THANKSG HOW DAN KENT MISSED HIS IVING BANQUET, The Kents—father and son—eame to Chicago when Dan was a small boy, 80 that the latter soon forgot about all Lo huew of Oldshurg and its people, If I + had been older he might have heen gladder to forget it, for thepe migfor. tune had overtaken his family, his t.other had died, and his vague recal- loetion of the place pletured the one long, dismal street down whieh he rode in a carriage to the gemetery, where the autumn leaves peeked in a cold rain and the clay falling Into a grave sound: ed like the thump of his ol Dan Kent, having a merry heart, didn't want to cherish any such dreavy memories, 8a he had grown to man. hood without revisiting the home of his infancy, Not so his father, The old man managed to stay away from the scene of his disaster till Joshua Colvin died. Then he went to the funeral of Lis old friend and partner, and ever after, up to the time of his death, main- tained a habit of periodical visits to the old home town. Dan thought this odd ut first y then he began to suspect that there was some old, long buried ro- mance between his father and the Widow Colvin, “You're right, Dan” said the old 1 toy druw, | &e, Aa but he let a lot of sentiment inte it, Senthmental passages never lpok right to a sensible girl who reads them fn a letter from a man she has never seen, Besides, Dan wasn't exactly a master of rhetorle at that time, and what he wrote could have been couched in terms of infinitely greater tact and deligucy by any second rate romance writer, His first faux pas, however, was in ip closing a post-otlice order for $50, “a loan, of course,” he wrote, “woh | trust you will accept until such time, It was awful, of course, hut Dan was young and he meant to do a kind office to the orphan gir! in Oldsburg. When he mailed the letter it dawned upon him that he had made an ass of him gelf. The more he conned over the sentences which he had meant to be —— | make an end of an escapade which was | just beginning to eloy. As he grew serious be refleeted up: on the folly—"telly? Perhaps it Wis mean of we,” he thought, and this lait idea held him so that be went howe and wrote an honest, manly letter U { the girl, in which he strove to exonor ate himself. He kuew she would far give him for returning her photograph, he suid, and for asking hep to forget the whole episode, which, he hoped, had given her as much harmless merrl- went as it had given him, The tone of this letter was so modest, so sensible go self-deprecating, and so completely digillugioning that Dan thought as he dropped it in the mall box :: “Dad would have Mked that letter. 1 would never have written the others if Le had been with me.” That was Monday, Thursday was Thanksgiving Day, and as Dan Kent wus to be the guest at a banquet that evening, he resolved to get a bite in Lig favorite cafe. The place was crowd ed with diners, and he looked in vain for a familiar face, The head walter found a place for him at a table at which sat a woman She was alone, the finest, the surer he was that they were coarse, impertinent, idiotic, She would be offended at his tone, insulted at his offer” to loan her money. “I feel that there Is a bond of sympathy between us,” ete., had been the best he could think of as “an approach” to the mention of a loan, but now it sounded | inexpressibly silly. He got her answer by return mail man, when his son twitted him about] the Oldspurg visits. “I'd marry her now if I wasn't so old and poor, and if | you take my advice you'll go after her! daughter, Kate.” They were like brothers in thelr | frank and loving relationship in those | days, and Dan, who liked to banter his father, was almost glad to “have something” on the old man. But when the elder Kent grew feeble he talked always more and more of the Colvins, If they were a joke with Dan, they were not so with his father. “I wish you'd go up and see them,’ ¢ would say. “I can’t any more, and Dan—1 wish you'd see Kate—young Kate. Bet you'd fall in love with her in spite of yourself, I wish you would and marry her.” And a few days before he died: “Dan, if anything happens to Kate or her mother, will you do what you can for them? Promise, Dan. You'll write to them, anyhow.” - SHE DARTED ONE AN( When his father died, Dan grieved ¢ a man, and rega $ spirits like + wholesome, clean-bearted youth he : but he k 4 t the Colvins he bad answerad the widow's let- of condol« noe, Lie remembers d gain en he saw In the Olds obituary of Mrs. Kate ling in. He ought to h to Oldsburg to comfort the orphan | girl, but he di funerals and he couldn't get over his gloomy impressic of the old town. So he wrote a letter to Kate, he bad promised his father, sending such words of comfort n ust, but offerin of any assistance in his power. He wrcely expected a reply, but he got one within a week, It was a stilted, studied letter. She was grateful for kind words from the son of her mother's kind friend. She would do quite well, she thought, when she got back to her work as a school | teacher, Her work might help her to forget. It was a dismal letter—just like OMsburg, he thought-and he did pot answer it. A month later he got another from her. Would he kindly | buy for her Kinyon's pedogogical chart? It would cost about $1, which she in-| closed. “I will be ever so much obliged,” she concluded. He found the | chart, which cost $3, and sent her a note In which he sald he was glad to be of service, He didu't mention that he was loser by $2 In the transaction, Within a fortnight another letter came to him from Kate Colvin, in which she sald that she had Just] learned the chart had cost $3, perhaps | more, and that she “would return the balance the moment her salary was pald. They are In arrears with me for the last two months,” the latter sald, | “but I am sure they will pay us before Christmas.” * To Dan Kent there was something | poignantly sad In the plain, simple, but | uncotmplaining statement of the coun | try school teacher's poverty. ‘Two doh | lars! He was making money and) spending It as lavishly as a self-pe- specting young man could, Evidently | poor Kate Colvin could not spare $2 from a scanty hoard that might not be replenished at once. He was a gene crous, tender fellow, and, somehow, that bald, almost childlike confession of a girl's lonely struggle for the bene fits which he won so easily and regard. ed so lightly, gave a sharp sting to his Sento spirityand clouded his radiant nce, Then he made a natural but a most egregious mistake, ined hi W er the Cols ve sliked as He wanted to write barber's ph to o kind, sympathetic and belpful letter, | autograph. on a back | spent two Long { outdo | $F | now this sport will come to a sudden | emotion that he had not taken time to and wh $50 fell on the floor. “Serves me right,” he gasped, but his eyes began to ulge when he saw the first line of | “Dear. dear friend,” it began. “Sad, gad, indeed must that heart be which cannot be cheered by the sweet dell-| cacy and soulful sympathy of a friend] lke you. O, how my lonesome heart BOes oul responsive, and yet— tt “Slush!” That's what Dan sald. He could hardly force himself to read it. If] letter had been badly framed, hers was the dregs of gush, A wild hope that Kate Colvin hadn't written It him, but the narrowest compari mn | showed it to be her handwrit There was nothing absolutely Immod-| selzed t in her hysterical epistie, but it fair-| Dan ina ly oozed sentimentality, which was sure he would always despise waomnn. “lua to get back my fifty, anyhow,” | wr - | ! | enough to n he tore open the envelope the | : | quickly as it came, She drew f | the letter itself : | modestly, but quite fashionably, at- ired, young—perhaps twenty-—at ease with an odd mixture of confidence and shyness, Her black eyes shone Wi the light of a brave and quick intelli gence. Her swart hair drooped about her small ears in smooth glistenin tresses. lier red mouth Dan had got thus far In conscious cataloguing of the bea woman opposite him when she darted ¢ angry glance at him in there was an unanswerable reproof for fascinated stare It vanished as his sub itiful ull Lis reticule a parcel of papers, rec:l ping, and then unfolded i lcate Colvin with the same photogra of the Oldshurg school tea rt his | had mailed on Monday! lle ted, { looked agaln, stood | l Lis curiosity by lean She glared at him, for an instant, and t anger. “How dare you!” was i but the emphasis of her helped him. “1 beg your pardon, madam,” swered, sitting down, “1 wi letter myself to the girl whose | yu have there, and it startled 1 it in your hand. I am the ‘I f that letter, Daniel Kent Ey wt pped ghort. wreathed in smiles, “Why, Dan,” she commenced, i yume sweetly singing vole, “No! you Daniel Kent? The picture? how, if you're Daniel Kent, or Ke but he to her. nd gave it , you might have K the kind to borrow money I had n," ‘ NOVETr 804 her brune cle ve known | write drivel to an nger, As for you, 1 the + a downright idiot until I jetter. That rang true. 1 cam Ugh last | down to Chicago to pay yon ti : 1 | owe vou, and to : | »/ ANCE AT ~~ A —— iIRY GU HIM. he sneered, pocketing the order and tearing the letter with one angry jerk Then he paused, put the torm edge « er communication togethers, and re read It. “Oh, how my loely heart] goes out responsive That Hue started | him, and be laughed till the bookkeeper | stared and the stenographer Jolued i the merriment, “I'll get back at her,” thought Dan Kent, as he opened his desk. And he 3 that evening trying to torid per wis of his Olds burg protege But he didn't send back the fift On Saturday he got an an swer that fairly sclotillated with flashes of Cupld's arrows, He had sup posed that his letter rose to flight of sentimental hyperbole, but seemed commonplace and tawdry gide the glittering fabric of her lat epistolary composition, He had to get “The Children of the Abbey” from the public Horary before he could answer that letter, and, ka or der to stimulate her to a still wore gen erous effusion, he wound up his ecstati billet with a superbly servile petition for her pleture He sald “counterfeit presentment” first, but for fear she'd regard that as a mercenary allusion, he scratched the words away and substi. tated “fair mage.” The photograph that arrived In the next letter was worthy of the foolish girl's correspond. ence. A simpering, weak smile, evil dently enleulated to display two pretty dimples and a row of the white teeth, a mass of fully blond hale, falling al most to the eyebrows: a white lawn dress of the style that had been con sidered “smart” a few years ago; ban gle rings on the dainty fingers | “She looks the part,” laughed Dan, “and If © don't send her my picture every he end.” - The letter suggested an exchange, and Dan, In the exnberance of what seemed such a capital Joke, determined to send her the picture of his barber, a dashing young gallant with melancholy black eyes and a tightly waxed Wil helm mustache, It was Kent's irrepressible love of fun that led him Into this thoughtless and, for him, unkind correspondence, But letters had passed so rapidly and with such Increasing and almost outlandish expressions of romantic look at any but the funny side of the affair. He had shown the letters to no body, destroging them as soon as they were read. When he had malled the Kate with his | Ambassador to est! a " “But, Kate,” asked the delighted Danlel, “what prompted you to sari the-foolishness?" “Oh, 1 didn't like your sending that money, and-—well, 1 didn't want to Tw pitied, either. 1 imagined you wen one of those Chicago smartics, and} well, it was dull in Oldsburg: It's abl ways dull there” i “And now we've met and found each) other out, Kate?” } They laughed like children, looking | frankly into one another's happy faces. “It's Thanksgiving, Dan.” she said “I'll give thanks that this (holding the picture of the pudgy un” he laughed I'l give thanks that you couldn't ok lke this!" And she held it tl lecture of the dashing barber d so blow A) » pl ’ The Goal of Rich Americans. the America: MY. Was = ng of the American's love for Pars ot a dinner he gave In Philadelphia . ve ior aris “os no great.” be sald, “but 1 am sure it not so great as our European « 1 would have us bwl We all of course, have heard the European say ing. ‘when a good American dies, goes to Paris’ In Berlin, from a tearded Freuch diplomat, 1 heard last | year a novel variant of this, The diplomat sald he was sure [I would sympathize with the profound and ngeanous emotion of a young Amer can girl who lived, he sald, In a bleak | western elty There were In thos Wwe no institutes for the treatment | f rabies, save In Paris. The young giel’'s life was very monoton One | day ahe burst Inte a peighbor’'s house, almost beside herself with joyous ex- cement } “Her dark eves flashed. Her cheeks had a delicate rose flush little she cried in a tremulous volee: | “ “Thank we are going to mris at last. Dad has been bitten by a mad dog!'" ————— Modern Dogs of Ware, The German Army, fighting In Her rero land, under Gen, Von Trotha, em ploys a corps of 200 dogs, One of these dogs was recently struck and wounded by a bullet in the engagement of Opa while scouting in front of the skirmishing line. He displayed the greatest fearlessness under fire and worked faultlessly until disabled. The Japanese are using a number of dogs for reconnoltering purposes. They are attached to long ropes and well trained. The Russians are employing dogs for sentry and messenger work, Capt, Persidsky of the late Count Keller's staff, writing from Odessa, says: “In finding the wounded men with which the millet fields are strewn nothing has succeeded Hike our seven dogs: their intelligence, especially the English bred ones, Ws extraordinary.” I have been asked several times to sup ply dogs to the Russian army, and only quite recently was commissioned to purchase sheep dogs in the highhnds for the German ambulance dogtrain Ing establishment. Perhaps instead of breeding and exporting dogs for for Charlem Wer igne 1 Gert oye 4 ue goodne uN, 11M, he resolved to eign armies, we may some day find our {| IDGILOLUS OOCH SM Panting &) | schools who are as capable as any tl dogs of service to thelr own country, GOSSIP FROM ABROAD, Tales of Diplomatic and Court Ine trigue,) The Earl of Minto, Governor-CGieneral of Canada and successor to Lord Cure zon aus Viceroy of India, first came to Canada as Military Secretary to Lord Lansdowne in 1884, Ile was then Lord Melgund, Three years Inter he served on the staff of General Middleton in the Northwest rebellion and distin | guished himself by his bravery. [le] was sent back to Englimd for slapping | the face of the colonel of a Montreal ‘egiment with whom he had a disagree- ment, ! The reason given for the Czar's re- | fusal to permit the Grand Duke Cyril | to marry the divorced Grand Duchess of Hesse, the Princess Victoria of Saxe | Coburg, is that Cyril and his brother, the Grand Duke Boris, had prominent rales In the scandal which recently was | disclosed at Kharkoff, loth grand dukes were members of the so-cn club of Sybarites at Kharkoff, where indescribable orgies took place, Tle club, as I am Informed, has only twen. | ty members, all the the families of Russia, NO males ex sons of lin, and whose | of succession tot buys all the ia to her notice and g of a stay in her v aid meadows While the Emperor of Germany pot fall to transact a large a unt public business during his various ve ages for rest and recreation, wis on his yacht at sea he Is a very dif fogent man from the ruler of a great nation livieg in state at Berlin, President Loubet of France has taker the barfoot cure; that Ix, himself, wil and daughter have gone ot opt for light sandals, on all but baref ex Ww during New Blood ia Naval Eagincering. From the Baltimore Sun It wm Jd, In view of t! Dennington explosion, whether UU Navy Department's policy of re 2 engineering appointments in vy to graduates at Annajpx is | r the service, Naval Academy ars doubt. but only a fey talent for mathemat chanies and underlie the eng is well known that getting from their 1 to take poster n Boston Toecln prepare thems and machh tieship or orm the service Is sl wn who know how to hitwdie | engines, repair shops trial | lation, ete. The Bennington is not UU first of our warships to be Injured | reason of insufficient attention In th engineering department The remed It seems. i# to Inject some new bl from civil life Into the engineering 4 partments of our ships it is all ver well to reserve good berths for the An napolis graduates, but the practi ie carried too far when it results lo stars ing the engine rooms, There are man rraduntes yearly from our technologh be guest) te ' The gra luates of 1 ¢ bright ot! 1! e nl rt of cot | ele can be found, The engineering depart went of the navy ought to be recruited in part from the outside talent, which Las been educated In the art of ship construction, management and repair It is possible to carry too far the policy of keeping all appointments fa the navy for naval officers, especially when wo exception Is made of classes of np pointments for which Annapolis grad vates have no especial qualilications BE —..., Not a Meaaingloss Phrase, From the Chleage Chronlole, It I» not meaningless that earth called our “mother earth” It was somehow from the earth that we nkind sprung at the dawe of Wie. 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