THE WORST OF ENE)
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awd hd
I do not fear an enemy
Who all his days hath hated me
1 do not bother o'er a foe
Whose name and face I do not kuow.
mind me not the small attack
Of him who bites behind my back
But Heaven help me to the end
*Galust that one who was once my friend.
~{John K. Bangs in Harper's Weekly
A FEEBLE ATONENIENT.
“'E's tipsey!’’ “E's
rest!” ‘What it?" “Only a
sandwich man One of the mise-
rable gutter file had slipped and
len on the Strand pavement.
‘aving a
is
"
in
ophyte
lliers parted the
odi-
cine man, Talb
crowd. A Samaritan stood by witha
little brandy in a glass. Talbot put
it to the human advertisement ’'s |
The man opened his eyes
of gratitude. The
young medical stude
his finger for nn cab,
the fallen man inte
opposite.
‘ “Where to? aske
live? 1 am goi
ins.
with a look
‘hed the
do you
you.’
Talbot street, Westmins
o,” murmured the other feebly.
name is Stern, John Stern.’ ”’
Talbot gave the direc h
cabman; then he examined {is com
panion more closel He was
derly man of refined foes
ion to
an
he was clean
surplus of cles
late occupati
Stern bore the
with visible
suddenly over to Vill
“Nir, ’ he said, °
home
carrying of the boards a sec
don’t want it to
my
useless for work
her all I can t
into the city to carry
She thinks I work in
‘I quite understand
pityingly. y
me’ Th
Youn
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ill
wit]
witl
+3
‘Ome
daughter.
"ry
aroused
his nature.
“Hunger,”
every
prevented
food
This
was
igen
irl of
from No
turned
raised
your father ha
accider t
He's all
better d
—office
At the
from the cab
to her cheeks
cate tints
beauty of
bot stood g
miration.
a
took in the lines of
ful figure
honest stead
I'll call t
a start
is, if you don’t mine
It was evident that
him as a
known and eminently Christ
“You are very kind,"
‘very kind indeed.”
“Pont ion it"
Talbot. “Good morning=—I mean
good afternodn—>Miss Stern,”
He re-entered and
the eabman to drive anywhere,
caped from Talbot street in some ef
fusion. But he was {rue to I
ise. He called the next day and the
day after, and many times,
The state of Stern’s health seemed to
become a very serious matter, At
last this pleasant fiction exploded.
He came one afternoon when hereyes
were weary with typewriting, and the
how
Kate reg
1 Fr
nember of some un-
guy andy
ian firm.
slie snide
ment stammeroed
the cab
$1
4)
more
in his arms,
Kate,” he eried.
want you to be my wife.
Kate?”
Kate looked Into his eyes. He
needed no other answer; and they
passed the afternoon building up a
quiet little Bloomsbury practice.
Stern was to be made a dispenser.
Over the teacups Kate told her father
of Talbot's proposals. He kissed her
and sighed. It was not in him to
spoil 8 love-dream; but hs scented
danger. Talbot Villiers was a gen-
tleman in every sense of the word;
but Talbot Villiers had undoubtedly
a father. Who was he? Villiers,
senior, would without doubt have his
say, unbess he was a very mild father
indeed.
Will you,
Early the next day when Stern had
“copying” to do in the ity a lettar
arrived from Talbot enclosing two
| tickets for the theatre. The letter
{ ran: “I want you and your father
{ both to see this piece. It was pro-
duced lust night with the greatest
success. After you have both seen it
I'l tell you why I am so anxious you
should go. I have enclosed some
| idea of the plot and the it
way
| staged,
I have a little business to transact
with dod.”
It was the first time he had men-
| tioned that ominous person. Dad sud-
i
{ thoughts. Villiers, senior, unac-
i countably depr assed hier. she
i to throw this depression off by tell-
ing herfather about the theatre. The
play was called ** A Woman's Love.’
Stern had carried the boards that
advertised its ‘first night.’
great astonis! her father re-
fused to go. She pressed him why.
I can’t go,”’ Stern, gravely.
“Don’t look so grieved, Kate. Let
me tell you why; then perhaps you
will understand me. A time
azo I wrote a pl :
‘‘You wrote
breathlessly. “I
old father, you
aid
Nabi
1
1
iment,
said
long
interrupted
Kate knew,
dear,
Talbot you were clever, He said
you had a clever face.”
ri
It
we clever
stern smi it
ribute. “Writin
ing it acted are
this innocent
and
two very different
I : in
an ailing wife by
the odd mo
Z 4 play, Kate,
things.
in
ny want,
misery,
my side.
Clark.
and asked
He told me he
Kate, 1
from
many thi
tre
Kate
His omnia
i
fost
me
Wis on
threw
| kissed him
arms
i to think but for
d, ‘you might
Never mind!
! passing
: 3
nana over
mind. But what
3 hand?’
They are the
new play.
They came with the tick-
aside
alhnt’
falbot “
yey
Soll
ushered
in the back
face Kute
and I am not
his love.”
piiiers
b WE ad
attachment
heard of
aay.
lovers w
Stern
ia tal
is jon
» it # Bg y ¥
Your affectic
must
marrin
Kate ti ie lips, 4 hat ) :
SO 8 Ie
EN (i
' 4 :
Nn wi
sage?’
of COLIrse. 1
yOu.
am here to rea-
You are as mere child ;
world. We ook
standpoints. But a mars
Your
I am a man of the
at different
riage is impossible. posie
LHO 1 se
You mean,”’ interrupted Kate,
*‘that you are rich and 1 am poor.”’
“Exactly, In all other respects
you are, no doubt, my son's equal; |
but this unfortunate circumstance is |
sufficient to restrain me from giving |
my consent. [I cannot see my son's |
prospects blighted. [I smn willing to
pay any price i
Kate's eyes blazed. The suave, in-
sinuating manner of Talbot's “‘dad’’
roused her, His way of putting a
price on the affections brought back
her color. “My price,” she said
scornfully, ‘for what? The love I
bear him?"
Villiers coolly changed his tactics.
“Pardon me; 1 was wrong. 1 ought
not to have made such a suggestion.
But you say you love my son. Well,
his career is In your hands. Will
you blight it? It rests with you.”
‘You are putting the whole re-
sponsibility of his future on my
shoulders,”’ she answered bitt rly.
“Is that the act of a gentleman? Is it
the act of a father who loves hie
id
ed her more atten.
i
| “You are more clever,’' he said, cold- |
{ ly, “than I thought. I will say no|
{ more. I you take my friendly visit |
{ in this spirit, I can do nothing,
i
i
i
i
But |
| you may take it as my last word that
{if my son marries you he does so a
| beggar; I cast him off; 1 utterly dis-
own him.”
“And yet * eried
you love him!’
Villiers took up his hat; he fixed
her with a keen, cold glance, “I do.
{ And here is my check book to prove
Lit. 1 will pay any sum to release him
from a degrading marriage.’
“Degrading!”' The girl stageered.
{ 1 will prove to you,’' she suid, in a
quavering tone, “which love is the
strongest. 1 will give him up; I will
tell him so from my own lips. And
if ever you tel! vour of this in-
terview, you may say that I refused
{ to marry him because 1 loved him.
! That is my answer.’’” B8he sank into
the chair from which she had risen,
1 w"
3
Kate, ‘you say
son
1a
1
hands,
nethened
I have
and govered ineo it
turned daughter
+ us for a moment Kate
I have a few words to say
hig gentlemnas
with a wond
jritted tive
ie fixed
Tse anda
are in
ut no doubt
tid say ve
n anything,
y this? Hq
ball of paper
of 1 i
dejected.
casily have
who was
2 Ming
ngeance had
now with
hopes.
“Of course said Villiers, “you
prosecute me; but it
' Stern thought
could harm me
would be unchrigtian ;
of the
him.
sandwich boards and gl
‘sive me the opportunity,’
“of making atone-
ment. We are both middle-aged men.
Why live in the past! Why should
we cloud the happiness of others?’
‘“The happiness of others? What
“I'll explain,’’ said Villiers.: "You
know me as Clark. Villiers is my
name, and Talbot Villiers is my son.
You may not have noticed the like- |
ness. He takes after his mother.”
“Thank God!" cried Stern, fervent |
ly; but the relationship troubled |
him. :
He loves your daughter. The |
match seemed to me an undesirable |
one, and I came here to-day to break |
itjoR. Now it is the dearest wish of |
my heart? Wky should we blight
their lives?"’
Stern gazed at him amazed. Here
was a fresh sophistry, Villiers had
robbed him, and now held out a net
for him. Stern's brain grew hot.
“1 say ‘we,’ but, of course I mean
you. have no power to do any.
thing. You have the power. If you
are so unchristinn as to ex me,
you do so at the prick of their happi-
ness, at the orice of youth and inno-
cence. You shall have all the mone
1 took for the play. I may be a vil
Iain,” said Villiers, with a virtuous
HIE raany hind,
burst, “but I have a conscience.
This is a fo
call it, if you like, the beginning of
one; but do you accept it.’
Stern could make no reply. The
desire for vengeance had fled; but in
its place was a dull longing for jus.
tice. Then he thought of Talbot, of
the afternoon in the Btrand., “Go,
now, I'll send you my answer.’
He walked as if he were carrying the
sandwich boards into the shadow of
the room and sat down on a chair.
Barry Villiers stood in the sun-
light. He gazed anxiously at Stern,
and was about to open his month
when his eyes fell upon the door of
the inner room, It had opened, and
Kate Stern stood on the threshold.
With a smile of relief the man of the
world bowed and out of the
front door.
Kate approached her father and
laid her hand on his shoulder. Stern
locked up and saw the traces of re.
cent tears. He kissed her, and thus
love conquered both the desire to re-
instate himself and be quits with the
man who had robbed him.
My cle ar,’ hie said
wi
i
went
shal
Jour-
{
i
you
nambpers s
THE COCOPAH DESERT,
A Veritable Valley of Death in South «
ern California.
: i Cocopnh
uthern Califor:
at the
ia, you fill
mnleens spring in
en by a
Lhe
anada de las Palmas: tl
} i canyon
irom 8
ing Sierra Madr
Valley of Dent
A.B
betweer
October.
weross for a few
with some
fi rat
irs ques
i
Your
Eleven Millions in Jewels,
The Russian
I wel are
sum of £11.000,000
the Cr
taking |
States money as a basis of caleula-
the Crow n itself is worth at least
It i= ed with hun
tion;
R65 O00, O00, ador:
dreds of diamonds, |
mens of which are valued at all the
way from a few dollars up to enor.
mous sparklers worth thousands upon
ndividual Specs
thousands of dollars,
Josides the diamonds, which make
this costly headdress look as if it had
been buried a of falling
stars, there are fifty-four pearls each
without a flaw, set arofind the rim,
a ruby of extraordinary size and bril-
linney being used a centrepiece.
The erown was made by Panzie, the
old-time Genoese court jeweler, and
was first used by Catherine the Greats
-{ New York Journal,
in shower
as
A Fighting Swordfish,
Saturday C. McVey, a fisherman,
returned from a swordfishing trip
and reported a thrilling experience,
He had just thrust the iron into the
great fish, when it turned and rushed
for this dory, striking it with such
force as to send its sword through
the boat and to overturn it. All
MeVey could do was to hold on to the
bottom of his capsized boat. He said
that he remained four hours in that
uncomfortable position before help
came. Then he saved his dory and
secured the fish, which lad died.
This strange experience took place
off the South Shoals,~{Portland
(Me.) Press.
The new weaves of alpaca make
capital gowns, They are so easily
brushed and made *‘fit’’ after n long
CHINA AT WAR.
FIGHTINC STRENGTH OF HER
LAND AND SEA FORCES.
Primitive Arms Giving Place to Im~
proved Weapons--The Navy
Better Than the Army.
China has made great efforts in the
last few years to bring her army and
navy nearer the standards of those of
Western nations. The total strength
of the army is, says the New York
Tribune, about 600 000 men of whom
more than 200.000 are
stationed for
city of Peking, the others being scat
tered throug the
inces of the Empire,
there an ill-formed organiz
which migl be called
which pay and
serves wit The discipline
of the
military
there
permanently
the garrison of the
hout VArious
Besides
Proy-
thes
is i
it
1
gets small
army and
organization
fighting
en Standard
the Manchu
‘hinese soldiers
blue and
called from the o«
nave
improved mod
(3 Severs)
is Nn
and the
der the ir
They are als
Meparated
od
i
>
‘ i
wi
th
temptation
Rees
shore
have
three naval coll
of enue tx ) "a
Tain wor at Wei-Hail-Woi
the third at Foo-Chow The instruc.
tors are graduates of naval academics
of foreign countries, those of Aunap-
olis predominating. The system of
or officers-—one
+1
"anos
nese boy can grasp, but is chiefly
practical rather than theoretical,
tliat by the time the course is finish-
ed the eadet is ready to assume his
duties on a man-of-war. The cadets
are usually chosen from the families
sy
seacoast provinces, but members are
mandarin class.
The Chinese
prises about seventy men-of-war, not
including many small transports and
revenue cutters which in time of
need, such as the present, can be
armed and placed in active service.
by Chinese subjects, the only fore
cigners allowed on thera being the
instructors in special aepartinents,
such as gunnery, seamanship, elec.
tricity or torpedoes. As soon as a
Chinese instructor qualifies, tho for.
signer returns to the academy. Most
vassels of the Chinese fleet have been
built abroad.
The Chinese nav
two fleots; the N or Peyang
mdron, with h rs at Weis
he northward of Fooe
Chow, and the Tanyang, or Southern
squadron, with headquarters at Can-
ton, which is to defend thie coast
soush of Foo-Ch Each squadron
has its own admiral, but is governed
directly by the Viceroys of Chi
and Canton, respectively. who are
held personally responsible by the
Emperor for the efficiency
like condition of the two fleets
An authority writing of th
und navy two vi
Ow
£94
$58
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Hinese ariny, ov
has ney
Crabs That Reap and Mow.
How Shrimps Are Caught.
stre .
» them
Diplo" or
y sell the
proceeds,
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ws and Courier.
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fe
ommission
Better Than a Steam Foghorn,
While traveling throuch southern
Califor: a few 0,” said
Matthew Li Gregory of Minneapolis,
I caine seross an interesting curiosity
known as the ‘whistling well.” It
was on a farm and had been dug a
number of years previous and aban
doned, as no water had appeared. A
short time after it had been dug it
was noticed thal a strong current of
rushing in and out of the
i VOAars Bir
the center was placed over it. Int)
this hole a whistle was fastened,
which changed its tune as the air
was drawn in or blown out, and it
was soon found to be a reliable
weather barometer. In pleasant
a storm was brewing its approach was
heralded by the warning shrieks of
the whistle, as the air rushed in and
out of the well. When the storm
passed the current of air changed and
the faithful whistle told the story by
its changed tune." —{8t. Louis Globe«
Democrat,
The walloy
of the Ganges is the
stronghold of Hindooism.