Tariff Bill Conferences, Past and Present _ THE sessions of the tariff bill conferees in the luxurious apartment at the national cap itol assigned to the use of the senate finance committee will make that room historic. The circumstances naturally recall the conferences over the Ding ley law, which was enacted just twelve years ago. That measure became law on July 24, ISO". When congress met In special session last March to revise this law It was freely predicted that the work of revision would be completed by the middle of May. XJie political wiseacres were far astray on their guesses that time. Twelve years ago party lines were drawn with regularity and precision in the revision of the tariff. The coun try expected an upward revision and got what Jt expected. Tills time the same party which passed the Dingley law had assembled its representatives to revise it.and by reason of the party platform and the utterances of the PART OF SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE'S KOOM, BCKNB OF OOMFBBKNOBB ON TAItIPF BILL. party candidate the country looked for i a downward revision. The principal differences arising in either house dur- j ing the consideration of the bill have ! been between members of the niajori- j ty party, divided ou the question of; how low or how high rates of duty [ should be. rather than between the j members of the opposing parties, this J being especially true in the senate, 1 where party lilies became at times al most obliterated. Herein lay the prin-, cipal contrast between the revision of j 1597 and that of lUOU. During the consideration of the tariff bill in the senate tho members of the I house of representatives had little to j do. and many scattered to their homes i and seashore and mountain resorts in- j stead of remaining within the warm j and enervating confines of the District \ of Columbia. As soon as there were signs that the senate was getting to! the end of its work on the bill Repre sentative Dwight, the Republican whip, began sending out telegrams to mem bers of the majority bidding them he on hand to discharge any legislative dutii s that might fall upon them and Intimating that Speaker Cannon was desirous no time should be lost in sending the tariff bill to conference. A similar duty regarding Democratic members fell to Congressman Champ Clari: of .Missouri, who is tilling in so able and energetic a manner the post of minority leader. In the senate the i Democrats were remarkably quiet dur- ) ing the discussion over tariff schedules. , This was not true as to the Democrats j of the house while the bill was under ; consideration by that body, and this fact was due in no small measure to | Mr. Clark. Nor is he the kind of man to sit still and say nothing during the consideration of the bill in conference. ! The minority leader Is a nervy tight er who Is very quick to see any open ing to pot at his opponent and to seize the opportunity for a well directed blow. Legislative duties have Interfered with Leader Clark's plans for his sum mer vacation this year. Many states men employ this time in adding to the income they derive from Uncle Sam by going on lecture tours. This has been Congressman Clark's habit. He had agreed to start out on the Chau tauqua circuit this summer on June 28. lie was compelled to notify the Chautauqua people that unless about two-thirds of the senators should be suddenly stricken with tongue paraly sis—a very Improbable event lii> would br !.<■;>t in Washington until too late to III! some, at least, of his ap point] en is. The outcome was »she suspe -ed. No legislator of the upper house was prevented from talking on the t; iff by the paralysis of his vocal nppar tus. Some of the Washington statesmen have lost money at the rate of s::>*) a day by reason of the pro longation of the tariff debate. They tnay not have liked the situation, but most ot' them have taken their medi cine nobly. In the closing hours of the debate °n the tariff bill In the senate Mr. Bailey championed the tobacco user. "Tea is an article that not one man in ten uses, and he is abundantly able to pay the tax." declared Mr. Bailej "Tobacco Is the comfort of nine per sons out of ten. and they are the very poor." A Libel on the Original. "Why Is Maude so angry with the photographe •?" "Shi- found a label on the back of tier picture saying. 'The original of this photograph is carefully presets ed.' "—Boston Transcript. A Pessimist. Little Willie—Say. pa. what is a pes slmlst? Pa—A pessimist, my son, is a man. who derives most of his pleasure from his effort to spoil the pleasure of oth ers.—Chicago News. MISS CLEM, The Doubting Lover and His Uncle's Affianced Wife. By CLARISSA MACKIE. (Copyright, 1909, by Associated Literary Press. 1 Major Stewart lighted another cigar and pushed the box toward his nephew. Oliver was staring out of the win dow with a set white face. Suddenly he turned toward the older man. "Do you really mean, that you are going to marry Clementina Miles?" he asked in a low tone. The major bristled indignantly. A slow red suffused his good looking face to the very roots of his white hair. "I am, sir! I may lie sixty, but lam still capable of loving a true, good wo man—such as 1 know (Mem Miles to lie. I love her, and she says she loves me! Isn't that enough, sir?" lie ilxeil piercing black eyes upon tile young ma n. Oliver winced. "Yes, indeed. T'ncle Dick: I hope you will forgive me. I was surprised. 1 hope you will be very happy, and here's my hand on it!" The major grasped it warmly. "That is the way lo talk, my boy. If you'd been homo looking after your old uncle instead of gallivanting around the world you might have seen which way the wind was blowing, eh?" The young man smiled ruefully. "That's so, sir. When Is—when is it to lie?" he asked hesitatingly. "In the fall—bless her sweet heart," beamed the major as he got up from his chair "And now. Oliver, suppose you ride over to the Magnolias and take a bunch of roses to Clem with my compliments? You know all the fami ly, of course?" Oliver nodded. "You know I almost lived there ever since I was born," he said quietly. "That's so that's so. We'll saddle Firefly and renew old acquaintances "Altß YOU I'I.EASED BECAUSE VOl* ARE TO HAVE AN ACNI', OLIVEIi?" and tell the ladies the latest fashion news from Paris. I'll cut some roses for Clem." The older man bustled away, whilt the younger with miser able eyes aid reluctant feet made his way to the stables. Elf teen minutes liter Oliver was rid ing away from the pillared portico where the major waved a 1 risk 112 ire well. A great sheaf of yellow roses rested on the pommel of the sadt!h\ and t'.: >ir delicious fragrance assailed Oliver's nostrils with haunting memories of the last days before he had sailed for Eu rope. Hi' had walked with Clem Miles, his old playfellow, in the rose garden the very night before his departure, and Clem had promised to wait for his return, and now she was engage 1 to an old man—his uncle! Oliver's thoughts were chaotic as he entered th familiar gates. His blue eyes were dazed with pain, and his kindly heart was tilled with bitterness. He Mas torn with pity and contempt. A white gown fluttered down a shady walk bordered with tall box. In an instant Oliver had tied his horse to a tree and was after her with a stern, relentless face She turned at his quick step on the path, and a rare smile curved her beautiful lips. "I am glad to see you." she said sim ply. "We have been expecting you. The major said you must come today!" Oliver did not smile. He took her outstretched hand in his own for one brief Instant and then dropped it Ills eyes took in the contrast of creamy skin and blue black hair, the velvet dark eyes and rose leaf mouth. "M.v uncle sent these roses with his compliments." he said, with sudden awkwardness. "He has told me ot his engagement to you. and 1 have come t 1 .dor my best wishes." Clei buried her face in lie .oses "Tl.:nk you. Oliver," she sail at last. ! • r blushing face to 111.". Oliver fi w ed. "My uiele Is very happy." he said deliberately. "His home has always lacked a mistress, and I am sure that no other could till that position more charmingly than you." Clementina sat down on a rustic bench and absently pulled the yellow roses tn pieces. Her eyes watched the falling petals as they fluttered to the turf. "Are you pleased because you are to have an aunt. Oliver?" she n*kc suddenly. "An aunt!" Oliver staged at her. "Of course-I had figgotten the rela tionship—what a in^Puery!" he said thickly. He dropped down on the bench betide her. "IJow could you, Clem, after what you said that night?" Clementina did not reply. The roses dropped to the ground with a rustle as she tied down the box bordered path and disappeared. Oliver sat in miserable silence while the shadows lengthened. At last a light step sounded on the path, and there came Into view a woman gown j ed In white, with snowy hair and a I sweet, youthful face, much like Clem- j entlna's. The young man rose to his feet as j she approached. At last she paused and stretchedout j a slender, jeweled hand. "You must j be Oliver Stewart," she said gracious '.v- 1 Oliver bent low over her hand. "And ; you—l must know you!" he stammered "helplessly. She laughed and shook her head. I "You never set eyes on me before, j Master Oliver. I am Clementina Miles j —Mr. Miles" only sister—from Louisi ana. T wonder if you know now." A light came into Oliver's troubled j eyes. "And you—you are to make my ; uncle the happiest man in the world," j lie replied with a smile. Miss Clem blushed and nodded ae- ( quiescence. "Come and talk to me awhile." she said, leading the way Into ! the rose garden. "I thought It was Clem." explained Oliver at the end of a half hour. "She did not deny it." "Perhaps little Clem thought that a | man who had no faith in his sweet- j heart's loyalty needed a little punish ment." said Miss Miles gravely. Oliver reddened. "Oh, <if course 1 know 1 acted like a duffer! I hope Clem will forget it." At that moment Clementina herself came toward them. Her eyes were dancing with mirth. "You are becoming acquainted with my Aunt Clem." she said demurely. "My Aunt Clem to be—on both sides of the family," asserted Oliver as he took her willing hands in his, while Aunt Clem stole softly away and left them alone. The Sinister Chameleon. A chameleon which had been a long while in a cage had become so entire ly the color of the wood that it was not easy to distinguish it 1 placed It among plan's and on the grass, but it did not tur" green again, and then 1 left It on a vase of flowers, in the center of which I placed a tall, stiff spray. Soon the creature found its way to the very summit, and there it remained, as "still as death," until a fly happened that wa>. Then there was a very slight movement, a click was heard, and the chameleon re- ( sumed Its silent observation as if no fly hail been swallowed. There Is something cunning and weird, almost sinister, in the expres sion uf that very small eye in the center or apex of Its mobile globe, now turned upward, now downward, so quietly, yet so watchfully, re- .ue two eves looking the same ..ay. The chameleon must surely be endowed with duality of brain, for it certainly must take in two Ideas at once through its two eyes, or why should It move both so ceaselessly In contrary direc tions? Motionless is the animal hour after hour, the eye being the only sign of life if displays. The one at the top of a spray hi the vase of flowers re mained In the same position day after day. only throwing out its tongue to catch a fly when one flew by and otherwise moving only lis ever rest less eyes,--Exchange. Animals That Bloom. Anemones, sponges. the sea cucum bers and certain other growths which bloom and apparently behave In all re spects like pi ints arc really animals. The petals of the anemone, resem bling those of n chrysanthemum, are really tentacles to catch food and put it Into the hollow tube which forms the stomach, where it is digested. The sea cucumber has a flattened body. It occasionally moves at a snail's pace over the mud <>r sard, digging its petals or : mis Into tin' sludge for food, to obtain whMi it swallows a fair pro portion 1 112 mud. It has power to sting and so keeps away Its enemies. The sea Illy so i xactly resembles the common Illy that it Is dlflleult to real ize that It Is an animal and belongs to the Mnrflsii family. It h.is i stalk two feet l >ng, with a disk for a body. The tentacles close round the disk, wlileh has a mouth, and c- mpletes the deceptive likeness. They are the old est form of animal life on earth, and their fossils are called "-lone lilies." These creatures were believed to be plants, anil many pople still refuse to believe otherwise.—l.omlon Standard. Whose Servant He Was. An American minister v.as spending his sabbatical year traveling abroad. Arriving in London, he made every effort to get an Intimate view of the , two branches of parliament In session. Of course io stranger Is allowed on the floor of the house of lords, but the minister, not knowing tills and with the usual amount of American push, tried to make his way in. There Is a rule, however that servants of the various -ords may lie admitted to speak lo their masters. Keeing the minister w. Iking boldly In, the door 1 keeper asked: "What lord do you serve?" What lord?" repeated the aston ished American."The Lord Jehovah!" For n moment the doorkeeper lies! fated and then admitted him. Turn ing i > an as- 'stiint standing near, lie said: "lie must mean one of those poor Scotch lairds."—Boston ISeccrd. In Accord With the Weather. Mrs Passe (to her maldi—How is tl, weather today, Mitrie? Maid—FTPS' | and windy, madam. Mrs. Passe— Ver. . well: you will please put a health \ flush ' a my cheeks this morning. I i am going out. —New York Life Ho Told Her. ' Tell me frankly, sir, what do you j think of my daughter's voice?" "Well, madam. I think she may have j a brilliant future in water color paint- { ing."—Paris Figaro. It's when a fellow thinks he is out t of sight that he feels all eyes are coon htm.—Pittsburg Gazette. Dirigible Torpedo New Wonder. A dirigible torpedo, recently patented by a Swedish Inventor, has aroused great Interest In naval circles, says a Stockholm (Sweden) en I'e dispatch. The projectile is operated by electric ity. It is said to have a range of 5.0U0 yards, and its course can be altered while submerged from the point of de parture It can be exploded whenever desired and has a speed of 30 knots an hour at any d'ptb. PASSING OF CUSHMAN Quaint Sayings of the Represent ative From Washington. WITTIEST OF CONGRESSMEN. Francis W. Cushman, representative In congress from Taeoma, Wash., who recently died in New York, attained two distinctions while in congress. One he claimed as ills right by nature, £hat he was the homeliest man there, and the second he was accorded unan imously. that he was the wittiest. There had long been the claim that Frank Marion Eddy of Minnesota was the homeliest man in the ball. Walk ing down the aisle one day, Cushman claimed the speaker's attention and after a spread eagle speech that might have prefaced any subject he turned toward Eddy and said: "Look us over —compare this face with that (point ing to Eddy) and tell me am I not the homelier?" Having succeeded to the seat made vacant by James Hamilton Lewis, the members were anxious to see what "Jim Ham's" successor was like. They saw six feet of dangling, slim manhood, a sober, gloomy exterior, with clothing hanging limp and ill fitting. They ga?ed nt him for a moment and then, bursting IntO£ laugh, some one said. "Croat he * lis. do this raise anything but freaks hi Washing ton?" To which Cushman replied drawling'.., "Well, we try to keep pace with the rest of this great coun try, sir." When the river and harbor bill was being discussed and most of the mem bers had hidden themselves in the cloakrooms Cushman arose to speak. No one paid much attention for awhile. Suddenly some listener awoke the house with a roar of laughter. Five minutes later the seals were filled with listeners to one of the wittiest speeches ever delivered there. J. Adam i'.ede, who had a reputation for humor, was once followed in one of his wittiest speeches by Cushman, who said: "After listening to Mr. Bede's speech I am fore in! to the conclusion that my folks subscribed to the same almanac th"f his did." After Si h iiy Hitchcock resigned from the iutei ior department Cushman made a speech In which tie said, "When the news of Mr. Hitchcock's retirement was sent out there was not a dry throat west of the Mississippi." Telling ol' his going to congress he said, "I crept noiselessly into the hall, oppressed by the vast gobs of .states manship I knew were to be found on every hand—conscious of my own uu worthiness except as to the matter of depulchrltude, where I knew I was supreme." Now and then Cushman essayed to flay the methods of the bouse. On one occasion he said. "A man who in troduces a bill here puts his manhood in his pocket and goes trotting down the aisle to the speaker's room—or the bill dies." Sereno Payne, who. then as now, was chairman of the committee on ways and means, came in for a special drubbing nt Cushman's hands in that speech, as did (Jeneral Charles 11. Orosvenor of Ohio and John Dalzell, tin- speaker's Republican colleagues on the committee on rules. It was In that speech that Mr. Cushman gave his famous explanation of why he was so thin. "I have behind me an honest but In furiated constituency," he said, "half a million worthy, honest, patriotic peo ple. who are demanding, and rightfully, that 1 secure "certain needed legisla tion for them. That is the pressure on me from the rear. Then, in this house, whenever I try to secure consideration of the matters in which my people are interested 1 run up against the atom wall that surrounds the speaker and the committee on rules. That Is the pressure in front. And I tell you frankly that between the two I have become thinner than a canceled post age stamp. That is what Is the mat ter with me." On.? of Cushman's first speeches made n hit in the house, in lamentlnr the pan!" of ISit.*? he said that his con stituents were so impoverished by the hard times that they hyd to live o clams washed ashore until their stom achs rose and fell with the tide. Here are a few of Cushman's epi grams: "A great many of our citizens seem to be possessed of the desire to live on the installment plan—too many live swiftly, too few properly." "There are too many of us Arner leans who would rather ride In a mortgaged automobile, run with bor rowed gasoline, than walk in the path of honorable obscurity." The career of Cushman was typically American and as typically western. He was born In lowa In 1807, got a village Hug, and. with all his earthly possessions in a smull sized handkerchief, lie tied the corners loose ly across the top and made for the boundless west. He landed In Wash ington and became a water boy for a railroad. Next he was a section hand, then a laborer, later a cowboy In Wy oming, a cook in a lumber camp, a lumberman, a sawmill hand and later a farmer. for five years, when timea vere hardest and fees fewest and smallest, he was a lawyer In Tacoma. Troubles Due to Legacy, \Ye have never known auy good to come of a legacy. Henry got S."iOO iu the mail one day, and his troubles be gan on the spot. He bought a horse. The horse kicked one of the children and ran away, breaking up an eighty dollar buggy. Henry sold the animal for half what he had paid for it and bought hiui an amber stemmed pipe and a gasoline route with the remains of his fortune. The first day out he bit the stem of his pipe iu two, the falling sparks set the gasoline afire, and the wagon was entirely consumed. To comfort himself Henry got drunk, and that night he fell off the bridge Into the creek, ruining his best suit of clothes. When the legacy got through with him lie was $3.1 in the hole.—Newark News. People Who Are Seen In Print €f npilE case of the .A ftove rnmeut against the ' n sugar trust and Its ■iM officials promises to g>. 1,.i become one of the WSja most famous in the history of such pro / ceedlngs. The suc v. cess of the federal is. M prosecutors will de . ,Jk jiip' pend quite a little ■ on the skill with which the lndict o. E. I AOAX. ment against the trust and Its accnsed officers has been drawn. This task was intrusted to O. E. Pagan, a member of the department of justice who has had a long and valuable experience in such work. lie gave very thorough consideration to the questions involved In the drawing of the fourteen counts of the indict ment. The courts have found few flaws in papers of this kind that have come from bis hands. Attorney General Wickersham spent two days in examin ing the various counts of the Indict ment and the briefs regarding them. Directors and officers of the Ameri can Sugar Itcfinlug company have had plenty of warning of the storm which broke about their heads and deluged them in a fourteen count indictment. The first evidence that the big com bine was in difficulties came with con viction in the rebating cases several months ago and the discover} - that the trust by means of fraudulent weighing methods had defrauded the govern ment out of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. The government col lected several million dollars from the corporation. The company confessed its guilt, nnd subsequently seven of its weighers on the sugar docks in Brooklyn were Indicted for defrauding the government. On top of all this came the suit of the Pennsylvania Sugar Itefinlng com pany to recover $30,000,000 for dam ages sustained through being compel led by the trust to close its refinery. President Taft was in a humorous mood while in attendance at the Yale commencement and could not with stand the temptation of having a little fun with one of the leading members of his cabinet, Jacob M. Dickinson, secretary of war, and the recipient of an honorary degree from the famous Institution at New Haven, his alma er payinu tribute to otlu "s upon whom tlx? unlver- - JK slty had rotifer red degrees President Taft In his speech ' . at the alumni din ner came down to Secretary Pickin- SECRETARY DICK son and remarked: INSON. "You went south of the Mason and Dixon line to get a secretary of war to give a degree to. Well, it is well that you dlil, because he Is going to build the Panama canal, and other universi ties will follow where you got in early. One of the difficulties that have con fronted Urother Dickinson out in Chi cago, where lie has a temporary resi dence, was a discussion as to what constituted an orthodox Democrat and whether really he ought to be counted as a Democrat if he allowed himself togo Into a Republican cabinet. Well, when you come to discuss what is a Democrat these days you are present ed with very much the same difficulty that 1 have before tue now in giving certain rules for the construction of the pure food law as to what whisky is. They say there is 'straight' whisky, and then there is 'rectified' whisky, and then there Is 'imitation' whisky. Now, 1 speak with a good deal of hesi tation in saying whether my friend Dickinson is a 'straight* Democrat or a 'rectified' Democrat. I would not dare to say In his presence that he ; was an imitation' Democrat." The recent shaken;) in the police de partment ol' New York city has at- i traoted wide attention because of its bearing o'j the politics of the city and ; state. Mayor McCietlan's removal of General Theodore A. Bingham from j the leadership of the police department has been said by some to be due to his desire to ingratiate himself with Tam many Ilall, with which he was for • a long time at odds. KK? \ General Bingham fKf : rtS was not in favor \v£\ t ■ with Tammany. "W Ills successor as ; ,Jg commissioner Is "9 William F. Baker, who got his start ! in both business anil politics when '*** he went into the of fice of YV. N. Coler WILLIAM P. HAKKB, & Co ag „ elerk I At that time the junior member of the firm. Bird S. Coler, now president of the borough of Brooklyn, was comp troller of the city of New York, in the year 100'J he ran for governor, and the present police commissioner was one of the managers of his boom. Baker serVed for a time as a mem ber of the New York city civil service commission and at the time of his ap pointment as police commissioner was deputy commissioner in charge of the force in the borough of Brooklyn. Always There. Mrs. Binks (reading)— John. I reau> where a scientific expedition explored i an extinct crater 2,000 feet deep and ' at the bottom they found the bones of a prehistoric woman. How do you account for it? Mr. Binks—Oh, that's ; easily accounted for, Martha. You I know a woman is at the bottom of ev erything.—New York Globe Don't waste any time looking back at your mistakes. There is more fun in looking up the mistakes of other people.—Chicago* News THE LAST ACT. Arriving at a Decision About Changing Its Ending, By VIRGINIA BLAIR. [Copyright. 1909, by Associated I.lterary Press.] "You must give it a happy ending," said Miss Atherton. Carruthers looked at her gloomily. "Not unless you say 'Yes.'" "As If that had anything to do with It," said Miss Atherton scornfully. "It has everything to do with it." said Carruthers. "When I write a play I write as I feel. If I am sad the play will be sad, and if I am happy the ending will be happy. And I can't be happy as long as you persist in refus ing me; hence I shall have to give my play a sad ending." "Oh, well. . then," Miss Atherton tossed her head, "end it any old way. But I won't play It if it doesn't suit me." A week later be called her up. "It is finished," he said, "and you can read it at your leisure." "Bead it to me," she said and set the next afternoon. Carruthers found her alone and very beautiful in a violet crape house gown, with her dark hair banded with a gold ribbon. "I want you to dress like that in tlie last act of my play," he said, "and carry violets. It will give the proper note of mourning." "Then you have made it sad?" she demanded. "Yes. The heroine is a naughty prin cess who spurns her lover all through the play, r<ml in the end he finds an other woman more gentle, more kind, and the princess is left alone In her haughtiness. That is why I want you to wear a purple gown." "Oh!" said Miss Atherton somewhat faintly. When he came to the last act he saw that Miss Atherton was Intensely in terested. "But I don't think I am at all like that," she said Ingenuously as he finished. "Who said you were?" he demanded. "I am writing of a princess in Egypt." The color flamed Into her face. "Of course. I had thought you had me In mind." "1 perceive," Carruthers replied, "that you and (ho princess have cer MISS A ;jtTON'A LYES SNAII'KD. tain chara< I eristics in common, and that Is why you would lit the part or the part would fit you But the ques tion now io decide is, 'Who shall take the part of the other woman?' " "I believe you have spent more time on her than on the other woman." Miss Atherton said jealously. Carruthers looked at her out of the corner of his eye. "1 had thought of Miss Mulr as your opposite. She would lit in. I think." Miss Atherton's eyes snapped. "She isu't half as gentle as you might imag iue." "Dear lady." Carruthers remonstrat ed, "perhaps you are not a judge of gentleness." "Oh. well" -Miss Atherton laughed a little— "my '«mper isn't in gocd shape this morning. You'll have to forgive me if I criti' ise everything and every body." "What's wrong?" Carruthers asked solicitously. "Everything." succinctly. "I've got to give up my apartment for one thing Aunt Sarah has togo back to Pine Point, and I can't live alone." "Of course not," Carruthers agreed promptly, "and you couldn't find a bet ter time to marry me." "Marry?" she came back at him. "An actress hasn't any right to marry." "It depends upon the point of view," Carruthers stated. "Of course if you loved me"— "Please don't talk of love," exclaim ed Miss Atherton. "I have enough of it iii my plays." "To return to our mutton," said Carruthers calmly, "I shall give Miss Mulr the | art of the helpless heroine who so works on the sympathies of the scorned lover that he turns from the princess to her." "You have made the ending happy for the other girl, then?" "Yes; you ean't pile sadness on too deeply." "And the princess sits in (he purple twilight, in a purple gown, with vio lets clutched In her two white hands, and moans 'My lost love, alas!' or words to that effect. 1 can't see my self doing it." remonstrated Miss Ath erton. "You've simply got to change that ending." "Bat how?" questioned Carruthers. "Have another lover in the back ground for the gentle maiden and let the princess relent nt the last min ute. You can still keep her In the pur ple twilight and the purple gown, but you can have her lover at her feet, with the golden moon Hooding them with light." "Ilut the princess wouldn't relent not the kind of princess In the play." "She might," Miss Atherton hesi tated. "You know you cnn never tell just what a woman will do." "Would you," Carruthers demanded eagerly—"would you relent?" "I am not talking of myself." Miss Atherton told him coMI; ; "1 112 talk ing of the princess In the play." Carruthers folded up his manuscript before he answered. "Then, positive ly, I shall not change the last act. I had thought of a belter one than that of purple twilight and a lover at her feet. I had thought of the princess at dawn on the terrace, with a wreath of roses on her head, and coming toward her with outstretched hands was her lover, and the glory of the rising sun about them both"— "Beautiful!" broke in Miss Atherton. "We will have that." "We will not have that." was the stubborn rejoinder. "As I have told you, I am not in t mood for happy endings." "Oh. well, have your way, then," said Miss Atherton crossly. During rehearsal Miss Atherton ob served that Carruthers took especial pains with Miss Muir's part "You act as if she were the star," she remonstrated one day just before the last act. "I like her part," he said. "It fits in with mv Ideal. 1 want the audi ence to realize what gentleness and sweetness may accomplish as against beauty and pride." I'.efore Miss Atherton eouM answer she was called for the last act. She played it well, putting into it all the despair of a woman who. having scorned love, knows that she has lost that which she prizes most in the world. Even in her street gown she made it effective, for with the violets against her lips she murmured: "1 shall wear |no other flowers. They are the (low ers of mourning, mid all my days I shall mourn—alone!" i As the last word came in a whisper 1 she stared, unseeing, into spa'-e I "Beautiful!" Carruthers told her i when she i :ime off. "Beautiful!" "But 1 don't like It." she sobbed "It , makes me miserable to play it." He took her t ■ a quiet spot where I they could tal?% "Why should it make I you miserable'/" he asked "Because i want happiness," she an j swered, "In my play—and in my life. | Carl." I She had never called him that For I a moment lie stared at her. Then he I cried, "You •'lean that you will?" I She smiled, but her lips were white. "Yes. Iv ant my life to have a hap j py ending. Carl." "Dear heart," he whispered, "I Willi ! change the last act." The First Postage Stamp. I The black penny postage stamp of ! 1840. the first stamp ever issued, was ' distinctly unpopular and gave place i to a red on"after a year's existence. | Great Britain was the first country ! iti the world to use postage stamps, I and the English schoolboy of the ! period seems to have regarded them aa .1 nuisance rather than a national | benefit. "Have yuu tried the stam[>« | yet?" wrote 0110 of them to his sister lin the year IX4O. "1 think they are | very absurd and troublesome. I don't , fancy making my mouth a glue put. al : though, t > bo sure, you have the sati>- I faction of kissing the back of her gni j clous majesty the queen. This is, how i ever, 1 should say, the greatest insult j the present ministry could have of '■ fered the queen."—l-ondon 'i' P.'s i Weekly. ' - -r Fields and Orchards of France. '■ From Avignon to Lyons the rail j road runs through a rich country, the ; fruit trees covered with blossoms and j the forests fusuming their robes of green, altogether making a picture ' beautiful to 'ook upon. From Lyons t<> ' Paris the orchards, the vineyards and j the growing grain delight the eye of | the traveler from oriental deserts am! i remind him of Macaulay'S poetn Now let them bj the merry soun 1 of | music anil of dnnee i'hroush thy cornfields uroen ar.l sunny ) vines, oh. pleasant land of franc' For truly it is a pleasant lnnd.—l'aris ; Letter to Denver Post. Consideration. I "You say you once had a home?" ' ) "Dai's what I had." answered Pk-d --ding Pete. "Why didn't you do something to make your folks comfortable and happy?" "1 did I I .ft."— Washington Star. ; Memorial to a Noted F i-ii of Animals. As a memorial ti 112 Angell, j th< long time frietul of 'a nals, who j 1 i:i P.osfon last spring, the direct ors of the Massachusetts S >ciety For i the Prevention of Cruelty t > Animals | .1 Tul of the America ti Humane IMuca i tlou society are planning to erect t "humane building." In their appeal to the public for funds for the struc ture ttio committees hi charge say. "Mr. Augell always hoped for the erection of a building la Boston li* which should be housed both our hu mane societies, and It Is earnestly hoped that the Interest and sympathy of the public will warrant such a building as other cities possess for similar organizations and one which shall be suited to the growing needs of humanitarian work." About $23,- 000 has already been contributed s » TO sSRDi ! A Ftolla oio TO SHOP for all kind of Tin Roofing Spoutlne nnd Cenera! Jot» Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges* Furnaces, eto. PRICKS THE LOWEST: QIiJLITY TBIi BEST,' JOHN HIXSOiV SO. Xl# £, FRONT ST. ,
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