0 —tt- . r —— PkOI uiiES HI \TRIi t SURGES r. K.*»t nwnt r«w tlx' t.rst two after she en ~ iv l . othce as stenogm v v lesk wa- placed . | , , t; *h«» glanced up she , ,n >.;u\ of his head ThtS Oft r»s urrini: Iwkli'nt, coupkxl with the .i,-t t* tit was n *ery good looking 1 , id nil set oti a pair of stalwart (»•!*< probably had much to <lo ate of alTairs at the end of Even In that time she had d t.» distinguish hi* step from the , . s <i other that traversed the v ■ . j, • t., watch for his smile of , i to iitctfii to his cheery as ho took oft' his hut •ip tho cover of his desk •ul.l take a good look nt mthly brushed yellow- hnlr nnd • to her work, which consist g out long contracts and ,i . • i forms. • vim- a lawyer and had ! - lag efforts so hard to t It was beginning to t sw> At the end of two years k -r or! ices, allowing himself v » iwltv <>f n. private \i • • • rton thin hud charge ~112 .• outride room, the second i.l tho office boy She •j i • a i 1 received more ■ > -se 1 the closer coin old days and the fa r • ' ' of n blond head rising .• serg<- «houldors. lug him, though, for no reason that sh" • . uldn t ! s ~?ti - gnva h<«r dictations ■ i- take up uji hour or moP', ■ v | make her rest a bit i lefore she stnrted ft > V v - fi "fl#- 7 ;j "MM. ..!• Ill" I :,or.;fTT <>t"T TIIK WORM rensEin'bii SLY. to >rk again At other times he i ii-k ! ■ v id . lee iii tho mattor of I •> or as to tin* choice of two s - 112 r ■ summer suit or whether h>- looked ht tn make a call without ng his hair tut, aiul In- wouM a i se In-fore her to g«>t MnotluT point of view. lo ail i '! fr. dly manifests t; - «-!ie i< . .!<• !t. idly, with an in I• i<• singly intimate htud* »• j which i' lecmrf to place their I ■ ' friendly glow would be ,i- ■ ■ I ' . a sweeping realiza ■ 112 thf s ■ that she was only his ■i. r. ; ■ n i that he probably • •>! t i 1 r d ig the day l*-eause : < l-'- at hand Still I . ,| ■ ' . -o : i >o: to watch . tlmi nu or an unusually l>ean cr • the Hudson, and t t al«' him at the win . hi. I If he had not felt 112 » m that t!irobl»ed In ! . ■ , • ■ • ■ !. r i.o. and the most gor g- - «■: was m-II.sI in a gray ati.l It was a long time Icforv a gi I limil cloud app»'an><l on '' t *•. -vh<-n she overheard a frag • ry conv«*r*atloo bet awu Lee and f f hi* frtewlj In reply to mBM re :k I. ■l. «i • I I don't know what It* >ukl without her." The other Inughisl and responded: pp-tty a girl to s|>ond tiw lif«* In an oHln. Somebody will be cnrr> !• u h<-r off some day." I*. - r> ply ended indlstlnctij in ' t way" as lie clos»>d his V 1 *ii; it. and ns they pawed •i t • »r heard tin* friend IT and ■ iv, "no It yourself, It' it day she was a changed v« ! • with a purpose, dreamy softness i i■ • ■ r that s.*em»vl to < is hii luiospUerc. Lee, t r • w»ndered that In- iid not realized how <-r««niy was le ; -kin. now deep her dark eyes and !i I <cin it ng '!• gold and copper lltft«fs ,n her I.' vii huh <»radually she toM him h, It Ver-elf, tiiiit It was I. -r . i lia'hei ii-i had won a cer t'; .1 i 1 *1 ' for the ("oiifederacy, ' .-r ?■ " , -id an honorable »e and her nltioii for ! • how she •hi _'<sl to work alul ■itenoi.TH -1! ite thing, bdt lion of twine a , li.:t -he would d to do -be first I hlu lied deep i. - wind iw toward Me felt strangely ; h: : acc<<pted her In his . •• -tb-r of . mrse t'ompan tii her .ii first ttasis si>«'mc«l >1 t lie was a man of i ! a de ture from the con ..i ! •ii i* ie >:is.|iilet«sl his phleg «t i! *l'!»»1r eom<>rsatlon kept the friendly tone of everyday badl • :i d prehension, but tliere was a snMle difference, and he l»«gan t '■ <•! l-.-r pre' once more and more. I one spring afternoon when •' «• i wa- • •ding his office with .1 •rlinr "«• vfllov ulow she looked In ;.d a-ked if she might talk with him. A e» • ' ;;11 \ 'he respond»-d, with i si ind 1 wish you sit In that yellow light It Just suits you In that brown dress " sat down but did not spewk at tirsi I lei trembled, and she seem ed to lie geekin . courage from the yel low sky Suddenly she turned to hlra, "Mr Ijfft." shi said, 1 have been with vou four > ir- it as lon is that V" he (pies tloned. •'Four years this day ' lhc\ haven btisv years," he said, "and, I hope, happy ones." "\t's, thev were happy," she answer tnl slowly mi pin\ tlusli spread over her face. "Hut now I must go away." '<? > aivaj ! • ive nieV Why, Helen, j. »i u-tn I •'t spare you Where would you gl>: j ;1 jiH f.urp lie hid ••ailed her Hel rn I'm' 'l' l ' ii'- 1 ' time, nml her iieart iea|>e<l Sh«» turned t>> him tremulously and said. aim. t timidly, "I am going 10 get married." "M irrle lie brought out the word incredulously "\\ hy. 1 thought"— Here he l>ro!,. off and walked to the window, where he sto ; .d, his hands In his pockets, gazing moodily across the river. She s.it silent until he turned to her again. Why .lo you do this?" he qties tloned Womanlike, ahe began with the rea ahe felt least "Because I want a home iam all liy myself, and lam tir.><t of Uvln- In a boarding house. It Is • ..thins: bat a travesty .m His for a d' estl w to divide her time he tween a office and a boarding house. Besides, 1 have worked for four years, and I want to stop for uwhlle " "Just for awhile?" • Yes. for I mean to study law and ke< ;• my oth r work In practice so I can help." "Help? Whom?" "Help him." "He Is a lawyer, then?" almost choked over the question. "Yes." What is he like? is he all right? Is he worthy of you?" Sh looked at hltn, he thought, a little sadly "Like? He Is the finest man In the whole world." He walk- i swiftly to her. "But. Helen, llel i' he exclaimed, "I don't understand it at all. I thought you v ere happy here, and 1 supposed, of course, you understood things. I'm lonely to<> I haven't had a home for six years, and I thought that someday Helen, don't you mind leaving me? Won't you me at all? Haven't you seen, girl, what you are to me?" He took her hands and drew her up be side him "l»t<ln't you know, Helen?" Know what?" She lifted her brown eyes to his. "That 1 love you and want you to bo mine?" "Vou never said so." she answered. "That's because I thought you knew and because I always blunder. I Deed somebody with me all the time. I need you, Helen You're the blgge-1 part "112 mj life Come and make a home for me." lb- folded her suddenly In his amis, and his heart thrilled as h<- felt her lean on him. "Sw. th.-art," he wl sp.■ red, "I love you! I love you!*" She lifted her face to his. "Hear," she breathed so softly that he had to bond to catch It,"I have loved you fot four years" He held hr «ios •In the gathering du k for one ecstatic moment. Then siie drew away He came back to earth lowlj Not letting her he looked avvaj ..:id out of the window, where 11 i' ■ golden 1: _ht had been merg ed Into II dull purple streaked with red and whet • the . veiling star gleamed radiant In the tipper bine. -This other chap," he began. "What other chap?' she asked. "The one you were were irolng to marry." She raised on her tiptoes and kissed liiin. "There's only one." she whisper ed, "and It's you." Then she lied Into the other office. • •••*»» Everybody - iys ihat I wife is the better lawyer of the two ANCIENT BELLS. Well Known to t lie l*c> ptin iin Before the Jewish Kveins. Bells were well known to the Egyp tians before the time of the Jewish ex odus In the description of Aaron's sacerdotal robe mention is made of tho fact that upon the hem of the garment there were bells of gold alternating with pomegranates of blue, of purple and of scarlet: "A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pome granate upon the heift of the robe round about And it shall lie upon Aaron to minister, and his sound shall b'- h -ard whi-n he g'leth into the holy place before the Lord and when he cometh out, that he die not." Hand beils were In common use nil over the ancient world. The earliest use of bells in churches was for the purpose of frightening away the evil spirits which were believed to infest earth and air. and the earliest curfew w as rung at nightfall to rid the neigh bo: h 1 of the village or town and ch'ir. h 112 demons Most old churches of Europe hive a small door on tho north side, and at certain points in the service this door was openod and a lieli w as rung i i gi' e notice to the dev il if he ch ii •ito be present, that he might Make his exit lief ore the eleva tl m. By the command of Pope John IX church 1 ■•-.u were rung as a protec tion ag nst I mder and lightning. The i mument of Porseua, the Etru rian king, w lecorati-d with pinna < ies. iii it • oontsd with a bell, "1 i i ■ k the 1 ■•e/e Tii" army of Ol .lb.iii >• raised the Siege of Reus ( , a • : j -! wcasloned among th • men I ' -ii chime from tho Itells of St Stephen's church. No Time for MirKery. Ihe in i •! an thinks the sun snd stars would < to shine sooner than that - could Interfere with the Ir 'i -hold duties A ftahetha w< in is recently Informed by her |. ! i i i that she would have to have ojiei it performed. She i ' n't • how she could; I t m ' 4 washing day, Tuea -11 Wed hi" day the nds . i ■. , met, I hnrsday was the t. . , u Friday to hake, Sat the «hlldren their baths !' h ■ could get It in Sun (l ~r r ii and before evening [Services perhaps she would try It.- h insas «'ity Journal. Tlm* r«l i ii Ij» »*». rili II 1 pi ce In the mid . of i I century A traveler says"The men arc clothed in goat • U is. oi before and another liohlnd, • it re;'. !;i's, shoes or stockings, hi I a wool- II oi kin cap on the head. *1 he • have no other habiliments s MI i If ii.l n gown and a woolen ca; il • |" 's always go armed to defe I iii I.• from one another, so that I ding In the interior Is ex tremely nasal \ thout an escort, and II is eve <1 'tis for ships to send th"-ir poo;' o!i ihore for water unless they an w. II armed. ' i short, the Sard* r- th Malays of tho Medlter I rayean." Ci —j? On a Pontoon liy NOKA BRYANT I Copyright, tin HI, hv llpulrl* Reiwtn I'or the tlrst time In live years Whit i comb admitted to himself that he was tired, that he had at last wearied of throwing impossible trestles across lm po sible canyons, of climbing the un : cllmbable and accomplishing that which ! neither nature nor man over had meant to be accomplished lie leaned against tho rope which Nerved for a railing on the old pontoon bridge and looked up the canyon, where the massive iron structure that was tho work of his brain was sllhouot ' ted against the sky. It was an April afternoon in the mountains, a Sunday afternoon, so that the ring of steel, the putflng of engines, the shouts of work i men, were stilled. Tho gulcli was as ( peaceful as It would be six mouths j hence, when the army of laborers would depart, leaving only the great, silent bridge to mark their occupancy. Whitcomb was frank with himself. Ho dlil not deny in these meetings I with himself face to face that tills restlessness had appeared because of i thf presence of the camping party at ! the Hide a Wee hunting lodge up In Smith's peak. Not that he had actual , ly met the party as a whole. The men had wandered down to the bridge, had asked many "fool" questions and wandered back to the camp. At a dis tance lie had seen women In well made riding habits and outing gowns who had given liiin a hor eback thrill. Sud denly he vanted to get back to the land of s ■ .Howtailed coats and pliim mery frocks. Whitcomb sighed and looked down at his corduroys and hunting boots dis contentedly. The pontoons rocked, and a horse's hoofs sounded suddenly at the end of the bridge. Coming toward him was a girl leading a sturdy little mountain pony a girl with a bare head, where the sun glanced and glim rniTcoMß n\t> liitei> lint with onb A KM. uiereci on masses of copper colored hair, a girl with flawless skin and exes like sand hill violets, a girl whose every slender line breathed health ami vigor. The girl In her turn saw a broad shouldered man, dark with tan, above which his blond hair shone curiously. The corduroy hunting suit was strange ly becoming to him The girl stopped before him. "Can you tell me,' she asked, "if there is a quicker way for me to get back to the Hide a -Wee lodge than by the long Smith road?" "Yes," he answered, "there Is, and If you would not mind waiting for me to get my pony I'll ret you on it I never could direct you from here." To his surprise and delight the girl acquiesced readily, but as he turned to fetch his broncho, which he had left grazing on the shore, he gave a gasp. "Great heavens!" And, throwing his arm about the amazed girl, he leaned as far out with her as the rope rail would permit. Entering the bridge at a mad pace, the white bell mule lead ing, was the herd of mules used In building the trestle. There was a bom bardment of hoofs that drowned tho girl's frightened cry. The pontoon sank a foot into the water. There was a roar of trampling foot and a rending crash of the floor as the herd passed so close that both their faces were stung by the lashing tails; then silence again In the valley, except for the sounds of retreating hoofs up the mountain road. "Careful, careful!" cried Whitcomb as the girl drew herself from his arm. "We are afloat!" The strain on the old bridge bad been too great. The worn flooring had parted, and, still clinging to a bit of the rope rail, tho man and girl were floating rapidly downstream ou one ol the pontoons. This little raft rode well out of the water, and tho river, swoil en by the spring freshets In the moun tains, towed them along nt a smart pace. The two looked at each other and suddenly smiled. "There Is really not much danger," said Whitcomb. "It's five miles down to the rapids, and two miles below hen the river narrows so that I shall havi no trouble In a 'land mark' with these biis of rope. In the mean time." spreading > it on the damp floor of the ponto in. lo lie seated and be comfortable." "lion't you suppose some one saw us and will come to the rescue?" asked . the girl. [ Whitcomb shook his head dubiously I "I'm afraid not. The mule boy win not In slight when the thing happened, ' and he'll probably spend the remainder of the day hunting for ids mules " The girl did not appear as anxious an might have been expected, and Whit comb sat down beside hor. "It w ill lake some time to float down tliere," he said, 'and In tho meantime I'll tie these ropes together." She watched his clever Angers t„ (Hence, and Whitcomb was moved | with a strange desire to talk of him I Belf. "Ho j mi know, you are the tlrst east ern girl I've sp »ken to In five years?" Su ;>rise on the rose tinted face be side him "I ha.eii't been hack east since 1 fin lshed college At lii it I wrote often, espoela'ly to to. well, I wrote often but" "Hut." smiled the girl, "you both !>e gan i i ' ise enthusiasm?" Wl.ite iinb looked at her gratefully ,s, i iillll like that at least tin afraid ihe did She was a pale little girl, t tit eighteen, when I i\\ her last. She had hair something like yours, but without those rich dark shades. 1 was mlghtj fond of the little girl, but I'm afraid I've grown IIWIH from the cling ing vine type." The violet eyes were noncommittal. "A little hard on her If she really cares." Whileomb sighed, with tlrm lines showing around I. lips "I know It. and I'm going back there iliis summer to find her." "Hut, then, perhaps yh l, * . I •rgotteu long nso. Seventeen is very young." A dull red shout d undei Whitcouib's tan "Perhaps she has 1 I I've been hoping since this afternoon that she has." The eyes were scornful now. "Do you think you've any right to say that to me?" "No," meekly, "but but you are ev erything I've grown to admire In a woman, so tine and strong, and" "Look! I.ook!" she interrupted The pontoon w: * nearlng a sudden I tend In the river, and they were being swept nearei io the shore. Hut a few feet ahead ol them a great tree leaned tar out over the water. Its branches nl most touching the surface. There was no tlnn for deliberation, no time to stop the pontoon, for the force of the current he:, was territio. Ilefore ll' • girl could spring to her feet Whitcomb had lifted her with one arm, while v ith the other he clung des perately to a great branch. The pon toon was - W"pt away, and for one awfid moment It seemed that they must l>e drawn into the swirling depths beneath. Hut somehow, with the aid of the little strength of the girl and the powerful shoulders of the man, they found themselves tip on the trunk of the tree A moment later they were safe ashore. Tli girl looked at him and spoke with lip - in 1 voice that trembled. "That's twice that you have saved me." Whitcomb v. ;s holding both hands in Ills, but neither of them seemed con scious of the fact. There was a do or die cxprc --ion i.i hit _'ray eyes 'Tin going to sa.\ - omethlng. You needn't mind, its thi - will be the last time that you will ever s*»e me." The girl seeined about to Interrupt, but Whitcomh gave her no opportu nity. "If If 1 were free I'd do my best to make you love me You are my Ideal of what a girl should b<- That knowl edge can ilo you no harm, can it? And as I can't help feeling it. I am no more disloyal I-, that other lrl In telling than In feeling it tome; we must set out for your camp." But the girl stood still. The lowering sun glinted on her beauty until Whit comb turned away with firm pressed Hps. "Perhaps if only she lias forgotten?"' Whitcomb turned to her curiously. "Would there be no, I've no right to ask now." The sweet mouth dimpled "If that llttT" g 1 h: 1 lived out of doors for I five years would you recognize her, | John W'hitconib?'' Whiter !, | t out a trembling hand 1 and turned her face full into the sun. A great convict 1 ,,;, li hied his face. ">i ;r. ar -t 1" he < ried. "Margaret, do you love me till?" "Ye-." tiii Margaret. Ami there was lit* sound on the river bank but the ripplir.g ef the water. t hlnrnr \\ ixMinu SupcrMllllona. No oth'-r country I ; so inanjt super stltions ahoiit marriage as China. The rhlneso nevei i II; . ulthln II hundred days sifter a de ,th h: - t leu place In the family of eith -r the la ide or groom, for if they do they believe domestic trouble- are tire to follow. There seems to he no re i n for this belief, and the » liinese do not attempt to ex plain It but are willing to let it go as an undisputed fact. A Chinese bride may be broil lit to the house of the groom while there is a coflin In the house, but not within a hundred days after it has I teen taken out. If a bride breaks the heel ot her -hoe while she I is going from her father's to her hus band'- home it i - ominous of unhappi ness to her new relations A side of bacon and a piece of sugar are hung on the back of a bride's sedan chair as a peace offering to evil spirits, and when she Is dressing for the wedding ceremony • he stands all the while in a round wicker basket. When a bride Is eating her last meal at the table of her father before irolng to live with her husband -die ! allowed to consume only halt bow! of rice, 1* *; t sin* be followed by continual sc rcity In h f, r j new abode. A DRAMAT'IC ARTIST. The \V III n l lis \\ n>■» of the Miin OreKS mnker of Purl*. The dressmaker is a slim young man with a long nose and big, winsome eyes. Wearing a gray frock coat and patent leather shoes, corseted and pow dered and perfumed, he Is more than a man; he Is a dressmaker. He is sat urated with dandyism, it Is not of an offensive kind His manners are a strange mixture of humility and in solenee, for lie is at once a salesman and an artist. And he talks, talks, talks, bending his •-11 iii body Into polite curves, gesticulating with his thin white hands, rolling his eyes In their i painted orbits, the while he fumbles j silks and velvets and satins and lace and wool. The ii reman who couies into a dressmaker s shop of an afternoon —In Paris no one goes to the dressmaker s save only In the afternoon begins by sneering at this fantastic creature. That mood doe> not last long. Con tempt gives way to admiration. There Is something marvelous In the way this lord of lace and ribbon dominates the women, the royal highness as well as the spoil' 1 actress lie is < harming; lie Is frivolous Then of a sudden his face darkens, he becomes serious, he stares at her royal highness, studying I her form from head to foot; he smites his brov. and cries despairingly: "No, ' no! I can't see you In that gown—to day I can't see you in any gown I will study an inspiration will come— you mu 1 wait.' And royalty goes ! away fluttered, she knows not why. Vance Thompson In Woman's Home Companion l.ntiiliir'n l*ro*o. No poet has ever been a bad prose writer, whenever he cared to drop from poetry Into pro-. . hut It is doubtful ' whether any poet has been quite so | tine .ice miplished and persistent a i pro wi Lander. "Poetry." he tell i in one of his most famous p was always my amusement, pro • in i study and business I have publi 1 ■ ,■ \ Inn os of 'lmaginary Convei i ais ' cut the worst of them ihroi '; t ■ 11•' 'die, .and there will re i;. |n in decimal fraction quite en ittali to sat l \ inv appetite for fame I 1 shall din 'it, but the (lining room will be well lighted, the guests few and select Without hi-- prose Laudor Is indeed but half. If he is half, himself. ' Arthur Syuiotis If Atlantic. Who Was Fooled? Ily MABI L MICHAI I S ! i "jif/riij/it, I , hi/ //■ m> i Sitrn(fid Hilly- Parker (.Tinned joyously, it would be such a good joke on Miss Al len to send the letter. Here Hugh had been in the Philippines for two years. Wlnt would stie think when she recelv ed a local letter In the well remember ed handwriting'.' In his mind's eye he could see her eagerly tearing open the letter In the postotlice. lie would be outside to yell "April fool!" Miss Allen always stop ped for her mail on her way to school. There could be no possible chance of a nllp ii]• if lie mailed the letter Sunday. He had lo iking in Hugh's desk for some fish hooks when he had run across the envelope, carefully tucked away in the bottom of the drawer. There had been a time when he had carried a lot of the selfsame sort of let ters to the teacher, but that had been be fore Hugh began to talk about the Phil ippines as a place for young men to | grow up with the country. All day Sunday Hilly grinned over ! his anticipated joke, and Monday morn | ing he entirely ignored the flannel : cakes that he might be certain to be | at the postotlice in time and went off ; leaving his mother greatly concerned over his failing appetite. Usually Hilly j preferred flannel cakes to promptness i «it school. He had not long to wait, for present ly Nita Allen came briskly along and entered the postofllce. As she turned away Billy noted that she held in her ! hand only a long blue envelope and a | newspaper. He thought regretfully of i the flannel cakes as he realized that his April fool had miscarried and turn ed and followed Miss Allen down the i street. There were the usual pranks played in the school yard, but Hilly, always the leader in Jill mischief, stood apart , and wondered. He was certain that he bad stamped the letter properly, and anyway Mr. Meade would have given i the letter to her .and collected the mon ey had the stamp fallen off. It was something he could not understand, though he puzzled his brain until the last bell rang, and he slipped into his seat just In time. Some one must have been playing jokes on the teacher, for her eyes snapped and about her mouth there pl ayed a smile that made Billy want to > • SUE IIIXI> IN IIF.n HANK (INI.Y A L.ONO ni.RI: I.N*VEL<»I'I; ANI> A NEWHPAFKH. I hug her. liven when Ned Matthews | sought to pick up a reader only to 1 have it jerked from beneath his grasp | by a bit oi thread Miss Allen only I looked the oth :' way and tapped with j her pencil oa lie de k, though surely J .at other times the source of this • demonstration would have been as 1 patent to her as to the class. During the Kindt nour lMiiy s mys j titlcation was further increased, for, stopping at the postofllce, he asked for I mail for Miss Allen. "She was expect ' Ing two letters this morning, and she I only got one," he explained to Mr. ; Meade. "Co on with your April fool Jokes," lie lam 1: •■! good naturedly. "She got j two letters this morning." Hilly knew better, but there was no | use asking questions. He had seen her i come out with just the one big en -1 velope, and that was from the school 1 committee. The other was not under the big one. for he had pretended to drop his ctip as an excuse to look at the under side and there had been nothing hidden beneath. But if Billy had hung about the schoolroom Instead of pursuing his in vestigations at the postofllce lie wotdd have seen that Mr. Meade was right, for on tea her' - d k was the envelope he had dro'ined into the box and for [KJLLTHE COUCH AND CURE THE LUNGS * th Dr. Kings , New Discovery RL«N /CONSUMPTION Price I Y Fun I HUGHS and 50c* SI.OO | Freo Trial. | Surest and duickeßt Cure for all g THROAT and LUNG TROUB | LES, or MONEY BACK. ins HEW! , A Rella tol© TIW SHOP ' Tor all kind of Tin Roofing. Spoutlne and General Jolt Work. ) j Stov"». Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, eto. ; PRICKS THE IMRST! Oli ILITK Til It BEST! JOHN IIIXSON i NO. 11# E. FRONT ST. •' ti'iitli time teacher, with glowing • It, • !c- w reading the note. 1 11 av c not the to speak," It i'u!. 'lt'll I tin coning l»nek Monday i< th,. I!' your answer 1m 'Yes,' will y.ni meet ine at tlie train? If you art' n >t tin-re 1 shall know tin- nns,ver Is 'No luit ll' you <-an find it in your heart 1o love me. dear, please lie there t, "reet me The others think I am • t'l iirr on the light tiain, ami we shall !,:i. . a rltanre to walk home alone." The explanation was very simple. She 11a<1 slipped the envelope inside oi Hie foltls of the paper as she had re ■n >'i| it Somehow she did nttt want I---, to rire the pifrlov. t missive, and 'lit in tinetive modesty she hml hid den it Th - . He, noon drafted interminably el Kverj stroke of the clock, ■ I tirk of the pendulum brought Hi h nearer to her. and yet the miu ii.t p . e.l with leaden wings. It was >nly a ten minute walk to the station, she lingts'e I over the comjiositloiis, l.ei eye constantly seeking the slow li< ! ing watch in front of her until at i Hie minute hand had come almost i lie half hour. She jnit on her wraps ami hurried down the street. i'.illy keeping watch at the postofllce, \\ as s-pcudlng a weary vigil, but her road t-nik her In the opposite direction, ,;nd he ,iiii not know that he was wait ing in vain. The train had just whistled as slio reached the platform, and Inn few minutes the heavy string of conches pulled into the station yard, the engine panting like some tired animal. Sh.• looked quickly up and down the long line of cars until with a tremen dous acceleration of the heart's beat ings she recognized a muffled form stepping from one of the sleepers. "Nita," he cried as she sped toward him, "this is a surprise Indeed!" "Didn't you expect me?" she de manded smilingly. "I>ld you think I could forget so soon;" Hugh looked puzzled as he fell into step and passed out of the station. "Hut no one knew I was coming," he declared. "You don't mean to tell me that my advent was anticipated?" "i did not tell a soul," she said. "I only got your letter this morning." "Hut 1 did not write any one, not even yon,'' was the puzzled declara tion. Nita laughed. "You didn't mean to say that you ex pect a schoolteacher with a class like mine to forget that this Is April fool?" she asked. "The boys were tormenting me all day, and now you want me to believe that you did not write me thnt letter You must have written some one else, trio, for mine bore the local post mark." "Sceing's believing," ho suggested. With a pretty flush, she thrust her hand inside her jacket and presently withdrew the letter. He glanced at the superscription and smiled. "And this is your answer?" he said gently. Her eyes gave reLilv. "I have the courage to ask you myself now," he said tenderly. "This is a letter I wrote before 1 went away. Do you re meinlter the time I went to New York to arrange about my going to the east V" • Then you didn't fiend it?" she asked tremulously. "No," he • aid. "1 did not send it be raii •• 1 have come all the way from Manila to ask you togo back with me. I i,ever had the courage to send this. 1 think it must be that young brother of mine. He probably ran ncross It In my desk." "What can you think of me?" she said, with glistening eyes. "If I told you," he said stncerely, "I should make a scandal by hugging you right here en the street. I think you are the dearest little woman In the world. I never had hoped to learn my answer so quickly." "You have Hilly to thank for that," she laughed. "I don't know whether to thrash or thank him," he smiled. "Pt-rbaps It woul i*' better to do both—in that order." "Huh," mused Hilly a few hours lat er as he lovingly lingered a gold piece. "Hugh savs that I'm the April fool. 1 don't think so He's in the front par lor acting more like a fool than 1 am » wouldn't it. tit kis in' u ■ <1 like The Home Paper of Danville. Of course you read 111 111 MI i! W 112 I THE PEOPLE'S | POPULAR 1 APER. I Everybody Reads It. ; I 1 i Published Every Morning Except Sunday at . No. 11 E. Malio -ngSt. Subscription o cei. . r Week. that, ln k" "I' t )l<J postofßce arul show oft' Wefore the fellers it 1 I tl Just come home." « ul< hluK Vonr Shadow. "Vou out," wilfl the Malay lady, "on tin* night In-fore the full moon and stand with your hark to the moon and your face to an nut hill, ho that your shadow falls on the ant hill. I lieu you recite certain jampi (Incantations) and, Itending forward, try to embrace your shadow. If you fall try again several times, repenting more Incanta tions. If not succe? - fid go the next ] night and make a further effort and the night after if necessary three nights In all. II you cannot then catch your shadow wait till the same day In the following month and renew the nt temj t. Sooner or later you will sue- and as yon stand there In the brilliance of the moonlight you will Bee that you have drawn your shadow Into yourself, and your hotly will never again cast a hade. <}o home, and In the night, u li'-ther sleeping or waking, the form of a child will appear before you and put out its tongue. That seize, and it will remain, while the rest of the child disappears. In a little while the tonrrue will turn into some thins that breathes a small animal, reptile or insect—and when you see that the cnv.turc has life put it in a hot tie, and the pelsit is yours."—Swet tenham's "Malay Sketches." Nndp It AH Clear. Berzelius, the Swedish chemist, mad« most of his laboratory experiments in his kitchen with his cook Anna as his only assistant. "What Is your mas ter?" asked one of his neighbors. "Oh. he Is a chemist." "What's that? ■What does he do?" "Well, I will tell you. lie has something In a big bottle, then ho pours it Into a smaller one and then again into quite a tiny bottle." "Well, and what then happens to it?" "Oh, then I throw it away." The Complementary Virtue. "What do you consider most essential in being quick at repartee?" "A person who constantly strives to be quick at repartee," answered Miss I Cayenne, "should be quite sure he has friends who are slow to anger."—Wash ington Star. f)#»nt She Could I)o. Husband- What! Twenty-five dollars for that bonnet? Why, It's ridiculous! Wife—Yes, I know It Isn't anything to boast of, but you said you couldn't af ford an expensive bonnet.—Columbus Dispatch. Ail luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.—Joubert. 1 ACKAWANNA RAILROAD, j " —BLOOMSBURU DIVISION I Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. In Effect Jan. 1, 1905. j TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE. EASTWARD. 7.07 a. in. dally tor Bloomsburg, Kingston, Wllkes-Barre aud Scranton. Arriving Stsu ton at a. in., aud connecting at Scranton with trains arriving at Philadelphia at 8.4K a. in.and New Vork Olty at H.HO p. in. 10.1H a. ni. weekly for Bloomsburg. Kingston, Wiikes-Barre.Scranton and intermediate sta tions, arriving at Scranton at 12.56 p. m.and connecting there with trains for New Vork City, Philadelphia and Kulfalo. 2.U weekly forHloomsburg,Kingston,WllUe* Barre, Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at 4.50 p. m. 5.4.! p. m.daily for Bloomsburg, Espy, Ply mouth, Kingston, Wilkes-P.arre, plttston, Scranton and Intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at 5.35 p. m.and connecting there with trains arriving at Ni'W Vork City at 6.50 a in., Philadelpela 10 a. m.and BuflaloTa m. TRAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE tt.iria. m. weekly from Scranton, Plttston, Kingston, Bloomsburg and intermediate sta tions, leaving Scranton at ti.3,~> a. in., where It connects with trains leaving New Vork City at 9.50 p. m., Philadelphia at 7H2 p. m. aud Buffalo at 10.:#) a. in. 12.44 p. m. dally trom Scranton Pittston, Kingston, KerwicU, Bloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a. m. and connecting there with train leaving Butt alo at 2.25 a. m. 4.! M p. in. weekly om Scranton. Kingston, Berwick, Bloomsburg and intermediate sta tions, leaving Scranton at 1.50 p. m., where It connects with train leaving New Vork City at 10.0(1 a. in., and Philadelphia at» 00 a. m. s.aT p. in.daily from Scranton. Kingston, Plttston, Berwick, Bloomsburg aud Interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at 6.85 p. m„ where it connects with trains leaving New Vork City atl.oo p. ni., Philadelphia at 12.00 p. in.and Buttolo at D.liO a. m. T. E. CLARKE, Gen'l Sup't. T. W. LEE. Gen. Pass. 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