THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
KITTY'S INTERVIEW.
I
' "A lady to see you, sir." Jeremy
jfjrlgson used vry unparliamentary
flanguaffe, but taking Into conaldera
tlon the fact that his visitor might be
jclose at hand, in compliment to her
box his anathemas were uttered In Oer
knan. ! "Madam," said Jeremy Grlgson,
iwltu a severe bow, "I have an excel
lent memory, but I cannot recollect
Wvlng made your acquaintance on
jany previous occasion."
I "You have an excellent memory?
pTianks." She made another note.
r'May I sit down? I am rather tired."
"Certainly, madam." Jeremy plac
ed a chair for her.
1 "I am from the Weekly Chatterer,"
he said. "Can you let me have a
photograph -to go In with the inter
View?" ; "Never had one taken in my life,"
aid Jeremy. He woa not a handsome
man, yet there was something In hla
face better than good looks.
j "Not even when you were a baby?
Almost anything would do."
"Not even then."
' "Allow me one question: What
have I done that I rtiould be inter
viewed?" "Dont you know that the wholo
town is talking of your book?"
! "I don't know anything about it,"
lie said, savagely, "except that I sold
jthe copywrlght for twenty pounds,
and that the twenty pounds Is spent."
f She had got hold of an immense fact
but she dropped her pencil, and her
flippant, aggressive air with it
l "What a shame!" she said; "what a
.wicked shame. Your publishers will
make hundreds and thousands out of
Itbat book. It Is creating a furore,
buch a case should not be possible,
hnd especially when a man really
peeds the money."
j He looked attentively at her for the
first time. He had seen already that
he was young and pretty; but he no
ticed now that there was a worn,
pinched look about her small, very
tretty face. He had seen the same
look growing on other faces in Bohe
tala; it had grown upon his own; and
lie knew the meaning of It.
"You understand about needing
'money?" he asked her.
i "I should think I do," she answer
ed, sharply. "Do you suppose I should
be here now if I didn't?"
"Sometimes people work at a trade
because they like it."
I "If it were a trade I liked, every
thing would be different. I aspired to
literature once, but I could not even
make dry bread by it. Ever since I
pave been hanging on to the skirts of
Journalism, and sometimes there is a
exeat deal of mud on them. If you
lonly knew how people treat me now
juid again when I go to interview
them! You may thank your stars and
jrour genius for having placed you
above all that, at any rate."
; "Are they often as brutal as I was?"
ie asked, gently. "I am awfully
orry; won't you forgive me?"
i "Don't mind about it," she said
huskily. "I know very well what I
must have seemed to you an impu
dent, brazen, bold wretch, I am hor
jribly nervous by nature, and I put all
Eat side on just to cover up the
ght, and impress people with the
ea that I Intend to get any informa
tion I want, no matter how reticent
khey try to be. Often they tell me
more than they intend as you did Just
Vow merely to get rid of me, because
they think I am writing down a whole
lot that they don't want said about
them. I should stand a bad chance if
khey only knew that I am quite as
anxious to get away from them as
they are to get away from me.
. "If this Interview is any object to
you," he said, in an awkward, shame
faced way, "I will tell you all you
want to know. I am not quite such a
churl as I pretended to be. Only
well, I am proud as well as poor, and
Suppose there is no need to make the
details of my poverty public?" He
glanced first at the meagre furnishing
of the room, and then at his thread
bare clothes.
: "Oh!" It was actually a little cry
of pain. "Do you think so badly of
me as that still? I will go now. I
wish I bad not come."
j She turned very white as she rose,'
and caught at her chair to steady her
self. : "For heaven's sake, don't faint!"
cried Jeremy, desnerately. He made
a stride toward her, and, without a
word of apology, he caught her by the
arm and pushed her back into the
chair. "What did you do it for?" he
asked, with a great show of indigna
tion. "What is the matter with you?"
"I couldn't help it," she said. "If
I had gone on walking I should have
been all right, but the short rest fin
ished me. I am very tired, and "
She gave a little gasp, and her eyelids
fluttered.
'. Jeremy dived into a wall cupboard,
and came forth with a brandy bottle.
There- was very little in it, but enough
for the purpose. He stood over her
In a threatening attitude until she
cpnuented to drink a teaspoonful. He
tried to insist on a second.
"I cannot, really," she said. "I dare
not. It would go to my head at once,
because beeauso "
Jeremy Grlgson knelt down beside
her and took her hand.
; "Is it because" you have had no
luncheon?" he asked.
"Yes," she said; and her color began
to return. "Do you know how it
feels?"
He nodded with ympathetlc grav
ity. "Been there dozens of times," he
said; and he did not let go her hand,
neither did she withdraw It. ".Posalbly
you have walked the whole way from
the Chatterer's office to this house?"
"I had no choice, Tnis represents
my whole fortune until such time as I
am paid for the Interview."
She pulled three half pence out of
her pocket, and showed it to him lying
on the worn palm of her littlo gray
glove.
Quite involuntarily he lifted to his
Hps the hand he was holding. Then
she drew it away and tried to return
to her former manner.
"Just tell me where ycx were born,"
she said, "and how the citral Idea of
your book first occurred to you, nnd I
will go."
"You will do uothing of the kind,"
Bald Jeremy, firmly. "I am Just going
to have my tea 'high tea ' because I
am a homely sort of fellow. I will not
tell you another word unless you stay
and share it with me."
"But I have to write up the Inter
view now at once. It muBt be put Into
type to-night."
"Very well. You can do it here
while our cutlets are being cooked.
You will find plenty of paper, pens and
ink on my writing table, such as it is.
Here are a few notes for you." He
filled half a sheet of paper quickly, in
a small, clear hand. "Now I shall
leave you for half an hour to your
work, if you will solemnly promise me
not to run off while I am away."
"I don't want to run off in the very
least," she said; and she looked away
from him to hide the tears in her
eyes. But he saw them all tho same.
When he came back he was accom
panied by a waiter laden with niatsr
ial for a feast brought from the near
est restaurant, and he had letters in
his hand, because he had encountered
the evening postman on the doorstep.
She wanted to help him to 6pread
the tablecloth and arrange the food,
but he said it would make him 111 it
he did not wait on himself, because he
was so used to doing it. So she read
her manuscript aloud to him instead,
and he criticised it as he stumbled
about with plates, knives and forks.
They took their meal together In
merry, picnic fashion, like children
who had known each other all their
lives, and when hunger was satis fed
they exchanged some further confi
dences. They were both alone in the
world, both dependent on their pens,
although In vastly different lines, and
they were both young, notwithstand
ing the fact that Jeremy's hair had a
sprinkling of gray in it. Iler uann
was Kitty, and he told her that had
been hl3 mother's name. She was
very glad, although she scarcely knew
why.
"I have several literary irons in tho
Are," he said, presently, "and those
letters look like business. May I open
them? Thanks. Then, if the news is
good, you will be the first to congratu
late me; and if it is bad, it will be
some consolation to hear you say,
'Poor dev' I beg your pardon, I mean
'poor fellow.' I have not spoken to a
lady for three years."
He opened the first letter.
"Good," he said. "The Tip-Top
Magazine accepts Mr. Grigson'B serial,
the first instalment of which will ap
pear next month. That manuscript
has been lying at the office of the Tip
Top for six months, and I have written
about three times without being able
to elicit a reply."
"Nothing succeeds like success,"
tald Kitty ' Open the next"
He did so.
"Still better!" he exclaimed. "I ap
plied for a post just vacant on the
staff of the Pulverizer. It means three
hundred a year for a weekly column of
criticism. The last man was a great
swell, and he gave It up because one of
his own books was smashed to atoms
by mistake in another part of the pa
per. Well, I have got the post."
"Splendid!" she cried. Now the
last one."
"Best of all!" he cried, as he glanc
ed through it. "Because it shows hu
man nature in an agreeable light, toy
publishers Inclose a check for two
hundred pounds in consideration of
the phenomenal success of 'The Book,'
and they will be happy to allow me to
make my own terms for the next one.
Kitty. I am waiting to be congratu
lated." He had called her by her Christian
name quite unconsciously.
She sprang to her feet, blushing furi
ously, and began hunting for her
gloves.
"I can't say half I mean about it,"
she stammered. "Wont you take for
granted how glad I am ? I must go
now j the evenings are long, but they
don't last forever, I want to thank you
and I don't know how."
"When may I come to see you ? " he
asked, retaining her band agiin.
"Ob, never t X live in such a wretch
ed place, and you are- among the great
ones of the world now, you know,"
"Of course," he said, coolly, "It does
n't matter in the least whether you
give me your address or not, because I
am going to escort you home, and then
I shall find it out for myself. Are you
ashamed to be seen with me ? We
could stop at a tailor's on the way, but
there would be certain drawbacks to
that compromise,"
"My clothes are infinitely worse than
vours," she said, humbly,
"Quite a different case," he assured
tier. "I believe you would look well
dressed in a 'gunny sack.' "
Then they set out together. He did
not oUer to take a cab. An hoar earlier
he would have done so, but he was, com
paratively speaking, a rich man now,
ind he dared not run the risk of seem
ing to'patronize her poverty. 8he un
iorstoud, and liked him all the better
for it.
This was a day to be remembered in
both their ilves.
Three months later there was a much
talked-of little wedding breakfast, at
which most of the guests were literary
celebrities, but another interviewer
"wrote it up"for the Weekly Chatterer.
Jeremy had married Kitty.
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
Party with Dasket (on left) Ah,
' that's the way of the world! Yester-
day I had chicking In my basket an' he
was my wnlin' slave; to-day she's got
turkey and cold puddln' in her basket
an' he don't reckernlse me! Truth.
HIS RULING PASSION.
Proprietor Pat, how do yiu like the
fight?
Pat Oi only have wan objection.
Proprietor What is that?
Pat 01 can't get in it. New YorU
TTornlH !
JUST CAUSE FOR A KICK.
Office Boy Please, sir, I've a com
plaint to make. The bookkeeper
kicked me, sir. I don't want no book
keeper to kick me.
Boss Of course, he kicked you.
You don't expect me to attend to every,
thing, do you? I can't look after every
little detail in the business myself.
NEVER ACCEPTED PRESENTS.
"What you you do if I were to give
you a kiss?"
"Give it back at once; I never take
presents from gentlemen." Pick-Me-Up.
LEGAL NOTE.
Mr. Heupeck has begun action for
immediate separation from his wlfo,
Lily. Ocean.
RIGHT IN IT.
Ols Spurhumper. Speaking of coast
ing. Well, suy!
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"CALL A SPM A SPADE."
Some People too Modest to Confide in their Physician A Woman
Cured of a Serious Disease by a Certain Msthcd, the Only
Drawback of which was, it "Kade M Tea Fat."
From tht Evening
The doctor cam in haste end found hli
patient Again in great agony from splitting
headache. It win his fifth call on the wine
patient, and ruch time to treat tbo aaui
trouble. With a suspicion that hi. illagno
sli tu incorrect and that lie m troatiug a
symptom and not the disease, lie said to her :
"Madam, it is useless for Die to visit you
fain. You are keeping from mt fuels and
symptoms which it is necetsary I should
know. The pntlent flaally acknowledged
that, through a false modest?, she lied not
eld him all. Then she told how she had
suffered from female weakness hut had kept
it from hiiu too motUH to speak. The old
doctor was disgusted at aueh prudisimeMi,
but when lie knew the facts, cured her easily
aud quickly.
The following case differ from the above,
only in the fart that the patient is not afraid
to speak, and to "call a spade a spade."
" Words fall to describe the suffering I
endured before I used Dr. Williams' I'iuk
Pills for Pule People." said Mrs. Alexander
B. Clark, of 417 Michigan A?enue, Detroit.
Mich. "For five years I have suffered
from ovarian troubles, and was couliued to
my room for months at a time. I have
undergone two operations for this trouble at
the hospital, and seemed to crow worse
lustead of better. I had tho best doctors sud
the best nursing, but for near? fivo years I
was not free for one single day from the
most fearful headaches and inteuse twitch
ing pains in my neck nnd shoulders.
" You would scarcely believe, to look at
me now, that for nbout three days every
week for nearly six years, I had to stay in
bed. Those headaches would oome on nie
ever? week regularly. First I would notice
black spots before my eyes, and then I
would go blind, and send for the doctor.
" At first they would treat me for indiges
tion and dyspepsia, then finally acknowl
edge that something else caused the trouble.
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The story ot tne bell is a part of the
history of the Church further back
than the beginning of the Christian
era, for we read that the robe of the
high priest in the tabernacle was
trimmed with little gold and silver
bells. These must, of course, have
been very small, and of use chiefly as
ornament. Just -when or by whom
the church bell, as we know it now,
was introduced into Europe, is a mat
ter of dispute. This distinction is
claimed for Paulinus, Bishop of Nola,
who lived about 400 A. D., but it has
also been attributed to one of the
early popes. In England the Vener
able Bede refers to church bells, and
it is a matter of record that in 980 the
Abbot of Croyland placed a peal of
bells in his abbey; but It was not until
after the Reformation that bells were
placed in all the churches, and the
custom of ringing them on all Church
festivals caused England to be known
as the land of bells and bellnngers.
Bell music seems to have a partic
ular charm for northern peoples, and
the great bell countries of Europe are
Russia, Belgium and England. Rus
sia is the land ot big bells. In the
city of Moscow there are over four
hundred bells, which join their voices
in a jingle grand harmony on the
great festivals of the Church. They
range from the little two-foot bells of
some of the smaller peals to the mighty
bell of St. Ivan's Church, which weighs
fifty-seven tons. Its clapper weighs
4,300 pounds, and requires three men
to move it. The bell is rung but
three times a year. Larger even than
this, though it has long been silent, is
the great bell which stands in the
courtyard of the Kremlin, the largest
ever cast. This bell was made for the
Empress Anne in 1734. It is 21 feet
high, 67 teet in circumference, and
weighs 19S tonst While it was being
bung it crashed to the ground, and a
huge piece was cracked from one side.
The bell is now used as a chapel, the
Newt, Detroit, iTieh,
During these spells I was so nervous that I
eould not bonr to hove my husband walk
across the floor, and as the doctors said there
was no medicine that would reach my
trouble, I co:ientri to the operations, which
left me worse off than I Was before.
" In January of this year there wns an
article in it-tS'fnina AVim about the drug,
lints that sold Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in
Detroit. I told my husband I was going to
try tbein and he said, 'try anything.'
"The next morning I went into Murphy
Brothers' drug store and bought s box of
Dr. Williams7 Piuk Pills. Mr. Murphy
said he had a big sale for the pills and per
sonally knew many people who had been
helped by them. I took the pills as directed,
but was not helped a bit, and 1 told Mr.'
Murphy so, but he suggested that I give
them a better trial. Before I had finiubcd
the second box I begun to feel better and
went down and bought a dor.cn boxes.
When I had taken six boxes my hoadachea
were foe. but I continued using the pilla
until I had taken the twelve lioxis.
"Just think what I have suffered by
trillions and vile medicines, when a sim
ple remedy cured me.
"There is onlv one thing against Dr. Vil
llaau' Pink Pills for Pale People," eon.
tinued Mrs. Clark, "tliey msde me fat.
Since I commenced taking them, iu Janu
ary, I have gained twenty-six pounds. I
remember the man? times when my friends
cuine to see me, when I was so thin and
wesk, that they expected to hear Mint I was
dead the next week. To-day I am perfectly
well, and never felt better in my life, and ft
is all duo to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pal People."
All dolors sell Dr. Williams' Pink Tills
for Tale People, or they will bo sent post,
paid on receipt of price, 60 cents a box or
six boxe for $2.50 (tliey are never sold in
hulk or b? the loO), bv addressing Dr. Wil
liams' Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
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broken piece doing service as a door,
From " Christmas Chimes, " in
Demorcsfs Magazine for December.
A New One Dollar Greenback!
A new $1 greenback will soon make
its appearance. It is a radical depart
ure from all previous designs, show
ing a large space of white pape front
and back. An eagle with extended
wings hovering over the flag and
capital is the only illustration on the
face, and in the corners is the figure
in scroll work. The back is very
plain, consisting largely of a border
in geometrical designs.
To Test a Rabbit Question.
The question as to whether rabbits
may be legally exposed for sale will
be settled in court at Norristown in a
case growing out of the arrest of
William K. Cassel and Harvey Hart
enstine for offering cottontails for sale.
The accused have also caused the
arrest of Game Warden Cooper for
confiscating a half dozen rabbits.
I Ha Waa Mad 8.r.nt.
! A proMj story, smvoring of the ro
mantic, is ioltt la the French press
about the kaiser. Kocently his ma
jesty wnt to the Berlin barracks
alone. Tne corporal on guard recog
nized tho kaiser immediately, and sa
luted him. Tho kuJser was pleased,
and, approaching thef eoldlor, 6uld:
'NVhy do you look bo sad, corporal?"
The corporal did not reply. Tho cm
peror then asked If he was disappoint
ed In love. At this the corporal found
his tongue, and replied that ho wished
to uiarrr Marguerite, the daughter of
his Bergeant-inajor.,but that her fath
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became a sergeant. "And do you love
her very much?" uked the , kaiser.
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Bald the emperor, "go and tell your
future father-in-law that William II.
makes 'you a sorgcant,"
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