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The Vmtury C<wii>any
Jauey looked at lier marigold with
thoughts of reclaiming it (it si« iu**«l un
appropriated and unappreciated lylug
there on the pillow >, and then she heard
thecoaxlug voice of A'nt 'Cindy's small
calling from the big
triite uiyrtle tr.c (she was not allowed
to trespass farther upon the front
yardi: "Janey! Janey! I got a pooty
fur >e, Janey!" And she trotted off to
bestow her sooiet\ where it was most
prised.
Jane may not have been blessed with
main ideas, but she gave profound
att« ntioti to those that did visit her.
She pondered all day on the jiossibility
rf Hlos- . r becoming a teacher of
Freie h. -I after supper she went
o\er to i -ult Mrs. Pembroke about
It.
course." she said after she was
■Hied on the gallery In the starlight
•lid had Introduced her subject, "no-
Ikmlv i aii do inueh with the war going
on. but I'm willing to make some sac
rifiet - f.»r Jauey. and Mr Blossj
«\>>ul<ln't much We could just
share what we've got with him till
times are better. I'm afraid he's been
uwtul pore lately. And, after all. the
tow u would 'a' been uio.-t burned down
sure if it hadn't lieen for him."
Miss t'ath«rine had no little children
to be instructed, so Jane, with ditlicul
ty and hitches, got out so much sug
£cMiuu of Stratbboio's obligations.
" I hat's all true. Jaae," replied Miss
Catherine cheerfully, "but everybody
bin t h> anxious to recollect them kind
of things as you and as your mother
«:is before you 1 reiiii inb< r now how
she cherished that old Mammy Kinah
of youru just for the way she nussed j
you when you had that terrible ty
phoid sickness when you was little.
Seemed 11 ki ah" couldn't do enough for
that n igga h whea she got old and
wuthies.-, < nlggah she was too."
llieie was a pause, and just as Miss
Catherine was again taking up the
thrctd of r« luiuiseeuce Jane interrupt
ed:
Mr {flossy ain't a niggah, and it !
seems kJnda dreadful to see a w lilte |
UiUU live like he does here In Stratli-
U.lO It ain't as if be was a real poor ,
white 'ither. lie's got education. I've i
beard tell He reads French newspa- ,
ptia lie's got Mime now at my house."
"Well, he's a foreigner, you know,
Jan. Vou never can tell anything
about them like other people, lie's
been here doing nlggah's work years',
but it don't seem exactly like any other
whit« awn doing It. He's just a French
man first in li-t. aud lor them that
wants to learu French 1 reckon that's
what the} want. I s'pose it would be a
good thing for the jHire obl body, but
you can't do much. Jane, with the war
going uu, and the Lord only knows
l Leu loyaltj to disloyalty sealed her
lips against the first expression of
doubt as to the conclusion and after
tab of the conflict As to the present
she was right There was small inter
est In Strathboro in those «1 ivs In the
acquirement of PKWh by any means
irtatfMTMr. .lailc accept ed this fact
and went her own way.
Long Itefore poor Andy McCrath.
taunt and tattered and despairing and
beaten, cam*' luick to his home Strath
boro had Itecoine familiar with the
aigbt of Blossier going alsmt his work
with a tiny figure by his side, a little
jrirl with the most marvelous double
row s of brow u curls under her corn
shn k haf. curls its stilY and slick and
;. „ . is if til. \ had been done out
it woo«I with a turning lathe. Strath
boio admi.d the curls unanimously,
but an a* • • • iiplisluneiit of their owner
fill, d them with an even livelier inter
est 1 bat little thing could speak
tieii. h, tulk it right along with old
Bluesy!
1 lie pair were continually called up
onto demonstrate the fact.
\\ lien old Mrs Farnley came in from
tLe eoUlitrj to st;iy with her daughter
in Inw. she was not to be convinced by
the ordinary exhibition.
"Vou, Mr. Itlossy." said she—"you
ran clean out there l»y that there crajte
myrtle and stay there where 1 can see
y.iu Jauey. you tell Mr. Itlossy when
he comes t e k to give me my stick.
Tell Liui In French " Janey was a lit
tie ui\ stific.l but she was used to ex
hibiting her French, so she successfully
performed the feat required of her.
and when Bloss . r. with a bow, hand
ed the old ladv her staff more witness
e« ttiuu w had a M« realisation that
the strange tongue was not a meaning
lefts jargon
A;id- M-Crath's soul was as much
like J .11 •» "s as one coriltield pe.l is like
another Tb« Intinite mind doubtless
niw dKtinctloiis iM-tweeti them, and
Jane knew that Andy took more sugar
In his i off. .- than she did. and Andy
knew- that sle- would spank Janey
tiOII.e-tlllK-f whell he Would liot ; bllt,
is> far as ot'. r human l«'ings were
concerned, th.y initht as well have had
laten-haiii.'eable identities When they
got married. .Mrs. Pembroke remarked
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/ / f/i< <#/»/ hiily
hi r etfttff.
to Mrs hit< *.«-!!> it ft curious
to two l» gmxl. dumb, cK'v»'r,
Mty (Hitbin:; l««li s marry each other,
but then, she a-bhsl, perhaps it would
have In-en U<or> .-uriolis \et if they had
Hut.
Of murw' Andy accepted ltlossler In
txactly Jan. -< spirit. He felt a little at
« 10-~ ms t.< how t i conduct himself
with a Frenchman, finding himself
withont s • I traditions on that point,
but he had the best will in the world
to adapt h • self as well as he could to
any new etiquette rei|ulre«l Neither he
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nor Jane had a touch of the usual sore
! contempt for ways new to them, so
little may a large spirit be dependent
; on experience or intellectuality.
Andy had been home a week, and It
1 was Ihe evening after they had tlrst
: persuaded Mossier to sup with them.
Janey, her curls tumbled into merely
human tresses, but presumably dream
ing French dreams, lay in her trundle
bed, and close by Jane and Andy sat
tt the window, cooling off and, as they
said, "talking things over." Jane now
opened up the subject she had had st
long a' heart.
"'Fears, Andy, like Mr. Blossy's too
good to be doing niggah's work all the
time. Of course with a Frenchman
things I* different, but seems like if he
can teach Janey he might teach oth
ers."
"It 'pears like it would be more fit
ting." said Andy, seizing the idea.
"It's called a smart thing to know
French. There's ltabe Tucker."
"Itlossy must know all about it."re-
SDonded Andv auain.
"Yes; I heard Judge Caldwell say
years ago that he was educated."
"It's bad time now, Jane."
"1 know that, Andy, but we must
! Just try and get him started. The war's
over, and people got to educate their
children quick if they're going to at
all."
"French is extry."
"Well, Blossy's right here, and a j
heap of houses beside ourn would 've I
burnt down if he hadn't been. It won't
cost much. He'll be better off anyhow
than working all the time like a nig
gali. You talk to your brother Iten,
Andy. He'll like to have his girls as
smart as Janey," concluded the self
sacrificing Jane, with a sigh.
Ten years from that night Judge
Caldwell was saying to a guest, a law
yer from west Tennessee: "Yes, sir;
Strathboro can show more people, old
and young, accomplished in the French
tongue, sir, than any town a larger
proportion, sir, so accomplished than
• any town iu the state. There are nu
merous children in Strathboro that
talk French with each other together
j at their play, sir. sometimes. In fact,
; there is a little niggah here about the
house somewhere now that 1 heard say
ing You, 'l>lza. where's that picka
ninny of yours?" The judge interrupt
ed himself to call a servant passing the j
door.
"She done sleep, jedge."
"Very well; never mind."
"Well, sir. 1 must let you hear that
little darky talk French in the morn
ing. It sounds comic; it does indeed.
She picked it up from my grandchil
dren. Strathboro always had a literary
taste. This county has produced a
large proportion of the great men of
middle Tennessee, Mr. Hunter—a largo
proportion, even take the whole state
together, sir and, owing to the cir
cumstances 1 have related to you, a
rivaliy in the French language and lit
eratuiv sprang up among our people
ladies aiul children, that is, chietly— till
now. sir, almost as many of thciu have
read Vorinne.' sir. Mine, de Stael's
masterpiece, as are familiar with the
•Beulah' or 'St. Elmo' of our own Miss
Evans."
The judge spoke truly. It had come
about that learning French was the
game the town most affected, and ltlos-
Bier was, of course, the teacher.
The tone about him had not greatly
changed. A familiarity with French
had not much decreased Strathboro's
sense of the anomalous In the exist
ence of a Frenchman, but the face of
life had greatly altered to Blossier.
Stimulated by the gentle proddings of
Jane McCrath he had studied to lit
himself for his new calling, and it had
come about that he had developed a
little genuine simple interest in excr
cising his few w its, and, bless him. was
enjoying the sweets of the intellectual
life.
Moreover, though the tone of the
town about liiin had not much altered.
Its tone to him was necessarily iu the
new circumstances more friendly and
considerate, and that deeply touched
and pleased the little man.
He still lived by himself, but now It
was in"the otlice," in Mrs. Feinbroke's
yard, and so he was within the pale of
civilization and could be looked after
If lie fell sick. Jane had not rested till
that possibility was provided for. But
fate is apt to pass over the possibilities
scrupulously provided for. Blossier had
never spent a day in bed since he re
covered from his burns when one au
tumn the dear Jane herself sickened
and died and was laid away In that
shadow village always growing, grow
ing silently and ominously, by Strath
boro's side.
I'iHir Andy McCrath was indeed left, j
as A'nt 'Cindy said, like the half of n |
pair of scissors. Yes; that was it. lie
was now a something absurdly useless,
unnaturally unlit for existence, a some
thing to provoke the mirth of Olym
pus.
How strange a thing, still strange in !
Its awful familiarity, that a creature
so Inoffensive, liv ing in dumb, helpless
good faith the life thrust on him, could
seem so played upon!
At the funeral, after Jan? was laid
In the ground and the earth was well
heaped over her, Andy turned his poor,
bewildered, pain dazed eyes upon the
faces about him, and amid their wea
ried assumption of solemnity, beneath
which the usual easy little Interest In
the commonplace was already assert
ing its. If. he saw Blossier, his features
Working convulsively as he gazed with
pyes that <1 ill not see upon the hideous
mound.
It was not In Andv to feel resentment
I against the others Perhaps he, too.
realized in the depths of his wordless
consciousness that poor humanity
could hardly exist except as it is "well
wadded with stupidity," but his heart
went out to Mossier and was eased a
little at the sight of his grief
lie went to him anil took tiis hand,
j and without a word the two men, the
two piteous old children, went away
together from Jane'n grave.
Mniitlis went by, and Strathboro be
» line used to seeing them together and
liad almost ceased to gossip about the
liieif taste Andy showed when one
June day new fuel fed the flame of
popular criticism.
The week before Blossier had over
1 leartl one of his pupils, a middle aged
mmarried lady, say In his class to her
lea rest neighbor that "it was a plum
lhame the way poor Mrs. McCrath'*
little girls was running wild, with no
( body but A'nt 'Clmly to look after 'em,
und she so old she didn't know what
she was doing' anyhow," and that It
was her "'pinion that i»ore Miss jane
would rather they had a stepma than
to have 'em left with no raising at all
like that."
Jane had left four daughters. This
little incident gave Blossier food for
profound reflection. He reflected to
some purpose. That night, Instead of
going and sitting on the gallery steps
after supper with Andy, as usual, he
stopped outside the front gab and
called with a portentous, mysterious
air, "Meesdere Aiulee, Mees-tcrc Andee
-non, non!" lij answer to the invita
tion to enter, and then he beckoned,
still mysteriously, with sidelong, back
ward nods of the head, for Andy to
come to him. "Howdy?" said he when
Andy reached the gate, now assuming
a light, degage air, totally inconsistent
with his previous manner. "Come chcz
nioi, these eve-ning."
When Andy was seated on the steps
of"the office," Blossier brought him a
mint Julep and, with a glass of cheap
claret for himself, the one luxury of hid
prosperity, sat himself down in the
doorway.
"Mighty nice," said Andy politely.
"Cet your mint close by?"
But Blossier was so absorbed in try
ing to arrange his thoughts for presen
tation that he forgot to answer.
"Mees-tere Andee," lie at hist began,
"your leetle daughtere air r much upon
my meditation. 1 weis zey have ze boss
condition possible."
Andy stopped with the uplifted glass
half way to his mouth and began with
a troubled countenance scrupulously to
study its contents.
"My fatere was one taileur, Mees
tere Andee," Blossier inexplicably pro
ceeded, putting his glass down on the
step and talking eagerly, with out
stretched palms, "aud my moo-tere was
—was —she make tay, inose delicate
wlz fin-gere, et moi, me—l help, 1 liely
bote when I leetle, when I biggcre."
Andy had forgotten his glass now
and was staring and yet trying to look
polite and not too conscious of the
strangeness of French ways.
• "And, Mees-tere Andee, my fin-gere
| also, alway, even now —I sew for my
j clo'es myse'f alway, you not know? I
| know I do ainyt'ing zat way easee,
beautiful, and ze maniere, ze politeness
—ah, Mees-tere Andee, you know ze
French peepul zey have ze maniere—l
teach ze leetle daughtere all, I keep ze
houze, I sew de clo'es, so not in Strath
boro is such clo'es, Mees-tere Andee, si
vous—peremeet me, Mees-tere Andee,
come chez vous to your houze—you
comprehend?"
By this time Blossier was standing
on the walk in front of Andy, rapidly
pantomiming his ideas and pleading
with gesture as well as voice, as if
begging that children of his own
should be cared and labored for by
Andy. For a moment Andy stared on
In silence, and Blossier's heart was in
his mouth. Then he got up, caught and
wrung the Frenchman's hand an in
stant. dropped it and, turning his back,
pulled his old soft hat over his face.
Two days later Strathboro had the
' enormous excitement of seeing Blos
| sler's household goods—a queer little
' cartload they made—moved to Andy
j McCrath's house, and behind the cart
walked Blossier, carrying our old
friend, the double bass.
So was established the oddest house
hold south of Mason and Dixon's line.
It was a year before Strathboro
sounded the full depths of its oddity
and ceased to vibrate with the excite
ment of fresh discovery. Blossier took
completely a woman's place in the
household economy, and the world has
rarely seen few more toucliingly funny
eights than that little man sitting cross
legged on the floor of Jane's old sitting
room making feminine fripperies of an
unmistakably Parisian character, friv
olous and modish, airy and coquettish,
to be worn by his favorite, the faithful
but stolid Janey. He sits there yet, |
bald, a little shaky, annoyingly dim of
' sight, but still enjoying turning out,
for Janey's babies now, such dainty
confections of laces and ribbons as no
other fingers in Strathboro have ever
concocted. Strathboro has long ago
accepted Andy McCrath's establish
ment—for Andy still heads it—as one
of its peculiar possessions and takes
much pride in it, and Jimmy Pendle
ton, who buys goods in Memphis, or
one of Judge Caldwell's granddaugh
ters, who Is a belle and visits the best
people from Louisville to New Orleans,
or any of the most traveled residents
of the place, will tell you again and
I again that the fame of its French and
its Frenchman has gone abroad as far
as west Tennessee aud southern Ken
tucky and even northern Alabama.
Janey only of the children, with her
husband and her children, lives in the
old place. The rest are married and
scattered, and Andy and Blossier seem
to depend on euch other more and
more as the years go by. They never
had anything to say to each other, and
they have nothing now, but they love
to sit side by side on the gallery on
summer evenings or by the open fire
in winter, as might two rough coated,
long acquainted old dogs and with no
more sense of failure of companionship
In the silence. Each understands how
past and present are mingled In the
other's mind as Janey's children tum
ble about, nlghtgowncd for their final
romp, and each knows the dear figure
that as wife or patron saint is ever in
] the other's thoughts, though Jane Me
j Grath has been buried so long that
»ven in this small world she Is become
to others little more than a name on a
tombstone, and together these two look
forward quite trustfully to the time
when their names also shall be on
| tombstones. And, surely, if there is
j assurance for the merciful and the
meek and the pure in heart—for the
ialt of the earth, In short—as to that
veiled and awful door through which
poor humanity is always crowding,
they may be assured.
O % €»r#*o (liik.
The habit of overeating Is far too
common, even with those persons who
practice moderation In other ways. The
day laborer may habitually indulge in
an amount of food without injury
which would seriously affect a person
of a less active mode of life because
bis heavy work burns off the excess of
food, but In most cases the excess of
food is not carried off by a so called
bilious attack, and then. If there Is no
work to burn up the supply, what hap
pens?
In some constitutions dyspepsia, in
others an ever increasing bulk. Now
this bulk disinclines to exertion, so
that with Increase of bulk less work
Is done, while there is a growing disin
clination to exertion, even a repug
nance In extreme eases to any form of
exercise. These cases are among the
most difficult the physician can treat,
for the sufferer, though he may wish
for relief, lacks the energy to find it.
As a rule stoutness Is connected with
errors of diet -errors of excess perhaps
of teller than people are prepared to ad
mit, but often to errors of kind.—Jour
nal of Health.
i owl it ml 4'«»!*«».
A net ton of coke of the quality suit
able for domestic purposes runs about
forty-eight to tlfty bushels to the ton
as against about thirty-six to thirty
eight bushels of haid coal to the ton.
iffI'CLILLER'S 1
1 CREATION:
Com/right, 190?, '•(/ !
♦ -d/fuWflOl i*l'«JiH yttuoctufiijn ♦
» PORTRAIT of Zuloika," tall. ;
sheer, with the Introspective |
JT 30k K* l z<> old time salntship In
tin? eyes that looked out 1
from under gold shot hair lying 1" dap
pled lilies across the forehead; short ;
lips uii which the paint gleamed fresh. !
'!i r bent lils head erincally.
"As good as you make 'em." suggest
ed his friend from a lounge in the cor
ner.
"No," said McCuller; "wants life. It
is the artistic basis which 1 lack; ex
presses her, though, 'soft as the mem- j
ory of buried love.' Humph! Not quite, j
What do you say, Pybus?"
He turned, weighing the palette in '
his hands. "Strange how the face
clings to me! An idea, my idea, mate
rialized, created from nothing, like
God's world. For the furtherance of
, what? My own glory? Not as long as
I the eyelids appear as if they had never
| winked. See; they stare too much."
j Pybus raised himself on one elbow
j to look at the picture through half
j shut eyes. "I'ush it back against the
; portiere—so. Crimson sets it, as it
were, in relief. There; that's better.
i Now she breathes."
"No; but I wish she did. Pybus, it
; is Pygmalion over again. I could love
i her if she lived."
j "And feed her? McCuller, you are
! crazy. If she lived, you would have to
1 nim
j^£lp
'! jL'r ■ ' fl'y* yf W
■ fai
They tjnzed <\t each other.
support her, and she would worry you.
As it is, you possess her and she need
not eat. Re thankful."
"I am. Rut, Pybus, what a glorious
! conceit to command life to the eyes,
j call the blood from heart to lips"—
"You did not paint the heart."
"None the less possible to will it into
existence. To will- do you understand?
For, if the emanations of a divine will
can effuse themselves into created ma
terial substance, why should not hu
j nmn will by the potency of Its divine
genu evolve into a sentient, an already
| visible, conception?"
"(roodby, McCuller. I came here to
recreate, not to speculate upon divine
| emanations. There is nothing divine
about me. Goodby."
"Yes; it is speculation, Pybus. Every
j thing is speculation. You and I are
| speculations. Do not imagine"— Rut
! Pybus slammed the door, and McCul
i ler finished his speech alone.
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"Pybus."
"Well?"
"Will we succeed In getting this in
sane idea out of McCuller's head?"
"I >on't know."
"Jones says he's getting morbid on
the subject."
"Who is Jones?"
"No; McCuller."
"He's about right." *"
"Who—McCuller ?"
"No; Jones."
There was a knock at tho door, and
Stedd blew away a cloud of smoke as
he said. "Come in!"
The door not opening immediately,
he rose, swearing beneath his breath
at the trouble. He got half way across
the room before a slight tigure crossed
the threshold and a tremulous voice
began:
"I was told to come in"—
"Yes," Stedd executed a bow, "Miss"—
"Peyton."
"Ah! Mr. Jones sent you?"
"Yes."
"Has he told you what you are to
do?"
"Yes, sir. Ho said I was to stand in
a frame and personate 'Zuleika' for a
joke. I—he told me it was being done
to ridicule a friend of bis out of some
morbid idea."
"Yes; it Is all right. Mr. Jones hap
pened to see you at jour window and
was struck with your resemblance to
the picture. You are almost an exact
reproduction. We concocted this plan
in order to have a laugh over our
friend."
"So Mr. Jones said. And—you will
pay me as soon as it Is over?"
"Oh, yes! You said—Mr. Jones said
—your father was ill, unconscious?"
"Yes." Her lip quivered suddenly.
"It was solely on his account that I
consented to come. We are very poor.
I can't get anything for him, and I am
» fraid he will"—
| Site broke off abruptly. Stedd thought
the was going to cry.
"Mr. Jones offered me so much," she
ended brokenly, "I could not refuse."
"No." The affair seemed gradually
to be assuming tragic proportions. Tho
two men exchanged looks.
"We shall wait outside the studio to
hear the particulars of the Joke," said
; Stedd half hcartedly. It struck him as
! Incongruous that this girl was to per
j pet rate it. Her face was too white,
j and the strained expression in her eyes
| smote him.
"It is tonight?" she asked in a re
signed tone, and he nodded seriously.
"Yes. Can you go with us now?"
j "Yes." She drew down her veil, ad
justing her vjraps, and they went down
the stairs.
"Say, Pybus, call a cab." Stedd whis
' pored it shamefacedly, pushing his
friend forward, and Pybus led the way
1 up. Miss Peyton followed.
"l)o you mind," he asked deferential
' lv after he had explained matters •
* "will you stand here?"
Miss Peyton posed obediently against
the canvas, from which the"Portrait
of Zuleika" had disappeared. Her gray
draperies threw out the soft tints of
eyes and hair, and Pybus, lowering the
lump on tlie mantel, left the room with
a lugubrious "perfect" on his lips. Soon
1 after, as he and Stedd stared reflective
ly from their hiding place behind tho
stairs. McCuller passed theiu and weut
) up the steps.
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McCuller threw himself into a chair.
From the alcove where the frame
! stood came subdued sighing, as of some
| one in trouble.
"My very ears deceive me," McCuller
said Irritably. "Why on earth do these
| hallucinations persecute me? Have I
| daubed and striven for this, to degen
erate at last into insanity? No; I have
worked too steadily, brooded too much,
perhaps. Humanity is not machinery,
] however much we may try to identify
j them. There is always the soul. Ah,
that's it! With these higher powers,
I why might one not— Pshaw! I am
! nervous, run down. I need a tonic."
He strode toward the alcove and
flung aside the portieres. Miss Pey
ton's eyes met his dreamily a second;
then—
"You?"
"I."
They gazed at each other three min
utes after that. Then the girl said:
"You have forgotten me, of course;
j but, believe me, I would not have come
j had I known."
"Who are you?" McCuller tried in
vain to recall some incident connected
with the girl's face, but it eluded him.
"Dora Peyton. You helped me over
a crossing with my father a year ago.
It was raining"—
"Yes; I remember now. Your father
was"—
"Not himself." She drew in her
breath quickly. Then all at once she
gave him her hand. "Oh, I have never
forgotten! There were so many look
ing on and—laughing. They wero all
unkind, but you"—
"Cleared the crossing and took you
home," McCuller laughed lightly.
"Well, as a reward you have come
here to— What is it that you have
come here for, and who told you to
come?"
"Your friend, Mr. Jones. He said
you were"—
"Insane?"
"No, morbid about 'Zuleika.' I was
to personate her—for money—but had
I known"—
"Wero the boys going to play a joke
on me? Well, you have spoiled it."
She started. "I did not think— Of
course I will not take the money."
"Are you so much in need of
money ?"
"Yes. My father is lying at home
unconscious. I had to come"— She
paused hopelessly.
"So it was your face that clung to
me." McCuller smiled. How utterly
absurd that a factory girl leading
home her drunken father In the dead
of night, saved by him from being fol
lowed by a Jeering mob—that this face
Been for a moment in the gaslight
should have formed his conception of
"Zuleika." And the girl herself? He
had forgotten her entirely.
"You say you remember me?" he
asked curiously. "It was a year ago."
She only nodded. She did not say,
"Yes; I thought of you, dreamed of
you as the one chivalrous hero amid
countless scores of ruffians whom I
knew."
Well, it was natural that she should
have remembered him. It was also
natural that he should have forgotten
her.
"You will not think I meant to play
a Joke on you?" she said anxiously,
laying great stress upon the "you."
Then she lo iked at Liin with "Zulei
ka's" eyes and smiled at him with "Zu
leika's" mouth. .McCuller was mor
bid. He had worked too steadily; ho
was run down and needed a tonic.
"If I let you go," be said irrelevant
ly, " 'Zuloika' will aeem more dead to
me than ever."
"Well," sh« said In a little grieved,
heartbroken way, "she is dead."
"Are you Jtnlous of her?" he asked
reflectively, for her eyes had grown
quite wet.
"No." she said untruthfully, pushing
back her gold phot Lair—"no; I am not
Jealous. She la dead."
"That Is true." he said. "Well, will
you let me love you instead of 'ZuleU
ka ?'"
"If you wish it very much," she said,
letting him take her hands with an af
fectation of reluctanco which pleased
McCuller greatly.
"So I have waked my 'Zuleika' after
all," he said Ave minutes later and
went to the head of tbo stairs and
called:
"Come up here, you traitors!"
They came up.
"Stedd, Pybus," then, turning to them,
"my future wlf«." And Pybus stam
mered something incoherently, while
Stedd said explosively, " 'Pun my word.
McCuller, If you can originate noth
ing cAse you can create a sensation."
Entertainment* In Ilarma.
There is no Rurmese theater, but
when a Rurman wishes to entertain his
friends be engages a troupe of actors
and actresses to give a performance lu
a space which he curtains oft outside
his house. Scenic effect is entirely dis
pensed with, the stage being simply a ,
platform decorated with flags. When
the actors and actresses have said their
parts, they step down from the plat
form to sit among the audience and
smoke their cheroots until it is time
for them togo on again. No dressing
rooms are provided for them, and they
are therefore compelled to make up be
fore the admiring gaze of the audience.
The play is, as a rule, far too realistic
to please respectable Europeans, but
the Rurmese follow the fortunes of the
prince and princess—the chief charac
ters are almost invariably royal per
sonages—with the greatest interest.
The performance generally com
mences at 9 o'clock at night, and fre
quently the doings of the hero and her
oine are strung out to such an enor
mous length that daybreak finds the
actors still performing and the audi
ence as interested as ever. Sometimes
the play is so long that it takes three
nights to get through it.
He Could.
"Can I put up here tonight?" asked
the seedy man who was signing his
name in the hotel register.
"Yes, sir," said the clerk; "in ad
vance."
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A well known New Yorker was asked
the question why he always kept his
intended departure for Europe a se
cret. He said he was forced to do so
to be saved from his friends.
"As a matter of fact," said he, "It's
because 1 want to escape Iteing made
a purchasing agent for a dozen or two
people whom I know. Whenever they
learn that I am about togo abroad
they overwhelm me with commissions
of nil kinds.
"One man wants a photograph of a
certain tower of the Castle of Heidel
berg; another wants a peculiar kind of
matchsafe, which may he bought at a
certain shop in Paris; a third is anx
ious to have a few London neckties,
and others want umbrellas, sticks, op
era glasses, cigar holders, jewels or
something else.
"It's a nuisance, in the first place, to
buy these things, especially if you are
in a hurry.
"Then when you arrive back In New
York you are likely to have trouble
with the customs officials, because your
friends always expect to get their ar
ticles in duty free. Resides, no one
ever pays you in advance, and you
have togo around dunning the people.
"You often buy things that do not
suit the persons who have asked the
favor of you, and their disappointed
looks or words make you feel unpleas
ant. I have been through these experi
ences several times."—New York Her
ald.
Simple, hnt Ffferttre.
The three little girls of the three
summer boarders had been bltieberry-
Ing with the farmer's daughter and all
four had come home with stains on
their skirts. The three little boarders
flew upstairs to their respective moth
ers, and the farmer's daughter repaired
to her mother in the kitchen.
Late in the afternoon the boarders
sought the farmer's wife on the kitchen
porch.
"Oh, Mrs. Rrown," said one of them,
"Just look at the children's skirts!
We've tried that new powder on them
and three kinds of stain soap and ben
tine and everything we had to take
out those blueberry stains, and they've
wily spread. Could you suggest any
thing more?"
Mrs. Rrown looked at the skirts and
Ihook her head.
"I'm afraid you've set 'em in too
firm," she said. "I got Jane's out with
out a mite o' trouble."
The boarders gathered close around
ss she exhibited Jane's skirt, spotless
ind unwrlnklcd.
"Oh, do tell us what you used!" they
chorused eagerly, and a mild smile of
triumph played over Mrs. Brown's
Vean countenance.
"I Just took and put it over a bowl,"
•he said calmly, "and poured boiling
water over it. Took about a cupful to
get the color all out, but I eal-lute to
fill the kettle about once in so often,
anyway."
nonnoo Marira ■ rouble.
"Some people 1 know,"he began in
ail insinuating tone, "act very much
like a hoodoo."
"Who do?" asked his indignant and
suspicious friend.
"YVs, that's what I said hoodoo!"
"Well, answer my question—who
do?"
"You stupendous ass, that's what I
say hoodoo! Hoodoo! Hoodoo!"
"You hopeless, gibbering idiot, that's
what I'm asking you who do? Who
do? Who do?"
At last their friends found them
locked In a deadly embrace, chewing
each other's ears, and long before the
attempt at explanation was completed
each had been placed tenderly In a
heavily padded apartment. Los An
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AN ORDINANCE.
To Regulate the Licensing of Shoot
ing Galleries or other Temporary
Establishments, Devices or Appli
ances for the test of skill or Strength
or for the Purpose of Amusement,in
the Rorough of Danville in the
Comity of Montour and State of
Pennsylvania, and for other pur
poses.
RE IT ORDAINED AND ENACT
ED by the Town Council of the Ror
ough of Danville in the County of
Montour and State of Pennsylvania in
Council assembled, and it i- lioieby
ordained and enacted by the authority
of the same: That it --hull not be law
ful for any person or persons to open,
display, exhibit or conduct any shoo?
ing gallery or other temporary establ
ishment, device or appliance for the
tost of skill or strength, or for the
pnrpoes of amusement, within the
limits of the Rorough of Danville un
til a license therefore shall have been
first obtained from the Chief Burgee
of the said Rorough and for which said
license such person or persons shall
pay a minimum charge of five dollar
for the first ten days of such license,
and no less than fifty cents nor more
than one dollar per day for each and
every day thereafter, at the disere
tioon of the Chief Rurgcss. Any per- -
son or persons who shall violate any
of the provisions of this section of
this ordinance shall forfeit and pay a
line of not less than twenty dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars for
each and every such offense.
SECTION 2. All lines, penalties
and license fees imposed by any of the
provisions of this ordinance may he
sued for, collected and recovered be
fore any Justice of the Peace of the
said Rorough of Danville as debts of.
like amount and fines and penalties
• imposed for the violation of Rorough
Ordinances are now_by law collectable
and recoverable, and shall be paid
over to the Treasurer of said Borough
for the use of said Rorough.
SECTION ;S All oidinances or parts
of ordinances inconsistent with or con
trary to the provions of this ordinance
are hereby repealed.
WILLIAM (». PURSEL,
Chief Burgess.
Attest : HARRY R. PATTON,
Secretary of the Rorough of Danville.
Council Chamber, May 15th, 15MW
"" A GOOD PRESCRIPTION.
LuuKhtcr iim 11 ( urn and
Ai<l to Health.
Worry is but one of the many forma
of ffar, so that worrx teud.s to the
I>r<><l uctiiin il'
U-iuls to jmt .he IH..|y of the subject In ,
a <'o!i«lition that favor-" worry. There
1b thus establistied a vlctoM ctwli .
which tt-nds to jiiTiM'tuute ith»-lf. each
element the other.
It is necessary to seeurt* a cheerful,
wholesome atmosphere for the dy»- 1
pei»ti<*. lie slioiilil eat hiH meals ut a |
talile where there Is jrood fellowship •
anil where fimn.t stories are told, lie
should himself make .-t great effort to I
i-oiilrilmte In- shale of this at the table, J
even if it be nece-~sarj, as It was In oue
case un<lcr my care, for liim to solemn
ly and seriously eollect funny |>aiu- I
graphs from the press, and at first in- 1
terject them spasmodiealls during lullu
in the conversation at the table. The [
very efforts and determination of the i
man to roiverf his own silent habits at j
table, to eorrect his feelings of dl*-
eouraKement and worry, were in them
selves a Jilolilise of success. 'l'be ef ]
l'ort made was adequate to the ol.sta
cles to lie overcome. He sueeeeded, and (
the of that man ti*>iuk to
be funny at table when he felt thor
oughly discounted and blue is one we
shall never forget.
Laughing is In itself also a useful
exercise from the standpoint of dlges- 1
tion. It stirs up all the abdominal ,
organs, it increases the circulation of
the blood, It increases peristalsis, It la
creases the secretion of gastric Juice*.
Five minutes' deliberate laughing itftt*
each meal would bo an excellent pre
scription for some people. Family im*
tor. :
The Roorback.
Over fifty years ago a writer of toon
umcntal but plausible lies In Tburlow
Weed's Albany Evening Journal slgmd
his letters "Baron Rourbuch." There
was no such baron. There wus no man
named "Itoorbacb." Hut the absolute
falsity of the writer's statements was
such that a "roorbach" became a syno
nym for any kind of lie, especially for
the kind against personal character
suddenly issued against a man for his
Injury when he could not meet It in
time to avert the harm. The lie of poll
tics, the lie started for political pur
poses, is the "roorbach" most in use the
week before election. Brooklyn Eagle.
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TIME TABLE
In Effect May 24th, 11XKJ.
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t'reasy " 7 52 10 U 2V. 6HI
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H.-ruiltoil " " 10 0S 124 524 2W -••'
s WtwkdavM. t liaily. 112 Flag station.
Pullman Parlor and Slee|.lnir Cars run on
tlirouitli trains t>etween Sur>l»ury, Willlaoiaport
mi.l Erie, between Snabary ai..« Phila.lel|iUia
and Waslilnnton and hetween Harrlsiiuri" Pitts
huru and the West.
Kor lurther Inlormatlon apply to Ti. ket Agents
W. \V. A'ITKKBI IIV I K. Win 111,
(i«*nl. ManHKer. lieu I Phhi. II I Akl
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Went PlttMton »10 417 7a*
Mu.vjuebaiina Ave oil 12 14 42k IH
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Darjraa 4* 1111
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fNlop* on signal or on no4i<-« Ui coaducf r.
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SfjrlisiX !
Ciieap I
Italia, cla 1
Bicycle, Cymnailum and
Tennis Shoes.
THK CKLKHRATtO
Carlisle Shoes
AND THE
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•poutlnc ono Qonotol
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Furnocoo. oto.
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