THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. 1 A ' V-T ' A Good Beginning for the Year "T UICLIKVK in beglnnning the New Year well," observed young Mr. Talkington, as he carved the turkey; "I aru not superstitious, hut" "Yes," said his wife, demurely, "I remember how well we began It last year." "You were to start on a trip that day, weren't you?" queried a Kiiest. "Yes, and the train, a new one Just put on, leit at 9:25. Ned said we should arise at five, thus beginning the New Year well and catehing the train com fortably. He ordered a cab for 0:30, so it would reach the house at night; w&m. HAD TIME TO BURN. he did this over night and also wound up the cook's alarm clock. Ned dulv waked me the next morning." i "With difficulty; dear." "You waived me, anyhow, and your ' voice sounded like the dentist's saying, I 'Step this way. please." We hadn't heard the cook o down, and going to investigate I found her asleep. She said the alarm had gone off at 2:15, and she'd been up every half hour since to see if it was live. The, volcano was awake then! " I "Oh!" "When I returned, Ned pointed to the clock on the mantel and said it was o:17, and we were late." 'Well?" j "Not liing only that clock was a wedding present and so handsome that nobody ever expected it to keep time, investigation proved it was just tour, and we went back to b d for an hour. I was dreaming that the cook's New Year's resolve was thut she would never leave ne, when an awful noise waived m. The cool; called that It was right, and as breakfast had been ready three hours she thought olie'd better call us!" "Hut did you reach the station in time?" "Yes. In my haste I did my hair With three pins and Ned put on his dress coat and odd shoes we are both forgetful, you know. We scalded otir throats with hot coffee and choked (Ourselves with overdone steak. The cabman, who had arrived at fi:Sn eharp, demanded full pay for the time lie had waited, else he'd deduct from the number of Ned's useful eyes!" "Dreadful!" chorused the guests. "While he did this the cook gave warning and told me that the catch on the back cellar window was loose. "We were In time. To Ned's fever ish inquiries the ticket agent calmly responded. 'Oh, yes, we had plenty of time 24 hours and 29 minutes!'" "Why, how on earth could that hap pen?" "The train, as I said, was a now one, put on for the first time on New Year's day. and and the calendar to which the agent pointed told us that to-day was December thirty-first !" EUSA ARMSTRONG. j& ii lifl Jt; Their New Years Dinner " O () V" went to Year's dinner?" i Isabel's New said the bru nette. "Lucky you! Tom and I dine with his mother on the first day of each year, listening to a discourse on economy which lusts from oysters to coffee." "Knowing that all your bills will be in thi! next morning's mail, too," cried the blonde. "Yes, we accepted Isa bel's invitation, and " "How do you like Isabel's new dress? Is it as cold as " '1 lor reception of a tardy guest? Not quite. 1 was ready at only ten min utes after the lust moment at which we could safely start and if that Is not being punctual, I'd like to know what is! "ICIeven sharp!' Jack called to the driver, and then I looked up to sue Isabel's old house!" "When the dinner was given to dis play the new one?" "Uxnetly. After running a block through the snow In his thin shoes and nearly being arrested as an escaping thief. Jack got tho driver to return. Once inside, he declared I hadn't told him Isabel had moved." "Because he had kept on reading his paper while you told him about it?" "Yes. I had even told him how the bathroom was tiled But, dear, I had forgotten whether the new number was 2f.O or 2550." "What on earth " "Jack threatened to go home and get dinner on the chafing dish the cook had holiday. Then I remembered thoughtfully writing out the address while Mae and I discussed that new dressmaker, and putting it in Jack's waistcoat pocket, because 1 am so for getful." "How thoughtful." "Jack pave the slip to the driver and promised him something awfui to drive last " "Then your troubles were ended?" "N no. I had written down the ad- JACK VA3 WAITING. dress of the new dressmaker, instead of Isabel's." "And you were no better off than be fore?" "Worse. Jack's language was awful. I said we could just drive along the avenue until wo came to tho house, which I would recognize immediately." "So" "He said we were invited to dinner, not to breakfast. Then he asked the driver if he happened to know where Mrs. De Style lived." "Nonsense. He " "He knew. It was about six blocks from our house. Stupid of Jack not to have asked sooner. And he seemed to think the whole affair my fault!" "Well, you reached Isabel's after all." "Ye-es, in time for the salad. And and I really should not like to re peat the things our hostess said when sho had a chance to speak to me alone." '' Iv 7 1 n! P 3 cA New Year Conquest CHARLES MOICEAU HARCLK A Story of (he GrtAt Sotiihtuest GUEAT clouds of yellow dust, a da.ling blue sky, sweeping winds. Ions reaches of level lands the midwinter southwest, nnd on the Rldln;? tho palatial train of the rattle king who was now off among the ranches looking Rfter sleek and well-bred herds. The cattle king's daughter, whose prospective wealth entitled her to the rank of princess, sat tinder the striped awning on the rear platform of the train, gazing wearily at the monot onous landscape. "How long are we to stay here?" she demanded of the porter who was Industriously trying to keep the leather-covered chairs clean. He did not answer he did not know. She went back to the parlor of tho other private car and flccosted tho quiet woman who sat by the window sewing. "Auntie, how long Is this to last?" "Until your father gets back or there are orders." "I'm tired of It I'm going out of doors." She seized a Jacket and cap, slipped down the side steps and disappeared behind the squalid depot. A dilapi dated livery stable stood in the sun shine. "I want a riding horse quick!" The man fairly trembled In his anx iety to serve tho city girl, and in a moment she was cantering over the sand and sage brush, headed straight for the green hills in the distance. Away and away she sped, delighting In the free rush of the wind, the swish of her pony's hoofs through the grass and the exhilaration of the open lands. At lust she turned the horse's head where was the station? Nothing but a rolling plain, not shining with sun light, but dampened by shadow. With a little cry of terror she sent her mount, racing ahead and strained her eyes for the engine smoke on the horizon. "Ah, there It Is but so far away!" She surmised what had happened her father had reached a station far ther down the line and wired for the train to Join him, and they had not discovered her absence before start ing. As she looked she saw off to the left another rider a wide-hatted ranch- "I WANT A RIDING HORSE." ; man toward him she rode. As she drew nearer her cheeks grow red and her eyes brightened. Once she stopped and turned as if to leave him. Then ho came close to her. "Oh, Mr. Mason, what shall I do?" Frank Mason, the handsome ranch superintendent, scarcely recognized her, bowing so slightly that it seemed to be merely the motion of his horse. "What is the matter, madam?" "Don't bo mean" the girl's eyes were beseeching. "lint you told mo never to speak to you again only this morning." "Yes, I know, but you see how it is the train has gone it is almost evening and hero 1 am." "It does look serious, doesn't It? Where do they think you are?" "They don't think. Aunty's prob ably gone to sleep and won't wake up until midnight the others think I'm in my room, In papa's car." "It is serious and nobody's nl the ranch to take care of you. I suppose they will come back to-morrow any how." "To-morrow " Tho girl fairly screeched the word. "We must get them now to-night, don't you under stand now!" "liut it is 50 miles to the next tele graph station how can the euglneer get orders?" He looked toward the train, which was disappearing in a cut between some creek bluffs a mile or two below tho station. "You seo, it's New Year's day and everybody but the stable boys and sta tion agent has gone to the county seat to a celebration. There's a dance to night, so they won't be home yes, it is serious." Their horses were moving slowly toward the station, yet a long distance away. They were talking earnestly and did not notice the curious move ments of a herd of cattle that had strayed from the grasslands toward the station and now, hundreds and hundreds of them, were pushing close to the two figures. The girl's bright jacket and the flashing red of the cap that topped her brown curls may have caused their exceeding Interest. When a huge fellow trotted In front of her weary horse, the girl stared about her in alarm. "Oh, Frank Mr. Mason look!" The young ranchman seemed much fxcitcd. "Hurry!" ho exclaimed, and urged his horse Into a run. Plie can tered by his side, alarmed by tho strange apparition of the herd, which it seemed had risen out of the sod. The ranchman saw something else that tho girl did not a cluster of earth mounds thrown up in the level of the plain, tho work of prairie dogs or some other burrowrrs of the plains. Uefors he could caution the girl, her horse stumbled, fell, staggered, went tumbling in a heap with a broken leg. Now It was serious. The cattle, more curious than ever, scampered faster toward the object of their in terest; tho fallen horse plunged nnd snorted; tho skirts of its rider held flor prisoner. In an Instant Mason was by her side, tugging at the fair burden. When she was free lie found her helpless from a strained ankle, and with tenderness he lifted her in his arms and to his own saddle. Then Jumping beside her he turned the nervous animal, drew his revolver and shot unerringly the mm mm "I'M SORRY I WAS SO RUDE." struggling beast on the ground then away toward the station resting on the broad and dusty plain. Arrived there, he lifted her gently to one of the benches which stood in the tiny waiting-room; he transformed It into a settee with blankets from the livery stable; he heard with pleasure her words of satisfaction. "That pin you wear where did you get It?" she asked, Irrelevantly. "It looks like Harvard." "it Is Harvard I graduated there." "And you are herding cattle?" "I am superintending a ranch my father owns it 10.000 head." "And you live?" "In Chicago my special train la at St. Louis now with my sister and mother aboard, bound here." So this was the "cowboy" she had patronized and made fun of as ho came to the train day after day to seo her father. She had been amused by his assurance and had quarreled with him that very morning. Now sho was at his mercy and she found it rather pleasant. "Tliis is a strango beginning for tho New Year," she broke out. "I wonder when the train will be back." "I think It is a good beginning I'm Eure I don't know about that train tuere is no connection with it yet." "I'm sorry I was so rude this morn ing, Kr Air. Mason." "Don't worry, Anna Miss Seamans." lie smiled, cautiously, at her. "It is line of you to care for me and protect nio this way," she went on, "and I don't know how to thank you." "Don't try. This is not the first time 1 have seen you I danced with you two years ni;o at your cousin's ban." i "I do not remember, but you have ! been very good now. I shall not for ' get il." "1 know but don't you think it would be a fine thing to have me take care of you all the time?" I She gave a pressure of her hand 1 but no more. Almost at the door was ! a rumble, a high note "T-o-o-t!" and ' the striped awning of the rear car came into view a few feet away. ' "Quick love, will you?" His words 1 were cagtr, and as he lifted her in ( his arms once more for a Journey to j the train sho whispered: "Yes." Almost as soon from the opposite direction came Mr. Seamans and his ' foremen. He greeted the pair with ' smiles and laughed at the daughter's I injuries when he found they were not ' serious. I ; "Stay on with us," he invited Ma ' 'son. "We'll bring you back before w I i leave for Chicago." : "How did the train come back sa ' soon?" asked Miss Seamans, rising ' from her couch. "I thought it was 50 miles to the next station!" ' "Wireless telegraphy," suggested ,Mason. "Shucks," said the aunt, contemptu ously. "The engineer pulled it down to the creek to All the boilers. V weren't gone half an hour." The girl looked quickly Into th. laughing eyes of the young ranchman. "I believe you knew it all the time," she exclaimed. "I did not tell you differently," he. 'pleaded. "You remember I was undei ,orders." I She was not satisfied. That evening as they sat out under the strlpod awn ling on the rear paltform and watched the landscape, glistening under th winter moon, as the train sped south' ward, she continued: "Really, Frank didn't you bribe the engineer to run ibehlnd the hill bo It would scare me?' But he did not answer nor has h answered yet, though his wife pro pounds the question every New Year'i day. 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