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J -Harold's Scheme.
By ELLA M. HESS.
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It was the most picturesque cot
tage that fancy could depict; a cot
tage with pointed gables, and deep
'bay windows, and broad verandas
such as wealthy New Yorkers dwell
In for the few summer weeks when
Fifth avenue Is a wilderness and -the
other fashionable resorts in that lo
cality are deserted.
Mrs. Julian Raymond, In a ravish
' Ing toilet of violet silk and old point
'.ace, .sat out on the veranda, pouring
ever a novel, Mr. Harold Coverdale,
her brother, yawned, threw his weed
over the rail of the porcn and contem
plated the tips of his well shod feet.
"It's a deuce of a bore, this summer
cottage business," he said, at last.
"How can you be so ungrateful,
Harold," she remonstrated, "when
we've taken the cottage and moved
out here solely for your advantage?"
"Come," said Mr. Coverdale, laugh
ing, "that's expecting a fellow to be
lieve a little too much."
"Well, what else was it for?"
"To be near Long Branch and the
fashionable world, to be sure."
"Exactly; and in order that you
may make a desirable match, Harold
-for really you must do something
for yourself now. Mr. Raymond de
clares he won't lend you another cop
per." "But you'll let me have fifty or so,
Alice there's a darling! "
"I can't, Harold," persisted the sis
ter, with an elevation of her eye
brows. "I haven't a cent to spare;
Mr. Raymond keeps me so dreadfully
ehort."
"That's all you have gained by mar
rying money," sneered Harold, "and
yet you expect me to do the same."
"A man is different you know,"
Bald the millionaire's wife. "If once
you marry an heiress you can do what
you please with your money."
"Do you refer to Mrs. Colby?"
"I refer to Mrs. Colby."
Mr. Coverdale made a slight
grimace.
"I hear she Is an ugly old crow,"
Bald he, with a motion of the mouth
ss If he had been taking some disa
greeable medicine.
"Then you're very much mistaken,"
aid Mrs. Raymond, with something
like animation. "She's not twenty
five yet, and quite handsome, and she
owns all the Colby estates in her own
Tight; and if you don't marry her,
after all the pains I've taken to in
vite her here, you'll be the most un
grateful fellow I ever heard of."
"But suppose she won't marry
me?"
"There Is no danger of that," said
Mrs. Raymond, Bmiling and shrug
ging her pretty shoulders as Bhe
looked up at her tall, handsome
brother, who stood leaning his per
fect head against the pillar of the
porch. "Not if you play your cards
veil, Harold."
Mr. Cloverdale laughed and made
II mock obeisance.
"Much obliged to you, ma'am.
And when, may I ask, do you expect
this money-bagged widow to condes
cend to come to a Long Branch cot
tage?" "The day after to-morrow."
"By train or boat?"
"By boat. You'll have to go down
to the landing to meet her and that
reminds me, Harold."
"Of something disagreeable, I am
sure!"
'Well, no, it needn't be; only I
want you to go down to the East End
this afternoon, and bring up the new
housekeeper that I advertised for.
The Intelligence office peoplo tele
graphed that she would be up this
afternoon, and I declare I ha-1 nearly
forgotten it."
"Thank you. T. don't particularly
care about driving up the Shore Drive
with a fat, red-cheeked damsel at my
Bide and two or three bandboxes be
hind." "What nonsense, Harold! She Is
no common servant. Sh'3 is a very
respectable woman who las seen bet
ter days."
"It is a wonderful and unaccount
able fact that they all !aave," sighed
Mr. Coverdale. "However, I am at
your service, Alice what must be,
must be and I'll borrow Hal's wag
onette for the occasion. One can stow
way th everlastlnj; bandboxes to
the best advantage in that, you know.
m I'll go down now und stop at the
hotel and play a f.ame of billiards
wllh the boys before the train will
ho In."
"Deav, dear!" murmured Mrs.
Raymond to hersdlf, as her eyes fol
lowed the stately, well-built figure
down the windii g path that led to
the Shore Drie. "How I do wish
he was estabKsl.rd In life! He's al
ways borrowing: money and getting
Into debt, and it Mr. Raymond should
evsr Lear of chat forged check on the
hank "
But thern was no pitying pang In
hor heart for her beautiful young
rejioolmate. vhose life she was wlll-
' ing to sacrifice on the altar of her
brother's 'jelfish and unprincipled
greed? Not one. Mrs. Julian Ray
mond was merely a fashionable wo
man, and fashion has no soul.
And while Mrs. Raymond glanced
over the pages of her French novel,
and Mr. Coverdale lost more money
than he could well afford in the bil
liard room of th, hotel, the boat was
steadily gaining the dock; and Mrs.
.Colby, in her neit, plain traveling
dress, and the barege veil she wore
to protect her eyes from the glaring
sun, looked out at the grand outline
of the beautiful bluffs and fast ap-
. proaching shore, and smiled 'to think
how completely she should take Alice
Coverdale Raymond by surprise.
"She don't expect me until Wediits
day," said Mrs. Colby to her&elf.
"What fun it will be!" ,
Her dark eyes sparkled mlscliler
ously beneath her veil at the idea
"I wonder," she thought, ur lu
sciously following the tlncaf o! her
own musings, "If Alice' brother is
really so perfect and chlvalroust
There are few of that type left in the
world, and if I should meet my Ideal
out here among the waves, It would
be a life romance."
"Boat in already!' You dJn't saj
so! She made good lime," cried Mr.
Coverdale, running down tho steps of
the hotel, wiping the cigar s-xhes from
his heavy mustache at the same mo
ment. "Come on, Hal!"
The passinpars were filing into
the great four-horse r.tses which
awaited the boat; but Mr. Coverdale,
settled all perplex! ti'is by calling out
"Any one here for the Locust Cot
tage Mrs. Julian Raymond's."
Mrs. Colby glr.nced ir,i In surprise.
Could it be possible that Alice had
fathomed her little scheme?
"Yes," hesitated she, "I am."
"Come on, then, ai;d don't stand
staring all daj!" said Mr. Coverdale,
with the scant allowance of courtesy
he deemed sufficient for a working
woman. She stepped in the convey
ance unaided.
"All right?" he impatiently shout
ed, pulling the reins. "Now, Hal, you
needn't throw away your cigar," as
his companion glanced doubtfully at
the veiled passenger. "She don't
mind a little smoke, do you, Mrs.
What d'ye call yourself?"
Mrs. Colby sat in a maze. Was Bhe
dreaming, or had this strange char
ioteer gone mad?
"Oh, you needn't be surprised,"
said Mr. Coverdale, checking a hic
cough. "I'm Mrs. Julian Raymond's
brother. She send me to meet you."
"I am much obliged, I am sure,"
faltered Mrs. Colby; "but "
"And I hope you'll do your best to
keep your situation," went on Mr.
Coverdale; "for my sister has had a
deuce of a time with these Intelligent
people."
A comprehensive flash came Into
Mrs. Colby's eyes. Mrs. Julian Ray
mond's brother evidently mistook her
for a servant, coming up in Bearch of
a place.
"But " she began hurriedly.
It was no use. Her feeble attempts
at explanation were drowned in the
rattling of the wagonette wheels as
Mr. Coverdale touched up the spirited
horses.
"Get up, Maud! Whoa, Nigger!
riot a bad team of yours, Hal. I'll
buy them of you at your own price
when I'm married to the rich widow."
"What rich widow?" asked Hal,
lazily puffing away at his fragrant
weed.
Mrs. Colby held her breath.
"Don't you know? Haven't you
heard? But, honor bright, now,
you're not to cut in and spoil my
chances. It's one of Alice's old
scbool friends Coalbln, or Coldslaw,
or some Buch name as rich as an
Astor, who's coming up from New
Haven day after to-morrow. Con
gratulate me."
"What! Already?"
"It's as good as done. . What's the
old proverb? 'I came, I saw, I con
quered!' Oh, there's not much doubt
in the case, I flatter myself!"
"Perhaps you won't fancy her."
"She is not of much consequence,
one way or the other; it's her money
I mean to make love to Ha! ha!
ha!"
Then the conversation drifted oft
upon the subject of the races.
Mrs. Julian Raymond was on the
piazza, when they drove up to tho
door, in one of her ravishing toilets.
"Hello, Al!" cried out her brother,
checking the horses with a sudden
Jerk. "Here's your housekeeper."
"Why, she's been here these two
hours!", said Mrs. Raymond, opening
wide her wondrous eyes. "She came
by way of the train. Who on earth
have you got there?"
"Only me," said Mrs. Colby, spring'
ing out of the wagonette and throw
ing back her veil, while a mischiev
ous smile played around her pretty
lips. "Kiss me, Alice. I hope you
are agreeably surprised."
Mrs. Julian Raymond sprang for
ward to embrace her schoolmate.
"Dearest Viola, I am so pleased!
And you, naughty Harold," shaking
her chubby fist at her brother, "are
you in the plot, too?"
No; Mr. Coverdale was certainly
not in the plot, as his dropped under
Jaw, staring eyes and sheepish counte
nance plainly denoted as he bolted
out of the room, unable longer to
endure the sarcastic glitter of Mrs.
Colby's eyes.
"Hal," cried he to his friend, "hold
on! Take me down to the hotel with
you!"
"What for?"
"I've done It I've ruined my
self!"
"Are you crazy?" demanded Hal.
'No; but one would think I km!
That that woman "
"Well?"
"She wasn't a servant at all; tie
was the rich widow Mrs. Colby ho
self!"
Hal whistled and looked shocked.
'Yes," said he, "you have done ii!
There can be no doubt on that sub'
Ject. Come with me."
So the two men drove away.
Mrs. Colby stayed a coupl9 oi
weeks at the cottage with her eld
schoolmate. Mr, Coverdale never
showed himself in all this time, and
the rich widow knew that she had
escaped the snare of a fortune hunter.
Waverley.
It is probable that the populatloe
of the earth has doubled since 1 SO J.
Man The
By Dr. William
HERE Is not a secret In Nature, except himself and what he
ii which he will not, unaided, find out sooner or later, and
then do with as he flues. Talk of his being of material
origin who is now sharply cross-questioning matter Itself,
about what it Is. and eliciting the answer that it is nothing
T
J II but vibrations, which he calls electrons, and which he will
II yet cause to dance to his will! Man is destined to be the
JJ only wonder left In this world, because by his discoveries
he soon makes all Nature's wonders commonplace. Who
wonders now at that miracle, wireless telephony? Hence, though he may yet
likewise explain all the other mysteries of Nature, he will himself remain
unaccountable except as a witness to the unseen reality of realities Mind.
It is this transcendence above Nature which suggests the explanation
of the evil in the natural world from its remote beginning till now. The en
trapping spider, the subtle serpent, the ferocious beast, and every cruel ani
mal are but weak counterparts of what man can be and has been. It was
fitting, theveforo; that originally he should belong to a world which should
foreshadow him in so many ways as the Natural Man of the earth earthy in
nature and in spirit. But a last Man appears as Homo Sapiens, the prince of
peace in a warring world. What Is that wisdom which made him so and
endowed him with all rule? It lies in that exclusively human power which can
resist the gratification of immediate natural impulse for the sake of a dis
tant good. Man alone, therefore, can be really educated, and again educated.
To a being so endowed there Is no limit to his rising from a lower level to
a higher. But education is always slow and often grievous, as the school
boy knows when told to study and not play. If, instead, he will play, sorrow
awaits him in after years, because he ill then betoo deficient In knowledge
and the power which conies by education to get his living except by the
cheap animal Labor of his muscles.
' But as with the individual, so with the race. A progressive training
which bears all the signs of ancient Purpose Is slowly educating the human
world not to yelr, as of old, to self-assertion, that cause of all evil In heaven
as well as on earth, but to prefer Instead to obey the divine law of self-control
and self-sacrifice. Everybody's Magazine.
QGVitw file wiQC3
Self 'Centred Woman
By Winifred Black
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t
KNOW a young married woman bright as a new penny,
pretty as a colored photograph and full of life and fun of
living.
She went to a new town to live not long ago, and at
first she was the rage. Every one called, every one fell
in love, every one raved.
"fln nrottv "
?
itXttttt "So bright."
"So full of fun,"
And then nobody called any more, except the Ill-natured and the gossips,
who were not tolerated anywhere else.
Then the Invitations began to sag, and then everybody eald no more about
the young married woman, and she dropped Into a rather neglected wholly
lonely, and pretty miserable life.
Her husband eaw that his wife was popular no longer, and he began
to look for the reason and find fault mentally.
"I guess she Isn't as pretty as she looks to me," he said to himself. "No
body else seems to admire her and her temper certainly is bad."
The young married man's relations came to visit, and they wondered
and raised their eyebrows, and the young married woman eald she couldn't
bear the town and that there wasn't an interesting person in it and she
wanted to go home, so there.
And it was all because she didn't know enough to curb her tongue. Every
time she went to a party she had a great time making fun of every one there.
At first her partners laughed, but when the next partner laughed the last
partner looked uneasy and never asked the young married woman with the
penchant for satire to dance again.
Every time the yotong married woman went to pay a visit she took up
halt the time talking about the last person at whose house she called.
She laughed at their ideas or Imitated their little peculiarities, and
somehow the visit was never returned.
And she really Isn't vicious and cruel or malicious at all; she's Just
foolish and light-headed and self-centred so she's shunned and olnely and un
popular an she wonders why.
I don't do you? New York American
Jt JDig issue Be j ore Lon
gress
By George
EENLY-allve to the platform pledges of the Republican par
ty, President Taft has made it clear that he is determined
to see postal savings-banks made a reality, in accordance
with pledges to the people.
Seven hundred and sixty-sis million four hundred and
seventy-four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars
of deposits in the postal banks of the United Kingdom, to
the credit of nearly eleven million depositors in 1907, sug
ted
gests the enormous fund which will be created when the
$60(,000,000 now hoarded In this country, plus the accounts of smaller and
more timid depositors in commercial banks, are enabled to gain entire secur
ity by tho guaranty of Uncle Sam.
The deposits In the postal banks of Italy, In 1907, amounted to $273,
702,695, an increase in ten years of over $160,000,000. Nearly five millions
of people have postal deposits In Italy, and It has been found that millions of
dollars In savings have been sent from the United States to Italy, and other
European countries, for deposit in the postal banks, because Uncle Sam has,
so far, failed to make any provision to care for the savings not Intrusted
to banks. Not less than $8,000,000 in one year has been sent from the
United States in money orders, much of it for deposit and safekeeping in
postal systems. Most of these money orders are bought In the states of
Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon,
Texas and Washington. The World To-Day.
America's
nay in
l y Paul S,
IIILE American capital
Wthe nitrate regions, the indications art not wanting mat m tne
development of general mining in Chile It will take a lcad
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lug rule. iiiero iti aisu a, git-ai uciu lut mo uevi-iuimitrm ui
American Import trade in general machinery and textiles.
In timber and manufactures of wood, In wagons and agricul
tural machinery, in paper, and in the lesser manufactures
of steel and iron. The opening of the Panama Canal ought
to give our manufacturers a considerable advantage In the
way of steamship rates over their European competitors, but here, as in oth
er parts of South Aemrlca, we cunnot hope to build up a commerce at long
range. It will be necessary for us to interest ourselves personally in these
regions and assist in their dsvelopment, by Investing capital, to study them In
personal visits and by sending agents and representatives. It is only in that
manner that the nation can got a share of Chilian commerce and Industry
commensurate with its industrial and capitalistic Importance. The World
To-Day. ,
Only Mystery ?
Hanna Thornton
every one said.
H. Currier . 5?
OpportU' 5
Lniie
Reinsch
Is not much interested thus far In
THE LATEST TRIUMPH OF I
THE MONO-RAIL ABROAD
Nearly two years have passed since
Mr. Louis Brennan displayed before a
bod? of English engineers a working
model of a railway car exemplifying
the features of the gyroscopic mode
f locomotion. He has now demon
itrated In a fashion quite conclusive
(o the scientific press of Europe that
all the claims then made for the
mono-rail are practically realized.
Intense interest has therefore been
awakened in the prospect of soon pro
pelling railroad cars on a single line
of rail laid on the ground. They will
be maintained upright by means of
gyroscopic control, and, in the light
of the demonstration Just made, they
will turn sharp curves and ascend
steep gradients. Apart from ihis gy
roscopic control, the railroad cars
would capsize. Mr. Brennan imparts
stability to his vehicles, as London
Engineering notes, through the same
principle which we see on its grandest
scale when Nature steadies tho move
ments of the heavenly bodies in their
orbits. The earth revolves on Its
THE MIRACLE OP BALANCE.
Turning a corner with the utmost ease and at considerable speed during
the experiments in England a few weeks ago, the Brennan mono-rail demon
strated before a large party of engineers the feasibility, from a commercial
standpoint, of this gyroscopic mode of locomotion. The tests were con
ducted with the greatest ease, owing to the perfection attained in the bal
ancing mechanism, which remains perfectly under the control of the op
erator. The cost of construction of railroads per mile will be reduced one
half by this invention, and the cost of operation by fully two-thirds.
own axis, our contemporary explains,
says, Current Literature, "in the same
direction as you deal a hand at cards
or pass the port, from right to left."
It also moves on Its orbit around the
sun in the same direction.
"But besides these two movements
there is a third, which was discovered
by the Greek astronomer, HIpparchus,
who lived in Blthynla about 160 to
125 B. C. He made several important
contributions to scientific knowledge,
but by far' the most valuable one,
which he must have obtained by an
alyzing the Chaldean observations re
corded for the previous 1500 years,
was that the axis of the earth has a
special top-like motion known as
'precession' In the opposite direction
to that in which the earth itself ro
tates. It you mount a gyroscope, or
magic top (a flywheel within a ring),
upon a long pair of spindle-legs with
pointed extremities, which will not
hold themselves upright when the fly
wheel Ib at rest, you will find that
rotating the flywheel keeps the whole
structure steady. By degrees, of
course, the outer circle increases its
precession to a point at which a fall
Is inevitable; but, as Lord Kelvin
pointed out, 'hurry on the precession
and the top rises.' That is to say, In
this kingdom of anomalies we are
Investigating, if you Increase a move
ment which would, unaided, ha-e pro
duced a fall, you actually prevent that
fall from taking place.
"The peculiar property of 'gyro
static domination' has been known,
therefore, to exist. But Mr. Brennan
Is the first to investigate fully those
stresses which it causes In the spindle
legs of the Instrument I have de
scribed, and ho Is the first to discover
a practical way of automatically 'hur
rying the precession' in a manner
which enables a machine containing
his invention to keep its own balance
under all conditions.
CERTAINLY NOT!
Costumer (to customer) "You
ft?.;strtnt, belrg only a poor vorklng
'Jv 'iijrosa that you c.r.9."
Criminals and Drink.,
Dr. Albert Wilson, $the brain spe
cialist, described the result) of his
recent work in a leeture betore the
members of the Society for th Study
of Inebriety recently.
"Although alcohol is so gteat a )
problem in crime, I could fill the,'
platform with criminals who are tee
totallers," said Dr. Wilson. "A par- '
tlcularly accomplished criminal told
me the other day that he must keep
entirely away from drink when plan
ning a crime. Another, however,
said that he required a little stimu
lant Just to help him carry out a
'Job. "
Dr. Wilson told a story of Berry,
the late executioner. After carrying
Hilt flva Vl 11 n n f 1 n.nnntlnn. X, A lia
came so sympathetic toward criml
nals that he gave up hanging and e
came a temperance missionary. Talk
ing of the magnitude of crlme, fhe
lecturer said that a million persons
are arrested in this country every
year. Three hundred ' thousand,
equal to the population' of a large
town, are sent to prison, while crime
rnnta 110 -PAnnnnftfl a voar Tjinnnn
Dally Mall. '
Dickens' Last Words,
The most Interesting person at tho
recent Dickens Bazaar at Caxton Hall
was Miss Georglna Hogarth. Miss
Hogarth is 84. She was a child when
she went to live under the roof of
her brother-in-law, Charles Dickens,
and she remained a member of hl
household till the final summons
came to the great novelist. She was
with him when he was struck down. "
His last words were "On the
ground." She alone heard them.
It Is generally supposed that Miss
Hogarth was in Dickens's mind when
he Jolted down in his notebook the
following outline of a "character"
for future use: "She sacrificed to
children, and sufficiently rewarded.
From a child herself always 'the
children' (of somebody else) to en
gross her. And so it comes to pass,
that she Is never married; never
herself has a child; is also devoted
to 'the children' (of somebody else);
and they love her; and she has al
ways youth dependent on her till her
death and dies quite happily."
Lady's Pictorial.
Comparisons Are Dangerous.
"A chap told me this morning that
I looked the Image of you." ,
Where is the idiot? I'll pound)
the life out of him."
"Too late. I killed him." New
York Times.
Not a ltoston Expression.
She "That's Mr. Osborn over
there. He married a million."
He "You don't say. Well, that
beats Solomon to a frazzle." Boston
Transcript.
In Louisiana the law permLta a
widow to marry again only provided
Bhe has waited until ten months after
the death of her husband.
must consider, also, madame, tha: tt
girl, cannot give that air of dlUw,.V
A.