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Show 4 lovers EXCITING Overcome Many mored Obstacles! ELOPEMENT OP A KANSAS COUPLE. taken place since void Luhinvai came out of the West. The arrival of the cab suited hos M rs Raymond tilities appeared a? COLORED MAN THE CUPID the front door and ordered Hallei away just as Miss llavniond huiled her suit case out ivf the second stoiy trive Pair at Breakneck Speed to window and called out that she would be down in a few minutes Attired in Home of Prieet Bridegroom Hae her graduation diess Miss Raymond Strenuous Time Before Girl I lei started downstairs mother re Becomes His Wife. treated inside the house and locked the dooi Atchison. Kan. Phil Haller and Hallei, seeing his sweetheait held Miss Edith Raymond, the latter now from tin- - cab aud Mrs. Phil Haller, are the hero and prisoner, sprang rushed up on the isircli He reached heroine, or villain and heroine, de- the front ilooi just as Mr Kavmond pending upon the viewpoint, of the unlocked the door to come out and most dramatic and exciting elopement remonstiare with Haller They met at of the year the door Haller shoved his foot were married aud have lived against it Mr Ravuinnd tried to close They happily ever since, after an hour of it He was too late Haller biokt the most strenuous efforts that ever through the door and be aud his fath were forced upon a young couple. Hal- er in law lobe mixed m the hallway ler, In an hour, had as much exciteThey were going fast both strong ment as Jacob hud In the fourteen land lively when Mrs Raymond joined years he smeil for Rebecca in to aid hei husband it is alleged Mr. Haller and Miss Raymond lived (that Hallei i aught hei swung her here They were in love with each aiound and threw her off the iniryh other, and the complications consisted to the gtound. ilnee feet below This treatment fiom a prospective son-flaw so affected Mis Raymond t liar she was ovetcorue by nervous hysteria Her husband summoned a physician and during the excitement Alisa Edith clad in hei commencement gown, es taped the house and leajied into the carriage. Her father was in hot pursuit and leaied into the carriage after her Jint. the driver, came to the assistance of the girl, who was resist ing her fat bet's efforts to drag her back Into the house. Jim and Mr Raymond wrestled out of the carriage and while they wete scrambling on the ground Haller leaped ou to the driver's seat, and. lashing the horses, started away with his tiride He raced away for two blocks then made the tactical error of stopping to wait fpr Jim to catch up. Jim arrived, after running a dead heat with Mr Ray i mond, and as Jim climbed onto the driver's seat Mr Raymond again leaped into the carriage with his daughtei Meantime neighbors had telephoned the police and Policeman Wilson went Haller Mixed with the Girls Father. on the run to stop the alleged riot. of opposition on the part of the par Jim had resumed control of the reins and was riding with the groom ents of Miss Raymond to her fiance Miss Edith N a giaduate of the on the box, while inside the, cab. Mr Atchison high school, and she was 18 Raymond and his daughter were en-- ' Mr. 'ears old when she fell In lovh with gaged in strenuous argument Haller. There really wasn't anything Raymond hurled his daughter's suit the matter with Haller He may have case out of the cab window, but by been a bit wild and a bit reckless, and that time the rah was going so rappossibly he did not show due and idly that he could do nothing more Policeman Wilson missed Conner proper respect for the parents of the girl he had selected for his bride. All tions, and as he arrived at the Rayof these things Mr. and Mrs. Raymond mond home, where the doctor was set up as Indictments against him. working over Mrs. Raymond, Chief of Miss Edith was a member of the fa- Police Sullivan, at headquarter's, saw mous Beau Not Club until she fell p cab with a man in holiday attire and a negro on the box and an excited in love with Haller.- - The girls parents strenuously op- man inside flash past the station. He posed the match, and Haller pressed pursued the cab on foot. Deputy his shit quite as strenuously. Miss Sheriff Hissong joined, the chase ' w ith Jim determined to wed the Across town wens the Raymond man of her choice, and her parents and Haller and Mr. Raymond and hia were quite as determined that she daughter Inside, and' with the chief of should not police and deputy sheriff in pursuit Early In September the young cou- on foot. The tab finally stepped in front of ple decided that to gain the consent of the parents to their wedding was St. Benedicts church, just as the two impossible, so they agreed to be mar- officers overtook it. Chief Sullivans ried with or without the consent, and only comment was Oh, h II Haller prepared a home for his The panting and exhausted bridal He made arrangements, secured his party entered the church parlors and there Mr Raymond made bis last eflicense, and the priest was waiting. The problem that then presented fort He pleaded with Father Girard Itself was one of getting his bride lo refuse to marry the couple Father away from her parents. Ho engaged Girard derided that as they wete both a cab driven by a colored man named of legal age they might as well be Jim, who, despite hiB color and his man led there as anywhere. . lack of wings, agreed to play Cupid The paternal blessing was not and help the young couple. The cab but Haller secured the biide drove up in front of the Raymond he had won after the most strenuhome, and Its appearance was the sig- ous courtship in modern annals. nal for the beginning of one of the Jim drove them to their new home most exciting elopements that has in triumph XQBTJPT-J- changeaassadors. ViAlAkiiAUkltiliklllEhi4AllkAliUklixUL.14tEki. A PARADISE LOST ?' nrcoazzrcyr a By L. G. MOBERLY iiiw i wiT'ftiUT'iwKwm 'HitinwiK pyrxlii , i ... I - I I r Mvtoi truck us Ifnb, The repoit that Robert Bacon is to sSecr-cmanambassador to France next spting is credited diplomats and h1i ticlans in Washington and elsewhere. Mr. "i. who is assistant secretary Hie rumored of state, was a classmate of President Roosevelt ai II, ed promotion of Mr Bacon comes as a distinct mupiim. although it was ofti daily announced when Mr. McCormick was transit im! to Paris that be would stxm leave the diplomatic service of hi ountiv Nothing was known at that time as to who would succeed him 1 the Frem It court i i THE CHIVALROUS RED California Gallantry. , "Thev mid up l In- - stoiy of a well known gentleman o' Sail Francisco, whU charging ihmugb all the smoke and flames anil Intel on the flist day Of terrui, fame main a fashionable ladf vf his acquaintance trudging alolg the middle of the street in her bedroom slippers with a window cur-ta- l thrown over her shoulders. He Stopped his automobile to offer her explaining at the same time that the auto was ail he had saved out of the w reck and even that had been commandeered by the sol- MAN. Pretty incident That Marked Famous Football Match. Near the end of a brilliant match, between our oldest university and the Carlisle Indians, one of the Indian backs suddenly got away with the ball and was off down the field with nothing between him and the goal posts hut one man. If the runner succeeded In getting b.v him. It meant everlasting athletic glory for himself and perhaps a victory for his small college over this mighty institution of learning, containing the flower of the civilization which bad swept his forefathers away from the lands they once possessed. The crowd in the stands had arisen, gasping In their excitement. as crowds always do at auch moments. But just as he had almoet gained the coveted line, that one man, a famous sprinter, brought the runner down with a beautiful tackle. The stands rocked with relief, and the usual "piling of Mther players took place. As the two lay there together, the representative of New England, while still clasping the descendant of American savagery, felt something fumbling, and presently became aware, at the bottom of the heap there, that hia right diery. have lost all." shestghed. 'I, All but your beauty," said he, with -- a courtly Shorthand for Gormant. "Did you know," said a College Ian guage expert, "that there are more Germans studying shorthand writing thah there are of any other nation alittesT" How do you account for It?" aald several of his auditors. The reason Is not hard to find, responded the linguist. "Just look at a page of German script. There you d of shorthand writing lave the longest p z rz DR. PARKHURSTfS NEW CHURCH. BRAVE WOMAN KILLS BIG Tilamook, Ore Mrs M .1 Cone, who lives with her husband at Netarts, Ore., and who rents the Maxwell plaqe at Netarts Beach, showed that she was a woman of courage and pluck in an exciting bear hunt. She was returning home' from the Maxwell place alone on horseback and suddenly rame across a large bear in her way Mrs. Cone drove her horse at full speed to her home and. obtaining a Winchester and a shepherd dog, returned to the place where she had seen the bear. The beast was soon lie rated at the sheep corral, and. getting within close range of the hear, she fired her first shot, which 'brotce the bear's fore leg. The wounded beast made off on three legs. Mrs. Cone followed it up and fired again at close range, the bullet striking the hear in the nose and coming out at the side of the head For some time the bear wallowed around, with Mrs. Cone and the dog afrer it, when it dashed off into the thick brush This did not daunt Mrs Cone in the least, for she followed as fast as her clothes would permit, some of which she threw off so as not to impede her progress. Every once iu a while she came up with the bear, and did not iniss an oje portunlty to fire. For over a mile she chased her quarry In the thlek brush and succeeded in hitting the animal four times. The dog, nipping at the hear s heels, forced him to taka to a log, where a desperate fight occurred between the tVo anlmajs. Tba bear kept fanning the dog off with tta paw The beautiful edifice planned by Jhe late Stanford White and designed to be one of the most elaborate ecclesiastical structures In the city of New e York. It was recently dedicated with ceremonies simple-impressiv- hand was being shaken.' 'TJiiod It takei tithe, too much time. I once tackle," muttered the Indian. Tbs used ft exclusively. but that wis be fore I was as busy as I am now. The Outing Magazine Germans are simply driven to some LOVE REDUCED TO SCIENCE. system of shorthand " Mathematical Yellow Glasses for Sensitive Eyes. Motals has been prescribing fur 1F yeariIgcases of ultra sensitiveness "Do you love me as much- as I to light glasses of a yellowish tint, you T slightly orange, with a brownish tint "The college girl smiled. "Do voa on reflection. They Increase the per wish me to prove trr" she ssM eeptln .of light, while Mantling the For answer he bent forward ex- eyes. The yellow tint evidently pie vents the passage of the rhemleai pecting fo receive the usual blnd-nof the promise. These yellow rays to some extent "I mean mathematically I" she glasses, he states, will be found far No, superior to smoked oi blue glasses drawing her face back. hile they do not impair the vision don't be cross Listen, We beion to a certain circle. We are the radii When they are taken off even the of that circle. 'Two radii of a ircle most brilliant sunlight seems dead are equal to a 'third radius of the nd .lifeless in compaiison - North American Journal of Homeopathy same circle." He wasn't good at tnathematjes but he conceded the point Blind Man Who Smoke I read a long article the other Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another. Wall, day, gsld the mild mannered man, supposing that you and I are equal upon the lubject of smirking which to X. an unknown quantity." stated that blind men never smoke He was perfectly willing to suppose It gave the reason why It was anything. they couldn't see the smoke "X is our love for each other, "W a That la not true I know a blind are' equal to X. Things which sr man who Is an lnveterdte7moker and equal to the same thing are equal to has been imoklng since he was a boy one another. thereforeJ m,ut loie you H i light hia pipe or cigar without-"bla- re In the same ratio thaf you love m'" wa difficulty and enjoys slightest He didn't wait for any more math- them, revels in them In fact lie ha ematic. The 'X became X'lasyl hen blind since Ms birth " Proposition, According to College Girl. st Close Rang. the dog. the lear caught It by tacking the mouth and broke its under jaw. Mia Cone saw that something bad to be done immediately, with the dog Mrs. Cone Fired under the bear and likely to be killed, so she appi cached with her gun while the fight was going on and placed the muzzle at the back of the bear and fired. This shot ended the battle. Mrs Cone retraced, her steps out of the brush and told her husband and others what bad occurred. , Out of nine shots fired seven had taken effect The bear was a large one and When dressed ft weighed 3S7 pounds. either face. "Beloved." he sad. and bis voice shook, "will you never regret all that vou will lose If you come into Farad!? with me? "Never," she said. quietly. ."To enter paradise with you. Armand. that Is enough." And she turned her beautl ful face to hi and let him kUa her softly on the lips. I caught my hrAkth a they turned vy. sunshine ou the steps, there as leaning on (he old kings arm a tail loiiu In liHlling white garments, her diamond (ladling till she seemed move in a blaze of light And when saw the face of the biide caught my In eat h and uttered la low exclamation roi the face under the hitdal veil was not the face of a si i auger looked onee again upon the fail- ol the glil I had seen walk ing with hei luvei in Hie garden at siinsei mmthe gnl wlio had entered into Paiadise with Aimand lilt saini vet not the same' l'hr cxquisiD iimiuiii mi- - I here atlii, the eyes Idue aud deep as the sky over Inbead heaiitihil euives of mouth and l inn gleaming lialr. lint the lolonug instead of making me think id apple blossoms in spring, was white while as a statue, and the radt anee was all gone The laee waa set ami vi ill as though yaived out of marble. lovely beyond winds, but eold with a coldness that froxe tny hear! Site passed into the building with lhat ftee, stalely step I remembered, then tip ned with a question to a man behind tue ' Ye- s- that is Hie crown princess now Her elder sisters both died. Yes - it was sad, very sad. They Mid the young Princess Theresa had bees alsiut her royal rank, to wed flH had died. love. ut and ahe had become her father's hetr . and well, of course. It waa easily to )e S(H-,hat she must wed the so a of a royal house," and so on. and so on i waited to hear no more. I could no, ,ar 1o that beautiful cold faea again jf aag a ,iny churchyard on n MR side iu Switterland. Below It the waters of the lake shimmered la the sunshine, above Its terraces arose vineyard above vineyard, till they were lost in the woods that hang upon the sides of the great brooding moun-tains. I walaed slowly along the little pUI)g among the graves, reading the name of ,h(, who )ay thelr peaceful resting place amongst the I I I - i i li- I s n rose. i 11 at onrc my. alow steps were ar- rested; a few feet In front of ase I saw a woman in black and alone, kneeling beside a grave over which waa a trelllswork covered with white banksia rosea Yes, oh, yes, tbefe was nd mistaking her beautiful features. Though years had gone by they had not dimmed her loveliness; and though bee eyes shone through a mist of tears, their, color was still the same wonderful deep Standing that evening on the of the hotel watching a sunset behind the grext pile or Monte Rosa, 1 aaw the girl egaln. She was walking across the garden, an elderly lady on one Bide of her, the voting man on the olher. Do you see that gtrl?" a asked eagerly. I nodded. She la a f real personage. In spits blue, ? , i , of her rflmple dress and mantvers. Bhe 'Tbe- - grare- - was marked oely by n ia the Princess Theresa, daughter bP aim pie stone.'' No date was upon It;, land he namixi the king. of awelj- - ao .therii, were no wreaths upon known and flourishing little kingdom), the simple grsiss plot.. Only l.t was v'Fm fan the fate given wrapped about by the trailing braneb-he- r two elder sisters, she woOlfTh heir to the throne; she has .no brothers. As It Is, I fancy it looks at If she intendedv to renounce all regal rights and be happy in her own way with the young fellow beside her." Two years later, as I was journeying homewards from a long tour In the East which had taken me far out of reach of all newspapera or tiding of the western world, f resolved to stay for a night or two In a town on my route which, It so happened, was the capital of thatklngdom where the Frincess Thwesa'a fathet reigned, as king My thoughts uaturally enough flew hack to her as I diove through the quaint and picturesque town, and a vivid picture of her as had last seen her arose before my eyes. As I drove. I became aware that the streets were gaily decorated with flags and flowers and that people's faces wore an unusual look of festivity and rejoicing. What Is happening?" I asked of my driver. "Is this a national festival, or the anniversary of some great vio f lory ?" "The gentleman does not know?" he said. ' Cm princess is to be married I he crown princess, the Armand au rtvolr!" heir to the throne, e it understood," he went on for the rurthfr enlighten es of the rose, whose p tala had made ment of my dull fore'gn understanda pure white mantle uon the grass; ing ' She marries our neigh bor. Prince and the three words upon the little Frederick, and we rejoice" stone seemed to me the moat tit belle "So," I lefievted, "the Princess Thehad ever read resa's eldest sister was to lie married, "Armand au tevoir'" and no doubt the younger princess have seen her once since tlieD a herself would he at the wedding.'! idot. crowned queen and her yteoph then and there i evolved that I would She was driving along tne streets of make at least an effort to see some- her capital, her little sou b.v her side; emony she was dressed all in white, and her thing of the moiiow s The town was astir betimes, and I loveliness was something to dream of was astir with, the town to take my j and remember I thought I had neve-plac- e a smile mote infinitely sweet;," as near as might tie to the steps j m-her eyes of the fine cathedral in which I learned and yet the sadnewt-I- n own was a to tase before mist my place the wedding brought For a moment the Btieet, the people found mvself writ amused watch- about me, the swiftly rolling earriage, Ing the guests btieam ; to the build! lead saw a ing. listening to the con inents of the faded from my sight from with the neigh- - far away and my learning flagrant garden, lpulace, was this grande, and who scent of pale wisteria flowers and ors who Then at last a muimur ran banksia roses, radiant with sunshine, that The royal household is com-- l full of the song of binds the glory muni!: I craned fo vsrd with the of spring. I saw the face of a girl, and Ing," rest to watch the lords and ladle In glad with a wondeiful new gladneM, Once I f heard a voice, the most soft aad waiting pass up the steps started violently, for I saw a face I musical it has ever been my lot to knew, but a face grown from youth to hear before or since, say gently manhood since I had seen it last the To ent r Paradise with you, Arface of the man called Armand And, mand. that ia enough. as well as the youth, all the gladness The vision faded, another took fix" had gone out of It; it was strong and place A hillside, cemetery ; the deep, still pure as ever, but infinitely sad; nd I wondered. rosea. lake, the brooding mountains and a little js'ext there came a pause, then a roses all the way of trumpets, a great shout from amongst them, a grave whose simple the 'multitude, a pealing volume of Stone bears only those t lyres sound from the organ, and out of a words , "Armand Su revolri magnificent state carriage, lato the ter-lac- e rose-colore- d e JVVKMA,a,aUee,1U ) - 1 oooooooooooooooocoooonooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot His Life. I U i 1 - tortli-eoming- Mis. Cone came up and, at about In feet distance. txk aim and shot the beHr in the breast. The lear fell off BEAR IN EXCITING HUNT the log and the dog Jumied on it. when another savage fight commenced At Follows Animal Through Thick Brush in and Finally Succeeds Ending 1 - azine fair-haire- dark-skinne- bow "And you all but your gallantry," she retorted, smiling Sunset Mag , cb. Joseph mu ( , , line. h was unwilling witness of that inosiidv llic of 'me mtiics in a garden that was m si If an lily II The nun mui of von cm trom the out file the en path, inimeiliaiely trance to the peigola when1 I was lounging, was lie first intimation I received hat someone besides myself had dlscov ei ed this flagrant miner of that most lovely gaidetl it was a mans votee that ssike hist. In Frem h. iager. impetuous and as I Imagined Mmihful in said Beloved Ale is il lineMill sure'' Will love lie enough lie answer evidenilv Enough' ame t com a glil the times weie so lesh so (led i. bill willi a penetiatillg M yon knew how weetnes in them am that am fiee glad - liow glad to choose love to Inllow in v heal I1 Hove Is enough I'ho last winds weie iv simply said lint they held a depth of mean mg tba made mv bullish old heait give a leap of sv inpat hv Hut you give up so niuoli " be said ton lit fully lake eveiytbing. the sacrllW Jj all yours" Sacrifice" she ei led. a nng of glad Do you think 1 pride in her voice care for rank and all ihat rank brings I am glad I was luirn too late to have to wear a crown that is so thorny -- so ilioiny," she repealed almost dream "1 am free liy lo give myself to you Sacrifice?" she laughed aoftlv. "There is no sacrifice in going Into Paradise." As she spoke those words, the two paused In their walk along the path, and through the delicate wisteria and banksia leaves I caught a glimpse of then! both They were young, but there was no Inimaturlty or lack of pursse In I e A 1 1 1 n 1 J 1 I j . gte I V V N |
