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Mr. Willmarth
By PAULINE D. EDWARDS
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As a girl I had not many cronies. I
did not care for this girl and that girl
each for a brief season, but preferred
one very intimate friend, such a friend
as I might tell all my joys or sorrows
to and who would respond in kind. To
others I was reserved. I would not
think of making a confidante of any
but the closest intimate friend. Pos
sibly this may have resulted in my
having such a friend who superseded
all others in the matter of intimacy.
Alice Wether ell and I were first
schoolmates, then college chums. After
our graduation we were separated for
a year, then we were brought together
again. I found on our reunion that
Alice was engaged. She received me
witff the same old affection, but the
idea at once took possession of me
that although I was her girl chum I
had been reduced from a first to a sec
ond place in her heart.
I was not long in communicating this
idea to Alice. Instead of denying its
correctness, she seemed thoughtful,
but indisposed to talk about it. When
I asked her If either her lover or I
must be lost to her which would she
relinquish, she admitted that she
would give me up for him.
"You shall meet him, Gwen," she
said to me, "and when you have be
come acquainted with Mm i am sure
you will admit that were you and I to
change places you would give me up
Instead of him in case you must lose
one or the other."
"Why, Alice," I remonstrated, "how
could I do that without being in love
with him?"
"Never mind that," was her reply,
and this was all I could get out of her
on the subject
Alice not only Introduced me to her
fiance, Robert Willmarth, but left me
alone with him a great deal. The first
time I met him it did not seem to me
that there would ever be anything in
common between him and me. He was
a serious man, while I preferred one
of lighter vein. He was steady as the
rock of Gibraltar. My beau ideal of a
companion was a man of mirth.
The second time I saw Mr. Willmarth
he appeared very different to me. His
gravity had given place to levity, but a
levity behind which seemed to lurk
something, the exact nature of which
he did not care to reveal. At our first
meeting Alice was present most of the
time. At our second, he called upon
me without her. While in the first in
ataned dreadefl, to have Alice, leave
ffiF alone witlT MnT, leaf F would" not
know how to entertain him j in the sec
ond we were in complete rapport.
I asked him what had occasioned
the change in him. He laughingly de
clared that the presence of his fiancei
while he was with any other woman
threw him on his beam ends, as he ex
pressed it. If any one else had said
this I would have taken warning, but
he said it jocosely, and not as if he
were endeavoring to establish a rela
tion with me in opposition to Alice.
Nevertheless, I noticed that whenever
Alice was present at our meeting he
was the same reserved man he had
been when I first met him, and we
were as far distant from each other
as ever. Certainly Alice had been mis
taken in saying that if I knew him
and had to choose between her and
him, I would choose him. Not that
there was any repulsion between us; it
was simply that there was nothing to
draw us together.
Alice told me one day that she was
obliged to go away for awhile vnd
charged me to "take care," as she ex
pressed it, of her fiance. "I rely upon
you," she added, "to see to it that no
desigining girl gets him away from
me."
Now, I * not like this a bit, for, as
I have said, Mr. Willmarth when free
from her presence was very attractive
to me, and I did not consider myself a
very safe person for her to leave him
with. Not that I believed myself capa
ble of taking him away from her, but
I did not relish the temptation. How
ever, I promised her that I would do
my best for her interest, and with that
she left me, apparently perfectly satis
fled that I would keep my word.
When Alice returned I dreaded to
meet her. Mr. Willmarth had not
scrupled to make love to me, and I had
not the atrength to break away from
him. While my conscience stung me,
hia did not seem to trouble him at all.
There waa ever present with him that
devil-may-care bearing, a disposition to
consider the matter as something
amusing, which he had shown from
tbe first On the evening before Alice's
return I was with him and, noticing
his freedom from consciousness of
guilt, an idea occurred to me.
"I believe," I said to him, "that this
is a conspiracy between you and Alice
to prove what she once said to me—
that if I were called upon to choose
between you and her I would choose
you."
He burst info a laugh, and I was sure
I had guessed right, though he denied
my hypothesis in toto.
"I will admit" he said, "that a game
has been played. Alice will be with us
tomorrow, and she will explain."
The next evening Mr. Willmarth
called and was followed by Alice and—
himself. There were two Willmarths,
twin brothers, Boh and Alec. Alice's
fiance was Bob.
"Gwen." said Alice, "if yQH hat} to
] love me or Mr. Willmarth. wnicn
i would you give up?"
"Both." I replied, "for perpetrating
on me such a deception."
We had a diuble wedding.
Funston's Nickname.
General Frederick Funston was a
member of the Phi Delta Theta frater
nity at the University of Kansas. The
general's fraternity brothers at Kansas
knew him as "Timmy." This nickname
I came about through the poor writing of
the fraternity member who sent in the
names of the pledges the year Funston
became a Phi Delt The name was
printed "Timston" in the Phi Delta
Theta magazine, and in the form of
"Timmy" stuck to the stocky, cocky
collegian throughout his college career
—Kansas City Star.
Your Own Career.
"You may be whatever you resolve
to be." That was the motto of Stone
| wall Jackson, who died a lieutenant
general at thirty-nine The meteorii
soldier found that sticking everlasting
ly at it was what put the solve in re
solve Stonewall's maxim means that
you can do what you try to do if you
try hard enough. Mr. Favre found
that out forty years ago when against
obstacles supreme and penalties of $l,-
000 a day for failure he pierced the
St Gothard tunnel through the Alps.
That stupendous work cost eight times
the original estimates of ten millions,
but it was done, and done to the ever
lasting glory of human pluck.—Girard
in Philadelphia Ledger.
Flfel Calculating Machine.
The first calculating machine was in
vented and constructed by Blaise Pas
cal, a Frenchman, in 1642, in which
year he was but nineteen years of age.
It was made by him with the aid of
one workman and waa presented to the
chancellor of France. During the rev
olution it waa found in a Junk ahop at
Bordeaux and at present la the prop
erty of M. Bougouln of that city. All
of the four simple mathematical opera
tions can be made with it
Illiteracy among American Indians
has been found to be least in Kansas,
where it is 18.7 per cent It is greatest
in Utah.
What's In a Nam*?
Turkish cigarettes come from Vir
ginia.
French china cornea from Ohio.
Persian ruga come from Massachu
setts.
Russian caviare comes from Michi
gan.
English herring come from Oregon.
Norwegian sardines come from
Maine.
Havana tobacco comes from Ken
tucky.
Irish linen comes from New York.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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OUR TURN OF BERVICE.
There is so much to be aet
right in the world, there are so
many weakling* or unfortunate*
to bo led and helped and com
forted, that we must continually
come in contact with euch in
our daily life. Let us take care
that we do not miss our turn of
service.—El'zabeth Charles.
Queer Neet of the Tontoban*.
The oddest of all birds* nests la the
one built by the ton to bane, a South
African songster. It is built of cotton
and always upon the tree producing
the material. In constructing the dom
icile the female works inside and the
male outside, where he builds a senti
nel box for his own special use. He
sits in the box and keeps watch or
sings nearly all the time, and when
danger comes in the form of a hawk or
a snake he warns the family, but never
enters the main nest
Some Climate!
It is a natural law in* California, es
pecially in the southern part of the
state, that folks grow young Instead of
old. Every time a rose fades in this
sweet land its color finds its way into
the choeks of some visitor from the
east who has come here to seek the
health which only a clime like this can
give.—Los Angeles Times.
Worst of the "Fliesy
The horsefly is the most cruel and
bloodthirsty of the entire fly family.
He is armed with a most formidable
weapon, which consists of four lancets
so sharp and strong that they will pen
etrate leather. He makes his appear
ance in June. The female ia armed
with six lancets, with which she bleeds
both cattle and horses and even human
beings.
Hadn't Changed Much.
"Dad, what was the labor of Slay*
phua?"
"Sisyphus rolled a stone up a hin,
and aa faat aa he rolled it up it rolled
iown again. It was a mythological
episode. Nothing like that today."
"Oh, I don't know," interposed ma.
••Washing dishes Is Just like that."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
vnu.
"Father," said little Johnnie, accept
ing hia dally allowance, "I wiah yon
wouldn't hand that nickel in such a
horribly patronising manner. Ostenb.
tlous giving is exceedingly bourgeois."
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