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“It ain't any part of my duty to
search people,” defended the conductor,
“and the officer says he won't.”
“Then I shall search these people my-
self,” snapped the old lady. “Not ten
minutes ago I paid my fare out of that
purse and no one has left the car since.
It must be here, I tell you. I insist that
you find it.”
The policeman looked about the ear
hopelessly. Douglas spoke up.
“I think,” he said quietly, “that the
quickest way to get rid of this non-
sense will be for the rest of us to per-
mit ourselves to be searched. 1 am sure
none of us will object. There is merely
a mistake somewhere. Here, officer, do
your duty.”
He stepped forward and with rapid
movements the policeman emptied his
pockets. The other four men in the car
followed his example. Then an expect-
ant Lush fell over the passengers.
There remained only the five women,
who, with the excited complainant,
comprised the passengers. Four of
them stepped forward.
“I'll let any woman in the crowd
search me,” she said. The woman who
had lost her purse pounced upon her
and with eager fingers pawed over her
gown, emptied her purse upon the seat
and jumbled the things out of her hand
satchel,
“Next!” she called as she left her vie-
tim to replace her belongings as best
she might.
Three other women came forward in
turn, submitting with no good grace to
the examination, but the last one sat
quietly in her seat.
“I do mot propose to be searched,”
she said quietly. “You have no right
to do so, and it is absurd to suppose
that I could have taken your purse. I
have sat in this corner ever since I en-
tered the car, and 1 have not been near
you. I refuse to permit you to touch
me.”
“You see,” exclaimed the complain-
ant triumphantly, “I knew it would
not be difficult to locate the guilty
one.”
“I never saw your purse!” cried the
girl in the corner. “I have no need
to steal purses. Officer, here Is my
eard. You must know my father by
reputation.”
“I can’t help it, mum,” said the offi-
eer. “All the others have Leen search-
ed, and if you refuse to submit” —
He stopped short. The girl had burst
into tears.
“Look here!" cried Douglas.
this thing. I took the purse.”
The others turned with one accord
foward him. “I took it,” he repeated
defiantly. “Officer, do your duty.”
The policeman laid his hand upon his
arm, but the owner of the purse burst
sut in protest.
“Give me back my purse!” she cried.
*I will not let you take him away un-
til I get my purse.”
“Have to keep it to use as evidence,”
was the short explanation, “Come
around to the Fifty-ninth street sta-
tion to make complaint. I can't wait
here any louger. Come on” He re-
newed his hold upon Douglas, but his
way was blocked by the woman.
“At least | insist that you count the
money in my presence.” she demanded,
“I have that right.”
“All right,” said the policemar in a
tired voice. “Give it up, young fel
low.’
“I haven't got it." stammered Doug-
las, to whom this was a very unexpect-
ed turn. “I—I dropped it.”
“Where did you drop it?" asked the
officer. “In your pocket?”
“Where the window drops down,” ex-
plained Douglas more glibly. “You
ean find it when the car gets to the
stables.”
“I want it now.” persisted the vie-
tim. “I insist that it be given me at
once.”
One of the wen leaned over the ledge
at the back of the seat. There was a
space of about two inches between the
window «ill and the back of the seat,
where (he sash was dropped in pleas-
ant weather,
“This is where you were sitting,” he
ealled, “but I'm hanged if I can see it.”
The victim made a rush for the win-
dow and began to poke energetically
into the space with her umbrella, but
without result. The policeman stirred
uneasily. “I can't hold up this car all
day,” he announced. “You go on to the
stables and come over to the station
house with it.”
“That's what!” echoed the inspector,
who had come up. “There's fifty cars
tied up behind. Keep 'em moving.”
The policeman turned to go, but just
then one of the women passengers
sprang toward the woman who was
kneeling upon the seat busy with her
fishing. “There's your purse now!” she
cried as she pulled aside the skirts of
the long cloak the victim was wearing.
“It slipped down inside, nud the chain
eaught on {he braid. It must have been
there all the time.” :
“Then why did this man cause me ali
of this excitement?” demanded the vie
tim, turning in her majesty to con-
front Douglas.
He went red for a moment, and the
policeman took a firmer hold upon his
¢lub. “I thought it might stop all this
fooling,” confessed Douglas. “And,
you see, I'm a story writer, and 1
waried to sce how it felt to be ar
ranted
“Stop
sr rm
“I've an good mind 10 1€1 you see now
it feels to be pinched for disorderly
eominet,” began the policeman, but
there was a quick. unseen transfer of
some: ing rom Douglas’ pocket to the
officer's palm. and the threat died
way in a benign, + be a lesson
to you.” as the oilicer viliubed off the
car,
There were many curious glances di-
rected toward Douglas, but he met
them calmly and stared politely but
placidly at the girl in the far corner.
He rose when she did and left the
car at the far crossing. but he lingered
at a drug store window, and it was not
until the girl was halfway down the
block that he caught up with her.
“Bessie,” he cried, “won't you speak
to me? 1 only got in last night and
was on my way up here when you
on the car. Is there still no hope for
me?"
“Do you think you deserve forgive-
ness,” she asked, “when you make
yourself so conspicuous on the car?’
“It was for your sake,” he sald softly.
“The idea of telling people,” she went
on, ignoring his last remark, “that you
were an author looking for experi-
ences!”
“I had to have some sort of excuse,”
he defended, “and that was the best I
could do oun the spur of the moment.”
“What did you want to do it for, any-
how?” she demanded.
“To prevent you from being search-
ed,” he explained. “I was afraid that
some one in the erowd might have slip-
ped the purse to you in the excitement.
They do that sometimes.”
“Dan Douglas,” she demanded, com-
ing to a stop and facing him, “do you
mean to tell me that was why you
took the blame?”
“Yes,” he said quietly.
“After the horrid way 1 treated you?”
“That made no difference.”
“But 1 told you I wonld never speak
to you again.”
“I know it.
it too.”
“Do you know,” she said, fumbling
with the catch of her shopping bag, “I
think I will show you why I did not
want to be searched.”
The bag was open now, and she drew
from it a leather case. He caught it
from her hands.
“My picture!” he cried. “You have
carried it right along? Even after you
said you no longer loved me?”
“That was because I was jealous,”
she explained. “But I would have gone
to jail then rather than have let you
see that 1 still cared. 1 knew you
would see it if she searched me.”
“I am glad T didn't,” he smiled. “I
should have been tempted to kiss you
right then and there.”
“We are almost home,” she said am-
biguously.
I was afraid you meant
The Tiger and the Gont,
A tiger once invited a goat to dinner.
The goat was tickled to death at the
notice of the noble beast and wore his
spike tailed coat and link sleeve but-
tous in token of his appreciation. “Can
I help you to some of this venison
steak?” the tiger asked the goat very
cordially. The goat did not eat venison
steak, but he dissembled very cleverly
and preserved 2 smiling exterior. “My
physician,” he protested, “positively
forbids venison steak.” There was
nothing else on the table, and the poor
goat was compelled to sit idly by while
the tiger devoured a hearty repast.
But the goat was not disposed to de-
prive himself of the sweets of revenge.
He accordingly pressed the tiger to
dine with him the following evening.
“Can 1 help you,” sweetly inquired the
host. “to some of this stewed tomato
cans, with brown paper sance?’ “No,
thank you,” rejoined the tiger, “my
doctor forbids.” “So sorry,” murmured
the goat in secret glee. “I fear you
will have only an unsatisfactory meal.”
“Oh, I shall do very well,” protested
the tiger. Whereat he fell upon and de-
voured the goat himself. *‘Alas” ex-
claimed the latter with his dying
breath, “I was too funny!” This fable
teaches that it is perfectly proper to
take an insult from some people with-
out resenting it. It is all a matter of
judgment.
Fully Armed.
A good story is told of a young re-
cruit who enlisted in a regiment sta-
tioned at Aldershot. One day he was
on guard duty and was slowly stepping
up and down when an officer approach-
ed. After the usual salute the officer
said:
“Let me see your rifle.”
The raw recruit handed over his rifle,
and a pleased expression stole over his
face. As the officer received the weap-
on he said in a tone of deepest disgust:
“You're a fine soldier! You've given
up your rifle, and now what are you
going to do?”
The young fellow turned pale and
putting his hand in his pocket drew
out a big knife and, preparing for busi-
ness, said in a voice that could not be
misunderstood:
“Gi' me that rifle or I'll bore a hole
through you in 4 minute.”
The officer instantly decided not to
play any further with the raw recruit,
and the rifle was promptly surrender-
ed.—Pearson's Weekly.
M, P's ant Sixteen.
It does not seem very clear at what
period the legal age for members of
parliament was fixed at twenty-one.
It is, however, certain that in the
reigns of Elizabeth and James I. boys
of sixteen and seventeen occupied seats
in the house of commons. The poet
Waller took his seat as an M. P. before
he was seventeen. Charles James Fox
took his seat at eighteen and Chester-
field before he came of age. This, how-
clearly irregular, because it |
ever, was
is recorded that Chesterfield was
threatened with a penalty of £500 for
sitting and voting in parliament while
under the legal age if he did not cease
his attacks upon the government. Lord
John Russell also sat before he was
twenty-one, and he seems tu have been
Ea ——————————————————
the INST OF He PRO inrilions memes
An net of William TTL. passed in 1606,
made the election of a person under
twenty-one void, but the act was not
very stringently enforeed. — London
Standard. 3
A GLIMP. _ "ANA.
There Are Many Objecis of Interest
In Cuba's Caplial,
While the ears and the eyes of the
tourist in Havana are filled with the
din from day to day and far into the
night of the major notes of the city's
strenuous life, the strident gengs on
thousands of carriages, the equally
noisy gongs of the trolley cars, the
masses of color and the strange scenes
all about him, the minor notes of the
teeming life begin after a few days to
make themselves heard, and these have
an equal attraction and charm, The
street venders of Havana and their
often melodious cries and occasionally
the reverse, as, for instance, the rasp- |
ing ery of the peanut vender when a
concert is on at Central park or the
Malecon, are as interesting to the aver-
age globe trotter, to whom Havana is
but a brief stopping place on his
rounds, as to the more serious observ-
er, to whom everything in a new land
appeals as worthy of attention,
The street sellers have their hours
and their ways, and each appears at
his appointed time, A seller of sweets
at dawn and a seller of mangoes after
sunset are alike inconceivable. The
seller of balloons sounds a small metal
pitch pipe, such as musicians use,
while the scissors grinder trundles his
wheel and gives out a small plaintive
air from a set of reeds. Frequently
the performer embellishes the scale
with fugitive grace notes, according
to his talents and taste, and the plain
scale becomes quite a musical compo-
sition.
These two do net intrude upon one
another's methods. The balloon seller
and other balloon sellers will use a
pitch pipe, while the scissors grinder
will use the reeds, and so with the oth-
ers, The sellers of fruits, of shoes, of
bread, of flowers, of notions and count-
less other small needs of the people
have their individual mannerisms and
cries, and very quaint they are too.
The tourist will naturally search out
specimens for himself, and as there is
no dearth of good material he will
make discoveries at any hour of the
day in frequented as well as most un-
frequented streets,
Some of the more prosperous of this
street tribe own carts, hauled by dimin-
utive donkeys or own ponies, on which
they pack their wares. You will even
come across even more diminutive out-
fits, in which a goat is the motive pow-
er, and verv often the goat will be
caparisoned with bells and plumes,
in imitation of the American horses at-
tached to the merchandise drays, which
are ornamented with great colored
plumes and bells and brass studded
harness, For the tourists’ needs and
desires the great stores on Obispo,
O'Reilly, San Rafael aud other thor-
oughfares in Havana will be found
sufficient for all demands. Obispo is
an ideal street — asphalt roadway,
wide concrete sidewalk, overhead awn-
ings that stretch from housetop to
housetop, which make a delicious shade
and coolness in the heat of the day,
and stores where the finest of French
and Spanish and American products
are on exhibition; fans, jewelry, bric-a-
brae, silks, laces, are here in the great-
est abundance of the richest and most
ornate workmanship and at moderate
prices. The visitor will not soon weary
of these most attractive thoroughfares.
-Cuba Review,
Irving's Wonderful Self Denial,
There was one special act in Irving's
young life on the stage that has a les-
son for all young artists. When, in
1850, having then had three full years
of experience as a player, he got a
three years’ engagement in London
and made his appearance at the Prin-
cess’, he came to the conclusion that
his work was not yet good enough for
metropolitan favor. So he resolutely
bent himseif to the task before him
and, with the reluctant consent of his
manager, canceled his engagement. He
went back to the weary routine and
labor and hardship of the provinces till
the time should come for a more wor-
thy effort. When we remember that
a London engagement was, and is, the
goal of an ambitious actor's hopes and
that it means regular work and regular
pay and an ever increasing opportunity
for distinguishing oneself, we can un-
derstand that his self denying resolu-
tion was little less than heroic. When,
however, he did come again, seven
years later, he had his reward. He
came to stay. He knew his work then
and knew that he knew it. His record
from that on was an unbroken one of
success and honor. His fight was won.
—Success Magazine, :
Hunting Birds With Greyhoundo.
The great bustard is the rarest bird
that comes under the category of
“game.” This bird formerly haunted
all the level counties of England and
was particularly common on Salisbury
Plain. From the reign of Henry VIIL
repeated measures were passed in or-
der to protect it; and it is expressly in-
cluded under the head of game in the
Statute of the fist Your De rage >
William IV. which codified re-
was, and is, from the 1st of March
the 1st of September. 5
But the native bustard is now extinct
i
it
Hi:
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This
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ileart and Lungs.
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The action of the heart, lungs and di-
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England.—London Queen,
Laying an Early Foundation,
“Wus it necessary for you to kiss my
daughter the very first time you met
her?”
“No, madam, not absolutely neces-
sary, but I wanted to get on a friendly
basis with her as soon as possible.”—
Woman's Home Companion.
Corrected.
“You must have money to be able to
offer me so beautiful an engagement
ring.”
“Must have had money, you mean,” —
Houston Post.
The surest pleasures lie within the
circle of useful occupation. Mere pleas-
ure, sought outside of usefulness, is
his heart or had to remember
must breathe or that his food must di-
gest he would have no time to do any-
thing else, and if by chance he should
forget to keep his heart going or
lungs in operation he would fall
on the spot,
The Clock.
The clock has a strange way of tell
ing different tales with the same face.
If it is telling one man to hurry up, it
tells the next man who looks that there
is plenty of time.—Atchison Globe.
Renlism.
Why is the cow purple in the picture?
Because the girl's parasol is red.
The cow, in fact, is purple with rage.
fraught with poison.—Beecher.
realism in art.—Puck.
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