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Show A Prince of Highwaymen By KATHARINE TYNAN (Lopyrigbt, by Joseph it bowlss I was a born turbulent, I i suppose, the child of nr' father rather than of my gentle mother. If my father had lived things had been better with me, for I remember his great Jolly laughter when I had behaved ill, or so my mother thought, yet out of mere childish roguery and daring rather than with evil Intent He was not many months dead wnen my brother Aymer was born. People used to wonder that we could be sprung of one stock. I so dark, he o fair; I so rude and wild in my ha all gentleness I was ever lusty, and as the years passed I grew strong as a young colt, and unmanageable as one yet unbitted. He, on the other hand, kept his ratr delkaoy of look and was somewhat frail of health, which made another reason for my moibera losing htm.J since abfl blamed herself that extensive grief for my father had weikened the unborn child. I was lonely till my cou-l- n Joan came Her mother, Dame Winchester, was my mother s slater, and now both were widowed. Therefore they thought well of bousing their grief under one roof. But these are childish things, and let me on to the time of the great war My mother was dead before those vll days befe 1, or else she had died of them, perhaps, as many a loyal lady did. And even at the last, dear soul, he left a barbe wound In my heart, for, said she to me. In those lust precious hours while we yet kept her: Roger, my son, do you love your 'ou-el- n Joan?' I know not, dearest, said I, and reddened, even at that moment, for I was a cullow, rough lad, and would have been ashamed to think upon love. She laid her thin hand on mine, and I thought she would have kissed me, for we had drawn closer during her lllnese, but what she said war Listen, Roger. If Aymer loves her, , too, as I fear he does, let Aymer wed her. N You will forget. You will go out In the world among other men anl will see other indies to love. You are Strong and valiant, my eon, he is gentle and delicate? Let him have bis bard-ridin- hard-drinki- g, 1 love. postilions, ho much 1 could e, ho It HERO OF PHILADELPHIA KIDNAPING. wu at leant live to one against me, but It conaorted with my mood to take the couch single handed Now 1 saw the vantage the woods aa gave me, and were these fellow great cowards as I have often proved such rarlets to be, the enterprise were safe enough Therefore as the couth rolled beneath the hangman's tree, I atepped out and crying, "yield, knaves to me and my men! I flourished tnj pistols la the fare of the first man Oh, Lord, highway men'" 1 heartj him sob, and. Indeed, the woodB shadow jnlght be full of us The horses feTI bat k on their hauneb-and the great equipage tame to a I standstill bent forward, calling to my Imaginary comrades to stand, when suddenly, a great oath broke from the immovable figure of a man that sat on the boa of the coach, and turning at the Bound, f saw the four postilions currying like rabbits as fast as their feet would carry them. "Send your pistols after them, good highwayman" wheezed the figure on the box, and. In faith, forgetting what ambush there might be, I blazed away with both pistols, so that the rogues might have reai fun for their money 'Think you, friend," said I, "but whom do you carry with you" Chdrles Frederh h Moth he t son of a Philadelphia jeweler ".Vly mistress, u lady no beautiful t when you have b held her you will who was stolen b a man wlm lured him ont of sthool, was found In a hous on the outskirts of I Ii. pi la, the prisoner of J J Kean, a crook, who had In .m atunipt to get $32 with which to repay a man from kidnaped the whom he had emU vie I th tt Tbi boy had not been harmed by hit the day after his arrest, to 20 years in the abdu tor Kean w s seniem-d- , penitentiary. f seven-year-o- ON AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. By HUGH McHUGH GEORGE Y. HOBART ld Set Up as a Statue. Peaches, my wife, acquired the am- - and her left hand lookeel like the Fourth teur photography bug last week, and It of July was really surprising how quickly she "John! she yelled, "here It is! My laid the foundation of a domestic goodness, J am so excited! See what a fine picture of you I took! rogues gallery She handed me the picture, but all She bought a camera and went after everybody and everything lu the neigh- I could see was a woodshed with the door wide open. borhood "A good of the woodshed, 1 She took about 8,0o0,m10 views of our that said, "hut whose woodshed is it?" country home before shedls-overe"A woodshed" ex laimed my wife; the camera wasn t loaded properly, whi-was tough on Peaches but good "why, that Is your f.t-John And where you think the door is open Is only for the bungalow. your mouth' Like evei v thing else in this world picI looked crestfallen and then I looked ture pint lung fiom still life depends at the picture again, but my better naon the point of view. If your point of view is all right Its ture asserted Itself and I made no at- in wi-- y nidttei to make a four-dolldoghouse look like the villa of a Wail treet biokerat Newort Ten minutes after my wife hail brought the annul home she had me set up a- - a -- t.uue all over the lawn, and -- he was -napping at me like a spitz doggie al a I sat tor 219 pit turns that forenoon so I supi-i-- e u she snappel like a spitz mu-- t have looked like a etter Anvwiv was through setbef.ue ting ! felt I,ke a hen but when slip tried to oax me toiltrrbup on a limb of a tr-and -- tiv there till she got a of me looking like an owl, 1 swore softly In three languages fell over tlm Ikk k fen-and rui lor my life. When rubber-hoe- d it ba- k that afternoon mv wife was bti-- y developing her crimes The proper and caper In conneition with taking snap shots these days Is to buy a developing out-fi- t and from pit to dome upset the while you die -- quieing out pictures of very death beoved friend that crosses your pathway It's Immense. My wife selected a spare room on the top floor where she could await develop- tempt to strike this defenseless woman. ments. Then she handed ms another picture A half hour la'rr ghostly noises began and said: John, here is one I took of to come from that room and mysterious you and little Feaches!" whWpexlngs fell gut of the window and Little Feaches is the name of our baby lawn. over tlm bumped We call her little Peaches because When I reached the front door I found that's what she Is. that the gardener had left, the waitress I looked at the picture and thfcm said was leaving, the baby bad discharged to big PeachesiAll I can see Is TheoIhe nurse, and the nurse was telephondore, our colored gardener, walking a for policeman. ing across lots with a sack of flour on his Where is Mrs. Henry? I asked Mary, back! the nurse. John, you are so stupid, said my "She Is still developing, said Mary. wife. ' How can you expect to see what "What has she developed? I Inquired. It Is when you are holding the picture Vp to the present time she has de- upside down? veloped the cooks temper and she has I turned the n I(j then pirn n developed the baby's appetite, and a couI was quite agree. ,i y a ple of bill collectors developed a pain Its immense'" I shouted "It's the in the neck when they couldn't see her; real thing, all right! Why tins Is aces! In I this way think I and If things go on suppose It Is called Moonlight On this will develop Into a foolish Lake Champlain?' Did this one come house' said Mary, the nurse. with the camera or did you draw it from A half hour later while I was hiding under the hammock on the front porch, memory?" "The Idea of such a thing, my wife not daring to breathe above a whisper can't you see that you're snapped; for fear I Would get my picture taken holding the picture the wrong way. again, ray wife rushed out exclaiming; Turn It around and you will see your"Oh, joy! Oh, joy' John, I have develself and little Peaches! oped two pictures! I gave the thing another turn. I wish you could have seen the expres"Gee whiz! I said, now I have It? sion on reaches face. Oh, the limit! You wished to In order to develop the films a pictursurprise me with a picture of the sunset at 8 esque assortment of drugs and chemicals Island. How lovely R Is. ge have to be used. over here In this corner there's a bunch Well, my wife had used them. A silent little stream of wood alcohol of soldiers listening to whats pooklng was trickling crown over her left ear for supper, and over here Is the smoke from the gun that sets the sun I like it! Then my wife grabbed the picture out of my hands and burst into speech. When the exercises were over I Inquired, casually; Where, my dear where are the other 21,219 pictures you snapped "Only these two came out good because, don't you see. I'm an amateur yet. was her come back. Then she looked lovingly at the result of her dav's work and began to peel some bicarbonate of magnesia off her knuckles with the nutcraiker "Only two out of 21,219- -1 think you ought to all It a long shot Instead of a snap shot, I whispered, after I had dodged behind a tree on the lawn She went in the saying a word and 1 took out my poeketbookand looked at it wistfully (torvr, ht. r)l, bv c, W Dllllnghem Co ) j d e, ly EATS BIRDS. SPIDER SCIENCE AND THE OCCULT American Ttopic Forests tha Possibility That Twentieth Century Home of Insect with ReKnowledge Will Admit Progress markable Appetite. from the Unknown. South In the There has jud Inn dcpo-itc- d zoo inlmi insect hoiiw at ti.e a specimen of the laid ding spider, which earns lt- - name 1a including m iu nun i sonic of the brilliantly lined humming lords and varicolored fine in s of t he- riunth Amer lean tropic- It Is doubtful whetnei the silken threads which he .pin. In profusion for constitute his most erviuve lecurlng his pre) , Indeed, It Is more probable that the little birds get caught through ilighting upon the banana a n other leaves. In the twisted folds of which the spieler makes bis home The .similarity of his coloring to the bark of decs, to whleh he attaches himself. Is also a powerful faetor In enabling him to approach his prey. The silken threads which help to iMia-ionul- ly -- I did not discreditably, and for my In certain exploits came to be known as Mad Malnwarlng. But, alack! those glories (Wens well ' over, and her was I, n ragged cavalier, with but my horse, my sword and my llttls dog. And ere I Joined some gay friends of mtnc.Yrtiirwere Tnarrng war la another fashion, s' great hunger came upon me to look upon the home f my childhood, to see that which had renounced, and visit once again my mother's grave, I turned my face westward, therefore, and rode night knd day. Oil the watery sunset of a spring evening Showed me King's Beeches, with its turrets and chimneys black against the j -- Will twentieth century knowledge remove the prejudice against the occult? Astionoiny and geology and chemistry are permitted to be In the hands of the man of science, but life ad mind phenomena are declared to be outside the province of physical science, yet the same was said about astronomy and geology and chemistry not many generations ago. Was not war made upon those who undertook to show that the earth was not more than 6,000 years olel, and were not the chemists who showed how or ganlc compounds could bewormed believed to tie enemies of the truth and ben on misleading mankind? Is It not curious to contemplate that those who know least about a given science jhould be the ones to set its limits, ho know what cannot be done or loped for so much better than those NAVY LOSES GREAT SAILOR. ky. r 1 -- 1 e e 1 - hou--ln.- ld r 9 1 NRY OMN e part The window was open and some one was singing, a ripe voice, which I was low to recognize as that of my brother Aymer. With the song went the thin music of spinet. I hoisted myself by my hands on the window sill; yet, ere 1 had looked within, I knew what I should see. My brother, dressed soberly, yet with richness, leant by the spinet which my cousin Joan was playing. Several years had gone, and something almost matronly had come upon my eousln's beauty, something so noble and so tender that I must swear forever no womans beauty wers perfect lacktog that The waves of her chestnut hair were tolled away from the pure outline of her face I could see her little ears and the full, milky throat below the golden head For so instant I feasted on her beauty. Then my ees wandered to my brother. He looked less slight than of old, but his Apollo grace and fairness, wbhh I used to thlnx unbecoming a man. had not deserted him The whole scene was so peaceful, so full of home, that It made his heart ache who had doomed himself to he homeless And then a thought came to me that sent the blood surging to my head hy. It was a home scene I looked upon, ami this pan, wiih their lwppy quietude. were no lovers except wedded ones! 1 hal willed It o, or the dead had willed It for me, yet I turned, to the night with an oath ou my lips and for never uuul despair in my then, I think, had I re.tibej tny m for my cousin. And so, swearing I would not come again, lest worse befall, I strode oft to the dell In the wood, Where ror Sahttlln pa wed the ground! and irelghed the way had taken. We, gentlemen of the road, drop out of tfiv world we once knew, as much as If we were dead Two years did Tom Selby, Dick an! myself lead the highway-man'- s life, and If I said it had not things to recommend It I should err. There came a night I rode alone, as fate would have It, and was scarce thinking of business, hut lrant by g wayside gallows In the shadow of a wood and mused as vu my wont on the wherefore men were born into the .world, only to leave It with not a hope ' fulfilled. Then, far away in the moonlight. I saw a great coach coming toward me. , There were four horses, rlddeg hy J I Rear Admiral B, H. MrCalla, who had charge of the navy yard at Mare Island, retired on account of age on June 19. McCallas career in the navy has been one of distinguished service and high honor. ensnare so many beautiful birds are a serious annoyance to the traveler when riding or driving through the less frequented fore-t- As thev con tinuu'lv trike the face one g minded of some motor trap The hud ititlng piiltr - mm h Fnis.hr nit hough not less ft ro ion-i- n i. -- -- app name than the The lod tula rantula Is as big fiuoi. linn who devote their lives and their best endeavors to .discover what is true and what seems probable? All the progress of science la a progress from the unknown, that Is the hidden or the occult, to the known which is not hidden but patent. Perhaps the present century will be able effectually to warn everybody of the dan ger of setting an- - limits to know! of c full - a ten edge. on an it civ , r ci ,n to in yard- - of silk, th uawn f wt ft Why? wa ixpxted at one a i, hool, At the Hampton (Va) Indian verv iVii-h- b - Vc n - l . f in endeavoring to ovei throw teat her, a ' -i r i an . on n the l, n the Indian belief that the etrth - fiat, output of lit Llrd.ji.ng , stsndr sfBL ami- - that the -- tin pisses gr- at r In t opor t it hour- -, ,, a- e 'it. u- , u- I . ' . -- The In pc I, -- tn 111 v Hn . v in 'Pi 1 pal H''p in 1 T that - r. i! a h h had a - n K t : a a sa w yon sure." every it over and under said, in conclusion. io you see th tt it - the etr'h bU -mi 'an is goes around, while the still. A tali boy asked hnt tor you tell us one "Then man in the Bible I fortbout story rget his name strong warrio- fUht a so and' can't dark trot fight, pet I day. stand still" What tor he" Sun, say: ro 8Un a" tlnh 8tand tiM he say that -- V i't k ' - Dallv New Defiance. jfero as in a fierce mood after the er peacock banquet whispered the fat "Great torum. senator, but the boss ha9 a wicked y. he loohs as gleam ,n h,s eye'the nerve to had he defy though lightning.' "LlghtninlT replied the lean sena-feas thcAgh he tor. 'Why. he looks had tha nerve to defy the bead " of fitts quality Dt t,fntlv faiutcaw and filtrated tbo will find with them the good taste and per- For to preservation to - neressarv to re-any conterfeit on hotleany qulere this coutremarc waiter- deposed conformably to the aBut after the orange wine the great The cork- - and 'he boxes hare all emperor waa observed to toss over maiked with the fire." goldeu Up. cm-um- er ct , Gouv-ernor- house-witho- ut Frugality of the French. The astonishing statement is made that the French people have Invested In foreign securities the stupendous amount of above $13 000 000,000, and that In addition to their own public debt, the greatest of any nation, whick I Have Developed Two Pictnmea. is an exclusively domestic loan. These savings are due to frugality nto her Psyche knot, and on the and of gigantic and to thrift. Thrlft- -lt was a French het nez-- e about six grains of bichloride at the dawn of French f potash was sending out signals of trait history and has prevailed for centuries. t istress Ne some to spirits of turpentine land has been harried by opposing which was burning on the top other armies more frequently or more deva right eyebrow. tatlngly and no land ever recovered Something dark and lingering like from desolation so spedlly and so comiodine had given her chin the double France is stronger and rlchei pletely. irons and her apron looked like the this moment than ever before, - and remnants of a porous plaster. too. In the fourth decade after Her right hand had red. white, green. that pro9trUn and nvagent rnarka all overlt! put mV"' |