“~ ~~ TN A msi — m i» power eof song, Farmth | ard god cheer, . Who was et excited ory Sie ald the rite shest ‘with ita gla h ey En saffrey’s wife Is actually o cor he will be here the sare songs, the same aronsements, Maurice wondered a dozen times a day how Geoff, plain, plodding, com. j mongiace Geoff, had managed to win | { such®a girl “The attraction of opposites, I sup | | pose,” he thought savagely. “Geol! was always a lucky dog” Mira. Geoffrey did not oftim speak of {her husband. Nelther did she write fo Lim. “He hasn't any address” she sald} frankly, when Mrs, Longworth asked her for It. “Dear me, don't you know 1 be is simply buried in Central Amer fea? He can't write to me or I to him {unt he gets back to the mst. Anx. {ious? Oh no, not at all. Geoff has a § chirante habit of turning up safe and py . n't” ald enbly: eho wonld have res taken rel face it she dar. sound.” To think that 1 should have hated you once!” said Mastice to her one #1 knew you Hed me nizasnet your {will at first, 7 sald Mrs. Geoftrey, “Why was it? "I never liked your photograph? “Isn't It a good one —domurely, "Good? Well, I suppose it is as far p. features go. But it fan't you. The ton ix altooether wring” : Mrs, Geoffrey got up and turned the i Geott in question foward the wall. i “There! Tet It stay #0. 1 never | Hked it myself, but Geolt thought : was excellent.” One day Maurice mide nt discovery. It was at Mrs Anderson's garden | party, where Mrs. Geoffrey earried on «i #8 eather marked filrtation with Charlie Beott. Bhe wax somewhat more given to such an amusement, people thought, than a young woman who had a hus 1 band exploring Central Arseriea rains meth a 1 was never Loranorns Kir | ru Be elvil to her of & she provoke moe to be at that is all vou noed *X- ve you fair warning” Maurice tossed away his clzar | f td ent of the room with a sion. rey Loszworth, the older had gone to a Western city a ars previously and in doe . ofres taken to himself a wife. Her | Jresented a very pretty worths had never seen Mrs, but she was coming to visit st. EE himself, in ils | an, Tevepmoactubis gawned. | fins It out—for of course Be will find pe the splendid lights and | dead black hair. Why fancied that Geoffrey's A Hida blonde? He was to pronounce her divine. ey was gsecustomed 5 ts. She had read in kively, surprise, phindiny , der. It was such de- 1 um going to Hke my very much” she sald, he was “alone, and looking at Ye 8 little algh. y-und what a shame™ ne Geoft Just knew, : rict gworth, am bree, aE to g very best time in the world, io be bothered » conscience. | ousht to be. But Mra Geoffrey was t { serenely indifferent to pulilic opinion. Ehe smiled at Charlie Seo with eyea 4 and lips. talked to hin in her velvety undertones, and finally Gisappeared down a shady path with Nim. Maurice had bern watching then with a seowl, When ther passed out of Lis sight he went home, It was of po use to preicad to himeel! that he Was angry st Mrs Geoffrey's fits tions on Gaelireys s aroun. He Ene Ww He pri - irae ir up nh 2 vores for the rest of the day and tried LE | fre of 8 staal Britah squadron, wideh think the matter sgdarely out. Even tually be came to a rosoloition snd by way of keeping it he begun to avoid Mra. Geoffrey whenever It was poss) ble and to treat her with grave, cold polilenesy when it was not, That unrepeatant young person had eae home from the ganlen party in radiant spirits © At first she Jooked goon Maurice's chilling attitude os the § resnlt of pique. When she realized that Ib wis something more serians, she held a council of war with hersslf, This won't do. Oh dear what nu i i messt I might have known some such e i predicament wold resalt fremo omy y arrived a FR elt Dossersed folly, What will he think of me? What wil they all tlink of me? And oh, what will Gesllruy say when be it ont now? Ils will be dreadfully angry.” And Mrs. Geoffrey cried a little not very much~for ahs wanted to look her best that night, and it would never do to spoil her eyes. “1 must go home next week ™ she | announced sweetly as they rose from i the dinner table that night. “Oh, yes: {it fs more than time. 1 have stayed { too long already. Geoff will soon be getting back to civilizntion, and I must | be home before be 187 Maurice followed her miserably Inte the music room. Mrs, Geoffrey sat down at the plano In the mingled dusk | and moonshine and sang tender old balinda in alloring succession until Mauries could endure it no longer, He came up behind her and put his hands on ber shoulders. “Oh, Muriel, Muriel, I love vou! 1 have no right to say it, but I must say It once. 1 never will again.” “Why 2ot?” asked Muriel softly. “Why not? cried Maurice. He had never thought that Mra. Geoffrey was 1a particularly devoted wife, but he could not belleve that she was the kind of woman her words would Indiente. “Because 1 have no right to! You are my brother's wife” “I am not!” She got up and faced him tragieally. “I ax» Muriel Heath the cousin of Geoll's wite—and free 4a afr” “Muriel!” gasped Mauries, “Oh, 1 know you'll think it terrible ™ sald Muriel with a sob In her voles, “We never meant to toll you-but I must now. And Muriel Longworth will be furlous at me! Geoll's wife and { 1 are ridiculously alike, so far as fea- tures go, but there tho resemblance ends. Bhe 1s small and fale, while 1 am tall and dark. Yon see, when Goeoll decided to Bo + on this etitral Amerionn | of gayety, and 5 intolerably dull here, Just after Geoff | went away the Havilands invited Mor. | il to spend the summer with then at | reganiless of the seveement, bought it would be thelr country place. Then Muriel came to me and--and-Degged me-0-45-~ tome down here in her place and pre tend to be Geoff's wife. Oh, 1 know what you will think of me for con- senting! Dut it seemed just a joke at {the time. Muriel was determined on §iroand | wis Just a wild, thoughtless girl. Rol eames When I got here and | your mother and the pirls and every otis were so kind and good fo me-obh. 1 felt dreadfully about 11. Put it win dennis me | Muriel finished her confession with 18 downfall of tesra, Maurice sipped forward and clasped her in his arms. _ Maeveions re Wead, Henuett. Greeley, Prentics | and Rarfpond the grand “we” of the ol) sehool-were ln a small company | when they virtuniiy ruled public opin. Win. There wore only 204 dally papers. i pxigtence in 1%30, GARY There are diet fn JR the comin i cireula. tion of the papers was 758 4h, while | fn 10aE) the elreiiatinn of the JI00 Wan HLH A068. The aggregate number ol copder meusd during the gear 1800 was | SIE HO OTR, while 1a 1000 1 was S188. L24R THD. Tr must be admitted ff fiat this y ; growth In clreplation © itoo Jate, 1 had to curry out my In- | posture, Wo sever meant to let Geoff Lhnow but he will find 11 out now, and deo will everybody and you whi all; Pliage in the so-called ] Bitw $papar, A half wins a Dell sens torial suppwrt af 4 press abl nay , fil les Fo #And you're not marrked?” be ie | ctatmen. “Xo, Infeed-apd never will by un Jess-unless you will have me. Can you ever forgive me?” eloquently convinciog, “But what will your mother and sls tors say ¥* whisoered Mutlel, dolefully. “They will be so horrified and | shocked ™ “They wil forgive you for my sake” sald Maurlen, reasenringly. “And it fan't my fault that I'm not your mother's danghterindaw.” said Muriel, with a 11s laoch. “U'mi sure | I am very willing to become 80. After | all, I'm not really sorry 1 nme, for if I hadn't I'd never have met you “1 always wid that photograph wasn't Hie you" sald Maurice trl gmplantiy ~Bpringfeld Republican, An Embarrassing Legnes. The Town Council of Paris Is uot | sure that {1 ought to acoept the legacy of the Inte MM. Birada, He left to Paris his house at Pargy, where he Hved, the furniture of the principal roons, In- i cluding pletures, brougen, curios and books, with 60000 francs a year to ar- | mbge and keep I UD 28 8 moseum. x + #te magy rare and valuable : obiets dart In the collection of M. Strada, bot perbaps too many pictures painted by bimself. The testator was anknown to the world. His poems Just missed being first-rate. It was the same with his paintings, bis sculptures land bis bronses, He had noble long | ings and hamanitarian yearnings. But bis mind was not sufficiently independ. onl of bis feelings for 1 to produre any masterpieces of intellect, Stmada had the disadvantaze of being born with a golden spoon in his mouth, His fin mresslons Bad not been robbed fa by bardship, with the veuult that every. thing be did waned suap and had the taint of amatearishnrss The Igpulsce to write, to paint, to sculp and to com. Prose music wers Etrang 5 Bin buat knowing Hite of the Ialiles of [if he 2 ake 8 tuo bea aad only Lis own dreams to write shan, Ones of the rene of his failure to win renown lay In Bl never Roows to jeave olff-a common fault eo wha Hee ln a dreamland Ants rallamiso. At present the Australian wesith pays £100.000 a year for the is supposed also to wander roand Ma- oritand, FidL sod half the Bouth Pa oily, Austrailia has no control what ever over this squadron, but the un. gerstanding Is thst, UY attack really eotges, i will be found saovwihere within thede very wide Hoi, and ready fo do Ms doty. Bot the Hmits are too wide for the squadron to be | auyibing lke a yeasouable security, | Comment. vod gt ast one Admiral frankly io. | F formed this country (hat if war really | foil 4 cof the pre Manrice's angwer was wordless, but Penns 1886 to 1990 1h cnn ent ian w 2 hat the desire he faieat non Sith the bent iy ranean ting facilities the wworgly fins fnlial 1o0 Keep aon he daly daily was 20.0 per eend fromm HG it Faw 2 por cent while the inovenae ft weekly clrenta fon draped fiom 207 per cent, betese pla and iM ti 34.7 per cont In ie jas Asvad €. Theve was 1 883708 Inyesete pers sind perlelion TIN badd y Fn wage Tarn Materinl cont THI 008, ry ih pioney value of the product wax 1222. EAS. These In to way of computing the getus} valde of the prodeet In po petty mibeanosment and sachip the | ad cont of mistakes whe lgnaratees nmkes of every Larne puliic, fauna Be RR St BS AA RR SAR YEE WORDS CES. The even of other pestle are ile rres Ltr ruil ge Frankie, at you would know, and Enown, Ure long cir Unlivn, The way of the woekl in to make fwe, but follow costome -Yontalsne, We enrry happinom inte aur eondh § thin, but cannot ups 16 End i there ~ Holmes Prosoesite ls oy Jost wen hot safveraity is the ciiy | Plutarch. Childrea are uneopseions pitosa] phere. They refuse to pull to places their enjorimenia fo mes What they ore | taads of, =Heney WW, Beecher. Eoirgy uw AE ate atiythl dens by thie wosht Tl = 1 BIRT RoR, J et Itoi oaths Great, ever toed ip § in 1 Extrac: Fram Thrilivag Sem Novel, Tesiantly the sapiain sprang upon the guarier deck. “Dronhile peed the main kalliandsl” he showed. “AH bewta bay sf ir ¥ ihe fh bool Perr your starbonnd nireen mast! Clow up the guskets’ Belay, there! Ik sy, wir™ resgended the brave wna they cage dasiing up tie ses Linpasie wr condition of the ship was Indeed eveniuated the squadran woul] probe ably make fur the seat of hostilities i aud leave | Austrailia at the mercy of any suesal : aa which managed, on the soean, to dodge the British | Hag Obvigusly, under these conditions, itis | tire for the Commonwealth to give up © subsidizing this unreliable deer and to spend £30000 or £300,000 5 year on | a Beet of 18 own—one that will be here | wien wanted, and which should be strong enough to cope with at jeast a few casual crulsers. Australis thinks of cutting the knot by getting meas ured for ite own cocked bat -Syduey Balletin Only Way te Kill the Circular Nulsance, A Western woman who his been greatly annored by the circular pul sance sald recently: “It almost keeps one busy some. 5 weeks picking up these circulars. | red biynae & Th TIEN. They are frequently placed ander the doors, but pore fravuently are thrown on the porch, and It has cote to & point with we when I am actually prejudiced against such a method of soliciting trade, and | now mike it a rule never to buy of the houses which distribute thelr circulars about my front door” This I the proper action to take and wore tt followed up as it should be the nuisance would soon come te an endl Bassin to Grow Tea, Taking the ue, no doubt, from the Anserican experiments in tea jrrowing, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture fa endeavoring to encourage tea culture in the Caveasus, the elbmate of which ix said to be highly suitable for this crop. Private initiative fo tea culture {5 to be enconraged by the appointment of public instructors, who will be paid out of Government funda According to the Crop Reporter, the coming year will probably mark a new era in Cage casian tea culture. ET a i | The Dewand For Antomodiles, The great growth of the deroand for automobiles fs iHustrated by the fact that $1,000,000 Nosh of French mas FF “Lien Ar Ryway the catalan “AY, © g lp cost up the: many fores: vay. ay, sir” “Retard by to heave ap the sheet! Belay, thers! Belay” “Ay, ary, sr?” At this mingent the gallant ship sud. denty lofed snd bore away upon her starboant peak. avisg a foaming | wake to lesward, Saved by cogsgmomte geamanshipe art it was a parpow escane led hleag pa ob VR HE Hotel Proprietor's Big Toeaoue, The hasee of 2 Now York hotel who thought be Nad earnixd enough to re tire from business apd eploy Lis for tune In leisure pecentiy hed an offer fior his rights i the Dasinesss that he ad ballet up. Alter a consultation Powith his lawyers be settled on $3 ea. (dr as a reawonsble sum There was fame formead consent to sell for that tasount, bat that waz the fgure that Heemed just after a hurried view of the situntion. There cave from the Intend. le purchasers an Intiisation that they vere withing to do business Inpoediates by on that basis, Luckily nothing defis nite was dope nati the lawyers set out to make a guwe thorough inves tigation ad to the value of the property Baws] on the income It yieklad annual ly. On that basis the Botel was wast. iy fuwore valuable than it had at Best een considered. The proprietor's personal profit Tor the last eight years had averaged $1000.00, In view of these profits the price placed on the hotel was increased to a Bgure which it was quite impossible for the syudi fate to pay. In view of the large ainonnt he found himself to be carting annually, the proprietor was quite sate | istied to remain in harness a tew yan New : w York Sua. o Sane fiade the ciremiaiiog of the loiter pas pres fnorease hy he : Ze i the] ota Bean [randa~ = that can bel of the shilewiishers; © . the upper Mp, and worn the fo fad AR AGE, In deed, dons make a difference who nre the old maids might just 5a well Toavh, or wa ho ning came when 1 saw my married sisters ceiling to this alwart young husbands te lelp them over some puddles in ‘he road, And what a furs they made! When they bad heen wiped over, they went on and Jeft ine, the youngest, behind. I ealied sHsistanee, too, it seemed yo agreeable fo command I. One of y sisters, Ber band still in that of her husband's, jocoked Lacs and sakl: "Is eary. Stop on a stone and jump” Then ending closer to hor husband, she walked on, dot turning agains, YE 1 ean remy Ler toa, the wife of some ctlifge professor Wino had heen asked to meet me when I wak perhaye twentyeight. “Why, 1 thought you ware mroreiad ” she sald ve nie as we alioak hands, #22 1 had known you wers single, Y I power would Bave wora a long dress” It wos her only deess, | fear afterwanlo that wis why she sid “2” anil net “my” a black silk dros, v the way, which xl: bad worn for years, ipl whieh she made “low naek™ for. dinner parties by unfastening tire fow ton bullion, Thess surly expe Tiicen, Lo and my having mirrie! sisters, tanght me much. Probably every other ol "eb mall has earned, too, that midity and helplessness, for inslancag se enstiiag In wives, gre considered ridienious fn spimaters. Is nat a thnid old maid aug i at the world over, wud Is not 8 thoid wife eherislied 2-The Century. oe 2 2 as the Era of Great By Hamilton w. Mabie. OCIETY is fast becoming richer than was foreshadowed In the eat andacious dreams of the past, Messared hy the stands anls of today, Croesus was a person of very moderate fortuneg and the revenael of kings dre of small adeount when compared with the loecouss of the leading eapfiniisis of the twontia | ventiury. There are those who think that the recent pasinetion of wealth is abnormal, aad whe are predicting a psu to he oll scale of values in the near falure. There are, Bowever, BS Elina of any reduction of energy, any decline of force, any A%e hanstion either of the genius which ervates woglth, or of the rutierinah out of which wealih is developed. There gre, on the engfrary, wany things wileh indicate that scciety In in the early stages of a wonltb-prododing period the hike of witich hoa not only not oocdrred before, Dnt has never been anticipated by the mest sanguine men of affaires. Great changes will ondoniotedly te made lo the methods of distriboe tion of wealth, bot thers will be no diminution In Rts peodgetion, Historie procenteu sive Dow bearing the slow fruitage of time in the opening op of the nthe glotie, the mwing together of raves in free competition fa the Held of the werld, the discovery of the magical power of cooperation and combination and thelr sppilention to comy erce and trade on a gral scale, and, above all, the spplleation of scienes to Dusisess in all departmauls, from the uses of chenvimtry 10 manaiacturing to the nics of clovtricity in Aawill communication . a0) Love YaINe of om T present nothing lu piaincy roa world thet loves its little mw. terdes, and Hikes to Keep the Shseryer [a 8 £2050 of treninicas sige pense about a good many things, than the fact that it Is Dew gluing to shave again. It has always shaved, more or les | ever since Deans came in some GIty years ago, after a banishe L pent of nearly two centuries, from st least the AngloSazon 8 fae. Luring ail the time since the early eighteen fifties the full beard has been the sxeeption rather than the rile. The ragor kaa not been suffered to rows In disuse, but bas heen ome ployed § In dlefiparing most phyafognomibes In obedience to ths prevalent Cashing, tor the personal enpriee of the wearers of Kale uwpen the lee, where nature Log pat If for reves still of Ber own Por aoe man whe let nature have hor wap { pnguestionsl by the steel, there have been ninety-nine men who Baye maolilled ber deri. Boron Bave shaved all bot a Die spot on the nider Bp: others have oon Hinged tae eperinl crown there nfo the polided goatee others Rave Worm Cth oliinebeand, susre cut from the enrnerg af the Line, witeh han become (0 the allen bmsgination dlstinetively the A an beard: o $ Nave shaved the chin. anil tet the puustaobe bonne aeross the eke to most the Sowing fringe hoy Hgwye above ofl but the whiskers shaped to the Hketons of & mutton<hop: the most of all have shaved the whole face exept © piustache sland, An these froomentary rms of Peard earicareend the baman countenan md redugesd it more or Meg to a tenloas Dmrbesaue of the Booest vi wtges af various sorts of animals Ther relibed It of the sicverity which 'n the redeeming virtue of the cleans shaven face, 30d of the dionity which the full board kuparted no less to middle fife than to age «Harpers Woekls, & Zz = Industrial Problems and American Self-Reliance resident Theodore Roosevelt. ta Wyss nig Aa SPEem of rule or condust giver, which shal} # Yee hing al interests in the Gulise pial Sarid whic i cay #3 much individual ritation aad ering af the present day, abd which at thoes threstens eful conseiuenoes to ire portions of the body politic. Bug the importsoee of the poiblétn cannot be overestimated, and % Lit deserves to yevive the esreful thought of all men such as those whom 1 am addressing tonight. There should be 2e yielding | to wroms: bot there should mest certainly be not only desire to do righty but a willingness each to try to understand the viewpoint of his fellow, with whom, for weal or for woe, his ewn fortunes amv Indissaiubly bound. No patent remedy cnn be devised for the solution of thexe grave problems fn the imdusirial world, but wae muy rest assured that they can be solved at all only If we bring to Ue solution certain old time vivtues, aid If we strive to keep out of the soluiion sorse of the most familiar and most undesirable of the traits to which tsankind has awed united! degradation and suffering throughout | the agus ATTGgUnee, suspleisn, brutal wavy of the well to do, brutal indifference towinrd those wlio are not Ww oll to dy. the hard refusal to consider the rights of cithers, the foolish relus 1 fe cagsider the mits of Deaeficent action, the base appeal to the spirit of seliish preed, whether it take the form of plunder of the fortunate or of oppress on = the unfortunate from these and from all kindred vices this Nation must be kept free 1 It {3 to remaln in its present position in the forefront of the peoples of mankind. On the other band, good will come, even out of the present evils, if we face them anned with the old homely virtues if we sbow that we are feariess of soul coal of bead and kindly of heart; if, without betraying the weakness that cringes before wrongdoing, we yet show by words and deeds our knowledge that in such a Goversmoest as ours each of us must be in vey truth his broths o's keeper. : Atm time when the growing complexity of our social and Industrial life hae rendered tnevitable the intrusion of the State Int sphervs of work wherein It formerly tock mi part, and when there is also a growing tendency to demand the legitimate and unwise tranfser to the Govertment of much of the work that shoul! be dome by private persons, singly or associated together tis @ pleasure to address a body whose members possess to an eminent degree the traditional American self-reliance of spirit which makes them scorn to from the Government, whether of State or of Nation, anything but a fal end no favor-who confide not In belug helped by others, but in their own energy aud business capacity to achieve success, The first requisite of a oi zen in this Republic of ours 18 that be shall be able and willing to pull bis welght--that be shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share Wn he work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, We belleve that the trend of the modern spirit is ever stronger peace, Dot war: toward friendship, not hostility, as the normal international a tude. We are glad Indeed that we are on good terms with all the other peoples i of mankind, ent po ¢fMort on var part shalt be spared to secure a con of these relations. And, remember, gentietnen, that we shall be a potent factor ™ for peace largely in proportion to the way In which we make It evident that eur attitude 18 due, not to weakness, not to inability to defend ourselves, but : : pe repugnance to wrungdoeing, a genuine desire for self-respecting friendship with our neighbors. The voice of the weakling or the craven counts Hi 8 When he ciamore fur peatn. but the Yeice OF Uie fat man armed
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