— ————— ——— ——
The Change.
Before she went to boardim’ school
she useter romp an’ play,
druv the cows from the field an’
helped take In the hay,
she don’t do that any more, be
cause of this, you gsee—
went away as Mary Jane an’
came back Jeanne Marie.
[ ine Bessie in love with any but an or- 1
dinary man, even though he was an
artist,
She was not ten minutes in Fred
Wilkinson's company until she was
wondering, nay, asking herself In
amazement, the secret of his devo.
tion to Bessle.
Fred Wilkinson, on the other hand,
thought he had never seen a more
handsome girl, and concluded that
Bessie had not overstated Ella's per
sonal charms. Her carriage, the
poise of her head and its shape, were
all alike striking. What a model she
would make, he thought, and before
the evening was ended he had asked
her to for him. Bessie was de-
lighted hear them talk, delighted
plate on thig sad anniversary of the
end of her love story, one letter had
slipped out. The sight of the familiar
writing caused her to sit down very
quietly and arrange her dress very
carefully. When, at last, she stretch:
ed out her hand to touch the letter,
a thrill ran through her. What could
a letter from him mean? She turned
it over. It was carefully sealed with
Ella's seal. A bitter smile: passed
over her face. It was a joint affair,
A letter from them seemed the per
fection bf cruelty, She tore open
the cover and drew forth the letter. !
It was In Ella's handwriting. It ran: 1 Z Raked id
“Dear Bessle. = A “, i : a - a . ; ATR : Ar : Bweet with hay;
“When you get this I shall be dead. wy VIE, Fr A | rat ¥ + Were
It is not to be sted till di
SA IR SAT a, WIN.
IT DOESN'T BOTHER 1 JUR UNCLE ist
y LIFES LITTLE
PLEASANTRIES
8he
useter wear made-over clothes,
an’ always with a smile,
now her dresses every one must
be the latest style.
don't ride bareback any more,
nor climb the apple tree—
went away 4s Mary Jane, but
come back Jeanne Marie.
EXPURGATED,
ik LTT 5 1 "
Maud Muller on a
Sumner a
fw
ay
meadows
git
to
iL after my
hair is all in crinkles now-—she
calls 'em Marshal waves;
's up in all the etiquette,
stylish she behaves
ma and me are mighty proud o'
all she's learned—but gee,
ymnetimes wish for Mary Jane in.
feanne Maria!
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girl he loved an:
and
ifown at the
ed mockingly.
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her
relief in
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and he could resi
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stupid boy!
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fear Of you ot
only want to
fascinating
you
ita
Ella
shall
the
r of the
One ymoon
wedding is
will stay three
knows
find
cinating
un your
heaps at
her intere
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nose and
nerfs ial
BUDETIICIAl
le a movemen
and, jumping
ir, a tiny table and a
hin I.
fs the ded
yon ever m
should
yoman
And
lover's neck
kissed her and the subject
and Eiia’'s charms dropped The
brigh™ winsome, simple-minded Bes
sie was Fred's ideal of womanly per
fection. She knew nothing of art and
the beauty of living for art, or, indeed,
the of living for anything but
fove.s Fred was tolerably well off and
gO she, Fred was an artist
prefeasion Bessie accepted
88 she acespted everything else in the
univer matter of course, To
have nfierqocn tea in his studio and
hear al! his funny, clev I 1k
was ono cf Dessie’s greatest dolights
though cfton sas
the
about.
up to the time she
cousin Fl'a. After that her hot
was divided Ella presented #0
ly perfcztca and Fred that of
oppesit
want to marry her,
and
Pes
Jos
to marry
1 want
gie's arm
and Fred
gtole
and
Ella
$ret
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use
hy
this
was
- ”y
“half
a8 a
totale ta
1"
dida’t un
1 re fa
Degaln's
sat what they
ot
very w
Po
he passion
vi on ¥
the
80%,
¥1la Lad arrived. Hazel Lodge was |
in a ciate of congestion and suppress. |
ed excitement. Bessie’s presents and
belongings crowded every spare cor |
ser. The best bedroom refused ad
mittance to seme of Ella's huge boxes
and they stood in the hall, Mrs
fen wha was housekeeper at Hazel
focdge, pnd the nearest appreach to a
mother DNesgle had ever known, was |
Jeelirz the strain of hounsekeepinz |
falrle Varvv but her good nature was
equal to it. Mr. Maver went Into the
city every day. His dauzhter’s marri
age cooeerped him Httle. It would
fc a ro'i-f when It was over.
Satis actory settlements had been
ade. He felt he had done his duty
ms a father. Pessle was happy. Mrs.
Pullen knew how to manage things,
and the easygoing man left matters
4 take their course.
It was the day after Ella Barton's
arrival. Fred was due to dine at Ha»
el lodge. The bell rang. Bessie
sprang to her feet and scampered off
to meet her lover.
Bila smiled.
There were no subtleties about Des.
als. Her devotion was open and hear:
ty. Flla expected to meet a certain
type of man—the kind of man who is
Battered by a blind devotion, She lov.
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&
with Fred's appreciation and admira
tion of Ella, and it was also arranged
before the evening was finished that
Fred shou ke Ella about and show
her the sights, as Bessie was much
too busy with preparations
to spare the time. Together Ella and
Fred walked, cycled, visited picture
exhibitions and studios
each day they devoted
for which Ella w
Three weeks
wns not
wedding
model.
The
weather,
18
passed
working
Fred
if his life d
exactly
was too hot.
pleture as
Never
thusiastie vas to be
pended upon it
known him
50 en
vear and his
isted him
and model talk
Once or
he wedding
of Fred's
18
brave Ii
astonished
8 of the
ignor
of
1Vine
a
going to be
just at
tiresome for
today
until
Don't sit
in wait
we
zitting todavy™
with
must go into the
ts
the toast |
yu walt til
ur headache
je. It
have
might
made an
u are to be In |
n't expect me for |
nversation dur.
breakfast Somes
rance troubled
$51 $y
Hig 0 sone
HOVer expec from
when
ye
epariure
ssileas and
Fred would
and we
ne whila
LiF
and Fred did
n mbered he
and tor}
minute
the next
va gpirits had
three o'clock, |
ride econld be, i
yw of the
her head agains:
ming,
ars one
wind
Te Ive od 4 1 ;
drawing-room resting
he cool
a aud
pgae
had gone to the back of the
she felt gzlad
srything look so bright
A
to be rid of
telegraph
Her heart
1 turned and
It would from
t coming to dinner
gervant brought In two messages,
1d read
be
The
Sh
ul and
pity us. We hate
ourselves
Peasie felt dazed She
the second, ran thus:
“] cannot be present on Tuesday.
Jorget and forgive an unworthy man,
Fred.”
Bessie did not shriek or faint She
to the couch and dropped |
down on the edge of it. clutching the |
two bufl.colored messages that had
tore open
which
Her breath came siow and her limbs |
scomed paralyzed. Her eyes fell on |
the postal mark. It was Newhaven, |
She understood. They were going |
abroad beyond the reach of scandal
She must bear all, and alone.
The day that should have been Bes
sie Maver's weddingday was a year
old. Bessie was a year older, too,
and most people sald sweeter and
prettier than ever, but the sweetness
was tinged with a sadness that those
who knew her story understood. Her
manner was quiet and subdued. Tho
busy, bustling Martha had largely
given place to the dreamer. Her face
shone with that sympathetic light
which js born of pain and to which
the sufferers always turn. The trag-
edy of a year ago had turned a pretty,
thoughtless, light-hearted girl into a
large-hearted, noble-minded woman,
with eyes and ears sensitive to every
ery of humanity. From amid the pile
of correspondence which lay at her
death. 1 have been 11
leaving England and no
the end is near. vd
sake, He never loved me
you vet. 1 charmed him,
not teach him to me,
Charmer’ must be finished.
make him a famous painter.
a masterpiece. Without
never have been begun
he will nev finish it
Love him so much that
die, and 1 write to vou,
wronged,
to him a
| the dark,
created.
leaving
ever met
ever
w |
for
He
but I could
know
I'm gli Fred's
ny
ove
It w
will be
me would
Without
ill
It
it
you
er
Engla
me,
me. Not on
d 1!
vat |
yet it
time they
the
man is =»
and love the
sum te
aiyre
ppree of 111
+
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A PARIS HORROR.
Cheaper to Starve Cab Horses Than
to Feed Them.
TIAA DAL Trev fie
cab horses
kind
meagre ir
the
hearted
proprietors of the cab
ments find that it fs cheaper «
when it drops
js to keep
and
than
a horse,
ancther,
fed.
A Paris cab horse, she states,
it
hard
oats, je
n
and
hay or
kept on roils
moldy bran and bariey
fuse that comes from
that one extabli
poor he
ly ever ilasties
just alive potatoes
#9
the
Tre
breweries She
declares shiment
keeps
even
ree for the
It
to a sort of treadmill,
among other things, on p
a purpose
is harnessed |
and is fed
unded wood
y reduc
ed. in order to find out the minimum
limit to which a horse could be use
fully starved. Among the company’s
drivers this horse iz known as the
“Chairman's hobbyhorse.”
Mme. Lutgen tells other diabolical
gtories of eabmen keeping irondip
ped sticks wherewith to prod / their
worn-out beasts, and driving wound
ping them on their If such
fendish cruelty as this be orieticed,
oven by half a dozen eabmen, the
only thing will be to give up cabs
altogether. dvery one has pitied
Paris horses, half of them lean,
weary, heartbroken jades, which,
when they are down, wish only to dle.
Mme. Lutgen’s conclusion {s that the
unfortunate Paris horse will have a
better chanee of a decent existence
with a cabwoman than with a cab
man. —Parls correspondence of the
New York Times,
sores
Even Such Restrained.
Man of the House—You will get
one mark after you have cut the
wood, .
Beggar—Yes, and get fined two
marks by the beggars’ union, eh?
Not much. —Fllegendo Blaetter.
About 1.200000 people are always
afloat on the seas of the world
declined
400 in
dividual of
there was
pearly 50 pe
he
of meat animals to population
f to 79.4 in
, compared wit
abont thre
lawed Ly a rise
ther
woras
ee, €A
avers
rise
pita in
and
more the
even
the coun
consequel
was consist
stantly enlargi
11¢ people tr
ad
pt
away fron: the country.
on
ng abr are drawing
WOMAN POSE
; ‘nl Ct
woman who for sity Years
and sheep herder, died at San
She was born In i
when eighteen Lge, rely
living, She found that she
After wandering around the country
male garb and applied for a mans §
Joplin, Mo., and worked there 23s a 1
All this time she kept her i
man She d an exeeilen!
she was offered a position in a St
cepted this, going to St. Joseph be
A few months later a young wi
man who had promised to marry
posed marriage and was arcepled
rance ei
vears of
POSReug
hoe
he
After their marriage they came
A year or two afterward the “wife
Vosbangh received more or less
soon forgotien,
Miss Vosbaugh forty
ranch, near Trinchera.
was given to her. Later,
Years ago
exp
wetly
# 3 a m
for two 3 28 a
oaitit obtain:
yok keer sOTCTral
& doubled
yn, and while she
{Mo.} banking
she was thirty al
ang no on
ucat
5 Us
decos
Vosbaugh sought
girl Miss Vosbaugh
reveal the secret
to Trinidad and opened a restaurant
The “husband” declared
effort to find her. Miss
Misa
To this divaiged
aring her secret would be discovered,
at the Sam Brown
hers she protectsd her secret,
attendants,
Some
velop Into pneumonia.
time later she contracted
wien she
Even
do so without the presence of
that threatened to de-
would be necessary IQ
a severe cold
and then,
the second time in sixty years,
Viceroy Lord Minto Says If is Im-
possible to Ignore India's Unrest.
Simla, India. ~The Legislative
Council adopted a bill designed to
prevent seditious gatherings. It em-
powers the provincial authorities to
prohibit public meetings.
Lord Minto, the Viceroy, in a
speech in support of the bill, said it
was im) to ighore the warn.
ings of recent mouths—the riots; the
insults to Buropeans, and the at-
tempts to inflame racial feeling.
pax
&
Insane Soldiers From Philippines
Will Be Brought to Washington.
San Francisco.—BSeventeen insane
patients, belonging to the United
States Army, who were hrought
trom the Philippine Islands to the
Presidio General Hospital, will be
taken to the Army Hospital for the
Insane at Washington. Colonel Geo.
H. Torney, Deputy Surgeon-General,
will have charge of them,
A car has been especially arranged
for the convenience of the patients.
“The
“What
“A dollar down and a dollar when
ever the collector keiches me
Washington Herald
pavments ain't so hard”
ye
terms
-
TAKEN AT HIS WORD.
Master Walter, ared five, had caton
the soft portion of his toast at break
fast and piled the crusts on his plate
“When 1 wes a little boy” remark
ed his father. who sat oppogite him,
“1 plways ate the crusts of my toast”
“Mid you like them?" inquired his
off spring, cheerfully
“Yea” replied the parent
“You may have these” sald Master
Walter, pushing hiz plate across the
table. ~Harper's Weekly,
GOOD JUDGE.
“You're a good judge of horseflesh,
aren't you, sir?™
“1 ought to be.
taurants all
Leader,
1 ate in Paris res
summer.” Cleveland
THE CORRECT TIME.
“Speaking of myself,” sald the elig.
ible bachelor, “1 do not belleve In
early marriages.”
“Nor do 1” replied the fair maid
“High noon Is the correct time
Chicago Nows, em