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A YELLOW K0SE.
BT MA KG A RETT A M. MORLEY.
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"Have you seen the mountain yet?"
asked an old resident of a bevy of pretty
irirl as they stoxl on the piazza of the
Hotel Taeonia.
Each pretty pirl answered with a
groan. "No, indeed!" exclaimed one of
them. "We have leen imprisoned in
Tacoma nine days, too, yet not an inch
of the mountain have we seen. There
seems to le some fatality alout it, for
no sooner does a Haymow! and Whit
comb party strike the town than old
Taek ha miner, as a Ptiyallup editor has
clubbed it, sees fit to hide its head."
"I have bepun to question whether
there really is any mountain there," ol
served a tall, fair pirl with wistful blue
eyes, "and whether you imaginative
jieople have not mistaken a cloud for a
mountain at some early eriod and
lived in the delusive plory of it ever
since? At Seattle, they say, there is a
Mount Rainier, but no Tacoma; while
at Tacoma they never heard of Mount
Rainier. What is one to think? Now
we have been stalled here almost two
weeks bv the floods and disabled rail
roads, as thepirls have just said.and, al
though the sun has shone often tlurinp
this time, that pray curtain in the south
has never lifted. It is very odd!" All
eyes were fixed on the distant cloud
bank and the pirl with the wist ful eyes
continued, dreamily: "It resembles
our ambitions, our dearest hojx's; suc
cess is there alwavs there vet the in-
tcrveiiinp clouds are so dense that at
times " She stopped abruptly, con
fused by the earuestness of her own
oice.
"Who is that pirl ?" demanded the old
resident, lurninp, with some curiosity,
to watch the slender figure. "I did not
catch the name as we were introduced.
Is she one of your party?"
"Yes, she is a Raymond. She and her
father went throuph the Yosemite vat"
ley, and also to Alaska with our excur
sion; so. you see, we are well acquaint
ed," replied one of the pretty pirls.
"Her name is Rose Rose Monroe, and
s-hc is ever so nice."
"You have a pleasant party?"
"(Ih, yes, indeed, perfectly lovely!
And we don't mind lieinp delayed here
one bit. for Raymond and Y hit comb
pay all our expenses durinp the deten
tion and we have no end of fun. Only,
of course, it would be more exciting if
there were some young men."
"Of course," agreed the old resident,
with a smile. "Rut there is a rather
iice-lHking man now sitting by the
window. Is he not of your party ?"
"Where? Oh. yes, I see whom you
laean!" enthusiastically. "That is Mr.
Kmerson D ight ; he is from Itoston,
Mid he is perfect ly dear! Did you ever
see such a handsome profile? Look at
his hands are they not dreams of sym
metry? And such hair iliat soft,
brown wave in it is absolutely perfect!"
The old inhabitant was heartily
amused.
"I am glad you like your traveling
companion so well." he remarked; and
was then pu.zled by a dissenting shake
of the head from the very girl who had
iiecn sounding the you up n..i n's praises.
"Like him? We don't like him." sin
explained. "We don't know him he's
from Roston!"
"Oil!"
"Yes, he is awfully exclusive no, not
that exactly, but well indifferent.
His manners are perfect.so he isaiways
scrupulously ixilitc to us, only he
diH-sn't care a pin alout us. See? Tin
only girl he has anything to tlo with is
Rose Monroe. In his cold and formal
fashion, he is very nice to her."
"lo you know, I think he is very
much taken with her," volunteered the
youngest of the proup, who at once lvc
came the target of many scornful
glances. "I do, indeed! He talked
with her for hours at a time going up
to Alaska, and." triumphantly, "he is
now holding the rosebud to his Sips
which she put in his buttonhole this
afternoon."
The unconscious subject of their re
marks was sit ting at a small table under
the window, absently twirling by its
long, slender stem a beautiful yellow
rose. From time to time he inhaled its
delicate jierfume. or, as the romantic
maid interpreted the action, pressed
the flower to his lips. Presently he
commanded a lcll-loy to bring him a
glass of water. He drank of it. and
then, to the horror of his little audience,
laid the drooping; rosebud across the
piece of crystal ice that almost filled
the glass, and. lighting a cigar, pre
pared himself to read.
"There is sentiment on ie for von.
warranted not to melt!" cried the pret
ty girls, mockingly, and the little ro
mancer felt utterly crushed.
Night crept in over the sound. The
ray-curtained cloud which concealed
the mountain turned to black, and one
by o'ic the tourists lisapeared.'
fiose Monroe was the last to leave the
I ia.'..a. Her companions had passed
her unnoticed, jis she stood in the
shadow of the house, and she made no
ctVoTt to detain them, for her heart was
tii-avy and she longed to 1 alone
alone with that black curtain that sejv-.
urn ted her from success. Was it there?
Strolling to the window, to see if her
father was still in the office, she stum
bled against a table standing near, and
the musical clink of ice against glass
attracted her attention. She smiled
bitterly as she perceived the fragile yel
low rosebud on its frozen IhhI, and then,
throwing herself in the chair Emerson
Dwight had occupied a short time le
fore, stroked the yellow jietals with a
caressing hand. He had left his look.
a handsome volume of Toe's joems,
open on the table with a encil and a
sheet of pajer folded letween the leaves.
Her restless fingers sought them out,
and presently she began to write:
Sweet yellow rose, that In thy chalice
curled
Holds a dear secret all too tfsThtly f urlci.
"Lift, but one instant, thy delicious head
That I may read the message none have
rfad.
Jet this warm air, and warmer still
That' U,3y petals now with .eai I press.
wn them wide, until the truth be freed.
?A which I ions haveMt abl. "'need
May the soft wish, that fervenuy
O tr rh'ytheoM bed. around thy bosonv
I A Ken, warmth.suffle .to .break the spell
Which holusyou last.
Tt vain'l plead! cold petals like a shield
Close o" r thy heart, and keep its secret
sealed-
Then, having reao lier hastilj- written i
verses, she twirled them around, with a I
swift smile of derision, and scrawled
across the full length of the sheet:
L'ENVOI.
Alas, sweet rose, you have no voice!
You are a yellow rose on lee.
Rushing the lxok away with a gesture
of impatience, she loved her head upon
her arm and fell into a reverie, from
which she was only startled by voices
in theoftiee. Realizing.all at once, that
the hour was late, she arose hurriedly
from her chair; and the impromptu
verses never again occurred to her mind
until she was brushing out her long
yellow hair before the mirror in her
own room.
There was no doubt that when Emer- -son
Dwight recovered his book he would
find the lines, and it was equally certain
that, finding them, he would at once rec
ognize the author by the handwriting,
and She waited no longer to pursue
this horrid possibility, but, twisting her
long hair into a hasty knot, prepared to
go dow nstairs. The verses must be re
gained at any cost !
Late as it was, a few men still sat
smoking and chatting in the oflice.
Passing them as quietly as jiossible.
Rose stepjied out on the piazza and was
immediately filled with consternation
to find two figures bending over the
fatal table. One was Mr. C , the con
ductor of the excursion; the other, Em
erson Dwight.
There was no mistaking the hand
some profile and finely-turned head
silhouetted against the lighted window.
The girl's heart pave a liound. How
long had Mr. C lieen with her f riend ?
was the momentous question which
confronted her. While they were to
gether Emerson Dwight was not likely
to ojen his look, so there were nine
chances to one that he had not discov
ered her paper.
"I'ardon me, Mr. Dwight. but I care
lessly left a paper in your "Roe while
glancing' it over this evening; may I
trouble you for it now?" Rose won
dered at the coolness of her own voice
as she waited, all tremblingly, for the
reply. Mr. C glanced at her in some
surprise and offered her a chair as he
exclaimed:
"What! Is it you. Miss Rose? Well,
you are one of the lucky few who can
afford to lose your lieauty sleep."
Ixx'ked once more in her own apart
ment. Rose Monroe threw herself in a
chair with many smothered exclama
tions of relief.
"May I never be tempted to write
oetry again!" she ejaculated, fiercely.
"If all the would-be rhymsters were
punished as severely as I hare leen dur
ing the suspense of the last half hour,
the reading public would ledelivered of
much trash. Oh, thou yellow rose, why
wast thou not lorn a thistle?"
She unfolded the pajer with a tragic
air, and was aliouf to re-read her lines,
when the mocking smile on her lips
gave place to a look of blank amaze
ment. Instead of her address to the rose, the
pajer contained some lines in Emerson
Dwight's well-known writing. She
read :
"The secret, lady fair.
That my poor petals hold
I'll plve to thee with Joy,
If I may be so hold.
"Thy warm and sweet caress
Oives Joy and hope and life;
With passion's warmest How
My withered leaves are rife.
"Ah, hold me to your lips!
My perfume lives again:
And in your soft eyes' light
Forgotten is all pain.
"The secret's told: I'm sure
Your eyes have read It true.
My perfume holds one dream
That, lady fair, is you.
1.' ENVOI.
"If cold on bed of Ice I lie.
'Tls that my memories maynotaie."
The LEnoi was scrawled across the
page just as hers had leen, and the
whole pater resembled hers so closely
that it was small wonder she had been
deceived in it at first glance.
So M r. C had not lieen with Emer
son Dwight during that fatal interval,
and he had had time to open his Injok!
What must he think of what he found
there? Rose lost herself in a maze of
doubt, and fell to sleep murmuring:
" 'Forgot ten is all pain. "
The next morning Emerson Dwight
appeared at breakfast with a yellow
rose in his buttonhole.
"I lelieve that rose is art ificial," sang
out Mr. C from an adjoining table,
"for it seems as though you had worn it
a week. The florists out here can't un
derstand their business, to put such
everlastings as that on the market."
"I have a method, all my own, for
keeping it fresh." answered Dwight.
with a grave inclination of the head to
ward his vis-a-vis. "Miss Monroe is in
the secret, and can flivulge it if she
likes." Rose blushed furiously.
After breakfast, Dwight asked her to
walk with him on the piazza. She ac
quiesced, and they lingered a longtime
at that farther end where the pet lxar
is chained.
They were finally interrupted by one
of their traveling companions who
came to announce the good news that
the last bridge had leen repaired, and
that they Mere no longer prisoners.
The pretty girl arrived just in time to
hear Emerson Dwight say:
"Yes, I found it, and as I lielieved
there was no hoje of seeing you before
this morning I killed time Ivy writing a
reply. C joined me just as yon
8tppcd upon the piazza, and as that
ended all prospect of our having a tete-a-tete
I could not resist giving you the
wrong paper. I would not part with
the other, not even to you. By the
way. Rose, we must change the L'Envoi
to something like this:
Most precious Rose, you're In a vise.
You're doomed to bridal wreaths and rice."
N. Y. Ledger.
Wonderful Sncselty of si Doc.
The wonderful sagacity sometimes
displayed by the dog in its efforts to
save its master is well illustrated by the
following true tale of late occurrence:
A iiine-months-old puppy of the shep
herd variety, owned by Farmer Nathan
iel Peardon. of Melindy's Prairie, Wis.,
was sent to bring home a drove of si.
good-sized hogs that had escajied from
their pen, little thinking the dog coui.l
accomplish this difficult task. Imagine
the farmer's surprise, on seeing the
p-ippv bring each hog home, one after
the other, in quick succession, lealing
it by the ear, each trip stopping for his
master's approval. Each time the hog
rf fused to advance or seemed inclined
to loiter the puppy pulled his ear all the
harder, thus compelling him to move on.
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mats come out strong and the proces
sion of the. members of the foreign le
gations and embassies from the white
house to the home or hotel of the secre
tary of state, where the diplomatic
breakfast is served, is one of the gala
sights of the year. Many of the imputa
tion of Washington stay up all night in
order to get a place on the white house
fence where they may see the proces
sion ass as soon as it has lieen re
ceived and projerly attended to by the
president.
After the reception the entire organ
ization lines up and puts out on foot
for the home of the secretary of state.
As they pass from the white house
grounds in their glittering raiment
they are the showiest things in Wash
ington and worth coming miles to
see. The lowliest attache in the crowd
will give cards and spades to the most
showily-dressed drum major in the
country, anil will win out with ease.
They have gold lace and bullion strung
all over them, while the aigrets, plumes,
epaulets, cords, tassels ami riblions of
any one legation would stock a mil
linery store. Such is the effect of this
aggregation of lieauty and valor on the
great American crowd gathered with
out the gates that every man in it utters
at some time while the procession is
passing, with contemptuous emphasis,
the remark which occurs of tenest in the
narrative of the adventures of Chimmie
Fadden.
STRANGE STORY OF CRIME.
Truat worthy Servant Turns Murderer
Husband to the Rescue.
One of the most remarkable stories
of thwarted crime comes from India.
A lady with her two children, who were
both young, was going in lieron ekka
lroni Ramnagar to a place in the center
of the liar tract.
The driver was an old servant of the
family and was thought to be trust
worthy. For this reason the lady did
not think it necessary to leave her jew
elry Itehind her. At a lonely part of
the road the trustworthy servant
stopicd and ordered his mistress to
pass her gewgaws along. She did so,
not unnaturally, and then the man pro
ceeded to bind her, preparatory to kill
ing her.
At her request he agreed to kill the
infants after he had dispatched their
mother. He lifted the ax to strike the
blow, but the head flew off and disa
tieared in the brushwood some yanks
away. P.y this time the lady was un
conscious. When she came to she found her hus
band leaning over her and undoing her
fastenings. He explained that he had
felt a dread as of some impending ca
lamity, and so had followed her. In
the thicket, the trustworthy servant
was found dead, his liody already blue,
putrid and bloated. He had been stung
by a Khagi snake, whose bite paralyzes
the victim on the instant and decom
poses him in an hour.
VERY FRUGAL PEERS.
Members of the Kngllnh Peerage Io Not
Squander Their Wealth Needlessly.
There is no one in the English peerage
who has the reputation of driving a
closer Imrgain and liossessing a keener
eye to the main chance than t he duke of
Westminster, says the Rrooklyn Citi
zen. The young duke of I ted ford, who
runs his grace of Westminster very
close in the jioint of wealth, distin
guished himself the other day in the
London jiolice court by the animosity
which he displayed in prosecuting the
poor itinerant venders of fruits and veg
etables who had attempted to dispose
of their wares in the neighlorhood of
Covent Carden market, which lickings
to him and is one of his principal
sources of revenue. He claimed that
by hawking their wares on the liorder
line of the market they interfered with
those who rented stalls therein from
him. And now we have Ixml Robarts,
the richest peer in the west of England,
and possessed of tin mines in Cornwall
which alone yield him over.$2ro.ooo a
'year, getting the lest of a brother peer,
the popular earl of Hardwicke, by fore
closing a mortgage which had hitherto
lieen considered a friendly agreement.
Of course. Lord Robarts is within his
strict legal rights, but by his altogether
unexpected foreclosure he has managed
to acquire Wimiole hall, the ancestral
mansion and country-seat of the earl of
Hardwicke, as well as the large estate in
connection therewith, for one-third of
the value at which it was officially ap
praised three or four years ago.
HAS SAVED MANY LIVES.
Wonderful Record In Death (.'heating:
Made by a Sea Captain.
Which boy has saved the greatest
number of human lives from lro ning?
was asked of Tit-Hits by a corresion-
dent, and this was the answer:
Capt. Hans Ioxrud, commander of
the Red Star steamship Switzer'and,
trading between Philadelphia and Ant
werp, is believed to hold the world's
record in this respect, as, while qalfe
young, he saved the lives of 83 iersons,
rescued from ninesinkingships. moi;g
the boys who lately received rewanls
from the Royal Humane society for wiv
ing life was W. E. Irving, aged 13 yea is,
who, at a great risk, saved the life of a
little fellow at Aldermoor, near Cov
entry, on April 11. This is the. secoud
life saved by Irving, who was the re
cipient of a silver medal in December
last. Another boy, Alfred Cioodvt in, 13,
saved a boy of 11 in the Acton waters,
near Wormwood Scrnblvs; and Fred JJ.
Cooper, a little fellow of 11 j-earsof age,
w ho has only the use of one hand, suc
ceeded, on February 2S last, in rescuing
another boy who had fallen through the
ice in the recreation ground which runs
by the side of the Trent. A few years
ago the Roj-al Humane society awpnlcd
a silver medal to Frank Lines, eight
years of age, who saved the life of a boy
ten years of age who fell through the
ice in the Broadwater, Brocket park,
Hatfield.
I BLISS BOUGHT AT AUCTION.
Come, Courtney, lend me your ears
for half an hour, for I am in a pickle!"
exclaimed Fred Sawyer to his friend.
Come up to mv quarters. I have some
thing to show you, and no joking I
need your advice."
If you take it, it will le for the first
time." laughed good-natured Courtney.
Ix-ad 011, and don't lose any time in re
lieving this susiMMise. I'm not fond of
riddles, vou know."
'Why. yesterday I dropjx'd into the
saleroom at a lyomloii station. You
know, they sell off the uncall-V-for lug
gage at intervals, and a sale was just go
ing on. A numberol t lie tioys were 1 tiere.
and we each commenced to bid for a
trunk. I selected a rather small one.
and Here we are! Come right in
and view the burden of mv woes."
He led the way into a pleasant apart
ment ami pointed to a small leather
trunk which stood in the middle of the
room.
"()en it. if you want to." he said.
I've had enough of thr confounded
thing. It's full of woman's stuff, and
what do vou supiiose I can do with it?
1 haven't an aunt or a cousin in the ide
world."
"Keep it till you're married, Fred.
These seem to lie gwd clothes." said
Courtney, jumping into the Imx and lift
ing dainty garment? with a half-rev
erent touch, in spite of his laughing
face.
"Humph! The idea of such advice
from you! Why. old 1mv, I shall not
marry for ten years five.anvwav ami
I'm not going to risk keeping these
things here and lieinp taken for a lady
burglar. Mrs. Mct.affrcy would find
them in spite of everything smell
murder in the air, and hunt around for
the skull liones. No, 111 dump the
trunk in the river; that's what I'll tlo."
"Pshaw! You're too sensible for
that. These things cost money lots of
it. I imagine and you paid something
for them in the bargain. You might
sell them to the second-hand No. I've
a liettcrschemethan that. Why not go
through the trunk systematically, find
out the owner's name and address
there are surely letters or something
and write to her, offering her the whole
thing for a reasonable sum?"
"Do an act of charity, and yet turn an
honest enny Anyone would know
you are Scotch, ltut I must iro back to
the store, and Here! you have all
the time there is; suppose you go
through it for me? Al. I ask is that
you will keep Mrs. McCaffrey out.Fare
dieu!" And off he went.
Courtney laughingly . locked the
door; but the smiles soon left his face
as he proceeded with bis task. He won
dered if the little battered trunk had
lieen lost in sone of the dreadful catas
trophes he had read of; he imagined
the owner killed and her liody as well
as luggage unidentified in the horrible
excitement.
They were girlish things dainty
veils and ri hi tons, ginghams, silks and
snowy linen. ' He lingered over a
small, worn slipper, and felt a thrill
akin to that awakened in Cinderella's
prince
"No clew yet," he murmured. "Per
haps there are letters in this ltox."
Its catch was Itent, but he wrenched
it 0ten and out flew his own photo
graph! He sat down plump in a lmt of laces
and stared. On the other side were
his initials and a date he had l-en try
ing for three years to forget: "June
22, ls;o."
"Nell Burr's trunk!" he exclaimed.
"Oh, my little girl, what has happened
to you? Maylte some one . No, here
are your initials on this lx-lt buckle,
find your gloves were nuniltcr six, and
this slipper would just fit yourdear lit
tle ftot."
The young man grew excited and
rapturous over each article; presently
he lifted a juickage of letters from one
'corner.
"My own and they express the
greatest happiness life ever brought
me. They are like the leaves that flut
ter down in the Noventlter rain. I
wonder why she kept them. How many
there are!"
I'nfastening the cord, he turned the
letters over and found many of the
envelopes scribbled upon by a familiar
hand. There were items jotted down
to lie remembered in answering, ami
scraps of itoetry which bad not long
since reached his eye, and Im-cii ever
since cherished in his memory. Ujton
the last one for they wen" all num
ltcred was written in ink this girlish
confession: "Al Courtney, I love you,
but will never marry anyone so incon
stant." Resting his head on the empty tray in
silence, he exclaimed:
"I was a fool a consummate fool
and now, jierhaps, she is dead."
A noise outside aroused him. and in a
Jtcwildercd way he surveyed the gar
ments strewed on every side, and gav.ed .
mournfully at thelteautifulhat through
which he had run one foot, and the ltox
of laces he had unconsciously used for
a cushion. Fred would be coming in a
few minutes. He ltegan repacking the
things with ruthless haste, and. stow
ing the letters in his own pockets, was
lying lazily on the couch reading the
paper, when his chum entered.
"Well," he cried, "what mystery did
you unearth?"
"No mystery at all," was the deliber
ate answer; but the 'stuff. as you call
it, is worth something, and would lie a
regular gold mine to a girl. I've a no
tion to buy it from you ami present it
to my sisters. What will you take?"
"Oh, come! You're just doing that to
help me out. I know your benevolent
old heart. No, 111 follow your advice,
and hunt up the owner. It would lie
quite romantic, and. Itesides. you hinted
that I might make a shilling or two
by it. You found her name and address
there, didn't you?"
"Yes," Al reluctantly answered; "I
found her name and an address, but it
is hardly likely that you could find her
after so many years. You know, they
keep luggage a long time before it is
sold."
"I'm not surealiout that," said Fred.
"I've thought altout it all the morning
and the idea grows on me. It will lie
rare f 11 n to t ry, any w ay. What d id you
say the name was?"
"But no doubt this girl was killed
luggage is seldom lost except by some
such accident, and maybe the is au old
woman .""
"Just as if that would make an n.-t
of charitv less meritorious, old v-m-
cn don't usually wear white lace i.ats.
thouirh. You must have found s .no ¬
thing precious in then- jewelry, or
something which makes you anxious
to martyrize yourself. It's mine, how -
ever, and I'm not as anxious to pait
with it as 1 was not till I've looked
through it. anyway."
As he turned the key Al rvmcini.er'd
that his own photograph was 1 irg ia
a conspicuous liox. and exclaimed:
"Wait until after dinner, then: I'm a
half starved."
"Perhaps it would lie ln-ttcr." w as the
answer, and they passed out together.
When fairly ilownstairs Al said be
had forgotten his handkerchief, and
Hew back three steps at a time to get it.
Securing the picture ami placing it in
an inside pocket, he said to himself:
"Surely there's nothing else to give
me away. But 1 must w heedle h'::n out
of the trunk."
After dinner Fred "went thro ugh"
the contents of the trunk, making 1 toy
is h remarks concerning each art n-le as
he threw- it aside. Al inwardly w meed
at these remarks, ami could scarcely re
strain himself from knocking him over
on the sMvt.
" hat makes you socrusty?"qtn,riel
Fred, suddenly, as one of his choicest
kikes was met by a gruff "H'm!"
"There's no fun in you, and why you
want this stuff beats me. Your sisters
would turn up their noses at s.t-ond-hand
clothing, if it is pretty. But it
isn't worth fussing over, so tiike it
along. No doubt it w ould prove a w iiite
elephant on my bands stoner or later."
Not until the trunk was safely 111 his
room could Al breathe freely: even
then it was no easy matter to kee:t it
out of his sisters" sisrht. They i-oth
math? a jtet and confidant of their one
brother, and bad a fashion of dropping
into his room at all hours to tell hi'Vtof
their schemesand woes. He had pushed
the trunk under a mahogany table in
the corner, the old-fashioned cover of
which reached almost to t he floor.
When he told them he was going
away for a little business "trip." t hey
"lieset him with questions and petitions
to lie taken with him, finally declaring
that they would clean house -,h;lt he
was gone, and "sort out his trash"
So Ih-IioIiI him. in the dead of niht.
carrying the "white elephant" up the
narrow attic stairs, bumping his h-.;d
on every rafter and getting cobw -l s o:
his mustache. He covered it v.i:!i o'.l
clothing, pushed a big ixix ip front of
it and t hen crept dow ustairs, fee! Ii .r a.
guil ty as i f he had 1 ceii conceal it if some
rime. At breakfast the girls lih
talked at once altout the burglar who
tried to get in. and how they itounik-d
on Al's door and could not even get an
answer.
AT noon lie was on. p.ihi as tlie train
whirled onward he ltccame possesed
with fears. She might not ! at
Hastings; she might not care for him
after these three years; she mi'ht even
be married or dead.
Ariving at his destination at last, he
only stopiicd to leavehis bag at the ho
tel, and walked rapidly to a familiar
house in the suburbs. Ringing 1 !.e 1 I!
he inquired for Miss l'.nrr in a mat icr-of-fact
way. as if he had seen her the !a
In-fore. He watched the girl's face as
he spoke, and saw no trace of surprise.
She simply said:
"Miss l'.urr may not lie able to see
you, but come in, and I w ill ask."
Presently he was shown into a .-mail,
sunny room, where, on a couch, lay the
one girl he had ever loved, lie t:ic:i::t
to explain at once the cause of his fool
ish going and eager coining, all of w hieh
he had framed into frank. Iicautif'.d sen
tences; but somehow they forsook him.
and he fell back on the commonplace.
She received him with quiet words of
welcome, and then said:
"Pardon my jxisition. but I nr. sneh
an invalid that it is a trial to sit
"An invalid!" J;e echoed, faintly.
"Yes." she answered. "Did you not
hear of my accident several months
ago? On coming home from a visit I
stopped for a day or so in a Iximiou bo
tch The building caught fire a few
hours after I entered it. The horror
of the scene is so stairi'd branded
would lie a more appropriate word
on my memory that I cannot ix-ar to
talk of it. I lost every thing except the
and would have lust my life but for the
brave fireman who broke my fall. Oh.
no. I am not seriously injured." she con
tinued, in answer to his half-spoken
question, "though I have lx-en iil ever
since. It was such a shock, you 1 1 ow."
By deft questioning he succeeded in
making her say:
"Yes, I lost my trunk. It was left at
the f-tation (I e.xjx'cted To go in adav
or two), antl the dcjwisit ticket was de
stroyed with my ixicketlxHvk. Railway
jx-ople are necessarily tiurtic.ular about
identifying luggage, and for weeks I
was too ill to even rememlK-r it. Ite
sides, I had only gone for a short out
ing, and it held nothing of much value,
except some keepsakes that were dear
to me."
A deep flush stole over her face at
these words; he watched it for a deli
cious moment, and then gathered her
up in his arms, exclaiming:
"I will bring them back, if you will
pay the reward I want."
Then or, rather, after he had tor
tured her im'iatietice mercilessly be
told her of Fred's "bargain" bought at
auction. She begged for it, coaxed,
pleaded, all in vain. He declared thtt
die could only have the little leather
trunk as a wedding present. And a
very happy wedding party it w as, too.
fit-Bits" '
Raved III. Conscience.
The comptroller of the treasury is an
autocrat whose decision overrides even
that of the chief magistrate of the na
tion. Some j-ears ago, the then incum
bent of the office refused to feign a
warrant for money which Gen. t.ratit
thought it proper to expend. "That is
right," the president said. "I a.'.: lire
your firmness. Where yonr conscience
u concerned never permit yoursc! f to Ik'
cxierced. You may consider yourself
clear in this affair, for I shall appoint
a new comptroller to-morrow."
The second war with Great Britain
began June IS, 1S12. and ended on Feb
ruary 17, 1S15. It involved the enlist
ment of 471,022 volunteers and the
service of r.i,uoo regulars, a total of
576.C22.
CYCLING THE GLOBS.
The
Feat of Ridirs Around
World cn a Bicycla.
tho
How It IVrfurmnl Thns Days
heeling Kn. hu-lta Hair Km la
in g Si rtea Told ly
the Heroes.
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A traveler just lack from Japan says
that the passengers on the Pacific Mail
and Canadian Pacific steamships get
much amusement from seeing the mar
velous exploits of the daring men and
women who are now making their per
ilous ways around the world on bicycles
in great numlx-rs. Every ship Takes
several of These h-rocs and heroines.
On the way To Asia The assengers do
not know the heroes, or even suspect
them. As the wheels are stored in the
cabin luiirgagc rooms, it is impossible;
lor the rest of the jiasseiigcrs. looking;
on at a pallid lx-y who turns ill at the
smell of a cimr or a girl who lies next
to death's d.tor iishcr stateroom, to
dream that t hese are t he jx-ople w ho are
"-oing to write home to the jkijxts that
they have been chased by Persian
bandits jnd lunched with Ka"ir kings
as t hey nnnihilab-d Puck's record round
the glolx-. When the ship stops at
Yokohama out come the wheels, and
the heroes ride the full length of the
Rund a commercial street alxmt a
mile long. Th rest of Yokohama is on
i hiil txi steep for w heeling. At Kobe
and Nagasaki th town sites are more
neaHy level and the heroes ride jterhaps
Two miles. hai::g their wheels lifted
laek atxiard the steamer as she voyases
rom place to place. Having done
Japan by going ashore at three ixiints.
1 hey forge f ariessly ahead on the
steamship, yejn ing to brave the ter
rors of China on their flying t ires.
China they discover to lx one of the
finest fields for this phase of reckless
.leviMtv in all t he world. The ship takes
ilii'in to Shantrhai. where the I'.uml is
neai ly two miles long and all lined with
churches, clubs, lianks and brokers and
; hipping offices as safe anil occidental
as Ilroadway. They hear that they
1:111 ride five miles on the Malooand the
Rubbling Well road lHfore they come
to the muddy tow-paths that form the
actual roads of that part of China,
.!oni.- which no wheelman can rid-.
With their hearts in th.-ir throats, f.ui--ing
every jxxir devil of a coolie they
meet to !' a murderer fresh from sa-k-TiT
a missionary's louse, they jxda!
inward. When they come to the tea
rlens, whose jra tew v s swarm with
'":ii:ese. they ;;il but fi'.int. ar.d conM
!:e Chinese :.i. dies ami courtesans at
hes" gates rea l what the bicyclists
-. ft. rv a. 1 d rc;ort (f tl:t ir experiences
: t the time They would find tin nisclves
i.-M-riin-il as an undisciplined mob of
MI-.:iers and lawless retainers in front
if a mandarin's palate, with this ad
d";ioii:i statement: "They scow led so
rierc.-ly and rivtde such threatening
iesturcs that only the swiftness tif lay
he ! prevented another massacre le
!i;g added to the list of crimes against
foreigners in China."
Rack to the ship the wheeling hero
:1 ies and writes not.-s of his hairbreadth
escapes in central China until the ves
sel pa-ses Woosuniriy and Ix-gins to rH-k
him back into sea-i. kness. Hong Kong
is the next place at which the l.ic cle is
"akenout a Itri: ish possession no more
to lx- reganh-d ;is dangerous for a for
ii.r:i lady of the most timid temjicra
!!ient to walk alx tit alone in than is the
European republic of Shanghai or the
haunt of moinitain dcsitcradocs in New
Jcrscy called Tuxedo. So The journey
around the world continues altoard
ship with the historic wheel safe in the
baggage room ami only an .c-asional
chance occurring to take it out in places
l"k- Singapore. Aden. Port Said. Alex-andfi-i
and the rest of the tlesjx-rate
lurking places of Eurojx-an merchants
on The way To Enrojie. Terrible mo
ments are exx'rieri,t-l anil recorded on
1 lie way. For instance, on the Red sc:
notes are kept of the ferocious charac
ter of the inhabitants of the dark con
tinent. On the Mediterranean the ship
passes ('.recce, with its pitates, and
Italy, with its banditti, each of which
savage and relentless Ixxlies of icoplc
is worked into 1 he wheelman's or w hccl
iriiTs diary in such an effective way as
to almost make the diarist turn pale as
he or she reads over what has 1h-cii writ
ten. Finally comes Southampton. or Liver
xh1. or Havre. and there t he now world
famous wheel makes its last spin so
that its ow ner can truthfully say it has
"done Eiirojte" before lx-ing hoisted
alxtard a steamer homeward bound for
New- York. N. Y. Sun.
CONCERNING BLOOMERS.
Axr again, when the bloomer woman
goes into full effect, that deep mystery,
the dres skirt pocket, will go out.
Washington Post.
Bi.oomf.rs will never be made the
ground for divorce. Wherever the wife
wears trousers domestic affairs have
reached a settled condition. Washing
ton Times.
The difference between ordinary
trousers and bloomers is that bloomers
do everywhere what ordinary trousers
do only at the knees. Milwaukee Sen
tinel. Mk. Asn Mrs. John (Jtm had a
quarrel over the matter of Miss Maggie
Quill wearing bloomers, during which
John lost his whiskers and Mrs. Quill
was deprived of her alleged reason.
This seems all the more strange inas
much as jonquils are naturally bloom
ers. Perhaps, after all, they are not
so much John Quills as passion flowers.
Boston Herald.
The late Mrs. Bloomer is receiving
posthumous plory to which she is not
entitled. The bloomer costume of tue
woman who wheels is both good to see
and comfortable to wear. If the good
woman had devised such a costume she
might not have Wen doomed to failure.
Father Knickerbocker, however, in ap
plication of his name to a costume, gets
no more than his fair show. San Fran
cisco Examiner.
To Keep 1 1 im from I'nraTelintr.
At one time the lTesbyterians of
Ulster were discussing the ignorance
and stupidity of one of their numltcr.
"And what a notion he has in his head
now!" exclaimed one of the elders, in
dismay. "Ills head!" echoed oneof the
ministers; "he has no head! What you
call a head is only a top-knot that his
Maker put there to keep hiin from rav
eling out." .
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