THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONT , PA., JUNE 22, 1905 H A Race For An Income By HERBERT MONTGOMERY —— Copyright, 1003, by Charles N. Lurie CETTE INT ITTaTT™T LCA ALA SS 2 2 2 00 0088888. jose ole AN you run Mr, Catchem?” “Certainly.” “Could you 's mail?" could. What get there?” *1t over to Ireland, Cross to by must I do when I 's a painful case,” sald kind hearted Mr. Warmington, “but I'd best tell you the particulars shortly and let You judge for yourself what's best to be done Ar Ithiest Warmington was one of the and a Wi worthiest lawyers in y i | i \ EY f fifties, he was as wild as a young wild, not vicious, I'm bound te Well, eight years ago he had the good luck—for him 8s colt say to marry an heir- beautiful and x ith der) passion mar mndsome the no put her thought he it, and I didn't rh but he to touch en en him on the subject, you may be He was wild with himself for his ‘folly’ In having assigned it t his daughter But Miss Trixie consulted lawyers on her own account, Sharkey 0 & Snippit, sharp fellows as you'll meet | with In the city “They were not long putting my pre cious brother-in-law up to his legal rights. As the law now stands under an old statute of Queen Elizabeth, if the property is granted to Miss Trixie in consideration of her marriage with the grantor, the deed to poor little Florence Is not worth the parchment it's written on, Sharkey & Snippit are now, | have reason to know, preparing marriage settlements and making over the whole property to Miss Trixie, who is In a seaside village In the west of Ireland.” “We have Introduced a quiet little bill in the house of lords which will repeal the old act of Queen Elizabeth, which allows a man to defeat his own grant, and will make voluntary conveyances absolute against what we call In law a ‘purchaser with notice.’ halfway through the lords. The lord chancellor hag promised the royal as sent -by deputy, of course the day after the bill passes the third reading in the commons.” The bill in | “It's a race, then, between your bill and their deed for a five thousand a year stake?” “Exactly.” “But I don't see where I come In” “I want you to run over to Mount Ea- gle, where Miss Trixie hangs out, and keep ¢ ness through. are as sharp tight cation is Sharkey & Snippit and shut as They are In constant communi- with Miss Trixie. If you go to Ireland you may be able to'tap the ; Wire at that end. Miss Trixie as loose and lively as they are close,” “I'll go. I'd like to do the little girl good turn If I can, LJ 3 . . ® LJ Ms Miss Trixie Mordant felt particularly dull during her exile In County Clare onate appeals of her nously dismal ns scissors is i voluntary I'he passi elderly adorer were monoto Nothing to do and hat was her somebody no trouble, to laugh yokels I could stand «1 disconsolately wandered from the ground knew one to talk to i + 4? with Add she Then her eyo in front to the tennis left, ane gl fate had only me at these mutters sea the that prayer was odd on tnce answere young man dress mn loung ugh parliament to se to put Spoke H in Must hurry up with Sharkey.” saw her their wheel yet deed. 1s old man willing? shed pre reading he with we through the win of the office Warmington “Bill blown Look alls > » » » Rg » » Miss Trixie She Next mornh early and telegraph offic the attendance. This was ticked out as he wheels at the door “All serene il blocked last night. Snippit starts by the morning mail for Ratheool with engrossed for ex ecution Sharkey.” “Hooray!” shouted Miss Trixle, but when she went to the door she caught {a back view of Mr. Blood - Smith's head | well over the handle of his wheel, fly | Ing up the hill back to the hotel, | “My eye!” she exclaimed In amaze “ment. “What's come Jer? DM a wasp sting my pet, just as I was In humor to flirt with him too! Five thousand a year and a castle, all to my own cheek. | must have a downhill scorch all by my own little self to work it off or I'll bust!” | Meanwhile Blood-Smith was strange {ly occupled In his locked bedroom { There was a timetable open him, and a big rallway map of Ireland ; was spread out on the quilt of his bed, W Was up the with “tess was at ned dancing the message that before It of in Of inevitable Jer, Course, stood holding the deed i i to beside !at which he was busy with a pair of | compasses and a blue pencil | “A Nttle over a hundred.” he mut. | tered. “There is time enough to do it But it's deuced risky work and dead against the law. Well, I've helped the law so often that It must make alldw ances (8s once. Bo here goes” He fished out a strong bicycle bag, fitted with straps to be carried on the L sharp eye on her till the busl- | bandle bar and packed In a very gin. gular fashion. The two cans which held the oll for his lamp and lubricat- ing oll for the bearings were his sole baggage on his projected expedition, These two greasy cans, both quite full, he wrapped up carefully in a couple of large silk handkerchiefs and stuffed into the bag Quietly and quickly the bag was fit. ted to the bars, and Blood-Smith slipped Into the saddle at the hotel door and was off good, steady twelve miles an hour, his high geared wheel he pushed on at the steady, unchanging Evening to in Hi clometer marked eighty-four miles al- | at a All day long on same pace, began close cy- “In good time,” he speed no little distinguish ready covered mut. tered and last! He steep slope as slackened could just the and leaped off the rallway, off at the foot, Ifted the wheel the wooden railings and stood it fully in the of the bridge He took the | ked the road rose Ho drop over shadow from the and ENGINE CAME ON BI Blood 81 greased slope for or md and and t first the Far gradient dead halt. Then 1 safe for the wheel from mind and with went salling away sw 1 Sev SiIOW y » slope, gaining down the away train we Ki night its shelter the witl wind at his bas fe Hin iftly and smooth ly along the road he came Next day at half past 3 lock, while Mr. Snippit, with the deed in his bia calfskin bag, was still a long miles from Ratheool, a very performance was In progress house of lords, The lord was seated on the broad scarlet wool sack. Two other lords beside hith. This combination represented the absent majesty of England man was reading a had passed through the storms of lords and and now peacefully into port “The voluntary read the short man “La Reine le vent,” jerked out a tall man. In that second the bill was an act and an Integral part of the law of the land, and the rights of little Miss Florence Burton were secure {| All that afternoon at Mount Eagle Miss Trixie Mordant and Mr. Blood Bmith walted eagerly expectant of tel egrams. It was well on in the evening when two arrived together at last | There was but one word In each message. Her word was x in the chancellor were commons were salling conveyance bill" “Lost” — and his , “Won” [| \t abruptly handle bars | | wi five | curious | 3 | couth A short | list of bills which | TALE OF A SHIPWRECK. Romantic Story of the Loss Steamer American, The story of the shipwreck of the steamer American, which ran between England and South Africa, reads like a chapter from Frank Stockton. When day broke on the morning of April 23, 1880, the close to the equator and 150 miles from the Liberian Suddenly the first morning wat between and 6 o'clock, there wa of the steamer was ubout 100 or cong h, a fearful crash in followed by a con hip's side, which that she had in the engine room, ussion against the an instant 110+} siruck ( for on hurrie gengel inquired wl met in the Captain Wi shaft had broken had There In the time Mr. Hepworth's boat and two oth ers made for the Libor they reached mean in mat, which! the third day bios on in con ver, they tompounnd Rhyming Words, the south of Ei : VAVOTInRE, unsta rworthless mas Is called a “meckie keckle fellow.” is worthy of re n that in ore Is called “keckle-meckle An awkward in and it : . . rk I»erbyshire poor simpleton is ealled the “hauvey-gauvey” of Leeds, In War style such a one as is from “hob,” | neighborhood kshire they “hobgoblin” or else It a lout, and “bog” a lump. “Goblin shire” Is the abode-“that never was writ In the traveler's chart"-—of un folk They say of a slovenly loafer in south Cheshire Gobbinshire, Gobbinshire of Gobbinshire green, The ronkest owd beggor as ever was seen London Standard Ash Mianting at Rughy. In the latter half of the eighteenth century ash planting was a mode of punishing In vogue at Rugby school for | certain breaches of sch®l discipline A boy who broke any cherished tradi tion—as, for Instance, a mutinous fag who personally assaulted a sixth form boy-~was taken In hand by the prae posters—that Is, the boys of the sixth form-and subjected to a sound thrash. ing with ash plants. Three ash sap- lings were used, and the first two were broken on the person of the delinquent, the chastisement being ordered and meted out by the boys themselves, Sometimes the culprit was sent to | gather the saplings himself, but wheth. er as an added indignity or a merciful concession is not clear. —London Star, | | sad | ] ter courses. ote. | deadly as MEERSCHAUM PIPES, | A Test by Which to Tell the Genuine From the Spurious. | Onee upon time was 4 man | who spent elght of the best years of Bis life coloring a meerschaum pipe, only to find at the end of that period that he had “massakonpfe' a there been nursing a plece of the genuine “magsakopfe” instead of The is a composition made of “ecnme de mer” the parings of and mineral riturated to a * and mold vithout the ad- s then cnt meerschann paring genuine i s consid- me to guished thelr * 18 LO the m the their os Rive {| seldom act upon it To every man Wik on your t= that it Is you Know what puts that wife's face? Every O10 SUS] I MW ' nent Palnter's Broken Arm « nwk t me™ Polson In War, French beat the F ISS] the When the found & which progress and in died The For mosans had poisoned the springs, wa as they retreated, and the campaigns of the French against them never got farther than the poison llne. The polson was a native one, as arsenic or strychnine When the sans along the « the interior pursued them line of defens« make which orm mst In latter retired to French queer they storming thes bevond could no many A Sample of the Sea. On his return to Cordova from a visit to Mar del Plata, where he had beheld the sea for the first time, Pedro | brought with him a bottle containing | about an inch of sand from the shore and two Inches of salt water to enable his parents, who had never the ocean, to form idea of what It wns like. We are informed that his parents were greatly Impressed. - Sacta. seen some His Brethren, Smart Pastor--My congregation Is made up mostly of fools. Parishioner Ah, that explains it! Smart Pastor Explains what? Parishioner — Your habit of addressing them as “beloved brethren Cleveland Leader Munienl, Violin-1 am completely unstrung! That base viol has stolen my bean MandolinIt's Infamous! He's always pleking on me too. Chicago Journal, BATHING IN THE SEA. It Originated In England In the Elghtoenth Century, Bea bathing had its origin in England before 1750, when Dr. Richard Russell published his treatise on the virtues of sea water, The healing virtues of bath vot understood, nor practice goen- to in npulsory ns a4 sentency often public 1 In the the sea were wis the Mere f thie Of resorted to harror erally WEN TIIN have existed a on deed, In mediaeval times a cor dip in its waters pas Carer «1 on tr under Way the Inrnelits Lost Fhelr Third f x ow Ors K« (s t se the third, or rear eye, and since that da) tes, In common with the remainder of hu manity ¥ the Israc have been foroed to depend on two eves only Bears of Okefilnak ee Swamp, 21 () Ww TE, nder ey fish turtles or weters, k to the bad at sea and then squirrels, the like, of | they make savory stews, like our ght they put bac weather Is with their dogs hing porcupines wi, hog deer and wh RY psies An Artist's Criticiam. Probably no two artists ever eritf cised each more severely than did Fusell and Northcote, yet they re mained fast friends. At one time Fu sell was looking at Northeoote's paint. ing of the angel meeting Balaam and his ass. “How do you like 117 asked Northcote after a long silence. “North. cote,” replied Fusell promptly, “you're an angel at an ass, but an ass at an angel” other Why We Oan't Be Great, Emerson defined greatness as sim plicity. “Indeed, to be simple is to be great” The question emerges, Is life simple today? If not, will it be simpler tomorrow ? If not, then how can there ever again be such greatness as in the past in a world of ever Increasing com- plexity 7 Harper's Weekly ——— —— Why She Left, “Yes, my wife attended but one ses sion of the club” “What caused her to quit it? “She found out that the rules put a time limit of five minutes on all speeches.” Cleveland Plain Dealer, It Is strange that In Asia and Africa, where grass will not grow, the most beautiful flowers and shrubs flourish to perfection,
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