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Show A BART DIXIE ADVOCATE WIUEOnOV IKOL, T. QBORQK. . Too many LIFE. Tm ...... esting, UTAH gems of thought d ble glimmer of individuality may have been born with the offspring of the methodical and practical parents. Constance found them extremely uninter- turn out to be paste. When gamblers fall out the lambs are less likely to fall in. It is almost pathetic to think what an awful lot Colombia has yet to learn. If some way could be found of emptying the Kaw river into Mount Vesuvius Mrs. Langtry has an abiding conviction that she can stand any play the public can., A good stomach is sometimes as useful as brains In. helping a man along in the world. . An inch on the end of a mans nose and a second off the trotting record are about equally conspicuous. para-graphe- If France really wants to double - her population she can do so by importing the great American cucumber. A young man seldom realizes how dear his best girl is until he goes broke trying to make her wishes come true. The probability is that Count Tolstoi considers every man who doesnt wear an old blouse and go barefoot a barbarian. J liver oil has risen in price several hundred per cent. It is becoming a delicacy that only the extremely Cod rich can afford. The idea is slowly being evolved by people in Scotland that the only chance now is to establish a cup of their own and invite us to challenge for It In naming the new boy Francis Gro- ver, Pa Cleveland shows an appreciation of the fact that mamma come3 first as far as family matters are con. cerned. . , The Japanese are reported to be wild for war with Russia. Somebody with a kind heart ought to tell the ,Japs a few things concerning the size of Russia. It takes two women longer to explain over a telephone why they cant go to lunch together than it does a dozen men to draw up plans to build a railroad. An astronomer thinks that the Martians are trying to signal us again. Perhaps they, too, are trying to find out when Prof. Langleys aerodrome is going to start. Odom, $50,000 the jockey, will earn about this season. Many men who understand three or four languages or the higher mathematics are lucky to make $5,000 a year. At night, when you sit on your front porch and talk, it is well to remember that those to whom you talk will repeat what you say in broad daylight next day. Atchison Globe. A New York scientist has impoverished himself seeking the germ of insanity. In the face of so much philanthropy it would be unkind to hint that he did not look near enough home. Andrew ' Carnegie' predicts that treat Britain and the TJhited States dll be one nation some day. Mr. larnegie has unlimited faitu in the ower of steel bands to bind things ogether. James J. Corbett has entirely from the blow which con- luded the recent battle, and quits irith a bank account and a contract or the theatrical season. Why waste ympathy? . Mr. Rockefeller is said to be about to assume control of the sulphur product of the world. If he will also get a corner on brimstone, he may be able to force Old Satan to terms and thus assure his future. that if the toy half were the mischief making pistol in Turkey that it is in this country, the Sultan would put it out of business for good between two puffs of Turkish tobacco smoke. We. have an idea We are now to have a "train de luxe across the continent for the benefit of those .exclusive ones who have too much money to mingle with the Common herd. O "Democratic simplicity what a Jewel thou artl notwithstanding the natural love for children which led her to court their companionship during the earlier weeks of her domestication in their house. It was next to a miracle that she did not stiffen in this atmosphere into a buckram image of feminine propriety a prodigy of starch and virtue, such as would have brought calm demind of her light to the chased all and effectually exemplar, thoughts of matrimony from those of masculine beholders. Had her discontent with her allotted sphere been less active, the result would have been certain and deplorable. She was, instead, popular among her acquaintances of both sexes, and had many friends, if few lovers. This latter deficiency had given her no concern until within two she opened her years. At twenty-fiv- e eyes in wide amaze upon the thinning ranks of her virgin associates, and began seriously to ponder the causes that had left her unsought, save by two very silly and utterly ineligible swains, whose overtures were, in her esteem, presumption that was only too ridiculous to be insulting. Her quick wit and knowledge of the world helped her to a solution of the problem. I am poor and dependent upon my brothers charity, she concluded, with a new and stifling uprising of dissatisfaction with her condition. Men rarely fall In love with such more rarely woo them. She never spoke the thought aloud, but it grew and strengthened until it received a startling blow from Mr. Withers proposal of marriage. He was a wealthy banker from a neighboring city, whom business relations with Mr. Romaine drew to his house and into his sisters company. His courtship was all Mrs. Romaine could desire. His visits were not too frequent, and were paid at stated intervals, as befitted his habits of order and punctuality. - His manner to the lady honored by his preference was replete with stately respect that was the antipodes of servile devotion, while his partiality for her society, and admiration for her person, were unmistakable. He paid his addresses through Mr. Romaine as his fair ones guardian, offering voluntarily to give his beloved whatever time for deliberation upon the proposal she desired. ' You had better think it over for a week, advised her brother, when he had laid the case duly before Constance. It is too serious a matter to be settled out of hand. After that1, neither he nor his wi?b INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION he had little leisure for the study of CHAPTER 1. T is always a his sisters tastes and. traits, when she thankless office to first became his ward,' and conceived give advice in these the task to be an unnecessary one, now matters, said Mrs. that she was to be a fixture in his famCharles Romaine, ily, and appeared to get on smoothly ' Your with his wife. In truth, it never ocdiscreetly. brother and I have curred to him to lay a disturbing finger decided not to at- upon the tiniest wheel of the domestic tempt to influence machinery. His respect for his spouses you in any u way, executive and administrative abilities Constance;, not to was exceeded only'by her confidence in bias your judgment her own powers. She was never irasciin favor of or against Mr. Withers. You, ble; but he knew that she would have as the one most nearly interested in borne down calmly and energtically the consequences of your acceptance any attempt at interference in her opor refusal of his offer, should surely erations as minister of the interior be able to make up your mind how to the ruler of the establishment he, by a much-abuse- d treat it and him. figure of speech, called I should be, as you say, responded his home. A snug and elegant abode she made of it, and, beholding ConBut I cannot. the sister-in-lawoman, in the stance well dressed and well fed, habitShe was prime of early maturity, whose face ually cheerful and never rebellious, he seldom wore, in the presence of others, may be forgiven for not spending a thought upon her for hours together, the perturbed expression, that now and when he did remember her, for it. That does not affect the fact of your dwelling the rather upon his disinduly, answered Mrs. Romaine, with terested kindness to a helpless dependconsiderable severity. There are times ent than speculating upon her possible and circumstances in which vacillation and unappeased spiritual appetites. For these, and for other whimsies, is folly criminal weakness. You have known Mr. Withers long enough to Mrs. Romaine had little thought and no form a correct estimate of his characcharity. Life, with her, was a fabric ter. In means and in reputation he is made up of duties, various and many, into hempen all that could be desired, your brother but all double-twiste- d says. Either you like him well enough strength and woven too closely for a to marry him, or you do not. Your sit- shine of fancy or romance to strike uation in life will be bettered by an through. She had coincided readily in her husalliance with him, or it will not. These are the questions for your considera- bands plan to take charge of his young Her tion.' And excuse me for saying that a sister when her parents died. woman of your age should not be at a brothers house is the fittest asylum for her, she had said. I shall do my loss in weighing these. to render her comfortable and conbest had ready Constance nothing Again except a weak phrase of reluctant ac- tented. She kept her word. Constances wardI feel the weight of your quiescence. reasoning, Margaret. You cannot de- robe was ample and handsome, her spise me more than I do myself for my room elegantly furnished, and she enchildish hesitancy. Mr. Withers any tered society under the chaperonage of The servants were sensible and honorable man deserves her sister-in-ladifferent treatment. If I could see the trained to respect her; the children to way clear before me I would walk in regard her as their elder sister. What it. But, indeed, I am in a sore dilem- -' more could a penniless orphan require? She turned away, as her voice Mrs. Romaine was not afraid to ask ma. shook on the last sentence, and affect- the question of her conscience and of ed to be busy with some papers upon a heaven. Her best was no empty profession. It was lucky for her stand. that she never suspected what Mrs. Romaine was pust in all her of' ears and barrenness 2nd longing" thesfe husba'nds with her sister, dealings Conto her protege. were kind. be to eight obtruded their counsel Upon her until meant, in her way, Constance was not a genius there- the afternoon of the seventh day. Then stance respected her for her excellent sense, her honesty of purpose and ac- fore she never breathed even to her- Mrs. Romaine, going to her sisters tion but she was the last of her self: I feel like a seed in the cold chamber to communicate the substance friends whom she would have select- earth, quickening at heart, and longing of a telegram just received by her husHer temperament was band to the effect that Mr. Withers ed, of her free will, as the confidante for the air. of such joys and sorrows as shrink not melancholic, nor did her taste run would call that evening at 8 oclock, from the touch of hard natures refuse after poetry and martyrdom. She was was moved to grave remonstrance by to be confessed to unsympathizing ears. simply a young, pretty, and moderately the discovery that she whom he came woman, too sensible not to woo had no answer prepared for Her heart and eyes were very full now, but she would strangle sooner than to perceive that her temporal needs him. Constance was no nearer ready drop a tear while those cold, light orbs were conscientiously supplied, and too after the conversation before recorded. affectionate to be satisfied with the were upon her. 'I cannot afford to bo romantic, In consideration of the weakness and meager allowance of nourishment she had reminded herself several dealt out for her heart and sympathies. times. And who knows but this irraridiculous sensitiveness of her companion, Mrs. Romaine forbore to speak the While the memory of her fathers proud tional repugnance may pass away when disdain she felt at the irresolution and affection and her mothers caresses have once made up my mind to acdistress she could not comprehend. Is was fresh upon her she had long and cept him? This may be In all likeliMr. Withers personally disagreeable to frequent spells of lonely weeping Was hood it is my last chance of achievwont to resign herself in the seclusion ing an independent position. It has you? she demanded, in her strong conof her chamber to passionate lamenta- been a long time coming, and my tralto voice. I liked him tolerably well very tions over her orphanage and isola- charms will he on the wane soon. True, a marriage with Elnathan Withers is well, in fact, until he told me what tion of spirit. Routine, was Mrs. exand Conin so watchword, him bodily here not the destiny of which I have dreamregularly, brought ercise Constance conformed to her ed, but then dreams are but foolish vastance stammered. Now I am embarstudied, garies after all. Life is real and eardespotism visited, rassed in his presence so uneasy that quiet wish sometimes I could never see or worked and took recreation by rifle. nest The system wrought upon her benefihear of him again. (TO Bl Romaine. cially so far as her physique was conMero shyness! said Mrs. Such as would be pardonable In a cerned. She grew from a slender, pale The Weeplnf Trees The weeping tree of the Canary Isgirl of seventeen. In a woman of seven girl into ripe and healthy womanhood; n than lands is one of tbe wonders of it is absurd. Mr. --Withers was more comely at twenty-seveplant is highly esteemed by all who know at twenty-on- e. life. It is of the laurel family, and him. Your disrelish of his society is rains down a copious shower of water CHAPTER II. caprice, unless the marble gray eyes drops from its tufted foliage. The waUT all this time she ter Is often collected at the foot of the more searching unless you have a was an hungered. tree and forms a kind of pond, from prior attachment? She would cheer- which the Inhabitants of the neighborI have smiled Constance drearily. hood can supply themselves with a bevfully have refundnever been in love in my life, that 1 ed to her brother erage that is absolutely fresh and pure. know of. two-thirof her The water comes out of the tree itself You are none the worse for having of through innumerable pores situated at allowance liberal wreck' has escaped an infatuation that pocket money if he the margin of the leaves. It issues from ed more women for time and for eterhad granted to her the plant as vapor during the day time, nity th3n all other delusions combined. with its quarteriy when the heat is sufficiently great to A rational marriage founded upon payment a sentence preserve it in that condition, but in the mutual esteem and t.he belief that the of fraternal fond- evening, when the temperature has social and moral condition of the paror looked, that he lowered very much,' a considerable a verbal ness, token, ties to the contract would be promotof it is exuded In the form of ed thereby is the only safe union. The remembered whose child she was, and quantity that collect near the edges drops liquid had same love the mother guardyoung, inexperienced and headstrong that of the leaves until these members so sister-in-laHer ed their mature The infancy. repudiate this principle. would have been welcome to withhold bend down under their increasing in age know it to be' true. But, as weight as to pass, for them, the limit have said, it is not my intention to di- many of her gifts of wearing apparel of the angle of repose, when the tears herself she had and jewelry bethought rect your judgment. This is a momentumble off on the ground below in a tous era In your life. I can only hope now and then how gratefuly kisses veritable shower. and that youthful and pray that you may be guided fall upon young lips, heads are often sadly weary for the Different. aright in your decision. Sir, said the citizen, the car I rode Left to herself to digest this morsel lack of a friendly shoulder, or a loving on last night was so crowded of pious encouragement, Constance bosom, on which to rest. She did not home that people, myself among them, bad accuse her relatives of willful unkinddrew a low seat to the hearth registo hang on by their eyelids, so to ter, clasped her hands upon her knees ness because these were withheld. They and tried, for the hundredth time that interchanged no such unremunerative speak. The street railway magnate went on themselves. day, to weigh the facts of her position demonstrations wifeamong were courteous in writing. and Husband and impartially. fairly So crowded, in fact, that the conducfor eight their demeanor, the one to the other; She had been of tor was unable' to collect all the fares. models were demure children their of house the a in resident years, and The magnates pen dropped to the elder brother. Her senior by more filial duty at home and industry be-at floor. What was the number of that both in the places excitschool; training in the and a dozen than years, feeasked eagerly. Chicago Post he car? what to severe quench enough ing swing of successful mercantile life, ing ( At least it must be said for breakfast food that it has provided with plenty of material. J ed J f well-educat- es and-twen- heard to the hills wiS lift huge Mu 'em sing the psalm. As thought of bow, dose to the aUe the KBa lose grand an calm: Row penMufly they tawed Ufeir heads endocd serene an stHL with fheii greens aa reds each hop Inspirin' bin. ' I like the sober hash theyVe geh-i- lli itsss as B they meant To send to me (hb gentle thooght; CXyooe ir)i, bo content I h3hl God made em etery ooe, ah tafc ens 'em with dew. Ah' makes em guides with the sna to gWdes ine an you. Down bme there's Bitterness an stifle: an km o things seem tain: Ah we make out computes at Eb hem an ths noisy plain. n we Sat there,, the hills lift so their-hea- d can lode atfse VThere brooks play in their gleamin' beds asf soarkle in th eir glee. e watched the hills when JtM at dawn the sen swept np their slope, Art knew my night of doubt had gone an left a aay of hope; fre watched the hills at evenin' time, all silvered by the thoon. When bom their sides In tone. sublime. thn breezes brought a croon, An n the world greet good to me ansH thn world was still 0, them's the times aman can aye the glory ct aboil man like me or reckon David must V been you, That had his own sore lights to win, just as an humans do; An' he looked to them hint of his that breathed of quiet peace Jost like ont hills, where Comfort in artaB our troubles cease. I to the hills win Eft mine eyre" Pee beard em sing the psalm; An in- - each mellow note there lies a btesdsT pure an calm. W. D. N., in Chicago Tribune. EASTERN MAN HAS DREAMS. to Make the Eiffel Tower and. the Ferris Wheel Forgotten. An eastern architect has drawn plans for the greatest tower in the wdrld. What this wonderful tower-willook like is shown by the illustration printed herewith, and what it will contain is told by Popular Mechanics. Its dimensions, of course, are what entitle it to its chief it will be 1,050 feet high and 565 feet in circumference. An Acropolis at the top of this column of steel will support a wireless telegraph station and. over it all will rise the largest flagstaff ever made. There will be an observatory, too, with a capacity for 7,000 persons. Elevators will run inside the tower to this observatory and a palace excursion car" will wind around a spiral on the outside. The building will be called the Crys' tal Palace Tower, because millions of pieces of glass will hang within it and electric light floods of will be turned on them. The motive power of i. all will be compressed air. There will be a lagoon at the base- A Tower l rail--w- vari-colore- ay d - ty ds w an br at of the tower with blocks of salt waves the bottom and machine-mad- e to show what surf bathing is like.-Immense Puff Ball. and Herbert Gee of Vergen nes, Vt., recently found a puff ball, growing in the woods which measured 4 feet 9 inches in circumference, J18 inches across, and weighed 16 W. G. pounds. Off the Track. A Great Bend, Kan., little girl asked to repeat the 23d Psalm, started off' bravely: The Lord is my shepherd and he lost his sheep, and dont- knovr where to find them. 4 |