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Show thing to find out. Bhe seemed to know THE CLE DINNER BEL her own mind. Jim returned gloomily. Now that la just what she didn't There's music is Ike lowin' ol the cattle on the luiis, An in i'uf iiiy laughter of the weterinllo do. It la no use for ua to argue, Jim. on' rills; of comfort but If 1 can And a la tbs wnijin' ul the bluebird an the kum-iu- for yon, I will. Thegrain whole thing is of the bee. An' tiie ole nuuJim-kepeckin' on the beyond my comprehension." holler uar tree. Wben Iluth llutherford tan alliteraThere' mu.ic m the blossom an the clear tive name which the girl detested! blue of the sky, waa putting on her wrap preparatory la the arrvaiuiir oi the chickea hawk to a belligerent call on her friend, she a'circiiu any up high; , But tiie sweetest songs ui June time aia't heard Clarlce'a voice in the hall below. nowhere near a swell went down hurriedly to meet her. To the luusic 'long at uuoulime of the ole She Come Into the library,," she said dinner bell. hastily, knowing perfectly well that When plowin' in the dielant field, clean JIra wee In the room just beyond. out o' eight o borne, Xow, I want yon to give en account too. with all your heart that of yourself. Wbat have yon been dodinner time would ecnie. Yon watch tiie lurrie stretch away aroua ing to Jim? lie la just about brokenthe lower bend. for be believes all the nonAn potter 'round a bit before you start for hearted. sense t'other end. jon were talking to him yesterAn you bend your head an listen to ketch day. Wbat did yon mean by it. Clarthe welcome sound. ice? Yon know that yon think that An caielate it's purt uiah noon by shad-der- s Jim la kind and lovable and brilon the m r ground. When through the haxy atmosphere, your longin to dispel. Comes the lur-of-f ailv ry music of the ole dinner bell. When the harveat day is over an the toil-er- a work is done. Over wavin' corn an clover tinted by the eettin' sun. Low an sweet the distant muaie of the ole bell float along: Borne upon the evenin breeze, mingled with the reaper song. An you look acroet the ni older, past the ole crick windin through. Where the ringer sweet is waitin with a welcome there for you. Oh, there aint no joy of summer that eaa trike yon quite so well, A the ringin', when youre hungry, of the ole dinner bell. Edwin C. Davie, in tha Indianapolis News. Cnnlse Jon& NYTIIING the mutter with 3 d 71 y you Jini'i" And Itulli o 71 I i sur- eyed lier brother keenly. Xu." "Whutc the use of fib- bing to uie?" she demanda ed with sisterly frankness. gone wrung, I can see that clearly enough. Auy trouble at the Soine-thlng'- Ulcer jio." what la if, Well," impatiently, then? Yon always tell me things In the end, so you might aa well go ahead and save me the trouble of dragging it from you." Jlin stared moodily out of the window and vouchsafed no reply. Youve not quarrelled with Clarice, have your A swift change In her brother's face on the told Ruth that she lind tom-liotruth, aud she followed up her advantage promptly. That la it, I know. Now what was the fusa about': There wns no fuss and no quarrel, " my sapient sister, only do I made a trifling error when 1 she eared for me, that was snpiMsed all. Are yon rraxy, Jim? I am sure that Clarice cares for you. Dou't Jump at conclusions." I didnt jump at any conclusion. I assure yon. I uskcil her to marry me, and she flatly refused. Hut why? uhy? why? Iluth asked 1 in honest bewilderment. know I of and aui something girls, positive that fJnriee care for you. I had sometimes entertained aneh an Idea myself, tint you see that ve both made a slight mistake. Don't be so maddening, ,11m. dear: I tell ine all she awfully sorry for yon. but I can ! help feelsomeing that there is a where." "X'ot innoh chance fur I'. .Fin Ilmli-erforsaid Lrhuly; ,,'ue led r.fiy unmar answerable argmninis w.i gissl riage. She liked me. bid ini, dan-trenough to say, Imt the trials aud iriiiuiaFnns of do niestb- - life witii auy in:. I. were always leailng on a ii" m nt's no the misio:. lice, and tress was ill. She luid seen so many men act like brutes on sm-l- i that she had not Hie euurau-- - to fui-It. I tried to laugh her out of the mood. I told her to ask you f 1 did not behave like an angel in all crises of that kind You really do. Itulli interposed warmly. his thanks ami then reJim unddi-sumed his siury with a air. said It was all no use. for Flat-Icthat she had observed I hat men's natures changed r.i'ler inn meg . aud that some who ha I been models of eourti-sto their mothers and sister were the etnliodiiucnts of selfishm-sand toward their wa-w.Well, or all thing"' Oh. there was lots mur:- - of if. ton.' I anil she was in deadly earnest. never saw her in such a mood. I had a good business, but I Has not rich, her to and I would proluildy rim the house and dress herself, loo, on aliont live dollars a week Iluth. I say, breaking off suddenly with a . pathetic appeal ill liis t.iii-c- "what do so?" lllodc her taik you suppose .... Inn ei. , : .. ecu Clariee for thr.-i- or fo t.- d::j. toi: I cannot see how site could inne altered so radically in so slne-- i a :l.e--am going to c er. bio:v I am an hour o:d:i ai.d .'ni n-- c si-.- s , s - 1 - truth. I dnt'l pioneer, waa the first man to introduce the county. Some time In the' ViOs he .Islted St, Louis and brought to Shelhyville two lamps and a couple of gallons of oil. When the citizens of the village learned It there was considerable excitement much more than when the electric lights were turned on a few years ago. About 4 Do people gathered at the store to watch Mr. Shackelford take hi life in his hands, lie loaded up the lump, turned the wick and prepared for illumination by fastening a paper lighter on the end of a stick. The crowd looked uneasy, bnt didn't run, and the new lighting works wns . an entire Oil cost & per gallon. Mr. Shackelford bought aonu! to introduce the improvement among bis fellow citizens, hut he only disposed of a gallon the following year. Clarence i Mo.) Courier. supp-is- i . s Sympathetic Woman v SY II. J. IBSOKBICKa. An overlooked t irltie in ; orng men Is that of keeping u promise. A girl hnsu't much use for a young man who httcnipts to kiss her and nE play-centre- play-centre- In, act Itamlan fast ltay. Fast days in Uitssia are numerous. lie-idthe ordinary Lenten pcrlitd. !:'Si-- i .lii.d'. Ilnocier. til llns.-i.forty in- -! end of fui'i.v. they hare eight 'iirre -- iioi'ier peril!- - of fasting one il.lts in Jt:lie olie of four-lieof ib!)- - ill Al'gllSt itl l Ul'nlijrr of ea -i s - iMi.-i-e- tbiriy-.iir- -- inaie i .im1 D.1 i.V) in X'".-iii'There cl' - ill aUiUJOU uim . J'i;- - 1,1 d - ciil.-ii'gi-ihri-aih- c tlw-ii- ib-f- i e - s gaged. 1 - ; iiei-iai- I -- f - - i: ; t -s, tin mi i lie way home story goes, the tliniglil i'll im- - to him Hint he bad forHe look ont his gotten Tolstoi's Outdoor l.tfe. went over every item and Still vigorous ut tin age of seventy-li- t cliei-kcit off. He saw that he had e years, Count l.isi Tolstoi nearly made all (be purchase that he had in- -i eiilii-on ride ills a lakes ever) day ended. Bui ns he drove on he could fat m ile lini'se. goes for a wall; under not tiie aside. When he arwith bis iluugbtcr Al- rivedpmhome fecl'iig tin' linden and drove tip to the house exandra, or, in coiiipeuy with Ids great Ills daughter to meet hltn, and wolfhound. I ramps otcr tin- - broad with a Iimik of asked: Why, acres of flic fuinoil estate of Ysnnya where is him?" surprise ail arioiyami. Tolstoi !.as Ion ; nmn: in early life a dent Uiitpvllf f RlnU. Sum 11 singing bin! live from eight hurdle rider of no meat Ilavena have lived a bnii ter, and an athlete; in to cigliiis-) e:i rs to whom for uim.i-- i a liiimlrcd year in captlv-'I- ). later years a pedestrian, : Mid p:: !'"; l iniic- - a day wa- - :.n aver.igc longer ilmn that. The tt.id.. and lo whom a ilay in l In- sinldb-- : Fowls live i to twenty year wild gnn-- c live upward of a hundred it.is as lei'iiiuu. iiutliig a:-swans arc said to have )i .Ii.- HiIn. .Ui'jJil 11' age of linn. The long life A t ill fit., t, on of linl Ii:i. I. .on :iiniri(id as coni- . i .in a i . tor iji- - great mortality of in i up tin.. iu.li ; . a., ri'n k JU'. ".in' longin' g. )nu r j - IrruMed with ii li.Ii. tort n, so in s c t!-.- i : smii'-tiiiu- rif s I':: uot-hoo- K. poss-ssioi- inti-kles- s i .ili-i-- m Forgot- the rounds regarding A story is going "tYlial I'm anxious about is (be war Hilt ln'.ii' Lake Erie." .ili-.-- trial t'snnar Whst I hr 1 r v cies of these iusecta which Dr. William 1 l.'ndcrwuod has discovered la a native of the Maine woods instead of more populous parts of the country, says the Youth's Companion. For this mosquito does not bite, although ll la so large that If It went given to biting it would lie a terror, and, moreover. Ha Is eagerly upon Hie larvae of larvae other species of imisqiiiiucs. For this reason experiments are being made to determine If Ihe new nioqiiito will thrive in Hie climate of Southern New England. It has received the name of eiicoretlira undcrwoodl. Its maimer of disposing of Hie larvae of other is cnlcnlated to make sufferers from ut mosquito bites gleeful. "The victim I caught," says Dr. Underwood. violently a few time and swallowed." I'lllsburg Dispatch. es dont care a cuss iilxiul Hint war over hi the Far East anil Hie IkiIHc-i- n known - tin tin Icllow Seji," e pui-iio- A Mosquito r Louisiana Purchase and the Territory It Brought aof the Louisiana 1urdi.ise was Ur: tipper Territory of Louisiana; It cuuqirised all tlmt lei riimy irnl. is of the thirty-thir- d degree of latitude, castum-- to tinsippl slid westward and northward as far us iln- - nmli-ii-mined buuudarica of the newly possessions niiulii extend. South of tbiu waa the District of with its -cat of government fixed at X'cw Orleans. The cession of tiie upper part or the purchase did not take place until March in. 101. when, having received the cession from the Spanish, tbe French representative handed it over to the agent of the I'nin-i- l States with a very brief and simple ceremony. By these unimpressive proceedings tbe Government of the ( uinil States i was put in of territory within whose hounds now nourish tin- - State of Isiiilsinna. Arkansas, Missouri. Kansas, lows, Nebraska, North Dakota. Hou tli Dakota. Wyoming, Idaho. Montana, the Indian Territory and p:rt of the States of Minnesota and Colorado. The uieu who wi re tin- - active agents hi the transfer of this mighty land front one national Jurisdiction to niioilu-r- . are wcll iiigli forgotten In Uie crowd and rtiali of later, blit, not less luiNirtant. events. of a miglii) i imiirc u:i ie. cr ,i I hi- piirrli.ist- - the the posilliil!tirK ol In mi tin- By tills r ii world poo er strengthened. Fuller our laiiiirii:mt rub. eonifori. luxury ii.v. and cwii urii-,.of material activity till . inii-p- e: .er In Ii wildertu-sour l,nlier fi inil only a Vii"i.j, Lia.'io.b- - iii. - u- - mi i iii j the iiuuief of Jefferson, I.ivir.g-lui.r.i:-- . v. oilli i.mj " I ii iL'i-lion h - li.c. lit i r: 1' knew, made LVa Iiinguifl-'i'ig Fnm "lin ,Ve Bought the Great West,- - In Scrlbrer'- - That linos Not II I to. we must have mosquitoes at all people will regret Unit the new spe- If dis-'us- pial-i'oru- ncigh-Isirlioo- Flower, . sli.-ikc- . anil nere ostensibly Inlying eggs and imultry, hut ou the sly they would ell small bottles of whisky to farmd ers and Indians throughout the at SI per pint. The oltieers discovered that both axles of the wagon were of iron and t ery large. Upon furi her investigation it was discovered that hos- - axles" were hollow and would hold about four gallons each. The peddlers would remove a boll and insert a small plug and draw the whisky out of these axles. n Lit lag spec'nieus of n queer Insect have lately been shown in I'muliriilgc, England. They were brought from Rangoon by Captain C. E. Williams. The Insect is n specie of nuiutis, anil ita body and legs are both shaped and colored to rcsciiibli a beautiful flower. It feeds on biilterllics, mid while it is lying in wait for them under u spray of leaves It looks exactly like u blue blossom with a black spot in flic crnlrc resembling the lulu- - (if a ciii'iilla. The black part of llif Isidy t uruwn out into a lung gr' en stalk. TIip resemMonth llrattlilng. blance to a lloucr is pciT.-ct- , and Mouth is more than a habami oilier insects light on It vidcm-- of deformity or e is mi it it; in of ucctiir and are iiiimcdinle-!in the upper air passages. A seized by iU fatal da w. Philadelbrca'.lii'H through his phia moiiHi from clioii-e- . He does so ell her lii'cause die of the no-- e art Mart Mini it Mr. olj- -t ru ctnl or hi tonsils are Two wiib liiii'-- ul tbe Treasury and lie lie taught to in Waslriigion last evening n.it ii raily so long as the obverc anxioii-l- y perusing tbe evening In some instance! i was skimming struction papers. One of with respiration la liver till' rohlliiiiS of u:ir news, being the to a uiity of ihe chambers of in the development intcr sti-d I be imse. lull in a majority of cases It in tin B'lssiaii-.I.ipaiMunition. is by tin! presence of adenoids T.oiit lime tor aiioibcr naval in the pharynx. Enlargement of th ill tbe Yellow over lln-rtonsils may be with either Sell, lie Tbe ot!i"i- was from Ohio, tvlicrp the of these conditions, or It inuy exist are en- alone. Ynullt'a Companion. Forukcr ami Iick es Dr Noah Brooks Kuirratltlnn la Slrllr, H.clly are vastly superstitious. Tile liellcves, to give a few examples, in the existence of a donlile-tailci- l lizard w hich condoaccuda to take In Ita mouth the winning numbers of the lottery. He believes it la unlucky to marry or begin a journey i a Tuesday or a Friday, lie helievee in the power of innlidirtlous and of the evil eye, and ntlcinpl to dpfend himself against them by wearing atnu-- ' lets, sm-l- i as the cor no, a coral Imitation of the horn of the goat, by spitting three times on the ground while pronouncing a magic formula, or, in certain districts, by invoking the name of Virgil, who somehow acquired, dura bizarre reputaing the middle ages, tion as a mngu-liiu- . He believes in sorcerers, of whom a goodly ntinilier practice prof sslunally on he island, selling to him, among aih r wonder working grotesque colored I tone cs of St. I'aul to be ttnehed to barren fruit trees aud barrels in which wine has soured. lie bidevea that a person born on a Friday is able to predict the future and that a person bora on June fit), the fete of St. Ianl, who was unharmed by tbe viper wblcli encircled his linnd, is aide, tn do both these these flings and to charm aer- -' penis besides. Ieople of then quits. There is neither profit nor pleasure In the companionship of men who think aud talk lightly of women. Avoid companionship with men who prate of their conquests, and who delight to talk continually about themselves. Doubly endorsed notes and certified checks have taken the place of church connection In establishing credits aud commercial relations. Virtue is essentially a ctmlitlon of youth. Old people do not lay claim to virtue: they Insist ilint they have other exuel ioiis that must be lived up to. Tbe boy with curly bnlr seldom becomes uiiylhing more titan the mnn with curly hair. He was, mid I, only a plaything fur the feminine sex. If you must go Into debt avoid your relatives and close friends. You will prevent arousing the hatred of tbe former and retain the fri ndsltlp of the latter. All the wisdom of the Mgri and the bitter experiences of centuries do not combine to convince Eonto young men that there are really some things in this world beside gratifying peraouul plcasurea. Do not grop In the dark. Walt until you see some light. I do not enre how faint the light may he. hut let there lie at east some light milk, lug n iimv". It la just as bant to retreat in the dark us it is to advance. n It. VARY. cool-heade- d l. e Whisky Inlillnl In Wagon Ax of whisky-peddlin- g An entirely novel s lias been discovered in the Chickasaw Nation. The culprits, who are peddlers, navel led in an old wagon drawn by u poor span of Indian ponies QUEEN Gives e mhi-cks- s Vt r By Alice Katharine Fallows play-centr- j r v . u BY I'rlM In CotBpstitlas lift wren Bants. There was dispersed by auction ie Ei.'nbnrg mi Sniurdny a family collection of Stuart and Jaxbin relics of gr 'at historic interest ut value. 'J'ba , cariy death of J. N. Dnr.ant-Hteuartt lie ia elfHi amt last I.nirC f Dalguise, la I'li'ilisiiiie, brought tbi- - unique cob to the hamiiicr. t two anIntr rest mainly cient herns, n:ic known as Queen it Mary's harp, mid the other Mt the or t'a! doiduii hari. For tbe last tweidy years they hare reiKtacd in the .National Museum of Antiquities. amt are well known to ficotlisb It wj-me- n The New York Board of Education's. Expert . PAR? OWNED A tt wn-.m-- Evening Play - Centres meats In Recreation Kntat-lifesif- Touching the irportiug it may lie formerly done by said that such work h.--i b id its ilav, wtiti-- Elizabeth t!. Ju'.'.iuu In tiie I .a Women no long dies' Hem. Jouuul. cf go down in diving eustcities. nor go up In balloon, nor lull in front of cu tile cars to test the practical working of the ftndars. In justice to tbe reporters who nid wink of that kind, it shook! be i.il.ie.l many of ilicm- - indeed, t of ilioni- -, ii.aji:i:y were giNid and uio.Ii-- : girls, who acumlcr v. incut. cept'd such and only heenu-- e the riil-- ended on them for the work, and tiu-i- tiling de- umiqnnric. The story of Queen Mnrya harp is With Ilia pended on their acquic-.-.ii- g that dtirlttg a hunting trip into the speeinl passing of the sensation should be chronicled the of the higldnml of rerthsldrc, In tha year Iraki, she ofii red her own harp aa a woman's columns and ttu wo id's had their prize lit a hurdle competition. It wai They, also, awarded to Mi- - Beatrice Gnrdyn, of day. It closely resembles the To meet those aud other change, Bain-linry- . the newspaper woman of the twen- fatuous luirp of Brian Roru. and a cti tieth century will lie a new tyH, and tnry ago it waa stringed and found It much will lie expected of her. Kite will posses a sweet aud delicate tone. lie a ('onipeCtion for it waa. very keen Theodore Napier, the well known Jaand practical young with a body a trained as her cobite enthusiast, remained In the bidmind. She will know mure about the ding itulli iSIt) waa reached, and English language limn do tnosl of her fiunlly at B'S ids. it was secured by sisters of to day, el not a bit inure the attlhoriile of the Edinburgh Antithuu she will need to know. The news- quarian Museum. The Lament harp, which date frois paper woman of the future will have passed the experimental slake of her the eleventh or twelfth century, wai professional work, t'oiieesslon to tier sold at A lock of hnlr from Trlnce CliarleF will he no longer in:. do, excuse for her no longer accepted. She will lie out of head, anil another front that of Ilia the ranks of the umateur and In line wife, irini'i'SM lxtulse, of Rtohllierg, with tbe professional. Hite uniat stand went for f.T't VJs. A sword which be or fall by the tame les s as are given had worn wns sold for 7H. Highland dirks went nt from 11 to 1a each, an to the umu at the desk beside here." Andrea Ferrara sword nt EITi, and two old Highland targets at 58 genuine WISE WORDS. r-- r Hit and du IS. New York Board of Education hn already begnn the exsome for periment with a number of evening girls and some for boys, in the ample liaseinents of school buildings that nsed to stand idle while the street taught its lessons, lushlng open the door Into one of these tiie visitor meets a composite rush of sound like the roar of ihe ocean, and is confronted by a knlehlowope of huinuuity. which gradually resolves Itself in tbe figures, long and short, tidy and unkempt, Jew and Gentile, of a thousand boys gathered at long tables all up and down tbe big room, playing checkers, dominoes, rrokiimlc and the oilier harmless games. Over In a corner a few little clmps are rcudiug, or. with careful thought, selecting hooks from a small library. In a room beyond, athletic boys in all sorts of humorous Improvised costumes are preparing under their director for a contest with another team. Glass rooms an- - occupied by intellectual boys, in the alphabet of whose desires Y stands for American History or Author Readings Instead of Amusement or Athletics. are still so few that only those over Owing to lack of fnnda, Fish anil I log Story From Kmtnrky. fourteen, who cannot be commanded to go to school In the daytime, are invited Jul:nT. I'arish, of the Holland coun- to attend. But this class it is particularly lmjiortant to rent'll. X'cw York, try, says he has a dug that can catch like most other cities, has offered for a long time evening grammar schools more fish and belter lisli than any and high schools, helpful and important In their way, blit only attractive to tbe man. lie says that when he uriM-s,ilicr ami cnrnc-- t anil Industrious, to whom tbe temptations of tbe street are in tli morning, If lie feds that lie least nl!uri:g. I'.c'mlrx 11i ex Is always to be found in the crowded districts would relish a i for breakfast, be a Hotse in and jetsam of young population, too tired or Indifferent to spend the makes Ills want known to his dog, evening in work, that drift about until It finds its kind. Tln-comes the and in a very short time a nice fish s.'iioon r the ilaiu-- ball, hot lilnod and swift purpose, and afterward mischief is in 'in frying pan. ami Hie things done that should have been left undone. and Inn iciii-sJ: i'ai-isl.t e the river, and For sueii the Board of Kdiu-a-t inn's oases of wholesome play, open every lie says In- - has eroded a lillle i night without money and without price, with no roiidiiinii except those who on (lie edge of liu water for hi i. nor must be over school age, arc a dclircrauce from ihe Century dogs use and lienctit. lie says the dog will perrii liimseif wi this platform slid watch for hi game. When a idee lisli that lie like tiie looks ol comes near enough lie dives from his perch and never fails to make a catch. During slmnilng time lie fretwo fish at u time. quently can-lie- ciiib-i'. :ha! in 1 oil In on. do! gem-rally- Bernard Shavr ol Murk mill Icm .iplulUiiiiiii M III Iln DrUkMirinl. (emit ' the worst piece of social advice which age (SyiStffT'.jM O not ask questions" vj1 can give to youth. A man who never ask question the dull-Y-- v T eat fellow In the world, lie had better ask loo many than too few. We ran defend ourselves against curiosity, but no armor vil agaluet indifference; we must resign ourKclvr to lie bored ir1 to death. What Is the secret of the art of lntwrogatlon? Uniting aside quick sympathies, which He at the root of every racial art, we believe the must csscuUal quality for those who would exeel In lU directness. The art of asking questions so as to learn. Instruct, please and influence Is not the art r beating about the bush. The questions which offend and silence are the questions w hich make which suggest some ulterior motive. It is a found-ou- t men angry. Anything of the nature of a trap keeps ns on our guard. If we fall Into one, we resolve It shall be the lust time; suspicion kills couflde'iee. Interrogative hints are utterly useless. The average man does not dislike to be questioned; he hates to be startled, crossed. Interfered with, reproached, wearied or betrayed. Ue bates tbe question which are nut asked with a simple Intention. There are questions which are asked not because tbe axker wants to know, liant " hot because be Intends to teir. Others, while ostensibly directed to find out a " Clarice flashed Indig- ntana opinion, are really Intended to nfieet upon his character. Home men I don't nantly, although her voice trembled Inquire as to their neighbors' projects In order to put tliilieultlca In tbeir way. a little, he la not brilliant at all! He Strings of meaningless questions are poired out by those who pretcud an Inie the moat stupid man that ever terest in tome subject which they neither know nor cure anything aliont. lived." We believe tbe conclusion of the mattir to be this: The art of interrogation are at the essence Perhaps you will kindly explain, questl-uiis a aerloua branch of the social art. Iluth said coldly. of agreeable intercourse, but the interrogitlre mood will not justify an imperBut this Clariee stubbornly refused tinence, an interference, a verbal aasanlt-uo- r, for the matter of that, a bore. to do, and It was not until Ruth pnt off her dignity and descended to tender coaxing that she drew the truth out of her friend. JZ? He he came around yesterday morning and I bad been suffering for three days with an ulcerated tooth. I didn't have a wink of sleep during all of that time, and I was' too great a coward to go to a dentist at first. Well. Jim eame then, and of course my By Beatrice Fairfax nerves were all on edge and the world HEX a man describes the quality be most admires In woman looked blue and I was all uiydrung. he paints a vivid word picture of one particular woman and and I couldn't see anything In Its puts in au Impressionist background of women In general. proper perspective. Everything wns He very ofteu becomes conscious of the quality only after be distorted and ont of proportion oh, lias learned to know and lure tbe woman, and he Is quite " you understand how I felt likely to love some other woman for a totally different said with sympaRuth, Perfectly, quality. thetic comprehension. 1oeta will rhapsodize and philosophers will philosophize Yon railed him brllllnnt Just now. bnt It seems to me that even a mnn over tbe qualities they mokt admire, and Then they meet the fortunate pos-of sessor of tbe said qualities they pass her indifferently by aud fall at tbe feet might have known oetter than to make some woman who differs in every respect from tbeir ideal. a proposal of marriage at such a time. From a woman's viewpoint womans best quality Is sympathy. The symI thought at once of all the skeletons I bad seen In married lives, and of pathetic woman la loved by men, women and cblldreu. Sympathy la essentially a womanly quality. every warning I had ever received How we love her, the woman who when we pour ont our tale of woe into on well one from any the anhjeet and her patient ears, puts herself in our place for the time being and finally sends of course I would not listen." least one person who understands us. I should think not. indeed." Rnth ua away with the feeling that there is at woman not la The always sympathetic yrelty or stylish or clever, but she I do not wonder that said promptly. Is something lietter than all that, ahe is loroble. All men like and respect her yon called him stnpld. I hope that tooth la all right now. Clariee. It has and aeek her society. She is restful and dlfftaes an atmosphere of untold peace aud comfort Just to go and ait near her la to find consolation. done mischief enough I slinnld say." Sbe never bores because she always suits her moods to her friends and "The tooth has lieen pulled aud I surely the sympathetic woman Is the best of ill women, for In order to be s.vni-phave had a nights sleep, thanks." belie she must posses all of the qualities that go to make woman lovable. Then perhaps you would not object Xuw York Journal. to hrnring the story over Jim," raising her voire, I think that you may come in now." Jime came, obedient to the anmmona. and Itntb. after a murmured Bless you. my children." had the good tnale to leave the room hastily. Waverley Magazine. Whea aa Oil lamp Was a Cariosity. C. M. Shackelford, a Shelby County NEWSPAPER WOVEN OP THSfUIUR' .: J The - By Mabel By 1 J0 Point of View. L Art of Asl ;ing Questions Will-aske- 1 The The aM.-iiiii- - , i.i-il- 1 y |
