1 Rel BE SEA ESRI ERC NAA HAs a se ot WR 8 SA ao =f standing over it with his hands on his and the telegraph ) to call today, and we wers ta thrash the tar less presais, the affection. soon. eaRer at ome : The French it an on Sati ill neutralize the mis. me, so that anyone vi and so successful d not 10 be tse. ont vient dobini. 1) . overirowding, its foes are fresh alr, une tates the * The appeal of va Be srenter trade oon of the | of only do. the Biost dense and populations of the word ; like some pleasant dream, shores of the great: improper i 1 it again to make quite sure of its con | tents: 1% | there's a good i : B i apt go anpsid for), will feturn into oonid make it up with Madeline, and wa i should be married, but 1 a that sort of thing.” line ix on the point of coming to the i English, spoofed! i breasted Jacket and hooked his fore fnger into hiv watch pocket, withdrew a dance prograure. It knew what it was to love. very deep and sincere attachment for —he looked at the programme against | ‘the eighth dance~"pink with blue dots” So brief, so unintelligible, yet (how sweet a morsel of womanhood i was contained In those magic if slight. | ly unromantic words, knew of ber! Her name, ber chaperon, | 4 : Some. {the wife—precious, impetudus Ma i% in danger of bein touches as fo my-—-abem! --sianly qualities. o | Barter ame up for ail you are worth. 1 the ey book, and 1 your r gratelul reviewed It critically, marking off the : | general amaesty to discuss terms of peace. Kit appoints—here Jack com sults bis watcha guarter of twelve, | Bim hin first Introduction { gwethenrt, {to twelve Expert in smoothing over the walers istance. A bright light illumined Jack's | ; nid he note on the table. and, hips In 8 commanding fasbion, be read “Dear Jack: Can't possibly nt back | for i i an hour, . alas nt i have Sad s uff: sothing really i she is so impeioous. Nhe promi whole thing out over a lancheon bf the tieat conceiving, and here | am simply | booked for an hour or more with my only moneyed relation, My dear oil Jack, vou foot dilemma and your duty! If | ade | goes to Hall Moon street and finds me i thie, that beautiful half hoop, ards, et seters, whith, by © ¢ weion (or the jewsler's), an ot Ma Ting Oh, Jack, my dear ol char, you must explain how unhs 1 to go out! If | saved, 1 disgustingly rich sncle and Pe my in Un the other hand, plessant prosimiiy ts the dm while deline— jost forever. Bo vou mst pacity ber ati I come. And I may old boy, do just slip in & few incidental Paint my virtues in all the indescent hises of un abnormally healthy imagination, as together ike the pond fairy in| shall tree lemain “FP. S~Fay I'm a real food chap and Here was a strange situation. Juck main poiots on his finger ends. Kit, fmpetoous. Madeline consints to 8 Madeline agrees. Kit is ambushed by a hopelessly wealthy uncle, nnd Made. agreed spot to find herself, {a pliin Tem: Our interme | dlary—vis. sod to wit, Jack Cardrew-- who hereby swears and undertakes to pacify, mollify, soothe, soften 3nd oth | &rwise stroke down Madeline, : After which mental declarution Jack fell ints an armchair and tried to pic | ture Miss Madeline Nelthorpe laugh | ing at the odd chance that was to give to Kits Blige was inte. It was five min tes | Jack strode the room with all the seriousness of a professional of true love. To romplete the picture be thrust his right band with an sir of careless meditation into his donutle : It eae in contact with a hard, smooth sub face ax be very carefully and tenderly would {uspire him in Kit's cause. He He bad a “pink with bine dots!” And to think that was all he alike uokoown to him! The music of - ber voice, the delightful rogulsh laugh, (the deep, unfathomable bloe dotw- | eyes, 1 mean—lingered In hig memory Xes, he could plead to Miss Nel | i w tery const of North, therpe on Kit's behalf with a lover 5 wealth far sur asterti const, with the vx. 3 i yet dl the Crows Nest ful mew world, a realm hitherto on § of British Columbia, iving ' dreamed of, a beautiful piak paradise lope of the Rocky Mount. | With—well, blue dots. ites from the Pac iB | Ju Pag ile coast resources, | Neltborpe Was announced. Big the | 0 exe nieasdres, many hun Stopped dead. in ® fitees, 4, contain, . A man named | pesca, grew np to Lie axed older, ie Sis ‘and. nore far-reaching. confining them nierely 1o his! rel tives ‘he begat to hate bis neigh. bors. and finally ail the people wha! and sickened we, were associated with him in ADY Way. Then he hit upon a scheme. He tore: up hix first will and constructed au- othe directing that the bonds bo! ted. thus causing the value of them i remain for ever in the United State ; sury Ir he had Hved long enongh ¥ 3 } 1 ! 1 | : * | should BEVEr see you, lest you should | forget hey Lis Back on paradise, | enthusiasm, He could spiak from experience, for Cupid bad taken him (by the hand and shown bint a wonder. Twelve o'clock. She was la Tk, Just then tne door opened. and Miss! Jack came forward to moet her, they Could it be? KiUs sweetheart this? : “Mr. Cardrew.™ exclaimed the he. “witching visitor in a tone of genulpe | smazement, “what a surprise” “Pink with blue dots,” cried Jack With a look of chagrin. - “Then you haven't forgotten met’ "Forgotten yout No: I wish I bad 1 mean I wish—oh, to think what 1 { have promised And be let slip the Hitle suede fingers | fof his lost angel and metaphorically “The eighth dance.” said Miss Nel thorpe, with a sigh and a halt laugh. “The seventh heaven,” grouned Jack. “Miss Nelthorpe, let me tell yon ev 2ry- | thing.” continued the unbappy Care ‘ frew, taking a low scal by the girl's iside and assuming a martyr at the | Stake expression. “When | saw you {melt into a crowd hovering. and press. ing about the refresh ment buffer at the dance the other night, 1 felt al most inclined to run after you and beg you pot to leave me. The though i that we might never meet again chilled For tbe truth ix 1 was hopelessly, desperately, madly, | bHuidiy and all the rest of if, in love with you” “Mr, Cardrew!™ elaculated she. ris ing with & prety glow in her cheeks SER down,” with a malter of fact air. whole days I have felt the ebb and | o | flow of a stroug tide of passion, 1 have suffered apprehension lest 1 lest my violent attachment Wor itselt out Uke a cold in wring frem you an ahoulel offend my sm Bow mi hat, a paltry toque, awiul decent chap-Kit. happy. and I shall be so nriserably” pxplalaed { "Lovely Lup, Bliv's In fave With fue, Lave rom . : "Puce Kier eclioed Miss Nel thal stick tu Bis 3 itself panionalile i dull” The visitor grew a little uneasy, 1 con't umdersiand you.” she gad, &iminly, “I wish yon hadn't come in, that's all.” sald Jack. If I Bad known" began Miss Nelthorps, “But I came to see? “Rit Ee g Nes.” assented she, surprised at Jack's boisterous interrdp:ion, “Rit, fortunate Kit" HAnd be promised to pect “Bat you'll forgive him. He left me here and, After making me prombe to gasnrante of for giveness, told we to be sure and net let you go until he came back” “But 1 want to tell youu Miss Nelthorpe, with a rogulsh lag eh. “No, no. I won't listen,” said Jack, resolutely. “You're polng to slang Kit You are going to blame Bim, scold him, Now you must forgive Lim, He's such a splendid chap, sud-axd it was 1 who made him go out” “I'm glad.” she sald, and langhed “iad? Then you didn: want to meet him and make it apt” “No. I's not sxactly that" “After all, it was only a lover's quar. rel. a slight brush, and all alot a Xon see, Kit has told me everything. Now you're suiry, : really sorry, Kit is out, aren't youl” | the best chap in the world, though a | y { IIe fmpetoous, vexes Madeline, also | “Xo,” began she in a prtulant tine. “Now,” said Jack, in cheery tones, “1 see you relenting. The bard little | Beart is melting” She laughed outright, ; "Very well, then,” she admitied, her face wreathed in silles, “1 am sorry” Capital” said Jack You'll be so Miss Nelthorpe stroked her muff, As she raised her eyes she saw on a chair pest bry the dance programme, “Shy, " she sald. “that’s the Pro gramoie nfo” ¥en” futersupted Jack, hastily. “Faney your Keaplug H' “Tle penal you § kno, replied how “puch a Joly handy thing fo have “Yes,” responded Miss Nelthorpe, feelingly, “especially when ft Basti’t a point” “By Jove” “what a splendid chap Ki = “Yes; you told me” “1 suppose you're simply devoted to Lim.” “Humph! Yes, I) ke bin” “Like Bim!” repeated Jack. “My Gear Miss Nelthorpe, you love bin; fob Know yuu do.” “14kes Bim” be ald to bLibmself “Sie only Hikes him.” The girl gave the case doe consid eration, “Well,” alle sald, “perhaps you are | right, Mr. Cardrew. Jack's face foil “Loves him” be said to himself "ve over persuaded ber. "ni forcing ber into a loveless, distasteful thar riage, and I simply worship her” “When | aay | ike hiy~love Bim” Miss Nelthorpe, taking Jack's dismal exprescion as an alex of hix true feelings, “of course | giean na friendly way—a brotherly wap” “Friendiy” sahl Jack. (Angel? be thoughts “Brotherly ™ said Creature” Le 1houphi | “Poor old Rit?" he slacalated fm nig | most buoyant tenes She docs’ sre 8 2uap for Dim. Bhe has thrown Bin while 1 do Jove Bim” thors, “1 he closer and taned SORT she said { that ™ Nan *1 wean, you cusiton't to” "Na" “Bienen for eSAcily thirty seconde “After all” said Jack with w calinn: sticmp at il 1¥, Fal can't dda better Make a etter Las band than 1 "Why, what do rou pean’ "Handsome chap, well wade, I'm loose-jointed. plain Vid never civil before twelve aid always grovpy when the sun gues in. Ris bright, talkative, witty, com. isu osilent, unsoctable and pe “And your Nelthorpe, Hyers?” inauired Miss “I don’t believe Kit hos ene. while | I~1 believe U've got two, Now Fou Seg Wil a treasure you've got in Kir” Aid Jack pleked the prograaime up cand pursed it tenderly She watched him closely. “Ro you'll forget hi 4 Hrtle ooregera ableness, win't you? “One ote vonditica” and thar “That you will put that programms In the fire.” Jack ered it longingly “If 1 msrey Kin suid the a kittie laugh, she saul. xk ax kh ah . i A a Bowould be as well pat 16 oherish old wemories "Iowa be only oa ¥Oo0 bet we keep HP said Jack quietly apd “Por three | tively. “Better not” "The remembrance of the quarter of an hour tn all wy life "For Kit's sake.” she said. sie | 11y, UI ean’t wait for Kit “He's sue an | He said in desperiiion, dark, | Kit's amiabilivy | A od { nothing - i te as mabe Wit bling with excitement. Mies Nelthorpe demurrad, ; qt and put In i her mud Esai; “that means Fou mast forget | > : me’ “An hour ago." said Jack, rising ab | ruptiy, “and 1 would have given all 1 ] possess to meet you. Now vou are the last person in the world 1 desired to kes. Oh I'm an awful anincky chap!” Jack groaned. “And you'll wala it vp with Kit? he said dismaily, “Off coy Arid want vou to” ; “Oh, we're vers good friends,” Te tarned she. “And when you two are marricd” | i began Jack ip a thick, tragic, profanda, “Marriee 7 cried Mima Nelthorpe, | breaking into 8 rippling food of langh. ter. Oh we shall never marry” “Never marry! Ah, you are heartless to talk Hike that, to laagh! Poor Kit! | | He's in a fool's paradise.” Mize Nalthorpe grew serious, “And would sou Uke re to nay Kit? she asked, taking a more than usial interest in fhe pattern of tho | garpet, : : “Hew can you ask? For Kits sake, : yes” “Wen,” she said, getting ap abrupt. b another sec- | ond, It's a shame Jack turned to remonsteate. Laeso Pinntkia antl Pounikin, | Pinnikin and Yonik 4 Went froliuking togith | And it mer Sart ma on | ig hismy things they did {Jt seemed thy ® very tired {| Whea they had fioished play. | Pinnikin was very quink 1 "Mont alears Jed the fun, © Bat Fonds WK perer slow When ¢ been begun | And ity of I} them contd dance. about 1 Like hittle streaks of light LAnd neither ote was ever still From #arly morn 1d night. | And who were they? You Jd never rose Although Lis very plain i: Not even if yon 831 should try Again, apd yet again. pow we'll whisper in your sors Till each child understands: : Why! Pinnikin and Pospikin Are just the baby! % sands! ~Chisvgs Record- Herald, Cl A a i i *Iteof nonse. 1 can't stay. Iianst L leave a message” “But he'll ba back In 8 minute” “Just in time fo find me gone, Mr. : Cardrew, may I mirust 4 message with you?’ “int you most ay “Will you tell Kit that Maddie {8 i bed with & cold” “Madeline in beh? “And that 1 have ealles piace envoy” “You-you? exclainmed Jack, trem- “Then then | you are not Kit's sweetheart?” Mist Nestthorpe laughed. bost to explain : “Then youre tains’ And be advanced with the energy aud swiftness of passion. The girl gave a jitle start and assumed an ox. | pression and carriage of dignity great {Iy offended. ! “Mr. Cardrew” as a deputy »1 did we Xs Pear Pottyro you know that the bluehirde are Liere ever so minch | earlier than usual this year? Patty cand I saw them this morning, snd | must tell you what hey did | 1 heard thelr sweet littie song before ‘1 eaught a glimpse of their gotjeous blue coats. And then what did the : father bird do but just fic down from i the bough of the old niaple tree right | in the grass at my feet : He didn’t seem fhe least bit afraid of me; in fuct, be Almost ignored my | presence and called to his jittle mate i #0 cheerily that she ar once flew to his i glide, : ¢ They are 1 handsome pair. The fe male is a little smaller in size xd her she said her hands : clasped together in ber mud, ber head { Sung in the alr, “you forget" “Pra sorry,” sald Jack, abashed, "tat you know how how 1 love you" “It ix wasted, believe me “Wasied™ echoed Jack In great Nor “Why, what can you meau?™ "Think, Mr, Cardvew, thiok what t Jertion, wand mean” “1 know I'm not half worthy of you “tot good enon “Far {rom handsome.” sald she, "Toes jointed, never civil before twely olelock, 3 “I would really try to make you happy.” pleaded Cardrew, “AS happy as a silent, dull hushand could. 1 suppose” ansocisl S “Perhaps, after all I'm Bot as bad gx tat” “Even If yon were not” said sh with mperturbable gravity, rying a chronle billous attack” Jack was fairly cnught, “At any rate” be ventured “you “a man with two Hvers—it would be like m will let me bave my programme buck, since you are not going to marry Kit” “You bave stolen my beart” said Jack fn ng- grieved tones PTORTRIBIe on™ “1 should Lika to keep one.” said the “You have stolen ny girl, prettily, “in remembrance of the | secoud happiest quarter of an hour" “The pencil has no point,” said Jack. | “If wouldn't be of the loust gee” "Very well, then.” she sald return 11.7 and held ir ont to Jack. He tock the hand that proffered it atl held it fast, “Won't you evetlosk oy two livers?” be pleaded, “It's a0 niosaal” she sahil JaeR, Miss Nelt Borpe langhed gayiy. “What a poor card player vou word Look, what is io your baud | Wika ave you holding "My programme.” sald Jack “And my heart” sahil Mise Nol | thorpe. "You see. vou deat koow the strength of your hand” “By Greorgel” said Jack, nigr heart™ And the roses in her cheeks assent, ~INiBg. Whence Comes Electricity? “1 will | “Hut you have two bearta” suid “the wine: wlhanies, ht up and down on & twig. « & low. sweet little song. and ° | the affair with nieve ordinary Bluebird with trimmph in his Suh a glad and Joyous strain was. Polly. Do you like any re bird'i song as well? [ don’t. The little wife wax wo contented to hear if, and o she jinewered Bhim back In her quiet | Bitle twitter, which told in very plain Ianginge thar she was quite sulted with his song and wanted nothing bets jer, An} so were wo suited, and we pever expeit to nd anything more eharm- ing. As we left the mezdow the little | song we used to sing in the third grade Do you remember it, came to me Polly, dear? “A mint of green on the willows, A fish of blue mid the rain: And a Suted song tells the heart be strong. The darkest days will wane, For the bluebird, the Muebirds, Have come fo os again” Neil gave me such a fine field glans for nee in my study of birds. How I shall enjoy it that we must breakfast st 5. for you know the birds are very early risers. So, goodnight, my dear, and pleasant dreanss. Yours, with love, Susan Dale ~Chicago Rocord-Herald. Birds Ave Careless Railders. Nearly all sen birds are far more carelyss In their nesting than thelr cousiias who live inland. The terns, the sian, the puffins, the blackthroated diver and the gutilemot really make | BO nests at ale The putBns, however, RZ some mare cars” Wheres in Jamen? . plumage is rot pearly so brilliant. But : she has a motherly air and looks with price at her tnondsonte lord and muster, cauxiously walling Yor him 10 decide : whit their nest move skall be They zat quietly in the grass for a few mnments twittering and cooing in| Ca soft lode way, an though they were making the nest iteresiiag Ring of plans. And, ob, what a brig ght spot ~ they 4d make on the brown grasses of Lhe meadow, Finally ir seemed to Be settled that they would depart for the oid ally tree | at the other side of the wendow. Away At a time when electricity is raphilly | transforming the tude of the globe, when it bas already (8 great measure annihilated distance, and bids fair to abolish darkness for gs, it is curious to notice how completely ignorant “the plain man” remains as to the later de- velopinents of elecirieal theory. Soe | recent correspondence has led me to | think that a vague notion that electric. ity 3 a 8nd which in some mysterions way flows through a telegraph wire far as he hos gol and if we add to thy sotto Ruowinloe of what he ov tric shocks” haust Lis Wdeas on the subjent. Yet this Iv opot to be wondered at. Buen the meat lasiracted physioists oan do but guess as too what eleeichs ity is, amd the only point ca owhich Chey agree Hogs to what iT is nist ti here ds, in fact 3 perle ocnnsensus Pit is net a finld, | » 5 happiest jo i GIRDIGR eng trea of penderable matter {rem of energy, 4% is bear. this Hamit tle selentific Imagination is ar Hberty 10 roams where it Bsteth, aid Jack folded the silken cord about it} although it has used this Liberty to a and went over to the freplace. "A pencil is such a awfully handy Bug considerable extent. no definite Pestly has followed up to the present tiwe~ 4 ~ The Academy. Ecfeqnifie writers that | i ee. a continuous fis is a tiguid et a gas: snd thet UL Bnei a iatgide like water throwgh 8 pipe is about as | hs “elev. ‘ wi would probably ex- | they Mow unl they reached the lower hrapehes of the elm tree, and there the lintle miinstee] began to pour forth bis tale of love quod it seemomd as though « his fittie thedat wonld barst with wel ity, But all at opee his gweet soni ceased, for up on a bwanch just a litle way from hls-ehoven bride sat a rival, with coat just as blue eyes just as bright and altogether quite as attractive Jouk- ine as hms]? i lt did not take out lovee long to de- . ede what course he should pursue, . Fer as soon as the nuwcomer begun his knight Pursued Lhe n- usually borrow a rabbiz af ail the feathered trikes overBanging ihe waves x burrow, and are not partieniar whether its original owners have done with or not, If they terfers. or even (ry 10 DAES, A peck from the palin’s pres Bil Ge enongh fo win them agalust ryingl to experiinent Sie seco thoe, The guks are SiGe of the northern seas. aud are perhaps the finest divers Their short Wings look in fact far more like Ans rian wings and unlike gull the auks catch (hele prey benvath the water The aul’z selection of a spot to lay ber PEER i very strange. She chooses a bate broken ledge of lard rock, It looks as though it were a vat to balance exgs in sue a place asd the marvel i that dhe fret gale does pot send them roll ag over the orage Bar an auk's “ge% ure so abaped as to prevent such G ealiunity: they are much larger at iste smd han at the other, and so ine stead of rolling straight abead like a Tuil they turn arcund in a circle when ytarted and 30 Zeep their places upon ie Toeka _ e Yo Boll an Egg Without Flies, Open'a raw ogg a little on both ends to allow some of the white to ran ont Take drst-class alcoliol of high pers Hentige and pour it fo the opening. Close the two openings with your fingers as shown io the iustration. or with Little pieces of wax! shake the egg weil, so the alcohol van penetrate every particle of It After three op four minutes he contends of the egg will sppavently he hard, so that the § os be opened and pressed as bard toiled. It goes without saving that the egg 18 Dot warm, a3 the aleobol has only nade the white acid, does pot taste bad only vrngly of al The egg cobol.i~New Xk Trai. We are to begin ‘our Re field work. to-morrow, which means t parrotshaped and Jove in his eyes to begin again big story of devotion to his beloved
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