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THE FIGHT.
8ynopsis.—With his grandfather,
small Ramsey Milholland Is watch
ing the “Decoration Day Parade”
In the home town. The old gentle
man, a veteran of the Civil war,
endeavors to impress the young
ster with the significance of the
grea% conflict, and many years aft
erward the boy was to remember
his words with startling vividness.
In the schoolroom, a few years
afterward, Ramsey Is not distin
guished for remarkable ability,
though his pronounced dislikes are
arithmetic, "Recitations” and1 Ger
man. In sharp contrast to Ram
sey’s backwardness is the precocity
of little Dora Yocum, a young lady
whom in his bitterness he denomi
nates “Teacher's Pet.”
CHAPTER 111.—Continued.
—3—
' Here was a serious affront, at least
to Ramsey Mllholland’s way of think
ing; for Ramsey, also now proved
sensitive. He quitted his friends—
“Shut up!”—and advanced toward
"Wesley. “You look here! Who you
callin’ ’pups’?’’
“Everybody 1” Wesley hotly re
turned. “Everybody chat goes around
mentioning ladies' names on the pub
lic streets are pups 1”
“They are, are they?” Ramsey as
hotly demanded. “Well, you just look
here a minute; my own father men
tions my mother’s name on the public
streets whenever he wants to, and y :
just try callin’ my father a pup, and
yon won’t know what happened to
you!”
“What’ll you do about It?”
“I’ll put a new head on yon,” said
Ramsey. “That’s what I’ll do, because
anybody that calls my father or moth
er a pup—"
“Oh, shut up1 I wasn’t talkin’ about
your ole father and mother. I said
everybody that mentioned Dora Yo
cum’s name on the public streets was
a pup, and I mean It! Everybody that
mentions Dora Yocum’s name on the
pub—”
“Dora Yocum!” said Ramsey. “I got
a perfect right to say it anywhere I
want jo. Dora Yocum, Dora Yocum,
Dora Yocum !-t’’
aii rignt then, youre a pup!
Ramsey charged upon him and re
ceived a suffocating blow full in the
> face, not from Mr. Bender’s fist but
from the solid bundle of books at the
‘ end of the strap. Ramsey saw eight
or ten objectives Instantly: there were
Wesley Benders standing full length in
the air on top of other Wesiey Ben
ders. and more Wesley Benders zig
zagged out sidewise from still other
Wesiey Benders; nevertheless, he
found one of these and it proved to be
flesh. He engaged it wildly at fisti
cuffs ; pounded it upon the countenance
and drove it away. Then he sat down
upon the curbstone and, with his dizzy
eyes shut, leaned forward for the bet
ter accommodation of his ensanguined
nose.
Wesley had retreated to the other
side of tlie street, holding a grimy
handkerchief to the midmost parts of
his pallid face. “There, you ole d—n
pup!” he shouted, in a voice which
* threatened a sob. “I guess that’ll
teach you to be careful how you men
tion Dora Yocum’s name on the public
streets!”
At this, Ramsey made a motion as
If to rise and pursue, whereupon Wes
ley fled, wailing back over his shoulder
ns he ran, “You wait till I ketch you
out alone on tiu public streets at :
I’ll-—”
His voice was lost in an outburst of
booting from his former friends, who
sympathetically surrounded the
wounded Ramsey. But in a measure,
at least, the chivalrous fugitive had
won his point. He was routed and
ontdone, yet what survived the day
was a rumor, which became a sort of
tenuous legend among those Interest
ed. There had been a fight over Dora
Yocum, it appeared, and Ramsey Mll
holland had attempted to maintain
something derogatory to the’ lady,
V^while Wesley defended her as a
'Rightly youth should.
dry, supported Ramsey on account
_Jat the way he had persisted in lickin’
r the stuffin' out of Wesley Bender after
receiving that preliminary wallop from
Wesl .’’s blackjack bundle of books.
The girls petted and championed Wes
ley; they talked outrageously of h:s
conqueror; fiercely declaring that he
ought to be arrested; and for weeks
they maintained 9 new manner toward
>' \ ;■ * l '
him. They kept their facial expres
sions hostile, but perhaps this was
more for one another's benefit than
for Ramsey’s* and several of them
went so far out of their way to find
even private opportunities for reprov
ing him that an alert observer might
have suspected them to have been less
Indignant than they seemed—but not
Ramsey. He thought they all bated
him, and said he was glad of It.
Dora was a non-partisan. The little
prig was so diligent at her books she
gave never the slightest sign of com
prehending that there had been a fight
about her. Having no real cognizance
of Messrs. Bender and Mllholiand ex
cept as impediments to the advance of
learning, she did nof even look demure.
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CHAP-££R'1V.
With Wesley t^pder, Ramsey' was
again upon fair terms Before the win
ter had run Its course; the two were
neighbors and, moreover, were drawn
together by a community of Interests
which made their reconciliation a ne
cessity. Ramsey played the guitar and
Wesley played the mandolin.
All ill feeling between them died
with the first duet of spring, yet the
tinkling they made had no charm to
soothe the savage breast of Ramsey
whenever the Teacher's Pet came Into
his thoughts. He day-dreamed a thou
sand ways of putting her in her place,
but was unable to carry out any of
them, and had but a cobwebby satis
“For Heaven’s Sakes,” Heinie Kruse
meyer Demanded, “Can't You 8hut
Up?”
faction in Imagining discomfitures for
her which remained imaginary. “Just
once!” he said to Fred Mitchell. “That’s
all I ask, just once. Just gimme one
chance to show that girl what she
really Is. I guess If I ever get the
chance she’ll find out what's the mat
ter with her, for once In her life, any
way.” Thus It came to be talked about
and understood and expected in Ram
sey’s circle, all male, that Dora Yo
cum’s day was coming. “You’lr see!”
said Ramsey. “The time'll come when
that ole girl’ll wish she'd moved out o’
this town before she ever got appointed
monitor of our class! Just you wait 1”
They waited, but conditions appeared
to remain- unfavorable indefinitely.
Perhaps the great opportunity might
have arrived If Ramsey had been able
to achieve a startling importance in
any of the “various divergent yet
parallel lines of school endeavor”—one
of the phrases by means or which
teachers and principal clogged the
minds of their unarmed auditors. But
though he was far from being the
dumb driven beast of misfortune that
he seemed in the schoolroom, and, In
fact, lived a double life, exhibiting in
his out-of-school hours a remarkable
example of “secondary personality”—
a creature fearing nothing and capable
of laughter; blue eyed, fairly robust,
and anything but dumb—he was never
theless without endowment or attain
ment great enough to get him distinc
tion. ; V >
He “tried for” the high-school
eleven, and “tried for” the nine, but
the experts were not long in elimi
nating him from either of these com
petitions, and he had to content him
self with -cheering Instead of getting
cheered. He was by no manner of
means athletic, or enough of anything
else, to put Dora Yocum in her place,
and so he and the great opportunity
were still waiting In May, at the end
of the second year of high school,
when the class, now the “10 A,” revert
ed to an old fashion and decided to
entertain itself with a woodland pic
nic.
They gathered upon the sandy banks
of a creek In the blue shade of big,
patchy-barbed sycamores, with a danc
ing sky on top of everything and gold
dust atwinkle over the water. Hither
the napkin-covered baskets were
brought from the wagons and assem
bled In the shade, where they ap
peared as an attractive little meadow
of white napery, and gave both sur
prise and pleasure to communities of
ants and to other original settlers of
the neighborhood.
From this nucleus or headquarters
of the picnic, various expeditions set
forth up and down the creek and
through the woods that bordered It
Two envied boy fishermen established
themselves upon a bank up-stream,
with hooks and lines thoughtfully
brought with them, and poles which
they fashioned from young saplings.
They took mussels from the shallows,
for bait, and having gone to all this
trouble, declined to share with friends
less energetic and provident the per
quisites and pleasures secured to
themselves.
Aiuen ruxion was one person
who proved his enterprise. Having vis
ited the spot some days before, he had
hired for his exclusive use throughout
the duration of the picnic an old row
boat belonging to a shanty squatter;
it was the only rowboat within a mile
or two and Albert had his own uses
for it. Albert was the class lover and,
after first taking the three chaperon
teachers “out for a row,” an excursion
concluded in about ten minutes, he dis
embarked them; Sadie Clews stepped
into the boat, a pocket camera in one
hand, a tennis racket in the other; and
the two spent the rest of the day, ex
cept for the luncheon Interval, solemn
ly drifting along the banks or ground
ed on a shoal. Now and then Albert
would row a few strokes, and at al
most any time when ■ the populated
shpre glanced toward them, Sadie
would be seen photographing Albert,
or Albert would be seen photograph
ing Sadie, but the tennis racket re
mained an enigma. They were six
teen, and had been “engaged” more
than two years.
On, the borders of the little meadow
of baskets there had'been deposited
two black shapes, which remained un
disturbed throughout the day, a closed
guitar case and a closed mandolin
case, no doubt containing each Its
proper instrument. So far as any use
of these went they seemed to be of the
same leisure class to which Sadie’s
tennis racket belonged, for when one
of the teachers suggested music, the
musicians proved shy. Wesley Ben
der said they hadn’t learned to play
anything much and, besides, he had a
couple o’ broken strings he didn’t know
ns be could fix up; and Bamsey said
he guessed it seemed kind o’ too hot to
play much. Joining friends, they or
ganized a contest in marksmanship,
the target being a floating can which
they assailed with pebbles; and after
that they “skipped” flat stones upon
the surface of the water, then went to
join a group gathered about Willis
Parker and Helnle Krusemeyer.
No fish had been caught, a lack of
luck crossly attributed by the fisher
men to the noise made by constant ad
vice on the part of their attendant
gallery. Messrs. Mllholland, Bender,
and the other rock throwers came up
shouting, and were 111 received.
“For heaven’s sakes,” Helnle Kruse
meyer demanded, “can’t you shut up?
Here we Just first got the girls to keep
their mouths shut a minute and I al
most had a big pickerel or something
on my hook, and here you got to up
and yell so he chases himself away !
Why can’t nobody show a little sense
sometimes when they’d ought to? A
fish Isn’t goin’ to bite when he can’t
even hear himself think 1 Anybody
ought to know that much.”
But the new arrivals hooted. “Fish I”
Ramsey vociferated. ‘Til bet a hun
dred dollars there hasn’t been even a
’ mlnny In this creek for the last sixty
vears!”
"There Is, too!” said Helnte, bitter
ly. “But I wouldn't be surprised there
wouldn’t be no longer If you got to
keep up this noise. If you’d shut up
just a minute you could see yourself
there’s fish here.”
Barasey leaned forth over the edge
of the overhanging bank, a dirt preci
pice five feet above the water, and
peered into the indeterminable depths
below. The pool had been stirred,
partly by the Inexpert pokings of the
fishermen and partly by small clods
and bits of dirt dislodged from above
by the feet of the audience. * The wa
ter, consequently, was but brownly
translucent and revealed Its secrets re
luctantly ; nevertheless certain dim lit
tle shapes bad been observed to move
within it, and were still there. Ram
sey failed to see them at first.
“Where’s any ole fish?” he Inquired,
scornfully.
“Look 1” whispered the girl who
stood nearest to Ramsey. She point
ed. “There’s one. Right down there
by Willis’ hook. Don’t you see him?”
Ramsey was Impressed enough to
whisper. “Is there? I don’t see him.
I can’t—”
The girl came closer to him and, the
better to show him, leaned out over
the edge of the bank and, for safety In
maintaining her balance, rested her
left hand upon his shoulder whirr she
pointed with her right Thereupon
something happened to Ramsey. This
touch upon his shoulder was almost
nothing, and he had never taken the
slightest Interest In MlUa Rust (to
whom that small warm hand belonged),
though she was the class beauty, and
long established In the ofiBce. Now, all
at once, a peculiar and heretofore en
tirely unfamiliar sensation suddenly
became important In the upper part of
ids chest. For a moment he held his
breath, an Involuntary action—he
seemed to be standing In a shower cf
flowers.
“Don’t you see it Ramsey?” Mlllr.
whispered. “It’s a great big one.
Why, It must be as long as—as your
shoe 1 Look 1”
Ramsey saw nothing but the thick
round curl on Millu’s shoulder. That
curl was shot with dazzling fibers of
sunshine. He seemed to be trembling.
1
11 The old resentment rose—
he'd 'show' that girl yet, some
day."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
OLD LEGENDS OF THE ESKIMOS
Really Poetical Beliefs Held by Primi
tive People Concerning the
Sun and Moon.
There are many legeads of the moon.
Almost every ancient people has Its
moon story, but that of the Eskimo*
is particularly interesting and poeti
cal. It tells how, long ago, before there
were a sun and a moon in the heavens,
a brother and sister lived alone In an
Igloo. One day the brother grievously
Ill-treated his beautiful sister, who
became so enraged that, picking up
a flaming brand, she chased him out
*of the igloo and Into the sky. And
ever since then she has been chasing
him. She is the sun and he the moon.
Since the first astrologer foretold
the future, and the first gypsy warned
of a “dark stranger,” the full moon
at the birth of a female child has been
supposed to portend an unfortunate
career. Upon those male children born
at the full of the moon a healthy,
vigorous body and longevity were be
stowed. Children of both sexes, born
on the wane of the moon or- on the
Increase, would assuredly die young,
or if they did outlive expectations it
would be because they were guilty
of some great crime.
Early Astronomical Instruments.
The earliest known astronomical in
struments of German make have re
cently been described by Dr. J. Hart
man of Gottingen. They belonged to
the philosopher and astronomer. Cardi
nal Nikolaus of Cusa, who lived from
1401 to 1404, and comprised a “tor
queium,” for measuring the longitude
and latitude of the celestial bodies, au
astrolabe and two celestial globes.
A note has been found in the cardi
nal’s own handwriting, stating that he
purchased three of these instruments
in the year 1444, together with 16 as
tronomical treatises, for the sum of 38
florins. Doctor Hartman believes that
at least two of the instruments were
made by one Nikolaus Hybech of Er
furt, who was born In 1370.
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’The glngko tree, which is a native
of China, long ago ceased to exist as
a “wild” tree. But it has been cul
tivated in many countries, and is
hardy and persistent wherever it is
planted in the temperate zone. The
gingko is one of the few species that
have been saved from extinction by
man as an offset to the many species,
vegetable and animal^ that have been
exterminated by him. The gingko
flourishes in the northern part of the
United States, and is favored for park
planting. Because of its unique two
lobed leaves it is sometimes called the
“maidenhair tree.”
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