THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA. A Husband's Mistake liH mi ai i;ti iki itii uj. Mine, la Uaronne do GIvone was a reproduction of that famous type of c1;.sf!c beauty, t'.io Greolt goddess, cx HTiiplcs of which are to rarp now and growing more and moro so In this lin-dc-slecle epoch. A woman born for the Olympian cothurne and the sim ple drapery clasped upon the shoulder, Ticith'-r pretty, nor witty, nor marvel o'( in any way, but (Ivcelt. p'ain ( o'; fro-'i bro-.v to 1tv-',( ; --r.l.otl the Mid of licr estimable husband, the shrewd, fur-sighted, and succe?:-.ful financier, M. lo Huron and banker, Alnnzo do Cilvone. Tin; baron, moreover, was not wrnn;;; niailamo bis wife rellected the ; universal admiration as a polished re lit ctor throws back the light; they ilways chose her to preside over those ; function that required traditionally j sl;iliics()iie patroiic! men bowed i bei'ore her m before an armed pent I- , no!, and women tuner thiviht of such a thing as being Jealous of her. ; The a:re of this beautiful Creek, I however, announced by herself, was j of a v,v Vi'g.io character. lil; the a;re f a i'iat.ic as given o-i the bill o! t pa'e, "somewhere he' ',vc"'i nire-a;;d- twenty an.! r.it:e-ai:d -fort; ;) j As for the baron's ac. it wa.i that of ail hushaml-i when they are loyal spouses fifty years. Ye' y rich .".rid j ehiidie.-'fi. every overling smw them In i th' social swim, but 1 'i'li' there, a 1 eh-ewhere, the s-oh'tiin. ee;e'v.ol;'o'is. ; w- ll-vec-ih-.teil. dignified life of the I old clock in the s.i'.oa of their sta'cly I old mansion in the out.;!. ins of the 1 Hois de lioulo'ine. j Hut-alas, that it rhou'd be so! transcendent virtues are always rib e'et to thuii'b'r-cl"i' relapse.?. One .lay, at the house of a diplomatic pur isonage -a careless parvenu, who open ed his doors to all sort:; of arts and artistes through an affected democra cy Mini', de (livone made the fatal neounter. She trembled -she the proud, distinguished Uaronne de Cil vone. trembled before a comic singer, Hie vulgar star of a cafe concert hull. He had eome there, poor devil, to unrn a louls and his supper, without a iiiought of reanimating goddesses of 'he Parthenon, and was chiefly con sumed, while chirping out his "inlml Uble Imitations," by a suddenly dis covered silt that striped with white ':.? sooty black of his coat under the f rm, and the necessity for keeping his hand clasped over his heart to hide the fiery stroke of an unpaid laun ;'res's Iron, which spread Itself out 1 brownish tint upon an otherwise rnowy Bhlrtfront. The physique of this singer of comic ditties perfectly corresponded with his employment calf-eyed, thick-lipped, nose like a duck's bill, awkward In gait, and with only the knowledge of making a stage-bow fairly well an ungainliness, all the same, that mat tered little; Mme. de GIvone was caught by the epidemic that at times seizes all too-perfect women of vague ly defined years. She believed that she loved Caesar Ibes, and fell upon him. like a bolt from a clear sky, with all the notes, flowers, invitations, et cetera, that women of the great world employ In such cases as barometers, so to speak, of the condition of their affections. Caesar did not, however, return this love, though touched a little, of course, like all amiable animals to whom, through an Impulse of pity, one speaks caressingly as one passes. He did not love her; and when she called him Hie "ray of sunlight in the autumn of her life," instead of telling hltn, as she might have done, of his "inimitable tones," a dull dislike rose up In his heart against her. Caesar Ibes was not rich, either; llerminie bankrupted him In cabs en traged by the hour, and actually dared to offer him on his birthday a cigar case embroidered by her slim Greek fingers, when he would have infinitely preferred to the work of the needle a diamond scarf-pin, or even a good imitation diamond, provided the mounting was not too sham. Still one can taste a little of love and not become a drunkard. Caesar, not knowing what else to do, permit ted himself to go on being loved and being ruined by cab hire, in obedi ence to the will of the goddess, who made of this prosaic and useful vehi cle their regular and not too comprom ising trysting-place. It went on thus well, really, It does not matter how long when, ona morning at the breakfast-table, M. de Givone, with frowning brow, announc ed a sudden departure, possibly a week's absence, and a call to Lyons on a serious banking errand. Herminle saw him set out with the Joy of an emancipated school-girl, and promptly dispatched a note to her "dear friend" to call upon her that coming evening, closing with direc tions as to finding the servants' stair way. "My husband deceives me," she de clared; "I am sure that he deceives me, because he has grown so cold to me of late. This voyage is but a pre text to Join some some creature. I acorn him, and I wish to see you to see you here, in my own house. Come!" The evening came, and the clocks of the quarter were still striking ten as llerminie de GIvone, the "deceived" wifo, all glittering with diamonds and rustling with laces, as she had come from the concert where Ibes, all ths fashion at the moment, had been the lion of the occasion, stepped from hei carriage, dismissed the waiting maid a rut ten minutes later, by the set viiiits' stairway, was ushering the young comedian to the sacred pro ducts of her private boudoir. A stranso awkwardness, however, seemed to settle upon the two culprit as they c-ossed the threshold of that severely Greek nest, with Its Olym pian memories; Itormlnlne slowly and silently unclasped her diamond neck lace and turned to lay It upon a table near by, and Caesar, with equal slow ness, fumbled nervously with the but tons of hU concert-hall paletot. Then, Just as the diamonds fell Into the bronze tray waiting to receive them fell with the light spattering sound of falling tearsthe door open ed again and M. de GIvone appeared. llerminie uttered a cry and fell prone to the floor, and Caesar began mechanically to rebutton his paletot, his pale face convulsed with terror. The banker was pale, too, but o.nl no.isly calm. "Sir." said he. quietly drawing a re volver" from his pocket, "you are poor, you are a coward, and I know why you are here. Yon came to steal my wife. Happily, I bad taken my pre cautions. I have placed on guard at each side of the servants' hallway of my house two police ol!i. era charfd to arrojt ape to search you. They wi'l li!'.il"- pointing to the baroni'e's jew els glittering in the tray beside t;,'-;i "that diamond necklace con.iM'ed le'ween your shirt, and weir;, o-.t: tl.y will take you to the police sia ::!. and there you will ndti;:. l' ibeft; there, al.:o. you will declare thai you were here to pee the baron p.o's tar.id. am! tills vulgar onie.ly will . ml by a application of the 1 r.v :h ; u to say. a eeriain number o oiiuis in prlsou. In consider.',! ion o; o'criiv, the diamond!', howev . 1 :iv;eo to do what I can to foflou the r:;--'r of the richly deserved sen"et..e." And s".:'.i!iiig blandly, M. do Civetie "' icd his :in;;er upon the revolver's .ri'.-ger. "i'.ut but. monsieur," Ftamine-cd ;!',!' i orae 'ian. entering the tragic r '.o in i-pite of himself, "yon would co.n pel me to sacrifice my honor." "And my honor, sir," responded the hat '.;er, drawing nearer, "what of th.it. sir? Appearances give me the riht to blow out your brains here and n sir: but 1 do not love scandal. Tac your choice, then. Carry off the dia monds or I kill you!" Briefly, nothing was more cleverly arranged. Caesar Ibes was poor, a no body, riddled with debt, of a physi -e to please only chambermaids, and llerminie de Givone as flawless be fore the world as the statue she re sembled. With moist brow and chatter'ng teeth, Caesar made but a step to the table where flamed the resplendent necklace. "To call out is useless," he grum bled, essaying to smile. "If I told the truth, even, they'd take me for a fool, I suppose!" "No one would believe you, sir." Givone raised his arm again, and Caesar saw the gleaming barrel of the revolver almost against his b-w. It was an invincible argument. Caesar yielded. "Well, if I must, I must," said h; "better a prison than death, you know." And the necklace vanished Into the hiding-place designated by M. de Givone, who followed him to the threshold, pointing the way he should go, and dropped behind him the por tiere. Caesar found himself alone In the corridor. To the left, In the distn- e, twinkled the lamp of the vestibi.,e, lighting the servants' stairway; to the right, shining panes of the corridor window. Beyond that window was the garden, beyond the garden the Bois de Boulogne, the fields, security, and freedom ! "Bab' why not?" thought Caeir hri'isquely. dazzled and blinded by that which he had suddenly conceived; I've time enough to throw myself nto a train: eight hours lands me at lare. and once in England the devil hir-ielf couldn't catch me. lloup-la! ry boy, and that" snapping his 'V'unib lightly in the direction of the banker's dosed door "that for all ;hc enraged husbands in Paris!" lie threw up the sash, flung a leg oi'T the window-ledge, and the dia mond.! with him was lost in the night. fK months have gone since then; the worthy financier Is still deploring the mistake he made In persuading Caesar to steal against his will, and Mn,e. la Baronne Givone rr.ore than ever resembles a well-groomed Btatue. "ranslated for the Argonaut from the French of Rachllde by E. C. Wag goner. Thsy Knew the Answer. "Well, there were only three boys In school to-day who could answer one question that the teacher asked us," sui'l a proud boy of eight, according to a writer in the Chicago News. "And I hope my boy was one of the three," said the proud mother. "Well, I was," answered Yoi'ig Honeful, "and Sam Harris and Harry Stone were the other two." "I am very glad you proved yourHell so good a ucholar, my son; It makes your mother proud of you. What qupHlion did the teacher ask, John nie?" "Who broke the glass In the back window?" The International Candle. Beginning July 1st, a new unit of electric illumination, to be called the International candle, Is to bo adopted by France, England and the United States. The American standard can dle Is to be reduced one and six-tenths per cent. In order to make It uniform with the English candle and the Bou gie Decltnale of France. The value of the Hefner, the German unit, Is niue tenths that of the sew candle. MARCH WEATHER OUTLOOK. There Promises to be Wide Range of Temperature. Records for some years show that the mean temperature for March is thirty-nine degrees. Dur ing the past twenty-one years, however, there has been a wide range in the temperature. The mercury has during that period climbed up as high as eighty-five degrees and has gone down ns low as five. So, judging by these rec ords, there may be some more real winter in the following thirty days Last March there was a total snow fall of eight inches. March origi nally was the first month of the year, but in various rearrangements of the calendar it became the third. In some parts of the world it still retains its place as the first month of the year. The sacred year of the Jews begins in March and the feast of Azymes or unleavened bread falls on the fourteenth month of Nizan, or March 29th. The church feasts of March during the current year occur as iollows: St. David's day. March tst; Mid Lent, Match 2nd; St. Patiick's day, March 17th; St. Joseph, March 19; I'alni Sunday, March 20th; Maunday Thursday, March 24th; Good Friday and Feast of the Annunciation, Match 25th; Holy Saturday, March 26th; Fas ter Sunday, March 27th. The six weeks following Candlemas, Feb ruary 2nd (groundhog day) will end Tuesday March 15th, St. Christo pher's day, when, according to the supporters of the groundhog weath er tradition, the little marmot may come forth from his underground sleeping quarters and not worry about his shadow until next Can dlemas. In other words, spring weather should be due on March 15th. But spring does not hegin until March 20th, l'alm Sunday. What the Figures Show. Joseph Chamberlain, the British protectionist, in a speech at Glas gow, said: "I propose to put no tax what ever on maize, because maize is a !ood of the very poorest of the peo ple. I propose to exclude bacon tiom protection also, because ba con forms the staple food for many of the poorest of the population." In other words, Mr. Chamber lain admitted that the import duty on maize and bacon would have lo be paid by the consumer, and not the "foreiguer!" Another question: If our protec tive system is not the "substantial'' explanation of the abnormal in crease in the cost of living in the United States, how does it come that British prices, under free trade, increased but 7.7 per cent, in ten years, while American prices under protection, increased 34.3 per cent? Here is the table which tdls its own story, and ought to be consid ered "Exhibit A" in any Congres sional or other investigation into the increased cost of living: Year. English Prices. U. S. Prices. 1896 100.0 100.0 1897 104.4 104.6 1898 109.5 112.6 1899 105.1 1 16.2 1900 107.2 1243 1901 107 6 1 26.3 1902 109.0 132.8 190, 108.0 127.8 1904 10S.7 127.9 1905 107.7 13-4 3 Increase 7.7 34-3 These figures are calculated lrom official statistics of the British Board of Trade in the "Eleventh Abstract of Labor Statistics," and from fig ures in 71st "Bulletin of the Unit ed States Bureau of Labor." The year 1895, which was the year preceding the enforcement of the highly protective Dingley tar iff, is taken as the standard year, the cost of food in each country be ing taken as 100. The meaning of the table is that food which cost $1 in Great Britain in 1896, could not be duplicated for less than $1,077 in 1906, and that food for which the American consumer paid $1 in 1896, cost $1,343 u 1906. Ex change. Keep The Money At Home. An Ohio concern is sending cir culars here, offering to furnish an outfit of printed stationery for $3.85, in advance, customer to pay express charges, which would be 60 to 75 cents. We will duplicate the offer, save you express charges, will guaran tee as good if not better stock, and you can see just what you are get ting belore you pay for it. Don't send your money away from home for printing when you can get the same thing for less cash right here. tf. A fine new line of Wedding in vitations just received at this office LETTERS BY TELEGRAPH. Western Union to Inaugurate a New Service. Announcement is now made by ttie Western Union Telegraph Com pany that it is now prepared to handle long night messages at the rates customarily charged for ten word day messages. It appears that the Western Union has a large unemployed mileage of wire which is not earning anything. These wires must be maintained in any event to take care of the regu lar day business, and it is appar ently ti e new idea of the new in terests in the Telegraph Company to let the public have the benefit of them. The announcement states that a "sp.viai Niuht Letter Ser- j vice will be established. 1 He j charge for this s.rvice will be the j standard day rate for Un words for! the transmission of fifty words or less, and one fifth of such standard day rate will be charged for each ; rdditional ten words or less." To be taken at these rates Night Letters must be written in plain English language, that is t ) say, ' code words or communications writ ten in foreign languages will not be accepted The messages will be taken at any hour up to midnight 1 and transmitted at the Company's convenience during the night for delivery the following morning. For the pre -cut the new service is confined to Western Union olhces in the United States. The tariffs charged for Night Letters are so low it is expected that the new set vice will be largely availed of by business concerns and others to j quicken their correspondence bv using the telegraph instead of the j mails. A Night Letter sent by 1 telegraph will raeh its destination at the opening of business hours j the following morning thus saving as much ns three or four days w hen ; long distances are involved. ThePassingofthe'WarnlDumh: - "The habit of the ancients was to put deaf babies to death either by exposure or by violent means," writes Christine Terhune Herrick in Woman's Home Companion for March. "Down almost to the pre sent time deaf infants among sav ages have been disposed of in this fashion. "Our later methods deaf and dumb schools in which those thus afflicted are segregated, taught the sign language and instructed in trades in which their disability is not an insuperable drawback are known to all of us. For years it was taken for granted that such methods of training were the only ones possible to the deaf and be cause deaf, dumb. At last there was an effort made abroad, notably in Germany, to teach speech to the d.?af. The endeavor spread on the Continent, and despite the prevail ing conviction that deafness con notes dumbness, it W's proved th.it the deaf could be taught to speak. The tongue of the dumb was un loosed. "For some time the speech teach ing efforts were confined to those of school age and over The thought of taking the deaf child at an age when he would naturally learn to talk, were he possessed of all his faculties, was the iuspirr.tion of a woman, the late Miss Emma Gar rett, of Philadelphia, who had known of a few intelligent mothers who had done this successfully with their own children. " 'How did she come to think of it?1 I asked her s:ster Miss Mary Garrett, who carries on the work begun by both. " 'I believe the Lord put it into her mind,' said Miss Garrett. 'She had never beeu especially interested in philatuhropy, but when her thoughts were once turned in this direction, she became enthusiastic over the work and devoted her life to it.' " Bees and Blossoms Feed Swiss. Switzerland is a land of flowers, aud its thrifty inhabitants have made the blossoms very largely contributory to the food supply says the Philadelphia Record. Accord ing to statistics gathered by the Swiss Society of Agriculturists "there are 250,000 hives or colonies of bees in the country, each of which produces 40 pounds ot honey during the season, a total of 10,. ooo.ooo pouuds a year. The aver age price of Swiss honey for the year 1909 was 25 cents a pound, giving the year's product a total value of $2,500,000." As the flowers grow without cultivation, and the bees work without other wage than caretaking, producing their owu food supply, the honey crop is in great part clear profit. The Swiss honey is of very delicate flavor and fine quality. . . 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