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The Parson's
I Duplicity
Cause of the Backsliding t)f
Timothy Simmy
By CLARISSA MACKIE
Copyright, 1910, by American Prei»
Association. j
"Timothy has Joined the church, haj
be not?" asked Mrs. Pet&a, looking
over her spectacles at the strong young
figure swinging down the path and out
of the gate.
"Ye 3," returned Susan complacently,
pushing the dark curls back from her
forehead and pursing her red lips de
murely; "I told him I believed he was
called to Join the church the same as
the rest of ua and feel assured of sav
ing grace." She ended somewhat
vaguely. The minister had said that
to her the day before, with his slim
white fingers pressed tip to tip, and
she repeated it with a certain sense of
importance.
"I want to know," murmured her
mother uncertainly. When Susan quot
"l GUESS I MAT AS WELL BB GOXNd
ALOMO."
ed the minister Mrs. Peters took ref
uge In silence, for the weighty rea
soning of the young clergyman con
fused the old woman.
"Timothy don't seem particularly
happy over it," returned Susan doubt
fully. "1 told him I felt as though I
wanted to sing songs of praise when 1
Joined the church* and was sure of
being saved, but Timothy"— She
Bhook her pretty head sorrowfully.
"What is the matter with him?
Simms all over, I expect!" remarked
Mrs. Peters tartly. She was on firm
er conversational ground now. "Has
he asked you yet?" she asked, with a
keen look at Susan.
Susan blushed warmly. "Oh, moth
er, I wish you wouldn't ask—like that!"
Mrs Peters tossed her head indig
nantly. "If I can't ask my own daugh
ter a simple question I guess I better
leave!" she sniffed angrily and applied
a handkerchief to her thin red nose.
"Oh, don't cry, mother," said Susan
tenderly, smoothing her mother's gray
hair. "I was cross and touchy, I
guess—no, he hasn't asked me yet,"
she continued with shamed reluctance
in her tones, "but he did ask me if I
liked the Biggs place. He said it was
for Bale and he thought of buying It."
"I see," said Mrs. Peters, nodding
her head wisely. "And what did you
say, Susan?"
"I said I liked It first rate," return
ed Susan shyly.
"That's right The Biggs place Is
the nicest place in the village except
Dr. Halllday's."
"I wish Timothy didn't feel so blue
about getting religious," said Susan,
relapsing into moodiness. "He said
Mr. Niles wanted him to give up smok
ing and drinking cider, and he
wouldn't hear of Timothy's playing
domlnos any more, and he did take
a lot of comfort doing that There
can't be any harm in his doing that
as long as he doesn't play for mtjey."
"Just the same, if he's Joined the
church he's got to live up to his pro
fessions. I know your pa hated to
Join because he belonged to the check
er club, and he didnt want to five It
up, but the minister—old Mr. Leonard
It was then—said if he could get along
without playing games and such he
guessed that pa could, but pa wouldn't
Join, and so he played checkers to the
day he was taken with his last sick
ness, and I guess if any man went
straight to heaven your pa did." Mrs.
Peters wiped her eyes, and Susan's
pretty eyes grew tearful also.
"I'm afraid I made a mistake In urg
ing Timothy to Join," she said at laat
"Walt and see how it comes out,"
said her mother. "Now you Better set
about hemming those dish towels be
fore It grows any later."
"Susan." said Timothy Simms the
next evening as be eat beside Susan
la the pleasant old fashioned parlor of
the Paters home, "I've got something I
to say to yon, and I'm wondering how 1
you'll take tt." Hie good looking face
WII downcast and all the bright spirit 
and liveliness that were characteristic
Timothy Simms had lied. His Woe 1
•yea were dull, and there was a sullen ;
look about bis kasdaome mouth.
Susan blushed and looked down at '
her tittle brown hands folded so de
murely to her lap. "Tea, Timothy," 
she said-timidly.
"If» this," went on the young man i
resentfully. TOT kn° w I've been toy- t
lng to get • chance to Tpa for
a long time, but"—end Timothy
frowned down at the brightly wlwrf 1
eafjot ,at-M» feeW4nat~aeJ-«ot np J
courage to ask you, why, you eameent
and hinted that you wouldn't many
anybody tbat didn't belong to the
First church, so I up end Jotaed." He :
looked, furtively at Stiean, wboso rosy
cheeks had paled. She looked rather ■
frightened at the visible signs of
wrath In the face of gentle, courteous
Timothy.
"Jf\w,"»aid Timothy doggedly. Tv»
Joined the ?nurch; i-ve said Pd try
to be a Christian; I've always done
the best I could by everybody, lust
as my mother taught me, and now
comes the minister ..and says stop
smoking, so I stopped. Then I bad to
give up playing domlnos and checkers
down to the store and"—
"I should think you'd be willing to
give up those little things," said Susan
with some spirit
"So I was, but It hasn't stopped
there," retorted Timothy angrily.
"What do you aeur
"Mr. Niles came up to see me last
night, and he"—here Timothy aroee
and paced the floor excitedly—"be ad
vised me not to marry r
"Not to marry P' repeated Snsan In
consternation.
"Not to marry. He said It was bet
ter for a man to wait until he was
thirty or forty years old, and"—
"Von are twenty-five," Interrupted
Snsan falterlngly.
"And I am twenty-five. He said a
man didn't really know bis mind until
he reached thirty-live and then be
was competent to pick out a wife
whose disposition would suit him."
Timothy choked wrathfully.
"What did yon say, Timothy 7" asked
Susan, with a dazed look in her eyes.
"I haven't given him my answer yet
He's trying to get a lot of us young
men together and get us to promise
we will wait until we reach years of
discretion before we marry. Then he
says there won't be so many unhappy
marriages. He's going to call it the
"Band of Thinkers.'"
"I suppose," ventured Susan wistful
ly, "that your taste will change after
ten or fifteen years and you'll marry
some one who's real sensible."
"I don't know anything about that"
returned Timothy fretfully, "and I
don't care. What I'm doubtful about
is this; If I belong to the church ought
I to do Just as the minister says or
else leave? Ton ought to know, Su
san. What shall I Co?" He looked
appeallngly at her.
"I don't know what to say!" cried
Susan tearfully. "I didn't know any
thing abottt the Band of Thinkers or
—no—nothing!"
"You see bow I'm fixed, Susie." said
Timothy despairingly; "there's things
I want to say to you and I can't be
cause I've done what you wanted me
to and Joined the ebnrcbl I guess I
might as well be going along," be said
moodily as he turned toward the door.
Susan watched him walking down
the graveled path between the rows of
boxwood with tear filled eyes. She was
dazed at the sudden and unexpected
turn that affairs bad taken In ber sim
ple life, and she wished very heartily
that she had not urged Timothy to
Join the church. "I don't believe he's
got Just the right feeling after all,"
she murmured sadly as she closed the
door.
Several weeks passed, and Timothy
Simms came no more to the Peterses''
home. Nor did Susan see him. She
heard that he was working very hard,
for Timothy was station agent at Lin
dale, but Susan did not see. him again.
He came no more to church, and there
was a rumor that Timothy had been
lured back to the checkerboard and.,
the domino table by the Jolly members
of the Stove club who gathered week
ly in the rear of the general store.
In the meantime Susan grew pale
and thin. It is true that Mr. Niles,
the pale young minister, came to see
her frequently, for he was deeply in
terested in this young soul and fully
determined that it should lack no spir
itual nourishment that he could ad
minister.
Susan was pleased and comforted at
first by the evident Interest displayed
by the clergyman, but after a little
his extreme delicacy of physique and
bis punctilious manner, with its tittle
undercurrent of conscious superiority,
palled upon her, and she grew to dread
his coming. He was a poor substitute
for stalwart Timothy Simms, with bis
rough, unpolished ways and broad
kindliness of heart
For some reason Mrs. Peters frown
ed upon the young minister when he
came to see Snsan. Mrs. Peters had
long been a member of the First
church and an ardent worker therein,
but the advent of a new minister, and
one so young, had rather displeased
the older parishioners, for they did not
like his brusk manner or assumption
of calm superiority.
One day, several weeks after that
evening when Timothy bad last called
upon Susan, Mrs. Peters walked dp
the long dusty road that led to tbe sta
tion. She wore her best gray dress
and ber best gray straw bonnet, with
its bunch of sliver wheat nodding
over her gray hair. She held ber al
paca skirts daintily away from the
dust, and she gave them a little sbske
as she emerged flushed and panting
upon the station platform.
"Good morning. Timothy." she said
pleasantly as tbe young man peered a(
her from behind the wire screen.
"Good morning, Mrs. Peters." said
Timothy, reddening beneath his ton
and shifting awkwardly from one foot
to the other. r—
-"I want a ticket for BenaonvHle.
I'm going to aee my sister Ettaa." said
Mrs. Peters as she opened ber pocket
book "When does the next train go?"
"In fifteen minutes—the KMB." re
plied Timothy as be passed over the
bit of pasteboard. *
"You're quite a stranger, Timothy,''
pursued Mrs. Peters as she turned
rway.
"It ain't my fault" returned Tin*
othy sullenly. -
-Who's la It then?" deaaanded Mrs.
Peters Indignantly. "I am surprised at
you, Timothy Simms! I thought you
kad more grit than to let a little peak
ed upstart like the Ber. Mr. Niles
boss you around and asy when you
can many and when you eantr
Timothy reddened I* began at his
fSnhsafl and spread eve* his fcmad
face and down around hla throat Bo
citachad his. great Sato and atoeok
them passionately.
"I wish I Jest had hlna here," be
muttered wrathfully; "be made a fool
of ma nattl It was too Jets for mo to
make It up to Susie."
"Humph r said Susie's mother, with
an enigmatic smile. "I'll say Oris
Much, Timothy—the minister asked
Susan to marry him, and eke wouldn't
do It She said, 'No; I thank your "
"Do yon think she'd look at me
again r' asked Timothy eagerly.
"I don't know why not What In
goodness bare you done, Timothy
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1911.
Simms, that you boia yoaraen sucn a
sinner, I want to know?"
"Well, 1 don't know myself exact
ly," returned Timothy aheeplahly,
"only Mr. NUes kept at me till I got
to believing that I waa a terrible aln
ner and not tit to offer myself to any
good girl like Susie, so I stopped going
to aee her, and after tbat I didn't
care what became of me. I've left the
church, and I drink sweet cider, and
I play checkcra and domlnos down
to the store. I am a backsMderr
"So was my husband, and pa was
as good a man aa you'll ever And,"
returned. Mrs. Peters. "Well, here's
my train, Timothy. If yon ain't got
anything better to do tonight you can
come around and play domlnos with
me!" She smiled meaningly as he
helped her on to the train, and when
he returned to his office there was
a Ug)it of hope In his eyes and ho
whistled cheerily.
That same evening after prayer
meeting Mr. Niles stood on the church
steps drawing on bis kid gloves. He
locked the door and walked thought
fully down tbe path and out of the
gate. Then he paused Irresolutely for
a moment, finally turning abruptly and
walking through the short cot that led
past tbe Widow Peters' house.
Suddenly out of the gloom there ap
peared a bulky figure. Mr. Niles start
ed tlqiidly back. "Who' Is' It?" he
asked.-
"Only me." returned Timothy
Simms' deep voice as he hooked vise
like fingers In the clergyman's coat
collar. "Just you come along of me,
sir. I've got a little Job for you!"
"What do you mean, Simms?" de
manded tbe Indignant man. "What do
you mean by this extraordinary be
havior?"
Timothy made no reply. He merely
tightened his prasp and bustled Mr.
NUes along until he reached tbe Pe
terses' home. Through the gate and
Into tbe house and finally iul" the
brilliantly lighted parlor, where stood
Mrs. Peters, ber sister Kllxa and Su
sie—Susie, dressed In white and look
ing very rdsy and timid and happy.
They all started as tbe minister
made his hurried entrance through
the door, but none had seen the heavy
band that had forced him through.
He shook himself angrily and turned
toward Timothy, bis face white with
wrrath.
"Parson," drawled Timothy, with a
hard gleam In bis blue eyes, "we got
a little Job for you—Susie and me—so
If you'll get around to it now we'll
be much obliged!" He took bis place
BB TUBNKD TOWARD TIMOTHY, HIS VACK
WHITU WITH WBATH. -
beside Susie, and tbe other women
gathered solemnly about the little
groupi
Slowly, reluctantly, the minister
drew a prayer book from bis pocket;
then, with agitated mien and a voice
trembling with suppreMted feeling, be
united the young couple In marriage.
Then, with a few curt words of con
gratulation, he took bis departure.
"Susie," aaid Timothy a little later
as he caressed his young wife, "1 don't
know what you'd say if you knew
what a backslider I am. I've backslid
tonight, but I couldn't help It!'!
"I don't care, Timothy," whispered
Susie happily. "I don't care what
you have done as long as you didn't
join that band."
His Defense.
It was shortly after midnight, and
the colonel had cangbt Rastns red
handed.
"Well, Rastus, you old rascal, yon,"
s«!d he, "I've caught yon at last.
What are you doing In my ben house?"
"Why, Marae Bill." said the old man,
"I—l done heerd such a cacklin' In dla
yere coop dat I—l thought mebbe do
ole hen done gone lay an alg, an' I
T wanted ter git It fo' yon' breakfas'
while it waa fresh, snh."—Harper's
Weekly. * A./" , „
| Agincourt.
Agincourt, from which Henry V.
made bis triumphal entry Into London,
Vs ear English way of spelliog Aaln
court. Just aa Blenheim Is a similar
corruption of Bllndhelm. In about two
aad a half boars Henry's little army
■lew 10,000 Frenchmen, nearly twice
as many aa England lost outright In
battle during the Boer war, lasting
over two and a half years, end yet we
talk complacently of our "modern arma
of precialon!" A monument at Agin
court marks the cemetery of tbe slain.
Few battleSwlda have changed their ap
pearance so little. The field may be
reached within a railway boor from
Boulogne, bnt few tourists go to the
scene of England's most wonderful
fsat of awaa.—London Chronicle.
Eamlnge of Writers.
There are at least fifty writers In
who are making il.ooo a year
each by. their books. In this number
U is possible tbat there are a dosen
who make Incomes of £2/JOO to £5,000
a year. Marion Crawford la said to
have received £2,000 doWn for each of
his novels, and be often turned oat
three a year. Sir Walter Scott made
OOOfiOO during his writing career. Al
pbo nee Daudet received £40,000 for a
aingle novel. Lew Wallace got lu roy
alties on "Ben-Hnr" and "Tbe Prince
rflnaia ,r atm6st my of bio
a tor las Bndyard Kipling la reputed to
oharga 2 shillings a word. "Lee Mia
sm blsa" brought Victor Hugo Close on
£IC,WO.—T. I'.'s London Magazine.
Less Time. -
I Q.—ln what month do ladles talk tbe
least?
r JL—ln February.
MOUJIK WEDDING FEAST.
Ruaaian Peaaante Celebrate Nuptlala
With Riotoua Joy.
When the day's work u done the
Russian monjik's recreations are of
the simplest. Perhaps he dances
or plays the concertina or sings
some melancholy air. Bnt when a
weddaig has to be celebrated and
the priest has duly united the cou
ple the peasants give themselves up
l to the enjoyments of the occasion,
i The writer well remembers peeping
! into the brightly lit rooms of a tiny
I two roomed log cabin where auch a
I revel was in progress. The evening
was a hot one. In one room, so
small that only four couples could
with difficulty wheel about, dancing
I was in progress. The perspiring
couples had made up their minds to
enjoy themselves. There was a kind
of determined-to-see-it-through look
on their faces, and evidently they
had great staying powers. In the
same room, closely packed and lin
ing the walls" were onlookers wait
ing till a couple should drop out to
take their place in the dance.
The second room was laid out
with refreshments. A side table
groaned with all kinds of dishes
dear to the peasant palate. One
knife, one table napkin and one
fork did service for the party, but
some scorned even these aids and
picked up here a sardine, there a
Hunch of melon or tore at a hard
sausage. One thought of the cave
dwellers and wondered what refine
ments they possessed when they
ate. Vodka was being served out by
the father of the bridegroom, and
it was having its effect.
One tall man was pointed out as
the station master of a tiny wayside
station near by. He was conspicu
ous as being better groomed and
less savage in appearance than his
fellows, and one heard afterward
that the seductive charms of a wed
ding feast made him forget on that
evening his duty as signalman. A
freight train waits two hours be
fore a signal at danger, and then—
for the signalman Is ouaffing his
vodka and dancing at tne wedding
—the train proceeds. The driver
reports at the next town. Result—
two months afterward the station
master for neglect of duty in his
capacity of signalman is degraded
to a charpe at a smaller station.
Surely such things happen in few
other countries than Russia—Rus
sia, the land of a great future, but
whose inhabitants in the main are
only awakening out of sleep.—
Chambers' Journal.
Misplaced Conductor.
While rehearsing Beethoven's
"Emperor" concerto for one of his j
London recitals the great pianist j
Rubinstein was at constant logger
heads with the conductor of the
orchestra—a very good fellow, but I
far from a faultless wielder of the I
baton. Several times tho concerto
had been tried over, but always was !
there something wrong. At last,!
after attempting the flnalo for
something like the eighth time, Ru- j
binstein suddenly stopped and cried |
out, to the vast amusement of the j
orchestra and the confusion of the
conductor: "Great heavens, Mr.
Blank, you ought to-be conducting
an omnibus! You are always be
hind I" r -
The French Father.
The father in Prance is the rec
ognized head of thj family. In him
is vested the clan tradition of au
thority. The law is his right arm,
as custom has also handed to him
the scepter of rulcrship. In many
cases French law is tyrannical.
How stringent, how oftentimes rig
orously unjust, are the workings of
marriage laws in France 1 A French
son or daughter, though grown to
the mature age of five ana twenty,,
forfeits all rights to the continu
ance of maintenance by marrying
without the parents' consent.—•
Anna Bowman Dodd in Century.
Runa on the Bank of England.
Even the Bank of England has
not been entirely free from runs
nor from the necessity of saving it
self by strategy. In 1746, for in
stance, it was forced to employ
agents to present note*, which were
paid as slowly as possible in six
pences, the cash being immediately
Drought in by another door and
paid in again, while anxious holders
of nptes fairily tried to secure at
tention. In 1825, too, only the ac
cidental discovery of 700,000 one
pound notes saved the bank from
stopping payment.—London Stand-
Her Cemebaek.
A young man who had not been
married long remarked st the din
ner table the other day:
"My dear, I wish you could make
bread such as mother used to
make."
Tbe bride smiled and answered
in a voice that did not tremble:
"Well, dear, I wish you could
make the dough that father need to
make."
A merchant died, leaving to We only
aoo tbe conduct of Ma extensive busi
ness, and great doubt was eqrwil
In some quarters whether tbe yeßng
man posnsssed tbe ability to carry eat
tbe father's policies.
"Well," said one kindly disponed
friend, "for my part 1 think Henry Is
very bright end capable. Pin em* be
will succeed."
"Perhaps you're rlghfiOUd another
friend. "Henry is undoubtedly s
clever fellow: bnt, take It from me. old
man, he hasn't got the bead to Kll b l *
father's aboea."
FIGHT YOUR TROUBLES.
•how Ypur Manhood Whan Tempted
to Play tha Coward.
We all have days of discourage
ment and moments when we would
be glad to run away from our trou
bles and responsibilities, 6ays Ori
son Swett Harden in Success Mag
azine. In these times of depres
sion and discouragement, when we
feel that we amount to but little
and doubt whether, after all, life is
worth while, there is always danger
of playing the coward, of doing
something that we shall be asham
ed of later. It is better never to
take an important step or make a
radical change when discouraged.
When everything seems dark
ahead and you cannot see another
step then say to yourself, "I guess
it is up to me now to play the part
of a man," grit your teeth and push
on, knowing that the gloomy con
dition will pass; that no matter how
black or threatening the clouds
there is a sun behind them which
will ultimately burst through. You
will be surprised to find what pow
er and courage are developea by
this holding on as best you can.
After becoming better acquainted
with the mighty reserve which is in
you you will learn that you can de
pend upon it; that it will come to
your rescue in your hour of need.
I have known young men to play
the coward to such an extent as to
cancel engagements to speak on im
portant occasions just because they
were filled with terror at tho very
thought of appearing before an au
dience. Their timidity, their fear
of not acquitting themselves prop
erly, made such cowards of them
that thev invented all sorts of ex
cuses for shirking tho responsibil
ity.
Many people are frightened out
of taking responsibilities which they
know perfectly well they would be
capable of fulfilling and which
would be of untold benefit to them
if carried out. Thoy haven't the
courage to measure up to their op
portunities.
Now, when tempted to play tho
cojvard get by yourself and give
Jourself a good talking to. Think
ow cowardly it would bo to run
away from your responsibility or
opportunity. Just say to yourself
that you are made of better stuff;
that you are going to do the thing
that yoti agreed to do, no matter
how hard ordnagreeableitmay be.
Working Baokward.
A Japanese house is built quito
differently from an English one.
The roof, which with us is the last
important part of tha outward
structure to be completed, is with
the Japanese the first thing to be
finished. All the tools used by the
carpenters and joiners "have a re
versed action. The Japanese car
penter does not push a plane away
from him, bnt pulls it toward him.
Tho gimlets are threaded in the op
posite way to ours, the saws are
made so as to cut on the upward
pull and not on the downward
thrust, screws have their threads
reversed, and keyholes are always
made upside down and tho keya
turned backward. In the house if
the clock is an old ono it willJiavo
stationary handr, with the face re
volving Wckward and the hours
marked 8, 7, 6, 8, 4, 3, and so on,
reckoning onward from noon.—
London Standard.
Detecting Plated Coin.
"For plated coin a drop of scid
Suirted on the edge whero the
ating wears most will chew up
the base metal in a hurry," said a
Jeweler.
"What acid do you use 7'
"For gold coin a mixture of
strong-nitric acid, six and one-half
drams; muriatic acid, fifteen drops,
snd water, five drams, is used; for
silver, twenty-four grains of nitrate I
of silver ana'thirty drops of nitric
acid, with one ounce of water. One
drop is auflicient. If the coin is
heavily plsted we scrape it a little
before putting on the acid."
A Musieal Family.
A little colored girl appeared on
one of the city playgrounds the oth
er day, accompanied by two picka
ninnies who, she explained, were
cousins of hers, visitors in Newark.
"What are their names T" asked
the young woman in charge of the
playground.
"Aida Overture Johnson and Lu
cia Sextet Johnson," the gifl an
swered. "You see, their papa used
to work for a opera man."—New
ark News.
Started Well.
"He has writtcp a book telling
how to dress on a thousand a year.
"Is it convincingly and clearly
written ?"
"1 only read the first line; then I
lecided that it would be a waste of
time to read the balance of tha
book."
"What was itr
"'First get your thousand.'"—
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WEIRD STAGE EFFECTS.
How Belaaoo Got Reaulta In the River
of Soula Soon*.
"The Darling of the Gods" was
a marvel iif stage production, yet
as a pictorial producer, and the
greatest, Belasco never came nearer
to defeat than when he attempted
to stage "The River of SOUIB" scene
in this piece. And yet in its final
accomplishment this scene wai the
most artistic thing ho ever achieved.
In his own mind the scene was
child's. play, it seemed so simple,
but when it came to the stress and
practical details of the last dress Re
hearsals in Washington, which had
become the producing place of the
Belasco dramas after the success of
"Zaza," he realized for the first time
the almost insurmountable difficul
ties of trying to stage a day dream.
This is the scene in which the Prin
cess Yo San, after serving her thou
sand years in the Japanese purga
tory, goes to her tryst with her
lover, Prince Kara, and cries while
groping through the waters of the
Japanese Styx, with the hells blaz
ing in the background, "Which is
the way to heaven ?"
Thousands of dollars had been
spent in devising harness and swing
ing effects for the supernumeraries
who were to represent the hun-|
dreds of lost souls, but when it
came to rehearsing the scene the
effect was so conventional that Be
lasco threw un his hands in disgust.
"Go on with the final scene!" he
shouted. "We will have to cut this
out until we get to New York. It's
rotten!"
Just at that moment a carpenter
in search of a hammer happened to
step across the stage between two
of the gauzes with which the stage
was entirely hung. The lights from
the rear of the stage suddenly threw
shadow? of the most ghostly effect,
which seemed to multiply the man
tenfold. There seemed to be ten
carpenters instead of one.
"Walk across the stage again,"
called out Belasco, and then, as he
realized what it meant, he exclaim
ed : "Heavens! Here I've spent $6,-
000 trying to get an effect which
ought not to have cost me 6 cents!"
The girls were taken out of their
harness, and after n few instruc
tions Belasco's day dream became a
living nightmare. This scene—
"The River of Bouls"—was the
spookiest ever given. It was the
most artistic scenic achievement the
stage has ever known.—Strand
Magazine.
A Woman'* Surprls*.
A Philadelphia woman went to
New York a few days ago and stop
ped on a busy street corner to in
quire the way to Brooklyn.
"How do I get to Brooklyn?" she
asked of the policeman at the curb.
The man told her, giving her
some intricate directions that were
rather staggering and delivering his
information in a broad Irish brogue.
The woman looked puzzled.
"That's not the way we went when
1 was here last she said.
"Well, if you know better than I
do go ahead," the policeman re
plica huffily. "I've lived all mo life
in New York. I ought to know."
The woman from Philadelphia
looked up sweetly into the police
man's face and smiled.
"Have you, really?" she murmur
ed. "Do vou know I had an idea
that New York policemen had lived
all their lives in Squeedunk."—Phil
adelphia Times.
Tho tize of tho So*.
This term has reference not to
the area of the oceans only, but to
their total cubic content, which is
reckoned at thirty times the cubic
content of all the land lying above
sea level. li\-other words, if all the
land of the globe were scraped off
down to the level of the sea and
thrown into the ocean it would fill
only one-thirtieth part of the enor
mous abyss which is occupied by
tho waters. According to Lycll, the
mean height of the4and above sen
level is 1,000 feet, whereas tho
mean depth of the ocean is 12,000
feet. There are mountain peaks
which rise as high above sea level
as the depressions of the ocean sink
below it, but the average height of
the land is slight compared with
the average depth of the sea.—
Harper's Weekly.
Ineffective Idol*.
Thero having been a scarcity of
rain in Amoy, China, peat idol pro
cessions were formed in order to
bring about the desired downfall.
The mandarins suggestively took
the idols out in their chairs to feel
the heat of the sun and to see the
burned up condition of the fields.
At a village near Chinchow the vil
lagers took out a large idol and aft
er carrying it around the village
left it outside the temple all night,
with the result that before morn
ing it had been destroyed by a tiger.
But the faith of the worshipers was
unshaken by the occurrence. They
merely set about collecting money
for a new idoL
# Know Him.
He was looklug for a rich wife and
thought be waa on the trail. "1 love
you." be aald In soft, warm tones,
"more than I can tell In worda."
"You'd belter try figures," BlMjnK
piled coldly. for she was net so green
as sbe looked.
U. L. Peeden was struck and In
stantly killed Sunday evening a
week by a freight train at Greens
boro, He Vf* 40 years old.
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Two Notab'e Fortunes.
Baltimore Sun.
Two big fortunes have been
brought to public attention by
reason of the appraisers having
made report upon them to the
New York courts, which other
wise would not have been thought
of by the public, nor had attention
from anybody but those who were
remembered in the distributions,
or thought they should be. They
were the accumulations of Stewart
Kennedy, a New York banker,
who died in December, 1910, and
Henry O. Havemeyer, who died
it December, 1907. The people of
the country generally knew that
Havemeyer had left a fortune,
because they knew him as a sugar
man, though he had far leas in
terest in the concern known as the
Sugar Trust than was supposed:
but nothing at all was known of
Kennedy's fortune by those out
s'deN.Y. business circles, thpugh
it was sos,ooo,ooo,while Ilavemey
er's leavings totaled but $15,000,-
000. " These are tremendous
amounts to be accumulated by in'
dividuals in the short span of
human life,but the notable feature
about thorn both at this particular
time is that their possession was
kuown to so few people and com
mented on by none at all. With
in the memory of the men and
women of middle age the pos
sesion of even the smaller of
these two great accumulations
would have been considered a
veritable Croesus a man of nation
al reputation, solely because of
his fortune; within 20 years the
holder of the larger would have
been one of the best known of ~
American's his name a synonym
for riches incalculable. Long be
fore Jay Gould had acquired a
fortune as large as that left by
Mr. Kennedy to call a man a
"Jay Gould" was to denominate
him the possessor of wealth beyond
computation. Today two fortunes
of $65,000,000 and $15,000,000,
respectively, are notable only be
cause they can exist without
attracting attention, the figures
denoting possesions entitling men
to the name' 'rich" having advancr
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