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EYES.
"She hath two eyes so soft and brown,"
For tender thought and glances true.
Commend me to the eyes of blue,
For heaven's wide of sweet surprise,
Blue eyes! blue eyes!
For roguish snap and sharp attack
Commend me to the eyes of black,
For fiercest love where madness lies.
Black eyes! black eyes!
For grit to stand by what they say.
Commend me to the eyes of gray.
Their steadfast beam all change defies,
Gray eyes! gray eyes!
For eyes that smile, and eyes that frown.
Commend me to the eyes of brown.
The best of each their goods comprise
Devotion true within them lies.
All rapture sweet beneath the skies.
Brown eyes! brown eyes!
—Elizabeth Chalmers Martin.
I A NOVEL COURTSHIP
T was three days before Christmas.
So much In love was Van Story
that, as he walked up the avenue,
this fact did not have the same empha
sis that It might have hud under differ
ent circumstances.
The cool.buoyant air—with a certain
crlspnesa about It that the ocean al
lows even to the metropolis on occa
sluunl winter afternoons — might have
been hot aud sultry and the fact would
not have muttered to Van Story.
To a man In love, summer and win
ter, spring and autumn, lose Ibelr va
riety. Her last look—the radiant, re
sponsive smile—the slight pressure of
the hand—a hidden language of the
voice—wlmt are seasons, wars, politics,
earthquakes, or any other paltry hu
man Interests, compared with these?
And yet there was a certain season
ableness In Van Story's thoughts as he
walked deliberately along—deliberate
ly, and not with the Impatience that
love manifests usually, because he
knew that on this particular afternoon
Miss Pluktuu was not alone.
"Is she ever alone?" he had thought
to himself gloomily, when he had start
ed out. "I can't talk to her on a walk
with people all around, staring at us,
and this is about tbe only chance 1
have. Oh. for half a day of last slim
mer! Thirty minutes In that pavilion
would he all I ask for. But what shall
1 give her for Chrlstmaa? Flowers and
books are tame, and yet anything more
I
While he was engaged In Ids reflec
tions, he suddenly came across his old
chum Castleton, who was. by the way,
Mias Plnkton's cousin.
"Ah. old man, whither away? But
I think I can guess-" said that dap
per Individual, looking him over half
critically. "Well. Dorothy Is nt home,
and surrounded by all sorts and condi
tions of men. I've Just come from
there. And, by the way, you're want
ed."
"Wanted where?—at Miss Pink
ton's?" said Van Story—as If he didn't
know.
"Sure." said Castleton. "There's go
ing to be a church trimming to-morrow
night, and Dorothy has agreed to take
charge of It. She wants you to help
—she told me to tell you If l saw you."
"Who else Is going to be there?"
Castleton took his friend by the arm.
md for a moment they both turned and
looked over the solid Iron palings down
on the snow-garnished little grass plot
In trout of the brown stoae dwelling
bouse as If, for one Instant, they had
mutually agreed to turn their backs uu
the world.
"Old man," he said affectionately,
"I've been thinking about you all the
way from Dorothy's, aud hoping 1
should meet you. I suppose If you
really could sec Dorothy nlouc for an
hour or so. you'd like It. wouldn't
you ?"
Van Story looked at his friend sol
enmly.
You know how I feel about that
girl, of course," he said, "but this
beastly towu always Mauds In my
way."
"I know It. I've been In the same
boat myself—simply can't see her
alone. People all around—at the thea
ter, In restaurants, and at home broth
ers and parent* and others are always
dropping In. Oh, I've been there. But
Dorothy's worth having. Dorothy's
all right 1 take a personal Interest,
you know, because I've known you
both so long, and It Just occurred to
me that this church-trimming affair
might give yon an opening."
"I don't see how." replied Van Story.
"There'll be a lot of church fellows
there, will there not? The superinten
dent of tbe Sunday school, and tbe
teacher of the young men's Bible class,
aud so on."
"Well, you can get her off In a cor
ner, can't you—or get rid of the rest of
them In some way? Tell them It's
postponed—there's your chance, old
man, Christmas comes but once a year
—make the most of It."
Van Story turned and grasped his
friend's band.
"There may be something In It, old
chap." he said. "At any rate, I thank
you. And now I must be off."
Van Story, when he arrived at the
Plnkton mansion, wns agreeably sur
prised tn find that the crowd bad di
minished—there had been an after
noon ten, and this was tbe tall eud
of It.
''It was very good of you to come,
even If you are late." she said. "You
don't do this sort of thing very often,
do you?"
"Not any oftener"—Van Story was
going to add, "than I can help," but
■topped himself for an Instant. Then
he thought it better to be strictly hon
est and so be added—"than I can help.
1 hate this sort of thing," he contin
ued, looking her frankly In her blue
eyea, "because, you know, It's so un
satisfactory."
"Sir!" she pouted back, "do you
mean to say that my tea U unsatisfac
tory ?"
He nodded.
"For me, I mean," he added. He
lowered bis voice, although this was
hardly necessary, as three women on
their right—the left-overs—were dis
cussing the opera. "I shall never be
able to see you alone," he said.
"What makes you think that?"
"Well, haven't 1 been trying to for
weeks?"
She smiled.
"If at first you don't succeed, try, fry
again. By the way. will you help us
trim the church to-morrow night?"
"That's manual labor."
"I know It. and that's what 1 want
you for. If you don't like teas, you
surely will enjoy trimming a church.
That will gkve you something to do. 1
know you are strong, because you used
to play football, and besides, you look
strong."
"Ho I—really?
man."
She pouted again.
"Now, I Intended that for a compli
ment, and It was horrid of you to turn
It the other way. But you will come,
will you not? You know the church—
the large old-fashioned brick that sets
off the avenue. The sexton will have
the ladder, and the greens have all
been ordered."
Van Story smiled at her enthusiasm.
"Who's going to be there?" he asked.
"Bet me see. They've placed me in
charge of the affair, you know, be
cause I really felt I ought to do some
thing this year, and there will be four
others to help—the superintendent, Mr.
Plimpton; the Infants' Bible class
teacher, Mr. Huddle; the assistant or
ganist, Mr. Wringer, and Vestryman
Springer—that makes six In all, doesn't
It—counting us In?"
Van Story arose.
'That's four too many," he said, as
he held her hand. "Don't you think
so ?"
So does a hired
She flushed slightly.
"Yes," she said softly. "But—you'll
be there, won't you? Surely?"
"I'll be there," he replied. "To
morrow night at eight."
As he walked back down the avenue
Van Story almost shouted to himself In
the exuberance of Ids new thought.
Here at last was his opportunity, after
so much walling—after the long days
spent In hoping against hope that the
next time he might stand face to face
with this beautiful girl and tell her
how much he loved her—here, nt last,
was Ids chance. He hastily repeated
over the names of the church-trimming
party that he might not folget them.
He would go to the sexton, find their
addresses, and the rest wns easy.
That Individual was nt Ida home,
reading the afternoon paper, which he
put down apologetically us Van Story
entered.
"1 nm from Miss Plnkton. about
trimming the church to-morrow night.
Have the greens been ordered ?"
"Yes. sir; they will he delivered to
morrow."
"And the church will be open?"
"Ves, sir, I will open the side chancel
door at seven-thirty."
"Good.
And now will you he so
kind as to give me the names and nd
and Important engagement of the head
of the Trimming Committee 1 am re
quested by Miss Plnkton to say that
the trimming of the church, which was
to have taken place to-morrow night,
Is postponed. You will, therefore,
please not attend to-morrow night, but
come on the night following. Yours
dresses of Mr. Pumpton, Mr. Huddle,
Mr. Wringer and Mr. Springer?"
The sexton called them out from his
record book, and Van Story, armed
with the precious paper, hurried off to
the nearest hotel typewriter.
"I want this dictated on plain pa
per," he said to that Imperturbable
young lady, and be gave the following
brief business note:
"Dear Sir—Owing to an unexpected
truly,
"1 want that letter to be sent to each
of these four addresses." he said, "at
once;" and as he hurried over to his
Jeweler he exclaimed gleefully to him
self. "At last!"
The next evening they walked over
to the church together.
"We must be early," she said, as she
sat down on tbe steps leading up to
the altar. The pulpit tall and grim
and stately, towered above her shapely
head almost like a benediction. Far
above them, the lights In the chande
lier gleamed fitfully.
W. A. VAN STORY."
Surely, could there be a better place
to love and be loved than tn the sacred
sanctuary, set within the beating heart
of the sordid world and yet so far re
moved from it? And as she looked up
at him, Instinctively she felt that In
such a place bis words must ring trne,
and that she might trust him.
took her hand.
"Dorothy," he said, "I couldn't have
told you bow much 1 loved you before.
1 wanted your answer all to myself.
Somehow the sea of city life seemed to
shut out tbe sound of my voice. I
longed for a quiet country lane, or the
great silent ocean. But I could not
wait And here at last we are safe."
Us put bis arm around her. "Do you
love me?" he said.
He
Her Lead dropped silently down on
h'.s shoulder. And then followed that
blissful moment, a moment that stands
cut In one's life forever after—the mo
ment of life when love's dream Is re
alized, and to these two It was as if |
the chorus of unseen saints was chant
ing their happiness Snddenly she -,1s
ed her head. There was a mlachlev
ou. »winkle In her eyes.
••You have forgotten something.''
— «W.
"No. I haven't," he replied triumph
nntly. misunderstanding her, "1 have It
here." He produced a tiny object that
glittered In the dim light and sent out
tiny shafts of lambent fire.
Christmas present," he said,
days ahead, none but less real,
didn't know what to give you. until I
thought of this."
He slipped It on her finger.
'Your
"Two
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"It Is beautiful," she said at last.
There was a moment of silence. In
terrupted by a sound like the chirping
of Joyful birds. Then she spoke again,
"When 1 said you had forgotten
somethlng," she said, the twinkle com
lug back to her eyes, "I wasn't think
Ing of this." She held up the ring ad- '
ralringly. "I was thinking of the oth
ers—why, they may be here any min-1
Van Story caught her hand In hts
(
"You see.
1 Just
1 sent word to nil the
others—wrote them each a note, you
know, that this thing whs postponed
until to-morrow night, on account of
an Important engagement. You dhlu't
It was rtie truth,
"beautiful."
nie."
once more.
"No," he said smilingly,
dear. II was my only chance,
had to do It.
wasn't It? I wanted to he alone with
you. It was our only chance,
you see It was?"
She dropped her hands hy her side
suddenly. The color left her face and
then came back again.
"You did that?" she said. "How
mind, did you?
Don't
Oh, why
could you? How dreadful!
did you do It? What can I ever say
to them? You wrote and told them not
to come to-nlflht—did you do that?"
He caught her hands again In his.
Above, the stately old church bells In
the spire chanted out the hour.
"Yes, dearest." he said. "I did It.
and I'm glad of It. Nothing can ever
make me sorry. I wrote l lie whole
bunch of 'em not to come."
She raised her half-mournful, half
merry eyes to his.
"So did I." she said.—Waterier.
8ny« It !• Practiced Almost Kxclu
•iveljr by Men end Mule*.
Deceit often undermines the fabric
of the home, aud it also sometimes
disconnects a man from a good horse
and leaves a Jaded, wind-broken,
stump auoklng steed In Its stead.
Deceit Is practiced almost exclusive
ly by men and mules. Men are ex
tremely deceitful, and occasionally a
a
sleepy, docile attitude for months and
months for the blessed privilege of
kicking Its driver Into the next town
The 'possum Is very deceitful except
when parboiled, baked down aud sur
rounded by sweet potatoes.
People sny that a girl says no when
she means yes, but married men have
not found It that way.
MISSOURI EDITOR ON DECEIT.
woman Is found who Is handy at pull
ing the Angora goat hair over the
eyea, while a mule «'111 maintain
ship.
Some men are so deceitful that they
lie to their wives, lie to their off-^|
spring, He to the editor. He to the
preacher, and eveu He to the candi
date after they have the hog faced dol
lar in the apertures of their trousers.
There are men In Missouri who are
so deceitful that they try to deceive
themselves. They reason that a dull
headnche aud the dark-brown taste la
simply a pleasant specimen of Innocent
enjoyment. Such men. If they are ever
fortunate enough to get In hailing dis
Unoe of the pearly gates, will try to
palm themselves off ns class leaders.
If there 1« anything that brings more
woe and misery Into the world than de
ccptlon, Noah \\ ebster has overlooked
It lu his unabridged. Vet we go right
along deceiving our wives, our neigh
bors and their wives, ourselves and our
posterity, aud If It wns possible we
would palm off a deception on the God
Who made us nml will save us. If we
can drop mir Infernal deception.
Deception Is the rat trap that
catches the entire human family and
then turns right around and puts a
nice piece of fresh cheese on the trig
ger In an effort to catch the man who
made the trap.
Beware of the base deceiver, and be
eareful that you don't stumble and
fall over yourself,—Nevada (Mo.) Post
Sklmpton—1 said to my wife. Just
before Christmas, and Insisted upon
' lug holiday presents one should choose
the useful Instead of tbe merely orna
mental,
too.
garded above the elmply beautiful or
pleasing.
Blmpton—Sound doctrine, I'm sure.
W bat He Got.
It. that It was my belief that In select
Blmpton—A commendable belief,
Sklmpton—That utility should be re
Sklmpton—That In gift-making one
should consider future as well as pres
ent needs.
Blmpton—I don't see how anything
could be truer.
Sklmpton—But I've changed
mind,
Blmpton—What!
Sklmpton—Changed my mind. Re
canted. Taken It all back.
Blmpton—Incredible! Some strong
reason there must have been. then, for
such a change!
Sklmpton—There was. My wife
made me a present of a snow shovel
and a lawn mower.—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
my
The Doctor Took It.
"My!" exclaimed the doctor; "you've
hardly any pulse to-day!"
"Well, don't you remember, doctor."
replied the patient, you took It when
^m^wer^Itere yesterday?"
Few Filipinos Speak Spanish.
Not more than 10 per cent of the In
habitants of tbe Philippines can speak
any Spanish.
Tbe cold truth Is that while a visit
lug girl may have had occasion to keep
an engagement book, no boms girl
ever had so many thing« going on that
the couldn't keep them In bar head.
The velocity of the wind at ths
height of one mile above the earth Is
four ümeg ag gntt „ at tb , gurfac *.
$5000 000 to-day Is
as related m the aggregate
" V, ,* înl., .
m" worîh mÄ ?h 1^0 '
1
It 1. not generally known that the
rr«« ^
babj seals are actually afraid of the
water they would drown It thrown
into 1 . ««<1 have to learn to swim by
repeated effort»^ W hen once they
have beeo taught to swim, however.
they soon forget to walk.
The largest room In the world, un
der one roof and unbroken by pillars.
Is at St. Petersburg. It Is 020 feet
long and 160 feet In breadth. By day.
light It Is used for military displays,
and a whole battalion can completely
maneuver In It. By night twenty thou
"and wax tapers give » a beautiful
appearance. The roof Is a single arch
' of Iron.
There have been thirty-three Speak
ers of the national House of Represent
atives. Eleven of them became Unit
ed States Senators and one of them,
( James K. Polk, of Tennessee, Presl
dent of the United Stab 1 «. The posl
tlon has been filled by only one mer
chant, one physician, one preacher,
three editors, while twenty-four of
them have been lawyers,
their fathers.
Koreans wear full mourning for
The dress is of hemp
cloth, with hempen girdle. A face
„meid )g „ged t0 show that the
retained for thr
three months,
wearer
|g a sinner and must not speak to any
one unless addressed The costume Is
years, the shield for
This Is worn for a
father only; secondary mourning Is
worn for a mother, and no mourning
at all for a wife. The hat la of wicker.
Most animals are afraid of fire and
will fly from It lu terror. To others
there Is a fascination about a flame,
and they will walk Into It even though
tortured by the heat. A horse In a
burning stable goes mad with fear,
but a dog Is as cool in a fire as at any
time. He keeps his nose down to th*
floor, whore the air is purest, and sets
himself calmly to finding his way out.
Cals tn fires howl piteously. They
hide their faces from the light and
crouch In corners. When their rescuer
lifts them they are, as a rule, quite
docile and subdued, never biting or
scratching. Birds seem to be hypno
tlzed by fire and keep perfectly still)
even the loquacious parrot In a fire
has nothing to say. Cows, like dogs,
do not show alarm. They are easy to
load forth, and often find their way
out themselves.
Wurnlng Tanned by the General
Office at Washington.
Every summer and autumn large
areas of public and private forests are
devastated by lire. This destruction Is
a universal Injury. It not only de
stroys a valuable asset In the list of
the country's resources, but Is pro
ductlve of floods. The forest Is the
most effective means of preventing
flow of water for irrigation and other
useful purposes,
FOREST FIRES.
I
I.aiul
floods and producing a more regular
To prevent the mischievous forest
fires Congress has enacted a law which
I
forbids setting fire to the woods, and
forbids leaving fires (camp fires and
others) without flrst extinguishing the
|
0 f $5,000. or Imprisonment tor two
years, or both. If the fire Is set mall
clously, and a flue of $1,000, or Imprls
same.
The law provides a maximum flue
oument for one year. If the fire Is due
to carelessness. It also provides that
the money from these fines goes to the
school funds of the county in which
the offense Is committed,
|
geueral land office has Issued clrcu
i arSi warning the public against oare
leanness, Inasmuch as many fires start
from neglected camp fires, and makes
|
Commissioner W. A. Richards of the
the following requests:
X. Do not build a larger fire than
you need.
2. Do not build your fires In dense
masses of pine leaves, duff and other
combustible material, where the fire Is
sure to spread.
5. Do not build your fire against
large logs, especially rotten logs, where
It requires much more work and time
to put the fire out than you are willing
to expend, and where you are rarely
quite certain that the fire Is really aud
completely extinguished.
4. In windy weather and In danger
ous places dig a tire hole and clear off
a place to secure your fire. You will
save wood aud trouble.
6. Every camp fire should be com
pletely put out before leaving the
camp.
6. Do not build fires to clear off land
and for other similar purposes without
Informing the nearest ranger or tbt
supervisor, so that he may assist you.
As hunters, fisher* and campers will
soon haunt the woods aud streams. It
Is hoped that newspapers everywhere
will circulate this warning and Infor
matlon.
No Sentiment About II
Some one heard that De Wolf Hop
per sported a hair ring. From being
dainty gold circlet with a tiny lock.
It grew to a wide band with large
twisted strands. There was consider
able excitement about it.
Finally a friend said to him:
"Say, haven't lost any of your im
mediate family?" pointing to a ring
on the actor's band.
"Not that I know of. Why?"
"Well, It's whispered on the Rialto
that you wear hair In your ring, and
I thought you might carry a curl
around with you for sentiment."
"Oh, no," Hopper looked sadly at
his friend's bead, covered with base
I
ba u ba i r
"The hair In that ring came
from the front side of my own head
and years ago, and I keep It so
that 1 may have some to stand on .*nd
durin 8 örst n'ghts, as of old."
German Soldiers as Swimmers.
All German soldiers must learn to
rwlm. Some of them are to expert
that, with their clothing on their heads
>ud carrying gnus and ammunition,
they can swim streams several bun
dred yards wklo.
OLD CALIFORNIA NO MORE.
Orest Chante Bas Taken Place on the
Panifie Coast of Late Yaa
That was an Interesting—nay, epoch
marking—Item of news burled Id t re
cent treasury department budget, to
wit, that heavy and unprecedented
gb i pmenta of copper cenU baTe
made to San Francisco and other
Pacific coast cities These shipments,
coming as they do on the heels of a
""lulr^ucJ l^o conïeL by 1
California member of the coinage of
£ ré at the San FraréC mint
liTv. but «S" Pythie an ^
to tl , a . flu laI . u ,. M of De .
haa £y V lrév wh S X («Ü
™"" r F Tevê. re-le t o '
J ^ e. re 1
">" a ' B,elUB an y coln am«"«» "'an o
Au lrmjlHtlbl)> force for conformity
Is I roiling out the peculiarities which
one time pleasingly differential«! re
gious and people*. Everywhere, eveu
In the remote Islands of the sea, women
sre wearing hats and dresses fashioned
according to Parisian models; the tall
hat and the frock coat encircle the
globe; mankind, except where China
has successfully fenced out progress,
eats alike, drinks alike, thinks alike;
Journey around the earth and you will
find no port where you cannot use
your golf sticks, no retreat where the
prevailing mode has no. penetrated, no
land which has not been touched by
the hand of uniformity. A new com
mandment has been given to the sons
of Adam and It is that all men shall
approximate to pealike similarity and
« , , , .
repose In ordered rows In the same
kind of pods.
California, which started out with
the theory that there should be no
money of account smaller than the
"two-bit" piece, persisted therein dur
ing the brave days of the argonauts,
but gruglngly granted admission to the
nickel and viewed this was the limit
of concession. For more than a gen
eratlon It stood Its ground nobly ami
barred the intrusive penny with con
certed opposition. With what fine
sarcasm did Californians ask, "What's
that?" when tourists ventured to lay
a copper coin on a counter. "We make
only even change," was the answer
when alien thrift, even when It bought
a postage stamp, sought to give or
received Its copper due. It passed Into
a tradition that It was disloyalty but
little above anarchy to recognize the
existence of the coin which bears the
visage and carries the color of the
Indian.
But the tides of change have beaten
on California and Its resistance bus
crumbled under the Insidious advances.
The women, It appears, have betrayed
the state. When the department store
came their virtue was not proof against
the allurement of placards such ns
"This size for $2.09." The disintegration
of the once robust custom once begun.
It soon crumbled, with the unhappy re
sult noted above, that all the coast
Is now clamoring for copper, while the
pronent day Sun Franciscan demands
his penny change with all the energy
of a New Yorker who splits a nickel
to buy a penny paper.—New York
Commercial Advertiser.
ARMOR OF THE ANCIENTS.
How the Karly Soldier* Protected
Themselves in War.
In the earlier ages armor was used
to protect the person of the wearer
from the attact of the enemy, says a
writer In the New Orleans Tlmes-Uem
ocrat. The English «ord for It was
harness: but we must look to the sa
cred writings for the first memorials
of armor, where we find the shield,
the helmet and the breastplate used
by the Israelites. Goliath of Gath wore
greaves to defend his legs. ArchlUes
the shield. The golden armor of
Glaucus was said to be worth UK) oxen.
The Homans wore the helmet, shield,
lorica and greaves. The lorlca was
heavy. Us weight was made a subject
of complaint. It was frequently en
riched with embossed figures, ou the
breast with a gorgon's bead by way
of armlet, ou the shoulder plates with
scrolls of thunderbolts, and on the
leather border which covered the tops
of the pendant flaps with lion's heads.
The knights began with the feet and
clothed upward: namely, sahatynes
or steel clogs; the greaves, or shin
pieces; the cuisses, or thigh pieces; the
breech of mall; the tulllettes, or over
lapping pieces below the waist; the
breastplate, or cuirass; the vambraces,
or urlere-bras, the covering for the re
maining part of the arm to the
shoulder; the gauntlets; then the dag
ger was bung; the short sword; the
cloak or coat, which was worn over the
armor; the braclnet; the long sword;
the pcnnoncel, held In the left hand;
Uie shield. From these facts a generc.l
notion will be gathered of the kind ol
body armor used among tho ancient
nations.
He Hud to Kadlate Money.
Mr. Mucbmoun, his wife and three
daughters were staying at the Mostex
I'enslve Hotel, In the Adlrondacks. As
a means of entertaining the guests th*
manager of the hotel engaged a lec
turer. who gave a demonstration of
the latest researches In scientific fields.
After one of bis lectures mamma and
the girls were telling papa all about It.
He had not been able to attend, owing
to an Imperative demand for his pres
ence and advice and assistance In open
ing a series of Jackpots tn a little room
on the third floor.
"It was Just lovely, papa!" said th*
youngest daughter.
"So educational, too!" averred the
second daughter.
"And so helpful to the mind!"
chimed In the eldest daughter.
"It certainly was of benefit to ail
present," said mamma.
"What did he tell about?" asked
papa, who was not In n happy mood,
haring on different occasions overesti
mated the possibilities of the draw;
also underestimated his opponent's
bands.
"About radium." explained mamma
"What Is radium? Some new dress
goods or a breakfast food?"
"No; It's a new substance which con
stantly gl»o* off parts of Itself and
still never diminishes In size or qnan
tlty."
"Hnh! That fellow must have been
trying to tell you women what you:
Idea of my pocket book la."—Judge.
Some females are relegated to th
spinster class becausg of their cute
ties*.
It
a
at
so
to
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^„Demons. which holds within its rocky
• romanes as thrilling and a
***** »' "«I a. sny told In fiction.
Aboot 1640 Marguerite de Roberval,
<* French viceroy, fell In lot.
wlth a young caralier and promised
beart «»d hand. Her uncle,
tu. ;,c.r«y.considered the youth un
worthy of his niece's proud position.
aild auBer *d * her refus«, to give
U P her he passed a sentence of
exile upon both of them. A vessel car
ried th> coup „ to thg , gl# of D#moug
the " them alone, with an old
nur " who llad attended th. lady Mar
perlte from her childhood, and who
wished to share her exile.
TWO YEARS IN SOLITUDE.
Off the coast of Newfoundland lies
a small Island known ss the Isle of
/
( At flrst th * banishment did not seem
"o dreadful a thing; ths young man's
I length stood between hi. wlf. and
1 •««•*!■». and for two years all went
A * hl 'd was born, and the pa
r * D,a h, «" n ,0 Pi«« for the establish
mant of a colony which might thrivs
ln ,h,a """>d horns. Then earns trou
ble * ■ wlft ,n d terrible.
^'.easr *««ote the little family, and
wlf. end mother ssw her
husband, child and faithful nurse all
and die. With her own hands
dug their grave, and burled all
that wa * J e«r to her; and then began
a lif e alone, a life In which the mere
(lllPHt ion of PxIrIpiipr lifica mo n nrnh
>l ue sGou or existence became a prob
lem hard Indeed for s frail woman to
*° lT8 - By means of the gun that hart
been her husband'A she kept herself
provided with food and with skins for
her clothing.
For two years she lived a Robinson
| f ru *°* p f*. this gently nurtured, high
br *d girl. Once a boat filled with
I Indians came near the shore, but the
\
Painted faces and fierce aspect of the
savages frightened her, so that she hid
Instead of hailing them. Bhe spent
weeks of labor In making a crude ca
noe, but her hands were unskilled,
and when she launched her craft It
would only Up over.
At last she was rescued hy tome
fishermen who ventured on the Island,
half-frightened at first by what they
Uiought was an evil apparition.
Marguerite was scut to France, but
her uncle discovered her whereabouts
aud continued to persecute her.
finally found a refuge In a
French village, where she hid until the
viceroy's death. After that she came
Into the world once more and lived to
a good old age.
proceedings
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small
DIVORCE MILL IN CANADA.
Publicity of th* Prorcedluc* I« a Omar
amt*« Again*! Axiy Fr«ad,
Th* dlverc* mill decs not grind Its
grist so rapidly or *o easily In Canada
»• It do*s In th* Unit*! Slat**. There
sr* no star chamber
wherein th* details m«y b* smothered;
on tho contrary, from th* flrat to the
laat th*r* 1* abaoluto publicity of all
th* matters which lead to tho applied
tlon for dlvorc*. The notice of th« ap
plicant must ba published for six
months In two newspapers In the ter
ritory wherein the defendant resides,
which notice must give the name of
tho applicant and the defendant aud
tho ground upon which the application
Is based, and a like notice must lie
printed In tho Canadian official news
paper.
paper.
Tho matter does not then go tn a
rourt, for no Canadian court has the
power to annul a man-algo tie. It
goo* to tho Dominion Parliament.
The Parliament ha* t committee
known as Ih* divorce commute*, and
to this committee th* matter It re
ferred, and before Its nine member*
all th* facte In relation to the case
sr* brought. Thl* committee baa no
set rule* and th* matter of precedent
doe* not control It* actions It may
admit such evidence at It tees fit. and
may exclude such as. In Its Judgment,
ought not to be admitted.
Before the matter Is referred to this
committee, however, It must undergo
a flrst reading In the Senate, where th
salient facts In the case are set forth.
Then It goes to the committee, and
from the committee It Is returned to
the Senate. The Senate reviews the
action of the committee, and that body
passes on It In committee of the whole.
If th* action of the committee be con
firmed by the Senate, the bill 1s then
referred to the lower house of Parlla
rnent, which reviews both action of
the Senate and the divorce committee
—New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat.
Mia* 'Liz'beth'e Apple.
Homely and pretty ts a aketch fron
the Washington Post. It will tnk<
many people back to the day* of hi
red apples and little red schoolhouses
A tidy little silver-haired lady It.
black was riding toward Georgetown
In the front scat of an open car. A
handsome, blooming matron of 35 o
so, carrying a basket stuffed with gooi
things from the market boarded tin
car aud took a teat directly behim
her.
The handsome matron studied th
back of the little white haired lady
head for some time, and then move,
along to get side view of her face. Thl
apparently satisfied her, for she hega'
to fumble In her basket—smiling In i
remlnlsceutlal way, and finall;
brought out a One big red apple, whirl
ths polished for half a minute wit)
her silk gloves. Then she leaned foi
ward and danced the red apple in fron
of the little old lady's eye*.
"An apple for you. Miss 'Llz'beth!
tbs said, laughingly.
The little old white-haired lad.
turned about with a smile, looked fn
an Instant at the features of the hand
some matron, and then held up he
bands and exclaimed;
"Well, well. If It Isn't my little Vli
glnla!"
"Little Virginia" nodded her hea<
up and down delightfully. "Aud tin
last time I gave you an apple. Mis
'Llz'beth, was in school in 1877."
"So It was!"
The old school teacher and little Vit
glnla smiled at each other, and Ihre,
prosperous grizzled men who wen
watching them smiled, too, and thei
fell to talking about tbe way tlm
does slip away.
Nothing worries some men like th
expected troubles that never happen
iN ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR
_. . . . , .
"* r f*d Characterise of the great
was hu l,lt0n *f »l>»o'Ttlon In
at any time happened to In.
*»•« hlm aud this reaulted In an ab
""'J* h1 " lDto ^
Ä>rts °* difficulties. Perhaps the moat
noteworthy of these roncerns Momm
and onty speech In the B*ch.
staB -
When he went to hie seat he was ee*
from, the University of Berlin,
" bl <* he then held the chair of hU
tory, to the Parliament Building by a
assemblage of student*. Th* «tu
thronged the galleries. prepared
to «>'<-' then- beloved professor a great
demonstration when he had finished hi*
Two Amsslog Stories of Mommsen,
German?*» Great Historian.
Some good stories are beCng totfi *t
bite Theodor Mommsen, the fa
mous German historian. One of the
lua " n speec .
Aft *r Mommsen had taken his seat
^ wae observed to fumble In hie pock
draw out a paper Hint nil sup
^ «as the speech In question. N «
»"«f ^ ** "one this than Bismarck,
® Iron Ch " ,, ' -e ' lor ' ar °** to ad,lr f* a
,he bouae ' «te slightest attention
... , . . .
s '* he
^ f ° r he WR * U,,USU '
. b
"'h"
1 "'f "«• ^ and '
{"l*," 1 f *' ried ln "
a . . , , ,,
Stop, Slop, Stop. W llflt ÖOP8 tllflt
- * ... ... ,
^u^nt mean by talking all this time.
jîl * ^ '* 1
s h fl U call the attendant,
Tte «Potion of the grand old
mans' outbreuk Was soon apparent to
a11 ' 1116 paper hc wns e*mmlnln« was
one concerning his duties as a professor
and he thought he was still at the uni
did Mommsen pay to Bismarck, He sat
tt ^ Thmi „e
' erslt y- 1 llepe «as a great outburst of
laughter, In which Bismarck joined
most heartily.
never be Induced to enter the Parl'.a
But Uoituoan could
meut Building again.
I In 1890 Mommsen was arrested and
locked up for hours by the Berlin police.
I He got Into this difficulty through an
I Invitation lie received to attend a re
ception given by the present Emperor
William. On the night of the recep
tion the street that leads to the castle
was closed to all save the guests of the
Emperor, all of whom, with the ex
ception of Mommsen, arrived tn car
riages.
The famous historian, whose man
ner of living exemplified his democratic
principles, rode Into Berlin from Char
lottenburg on a car. Upon alighting
from the car, Mommsen pressed his
way through the throng. In a few
ihlnutes he came to the police line and
without hesitation started to pass on.
He was promptly seized by a police
man and pusht d back. It was too much
for the old man's temper. Taking the
book that he carried, hc boat a tattoo
«'1th It on the policeman's head.
"You Ignorant Russian!" exclaimed
tlio historian, using the term of ex
treme contempt among Prussians;
"you Ignorant Russian, what do you
moan by seizing old Mommson! I'm
old Mommsen, I tell you—Mommsen,
Mommsen, Mommsen!"
The policeman, dodging the further
play of the book, looked at the old
man's battered soft hat and seedy
overcoat and decided he was a crank.
Two hours later the Emperor received
word that his missing guest was In the
lockup.
MARLBOROUGH'S NEW HOUSE.
Duke'* London Mansion Soon ta II*
Completed,
Blandford House, the new residence
In Curzou street, lyondon, of the duke
and duchess of Marlborough, bids fair
to be the most magnificently decorated
and «(nipped munsiou lu Loudon, says
a London paper. The builders are to
be out of It soon, but their places will
be taken by a party of French deco
rators, whose task It Is to HU the
fifty rooms (this Is exclusive of ser
vants' quarters, storerooms, etc.) with
magnificent carving on panels and
wainscots and with sculpture work.
The house contains five floors, of
which all but the top one ore of par
quet, and the great staircase Is of
carved polished oak. with a beating
coll running up Its center. The duke
and duchess' private apartments are
to have panels and wainscots carved
of dark oak, coming In cases from
France, with solid silver fittings, but
the wood carvings In the splendid
dining rooms are of oak grown In Nor
folk. The honse Is lighted through*
out with electricity, supplied by two
compaules, and the hundred windows
are each fitted with thick plate glass
and with a French patent for prevent
ing draft. Every bedroom has Its bath
room and the latter are fitted with
glass half way up the walls to prevent
damage from splashing. The duchess'
dressroom on the fourth floor contains
eight cedar wood wardrobes and the
same number of cupboards, and It will
Interest readers to know that little
Lord Blandford'* bedroom and that for
his nurse Is on tbe same floor as tbe
duchess' boudoir, which, by the way,
Is In gray and white, with a green
frieze. But one might flit pages with
descriptions of this beautiful house,
whose combined magnificence and com
fort when completed will show to what
perfection twentieth century tasta
and workmanship have attained.
Ratant Terrible.
Family Doctor—1 hope, my dear
lady, that yon are all better for your
long holiday and thorough change of
air."
The Patient—It has done me all tbe
good In th* world, my dear doctor. I
am a different being; In fact, quite an
other woman I
Sharp Child—Oh, mamma!
pleased papa will ba when he hears of
thla!—Punch.
How
What He Need«).
A scum—Doctor. I beard you tell
Mr. Layze to take a ride In bis auto
mobile for an hour each day.
Dr. Shrude—Yes.
Ascum—Do you really think the rid
ing will do him any good?
Dr.'Shrude—Certainly not; but the
three or four bourt of work repairing
the thing that he's bound to have will
help him.—Philadelphia Press.
Bank Note Paper Is Strong.
So strong Is the Bank of England
note paper that a single sheet will lift
I weight of 100 pound*.