Yellow Mat's Heiress By HARRISON SMITH Copyright, linU, t>u R(char<( It. ShelUm ll =a The Interstate limited had rumbled along for tlie last hour ami 11 hall across brown, level plains, whose hope less homogeneity of landscape was onlj occasionally relieved by clumps of tie Jected and no less hopeless cotton woods. Presently the whistle tooleil hoarsely. There was a ju'lndiii). of sei brakes, and the train slowed down and came to a stop before a bare little stn tlon, a derelict seemingly in this leve waste. Tancred rose rather unwillingly fron his comfortable chair and. preceded bj the obsequious porter bearing hi> heavy suit case, stepped from the lim ite I. "I I don't think I understand you," she said, regarding him with wonder ing eyes. "Cousin Peter is responsible," he ob served. "Oh!" she gasped. "Was It all that?" "Yes." he said. "You understand, of course, why I go?" She was silent. Her face was turned from him again. Presently he caught the sound of a sob. "Miss Parsons tlertrude!" he cried, and such are resolutions— he put his arm about her. "I'll I'll give it away," she said, sob bing unrestrainedly on his shoulder. And because of this, brown, bare Yel low I'lat became the garden of Eden —to Tailored, at least. A ROMAN FIASCO. Tho ( olomnnl Shuw That Wan rial - lied l>» S» in ■■■ aeh ua. Symmachus, last of the great nobles of Home, who, blinded by tradition, thought to revive the glories of his beloved city by reviving its shame, graphically describes the anxieties of the preparations for one of these co lossal shows, on which he is said to have spent what would be about £BO.- 000 of our money. He began a year In advance. Horses, bears, lions, Scotch dogs, crocodiles, chariot driv ers. hunters, actors and the best glad iators were recruited from all parts. But when the time drew near nothing was ready. Only a few of the animals had come, and these were half dead of hunger and fatigue. The bears had not arrived and there was no news of tho lions. At the eleventh hour the crocodiles reached Home, but they re fused to eat and had to lie killed all at once in order that they might not die of hunger. It was even worse with the gladiators who were intend ed to provide, as in all these beast shows, the crowning entertainment. Twenty nine of the Saxon captives, whom Symmachus had chosen on ac count of the well known valor of their race, strangled one another in prison rather than tight to the death for the amusement of their conquerors. And Symmachus, with all his real elevation of mind, was moved to nothing but dissrust by their sublime choice! Home in her greatest days had gloried In these shows. How could a man be a patriot who set his face against customs which followed the Roman eagles round the world? How many times since then lias patriotism been held to require the extinction of moral sense?—<'ontemporary Review. NORMAN DISTRUST. One Simple Way by U'btch a Trmrel er May Diaarm It. The greatest obstacle to agreeable pedestrianism in Normandy is the pro verbial Norman distrust. The Nor man's distrust of the stranger takes the form of a comical sort of terror of being financially duped, cheated or swindled, not to say robbed—probably because he is himself perpetually en gaged in financial duping. If the tramper does not succeed in disarming by one means or another Norman distrust his tramping life in Normandy will be made a burden to him. Norman distrust can be disarm ed, but It cannot be disarmed in an in stant, a l'Americaine. It takes time to do it the Norman Is the last person In the world to stand and deliver—and there is no social device to be mention ed in the same breath with drinking for courteously consuming time. If the tramper asks a simple (jues tion at a farmhouse he cannot decently linger not in Normandy—after his question is answered. If he makes a petty purchase In a store his sltua tion Is only a trifle less awkward, eince he Is morally obliged to retire as KOOU as tiie transaction is completed. On the other hand, he has only to or der a drink in this country of cider find applejack every store and nearly every farmhouse sells liquor—to be en titled to sit at a table for as long as he wills it and to talk.—Rooklovers' Magazine Hand* Wfff Shaking Already. An American actor once attended a duel in Paris for the sole purpose of vtudying the demeanor of the duelists He was preparing at the time to act a duelist's role in a new play Idscussing this combat afterward, he ua id' "I confess that I learned very little from it The men were too well scared to teach me anything that would have been of service in a serious stage duel. They reminded me. in fact, of a story that Edwin Booth used to tell "This story concerns two principals who. after they had exchanged shots harmlessly, were urged by their sec rinds to shake hands They were about to do so when a bystander, who had iooked on at their duel despite their re quests that he depart, exclaimed In a disgusted tone " "It's hardly necessary for them to lhake hands Their hands have bo«n shaking this half hour,'" A I rgul Antiquity. The feeling upon the subject of oaths among the earlier colonists of Mary land is shown by the following e*tr*« from a petition of assemblymeu of tb« province, addressed to the lord pro prietary In and "signed by all the members present" "We do further humbly request your lordship that hereafter such things at* your lordship may desire of us may be done with as little swearing as con veniently may tie, experience teaching us that a great occasion is given to much perjury when swearing beconaeth coin won." Her Leap Year Inspiration By TROY ALLISON foj/yrlflW. (#O4, by K II WfrUehtivi D- =<: Miss Sevier was worried. She wit at the front l>edroom window Impatiently tapping the arm of hei wicker rocker with one hand and uslnf a finger of the other to keep place li the book that hung the length of a list less arm on the other side of the chair The attitude of the two bunds was I a fine index to her disposition. Six was listless and bored by the monotonj of her life, but there was a strough combative element In her nuture thai made it impossible for her to aeeep l It with the placidity shown by the oth *r women she knew. She was tired of teas. She had amused herself calculating Just how many gallons she had drunk In the tei | fears of her social career. At twentj It bad seemed highly elating to put or her newest gown and drink tea with e crowd of people. She couid even re member thut the addition of a bund of violets to her costume had ut ont time given a decided pleasure. But ut thirty she forgot to plu on th« violets, even when there was a huge Jk Sm W Z//MI // RE OPINED THE BOX WITH AN EXPRESSION OF CUKIOBITY. bunch In front of her on the dresser, unless her maid suggested that It would improve madam's toilet. She sighed in recognition of the fuct that real life doesn't work out like nov els. The book was u new one and In Its second edition, and her lack of Interest In it proved conclusively to Miss Se vler's mind that her trouble was re;ii and deep rooted. Some of her energy finally communi cated itself to the other hand. She threw the hook on ttie table near and commenced an energetic rocking that kept pace with her thoughts. "Money is the root of all evil, and I've always had too much of it.l wonder which is the worse, a deficit or an excess I believe that a* a child it was a pleasanter feeling to want more candy than to have eaten too much. "The worst feature of this money is that It has always attracted a crowd of flatterers and worthless friends and has caused so many that I really cared lor to let their pride come between me and them. I have known John » star of u second edition Miss Sevier's restless glance >oi>k in the novel "That fool 111 tlie novel had a tenot rolce, too. but be wasn't handicapped by a lack of self appreciation. "If I had asked him to sing 'For you it Is a rose; for me it is my heart," ut least ::»HI times in the la>' tb'"e years, if 1 had played his ac<'<>u;pan. luent and putin it all the feeling u longing heart could possibly show when supplemented by my poor tecb nique, that hero would have forgotten all about my money and asked lue u marry him. "I know he loves me, but I don't be lieve he will ever master enough cour age to tell me so unless I donate all my money to a hospital or do the proposing myself " There was a tap at the door, and Miss Sevier's young niece came rushing In. Esther always rushed, so her imrnedi ate family were never much startled by her sudden entrances and exits "Auntie" —she tried to make her re quest and explain her plan all at once— "may I write and ask Tom Carter to take me to the party tomorrow night? The girls are all going to ask, and I wanted to know If I might." "What's the cause of Mr. Carter's sudden popularity," her aunt asked, with a decided amount of astonish ment in her eyes "Now, auntie, you know we are riot all going to nsk him but any one we would like to take. It's a leap year party, you know 'T see," returned Miss Sevier slowly, "and you simply want me to under stand that one Mr. Thomas Carter Is the very nicest boy among your ac qualntances, »*h ?" "He's really nice and the very nicest," Esther answered, a red flush spreading to the roots of her fair hair. "May I, nuntie, pleaseV" "If all the other girls are of the same opinion, perhaps you would be wise to (ret your note written at otiee," teased her aunt. The girl gave tier an Impulsive kiss and then looked at her with a twinkle In her eye. "I would like awfully to write it on a sheet of your best paper," she coaxed. After her sixteen year old niece had disappeared, having taken some of th« best paper and the sealing wax to match. Miss Sevier went back to the window and stood gazing abstractedly at the house across the street. The house had been there for years, but she seemed to study it with Intense Interest. "I ktiow he loves me." she murmured, and she may or may not have referred to the grocery boy that was Just then ringing the bell of the house opposite. She wf nt to her writing desk and cut a very creditable looking heart out of • piece of the beat paper thut hud been 1 the object of Esther's admiration Across the face of the heart she print j ed In faint scrawling letters."To you It is a ro«e," then rang for her maid tc get ertalu the nature of the approaching danger, and. having gazed n moment at the advancing hunter, whisking their brlndle talis aloft, helter skelter they thunder down craggy precipices and over yawning ra vines where no less agile foot could dare to follow them."—Saturday Ke view TOMB OF CONFUCIUS. One of the ( hlef Spots of Interest In the Orient. The city of Cbufuhsleti, the Mecca of the believers In Confucianism, Is In the province of Shaugtung. on* of the most populous districts of the orient. Here Confucius was born, aud here his sacred bones lie buried. The tomb, which is located in one of the largest cemeteries In the province, about three miles out from the city above mention ed. Is one of the most imposing In the whole empire. The grave Itself is Surmounted by an earth mound about twelve feet In height, the whole surrounded by a cluster of gnarled oaks and stately ry press trees Before the mound Is a tablet als>u t six feet broad and twenty feet high, upon which are Inscribed the names and deeds of the great founder of < 'onfuclanlsm, a rellgtou adhered to by over 400,UKi.iKX) human beings The burden of this Inscription, according to reliable translation, is "Perfect One." "Absolutely Pure," "Perfect Sage," "First Teacher," "e under water the lirst great step hag l>een taken toward learning to swim Many otherwise good swimmers have ne\l so preserving his breath he gasp" involuntarilv aud naturally *w«l lows v. ater and the choking sensation at once forces him to exhale what breath l.e ha* left and gasp again I'onfide'■ o nmler water should be the first K-ssou in swimming. | V/HF.N STAMPS WERE NEW. Troulilc In <.««f Una lo Mick Mi#*in o*i ih«* l:n % elope. W'lwu postage st;U)i)»s first <-hiih» in to use," said a veteran postal clerk, : "the |>111 >1 i<- didn't know Imw to handle I them. >on remember how, wlwn tea | and coffti' first appeare I anions us. the | people fried the tea leaves and the eof fee berries and served tlieni with salt' and pepper? Well, the people treated ; their stamps as absurdly in lsr.t. "Some folks would put the stamps in side their letters, out of sight Here Is the official notice that we issued to stop that practice The clerk took from the drawer an | aged bulletin that said: "The stamps upon all letters and packages must be affixed on the out side thereof and above the address ( thereon." lie put back this bulletin and drew forth another one "People would pin the stamps on their letters instead of gumming them,'' he said, "and when they did gum tlietn the.v would not do it right; hence this second bulletin," and he read: " 'Persons posting letters should af fix the requisite number of stamps pre- j vlous to depositing them in the letter receivers, as when posted in a damp state the stamps are liable to rub off and thereby cause the letters to be treated as unpaid. Do not pin on the stamps.' "Still," said the clerk, "the public didn't understand. Think of It—it didn't understand the simple matter of sticking a postage stamp on a letter. Bo we got out a third bulletin." The third bulletin. In big, Impatient j letters, said: "The simplest and most effectual method of causing stamps to adhere firmly Is first to moisten well the out- , side of the stamps and afterward the gummed side slightly, taking care not to remove the gum." The clerk said that a philatelist had offered hiut sl2 apiece for these three queer bulletins.—Galveston Tribune. THE UDUMt I tK. it K non n (<» KnKln«*«rn of the % l»*\n nd rln n School. The odometer, an instrument for measuring distance traversed in a car riage, Is no modern invention. The first description of it is to be found In a fragment of a tireek treatise and Was known to engineers of the Alex andrian school. Passing to more modern days, we find that on Jan. 1. 15P8, a book was published in Nuremberg which pro fessed to give a "succinct, detailed and positive explanation" of various sys tems of measurement by means of I •uch an instrument. This "divider," as the author calls it, had a wheel which carried in its axle an Indicator worked by the circular movement; at each turn a needle made a stroke, which was transmitted to the dial. ; This odometer, divided Into 100 equal parts, had a long hand and a short, like modern clocks, the latter moving one stroke as often as its big brother made a complete round of the dial Another odouieter, said to have been invented by l'eter the .2 45 oo! i Plym'th Ferry " 8 725 110 42; 112 2 52 t'B 07 | Nantlcoke " 732 10 50 | 301 6 17 I Mocanaqua .... " 742 11 07 820 837 I Wapwallopen.. " 801 11 Hi 331 647 'Nescopeck ar 810 11 2k 342 7 0«» .vm!' A.M. P.M. Pottsvllle lv 55n ;Sll 55 ' I Hazleton " ' 705 ...... 245 't'l 45i Tomhicken "I 7 22 305 305 Fern Glen " 721 i 315 315 Kock (ilen "| 7 > 5 8 22 3 22. Nescopeck . .. ar' 102 Catawlssa j '• 400400 .. . I&. SI A.M P.M. P Ml - Nescopeck... . lv's 818 sll 26 34237 00 Creasy • j 83( 11 30 352 709 Espy Ferry... ''l« 4; 11 4ti I 402 7an E. 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A M Pittsburg ar j 6 55 || 160 || 1 50 , 5 30 _ P.M. P MA Mi AM Pittsburg lv ,710J 900 3 00118 00! .... IA. M A M| | P M Harrisburg.... ar'j 200 j 4 25fi1l 25h 3 10; ... j I P.M AM! Plttsbuig lv I y 00; 800 .... A.M. PM ij ment or Card '» y) an advertisement for your business, a satisfaction to you New Type, New Presses, ~ Best Paper, Met Work, '' Promptness- All you can ask. A trial will mak« you our customer. We respectfully ask that trial. 111 II *4l No. ii F. Mahoning St.. DANVILLE.