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upon a lonely island, would you he
happy?"
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to he afraid when we went out stroll
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A scum—l confess I was surprised to
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were a ccnlirmed old bachelor.
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myself now.
Ascum—Well?
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in whose name 1 could put my proper
ty.—Philadelphia Press.
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of-
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i; TWO |
jj LUNATICS I
;; .... By P. Y. BLACK i
< ► Copyright, 1002,
1 ' By the S. S. McClurc Company #
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"It was a shameful trap," he said,
"on the part of my people. The doctors
were very careless in their diagnosis.
To shut me up in n place like this was
really too bad. In a very short time,
however, I expect ,o leave."
"Oh, dear," she thought, her eyes
dimming, "they all say that! To think
that the poor man will never, never,
never leave. "I am so glad—for you,"
she said aloud. "You will be over
joyed."
"Oh, I—yes. But do you know tins
sanitarium is not so had."
"I)o you mean," site said gently, sur
prised, "tliut you will—er—have any re
grets In leaving?"
"No," he said, "not exactly that, of
course—not regrets, so far as concerns
myself, for it is so humiliating to be
committed, you know." He paused.
"But," he went on, "even In asylums
one makes friends, nud—one regrets—
for them."
lie looked down with n tenderness
and n pity he could not hide, and she
blushed, and for a moment there was
silence. Then Bhe said, with an ob
viously strained laugh:
"We are friends, of course, Mr. St.
John. What an awful existence it
would he here if one had no sympa
thetic friends! But you must not regret
so much on my account. In a very
short time I think my friends will take
me home."
lie choked a groan before she could
hear it.
"The poor little thing!" he thought.
"They all say that. And that decent
young fellow, the doctor, assures me
her case is very puzzling and her
friends fear Incurable. 1 am so glad
for you," he said. "Would it not be
jolly if we became friends in the world
as we have been when out of the
world ?"
Then he blamed himself ugain.
"If she really likes me," he thought,
"and I think the unhappy child does, I
should never had said that. It is cruel,
brutal, to put such thoughts In her
head."
She was looking at him with the
tearful smile we essay when we en
courage one who does not realize that
deatli is near.
"It would be nice—very nice indeed."
They were silent again, each sorrow
ing for the other.
There were many other patients
strolling on the lawns or sitting in the
summer houses, patients of all kinds,
from the shaky narcomaniac to the op
tlmlstically cheerful paretic. Attend
ants, male and female, moved unobtru
sively among them.
Miss Tracy and St. John stood to
gether, silent now and unostentatiously
observant. A sturdily built (all the at
tendants were that) man was taking a
patient to the iron barred house. He
did not do it violently. He did it as one
may see a policeman occasionally es
cort a quiet prisoner with a light touch
oil the captive's arm above the elbow.
The patient was a little excited, but
there .was no dlsturbunce at all. A vis
itor might never have noticed it. The
strange tiling was the unanimous back
ward withdrawal from the attendant's
path of the patients eneountered, the
look of fright or dislike on their faces
directed not at the captive, but at the
guard.
"How they all dread him—instinctive
ly, it seems," said the young woman
who "expected to leave soon." "He Is
polite enough and not ill looking,
but"—
"A man of great experience in his
peculiar work, I'm told," said St. John
musingly.
"It's his eye and mouth that do it, I
fancy."
"A thoroughly ill dlspositioned man,
with a plausible exterior," said St.
John. "I believe him capable of it."
"Of murder? Do-oh, what are you
talking of, Mr. St. John?"
St. John looked very uncomfortable.
Miss Tracy looked vexedly embar
rassed.
"I heard some rumor of a strnnge
death in the institution just before I
came. I was thinking of it. Were you
here? Have you heard anything of
it?"
Ho was a little eager.
"How could I he here? We came on
the same day, don't you remember?"
"Ah, true!"
So they watched the attendant out of
sight und turned to go Inside them
selves.
They shook hands, although there
was no reason for it. They would meet
at the dinner table in a few minutes,
hut—they shook hands and that lin
geringly.
"It's awfully sad," St. John ponder
ed. "So sweet a face, seemingly so in
telligent. I wish—oh, pshaw! What's
the use of wishing? These things are
not to lie remedied. I wonder if—she'd
give me a photograph."
Miss Tracy went to her room slowly.
"I am silly to be so affected by an
ordinary case. There are thousands
like him. But—oh, dear, oh, dear! If
I'd known I was to have this sad ex
perience, I would never have consented
to come—never!"
They hi d no opportunity to meet
alone for several days. Perhaps they
might have made opportunities, but
they did not. Doubtless it occurred to
each of these two lunatics that it was
the wiser thing to stifle at once any
friendship which each thought likely
to cause useless pain in the future to
the other.
Dr. Bel! fdund these two of his resi
dents particularly interesting in those
duys, and so did the attendant. It was
strange that tliey both bo markedly pre
ferred the company of the sanitarium
people to thut of their fellow unfortu
nates. The young house doctor thought
Miss Tracy charming nnd never was
abrupt with her when she sought hitu
In his office, us lie was compelled to be
for self protection with some who
wanted to see him half a dozen times a
dny.
"Very puzzling case," he mused.
"Now, why does she dwell so on that
recent death? It seems to excite bet
too. That's morbidity, I'm afraid; bad
sign."
The doctor liked St. John too. St.
John's friends acted very nicely in
sending him new books and boxes of
cigars. The books were well chosen;
the cigars were unexceptionable.
"Like all these paretics," he pondered,
"in the first stages you would not think
there was anything much wroug with
the man, but it is a little singular that
he should be so interested in that un
lucky death also."
As for the attendants, Miss Tracy
had flowers and little things and could
teach the women quite a number of
new fads in liairdresslng nnd so forth.
For the men St. John's cigar box and
full pocketbook sufficed to make them
extremely courteous. The man with the
wicked eyes and mouth benefited most,
however. It was wonderful what a lot
of little things he could do for Jllss
Tracy. It was strange that St. John
should And anything in the man to talk
about with common interest.
Just once the two lunatics met. It
was just before bedtime in the music
room. lie had sung to her accompani
ment. When she rose to say good
night, he almost whispered to her:
"I expect to go to New York tomor
row."
"I am so glad for your sake," she
said.
"And—and you—you have made my
stay almost tolerable. Is there nothing
you will allow me to do for you?"
"Oh," she answered, with sprightli
ness, "I shall not be long In going my
self."
"Poor, poor little dear," he said to his
pillow, "it breaks me all up to think
of her staying here Incurable."
Miss Tracy packed her trunk, and
tears dropped on silk and linen indif
ferently.
"Oh," she murmured, "I do so wish
I had never come here. I can never,
never forget the sad, gentle way he
used to look at me."
There was lively work next after
noon in the building of The Gazette. A
young man sat at a desk apart In the
reporters' room, and he scribbled and
be scribbled. By and by the managing
editor came in nnd looked over the
busy writer's shoulder and told him
that he had only an hour to fluish up
In. Then the great presses began to
clatter, and In a little while the first
editiqn of The Gazette was ready for
the street, with an enormous black
scare head on the front page.
And in the office of The Morning
Jury there was also a very lively bus
tling, and there, at a retired desk, a
young woman sat, and she scribbled
and she scribbled, and lute at night the
presses began to rumble, and in a lit
tle while the flrst edition of The Jury
was ready for the street, with an enor
mous black scare bend on the front
page.
Tlie Gazette and The Jury were with
in a few minutes of each other In get
ting out. A copy of each paper was
hustled Into the office of the other, for
rival editors watch each other's work
with catlike intentness. And the Ga
zette office read with dismay that the
great asylum mystery had been solved
by the Indefatigable efforts of a Jury
reporter, while The Jury night staff
tore its editorial hair over the flaring
boast of The Gazette that its "special
commissioner" had given to a waiting
world the flrst and only enlightenment
of the famous crime. There had been
no time for one paper to lift tlie news
from tlie other, llow had the expected
scoop been spoiled?
Tumultuous was the wrath in the
two offices. Miss Tracy was explain
ing to her managing editor, with tears
in her eyes, that she could not under
stand ut all, at all, how The Gazette
had got hold of it. In The Gazette of
flce Mr. St. John stormed and swore
and said that for the life of him he
could not understand how The Jury
had got almost tlie same story.
"Good heavens!" shouted St. John
suddenly, and he dashed out to The
Jury office. There he found a friend,
with whom he conferred. The two
lunatics were introduced to each other
and a minute or two afterward were
alone together.
They laughed a great deal at the
idea of two reporters on the same
strange assignment never suspecting
eacli other, but their laugh was not
very loud. The tender pity for each
other of yesterday was still in mind.
"The attendant is arrested," said St.
John. "You did not get it quite right.
The patient he poisoned when nursing
him was an old enemy. It was not
done through trouble arising between
them in the sanitarium."
"Oh, bother!" she said. "It doesn't
matter. We've done our appointed
work. Let's talk of something more
pleasant."
So they did, and when ho was about
to go away he said:
"You said once we might be friends
in the world as well as out of tlie
world. Will we be friends, dear Miss
Tracy?"
She looked at him so smilingly, yet
so tremblingly, that he put his arm
around her.
"Will you be more than friend, dar
ling?" ho whispered.
"Yes," she sold, and it was quite five
minutes after, when some one's feet
wore heard approaching, that she
jumped away and held up a warning
finger.
"If your friend came In, he'd think
us mad," said she.
"Two lunatics!" he answered, laugh
ing, as the door opened.
TPINANCIAL STATEMENT of Foster Town-
X 1 ship Hchool District for the year cndiiiK
June 2, 19U2.
Abe Lout/,, Tax Collector.
11)00 Duplicate.
Dr.
To bulunce 8 23 48
Cr.
By check to John O'Neill 823 48 23 48
1901 School Duplicate.
Dr.
Total amount of duplicate 8 6,488 28
Less errors 20 08
Total to be accounted for 8 6,468 20
Cr.
Paid treasurer first sixty
days 8 3,229 51
Rebate 5 per cent of $3,468.86
first sixty days 173 44
Coin mission 2 percent, of $3,-
29.j.42 tlrst sixty days 65 91 3,468 86
Abatements 96 18
Land returns sl6 57
Exonerations 678 88
Filing bond and ledger 75 1,112 38
Paid treasurer 1,792 61
Commission 5 per cent on
$1,886.96 94 35 1,886 96
Total 8 6,468 20
1901 Building Duplicate.
Dr.
Total amount of duplicate $ 4,752 28
Less errors 15 74
Total to be accounted for $ 4,736 54
Cr.
Paid treasurer first sixty
days $ 3,203 44
Rebate 5 per cent of $3,440.86
first sixty days 172 64
Commission 2 percent of $3,-
208.82 first sixty days 65 38 3,440 86
Abatements 96 18
Land returns 332 57
Exonerations 196 88
Filing bond and ledger 75 626 38
Paid treasurer 635 83
Commission 5 per ecnt on
8669.30 33 47 069 30
Total $ 4,736 54
John O'Neill, Treasurer.
DA
To amount received from all sources:
Edward Doudt, ex-treasurer $ 5 78
Abe Lentz, tax collector 8,884 87
S'ute appropriation 5,893 84
rnseated lands 69 80
Election rent 5 00
Total $14,859 29
Cr.
By disbursements as follows:
Unpaid orders of Edward
Doudt $ 514 80
Teachers' wages 10,028 25
Attending county institute. 260 00
Night schools 365 00
Fuel nnd contingencies 572 94
Rooks 1,161 29
Supplies 463 54
Ruildingand furnishings.... 76 20
Repairs 395 78
('leaning 262 15
Salary of secretary 250 00
Treasurer's commission 290 55
Other expenses 183 17 14,859 73
Balance due treasurer 44
Liabilities.
Orders outstanding arid un
paid $ 162 50
Due John O'Neill, treasurer. 44
$ 162 91
We, the undersigned auditors of Foster
township, being duly sworn according to law.
do hereby certify that the foregoing state
ment of the financial condition of Foster
Township School District Is just and correct,
to the best of our knowledge and belief.
John Davis, )
Owen Moyer, - Auditors.
E. W. Tuttle,)
June 16,1002.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR
Tle First Victim.
"Hollo, Jinks! \yiiy, I haven't seen
you for several weeks. How's your
health ?"
"Poorly. Every little thlngthong
seems to affect me lately. Well, at any
rate you are looking like a kingkong."
"Feeling that way, except for a slight
touch of spring fever."
"Yes; sprlngsprong always affects me
too; makes my head ringroug."
"What in thunder is the matter with
you, old man, the way you've got to
talking?"
"Nothing thong!" said Jinks, making
a swinging movement of his arm
through empty air as his friend backed
away in amazement nnd alarm.
"I hear that you have become a great
devotee to the fashionable fad of table
tennis."
"Yes," lie said wildly. "I like to have
my llingflong and enjoy the banjo sing
song of the game of pingpong at every
racket's swingswong while the cellu
loid sphere Is on the wingwong. I know
that game's the thingthong"—
Gently the keepers from the asylum
led him away to his padded cell, the
first victim of the omnipresent game of
pingpong.—Baltimore Herald.
A London In Ilorllonlturo.
Four-year-old Nellie was with lior fa
ther oue day while he was hoeing po
tatoes.
There were turnips on the other side
of the garden, which, of course, never
needed any lioeiug, and Nellie very
earnestly asked:
"Papa, how do the turnips grow?"
"God makes them grow, ray child,"
he answered.
"Well, that's funny," said Nellie. "I
never saw him In here hoeing tlicul."—
Little Chronicle.
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Cholly—Yoas, Miss Cutter, that girl
once made a fool of me.
Miss Cutter—Oh, is that the way it
happened?
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