THE FAR TRAVELER BOBS UP.
He Stops for a Few Mltiutes, Re-
lates His Experiences, Lights
a Cigarette and is Off Again.
Tbe Far Traveler quickly alight
ed from the slowly moving- train
and joined a group of idle men in
front of the station. "I've had all
sorts of experience," quoth he, as
he shook hands all round. 'Been
in Mexico, Panama, and engaged in
several revolutions in Hayti. My
doings on this trip would make a
volume."
After he had given the crowd
time to catch their breaths, he
burst forth with, "You didn't know
I was a lady-killer, did you? Well,
I am. I was out in Yellowstone
Park just five months atro and as I
was passing along I heard shrieks
of distress. I turned quickly from
the beaten path. To the left sat a
young woman. She was holding
her foot in her hand and softly
moaning. I quickly approached
and learned that she had stepped
into a hot spring and had burned
her foot so badly that she could not
walk. I gathered her up and car
ried her to the hotel and there left
her. But," and The Far Traveler
surveyed his friends quizzically,
'paradoxical as it may seem to you
who have long known me, I could
not forget that face. I will not
bore you with a description of m'
feelings. She was a vision and I
was caught.
"1 had to leave the hotel it
costs to live out there and did not
see the young lady for a long time
to be accurate, three weeks. I
saw her then at church. I glanced
up at the choir and my eye was at
once caught by the image of that
girl. She was playing the big pipe
organ and raised her head and
glanced into the beautiful mirror
placed before her. I recognized her
and thought that she was aware of
my presence too. . She gave no out
ward sign of it, however, save low
ering her eyes to the keys.
"I determined to renew our ac
quaintance after service and with
that end in view waylaid her. But,
boys, she cut me dead. Rabbits'
blood and feathers! but I was weak!
I straightway prepared for revenge.
I forgot my love. I burned to do
something fierce. I could not sleep.
I just thought, thought, thought!
At last an inspiration struck me I
would exchange the mirror in front
of the organ for one of these things
that .makes a person look like his
first ancestor. That would fix her.
I vould change it for next Sun
day's morning service. She would
be playing and would suddenly
glance up and presto! what a
change would come over her. How
she would feel! How I would laugh
to myself! I had it all mapped out.
It must work and it did.
"I bribed tbe janitor and we ar
ranged everything brilliantly. I
Kubstituted the hideous miiror for
the beauty and prepared for the
show. The time canie and along
with it the exhibition.
"Now, I had calculated on the
girl's keeping silent until after
church. But she didn't. She just
leant over the rail and whispered
something to the preacher. He
never appeared as if moved. He
merely scanned tbe congregation,
and when the deacons came up with
the cash, he gave them instructions.
I became uneasy. And when all
six of those brethren camped right
near me, I just knew there would
be something worth witnessing
after a while.
"The congregation was dismiss
ed. I started to leave, but a deacon
requested me to remain for the
after-meeting.
"I lingered a few minutes, and
thinking the audience nearly out of
sight, I dashed for peaceful valleys.
But it was no go. I got a good
start, but was soon caught. A
crowd collected and that confound
ed old preacher and his deacons put
feathers on my legs and marched
triumphantly with me through the
streets and that on Sunday."
"What did you do about it?" ask
ed one of the listeners, as The Far
Traveler lit a fresh cigarettt.
"I was so humiliated to think
that Christian people could act so
that I left town at once and went to
Mexico and Panama. .So long!"
Not waiting for a reply, he
caught the southbound train and
was off.
And a certain elderly man
in the crowd of idlers about
the station repeated for the hun
dredth time his prophecy made
twenty years back that The Far
Traveler would be hanged some
day. "I tell you, fellers," said he
with an ominous look, "it ain't as
far off as it was, either."
Professor Williams on Life Work
Choosing.
In yielding to the demands made
upon its space by the Thanksgiving
championship contest The Tar
HEEL failed inadvertently to men
tion the strong and thoughtful ad
dress of Prof. H. H. Williams in
opening the series of "Life Work
Lectures," inaugurated by the Y.
M. C. A. early in December.
Prof. Williams took as his sub
ject: "The Principles and Motives
Which Should Govern a Young
Man in the Choice of His Life
Work." The principle governing
choice, said he, lies within the na
ture of the man himself. He has
but to study 1. imself, his inclina
tions and qualities, in order to de
termine whether he is intended by
nature for a doctor or lawyer or
preacher.
The question of motives is dif
ferent. Motive governs not the
choice Of one's vocation, but the
eminence to which he shall rise in
that vocation. It is optional entire
ly with the individual. He cannot
decide arbitrarily whether he will
be a lawyer or doctor; he can decide
what sort of lawyer or doctor he
will be. Ingoing into any work,
therefore, the young man should
see to it that his motives are of the
purest and the highest. The man
who enters upon that work for
which he is fitted, with whole
hearted earnestness and actuated by
the highest motives need not fear
for success.
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Gallery will be open every Wednesday of each week,
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WORK ONLY. Prices reasonable. A fine set of
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OF
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If it is not satisfactory,
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They are making- a spec
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which cities the trading stores are the Burk stores, the
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ready-to-wear, but also to the expensive merchant
tailor kind, Invariably obtaining better all around
satisfaction and saving handsomely in expenditures
besides.
It is our purpose to introduce this
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University. We have the most exten
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son. Orders left with our agents will
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