slaves, first of all by her "mammy. She was an only child and heir to one of the finest estates In tbe Old Dominion. When Georgia became of a marriage able age she bad many suitors, from among whom she chose Edgar Bedell, young attorney. Bedell's ancestors bad lived in tbe north from tbe time tbey bad landed In America In ICOO. After being graduated at college be bad gone south to tutor the tons of a wealthy planter, meanwhile studying law at tbe University of Virginia. Colonel St Leger made It a condition of his marriage with Georgia that be should remain in tbe south. In t year a child waa born to them. It lived only two days, but tbe brief stay of the little stranger In Its pas sage from the known to tbe un known made a great change for the young couple that Is. a great change occurred at thtt time, for before tbe mother appeared again to tbe world tbe father bad left Virginia for bis former borne In tbe north, never to re turn. No one outside tbe manor bouse saw Mrs. Bedell for many months aft er ber confinement, tod when she re sumed ber position as a well woman she neither visited nor received any except tbe slaves on the plantation. Among these the went aa before, but with a blighted look on ber face. No cause was given for the change hi ber or tbe departure and continued ab sence of her husband. Whether her father and mother were cognizant of It! no one knew, but It was evident that tbe blight whatever it was. bad fallen on them aa well at on tbe young cou ple. Ten years passed, and a new gen- erstlA-i was growing up. Those hear ing of tbe Bedell case, as It was railed. naturally asxumed that something to tbe discredit of one or tbe other hsd occasioned tbe separation of the wed ded pair. But If such were the esse LJJr",.' ho bad known Mrs. Bedell at Georgia St Leger would not admit that any- thing discreditable could ever be st- tributed to ber. and. as for ber has- band, a, planter returning from the ... . 1 i . . - . Bono rrJKin "U uiui a a a pruuiiucui and much ettteemed member of tbe bar of New York. Bedt-il bad sfiukea In tbe highest terms of hi wife, but did not even refer to tbe t auxe tbat bad separated them. Mix IWell never mentioned; ber husband, but did iRt give out the slightest bint that she bad any csuse to be dfaMutbiOed with blm. Colonel St. larger died and was toot followed by bis wife, leaving Mrs. Bedel) a large extste. She left Its management to to overset who bsd . long enjoyed ber father's confidence. J This was noted by maoy who were hungry for her secret, tbey baring been curious after her father's death lo know If Bedell would not return J tnd msnsge tbe estate for ber. Mrs. Bedell died at th'. opening of tbe civil war. tier husband was pres ent at ber funeral Many boned tbst be would at last drop tome blot as to tbe cause of bis hsvlng left bis wife, but be spoke never a word tnd as soon as tbe burial bsd iskea place left for his borne. He was followed tbe next day by a letter from aa attorney stat ing tbat bis wife bsd left blta ber en tire estate. Bedell never took possession of tbe property till four or five years later, when It wss oesrly worthiest. He be came a prominent Federal officer In tbe civil war acd on not occailon en camped bis troop on bis own planta tion. Wbea be did tske bis Inher it sm-e be cut It op Into small homes for those former sieves wbo remained upon It. glrlngeacb negro a title loots land. Bedell died tea years after tbe close of tbe war. It seemed tbat with the destb of tbe Isst person Interested In tbe curious affair tbe secret would be buried for ever. Tbe very reverse of Ibis oc curred. Martha. Mrs. Bedell's "mam my." knew ail and bad been enjoined by ber mictrest to make It known after the death of all concerned wbnold she lire s long. Munha gave the ex plnnatlon Immediately after Bedell's death. When tbe child of Mr. and Mrs, Be dell wss born ttose wst astonlxbed to note certain marks upon It ludlcatlng tbat there was a trice lo it of negro blood. Khe bad end avored to rotv-esl these msrks from the mother, but fall ed. Mrs. Itedell dlmovered tbem, snd tbe effect upon ber msy be readily un derstood. Tbe ancestry of tbe cblM's father wss above reproach, but far back In the SI. !ger family was a tradition tbst wst made a certainty In tbe birth of tut III lie Innocent. Be dell bad been willing and anxious to remsla with bis wife, but tbe effect apoa ber, taught by environment as well as t-jr bereoMty to confer the black blood lo ber veins a taint wst f.m I .1.. Insisted oa bis never aeeln, n,f lo. offerlaf to assist blm lo tecur- Kbe afn Inc a dlTorce, aa offer be declined accept. 7 RADlTiOH RECORDER. EDMUND HOYLE. The Man Who Cams to Do sn Author ity on Card Games. t Who was lloylc, and why should his name be used ns a sort of guar antee of correctm'?H so that it ad mits of no doubt or question? ftks a writer in Munsey'a, who goes on to answer the question. , Edmund lloylc was tin English man, born near Halifax jn the year 1672. Nearly 150 years before his birth there had been invented a game of cards which was originally called "triumph." Its early history is obscure, as is the case with nearly all games at curds, but it was almost certainly English in its English game. The name was gradually shortened into "trump," and Shake speare puns upon ,it in "Antony and Cleopatra." 1 "Trump" became very popular, but again the name was changed it is not known precisely when to "whisk," and later still to "whist," the word "trump" being retained to denote a card of the leading suit Differences at play often led to vio lent disputes and sometimes even to duels, and it was left for Hoyle to establish all the points of the game with real authority. ; Hoyle was of good family and was educated to be a barrister. His mind was essentially a legal mind- keen, judicioiu and logical. Living in London, he became greatly in terested in the rume of whist and gave to it the same thought and care which he would have given to an important case in court, hvery evenins he met with a regular com- nanr of whist plaver? at the Crown coflee house in Bedford row, where some of the deepest players and most distinguished men about town used to cat her. lloyle's acumen and the serious thought V;ch he had given to the game made his opinion on any dis puted point absolutely final. His name was noised abroad throughout all London, and a great manv peo- pie used to come to nira, ueging .. 1 : him to rive them leson in whist. Finally, for the use f his pupils, le wrote a book, which lie called Short Treatise on Whist." in which was embodied his notion of the cor rect way of playing tbe game. Hovle continued to give instrue tio'n in whist, and he also wrote books relating to other games at cards. The rule that he kid down accept by every one. so that wncn anv uipuie sroe u a i- wavs dot -Kiel "according to myl He lived to be nmctr-setcn years ol dvinsr in O J o . It Hsd Net Hurt Him. An English coachman, "one of the olden tine," i likely to be an rijrinal character. The late Arch bishop lait was driven by one I whom Dr. Henoo u-ed to tell this good tory: One day a clergyman who called at tbe palace akcd him whether he till bad as much to do as ever. The answer whs sublime: "There always a goodish bit do- itg. sir. Uut it la been a tr.ne eauicr iine we took young Sir. Tar ry into the business." The night Ker. Kdward Parry had then re cently leen appointed bishop luf fragan of I lover. Another story he ued to tell of coachman will be rr to many: A gentleman living in the neigh borhood of Addington, finding that the stablemen were not in the habit of attending church, spoke to hi coachman aliout it. "Thev ought to go," he aid. That's juet what I say myself. ir, was the rejoinder. "I says to them: 'Look at me. 1 go, and what harm docs it do to me?' " Bound to Ce Re sty. The familv were to leave town on the 2 o'clock train, so the mother said, ai she wn hurrying along the preparation: "Xow, children, get rrady to go before luncheon. Don t leave any thing to be done at the very lai' minute." And the children laid the? would not. Luncheon ended, ther harried ir to their wrap and started. In the lull the mother M.d: Kdward, you didn't bruh your teeth." wYe. ma'am, 1 did." "But you couldn't," she raid. "You didn't have time. Why, you I ml this minute got ij fri.ii ti.u ta le." "I know that," said Edward, "but we were in euch a hurry that I brushed Vm before I ate." New York Globe. Rtady e'er the End. The rector and farmer wre dii cussing the subject of pork one day, and the rector duplarcd considera ble interest in a pen of good aixed Berkshire!. "Those tittr of fours are !n f(ne fondilion. Tomkinson," t,. -pi,r,,i . i ' . nr, tnry bo." the matter of fact farmer, "A'i, si.r. if we was all of us only as , to !' tar, we'd do. London .News. A SENSE OF HUMOR. Oh, Yos, Every Man Is Absolutely Ctr tain Hs Owns It A sense of humor is something which every man possesses in a su perlative degree. Men will admit they have no reverence, they will ill treat their wives, outdo their neighborswill own up, indeed, to every crime on the calendar, but not to being devoid of a sense of humor. And, moreover, the sense of hu mor belonging to every man is in variably "keen." The most f tolid, phlegmatic person, who never gets near enough to the point of a joke to throw his hat upon it. will tell you with tears in his eves that he never would have been auie to nave ived through if it hadn't been for his sense of humor. v The worst offender, however, is the orie who make a business of exploiting this universally assumed trait. He takes you aside in a kind of joyous confidence. , "I couldn t begin to ten you,- ne declares, "all the funny things .1 see. 1 don't know why it isH this with an air as if it were a heaven sent gift which he modestly it in no sense responsible for "but any thing funnyreal funny anpeula to me. If 1 could only remember to set them down! But somehow I never think of it at the time." He then proceeds to tell you of an incident that happened to him selfpersonally. Iou have heard the story perhaps ten years back to far back, indeed, that you have al most forgotten it But you wouldn't let your frie-id know tbat for the wotiJ. When he has finished you laugh heartily. Long practice has trained you to laugh upon these occasions as if you really meant it, and you tell -him that it is certainly one of the best things you have ever heard. Henceforth you avoid him. A burn ed victim dreads tbe man ( with a sense of humor. . Why U it that a man, modest in other mpccU, who, if he saved an other's life would conceal it, boldly and nnblnshingly talks about his wonderful rente of humor without the slightest compunction ? Next to him come the young girl ol the family. Let us call ber dear Mabel. ' You've seen Mabel, f course? "Do you know," her mother de clares, "that child tees the funny side of everything! You just ought to hear her! . No matter where she goes it i always the same! Why, la-t night we sat up listening to Lcr while she entertained us with what she saw on the trolley car just think of it and well, I thought I should certainly split w ith laughter. Mimic! Perfect! And you ought to see tt poetnr she wrote! She'd be awful mud if the knew 1 was thowinz it. I wanted her lo send it to the paper, but I coulunt per suade her. In't it perfectly splen did 7 1 aupprt-e she ought not to be encouraged too much. I hive a friend who's a writer, and be ad vi.ed me to keep her down. But it dt soom as if talent like thai ouzhi to be pat to ue. Oh, jou jut wait till you hear ber! Such a ene of humor: You dn't wait. Yon love dear Mabel at a distance. You sneak away in the gloaming. You bave been there before. Henceforth when Mabel beam in figbi you put your helm hard a port and wear ship. It has often been shvlr intimated bv bachelors tbat women have no sense of humor. Yet think of the monumental joke every woman plays on a man when she marries him! Success Magazine. Throwing ttcnes tt t Tiger. Stone throwing it not without its ues in bunting the fiercest of game. At the l.rst sound the tiger wslke out and up the opposite bank and fell to a general uWharge. As be lay motionlws one of the guns sug gesttnl our walking acrots to meas ure liim. but I demurred to mcasur ing a tiger before 1 was sure he was dead and insisted on someone thro ing stones at him first. A large stone bit the tiger, who got up and lurched rather than charged in our direction, with the savage coughing grunt you cannot exactly describe it at a roar which a tiger makes when charging. There ai another general funillade as he dipped into the ravine, then a moment of strain ed tMpene as to whether lie would be tip our bank and into the middle of oa. He hud bad enough, how ever. Colonel A. Durant in Corn bill. ' Didn't Like His Leeks. A would be author railed on Mr. Field one tiav at bi office in th old time Boston publishing house of Ticknor k Field, l'tidentlr the young man did not like Mr. Field's appearance, for this wps the confer ration that took place: "la this Mr, Field-?" "It in, sir." "Mr. Jamct T. Fields?'' "I am he." "Wei then, I'd like to ice Mr. Ticknorr v:--:;a " v T-r i Tbe U gauft An2 repeater it a srvin of perfect proportions, and baa o rut-third lwt parts than any other repeater. It bandies quickly, works smoothly and shoots close arid bard. 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