. | ulating and talking most volubly, but | & boid stroke occurred to me—what if I tearing hia foo, Jocwe from | He tap, did | nis companion was silent. I had only | addressed him at a venture? There are people who have no other sts y ; wl PO a amt loin It is about time some one was ap time to see a tall, foreign-looking man | “Do you attach luck, good or ill, to 8} y one whom we never call clever, but mself up in rome pointed to make an investigation on before they came to where I was stand- | certain name, Mr, mm who do this instinct, and who degree of 1age and ferocity. the subject and ses whether the givls ing. . “Edward, finished myjdisconcerting | can talk po: sympathetically, while 3p hen Jou have thus rapped : bord nowadays really have any foreheads, or “There he is, miss,’ exclaimed the | vis-a-vis before I could bring my Ips t0 | knowing scarcely anything about the | pound grind you liave es devil | Whether they have all “gone off,” like waiter, eagerly; then turned on his | utter Jones or Smith. How I should | individual addressed, There are others 4 bear; Jon have simply caug n some. | PAV gun with a “bang!” A sensible heel and left us. Exactly what I felt | have liked to have boxed his ears, un-| who are deficient in this gift, who can cate! : ude the question — writer says that men seem to wear them that moment I cannot. describe. It was | ladylike as it sounds. “If you mean {only say “Really,” and “Indeed.” eas np or you oy ave not | 2 they used todo. And ladies, also, a mixture of satisfaction that the |that I believe all Tommys must of ne- | These‘ Really” and “Indeed” and *'Oh” uty ‘ut whether yo ity to of advanced or advancing years. Dat stranger had come, and a very distinct | cessity be good, and all Harrys bad—no | people are the despair of the dinner- given him a_frat.class ops) is. | 8% 1 80 to the city daily, and sec. in the A gay mosaic mad. sort of timidity and uncomfortableness | Miss Jessie.” giver. The gay, chatty, light-hearted | Suto Jon. NOW. Jeb v8 A NO ad thus | #reets and on the cars and ferry boats If [ had staid and waited, together, at the presence of that silent, | “Was he teasing me, and doing his part | people who can glide into conversatioz | '% &° zly. thus caught, dable | Whole Devies of bright and beautiful 220 watched shire day and night, | 1540 bearded man. of “hide better than mine of “seek?” | easily are the best of dinner-table com- worked up into the most form girls, I am constantly wondering at, if Could 1 have BE maggie, os Yghi I glanced at him furtively and re- | I could not decide. Fora few moments | panions, even if they do sometimes talk Jerouliy ' has 1o be followed ap hoot, not admiring, the ingenuity displayed in Oh | miracle most splendid, marked that it was very chilly. I sat stupidly silent, then made even 8 | t46 much about the weather and such | 0 irk a he Sovasts 0 heart | OYEIDE up, hiding, and practically Oh | magic all divine, “Yes,” he assented, drawing up his | more stupid remark, and thought what | oommonplaces. kn er ath > Ee om éannot getting rid of this crowning feature of Of which our learned dullness tur cloak closer about his throat, and | 8 fool I must appear to him. It 18 a good plan for a shy young per- swamp, The Git of Small Talk. Where are Your Feorshends? Sr mn A MIRACLE. ass am— At night ali bare of verdure The hill and meadow lay; The brook "neath bushes leafless Went rapid on its way. A few short hours I left them; Lo! when I camengaln, The brook, slow threads of silver, Wound down a leafy lane. The hill was green and shining With tarf of tender biade, And blossoms in the meadow B lendars the si soe Sen-siops ahead. and wl afiba the human face divine, What it has Mt eaemiaTe go stopped as if waiting for me to proceed. | ‘Why did you not ask my name out-| ..;, who has no confidence 4n her own | yon ster a} suddenly rise Dine etly in done, or what change has pastes 1 upon How dure wo open} 1t i uy. “Surely be ought to say something,” | right, Miss Jessie, instead of bealing powers of conversation, to fortify her- it that it should be so jguominiously ex- 9 : front and charge, trap, clog, and all, led f izht 1 dls to di The name of this great miracle, thought I, ‘if he were only to introduce | about the bush?” asked he of the | ce with several topics of eral inter- pe rom sight, [ am unable to dis- Tho miracle of Spring. | himselt.” red necktie, after a pause. top gen retreat would be absolutely impossible. est, such as the last new novel, the last “| cover or imagine. Time was when a _— I began to wish myself anywhere but | Dia I hear aright? 1 all but jumped Add to this that at the time of the hun lover mught have been as much : opera, the best and newest gallery of 's arrival the bear may have just suc- : ’ TAE MED NECKTIE, there. 1 looked sround (we were still |up, 8s I took in the purport of ihe etm, of 11s Hower 1. Jaahion; 80d | eo Re Ly Ty ha tu yoy garaptuzed Witt lis mistress’ Sais i . ; ted row a8 with her beautiful 1, Jessie Sutton, had been ling a standing in the doorway); the little | question. The color moun my yes, to invent a formula, if words are want- | have just mapaged to break his chain : room was the larg h | temples; fortunatel veil hid it par- ; ? { but now he can only sing, if be sings at year Jus my Sus in Vie wast, 223 less full. empty, 8 oh JG tially, ’ naely my pe ing in her organization, as to how these | or may have just finished eating up the y fing g 11,0f the fascinating frizz the delightful . jects should be introduced and hand- bod ich have | 2 ' ; Our evident constraint was, for the | He had misunderstood me willfully. sal) u c) lly, all of which things bave aunt’s had suggested that a cousin of . s fluff, or the lovely bang his lady wears . Many ideas will occur to her, and . 1a 's . / moment, ended by the polite waiter. | Why should he? Surely my curiosity was led ay \ The happened in my experience. He would}, ,; 4 which her forehead long since hers who was also going east was jolly she can silently arrange them. 1 | then be in a beautiful state of frenzy, Bw: gong o “Won't you have something to eat?’ | 8 pardonable and natural one under the | Reel: t) foron. . disappeared. company—a splendid fellow and just el ta I lved he should not 0 IY keep Lhasp a8 8 TeserVe «| and would be perfectly delighted to] op, ,,, it seems against nature, If : he asked confidentially, coming up to | circumstances. 1 reso 30 "1 using ti only when tl tion the one for a traveling companion. I eo Seis ~ oon for the | have the bost of it—let him keep up the sing them only when HO Coe wipe out a hunter or two if only to}, 4 wanted the forehead covered could travel to Chicago alone, and he iat.” x silly mystery as long as it pleases him. drops or she is Umexpocts 3 broug a quiet down his nerves, up with hair, she'd have made it grow would meet me there, and we could Shall I bring it in here?" he inquired, The desire to unravel it had evapor- Eo BCE y 9 Er Ey there, like the beatd on a man's chin, complete the journey together. when the stranger assented and ordered | ated with the desire to make it appear re ' ve . pooye i po Sn i and sas I wonder if you like it any better than So sunt had her sister-in-law write to something: *‘there is a nice little table | to bim as if there bad been none, at | Ver URIAILlY, fed ng the ; “Blinders,” “‘originated in the pride Ido? 1 don’t believe the minister him, and it was all arranged. AsIhad |, oo NE} was seatisd, and he pointed | least so far as I was concerned. up to the point where they wish to en- of persons who imagined their horses | does, for I've noticed two or three never seen him, there was a spice of eu ; } ad ied “Why should I try?” trying to speak ter; but these are not the people who presented a finer appearance. Custom times, when he had giris to baptize, he romance about the matter which suited Ne A pl aad took unconcernedly; “one does not usually need help—they an take Care of therm- and ‘jgnorance combined in perpetuat- could hardly find a spot on the fore- TS Sxnetly. EI Sh enct the sents. ; travel with or be escorted by a gentle. selves, After talking a while in a per- ing their use, so that to-day probably heads big enough to put his fingers on, ut as we were strangers to each other, how could he recogmze me or { . | , ys | functory manner, many a shy young ad it did i vey * alka hose s one d t know. : and it seem to trouble him a little, You are going by this traint asked | M5, WCTEE Touhe One C00 A archi | permon has been astonished by a sudden | SUCCPRIRIECE © CR CRC Perhaps 1 oughta’t to may it, and yet : my companion, in a casual, off-h . 4, Mis 8 0 Worse ; ’ : I him among the thousands of peoplefin WY ) ’ Yok ull of Suiliian denny and finds) honelt contrivances, including multitudes of | Somehow it set me to wondering how Chicago? My aunt, good* woman, in- | ixraturally » answered I, somewhat | ‘‘And yet you never saw me before ing na\umy and ue miserable, broken-down animals em- | the angel it speaks of in the Book of stantly suggested the way. I must ised: did he intend doing other- | this evening,” he said slowly, keeping effort. The besc way to learn Low to ployed in the sever grades of labor, | Revelation could find room to seal the wear a gray jacket and he a red necktie, Hosp jo ya 8 his eyes upon me. ; talk is, of course, to learn how to thinkj| = 0 con Wong not, from sheer | servants of God in their foreheads or “Tuke care of yourself, my ehild,” |! “Then I shall be most happy to escort | ‘Nor you me,” I returned. ‘But from full wells-one brings up Hatin weafiness and lifelessness, be induced | Write their Father's name there if they were aunties last words; after sundry | you as far as our roads lie together,” | that has nothing to do with the case.” full of Slant oe, but Jere _ he | to shy, or run away by anything short | were all covered up like that, injunctions as to doing this or. leaving | was the further rejoinder, bus he uttered | “A great deal, I should say," was the small talk without much Boug at. a | of a bomb bursting in their immediate | 1'm very much afraid we've seen the that andene, wll<of Which hints she loin sea he a arly 1 om jsuswer, accompanied by a provoking | fact remains that biiliiant tHinkers ai’ | yo, gp, last of them—the foreheads, I mean— deemed necessary for my safety and | going to Massachusetts.” | smile. scholars are not always good talkers, | “Lou ll hanes of that logic | and another generation won’thave any, comfort. “And to be sure to look out gi Bg Jo na " ; . Lvl What did he mean? I opened my and there is no harm in the cultivation which insists horses are less frighteneq | unless a change comes very quick, for Mr. ."" Here the shriek of a | _; "Sa a I, I SWeks Sy lips once or twice to ask him to be more of ihe art of SuvAERTIOn, Bo hati 2 by objects which are screened from You know these scientific men say that passing engine and the starting of the ry i EE iS ren definite but shut them again in the fear | 3 little “cramming, i a Er Aon their view by binders, but which they | 8 faculty or organ that i= constantly train cut short the sentence. ny I?” and he half smield that for some inexplicable reason or icant a a a ng ean hear (such, for instance, as loco- | disused—1 believe that’s it—tends to Then ns I sank back on the seat, af-| T saw then that be had beautiful othet IY companion woul keep up hia EC to rind flow of A | talk and | motives), than when they can sce just disnppent altogether. And why hota ter waving wy handkerchief in fare- | teeth, partially hidden, as was indeed Wfdiou Wis aie of us said a word, | the person who can use this agreeable hat bio object is 1s Joven wiisily femur tog) 0 su Y eat Yo Silk ot ol). $4 a 2 . ; : eno w ve : rebe wells it suddtnly Satied Spon Bo tah the entire lower pests of the face, by the I closed my eyes but not a wink did 1 weapon of society is always popular and d Ho z . exp I on their ani- | with balr growing down (othe eyes, : . 0 © ’ ; : a ispen: : of we 1 Soul sot Teinainber ik; Had tick Moustache 3 3 heard. his steak |Meep during the longest, weariest night | Wuch Soupted.. °. . mals. It is the unseen object which | can you? And yet, what's to hinder I . - » So ———— ——— " 8 - fu 3 > ” I ever heard it? I asked myself. Yes, [and we both sat silent; be occupied with of my life. Mig Sport. most terrifies a horse. The animal | don’t see, if the har is deliberately and it had most certainly been mentioned in | his supper, T with all Yaoits of misgiv- At length the dawn reddened the Uselessnoss of Blinders on Horses, {who will become unminageable when | steadily trained to grow there. The the first letter; that I was sure of; AN ; east. The main bad ceased, the skies | Trapping grizzly has its perflsand ex- | made to face away from an approach. old artists knew better than we, not to whother again I did not recollect, ingaad Ee vill myself, auntie bad cleared, and as 1 turned and opened | citements also. The trap employed is | ing train will quietly stand its ground fpiks the egally from the Seonisiz fuse, Aunt and I had always spoken of the | with auntie’s sister-in-law and with my my wadow, I — that the adr had | of the double spring pattern, with steel | if allowed to face the object. 1 know Sh a ey Ty Sa Ta mop air, red necktie, and what with hurried pre- | uae ort himself, Were we going Sotmavel the pleasant coolness of an early autumn | jaws, and weighs complete thirty-eight | this from personal experience with po LD uu u ar Suna o Horgan parations and farewell visits, the last \{ooether all that way in this most un morning. [threw back my veil, the | pounds, The springs are very power- | many restless horses. a | urillo hive rows Pusey days bad been very busy ones. comfortable manner? Nothing would better to inhale the fresh air, ful and have to be bent with levers, It] “Hlindws de not prevent horses x} Tes, eo ry oe 1 could not help feeling somewhat | ove a ett Has any. diver: “Good heavens!" was the early morn- | is quite an art to set and piace a trap | from observing each object mm front }+ ightingale going about In bangs, blank after this diccovery, until the | gon of hus from the gentlemanly cour ing greeting of my strange companion, | cunningly, and trappers vary in their and upon each side of them as they laughable part of it struck me. tesy due to a lady, but there was a pe- as he quickly started up and then seized | methods and are chary of explaining | approach it while traveling upon the St “After all,” I said to myself, “it is | culiarity abot his constraint that puz- | hold of both my hands, them. I will then pass this branch of | road, and hence blinders can only serve Nobody cares for the swearing of an only carrying out the romance of the ad: | zled me. After all, though a stranger, “Don't you know me, Jessic?'’ be ex- | the subject, says a writer. Let ussup-] fo prevent their seeing objects over- habitual SWearer, His volleys of pro- venture. Besides, the gray jacket and [he was a half connection and might claimed. ; pose, therefore, that the hunter has |{aking them from behind, which is an | fanity have no terror in them, They red tie are certain signs of recognition, | well have ban friendlier, more especi- The daylight fell upon his face, show- | made his camp in a neighborhood redo- [&nd never to be desired. I have fre- jean pothing. It is (he wan who never and no doubt he knows my name.” ally as he must have noticed the effect ing it very tanned. This I noticed; but | lent of grizzlies, and that he has his trap# | quently seen horses shy so violently as swears who scares you out of your boots So I munehed my sandwiches and at- | his manner bad ou me. 1f I had ouly tins was all. Indignantly I drew my | set in a likely place for bear. At the | to nearly overturn the vehicle on being | :f once in 8 Mletime ho SWonar. So tempted to read by the misty light that | known his name! Somebow I fancied bands away. end of the trap chain is a ring about | passed from the rear by a noiselessly- par as we can learn agin oy gleamed through the windows, for it | this would Lave placed us on a pleas- “How dare you?” I began; then over- five inclies in diameter, aud this is driv- | gliding bicycle, which fright would } swore obce during al the eight years was a dismal, rainy afternoon anter fooling, Then his last remark] | °° with astonishment and mortifica- J'en aboat a half a 100t over the end of a | have been avoided had the animal been | of the revolutionary war. Bul that one A . ati tion at the sudden change of behavior, | heavy stick or log five inches through | unblindered, and thus “aware of the time counted. It turned back the tide At last it grew dark, Perhaps I'had | Had no one told him my destination? Y covered ' : eht foot ko The of the mack of retreat; changed a rout intoa victory exhausted my store of wonderings as to The second Rour of waiting seemed to covered my face. and six or eight feel long. e object | approach of the machine, y 3 Advice to Swearers. what my unknown escort would be like, “Jessie. 1 am Nelville Tracy-—Ed- | of this *‘clog,” as it is called, is tomeke | - «Blinders also much diminish the | nd made things ham. But the fellow or 1 wes tired of speculating about him; certainly he did not occupy my thoughts then. Jt was the past that stood so clearly then before me, the old short- lived romance of nearly eight years ago. me far Jonger than the first, and 1 was glad enough to find myself—with my companion, of course-in the eastern. bound train, which quickly sped away. My ideas of the romance of such a journey had now entirely collapsed; ward Nelville Tracy." My heart stood still for » moment. 1 scarce know if the sensation I experi- enced was due to doubt or surprise. Then I scanned my companion narrow. y : A ly. Recollections came slowly back. | te fastened to the extreme end of the | made pe 80 that they commonly | conversation is a long chain of mill Viy TN hdd It had saything more prosaic was hardly to be | wy, rue recognition was not at all as clog, in such a way toast ii cannot a Nihil Sot privileges, and talks as a beaver works has conjured it into life again? There we sai, & young man and a it. is usar lly depicted in novels. Where | got across two trees, and 50 give the | eyes of the horse, which causes pain to | his weuring I ue Pr oo “Chicago! Chicago!” shouted the | Young wonian who, to judge from sll was the boyish face that had been be- | brute a chance to uss his enormous fhe animal, besides frequently destroy- if you 0 RY eel cago. Chicago 0 e ished * thomaal fore me in my reverie only last night? | strength to tear himself loose. Neither | ing the sight. my boy, be very seldom about it. Be brakeman, waking me up from the rev- Appaicuee: a a ne Ren ont Ile had left me a slight, fair young fel- | must the clog be too large and beavy,| “I strongly and earnestly wish there jexclusive in your profanity. It you erie that had ended In an hour's sound | Where but WAeTe f y Were. AS II] w; now a sunburnt, bearded mn | or the same result will follow. It may | could be legislation to compel all horse- | can’t get along without it bring it out, sleep. ; myself, 1 may safely aga} that 11 aimed his name. be accepted as a maxim that a grizzly | swaners who insist upon using blinders to | occasionally, like sare old family dia- It was 9 o'clock. I had to waif an paves experienced & more awkward €il- | pro yong it was before I could quite | caught in such a tmp will eventually | use only heavily convexed ones, which | monds don’t keep it running six or hogs Sy So tin froth ry south, 1 ual ity Seaniol' Aha ny Sain convince myself I was not dreaming, | get loose; avd ordinarily in a fewhours, | 4.011 not press in the present cruel eight hours a day, like the Kitchen Cp i pk Foe apant. penion. suddenly, Now. With the. ex | POLIe deceiving me, I could not say. 7 He is generally caught by the extremi: | oanner agatust the eye-lashes and eyes.” | hydrant. 8 pa Rk Lhe room, jon-of ud waenbenca in the waits There was so much to explain, so | ty of the forepaw, just above the claws; . And—you won’ be offended, my son and either the waiter had little to do or Ps me per vie . eaten | BUCH to relate—the wherefore of our | the hold on him is not very great: his Fashionable Envelopes —but if you will closely you I looked helpless and forlorn. He was a x wv tat w" - Ey mn ad parting has so little to do with this | exertions to get away are tremendous, will perceive that young men, boys, certainly polite and attentive; and when between ’ T f ’ th story, that I pass it over—that we for. | and result in in so cutting and Jacerat- The latest fashion in envelopes is fledgelings of about your age, swear he ventured upon saying, Leave by pasmed 0, us, are ue 9 Te | 2.t the singulsr trick of Tate that bad | ing the foot that sooner or Inter he will something exceptionally fine. Theyare| =o, 0 en. more frequently, more he J Sn ow, a ire ap He au | brought us together again. It scemed | tear out of the tmp altogether. Tws | made of Yelm of the purest whiteand | Lp ey point and direction. A man him timidiy, when the next train came | KROW uty name (that he had my trav the most natural thing in the world that | grizzlies that 1 caught got away; one | ave bound all round with satin riUhOR |, ney ashamed of it. It belongs to " : we should be going homs together. | who was probably taken by the claws | of some delicate color, which is tied in}. “ion rente and matinee period of iyo lou out for a gentleman wearing ging Dugan nich 1 had engraved And when the riddie was uaraveled, 1t | alone leaving some hairs only to tell the a knot and sealed with wax of the same life, my boy. It is a habit that flourishes " 4 i go never . | vas. of course, a simple one, He had | tale, the other leaving a small piece of | shade. There isa great art in sealing bread-and-butter days along some- My heart did begin to beet u little: BCT alo oh 184 sku gr annie the ught he was going to have a very | his foot behind 88 a souvenir, Many | a letter, und the candle, the sticking of | 1. faster, aa the tim drew near. Wod1Umae To nice little adventure when the waiter | bad all but torn themselves loose; in|sealing-wax, and a daintily engraved he come, or had he sissed the. thhin? He t have known & hundred for | 10uneed down on him” in mistake, and | onecase the foot was almost cut through, seal are now requisites of the fashiona- Shauld 1 have to make that Jong jour- ke sigh odds It was only the. appor. | Manlike, was nothing loth to foliow ft | and only a small piece of skin the thick- bie writing table. When sealed, note ney alone, after all, for how that 1 was: ug of his that SP od | UP: NOL recognizing his former love un- ness of 3 man’s little fnger remained to | and candle wre ready, do not begin by so far, I should go en, of course. What, | tumty- ry Jearning his ® 1441 T threw back my veil. hold the terribly infuriated monster to thrusting the end of the wax stick into was he like? ; | mie, so 1 exclaimed quickly: Well, eight years had altered me some- the much«letested clog, the flame aud conveying it in a faming to the mirror, giving a pull hers to ‘my bair and & twitch theve to my veil, and 1 caught myself wishing I had puton a more becoming hat. I suppose at even five-and-twenty one likes to look one's best at meeting a stranger, The bell announced the train's ap- proach, then I heard the engine's shr whistle, and the bustle and : seemed very full. ! I had drawn near the door into the goneml walting-room, so that could watch the passengers, i My polite waiter had disappenred, seeking my red necktio on the In a fow minntes I espied him at the farthest door, and--yes, actually there low and himself, He had missed the ‘sensible woman, Jessie, I argued to my- self. What does it matter whether be be Mr, Jones or Mr. Smith, providing he brings you safely to your destination? My companion had, however, noticed my discomfiture, and it amused him, 1 could eee Ly his smile. But his trans. ST am sorry ‘Edward dows not meet “Oh, dear. pol It is as good as Any other,” 1 wejoined y. Omoe I had pronounced it a horrid nase and flatly refused to cali soe one hy il, Bat the had gous back in shadow. and, present fully cecupicd me. fallen timber aud travel must be afool and is slow and dificult, The bear on being caught starts off on & tremendous rush for the swamps which is clos by. Here he ca'ches on a rotlen Jog for a be- cond and ploughs a path through wide enough for & eart, there he hangs on two fallen trons AfLy fool long, bat le hangs for an instant only, moves the great trees to one sido and rushes on. Next ho strikes again a toes, and in bis rage turns acd eats the whole side ont of it, leaving the fresh white pine red with blood stains from his gums. Now he reaches Lhe swamp and plunges deep into ite recesses, venting hie rage on the balsams sud poplars, alsolitely ing them into Fugths like stove wood, Amant Got wad ristinn oso 1 Wud Just board. The | ATs Yiult 4 tn Slowly Su nose jg
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