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THE MAN WITH I. "Don't look at me as though you thought me frivolous' begged the man who had taken her down to din ner. "I really am worth my salt." He helped , himself to bonbons. "I have a Mission if it is not written on my brow. ..." "A Happy Evenings' Mission, or a Higher Culture Mission, or a Social istic Mission?" asked the girl he had taken down and who was wonderfully like a Gibson, with her well-covered boneless slenderness; her. artistic bil lows of hair it takes a good maid hours, a:: a rule-, to arrive at that .acme or artistic untidiness; her col or! e.-$3 freshness of complexion, and nor i;le!iruuo oi draperies, eommned with a deeollitage which was certain ly ;; JUtJe sau-iding. ".My ML-.-si.on is neither of those," i .: own i shr-li thiv 1 her dinner-partner. "It is my do-:s ricni tne beginning, and I tr-rry it out with the help of dteiT.n'- cousins. City men who have v! lab ;-t Hampstead, Kewl and Hill. Jt is thank you for show ing ho niucn interest: a Mis sion to Suburban Girls." His fair neighbor moved a little uneasily in her chair and looked at him under her eyelashes, which were curved in the true Gibsonian style. She even had the suggestion of a double chin that' is c .e of the dis tinguishing marks of the type. "Why do you think they want ' a Mission or a Missionary?" she asked, a little nervously. '"The. true reformer always begins by feeling his heart burn within him ar the wrongs of somebody or other, before he starts setting things right," said the young man, who had a nice square head and a straight nose, and wore evering clothes as though he had bean born in them. "My heart burns at the wrongs of the Suburban! Girl. I stretch cut my spiritual arms to her in her darkness; I long to rush I to her aid. She is immeasurably further from social civilization than the Finn, more helpless than the Hindoo, more to be commiserated than the Kaffir. When I am alone I hear her saying, 'Come rnd help us! Bridge the chasm, fill in the gulf, abolish the void, supply the crying need.' And witl several fellows I knew at Eton and Sandhurst I am going to begin directly." "Are they all like you?" asked the girl he had taken down, to dinner. They had been introduced by a hostess, who only said with a facial convulsion of the kind usually accept ed as a smile: "Miss ah ah I know you have met Mr. ah ahem! He is to take you down to dinner." And so fluttered to the joining of other feeding couples. ".v.y companions in the Mission. Like me? They are, if possible, even handsomer," said the Mission ary, "if you will believe it." "How could I?" There was laugh ter in her "eyes. "I was zp.veinl," explained the Mis sionary, "to get a good-looking gang together, because one of the chief sorrows In the life of the Suburban Girl is the awful hideou-.ness of the men. My aunt! you should see the fellows I have met at Sunday lawn parties " "At Hampstead, Kew and Forest Hill?", put in his dinner partner. He went on, warming with his sub ject. "They're sallow, that's the. city, and where they've tanned from h day on the river, or a grilling lawn tennis party, the sun of Hampstead especial- ly is sometimes quite tropical, it's like coffee split on white blott paper. They have garments, aw fully expensive, but not- the right kind. Their necits are too long or too short. Their beits and neckties and hat ribbons, if they wear flannels, are dreadful combinations in color And their idea of happiness is to get together and have a game of .awn tennis by themselves, or talk Stock Exchange to one another across the girls they're sitting with. Why do you look so so misty about the eyes, I haven't uset you, have I?" "It's so awfully awfully hot," she murmured. "They mean well, those suburban Johnnies, and when they marry they uicitte luiLiem misDanas, im torn. But the trouble is, it's all one pattern, and that isn't a becoming one. . . . mey ve got the state of the mciiJieLb on liis orain, ana tney can t neip teuing you tne prices of their belongings from shirt links to mo- lentia, ever there, are blowing smoke tor cars and talking a bit old to astonish you. Oh, I know! . I've beeu looking up my cousins, and I know." Are your cousins all " she be gan, and broke off. All male? fI told you so, but, of course, . they te thrown out branches, olive branches, and some of them are uncommonly pretty," said her dinner partner. "Why don't you confided my mission to you in all sin go in for strawberry pudding? It's cerity. I thought that i had found one of the best sweets I know. Don't a kindred soul, that you would catch say you diet. Nobody diets now. fire at the torch I waved, and join They eat .anything they want to, and us. For your being what you are if they feel uncomfortable take tab- loids of sorts. I know a woman there she is, fourth chair down from your side who wears a great medi- cine cnateiaine made to -carry seven different kinds of tabloids. Carbonate of soda-and-mint lozenges, pepsin lol- lipops." He counted on his fingers, "Sulphonal sugar-plums, cascara ju- jubes, that's four, phenacetine pilules I'm not joking and she's alive to tell you as much. Activine, that's the latest thing in pick-me-ups; activine drops, and radium capsules, awfully expensive, give light enough to take v A MISSION. f ! 0 P 3 0 wySCv ; i,v , f thn rno-ht 1 without switching uj cha electric. "But to return to your Mission, j asked the pretty girl he had taken down. "What do you propose to do for the Suburban Girl, as a class?" j "I propose," he said, with a light in his blue eye, "to tafce her one at a time, and show her how thoroughly agreeable an 'idle, good-for-nothing West End dangler' I've heard my self called all that can make him seff. The hours of the day that she spends alone, when the male suburb anist is away in the city between 10 a. m. and 7 p. m., I propose to fill: Instead of an aimless morning walk, Instead of a dull luicheon, three or four women squabbling over cutlets without a man to cut bread or hack away at the cold round and things on the sideboard, a lively one, with me. Instead of an afternoon lounge in the drawing room or the garden, waiting for .callers . in petticoats, a spin in the automobile or on a bike with me. Later, if desired, dinner, early dinner, with the opera or a theatre after, and then to put on wraps and things and talk, to her between the acts, and take her afterwards to supper at Prince's or the Savoy. Don't you think she would like it, the Suburban Girl?" The Missionary's dinner partner turned upon him a fair, flv.shed face, and bright eyes sparkling with en thusiasm. "I should rather think she would!" "Then," said he, "the object of the Mission would be accomplished, once I had taught her I and my fellow Missionaries how to get a proper amount of fun out of being alive." "But, as yo"u and the others would nave stepped out of your own social SDhere to carry out the Mission," sug- aar she with nonteness. "how are vou g.ome to permanently benefit its obiect0" "We would found permanent set tlements in the suburbs," he said "We are prepared to stick at nothing, to endure everything. Those who sink or die under the strain will be replaced by other dauntless volun teers. Perhaps a Women s Mission to Suburban Men will spring out of the parent tree. Then we shall have social evenings in suburban houses, conducted by Lady Missionaries in the latest and loveliest evening- gowns. . . . The men will not be allowed to sleep in arm chairs or jaw shop. They will play bridge, or billiards, or sing selections from musical comedies, under supervision. Their clothes, like their manners, will be reformed, and when arrayed in less purple and more fine linen, de prived of large watch chains and blaftantly blazing studs, and instruct ed in the art of getting a proper amount of amusement out of exist ence, they will reflect credit on their teachers. Can I imbue you with my enthusiasm? Will you be the pioneer Lady Missionary to the benighted Suburban Man?" ;"It is impossible." She shook her charming head. ."Can one benighted dweller in the wilds reform the oth- ers 9" His eye-glass dropped upon his shirt-front. He turned a startled face to hers. j"You don't mean " i"I live when I am home, that is in! Hampstead," she said with a proud nttle curl of a remarkably high-bred upPer4ip. "And father is something in the citv. I suunose vou thought it WOuld be a joke to pretend .that Girl." "I swear to you I never He broke off. sus- pected- " j The cigarettes, coffee and liqueurs were gome around 'Do you use tobacco, as the Ameri cans say.' Because, the weed, being sedative in its effects " 'It would calm my ruffled feelings. No. Perhaps it shows an unambitious frame of mind, groveling even below my natural sphere to own it, but I have never wanted to," she said, her nose distractingly tilted, as he had previously said to himself, in the air. I'll tell you an open secret. There hardly exists a woman who really does Unless she happens to be a judge of wine and some other things tnat women don't usually care about," he confided l "t Can with difficulty credit that," said she. "Lady Grace and Lady Va though they were enjoying doing it." "The sex are such poor actresses," said the Missionary. "For instance, your pretense of being fatally angry with is wonderfully well done But you're not, really. You recognize the fact that I took you for the real country andW?st End article, and does not obviate that other girls are still other girls, especially in Hamp- stead, Kew, Brixton, Highgate, and the other uhillumined places I have not mentioned. Own it, and confess what you have previously admitted, that my description of the men was uncommonly well done." "You did hit off the bulk," she said, reluctantly, "but I know some really ni -e ones." "Are any of them here to-night?" "None of them are here to-night. I am only here because you had bet- ! ter know it I am governess, not eer - tlflod Instructress, but nursery goT- 0 j erness to Lady Crowmarsh's three 9- little girls. And I dine because some $ ! body disappointed at the last mo- msnt, and gaps look ugly at these round tables." "The bond of affinity is an extra ordinary thing!" he affirmed, fixing his eye-glass and bringing it to bear ( upon her. "I dine -because somebody disappointed me at the last moment, and I hadn't anywhere pleasanter to go. Look here. Do you go back to Hampstead? You do really live at Hampstead, you said, on holidays?" 1 "Sometimes," she sighed. "And they are very glad to see you?" "Oh, very!" Her eyes brightened. "I can quite understand it," said he. "I suppose you take those three little kiddies for a run in the park o mornings?" "When it isn't too wet, or too hot, or something. When it is we1 gallop round the garden in the square." "Can I come and gallop with you if I see you there to-morrow?" No answer. "May I join you in the park if I come across you there to-morrow?" "I don't think,' 'she said, very soft ly, "that it would be advisable or discreet." "Good gracious, if it were, would there be any fun in it?" He dropped his eye-glass. "There's nothing like asking," he went on. "When we go. to the drawing room to hear these opera chaps sing they look as if they'd been hired on purpose . . . may I come and talk to you?" "I shall not be In the drawing room. I shall be hearing the chil dren say their prayers." "Can I come and say on, too?" "I think if you did," she replied, with a slight frowrn, adorable in com bination with the tip-ti'ted nose, it seemed to him, "that it would do you a great deal of good." "Very well, I will." "No; please don't!" she implored. "I have changed my Mission," he declared. "I shall leave the other fellows to labor in the suburban vine yards and devote myself to cheering the lonely lives of nursery govern esses. Shall I?" The hostess was beginning to col lect eyes. The girl beside him moved a little nervously and dropped her fan. He dived for it, and, screened uy lUB iaw uu u lUB u.., kissed a fold of her dress. When he emerged, brick-red, she was rosy to the boots of her hair. He followed her to the door, blocked by an imposing mass of jew eled and bare-shouldered loveliness. "My Mission is growing smaller," he said, close to the little shell ear. "Not to nursery governesses as a class, only to one nursery governess do I feel called to devote myself. And I don't even' know your name." "Can't you guess it? Imagine something hopelessly middle-class, absolutely unromantic," she returned. "You sharpen my desire to hear. Is it Smith without a hymen?" She shook her head. "Is it Griggs, or Poggs or Hoggs? You see, I can face the possibility of it beinc: either, or all three, without wincing. You won't tell me? And 1 shan't see you in the drawing room? And you are not going to walk in the park at 11 to-morrow, or in the square?" "No, thank Heaven," she returned, with a genuine sigh cf relief. "I'm trainer ho-.lr n Tl'imndnifi tn-Tiinrvnw I at 12." The last of the ladies were filing out of the dining room. "Not for rood?" he urged. "For good. I came here on ap proval" she brushed away a tear from her long brown lashes "I'm not approved of." "Look here," he whispered, "may I come to Hampstead, too, and be in-, troduced t- your people?" "I don't even know your name," she said, over her pretty white shoul der. "It's Gazebrook. I'm in the th. Youngest and least generally efficient captain on the roster. Now yours." "Miss Crespigny!" said the cold voice of Lady Crowmarsh from the drawing room door. 'Flora and Stel la and Totterims will be waiting for you." "I've got it. Why, Crespigny's per fectly lovely!" he whispered, joyfully, "and you were pulling my leg. Now, quick, the other." He followed the trailing, grayish-pink skirts into the hall. "The other for me to dream about. "I shall not tell you." Their" eyes met. "Iris," she whispered, and fled. "Sir George!" came in the rebuk ing tones of Lady Crowmarsh, still at the drawing room door. "I must really ask you not to flirt so openly with the children's nursery govern ess." "Was I flirting?" he asked, with beautiful innocence. "Certainly you were. And I must ask you to promise not to be guilty of it again." "I'll promise'with pleasure." "Thank you," said Lady Crow marsh, surprised at the docility of the young man. "She leaves us to-morrow, and I cannot regret it." "Nor can I," he said. "Nor can I." "You think her manner too inde pendent for her position? So do we!" said Lady Crowmarsh. "And then her name " "Her name ought to be changed," said Sir George, thoughtfully. "The sooner the better. In fact," he added, fixing his hostess with the eye-glass, "I have decided upon offering her mine. Can you oblige me with the family address in Hampstead?" "Is this a joke?' burst out Lady Crowmarsh. "Not at all, I assure you. Dead earnest," said Sir George. Clo. J Graves, in Lady's Pictorial. MODERN BABES IN WOOD. . Pearl Lindaberry, aged, six, and Cassie Angle, twelve, who lives with the Lindaberry family on their farm in Knowlton Township, under the Blue Mountains, were sent out to bring in the cows for milking and got lost, writes the Washington (N. J.) correspondent of the New York World. The woods leading up to the foot of the mountains are almost impene trable. Yet the children wandered nearly three miles through the thick et. One of the cows had strayed from the herd, though it was the bell cow, and the two children, with night falling about them, went, further and further into the brush led by the sound of the tinkling bell and not heeding their direction. The bell seemed near at times and then far away, and they trudged on picking berries and oblivious to the danger of snakes, with which the woods abound. Little Pearl was barefooted and the sharp stones and briars bruised her terribly. Finally she was able to go no further, and her older com panion took off her shoes and stock ings and gave them to Pearl. They stopped from exhaustion many times, calling for help, but no one heard them. Finally they were too weak to go further and they fell asleep on the ground. The cows had returned to the barn yard, and Lindaberry and his wife wondered what had become of the two girls as hour after hour went by They blew horns,- fired guns and called, but 10 o'clock p. m. came and the little girls were not home. Lindaberry and several neighbors set out with lanterns and torches. They would have liked to have had Shep.. the farm dog and playmate of the children, with them, but Shep W,1S UnwhprP to ho fnnnrl Tho mon beat their through the brush. calling all the time and starting fires here and there. Midnight came and they were discouraged. Theii they heard a noise In the thicket and were overjoyed to see the old dog running toward them. He sprang upou Lindaberry, barked and started off. The men resolved to follow. They walked for half an hour, when Shep dashed ahead of them through the brush, and with shril! happy barks called them to his Bide. They found him standing over the two sleeping children. So ex hausted were the girls that the dog had not awakened them. Shep had started a search of his own for the children, and finding them had gone to call the men. The elder girl's feet were so cut and bruised that the men carried her home. WHALES FROM CONNECTICUT. The first faint waves of the whal ing excitement reached the town of New London, Connecticut, in 1819; why at this particular juncture rath er than before it is difficult to deter mine. The author of "In Olde Con necticut" says that whales had been seen in the sound from the earliest times, and captured by boats from the shore. In the records of the General Court held at Hartford in May, 1647, is an order giving Mr. Whiting and others the exclusive privilege of catching whales "within these liberties" for the period of seven years. In 17 S 5 Sag Harbor, on the Long Island coast, sent the brig Lucy, McKay master, and the brig Ann, Havens master,' on a whaling voyage. The Lucy, returned with three hundred and sixty barrels of oil on board; the Ann with three hundred barrels. The success of this venture created quite a ripple of excitement in nautical circles. Thomas Allen, the eccentric genius who compiled the marine lists of the New London Gazette, ap pended to his announcement of their return the following piece of advice: "Now, my horse-jockeys, beat your horses and cattle into spears, lances, harpoons and whaling-gear, and let us all strike out. Many spouts ahead; whales are plenty, and to be had for the catching." The whaling system was co-operative in spirit and practice. The owner was careful to see that the right description of the vessel was furnished, and that she was properly equipped and provisioned. The cooper put no defective stock in his barrels; the blacksmith tested his iron before using it. The captain on ' the quarterdeck, mate, sailing-mas- j ter, boat-steerer, cook in the galley, i sailor before the mast, each felt that on his individual skill, energy and fidelity depended, in a measure, the success of the voyage and the magni tude of the "share" that would fall to him at its close. And this spirit of self-interest placed the town in the front rank of the oil-producing ports, and poured two millions of dollars into its coffers annually for a term of years. AN AFFECTIONATE RHINOCEROS.' Many books declare the rhinoceros to be a dull and unintelligent animal. Dull and unintelligent he Is undoubt edly from a merely human stand point, writes C. G. Schillings in "Flashlights in the , Jungle," but he should, of course, be regarded in quRe another light, and "would then be found to be gifted with a special ly directed intelligence of a very highly developed kind. For nearly twenty years, writes Mr. Schillings, no one had succeeded in bringing a young rhinoceros alive to Europe. It seemed to the author that the cause of the many young animals pin ing away must lie in the neglect or what he calls a spiritual need. In all cases the mother had been killed. In the case of my young rhinocer os, 1 replaced the mother by a she goat. After a few days the j-oung rhino" had made such friends with her, without being suckled, that he followed her about everywhere, 'and even now, in captivity, is not to be parted from her and the kid she has since produced. The massive young rhinoceros con sorting with the two East African goats is a curious sight. The public, that i to say, the public which fre quents the zoological gardens on a Sunday, does not know what to make of them. "Look, children," you may- hear" paterfamilias remark; "look at the rhinoceros and the poor little goats. Isn't it sad? He will eat them up." It does not enter the good head that an unselfish feeling of friend ship, a crying need of companion ship, can find a place in the heart of this uncouth denizen of the wilder ness. This young rhinoceros attached himself to me in a very few weeks, and got to distinguish quite clearly between the large number of men who came into touch with him, bear ing himself quite differently with dif ferent individuals,, just as he still singles me out from all the thousands who approach him now in the gar dens. PIKE AND MAN AND SPUR. A singular incident connected with fishing is related by the author of "Wild Sports of the West of Ire land." A party of fishermen were out fn a boat after gudgeon near Sun bury. One of the men, who had lamed his horse some miles from home, had been taken on board, but was not ' fishing. As a penalty for wearing spurs, he sat in the bow with his feet hanging over the side of the skiff. Soon after he got into the boat one of the anglers caught a small gudgeon, which , he playfully hung on the horseman's projecting spur. The incident was forgotten, and the gudgeon hung there, its tail just touching the water. Suddenly the man gave a cry of astonishment, and the others, looking up, saw a large pike flounering about the dan gling foot and splashing the water in vigorous fashion. The boat began rocking, and the man in the bow lost his balance and tumbled into the lake, where he . disappeared from Bight. A moment later he rose to the sur face, . the pike still thrashing the water about his foot, and it was seen that the fish was caught on the spur. The jack was a huge fellow and very strong, and in its struggles for free dom it plunged toward the bottom of the lake, dragging the man feet fore most after it. His weight, however, was too much for the fish, and it made small headway. The fisherman now went to the assistance of their luckless companion, and one of them struck the jack with an oar and stunned it. The man was pulled into the boat and the fish dispatched. The big fish had jumped for the gudgeon, fixed its teeth in its body, and had somehow been caught by the gill on the crane-necked spur.- Forest and Stream. SVEN HEDIN'S PERILOUS TRIP. There is something that stirs the imagination in the thought that Stockholm's most distinguished son L surely no one will deny the title to Sven Hedin as even now crossing Over from Turkestan to the starting place on .the .Tarim River, in the heart of Asia, which knows him so well already. His rooms on the Blaiseholm are shut up, and no one knows less than himself whether he will ever ei ter them again. For the third time he is essaying the most dangerous journey that yet remains on this law-abiding planet that to Lhasa. 'Correspondence of the Lon don Telegraph. COOLNESS SAVES HIM. Seymour Harris, of Morrisville, was recently attacked by a bull in El mer Ryder's barnyard, and nothing but Mr. Harris' coolness -probably saved him from a horrible death. He was hit square in front by the animal, his body fortunately between the horns, and knocked flat upon his back into 'a fetid pool of the yard. The bull stood for a time over him and went through all the motions of goring a victim, but Mr. Harris had the self-control to lie perfectly still as if dead, and this act doubtless saved his life. Beyond resulting lameness and unavoidable effects of the shock Mr, Harris was uninjured. St. Albans Messenger. GIRL SAVES FOUR MEN. On Lake Massebessic, N. H., in a terrific squall, Miss Helen E. Joyce, eighteen years old, of Maplewood, Mass., rescued four men from a dis abled steam launch. The waves were dashing over the little craft and she was drifting rapidly to the shoals when Miss Joyce, rushing to a skiff Dear her cottage,- jumped into it and put off. Just as she pulled her boat under the lee of the launch the latter grounded and the waves rolled com pletely over it. Taking the four men aboard Miss Joyce rowed into calmer water near the shore. popular eieqee 8 Birds differ very mucn in the heights to which they commonly as cend. The condor, the largest of all vultures and of all flying birds, haa been observed soaring over 29,000 feet, or about five miles and a half above the level of the sea. There is now hardly a town or evea ft village in the district of Bilboa, es pecially when situated in the vicinity of running water j where electric light Is not used. A great use has teenT made during the year of electric mo tors for small industries and work shops, these replacing in many case small steam engines. As far as Bil bao is concerned, some further 4000 horsepower was introduced from ' Guipuzcoa, while 1906 will see some S.000 horsepower more employed. A naturalist relates that the ap pearance of perch, bream and cray fish in newly cut dams near the Mac- quarie River, in New South Wales, was at first a perplexing mystery, the fishes even being noticed after the first rains in the dams,' and for some vears spontaneous generation was re garded as the only possible explana- ion. Then came a simple and credi ble solution of the problem in a Syd ney zoologist's discovery of half hatched fish ova on the breast antf wings of a wild duck. Our much neglected sense of smell ?an be put to important uses. When well developed it may serve in med ical diagnosis, and some English phy sicians have pointed , out lately that diabetes, enteric fever, acute rheuma tism, plague, abdominal fistula, -un dressed cancers, erysipelas in "soma :ases, gangrene of the lung, pyaemia. septic mouth, bleeding hemorrhoids and undressed varicose ulcers are imong the disorders that emit charac :eristic odors, and that can be recog nized, by smellalone. Care is neces sary, however, as the physician, after Influenza or the taking of alcohol himself, may fancy his own odor . tt be that of his patient. Records show great risk to workers In caissons at pressures of four at mospheres, and by divers at depths of 100 to 150 feet, and the British Ad dnralty has fixed the limit for divers 120 feet. The most daring pearl .and sponge fishers reach 145 feet, ac- ;idents being frequent. Lambert, who brought $500,000 from a depth f 160 feet, remained below twenty minutes each trip, taking an equal :ime in ascending, but at last he was permanently injured by too long a stay below. The deepest recorded live is 204 feet, but the diver died from too rapid ascent. Two recent British investigators of the effects of hi-gli pressure have shut each other Into a steel cylinder of a capacity of forty-two feet, with a pump raising ;he pressure to seven atmospheres in forty minutes. In this pressure they tnffered no harm when decompression fvas gradual and circulationwas aided 3y movements of the body. The con tusion is confirmed that fatal results :o divers are due to the rapid decom pression. J EIGHT CITIES SUPERPOSED, Gezer Built on Homes of Cave Dwell ers as Old as 3500 B. C. Excavations of the ancient city of Gezer, mentioned in early sacred and profane history, carried on by mem bers of the Palestine Exploration Fund for the last three years have developed numerous "finds," accord ing to advices, from Jerusalem pub lished in the number of the Biblical World recently issued from the Uni versity of Chicago press. Eight cities have been found, su perimposed upon each other, on the side of the old defen.se to the western road to Jerusalem from the moun tains of Judah. The culture, his tory, religion and customs from as far back as 33 00 B. C. have been revealed by architecture, jugs, weap ons, masonry, etc. Dr. E. W. G. Masterman, a mem ber of the excavating party, writes as follows: "The earliest inhabitants lived in caves and made all their weapons and instruments of flint. In the mid dle period bronze is the only metal known, while at a time roughly syn chronous with the coming of Israel, iron appears and gradually replaces bronze. "Work of excavating is temporarily suspended, as the three years' Tuik isu firman has expired. It is hop 3d to get a new iiman, when the re searches again will be resunred." Eej ond Him. In th staging of one of his earlier plays, Joseph Jesrson, accompanied by a friend, attends! a rehearsal, at which a lively disagr?emsnt aros between two of, the actresses as to the possession of the centre of the stage during a certain scene; While the manager roared oil upon the troubled waters Jefferson sat care lessly swinging his feet from-the rait of an adjoining box. The fi-iend could stand it no longer. "Good Lord, JeHcrson," he " ex claimed, "this will ruin your play. Why don't you. settle matters? Yoir could if you only would!" JefCersoir shook his head gravely, but with a twinkle in his eye. "No, George," he replied; "the Lord only made one man who could eJ-er man age the sun and the moon, and yo 'remember even he let the star ione" Harper's Weekly.
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