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Show INTERNATIONAL - PRESS ASSOCIATION CHAPTER XII. kindness hrih: that bell again, Harriet, and In- quire whether Mrs. Withers has returned? fretted the convalescent. It is after six oclock, and I am faint for w ant of nourish- ment. The duteous dependent obeyed, then slipped from the room to push investigations upon a plan of her own. In a quarter of an hour she reappeared with an agitated, yet important counte- nance, that arrested her cousin's re- gards. What Is it? Where is she? he deYou have hear! manded, impatiet'y. something. Tell me at once what it Is ,fthpn The four girls were dressed very Soon the second heat came. Now, prettily and were In a whirl of ex- declared the girl in pink, this is the citement, for they were attending the second race in this heat, and then we'll horse races at a country fair and the know w hether he's won or not. darling of all their hearts, Philip, had The girl In the red jacket spoke entered his before h,m the beady eyes strained excruciating appeal, do not banish y0U in your extremity! U'k o. Who should be near you to sus-- a n and wetp with you but your etoled Harriet -- she whose life poor has u one end the hope that she might serve and aid you; but one reward, your smile, and so much of your love may 8ee fit to bestow upon so worthless an object? Hut in the honest sorrow that bowed the listeners proud ing, her faetltiouV tia'nsports rnTno response beyond wearv impatience The cajoliry that had flattered the unworthy complacency of his prosperous daw rang discordantly upon his present ood. He wanted from no one, he said to himself, pity in his rejection or hers, there was and, a touch of resentment, the consequence of her unsparing denunciation of Constance. Ho might come to hate her himself soon, Just now he almost abhorred the one who had opened his eyes to his own shame. You mean well, I dare say, Harriet," he said, in his harshest tone, but you are injudicious, and your of sympathy are unwelcome, am sure that I shall shortly receive a satisfactory explanation of this mysterious affair. As to your gossiping friends, I can only regret that your associates have not been chosen more wisely. Now you can go. She made no further resistance, but hers was one of the chamber doors that unclosed stealthily when, at midnight, the rattle of a latch-ke- y sounded through the front hall, and was followed by the entrance of the two supposed voyagers. There were more wakeful eyes under that roof that night than the master recked of, and a bevy of curious gazers peered from the obscurity of the third story into ,he entry, where Mr. Withers had ordered the gas to be kept burning all night. You see we are expected, said Edward to his companion. Mr. Withers met them at the head of the staircase, clad in dressing-gow- n and slippers. Ah, here you are. How did you get back? The obliging captain hailed a fishing yacht and put us on board, answered his brother, Have you been f uneasy about us? Only lest you might be carried some distance out before you fell in with a returning vessel. You look very tired, Constance. T shall not let her go with you again,- Edward, unless you promise to take better care of her. Tell him just how it happened, Connie, laughed Edward, and the conference was over. They played their Tarts well all of them, muttered Harriet, stealing back to her sleepless pillow. But they need not hope to gag people now that the scandal has taken wind; murder will n " Feminine Instinct. About Her Value. It was a brave and manly act, young man, said the millionaire. At just too lovely for anything i the risk of your own life you rushed Really, my dear. rejoined her hus- into the burning building and saved band, I fail to see anything attrac- my only daughter from a horrible fate. tive about him. How can I reward you? , said Mrs. B., just look at Why, Oh, I dont know, replied the hero. his badge 98. Im sure he has been Do you think a couple of dollars marked down from $1. would be too much? Methods Revolutionary Well, this, said the South American citizen, is carrying things too far in our base and servile limitation of Yankee methods. What is that? Why, the Insurgent and government authorities are having forenoon and afternoon programs printed for all our revolutions! Town and Country. SHE D1DNT KNOW. Brave Fellow., Yes, said the dentist, to Insure painless extraction you'll have to tako gas, and thats fifty cents extra. Oh!" said the farmer, I guess the old wayll be the best; never mind no gas," Youre a brave man! "Oh, it aint me thats got the tooth ; it's my wife. Philadelphia Ledger, Oh, look at that policeman! exclaimed Mrs. Bargainhunter. Isnt he . horse and would drive the animal himself. J just cant look, said one. Tin so excited I can hear my heart beat. What if Philip didnt win!" Girls, Id jusf cry my eyes out, declared another. Oh, look at that horse! He cant win witif all that rigging on. What docs he have that Iron brace over his head for? Looks for all the world as If he had spinal trouble. S warned nil the other girls. ''Theyre off! shouted some one in the crowd, and the girls stood up with a rush. Oh, look, look! said the girl in brown, Philips Just beating em. Oh. that nasty old home Is trying to get ahead. Go It, Philip! Go It! The girl in green clapped her hand over her friend's mouth. I should think you'd bo ashamed of yourself. The Idea of yelling like a tough!1 Dont care. snapped the girl In brown. Everybody elso Is yelling. Whoopee! shrieked the girl wearing a red golf jacket. Philip has won, hes won. I Just know he would. You see 13 was his number, and 13 always was a lucky number with him. He was born on the 13th. Dont see as that vs a particularly lucky event, growled a man sitting near the bunch of girls. Soon Philip came on the stand and the girls flocked around him with squeals of delight. He looked sheepish and delighted by turns. Thats only one heat. he warned. Maybe I wont win any more. Whats a heat?" they acked, and he explained that a heat was part of a race. I believe this Is only very gravely. a brush. They have brushes sometimes. Ive read about em and the man that was in at the death was it or something. You're thinking of a fox hunt, said the girl in green, contemptuously. No, Im not, snapped the girl in the golf Jacket. I guess I know the difference between a horse race and a hunt. You act as if you thought I didnt know anything. Just because youve had one more year of study than I you think you know everything f wish they'd shut up making such a noise, said the girl In green. Now, me let ten just you that a brush is in a hunt. Whoever heard of a brush on the turf. Turf, indeed," retorted the girl in the golf jacket. You must be a landscape gardener, Now, I know what a brush Is. A benevolent-lookinman spoke very gently to tho girls. Excuse me, ladies, I think I can clear this matter up for you. A brush is a lively argument between two young women, neither of whom knows exactly what shes talking about. A heat Is the point at which these two young woman arrive just before they dissolve in Harriet collapsed as gracefully as her unpllant sinews and stays would allow into a kneeling heap upon the floor at his feet. My beloved cousin! My dear, deceived angel! I have heard nothing that surprised me. I dared not speajt of It to you before now, agonizing as was my solicitude. You would have driven me from you in anger had I Two and a Cipher. whispered a word of what has been the Scribble The editor didnt give town gossip for months, to which you your story a very prominent place, and only were blinded by your noble, your I suppose he paid you, too, next to confidence your generous, superhuman nothing. in your betrayers. I see that you are De Writer (gleefully) Two next to partially prepared for the blow," as he tears." nothing? Exactly. grew pale and tried without success Scribble Eh? What do you mean? Hurrah, hurrah," yelled the crowd. to interrupt her. Brace yourself for De Writer He paid me $20. PhilaThe girls were all glaring straight what you must know, my poor, 111 used ahead of them. delphia Ledger. Wonder what they darling! Your brother and your wife are screaming at, muttered the girl have eloped to Europe in company ! Had to Show In brown. Her. For one second the husband staggerYaws, observed young Saphead, This is the end of the final heat ed under the shock. His eyes closed as the clock was about to chime the and Philip has won the race, said the a as flash at of suddenly, lightning, midnight hour, the fellows all say benevolent looking man. and his features were distorted, as in Im a dweadfully chap, And wedidnt see him do It, gaspof a wrench mortal pain. Then all that doncher know." ed all four of the girls. was true and dignified in the man ralI dont care what they say,' Well, lied to repel the insult to the two he Miss Caustique, as she rejoined I do not behad trusted and loved. strangled a yawn. Im from Missouri, lieve it, he said distinctly and with See? deliberate emphasis. You are the dupe of some mischievous slanderer, m good The Trouble With Him. woman. Edward Withers is the soul The first poem of Whittier's ever And in fnr later yeari, with the 'There Bhouid be one great Joy for of integrity, and my wifes virtue Is purest . the pessimist anyway. devotion, was The Exiles Departure, printed To the high cause of freedom full many incorruptible. Who told you this ab' What?" which In son a appeared Garrisons Free surd tale? Why, things must turn out better Press June 8, 1826. The next was Of the green shore of Erin, the Gera of Miss Smithson Did you enjoy the german last Mrs Withers stated to you that she tho 0an. night? than he expects to." The Deity. published June 22 of the Miss Parveau He wasnt German he was a French count. Fair eveigieen was going to drive alone this afterlaurels of glory haa, "Pei but so time same that he's by haps, and both year, these are collect- The won. noon, did she not? Harriet forget the ONeal and the gallant martyred Bet of pessimistic with another ed. busy The third, The Emerald Isle," t itzgerald pathetic in the malicious triumph as Fashion's Freshest Fad. On the bright list of glory forever shall predictions that he hasnt time to no- appeared in the Free Press Aug. 3, Not Guilty. she proceeded to prove her rival's guilt. Good land, Josiah! said Mrs. stand, I suppose, remarked the charitable tice it 1826, and was never collected. WhitAnd fame circle Emmet, the eloquent "You heard her say' it, laconically, , hem Id. taking a nearer view of the dis- citizen, that you are one of those tier was 18 years Old when these lines and still on the defensive. Who wakened the spirit and pride of hi Taken on a Debt. play in the window and noting the chaps who think the world owes them were written, and had not yet the adYet John says she called by the ofland. Seen Ezrys new horse? asked one vantage Qf the figures marked on the tags. are gone! they are gone! but their Theyre a living. fice to take up Mr. Edward Withers, academy, nor of any They memories that linger citizen of another. You do me an injustice, trying to pass that off for furniture! library except that of the "wise oid and that they drove in company to On the shores where mister," they perish, no What on earth makes it so high rejoined tho hard luck victim. I have, was the reply. wretch shall revile, doctor" whom he mentions in "Snow-BounI the wharf, where lay an ocean steam No slave of a tyrant shall dare point the ? It like? what never look does priced "Well, in wa9 Dr. Ellas Wold. The unfapolitics in my life. er. He saw them go on board, arm in , linger The reason, explained Mr. asked the questioner Impatiently. Of scorn at those sons of the Emerald miliar poem is printed in the Independ-enFYu- r arm, and, although he waited on the J!e. is is and a lath that there he said the other man, Well, Correct. looks, October. Hibernia! though tyrants may seek to pier as long as the vessel was in sight, lapboard trust. You ought to have Blowly, as If Ezry had taken him for Explaining groups, the music teachdtguule theej Brightly figure thy shores upon they did not return. het proud eons foolknown better er sought an illustration. of science acknowledge JiftKPs, than to ask such a an old debt. Boston Christian RegisI will see the man myself.1 name Where their birth to and to fame dar ish question as that." On thy seaglrdcd shores, whose Suppose, said she, "a cluster of ter. long known, Crossing the room with a firmer step high Like unsetttng gUira through the lapse genius has made thee boys out in the school yard. - Wbat than had been his since his illness. Mr. out The Gem of tho o,ean, the wonder of of long ages, to Him. would Wanted He Indeed. Was be? that Only , Classify earth. Withers rang the bell and summoned Her sagacity was proved by the apFrom the isle of Hibernia Do you remember, A fight, maam asked the resLong. long, ha the ha!o of glory- Art weary? asked the facetious cried a little girl have shone; the coachman. His evidence tallied ex pearance in the next days issue of an , s. Fair island! vale are nickin taurant were embalmed In a that thy friend. you keeper, glasses, eagerly. The memory of Hrian, the pride of thy actly with Harriets report, and she flat extensively circulated journal of a the story el short for when last shore; I - tlcle headed your you paid should say I was art weary, re"Which history telleth of ages gone by. tered herself that the inquisitors man "Scandal in And o er thv dim lake and wide lunch?" valley Business. business man When Osslana proud heroes strode onner was a shade less confident when the High Life! setting forth the elopeplied the matter-of-fac- t have sounded ward to glory, The Church That new doctor down the whose wife had been running him No, replied the occasional patron, strains of Corolau witness was dismissed. steamer And to ocean wave ment, per loud their Europe, of the anwered and Moore; but I presume its all right. Add it block is the limit. If You have said that this disappearn battlecry. through the galleries of Europe. O, soon may tho banners of freedom bankjunior partner In a vine is creeping the shamrock Flatbush What did he do? wave o'er thee, , there ever was an art weary man, The iswildclosing ance was no matter of surprise to you, ing house with the beautiful wife of to this check." Green Island of Erin! may Liberty I will, replied the other. If you Why, I called on him to see if I Im the fellow. Its foliage o'er many a dimly seen pile and added something about vulgar gos- his brother, the senior partner of the smile Where entombed on the fields of their To the luster of he said, aforesaid firm. The intimacy of the had remembered I was going to let it could borrow his lawn mower and he primitive ages 'restore sip. I wish a full explanation, fame are reposing , thee, 0. charged me $1 for a call. Another Sort of Crank. The proud, peerless chief of the Emerstill magisterially. Yonkers went on to Th Gem of the Ocean the Emerald fugitives, the chroniclfe ald Isle. Statesman. Isle! He's a religious crank. Isnt he? Thus bidden, Harriet told her tale, say, had been much talked of all winCriminal Feminine. What! Where did you get that ridiBefore their return to the city In the ter in the brilliant circle to which An Eastern playwright has written It Served Her Right. culous idea?" The deserted husband autumn, she had seasons of anxiety they belonged. Smarticus I understand Mrs. Long-tunHe got me in a corner the other relative to the intimacy between Mr, was a citizen whom all delighted to a little thing in three acts in which has been dropped by the ScandalEdward Withers and his beautiful. honor for his business talents, his the heavy villain is a lady." day and began right away to ask me Scoundreless, hissed the heroine mongers Union, No. 14 if I was prepared to die. Not, the unsuspecting vir- probity in public life, and his private Sarpticus For what reason? Of course; hes a life Insurance gin was careful to affirm, that she virtues. "This affliction falls upon thru her clinched teeth, you have The largest blown glass bottle in that It whs still in the Smarticus For working overtime. doubted then the good faith and right him with the more crushing severity robbed me of men husband, meh ring this agent. the United States, or in the world, so ! ! meh bottle was made. The manMinneapolis Intentions of either, but she feared lest from the circumstance that he has home, far as the makers know, is on exhibi- ager says that he could blow a hundreMrs. Withers' part ality f the younger been for some months an invalid. He Journal. jr THE REASON. tion in a window In Barclay street, d-gallon bottle if he bad a place to brother might render her negligent of has the sincere sympathy of the entire her husbands happiness and comfort. community. Philosophical. , just above Greenwich, say the New put it in his window. . It makes little difference," sighed Pinned to a card at the base of tho The winter festivities had brought the The editor of the humane sheet, al York Times. It holds sixty-fivgallons two into a peculiarly unfortunate pobeit not unused to eating his own the chick, as it emerged from the shell. and is shaped something like a babys big bottle is the smallest bottle in the world, its appropriate running mate sition for the growth of domestic vir- words, never penned a more humble It is a case of being fihed sooner or nursing bottle narrow at the bottom, It holds Just four drops and must be tues, and eminently conducive to the and explicit retraction of the unlucky later with most of us, and, from my bulging at the middle, with a small filled with a hypodermic progress of the fatal attachment which error into which, through no fault of point of view, there Isnt much choice It neck and mouth. The bottle is a trifle is so small that it has to syringe. was now beyond the possibility of be fastened ours, we have fallen, than graced his between a fried egg and a fried less five feet than and is about high He ;hicken. doubt. Although one of the family, columns the following morning. agalnpt a background in orfour feet in circumference sit its der that and known to be wedded to their in- could hardly have expressed himself persons looking in at .the widest part Uncertain. window can see it. More time was reterests, she had not been able to deter more forcibly had . Edward Withers The man who blew it at the factory quired to make the The great doctor had been to see from sly and overt mention really horsewhipped him, instead of bottle In New Jersey is Just about as tall as than the of the scandal in her hearing. one. She had, threatening to do jt, and to bring an the new patient. the bottle, if he could manage to cn such occasions, taken the liberty of action for libel as well. So you felt his pulse," said the The substitution of machinery for squeeze through the neck ho could human labor In glass bottle factories How much will you Constance breakfasted in bed, at her close friend. rebuking the offender, and maintain, sleep very comfortably Inside of it If is not making much ing, in her humble way, the honor of husbands request, on the day succeed- charge him? headway. For the surface area of the I can't tell that until I feel his glass blown the finer grades of work her benefactors name. But she could ing the Pynsents departure. The popinto the bottle were spun silk It would no good at all. Skilled machinery is not silence a city full of tongues, and ular dally, above referred to, lay as pocket book, chuckled die great docmechanics are a make for a gown moderately large at work improving it all the time and they had wagged fast and loudly of usual by Mr. Withers plate when he tor. and stout woman. Although blowing they promise to succeed some folded with' what the husband's indiscreet confidence in went day, by guesswork, tempered withlong ex- just as they did with the . Gentle Hint. . the guilty parties, and their shameless was known to ltd constant readers as typesetting man the to perience, exceeded I Haroutermost. never do with know what corner by machines. the my only naughty Meanwhile treachery the efficient half an ounce his instructions as to glassbloWer has the call. He checked her when she would have riet was engaged in concocting . her feet when I Call on .a. girl, said the There Is a the size of the bottle sixty-fivgaldilated upon this division of her sub- cousin's cup of foaming chocolate bashful youth. Of great deal boy labor in the faclons. to occur hut ever his she both he Didn't it ject. "I will have no hearsay evidence. when sheet, you that it opened tories, which are scattered through The firm read in a Western newspatVhkt have you seen?" saw and heard the paper rustle like a might be advisable to point them toNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. of k per hitherto Harriet demurred, blushingly, not, as paper bough before a storm, then ward the front door?" asked the weary unaccomplished Illinois, Ohio and Indiana. Each blowas feat, It presently appeared, because she had grow suddenly and unnaturally still. maid. alleged, of a blown bottle er requires from two to three boys holding forty gallons. The Barclay to carry bottles from the molder to Been so little but so much. Duets, When Mr. Withers lowered It there was street makers sent one of that size to the annealing room. In some Still at Large. vocal and instrumental, had been the nothing in voice or expression to befactories the Philadelphia centennial, more than the blowers are There goes - a couple who He vehicles of living intercourse handtray to his brother that ought was required to furnish twenty-fivto too over he would to be have skelewas a When the meal Just amiss. show ago. years glad owu only their squeezing, meaning sighs and whispers. boys. Her blood had often boiled furiously repaired to his wife's room, taking ton in their closet. In beholding the outrageous maneuvhow is She that? with him the newspaper which he haa Why, Mrs. Rigby I think Cousin Kate Is envious of our new parlor furniture ers practiced in the very He Well, you see they had one Mr. Rigby Why do sight of their not, as was his custom, offered to pass y9u think so? there and it got out. trusting victim. Her eyes, in passing to Edward. Mrs. Rigby She sent our Tommy a tool chest this morning. from their smiles of evil import, their Without a word he spread it before languishings and caresses to the serene the pale woman whose haggard counThe Prisoners Courtesy. Not Much to Them, face bent over' the Richard Harding Davis tells of a huge bundles of letters One Way to Do. It or tenance should have moved him to dewhich he had Judge Do you wish to be tried beOne sentence. are accusation and her They In alterhad lay innocent speaking of the agitating krapt Little Willie Say, pa, this paper friend of his who has been wedded addressed to his wife in the days slumber, fore me or orator. of the the Bwift in took to import and glance overflowed with the tears long nately enough glowtells about a man who paraded his misacquire average when he was striving to overcome conPrisoner Why, certainly not, s'! with indignation. He is a mar who weighs his fortunes. How can cruel article, and she buried her face married man's attitude of cynicism to- siderable a man do that? I always defer to my betters. I opposition to his marriage. "But all this was as nothing com- in the pillow with a cry that destroyed Judge; ward words, remarked the close observer. the written expressions of de- He drew a sheet or two from ' Pa Weil, he might do it by escortshall Insist that you be tried first one of remnant If of he what faint pared with my sensations on the mornhops might Baltimore American. does, said the cynic, he ing bis wife, her mother and her two votion customarily indulged in by the bundles and read them with a sin bosom. In of his ing lovers. "My gives short welgut. the day in which you made your have lingered maiden sisters to church, my son. slight smile. Well, he said, theres will. Chancing to enter your dressing-has found me out! to Mr. Davis, it appears no use in According being bothered with The Limit room, A heavy hand was laid upon her arm. A New Target on my way to your bedside, that this friend, with the assistance guff. Might as well throw it into this It Would Seem So. the I surprised Mrs. Withers and Mr. EdIs It true that Skinner is so Fox Do you really believe that This is childish, Constance, and you of bis was over wife, recently looking waste basket, dont you think? lightDiggs Griggsby is a man who Imi ward Withers standing together, her have shown yourself to be no child unpopular among his acquaintances? some old papers at home, with a view ning never strikes twice In the same agines he knows it all. Oh, Tom! exclaimed the wife, head upon his bosom, his arms uphold- in craft. Nothing short of your own Knox That's what. Why he wont place? to out what was unnecessary. weeding how can you talk so! Surely yon Why, he is always lamenting ing her, while he whispered Of course. After a place is rebuilt the fact that loving confession would have persuaded me even get a, laudatory sentence on his They were about to move to another dont want to destroy the love letters he knows so little. It isnt exactly the same, you know. words in her ear. He kissed her at that much contained in this paragraph tombstone when he shuffles off. Diggs Why, isnt that ample proof? city and did not desire to take any you wrote me! the very moment of my silent entrance, is true, that you have abused my' conof the papers except what were absoWell, all right, assented hubby, with this remark: We have too much fidence, sullied my name, and made A Foot Race Problem. lutely DeP3-aryCase of indifference. but really these seem too carelessly; Almost Ready. to live and to hope for, to nurse un- me the object of universal contempt The came bushard Brer Williams, does you think de upon several soft to file. Have I any rival In your affecI have only two difficulties to overhealthy surmises and fears. I could you and and my brother! a devil is white man or a black man? tions? he demanded fiercely. No-come in connection with my :to coxtivcsu.i testify to the language in a court of flying "I dunno. All I does know is de replied the lovely girl Legend of the Creation. machine, said the inventor. thoughtfully. Justice, and am positive that his refbullock found and devoured it. From At least, I can not think of blgges race problem Is how ter keep What are anybody Among the Somalis of South Africa that fatal day their decadence set in; erence was to your possible recovery." they? Hatnsn Heart Cm, ten yards ahead er him! 1 else Atlanta regard with equal indifference. "No more! The mischief-makj was Getting it into the air and making there is a legend that when God first and to the present time, whenever an A man named Ferris, who live at Constitution. Town Topics. it stay there. scared out of her gloomy exultation by made them, a man and a woman, he ox dies of disease or is kilted his enConn., has a tobacco pouch Mianus, .the altered face turned toward her. wrote down in a book, the law they trails are religiously examined to was made from the skin of the which One or the Other. se$ Never Touched Her. Please excuse me from going down were to follow. They were promised if any trace of the book can be found. Gibbs, who 'was Indirectly. to dinner today. I am very weary, and heart of the pirate as long as they care Wily preserv- If found they believe they should Biggs Did you read that article in that Husband My dear, didnt Jt ever In 1831. s island Bedloe Nockem I on suppose you find It necshall spend the evening alone, pur- hanged the current number of Blanks maga- occur to you that silence Is an effectheir lost power. essary to mind toe baby occasionally? ed this book they should continue zine on The Working of a Bank ?" sued Mr. Withers, with a pitiful show tive weapon. Greens contrast with colors containgreat and powerful, but if they lost it Y yes; that Is. I find Peckham concolors it of his old and pompous style. He arose ing red and harmonize witlj WUe No, John; t dont bother mv Biggs No, Was it written by an When a girl throws an old beau necessary to mind mv wife when sho their greatness would depart from s a further signal that she must go, taining yellow or blue. or an head about military affairs. them. n3 careless over l,e !s forcibly reminded that tells me to min,! Co baby. t ly left i . ov.-f- o i j:;t. where a youth will have its fling. of-'e-ra cross-na-ture- d easy-goiu- Old Poem by Chug-wate- , Whittier r, Chug-wate- 'g ' h.nrt-umchli- Bottle of Mammoth Size g sister-- in-law. sixty-five-gal- lon che-ild- - e busy-bodi- four-dro- down-stair- s, - ' e e Those old Love Letters chess-boar- d, . er i I.-- p |