OCR Text |
Show tired and exhausted that I really needed a glass of lembnade or someth!. And thats all I remember about It, Kenneth, It really Is. Th town is too swift for you. Pa Harris, thats all, answered th wily kindly, "If Id been able to stay with,, you a circumstance whici, he had been very careful to render impossible "this would never have happened. But. knowing your strict temperance principle, it never occurred to me to warn you. However, well never tell anyone. Pa Harrla, and I dare say Marcia can manage to live It down somehow." "I never thought to disgrace you. daughter." said Marcias father ao penitently that hla daughter was constrained to rush around the table and embrace him forgivingly, while Kenneth conscience smote him a little But he pacified the cousclehce by making so much of the old man during the brief remainder of hla stay In of this that the 1 much-injurpersonage presently returned to him, and by reflecting that bis tather-ln-laIn days gone by, bad been none too easy upon bis own shortcomings And when the said father-in-lashortly after reaching home, sent Marcia a check for a thousand dollars and himself a altp of paper worth a similar sum, with Instruction to wait no longer for the Eastern capitalist, he hadnt the least compunction about investing both sums in a new outfit for the "Second Bally, which looked up so handsomely, and justified hla longstanding faith in her at last Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Semester reside in a handsome New York residence nowadays, with every possible luxury and convenience to be secured by money at command, and the Mountalnvllle days hsve been practically forgotten. But every time the successful New Tork capitalist sees or hears of an old man under tbe Influence of strong waters, he thinks, suddenly, of a trick he once played on an Innocent and unand feels suspecting old father-in-lalike giving somebody a dollar. Mrs. Kenneth Semester, ' however, has never suspected the truth of that affair. son-in-la- Mt Daw WIm Uw goodly people who could bout n model boy. The kind that will not fight, nor shout, B7 Tb Oft Ive envied nor break each costly toy; Who never track the mud about the tidy house, nor allngt jTla plaything round the patior floor my boy did all the things! But whenever I would scold him, and his heedless ways deplore, 1 would always bid hlm pattern by the Boy That Live Neat Door. Tet the playthings would get broken . la the careless little hand. And my bead cam nigh to bunting when he brought his pint band fTp tear the house to atoms, while I talked and talked In vain JTo keep the small, warm flngen from my polished window pane. Still, whene'er bis bnnd new trousers or his ruffled shirt he ton, lie would say "be didn't care to hear of that Good Boy Nest Doorr" ' How at last I've perfect Quiet there is stillness every day, .And my window panel so grimy an grown clean and white for aye; And I strain mine eye to catch the smallest mud print on the .floor. But alas! my bom Is spotless as the Boys That Lives Nest Door. How ! listen till my yearning ears do ache to catch a sound, And If only I could find a eooe or broken toy around! But ah, no! I only hearken, hearken t- vainly evermore, And I only bear the laughter of the Boy That Lives Nest Door. Harpers Baser, , t Swift Tnitlnk . We talk n gnat deal about the speed f our railway trains and of our ocean greyhounds, but w are apt to over look the fact that there are some swift travelers when no rails have ever been laid and no steamship has steered her course. The carrier pigeon will fly at least thirty miles an hour, and tome have been known to travel at the rate of ststy or even ninety snilee an hour. Wild pigeons often fly hundreds of miles a day to feed.-- re turning to their roost at night Audubon says they travel a mile a minute. . Water-fowl- s, ; gulls, terns and petrels fly on the wings of the wind, surprised In a storm. They will rise high In the air, facing g gale, and literally it Snaking a little progress forward as well as upward. Then they will suddenly descend with rapid flight to ward one side of the hut falling elf at the same Use la the direction of the blowing wind. Once snore they will sweep around and face the storm, ascending heavenward, and striking desperately outtil toward ths direction' of the storm.-unfinally they work themselves to on side of the storm center. , i During tremendous wind stems birds may sometimes be seen flying overhead at a great height When this Is noted It may be taken for granted that. the upper air la com jiaratlvely quiet and that the storm ia confined chiefly to th lower region. It la when tha storm extends too high up that they drift away with the wind, or fly awey on th edge of th hurricane. Migrating birds fly over distance so great that they must needs have great strength as well as great speed In flight Bobolinks often rear their young on th chorea of Lake Winnipeg, and like true aristocrat go to Cuba and Porto Rico to spend the winter. To do this, their fight must twice cover a distance of more than J.800 miles, or more than a fifth of the circumference of our earth each Th little redstart travels 3,000 mile twice a year. What wonderful mechanism it is that. In a stomach no larger than a pea, will manufacture Its own fuel from two or three slim caterpillars, a fly, a moth, or a spider, end sue It with such economy as to be able to propel Itself through th atr during th whole night at a rate of about flfty mile an hour, and at the same time beep Its own temperature at about 104 (degree. Not all th swift travelers, however, make their Journeys through the alf. Some fish attain great speed la th water. Th salmon end the swordfish nr the fastest swimmers of 11 th forked-ta- ll fishes. Only a hors could outstrip a aalmon, lor It swims a mil In lees than two tnlnutee, and any horse could be left behind in a long race, for the fish can cover thirty miles la an hour. When leisurely ascending rivers, with frequent rests In attractive pools, it average from fifteen to twenty-fiv- e fnlles .a day. In leaping, the salmon can easily beat the horse, for salmon tiara leaped up waterfalls twelve feet Algh, and he prepares for a leap Just a a boy does, with a short, sharp run. if the water at th foot of the dam or fall is not deep enough to allow this preparatory run, b cannot Jump. Tk Little Chronicle, storm-eweptpat- h, - yr, fast-fuanl- ng . boys sod four girls. We lived In a small house at the head of a country lane, my father having died, two years before. Mother was very strict with us; shs wouldnt let us be out after 6 oclock at night Vhen she went to work in th mornlug eh would leave ns our dinner, which consisted of two piece of bread end butter end a few potatoes. We never thought of haring pi or cake for our meals, but thought ourselves lucky to get a pudding for Christmas, and then we had to Jump from on ralain to another. There was one thing I was very fond of and that was Trish potatoes. I used to go Into our garden, dig them up, cook them and say nothing to any one. "My mother was kind to people wore off than herself. 1 remember once n gypsy came to our house. She carried a baby In her arms, as most of them do, and, sitting down, told such a pitiful tale of was shout herself and child that mother was eorry for her. She went upetalra to her old oaken chest and brought down some clothing for her. The gypsy went down the lane to where her companions were waiting for her, tnd some children saw them and ran to hid themselves. They saw her companions laughing at the things she received. Since then I have learned to know the waye of the world. "On summers day there was to be a great wedding celebrated In our village, for prince was to be married. Every one was dressed In his best Games were played, races run, prizes given, ebeep and oxen roasted, and everything was merry; but I didnt feed like being gay. 1 had a swelling on my shoulder, end this day It was wort than It had been elnce It came there. I had been crying to myse!f during the day, and mother wanted me to go to bed, but I wouldnt When my sister Mary cam home she saw I was feeling pretty badly and shs said if I would go to bed and stay thers I would feel better In the morning I didn't like going to bed, and I kepi wondering what she could mean. Is th morning what ahould I see&UQj side but a beautifully dressed wax doll, with cheeks Ilk roses and eyes 11k th summer sky, and golden ringlets that hung around Its face. It waa tbs envy of all tha village children. 1 kept It till one day when I left It out In the sun and Its face, melted. I was so sorry that I could have cried, but I waa too big a girl to do that" Just then nurse came to say It eras bedtime, and both children kissed Grandma good-nigand were soon In th "Land of Nod, Mabel Jupp, age IS, ia Detroit Free Press. ht Bowed to Wla. Down la Missouri live a boy who likes pets. He began with a pair of pigeons that ha got th a trade for a dog that he had traded a knlfa for. Hia parenta allowed him to keep tha plgeona until they multiplied ao that there were pigeons all over the place. Then he sold th plgeona and got a goat that ata the clothes off th tins every Monday. He waa compelled to dlspoet of It, and traded It for a pair o game chicken. In a week there wasnt a rooster left In th neighborhood; th game rooster had killed them all Hla father took th game chickens for a rid on night and lost them three miles out In the cquntry. Three day afterward the boy brought them boms, but ha never told anyone how he got them. And ao hi fought for hia pets one by one hla dog waa lost, hla lamb atolaa, hla rabbits ran away. He has comb down to one old hen. Recently he bought a "setUtfof eggs, A settln " of eggs lsSui many as a motherly hen can hatch Into chicks. He had mads up hla mind that hla hen was lonely and needed company, and what so companionable as a hatch of little chicks to scratch for? The hen, however, had different views, and didnt want to alt on th eggs But he waa jnot a boy to be stumped Sy a hen he had borne too many Josses already, He put th egga In a box in which be had mads a nest of bay. Then be placed tb Indignant ben on them, put a board In which ha had bored a lot of holes over her and left her to ccne to terms. That night hla big brother kicked off the board and set th hen free. Th next morning th boy put ber back and pub some brick on th board; for he thought she had raised the board and released brother kicked both herself, Th bricks and board off that night Tbe boy replaced hen and board again and again they were kicked off. Then he got a hoard and mad a hole In It for the ho to poke her head through and nailed the board to the box. Once a day h takes the board off and chases the hen around the yard for exercise, end twice a day he carries food and water to her. Whats the use of try. tug to discourage a boy like that?-Kans- u City Star. , QwIIImUmi far UStoklp Candidates for appointment as c United States Military data at tb etu4Ml Story. On cold winters night Grandma Academy at Weat Point, must be at Burns was knitting a pair of mlttana least B feet in bright, of good mental for Baby Alice, when Ethel, who was capacity, and fret from any physical tired of playing with her dolls, said: Infirmity or defe.t "Grandma, will you tell us a story?" was a lonely Queen Wllhelmln "141017," was the reply. "Shall f tell you about myself when I was a child. Impressed by her owa desolate-nes- s, the' would threaten her dolls, for girl of jmniehment, with being kept from hav"Tea, do" cried both children. . 1 1 was one of a family of ten. six ing anybody to play with. ?r RETROSPECTION Alone am I on the old creek bank. My cork on the water lying, A gnat Is near will body lank, A snake on a kg 1 drying. c. Not far away Its frightful id 9 if , croaking frog bass airing; Moun-tainvlll- 9 ) 1 t The anak glides off the sonny log To sell a minnow daring. v A flsh plays with the hook below. The bobbing cerl ! telling, Tet lastly 1 tet it f And dream la thoughts Indwelling. 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 I am back once mar In the long ago, When life was act so fleeting. And everything hat a ruddy glow, As my heart with hope was beating. 9 9 I knew no place In all the world Too high for my aspiring; The darts I had wire to be hurled 9 9 9 9 9 9 Before a throng admiring. But, somehow, now It seems that I, In retrospect reviewing. Can see those arrows passing by The goal to my undoing. 9 9 : Perhaps I aimed toe very high, My talent undiscerning We fail, nor know the reason why Ambition dulls its yearning. Tet, who would live his life again If shown of grand successes. And touched With more of grief and pain Than softened with caresses? I wind my silken 9 9 9 line once more, Th bailies hook appearing; Tha bullfrog croaks along the shore Th gloom of night Is nearing. O. C. Ludwig. Harris, Tha Second Sail!. ysull BT ETHEL M. COLSON. (Copyright, U01, by Dally Story Pub Col main. Kenneth 8emeter always tained that the reason be failed In the Weat waa becaua th country was altogether too fully developed for hi to grow up wtth by the time he reeefcet. It It wea old enough to b set In ft ways," he asseverated, before be bit Chicago, end moat of th ways wire Kenwth And decidedly shady. groaned openly when ht beard, after even year of unsuccessful Western endeavor, that bla wife's father-wa- s oosnlng out to visit them. "It Isnt that I dont Ilka th old man, dearie," he told Marcia, plainly, "I always liked and respected him, even when he raised such a row because you persisted In marrying ate. And Td welcome anybody you loved, as yog 'know. But It breaks me all ip to think of your father finding out what a miserable failure I am, financially. And when I think of all the luckier fellows, financially speaking, vho wanted you Instead i- fKenneth broke off In lmpatiaac And then the woman he loved and vho loved him, cam to the rescue eg ha might hava expected her to do. "Father neednt know anythhg about it, Kenneth," ahe told him, "that is, If you cam Induce your friends to keep quiet Ive got a little money on hand I've saved out of ay dressmaking enterprise and wed do what you'd call putting up a bluff while father's with us. I don't suppose he'll stay very long, eh concluded, wistfully, for poor Marcia, reared In th boeom of a large family, hads't "aeon a soul that belonged to her is ahe waa woht to express It for asrsn , years. Kenneth Jumped nt the offer gratefully, after on of the long, loving, admiring glances which repaid Marcia for BO many sacrifices, and the plan vfo - he eaid, lightly, "and I think find Marcia aa good looking and at well dressed (she was, thanks to tha money saved out of her dressmaking aid ber own womanly cleverness), as wten I took charge of her. The Sec-a- id Sally the mine which had eaten nf all Kenneth's capital and produced ateolutely nothing so tar Isnt run-JP- ff Just now, of course, because It Leafier liule more capital than I'va got to spar to put in the new machinery abea for, and I . 1 think IU ill . aoa-ln-la- Mar-turni- ng lrithman Succndj KinJ Eldtvard now tb The Marquis of Ormonde is commodore of tbe Royal Yacht Squadron, succeeding King Edward In that position. Tbe Duke of Leeds has been made vice commodore. Tbe election took place a few days ago at London. Lord Ormonde is one of the most notable men In tbe Irish peerage. H is tbe hereditary chief butler of Ireland and vice admiral ot Leinster, Bora at Kilkenny Castle on October A 1844, he succeeded the second marquis, his father, in tbe great estates of tbe marqnisate in 1854. He waa educated at Harrow and Joined tbe First Life Guards In 1863, retiring with tbe rank of captain ten years later. Th marquis has always been devoted to th pastime of yachting, and is himself aa LORD ORMONDE, excellent sailor. His marchioness tbe daughter of tbe first Duke of ia Xnrert at Stafford XJnii)r4tty Tbe recent manifesto, signed by members ot the faculty ot Stanford University, Indorsing tha action of the owner of the institution and her agents in the Ross case, has not had the desired effect. Instead of ending the disturbance it has stirred It ujl afresh. Now an assistant professsor and an instructor lent by Harvard a few months ago to fill out the terms of Professors Howard end Spencer have refused permanent positions, at Increased salaries, and other resignations are expected. The whole trouble, of course, is due to the lack of clear understanding of the conditions of employment at Stanford.- Many professors went there under the impression that the Institution was a university In the modern sense of the term, and when they came Into collision with th authorities by acting under that Impression they felt resentful. Of course, professors who go tbere now win hot-- be under any such misconception. They will understand that they are employ- - 1 ed not to extend the bounds of knowl- edge, but to teach such doctrines as are agreeable to their superiors, and they will have no excuse for displaying a 7 spirit of insubordination. thirty-seve- n Th Mas Who Woa't SmU I have lectured now over 2,200 times. Never once, either Jp England, in America, on the continent, In the colonies, never once aiywhere have I been able to lecture more than five mlnutea without discovering somewhere in the hall, generally in the front seats of the stalls, an old gentleman who will not smile. There he sits for over an hour, frowning at me all the time, never relaxing a muscle. His face seems to say, "My poor fellow, it's Very kind of you to try to fetch me, but you can do O! what you like, you cant do that that old gentleman! There ia something terrible about the fascination of ,that old gentleman you cannot get your eyes off him. If you do, it does not make things better. - You may turn your head away, but you know he is there. You are unhappy; wretched. You put the steam on, but to no avail. la your duty to enter-- , You feel tbs tain him well let me put It to you honestly you feel that you ere paid for jour work, and that you are not earning your money. What a relief XVtdt Jo Jtfftrjon'e Son. when, at last, he places both hands A sequel to a little romance that behind hla ears! You come to the satisfactory conclusion that he Is atone dates back to the summer of 1898 was deat Max ORell in Harmsworthi the marriage at Butxarda Bay, Mass., the other day, of Chris Magazine. - tit go back home." about don't care putting all my egga In one basket, ao long as I've got Marcia there to look after. But some Eastern capitalist will come along end Jump at the chance of staking me, one of these days, and meanwhile I'm making a little money In other directions." He was, doing business errands to the nearest city for hla more successful friends, mostly. And tbe money he made was very little. Indeed. The Immediate paternal ancestor of Mrs. Semester enjoyed hlmaelt so well ia Mountalaville that be stayed mgeh longer than he had at first Intended. At th beginning of th third week of credit the landlord of the Iroquois Hotel hinted at payment, and Kenneth knew that something must be done. That afternood he took hla father-in-la- w down to th bad places of Moun-talnvand set him, good gjhistlan gentleman and elder of th church at home that be was, to converting the heathen. The men and womeq congregated in the bad places were far too smart for old Mr. Harris, and much more wicked. Th result of the afternoons experiment was that old Mr. Harris was presently led home to his daughter in an unwonted condition, white neither "drunken nor maudlin," as Kenneth unfeelingly expressed' It, when Marcia weeplngly asked him what "could be th matter with papa," tha poor old gentleman waa decidedly the worse for liquor. He suffered nothbe auffered much ing that evening, but he cam down-ul- ri next morning 'when to pnd bis daughter la bitter fall of the day previous Old Mr. Harris led home , - team over th "1 tMnh I'll go back home tomorrow, duly carried out When Father Harris Kenneth." h told hla appeared Jil daughter and her ho, the breakfast half over. band were living in good style at ths shamefacedly, Kennetn opened hla mouth N0" only reapectable hotel MountaJnvflk tor speech, "dont try to dissuade me. boaated, and every on of Kenneth rm sure Id better. Ive never before uncountable friend had been olelEs. disgraced myself aa I bid yesterday, ly sworn to keep the secret of the d. bib lt Quite unintentionally, of Sorted little tram cottage on Back and! They told m It waa a strictly Mures. Street Kenneth parried the tool temperance brink they gave me, searching question of hla father-tto hia sobbing daughter law very aklUfully, Into the baraain dejection. "and of course I abject "WeU, you see pw were Bvta waa ao hot and bcHeveb them. And I n. e self-respe- ct Current Topics f Do Brli CM to Towo. There was astonishment recently at the home of Mrs. Harriet Harvey, Cortland, N. Y., caused by the return of Don, the family dog. The family moved to that city recently bringing the dog in a boxcar In the night. He was discontented and made hla way back, thirty miles, to the farm In Enfield, Tompkins county, where he was born and raised. Don was not alone on his return, but was accompanied by a cat that had been left on tbe farm when the family removed to the city. Both gave evidence of having had a hard trip. They ate greedily from the same plate and then dropped off to sleep. Mrs. Harvey says that the dog and the cat were firm friends on the farm. While she knew that they were fond of each other, she never suspected that the cause of the dogs uneasiness was his separation from the cat. , The Hew Breem. It is to be noticed that whenever a north Georgia Superior court judge comes down into the wi regress region to hold conrt he make the lawyers and court officer "toe the mark," delivers a charge to the grand Jury, says the Albany Herald, cleans up the docket and applies the "new clean to things broom," MRS. WM. WINTER JEFFERSON, . (Formerly Miss Christie MacDonald.) U MacDonald and William Winter Jefferson at th Crows Nest, th red-hpalatial summer home of th veteran actor, Joseph Jefferson, father ot th groom. The wedding took place at noon In tha spacious parlor, which generally, and whenever one of our had been transformed into a bower of, south Georgia judges goes up into the roses, pinks and fragrant exotica. Th mountains to h61d conrt he does young couple started on their bridal things in very much th same way. tour In a novel manner, their friends And thia suggests the Idea that It placing them In a carriage, which was would be well to have the judges handsomely decorated .with ribbons, change circuits mors generally than end drawing the heavy vehicle, the bride and groom urging them on over they da the sandy roads to the station. Tha was entirely private and only wedding . nUty. relatives and a few the Immediate The death la annonneed'of Dr. at the age of 84. Dr. Decrolx friends of th young couple were pres- ent was the fminder of the French Society, and was th xealous advocate of horseflesh aa food. Ha Other ThtnJ-- t betides VOeatth was born at 8avy, Mr. Schwab, president of the steel and became chief veterinary surgeon of the trusty says that the boy wbo takes n . . French army. university course can never catch up to the boy wbo enters business life at th age ot 17. Catch up In what? Aerteet Bel Shipp WfcnlmU . emApricot pulp to th amount of twen Obviously In acquiring wealth or tons waa recently ordered ployment with a view to wealth. But from California y a single London there are other things and it is a pity that a man of Mr. Schwab's promt-- 1 firm. nenee had not pointed them out One la that it la far from being aa unA comprehensive map of the Chinee empire was mad in 1718 by Jesuits worthy thing to acquire knowledge for to be cultured,' by special order ot the emperor, Kang the sake ofd knowledge, as to more than one to many-sidebe HI 'Sj Industry and calling. ' ot that-"swee- hoM Aatt-Tebe- ee De-croi- x, Anti-Tobac- co ty-elg- ht jam-maki- ng . 1 t L , -- -- & |