A CORNER IN
PARADISE
By KEITH GORDON
Ciwright, by P. C. Eastmrnt
"\\ hat do you suppose Adam and
Eve talked about?" inquired the girl
In the Hongkong chair, with a yawn,
as she settled her Burne-Jones propor
tions u trifle moi'f luxuriously in the
barbaric splendor of the pillows and
clasped her large, shapely hands above
the shadowy darkness of her head.
"Love," replied the man, with la
conic promptness. "There wasn't any
thing else for them to talk about, so
far as I can see."
Miss Chesterton's glance slowly de
tached itself from the enchanting pic
ture of turquoise water and topaz is
lands afforded by the oval opening In
the curtain of vines that screened the
veranda and rested coolly upon him.
"There was the weather," she argued
sweetly, "and the birds and flowers."
"You forget that Adam was a man,"
observed her companion, with just a
perceptible stress upon the lust word.
A silence followed, In which the ap
palling beauty of a California August
held them spellbound. Miss Chester
ton drew a sharp breath; then she re
sumed the conversation once more.
"All men don't," was her somewhat
Incoherent remark.
Dinsmore bad the air of a man sud
denly recalled to consciousness from a
state of suspended animation.
"Don't what?"
She flushed and looked injured. Al
ready the unpardonable sin loomed
large in the perfect beauty of their
small, quiet world.
"Don't forget what one's talking
about," she retorted crisply.
He gave an amused laugh. "You
mustn't lay It up against me," was his
contrite plea. "You see, I feel like a
fly caught In the amber; like—like
by Jove, it's too beautiful!"
She nodded understaudingly, nnd
again a silence fell, unbroken save by a
wistful bird noto.
Meantime, slowly and painfully,
measuring every inequality with its yel
low, jelly-like length, a slug crawled
steadily along the garden path and up
and over step after step until It gained
the veranda where the two were sit
ting.
Neither of them perceived the new
comer, though it was a fine, large
specimen, fully eight inches long and
as large around as one's thumb, of
the sort sometimes sought for by east
erners who like to carry the proof of
their stories back with thein. It made
>■■ RANK SLOWLY BACK UPON THE CUSH
IONS.
Its way along the tloor of the veranda
and up one of the wicker legs of Miss
Chesterton's chair as If It recognized
the woman as unerringly as did the
••rpeni :«f old.
A little scream broke the stillness.
Coming back from a dreamy, sensuous
••ntemplation of the passion flowers
that hung like Jewels among the dusky
rafters of the porch. Miss Chesterton's
■tartied glance fell upon the long, fat,
glutinous snail stretched out upon the
arm of her chair, ns If enjoying a well
earned rest after the prolonged trip
from hs home at the root of the clump
of calla lilies.
"Gracious:" she exclaimed ns Dltis
*iore leaned toward her questionlngly.
"How on earth did it get here?"
"History repeats itself," was his
meaning reply as he watched the In
truder, whose horns pointed upward In
an aggressive fashion. "I hope you
are Impressed by the fact that Its er
rand Is evidently with you. You will
notice that It Is perfectly contented
t'lere, and by the way It opens that lit
t e circular window in the side of Its
Lead I should think It was listening
for what you might have to say."
For a moment they watched the slug
rurlonsly. Then a droll thought light
ened her face like a flash of sunshine,
and Dinsmore waited for an explana
tion.
"I was thinking of Eve." she said
•oft If. "The sight of the serpent
must have been as bracing as a tonic
after the enervating beauty of Eden.
No wonder that she listened. It's a
positive Joy to rest one's eyes upon
•uch ugliness after all this blinding
beauty. Absolutely I've been fighting
the heartache—wrestling with a desire
to moan and weep."
"And yet you screamed at the sight
ef It."
The words In themselves were in
nocent enough, but the tone was
thoughtful, and Dinsmore's long,
searching look gave them a siguiti
cance that caused iier to feel conscious
and then redden with annoyance be
cause she had done so. To divine that
underneath his words might lie an lm- j
plication that her efforts to discourage
his suit meant 110 more than her star- !
tied cry at the appearance of the slug
was womanly intuition. But to show
that she had divined it was a very
different matter, a break more worthy
of some rustic schoolgirl than of
Eloise Chesterton. lie continued to
gaze at her until she felt like an in
ject impaled upon a pin point for the
benelit of an interested student. At
last she could endure it no longer.
"Probably Eve screamed, too, just at
first sight of tin- serpent!" she remark
ed desperately. Then, with an Inward
groan, she wished she hud not spoken.
Dinsmore laughed out, a little note
of triumph in his voice.
"If you think so, I'm sure that she
was his reply, "Thank you fox
I settling n point that was puzzm*,
me."
Defiance sparkled in Miss Chester
ton's eyes.
"Reading between the lines," she ob
served, with much deliberation and ap
parent Irrelevance, "Is a misleading
habit. For instance, take my own case.
I mean wfiat I say and nothing more.
You can't read between the lines, be
cause there is never anything to read."
At the words the slug crawled a
little farther along the arm of the
chair, as if something had made it un
i easy.
"Incredulity!" ejaculated Dinsmore
in a suppressed voice, his head thrown
back upon his chair and his eyes lifted
to the passion flowers.
His companion sat upright, looking
at him with fiery scorn. He met her
eyes brazenly. Never had he seen her
appear so superbly beautiful. But he
only said:
"Don't sit up like that in a Hongkong
chair; it's inartistic. Moreover, it's un
gracious, and a woman should never
be ungracious!"
"You're horrid, Ralph Dinsmore," was
the only reply she vouchsafed him, but
he noticed that she sank slowly back
, upon the cushions. One couldn't af-
I ford to look awkward In the eyes of
, tiny man, even a man that one fully
j Intends to refuse.
The warm KOl<l of the afternoon sun
light was gradually paling, and a chill
was creeping stealthily into the suave
air. Dinsmore, recognizing the signs
of late afternoon, looked at his watch.
Just a half hour until the 5 o'clock
boat would bear him away from this
corner in paradise back to San Fran
cisco.
He drew a small case from his pock
et and calmly handed It to Miss Chet»
terton.
"You like old Jewels. See what you |
think of It,"was his matter of fact ■
comment.
She obeyed him, drawing from the
case a ring of quaint workmanship in
which two beautiful pearls were Im
bedded.
"Beautiful!" she exclaimed enthusi
astically. "Exquisite!" But she did
not look toward him. "What It is for
and where did you get it?" she added,
struggling to appear natural.
For an answer he leaned toward her
and took It gently from her clasp.
Then he lifted her left hand and calm
ly placed it on the third finger, holding
the hand firmly In his while he said
authoritatively:
"That is what it Is for. As for the
rest, it has been in the Dinsmore fam
ily for 200 years, worn always by the
sweetheart and wife of the eldest son."
"But you haven't asked me," object
ed a faint voice.
"One doesn't bother about those de
tails In paradise, beloved," he mur
mured happily. "Adum knew that Eve
was his, and by the same token I know
that you were made for me."
The slug was squirming slowly to
ward the garden again.
Ktlqnrtlr.
It Is the true leaders of society who
are the least haughty and reserved.
The grande dame by birth, breeding
and association knows, like the gentle
man born and bred. Just when, how
and upon whom to bestow her pleasant
■mile of recognition. She is not afraid,
as are those less familiar with proper
social usages, that she might commit
a social solecism and do the wrong
thing.
It Is this woman who speaks the
kindest to the weary shopgirl. It is
she to whom the laboring man lifts
his apology of a hat as she thanks him
for the ceasing of his busy broom or
the holding open of a door for her. It
was such a woman who heard the re
tort coming from the sweeper of a
crossing when she thanked him for
lifting her over the deep mud. "I
fear I was very heavy," she said
sweetly.
"No, indade, mum. I do be used to
carryln' bar'ls o' sugar," said he—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Worked Splendidly.
Brown—What puts you in such a
good humor this morning?
Robinson—l've just got a patent out
for my new ink eraser. I wouldn't
take £IO,(XX) for It.
"Didn't you get a patent last year for
inventing an indelible ink?"
"I did. and I sold It for £6,000, and
now I've Invented an eraser that will
even remove writing done with my
own Indelible Ink."
"What are you going a next?"
"I'm going to invent another Indeli
ble ink that can't be erased with my
new eraser. I tell you there Is money
In this patent business If you only go
about it the right way."—London
Globe.
A Poor Ileelp?.
"Don't talk to me about the recipes j
In that magazine," said Mrs. Lane,
with great energy. "Wasn't that the
very magazine that advised me to put
on that sody solution and leave the ta
blecloth out overnight to take off those
yellow stains?"
"I'm inclined to think It may have
been," said Mrs. line's sister, with
due meekness. "I sent you a number
of them in the spring. I remember."
"Well, and what happened?" asked
Mrs. Lane, with rising wrath.
"Didn't the stains disappear?" asked
her sister.
"Disappear!" said Mrs.
withering tone. "It was the tablecloth
that disappeared. I don't know any
thing about the stains."
l-ate Brglnnlng.
Bir Walter Scott began to write his
celebrated novels at forty. Milton be
gan "Paradise Lost" at fifty. When
"East Lynne" appeared its author,
Mrs Henry Wood, was forty-five.
Cromwell was forty-one when he be
gan his public career. The year of the
hegira was the ttfty third of Moham
med, and Marlborough reached his In
dependent command at the same age.
In spiritual examples Abraham was
seventy five when cnlied out of Cha
ran, and Moses was eighty when he
stood before Pharaoh as the champion
of Israel.
They Were All Right
He was a typical backwoods farmer.
His first visit to a city restaurant, how
ever, had taken away none of the ap
petite he had at home, where every
thing was placed in large dishes on the
center of the table and each one help
ed himself. The waiter had piled the
food around the plate In the customary
ffttle dishes, which the farmer cleaned
up in turn. Settling back in his chair,
he hailed the passing waiter:
"Hey, there, young man! Your sam
ples are all right. Bring on rent
Of the stuff " Judge.
"Yes; she and her husband have
quarreled. It seems he told her she
was Just too sweet for anything since
their marriage."
"Well ?"
"Well, she was insulted, of course.
That was as much as to say she wasn't
'Just too sweet for anything' aiwnya."
—Exchange
J; Slbcn the] Mist j
\ Cleared I
( By Kate Clear? )
Isabel had known that the meeting
•with him would be u shock, but she i
liad trusted to the hope that, belli*; '
forewarned, she would also be fore- i
armed. And she felt helplessly furious |
to realize that she had grown cold and ;
white the Instant he stood before her. |
She had been crossing to the parlor !
from the dining room after luncheon i
when Roy Catnerou had come along
the hall.
"Isabel!" he exclaimed, his voice low
and significant. "Isabel!"
She was more beautiful than the girl
he had wooed. She had bloomed out In
the atmosphere of luxury* and In the
assured social position that had come
to her with her marriage. And he
found tills new charm immensely at
tractive. lit- rejoiced that the hand
she gave him an Instant trembled In
tile own. lint his eyes, that dwelt as If
in fascination upon her face, were dark
with unutterable reproach.
Her first words were plteously defen
sive.
"It was all in the papers," she fal- !
j tered. "Every one believed it. Your
own mother accepted the news of your
death as true."
"I wish to God that it had been!" he
said passionately. "When later I read !
of your marriage—well, I hated those |
who pulled the Spanish knife out of my ,
, side!"
She shuddered, her sweet lips paling.
"But you look quite well; quite like ;
your old self," she said anxiously.
"Oh, I got over that hurt all right.
It's the other I can't get over. Put on
your hat and come down on the beach,
Isabel—that Is, if your liusbaud doesn't
object," he added, with a slight sarcas- i
tic curl of his handsome lip.
She drew herself up proudly.
"My husband," she said coldly, "ob- |
Jects to nothing that I do. I will go !
with you for a short walk."
And she told herself the while she
flung on her golf cape and crushed a :
little scarlet Tamo' Shanter down on
her dark hair with hands th:it still
shook that this was the only time she
would speak with him alone. She
owed him an explanation, and he !
j should have it. He must not be per
mitted to construe her emotion at sight ;
of him Into belief that she still har
bored a romantic attachment toward
him.
• • • • • • •
Towering cliffs hid them from the j
sprawling, fashionable town. The roar
of the surf came up to them in a low, i
booming, thunderous monotone. Ahead, ,
behind, over the vistas of sand and j
vast surges of the ocean, hung a fog, j
dense. Illusory, silvery, mysterious. In
its rifts phantom ships were visible, !
dipping and courtesylng on their noise- !
less course.
"It's all very harmonious," said Roy j
Cameron grimly. "Might have been
made to order as a setting for our lit
tie comedy, eh? Nothing around us |
but vague obscurity and we three
the most hopeless of all the ghosts that
walk!"
"We—three?" she repeated, not com
prehending
"You and I—and the ghost of our
vanished happiness!" he said.
"Oh!" she murmured. Then for a
little while they walked on In silence.
"Isabel," he asked suddenly, bending
forward to look Into her uverted face,
"why did you marry that rich man?"
Her wifely pride rose instantly in
arms at the insinuation.
"You speak as though Robert Graeme <
were a ri«-h man only," she said In- :
dlgnautly. "He is a good man—a wise
and honorable man."
"But you did not love him," Cameron 1
went on mercilessly. "And you were I
engaged to me." ]
"They told me you were dead in the I
Philippines!" she burst out, harassed i
and eager to have the talk over. "My 1
brother Frank was In tremendous mon '
etary difficulties. There was disgrace I
of some sort ahead for him. Mother 1
was breaking her heart over the whole
matter. And then then Robert asked
me to be Ills wife. I knew he could j
fix up everything. Besides, I was very
fond of him. 1 always admired him t
very much!" she ended defiantly.
"Ah!" he said quietly—too quietly.
"That was the way, was It?"
They had walked rapidly, quite out
stripping all the others sauntering in
the same direction. Isabel was breath
less from has e. The hulk of an old
boat drawn high on tlie beach offered
shelter from the rising wind and the
too insistent cluinor of tlie waves.
Mrs. Graeme sat down on an embank
ment of sand some children had made
In the shadow of the boat.
"I shall rest a few minutes. Then
we will go back," she said.
She was wholly unprepared for the
violence with which he broke into
speech.
"Back! You would go back to him?
When it 1J I, Isabel—l, who have the
best, llrst, real right to you! If It
were not for that accursed blunder
about my death you would have been
waiting for me still."
White, stricken, shocked, she sat
there while lie raved on. She had nev
er imagined such madness nor such
seltishness, for it was all of himself he
spoke nil for himself he cared. He
would miss her so. lie had great pos
nihilities, which only she could inspire.
If she would only go away for awhile
—let Graeme get a divorce for deser
tion! Then they could be married and
leave this part of the world. lie knew
of a good opening in Havana. Ills
love should make recompense to her -
She found her voice there.
"Love!" she repeated. "Love!" And
he quailed n little before the grave
scorn in her eyes.
"You would have me break my
pledged vows, degrade my loyalty,
bankrupt my life-for what?" She
paused, shaken by the revulsion of
feeling that overwhelmed her. Was
this her ideal lover? Was this man
peevish, passionate, wearisomely per
sistent the hero she had enshrined in
her heart?
"Oh, hush!" she said brokenly.
"Hush!"
He thought she spoke thus because
of the approach of others. Two men
were leaning against tlie hulk of the
boat on the farther side Hut it was
ouly after she had spoken that she rec
ognized her husband's voice.
"If it were not for a certain knowl
edge I possessed, Travis," lie was say
lng, "1 would not have urged the child
to be my wife, long and dearly though
I had loved tier. It was not even that |
I could help her family out of a dire
difficulty were 1 one of them nor yet
wholly because 1 was aware r" the ,
unstable character of the v for j
whom she had, I understood .lriish !
preference, it was chieli; ause I
knew I could not live long. t* heart
trouble—of an incurable kind, my doc
tors tell me. She does not suspect, of
She it. all that is sweet uud
pure and womanly. But It does me
good to know that one of these days
when she is free again she will have
the protection of my name, even
though 1 am no longer with her. She
will be still a young and beautiful wo
man and a very wealthy one. You
understand, 1 am ouly telling this to
you in confidence, because you are
such an old friend, and I could not
bear to have you doubt my motives.
Shall we walk on?"
i They went back toward the town,
oblivious of the two In the shadow of
the boat.
Isabel rose quickly and looked ont
over the tumultuous waste of waters.
A fluctuant color was hot in her cheek.
Her eye* were full of a brooding bril
liance Cameron had never seen in
them before.
"You heard?" she asked him. "You
knew that was my huaband who
spoke?"
He nodded, misunderstanding her
emotion. "If what he said is true,
i Isabel, I —will wait."
She flared out on him then. He
would wait. He was not fit to brush
; the shoes of that other man whom he
flouted! That other man whom she
honored—whom she loved! She spoke
In no uncertain terms. He quivered
with the merited sting of her disdain.
But he understood at last. And when
she had flung away from him and was
walking rabidly back alone he follow
ed and caught up with her.
"I'll go away tonight. Forgive me If
you can. See, the mist Is clearing off."
The silvery veil was rolling up like
a scroll from the tossing, peevish bil
lows, and the sun was shining forth,
dazzling, resplendent.
"The mist has quite cleared," she
said. And then lower, "Thank God!"
That night Itobert Graeme, marvel
ing at her greater gentleness of words,
the new tenderness of her smile, thrill
ed to think that perhaps his one wild
dream was coming true after all and
that he might win the love he so
craved.
"Dear," she said to him, "It 1s such
a beautiful world. I am finding out
that—l am happy!"
He bowed his bead over her hand
that she might not see the rapture in
his eyes. And both found the silence
sweet.
Kfw York Ttnementi.
"It Is surprising how many New
Yorkers there are who do not know
that they are living In tenement
houses." said one of the Inspectors of
the tenement house commission. "I
went into a tenement house In lower
Lexington avenue on an official visit to
Inspect the plumbing. It Is one of the
old houses of the downtown district
and not a tenement In anything but the
official wording of the law.
" 'I want to Inspect this tenement,' 1
said to the woman who came to the
door of the second floor apartment.
" 'What did you call it?' she de
manded severely.
"'l'm a tenement house Inspector,' I
explained, 'and the luw says'—
"She did not let me get any further,
but burst in with: 'l'd have you know
this is not a tenement. It's a respecta
ble apartment house.'
"I knew my duty, and I had a look
at the plumbing In Bplte of her pro
tests. Finally, against her will, she
was convinced that it really was a ten
ement houso under the law.
" 'Well, Just wait till my husband
comes home," she declared. 'We'll have
to move Just think If it ever got out
that we were living In a tenement
house and had to be inspected I* "—-New
York Tribune.
The Snionl.
An east side educational worker who
is teaching in a night school for newly
arrived Kusslan Jews was remarking
on the difficulties of grounding them
In English studies.
"Some of them come to us with the
barest smattering of English words,"
he said, "and no knowledge of Amer
ican customs except the few Ideas they
have picked up since landing. I was
trying to teach a small class the sea
sons of the year the other day. For a
time the>* did not seem to understand
what I was driving nt. Then the light
broke over the face of one young fel
low.
" 'I know seasons,' he declared.
" 'How many seasons are there In the
year?" I asked.
" 'One, two,' was the unexpected aa
swer.
"'What are they?* I saked.
" 'Busy season and alow season,'
came the answer, quite promptly.
"That young man will have a saving*
bank account before he has been her*
sic months."—New York Tribune.
A Cnrfona Oath.
The following curious oath was until
recently administered lu the court* of
the Isle of Man: "By this book and by
the holy contents thereof and by the
wonderful worki that Ood has miracu
lously wrought In hearen above and
In the earth beneath In six daye and
■even nights I do swear that 1 will,
without respect of favor or
love or gain, consanguinity or affinity,
envy or malice, execute the laws of
this Isle Justly between our sovereign
lord the king and his subjects within
this Isle and between party and party
as Indifferently as the herrlug's back
bone doth He In the middle of the fish."
Barns' Beat Poem.
It Is said that a boy was once askod
In the poet's presence which of Burns'
works he liked best. After taking
thought with himself for a little he
declared that he liked the "Cotter's
Saturday Night" by fur the best, "al
though," he added, "It made me greet
(cry) when my father bade me read It
to my mithor."
This statement seemed to Impress
Burns, for presently he said to the I
lad, "Weel, my callant (boy), It made
me greet, too. more than once when I
was writing It by my father's fireside."
Mlaard n Few.
"Yes," said the cierk nt the Sklnnem
house, "we have I.SOO servants."
"Well," said the departing guest, "1
must have overlooked four or tive. l'ui
quite sure I haven't tipped thut many."
Pittsburg Post.
■ ■ .
Grovadleaa P»»».
Cholly—l did think of going in for i
politics, but I was afwald 1 wouldn't ;
know Just how to tweat my infcwluhs, |
don't y' know. Peppery—Your Inferi
ors! Oh, you wouldn't be likely to j
meet any of them. — Philadelphia Press. |
Thr Swird.
A sword is out of place I". time of
peace, and It is of very little couse- :
quence In time of wur, except to adorn
a bl){ general or a lodge man in a pa
rade.—Atchison Globe
Thf-n 4 baoi
"Why. Mary." said her mistress. "I j
told yovi to make up uiy room an hour I
ago, sud here it Is in terrible disor j
der."
"Yis, mum, and ! did," said .Mary, I
"but the master came into put on a !
clean collar, mum. and he l.>st the i
m*"* "
THE POWDER WORKED.
i An Inreatlon That I'rovi>d Too Mnoh
of a Kui'crmi.
A certain inventor tmcc hit upon the
happy device of desiccating etrgs. He
turned dozens and dozens of eggs into
a powder that you might carry in a
pill box. All you had to do when you
wanted an omelet or a scramble was to
drop a pinch of the powder into water.
A teanpoonful of the stuff would swell
up to fill a quart tin, and half a cup
ful would be enough for the meal of a
j company on the march. Now, this ln
| ventor by diligent effort succeeded In
| making himself known to a great man
i In a European country, a man who
I moves armies by the crooking of a
finger, so to speak. The great man
was delighted with the desiccated egg
scheme, and a box of the powder was
sent to him so that he might try it on
the army. Fate, however, decreed
that it should be tried on the dog. It
lay open on the great man's study ta
ble. and there the dog nosed It out.
He licked up the powder, an amount of
it that forty conscientious bens could
not replace with a month's hard la
bor, and he liked the taste of it. It
made him thirsty, however, and he
swallowed nearly a gallon of water to
assuage that thirst. The powder im
mediately began to do what It was ex
pected to do when water struck it,
and before the eyes of the great man
that unhappy dog swelled up and
swelled up till his seams gave way.
Just forward of the port beam he
sprang a leak. This Is a perfectly true
story. The poor dog actually burst.
That particular invention has never
been recommended to the war office.—
Washington Post.
VULCANO'S VOLCANO.
A Kttiral Weather Prophet aud In
fallible at That.
As a natural weather prophet, and in
fallible at that, the volcano on the is
land of Vulcano, twelve miles north of
Sicily, in the Mediterranean, Is ba
lleved to hold the record. The fol
lowing Is from an account of a dinner
given by the Geographical Council
Club of England In IS',>3: "Captain
Wharton, the hydrographer to the ad
miralty, told how he had once an
chored in very deep water on the east
side of Vulcano, the southernmost of
the Lipari Isles, but that he had kept
up steam with the Intention of being
off Immediately if the wind changed to
the east. He mentioned this to an
Englishman who lived on the island
and was in charge of some borax
works. 'But,' said the man, 'there Is
not the remotest chance of the wind
going around to the east without full
warning.' 'What warning?' asked the
other. 'Oh.' was the rejoinder, 'the
volcano always warns us" 'The vol
cano!' said Wharton. 'Yes, the vol
cano. A "fumarone" always emits a
whistling sound before the ea3t wind
begins to blow.' Shortly after this
Wharton was looking at Strabo and,
to his astonishment, found that that
writer mentions the fact. The Eng
lishman had never heard of Strabo in
his life. Strabo died as an old man
about 23 A. I so that this excellent
'fumarone' must have been giving its
warnings well nigh 2,000 years at
least."
Mr. Bascomb was as firm about poK
tics as about everything else. lie made
a boast that nobody could change his
views when once they were formed,
and It was true.
"But, father, suppose they don't even
suggest having Llpb Godding for rep
resentative?" pleaded Mr. Bascomb's
son after a painful half hour of argu
ment. "I don't believe anybody but
you has thought of him."
"If they don't have Llph Godding
for representative," said Mr. Bascomb
calmly, "I shall winter my vote, that's
all."—Youth's Companion.
Doraeatlc Economy.
Mr. Younghubbe—Don't you think, i
my dear, that you are cooking twice as
much as we ihall need? Mrs. Young
hubbe (artlessly)—l am doing It on
purpose, darling. Tomorrow I want
to try some of those "Hints For House
keepers—How to M .ke Dainty Dishes
From What Was Deft Over Yes
terday."
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CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
Ouly One F.nsllnh King, Henry IV.,
Han lleen Kntombed There.
The ancient cathedral at Canterbury
i shelters Hit* remains of only one Eng
lish king. Ilcnry IV. That this par
; ticular monarch should have been en
tombed there is the more remarkable
since he breathed his last In the Jeru
i snleiu chamber of Westminster abbey,
and It might naturally have been sup
posed In the circumstances that he
would have been laid to rest in the ab
bey, where so many other of England's
kings sleep their last sleep. It seems,
however, that Henry before his death
gave orders that he was to be burled
In the cathedral at Canterbury oppo
| site the tomb of his uncle, Edward,
| the Black Prince.
For hundreds of years a story was
current that on the way down the rlr
er a hurricane arose and that the peo
: pie on board the vessel, convinced that
the storm was caused by the fact that
a king's body was on board, cast the
corpse into the water In the dead of
night and, tilling the coffin with rub.
bish, brought it with all pomp and clr
j cumstance to the cathedral. Some
years ago the dean and chapter resolv
ed to get at the truth of the story.
So they opened the royal tomb and
the king's lead coffin. For one brief
moment dean and chapter gazed upon
the kingly lineaments of that monarch
whom Shakespeare describes as "sky
aspiring Bollngbroke." Only for a mo
ment, however, as the body crumbled
; to dust almost at once. But Canter
bury now knows beyond all doubt that
an English king rests within Its walls.
Divorce I.awa In Iwrdtn,
The divorce laws of Sweden are elas
tic. When the incompatibility of tem
per reaches the culminating point one
of the parties proceeds to Copenhagen,
the nearest foreign town, which is on
ly twelve hours distant, and remains
there for fourteen days, notifying the
Swedish consulate, which circum
stances are regarded as legal evidence
of desertion and sufficient ground for
divorce.
Ilia Line.
"So Speeder has turned out to be a
confidence man. Does he sell gold
bricks?"
"No. lie's an architect and plans
those $2.;300 houses that cost $8,850
when they're finished." Cleveland
Leader.
If one could remember when asked
for advice that his friend wants only
1 confirmation of his own Judgment It
would save much heartache.—Toledo
Blade.
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| Lackawanna 850 10 24 2lt 8 6
I Duryea 863 10 28 i lis 6 6
i Plttston 658 10 38 217 6 5
Susquehanna A 701 10 37 219 6 6
j West Plttston 705 10 11 22X 7 0
I Wyoming 710 10 48 227 7 0
Forty Fort 2 81
: Bennett 717 10 52 234 7 1
| Kingston ar 724 10 56 240 7 2
Wllkes-Barre ar 740 11 10 250 7 h
Wt'kes-Barre IT 710 10 40 281 71
K ng-ton lv 724 10 56 210 7 5
, Ply mouth June
Plymouth 785 11 05 2ti 7 J
Nantlcoke 748 11 18 258 7 3
Hunlock's 749 lilt) 808 7 4
Shickshlnny 801 11 31 820 7 £
i Hicks Kerry 811 fills 330 f8 C
Beach Haven «19 1118 8 m 81
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| Willow Urove f8 3« ... fs 54 fg j
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Espy 846 12 15 406 8S
Bloomsburg 853 12 22 412 8 4
Kupert 857 12 26 415 8 4
Catawlssa 902 12 32 422 8;
Danville 915 12 44 488 9(
Cameron 924 fl2 67 148
Northumber'd ar 985 110 455 9 2
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! Uanvllle 707 10 19 2lj 54
I Catawlssa 721 10 32 223 5 £
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Bloomsburg 753 10 41 288 6 (
[Espy 788 10 48 244 6 1
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Willow Orove f7 48 f2 5P .
1 Brlarcreek 752 f2 J8 6 5
Berwick 75T 11 06 268 8t
Beech Haven 805 fll 12 803 6*4
Hicks terry 811 fll 17 809 6 4
Shickshlnny 822 1181 <2O ffi 6
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' Plymouth 815 1159 817 72
{ Plymouth June 847 .... 852 .
• Kingston ar 855 11 59 400 7 8
Wllkes-Barre ar 910 12 10 110 7 5
1 Wilkes-Barre lv 840 11 10 850 7 3
Kingston lv 855 11 59 400 7 3
' Luzerne 858 al2 02 408 7 4
I Forty Fort f9 00 407 .
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j West Plttston 910 417 7 5
Susquehanna Ave.... 813 12 11 420 7 6
f'lttHlon 919 12 17 424 8 0
Duryea 923 429 8 0
Lackawanna 926 482 8 1
Taylor 932 440 81
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i New York ar 380 500 735 6 S
, 'Dally, fDaliy except Bunday.
I Stops on signal or on notice to continent
a .Stops on signal to take on passenger* fo
I New York, Blnghamton and points west
T. E.CLAKKE T. W. LKK
4i«>n Miii'*rlnren<l»nt
FEMMMII iiiiiiiig,
TIME TA.BLE
In Effect Nov. 29th, 1903.
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Nantlcoke " 732 10 50 801 « 1" ....
Mocanauua .... " 742 11 07 Z2q 8 87 .....
Wapwallopen.. " 801 11 16 831 ®47 .....
Nescopeck ar SlO 11 26 342 700 ....
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Pottsvllle lv 5 V 811 55
Hazleton 705 ...... 245£2 45 .....
Tomhlcken "I 7 22 3 05 8 05
Fern Glen " 724 815 315
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Creasy " 8 8 11 36 852 T 09.
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E. Bloomsburg " 84" 11 50 106 725
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Catawissa lv 856 11.57 413 732
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Sunbury ar 935 12 40 4 55; 815
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Sunbury lv I! 9 42 §l2 48 § 5 18 9 53
Lewisburg.... ar 10 13 1 45j 548
Milton " lu 08 139 54410 14
Wllliamsport.. " 11 00 141 6401000
Lock Haven... " 11 69 220 737
Kenovo "A.M. SOO 8 30|
Kane " 8 25 j
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Bellefonte ....ar 105 i! 4 441
Tyrone " 2101 600 |
Phlllpsburg " 5103 802
Cleartleld.... " 6549 845
Pittsburg.... " 6 5o ; #10 45 ......I
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Weekdays. i Daily. 112 Flag station.
Pullman Parlor and Sleeplnsr Cars run 011
through trains between Sur'iury, Willlamspori
and Erie, between Sunbnry »i>J Philadelphia
and Washington and between Harrlsburj, Pitts
burg ami the West.
For turther information apply to Ticket Agent
W. W. ATTEBBURY, J. K. WOOD
General Manager, Pass. Traffic Mg
UEO. W. BOYD, Gen Passenger Agent.
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