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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, through the woods that bordered tl. Two envied bov fishermen established themselves upon a bank with hooks and lines thoughtfully brought with them, and poles which they fashioned from young saplings. 0 They took mussels from the shallows. for bait, and having gone to all this declined to share with friends trouble, v less energetic and provident the perquisites and pleasures secured to themselves. Albert Paxton was or person who proved his enterprise. Having visT11iisfrn4irn fin ited the spot some days before, he had jgy hired for his exclusive use throughout the duration of the picnic an old row-bobelonging to a shanty squatter; It was the only rowboat within a mile or two and Albert had his own uses for It. Allien was the class lover and. after first taking the three chaperoa O teachers "out for a row," an excursion jipyrightjbu Doubleday.Page & Company. concluded In about ten minutes, he dis:o cave never the slightest sign of com embarked them ; Sadie Clews stepped prehending that there had been a tight Into the boat, a pocket camera in one THE FIGHT. about her. Having tio real cognisance hand, a tennis racket In the other ; and of Messrs. Bender and Milholland ex- the two spent the rest of the day, ex Ms Bynopsla.WIth grandfather, small Ramsey Milholland is watchcept as Impediments to the advance of cept for tiie luncheon Interval, solemn ing th "Decdratlen Day Parade" learning, she did not even rook demure. ly drifting along the banks or groundIn the home town. The old gentleed on a shoal. Now and then Albert man, a veteran of the Civil war, endeavors to Impress the youngwould row a few strokes, and at al'CHAPTER TV. ster with the significance of the most any time when the populated great conflict, and many years afterward the boy was to remember With Wesley Bender, Ramsey was shore glanced toward them, Sadie his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few years again upon fair terms before the win- would be seen photographing Albert, afterward, Ramsey Is not distinter had run Its course; the two were or Albert would be seen photograph reguished for remarkable ability, neighbors and, Moreover, were drawn lng Sudle, but the tennis racket though his pronounced dislikes are arithmetic, 'Recitations" and Gerby a community of interests mained an enigma. They were sixtogether man. In sharp contrast to Ramneteen, and had been "engaged" more which mude their reconciliation sey's backwardness Is the precocity of little Dora Yocum, a young lady cessity. Ramsey played the guitar and than two years. whom In his bitterness he denomiOn the borders of the little meadow Wesley played the mandolin. nates "Teachei" Pet." All 111 feeling between them died of baskets there had been deposited 0 with the first duet of spring, yet the two black shapes, which remained un a closed tinkling they made had no charm to disturbed throughout the day, mandolin-111. CHAPTER Continued. L?uitar case and a closed soothe the of breast Ramsey savage 3 whenever the Teacher's Pet came Into case, no doubt containing each Its Here was a serious affront, at least his a thou proper instrument. So far as nny ust thoughts. He to Ramsey Milholl-and'way of think- sand ways of putting her In her place. of these went they seemed to be of tlit ing; for Ramsey, also now proved but was unable to carry out any of same leisure class to which Sadie's sensitive. He quieted his friends them, and had but a cobwebby satis tennis racket belonged, for when one "Shut up!" and advanced toward faction in imagining discomfitures for of the teachers suggested music, the "You hrok here! Who you Wesley. her: which remained Imaginary. "Just musicians proved shy. Wesley Bencallln' 'pups'?" once!" he said to Fred Mitchell. "That's der said they hadn't learned to play "Everybody!" Wesley hotly re- all I ask, Just once. Just gimme one anything much and, besides, he had 8 turned. "Everybody thnt goes around chance to show that girl what she couple o' broken strings be didn't know mentioning ladies' names on the pub- really Is. I guess If I ever get the ns he could fix up; and Ramsey said lic streets are pups !" chance she'll find out what's the mat he guessed It seemed kind o' too hot tc "They are, ane they?" Ramsey as ter with her, for once in her life, any play much. Joining friends, they orhotly den.in.nded. "Well, you just look way." Thus It came to be talked about ganized a contest in marksmanship, here a minute; my own father men- and understood and expected in Ram- the target being a floating can which tions my mother's name on the public sey's circle, all male, that Dora Yo they assailed with pebbles; and after streets whenever he wants to, and you cum's day was coming. "You'll see!' that they "skipped" flat stones upoD Just try callln' my father a pup, and said Ramsey. "The time'll come when the surface of the water, then went tc you won't know what happened to that ole girl'll wish she'd moved out o' Join a group gathered about Willis you !" this town before she ever got appointed Parker and Heinle Kmsemeyer. Xo fish had been caught, a lack of "What'H yon do about it?" monitor of our class ! Just you wn.it ! crossly attributed by the fisher"I'll put a new head on you." said They waited, but conditions appeared luck Ramsey. "That's what I'll do, because to remain unfavorable Indefinitely, men to the noise made by constant adon the part of their attendant anybody thnt calls my father or mothPerhaps the great opportunity might vice gallery. Messrs. Milholland, Bender, er a pup and the other rock throwers came up "Oh, shut op'! I wasn't talkln about shouting, and were 111 received. your ole father and mother. I said "For heaxvn's sakes," Heinle Kruse-meye's tlisrt Dora mentioned everybody demanded, "can't you shut upl name on the public streets was Here we Jwst first got the girls to keep a pup, and I mean Itl Everybody that their months shut a minute and I almentions Dora Yocum's Dame on the most had a big pickerel or something pub " on my book, and here you got to up Yoeurr. !" "Dora said Ramsey. T got and yeW so he chases himself away! perfect right to say It anywhere I Why can't nobody show a little sense want to. Iona Yocum, Dora Yocum, sometimes when they'd ought to? A Dora Yocum!" fish teri't goln' to bite when he enn't "All right then, you're a pup!" even near himself think ! Anybody Ramsey charged upon him and reought to know that much." ceived a suffocating blow full in the But the new arrivals hooted. "Fish !" face, not from Mr. Bender's fist but Ramsey vociferated. "I'll bet a hun from the solid bundle of books at the dred dollars there hasn't been even a end of the strap. Ramsey saw eight mlriBy In this creek for the last sixty or ten objectives Instantly: there were years'!" Wesley Benders standing full length In "There Is, too!" said Heinle, bitterthe air on top ot other Wesley Benly. "But I wouldn't be surprised there more Benders and Wesley ders, wouldn't be no longer If you got to out sldewlse from still other keep up this noise. If you'd shut up he Benders ; nevertheless!, Wesley a minute you could see yourself Just found one of these and It proved to be there's fish here." flesh. He ensaaed it wildly at fistiRamsey leaned forth over the edge cuffs ; pounded it iupon the countenance of the overhanging bank, a dirt preciIt he down Then sat drove and away. pice five feet above the water, and opon the curbstone and, with his dizzy peered Into the Indeterminable depths eyes shut, leaned forward for the betbekiw. The pool had been stirred, ter accommodation .of ills ensanguined partly by the Inexpert poklngs of the oose. fishermen and partly by small clods KnmHeaven's Heinle "For Sakes," to the other Wesley had and bits of dirt dislodged from above You Shut Demanded, meyer 'Cant tide of the stnwt, holding a grimy by the feet of the audience. The waUp?" handkerchief to tflie mildmost parts of ter, consequently, was but brownly his pallid face. There, you ole d n have arrived If Ramsey had been able translucent and revealed Its secrets repup!" he shouted, In a voice which to achieve a startling Importance In luctantly; nevertheless certain dim litson. "I guess that'll any of the "various divergent yet tle shapes had been observed to move threatened teach you to be csiretful 'how you men- parallel lines of school endeavor" one within It. and were still there. Ramtion Dora Vtcum'i name on the public of the phrases by means of which sey failed to see them at first. streets V "Where's sny ole fish?" he Inquired, teachers and principal clogged the motion a minds of their unarmed auditors. But scornfully. At till, Rauisey sonde If to rjse and pursue, whereupon Wes"Iook !" whispered the girt who though he was far from being the ley fled, walling- back over 'his shoulder dumb driven beast of misfortune that stood nearest to Ramsey, She pointhe ran. "Yam wait till 1 iketch you he seemed In the school room, snd, In ed. "There's one. Right down there out alone on We public stscets and fact, lived a double life, exhibiting in by Willis.' hook. Don't you see him?" school hoars a remarkable his ou Ramsey was Impressed enough te Ills voice was lost in ;an oirtkurst of example of "secondary personality" whisper. "Is there? I don't see him. hooting from bis former frlenH, who a creature fearing nothing and capable I can't" The girl came closer to him snd, ths, surrounded the of laughter; blue eyed, fairly robust, sympathetically wounded Rauisey. But ta a meesti re, and anything bat dumb he was neverbetter to show him, leaned out over t least, the chivalrous fugitive had theless without endowment or attain- the edge of the bank and, for safety In He was rented tand ment great enough to get him distincvon tils point. maintaining her balance, rested her left band upon his shoulder while she outdone, yet what survived tike allay tion. 'lth her right. Thereupon sent of was a ntinor, which became He "tried for" the pointed tenuous legend among those inteneat-d- . eleven, and "tried for" the nine, but something happened to Ramsey. This There had been a fight over Oona the experts were not long in elimi- touch upon his shoulder wss almost Vooum, It appeared, and Raitnvey nothing, and he had never taken ths nating him from either of these comhad attempted to mlatalfi petitions, and he had to content him- slightest Interest In Mills Rust (to oinethlng derogatory to the lady, self with cheering Instead of getting whom that smsll warm hsnd belonged) defended her m a cheered. He was by no manner of though she wss the class beauty, and avfesle Wesley means athletic, or enough of anything long established In the office. Now, all kalghtiy youth should. a peculiar and heretofore enTUe 'boys, unmindful of proper ele, ito put lKra Yocum In her place, at once,unfsmlllsr sensation suddenly supported Ramsey on account and so he and the great opportunity tirely Important In the upper part of t tlie way lie had persisted In llckln' were still waiting In May, at the end became the stufftu' out of Wesley Bender after of the second year of high school, his chest. For s moment he held his action h receiving that preliminary wallop from when I tie class, now the "10 A." revert- breath, sn Involnntsry In a shower of Wesley's blackjack bundle of books. ed to afl old fashion and decided to seemed to be standing The girls etted and championed Wes- entertain Itself with a woodland pic- flowers. "Don't you see H, Ramsey?" Mills ley ; they talked outrageously of his nic. "It's a great big one. They gathered sfion the sandy banks whispered. conqueror; fiercely declaring thnt he ought to lie arrested ; and for weeks of" a creek In the blue shade of big, Why. It must b ss long a ss your sy mores, with a dnnc-in- shoe! Ixwik!" they iniiltitalned a new manner toward patchy-barkeRamsey saw n thing but the thick him. They kept their facial expressky on top of everything and giHd curl on M! Jn's shoulder. That round over atwlnkle dust Hither the water. sion this but win hostile, perhnps hakels were curl was shot wl' h dnr.zllng fibers of more for one soother's benefit than the napkin-coveresunshine. He seemed to b treinlJIng. for Ramsey's; and sevenil of them brought from the wagon and In the shade, where they nent so far out of their way to lltid as an attractive Jittle meadow even private opportunities fur reprovM The old resentment re as ing Mm that an alert observer might nf white fiiipcry, and gave loth surhm'i 'show' that sir! yet, soma to and cirnimmiitir of to have been less prise have suspected them pleasure day." but not mils snd to other original settlers of InoMgnKnt than they seemed Ramsey. He thought they all bated the neighborhood. hi in. snd sniil he was glad of It. from this nucleus or headquarters (TO BE CO.VTINI KU ) Dora was n The Utile of the picnic, various expeditions set t t( t Borrow ofen blndt people prig war so diligent at her books she forth up snd down the creek snd 4i GEORGE WASHINGTON amseviviimouajid This ?rv f . government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, has a just claim : on your confidence and your support Resped for its authority, rompliancewith its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of Liberty. Washington's Farewell Address r . Ill" high-scho- d d g d su-m-lile- NEW YEAR LEVEE President Washington's Reception at the White House. Friendly Greetings of Citizens, It Is Recorded, Greatly Plsassd ths First Chisf Executive. "In the Republican Court," volume published In 1854 by D. Appleton & Company dealing with the administration of Washington, appears the following Interesting description of New Year's activities of 1790, and particularly the maimer of observing New Year's at the White House, where Martha Washington, the spouse, dismissed her guests at 9 o'clock In order that her "general's" slumber might not be Interfered time alarmed a sagacious colonel frotii Virginia for the safety of the republic. This colonel hail traveled, and after attending one of the receptions of the President he declared, at the table of Gov. Beverly Randolph, in Richmond, that "his bows were more distant and stilt" than any he had seen at St. A correspondent Informed James's. Washington of the fearful apprehensions thus awakened, and he replied, "That I have not been able to make bows to the taste of poor Colonel Blank, who, by the way, I believe, never saw but one of them. Is to be regretted; especially as, upon that occasion, they were Indiscriminately bestowed and the best I was master of. Would It not have been better to throw the veil of charity over them, ascribing their stiffness to the effects of age, or to the unskilifulness of my teacher. with: The winter of 1789-9was warmer than any which the oldest inhabitants could remember. In the last week of Iccember and the first of January gardeners and firmer on the island of Manhattan were plowing, and women appeared In the streets of the city in their summer dresses. The pleasant custom ef making New Tear's calls had long obtained In roost of the countries ot continental Europe, and It was brought to New Tork by both the Dutch and the Huguenots, who had preserved It as one of their peculiar Institutions, which never could be naturalized In towns of a more purely Kngllsh origin and population. On Frldsy, the first of Jsnuary, 1790. we are Informed by the late venerable John Plntsrd, who wss then a young man of fashion, snd a close observer, the President was wslted upon by the principal gentlemen of the metropolis. The dsy wss uncommonly mild and agreeable, even for that yesr of perpetual verdure, and the great festival of friendship was never kept more universally or with a livelier rrstlflcstlon. The visitors of the President, after an Interchange of the asust sslatstioDS of the dsy, withdrew, delighted st his gracious manner. Washington's Ststsly Bearing. It Is not known, though Mr. Plntard assures us that a majority of them wers personally unacquainted with him, that there were any to complain of such s stately hesrlng ss shout this 0 sit, but It appears from Mr. Pintardi diary that, on this night, at least, tiers were chairs In the rooms where Mrs Washington saw her guests, for "aftei they were seated," tea and coffee, ai) plum and plain cake, were dispense? Sue re by the attending servants. marked, while speaking of the day'l occurrences, that none of them ha so pleased the general (by which tltls she always designated her husband; as the friendly greetings of the gentle men who called upoo hUa at noon. To an Inquiry fcy tle President whether such observances were asua or customary, it was. answtTCd tbai New Year's Visiting bad nfi,23"3 tela? maintained in the city. He paused i moment, and then observed: Tbi highly favored situation of New Tors will, in the process of years, attract numerous emigrants, who will gradually change its ancient customs an manners; but, whatever changes takt place, never forget the cordial aitt cheerful observance of New TearV day." Mrs. Washington bad stood by hi side as the visitors arrived and wers presented, and when the clock In t! hall was heard striking 9, she advanced, and with a complacent sniH said. "The general always retires ai 9, and I usually precede him ;" upor which all arose, made their partlni salutations, and withdrew. TREASURE COMMON Fame and Character Honored In All ALL ef Wsahlngtoa ths Countries of ths Earth. Martha Washington as She Appssrsd In 170. (From an Old engraving.) rather than to pride and dignity of office?" Mrs. Washington's Laves. Mrs. Washington held her levee, as on other frldsy evenings, but on no previous occsslon bad one been graced with so murh respectability and elegance. The air wss almost ss gentle ss It should be In Msy, and the full moon shone so brightly that the streets to a late hour were filled with a delicious twilight. It was not the custom for visitors of the President to Webster, this nation's g res test orator, said : "Inspiring auspices, this day, surround ns snd cheer us. It Is the anniversary of the birth of Washington We should know this, even If we ha lost our calendars, for we should b reminded of It by the shouts of Joy and gladness. The whole atmosphens Is redolent of his name; hills and forests, rocks and rivers, echo and reecho his praises. "All the good, whether learned unlearned, high or low, rtrft or poor, feel, this dsy, that there hs one treasure common to them all, and that ts the fume snd rhsracter of Washington. They recount his deeds, pisndes over bis principles and teachings, aad resolve to be more and more cnldrd by them In the fnrore." Hi M TO m ' I , , U'Wj," U !. i TOMP . ' v.:i j "' f Of WS$HINGT., M4 - AMERICA'S v NATIONAL v -- I' r SHRINE 4 |