HUNTING THEIipM; WHITE-TAILED Pof DEER HMI BY \ / / . TftLOBORE ROOSEVELT .copyright. 18S5. by G. P. Putnam's S»ns. Published under arrangement with U. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London.] afternoon, while most / I of us were away from T B the ranch-house, one of 'I IO cowboys, riding in from his day's outing over the range, brought word that he had seen two white-tail deer, a buck and a doe. feeding with some • tittle on the side of a hill across the river, and not much more than hall' a tnile from the house- There was about an hour of daylight left, and one of the foremen, a tall, fine-looking fellow named Ferris, the best rider on the ranch but not an un usually good shot, started out at on< e after the deer. Ferris found the deer easily enough, but the.v started before JUe could get a standing shot at them, and when be tired as they ran.he only broke one of the buck's hind legs, just above the ankle. He followed it in the snow for several miles, across the river, and down near the liov.se to the end of the bottom, and then back to ward the house. The buck was a cun ning old beast, keeping in 'he densest cover, and often doubling lon his trail and sneaking oil to one side as his pursuer passed by. Finally it grew too dark to see the tracks any longer and Ferris came bome. Next morning early we went out to where he hnd left the trail, feeling very sure from his description of the place (which was less than a mile from the house) that we would get the buck; for when he had abandoned the pursuit the deer was in a copse of bushes and young trees some hundreds of yards across, and in this it had doubtless spent the night. When we got to the thicket we first made a circuit round it to see if the wounded nninial had broken cover, but though there were fresh deer tracks leading both in and out of it. none of them were made by a cripple: so we knew he was still within. After work ing some little time we hit on tie right trail, finding where the buck had turned into the thickest growth While Ferris followed carefully in on the tracks. 1 stationed myself farther on toward the outside, knowing that the buck would in all likelihood star; up wind. In a minute or two Ferris came on the bed where he had passed the night, and which he had evidently just left; a shout informed me that the game was on foot, and immediately afterward the crackling and snapping of the branches were heard as the deer rushed through them. Iran as rapidly and quietly as possible to ward the place where the sounds seem ed to indicate that he would break cover, stopping under a small tree. A minute afterward he appeared, some thirty yards off on the edge of the! thicket, and halted for a second to I look round before going into tlie open. Only bis head and antlers were visible above the bnslies which hid from view the rest of bis body. He turned his, / > Each took an with r, aiut th • body slij>;«■< along very easily. head sharply toward me Jis I raised' the rifle, and the bullet went fairly' into iiis throat, just under the jaw, breaking his neck, ami bringing him down 111 his tracks with hardly a ki k He was a tine buck of eight points, unusually fat, considering that tin rutiing season was just over. We dressed it at once. and. as the house | was so near, determined we would drag it there over the snow ourselves.) without going back for a horse Each; took an antler, and the body slipped along very easily, but so Intense was! the cold that we had to keep shifting c'.des all the time, the hand which grasped the horn becoming numb al most immediately. When not much molested white-tail feed lu the evening or late afternoon but if often shot at and chased the.v only come out at night. They are very Ohio Oranges. A Bellefontaine (Ind.) man who re cently returned from Kenton, which Is also a "dry" town now, says he went Into a fruit store while there and asked for two oranges and laid down $1 When the oranges were handed to him he found each one contained a tiny circular flask of whisky. Workingman Senator In France. The first workingman In France to be elected to the senate took his seat a few day* ago. His name Is Victor Reymonency, and he Is employed ID the arsenal at Toulon. | partial to the water, and in the warm I summer nights wilt come down into ! the prairie ponds and stand knee-deep | In them, eating the succulent marsh plants. Most of the plains rivers flow ' through sandy or muudy beds with no | vegetable growth, and to these, of : j course, the deer merely come down to , drink or refresh themselves by bath j ing, as they contain nothing to eat. At times the white-tail will lie so ' i close that it may almost be trodden < n ( One June morning I was riding down j along the river, and came to a lo:i„ I bottom, crowded with rose-bushes, all j In bloom. It was crossed in every di rectioti by cattle paths, and a drove ■ ! ] long-horned Texaus were scatters! ; over it. A cow-pony gets accustomed to travelling at speed along the catl1 1 trails, and the one 1 bestrode threaded its way among the twisted narrow | paths with perfect ease, loping rapidiy : onward through a sea of low rose 1 bushes, covered with the sweet, pink | flowers. They gave a bright color t I the whole plain, while the air wa | filled with the rich, full songs of the i yellow-breasted meadow larks, as the;, j perched on the topmost sprays of flit ! little trees. Suddenly a white-tail tlo I sprang up almost from under the j horse's feet, and scudded oft with her i white flag flaunting. There was no j reason for harming her. and she made a pretty picture as she bounded light I;, off among the rose-red flowers, pass Ing without heed through the ranks of the long-horned and savage-looking steers. Doubtless she had a little spotted fawn not far away. These wee fel lows soon after birth grow very cun ning and able to take care of them selves, keeping In the densest part of | the brush, through which they run and dodge like a rabbit. If taken young they grow very tame and are most dainty pets. One which we had round the house answered well to its name It.was at first fed with milk, which it lapped eagerly from a saucer, shar ing the meal with the two cats, wli rather resented its presence and cufl ed it heartily when they thought i was greedy and was taking more tli.i:• its share. As it grew older It WOIIW eat bread or potatoes from our hands and was perfectly fearless. At nigh; it was let go or put In the cow-shed whichever was handiest, but it was generally round in time for breakfas next morning. A blue ribbon with a bell attached was bung round Its neck so as to prevent Its being shot; 1m! in the end it shared the fate of ali pets, for one night It went oft an> never came back again. Only once have 1 ever killed a white tail buck while hunting on horseba and at that time 1 had been expecting to fall in with black-tail, j This was while we had been inakitu; a wagon trip to the westward folio-* I ing the old Keogh trail, which v !•• | made by the heavy army wagons that ! Journeyed to Fort Keogh in the ol- I days when the soldiers were, except n few daring trappers, the only whit* ; men to be seen on the last great bun! I ing-ground of the Indians. It wa j abandoned as a military route several ! years ago, and is now only rarely ! travelled over, either by the canvas topped ranch-wagon of some wander ing cattle-men—like ourselves—or else I by a small party of emigrants, In to | or three prairie schooners, which con i tain all their household goods. Never j theless. it is still as plain and distinct as ever. The two deep parallel ruts cut into the sod by the wheels of the heavy wagon, stretch for scores of miles in a straight line across tin level prairie, and take great turns ami doublings to avoid the impassable por tions of (he Bad Lands. The track i; always perfectly plain, for in the dry climate of the western plains the ae tlon of the weather tends to preserve rather than to obliterate It: where ii leads downhill, the snow water has cut and widened the ruts into deep J gullies, so that a wagon has at those places to travel alongside the road j From any little rising in the prairie ! the road can be seen a long way off. j as a dark line, which, when near, re j solves itself into two sharply defined parallel cuts. I On the trip in question we had at first very bad weather. Leaving the I ranch in the morning, two of us, who were mounted, pushed on ahead to ' hunt, the wagon following slowly, with ■ a couple of spare saddle ponies lending I behind it. Early in the afternoon, while ' riding over the crest of a great divide, which separates the drainage basin of two Important creeks, we saw that a tremendous storm was brewing with that marvellous rapidity which is s marked a characteristic of weather | change® on the plains. We purr-Hi hard to get out of the open, riding with loose reins for the creek. The center of the storm swept | by behind us, fairly across our track j and we only got a wipe front the tall I of It. Yet this itself we could not have faced In the open. The first gust caught us a few hundred yards from the creek, almost taking us from the saddle, and driving the rain and hall In stinging level sheets against us. We galloped to the edge of a deep wash-out, scrum bled Into it at the risk of our necks and huddled up with our horses under Mrs. Longworth's Shell Chair. Curious collections of shells are com ing to the L'nited States, and shells as ornaments In every sort of way are seen in modish homes. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth is fond of shells, and she got some exceptionally fine necklaces and bracelets in Hawaii. She has a lovely little shell rocking chair. The woodwork is Inlaid with tiny irides cent shells and water color landscapes framed In exquisitely tinted shells Navy men who goto the south seas are begged by their friends for the small opal shell which Is seen so much just now strung on gold for neck! »-■ neath the windward bank. Here we re mnined pretty well sheltered until the storm was over. Although It was Au gust. the air became very cold. The .vagon was fairly caught, and would have been blown over K the top had been on; the driver and horses without Injury, pressing under the lee ward side, the storm coming so love that they did not need a roof to protect them from the hail. Where fhe center of the whirlwind struck It did great damage. The wagon came onto the creek, along whose banks we bad taken sliol ter, and we then went Into camp, li rained al! night, and there was a thick mist, with continual sl.ntrp showers. i all the next day and night The > wheeling was, in consequence, very > heavy, and after striking the Keogh > trail, we were able togo along It but a few miles before the fagged-out look > of the team and the approach of even 1 Ing warned us that we should have to ' go info camp while still a dozen miles from any pool or spring. Accordingly we made what would have been a dry * camp had it not been for the inees sant down-pour of rain, which \v>• gathered in the canvas wagon-shoe! I / N The bright-coU>rc<l patch dUappearwt. and in our oilskin overcoats in suffi cient quantity to make coffee, having with infinite difficulty started a smouldering fire Just to leeward of the wagon. The horses, feeding on the soaked grass, did not need water. An antelope, with the bold and heedless curiosity sometimes shown by Its tribe, came up within two hundred yards of us as we were building the fire, but though one of us took a shot at him, it missed. Our shaps and oil skins had kept us perfectly dry. and as soon as our frugal supper was over, we coiled up among the boxes and bundles inside the wagon and slept soundly till daybreak. When the BUU rose next day, the third we were out, the sky was clear, and we two horsemen at once pre pared to make a hunt Some three miles off to the south of where we were camped, the plateau on which we were sloped off Into a great ex panse of broken ground, with chains upon chaius of steep hills, separated by deep valleys, winding and branch lug in every direction, their bottoms filled with trees and brushwood. To ward this place we rode, Intending to go Into it some little distance, ami then to hunt along through tt near the edge. As soon as we got down near tin brushy ravine we rode aloug without talking, guiding the horses as far as , possible on earthy places, where the.v would neither stumble nor strike their feet against stones, and not letting our rifle barrels or spurs clink against any thing. Keeping outside of the bras': a little up the side of the hill, one o! us would ride along each side of the ravine, examining intently with our eyes every clump of trees or brush wood. For some time we saw nothing, but. finally, as we were riding both to gether round the jutting spur of a steep hill, my companion suddenly brought his horse to a halt, and point ing across the shelving bend to a patch of trees well up on the opposite side of , a broad ravine, asked me If I did not see a deer In It. I was off the horse In a second, throwing the reins over his head. We were In the shadow of the cliff-shoulder, and with the wind In our favor; so we were unlikely to be observed by the game. I looked long and eagerly toward the spot indicated, which was about a hundred and twen ty-flve yards from us, but at first could see nothing. By this time, however the experienced plainsman who was with me was satisfied that he was right in his supposition, and he told me to try again and look for a patch of red. I saw the patch at once, just glimmering through the bushes, bit! should certainly never have dreamed it was a deer if left to myself. Watch ing it attentively I soon saw It move enough to satisfy me where the head lay; kneeling on one knee and (as it was a little beyond point-blank rat' holding at the top of the portion vis ible, I pulled trigger, and the brigh; rolored patch disappeared from amom: the bushes. The aim was a good one. for, on riding up to the brink of tin ravine, we saw a fine white-tall luv-k lying below us. shot through Just : hind the shoulder; he was still In tie red coat, with his antlers In th" Postal Course For Schools. Postmaster O. C. W. Lang of Ba.v onne, N. J., recently sent to the board of education a communication asking that the pupils in the public schools be taught how to address and mail let ters, how to make out a money order and how to register letters. The post master said that he had printed fifty booklets containing information, and he suggested that these be distributed. The board adopted the suggestions, and hereafter the pupils In all the pub lic schools will receive instruction in postal matters once or twice s week. SHOOTING IN SILENCE Efficiency of Hiram P. Maxim's Sound Killer Proved. DEVICE USED ON MANY GUNS. Report of an Army Rifle With "Si- 1 lenccr" Attached No Louder Than an Air Gun—lnventor Says the De vice Will Work Perfectly on Cannon. Hiram Percy Maxim gave the first public demonstration the other day of his new rifle silencer, the latest of his Inventions, before a group of newspa per men in the offices of his firm of counselors In New York city. The si- I lencer reduced the report from the highest powered rifles of this and for eign countries to the noise made by 1 the Initial cleavage of the air and the "puck" of the bullet as it struck in a packed sand backstop. The whole sound was no louder than that made by the discharge of an air rifle In an inclosed gallery. There was on hand In the lawyers' ofllces a collection of rifles running all the way from the little Winchester 22 repeater to the Springfield 30, tho United States army rifle and (he most powerful of Its kind in tho world. Taking the Winchester 22 first, Mr. Maxim fired a shot from the naked gun to give an Idea of the report. Then lie fired with the silencer attach ed. There was a click about as loud as one would make by snapping the trigger on an old fashioned uiusket. "Now," said Mr. Maxim, "If you will analyze that noise under proper condi tions you will find out that it consists of two noises, one produced by the im- , pact of the bullet, the other by the cleavage of the air. Vou don't hear the gun at all, although you may think you do. The proof of this comes when j you make a test under military condi tions. with the target at a sufficient | range so that the Impact of the bullet is not heard. Then you hear only the swish that comes from the initial ( cleavage of the air. At the target you hear the bullet strike and wait in vain for the report of the gun." He went on next to test the silencer with a 22 Winchester automatic. The result was not as good with this weapon, because the ammunition cham ber did not remain altogether closed, and a certain report came from the breech of the weapon. Rut the silencer applied to a Winchester 30 high pow er sporting rifle reduced its report to the "puck" that an air gun might make. The same was the case with a six millimeter Mannlicher military rifle, a seven millimeter Mauser, a 32-40 Ste vens marksman's target rifle and a Springfield 30, the new United States army rifle. The demonstration with the last gun was particularly con vincing. After firing It a couple of times with the silencer Mr. Maxim took a little wooden frame to which was attache*] by a metallic paper clip one of his calling cards. This card he held by means of the frame imme diately In front of the muzzle of the gun and fired It without the silencer The explosion of the gases not only blew the card to pieces, but shattered the wooden frame and put the paper clip out of commission. Then Mr. Max im took another card and, having at tached the silencer to the rifle, held It In his bare fingers in front of the muz zle. The gun was fired Mr. Maxim exhibited a card with the "Mr." shot out of It as cleanly as though the bullet had traveled Its target distance. The card was not burned and only slightly discolored by the gases Mr. Maxim explained also that the silencer diminished by abont 50 per cent the of a gun on which it was used. He was asked If it could be applied successfully to larger ordnance and replied in the affirmative. Mr. Maxim declared that It would be easier to apply til" silencer to cannon, up to the largest calibers, than to small arms, for the reason that the clement of weight would not be a problem to reckon with The Maxim silencer, which is at tached to the muzzle of the gun, has the outward appearance of a thin steel tube a little longer and greater in diameter than a box of stick shaving soap. It weighs for the heaviest cali ber guns about eleven ounces and for the lighter ones seven or eight ounces. Cut It open and inside one sees ten or tweleve little disks or chambers, pene trated somewhat above tho center by a hole slightly larger than the bullet which Is expected to pass through. The center of the disk Is pressed back and the outside edge is rolled over so ns to make a thick ring, hollow on the Inside. When the disks are in place In the chamber the effect is that of a re versed turbine fastened to the muzzle of the gun. As the bullet is llred, clearing the silencer without interfer ence because the hole through the se ries of disks is larger than the diam eter of the bullet, the gases accom panying it are caught by the first disk | and by virtue of its shape rotated very rapidly. Centrifugal force makes them fly out toward the periphery of the disk inside the rolled over ring, and it Is only as they slow down that they j can escape Into the next disk, where the process is repeated. Thence the gases go into the third disk, then Into the fourth, and so on until their force Is entirely Olssipated. "It Is Just like stirring around a wash bowl full of water," explained Mr. Maxim. "You get It rotating fast enough and a hole will rnn right down through the center to the open escape i pipe, but no wnter will run out." The silencer is applied to the end of the bnrrel by means of a thread on which It screws. Not Ducklike. Mrs. Yeast—And did you at one time call your husband a duck? Mrs. Crim sonbeak—Oh, yes. That was before I found out that he'd never take to l water!—Yonkers Statesman. His Cleverness. Nell—Young Mr. Rlgwad Is no fool. « r lle—No. He's clever enough to have a rich father.—Philadelphia Record. Never disclose your schemes lest their failure expose you to ridicule as well as dlsapvototment ODDITIES IN BILLS, Freak Measures Introduced In the Legislatures. SCHEME TO BENEFIT WOMEN. Why Wisconsin Legislator Would End Deception as to Sizes of Their Shoes—Skunks Protected In an In diana Measure—Make Water Wagcn a Common Carrier Is Oklahoma P'^n. A Dili in the Wisconsin legislature la designed to force shoe dealers to prop erly label women's shoes as to size. It was prepared by ex-Assemblyman Daggett of Milwaukee, who when a member of the lower house eight years ago made his sole claim to fame in the introduction of a bill to forbid the wearing of corsets by men or women, lie said he didn't believe women need ed corsets, because his wife wore none, and that a corset was an Inducement to Immorality In its effect on the vital organs. lie now says that tlie Ameri can woman's shoe is largely responsi ble for the title "the weaker sex," for the woman who cannot stand com fortably because of a small shoe is un able to perform her part of the world's work properly. Of the freak propositions Introduced in the Oklahoma legislature that by Representative Rill Durant, a Choctaw Indian, to make the water wagon a common carrier would possibly be termed the oddest anywhere except in state wide prohibition Oklahoma. But, taking the business world into consid eration, the strangest is the measure introduced by Senator Reuben Roddie to limit the number of banks in a i town by providing extremely high cap italization in proportion to the town's population. Such a measure has actually becomo a necessity in Oklahoma because of the adoption in Guthrie of the guar -1 antee bank deposit law. So many new banks were started when it became known that deposits were being guar- I anteed that the banking business of towns was badly split up, and numer ous failures were feared. Representative A. Ward Copley of Detroit has Introduced a bill In the Michigan legislature to prohibit "Joy rides." It makes It a felony for any ; chaufTeur to use a car without the owner's permission and for any one to ride in a car that Is liorrowed without the formality of saying "by your leave." At present the Michigan laws do not have Jurisdiction over this of fense, and the employers have no re coarse but to "tire" the offending chauffeur. The practice has resulted In a number of serious accidents. A. J. Cameron, a New York book binder, will present a bill to tho Maine legislature for the Interest on his claim for binding, which was adjusted in 1901 The state has never paid Inter est on lis claims, and a creditor has sometimes been fortunate if he got the amount of the original bill. Cameron did a Job for the state in IH7S, but It was not until 1901 that he received his pay. Now he wants the interest, about $2,000. A freak bill appears on the calendar of the Indiana legislature, but its pe culiarity was not intentional. It pro vides fur the protection of wild fur bearing animals. A lynx eyed farmer discovered that muskrats and skutilcs will be protected, and he has pointed out that the ditches and earthworks that protect the farmer's land would be ruined by muskrats. As to sknnks, he says, no argument Is needed. The bachelor tax bill by Senator Claude Hudspeth of Austin. Tex., Is not the only odd measure pending be fore the Texas legislature. Rills have been Introduced making It a felony to play baseball on Sunday. Tho blue laws of Texas are to be still further strengthened if pending measures are passed by prohibiting the sale of any article of merchandise on Sunday. This will close the drug stores along with all other businesses. Representative ,1. M. Davfs has in troduced a bill into the Kansas legis lature that provides for a bounty of cents for each crow killed In Kansas ! and 1 cent for each 0.-g of a crow de- j stroyed. Some Kansas counties aro in fested with crows at certain times of the year. They appear in great tlocks. ruin apple crops and do considerable damage to the corn. A resolution has been Introduced in : the lowa legislature prohibiting legis lators from smoking in chambers and from putting their feet on desks while . dictating to feminine committee clerks 1 and stenographers. America's Homecoming Fleet. It has been around the world, everywhere Its nag unfurled. And It's proved the very finest of its sort. Wherever It has sailed It has been with friendship hailed. And they've cheered our ships and men nt every port. It has made our nation known a world power from zone to zone And respected as It never was before. And the tributes it has won from the rise to set of sun It is bringing back in triumph to our door. Not a finer set of men have the ports had in their ken Than the .i&ckies on each Yankee bat tleship. Whether manning; guns at post or at ban quet drinking toast. Their praises are on every foreign lip. We have shown what we can do with a battleship and crew, We have proved how much at peace we'd rather be. But if we're forced to war, well inten tloned as we are. We've the stuff from which they carve out victory. A peace cru!se it has been finer than the world has seen. And the nations have been clamoring for its call, And Its coming in broad sweep Is a mem ory to Keep in the records and the history of them all. V*s, it's won us a proud name, It has given to us fame. In its wide and comprehensive ocean roam; i In its world encircling story it has cov ered us with glory. But we're very glad the fleet is coming home! —Josh Wink in Baltimore American. Art For Art's Sake. "I like to see a man take an Interest In his work." "So ilo 1.1 once knew a policeman , who was so enthusiastic that It posi tively pained him to see anybody out •< JailliO*lsTlil« Courier-Journal. I Sfe Wooing of I | Wilhelmina. I Tiy Cecily Allen. S Copyrighted, i:i08, by Associated 2 5 Literary Press. | S fi Of Wllhelniiua's taste iu dinner giv ing aud the quality of her hospitality there could be no question. The first was above reproach; the second, like that of mercy, was not strained. Of Wilhelmiua's ability as an artist, however, there was very grave ques tion indeed. Those who had no desire to defer to her dinners were very apt to pronounce her pictures daubs, which will explain why Dobson drew Rem ington aside and reviewed the situa tion. Dobson was taking Donald Rem ington, who had just returned from a year in England, to enjoy one of Wil helmiua's Sunday night dinners. "You see. she hasn't had a fair chance yet, but she's awfully ambi tious, and wo nil have hopes." Remington nodded understandlngly. He knew the type of artist, though the rosy colors In which Dobson had painted the dinner prospective hail rather confused him. "They lived on a farm—her folks had all kinds of money, blooded stock and all that—and they sent her to boarding OT:H VHACUP.K N H SA ■:, UEHTIiT. school. You know how those finishing schools kill one's style." "From finishing school to studio, eh?" ".Not much. You musn't make any mistake. She isn't exactly a spring chicken. She'll never see thirty again. But we call her Wilhelmina because she likes it—makes her feel as If she was one of us." "So does art defer to appetite," mur mured Remington as be lighted a fresh cigarette. "Well, you wait. She went back home from school and took care of both the old folks till they died, three weeks apart. Then she sold out every thing In Indiana ami set up her studio here in New York. She's brought along a lot of the family heirlooms, mahog any, hand woven stuff and all that, and It's the greatest spot ever" "How about her pictures?" Interrupt ed Remington good humoredly. "Well, say, you want to be careful about those. She took the correspond ence course iu art after she went home, ami you know what that means. She's an impressionist, and" "Never mind harrowing details. I am prepared for the worst." Three minutes later he was standing, stricken dumb, in a most gracious presence. As be looked Into her clear gray eyes, well set beneath a broad white forehead, lie remembered having seen just one such face In his busy life It was the face of an Englishwo man of title, whose peculiar gifts as a mother had made her greatly beloved of men. "Did auy one ever toll you how much you resemble the Countess of W.?" he demanded suddenly. Wilhelmina flushed faintly and shook her head. "You are so English that you don't seem to belong here at all!" "Oh, but I do belong here, aud I'm every Inch American. I have a latch key of my very own and no English girl lias that." All during dinner Remington watch ed his hostess curiously. She seemed so utterly out of place among her guests, harmless. Irresponsible chaps, hntiging on the ragged edge of art's prosperity, ungroomed girls with enor mous mops of hair and yellowed tin kers which simke of the cigarette habit. "Looks like a Madonna among a bunch of dime museum freaks. It's a shame to spoil a good house mother to make a poor artist. OJad. what taste she had iu haugings and fittings!" For Remington was an architect and a good one. He could size up the re finement and true artistic instinct as stamped on a home. Irrespective of cost or pretense, and he knew that so far as hometnnking was concerned Wilhelmina Stevens was an artist. Perhaps that was why, when he caught his first glimpse of her can rases, he almost gronned aloud. "Those birches nre wonderfully true," he heard Dobson explain, and he knew that the boy had picked out the one best point in what he felt was a landscape gone on a Saturday night's •pree The pathos of her pose was to him rairly fascinating. Often after that ho came to the studio, aud always his heart sank within him as be realized how absorbed and determined was this lovable, young-old woman. She re minded him of a family friend who would sit enraptured at grand opera or concert and yet who could never strike a single true note or carry a tune and who wept because singing her babies to sleep was a boon de nied. Remington dropped into see Wilhel mina oftenest when he was sure of finding her alone. II» avoided her din tens snri chafing dish mm pers. lie round Wiihelmfna's society h real inspiration In Ills work, for Remington had a mission. lie wished to transplant to the suburbs of New York the love of old English architec ture which he had absorbed during his year In the English provinces And Wilhelmina not only appreciated Eng lish architecture, but she seemed In stinctively to grasp its hjoilaineliln principles. Remington had not dared to tell her how inucb lie had depended upon her working out his plans for the cottage contest in the "ladies' round the year guest." That was why, with triumph lightening 11 is heels and brightening his eyes, lie rushed inlo her studio one stormy March day, the letter of su preme Importance held nlnft. And Wilhelmina sprang up abruptly from the mass of pillows on her divan and tried bravely but ineffectually to hide her tears. Remington stopped, joy freezing on his lips at sight of lier obvious grief. "Wilhelmina. what lias happened? Tell me at once." "Daniels sent, me home told me to pack up my brushes and go away. Ills class was not for such as I." The wretched truth was out. Dan iels, whose special course at the acade my was for the chosen few. the few with money to pay. had turned her out, money or no money. Like many a genius, he declined to teach I hose who gave no promise. And Remington realized bitterly that the blow had been doubly hard because of the fais<> hopes raised in tiiis wo man's heart by those who Imd feasted at her board. Like a flash from the skies came his inspiration. "I am sorry if you are disappointed, dear girl," he said, drawing her gently down on the divan and gripping her hand firmly In ills, "but it gives me the courage to tell you what I wanted to say for u long time. Will you drop still life and the figure, oils and studio life—and dig hard into architecture and interior decoration? That's your gift. I've known It ever since the first; night I stepped into this room and studied your hangings. And she who helps to build a home is as great as she who paints pictures for its walls. Will you?" "Do you thiuk I could really?" His words had been balm to her aching ears. She raised those wonder ful gray eyes to Ills brown ones, and her Hps curved Into a smile pathetic ally brave and womanly. And again Remington did the thing he had not anticipated. He bent over deliberately and kissed the lovely lips. "I want to be your teacher," ho said gently. "Not for a few weeks or months, but always. Why. you know we've done those cottage drawings to gether and won! Here's the letter We'll build one of these very houses on tlie site I was showing you last week. In the attic we'll have our studio. Think of the houses we can plan there, with the whole of Now York harbor to Inspire us! And some day when Daniels wants us to design a house for him we'll laugh and turn him down." "Donald Remington," she said, stem ly suppressing the dancing light in her eyes, "do you call this a proposal of partnership or matrimony?" "Look me in the eye and ask that question again." he said. ITor glance fell before his. "I am thirty-four tomorrow." she murmured faintly. "You are the loveliest woman in tlie world and the only one for me. I knew that the first time I saw you. Besides. lam of age myself. Will y«wi marry me tomorrow?" "I will not!" gasped the astonished) Wilhelmina. "Why not?" argued Remington. "Because 1 give a dinner tomorrow night to a crowd and there is no time to call it o!T. It was to celebrate the coming of Ilaniels." .lust for an instant the shadow of re gret fell upon her lovely face, and Remington, seeing It. took her In his arms. "Bless the nlil bear! It' he'd pro nounced you a genius where would t have lieen?" Golf In High Altitudes. It Is strange how many golfers thorn are who fail to appreciate the great effect the density of atmosphere has oil the tiiirht of a golf ball. On a still, misty day the bail flies about flvn yards to ten yards less than It does on a frosty day. when the air is keener and more rarefied, and it Is always stated whether truly or not Is un known that In an east wind the ball flies farther than it does when the wind blows from the opposite and more acceptable quarter. The writer was fortunate, or unfortunate, enough to play many rounds a few years ago on the Johannesburg links in South Africa. These links are situated some 0,000 feet above sea level, and the air Is wonderfully rarefied. The ball con sequently flew the most surprising dis tance. As proof of this the winner of a driving competition sent a ball a carry of 'JCS yards, the second player returning the modest distance of 22:1 yards. Yet neither of these two play ers could approach the driving capa bllities of good amateur golfers.— Country Life. «■¥?] A Rellatol© TIN SHOP for all kind ef Tin Roofing, Spoutlne nnd General Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Nances* Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOWEST! QI'iLITY TOE BEST' JOHN HIXSON MO. U> E. FROST ST.
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