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Show She was fairly tall, apparently yu. And he was beginning to talk little over SO years of ago and dress1 about you in the village, and Fo you paid the money to save my Dark brown becomingly In black. forehead curls clustered above her good name, broke in Leonard. "Darand her eyes as they glanced lnqulr ling Thirza! Twasnt much of a name Ingly at Leonard Cawthorn had a rare to save, but you have a right to It because you saved it. Will you take sweetness of expression. she as rose lie approached It for your own. and Its owner with It quickly bo into the bargain? Thirza! hand. and held out his For answer she only nestled closer cried. to In a she said Leonard! Its him, while tho stars and the round Why, voice that was tremulous with excite harvest moon smiled down upon them llow well you look and how In benediction. Fred J. Cox in Chimoot, 7715 SEA,, Com down with mo to the moon-lw- ! Whore the Ion wave ebba and fills Are the the tides that follow Aa the lunar Impulse wills? , Nay. rather this Is the heart of God, Naked under the rky, And we hear Its pulse with wonder The shore, and the clouds, and I! Unearthly, Kternlty The uraa llocklug awful, uncomptlled, framed In clay. of exhauatlcss passions beneath the gray! Its life Is the blood of the universe Through cosmic arteries hurled. With the throb of Its riant pulses God feed the veins of the world! And the lands are wrinkled with time And scored with a thousand Hut the sea Is the soul of the Swinging beneath the stars! Frederic Lawrence Knowles Kngland Mngarlne. As Leonard Cawthorn walked down and gray scars, Infinite. In New dered figure of a man, who with ono the narrow lane under the shade of hand held aloft a small metal lamp the he and with the other shaded his eyes overarching hedgerows. glanced about him with an eye of sober delight. The surrounding landscape was precisely that which had always formed the background of his dreams when at nighttime in his lone his Canadian ranch current of homehad set thoughts Involuntarily ward. As he remembered it as a boy, as he had dreamed of it as a man, so the picture remained, true down to the smallest of its details, even to the wisps of straw caught by the projecting forks in the hedgerow when the corn-lade- n wain had passed. It was in such a setting that lie had always thought of her. Indeed, the landscape without her would for Leonard Cawthorns eyes at least have lost more than half its charm. Presently the corn lands ceased, and the lane broadening out ran by the side of undulating meadows to the village of Netherlands lying in the valley below. Nethercote farm lay back from the roadway, just at the edge of the village. As Leonard walked up the path which led to the house a troop of early memories crowded in upon him. and peered at the stranger. Well, Mark! Youll hardly know me, I guess? Oh. its you. is it? Youd best come in. answered the other. He led the way Into the farm parlor, a large room meagerly furnished, for the illumination cf which the glimmer of the little lamp was absurdly inadequate. Leonard tcok a chair facing his brother and leaned his arm on a round deal table, ridiculously small to serve as the centerpiece of so large an apartment. Well, Mark. he said, how've things gone with you all these years? Mark replied, Not overgrand. Leonard laughed. Why, the farms twice the size it used to be! Dont judge by appearance. I suppose youve made your fortune? answered Mark. Not exactly that, Leonard replied, but Ive nothing much to complain about. Married yet? The wrinkles deepened on the low forehead of the elder man as he replied, Are you? No, Im not married, was the answer. Still waiting for Thirza Loveday, I glad 1 am to sco you back In Nether cago Chronicle. cote again. ANCESTRY OF THE CZAR. Yes, Thirza, Im back again, said Leonard. I wanted to see the old vilRussian lage again. Though perhaps twas First Romanoff Mounted not In theros for 1613. Throne hardly worth while, much In Nethercote to interest mo In the middle of the fourteenth cennow. But there was a little business tury Kobyla, a chieftain of Lithuania, with Mark I wanted to settle. was driven from his own country for she asked holding fast to paganism and refusBut what business? eagerly. She glanced across at Mark, ing Christianity. Fleeing to Muscovy, who sat crouching in his chair and as bis abilities as a warrior were welshe did so her eye caught the glint of comed by the Czar Ivan I. So promisgold lying on top of the notes. ing a career opened before him that A business which don't concern no Kobyla renounced the heathen worone but us two, growled Mark ship for which he had suffered exile said It? was baptized Into tho church unso about and secret be Why The fact der the name of Andrew. In course Ix'onard contemptuously. ho of events his family became known as is, Thirza, I owed your husband noticed that she started violently at the Romanoffs, and In 1547 Ivan IV the word a little sum of money took Anastasia Romanoff to wife. Tho which he lent me when I went away. Romanoffs thus became a notable Ive now repaid him that's all. party in the court of the czar. With the death of Ivan the TerriWithout waiting to hear more she walked over to Mark and pointing to bles son Feodor and the assassinathe money on the table, said sternly: tion of the rightful successor, Dimitri, In 1591, the house of Rurlk came to an Return that at once. But why? asked Leonard, thunderstruck at her strange behavior. It has been paid already. Let us She go away, she said to Leonard. moved quickly to the door, and Leonard, after taking a last look at ,hls stepbrother, left him to his feelings. Thirza, said Leonard as they walked away from Nethercote In the direction he had come only an hour before, there are two things that Romanoffs. Characteristic Rockefeller Trait, When John D. Rockefeller Is at his Pocantlco Hills estate his chief companions are the three young sons of a New York broker who lives a mile or so distant. Three or four evenings e a week Mr. Rockefeller sends his down for the youngsters. Then he plays games with thm. spose? Well, and what of it? Leonard asked, more sharply than he had yet spoken. Shell never have thee, thats all," car-riag- was the other's sullen reply. She is your wife? said Leonard hoarsely. And what if she is? retorted Mark evasively. Cant you answer a plain question, man? cried Leonard. Mark did not stir nor speak; he only went on smoking. "A nice brotherly welcome! cried I see how it Is. Leonard, bitterly. The sooner Im out of Nethercote the better it will please you. I wont trouble you long, but before I leave Ive determined your house to settle up a little business with ' She only nestled closer to him. puzzle me greatly. What Is this abo the money, and why did you marry him? I have not married him, she sa quietly. Thank God, he cried ferventl But why were you in his house t night? You came as though you t longed to the place. Slowly he gathered from her tfc her family, having fallen on evil da with her father dead and her moth you. What business? asked Mark. constantly ailing, she was obliged Look here, exclaimed Leonard work. Mark Cawthorn, finding th quickly, stow that kind of talk. Ive she could not come to Nethercote far come to pay back your money, for I in any other capacity, begged that s wouldnt be beholden to you for a would at least come in every day ai farthing. tidy up the place for him. He pa A strange glitter came Into the othher for this, she said, and it was . ers eyes. great help. Heres the money, shouted LeonBetter a thousand times be th ard, laying a bundle of bank notes on mans servant than his wife, he crie the table. But, dear Thirza, I am still In Just then the click of a latch at the dark about the money. back of the farm was heard. Both It was some time before she men started. The door leading from awered. the farm kitchen into the parlor now Its a long time ago now, she sa opened and a woman entered, bearing at last He wanted me to marry hi a lamp which at once gave a cheerier and threatened that If I didn't I would do all sorts of things againaspect to the room. to-nig- ht cried brotherly welcome! Leonard, bitterly. He had a clear right to a share of the property after their fathers death, but Mark seized everything with that grasping nature of his and soon made It plain to Leonard that his room in Nethercote would be preferable to his company. Feeling this, like a sensi-tiv- e man he had resolved to emigrate, and this resolve was industriously fed by Mark, who lent him 150 to start ranch life In Canada. Fortune had smiled so pleasantly upon him that the repayment of that sum was now, after fifteen years, quite an easy matA nice, ' ter. He knocked at the door, which was presently opened by a round-shout- j end after reigning over Russia for 720 years. Anarchy then rent Russia asunder. Poles, Swedes and Muscovite nobles struggled for and success-- " ively usurped the throne. By virtue of his relationship with the late czar, Feodor Romanoff was one of tho claimants. Ills ability and wisdom so enhanced his claims that his rival, Boris Godonoff, compelled him to become a priest and so debarred him from the throne. Profiting by these Internecine struggles, the Poles seized Moscow. In despair, the Russians were about to accept the king of Polands sovereignty, when a butcher of Novgorod raised the people In a patriotic effort which drove out the invaders. The nobles, clergy and burgesses were summoned to Moscow to elect a czar. The assembly met in Lent, 1G13. After stormy debates, Michael Romanoff was elected king. lie was a youth of 17, and the sole reason of his election was that he was the son of his father Feodor. Thus began the reign of the - |