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IMPRESSING
ISABEL.
By ELLIOT WALKER
Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.
"I'm sure I don't know how I am
ever to get out of this scrape." The
girl peered helplessly from tha anti
quated shed, shuddering at the thun
der crashes close on the heels of every
paah of lightning.
A deluge of rain swept across the
wild pastures. The brook, fifty feet
away, roared between Its alder lined
Upon her wide hat fell a steady drib
ble from the leaky roof, and her thin
dress was fast dampening in the mist
flrlven shelter.
1 She forced a laugh. Isabel Lynn was
not easily daunted. Of course It was
lonely and wet and very shattering to
the nerves, but she was perfectly safe.
Oh, yes; let her thank her stars to be
Secure under the friendly boards.
Suddenly a gasp broke from her.
f She shrank back. Something was
coming with leaps through the high
tweeds growing rankly at the comer of
her retreat. Through Isabel's startled
raln tore thoughts of dangerous ani
mals. The near mountains might hold
anything. She cowered into the far
thest corner. Surely the thing would
jgo by. t
But it didn't. It dashed under the
Ehed, with a loud snort, blowing and
shaking vigorously, then stood gazing
at the storm, and words came to Isa
jbel's horrified ears in a steady stream
tof disgusted wrath.
"Well, if this doesn't beat me! Look
at my shoes! Look at my new flannel
trait! My hat is ruined! The next time
EC go trailing around on the trail of a
jgirl I'll know it.' Foster Allston, you're
en unmitigated ass. I guess the charm
ing Miss Lynn will not have the pleas
ure of meeting you! Girls! Bah! I'll
(take the first train home. I wish I'd
bever heard of her."
"So do I!" sounded a voice in his rear.
"The man jumped and wheeled. He
aaw a slender, white gowned figure
straighten up, take a forward step and
Ithen halt. A clap of thunder drowned
his exclamation. Then his jaw fell.
"Did you speak, sir?" indignantly.
f "I I tried to. Haally, I I am over
joyed to to be here, Miss Lynn. Of
course you are you that is bless my
spill! So unexpected, you know. Quite
A shower."
I He cut a ridiculous figure in his star
ing embarrassment, pulling off the
wrecked straw hat. bowing in his soak
ad garments, greatly at loss for words,
twoefully conscious of what he had
Bald. And he knew that Isabel Lynn
Jiad heard him as a model of courtesy
and easy manners.
I He scraped a hesitating toe In the
Idlrt, smiling idiotically. Was it for this
U-hls fifty mile journey?
I "Isabel Is extremely particular and
sensitive to first impressions," his Aunt
Bulla had said. "Here Is your letter of
introduction, Foster. It's silly to go
icrazy over a photograph, but go ahead.
(She Is worth it. Everything depends
upon the way she is approached. Vve
tp raised you to her up to the skies."
I The girl stepped nearer, eying him
In scornful amusement. Her eyes were
bright with ill concealed desire to hum
ble. The dampness had curled her dis
ordered hair in bewitching rings about
Iher white forehead. Roses shone in the
Smooth cheeks where sarcastic dimples
iplayed.
! Allston thought he had never seen a
fmore lovely face nor one so unread
able. Idly swinging her hat, she sur-
eyed. him curiously, with a chilling
auteur, which stung him to steadi-
ss and a reckless Impulse to retort.
"When one summers at a farmhouse j
nd takes long strolls an occasional
wetting must be expected, Mr. All
ston," said Isabel evenly. "You
Shouldn't mind your new suit or your
hoes. Pear me. how childish! I have
ani that you could afford to diare
rd trifles. I wasn't to blame. Tou
needn't have 'trailed' me."
t Allston regarded ber In silence.
' There was more than a hint of dis
appointment in Isabel's tone. Had she
been prejudiced in bis favor only to
kresct sharply at his boyish outburst?
; Surely some humor lay in the situa
tion. Couldn't the girl see K? He re
Iflected dismally, that many women
jnerr forgive alighting remarks, even
when tittered In unmeaning careless
ness. The cool voice ent on.
i "I suppose they told you at the house
J&at X waa over thle wayT' .
I.
SPEAIRO CLOTHONG CO.
SO GRAND STREET.
' "And you never imagined I might be
in this shed?"
A head shake.
"Tou must have had me very much
on your mind. Were I a big man seek
ing a lost damsel my idea would be to
keep my eyes open for the shelters to
which she would sensibly run, not lose
my wits in selfish consideration of rai
ment and then anathematize the lady."
She laughed cuttingly.
Allston's countenance was reddening.
"Why don't you speak?" The uplift
of her chin was a challenge for his re
ply. She would laugh and forgive him
after sufficient reduction.
"I'm thinking," said Allston slowly.
"I'm trying to make out what chance I
have of of ' He paused, hesitating.
"What chance?" Her eyes opened
wide at his seeming audacity.
"Of catching the 6 o'clock train. It is
getting late."
"Oh!" Isabel looked down, then up.
A strange darkness was settling down
upon tha earth. Both had forgotten
the storm, now grumbling back from
the south. The man stepped oat in the
rain. In a moment he returned. His
face was set in hard, worried lines.
"You'll put on. my coat, and we'll get
into the open," said ue uociuociiy. "i
may be a fool, bnt I know something
of cloudbursts. This building isn't
safe. Quick!"
A sharp command, a clutch beneath
her arm, then a rapid hoisting over
rough ground, through a pelt of huge
drops, to a low stone wall, and Isabel,
breathless, felt herself pulled to her
knees, while a strong arm clasped her
firmly.
Forgetting all save the recognition of
superior strength and jument,' ap
palled by the murky blackness, the re
verberating shocks of heaven's artil
lery thundering over the hills, she nes
tled against him, with a little cry, as
before her frightened gaze a broad
sheet of flame showed bending trees
flattened to earth and a distant rail
fence flung into flying wreckage.
The man held her more tightly with
an unconscious pressure. His face was
set and steady, tense in his watching,
yet filled with that bold, half smiling
light seen on the visages of those who
fearlessly face danger.
The next bright flare found her eyes
meeting his in a look as rapid and in
tense as the lightning itself. The girl
smiled at him as his breath drew in
sharply.,
"Down!' shouted Allston. "Flat! It's
coming. Shut your eyes and hang to
my neck."
Isabel did. In the roar of the ele
ments she clung blindly to him, con
scious only of a deafening noise and a
sense of collapse.
The hush following was broken by
Allston's laugh.
"Thought so." he uttered. "Look!
Our shed is a heap of sticks, Miss
Lynn. That miniature cyclone hit it
Just right. Well, well, if I hadn't hap
pened to think so much of my
clothes"
"Don't
said the girl. "Don't i
please!"
The man
solemnly consulted his
watch.
"If we hurry," he observed, "I can
get you home and catch my train."
Isabel caught his sleeve.
"No," she whispered softly. 'Td
rather you would miss it."
Allston's Aunt Julia was speaking of
his engagement a month after a be
draggled couple surprised the occu
pants of a certain farmhouse.
"I don't understand how Foster man
aged it so quickly," she said. "I find
my letter of introduction was not used.
He must have made an excellent im
pression the minute he met Isabel."
Well Developed at That.
"A football player can't be any good
If he has a yellow streak," remarked
the soph.
"Tet a football rooter is no good un
less he has a 'yeller streak." replied
the Junior. Kansas City Times.
Quite So.
"The man who toils will not suffer
from loneliness."
"True. There are always plenty of
people willing to stand around and
supervise." Washington Herald. '
Campaign Expenses.
Successful Candidate Well, Jerry,
what did you spend during the cam
paign? Jerry I'll leave that to yer own Judg
ment yer honor. New Tork Life.
Your Address, Madam, Please?
He Has your fortune ever been told?
She No, but I dare say papa will tell
you If you really have serious inten
tions. Boc ton Transcript '
WATEHBUIIY EVENING DEMOCRAT, Fill DAY,'
Appearances Go
A prosperous appearance is an introduction to good society, and style is what makes a man proud of his clothes.
Fashion has changed this year. The suit you had last season is out of date now. The distinguishing feature of
the clothes we are selling this Fall, has the individuality which appeals to men and young men of good taste and
judgment. We stand on our record of a great many years selling reliable clothing at popular prices. We realize that
it is hard for you to judge clothes, it is hard to see for the average person where one $15.00 suit is any better than an
other. You can tell after you have worn it, but when you are buying it, it's hard to tell which is better. Why?, Be
cause there is no basis for comparison. You can't compare clothing as you do eggs. Eggs are either good or bad,', and
you find it out quickly but you don't find out how good a suit of clothes is until you have worn' it. Any Suit, Overcoat
or Raincoat you buy of us, whether you pay $10.00, $15.00, $18.00 or $20.0Q has the style, dignity and quality combined.
The same applies to our large line of Hats, Sweaters, Umbrellas and Gents Furnishings in general. We put out no petty
schemes nor exaggerated statements to attract your trade, but give you a hundred cents of honest merchandise for your
dollar every time. How could we exist in business and deal with the same people all these years if we had done other
wise ? GIVE US A TRIAL AND YOU WILL BE CONVINCED. .
ON A PARTY LINE.
Gossip of the Neighborhood at the
Disposal of All.
"Oh, Sam, Johnny Smith is threat
ened with the measles, and the Joneses'
cook is leaving because Mr. Jones
doesn't give her enough to eat, and
Emily Broin is engaged to young
Wheeler, although she has denied it up
and down."
Johnson paused in the act of remov
ing his mackintosh, with one arm in
and one out. He held his dripping um
brella over the new hall rug, whence
h poured rivulets unheeded.
"What in the name of"
"And." continued Mrs. Johnson
breathlessly, "the Hltchcocks have
mortgaged their house I knew they
couldn't afford the automobile and
Mr. Perkins is going to sue the Whites
for building their bay window out ove
his property."
"Tou don't mean to say you have
been ont in this weather gathering all
that gossip!" exclaimed Johnson as he
divested himself of his mud laden
overshoes.
"No."
"Has any one called?"
Mrs. Johnson shook her head, and
the stream of neighborhood happen
ings which suburbanites love to dis
cuss in the bosoms of their families
continued to pour forth from her eager
lips. But still she did not reveal the
source of her Information, and the
news kept leaking out at Intervals
throughout dinner.
"I know," said Johnson at last. "Tou
have had that by the day seamstress."
"No, but the man came today and in
stalled the telephone."
"Well, bnt"-
"And it's a party wire, you know, so
all I have to do when I'm lonely is to
go and pick up the receiver. I can
always hear somebody or other ' un
bosoming herself to her most particu
lar friend at some telephone that's on
the line, you know." New Tork Press.
Untaken and Not Paid For.
Andy McTavish was "no feelin' julst
weel," so he went to the doctor and
stated his complaints.
"What do you drink?" demanded the
medico.
"Whusky."
"How much?"
"Maybe a bottle a day."
"Do you smoke?"
"Tes."
"How much?"
"Two ounces a day."
"Well, you give up whisky and to
bacco altogether."
Andy took up his cap and in three
steps reached the door.
"Andy," called the doctor, "you have
not paid for my advice."
"Ah'm no' takin' it," snapped Andy
as he shut the door behind him. Cal
gary (Canada) Herald.
Explained.
"But she sings more than she plays.
Why do you speak of her music as 'in
strumental?' "
"Well, it's instrumental in making
the neighbors move out" Philadel
phia Press.
Applying the Final Test
"Doctor," asked the patient whose
eyes bad been undergoing treatment
for a period of six months or more, "do
you think they're all right now?"
"Tes." said the oculist. "I think I
can assure you. Mr. Pinchnlckel, that
your eyes are cured. But there Is one i
more test I should like to apply. See !
if you can read that at a distance of
twelve or fourteen Inches without
blinking."
Whereupon he laid his bill before
Mm.-Chicago Tribune.
There's the Rub!
Mrs. Dorcas It will show that the
world has advanced when men In the
street cars give their seats to women.
Dorcas It looks to me, my dear, that
the real reform will come when the
companies give one a seaf
CASH OR CREDIT AT
; THE STORAGE WAREHOUSE.
It Sheds 8ome Side Lights Upon Lift
and Morals.
For a few dazzling side lights upon
life and morals apply to the storage
warehouse. Tou can find almost any
thing there from baby alligators to
blocks of ice cream and from Teddy
bears to sauerkraut So you won't be
amazed at what the institution has
most recently divulged. Here you have
the story:
Mrs. Q. repaired to the storage ware
house to extract her soup spoons,
though it may have been aunts or un
cles or popcorn or guinea pigs. At any
rate, her property declined to come ont.
It had been tucked in by Mr. Q. Only
Mr. Q. might tempt it forth. Mrs. Q.
protested. She wanted her catnip or
theology or safety razor, or whatever
it was, and made representations with
great emphasis. She moved upon the
management. She stormed and wept.
After long wrangling the warehouse
decided it would yield up the college
ice or was it the piano? if Mrs. Q.
would swear she was still married to
Mr. Q. and would send him a written
statement (he was in Quebec, and 'I
j)AILY IpASHION "jj"ALKS
BY MAY
THE FASHIONABLE , CASHMERE.
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NOVEMBER L'O, 1908;
a Great
lost track of him owing to Bewilder
ment produced by merely thinking of a
storage warehouse) tad mass htm re
turn the statement, countersigned, to
the management This, then, is how
Mrs. O. regained possession of her golf
links or prayer book or sugar tongs.
Well, say it was sugar tongs, though
golf links would be likelier.
Pressed for an explanation, the ware
house remarked: "Have to be careful,
you know divorces, separations, af
finities, you know. Minute such things
start up there's a race to the storage
place. Game is for each to snatch out
everything first. Becomes embarrass
ing!" Boston Transcript
- Uncovered.
Horace I can't understand you girls.
Now, you hate Mabel, and yet you Just
kissed her. Hetty I know, but just see
how the freckles show where I kissed
the powder off. London Tatler.
Domestic Politics.
"Whom, did you support during the
last campaign?"
"A wife, two children and a mother'
In-law and kept up my life insurant
at the same time." Puck.
MANTON
iasn is ot CISC
satin and the
chemisette is of
tucked cream
colored net, and
the whole effect
is one of the
marten t and
prettiest that
can be imagined.
There is a cir
cular skirt that
is lined through
out with thin
silk, so showing
noititchtng alter
one of tha latest
methods, and
there lea prettily
tucked blouse
that can he
made either with
the long sleeves
or those in
three - quarter
length. - If
suimpe effect, is
liked these
ileeves can be
made to match
the cfaemhette
and for the gown
itself almost
every seaion
abl material ,
utted to Indocf
wear is appro
priate. Voile
and the silks
that are such
favorites are ad
mirable with
trimming cither
of ready made
banding or strips
of material. If, '
a a mpler dresi
is wanted the
ash can be
omitted and the
girdle which ac
companies the
waist used in its
place, but juit
as Illustrated the
gown is so grace
Jul and so at
tractive that It
is not so easy to
improve there
on. For the m
dium site will be
required, for the
' blouie K)i yards
of material 24,
3 yarda 32 cr
2'A yards 44 in
ches wide with
V yard IS in
ches wide foe the
chemisette for
the s k 1 r t 5V
raid 32. 4 yards
44 inches wide if
made with the
,
Way.
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WATEKBU&Y FIRE ALARM.
1 cor South Main ana arana ate,
C Scovill Manufacturing Co, (pj
( Cor wrldge and Maglll sta,
7 Exchange Place.
8 Euclid and Roseland avenuaa.
12 Rogers ft BrV (P) ;
18 Cor East M&m and Niagara sta
14 Cor East Main and Wolcott sta.
15 Cor High and Walnut streets,
16 Cor East Main and Cherry sta,
17 Cor East Main and Cole sta.
21 Cor North Elm, Kingsbury sta,
13 Burton street anaina houu
84 Waterbury Mfg Co. (P)
85 Cor North Main and North sta.
86 i-Cor Buckingham and Cooke sta,
37 Cor Grove and Prospect sta.
88 Cor Hillside avenue and Pine sta '
89 Cor Ludlow and N. Willow at
81 Cor bank and Grand sta.
83 Cor Rlvers'de and Bank sta.
84 Cor W. Main and Watertown rC
Is uonn. h. & u co car House (Pi
36 Waterbury Brass Co. (P)
87 Cor Cedar and Meadow sta.
88 Cor Grand and Field sta.
43 Cor South Main and Clay sta
43 New England Watch Co. (P)
46 Benedict ft Burnham Utg Co (PI
46 Waterbury Buckle Co. (P)
47 Cor 8. Main and Washington sta,
II Cor Baldwin aud Kwer sta.
13 Cor Franklin and Onion sta.
KgW'bury Clock Co, case fty. (
14 Rose Hill housa "
66 Cor Liberty and River sta.
17 Cor Baldwin and Stone sta.
68 Cor Luke street and Sylan are,
13 Cor Doollttle alley and Dublin at
72 Cor West Main and Willow sta.
T3 Cor N Willow at and Hillside ar.
74 Cor Johnson and Waterrille sta,
142 Wolcott st above Howard. .
168 Cor Walnut and Wood sta
162 Cor East Main and Wei ton sta.
178 PoH's theater. . " .
812 The Piatt Bros, ft Co. (P ' .
213 Shoe Hardware Co. (p)
214 W'bury Clock mvt, factor I9
816 Cor Cherry and North Elm
234 Cor Fleet and Hill. "l
261 Cor Round Hill and Ward eta
268 Farm street, cor St Paul
11 ror Etna and North Main sta,
161 June Cooke and N. Main ata
263-Cor Abbott end Phoenix Sea.
Sll S. N. E. lei Co ouildlaa fPi
812 Cor Bank and Meadow air
318 Randolph ft Clowes, (p) '
814 Plume ft At wood (P)
816 American Ring Co (Pi
8 1 Electric Light Station IP
318 Holmes. Booth ft Hsvderia rw
121 Cor Bank and WasninatSn IP
cor ureen ana n. Leonard atk
823 Cor Wash'ton ave Portland
824 Cor TJharles and Porter its
332 Cor Bank and Fifth.
342 Cor Highland av and W Main
125 Cor Lafayette. Waahinoa av
327 Riverside Park, near brewery.
371 City Lumber and Coal Co. pi
412 Tracy Broa. (P)
423 Cor Clay and Mill sta.
483 Cor Liberty aud 8. Main sta.
451 Steele ft Johnson M'fg Co (PV
673 Cor Baldwin and W hington sti
682 Cor Baldwin and Rye sta.
142 Cor Ridge wooa and W'viile at
BIONAIA.
1. One stroke calls superintendent ta
the City hall.
1-1. Two- strokes, fire out, recall.
1-1-1. Three strokes 13 m 6 p. ra,
l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l. Ten stroke,
aulck will Indicate a general alana
and will call the entire tore lata
eervtc. ; ,
lovre Joeiag aaowey n) aay
that year tenement to vacant Let
tne Democrat Sad a taaanr. S days (at