Bewocai ada,
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Let us forget the things that vexed and tried us,
The worrying things that cavsed our souls to
fret;
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‘The hopes that, cherished long. were still denied
us i
Let us forget.
Let us forget the little slights that pained us,
The greater wrongs that rankle sometimes yet; i
The pride with whi~ 1 some lofty ore disdained us
! ot us forget. i
Let us forget our brother's fault and failing, i
The yielding to temptation that beset,
That he perchance, though grief be unavailing, |
Cannot forget. }
But blessings manifold, past all deserving, :
Kind words and helpful deeds, a countless |
throng,
The fault o’ercome. the rectitude unswerving,
Let us remember long,
The sacrifice of love, the generous giving,
When friends were few, the hand-clasp warm |
and strong, i
The fragrance of each life of holy living, i
Let us remember long.
Whate'er of right has triumphed over wrong,
What love of God or man has rendered precious,
Let us remember long.
So, pondering well the lessens it has taught us,
We tenderly may bid the year “Good-by,”
Holding in memory the good it brought us,
Letting the evil die.
—{Susan E. Gammon.
GOD'S WAY.
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the veranda, started up from her chair. | like a voice speaking. Tears came into
“I've t Merry Ann's boy alive,” the blue eyes. Jimmy stopped with a
announced man, letting Jimmy slip to | twanging ST 5
the ground and pinning him there by the |
his mother comes.” “I don't know,” he answered.
The woman went down the steps and what I feel.”
reached forth to take the boy by the arm. | “Where did you
“It is
She gave a cry of pain. Her fingers were asked.
caught. Two rows of glistening teeth were
her anemic
You lite savage In ejaculated the man, Jim. 1 steal, | lie, I do what I please.”
shook the boy off as be would a dog. A cloud
lips was vexi
i “It makes my heart ache,” she sighed. | regretfully.
‘ shoulders. “Subdue him if you can before | “What is the name of this strange music?” him.”
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sprang out, and walked briskly to the loosened fingers and rattled to the ground. | against her fair cheek, and two strong
sweat-house. He was unconsciousof self, of everything, | arms like bars across the slim young
The boy did not wake till he felt a strong only that he saw something in those china- | back. The boy raised his head at the |
arm holding him. Then something inside ' blue eyes that made something in his | movememt in th brush, and the man
rose like a great wind that blew him hither | breast leap like a living creature. | met tac chaengd of his eves.
and thither, a creature of nails, teeth and | A sweet smile dimpled the young girl's’ That night fron. his window the mis-
kicking legs. But the man climbed | face. - | sionary beckoned Jimmy to his room. i
into the with his and drove | “Il am the superintendent’s d. on “My boy,” he ¥:gan as he polished his
away. i forded the river and drove | she said naively, as if that fact war- | spectacles yp instakingy. “1 would like
Ale 10d 10 cht. Whiter dane fence on ' rant her intrusion. Sitting dg the | you to ‘ain the meaning of what I
the other side he held the boy between his A moss-covered log, she spread b -irts | saw ay. 5 :
knees asin a vise. At the platform stile | daintily. “I came to Hupa Blay. Jimmy's head tilted back, and his eyes
the man took the fighting, struggling crea- When | heard you playin. % I! enpanded and took in light, but still he
ture in his arms, face down, and crossed ' would like to know whoit v ‘md was silent.
the campus toa long low white building | of music. Wor you play a, i 2?" “Let me answer for you, my boy,” the
| used as a dormitory. . He was looking into her ey. _ “uy, man went on. “You and Flora have
At the sound of the quick footstep onthe but at her request took his bow 4.0 began grown to love one another, and you were
gravel a woman, who had on ' a wild throbbing chain of sounds that was | telling her. Am | right?”
The sight of the boy's tightly closed
ian,” the man told himself
“I'm afraid I'll never reach
“He's all 1
“If this friendship continues it must
in marriage,” he went on aloud.
get the fiddle?” she “Marriage is right in God's sight when tered Joine,
| two people are rightly mated, but in this Then she'll
“I stole it,” he replied, just above a case it would be a great wrong. Flora's
whisper. “Down there they call me Injun | father expects her to return to het people
in the East. She belongs there. e has
drifted across the girl's eyes, no place in this rough, primitive life. But he was 2 law unto himself. At eleven and
Carlisle,” she quavered, with trembling
THE GUEST AT THE DOOR.
?" he mumbled, his The Young Year stood at th? door of Time!
hungry averted from her pi Half frightened was he at the bells that tolled,
eT . “I don't want any half- And the chill snow falling thick and fine,
education. Give me all Ts, And the wind so strangely cold,
bound to come back sooner or The midnight wind that whispered by:
And the Young Year shivered to hear it sigh:
that as often as Jimmy saw Flora And the bells rang solemn and slow and clear,
that Opportunity A long farewell to the going Year.
ng anger. Then, sudden, the bells rang a jubilant peal:
He was dirty He | With musical clamor the news was sent
was quarrel He was the constant That a Guest had entered the open door!
source of disturbance in the chapel and And the Young Year listened. and smiled content ;
the schoolroom. | The snow-cloud passed, and the wind grew calm,
The missionary found it hard to get | And the organ chanted a jubilant psalm,
close to him, but one day, making a point | he bells chimed on in 5 peal sublime,
of it, he met Jimmy at the dining-room | To welcome the Guest at the door of Time!
| (Emma A. Lente, in Christian Endeavor World.
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“I'm bitterly disappoinicd in you, my | Belghin'e
boy,” he began. all my teaching |
been in vain? Why don't you keep your J a
promise with me about Flora ?” There is no excuse for remaining un-
“It takes longer than [ thought,” mut. married if one lives in Belgium or is able
“Give me another day. 0 journey into that country during that
glad to see the last of me.” | period of the year known as Whitsuntide.
On the morrow, which was the Sab- is applies to both sexes, for then maid-
bath, Jimmy was ech to ride out of the en dies possess Svantages Site as
reservation. He no permissi grea those offered p-years
DeTIISEIon, but need not hesitate to declare them
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But the woman's hands had turned to and she looked away with a little shiver. | she loves you as many a girl has loved a the children and older pupils assembled selves if attracted by the charms of any
1" she | boy before. She finds you different from in the chapel across the road to listen to particular suitor.
claws and she whisked the
i “Oh, how wicked
and the door before
up the steps breathed
could plan |
eruptive youngster of
u? Please, promise me.”
| He permitted himself to be clothed in gar- |
| ments several sizes too large for him and | “not any more.”
(to be led out on the veranda. With one It was twilight when Jimmy and the
little hot restless hand imprisoned in the ' young girl went down
‘woman's he stood at her side and looked Th
‘down at his mother and his grandfather, | to the river,
ju ng transformation, and were ' ing himself down on the terrace, he lay
standing patiently at the foot of the steps. | with his face upturned to the darkening
Merry fo wore her red and white calico | sky and waited.
| dress of state. Her hat was a cast-off thing | returned to the rancheria, though it was
| art, is a colonel in the army. His mother, her restless eyes persistently
“But that is all very wrong," she re- | your grandmother, was a saint. Jimmy, place where Jimmy was supposed to sit. gium, a fete on Whit-Monday to which
activity he was transformed in- proved gently. “You won't doit any more, | because of the good white blood in your After the service she stood near the out. “all available bachelors in the world"
veins you should be manly and d generois |
not take
“No,” he whispered after along silence, | You should protect the weak a * children march to the campus.
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In six years he had not | ed in sympathy.
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through “The fiddle belonged to a man who | all the others. You have a heritage that the missionary's service. Flora was of
another attack. Inside the house a baptism didn’t have sense enough to play it,” he makes you so. Your father, James Stu-
| soap and water was administered to began to explain.
Whatever things were good and true and gra | JUBMYy. rom an
Sious, | dangerous
| to a smoldering volcano of outraged pride. ' will
advantage. You should love fair play.”
The boy's eyes were pinched together
crossed it in a canoe, thence ' light that gave his forehead a luminous horseback was bearing down on the chil- | likewise. The cel
| Captain John, who had come while he was | up the bluff to the sweat-house. Throw- ‘quality almost unearthly. As he had | dren from the main road. Just in front
ndergoi | of the chapel where Flora and her father
| stood the animal was brought to a halt.
listened a look of anguish had come into
his eyes. The missionary’s heart throbb-
“It will be best for her to break,” said
| of rusty brown straw and faded red ribbon, | within an hour's walk to the campus, and | the boy.
Flat on the hard-packed threshold of | and bore two faded feathers. The sight of | no thought of home had taken him across |
her smokehouse sits Bridle-mouth Ann. | this hat inspired Jimmy with more respect | the river that night.
“I doubt if she can do that,” interposed
' the other. “She would go to the end ot
on the rider. The slouching
! ed from side to side, but the
| ing back at the knees and clingi
years ago there was instituted
th umber that came to. hip, but by the young women of Ecaussines, a
- a os the village in the i of Hainault, Bel-
ide ith her father, watchi were invited to come and choose a wife
side steps wi r fa watching the \ from among their con
The road was spanned with a double Proposition was so well received that at
line of boys and girls keeping time to the | the present day every member of the
to the campus. | with a look of pain, and on either side ' jangling beat of a triangle. All at once ' Original committee is reported to be
ey parted at the stile. He continudd | near the temples was a spot of reflected | some one shouted a warning
A man on ' pily married and urging his sisters to
ebration this year be-
gis at ten o'clock on the morning of
it-Monday, when the visiting bache-
lors afe met at the jiation and fen es-
A hundred pairs of upturned eyes were | ©0 the town hall to sign the “gold-
PR er | en book.” In the afternoon the a
figure bend. benedicts are addressed in the market-
to the place by the president of the maidens’
is bal- committee. An afternoon tea is schedul-
Like the earth of her doorway she is sun- | than all the school man’s arts.
dried. The skin of her face hasthe juice- | Apart from Ann Stood Cap
less crinkled a; nce of grayish brown | shrunken overalls and bare feet prepenting
crape; ns the thin glazed surface | an irreverent contrast to his partriarc
two
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scars, that run bridle-like | white hair; and leaning against the frame | in the language of the smoke-house. i
It was quite dark when Jimmy heard | the earth with you now. You must be
tain John, his | the soft pad-pad of bare feet, and as Cap- | the one to break away.”
tain John, stripped for the night, stopped | “I will never do it,”
cried Jimmy, start-
above him, he sat up and ressed him ing up.
| horse's lathered sides, preserved
dirty;
“Then her father will have to know,” his
ance.
It was Injun Jim, hatless, coatless,
veins of sweat starting from
under his matted hair and draining across
| ed to follow, and the ceremonies will be
. concluded with a concert and ball.
Unwilling to be outdone by the maid-
ens of Ecaussines in offering propitiations
cheeks into the grime of his neck. It to Cupid, the bachelors in the neighbor
form the corners of her mouth to the | of a nearby swing was the school superin- | ing village of Ronquires announced simi-
shadows of her ears, is a purplish hue of
blood, the only life-color left in a creature |
who is ashen and -shriveled.
On the right Bridle-mouth Ann
crouches a lean, stiff-haired, tawny dog of
wolfish head, whose ears prick and droop,
| tendent. James Stuart, and my fat brother, who
do about it?" asked the latter.
“Yo know Merry Ann she no lik huh boy | bell? Why do we three have different
| come to school,” exclaimed Captain John. names?”
| “Maybeso he larn damnbad nonsense. Yes, | The old Indian spoke with many pauses.
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“Well, what does Merry Ann propose to | lives at Klamath, George Matilton, and | put in hastily.
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and whose nostrils quiver with each pass- sir-mam, she tink he git it saick. She tink | A few words; then a long-drawn breath, |
ing tale in the hot north wind. About
the woman and her dog lies an aura of
hopelessness. It strikes the mind as forc-
ibly as the desolation of her home
salutes the eye. To-morrow, and the
next day, and the next is the same to her.
Those whom she loved have passed on.
She sits and looks and looks across the
clay-colored river, but what she sees
exists within.
It was not always so. Once she was a
handsome, laughter-lovi young squaw.
The strong, sun-brown men in uni-
forms called her “Mer1y” Ann. That was
before they took their guns and horses
across the mountains to stay, and when
the place we call “campus” was still
They will tell you at Captain John's
rancheria that they remember the da
when the bridle was put in Ann's mout
by Sochtish, oldest chief of the Hupas.
Between the time when Ann was “Merry”
and the day when she was made “Bridie-
mouth” runs the story.
Ann's smoke-house, as now, was one of |
a dozen squat hovels that clustered on |
the bleached shoulder of a bluff across
the river from the post. There the
filaria grew fine and soft like fur and ran
in flattened, shimmering waves before
each breath of the hills. An arrows
flight from the smok-house on the highest
po of the bluff, where rocks outnum-
red grass
rough-hewn timber
stones.
In the season when daylight hours
were long and cloudless, and brilliant blue
lizards flashed in and out among the hot
stones, Jimmy, Ann's youngest son, made
the little rock-bound terrace of the sweat-
house his dream place. Thither his moth-
er always followed him, seeking to make
his thoughts her thoughts. He was unlike
and river-polished
her sons George and Thomas, who at-
tended school across the Oregon line, and
her heart was troubled for fear Injun
devil tormented the body of her littlest
v.
“Does mother's heart dream sweet
dreams?” she asked him for the hun-
dredth time—yea, the ten hundredth. The
boy crept close this day and rested his
head against her low-hanging breast. His
eyes reached across the clay-colored river
to the Digger pines that wigwagged in the
hot north wind.
“I dream that I have the sweetness of
honey im my heart, and | hear words that |
have never been spoken in the smoke-
house, and I have the smell of wild
honeysuckle in my nostrils.”
“Haat-now, haat-now,” crooned Ann,
swaying gently back and forth as if to lull
her anxious thoughts, “tell me more of thy
dreams.”
hy | would not be like my brothers. They
are dirty and lazy,” he murmured. “It
will be pleasant when I am old enough to
lie all night in the sweat-house and rise in
the gray light and run to the -iver and
swim till I am clean like the white of thine
eye, oh, mother. Then [shall have a sound
in my ears like the wind blowing against
a long horse-hair and I shall feel that I am
inside.” The warm glow of fancy
gave eyesa tender, mysterious light
that troubled Merry Ann's heart. Ls
“Ah, sweet hope of my life,” she whis-
pered, “thou dreamest stra dreams and
thou hast strange desires. shalt not
£0 to school like thy brothers. The school
head became heavy on his mother’s breast.
She looked into his face and saw that he
slept. Very gently she laid him down and,
returning to the smoke-house, took a bask-
et of acorn meal on her back and went
down to the river bank below the bluff to
leach it in the sand.
at theis leaching. avd the bucks watched
dam a half-hour’s walk
up the river. In this treeless abode
ing moved but the
noth-
the gar-
blades, sprawled Captain |
John's sweat-hcuse, an excrescence of |
promise, the boy's
| maybeso Jimmy have Injun devil in he
belly. What yo say 7” “Thomas
The man muttered something intended | was of the full blood. He was the moth-
for the ears of the woman on the vera ler's man. . . Campbell was a great hun-
! about Jimmy having more than one devil ter in the days when the blood runs hot
—one for each leg and arm—but Captain | and fast. . . The mother was lonely when
, John was not skilled beyond a few sen- ' he was away. . . . So thy brother George
| tences in the white man’s language, and | is the son of Matilton, the gold digger.
‘8 to ponder. i... But thou art James Stuart, because
“G0 on, go on,” commanded the super- | thy father was Lieutenant James Stuart,
intendent impatiently. “Tell Merry Ann | who went away with the soldiers. It is
! that the Government requires her to send | the custom of my people to name the child
| her boy to school. It's nothing to me. [1 after the father.”
! have to do what the Government tells me
todo. Tell her she'll have to submit—give | ed entrance, and his shriveled old body
| in—be good Injun.” | shot down into the blackness and heat of
| With his back toward the woman Cap- | the sweat-house like a huge amphibian
| tain John talked into space in front of him. | diving into the water.
! He said a few wordsand waited. Then he | The morning light was over the valley
| said a few more words very cautiously, as | when Jimmy crossed the campus to the
if speech were a fragile thing not to be | dormitory. As the boys came out he
used carelessly. The silences were weighty. ' joined the line at the end. No comment
It took an hour, but, at last, sounds clicked was made on his absence.
in Merry Ann's glottis and rolled from reported as usual, but demerits did not
under her tongue like thick oil. She had ' count against a
signified consent. ceived a merit.
Without looking up or appearing to no- |
tice the child on the veranda or the school
man, she crossed the campus and passed
out of sight, always moving with a teeter-
ing trot as if she carried a heavy forward |
burden that made her little feet hurry to!
preserve her balance. i
Jimmy slept in the woods that night and |
for three nights thereafter, because the
windows of the dormitory had not been |
strong or high enough. The two lazy
policemen found him in the burnt-out
hollow of a stump, half-starved, but fierce
as a young bobcat. They dragged him |
back to be rebaptized in soap and water. | Flora was seated at his
the campus. They talked of one subject.
for good behavior today.”
stood at the head for cleanliness today.”
One day he heard steps on the leaf carpet
ing bushes with glad shining eyes.
lo side he laid his
The old man stooped to the small polish-
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“Injun Jim was perfect in all his lessons | tions?” she fretted.
today.” “Injun Jim received full credits could’t be like Mike or Sochtish.” Her
“Injun Jim | voice broke in a sob.
“I have come to ask why Iam called | said the old man.
“It might make trouble for her,” Jimmy
"Maybe in a little while
| the one who is a packer, Thomas Camp- | she will give me up.”
His hand was on the doorknob.
“Stay, let us talk it over, my boy,”
pleaded the man.
But Jimmy went out into the twilight.
ing over his books, but he turned away
from the school buildings and followed an
irrigating ditch up into the woods to
where it leaped a full-grown stream from
the flume.
“Jimmy,” called a voice from below,
“Jimmy, are you up there?"
He scrambled down the steep bank, the
dead madrono leaves rattling about him
like rain.
With a little startled cry Flora reached
out her arms, but Jimmy caught them,
and held her firmly away. For a minute
he tried to master his voice, and then—
“Would you marry a half-breed and give
up going back to your home?” he whis-
“I would give up everything for you,”
she answered, her head drooping against
It would be his arm.
“What if I should steal again, Flora?
boy who had never re- The Indian flesh is weak. What if I
That evening after the | should be dirty like old Mike? What if |
day's work was over the teachers met on i should get drunk like Sochtish?”
"Why do vou vex me with these ques-
"It isn't right. You
Jimmy allowed her to take his hand
Day after day the boy, who was more and half pulled him down the hill. At
and more like 2 man, went to the nook | first she coaxed him on, but finding that
with his fiddle under his arm and played. | he hung back, she became petulant.
“Oh, I don't understand you. For
that were heavier and yet softer than those | some reason you are different to-day.
of his little wild ol He clutched his | Please, tell me what is the matter.” She
fiddle to his breast and watched the wen i pu up her hand impulsively and drew
en
is face down close to hers to see if he
were in earnest. His troubled gaze met
In the next five years Jimmy was a terror | slim brown hand alongside hers on the log. | hers.
to his kind as well as to the school men. | "I am a half-breed, he said. “I wonder
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“Kiss me, Jimmy,” she pleaded. "You
It was a rare occurrence to have a full which is stronger in me, the Indian or | have never kissed me.
roli-call. Some boy was generally miss- the white man?”
ing: in the infirmary, it was said, with a
broken arm or a bruised shin or a black she answered positively.
eye—because of Injun Jim. Livingin the "How do you know?" he queried.
upa Reservation, outside the little circle | “I read it in your
of well-intentioned men and women, cogs quickness to understand. Last ni
and wheels to the machinery of a Govern- | heard them say down at my fa
ment school, was one man who had a kin- | house that you stood first in all your
ship with all wild and untamed creatures. | classes. If you continue they will send
Outwardly he was the apothecsis of tame- ' vou to Carlisle at the end of the year.”
ness—small, bent-shouldered, thin-whisk- | He gave her a flash of grateful eyes.
ered, bespectacled, slow of speech; and |
yet the other nature of him, which he had = that never
grilled into outward subjection, was akin he said t! tfully.
‘to Injun Jim's. In the man of God was! “And
also to be found a man of earth.
It was the missionary’s habit to sit un- but something calls me away to be in the
observed near an open window that com- ' sun all day and do nothing but eat and
manded the school-yard. He discovered | sleep. But there is another part of me,
very soon that Injun jim was always an | which will not let me rest, and drives me
observer and never a participant in the | back to the school whether I will it or
games. The boy gazed at hisfellows with . not. This part of me would know all
a from-under stare that was sombre and that is to be found in books. When I run
mysterious. It was evident to the watcher | away | say I don't care but I do. I come
now [ would often
away from his reserve when he was im- . many times which is stronger in me,
pelled by a positive motive. His particular | idle ungrateful part, or that which
animus was oftenest aroused by some big | do the will of the school men?”
hulking bully, who crossed the campus’ “I wish 1 could tell you,” murmured
only to leave behind him a wake of blub- | Flora. “I know that you are different.
bering, whimpering boys. This sight in- . feel it when you play your fiddle."
variably brought Jimmy to hisfeet. With In the course of the next week Jimmy
stiff hanging arms and clenched fists he | discovered a power within himself that
had a brief between his desire for | made his heart swell with joy. The
justice and his Indian reserve; that over, meetings between Flora and himself were
he threw out his arms and plunged into | no longer subject to chance. When he
the bully. bade her come by means of his
Five times the trees flowered and fruit- i
ed, and the nuts ripened in the
while the missionary wrestled with his God
for some sign of redemption in the boy.
He of all the people in the reservation saw
the inner struggle between right and wrong
that was forever going on. He was the
- only one who knew that, as often as Jimmy
was torn with a desire to mend his wa
sds Sood i og None but the
man of God knew where he went. He had
followed Jimmy to his secret nook in the
. woods and discovered hat the boy played
| a fiddle, acquired by some means
to the devil that was said to possess him.
His music he created as he played. It
came from the fulness of his desires, a
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“Jimmy—Jimmy—don't—" He cut off
her wo Another long clinging kiss and
another and another fell full on her lips.
Panting and frightened at his vehemence,
"When I was a child I dreamed things | she sank limply in his arms. He let her
in the smoke-house.” | go as suddenly as he had taken her. She
red back into a chaparral bush,
stagge!
Obey the | clutching at the thorny branches for sup-
teachers for the soft feeling in my rt, | port and sobbed out her futile protest:
"Don’t—don’t—"
He*had disa; in the woods be-
fore she reali that she was alone.
"Jimmy," she called, “Jimmy, I don’t
care—I'm not angry.”
But no answer came, and, clasping her
hot cheeks with both hands, she ran down
| to the kitchen door of her father's house
at the window that Jimmy only broke back. And now every day I ask myself
and through the deserted rooms to her
little chamber. There she fell on
her maiden soul
in an ecstasy of grief. He lay
like one who has crawled out
i more dead than
him.
Before the week was over the teachers
told each other that Jimmy had lost his
chance for Carlisle. were not
stated. There were sins of omission and
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good looks and a o
the joy and fear | look
| lar festivities for it-Sunday, when the
ladies are to be the guests. With such
- matrimonial snares spread on every side,
the school man. As the superintendent it is difficult to see how one may get past
started forward with an angry exclama- : them all and escape being caught.
tion to put an end to the disgraceful |
scene, Jimmy pulled a protruding bottle The Daily News by Telephone.
The boy broke into a loud guffaw. He
mixed the tongue of the smoke-house and
| and a long wait. The bell had called the older pupils to | from his pocket and twirled it overhead : s——
| is the son of Campbell, he that ' study hour and the campus was still and | threateningly. Straight against the chap- | In the city of Budapest, Hungary, there
deserted. Jimmy should have been bend- | el wall he hurled it. With the crash of | has been in successful operation during
glass and the rattle of boards a great rag- | the past several years a news-telephone
ged patch of moisture appeared on the system whose efficient service has gained
thirsty wall, and the pungent smell of for it a great number of subscribers. The
cheap whiskey filled the air. A look of annual subscription is $7.31, which is paid
aversion and disgust was on the faces of quarterly in advance, and approximately
the teachers, but Jimmy's hungry eyes | $8.50 is the charge of installation and re-
were only for Flora. . . . | moval, and this entitles the subscriber to
Late that evening when the campus two receivers. :
was deserted, and yA irrigating ditches ' At 8.55 a. m. the daily service begins,
ran with quicksilver of the moon's mak- | when a buzzer, loud enough to be heard
ing, Flora slipped out of her father’s across a large room, announces the cor-
house and sought the missionary. | rect time. An hour and a half later the
“I want to tell somebody, and 1 dare | program of the day's important events is
not tell father, he is so angry with Jim- | given, and at ten and eleven o'clock the
my,” she sobbed. “I don't understand | opening stock quotations and general
how it ha , but Jimmy drew My | ews items come over the wire. A sec-
heart away , and I knew that it ' ond announcement of the correct time
belonged to him. He seemed so good followed by parliamentary and general
and strong, but he wasn't—he wasn’t. 1 news, comes at noon, and forty-five min-
never want to see him again. I'm going utes later there are quotations from the
away tomorrow morning with father. I'll lacal, Vienna, and Berlin exchanges. Two
never come back.” o'clock brings more parliamentary and
“It is better so, my child,” said the general topics of interest, and at 3 p. m.
man. come the closing prices of stocks, the
A week later the missionary went to weather forecast, local personals and
see Jimmy in the rancheria across the small items, and in winter the condition
river. He found him lying on the terrace of the ice at various skating-places. Court
of the sweat-house, that had been Cap- and miscellaneous news is announced at
tain John's before he went to his long 4 p. m., and from 4.30 (0 6.30 you may
home inside the picket fence. The old listen to military music from one of the
man studied the boy a long time in si- gardens. In the evening there isa choice
lence. Why should a drunken boy have ' between the royal opera and one of the
sober, hungry-looking eyes? But stand- theatres, to be followed still later by mu-
ing there before Jimmy, a great light sic from one of the tzigane orchestras.
came to him. He was answered. |
When he had gone slowly across the! How Wolves Catch Wild Horses.
bluff, Ann came with her teetering trot —
down to the terrace and tried again to Travelers tell us that the wolves of
make her boy's thoughts her thoughts. | Mexico have a strange way of catching
“I wore the wild honeysuckle on my the wild horses. ese horses have a
heart,” he told her, “and it made me great speed. It is almost impossible for
glad and strong. But the north wind a single cowboy to catch one. The cow-
it away. Now that I have conquer- | boys, when they wish to run them
ed that other part of me I am heavy- ' have relays of pursuers. First one set
hearted, oh, mother . . . I wonder if cowboys will chase the horses,
the place where Captain John has gone another, and another, until at last
— i horses are caught by the lasso. But it is
“Hush—hush—" whispered Ann, strick- | only when are completely tired that
en with fear. “Thou shalt not take the they are caught; t ore it would be
name of the dead in vain." | impossible for the wolves to catch them
The habit of the sweat-house, that had | unless they used strategy, for the flight
prolonged the life of Captain John be- | of the wolves is not so swift as that of
yond his fellows, found a weak t in, horses.
the constitution of the half breed boy. | This is is the way the wolves kill the
The sweating at night took his Strengt , wild horses of the Mexican plains. First,
and the plunge in the clay-colored er two wolves come out of the woods and
chilled him. All day long he lay on the begin to play together like two kittens.
terrace like a wilted cornstalk. ' They gambol about each other and run
The morning came when he did not re- backward and forward. Then the herd
turn from his dip in the river. Hours of horses lift their startled heads and get
later two men from another rancheria ready to stampede. But the wolves seem
came across the furry grass carrying be- to be so playful that the horses, after
tween them the slender naked body of a | watching them for a while, t their
youth. They laid it on the terrace of the fears, and continue to graze. n the
sweat-house, They said they had found wolves in their play come nearer and
it on the river bank, caught in a net of | nearer, while other wolves slowly and
willow roots. And Ann came with the stealthily creep after them.
Then suddenly the enemies surround
black | the herd and make one Plunge, and the
down ! horses are st ing with the fangs of
the relentless gripped their
| throats.—Our Dumb Animals.
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father’s grave and cursed | a may 2 ute,
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