Sad Tale of a Motorist
There was a man of modest means
But inclinations gay,
Who sold a corner lot and bought
A motor car one day.
He closed his business up to ride
Within the big machine,
And parted with his diamond ring
To buy the gasoline.
Before, along the country roads,
The sumac lit its fires,
He put a mortgage on his house
To purchase rubber tires;
And next he auctioned off his beds
His tables and his chairs
To give the car a coat of paint
And make some slight repairs.
But speeding in the early dusk,
Without his lamps alight,
A man in blue and brass appeared
And stopped his djzzy fligh*
He didn't have a single cent
To pay the fine imposed;
They took the auto for the debt,
And so the tale was closed.
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They occupied the two corners of a
geat on the parade, and took it in
turng to cast approving glances at
each other. Each was profoundly con-
sclous of the other's attention, and
upaware that the other knew it. They
cherished acute fear in common.
Would {insufferable blunderer
sit down on the considerable area of
green
ners?
The girl was not without resource
her bookmarker thing in
publisher's advert! fluttered
toward the cliff man
sprang up
“Allow
turned it
sePsesTRese!
an
some
bench that separated their cor
~the latest
sements
The young
me,” he and re-
to
ner.
r warm,” |
ge from
fare.”
here
“About 4
“Really?
we stayed In
ding.”
He flicked a speck of dust from hla
coat. “Lady Marjorie Dalburst's ”
“Yes.”
“And are you staying
“We go North next week
Thursday; think of
day or town
shopping.”
three weeks
We came a fortnight ago;
wed
town for a late
much longer?”
next
getting a
that for
but we
two
in before
“Our programmes seem to be muca
the same,” he said. “I'm going
North, too, with one or two men who
are at
“The Grand?” she asked quickly.
“No; the Empire”
“Oh! We're at
Thelr conversation
considerable distance
when an mation
suddenly it off.
“Pray my
sald, with aprearance
“Would you—would
a little The
the hotel” —
th
he Grand.”
had
from hotels
excla from the man
broke
excuse rudeness,” he
of haste,
vou mind walking
fact is,
some
way? I've just
larly not to meet—no, not that one:
to your right, with the lads
-and if —thank
much!"
They walked In silence
ute or two. Then the
gayly.
“Is he so very bad?’ she demand-
“A knave, a fool, or only a bore?”
“Who? Oh, yes, Colonel Ayton.”
The young man roused himself from
an apparently gloomy train of thought.
He's—oh, he's not a knave, but he's
certainly a bit of a fool, and a very
pronounced kind of a bore.”
" The girl nodded sympathetically,
Could we walk toward the post of-
fice?” she suggested.
letters to post.”
in grean
you would vou &5)
for a min-
girl laughed
ed
“1 have some
They were opposite to It and about
to crosg the road when the girl drew
back with a start. A motor turning
a corner had all but touched her
. Arm.
4 The young man glared after it
Let me post them for you?” he sald
solicitously, and hurried across the
road. A name on the uppermost en-
velope caught hig eye.
“Lady Audrey Ware? Then this
one must be"—a notice in the
Visitors” List” flashed back to his
memory—"tnust be Lady Phyllida, the
sister.”
As he rejoined the girl a neighbor
ing clock chimed out a quarter, and
he congulted his watch with incred
ulity.
‘I'd no idea It was so late” tLe
cried. “By the worst of luck, I hap.
pen to have an appolutment which Is
rather important’
The girl broke In. "Oh, It is late!
I had no idea, either. 1 must hurry,
too, or 1 shall be late for dinner.”
They set off briskly.
“Do you generally sit on that seat?”
asked the young man.
The girl laughed. “Oh, sometimes!
I'm not very often out’
He glanced at ber In surprise. “Nao,
really 7
“That is, not often alone,” she cor
rected, with rising color. “My peo
simply horrified it they knew, and I
1 really oughtn't to have"—She
paused in distress.
“Don't you get any
soli?" he pleaded.
“Oh, well=! There's an hour or so
after lunch, while “they're having
naps.”
“1 know. They call it writing let.
ters, don't they?”
She nodded, smiling.
mustn't’—she persisted.
“Please,” he murmured;
morrow anyway.”
She shook her head undecidedly.
“J-=1 can't promise. Perhaps" —
The young man stopped suddenly,
and she looked up. They were al h2
Empire Hotel. A porter was Carry
ing a portmanteau down the steps
to a cab, and on the pavement stood
& man.
“The
with dancing eyes.
response from her companion, He
stood very still. And then suddenly
at a curt nod from the man near the
cab, he left the girl. She stood
helpless astonishment, an unwilling
and unnoticed listener.
“Why the dickeng are you
out of the way when 1 want you?”
growled tue colonel
The young man’s manner remained
stiffly, rigidly respectful.
“You gave me leave 10
seven, sir,” he sald
The colonel frowned impatiently.
“Oh, well, | I did. But it's
been a confounded nuisance.
ed back to town unexpectedly, and
I've taken what | want for the night.
You can pack the rest and follow
with it tomorrow morning."
“Very good, sir.”
time for yours
“But I really
“Just to-
bore!" whispered the girl,
3ut there was no
be out till
suppose
turned, and without a look at the girl
began to mount the steps. She gave
a little start, and her color came and
went Then she ran to the foot of
got my fan'~ she
turned and descended stiffly, ay
your pardon, my lady.”
restiessly.
‘Come with
vou.” she
I want
and led
in silence.
me;
sald,
to
the way
each
she had sat
before her, she seemed
it was he
1 ave been
ly. ‘And now 1
cost me my place.”
“No.
suppose it will
no!"
He glanced at
good, my lady. I
made me do it
the vers
her.
don’t
Your
start
‘You're very
know what
geeming
that 1 was
Ww
from
the real thing” —
“The real thing?”
“A gentleman, | mean. It
to go to my head”
She nodded. “Yes,” she
that was It.”
He looked a little puzzl “It's so
easy,” he went on earnestly, "to copy
the real ladies and gentlemen; you
would hardly think how easy.”
“Yes.”
“And-—-and, of course,
to stop in service. I'm
buy a business; but I'm not ready yet,
and if the colonel was to hear”—
She gave a little low laugh. “He
won't hear.” .
“I'm much obliged, my a"
“Don’t! Oh. don't!” she
breathlessly. “Don’t you see?
WANK
seemed
to
sald softly,
I don’t
saving up to
said
It was
that with me, too--your seeming to be
sure 1 was the real thing.”
He looked at her {acredulously.
‘You're Phyllida™
She I'm Lady Phyllida’s
mald. But—but one learns a lot, as
you say, and 1 don’t mean to be a
maid always; and it—it was nice, pre.
tending.”
“Upon my word!” he said admiring.
ly. “Pretending? You match the
part as—as white matches white.”
There wag a short silence while he
pursued an elusive foreign remark he
had met with in his efforts toward a |
higher education. He grappled with
it at last. “Si elle n'est pas la rose
elle a vecu pres d'elle,” he understood
himself gay. and then was con
selous of a vague fear that the re
mark was not as entirely appropriate
as he could have wished. He glanced
anxiously at the girl. She blushed |
and smiled.
“You'll have to help me,” she con-
fessed prettily; “my Latin is very rus.
ty." And the young man drew a
breath of relief. i
“It's about roses,” he explained in|
accurately: “and they—they stand for |
you and Lady Phyllida.”
The mention of Lady Phyllida had
the immediate effect of depressing the
girl. “I'm an hour late,” ghe sald ris
ing.
The young man looked at her solicit:
ously. “Will there be a row?”
The girl's Jips trembled. "Some
roses have thorns,” she observed
shortly, as they struggled over the
unstable shingle, and he offered an
arm In silence,
When they reached the firm grounl
of the parade, he addressed a remark
to the sea: “In one year from now,”
he assured it firmly, “1 shall be in a
position, to buy 4 little business”
The girl became absorbed in the
buttoning of a glove. “Is it high tide
yet? ghe asked, with a marked in.
crease of cheerfulness—V. H. Fried
faender, in the Sketch.
I ————— oy
A fly buzzes its wings at Lhe rate
not Lady
flushed
to
SNAKES’ EGGS HATCHING.
With Which It Breaks Its
Way Out.
Because of the popular aversion to
the serpent family there ig a surpris
ing amount of ignorance about even
the simplest of snake habits. It ig
doubtful if many correct answers
could be given to the question wheth-
er snakes lay eggs or bear their young
alive. As a matter of fact, some
species are viviparous and
oviparous. Most of the poisonous
snakes, as well as many of our harm-
less varieties, belong to the former
class.
The European ring snake is close
and goes by the gclentific name Tropl
donotus natrix. Curiously enough, all
accord:
alone lays eggs. Furthermore,
ing to Gadow's “Amphibia and Rep
| not the .slightest visible sign of
| embryo, unless oviposition is delayed
when the embryos are more or less de.
veloped.
The eggs are laid in July or August
{ in a soft bed of loam or decaying
| vegetation, or in a heap of manure.
| The other snakes sometimes lay as
| many as a dozen ¢ggs more and
| they usually stick together that
{the entire cluster can be picked up
at once. Sometimes, however, if the
or
BO
The eggs are aboul an
| inch long and of a whitish yellow col
parchment
The young hatch in jate summer or
Before hatching de
velop a sharp calcareous growth OB
{the tip of the snout known as
egg-tooth, with which the shell is
Unlike hatching chicks,
suddenly dispossessed by
breaking of thelr brittle
young snakes may make
| cislons in the parchment
Lie
i and take many
they
the
14
Miss
which
the
the
many in
envelopes
open.
are
shells,
peeps at the outside
new environment Shortly after
| hatching the egg-looth is
At first the you
‘and worms but within a
they are strong enough to attack and
devour young frogs
although the
mers, and spend much time In pon ia
and bunting fish
| trogs on which they subsist, the
are unable to
| soon drown if they fall
The European ring
! the American water snake
excellent pet: {it is
oat
live on insects
fow weeks
Strangely ei
adults are str
and
he young
and they will
into the waler
as as
makes
harm:
and learns
between
gireams the
swim,
snake well
perfectly
less, becomes
know the
| friends and strangers Gadow
pet ring snake that would
from his hand, crawl his
sleeve and coil itself contentedly
Scientific American
very tame
to difference
tells
eat
coal
on
up
MOTHER FOX'S CUNNING,
ters’ Attention From Her Den
hills south of Hagerstown and un
The mother
hunters reached
as well grown cals
escaped before the
| soft grasses and feathers
running away she kept
i while the hunters
shovels
She apparently
fhey were doing, for
within
worked with
understood
| by every means to attract them away
{ from thelr work and toward herself
as if lame and distressed. She would
the ground,
moans.
uttering whines and
The flunters were not {fo be drawn
away from the work in hand by such
tactics, and finally, after much dig
ging, came upon the den where the
five pretty little fellows were shrink
ing. They made no resistance and
the handling
they received. All of
taken to a farmhouse,
They will
and petting
them were
Grown foxes
Hunters say it is
very rare for mother foxes to leave
all thelr young fn one place. It is
ly, one and two in widely separated
retreats. It 1s sald too that foxes
but will go miles away for food and
carefully hide their tralls.
Many Languages of Mexico.
During the flestas of Christmas or
the week of All Bouls and All Saints,
when the Indians swarm down from
the mountaing with their holiday
wares for sale, visitors in the city
of Mexico may notice the strange
language that the venders use in ad
dressing each other. Rven when they
turn to serve the purchaser their
Spanish fs neither Castilian nor
Mexican but is frequently broken by
peculiar syllables and accents,
This 1s merely an illustration of the
fact that the Indian languages of old
Mexico have not been entirely sub
merged by the conquering Spanish,
agd in some of the most remote dis
tricts of the republic various and dis.
tinct languages handed down from the
pre-Columbian era are still spoken In
their pristine purity by many tribe
of 362 times a second.
members Mexican Herald. ;
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Fe
batvins DASA VS
ir CA
SAVE THE SOOT.
A cheap way to keep house plants
free from dizease Ig to put a bag of
scot in a pall of water, let the con
tents settle and use a very weak solu
von for watering plants. Soot Is a
valuable fungicide.
CANDLE GREASE.
fay out the garment, put a blotter
(common white blotter) on the under
side, below point where the spot is,
and one on the top. Then take a hot
flatiron and press. The heat will melt
the candle grease and the blotters will
absorb the whole of it. Repeat, if
necessary using new part of blotter,
PREPARE
SUET, ETC.
Cut fat In small pleces
with water let stand
night: pour off this water, add fresh
water milk—a to each Lwo
pounds of fat—and let cook very slow:
ly until the pleces are light brown in
color, and the fat {s clear and still (no
sound of bubbling or cooking). Strait
through a cloth and press the fat from
the pleces for = second quality of fat,
HOW TO FAT FROM
tha
wha 2
cover
coid and over
or Cup
CELERY FOR SEASONING.
When procuring celery 1 remove al
the unnecessary but instead of
throwing I wash them
thoroughly and them a tin
plate—upon the radiator, leaving them
until they have become dry. 1
then m through a colander,
which exclu all the
stems. The powder remaining is put
into a glass jar. 1 find it extremely,
useful] for seasoning SAUCES,
&c.—Delineator
leaves,
away
sat
them
on
very
rub the
io
enables me to
oups,
BATH RUGS.
jiscarded clothes,
‘s clothes.
Take such
dies’ skirts
strips about
pleces six them
on one end; butte them
all around except on the straight end
with red sw on an old piece
outside, and
first row
makes 8
Cut in
, then in
and men
two inches wid
ong;
:
nhole
inches round
stitch
worslied;
of carpet. b ning on
Let
This
finish & the
stick
pretty
oul
FLANNELS
Both all and the cotton
flannels may be kept soft as long as
they last if they are properly washed ;
but much of the success depends upon
drying process, as
thoroughly
TO KEEP SOFT
the wool
+h
ne
should be
into shape several! times while drying
The flannels should be
should be done quickly
ay
lowed to freeze
A HANDY CONTRIV ANCE
for dropping in
onnaise dressing,
us to this plan Cut
groove
cork that fits
bottle on the
vent it
the mouth
containing the yolk of an eg and 2
dash of cayemne pepper; as the oil
falls. drop by drop from the smallest
groove, mix thoroughly with an egg
heater: when al an ounce
has Deen used, turn the botile 80
the oi] will ran in a small stream
from ona of the larger grooves Add
lemon juice as needed, and a pinch
of salt at the last
RECIPES.
Angels’ Food Cake. ~The whites of
eleven oggs beaten threequarters of
an hour, one and one-half cupfuls of
granulated sugar gifted four times, one
and one-third cupfuls of flour sifted
four times, one teaspoonful of cream
of tartar. Stir the ingredients to
gether very carefully. Do not beat it,
Vanilla flavoring. Bake in a new um
greased pan in a moderate oven one
hour. Do not open the oven door while
it fs baking. It is better when four
or five days old.
Shaker Cherry Pudding —Put one
half pint of cherries in the dish the
pudding will be cooked in, shake a lit
tle sugar over them, and also stir In
one tablespoonful of flour. In anoth
er dish put one pint of flour, one table.
spoonful of butter, a 1iitle pinch of
salt and two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder; rub these together, adding
just milk enough to make a stiff bal
tor: pour it over the cherries and
steam one hour. Serve with pudding
sauce or whipped cream. Use large,
sweet cherries.
Swedish Meat Balls. —One pound ot
finely ground lean beet put through a
meat chopper twice, also a small on-
fon if you like onions, one tablespoop:
ful of flour, a little pepper and salt,
and cold water enough to mix easily
with a spoon, then wet your hands in
cold water and shape into balls; put
a.plece of butter in the frying pap,
have pan hot before putting balls In,
fey on both sides, and push to ome
side: make brown gravy by browning
a small plece of butter and a ton
spoonful of flour; pour hot water over
all and cook five minutes.
A SUT SPA HABA
ft is estimated that 115,000,000 peo-
ple speak the English language,
oil making may
the
small
iry one
.% 1
the oil bottle
top of a pitcher to pre
rolling off
of the
% tall
the 1abie;
youl
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Mutinies. even at the present day
Mr. Louis Becke
the South,’ are common
He adds that he has wit.
ssed three, the first being when he
boy. He and an
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week
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tinued our
man
for
succeeded in
time,
quiet.
and we
course iy the time we
sighted the Island Rurutu, in the
South Pacific, the crew and steerage
paASEEDEeTS in a Engry
frame mind. The crew were over.
worked and exhausted, and the pas-
sengers were furious at the miserly
allowance of food doled out to them
At Rurutu the natives brought off
two boat loads of fresh provisions,
the captain bought only one
small pig for the cabin passengers
The crew came aft and asked the
captain to buy them some decent
food, in place of the decayed pork
and weevily biscuit upon which they
had been existing. He refused, and
ordered them forward. and then
mate lost his and told the
captain that the men were starving
Angry words followed, and the mate
knocked the little man down
Picking himsel! up. he went below
and reappeared with a brace of old.
fashioned Coit's revolvers, of
which be pointed at the mate, and
calling upon him surrender and
be put In irons, he fired toward hie
head Fortunately, the ballet
missed
The sympathetic erew made a rush
aft, seized the skipper, and alter
knocking him about rather severely,
held him under the force pump and
nearly drowned him. The boatswain
carried him below, locked him up in
one of the staterooms, and the mate
acted as skipper until we reached
Honolulu.
At Honolulu the mate and all the
crew were tried for mutiny. but the
court acquitted them all, mainly
through the testimony of the passen-
gers,
My brother and | enjoved it im-
mensely, especially the spectacie of
the evil tempered, vindictive little
being held under the force
them the
con-
of
were
vary
of
but
the
temper,
one
to
pump.
—— a, sini " _—
Didn't Want to Hear It.
Sealing himself on the porch he
wiped his perspiring brow.
“1 am going to ask you the old,
old question,” he said to the girl at
his side.
“Never mind asking it,” sald she,
wiping her brow in turn. “Yes, it
fs hot enough for me.”-—Philadel
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“When [ see what Barlow accome
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said Busting. “He has great physical
endurance.”
“Yes,” replied Gargoyle. “That
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Accident Ins. Companies
Bonds of Every Desorip-
A