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SYNOPSIS.
' Archibald Terhune, a popular and in
dolent young bachelor of London, re
eaivas news that he has been made heir
to th estate of hla Aunt Georgrtnna. with
an income of IJ0.C00 a year, on condition
that he beoome engaged to be married
Within ten days. Falling to do so the
Jtffkcr will go to a third cousin In Amer
ica. The story opens at Castle Wyckoff,
where Lord Vincent and his wife, friends
f Terhune, are discussing plans to find
him a wife within the prescribed time. It
ems thst I.adv Vincent Is one of seven
persons named Agatha, all close girlhood
chums flh-j dtc'des to invite two of them
it the. castle and have Archie there as
on of the guests. Agatha Sixth strikes
'Archie as a handpalnted beauty. Agatha
First Is a breezy American girl. Uady
Vlnoent tells her luipband that Agatha
Sixth already cares for Archie. He gains
from Agatha Sixth the admission that
he cares for him. but will require a
month's time fullv to make up her mind.
Agatha First, neglected by Terhune, re
ceive attentions from Leslie Freer. Four
days of the precious time have passed
when Terhune Is called to London on
business. Agatha First, on the plea of
sickness, excises herself from a motor
trip planned by the Vincents. Later they
see Agatha First picking floWers with a
tranrn man. The Vincents discuss
Agatha's seeming duplicity. The follow
ing day the party visits the ruins of an
old convent. Terhune continues his at
tentions to Agatha Sixth. Then suddenly
jj transfers his attentions to Agatha
First. Vincent scores him for his appar
ent fickleness. The last evening of the
time allotted in which to become ensraged
arrives. The following day Solicitor Burns
Will arrive from London, and the Vin
cents are anxious to consummate the en
gagement. Vincent discovers Agatha
First and a man with his arm around
her waist. Vincent decides that the man
must be Terhune. The next morning Ter
hune and Agatha First are very friendly
at the breakfast table, while Agatha
Sixth seems somewhat displeased. Solici
tor Burns arrives. The Vincents are
anxious. In an Interview of Vincent and
his wife the latter cries in desperation
over the puzzling condition of affairs.
CHAPTER X. Continued.
"Then don't you understand?" she
said. "Don't you see?"
"Well, really, Dearest, I don't," I
had to acknowledge. "I don't see what
all that has to do with "
But her quickly bent head and low
choked cry of "Wilfred!" interrupted
me and then the oddest thing of all
happened. There was my own wife
crying and there was I, her own hus
band, unable to comfort her because
he pushed me away every time I
came near her.
It was too much. And hang it all!
,The cause of all the friendships in
the world wasn't worth that moment's
pain. I was disgusted with tho whole
business, and in my agitation I went
down to the stables and flung myself
on a horse to try and ride the rancour
of my first taste of Dearest's displeas
ure out of my veins. But I didn't
make very good work of it and I am
Afraid anathematized Agatha First
and Agatha Sixth and even old Ter
hune himself all the way out and al!
the way back.
When I returned it was twelve
o'clock and the footman told me at
the door that Solicitor Barnes had ar
rived and was in the library. As I
have said, In accordance with Ter
hune's aunt's wishes, Dearest had in
vited Mrs. James' solicitor, Mr.
Barnes, of Barnes, Willoughby & Sons,
up from London to take luncheon with
us, that he might be present at the
time when the stipulated ten days ex
pired and be witness to the fact that
the time was not overstepped by so
much as a minute. They had sent
the station wagon to meet him as per
Dearest's arrangements, and he had
reached the castlo not ten minutes be
fore my own arrival. I was glad of
that, for I remembered, with a new
and troubled sense that I was no
longer in her good graces, that my
wife had Instructed me to meet him
myself.
Impelled by this thought, I hurried
into the library without changing my
riding things and found Solicitor
Barnes pacing restlessly up and down
the apartment and glancing at his
watch from time to time.
"Ah! Lord Vincent?" he asked we
had not yet met and as I assented I
hook his thin Impassive hand as cor
dially as I could. He was like most
barristers I have met, a fishy looking
beast, though one couldn't help ad
miring the look of omniscience about
him, as If never so much at home.
"And how is Lady Vincent?" he in
quired politely, when I had finished
apologizing for my attire and for my
neglect to meet him at the station.
Conversation was certainly flagging.
I had no heart for it, with all I had
on my mind, and had begun to feel
pretty well talked out, when a foot
man appeared in the doorway and
wanted to know if he was to show
the gentleman upstairs.
I didn't answer his question. It
seemed too much trouble to have to
explain to William that the barrister
was not a guest overnight, and instead
I inquired where Lady Vincent was.
I thought it rather odd that she did
not come down and welcome Mr.
Barnes, and was almost annoyed when
the man Informed me that "Her Lady
ship" was in her room and by her ex
press orders was not to be inter
rupted. "But does she know that Mr. Barnes
Is here?" I asked, rather impatient of
all this mystery. Mr. Barnes himself
answered me before William could
peak.
"My dear Lord Vincent," he said.
"Don't, I pray, trouble about It! I
have been welcomed by your lordship
and shall await Lady Vincent's pleas
ure in regard to meeting her, which
will be soon, no doubt, for we lunch
at one, do we not?" He took out his
big open-faced watch.
"What time is it?" I asked anxious
ly, as a sudden remembrance of the
Importance of that same luncheon
rushed over me. Would Terhune sit
down to It an affianced or a free man?
appeared again I asked him where
Mr. Terhune was, realizing at the
same time that it was just as much
Arch's duty to entertain old Barnes,
since the solicitor had come upon his
business after all.
"Don't know, your lordship. Will
try to find him," said William, leaving
the room Just in time to escape col
liding with Terhune. who burst In up
on us in a manner so unceremonious
and excitable as to be quite unlike
himself.
"Upon my word, Vincent," he ex
claimed, quite Ignoring Solicitor
Barnes, "I'm glad I've found you! I
thought I never should! I say, where
have you been?"
"Riding," I replied, "for an hour or
two, and talking to Mr. Barnes, which
you should have been doing also. I
don't think you've spoken to him yet,
have you?" But far from attending
to my hint, he hardly let me finish
before he grasped my shoulder and
was shaking It nervously.
"I've made a mess of it, Vincent!"
he said, and his voice stirred me to
real feeling, It was so genuinely dis
tressed. "Upon my word I have! I
wouldn't have believed It If you'd told
me yesterday, but she's refused me!"
"By Jove!" I expostulated, for of
course I knew that Agatha Sixth was
the "she" referred to. "You don't say
so!" And somehow I felt just as sur
prised and disappointed as if I had
not known of my friend's rash es
capade of the night before. I had felt
so sure that It would all come right.
"Refused me!" he went on distract
edly. "Just as if I'd been the dirt
under her feet, my dear boy! As if I
were insulting her by asking her!
Me a Terhune! As if I were insult
ing her!" His face flushed again at
the thought and he ran an agitated
"Gad, Wilfred!" he went on in de
spairing tones. "Think what I've lost!"
"Yes," I agreed. "Dash it all! I
thought we had you all fixed for a for
tune. Arch!"
But he didn't appear to hear me, for
he dropped despondently into an arm
chair, repeating as if to himself,
"Think what I've lost!"
There was a momentary silence In
the room, broken only by the dry
clearing of Mr. Barnes' legal throat.
Then I went over and put my hand on
Arch's shoulder. I felt sorry for him,
and I couldn't bear to see all my
bright plans for his future end so. 1
wouldn't have it, In fact. "Come,
come!" I expostulated, "Don't give up!
You must make another try! Surely
you're not going to throw away your
only chance of inheriting a property
that will make you rich for life and
which should be yours by right of your
aunt's promise, for the lack of a little
spirit! Or if you do, it's not like you,
that's all!"
But my words did not succeed in
arousing him.
"Oh, as to that," he said, speaking
from the depths of his misery and the
arm chair, "as to having another try,
look at the clock!" I looked. It was
half after twelve.
"Time's up at one, isn't it, Barnes?"
he asked, taking notice of that worthy
barrister for the first time.
"I believe it is, Mr. Terhune," re
plied Mr. Barnes, as indifferently as if
it were only a question of boiling
breakfast eggs.
"You see," said Arch, looking at me
despairingly, "there's no use talking of
urging her again. I could do nothing
at all with her in that short time, even
if I were inclined to. It's a pity, of
course. I rather fancied that property
of my aunt's. An income of $20,000 a
year is a good deal to lose at one blow.
Especially when the blow is unexpect
ed! By Jove, you know, she did half
way promise to marry me, after all!
Can't think why she changed her
mind!" But of course I could think,
and I didn't quite see how Terhune
could cail the blow unexpected.
"You know I warned you that you
were paying far too much attention to
Agatha First," I said, "but you would
indulge your fondness for flirtation and
you see the result an upset kettle of
Ash!" It was all the reference to the
mm i
"Yes, I Did Ask the Girl to Marry Me."
hand through his thick, slightly gray
hair, careless of the disorder it left in
its wake.
"Poor old chap!" I said pityingly. I
felt thunderingly sorry for him, for It
was uncommonly hard lines, but some
how I couldn't think of a thing to say
that made matters any better.
"Where was It?" I asked him with a
natural curiosity to learn the scene of
the disaster.
"In the west garden,", he replied.
"I'd been sticking in the house all
morning waiting for her to come down
stairs. You know she went up right
after breakfast, but hadn't succeeded
in seeing her. So I thought I'd take a
turn In the garden to brace me up,
and there she was herself!"
"Fine!" I ejaculated, as interested
in his recital of the catastrophe as
if I were at a play or watching the
races. We had both of us forgotten
Solicitor Barnes, who had retired dis
creetly to the hearthrug and was
pacing it with mathematical precision.
"Not eo fine!" went on Terhune,
"because she made as if to escape me
directly, which of course wasn't very
encouraging! "
"Decidedly not!" I exclaimed. "But
you asked her?"
"I did. I blocked her way as she
started up the path, put my cane right
across In front of her, and asked her
why she wanted to run away from me
when all I wanted in the world was to
stay by her all the rest of my life!"
"Bravo!" I cried. "Played, indeed!
And then?"
"And then," he said, polishing his
eyeglass furiously as he spoke, "and
then If she didn't go ajid pretend to
misunderstand me! But I didn't let
that hinder me. I simply said It again
as plain as man can put it, 'Will you
marry me?' " He stopped and I could
see that pain and anger, resentment
and humiliation for the moment had
mastered his power of speech. "And
then?" I prompted him again.
"Why then she refused me!" he said.
"She told me if I were the last manon
earth she wouldn't marry mel It was
very cruel and I can't imagine why she
should speak so harshly!" I thought I
could. .1 fancied I understood Agatha
Sixth's reasons for behaving as sheidid
perfectly well, in the light of her suit
or's performance the previous evening.
uut ol course Terhune was still in the
scene in the drawing room of the night
before that I Intended to make. After
all, as in the case of my discovery of
the red automobile in the wood, we had
seen what we were not meant to have
seen. And until Arch came to me and
spoke of that event himself and asked
my advice, my hurt friendship made
me resolve not to demand his confi
dence or thrust advice upon him. Let
him keep his secret if that was his
wish. I would not Intrude upon it,
though his reticence pained me ever so
much.
"I couldn't very well help it," he re
plied. "Upon my word I couldn't. The
girl's very fetching, you know, and she
seemed to take such an extraordinary
fancy to me that I couldn't help re
sponding. Agatha Sixth, on the other
hand, had hardly a word to say to
me ! "
"Of course not!" I said hotly. "The
more attention you paid Co Agatha
First, the less Miss Lawrence paid to
you. That was quite natural. You'd
asked the girl to marry you, you know,
and she couldn't understand why you
should want to have anything to do
with anyone else!"
"Yes, I did ask the girl to marry me,
and she chose to keep me waiting for
an answer," replied Arch impatiently,
"which kept everything at a standstill.
I couldn't go ahead till she said the
word, and as time hung heavy on my
hands "
You made love to some one else.
Deuced clever!" I interposed sarcasti
cally. "Well, I couldn't make love to her
very well, could I, when she wouldn't
say positively whether she wanted me
to or not? She kept me at arm's
length all the time!"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
CHAPTER XI.
"The noon hour exactly," said he
"Great Scotland!" I exclaimed aloud
Then the deed, I thought, must be
done; I had been two hours riding
Terhune must have decided his fate
one way or the other during that
r. , q ?xcltlne- I rang j dark as to our knowledge of that epi
for a footman and when William had ! ode.
Charity Covers, Etc
Mrs. George McFadden, the beauti
ful Phlladelphian who made the Span
ish dance of "The Roses" the feature
of the Newport season, said at a din
ner, In answer to a compliment on
her success with this waltz:
"Yes, I had better luck than a friend
of mine in Philadelphia. My frien
gave a oharity concert in the ballroom
of her country house, and the piece
de reslsatnce of the concert was the
Spanish dance, performed by
young bachelors and debutantes.
"At the entertainment's end my
friend shook hands with a group of
iittiu oiu women irom one of
homes to be benefited.
Shines of Pioneer Days.
"A file of bootblacks now does duty
in front of the California exchange
and the man with dirty boots who
passes them and is no customer must
run the gantlet. Capital enters the
field with the armchairs and cushions,
and to the armchairs and cushions
newspapers are added. Close to the
customer's eyes is this placard:
'Boots blacked (not wet or greased),
25 cents. Boots blacked (when wet or
greased), 50 cents. Boots blacked (all
over, legs, etc.), 50 cents.'" Whittle
sticks Wide West. A paper published
in tsan Francisco fifty years ago.
'"Well, ma'am, least said soonest
mended, and besides, the object was
so deservin'.' "
Christ in
Office of King
By Rev. Robert McHugh Morris
Pastor of First Presbyterian Church
Evnton, IIL
TEXT For thus shall be richly sup
plied unto you an entrance Into the eter
nal kingdom of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. II Peter 1, It
The risen Savior executes three of
fices. He is our prophet revealing to
us by his word and spirit the will of
God for our salvation. He is our
priest, offering up of himself a sacri
fice to satisfy divine justice and
reconcile us to God, and in making
continual Intercession for us. He is
our king. In his kingly office he sub
dues us to himself; he rules and de
fends us; he restrains and conquers
all his and our enemies.
That we may search ourselves and
see first if we are citizens of his king
dom, and second, how loyal we are to
that kingdom, let us note what are the
conditions of citizenship. We shall
find these conditions by references
which originate in the king as he
stands in his relation to us, and in this
manner be able to show what is our
religion toward him.
The first phrase which we are
taught as setting forth the manner
of Christ's execution of the office of
kingship toward us is that he subdues
us to himself. We talk much of Christ
subduing the world. We pray, some
times half-heartedly and sometimes
with great meaning, that his kingdom
may come, that his will may be done
in earth .as it is in heaven. We con
jure before our mind's eye the law
breakers, the flagrant sinners of the
world. We draw melodramatic pic
tures of the thief, the drunkard, the
roue, the murderer being subdued to
the will of Christ.
There is something about the mid
night mission which appeals to our
dramatic sense. Wa love to dwell
upon the rescuing of the perishing;
we love to sing about throwing out
the life-line; we love to talk about the
gospel being preached in all foreign
lands. We swell with pride when we
hear how Korea is coming to Christ,
how China and Japan are being en
lightened by his light. We are ready
to shout and say, "that is good, fine,
let it go on. The time will soon come
when the earth is as full of the knowl
edge of the Iord as waters cover the
seas."
Now friends, that's all objective and
external. It's all good; but the first
thing anyone should see to when he
prays that God's will be done in
earth as it is done in heaven is that
he himself be subdued to Christ.
There are church members who will
work for others and give money to
missions (and both these things they
should do) but who unfortunately stop
just at that point and do not permit
themselves to be subdued.
The first question for you and me
to say is, "Has Christ subdued us un
to himself?" Do you know there was
and is a profound psychological and
spiritual reason or meaning behind
the "mourners' bench" of our Metho
dist brethren. We like the phrase,
"mourners' bench." There may be
better ones. Perhaps the idea would
be better expressed if we said, ' the
self-abnegating bench," the place
where men are willing to say, "I ir
render myself." Not "I surrender five
hours a week to the work of the
ehurch;" not "I surrender one hun
dred dollars a year to carry on his
work;" not "I surrender a nominal al
legiance to the kingdom, and am glad
that the kingdom is spreading;" not
that I surrender my name to the roll
of some chiirch and condescend to let
my greatness reflect credit and glory
upon the church of Christ. But that I
i surrender myself, that I surrender
; my will which is the same as saying
that I am subdued.
Brethren, the first condition of en
trance into this kingdom is not regis
tering our names on the church rolls,
or on the cbarity lists, or on the work
ers' tablets, good though these things
may be; but the first element is being
subdued to the king.
The second thing is that when we
are subdued he rules and defends us.
Now the fulership of Christ Is not a
hard rule. He is not a despicable and
unfeeling tyrant. "My yoke," he said,
"is easy and my burden is light." It
is necessary for us to bear the burden,
the yoke must needs be worn. But
the burden cannot crush us and the
yoke does not gall when we are sub
dued to his will.
If we are subdued his ruling will
seems mild and gentle. It will not be
arbitrary; it will not be merely that
he might crush us beyond all hope of
insurrection. He does not restrain
from traitorous acts so much by
threats of dire punishment as by show
ing us the pain it will cause his heart.
He rules us not so much through fear
as through the great power of love.
But none the less he must rule.
We all want the defense of the gov
ernment. We walk these streets at
night with a feeling of greater or less
security, because we feel that the gov
ernment of the city, through its po
lice, is defending us.
So it is in this kingdom of Christ.
It Is only whilo we are under the rul
ership of the king that he can defend
us.
Now the third and last thing involv
ed in this execution of the office of
kingship is that Christ restrains and
conquers all his enemies, who are our
enemies as well. Notice how this
comes merging quietly out of our last
thought. For to revert to our illus
tration: Whiie we are loyal citiens
of the city, the lawbreakers are the
common enemy of the city and of
ourselves. But when we have outlaw
ed ourselves then we have become an
enemy to the city.
vby WILBUR D NEfEJT 1
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We read a lot of foolish men
Who brave the crowded stores
And get bewildered now and then.
Upon the many floors;
We read about these men who rush
Where human angels tread
And somewhere 'twlxt the silk and plush
Are crushed till they are dead.
Some vain, proud man, perchance, will go
A-shopplng for his wife,
And struggle madly to and fro
And barely save his life.
Or he will try the livelong day
The ribbon place to find
And then be slowly led away
With remnants of his mind.
But there was once a man who went
Completely through a store
And many lagging moments spent
Upon each stocked-up floor,
And never were his ribs crushed In
Nor were his weary feet
Tramped on by women fat and thin
Who surged In from the street. '
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Yet take It as 'tis told.
For It Is nothing but the truth
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Nor was he big and broad and stout.
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Losing Time and Losing Hair.
"My yousg friend." said the shave of
statistics, "have you ever paused to
think how much of your life is spent
in combing your hair? Say you comb
your hair three times daily. That
means, at a small estimate, five min
uses each time, or 15 minutes a day
Ninety-one hours a year. At the end
of 50 years you will have spent 4,550
hours, or, In round numbers, 190 days,
simply combing your hair. Many a
great fortune has been made In 190
days."
"Yes," answered the young man,
continuing to ply his military brush
es, "and did you ever stop to figure
up how much more time a man
wastes after he is 50 in dyeing, coax
ing, and worrying what little hair ho
has left, to say nothing of the price
less hours of his old age, which he
simply throws to the dogs by fretting
and fuming because he can't comb his
stray locks over his bald si.ot so a3
to make them look like a natural
growth ?"
Down to Brass Tacks.
"It is a wonderful story," 6ays the
publisher to the new author, whose
manuscript has just been accepted,
"but you have failed in one. impor
tant feature. You do not describe the
way the heroine was dresed when
the hero first met her. You'd better
write in a paragraph about her
clothes, but try to avoid the conven
tional." The Ingenious author, knowing the
sameness of costume descriptions in
the best sellers, and also knowing how
to make an appeal to the feminine
heart, wrote:
"Heloise floated toward him, garbed
in a $600 dress, a $250 hat, with
a $98.75 mantilla over a $375 lace
coat"
Jelped this nation to independence
during the Revolution. An even more
important statue is the splendid one
to (Jen. U. S. Grant, which will cost,
when completed, about a quarter of a
million dollars. Then there will be
new statues to sut h naval heroes as
Commodore Barry and John Paul
Jones and a statue to Christopher
Columbus as a part of a mammoth
memorial fountain.
Time was, and not so very long ago,
either, when the prospect of having
to conduct this series of statue unveil
Ings would have put on the keen edge
of uneasiness those public officials
i whose duty It Is to look after such
, functions. Our federal authorities
have long been accustomed to con
ducting formal ceremon-'es of all kinds
state or military funerals, parades,
etc. but for years a statue unveiling
had the reputation of being about the
' most difficult spectacle to conduct that
could be devised. For one thing, it
combined all the difficulties of a pa-
i rade and a mass meeting. The pres
ident of the United States almost in
variab'y participates in every unveil
ing, and that means problems of its
own. And finally. It seemed In the
light of bitter experience as thougli
there was always some mishap or slip
up that marred more or less the actual
unveiling, that Is, the removal of the
coverings which have until the event
ful day Fhrouded the statue and
screened it from the gaze of a curious
public.
But these uncertainties of bygone
days are now. happily, n thing of the
past. Government officials, spurted
by the (hagrlr, of unsuccessful urivell
ings. have perfected a system which
enables the present-day unveiling to
proceed like clockwork. There has
finally been evolved a definite fixed
routine just as there is a set of hard
and fast rules for inaugurating a pres
ident or conducting a military or naval
funeral and the federal experts who
make a business of these public shows
could almost conduct one with their
eyep shut, so to s;eak
Much of the cr dlt for the F tem
and routlre that has been Introduced
in statue unveiling belongs to C I.
Frederick D. Ow. n On the federal
payroll Col. Owen appears as one of
the officials of the office of public
buildings and grounds, but unofficially
he is known at leas: "behind the
scenes" at Vashlngt n rf Uncle
Sam's professional r.nd expert mas
ter of ceremonies with statue unveil
ing? as his specialty. Col Owen has
this whole complicated subject ct his
finger tips and he personally .-uper-vlses
tie arrangements from the dfly
they begin to build the foundation for
a new 6tatue until the lawn around
the pedestal Is socded after the spec
tacle is ail over. He knows just how
many flags will be required for th dec
orations and where to lay hands upon
them; he knows where the saluting
battery must be stationed in order
ihat the boom of their guns may sound
loud enough and yet nor too loud, he
knows where to pla' e the president s
own the U c y,-;r!re T
chorus of vocalists if
one Moet Imporu-.nt i.f hi: )..
where to teat tac h snd :
the hundreds of digiln&ries
lend such a reremoi.lal It
understood -hat It is not rr
question either of se.-.-ltc e.
so that they will romforia
hve an unobsiru'-i d
ceremonies In r'Vltlon to c
Flderatlons n t!. more In
ones of the rank ol ea. p
and the honors nr.d j-onMon t
he Is entitled in ror.seq-,, t.r.
man who conducl? a hip ur.ve'
emony in Washington n j'
who is who and who g .
Just as ftcrurately the ru
manage the president's r
the White House
Alter all. hr.we-irr perhaps t
important Improvement 1
brorght about un i ; this :
Ftatue -.m veilings U font d
method adopted (or the bn..i
Ing. Under the old plan, as !.
no'rd. the draperies r
to catch or tangle Thei
tugging followed by the
of loth and the s:.-it-,i
(lothing was dragged away ir, d
edly dilapidated 'ondl'lon 1't.ier f
new system the stat je to he '.;:.veU-4
Is complete!) covered from l.eed
foot with large Amervar. g h-.i
these are so arranged with ropes tnd
pulleys that v. her. a stgna :s glvea
they fall bwbv from the sculptured
figure, and. better yet. Instead of Ut
tering the pedestal, are drawn LtoT
and away from the statue Ti.li
scheme enables persons n all s'd-s
of the Ftatue to get a g'.od vlen of the
new monument and furt
pretty touch Is added -o
hy the uplifted flags wf-.-breere
from overhead rop
the space above ti, m.-.- ,e
this system of flg unveiling Is not an
easy one to arrange and a special
crew of expert riggers ' r ade ur "t
enlisted teamen In 'he navy !' de
tailed to am-rige and manipulate -he
network of ropes that control the
flaps The gov. rr.rne; t is c :.:ng
to g. t application Ii'm h ;a- b of
the country, wher.evej a i tc,
be inve:.ej, io loan ins ir.ittt-r '. rer-
y lriiOt s
t r- w t, a
f s ; ' : g ' kt
w erst a hr
'Id
I
h
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it roure
men!'
hand).
nd Ms rr
t he pra ' ". :
v. of
i part
r:ggers to
f the eveot.
Do Animals Reason?
TSkT
r
4
i
Yes we got the co-
party bro.ight her d
the river as she v v
to f ioss t.ark hf.:'.
of the dogs "
ne of om
' r. f w n miles up
takJ-.g th water
b 1.1 way blit-ad
Graft in Se!
10 one who can
ng Eggs
afforJ them.
six
the
" 'And how did you like our Spanish
dance?" she asked.
"The old women looked at one an
other m some embarrassment and
finally llna soothing voice one replied
Would Have Boy. Learn Trade.
t J. Bu,ld1. brlns up a11 bya to a
trade if I had children. Th.
I is overstocked with clerks, typists and
-vunuu winers. juage Bacon.
Alphabet of Learning.
The student has often come to the
dangerous habit of thinking that
there is little or nothing to do but
foljow the trend of thought of the
old masters, forgetful that we are
only in the alphabet of learning and
that there are great things to be
thought out and accomplished. Rev.
D. G. Downey, Methodist, Chicago.
The coldblooded are hotheaded
when you hit their pride.
Physical Evil.
I wish here to record a solemn pro
test against a foolish and wicked error
in attributing every physical evil to the
direct act of Omnipotence. It would
seem as if it were high time the more
Intelligent of our race should have out
grown the ignorance of past ages, in
which man attributed to an angry and
chastening God every form of physical
evil. Rev. A. A. Ross, Universalist
Chicago.
Future Grea'ness.
"That boy surely will go to congress
when he grows up," eays the father,
after a vain effort to convince his
young hopeful of the enormity of con
tlnued disobedience.
"What makes you think that?" aski
the mother.
"Every time we send him to dc
something he does just what we don't
want him to do, and then comes home
and argues it was what we wanted
but that we didn't know It."
A Prophecy.
"But," argued the young man, dur
ing the tiff, "if you quarrel with me
about nothing before we are married,
what may I expect afterward?"
"Well." answered the gentle dam
sel, "from what I can hear, very few
wives ever have to quarrel about
nothing."
F ANIMALS don't reason bad, the buck took his leap from where
out the whys aDd where- the bar joined the niain'and. dropped
fores of things and act ac- quickly down alongside the rock, hug-
cordingly," said Col. Hamp ging it close with his head up stream.
Stone of the Big Thicket There he rem.-.lr.ed motionless entirely
luuuir. ii'jaa, w uai was niaa.'n irom anything ca the side from eggs ire cheap at any price, but lu
that big buck that I didn't which he had come. vestigation shows tim much of th
shoot doing that time down "The buck had scarcely got into that extra money that the consumer navs
Devii's mountain way? position when the does came dnshlnv to Amid the rlmk rf r-m1ti u YtuA .em
"They -had put the dogs out, and I out of the woods. They followed the for this breakfuet It simply the dea
was to get to. a Dun pine tree on the doe s trail to the tip of the bar, plung-
east bank of the river, at a place where ed into the water and sw-vm to-
they said the dogs would be apt to ward the opening on my side of the
send a deer into and across the river where the doe had landed and
stream, giving me a fine chance for a bounded away
successful shot. Defore I got there The buck lay agelnst the side of
I heard the dogs baying off on the west the rock as motionless as the rock it
side of the river, which was about 300 self until the dogs got well into the
yards wide there. middle of th" river with their noses
"I was still quite a way from the pointed In the direction In which the
tree when a doe came in sight on the doe had gone. Then he backed down
opposite shore, jumped into the river, to the lower end of the rock and pass
swam across and bounded away into the ed around it to the other side of It.
woods away from me. The dogs were thus hiding himself against possible
still yelping off in the woods across chance of being seen by the dogs
the river, and not yet In sight. I made when they landed cn the
a few big strides and got to the tree, bank.
er's charge u;on tie consumers Ig
norance While Investigating the iutr
ject for the department of agriculture
It was learned that a tcer In New
York city was buying ka eggi for
20 cents and selling thtm under his
private brand name for 4C cents The
crocers across the street were selling
the same egr for cer.te The ex
tra 15 cents was pure graft mae pos
sible by the mere bait's ga" and m
customer's gullibility
Inventive Parent.
Woodbury I noticed that Knewpcp
opposite had electric lights put on his lawn last
summer
Wicked Man.
"Yes. my poor eieter writes that she
is unhappily married. She says she
will never trust another man."
"But what in the world is wrong?"
"She says she married Harold to re
form him, and finds that he has de
ceived her utterly that he only ate
cloves to lead her on, and that he
only knows two pages of Hoyle when
it comes to card playing."
Branching Out.
"So your daughter has given up he
piano studies?" "Yes," replied Mrs.
Cumrox; "I have thought the matter
over and doubt the desirability of let
ting it be understood that we are com
pelled to economize and depend on
home-made music.
as I didn't know what might be ahead "The -dogs landed and went baying Seafon h Yes. and he aio had s
of the dogs yet. just as out of the open- off on the doe s track. As the last baby sling put on his lawn mower H
ing where the doe had leaped and sound of the degs died away the buck's figured, if his baby was wakful. so be
taken the water bounded a big buck. head came slowly In sight at the upper would have to walk with It. h- might
"I dropped behind the tree, expect- end of the rock, until at last the wary as well push his lawn nv wr and cut
ing the buck to come on across. The deer was peering across the river to 'be grass at the saie time I haTS
doe had run out on a tongue of land see If the coast was clear. Satisfied often seen him come from the house at
that extended Into the river about 20 that it was, the buck swam boldly back
feet, and from the extremity of that to the baf. drew himself out on land,
bit of land had jumped Into the wa- threw up his head scornfully as he
ter. Supposing, of course, that the gave one glance in the direction the
buck would seek the same course, I dogs had gone and then bounded back
was ready to let him have it as soon Into the woods out of which he had
as he pulled himself out on my side been driven to save himself by that re-
of the river, but he had other ideas. markable bit of strategy and dlsap-
"The dogs hadn't broken from cover peared.
yet. I could hear them coming not "1 could have dropped him In hia
far behind the buck. Two or three rods tracks as he stood there in his scorn-
from the shore, on that side of the ful pose, but after witnessing that act
river and the same distance below the of almost human ingenuity. I hadn't
the heart to do It. Animals don't
reason out 'he whys and wherefores
of things and act accordingly? What
wps that buck doing then?
midnight, turn on the llght. put The
baby In the sling and start : o; tbe
double job Chicago I (ally News
Modernizing tHe Klondike.
In the Klondike B'eam. hot a:r an
tot water plants ar- displacing the
old-fashioned wood stcv. s t---;-c;al'T
In bote's and the b'gscr tradtnf
places.
ok
tongue of land, was a big rock that
rose perhaps eight feet above the wa
ter. "Instead of coming on as the doe
Naturally.
"So you have lost our
"She s dead."
"Did she die a natura". !--a';
"Yes. the natural death tor a ;ers.cc
that starts a fire with kerosene"'
Local Pride.
"How did Crimson Gulch manage tc
get 6uch a showing in the census?'
"Diplomacy," replied Broncho Bob
"We got the census taker into the
Rosy Glow saloon and didn't let him
go to work until he was seeing double."
Man.
Limited In his nature, Infinite in
remembers 5T ZZS. JL" " " ?B er to .talk ?t dying for
k . ..:t3. "-.. vue ngnx to get busy living aright.
Modern Game of Chess.
Chess, as played today is a compar
atively modern -game, but is the out
come of centuries of development. The
earliest record of chess problems is
thought to be a passage in a Persian
manuscript attributed to Caliph Kallf
en Mutasin Bllah, who reigned nine
years fn Bagdad in the first of the
ninth century, A. D. If the passage
were understood it would be found to
refer to a game of chess so unlike that
of today that the problem would
make no interesting appeal to any
modern chess-player.
Learned Value of Money
Here Is a Valuable Hint for Those
Who Are Careless In Its
Expenditure.
My sister had the faculty of spend
ing money and of having something
to show for It. I had the ability to
disburse my equal allowance and to
have little or nothing left to show
whither It had gone. It was annoy
ing and even embarrassing. I deter
mined to place a check upon the use
less leaks which sapped my financial
strength. I purchased a neat little
leather covered book which would fit
into my purse, and every cent ex
pended was honestly noted down. At
the end of the week I went carefully
over this accumulated list of ex
penses, and opposite those which I
decided were necessary I placed a
tiny circle, opposite those that were
entirely unnecessary I placed a cross.
nnd opposite those whih were of no
particular advantage and could u
well have b--n disjensed with 1
placed a small rectr.ngle
The first week 1 was honet er.ougb
to acknowledge that almost every ei
lendlture called for a cross Tbe
next week the rectangles predomina
ted, and after that the circles tirta
to prow more numerous and need
less to say the items were fewer
I learner why my sister couid al
ways have ready money and ? fct be
well dressed
Origin of Firewater
rad effects of whisky amonir his P-
pie said It was most certainly dutllied
When the Hudson s Bay Trading
company began Its trading among the
Indians It was found that by selling
the Indians liquor they could more
became aware of the fact that by
diluting the whisky with water more
furs could be obtained This waa prac
tlsed for some time, but th Indian
from the hearts of wildcats a.i.i '
tongus of women from tbe eSecta it
produced. Red Man
easiiy be Induced to trade their pelt- learned that good whisky poured on
rles nre would cause it to flame up, where-
ine nrst whisky or Intoxicant or In
ferior quality was distilled In England
and brought to America In large bar
rels, but In transporting It overland It
was found more convenient to divide
it Into small kegs. Tbe traders soon
as had tbe whisky been diluted the
fire would be quenched It was by
this simple experiment that the term
"firewater" became a common word
among Indians
A chief who bad experienced the
Chance For Altruists
"There are societies in ncarl all
towns for the prt.ention ol cruelty
to animals "
"Yes "
"And yet. no efforts are ever rn.ida
to keep a man from trv.ag to i-s
himself with a safety razor."