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Show ' 'JOHNSTON'S ADVENTURE. 9 i know this atory In trun, tor John fiton told It to me himself, and he has not imagination enough to Invent an untruth. He told me that If yon should at tempt to enter into conversation with a In a Chicago train he probably would present you with the card In Question as a delicate hint that he wanted to be left In peace. I am going down to Warwickshire tomt.-oI said" continued Johnston to spend a few days yrlth We.and intake this card wUh me.., It aoKe one insists on talking to me when Im reading my paper Ill try what handing him the card will do. I OAk th train at Euston, traveling secorrt class. "hL. was a woman of about 30. The heat f the day and the excitement of catching the train had given her a florid color, and I could see that the desire of condemning the weather and exposing the wickedness of a cabman wan strong within her. "Presently the woman caught my eye and said, 1 beg your pardon, but will you tell me the exaet time? My cabman - - "But here I handed the woman the Chicago card 1 had received the day before. "She read It and then eald, Oh, Indeed! So sorry. Pray excuse me, and then lapsed In silence, while I resumed my newspaper and congratulated myself oft the efficacy of the American plan of dealing with railway bores. "It Is true that my conscience did give me an occasional twinge, for the distinction between telling a lie and He handing a person a ready-mad- e printed on a card was not very perI asked myself whether In ceptible.giving the woman a card with the words, 1 am deaf and dumb, I had not fellow-passeng- er fc'low-paeseng- er flne-look- W Ton are quick enough to watch the D6-- , tlons of a professional pickpocket,. That man has my puree, I am perfectly ware of it; and I shall give Mm In charge the moment we get to Rugby. "It waa clear that I must bolt from the carriage the Instant the train reached Rugby platform, and before a policeman could be called. Tbe train waa already slowing and 1 hastily gath-eee- d up my rue and umbrella and prepared to mov. .oward tbe door. No, you dont, my man. said Mrs. Scoble yising and taking possession of the door by tbe simple process of thrusting half of her ample person through tbe window. "I saw at once that tbe game was up. 'That man' has ptokedmy pocket, said Mrs. Scoble, as soon as the policeman opened the door. 'Search him end you'll find my purse In his possession. It in marked 'A. D. S., and has four notes, two sovereigns, and some change In It, besides my five-pou- ticket " Whet do you say to this? tbe policeman asked me, evidently impressed with the certainty of my guilt " Simply that it isnt true, I replied. T know nothing of the ladys pnrse, and I can easily convince you that I am a respectable person. My goodness! exclaimed my accuser. Why. the fellow Isnt deaf and dumb after all! Constable, he pretended to be deaf and dumb. That shows what a scoundrel he is! "I rose up to follow the policeman, and my foot struck against something that waa lying on the floor of the carriage. I stooped and picked It up. It was the missing purse. Is that your purse, madam? I asked, as I held it dp. Tou must have dropped it when you were looking out of my window. I wouldnt advise him to play that game any more, said the policeman, Let me tell yon sir, that If severely. yon travel under false pretenses you neednt be surprised If you find yonr- - eonld net wait nay longer, sad ws wIH nil thres walk horns together, and yon shall know all about 1U "I hesitated for s seoond and then said to myself that I would meet fifty annts sooner than aay good-b- y to the niece before I had convinced her that I waa not aiwaya stupid, and that 1 could sometimes he other than s nuisance, . I not. only walked home with her and faced the dismayed and repentant annt, but I staid my full week at Greener oft. When I came away 1 was engaged to .be. married, and bad already began to call Mrs. Scoble aunt, partly to show her that I bore no malice and partly by way of emphasising the triumph that the man whom she hsd called stupid had wos. ' -- Pall Mall. 1 : VANISHED AS OTHEBS DR. KEILS DREAM OP JUSTICE AMONO MEN. hk t H lauirl Cloay ts Osly Prospers tw m While bet Waa plaaliy KUle4 kjr Aecaanlatlea I hast Wealth. SW NsT CSpecIal Letter.) Few of those who read the hooka of Bellamy and who dream of an ideal commonwealth, where each cltlien la equal to every other cltlsen and all are rellgloa can not he well defined or j classified, as Dr. Kell was the leader In things spiritual as well as temporal. From the Information that la attainable be seems to have preached a son of polyglot utilitarian dbctrlne difficult to describe, but if all accounts are true there were many pious souls among them, even though, tbelr leader held and preached tenela of faith that muat have been a cross between , th apostles creed snd the teacMngs of the Dr. Kell claimed to be InKoran. spired Uke tbe.Apotla sul4 andthe older colonists acquiesced In this assumption and rendered him the homage duetto a superior creature. The observance of religious ceremonies he rigidly enforced,' Each Sabbath morn-lu- g the Inhabitant were zealously rounded up by the primitive policeman or burgomasters, and this may In part account tor the Immense attendance of tbe famous old church. East of Bethel and down the picturesque North river waa erected th man-- father consented that he might for his departure from the mansion house upon a Journey that would span half the continent, but which seemed to him a the coming of a holiday, The newlyi tied M go. and be began preparing awakened flame of ambition burnedl with increasing fervor la his youthful blood, but there came a fateful hour in which he wsa seized with an saber. dever. deadlier and more ardent! than the first, which added its fire to' the flam of the other, increasing rather than .diminishing tbe glow. In bio delirium tb Aurora' was mors real Than ever to Ms disordered fancy; he "babbled o' tha freest fields," he saw the somber beauty ofj tb cascades, and could hear the surf! ; there may beat on tbe distant German girl have been a whose beckoning hand allured him; a! least he exacted a promise from tta father that In the event of Ms ex pected death ipte should be buried! among the scenes where his mind and heart had already lingered. He died; and amid the gloom which pervaded the- - mansion bouse at Ellnw his father msde haste to fulfill the vow to hla lamented son. An emigrant train wag organized among th colonists who wished to depart, the body, waa encased in an Iron coffin contain- ing alcohol, placed in the front wagon of the train drawn by six mules, anch amid the lamentatlone of the remaining membera of the colony there wan begun what la perhaps tha stranger and most stupendous funeral march in the history of our land. After montan of weary travel over plain and mountain the tired but faithful mourners arrived at Aurora, and tha father religiously fulfilled tha pledge to his dying son. The Bethel brethren their patriarch no more; the colony dwindled away, and tha snows ci many winters have lata upon tbe gram' of the leader, who sleep beside bis son! under the Oregon pinea long-cherish- alike rich with a common fund, are awtre that those Ideas embraced in the maxim "equal rights to all and were once pedal privileges to non WOMANS WAYS. actually applied la the establishment and subsequent existence of what te As Speeeleteis , Are fMI riidlif historically known as the Bethel Colony, founded and operated on the wlnd- by m OrSlwrj Brsfcsr. Deliver me from lug chorea of North river, in Shelby Chicago Journal: any more wheat deala with women," said the commission man, wearily. Just read this letter. Do you see what ahe says? Calls me a robber and say she will prosecute me. She wont do that, of course, because If she did her folks would find out about her little speculation, and I know her well enough to understand the she wouldn't let it out if ahe could help It, and she couldnt prosecute me anyway. -- Then look at the rest of it One would think from that letter I was running the biggest skin game on earth. But 1 suppose I ought not to be surprised. 1 never saw a woman yet who didnt want odds of a million to one In her favor If ahe took it Into her bead to put up a little money on something. Ill tell you what brought out all of that abuse. This woman decided som time ago to trade a little In wheat. She wrote, sending me $20, with Instructions to buy her 1,000 bushels. 1 did an, but tbe price of wheat went down almost as soon as I bad telephoned tbe order over to tbe firm at JOURNEY OF SACRED CARPET. the board. I made up my mind that Fae-ra- a she shouldn't lose If I could help it, Article Dtterlbeg even if I had to help her out myself. Wlteeas ( . Its Start. So I began margining for her on my "It is an odd thing to call the sacred own account I put up $20 without of the Mohammedans a carpet carpet being worried much, for I thought the tor it not only la not a carpet in itTHE COLONY CHURCH. price would go up soon, but It didnt self, but It la not the shape of a carpet. and I had to spend another $20 to save (Photo From a Sketch.) It la not need for a carpet, and dot my own margin. There was $40 gone not look like a carpet. We were amend Just to protect her little old $20. Bethe fortunate ones who were invited to fore the market began to come up county, Mo. Several years ago Dr. D. alon house of Dr. Kell, where he lived the feu-deruprivate view of It the night before, a th and of the R, dispensed deceased), (now hospitality McAnally one J had to in $80, Then again put - Its when, the faithful were dedicating 1V house,--witCbrlstlan monarch. Loiris The dite St. of the editor day the price came up very gradually. numerous appurtenances, was called says a writer In the Womans Home As soon as It got to the point where Advocate, in an editorial on tb subI could save myself I sold out as any ject of communism, asserted that the "EUm, waa built by the common la- Companion, "They eat on the Boor, Mohammedans, rocking themwise man would have done lu my fix. Oneida community in New York, the bor, and waa a part of the possessions the tbe of th colony, but it waa designed and selves back and forth,' and chanting As it happened, too, the price went Bethel Colony and Its hack Just after I had sold out proving Aurora (Ore.) Colony, were the notable used as tha residence of th leader or tha koran. Tha carpet la a black velvet embroidered solidly la silver the wisdom of my course. Well, I instances of the application of tbe governor. A commodious banquet hall d Informed my client of what I had theory of communism upon American served its purpose, and there ts a tra gold. It la shaped like an o.d-- f Methodist are there dltlon mention Dr. J Kell lived church, and only that thl soIL Aside from regned done, 'supposing she would be de. slight 1 v lighted at the interest I Bad takes tbe fame of this singular experiment here in thla western wilderness after minaret at the four corners. It sod at my attempt to save hey Invest? .has been confined "to fireside narra- the fashion of the great King Solo- Ilk a palL Every year they tn.ua t meat for her. You can Judge for youi tives. as the historian of Re achieve- mon, with perhaps' tb major portion new on to JWrra, and then tbe rl.t self from that letter bow well pleased ments seems to have been omitted from of Solomons wires snd concubines left one 1 cut Into day bits and d.utrlbuftj among the faithful, who wear it nr she Is. Saya I am a robber, a$er ! its caravan, or left behind In the long out. waa in founded The took ail that palna to put up that Journey. the colony year their heart. Thl carpet was about , six feet long, and was railed in so that 1845 and prospered until the departure money to aave her old $20. No, I guess Like nearly all modern 1 wont do gny more trading with schemes of similar character this was of Its leader In 1858. though to the no on could touch It. A man stood women. They expect too much." conceived and planned In the brain of student of social problems tbe result near by and sprayed attar of rose on a religious enthusiast, who doubtless would seem a leveling of human hopes you as you passed, but I do not knot TWENTY-FIVdreamed that he was a chosen power and aspirations rather than that tri- what he did It for, unless It was to turn E DYING YEARS. to usher In a brighter day for human' umphant achievement which adorns so sensitive women faint with the eavy Olsat poplar la Marylaad Has tivad kind. Dr. William Kell, the founder, grandly tbe successful struggle of In- perfume. But the next morning tbe 1 Around tbe departure procession formed and amid the wildTwo Cmtarlm ur Mora, prophet, priest and king of this west- dividual Ufa. ern Utopia, was a Methodist preacher of the founder there Is a story that est enthusiasm, the bowing and saFrom the Baltimore Sun: The oldest and largest tree in Talbot county Is of German descent, who labored among almost baffles human credence, though laaming of th men and th shouting and running of the children and tbe fact his race and Mndred In portions of it Is a dead. It has been dying for twenty-fiv- e of th Arabs who bore the car. had sent Dr. like of how-lonBinging Joshua old, Kell, be more. and or mamla Ohio; Tbe tree a years Pennsylvania moth tulip poplar in a field of Poplar continued In the ministry or bow suc- out spies to view the realms of the pet, it was placed upon tbe most magHill farm, near the public road leading cessful were his labor can not be as- distant west whither he hoped to ex nificent camel I ever saw, which waa covered from head to foot with cloth of from Easton to Trappe, about a mile certained, but for some reason, pre- tend the Influence of hla communistic others gold, and whose very gait aeemed more and a half from Easton. Tbe farm has sumably that of preaching ctrange doc- project; some hsd returnedbeen named for tbe tree for at least trine, he was "hauled upon tbe car- remained enchanted with the marvel- majestic because of bis sacred burden, 200 years and Is the property Of Mr. pet" by hi ecclesiastical superiors, by ous acenery and enraptured with the and thus, led by scores of enthusiastic Edmund Law Rogers, born Plater, of whom he waa deprived of his minis- promise of tbe morning dawn of that Arabs, he moved slowly down tbe street, following th covering for tb He then formulated wondrous empire! ' Baltimore, and waa part of the orig- terial authority. inal plater grant made in early this communistic scheme, organized "Where rolls tha Oregon, and hear no tomb, and In turn being followed by one scarcely lesa magnificent, destined sound. colonial times. Scientific men whe this society, and with bis followers emto cover tb sacred carpet In its camel have from time to time visited this igrated westward and founded this col- Save hla own daahlngs." Tales of tha natural beauty and fer- Journey to Mecca, That was absolutely tree have said that it would take at ony, which survives its wreck so far as least 1,000 years for this species of appearances are concerned, in the pres- tility of this region were borne to the all there was to It, yet tbe kbedive was poplar to grow to such size in this lo- ent town of Bethel, where the quaint ears of tbe leader of tbe colonists and there with a fine military escort, and cality. It stands alone, a picturesque buildings of the early colonists are around hla fireside were discussed the all Cairo turned out at tbe unearthly oclock in tbe morning to feature of the landscape, in an open' still pointed out to the inquisitive plana and hopes of future domain be- hour of Under tbe dlrec- - see it" field, and can be seen tor miles from all traveler. yond the Rockies. , roads and from the water courses. These colonists secured by entry or ,The wonderful elze of the tree is in purchase a large tract of valuable land, the magnitude and height of it trunk. 1,100 acres of which waa inclosed as Approximately it is 250 feet high snd the common field where the individuals twenty feet in diameter. The head 1 labored under the direction of overcomparatively small and the first limb seen appointed by Dr. KelL A comis 200 feet from the ground, and It car- mon boarding bouse was erected.wbera ries its diameter symmetrically all tbe the unmarried male members of the way up. From lu top at night, fo; community resided, and a common many venturesome and agile climbers storehouse waa kept where the famihave ascended it, the light in Sharp's lies were supplied with tbelr allotted Island lighthouse caa he piatnly seen. portions of provisions, tbe storekeeper A horse and carriage behind It cannot managing tbe accounts and supplying be seen from tbe nearby public road. tbs necessaries according to the comTbe lightning has not spared it It is munal Tbe attention of regulations. W seamed and gashed and spilt by th those frugal people was directed tofv-.i&many bolU which have also knocked ward manufacturing, and In the palmy huge limbs front lu top. Tradition and prosperous days of tbe enterprise says that 200 years ago, which la as Bethel was a miniature Lowell; cloth far back as tradition claims to have was spun from tbe wool of tbe colony known the tree It Is named la land sheep, which roamed In vast herds over deeds ISO years ago it had lightning the virgin rralries, attended by the marka on it, and even then showed THE RESIDENCE OF DR. KEIL. ' ' designated abepberda, and the akin of signs of failure. Three years ago it wild deer, which had hot then disapwas struck four times In on summer. peared from our horizon, were made This fierce attack undoubtedly has- Into tloa of Dr. Kell an infant colon y had T Rplr Chaim 'T hats and gloves. tened its end. Well, the giant tree is When your cane-seDistilleries and breweries were in been formed by the prospector!, to chairs the Inspiring wear out mend the break the begin to dead, Th old poplar of Poplar HID where tne bloom of th which had been given best you operation, saw the beginning of the fields probably Aurora,' and though the can by weaving in cords, or. If very corh tfa preserved la name of twentieth century and died just before the of rye and faded have its dreams of originators translucent glow of red liquor and had, replace with a piece of canvas ee-the beginning of the twentieth. It was llkeJbegleamjbetoreaHstbetgwu which-- of Influence lager a generona the beer. pnrol the Mount Shasta of the Talbot landstate of Oregon. of cotton or curled hair, yet be traced upon some of the de- still flourishes in tbe was layercover with batting eoioniats scape. . Bethel of tbe vision The scendants of the temperate dreamers a piece of any kind of and broadened by this enterprise, and their of former days. an embroidered patupholstery goods, sunset In la Iwdoa. th crowning' work of these gaze , turned '.toward tbe houses tern, crazy patchwork or a large "log-cabPerhaps London probably suffers less from industrious tbelr rude plastered they block. Finish the edge with furpeople,' from an architecmuch about the distant valley niture th plague of beggars than any other tural standpoint, thought of ws th erection and fringe if desired. Tha gimp, of tbe Willamette whence cams the hack of tbs greet capitals of the world. It the may be finished with a similar church, which until recently colony brethren. It their from is certainly less troubled with them stood in as a memory good tidings panel. waa the day of tha ox team, and the than It was a few generations ago. Ac- of better simple grandeur waa edifice Thla day. months of ' Mule Beau for consume would to the the cording Mendicity report of of brick and stone, after the Journey to undertake wished many society, which held iU annual meettime, yet Music boxes for bicycle are bow fatherland. It type of churches In the ing recently, professional, mendicants Yet paved with tiling, provided with it manufactured by a firm la Hamburg, number about 70,000, a large multitude n organ loft It waa crowded each Among others who caught th west- Germany. in Itself, hut not to very formidable n of Dr. ern fever was a favorite the Sunday with the colonists, who, la considering that they are distributed Mnith of their power, numbered per Kell, who dreamed fond dreams of th a Only women over 40 like to among a copulation of six million. Bap a thousand sonls. Tb type of land of promise, After much sollcltatrip without a trunk. fair-hair- ed n I; ' al h off-sho- stl j'i-lone- well-attest- g "IS THIS MR. JOHNSTON TH been guilty of lying Ss' certainly as I should have been If I bad told her the same thing In so many words. "At WUlenden Junction another passenger got In. This time it was a young lady who was evidently expected 1.- . by the elder lady, "By and by my attention was aroused In spite of myself by bearing the elder lady mention my name, Tou see, she besaid, 1 had to come down-todacause John has asked that tiresome Johnston to spend. week with uS, antT of eourse It wouldnt do for ms to be away. "But, auntie, eald th other, how do you know that be Is tiresome If you have never seen him? I know It, for one thing, because Johns friends always are tiresome. It does seem as If he deliberately selected the most stupid men he could find and asked them down to Greencroft, just to make life a burden to me. And then, my dear, for another thing, I tried to read this detectable Johnstons books. Anything more stupid and silly you can't possibly imagine. So I was actually traveling In tbe same carriage with Scobles wife and - niece, and the former was dreading my arrival at her house and looking upon me as a tiresome nuisance. "The two ladles talked on, but happily seemed to forget the existence of the unfortunate Johnston. Once Mrs. Scoble came to the window where I was sitting, to point out something to her niece, and the swaying of tbe carriage nearly threw her on my lap., "Just then the elder lady began one oL those nervous and hurried searches for her puree which women when traveling are so prone to make. It is gone! she exclaimed, sad I sm sort that fellow in the corner picked my pocket when I was looking out of his window. He conld not have done that. replied the niece, for I waa looking at him at the time, and he never once took hie hands or hie eyes away from his newspaper. - My dear ohlldt- - - Do yon euppos self In trouble. You'll have to give me your name and address, in case anything more comes of this. "I gave him my address sa soon as I could get away from the carriage, and at the same time I gave him a surreptitious five shillings and asked him not to give my name to Mrs. Scoble. "I saw Scoble on the platform as tbe train drew up at Greencroft, but he did not see me, for I had concealed myself behind tbe curtains of tbe carriage. I witched him until his back waa turned and then sprang out and bolted Into the cloak room; which was close at hand. I had hoped to remain there until Scoble bad left tbe station, but I was disappointed. The porter In attendance. finding that I had no particular business with him, Immediately suspected me of designs upon the property under his charge, and told me that I must not stay In the cloakroom. I tried bribery, but tbe action only confirmed bis suspicions, and be roughly ordered me to go about my business or be would have me arrested. Just than Scoble spied me. Why, here you are, after all! he exclaimed. Where on earth hive you - been?. . The niece had returned, and waa standing looking in bewilderment, first at me, and then at her uncle. Suddenly she took In the full meaning of the situation, and after aaying to me, Ia this Mr. Johnston? burst Into er. There never was anything ao contagious and Irresistible as tbst laugh, since tbe world begsn, gnd tbe flash of the girl's mischievous eyes would have made John Calvin smile even In the act of burning a heretlo. I could not help It, but In another moment I found myself Joining In the girls laughter, while Scoble stood and gated at ns with an almost frightened expression. "Tbe niece was the first to speak. Uncle, she said, there has been a mistake tbst would ha va been perfectly awful if Mr. Johnston had not been a real humorist and seen the funny aide of it. Auntie has driven Aome, for ahe , I C at Lirre7ked i in cou-truct- ed Bl-ye-lo. till |