6 \mm ——ai bll TCJBRtrwafi THE THINGS I THAT ARE I I Br V. H. LANCASTER | (Uopyi'lO it. 1001. by D.illy Story fub. Cu.) MADISON, coming ill abruptly, had asked Daisy lor a title and whin hue pointed silently to tue last lines ol lewis" "Highway" he snapped on his glasses, frowning slightly as he read: "But he our haven near or far we put our trust in things that are." "The things that are," she repeated, Significantly. "You have been thinking it over! To be a deep thing or whimsical?" "Rather deep—earnest, at any rate." "To pivot on a mail or a woman?" "Woman. But you had better pivot it on a man.for you don't know a thing xi the world about v.omen." "Nothing; except that there i.s no telling from what point of view a woman will approach an issue." "The things that are. are. hard on a woman," ho muttered, thoughtfully. "Hut a man has greater reverence for them." Madison studied the poem, by his expression neither accepting nor reject ing her assertion. He looked tired - and lie was. But, Indian like, had taken up ♦ tiis additional task to convince his flag ging energies that they were not so near ly spent as they seemed to be. Had taken it up and carried it across the hali to Daisy Dunbar's den. Being wont to come to her because she had enough common sense to take a man in his mood. Not many women had that much, he fancied. Also he had on several oc- . ea.-ions found this practical young per-; son a very present help in a rush. Pros- ! ent!y hesuiil; hi:; lean jaws into his lean , palms and said, .-till staring at the poem | out before him: "1 need not only J « title, but a fir-t line and a last line, j and a plot ." "You have your !a.-t line in the quota tion." "Possibly VVe pul cur trust in things thai arc.' Yes." "You have your first line in the (imita tion." Madison looked dubious, his tired mind not yet reaching to the spring of hers. "Why, of course yon have. 'A first line should cuteh the attention.' What more strikingly beautiful, or beauti fully striking than And slowly she read the lines upside down: "Co, pipe your song arid dream your j dream. And feed your soul on things that seem; j But be our haven near or far, 'We put our trust in things that are.' " "Oh, yes; that way. Perhaps." "And you have your plot in the quo tation." "How?" "In its pathetic perversity isn't it the ever-heard cry of the human bearing witness to the well-night futility of Heaven's lust plained pleasures for man? If you pivot your story on a man : —strike out in a few of your strong strokes a hero gifted beyond the ken of most men, and throw across his path the unusual woman—the woman who can comprehend him in all his moods and phases, then against the high, white ll'-ht of his lo\e for her paint the story o r !,is struggle against the ascendancy of (he things that are, flashing across the gloom of il the fitful flares of a man's inborn horror of ridicule, his abject terror of doing (he unusual; and sir.k liim at last to the sullen commonplace of the tangible. Marry him tothe widow who wore violets in her bonnet and mourning of the type most approved of man. There's your plot." Madison had been staring steadily at the poem from under bent brows. When Daisy made an end he pulled out, and shoved toward her without speaking, the editor's instructions: "You will un derstand that we want something with a touch of t(v-day In' It: natural and real." "There is no touch of to-day in what, you have been saying," lie grumbled. "Nothing natural, nothing real." And instead of being exasperated b> his disgruntled ingratitude, Daisy only replied in a tone of thoughtful convic tion: "Well, yen, there rre several touches," Hi"! lay lia' i. i'i her chair contentedly studying the contrasting Shanes of the blue blotter on the green baise while Madison hulked because the sub! le :t logics o 1 her sharpened perception w re but as blurs !o his fagged out faculties. "You have been plotting the thing to pivot on a woman." he broke out.frac tiously. "A man has no such horror of the unusual as jou Imagine. In the natural sequence of things he would marry the woman he loved and let the widow and her proper mourning goto the bow wows. It is only the weak that fear criticism." "Most men arc weak," Daisy mur mured, abstractedly. With a sea reel 5 perceptible n.overcfi.t she turned on a tiny gap jel at. /;■ r eibow, lit a cigarette turned >.ff the flame, and fell to smok ing a quiet continuity of cigarettes that h-tokeued abstraction, certainly. but ir re> wise hlnti'd at impatience, disap pointment or i!i 1 in. Her poise pro voked M.uii on There was enough Adarn in Dins to reset.t apparent com fort i:i others when be himself «in cornfortabiix He pushed the literarj litter about with impatient fingers and cn> Into th" pe;. ; c! of her sixth < i>:aiett< •with wantonly displayed disgust: "Do you believe that smoking 1b £u . for a woman?" Daisy shool her bent head: "I have no cigarette creed." She (ir. w the sev enth deeply and asked courteous!\: "Why, are any of your friends thirkiuy of adopting the practice?"' "They would not be my friends verj loni; if t hey did." And still her great patience rested unshaken in its depth and against Jte quietude Madison san' tfrow, with slow j shame, the si/.e ol his uncalled-for cut. J He got up, thrust his hands into his j trousers pockets and went whistling ! around her typewriter with its loaded i copy holder, the work his entrance j had interrupted. "What have you tot on to-day?" he I asked, genially. She replied promptly and pleasantly: j "Nothing of any consequence." At this reply he turned toward her j surprised. Heretofore she hail ever been eager to talk to him about her work or I his. And he had enjoyed these talks not a little, rather proud of the coinprc- \ hension that enabled him to cover her j skips and understand where most men would have been utterly at fault. Had 1 enjoyed this next, to the ready sympathy that comforted all his bothers. So ha looked at her carefully as she lay back i in her swivel chair, her hands inert i upon the arms of it, a cigarette drooping j from one corner of her well-made | mouth, the serenity of her brow, the i lire of her soul-lit eyes, the grim courage of her chin, and asked kindly: "Tired?" j Daisy roused instantly. "Why, dirt, you want anything?" Madison was too inured to the doc- 1 trine that a woman should always be > ready to serve a man's purpose to notice ( the unconscious sarcasm of her re sponse. Besides, h ? did want something. It had occurred to him many times ; that il would be well for his work and well for him if Daisy Dunbar should 1 come to be a counterpart of his life, a hand-maiden to keep trimmed and tended the lamps of his genius. But while he craved her comprehension he shrank from the thought of marrying a woman who made such scant sacrifices i to the gods of his templc-s. He shud dered at the thought of introducing as his wife a woman he could not control. : A woman who would say what she SEW tit to say. and <lo what she saw fit to do, whether the powers that lie approved or disapproved. Hitherto he had counted Daisy Dunbar a hard-headed woman. But her present.patienceunder > the first reproof he had ever adminls- j tend quickened Madison to sweeter dreams. If she loved him she would be eager to bow her high head beneath his j caressing hand: to forego her cigarettes ; for the deep kisses of a man's great love; to j ield her splendid spirit to his mould- : ing. He would be ever so patient and gentle, he promised himself in a glov of tenderness. He would make submis sion swec't t.o her. He would condone 1 her had breaks and forgive them, fie would not expect her tochange instantly | from the untamed thing to the tamed. But he would teach her —ah. how ten- j j derly. A pleasant moisture welled to | his lids. His lips trembled. He took his ; hands nervously from his trouser ! pockets and turned to her. She was still I absorbed in that study of green and blue. | and the tenth hung half-forgotten from her fingers. "What are you thinking of?" he asked. ! tenderly. "Of the deep joys of moving." "Moving! You are not going to move?" Daisy bethought herself of the cigar ette and coaxed it gently. "Aye," she I said through the smoke, "I move out J to-morrow." "But Daisy, you mustn't do that." "Kxcusc me. Mr. Madison, but when I did I give you the right to my first j name?" "Won't you give me the right to your ! first name if I give you the right to nty 1 last one? Won't that he a. l'air trade? Dear, did it never occur to you that you ; and I were made for each other?" "Why, yes. In a way, we are." "Don't you think we would be very ; happy if we belonged to one another?" "Do you think it would be pleasant j to belong to somebody else?" ■ "I think it would be very pleasant to j belong to you, dear." "Do you? Do you know what'beloncr | ing' means? To be bridled and bitted, to j come at a call and go at a toit< h. If you ; belonged to me I should require you to | do as 1 did; to accept my judgments and ; bow to my decisions. Do you think that would be so pleasant?" "But, dear, I used the term in a deeper, more sacred sense." ' Bather, you used it in a more fem inine sense, I fancy, it was I that was to do most of the belonging, wasn't it?" She pot tip. negligently dusting the ashes i from her long tie and smiling at him in j good-natured amusement. Too strong i for bitterness; too fearless for falsity; her words came quiet to gentleness: j "Well, dear sir. the chances are that 24 —or even one hotu ago, I should have j been glad and proud to do the belong ing—'l've dreamed my dream and fed mv soul on things that eeemed,' for quite an infatuated while. Luckily your wanton insult waked me from my < ream ing; and albeit the waking was rather rude. 1 thank you for it in that it was so timely. So I fancy now. that I will as I said, move out to-morrow —lier- after pin my faith tothe things that are." Madison forgot how he was to teach her in all tenderness and with great j RtnUeiie.-s. His voice rang rude with ; impatience: | "But, Daisy "Miss Dunbar, you mean?" Whereupon Madison whirled upon | his heel anil went out, slamming the ! (ioor after the senseless, explosive | mann.:r of men. "If she was so dead set on the things that are she might I have them 011 broken hinges for all he j carecl." But lie never knew that it was In | deed thus she had them. That because lof his weak indulgence In a silly spleen a strong woman's life swung , ill hung through all the incomings and | outgoings of her after years Much Worse Then. | The British museum has a love let •> t>T aiii.i'e.'-sf (1 10 nil Egyptian princess i and inscribed on a brick. 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None higher. |jg u M m Ladies' Fancy Hose Demorest machines »| > a »3 fcjg A complete line of Ladies We are agents for the la- 14 hj Fancy Hose. Do not for- inous Demorest Sewing get to look at them while Machines; once used, al £2 in our store: prices 25c to ways used. Prices from £4 JJ 50c per pair. $19.50 to S3O. 11 C. B.HOWARD & CO. \\ |l W w vw W W W W w w* www wwwww WW 1 " FOl Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Fine Commercial I . . •• •; I ; Job Work of All Kinds, - * Get Our Figures. (n ... _ tv 1 G°°d ! ! Cedar I Inn I Shingles | jH 0 "1 ... a nj — l \T~„ ——— —rr-rr- ■, -r m l C (jj WILL KEEP OUT THE S ffi RAIN. WE HAVE THEM n nJ ui "j IN ALL GRADES. jj I I rfl 3 I 0 K C. B. HOWARD & CO. jj In nJ ? =TP FT? =; ? =TF =r9 5H5 MSB Russo-Japanese War Telegrams MEETS WITH APPROVAL. Mukden, Oct. 27. —The appointment of (Jen. Kuropatkin a.s commander in chief was received with universal ap proval. It will greatly facilitate the military operations. A Japanese at tack is expected shortly. Otherwise all is quiet. The Japanese dead re cently found showed by their warm clothing that the Japanese are prepar ed for a winter campaign, whereas the Russians have not received their winter outfits. JAPANESE FORTIFYING. Mukden, Oct. 28. —There was a reconnaissance in force Wednesday night by the Russian western flank, and desultory firing continued till 2 a. m. The Japanese were discovered to be hurriedly fortifying along the whole line, but this does not, of course, preclude the possibility of an attack by them. It is the general opin ion here that serious events will not develop for some days, but judging by the hurried manner in which the Chi nese are settling their money affairs in Mukden, they are of a different opinion. Every precaution has been taken by the Russians to deal geiuvously with Chinese who have suffered through the fighting in their territory. Not only has a special commission been created for the purpose of paying fo.* all food and forage seized, but com pensation is awarded for houses in vil lager destroyed. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK. Shanghai, Oct. 29.- -A private letter from Port Arthur dated October 21 received here yetserday says: "(leu. Stoessel wired the Russian emperor recently: 'I now bid you good-bye forever. I'ort Arthur is my grave.' "The Japanese shells are inflicting great damage to the Russian fleet in the harbor and to the fortifications. The arsenal with its contents of am munition anil small arms has been d ■ stroved and preparations are being made for the last deadly struggle at close quarters. The water supply having been cut off. wells arc being sunk. Provisions are scarce. Only tinned meats being left the soldiers hold gala, feasts on horses killed by the shells. "The field and naval hospitals are crowded and hygienic conditions are becoming desperate. The bombard ment at times is so incessant that it is impossible to bury the dead to any depth. Over half of the original gar rison is dead, wounded or sick. "The besiegers are pressing closer daily and it is hard to say how long we can hold out. When the end comes there will be a desperate fight, and surprise. Thousands of the enemy will perish, as everything is mined." Tokio, Oct. 29. —It is reported that the Japanese opened a desperate at tack on the eastern forts of the Keek wan group, north of Port Arthur, din ing the morning of October 20 and silenced the Russian batteries. Simultaneously the Japanese a;, tacked the forts on Rililung mountain and Sungaohowian mountain, silenc ed the Russian batteries and stormed and o -eupied the forts in front of these mountains. On the night of October 2t> there was a conflagration in old Port Ar thur and on October 27 a shell hit 'he Russian battleship Sevastopol and two Russian steamers were sunk. The main Russian and Japanese forces which confront each other south of Mukden have not yet become engaged, although small affairs con tinue. NO DANGER OF WAR NOW. Court of Inquiry Will Decide the Anglo-Russian Controversy. London, Oct. 29. —All danger of war between Russia ancl Great Britain has been averted and the settlement of the only points in dispute regarding the attack by the RusshM second Pa cific squadron on British trawlers, Oc tober 21, has been referred to an in ternational commission under The Hague convention. Premier Balfour, speaking at South ampton last night, broke that silence which had brought the neople of the United Kingdom to a condition of al most desperate irritation and given rise to misconceptions which Mr. Bal four himself exposed. 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