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Show ( J t V THE WQRLli AMEHICAN FOllK, UTAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1899. VOL. VI. THE MISADVENTURE. him golden advice. He could talk to her as to a sister. Yet even Preston's knowledge of hqr sex had limitations, for thus la what happened. He called for her one Saturday afternoon, when he had put office work away from him and was free to live until Mondsy morning the unhampered life of the sentiments. It was a glorious day, and she made no demur to a walk. They wended their way to a park, not unknown to North Londoners, whose natural loveliness the county council has wisely left alone. For such a conversation as Preston contemplated atmosphere and surroundings were everything. He chose a shady seat that overlooked the lower of the two ponds, across whose surface some swans and ducks sported. In the background there was a rustic bridge crossing a miniature waterfall, to border which a pretty rockery had been constructed. Had Preston been a scientist, he could not have studied more closely the relation of the environment to the subject In hand. After freely cutting up the gravel with his walking stick, an act which. Instead of disguising, only further betrayed hie agitation to the girl, he broached the topic nearest his heart. Suppose, Mary, that you loved some one a man, I mean very deeply, and were not sure that love was returned, how would you act? Diver In Icy Serpentine on a winters morning never plunged so daringly. The sentence wound Itself off like a reel. She looked up surprised, hut sighted the passion In his question, and sought the depths In herself whence alone the answer could fitly come. I am afraid, being a girl, I should simply have to wait in silence. Well, suppose you were I, then-- man and loved a girl with every atom of your being. Suppose it choked you to keep quiet, and yet you dreaded her possible answer like the plague. Suppose but there, you can see bow I feel. What would I not give to know that she shared these feelings, too. Preston spoke with such ardor and It la aald that Arnold Preston and Mary Culliford, though the happleat and moat devoted of married couples, became engaged by misadventure, I have the etory on the excellent author lty of one of Preaton'a moat Intimate frlenda, to whom It waa related aa a apeclal secret It came to my ears, though but that la the way of secrete. From his earliest days Preaton waa a favorite with the ladles. There must have been something feminine In hla nature that made him a copipleter man than most of ua. Aa a girl, from whom I sought an explanation of the mystery, once said to me: "He seems to understand you so." Living very much with hla emotions, he waa destined to reap considerable trouble from affairs of the heart At ate the period of life when tacks a boy, or the man he Imagines himself to be, Preston was never In love with the same girl for more than a week at a time. There were no Quests of Golden Curls or Pursuits In those days to hold of up the mirror to his state of mind or furnish him with palliation or excuse. His sole desire was to cling for life to the rock of a single stable affection, and be all that a steadfast lover should be. Alas! the shifting sands of Interest were ever hurrying him In a new direction. A look from a pair of bluer eyes, a smile from rosier lips, and he was again adrift at the mercy of those shifting currents, his Inconstant feelings. It was a serious trouble to him. But one day the star of bis destined iove did appear to him. He had not feed Maeterlinck,' but that Is how, deriding plagarlsm, he would have phrased it Fixed In the heaven of his love she shone for three whole months with unvarying brilliancy; the duration of time was alone quite sufficient to prove the success of his quest. But that was not the only proof. Never had his feelings known such He was stirred to the disturbance. center of his being, her mere presence reducing him to a condition of rlPlr tatlng nerves. He lost all sense of warmth that the misunderstanding humor, which was serious, and preach- which ensued was not in the least ed the gospel of Intensity as the one extraordinary. Mary had never heard such a speech from a mans lips before, and, knowing nothing of Prestons other affair, she took It to refer to herself. She was a modest girl, and her first disposition was to flee. Totally unread In those popular weeklies that minister to the needs of sentimental misses, she could recall no guide to conduct In this difficult crisis. And she cared for Preston cared for him far more deeply than she bad ever supposed. In this moment of revelation her heart stood clearly forth and she let It speak for her. In a voice thin, quavering, yet rich with sincerity she replied: Suppose she loves you, after all? Preston could not mistake the personal Inflection In the tones. He turned sharply round, and caught her eyes before they went down. There was an open declaration In them that yet In no way shamed her womanhood. What had he done? How should he act means of converting existence into life. now? He might point out the misunHe knew nothing, morning, noon, or derstanding, but It would be terrible for her; she would feel that she could night, hut that one fact of his love his private, personal love, blazoned never look him In the face again. For across heaven and earth. Men and an- her honors sake, he must not retract. gels were called upon to listen to the There were doubtless other considerstory of Arnold Prestons passion for ations at work. Perhaps he was sick Agnes Simpson. of the turmoil of his emotions. There was one drawback, however. he had begun to suspect thatPerhaps Ideals He bad sorrowfully to admit that his were and that that other unmarketable, love was not reciprocated. The direct great love of his would never have question had not been put, hut IntuiPerhaps he was tired "of chaff-abotion told him so. There was no flame his butterfly propensities, and In her eyes like unto his, and she was for engaged responsibility. still able to start the moBt ordinary yearned Perhaps eyes that moment atMarys topics of conversation. A remark on tained a blue he had never of depth the weather, for Instance, did not ap- seen and her words elsewhere, pear to her ears the rank sacrilege that had laid a roslness on hisheartfelt unknown lips It did to his, tingling with celestial music. For a long time he comforted there before. The Inner facts we shall himself with the reflection that his in- never know; the outer were that Prescome of love was sufficient for two, ton caught her hand in his, and poured though the process of halving he would into her ears a confession that five fain attempt was not an easy one. How minutes before had been Intended for another girl. to set about It? Next day the whole of our little world In his perplexity Preston did the knew that Arnold Preston was engaged worst very thing possible; he consulted another girl. Now every one vers- to Mary Culliford. A considerate friend ed in the sex knows the Insanity of of his posted us with the news as we that proceeding. But Preston in con- went Into church, so we were delightfessional mood saw nothing hut the fully Independent of the sermon for a source of reflection. In the light of the necessity of relieving his mind. As the recipient of his trouble he details herein set forth, midsummer chose Mary Culliford, his oldest gfrl madness seems a light term to apply to friend. He had run races with her the affair; but from a quiet observation when In short frocks the girl, I mean. of the pair concerned, I opine that He had grown up side by side with her, heaven sometimes connives at a mar and knew her with an intimacy that rlage by misadventure. Exchange. rendered ridiculous any notion of romance between them. A plain, matter-of-faIt depends upon what your living girl, she would look at the af- expenses are whether life Is worth livfair In a common-sens- e light, and give ing or not . . calf-lov- Well-Belove- ds ut ct NO. 12. one occasion I called the old woman GREAT MEN AND BABIES. Into the kitchen tent and gave her what waa left of the coffee, always in DuwU Tickled Their Tom. ad Marti Tarala "Bcipecta" Thu. NAVAJOS WILL NEVER LOOK AT demand by the camp followers. While Is It usually the greatest men who she wae drinking It I sent out word MOTHERS-IN-LAto the herder whom I saw coming up are attracted to Infancy, and the wisthe hill with the horses that I wanted est of them can learn something from Trouble for Folfiimliti flow Foah-lo- to see him at. once. He came up on the tiniest baby. Lord Tennyson, after Kol Got Arouod It Bo Bad a a trot, smiling as usual, and had ac- the birth of his eldest son, says PearBrilliant Ida and Carried It Into tually placed his foot In the doorway son's, remarked to a friend that he had Effeeb when a tremendous yell broke from always believed the face of the infant the hangera-o- n outside. Some word Savior In Raphael's glorious paintmothers-in-laare wee shouted that I did not catch; the ing, known as the Slstine Madonna, Why is It that ieemed fit subjects for the wit which smile on the mans face changed to to be almost overcharged with expresfinds expression on the stage and In alarm; he wheeled and shot off down sion; but that, gazing on the counted comic. Journals? The In- the hill like an arrow.' How far he nance of hla own little one, he had dls- -i the dividual experience of the average man ran I never found, out, but he did not covered his mistake. Shelley Is not thought of as a family man, yet certainly affords no justification for make hla appearance for more than often the picture of the youthful poet with such jests, and the really estimable three hours, and for a week after that hla born Ianthe is one that might first mother-in-lawas he very surly. regarded as highly by appeal to the homeliest imagination. the man of the house as by his wife, Its mother having given the little Is so common as almost to constitute ZANGWILL IN SOCIETY. creature over to the care of a nurse, the rule, says the New York Commerfather, with something cial Advertiser. We must look else- Chisago Critics Not Entirely Satisfied the with the Novelist's Manners. of maternal sympathy would walk up where than in the conditions of toOur friend of the ghetto, Israel and down the room with It In hla day for the origin of this curious Idea Is not permitted to escape arms, chanting It to rest with a weird Zangwlll, and we find it far' back In the days without a little feminine criticism song of hla own invention, consisting when the human race was young. The from l, his own race, says the Chicago solely of the word. gods of a primitive people and their ll Zang-wlShelPost Mr. To seems It Yahmani! that Indeed, Yahmanl, heroic 'acts become In a later stage has been openly charged with an ley a baby was not only a thing to be the nursery tales of the same race. Thus the sacred narrative of the gene- exhibition of ghetto manners very lulled and warmed and fed, but a mysterious stranger, out of whom he sis of human beings becomes the story painful to the higher classes of society would fain have wrung some answer circulatin which he been has recently of Jack the Giant Killer. In like to the riddle of existence that perpetWe that to are Inclined think ing. manner the belief In the evil Influence that ually haunted him, and to which the of a mother-in-law,' at one time abso- many of the monstrous things have new-boseems eo tantallzingly near, have him been laid up against lutely. justified by the primitive conbabies are so close! he once the Pity it been greatly exaggerated, although ditions in which there was real enobserved a statement in which the Mr. mity, becomes In an Intermedlte stage has never occurred to us that of bablologist of today would have cor'a curious custom and later a subject Zangwlll suggests the embodiment with him. Darwin was, ' for jest. ' The Intermediate custom, in the graces of Chesterfield or Sir Philip dially agreed first to lift the baby on the perhaps, is a Mr. Sidney. the form of a mother-in-laZangwllls position taboo, that platform where it has become the still exists, being ; found In many father peculiar one. He probably rec- cynosure of scientific eyes. Though, African tribes, but nowhere more def- ognizes the fact that many of the Darwin being a right fatherly man, initely developed than among the ladies who are running after him are one may be sure that the paternal spirNayajo Indians of New Mexico and influenced strongly by the it waa never absent from hie investiArizona. These people still cherish as sentiment, and It Is altogether gations. He could not, however, rean article of faith the old belief that likely that his early associations and list the temptation of tickling the sole If a man should speak to or even look tastes give him an attitude of hos- of the Infants foot when it was only at his mother-in-lahe will become tility toward the society end of his eneven days old, that he might note the dumb In that tertainment In America. Undoubtedly effect, those pink toes of budding babyblind. and instantly stage of culture which we term en- he Is brusque and at times offensively hood, which, according to Mr. Swinblunt In his speech, and it is tolerably burne, might tempt an angels lips lightened the advent of his mother-in-lahas been known to strike a man certain that he never neglects ths op- to kiss, responding to the sacrilegious dumb, but as A raid blftidness does not portunity to say a smart thing, how- experiment by curling about and jerk- follow. ever and undiplomatic. But lng themselves away. The sounds we a should recent During hardly take him to he a which to the fondest father is cause at surveying expedition into the. Navajo reservation I man who would accept hospitality and times of most unfatherly demonstracamped one night In December near then sneer at his entertainers, al- tions, babys screams, was once eager- - ' a Navajo hogan, or hut The night though we have heard of literary men ly waited for by Edison, that he might was bitterly cold, with a sharp, pierc- from Great Britain who have erred to register them In bis newly Invented ing wind, but happening to walk over this extent Mr. Zangwlll has a mission phonograph, the perverse Infant, perto the hut, perhaps an eighth of a in life, which he will In all likelihood haps taking the Instrument for some mile away, I stumbled over what ap- accomplish, and this mission has a lit- delightful toy, unflllally refusing to inI dont expeared to be a bundle of old rags, hut tle to do with feminine receptions In dulge Its parents wish. which on examination by the dim the homes of the wealthy or with conactly love it, drawled Mark Twain, on being presented with his first born, light of the stars turned out to be an vocations around the samovar. old woman, decrepit and bent with but" edging away from the unconand Caine We believe that, like Hall age, and so feeble that she had fallen other eminent foreign authors, he has scious bundle of Innocence, whose adfrom sheer weakness. In her hands come to America to sell books and vent had occasioned such a convulsion she held a few bits of sage brush, make money, and we fancy that he In his household but I respect It In a letter to hls friend, which she had been collecting to make goes into society merely as a part of Coleridge, confesses to a someThomas a fire, and as she revived under our tie Poole, business. It seems to us a coldwith regard to kindred what ministrations she muttered, Bes kaz! blooded feeling proposition on both sides. The Bes kaz! (It Is cold; It Is cold.) Be- ladies like the excitement of enter- his firstling baby Hartley, at his first of whom he did not feel the ing asked why she did not remain a lion and the lion sometimes sight within the shelter of the hut on such taining himself and emits the roar of thrill and overflowing of affection which he had but gaxed a night she explained that her daug- forgets his Jungle. But It all evens up at the on the little oneanticipated, Instead with contemhters husband had come to visit them, and and In a few days society and as she had no other place to go end, plative melancholy, till, seeing It some will each forget that the othZangwlll hours later in its mother's arms, he she had wandered out on the open er exists. was melted to the proper mood, and The situation is complicated plain. it the kiss of a father. This exgave the of by prevalence polygamy in the of Cltlsvm perience he afterward transmuted Into tribe, with the result that some one setbeen A curious has dispute just the sonnet, addressed to Charles Lamb, or another of a mans mothers-ln-laNew South Wales. On the rail- beginning: Is apt to pop out almost anywhere and tled In leave him a poor maimed wreck. As way between Berrigan and Finley Charles, my slow heart was only sad, is a station named when first the belief is perfectly sincere this Is a there The railway authorities in I scanned that face of feeble Infancy. real danger, far more dreadful to the this appelhave Boswell once In a spirit of bland and Indian mind than an encounter with Sydneyof a long regarded on such a bustling lation depot childlike an armed enemy. I have seen an old route as inquiry, asked Dr. Johnson the Finley line as a satire on he would do If he were shut up what warrior a man whose courage had their Intimated and they n In a castle with a infant. been tried In battle and was beyond to theoperations, residents of the district a deThe sage somewhat unfeelingly replied doubt turn and run like a rabbit when sire to alter the name to notified that his mother-in-lawas or some that he should not much like hls comno pany, though hls humanity getting the If such approaching. escape is pos- ether phrase pregnant with better of hie Ire at the bare suggessible the man will drop down by the railway life and movement trail and drawing his blanket over his This radical proposal resulted in tion of such a contingency, he prohead remain thus ostrlcb-Uk- e until violent protests from the residents at ceeded to state how he would tend the danger is past But if any of his who said that the name feed, air, and wash it with warm water to please It, not with cold water friends are about they will hustle the bad been good enough for their fawoman away and conceal her behind thers and for them, and that It would to give It pain. a rock or even behind some sage brush have to suit the railroad magnates until he can escape. The woman Is, of way up In Sydney. The parties have Biwin of thin Wup. course soundly berated for thus Inter- been in severe conflict for some time, The entomological editor of a Para fering with the comfort and conven- but ultimately the commissioners have sewspaper has swelled the already un- ience of her given way and the romantic cognomen equaled list of Brazils noxious Insects We had much fun with one of our will stand. Westminster Gazette. with a remarkable discovery. The new herders, an pest la a waBp with a spiral sting of Navajo perhaps unusual proportions. The Insect fur35 years old, who had married the II'mIIpv f'evi'py lives in a phosphorus region, thermore old an of woman who lived daughter Cai'CiUny cuiiedtd figures show that and its has the effect of impregnear our cainp. The wife had been sting of to the other the proportion cavalry for good and sufficient arms lias been steadily diminishing for nating the victim In such a manner hut tnat made no difference so .? as a long period. The artillery has been that everything he tastes and smells the old woman was concerned. Once increased, the cavalry diminished. has a flavor of phosphorus. a mother-in-laAustria. Turkey and Spain are the always a mother-in-laKar. is the Navajo rule and we expendla of only countries whose cavulry exceeds A parson who has totally lost the ed much Ingenuity In the attempt to their artillery force senes of hearing In one ear, although bring these two face to fare. We succeeded he but npvcr may Imagine that the defect Is of several times we liMlhltlv. mme very close to success and were lttle consequence, can not locate the artrue had Barker that you Is it rewarded by the Intense excitement rested for threatening you? 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