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Show g wwwvsvswwvwvsvswvwvwvsvsvwvsvwvsvsvsvwvwvvs t Clinging to Old Beliefs Sskilcr of iho Present Day Are ae Superstitious aa Were Their Ancestors. It la a mistake, according to a veil known young naval officer, to 'suppose that the sail ir- -. of our present navy are free from suierstition. I remember," he said, only live years ago, when I was in the training ship that the old salts there we?'e aa full of old superstitious beliefs as any of their ancestors could have - vvw The Story with a Sequel. 0 0 (Copyright, 1909, by Daily Story Pub. Go.) And now, Bot," announced the Kitpressed me a great deal in those days when I was still a mere boy. On one ing Young Writer, tilting back in his occasion I was sitting in the fore- chair from the table and confidentially we castle on my watch below, chatting addressing the Ink receptacle, with the boatswain's mate, a real come to the end of the story." of the squat Ink bottle grew and grew and lay across tbs floor, a broad, black bar. At last be gathered the scattered sheets of paper together and again took up his pen. We must finish Ik up, Bot," he said, for time, and th day of Issue, wait for no man.' "And so the Prince came to Mt own," he read aloud as he wrote it, end married the Princess, and they lived happily together ever after. And that. Hot." he said, putting SBlde the pen, I guess is the end of the story." There came another knork upon the door, but this time it swung swiftly open. She did not enter, but stood looking at him In a way that he had never seen her look before. Then she smiled, ever so slightly. Maybe theres a sequel, Dick, ahe said. Maybe it is," said the girl, half defiantly, but his uncle died and left him ten thousand dollars, and he came and asked me, and I Jo;', couldn't stand that factory any longwhen our conversation was InThe beautiful Princess has been er, and now I've got to go on with And you terrupted by a low wall of agony, rescued; the Prince has undergone as It, for yesterday I quit. louder than that usually produced by many escapes as we can know, Dick, I never saul I didn't like the wind. We listened in deep, awed really afford to throw in for IS, and him as well as I do you. been. I should think you'd like him ten silence. the naughty ogre has been killed off by ' Whea at sea in a dead calm, the 'Boy,' said the goatswains mate, partaking of a box of polsuned dragons thousand times as well." mails. You needn't of the a in the talk that seamans masts a that hear motionless way, Dick." that's call, sent anonymously through tvtfing 'ye atmosphere sometimes causes a peWell, then, ten thousand dollars is wet's been drownded. touch, that last, Botty, An culiar wailing sound like distant cries. no princely fortune. I might make Again the wall disturbed the si- my boy. This, the old seamen assured us, was lence. The container of writing fluid re- that much eventually, with a single BUILDS $3,500,090 OPERA HOUSE the moaning of the souls of sailors story. Yes, said the old sailor, in an maining unresponsive, he continued. lost at sea. Yes, Dick, you might, and I truly Sonth ImrrlrtDi Arm F.itravagint la Some folks say, Mr. Bottle, that a anxious whisper, that's some old salt "Another one of their pet beliefs Is wots lost his life on board this ves- writer always pictures in his hero hope you will but, Dick, you never Tbntrlrtl Matter. that all sailors that die by drowning sel likely he'B come for something himself, but I doubt that. I guess my have; and what was I to do? Very much to my surprise," said are at once transformed into Cape hes forgot.' Ten thousand dollars wont last Mr. M. M. Dolphin, of Kansas City, at heroes are mostly composite creatures, Horn pigeons, or, as they are also After a while I ventured out on with just enough of me in their make- forever." he continued, ignoring her the Ebbltt, in a late tour of Central called. Mother Careys chickens. Ofdeck. The wails were coming from the up to furnish them with movable gentle, yet rankling reminder. America I came upon the most beauNo. but Denny is going to invest tiful ficers are supposed to find their reroof of the foreacstle. I climbed up, jointB, so to Bpeak, at the knees and building I ever laid eyes upon. incarnations in seagulls and mews, and there found the captain's little elbows." part of it, and open a printing shop It was the Government opera house while the big, solitary albatrosses, fol- son tugging away at the cats tail, But I'll tell you who poses for my with the rest, and it will be a good in San Juan, the capital of Costa Rica, lowing the wake of passing vessels, which the poor animal was resenting villains all of them. declaimed the start for for him. and there is only one other theater in Mister are the souls of captains who have with the full power of its lungs." R. Y. W., with vehemence. Printing shop!" he sneered, You'll the world that approaches it in mugnl-- f Dennis Q. Smith, commonly called gone down with their ships. These ccnce or cost, and that is the opera I are the reasons why sailors never kill Time spent in bemoaning the failure Denny. Fate tried to conceal him. house in Vienne far these birds. of yesterday will not Insure the success suppose, but I wish she had gone This building is a small city of settlea in born him have to "I remember mat these tales im of enough It was 45,000 people cost $.7,500,000. ment off the railroad in Afghanistan, from fundB raised by a constructed and made Afghanistan an undiscoverState tax on coffee, lusiile and oat it ed Island, and Instigated International Is of the finest marble that could bo laws against exploring. Denny is a in Italy. Italian artisans worked had d chap, too, and smiling, upon It, and famous artists from EuI could like him, were he not fool rope were employed In the interior enough to see the good qualities in the decorations, which I think surpass girl-like, and to carry his audacity New York Millionaire Received Thousands of These Missives Recently. those of our Congressional library. to the point of liking her also and the of richness The furnishings asNothing being forthcoming from the house of the general gorgponsness Insensate vial, the R. Y. W. kept It up. such see a to and tonish one, every The private secretary of a New address was given and a request made with much satisfaction. interior town of a a little in eight York millionaire recently sold as old that the money be sent at once. he'll But let him smile and smile government is cerA vast variety of excuses paper a package of 7,000 letters, all of were always be my villains. lies been the remarkable. tainly which had been sent to his employer given for the demands, one of the that turned usurer, I spent several weeks In the country a little more than three months and most popular with women being that out the widows and orphans in anil learned, among other things that every one of which was a request for they wanted to have their sons com- the cold, cold snow; hes been the the people of Central America may unthe assistance. pecuniary plete their education, but couldn't faithless lawyer that destroyed know that there is such a place as For a time," said the secretary, less they hid a certain amount of Will and left the rightful heir nothing States on the map, but that United the we got these letters at the rate of sixmoney at once, and with men, that but a mourning ring and starvation, Is about all they do know of this Govty or seventy a day. It came right they had a chance to embark on a pes committed every dastardly deed ernment. They buy little or nothing after Mr. Blank had contributed $5,000 successful career, and only lacked the from treason and arson to bolting the from us and seem to consider us Of no to a fund for the relief of widows and few hundred dollars necessary to get straight Prohibition ticket; and in to be married, I'm Dick, going value in thi line of commerce. Costa our present story, Bot, I've made him orphans of some West Virginia min- a start. wont man after of bsve a Is one of the richest countries all, Rica letters, ers who were killed by a gas exploOf course there were hundreds of the horrible ogre, a fiendish outcast, on earth and when the line of railway sion. The gift was accompanied by a stories of destitution, but like the and carried his degradation to such a you? "Now, Dick, you needn't talk like that will penetrate it from ocean to request that nothing be printed about others we tossed them aside without degree as to make him opposed to the At first I was going to write you ocean is completed there will be a that. with In but it got into the newspapers reply. For three months following higher criticism, and disgrace it, after it was over, but that seemed great opportunity for the development somehow and immediately the letters this contribution to a fund for the re- the administration. of kind sneaky, and I've always been of Its splendid resources. This road lief of miners families these letters Ive heaped indignity, contumely honest with began to pour in. you, haven't I, Dick? is now finished from Llmon, on the AtWe had always had our share of continued to come. and insult upon him. I've made him he you admitted, Yes, Nan, lantic coaBt, to San Jose, and the govfield Then they stopped just as sudden- a victim of moving accidents by begging letters, but now we were have. ernment proposes to build from that off this him shuffled flood. Ive swamped. The tales of trouble, misly as they began, and we are now only and was point to Pnnta Arenas, on the PaAnd you know that work-roofortune and suffering which were getting the regular supply of five or mortal coll by every known means no place for me. cific, a total distance of about 200 spread out for our reading would six a week. There were in the lot from the wheel and rack to choking to It was not. miles. Washington Times. have harrowed one's soul, if he didn't that I Bold to a junkman the other death on a collar button, notwith And 1 And I had nothing else. find him I know that they were largely manufacwhich, Invariably the of in of 7,000 standing neighborhood day Dick, if TOUCHED BY HER DOG'S DEVOTION would have waited for tured. these letters and $140 in stamps had occupying her front steps or parlor you had ever aeemed ableyou, to along get sofa o night on Tuesdays, Thursdays Most of the letters were from wobeen spent in sending them to us. to barely take Girl KaallM th Fiiltlifnlne of if even enough only men, or purported to be, and all And not one was productive of a and Sundays, me. not the Dick, of care money, Its Friend. Bat never mind, Bot, lm sure she's wanted money. The demand ranged contribution from Mr. Blank. New home A bachelor girl who hurried though ten thousand dollars is a great mine from $5 to $500, and in every case an York Sun. deil. studio with her each from evening So what care I Yes." he said, it is. Especially to the picture always before her of the be Smith nigh? Though earn on the small friend who was to greet her at Ill live for Nan a in plan." the door of her apartment Nan die." For Ill And I couldnt stand it any longer. wriggling ecstasy of welcome had a A knock came upon the door. The Dick. The heat, the dirt, the awful guest one evening who did not go in warbler arose and admitted, decided noise they were just driving me to so much for dogs as be did for Bachely to his surprise and discomfiture, the death. And you know you've said lor Girls. The girl had rebuked her very lady, the subject of bis lnipas yourself, many a time, you wouldn't small friend rather sharply for barking stoned ditty and object of his affec blame me, no matter wliat I did to at the man who didn't care for dogs tlons. Perhaps he wondered how thick get away from there. and the former had taken refuge under woodwork was. I'm not blamiug you, be replied a table. "Do you really think dogs Did you ever see a Kentucky collie picked up tne demijohn, which " on Kan he quietly. earth, Why, what onel pack a trunk?" asked one of a was still half full of whisky, and are worth while?" asked the man. But I blame myself for for what "Make a hotel lobby group the other day. placed it in the center of the trunk, began. as though you were I have something to tell you, Dirk, has happened, for I know you liked to strike gesture The men addressed said No." and Around it he wound a pair of trouser me," replied the girl. The tone that me, Dick, and I liked you. Im sorry. one of them demanded, And what Is and then a frock coat. He kept up replied the young lady. In a so. man In an instant the small did It's just circumstances, Dick." the wrapping process until most of hh might have been firmer. peculiar about it?" moment before had been friend a that You must But have wont you Just circumstances. Nan. extra garments were tightly wound It is a most surprising operation, the under crawled had beaten and have a chair? And Denny, he likes me, too, she answered the one who spoke first I around it. Into the vacant places al was over his table to wrongs brooi) No. it won't take but a minute, said softly. had the pleasure of witnessing it the the corners he stuffed the rest of the with standing beside his mistress "Where is he? from outfit. a was colonel He other day. growlhackles teeth and gleaming, up He's waiting for me on the land'There! I could carry that whisky Paducah, and I was Invited to his ing ominously at the guest. "Do you to China and hack without danger of ing. room to hnve a drink. He poured out know what he is growling at you? Dick went to the door and called to two tumblers of real old whisky from spilling a drop.' he said as hi stepped asked the girl. It's only a paraphrase, him: Conic in. Denny. Tin not goa demijohn which stood in the corner. back and surveyed the packed trunk but tbe original once made a nation's ing to hare at tine, or anythiug of blood of me, drinking with pride. I saw a finish alu-atingle. When I think of how that sort. Come on in. 'Rather hard on the clothes, so large a dose without a sign of a I have humiliated and shamed him beDenny rr.ine in am stood mainly on fore though, said I. thinking of wrinkles. chaser, but it would have been an inyou and of how be stands here one foot, ami gazed at t he floor with 'H to o ast co said the Paducah from clothes,' lei. tie sult to the colonpl now on guard I am foolish enough to as milch apparent absorption as if he That whisky has got to be protectIntimate that water had any possible own blood tingle. His growl, feel my hail never previously sicn any contried.' "New York Tribune. connection with a drink of whisky. vance of the kind. It was an emburass-in- g translated, means My Mistress Right Wait just a minute till I pack my or W rang. situation, and all three stood HI Love's young dream often bumps up trunk, he said, 'and I'll go down so. at case, the girl particularly against a rude awakening. with you.' Joke on Hotel Keeper. A description of her prolubly would Senator Quay tells a story of an be in order, but it makes no difference FOR FIRES I knew they'd smelt a fire. They HORSES HAVE NOSE whether she hail blue eyes and brown experience at a country hotel near took the engine round a score or two hair, or brown eyes and blue hair. She nttsburg. Hanging on the wall In Captain of a Fir Company Telia a of streets, and then they pulled up was the one girl for each of these mm, the parlor was an inscription "Icl on short behind a man whose coat-taiStory to Trot Ilia Claim. or at least each thought so, which is parle Franca Is." The senator noticed were burning. You see, he'd put a At a certain fire station a few perenough. As for her eyes, It would at the Inscription, and turning to the in his pocket" pipe Do you speak lighted the in Jim, feeding were that moment have been difficult to proprietor, said: sons engaged Jim. who had been listening attenof the propriemorsels even she French?" with "No," had determine their replied color, dainty horse, pet to the swished his held them up, for by this time they tor, "United States will do for me. cake and sugar. The captain looked tivelyand triednarrative, to look through the tail said Quay, "why do were blurred and moist. "Well, then. on approvingly, and at length began wall. stable Well, I sup you have that notice on the wall that to talk of horses. Finally Dick spoke: he said, A Stem Utm. Tilted back In hl3 chair, Did you ever know," pose I ought to Bay something. Denny, means 'French is spoken here. 1 know fire in the near Well. Ill be blamed if a young chap came up I a horse brought you'll be good to her and all cheated mighty being that Dick, I'm going to be she went on. that, because I guess you love her just didn't sell that to me for a motto brigade can scent a conflagration out of that election," said Senator married. I conGod bless our home!" answered the miles away? Well, its a fact. Jim, Sorghum; mighty near. It made me Dick had often Now Imagined as well as anybody could. And fire think of a poker game 1 was once In." her a hotel keeper. to on the astonished you inheritance, take your you will engine gratulate him this there, very thing, and telling What kind of a game was that?" himself nobly resigning her, acknowl- know. Wouldnt object to having without any guidance at all. He alasked ths attache who has had his sal- edging his own utter unworthiness, some kin of that kind myself, but I Foreign Tour for Go. Wood. ways knows exactly where it Is. Do you know what happened the ary raised several times for laughing wishing her joy, and so on. A quite was always careless about selecting Governor leneral Iieonard Wood, after the evacuation of Cuba, will be human sort of picture and one that my relations." other day? We had been called out in the right place. someout. muttered then soon we And I can which all put about Denny sometimes Is say Well, most small It have a lovers fire, to granted a long leave of absence, which conjured Then we trotted leisurely home, but that If the other fellows hadn't been up. Nevertheless, It bit him hard, thing about "thanks." and the girl he is to spend abroad with his famand the only speech he could frame glanced at Dick, and somehow or ily. we hadn't got far on our way when too busy stacking the cards and dealJim gave the tip to his companion, ing off the bottom to take any notice was the very unromantlc, yet natural other the pair of them stumbled out. Atheists and Infidels waste time talkThe Rising Young Writer went and the horses suddenly pricking up of me I never would have gotten a question, Who to?" to n mother who gases with tear-wing time a back to his table, and for long You know Denny. chance to ring in a cold deck on their ears, broke into a gallop. eyes at a baby's empty shoe. he sat there quiet, while the shadow "But Isn't this rather sudden?" It was no use trying to hold them them. old-time- r, hair-bread- th up-to-d- . Wrote Begging Letters good-nature- 1 " ve hard-heart- ed I m Four-foot- ail payment-ou-publlcatl- How Kentucky Colonel Protected the Whisky te ls Tit-Bit- s. et |