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FEES BROS.1 " Shaving Parlor, Mam Street, Near Post Cfficc .1 he undirntif neil ilr.lrea to Inform the pub Mr that lliey have ianeil havlni( fiar oron Mam rtrcei. near the (xist uttlca whare liar tier In a: lo all it Itranrlia a will be carried oo lo the lulure. Kverf Ihlnic neat anil elean. Your iauunce aoliciieU. t:iJi HKOB.' A , in 111 I '0 Proprietor. BEHIND THE HILL. My FKy was youn;.': Iw could not know "In' wayt'arih'a wayward furn-nla dow. And ho, iu early sliuilowa liound. His nii:,-iii;inin'l xltallop ran aground. He jrrew a.-diunied of Ilia disgrace, lit.' cotilil uot look mc lu the fa4.t ' t or. iiinihi r, ekery man," saiu bo. Has ru'oru, an.l only Hcorn. for me: I must v- forth with alirn mm An i grappli'. with tln world a'iiio. I lauiioi suiy und faeo the truth A mi mi.' the pool 1' of m.v youth. Where men are Htrant'e and seenes are uow There may lie work for me to do. And. when I have redeemed the past, I u ill c.na.' back lo you at last " And so I watched w hile my Imi), Will. U nit down liehiud the hilL He climbed the hill at early morn 1 1 li .1 tit utilise shadow he wad born. He stood uHn its highest place. The sunns' s!tini:ii on his face; He stood there, hut too far away For me losis his tears that day; My thoughts, my fears, 1 cannot tell When he waved 1 acl; his sad farewell. And lin n pass -it on. and my hoy. Will, Went down liehiud tin.' hilL Went down the hill: henceforth forme I nf picture in my memory t'rouils every other from its place A boy w ith sunrise on his face: His siitiri-.e-li-'lited five I see Tic .ms t of all joy tome, I 'or v. In n he turned him from my stent The liii'rt.in." lnixeit itself with nU'liL. Ami darkness c.une, when mv Ixiy. Will, Went ilovvn Li'hind the hill. The world is wide, and he has if one into its vast in ss, on and on, 1 know not what liesets his ia'h. What hours of rloom, w hat days of wrath. What terrors menace him ufwr. What uti-'his of storm without a star. What mountains hu m alM.ve his way. What oceans toss him iiii'ht and day. What fevi r blasts Iroin desert sands, V.'l'at d' a.h-cold winds from frozen lauds. W h it sh '.fts ef sleet or .-un may blijht My homi less wan li rer In his tti'ht: 1 only Know the w.u-l.l is wide An 1 he can r.ia::i by land and tide. 'Tis wide, all tne! in very part, ltut narrower than his mother's heart A joyless heart since my iKiy, Wiu, Went ilou u Ik Ins., I the hilL I know he bravely fii'htswith late. Hut, ah, the hour is ;-r.iwiiiK late; I watch th" hill bv day and iiii'ht. It dimly looms before my si'hl. And last the twilL'ht shadows fall; The nirht Is t'liHiteiriir oVer all; Hut iu t;iy boy a f is riven As saiiilnof old had faith in heaven: I kn.i.v that lie v. ill i nine ai-'ain. His pra se on nil the lips of men; He w ill come back lo me at last Willi d. ed-i that shall redeem the past. Nor desert plain, nor moiintal n steep. Nor storm, nor thunder un the deep. Nor tempest in the east or west. Sh :11 hold him from his mother's breast. An I thou-'h the world ituws blind and dumb, 1 feel. I know, that he will come; And 1 am waiting for him still. And watch the summit of the hill; So:n -times 1 thiu!: I see him stand And v.ave a welcome with his hand, Ilul 'tis a cloud up n the rim Of stuir;et--and my eyes are dim 'Ti i but a mist m id" by the tears That tbiiken with the irrowliif.' years. I v. it h while there is lufht to see And dream lir.it he will conn- t me; An l tlieu rh 'tis dark within, without, I will not shame him by a dotitu: The alls nfoldiri' ni .'lit draws near, nut he will come I will not fear " Hut, ah, 'tis I in" clnce iny lioy. Will, Went down brain 1 the hill. S. W. Fuss, iu Yankee Rlade. ONE KIM) OF CliAXK. How He Makes Lota of Troublo lor Hotel Men. A Now York Clerk Toll of a Curious Sort of Vanity Smnf I'rople Arc AlllicteUWItU-Cati'liiiiK an Iii wary Countryman. "Is Mr. Henry Wilson in?" The man who put tuis question to the clerk at the Fifth Avnue hotel the otlisr nijiit was iittirviil in irveninif dress tin.! liaJ thrown ojx'ii his over coat so us to reveal liis expansive shirt liisiiu vith its twinkling iliaiaoiul .tlllls. lleaiTeeted the eleo-mit in his nttilmle, also, anil sivttn his silver hatnik'.i i'hiii" with an air of impor tance. I lis physique, voice ami face were ilesirneil to aid him in hi . attempt to ere at.' an impression. llewai tall anil liroa l-sh'Uiidereil, hail hi features anil an au'tTi'essive hlaelc innstaciie, and his voice was ileep anil sonorous, lie hio'ceil like a man who mi'lit try to ImtMii.i' another of lesser frame. The clerk looked up at him with a hlanil smile, lnt inaile no preU'nse of looking at the key rack, as is liis cus tom when he wants to learn whether a rfuest is in his noii or noL. Neither (Inl he look at the register nor at his list of the day's em-sts. Ho simply said: "Mr. Henry Wilson, iliil you say? There is no such ierson htoppin-r here." Tlie inquirer looked a little taken ahack. ami a frown passeil quickly over his face. When he strike, the tone of his voice sne'esteil that he felt the clerk had estimated him projHTly, hut he was impelled to make ail at tempt to chalice the clerk's theory. "Is that so'.'" he asked in surprise that was evidently assumed; "wheudid he leave?" "I don't re mem her liis having Ken here," said the clerk, in a tone- full of meaning. 'iili, (isbaw; you must be mistaken," said the man, fretfully. "Why, I am certain he va, here a week a?u. I have a telegram from him asking me to meet him on last Wednesday. Un fortunately, I was out of town when the telegram arrived, and it was not forwarded. Wilson is the 1i million aire contractor from Chicago, you know." The last sentence was spoken so loudly that the meu standing around, ami even those on the settees, heard it and looked at the speaker. "He did not stop here," said ther clerk, in a monotonous oh-you-make-mo-tired tone. "You are quite sure?" said the man, switching from the confident to the ooncilatory. T'ositive." said the clerk, turning away. - The man concealed the fact that he was disconcerted very cleverly. He picked a toothpick out of the box on the connter, ami put it Itetween his lips, w ith an appearance of one lost in thought. Then ho turned around and learned with his tiaek against the clerk's desk. His attitude was studied ly elegant. Ho seemed unmindful of his surround in anl to be looking over the heads of the men on the settee across the lobby. Tho clerk looked at him occasionally in minf led anger and amusement. Presently the man walked out into the center of the lobby, glanced slowly around and walked deliberately out of the hotel through tho writiug room and the ladies' entrance. "I wish sotiu'liody would Invent a sure crank-killing machine, said the clerk, after the man had disappeared. 'HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ABE SLAVES BESIDE." E BENS BURG, PA., FRIDAY. APRIL 28.IS93. "That fellow was the .sixth to-night." "What do you mean?" asked the re porter. "I mean," he replied, "that that fel- low knew when he came here that no such man as he inquired for had ever stopped here. In fact, the name he mentioned was all there was of his pre tended friend. When he came here and asked for the myth' of his own creation, he knew that he was simply liothering me. What was his object? Oh, simply to create an impression on tlie people standing around. Did you notice how his voice rose when he talked of the myth as the big million aire? Don't you know there are men who are constantly craving the noto riety that is associated with riches? Haven't you heard men in restaurants, elevated trains horse cars barrooms and elsewhere talk about 'big deals bonds vast sums of money, their social position, intimacy with great men, and all that sort of thing? Of course you have, and have known all the time that they were merely faking. Well, that sort of man comes iu here nearly every day and an noys the life out of us This fellow you saw has been here so many times I am dead on to him. He wants to show off his clothes and imitation diamonds and make people think he is a big gun. Most of them are not so well dressed as he is. Some are countrymen who have heard a goo. I deal about our lobby and the men who frequent it, and ask ques tions about persons who don't exist as an excuse for coining here. They seem to think that being seen in conversa tion with the clerk gives them a sort of right to stay here and satisfy their curiosity. They have an idea the de tectives will come around and order them out unless they do something of the kind I frightened one of these fellows nearly out of his wits oue night. He was a perf.-ct jay, and stuttered. He asked if 'Howard Johnson was in. " 'Yes' I sai.l, 'there he is and I pointed out our detective, who was standing close by. 'Mr. Johnson, I said, 'here's a man wants to talk to you.' I winked to the detective and he tumbled. 'What did you wish of me. sir?' he said, crowding him up into this corner. The fellow turned blue with fright. 'I g-g-guess I m-m-ade a m-m-mistake, he stuttered. 'You asked for Howard Johnson, I said, severely. 'And that's my name. said the detec tive, taking the hint. 'Y-y-yes' said the fetlow, 'b-b-but I g-g-guess y-you air a d-d-diiTerent H-H-HowariL He kept edging off as far as he could, and linally lolted. "Some of the cranks got up great cock-and-bull stories. One fellow called the other night to know if a Mr. Harris had left a pair of opera glasses for him. There had lieen no such guest here. During the last cam paign, when the papers were full stories about tlie tug men here, we had as many as thirty or forty crauks pes tering us every day. A favorite trick with some of them was to wait until the papers announced the departure of a big gun, and then come here and pester us with questions about when lie would return. Tney olwai's pre tended surprise when told he had gone without leaving messages for them, and would try to talk confidentially vt ith us in tones loud enough to lc hear.1 fifty feet away, alniut tlieir inti mate relations with the big men. We were overrun with them, and found it diliicnlt to attend to our business fr they stuck like leeches. It was a great relief to see them drop olt after the campaign, but we are still annoyed by enough to make us sore at tiu.es." N. Y. Sun. All About C.lrla. Iirls don't have any aim in life but just to get married. 1'ooh! I wouldn't get married for lifty dollars! I'm going to le an author when I grow up. I'm gathering the material for my book now. It's going to lie all about how dudes and such like propose, and the lies they tell, and what the girl says. I hide behind the curtains or under the sofa every time I see one of sister's fe'lers begin to look sneaking. I can tell em every time. I'm experienced. We'd, the other night I laid for Mr. PuttiheaiL He was pretty badly rat tled, and when he got about to the point he muttered and stuttered and gobbled so that I couldn't make head nor tail of what he sauL I forgot my self, and stuck my head out from under the sofa. "Louder, please!" says I. "I didn't catch that last remark." Well, sir. I'uttihead fainted and sis ter screamed bloody murder', and pa rushed in and hauled me out into the woodshed, and, oh. if he didn't raise my coat in great shape! That is all I know about girls at present. National Tribune. Tertli of the Negro. The old-time colored man was noted for the brilliant whiteness of his teeth a quality which is not inherited by his descendants of the present day. Nowadays the teeth of the negroes tlo not seem to lie nearly as good as those of his white brother. The reason is to le found in the change of food. The slaves had plenty to eat. but the food given them was of the simplest kind. I'ork. meal, potatoes and such veg etables as they raised themselves formed their bill of fare. Now they eat all sorts of indigestible stuff, out doing the white people in this direc tion, showing a particular fondness for candies and sweetmeats. The conse quence is that in a single generation the ivory teeth of the slave have given place to the decayed fangs of the freed m an. St. Louis I'lolie-lkurtocrat. Proanle Arl.l mill l'rikrh Stone.. The statement was made recently that prussie acid was made from teach stones, says the St. Iiuis I Sit die-Democrat. This is altogether a mistake, for, although under certain conditions a trace of tin-main principieof the deadly Iiison can lie found in peach stuin-s there is not snflicicnt to produ-c the acid without other essential ingredients Indeed, without the process of fer meutation, there is no evidence at all of prussie acid in the stones. I'russio acid is com pi hxiI f such things as ani mal refuse ami blood solids, with large quantities of oil .f vitriol. Even the smell of the acid produces pain in the thniat ami in the region 'f the heart, and there are few poisons for which there is such little opportunity for an antidote. If there is time, and there seldom is fr the poison is almost in stantaneous in Its action, ammonia in haled very freely may give relief and reduce the alnsolute certainty of death to u gnave jKutibilitw THE SClENCEOF KILLING. ImmMH Improvement, of Late la th.e tiory Art. There is one branch of scientiflc ex periment that is almost unt qual to the demands upon it, although new dis coveries in that line are Wing an nounced every day, says the Doston Advertiser. This branch is in the di rection of securing new methods and materials for military and naval uses in destroying armies and navies. The range of experiment is a wide one and takes iu all departments of physics and chemistry. New metal is being forged for guns on the one hand and for armor on the other and almost every improve ment in one direction is followed sooner or later by a discovery in the other. Hut, U-sidcs the regular methods al ready in use, it is to be expect-d that the next great war Itetween civilized nations if the world shall lte so un fortunate as to have one, will witness the employment of some military means which will le more or less novel to modern warfare. The use of smokeless powder is one of the novelties .with w hich the world is already more or less familiar by descrip tion, but it is not so well known that the war department of England is now experimenting with grenades, which are intended to work in just the oppitsite way, and to produce such huge quantities of smoke as will hide the mil itary operations of a large force of troops. As a precaution against such warfare modern armies may le obliged to employ the illuminating bombs now being manufactured by the Italian war department. One of the latter weapons can lie caused to explode with a bril liancy of one hundred thousand can dles. It will 1h more diflicult, however, to find an adequate specific against the melinite bomlis now ready for us- iu the French army. At a recent trial of these Itoinlts. which explode and set at libcrt- a highly poisonous gas, a single one was tired at a vessel which carried sheep and goats, and not one animal cscaiel death. These weapons are evi dently of a dangerous character and tend to make war even more terrible than it has In-en in the past. It has lieen suggested that it would have lieen more humane to use, instead of the poisonous melinite, some less pow erful drug, which might fulfill the ex act meaning as well as the spirit of the pugilistic phrase, "putting the enemy to sleep," but as yet the experiment has not lieen trietL In addition many chemists are en gaged on the problem of linding some high explosive that can be transported and fired from a cannon with danger to the enemy alone. The naval mechanics of the world are attempting to find the In'st type fc- a submarine vessel for torpedo work. Other mechanics, like the Anglican-American inventor. Max im, are at work on Hying machines with a reasonable prospect of success. The war department of this country is ex perimenting with war balloons, and will have an interesting exhibit of its new "balloon trains" at the Chicago exposition. Small balloons with atiki vnatic cameras are to lie used in taking "snap shots" at the enemy from alxtve. In fact, the improvements which have already been made in military methods are so numerous anil interesting that '.i MH-ms certain that the next great war will lie as different from those w hich have preceded it as the great rebellion in this country was from the wars of the Hoses or the great crusades BUZZING ON THE WIRE Not Hue to the Wind. l:ut Caused by Change l:i the A tin mpliere. You have all heard the humming and singing of telegraph and telephone wires as you pass the poles along the streets. No tloul.it you have concluded that it is caused by the action of the wind on the wires and given it no further thought. Hut it is not true that the singing is caused by the wiml, and if you are at all observing you will notice that often the humming sound is to lie heard these cold winter mornings when the smoke from chimney:; gites straight up until it is lost in the clouds and when the frost on the wires is as fuzzy and thick as a roll of chenille fringe. The wind has noth ing to do with the sound, and according U an Austrian scientist, quote I by the IWroit Free Tress the vibrations are due to the changes of atioivsphcric temperature, and especially through the action of the cold, as a- lowering of temperature induces a shortening of the w ires extending over the whole of the conductor. A considerable amount of friction is produced on the supporting bell, thus including sounds b.ith in the wires and the pub's. When this hum ming has lteen going on birds have mistaken the sound for insects in.side the p des. and have lieen seen to peek with their bills on the. outside as they do upon apple and other trees CARING FOR THE FLOWERS. IK not crowd the plants in window I mxes. Rotation is advised in the flower gar den as well as in the vegetable garden. V.r. sure and set the young plants in frcj.li loose soil and do not forget to lirm the earth close almut the plants. WiTi:xi:vi-:n this is practicable do your transplanting after sunset and just licfi.r.. :' rain. Itcmi-mlier that sliort stock3- plants make the most vigorous growth. Tin; n-sults of experimentson hasten ing the termination of seed show that .ampin .r and oxygenated water appear to ! the iuo:.t energetic excitants not inly as regards the acceleration of ger mination, but as affecting the vigor of the plants. Applied Mat hematiee. In an off-hand sketch of Prof. Clirys tal. oue of his old pupils tells how this mathematician made his science aid him in the management of his class Thelaring spirits say. those who were going into their father's office, and so did not look upon Oystul as a door locked to their advancement sought to bring sunshine into the room. Chrystal soon had the blind down on that. To relieve the monotony, a student at the end of bunch ten dropped a marble, which toppled slowly d.ivnw-ard toward the professor. At every step it took, there was a smothered guffaw; but Chrystal. who was working at the lxiard, did not turn his head. When the marble reached the floor, he said, still with his buck to the class: "Will the student at the end of bench ten. ' who dropped that marble, stand up?" j All eyes dilated. He had counted the I falls of the marble from step to step. 81. 50 and Air! SHIELDS US FROM DANGER. TrVoterting the Karth from llelnr Injured by Krratte Interatellar Mlssilea. The sensational statements which were widely published during the recent appearance of a strange comet in An dromeda, ami the attention which was drawn to the I Jiela swarm of meteors at altout the same time, served to re mind every one of a singular and, in some respects, important oflice of the atmosphere that we seldom, think of. The atmosphere is not only a cover for the earth, serving to keep it warm by retaining the heat derived from the sun. but it is also a shield, which eff-ctually protects the earth against missiles from space. The service which the soft, transparent air thus rentiers is indeed, a wonderful one, according to the Youth's Companion. Many thousands of meteors every day run into the at mosphere with a velocity averaging sixty times that of a cannon ball, and yet we are perfectly safe, ln-cause they cannot reach the ground except in the form of microscopic particles of dust. l!nt for the resistance interpitscd by the atiiKisphere the mortality from meteors might form an interesting list in the general statistics of mankind. It is the exe-ssive vel.K-ity of the meteors which leads to their destruction. Making due allowance for the comparative rarity of the air at the great height at which me teors lieeome luminous the heat de veloped by their rush of twenty-iive or thirty miles in a second must lie sufli cient to dissipate them alnnist instant ly. In the ease of the Diela meteors it is pretty definitely known that the pjirticl-s which enter the atmosphere, when the earth in its orbit meets the meteoric swarm, once formed part of the mass of a cornet, known as Hit-la's comet, which split into two tarts in 1S4, and was la.st seen in the form of a comet then a double comet in Kel. I5ut every year in the month of Novem ber, when the earth approaches very near to the path in which the missing comet formerly traveled, and which is followed by the meteors that now ap parently represent all that is left of the comet, a greater or less nunihcr of these meteors plunge into the air and are con sumed. SWIMMING ON HORSEBACK. Some Itoraee Sink Much I lee per la the Water Than Other.. Swimming horses across a flooded creek or river is a common anil on some stations almost daily occurrence in Australia during the rainy season. As a rule I have remained seated in the saddle while swimming my horse across a flooded river, and have found the buoyancy of the horse to vary quite as much as that of a human licing, says a writer in the London Field. I have had some horses which would swim with the seat of the saddle clear altove the water, while others on the contrary swim so deeply that only the ears, eyes, and nose were visible. In the latter case the sttoner the rider slips over the tail the ltctter. If you are not in the saddle I do not think it matters much whether you swim at the horse's head fir his tail, or on your ba-k, breast or .side. Of course, the nearer you are to his head the better chance you have of guiding htm it ne.-cisary, but as a rule horses will swim as fast and as straight as they can to the nearest landing point. In the whole course of my ex-, perienee I have never seen but one horse unable fir unwilling to swim, and on this occasion the horr.c turned on his side immediately it found itself in deep water, und, refusing to make the slight est effort, it was drowned. In my opinon the most important thing to tlo when swimming any horse across a stream is tit unbuckle your snafile rein, and. if ri.Xng wifh a double-reined bridle, cut the stitches of the curb rein. Practically the only danger there is lies in the risk of the horse getting his fore legs entangled in the bridle, which can easily lie avoided. DWARFS IN MOROCCO. Stunted la firowtll lU'cause or l'oor Food -and a Kisrou Climate. The existence of a race of dwarfs on the Atlas range, altout which there was an animated controversy last year, has received unexpected confirmation. Walter 15. Harris w ho has just returned from a journey in southern Morocco, communicates the facts to the London Times. While traveling along the foot of the mountains he saw thirteen or fourteen persons, none of w hom were over four feet six inches in height, na tives of the upper mountain regions. The Moors describe them as "a wild people, living in built houses in the rocks and snow, hunting motif Ion with extraordinary agility and given to shooting anyone penetrating to their domains." He attributes their small stature not, as some have asserted, to the fact that they are the remnants of the troglodytes, but to the circum stances in which they live. He lielieves them to lie "merely a certain collection of Sldeh tribes, who, through the high altitude at which they live anil the ex tremes of climate they are subject to, "from their poverty and inability to raise crops from the scarcity ami bad quality of such food as they are aide to collect, have, in the lapse of centuries, liecoiue of almost extraordinarily stunted growth." On his return jour ney to the coast Mr. Harris visited the artificial caves of Ain Tarsilt, which, from the height of the roofs and the size of the doors, windows and alcoves for beds were evidently the work of dwarfs lie docs not venture an opin ion, however, as to whether any de scendants of this people are still living. Keferred to Satan. The small daughter of a charitably minded family has lieen told frequently that Satan finds work for idle hands. The other morning one of the tribe of tramps called with the usual story of winter woes. The mistress of the house made the customary suggestion altout obtaining employment, and was assured that every avenue of self-support was closed. Then the small girl came for ward from her refuge In-hind her moth er's skirts and said in tones of kindly suggestion: "Couldn't Satan find any thing for you to do?" A Lung Tratu. It is computed that all the locomo tives in the United States would, if coupled together, make a train five hundred miles long. The passenger cars would make another train of almut the same length, and if all the c'ars of every variety in the country were coupled liehiud the engines, the result would be a train just seven thousand miles long. postage per year In advance. ! NUMBER 17. JIISS UAXTEjTS CAHEEIL Why Sho Consented to Soo It Through Woodson's Eyes. The dining-car was in a shimmer of light. The dead white of heavy linen, the opalescent glint of glassware and the quiet gleam of silver trembled to gether in the swift motion of the train. Miss Itaxter, who had but recently left her berth. dropied into a seat and leaned back a moment, dazed by this lavish waste of color. Then she hast ened to draw the curtain and throw the blue square of shade over her cor ner of the table, sighing as she settled tlown again and all the painful seene of the evening In-fore came surging b:wk. She felt half a notion to lay her head on the table and cry outright. She glanced down instead and fingered her ring his ring while her glasses grew misty. She wondered whether she should have kept the ring now that it no longer meant anything. The question was still undecided when she pulled herself together with a visible tremor and turned to the menu card. Dining-car breakfasts are not timed to wait tin the settlement of subtleties in ethics particularly after the steward has made the "last call." In the few minute Miss Daxter h."d Wen in the car she had not noticed her companions. As she raised her head she was startled to bee a familiar face dimly taking shajie across the table. She had removed her glasses and was altout to press her handkerchief to her eyes, but she put them resolutely on again and looked fixedly through their misty crystals. "Mr. Woodson, where did you come from?" she demanded at length, as his well-known features gradually took definite shape lie fore her. Woodson did not bpeak at once. He was noticing how her hair would tum ble down in wayward ringlets in spite of her efforts to keep it staidly back, and how her cheeks persisted in dim pling, however resolutely she cltiscd her lips togetiicr. Then he said: "From New York, of course. Ikies my dress suit look as though I'd boarded the train in these rural pre cincts? 1 thought you knew the cut better." "Do you mean to say that you've been on this train all this while after - after last night?" Miss llaxter asked with slightly heightened color. "Guessed it the first time." Woodson exclaimed, brightening. "I tell you, Grace, you should have gone into tlie laiv instead of art. You'd have lieen great fin cross-examination." "Never mind, Mr. Wttodson; you seem to forget that I prefer to make my own career we've discussed that before, however. And so you've been on this train ever since I have?" she concluded, reflectively. "A little longer, in fact. Hut now, see here, small girl," Wot idson went on with great deliberatcncss, shaking out his napkin into his lap and gazing in tently into the blurred blue depths of Miss Haxter's glasses; "see here, now, do 3-ou suppose just liecause a girl jilts me" Miss Haxter here interposed a deprecating gesture "yes I repeat it. Do you suppose liecause a girl jilts me and I Lave reason to believe is going to the ends of the earth to get where she will never see me again, that uiy sense of responsibility ends till I've seen her safely where she wants to go to! No, I've made New York uiimliatv itahle for you, and I shall make what amends I can b3 chaperoning 3-ou to Colorado fir Kamschatka or wherever it is you are going. Now, what shall I order for breakfast?" "Harry, you're cruel. Yon know Mr. Fleming was going out there for the color, and I thought it'would be a good chance to continue my outdoor work." "Fleming! That prig! Well, I difln't know before that he was going. 1 see there is still more reason why 1 should go now and stay." "Hut I forbid you doing any such foolish thing." "To tell the truth, Grace, I thought of staying all the time of going ifito some other business there. "Why, you never told me of it be fore." "Well, I never thought of it till after I left you last night. Then it occurred to me I might go into the sheep or cat tle business or something like that." "At Manitou?" 'Why not?" "It's a summer resort- "So much the lietter. I'd only be there in the summer, anyhow. "Harry, you're a trifler." "Well, 1 can peel an orange, anyhow if 3-ou'll allow me," Woodson ex - claimed, taking from her hand the one she was making a sad mess of. "Harry. I can never forgive you for doing this" Miss Haxter concluded, after a moment's contemplation ttf the whirling blur of green through the car window. "Well, I never could have forgiven myself if I hadn't and there it is" he asserted, dispassionately, laying the pulpy, broken sphere of the orange be fore her. It is quite a jaunt from Manhattan to Manitou. What color there was! The earth seemed hung in some rarer medium than common air. The yellow cactus blossoms were like flakes of flame. A 6carlet flower fairly burned into the sight. Grace developed a new enthusiasm every day and piled her palette with cobalt and chrome. Even Fleming, who had preceded them, smoked atrille faster than usual and grunted out now and then: "Put in your color pure. Make lier jump." So they painted from morning till night, keeping two or three studies untier way at once putting in blues where Woodson saw preens and pur ples where he saw nothing but nonde- , script sand, and doing all the inexpli cable things that should lie done ac cording to the gospel of the luministes. Woodson sat by and chafed. He couldn't paint. lie wouldn't smoke. He parried Grace's occasional inquiring glances by explaining that he was no gotiating to go into the cattle business a man was going to bring him. a heid on trial. Meanwhile he arrayed his shapely figure in cow boyish top boots blue shirt' and slouch hat, w hich liecarae him immensely and made a sinister impres sion among the blazers and tennis suits of summering Manitou. Grace was absorbed and satisfied. One day an idea struck WuimIsou. A1 ver t i Hi n g: I ntcn. The laiyeand reliable etreulatloD ol thef'aw BftiA KmcEiiAa eouimerjei It to the twin-able nonrlderailou of art ert ier who., favor will to averted at the lollowiny low ratef : 1 men, 'line. ...... I Ml linen,! montbt.... K.mi 1 I orb, 6 uionlb... li.au I Inch t year e.wi 1 lnrbai.tmuiitbi .uu 2 Inrbet, I year IO.iM 3 Inehea. 6 uioDtrie .. H.UU Inehea. 1 year S.uo 4 eoininn, 6 month!.... ............ 10 W eoluinn.6 luonlb. ........ ao oo koolano I year HA.oo 1 column, 6 tnontui ) uu 1 column, I year... Ta.Mt Ku.lneai Itema. tint insertion, loe. per line ntweuent Insertion, be. per line AuujiDimrator't and , txreutor Notlcel. tl SO Auditor'! Not Com M Z.MI Stray and aUnUar Nolicea SI oo wliaolutKni or proceed I nr ol any eorjM r ttoo or auclety and eomaiBnevtlona deolwn'd to call attention to any matter of limited or indl vidua! Intarept mut tie paid tor a advrtlvmenta. hook and Job frtutln of all kind neatly and esealou.iy executed at the loweat rloe. And don'lyoa lornet It. "Grace," said he. "I found a little hit down here the other day that I'd like to have you sketch to send home, you know. You'll do it, won't you?" "Why, of course I'll sjtcak to Mr. Fleming." Oh, hang Mr. Fleming," Woodson broke in. "Hcming's all right in his way, but I want j'ou your sketch, you know." The place was quite a distance away, over the mesa. 'I hey set out for it tho next day. "Here it is" Woodson exclaimed, after quite a tramp, Miinting fiver the burning plain to where a row of cot tonwootls were banked against the sky, tremulous in the vibrant air. 'There, do that; call it A Hundred in the Shade,' or something like that." ..'It doesn't seem to compose very well," Gruee muimurcil, holding the tips fif her fingers together and inclos ing the picture in a rosy frame through which she gazed, half shutting her eyes in truly artistic intcntnesw. "Well, never mind thut; get tlie character of it. You know Flem ing says the character's the thing. That's w hat I want the character the true character of this beastly coun try." So Grace thinned her big blue apron and set to work with her biggest brushes. Hut somehow she had trouble. The quality of that shy. burning with light ami yet deep in hue, did not seem to reside in cobalt, however fresh from the tulie. The value of the stretch of lain, tremulous under the flaring heavens, disturlied her, too, and when she came to put in the airy wall of cot ton wimkIs along the horizon th whole thing ended in a painty muddle. "Oli, I can't do anything to-day." Grace exclaimed petulantly, wiping her troubled brow with the back of her hand and leaving a streak of blue on her forehead that intensified her puzzled look. "Why don't you tut those trees in green?" Woodson asked with serious concern, as Grace renewed her strug gle with the regulation blues and purples. "Hut I don't see them so," she mur mured, in a moment of absorln-d effort. "Grace," he blurted out almost le fore he knew it, T don't believe you see anything. Excuse me, ltut I don't believe you ever did. I don't lielicve in your art.; I tlon't lielievc in your career; I don't lielieve in your inde pendence. You're simply spoiling the nicest girl in the world w ith it. You see things blue and purple liecause he does; and he well, he sees things that way liecause some fellows over in Paris do, and I tlcn't believe in it. There, now, I've said it; come." ltut it was not arranged that be should finish what he had to say. llo had looked down to the ground w here he sat as he spoke of Fleming. When he looked up Grace vas several feet away from him, hurrying down the bill with her head bowed- "I'm a brute--a miserable brute!" Woodson remarked to himself with considerable force as he watched her striding toward the half-dry creek. There was a plum thicket along the creek, and after watching Grace dis appear within it Woodson set alxitit picking up her sketching kit. This done, it occurred to him that it would lie a proper pennance on his part to wash her brushes he had always hated dirty brushes so. Gathering them up, he started toward the creek. When he got there he could see no signs of Grace. Could it be that any thing had happened to her? The thought made him catch his breath for a moment. He knew she was im pulsive capable of any rash move in a moment of excitement. Then he heard a stirring in the plum thicket and came face to face upon her in a little opening, crying softly to herself. "Grace!" he called. "Why, what's the matter? I know I'm a brute, but I didn't think you'd take it so." "Oh, can't you help me?" she pleaded, and began groping about and feeling aimlessly with her hands. He 6aw that her hair was loosened and that her wrists and face were scratched and bleeding in a dozen places. "Why, what's the matter?" he queried again, as she came groping toward him and stumbled against him. "Can't you help me at all?" "Of Cfiurse, 1 can. small girl; you're all right. Nothing shall touch you." he reiterated as his arms closed around her. "Oh, silly, can't you see I've lost my glasses?" she exclaimed, pulling away from him and flushing red among the greenery. Hut he held her tight. "You don't want them; you see liet ter without them, blue eyes. Confess now, you never really saw liefore. Give up trusting in those wretched glasses and trying- to lie independent. Come, see your career through ray eyes." ltut still she held back at arm's length, really defiant. She seemed ready to cry and then smiled instead. "You'll get my glasses if 1 promise?" He nodded. Suddenly throwing her arms about his neck, she said: "I alwa3-s liked your eyes." and pressed a kiss on either lid. "Mas- ',e j'ou were right altout my art," she add ed, seriously. "Hut this needn't in terfere, need it?" "Interfere! Why. I'll tell that man that I've deckled not to take his cattle and we'll turn the whole herd into paint." Then he reached over and carefully disengaged her glasses from the twig where he had seen them hanging when he entered the thicket. G. Mel ville Upton, Slippery Traeka. An electrical journal asks whether some fine cannot discover a was- to pre vent the slipping of street ear wheels, and thus remove a factor of danger in the operation of streetcars, especially in winter. The cold ai.d snowy rails are responsible for manj of the collisions and other casualties which occur during the winter season. In Scranton, Pa., recently there was a sort of epidemic: of collisions for a few days, chargeable cntirclj- to this cause. The motormen claim that the custom of sprinkling salt fin the rails to melt the snow and ice thereon is a good fine to that extent, but a bad one in that when the salt lie cfimes crushed and pulverized it makes the rails as tdipjiery as liefore. In the meantime there is the chance of a for tune for the Inventor who has the luck to hit on the right remedy.
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