For Harriett.
By FRANK H. WILLIAMS.
1509,
Literary Press.
Copyrighted, by Associated
Harriett was a peculiar name for a
cat; but, then, Harriett was a peculiar
cat. Iloger Webster surveyed her
quizzically as she lay in the sun on the
boarding house steps.
“Any feline but Harriett,” he de-
clared, “would at least feel mildly per-
turbed at the prospect of losing a home
and a mistress.”
“You'd think so, wouldn't you?’ an-
swered Bessie Roberts, Bessie was
very pretty and wholly charming, but
at the present time a little frown of
anxiety wrinkled her forehead.
“1 simply don’t know what to do
about it,” she continued. “The land-
lady says that I've got to get rid of
Harriett, and I can’t find any other
place so convenient to my work where
1 can live. I suppose—I suppose,” she
added wistfully, “that I shouldn't be
go foolish over Harriett, but in some
way she seems the only link between
today and the other life. With all my
people gone and Harriett some other
place in this big city I'd feel too aw-
fully. miserably lonely.”
Roger saw that Bessie was near
tears. “Poor, lonesome kiddie,” he
thought. And, leaning over, he stroked
Harriett very carefully. Harriett arch-
ed her back, purred and rose slowly to
her feet. Then, turning round. she
jumped squarely into Roger's lap.
“What a sensible cat!” Roger smiled
at the girl. “You see, she likes me
very much. If only every one—that Is,
some one—liked me very, very much.”
He glanced at the girl slyly. A little
flush had spread over Bessie's face,
and she kept her eyes fixed steadfastly
on the cat.
“I only wish they allowed cats in
my boarding house,” he continued.
“That's one of the troubles of living in
a boarding house—you don't get the
real, simon pure comforts of home.
Now, I'll tell you what we'll do,” he
cried, jumping to his feet. “We'll take
Harriett with us and go on a tour of
inspection in this neighborhood. We'll
hunt up a nice, quiet street where
there are little cottages instead of big
houses, and when we see a nice,
‘homey,’ comfortable housewife in one
of the homes we'll go in and ask her
to keep Harriett for us.”
“For us?’ queried the girl, with a
little laugh.
“Sure,” continued Roger, unabashed.
“You don't think Harriett belongs to
you alone, do you? I think Harriett
would resent any such idea as that.
She likes me too well, and T like her
too well. No, indeed, I have a minor-
ity interest in this cat.”
The girl laughed and rose to her
feet. -
“Well, come along,” she sald. “I sup- |
pose it's the best think we can do, and |
as it's Subday afternoon we ought to
be able to find lots of the people
home.”
® * . * *
Roger helped the girl down the
steps, and, calling to Harriett, they
walked down the street. Harriett, big,
sleek and black, followed decorously
enough until they reached a small,
rather obscure cross street.
Roger happened to be looking back
. as they crossed this street and discov-
ered Harriett very sedately ambling
down the little thoroughfare.
“Come here, Harriett,” Roger called
and then whistled to the cat.
Harriett paid not the slightest atten-
tion, but continued her sedate walk
away from Roger and the girl. Bessie
called, but even to her Harriett paid
no attention.
“Well, I declare!” cried the girl In
surprise. “Harriett has always been
peculiar, but she has never acted like
this before.”
“Let's follow her and see where she
goes,” cried Roger. “Perhaps she is
looking for n home or perhaps she has
a home already picked out.”
“All right,” said Bessle.
They turned back and hastened aft-
er Harriett, who was now about a
fourth of a block ahead. The street
was a quiet one. Neither Roger nor
Bessie was familiar with it and had
paid but little attention to it in previ-
ous times,
Now, however, they glanced curious-
ly at the small, rather cozy houses
which lined the sides. Although erect-
Bessle looked closely and gasped.
There was Harriett, curled up tightly
in the blaze of the sun, as if she had
been in the habit of lying there just
like that day in and day out for years.
“Well.” cried the girl, “Harriett
seems to be perfectly satisfied with the
place.”
“Yes,” acknowledged Roger. “I could
be happy, too, in a home like this if 1
had the right person to share it with
me.” He looked directly ay the girl
For a fleeting moment her eyes met
his, and then, startied and with her
face flushed, she ran up the path to
the veranda.
“Why,” she exclaimed as she reached
the first step, “there's no one, living
here—the place is for rent!” Sh¥point-
ed to a sign that had slipped from its
position in a window.
“Why, so it is!” cried Roger. “Har-
riett can't stay here, of course—unless
—unless”— He looked at Bessie with
a smile full of meaning.
“Of course she can't stay here!” cried
the girl, making a grab for the cat. “I
wish we could find a home for her,
though, in in a nice little place like
this.”
She caught the cat up in her arms.
“How Harriett would enjoy the
place,” mused Roger. “Look, there's
a big open fireplace in the front room,
and there's a fine, dandy place where
we could have our piano.”
“We? gasped the girl. With her
face aflame and with the cat clasped
tightly she ran off down the path.
But IHarriett, who had been purring
very contentedly in her mistress’ arms,
now became very angry. She snarled
and dug her claws into Bessie's coat
until the girl was forced to put her
down,
“Why, Harriett!” she exclaimed in
pained astonishment. “What's the
matter with he~? She never acted
that way before.”
“I'm sure I don't know,” replied
Roger. “But look what she's doing
now. Harriett may be a very peculiar
cat, but she certainly knows a good
thing when she sees it."
He pointed at Harriett, who, on be-
ing released, had torn frantically back
up the path to the veranda. On the
veranda she walked around in a circle
once or twice and then curled herself
up on the floor in almost the identical
spot and almost the identical manner
as before,
“Well, I never!” cried the girl. She
hurried back to the veranda and, sit-
ting down on the top step, began pet-
ting the cat. Roger lost no time in sit-
ting down beside Bessie,
“Dear!” he cried as he managed to
imprison one of her hands. “Dear
heart, why net follow the road Har-
riett bas pointed out? Why not let
this dear little house be Harriett's
home and at the same time a real home
for you and me? Come, dear, it only
needs a minister and a marringe license
to make us all three happy.”
“Oh, IT will; I will!” she cried sud-
denly. throwing her arms about Rog-
er's neck. “We'll none of us be lonely
again!”
Harriett, with a sigh of content that
appealed to the couple as almost hu-
man, rose from her spot and, purring
loudly, rubbed her side against the !
Ee er tet event sre 7
arm with which Roger was clasping |
the girl.
Other Times, Other Manners.
Sir Algernon West strikes a curious
note on the ear of the present genera-
| tion in the course of a hook of remi-
ed within recent years, they were al- |
most old fashioned by comparison
with the big buildings on the more im-
portant streets near by.
It seemed as |
if the little street was a mere eddy in |
the swirling life and progress all |
around it.
“Oh, I like this street!” cried Bessie.
“It appeals to me, too,” declared
Roger, with conviction.
For several blocks they followed
Harriett, who continued her steady
course. At last they saw the cat turn
into a gate in a charming stone fence,
and they hastened after her,
The fence inclosed a cozy little cot-
tage, well set back from the sidewalk.
In the yard were a couple of trees, a
flower bed or two and a delightful
path, bordered by a low hedge, which
ran zp to the spacious veranda.
The little home bad such a piquant,
happy look that involuntarily both
Roger and Bessie smiled as they gazed
at it.
Then Roger laughed.
“Took who's on the veranda!”
‘0d
he
niscences, “One City and Many Men.”
when he states that in his youth it
wis considered highly improper for a
wife to address her husband by his
Christian name or for a son to ad-
dress his parents without saying “sir”
or “ma'am.”
“I never heard wy mother call my
father by his Christian name,” he
writes, “and I recollect distinctly that
the fame of a very fashionable and
brilliant woman was seriously imper-
fled because after some great man's
death a letter from her to him was
discovered beginning with his Chris-
tian name.
“The formal ‘sir’ was current every-
where. At Eton we never recognized
any departure from this practice, and
letters between boy friends began,
‘My dear sir.’
“A friend of mine dining with Lady
Jersey heard her say she never recol-
lected her father, Lord Westmoreland,
though specially attached to her sis-
ter, Lady Lonsdale, calling her any-
thing but Lady Lonsdale. And Henry
Greville, who was present at the same
dinner, said that he remembered his
mother, Lady Charlotte, and her broth-
er, the Duke of Portland, meeting in
the morning at Welbeck abbey, when
the salutations were:
“‘How is your ladyship this morn-
{ ing?
“I am quite well.
your grace.”
I am obliged to
He Didn't Say It.
He was a good little boy, and he
lived not many miles from Boston. He
never disobeyed his mother, he never
called her names when her orders
were not his wishes, and he had the
face of an angel. Next door lived lit-
tle Rosy, a girl who proved the prov-
erb about small pitchers. One day
Harry was allowed to go over to play
with Rosy, but with strict orders not
to take off his hat and coat to go in
the house if Rosy conld not come out
into the yard.
Rosy could not come out, but would
not Harry take off his things and piay
inside? Harry quoted sadly his moth-
er's injunction.
“Your mamma is a silly.” sald Rosy
crossly.
Harry went home and told his moth-
er whit Rosy had sald. “She is a very
naughty little girl,” his mother de-
clared. “You must never say such a
word.”
“No, mamma, T won't.” said the duti-
ful Harry.
-
A few days later he was o tin for.
bidden to do somethin: vii h he
greatly desired to do. “Maman” suid
he, lifting to hers his anzeli- face, “do
you remember what Rosy e1i/d about
vou?’ New York Tribune.
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Feet, Hands and Ears of Centralia,
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Mahanoy City, Pa., Feb. 2.—John
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