y SISTER'S FLIRTATION th a Girl at a Window Oppo te Who Mistook Her For Me. By EDWARD C. HANCOCK. oyrlght, 1910. by American Press Asso ciation. J vVhat a lovely room!" exclaimed my er Alice. She bad come to Inspect new bachelor quarters in the city, .'m glad you like It. There's some tg lovelier over there in the back hat house. A pretty girl sits every ?rnoon In the middle third story dow." girl came to the window deslgnat leaned a pair of white arms on the looked down at the clotheslines >w and went away without seeing ,'ou don't mean to say you call her ! :ty?" said Alice, consider her beautiful. I would | to attract her attention, but dare j " SVhai are you afraid of?" ?eiug a stranger to her, 1 am afraid (Tending her." Suppose 1 coach you on starting a ation with u girl at an opposite dow?" wish you would." Will you do as I say?" Certainly." »'ery well. If she comes to the win- { 7 again while I'm here I'll tell you at to do." lice went about the room opening wers and closets, poking her nose rywhere. I never saw anything i the curiosity of a girl. Presently, I jlng out. she saw the girl sitting at window opposite. She was darn stockings. Alice, keeping far ugh back not to be seen, watched for a few minutes, then said to me: 1 3o to the window, pull up the shade something to make a noise that will i ALICE THHEW HEll A KISS. •act her attention, and when she is at you throw her a kiss." Do you suppose I'm crazy to do J h a thing?" . thought you promised to do as I 1." I didn't promise to offer an insult." j Stupid!" .Yhat do you mean?" Am i not a girl, and don't I know tit would please a girl?" Vou wouldn't wish a man you had er seen to throw you a kiss, would j Never seen! Do you suppose she never seen you?" don't know that she has. Any- j . I have no reason to suppose she noticed me." I have.l saw her casting glances •r here." Dh, you see too much! I've been chlng her too. She hasn't taken j eyes off the heel of that stocking ! e she has been at the window." There's nothiug to be made of a ; ow like you. Get me out some of i r clothes. I'll put them on and do j trick myself. You and I are the j ige of each other, and she won't ■w the difference." he put on Just enough of my clothes represent me and went to the win-! v. giving a loud "Ahem!" The girl' •ned, and Alice threw her a kiss, j a girl pulled down the sash with a | ig and left the window apparently j lgb dudgeon. "here." I said to Alice, "you've j lied everything!" »ou mean I've started a flirtation." j What can I do to"— Nothing. I'll do It for you You'd! il It all." But you're not here except occa lally." I'm going to stay here. Get me a m for a few days." would much rather have got rid of \ for I was sure she had offended < girl opposite, and I didn't wish her get me any deeper Into the mire, t she insisted, and I secured a room her. That afternoon the girl op dte sat down by her window with • back turned to the light. She held ook in her hand. You see," I said to Alice, "to escape Qg insulted she must needs turn her k." Nevertheless I shall insult her in." I forbid you." Nonsense! If she had considered self Insulted she wouldn't hove le to the window at all. She's piny it on you." lice had brought in some roses from ne for ine. She took up one, went tie window, took deliberate aim at girl opposite and fired the rose, Iking her on the bnck of the head. « girl started, turned, scowled, ti cd at Alice and, supposing her to be a man, showed every "evidence of being offended. Then she got up from her chair, closed the blinds and shut us off. "Very likely she won't come to the window again today." said Alice. "It's too near dinner tltue. Slie'll have to do her liair before dinner, and then it will be too late." "You seem to know all about It Why will she have to do her hair be fore dinner?" "Because It Isn't fit for the dinner table." "I thought it delightfully negligee." "Delightfully frowsy you mean." I took Alice to the theater that night, and the next day she was ready to re sume her efforts with the girl opposite. After breakfast Alice called me to come to the window. "There, stupid!" she said, pointing to the window opposite. "What do you think of that?" On a stand near the window was a tumbler and in the tumbler was a rose. "That's the identical rose you threw at her." "You don't mean it?" I cried. "What's the next more?" "1 would like to have you make it | yourself, only you might act silly. You ' see, at this time of day the sun shines j on this window, and I'm afraid she'll j suspect I'm a girl." "I'll do It. I'm all right uow. I'm j not afraid of anything." "Bosh! You have no pluck at all." However, It was arranged that I ! should make the next move, whatever that might be. though Alice was to de- j clde upon it. We sat. I reading the j paper. Alice Steeping watch on the will- i dow opposite. Presently the girl ap peared in a very becoming morning costume. Sl.e looked up at the sky. "She's pretending she's interested in the weather," said Alice, "but that's pretty thin considering there's not a cloud in the sky. Stay where you are. She can't see either of us. She'll think you have gone out and will give her- j self away by and by." After the girl had examined the i heavens she swept her eyes in a light- j niug glance across my window. Then j she disappeared. "Too bad," said Alice, "that she has 1 put on her finery to be disappointed." [ "What finery?" "What finery! Do you suppose girls 1 dress that way in the morning when they are doing household duties? She expected after yesterday's perform- ; ances to see her admirer at least for a j moment before his going downtown." j Alice went shopping during the morn ing. and 1 went to my club. Not yet | being settled In an occupation, I am obliged to get away with the day as best I can. 1 met Alice at a glove counter nnd took her to lunch. Then | we went to my room ready to continue my wooing by proxy. Alice concluded ! to close the blinds in order that she i might observe tlie enemy through the slats: but, fearing the girl opposite j would see her watching, she called a maid for the purpose. Then Alice and ] I lounged, awaiting developments. j About 3 o'clock the girl came to her j window and, seeing my blinds closed, did not scruple to fix her eyes upon j them. Alice, who was watching her. | directed me to suddenly throw the | blinds open. 1 did so. The girl beat a i precipitate retreat. After awhile Alice told me togo to the window nnd sit there reading a ! paper with my back to the light. I J did so, while Alice herself weut to an- j other window and watched through S the slats. Presently she caught sight j of a dim figure In the back of the room ; opposite. She could see that the girl ! was watching me. Then the girl came ! forward, uncouscious that she was un der observation. Suddenly Alice burst J into a laugh. "What Is it?" I ashed. "She's throwing a kiss at the back ; of your head." This was too much for me to endure j without seeing. I turned just in time ; to catch a glimpse of a figure getting j back out of the light. "Now I have started you," said Alice, "I leave you to do the rest your- i self. I shall go home tomorrow." "Do you think I can get on alone?" 1 asked. "There's nothing more to do in this j way. If you wish to follow the matter | up you must find a way to make her acquaintance, nnd, having met her, you must be careful not to mention any thing you have learned of her interest In you. Better not mention this part i of it. Treat her as a perfect stranger" ! "Would you mind, Alice," I nsked. j "telling me how you learned all this?" "I haven't needed to learn it. I'm a | ein." j "But how about your experience in I similar circumstances?" | "Oh, bother! There haven't been ! any similar circumstances in my I case." | "You got it all by instinct?" i "Yes." I "Well, all I have to say Is your in ! stlnct Is mighty strong." I nt least had the ability to find out j who the girl opposite was and hunted \ among my friends till I found n tnu | tun I acquaintance who Introduced me. I courted her, but blundered, and it , was a long time before 1 won her. Power of Imagination. "The imagination is wonderful," said a college professor. "1 know a Chi cago man who went last summer to Asbury Park. He in a quaint way proved my point. He didn't reach As bury Park till 10 o'clock at night, and. very tired, he turned in nt ouce. As he settled his head comfortably on the pillow he said to his wife: "•Listen to the thunder and hiss of the surges. Maria. I haven't heard that glorious sound for forty years. No more insomnia now!' "And. indeed, for the first time in three months the man slept like a log. But when he awoke in the morning be found that the uproar which had lulled him to sleep was the noise of a garage In the rear of the hotel. The sea was over a mile away." Detroit Free Press. Some Wisdom Left. "You didn't te.l the barber you were In a hurry." "No. I didn't wunt him to know 11.'' —Pittsburg Post. Blessed Is the man who found his work. I.et lilm us!; no other bless edness. - Thomas Carl* le. PEARY LAYS Carefully Planned Marches, Necessary For Success, Told In Detail. THE latest Installment of Com mander Peary's narrative, In ' the July Issue of Hampton's Magazine, tells of his trip across i the polar Ice to beyond his own "far thest north." It presents many of the proofs which Commander Peary re- j fused to turn over to congress, and It carries the polar expedition right up ; to the last stage of the dash to the pole itself. It also tells of Peary's Copyright, ISIO, by BenJ. B. Hampton. « ' PEARY'S SUCCESSFUL DASH TO THE NORTH POLE SHOWN BY MAP. Tills "blrdseye" view map shows the I'enry syetern of inarching At the em* • : t! •• »e\«nth actual march McMillan and Dr. Goodsell returned to land. At the end r.f the twelfth inarch Borup returned. At the end of the seventeenth march Mar vin returned. At the end of the twenty-second Bartlett returned. At the end of the twenty-seventh march Peary reached the pole As far as possible the returns were over the trail made by the party going out. "marching system" and makes plain the improbability of discovering the pole by an;> other method This he outlined as follows: "On the evening of the !!>tb, while the Eskimos were building the igloos, I outlined to the remaining members of my party, Bartlett, Marvin. Borup and nensou, the program which 1 should endeavor to follow "At the end of the next march (which would be five marches from where Mc- Millan and the doctor turned back) Borup would return with three Eski mos, twenty dogs and one sledge, leav ing the main party twelve men, ten sledges and eighty dogs. "Five marches farther on Marvin would return with two Eskimos, twen ty dogs and one sledge. leaving the www-'w-ww;'-w« LET US ALCTiE CLUB FORMED. Slogan of "1.-tcrssti" Adopted by Missouri Sportsmen. "Let us alone!" which became the slogan of tln> railroads nnd special in terests during the Buosevelt adminis tration. has been adopted as the name ; of an exclusive club .iust organized by Judges John i". Phillips. John C. Pol- j lock of the United States circuit court, i Frank Hagcrman and other Kansas j Cltyans. The articles of incorporation j were filed uitlmhe secretary of state, j and a charter was issued. This club is to be exclusive, and its : membership will be limited to twenty. I A membership fee of S3OO will be ' charged. A clubhouse, bordered with j lakes, will be constructed in Bates { county. Mo. i Anticipating the Evant. "What was you askin' for the wid- i der's bonnet, mum?" "Well —er—l thought ninepence." "'E's very ill. mum. I think I'll risk | It."—London Tatler., Whaling Industry Revived. New Bedford Is experiencing a re- : vlval of the whaling industry. Nine j whalers left the port on one day last month, two of theui bound for the West African const. Living will t "!i !i you how to live i better than preacher or book.-Goethe. POLAR PROOF Trip to 87 Degress 6 Min utes, Former Record, Filled With Danger, main party nine men. seven sledge* and sixty dogs "Five marches farther on Bartlett would return with two Eskimos, twen ty dogs and one sledge, leaving the main party six men, forty dogs and tive sledges. "I hoped that with good weather and the ice uo worse than it had been thus far Borup might get beyond 85 degrees, Marvin beyond SO degrees and Bart lett beyond S7 degrees north. "At the end of each live march period I should send back the poorest dogs, the least effective Eskimos and the worst damaged sledges. "This program was carried out, and the farthest north of each division was even better than 1 had hoped. "We were now across the eighty seventh parallel and into the region of perpetual daylight during six months of the year. Only al> >ut six miles b»• yond this point, S7 degrees 0 minutes l had been obliged to turn back nearly three years before. "When I awoke March 2S the sky was brilliantly clear. After traveling at a good pace for six hours along Bartlett's trail we came upon his camp beside a wide lead. In order uot to disturb Bartlett we camped some huu BOY CANiDIrS ARE TAKEN. Hungarian Gang Committed 123 Rob beries and One Murder. Led by a ferocious chieftain, aged thirteen, a well organized band of boy robbers has just been captured by the j police at Sopron, Hungary. The band consisted of eleven lads, aged from j eight to thirteen years, who had left I their parents for a life of adventure. | They lived in a large cave and during j the last three months committed 123 j robberies and one murder. In the | cave booty to the value of? 20,000 was , found. I The young chieftain, who shot and ! seriously wounded the policeman who j was sent to arrest hint, has been sen j teuced to ten years' confinement in a | reformatory. Rubbing It In. [ Mrs. Proude—That Mrs. Guggen heimer makes me tired. Mr. Proude—Why so? Mrs. Proude —Why. this afternoon ! when I asked her In the presence of a j number of strangers how she liked my new hat she said. "Just exactly as well j as any I saw Inst season." | Mr. Proude-But I don't see anything criminal in that. ' Mrs. Proude—You don't! Well. 1 do; !lt Is a last season's hat.—Newark Siar They tlint stum] ni?u tin.e blasts to shake them —Shakespeare BEFOREWORLD Bartlett's Party Nearly Swept Away on Ice Floe While In Igloo. dred yards distant and put up our Igloos. 1 was just dropping off to sleep wheu 1 heard the ice creaking und groaning close by the igloo. "Leaping to my feet and looking through the peephole of our igloo, I was startled to see a broad lead of black water between our two igloos and Bartlett's, the nearer edge of wa ter being close to our entrance, while Bartlett's party was moving east on the ice raft which had broken off. "It looked as if the ice raft which carried Bartlott's division would im pinge against oi"" side a little farther on.and 1 shouted to i'.artleft's men to break caiup and bitch up their dogs in a hurry in readiness to rusti across to us. "Slow!}' the raft drifted nearer and nearer until the side of it crunched against the t'.oe. and we had no trou ble in getting Bartlett's men and ?le across and on the (100 with :H. "Notwithstanding the extra fatigue in i the precarious position of our raw> this last march had put us well b » td my r<"i>rd i>f three years be fore. i>n bably *7 degrees 12 minutes, without allowing for our drifting with i he ice." SirS-Ci-£rC?(t U iriWrifft&vSir Ciirtru ir&trtiirit STEEL MILL WANTS CATS. Rats Tie Up Machinery and Resist Poison Lures. The United States Steel corporation ! at Gary, Ind.. wants fifty eats and will pay 50 cents apiece for them. The demand for cats is duo to a peculiar incident. For many months the company has been pestered by rodents, and every known form of poi son and traps has been tried without success. The final blow came when several rats got tangled up in one of the great dynamos which give power to the blast furnace mill. This tied the work up for four hours and result ed in the loss of SIO,OOO. Gary was hunted in vain for stray cats, and ts a last resort an advertise ment was Inserted in a Gary paper. Justice. The only way to make the mass of mankind see the beauty of Justice Is by showing them In pretty plain terms the consequence of injustice.—Sydney Smith. Progress Is the activity of today and tho assurance of tomorrow Emerson A Soft Place. First Artist—Reduced to a drainpipe for a pillow, old chap? Second Artist - Idiot! Can't you see It's filled with Urnw': l!<>n Mvant. "OLD DATE." |i A Young Girl Graduate and the College Protessor. By ELIZABETH PARKER. (Copyright. 1910, by American Press Asso ciation.) When I was Invited by Mrs. Win ston to meet Professor Dayton, tile man whom everybody was talking about for having nade so many remarkable scientific discoveries. I was somewhat surprised. I was but eighteen years old. didn't know anything about sci ence and seemed to myself to be an unlit person to be asked to meet a sci entific man. But there was not much going on in our quiet town, and mamma said there would certainly be some other young persons Invited or an invitation would not have been sent to me. So 1 ac- j cepted. 1 arrived late and found a mixture of young and middle aged persons standing about in little groups. \ 1 saw Sue Bond standing alone and | joined her. I had been "out" but lit tle. and as she is one of my intimate friends 1 felt reassured at tying my- j self to her. I saw Mrs. Winston, who ' was chatting with a dandified youug ' fellow with a very high shirt collar! and very long cults, look at me In a i way that led nie to believe she tnedi- j tated getting me away from Sue and j attaching me to the young man.l . was not averse to her doing so. for 1 ; dreaded lest 1 should fall into the j hands of some of the learned men In- 1 vlted to meet the professor, If not the ; professor himself. Then I saw her 1 bringing the young man toward me, j and I knew that my prognostications were correct. 1 was very diffident. Indeed, I was j so intent upon thinking how I would i start conversation with the young man , that I heard nothing of Mrs. Winston's words of Introduction. But when left ; alone with him I hadn't thought of j anything to say bim. He soon pat "WELL, I DECLARE!" ! me at my ease by tattling off several | commonplace remarks, which gave me I lime to flud my tongue. "I don't understand." 1 remarked, I | "why we young people are invited to j meet this professor. I suppose Mrs. j j Winston has invited us to fill up and j will surround him with the older ones." He gave me a pleasant smile, show ' ing a set of very white, regular teeth, 1 and said, "Surely you're not afraid of ' 1 him;" | I"1 wouldn't get caught with liim for J half an hour on any account," I re | plied. "What could we talk about?" "Oh, he doesn't tall; shop in com i pany," be replied. "Do you know him?" ' "Very well. lie lectured at my alma I mater." "Have you been graduated?" ! "Certainly. Why do you ask?" "Why. you don't look old enough." He seemed to be much amused at j this and told me that he had been out ! of college quite awhile, but admitted j that he had entered very young. "Oh. well." I said, "if you are a col ; lege graduate you might coach me I upon some topic that would enable me | in case 1 should meet this learned man I to open conversation with him." "Certainly. Vpou what subject \ would you like to draw him out?" "Oh, I leave that to you. I don't | know anything about any of them. I | have only been to the high school and ! couldn't learn even the elements of i any science while there." "Well, I'll tell you what you do. Say I -Professor, is it true that the discovery of radium has upset the theory of the ■ conservation of energy?' " "I couldn't remember all those big 1 words. Can't you give me something I easier?" "You might ask him to tell you what ! your owu sex has had to do with re- I cent scientific discoveries. That will ! draw him out on a subject that should ! be interesting to you." "What would he say ?" "What would he say? Good gra cious, do you suppose I know? Do you take me for a scientific phenome non? I am simply giving you a pointer i for the professor." "But you have heard him lecture?" "Yes." "Then you must know things be has ■aid. Tell me some of them." "ITls lectures are verv dry. tie has little faculty for making scientific truths Interesting. Ills forte is In get ting his nose down to his test tubes and blowpipes In his laboratory and digging out things that way." "1 shouldn't think such a man would care for society, and I should expect him to be awfully hard to talk to." "On the contrary, 'Old Date,' as the students call him, is very fond of so ciety." "How old is he?" •'Somewhere between thirty and for ty." . "Thirty isn't old—that is, not very old." "All the professors are old to the^stu deuts. Tliey always pref.x '<>•.]' to the names of members of the faculty and cut off one or more syllables." "Where is Old Kate, as you call hlmt Is he in this room?" "I don't see him." he replied, looking about him. "Would you like me to find him and bring him to introduce to you." "Oh. heavens!" 1 gasped. Then, re membering myself. I put on what dig nity I could assume and added: "It there Is any one you wish to talk to don't hesitate to leave me. 1 dare say Mrs. Winston will take care of me." "Not by any means. You have talk ed so much of Professor Dayton that 1 thought you might like to know him, I assure you I should consider It ft deprivation to give you up to him." At that moment Mr. Winston ap proached with a baldheaded man in ppectacles whom she introduced to roe and took tlie young man I had been chaffing with away to introduce to some oue else. The rest of the evening was very dull to me. and 1 was glad when I saw mamma making a move to leave. As I was passing out of the house the young man I had passed a pleasant half hour with stepped up to me and asked me if he might not come and see me. I gave the required permis sion. The next day the weather was very warm, and In the afternoon I sat out on the piazza overlooking the garden. About 5 o'clock 1 saw the youug man 1 had met the evening before coming, lie was dressed immaculately in white flannel and as. orchid in his button hole. As soon as lie came near he lifted his hat and. turning at the gate, joined me. He looked so pleased at seeing me that 1 was quite set up. I had never had any attention from a real grownup young man before, ray oldest beau being less than twenty. I felt more at ease sitting in my own wicker chair at hou.e, and. flat tered by such marked attention from a grownup man,l was quite myself. I'm not disposed to sit mute any mora than any other girl when 1 am at ease, and I kept up my end of the conver sation very well, If I do say it my self. But I think my caller contributed to this. He had a way of drawing me out. Indeed, I got to gabbling without realizing that I was doing all the talk ing. But he seemed so interested In all I said and listened so attentively, was so deferential, that I could not help talking on.it was an hour be-, fore I bethought myself that I. a chit of a girl, had been monopolizing a conversation with a young man who might be twenty-five or twenty-six years old. Then ho rose togo, and I was quite mortified that I would have no opportunity to redeem myself by i permitting him to say a few things himself. In withdrawing he said he had passed a delightful hour, and I showed my owu appreciation of him by asking him to call again soou, to which he replied that he would be leaving the next morning. As I bade him goodliy I could not but wish that he would delay his departure. Some how by this time 1 had forgotten his stylish dress and had come to con i slder him quite sensible. As he went out of the gate he stop i ped and said: "By the bye. 'Old Date' j is to be at Mrs. Martin's this evening, j Are you going?" ; "I'm not Invited. Are you?" "Yes. I shall be sorry not to meet ! you again. Goodby." So was I; sorry enough. In less than half an hour Uelen Martiu called me up on the telephone and asked uie to come round In the evening. Professor i Dayton was to bo there—only a few J people informally. 1 had no interest ' In "Old Date," but I had a great deal of interest in a certain young man ' who was to be that evening at the Martins'. " r ~ When I entered the Martins' draw. Ing room I was the second guest to arrive. The youtig man whom 1 now met for the third time was the only | one who preceded me. lie was chat ting with Helen Martin and as I en tered looked at me with a very comical expression on his face. I supposed it had something t<> d > with my having, after all. been im lt d. As I approach- I ed the two Helen said. "Evelyn, I don't Uuow if you have met Professor Dayton Professor, this is my friend M;<s Omimiugs" "Well, 1 declare!" My exi l.im iii':i (vas not especially intelligible to II- I >. but it was to Pro fessor Daytop. ! < eyes fairly danced with amusement. "I'm 'Old 1 >.i' " he said, "trua enough." 1 was so morii: -d. so angry, that I turned with the intention of striding out of the room; but. recollecting my self, 1 turned again and. with hot cheeks, stammered: "You shouldn't have"— "Pardon me." he interrupted. "You are quite right. No one has any right even for amusement to sail under false colors. The temptation was too strong for me. Any penance you name I will do." And 1 took rare that he should do ample penance 1 kept him dangling about me for six months after his first proposal and did not accept him until he had made a dozen. ram A nellabl* TIN SHOP for all kind of Tin Rooflna, Spoutlne And Ceneral Job Work, Stoves, Heaters, Range*, Furnaces, eto- PRICES TAB LOWEST! QIIILITY TOE BEST) JOHN HlXSOtf so. 11# E. FRONT *T.
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