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I Interrupted
! Engagements
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By NELLIE
CRAVEY GILLMOR.E
. lit, 11 , by P. C. Eastment
The • j.ljok was distinctly unprom
IsJn.-r. !> ie circumstance in partieulai
>o :• ,1 Kendall's mini. Fool-like, he
hm» rtyKrrfrw Laiself to be drawn into
a sort of hallway matrimonial scheme
of his cousin Kitty and was even
cow h rrying al v g as fast as steam
could carry him t . the second fatal
step toward its consummation. The
first had beeu take I w' en he drifted
into the correspondence with the girl, a
corresp >n !ei;ce which had quickly run
through all t a successive stages till
now it stood upon a decidedly senti
mental footing.
Kendall occupied himself alternately
by stu lying the flying landscape and
the photograph of his latest Inamorata.
She was good looking enough In all
sense, but for some perverse reason of
the hour he chose to resent her rich
dark beauty with passionate defiance.
Somehow another face, sweeter than n
flower, star eyed, framed In a cloud of
misty gold hair, kept coming in be
tween with maddening insistence, bit
ter memory of his disappointment
wringing h'.s heart as he had never
thought it could be wrung again. An
unwonted tear caught in his eye. He
dashed it away in some rage at him
self and the next instant was poring
attentively over an inverted newspa
per article.
Presently came the first call for din
ner. and Kendall rose with alacrity,
making his way to the dining car
ahead. Anything to give relief from
his present gloomy thoughts. Every
table but one was occupied, and he
took his seat gratefully, dashing off an
elaborate order in an utterly preoccu
pied fashion. Then he gave his atten
tion to the dingy train of freight cars
whining monotonously past and the
shadowy ciiain of mountains, rearing
themselves like solemu green conos In
the distance. Presently a driving rain
set In, a !d.'ng. If possible, to his des- i
perate frame of mind.
After awhile Kendall became con- '
scions of is one taking the chair
"HEI;E ALCI: Til.: COPIES OF HOME TELE
OKAILS. liE.ii) THEM. '
opposite him, and be held his eyes
stiffly averted, because be was also
subtly cogniz'nt of the fact that it
was a tailor made young lady, with
sunny curls and an exquisitely modu
lated voice as she addressed the
waiter.
After sever." 1 embarrassed momenta
he permitted himself a surreptitious
glance toward lis vis-a-vis. Her face
was averted, but there was no mistak
ing the pink oval cheek, with Its
sweet, familiar curve; the golden mass
of cobweb hair, the scarlet, tremulous
lips.
The girl turned swiftly under the
spell of his eyes, a river of crimson
running from throat to brow. Rut
suddenly sh° stiffened, and the color
forsook her lace.
Kendall v I ■ ! • king at her very ear
nestly. very pleadingly. The quarrel
had beeu terribly bitter, but the after
math was much more bitter. There
had been only six months of that, and
a lifetime stretched drab before them.
"Marjorie!" He leaned half across
the table, his glance full of passionate
appeal. He seemed to have forgotten '
altogether that half a year ago they j
had parted for good and all, with the
promise never to speak to one another
again.
The girl necepted his eyes for a sec
ond. Then her lashes flickered and
fell. Her lips were held taut to ron
ceal their trembling, and her breath
was coming In little jerks. Rut she
controlled herself quickly, and when
she looked up again her expression j
was quite calm, whatever it may have
Indexed.
"Personalities." she forced herself to i
say, "will have to be avoided, Dick.
We settled all that long ago, did we
not?"
Her words had a final ring, and Ken
dall felt himself going white under
the stab of them. Could it be possible,
after all past asseverations, that she
had ceased to care so entirely? Surely j
she could never have suffered as he ;
had done the past six months and sit
facing him now with so cool a de- j
He was on the point of
speaking when the waiter reappeared.
Marjorie welcomed his coming with
a tremendous sensation of relief. Sell
control was i'sn*t getting away from
her. She raised a glass of water to her
lips and drained it feverishly. Ken
dall noted that h >r fingers were shak
ing. and hi-' heart gave a sudden throb.
Perhaps, after all, her coldness was
mere assumption. tie sought her
glance eagerly, but it was frigidly
withheld.
/4.fter a tryin* silence Marjorie took
up I** knife and fork raj tried vainly
m eat, 'l'!;e food stuck in her throat.
Kendall his dinner mechan
ically.
"}I >r:<\" h ■ broke out abruptly,
'"don't. I -i' heaven's Rake, treat me this
x\ ay; annot we be »t least frienaij , j
Will y ,-i 'itiswcr one question?"
Tli 1 ist c dor again, though she
•••et I.: e openly, almost probingly.
"Cc Juinly." she said after a little.
1. i-v n. utterly odious to you?"
'v I need, and iter snowy chin lift
ed it elf imperceptibly, but unmistak
ably.
"[ hirlb ti;i:>k the occasion or the
clrcu. i t.! I'" warrant that," she an
swered. l!i ■ a.i iows deepening j n her
/es.
Ken ill's heart gave a great lurch. ,
T *ad she heard? He would b® frank I
I with her anyway.
"If you mean the circumstances sur
i rounding our—disagreement," he said,
j "decidedly they do."
She made no answer, but the hurt
] look in her eyes told him the truth,
and he hurried on eagerly:
I "Marjorie, will you listen to my side
of it? Listen! I was desperate— crazy
—when I thought 1 had lost you. I
threw myself into anything -every
thing—all sorts of things—as a means
of getting a little relief from the eat
ing misery of it all. Before I knew it
I found myself mixed up in this silly
business. But I swear to you on my
word as a man that there is no ques
tion of honor involved. The whole
thing, believe tne. Is nine parts jest.
With a little it m :ht be made serious,
but, thank heaven, no fatal words have
been spoken."
"But she believes"—
"Not at all. Siie has no right. She
does not. I know it. Dear, you have
always been goo.l and wise and lib
eral. Don't let this nonsensical thing
come between us now. You will not?"
Again lie loaned toward her with pas
sionate vehemence, and his fingers
caught hers and held them hard, his
eyes burning Into hers.
When he finished speaking Marjorie
was looking into his face wistfully, al
most sadly.
"I am sorry. Dick," she said, "but it
Is all too late. I sail from New York
Friday as companion to an invalid
lady. My father lost everything, and
I accepted the engagement last month.
It is serious, you see."
Kendall smiled. "There are degrees
of seriousness. Miss Dereforth, are
there not?"
She shook her head, still grave, but
his eyes only brightened. lie had the
reius now, and he was resolved upon
the heroic course.
"Will you be good enough to give
me the lady's address?" he asked.
Wondering, Marjorie drew from her
bag a slip of paper and passed it over
to him.
At the next station Kendall left the
car for a few moments, and the girl
went back into her sleeper, where she
sat waiting with vivid checks, a smile
in her eyes anil a swiftly beating
heart Iu her bosom.
Ten minutes later Kendall came in,
flourishing three ominous yellow sheets
of paper in his hand. He held them
| out to her.
"Here are the copies of some tele
grams," he said. "Read them."
j Miss Kitty Harsreaves. 9578 Street,
New York:
Impossible to I:eep ray encasement with
you and Miss Huntlev. See letter.
R. KENDALL.
Mrs. J. M. Waterman, 23-t Street.
New York:
Unforeseen circumstances compel me to
cancel iny cn~a~e'nent with you. Details
later. MARJORIE DEREFORTH.
Mr. Jack Davidson. Phenlx Club. New
York.
Meet us with your wife at the Grand
Central station at 8 p. m. Marjorie and
myself have decided to be married at your
house tonight. DICK, j
PLANETARY VITALITY.
Earthquake a Can Take I'lnce Only on
Living; riloben.
A moon quake is now unthinkable,
because the moon is as dead as a door
nail. Our satellite Is "ever foreshad
owing our own ultimate doom, like the
mummy at Egyptian banquets," but in
the meantime, if the Edinburgh Re
view has correctly conceived the teach
ings of seismology, the inhabitants of
j earth ma.\ console themselves for the
havoc wrought through earthquakes
by reflecting that they demonstrate
the vitality of our planet. In that dis
tant past when the moon actually
quaked there may—some scientists de
clare there must—have been forms of
animation on its surface. "Though the
moon, by reason of its smaller size,
was bound to lose its atmosphere, it
must have taken millions of years to
do so, and there may have been time
for the cycle of life, from the primeval
germ up to sentient beings and down
again to tlie hardiest lingering plant
ceils, to run its full circle." The writer
in the Edinburgh Review continues to
develop this line of thought:
"Earthquakes are a sign of planetary
vitality. They would seem to be char
acteristic of the terrestrial phase of
development. Effete globes like the
moon can scarcely be subject to the
stress to which they are due, nor can
they be very suitably constituted for
the propagation of elastic waves. In
choate worlds, such as Jupiter and
Saturn, are still less likely to be the
scenes of reverberating concussions.
Their materials have not yet acquired
the necessary cohesion. They are
pasty or fluid, if not partially vapor
ous. On the earth the seismic epoch
presumably opened when, exterior so
lidification having commenced, the geo
logical ages began to run. It will last
j so long as peaks crumble and rivers
i carry sediment, so long as the area!
distribution of loads fluctuates and
strains evoke forces adequate for their
catastrophic relief.
"Our globe is by its elasticity kept
habitable. The separation of sea from
dry land Is thus and not otherwise
maintained. The alternations of eleva
tion and subsidence manifest the con
i tinual activity of thitf reserve of en
i ergy. The dimensions of the globe we
inhabit depend upon the balance of
; pressure and expansiveness. Relaxa
tion or enhancement of either instant
j ly occasions a bending inward or an
arching outward of the crust. Just by
these sensitive reactions the planet it
j self shows itself to be alive, and seis
mic thriilings are the breaths it
draws."—Current Literature.
Tin? Antiquity n( the Tbimblr.
Somebody wrote: "To the Dutch the
! ladies of all nations are indebted for
the Invention of the thimble. The
Dutch achieved this great Invention
about the year ItilJO."
IloA • -.iu this stupid error have aris
en? I'h • thimble is probably prehis
toric. Thimbles in some form or oth
er inns: have been used by the women
who exc Jted the rich embroideries of
the ni • ie.al time. The late I'ro
fessor I K. Thyroid Rogers in his
"History of Agriculture and Prices In
England" mentions, under the year
1404, one dozen thimbles which cost 4
shillings. What Is. however, more to
the purpose, they are frequently allud 1
ed to by our old dramatists. Here are
two cxai. ; from the greatest of
j them
In"The Taming of the Shrew" Gru- .
uiio says:
"I commanded the sleeves should be j
cut out and sewed up again and that ;
I'll prove upon thee, though thy littl?
finger be armed in a thimble." IV. \!> ,
I 140.
In the early days of the civil war be
tween Charles I.and the parliament, 1
when the citizens of London we'-e call
ed onto send in their plate to be coin
ed into money, the royalist jesters
made fun of the puritan dames who
were said to have given even their sil
ver thimbles to the cause.—Notes and
: Queries.
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I "Drusilla s \
\ Choosing 112
t By Constance D'Arcy Mackay j
112 i
j» Copyright, UK*!, by M. M. Cunninßiiam j
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Gordon Keith and Tod liogers were
onting supper iu what they called the
"living room" of the shack when the
*tage, dust covered and lumbering,
jrew up in front of the door. There
was a girl on the seat by the driver.
Bhe leaned forward impetuously.
"This is El I'aso, Mr. Keith's ranch,
isn't it?" she demanded by way of in
troduction. "I'm Drusilla Cameron,
and I've come to surprise my brother
Ned."
And before the astonished Keith
could reply she had scrambled down
over the wheel, while the stage driver
grinned widely in delight at the situa
tion and in admiration of the girl.
She was all in brown, from her pon
gee dust coat to her low shoes. Her
hair was chestnut color, and so were
the eyes that looked out frankly from
under the rim of her smart traveling
hat.
"Besides," she continued, "I knew
that if I telegraphed beforehand you'd
have everything all fixed up for me,
and 1 r anted to see you just as you
really are."
• V .I've certainly done that. Miss
'"'ai'.icron," laughed Keith, with a rue
ful g'.mce at the helter skelter supper
ta" !e and the walls, where leather
sa< dies and skins and gayly colored
m; covers jostled for promi
i e "•(,>. Rogers, who had sat speeeli-
;, coffee cup in hand, at her first en
trance. now went to help the driver
with her luggage, while Keith, rising
to his duties as host, bade her welcome
and hung up her hat and coat on a peg
on the wall. He apologized profusely
for the appearonce of the supper table,
the heavy china and the plated knives
ami forks, from which every vestige of
silver was fast disappearing, but Dru
silla laughed and said it was just as
she hoped it would be. and, please
since she was ravenously hungry,
couldn't she begin right away?
And where was Ned all this time,
she questioned, and when would be be
& '
"I WANXLD TO SEE you JUST AS TOO
liEALLY ABE.''
in? She was dying to see him! lie
had told her how well and tanned he
was and how good Keith and Rogers
had been to ban uuring his four
months' stay. She could never thank
them enough for what they had done
for the boy, and—oh, there he was
now!
And she rushed out the doorway as
u fair headed young fellow of eighteen
came galloping up on his broncho.
"We'll clear out and let them have !
supper together," said Keith to Rogers,
"and while that's going on I'll fix up
my rjom for her, and you can ride ■
over to Jessop's and get Mrs. Malone, ;
1 guess she'll be willing to cook for us
for a couple <>f weeks. She isn't equal
to the Waldorf-Astoria, but she can j
get a good plain meal."
"This sure is the most excitement
we've had since Rig Pete shot up Las j
Gorro," drawled Rogers. "I'm off!"
Later in the evening Drusilla, dis- j
claiming all fatigue, sat outside with
Keith's banjo on her knee and sang
them all the latest songs till, as Ned |
declared, "you could just see the lights ;
of Broadway and hear the clack-clack
of the hansoms rolling by. Seems
strange to think of it out here," he
added half beneath his breath.
From where they were sitting they
could sco the Texas plains rolling I
away to the sky line, shadowy, immu- :
table, full of the mystery of the night.
The wind blew past them sweet with j
the breath of great spaces. The stars !
shone very large and bright and clear, j
Drusilla's lips parted.
"No, this Isn't very much like it," j
she echoed.
"Are you glad?" Keith challenged.
"I don't know—yet," she answered
slowly. "It's the tirst time I've ever
been on the plain. In fact, it's the
first time that I've ever been away
from the metropolis, for summer re
sorts full of city people don't count, do
they?"
"They do not!" said Keith decidedly.
For an instant their eyes met, and
Drusilla was conscious of the strength
of a man W'IO seemed as immutable as
the plains themselves. lie was above
the average height, bronzed and deep
chested, and his gray eyes had the di
rect. searching gaze of those accus
tomed to looking at great distances. In
the days that followed it was Gordon
Iv'i'h who monopolized the greater
sh ire -jf her time and thoughts, and it
was wiih him she talked and tramped
and rode. Oh, those rides—with the
horse's feet thudding under her, her
face iwing with the exhilaration and
her h r loosening and streaming out
like a bright pennant!
"Its wonderful, isn't it?" she said
bre sly, reining in. that she might
="• rebellions hairpins. "Noth
ing between you an i the sky, or," with
a wav ■«. he whip, "nothing between
vi nd lii •<■ "ire iif the worlil "
ivejin uir :eu to tn-r.
"Then y »u are beginning, to feel the !
•all of it,"he said quietly, "as I hoped '
y> i would. And now I can say what!
I've been wanting to say ever since I
fir-t met you: Will you marry me, Dru
silla?"
Sh ■ shook her head.
"1 in sorry," she .id softly, "oh, so I
sorry! It would be v-tvil to tell you
fiow mticii your fr -idsliip lias meant ,
to n»®—you must h > • guessed that al- i
rea !y. But what von ask is iuipos- I
sibie."
"Then you do not —care?"
are. uor voice wavered on the
word. "All, you don't know how near
I've come to loving you and how I've
fought It down, for 1 knew 1 couldn't
give up what's calling to me from the
city I've left—all the cotillons and din
ners and teas of tho life I love. And
you once belonged to it too. You've
confessed as much. Why," she made
a little beseeching gesture, "why did
you ever give it up?"
"Because 1 was sick of being a pup
pet in evening clothes, because I was
tired to death of the shams and the
tinsel and the falseness, and I wanted
to get out where 1 could breathe deep
and look up to the stars and feel that
I was a man. Drusilla"—
"No, no," she begged. "Don't ask
me. for I couldn't, I couldn't!"
In silence they rode toward the
shack. The long light of the sunset
glow was across tlie plains. Bright
clouds were piled in the west. Against
trie molten sky of rod and gold a cow
boy rider loped in picturesque silhou
ette.
"It's big and free and beautiful,"
Drusilla murmured to herself, "but it's
not for me!"
A week later she went east, and her
going left a great gap in the lives of
the three men at El Paso. Ned per
haps missed her least of all. for he was
togo home in November, ltogers open
ly mourned her departure.
"Don't seem natural." he complained,
"not to hoar her step about the house
or her songs in the evening."
But Keith, who felt her going most,
kept silent, carrying with him a long
ing that would not be satisfied.
Drusilla had given her promise to
write, yet she was slow in fulfilling it.
Even Ned grumbled as day after day
went by and no word came from her
save a telegram saying she had ar
rived safely and a few picture postal
cards covered with hasty scribbling.
Rogers made excuses forgoing to the
mail oftener than was really necessary,
and his persistency was at length re
warded, for or.e day be returned with
three letters In Drusilla's handwriting.
Ills was full of amusing incidents,
Ned's of gossip and sisterly affection,
but to Keith she wrote:
"You are right after all. I am smoth
ered with conventionality and weary
of riding my prescribed length in the
park. It's all such a social circus. And
It isn't the call of the plains that's
drawing me. It's the call of the heart.
Do you hate the metropolis too much
to come here to marry me?"
• *•»««»
"Well," observed Rogers, standing
in the doorway a few minutes later
and watching Keith galloping Into the
distance. "For sheer hustling that
beats all I've ever seen. He sure de
serves to catch thai train."
IScurtlH and SluiviiiK-
Peter the Great once forbade beards
throughout bis dominions, but. finding
how dearly the Russian loved his
beard, Peter allowed him to keep it if
he was a noble on payment of a tax of
100 ruble-i (about ssll, and if he was a
peasant or a priest, by paying a kopeck
(half a cent" every time he passed tlie
gate of a city. A larg • revouue was
produced by the tax. in return for
which the collectors gave a small cop
per coin called the "borodovaia," or
"the bear.le !;" and every man who
chose to wear a beard was obliged to
produce this when he entered a town.
In default he was thrown into prison.
Dr. John Buiwer in his "Anthropome
tamorphosis. or Man Transformed,"
(1050), writes angrily: "Sliaviug the
chin is just y to be accounted a note of
effeminacy. What greater evidence
can be given of effeminacy than to be
transformed into the appearance of a
woman? A shameful metamorphosis!"
lie declares it t > be d mo "against the
edicts of (Jod, the oracles of the proph
ets. the placits of the councils and the
judgment of learned men." But, in
Spite of thee fuiininations the custom
soon became universal, among soldiers
as well as civilians.
A ROMANTIC LEASE.
One Sweet Hone a* tlie Rent For
a Pennvylvanin Farm.
The public is generally conversant
with the annual custom of paying "one
red rose" as ground rental in eastern
Pennsylvania churches to the descend
ants of those who gave the ground for
the edifices, but it is not generally
known that hundreds of owners of
farms are under a similar obligation,
says the Cincinnati Commercial Trib
une.
"Re \ rose rent" Is yearly paid every
second Sunday in June in the Lutheran
church at Manheim. Lancaster county;
in tlie Tulpeliocken Reformed church,
about sixteen miles west of Reading,
and in several edifices in Lebanon
county, while several congregations in
Berks are entitled to observe the event,
but do not.
Roses paid on these occasions to rep
resentatives of families whose ances
tors made such provisions are treas
ured its priceless heirlooms, and at
Manheim they have come from many
states.
It is known to few that more than
IGO years ago great tracts of farm
land were sold around Reading with
the same stipulation. It is estimated
that at least 20,000 acres of land in
Berks are subject because of a clause
In the original deeds to an annual
ground rent of one red rose.
Records <>f the Berks courthouse
show that many years before Baron
Stigel provided for the payment of rod
rose rent by the church at Manheim
Caspar Wistar sold land containing tho
same clause.
Red rose rent is mentioned in con
nection with land In Tulpebocken, Mar
ion, Maxatawny, Oley and other town
ships. It dates back to 1738.
The Tulpebocken Reformed church is
built on land that is subject to "one
red rose" quit rent. The land was
owned by Caspar Wistar, brass button
manufacturer of Philadelphia. The reu
rose rent lias been paid to the Philadel
phia descendants of Caspar Wistar for
some years. The most notable ob
servance was In 1002. when thirty
prominent Philadelphia Wistars at
tended the services and were paid 1 r»7
red roses in payment of arrears of
rent.
John Page, described as "a gentle
man from London." was another ex
tensive real estate speculator in tlie
early colonial period. He planned to
establish a feudal barony along the
Ttilpeh i!. ai i iTijo. Every deed of
land sc! I y him contained the red
rose el. Mi so.
i lisiii.m hove Toys.
Most ' r ' I iv.' t >ys. The playthings
ho p t i aw >- the time and pre
ve it the.i : oai tearing their plumage.
Parrots ai • e pe.-' djy devoted to play
things and eau be trained to do simple
tricks i :!i tho objects specially fan
cied A : >.' i billed bird will amuse it
• el! i >r an h >ur wi h a peanut which it
cannot ' leak, a tiny bell or a mirror
just big j li t i refiect its own head.
—Mary DJT >i iu St. Nicholas.
HOW TK£ RAIN CAME.
A Kvent ton Strnnj?er In
tlie I'llilippiuCM.
r«»r !••■! lh >ll:itineo perform
an.-e r <• . iij of tho rainy season In
lli< I i !'|> >in• • Ins no ond of right to
be •
11 i ili" \ i nee of one wom
an vho jip , i'illy arrived during the
dry season:
at I' :• vindow she could hear
a r /.• i.it: ».» in the .vnve of iftac#
pal < « »;i :i. The noise neared,
r ■. *!"■ ' T !.
I. i' i -( t.-uuts begun an Inex
plicable bending to uiul fro, their tops
circling in trembling descent almost to
the ' _'i, t!i ii swinging back to the
spr ■ of tin* bow tense trunks in a
n i :i . ! i'v orated atul violent, like
tlit"*' ' e stage tempest.
O ,t : i the grove, beaten, trampled
tl vn, t l, .'re advanced into the open a
black wall of rain, perpendicular from
eaf.ii to s!:y. Ahead of it dust, twigs,
rub'-'sli. suddenly ascended to heaven
In rtary spirals. Trees were flayed of
the.r l<vtvp«: no >fs flew up like gigan
tic bats.
Then her ovvu house, strongly built,
shook as with earthquake. The thatch
of the ro 112 sprang vertical, like that
stiffens with fear, and between the in
terstice-; she saw the muddy sky
I stream by.
A powder of debris, of dry rot, snow
i ed. Down upon the table, the books,
tho ch:uirs, little lizards, unperched,
struck tho floor with a squeak like that
| of a mechanical doll, remained as dead j
I for a long minute, then scampered
across the room and up the walls
again. Great black spiders, centipeds,
scorpions, fell: sometimes a large rat.
Then the uipa clicked back to posi
tion as a box is shut. Breathless si
lence. a heavy immobility, petrified the
world. Til re came three or four de
tached. resounding raps upon the roof, j
and suddenly a furious roaring beating
as of stones coming down, great stones
cliuted iu thousands, in millions, and
the church the pi iza, the mountain,
the whole land, disappeared in a yel
low swirl of water.—McClure's Maga
ziue.
GOUDEAU'S SHEEP.
It Mat cited I! in How am! Satisfied the
TJI Collector. -
Entile C f.uleau. a celebrated charac
ter of I'h 1 - was one of the most con
fir l •> ; ! h • ans that ever lived.
Then- s dory of him and a cer
tain I !.i k :uiel whicii followed him
with the faithfulness with which the
his: Ik- c little lamb attached itself to
tho list i.-ic little Mary. Goudeau and
the dog. in fact, were never separated.
It dawned upon the tax gatherer of
the neighborhood that Goudeau had
not paid his dues for the "inferior
brother."
IP? approached him, therefore, in as
friend'j- a .spirit as possible, being, in
deed, an ' I I acquaintance, and said.
".M Goudeau. I must ask you to pay
your ia>. for the spaniel."
The b then inn was Immensely sur
prised, r alV* :ed to be. "But don't
you know, my dear sir," he said in a
ton ■ of ron: > st ranee, "this is a sheep
dog. u-• n't > ii!" iu my work and con
sequently exempt from the tax?"
"But y »u ire no shepherd," returned
the tax gut'.erer: "you are a poet."
"X » s!i >; herd!" replied Goudeau.
"Every p. is a vhepherd. Ilave you
not hu Til of Virgil and Theocritus"—
The pet v .u d have recited twenty
o;h n.i. ; tie tax gatherer, alarm
ed . t - u.-'j a display of learning, had
not st p;> ' Lii . "But at least you
Lav • no sheep.'' ho said.
"Mo: I admit that." said Goudeau.
"It is because I am too poor. But I
will rectify that."
And he d'd Next day he was ob
ser.e! promenading tlie streets of
Montmartre with the same old black
sp.i ie . I>tu with a newcomer iu the
shape of a re il live, woolly sheep.—
Loudon Sketch.
HOY/ WARRIORS DIED.
Gr. IIT. 'ATIO time and again stood
untouched snni 1 ; I ail of bullets, final
ly died of c ncer.
Willie! t ie Silent survived numer
ous <•( .:. et md campaigns, only to
be ii- s. in ted after he was victori
ous.
N. p"f e'on. : ppareutly bullet proof
and i 'ie.el by his followers to bear
a el.:i!' u- 1 life, died almost alone of
! a cancer.
' < ,< niquoror of Mexico, aft
ler I !t" a | ! .'» time of desperate fighting,
dit d sp;i < ■!' typhoid fever, neglect
ed ; ' ed by those whom he had
, bent*:. 1.
Wa u .i-:i urvived the perils of
the v.. i- ie dangers of Indian
war:', re. ; ! e bullets and balls of a
score of K " olutlm iry battles and the
hard 'ii a even years' campaign
to be ok 1 t death by his doctors.
Lot i < lh . 'be English conqueror
of li. iia. a ' • : i. active warrior, ex
po cd to tie tit in scores of desperate
La tilt ; id by several plots, fell a
vi .ii;i a:'i r hi.: return to England to
ti ■ >. lute !;••' it and committed sui
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NO. 116 E, FRONT BT.
THE DEVILFISH.
tin Ability to I'hnniEP KM linn and
|ji«* VvuSer's Color.
"1 was lying on a rock watching the !
mo-, ■'ineut - of some land crabs which
i- pt retrealii . from IIJC water ns the
■ do r >:o. when <u<" Icily a crab dashed
■ !,: .;!i. from the water, and out
! • ,t • i! i; ■ I tlier*' is no other
! for it—a devilfish nearly two feet j
writi 3 an ob "rvor from Ava
il ('al. "The aniiu .l continued the
i ■ i si; »rt dl catice. lifting its ton
•i (' ! r in k •! ef overhead
pursuit hopeless, J
it vitlid"'- • with ii peculiarly unpleas- j
ii!'-, wr'iii'ng, gliding motion charac- I
* i-1i• •of these animals. Upon reach- !
tbt water it stationed itself just at :
tiio ed;"'. mimicking the color of the |
to: tli-.t when I glanced away and ,
iooke<i 'deuly back I could not at j
e d t'eguisli it. Tiiis devilfish bad j
ii aj ance of a cat watching for j
■ -o. >! • when a crab was seen it
uld sin ot out a long, attenuated j
font-!. ' fad attempt to seize it. Ry
insinuating my way to the j
< ge 1 quickly grasped the '
specimen and after a short struggle .
t. .. it from the rocks and secured it. j
\t v! rious times I had from three I
'o five devilfishes in s:i inciosure :
•re I ottid watch tlicm change color
I t;. r tlieir strength. In confine
i it. if the tank bottom was dark, j
ti y fs 'tmod various tints, generally j
a dark > 'ddisli I " >wn, but the l-.tgost !
o- ■ Wit a tigerlike creature, about ;
'I. o 112 -t across, with a ground of j
tiv'd w 1 ite covered with black or dark \
gray blotches, giving it a truly fiendish I
a; K>arfnee. e |)oeially as the eyes
w re conspicuous and appo. red to emit j
lam' out gleams. The change of color (
was marvelous in its rapidity. In a 1
*p't al tank in which two of these j
p. is. ners were confined they occupied ,
tlie corners, facing outward, with arms i
either coiled under or above them. At j
any offensive movement on my part, j
presenting my hand under water, the j
color scheme wonld change. A blush j
appeared tope - over the entire sur- 1
face, and In a la |- ge squid I can only ]
cine-tare it to beat lightning—a rapid j
a; ' continue' se-ies of flushing and I
P'li: g, from de p brick red to gray.
"1 1 was very evident that the anl
■r i!: differed i inch In pugnacity,
112 o did not reacnt my touching them;
<•:!' rs merely threw a tentacle in my
dieo tion, while one never touched me.
but directed ivs sij>hon at my hand
n • r water and sent a violent current
ia t''.it direction, apparently endeavor- ;
jtu- to Nov my hand away. It was
fasoin;:'ing to observe the range this
wat< :• iruii !i:i I and how by seeming
intoiii«in tb.e devilfish could direct it
at my hand as I slowly moved it about
while attempting to attract the ani
mal's attention in an opposite direc
tion."
Tlie Poor Child's AdvnntnKe*.
"My most serious problem is bow 1
can give my children Hie advantage of
tlie poor man's," Met lure's Magazine
quotes a rich man as saying and makes
this comment: Tho modern system of
education employed by the rich and
well to do and secured often at infinite
self sacrifice even by those of very
moderate means obscures rather than j
brings Into light tiie realities. No ma- |
ferial provision, however ample and in
telligent, can alone make for verity. ;
No amount of "opportunities" or "ad 1
vantages." however unusual, are suf
ficient to awaken the soul. Indeed iu
the very multiplying of material ad
vantages tlie spirit of the child is more
often than not smothered and distort
ed. Too many masters, too many toys,
too many tasks. The poor little head
and heart have neither strength nor
time for brooding and dreaming in the
forest and field, as young Schurz had.
lie lias ii" Img evenings for sitting 1
around a .amily table or before a fire ;
reading and talking, no spur to find j
things to do and to flud things to think
about. The attention continually dis
tracted. the imagination burdened, the
sense of pleasure overfed, what time,
what •r-Mg'k is there f>r the child of
the veer rii ,Y brought up in the usual
way, I > :iev' i i;i?
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Voj »i l«i l«i Lovely Dictioif,
l or tin- Junior Manager.
A man who wanted to lecture called
at i bureau presided over by two man
il > iU'or.Hcd their interest with a lec
tur ■!''« art. says tlie Lyceumlte, but
i.nl (I'tunately the senior member was
Jn : starting on a 1 ri i» and would not
ret. !i for at least a mouth.
"li.o - enior partner called the young
•:::i i > one side ."lid exacted a solemn
, .ni!that be would not visit an
other bureau or read his lecture to
anybody until after lie had given this
particular manager a reading and a
eh.".nee to make him an offer a month
hence.
The interest of the junior member,
however, was at white heat, and he
kept sending for the young lecturer, in
. isting that he come down to the office
and read his lecture. The young man
refused with as much tact as possible,
but this only increased the anxiety of
the junior.
At last the young man told of the
promise made the senior partner. In
stead of quieting the junior manager,
t!i ; announcement made him the more
anxious, and finally the young man
consented.
The reading ended, the junior part
ner said:
"Now, your reading this has saved
tt<* all ninch valuable time. I'll tell you
frankly, my boy, it won't do. There's
no message in it; it is loosely construct
ed; the diction is poor. It won't do.
Iturn it and try again."
When the senior partner returned he
called up the young lecturer and sound
ly berated him for breaking faith.
"How do I know you have not been
to every bureau in town? You promis
e 1 me on your honor you would read
the lecture to nobody—not even to my
partner."
The young man protested that he
had not done so.
"Why." exclaimed the senior man
age:'. "of course you have! He tells me
that you came down here to the office
two weeks ago and read him the entire
lecture and that he told you it was no
good."
"Yes," replied the young man; "after
much persuasion 1 did read him a lec
ture which he told me was no good,
but it wa not my le -ture—it was Wen
dell Phi'lips' * 1 .os t Arts!'"
T*.*»i;iv D»y Jloney.
"Is yorv husband putting by any
t'liv for rainy day?" asked the prn
dent rela!iv«..
"l thin!: sMiswered young Mrs
Tor! ins. i heard him mention several
'or " :• ti'rday l! •t he said always
run 1 • :• ! :' iy tra< k."—Wnsb
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] ACKAWANNA RAibKOAD
L ' BLOOMSBURt* DIVISION
Delaware Lackawanna and Westerr
Railroad.
tn Effect Jan. 1, 1905.
TKAINS LEAVE DANVILLE.
EASTWARD.
7.07 a. in.daily tor Biooiusburg, Kingston
Wilkas-Barre aud Scrauton. Arriving >'Ts.o
ton at #.41 a. m., and connecting at Scrantoi
with trains arriving at Philadelphia at 3.41S e
m.and New York City at 8.30 l>. in.
10.a. m. weekly for Biooinsburg. Kingston
Wllkes-Barre.Scrauton and intermediate sta
tions, arri\in? at Scrauton at 12.33 p. m.and
connecting tb re with trains for N' w Yori
i t'ity. I'hilad'dphiaand Hutfalo.
2.11 weekly for Biooinsburg,Kingston, WilkSi
1 Bar re. Scrauton and intermediate stations
• arriving at Scran ton at 4.50 p. r>»,
5.43 n. ni. dally for Biooinsburg, h«py, Ply
mouth, Kintrston, Wiilies-Barre, I'ittston
S-.TMiiton mi ! Intermediate stations, arriving
il .-civiulon .it p. in. auU connecting then
\itii trains arriving al New York City at n.M
> a in.. Philatielpeia 10 a. m.and Buffalo 7n il.
TRAINS A'IRIVE AT DANVILLE
U. 15 a. m. weekly from Scrauton. I'ittston,
Kingston. M.i >nishnrs and Intermediate sta
tons. ea\in?-tcraul 'ii tt ti.-th ». m., where It
; i nnii<''t.. 1 -with tr iins leaving New Vara City
: nt :t. V t m , I'liiladeiphi • at TO'.' p.m. and
ItuHalo at In.> 0 a. m.
12.14 p. m.daily from Scran tun Pittston,
Kingston, Berwirli. Biooinsburg and interme
din!'stations, leaving s.-ranton at 10.10 a. ni.
and connecting these vith train eaving Bufl-
I ii'o at 2.-5 a ni.
pin. weekly om Scranton, Kingston,
'.erwick. i;ioonisi>urg r.nd intermediate sta-
Uoiis, leaving soraLton at 1.55 p. in., where it
•onne 't* with train leaving New York t'ltj
• t 10.00 a m..and Philadelphia at y.UO a. m.
9.or> p tn. daily from Scrauton. Kingston,
i'ittston. Berwick. Bioomsbnrg and intermt.
diate stations, leaving Serai ton at 6.85 p. m.
where it connects with trains leaving Ntv
York City at 1.00 p. m., Philadelphia it 12 V
p. tn. mi J Butfoio at 9.3 I a, ni.
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