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JUMPER
Br DONALD CHAMBERL1N
Horace Muusfield. attorney-at-law.
was ooo nlgbt preparing for bed when
he received a message summoning him
to police headquarters to a client who
was waiting for him to advise and as
sist him In obtaining bail. Mansfield
went to the police office, where be found
a man about twenty-five years old and
apparently a gentleman. Lawyer and
client were permitted to talk together
apart from the others, and the client
said:
"My name—that given at the desk
Is Lambert, William Lambert. I am
charged with entering a gentleman's
residence for the purpose of stealing.
Being caught in the act. 1 was arrest
ed. I desire that you secure my liberty
on the smallest possible amount of
ball. It must be not more than 13.000.
for that is all 1 can raise."
"But surely," replied tbe lawyer,
"you are not guilty of tbe charge?"
"Whether I am or not. If the case
comes to trial I shall plead guilty."
Mansfield looked at his client In sur
prise. He would have as soon believed
himself guilty of pilfering as tbe young
man before him.
"Any defense would do in your case,"
be said. "No Juror would believe you
to be a thief. What is tbe value of tbe
articles you are accused of stealing?"
"A bracelet a brooch and a lady's
watch. I doubt If they are worth al
together $100. I shall not make a de
fense."
"How would you like me to get you
off on a technicality?"
"Tour services in any such line will
not be required. I shall forfeit my
bail"
"Forfeit your ball!"
"Tbat is my intention."
Mansfield succeeded In getting the
bail bond made $2,000. and bis client
produced the funds himself. Then lie
paid his attorney's fee and went forth
a free man. 'When called for trial be
did not appear, and his bail was
feited.
for­
An elderly gentleman appear­
ed to testify against him, and Mans
field. who was present as the accused's
counsel, asked him something about
the case. The only Information be re
ceived was tbat tbe thief had effected
an entrance to the old gentleman's
dwelling by climbing a lattice near a
second story bedroom window. Tbe
gentleman said be was not surprised
tbat tbe ball had been forfeited, for
the thief was evidently well connected,
and the money for his ball bad doubt
less been furnished by his family.
Ten years passed. One day Horace
Mansfield was at work in his office
when a middle aged man entered and
asked for a private interview. When
the two were alone together the man
said:
"You don't remember me."
"1 confess tbat I cannot place you.
though there is something about you
that leads me to think I have seen yon
before."
"Do you recall a client of yours
named William Lambert, who jumped
bis ball?"
"I do."
"1 am tbat man. but my name Is not
Lambert I am abont to be married
and before the ceremony Is performed
I wish to know If there are any records
Identifying me with Lambert that can
be eradicated."
Tbe lawyer Informed the gentleman
there was nothing worth removing. If
recognized as Lambert he might be
arrested and tried, but ten years had
so changed bltn tbat he would, likely
not be recognized.
"There Is now," replied the stranger,
"no one living to appear against me."
"In that case yon run no risk what
ever."
"I am to marry a widow who has In
herited some property from ber late
busband. There are some papers to be
drawn before the wedding, and I should
like to have you draw tbem. Can you
conveniently call at ber bouse?"
"1 can."
The gentleman threw a card on a ta
ble bearing the name of Mrs. Elizabeth
Tracy with ber address.
The next day Mansfield went to tbe
addrrsx given and was received by a
lady under thirty yearn of age and
beautiful. Having executed the papers
he was about to withdraw wben Mrs
Tracy said to him:
"Both myself and my fiance deem it
best tbat .vou should receive an ex
planation of what must seem to yon to
be a mystery. Wben 1 was nineteen 1
left bome on a visit While away 1
met tbe man 1 am to piarry tomorrow.
An attachment sprang up between us,
•nd he begged me to engage himself
to me.
"I bad been brought np from a child
to understand tbat when I married my
husband must be wealthy. I told Ed
gar-Edgar 8tanfleld Is his name—that
knew my father would not consent
to my marriage with him and lis must
give me np. He seemed very much
broken down by this, and after my re
tain 1 feared that he wonld do some
thing rash: A match bad already been
mads for me with Mr Tracy, who was
then more than forty yean old. Edgar
came to this city the nlgbt before I
was married nd. In the hope of per
suading me to elope with him. climbed
a lattice under my window and ob
tained access to my room. My tether
came to tbe room while be was there
1 slipped Into an adjoining room, and
Edgar, to save me from tbe conse
quences of bis rash act silted certain
articles of jewelry from my dressing
case. You kaow tbe rest-"
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Arabs and Oirl
Sables.
It is a sad day in an Arab home
when a girl Is born. The musicians
who have come to the house with their
drums, their shepherd's pipes and all
their strange musical instruments
burst into wild wailing if tbe door Is
seen to open slowly and a head abake
silently and sadly and then withdraw
behind tbe closed door. All tbe rare
food which has been prepared in tbe
hopes that the new arrival is a boy is
put away and the wailing guests turn
ed from the house. For why, they say.
should one feast and have music when
another superfluous woman has been
brought Into tbe world? Though hu
man nature is what it is, the little
girl is not wholly unloved. She Is
given some pretty name, such as, trans
lated, would be "star," or "dawn," or
"pretty." or "pleasant" When a boy
is born tbe rejoicing, on the contrary,
is hilarious in tbe extreme. Welcomes
are chanted by stringed Instruments,
the praises of the family are sung, and
a forecast of the great deeds to be done
by the son are recited.—Exchange.
In a Quandry.
In a foothill California district there
is a man who runs a small ferry across
one of tbe rivers, charging twenty-five
cents for one transportation of a single
team and forty cents for a double one.
One afternoon In tbe early days of
automobiling a city man drove up to
tbe ferry in a touring car and at
tempted to go on to tbe boat but was
held up by the captain, who told him
to wait Finally, after tbe boat had
crossed the river two or three times,
the motorist began to get impatient
"Can't take ye over yet" answered the
captain in response to the motorist's
demands. "Yer the fust one o' tbem
things tbat ever crossed here, an' I
don't know what ter charge ye.
"Don't know what to charge me?"
"Nope: I've sized ye up fore and aft
an' I'm durned if I know wbetber to
charge ye as a single rig or a double
team."—Argonaut
Chinese Locks.
The earliest locks known to man
were of Chinese make. Although it
is Impossible to tell tbe exact date of
those still extant they are wonderful
ly well made and as strong as any
manufactured In Europe to tbe middle
of the eighteenth century. The Chi
nese locksmith of today uses exactly
tbe same kind of tools that his fore
fathers had, for they are very simple
and primitive. He carries all his im
pedimenta in two cabinets, sitting on
one and woHclng at the other. When
be has finished all the work available
in one neighborhood he fastens the two
cabinets to a bamboo rod and slings
it over bis shoulder. He tramps
through the towns burdened in this
way and stops wben be Is called, much
as a scissors grinder or umbrella
mender does In our country.—Wide
World Magazine.
Ordinary Ventilation.
Authorities compute that each adult
person in a room requires at least
thirty cubic feet of fresb air per min
ute to maintain a fair standard of
purity hence tbe air changes required
per hour primarily depend upon tbe
number of workmen in tbe sbop. to
gether with Its cubical contents. If
the rooms are large and the workmen
few the necessary air changes per
hour are lessened, so tbat this figure
depends for its determination upon
local conditions. J. Byers Holbrook
allows "One change of air per hour
for the average type of city building,"
Increasing this allowance for corridors
and first floors. Other engineers desig
nate variously from a fraction of one
change to as high as three changes per
hour for different sets of conditions.—
D. M. Myers in Engineering Magazine.
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$eer«ss.
Grant Duff! in bis diary tell# a curi
ous story of a "seeress." Mile. Lenor
mand was consulted by Robespierre
and Napoleon 1. Grant Duff's father
had a strange experience with Mile.
Lenormand. He and a friend went to
consult her, and after she bad told him
what be wanted to know she tried
with tbe friend, but became confused,
said ber beart failed ber and begged
him to leave the house. He persuad
ed ber to try again, and again tbe
same result followed. Then, declaring
that this bad never happened to her
before, she lost ail patience and im
plored him to leave Instantly. He did
so and as be passed out of ber door
was knocked down and killed by- a
heavy wagon.
Forks.
Neither the Greeks nor the Romans
possessed forks. It was, according to
tbat curious book of travels, "Coryafs
Crudities," published in 1611, left to
Italy to Invent them, because, as tbe
author quaintly observes, "the Italian
cannot by any means endure to have
his dish touched with hands, seeing
that all men's fingers are not. alike
clean."
A Serious Conclusion.
"Is your daughter still taking music
lessons?"
"No," replied Mr. Growcher. "After
bearing ber sing and play lately I have
concluded that she' doesn't need
teacher any mora What she wants is
a censor."—Washington Star. 15S::
His Consolation.
"Very fine, that tax on capital—tbe
income tax!"
"What Is tlist to you?"
To me? It consoles me for not be
ing rich."—Paris Illustration.
'x.
Society Note.
The ambition of some men is to live
long enough to hear of a bride who is
sot "prominently known in tbe young
er social net.'*—Cleveland Lesder.
A Mind
Reading Craze
By MARTHA V. MONROE
A
mind reader bad come to town and
bad given some ustonlsblng public ex
hibitions. But this had not the effect
on tbe beau raonde of an exhibition be
gave at tbe house of Mrs. MacGruder,
one of society's leaders. This private
entertainment made him fashionable,
and eyery young man who had shaken
his brains down Into his heels at cotil
lion parties and every young girl
whose aristocratic manners and con
served beauty bad given ber tbe right
to look down on ber sisters who had
the brains to take down tbe dictation
of a scientific constructor or a mer
chant prince was talking about mind
reading.
Pete Barnical and Lucy Witrldge
were sitting together, she on a sofa,
he in a chair opposite ber. He was
holding a skein of yarn on his bands
which sbe was winding into a ball.
"I have heard," said Miss Witrldge.
"tbat Mrs. Powelton Is very much dis
pleased that Mrs. MacGruder got ahead
of her by giving tbat mind reading
exhibition at her house. You see, all
society is talking about it. Of course
it is greatly to Mrs. MacGruder's cred
it to have introduced tbe matter."
"Did the mind reader find out who
bad the most mind?"'
"1 don't think that was bis object
He told what people were thinking
about"
"What were they thinking about?"
"What a question! It wasn't that
which was wonderful it was that he
could tell without knowing what they
were thinking about"
"How could be tell what he didn't
know?"
Sbe lifted ber big brown liquid eyes
from a tangle In the yarn sbe was
straightening out to his with a kind
of puzzled wonder.
"I didn't mean to say," sbe replied
wben she bad given ber brain time to
work out an answer, "tbat be could tell
what a person was thinking about
without knowing it but be didn't know
it until—until"—
"He found it out," supplied Pete.
"Xo, not tbat either. The remarka
ble feature of his performance was the
way he found it out."
"How did he do it?"
"How did he do it? Why, he did it
by"— Sbe was stalled again.
"Perhaps he didn't know himself."
"That's it He said he didn't know
how be did it."
"What did he do?"
"He took Billy Perkins' hand and.
blindfolded, led Billy to what he was
thinking about. Then Mr. Horton
wrote something on a piece of paper,
folded it put it in an envelope, put tbe
envelope in a book, put tbe book on
tbe top of the library, and then the"—
"Where did be put tbe library?"
"The library! He didn't put that
anywhere It was there already."
"Well, then what happened?"
"The mind reader told what was
written on the paper, though be bad
been blindfolded all tbe time."
"That's nothing remarkable. I'll bet
1 can tell what you're thinking about
this minute."
"I don't believe you can do any such
thing."
"Try me. Think of something, and
I'll tell you what It is."
"Very well I've thought of some
thing."
"A pumpkin."
There was contempt In her expres
sion as she looked at him and replied
that she wasn't thinking of any such
thing. t
"Yes. you ,were. You were thinking
of Tom Baxter. You couldn't think of
Tom Baxter without thinking of Tom
Baxter's bead. Tom Baxter's head is
a pumpkin!"
"How ridiculous!" But sbe did not
smile. Indeed, sbe made tbe exclama
tion because sbe didn't quite grasp tbe
logical conclusion.
"I'll tell you what you do." he pro
ceeded, not giving her time to think it
all out. "You fix your mind on some
thing and I'll lead you to it."
Sbe spent some time selecting an ob
ject, then told him she was ready. He
took ber hand and led her to the piano.
"I didn't think of tbat at all," sbe
said.
"I'll try again," be said, still holding
her hand, and he led ber to a clock on
tbe mantel.
"Wrong again."
He led ber to a tete-a-tete In the cen
ter of the room. Sbe didn't say wheth
er be was right or not, nor did he ask
her. They sank into their respective
seats on the tete-a-tete. He still held
ber hand.
"I can tell you wbat you are think
ing about," he said.
"What?"
"Tom Baxter."
"I'm not"
"Me."
Sbe did not reply to this. She lower
ed ber eyes.
"And I can tell you," be went on.
"wbat you think I'm thinking about."
"What?"
"You're thinking that I'm thinking
that I—that I love you."
There was a great deal more of this
fntellectusl conversation, but at this
point It became what the world has
beard very often, though It Is a ques
tion If it tires persons. The mind read
er bad at least given a young man a
reasonable excuse to propose.
But wby he went so far out ot his
way to tell a simple truth tbat sbe
wanted to bear only persons endowed
with sentiment know, and they can't
tell.
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