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joot 1-t mattered not thant the runaboutI WaI "n hand. an d at aueinon, thoughi at a idiculously low price. It aered not t tht radbut nino"- horse power vhile Fred Wi in his fine new touring car. h.d for ty. I was as happy as a king, for my new possession stt aside, to some ex tent. at least. Fred's advantage over me in the attack upon Mis Std man's heart. ie had been taking her riding on the B-each Drive. and I had .(nd my teeth with futile jealousy. um ai;ng came my wo'nderful op portunity. I bought the machine. thioughit was really beyond my mei as. I simply couldn't help it. Wimu a man is in love, you know, he is aIl kinds of a fool. And didn't my breast swell with pride when I whirled up to Alice's ots' that evening, the second after my purchase, to take her in the monlight along that magnificent five-mile stretch of peri'fect ro:aId? I had made up my mind to tell her that night all that had been in my heart f-r so many a1 pVrehe :nsive hours-that I loved her, that I wanted her for my very own-in fact, that she was the only gitl in all the world for mae. Mh, it is glorious to sit by the girl you love and spin through the night in a silent, smooth-running machine. I drank in the full joy of it. A dozen times I was on the point of speak ing. I had been practicing steadily + the steering, endeavoring to be le to maniage the machine with one d, in order to have the other free Xice's waist. I pictured it all how she would listen in silence, look at me with sparkling eyes let her pretty head fall on my ulder; and bow I would then put arm around her, very tenderly. d draw her close and kiss her, t it did not turn out that way, at - -- - - HE HAD MADE A all. It seldom . s turn out just as you plan it. "We will go clear to the end of the -Beach Drive." I saifd. as we slipped away down Main street .:ad turned into' the Boulevxarid. ' "Thenz we will come back hy the V~ood Road, skirt ing the Zoo a-. eniling up at Al phonse's for a littl% supper. ITlow will you like that?" And she smiled up at me so appreci;gtively that I felt perfect'ly sure. fti full half a minute. that she was juist as much in love with me as I wit~1 her. it was so open en thie Drmive, and there was suc'h a stre"imu of aii'mno bles and carriages that i dfe~'red enking to her of myi se'cret. It Would be better ini the '.sclusion of the Wood lioad. So we tallked gen erally, and looked out oveor the wa.ter at tihe vessels in the Sound, 'ad ad' mir'ed the bes.auty o'' th' glorious moonlight on the aancid~z waives. Then, at the end of the beautiful path along the water we turned'( ab ruptly and entered the quie't andl se clusion of the great pine -woods. The road was rather narr'iow here. and( wound intricately through thue forest for several miles emerging upon a broad plaza at the front en trance to the Zoo. This road was not much frequente'd at night. and I felt that I wou'id have ample opportumnity to express myself. I trembled in war'dly. T1he time' was ver:- near. I must speak soon. It was very quie't in the woods. At intervals we could hear distantly the baying and howling of the animnals in the Zoo. Oeasional'iy an ele phant trumpeted. or a jaznar screamed. We were use'd to these soumnds. but Alice was just a littlk frightened when there came a per feet s hael ofO sous from the enclo sue h dew' eloser to me. and I. relyin~ on 'my skil! took my left handr fro'm 'he st eerig bar andl slip poC it 'r 'ty behind her. though I ::- 1t - e th 1 !b'':yv of em broong ':er.She ok'd up at me' in som ":1:r. "S2app' - n 0 of those wor~la Ii easy to run awayr with this lAWS 2 I was -oin~ to say 'prcclous htend.' but my nmoth became suddenly dry and ly heart made violent 103.is. I 'was stge1 truck---love-f rightene-d. I had a sort of buck-a gue. I took Courae and founrd my tongue. ".Wee." I Q:lid genly, plaig my dis engaged hand on her own, "I want to tell you somethlin that haStu has been-has been On My Ind for-." I think she understood what was coming, h.t I got no further. In th. darkness, at the roadside, a huge black bulk loomed. like an euormous dog. A sudden terror shot throu.h ne. The machint 9werv1d sharply, and I was conpeiled to use 10th hands to steady it. I turned up the sped a trifle. and the(fn instinetively looked behind. A glance was (.'-ugh. The bulk 11:14d mvied out into the road and was directly behind us. What could it he'! A dogi A my heart sank. I thought of the chorus of unusua'l howls and roars heard shortly before. I looked back again. There was no doubt about it. behind us, loping easily with tail switching in grace, came a huge male lion. I recognized the great shaggy head. It had escaped from the Zoo, and was probably mad with fright from the attempts of the keepers to capture it. A 'little faster. and still a little faster. I did not want to turn on full spe'ed at opee. Alice might un derstand. Proibably we could slip :Iwaly from the pursuer. and run into town wiihout her knowing the risk. But. as I turned my head a few hun dred yards further I saw that my speed was of no avail. The lion wa just as close as before. hounding like a giant cat. as easily and as quietly as a phanltom. But you can not keep a secret from a woman. Alice turned her eyes to 94. K.1 -X -- ag .m s " RODIGIOUS L EAP. the rear, thecn with ai piercing shriek threw both arms airounad me and clutched me in a m'lOSt delicious em birace. thiou'h 1 would willingly havet fore one tihe occaimon. "Y e, 'ny dear," I said quietly. "I knowt all about it. I think we can run awiay fromi Iim, thoug~h. I touiched the sneedl lever again. This wads tL hast iolch. We were at our limit. with at good two miles ahead of us before any possibility of help. The machine was -now running stead ily. with a straight road for half a mile, and I let my left arm stea'l around Alice's waist and held her ini a protecting diasp. I thought no more about love and soft declara tions. I knew only that here was the sweetest girl in the wOil~d. ini im minent dangler of being torn to shreds by a ferocious lion. and that: only a miracle. including steady land amnd heaid on my part, would given even a ghost of a chance'. I stole another glance behind. Not twenty yards separated us fr-i thiat relentless, blood-thirsty, powerful an-. iml. Alice bad sunk in a heap on my lap. I leaned forward. hoping to reduce the wind pressure and add to our speed,. and prayed to heaven for sucor. On and on we went. What if we should burst a tire ori l-w om a clinder? Trhe tho~ught wals heart rending. Evei n at our speed the lion was --gaining. IIe was only ten yards behind. HeI had increased his~ speed with mine. making twenty feet at a leap. The uncanny part of it was that lie did notr make a sound. except now anad then-m a1 'nw grtmh lin: ::row-l. aIs thoughi rese-ntingr the trouble hie was lint to 'ni obtaaiig a supper. Far ahead I saw three lights se t in tte shapiie of t rin-le. The t - lighbt was briillant and threw its~ rays dirctiyv into myi --9.' Tank Go'd, an automoi I l'e p-oa-ing' f"- ra the oposit'o directioni. OI ip'nd my morurlth a d madiol- r:-.:d to -shout. ut we wand 1.0 o be'tr oft than he fel into the road for ri- -. ' inihi : we.dh fomlee l ld jas. lie mas-d made a prodigious leap, and had w ben a trifie less swift would hav landed on top of ns. But we she from under him, and as he descend id one great pa.Iw swept over Th seatback and wip(d off half of th leather c'overinor. (;(I. tlhose (':1W and their power. Another junp an wve would be done for. The automobile in front was nov a0nw 'st' upon us. The <l(it dp-toned lior sounded a w:Itrnin. At 1hat lnstar I deci(led on a new course. W, were appro::tbhin:: a roald crosslil Taking the iaiilh 1:-imiv I swerve the big car in frtni. and dar'teid dow the side roa I t 1,. 1 ni lated. or my hand was unste:oly. Tb next moimet w, crashet ]%1- -i bushes at th- s40 . of ti. rI : n caell to a r a d':1se iu ) o' 1 ':: . I C71,uhe a1d awai:-ed tle (I.- t of i o: I could fieel in ti i'r behind mi I wa2ted vit a prayr cn ny ups. Insynd I Eird co ifuson out 0 the W\'ood Ioad. T';vre wore lou voices. Tlie machne was at a S1o for I could see th-C ig:ts through tb trees. Alice was in a (lead faint, an seeing that I c1ould not help her : that moment and that the beast ha disappeaired I jumped ':and 1d rt the roadside. There stoed -r d Wi son's big touring car, with the fror smiasbed in; there stood Frd and hi three companions: and lh.-re. in th middle of the road. lay the lion. M p"."in was succoessIul. Follovinig r closelv lie had no time to dodge th heavy car. le met it heaid or Ther'e could be only one result. My runabout was not hurt, and a ter a time, with Alice beside me, r covered, though tremulous, we rod slowly home. The supper va abandoneld. But in the quiet of A ice's dainty parlor. w ito fear < pursuers or intruders, I went on wvit my interrupted story. And late with both arms around her, and hl dear face very close to iiine, AT planned our honeymoon. Delightfal-For the Guests. There were many visitors that sun mer at his suburban home. He was subordinate clerk drawing the lart monthly stipend of a hun(red dollar but of course the guests were not co, nizant of the extent ox his incom nor did that question appear to ent their minds. He was anxious to do ever thing in reason to make life in t country endurable to his wife wi hated house-keeping under the be of circumstances, especially In tl country, while the breath of fresh a and communion with nature we proving his salvation from exhausti' daily brain work, by which the cu rent funds were supplied. So he made these guests welcon in every way, giving up his room ; times. changing his former easy ha its, but not his best clothes, as hmm been his wont when he reached hon at evening) returning company cal anid thereby neglecting necessai w -k on his place. et cetera. ( ct irse there were many extra e penses. A drive now and then. ext: servant hire, the greatly increas< (Ost of the table, the milk bill, tl butcher's bill. the bill for fuel and tl general wastage , all of which wou have been of small noment to man with a large ircome, but were him very disheartenin~g as weci passed by and the guests made sign of departure. But all things mnuut come to an ent and as the cooler (lays and evenin; of autumn arrived they said, "But i deed, we surely must return to tl city.' We have stanid months whe: we expectedl to remain weeks." And so they gave their host a fo mnal handshakes and a perfuucto; t0odl hye. while they kissed and or braced the hostess and to her said: "Never have we been more cha minrly entertained; you have done e erything in your power to make th a summer long to be remembered." And tihe poor clerk returned to h desk and work. the house resumedi normal condition. ist as each pay dr rolled around he added his debits at his credits, only to find thb.t exti hundred dollars persistently remai: ing on the wrong sidle of the ledge Whether it is ample compensatic for him to hear, when he occasional meets one of his summer friends, 'the charming hospitality shown I his wife," is known only to himsel Doubtless so, since husband and wi: are one. Uncomfortable English Hotels. W. D. Howells. in Harper's. With the aid of the two cadli which I lighted I discovered the gra in the wall near the head of the be and on examining it closely I perceiv( that there was a fire in it. The gra' would have held quite a double hani ful of coal if carefully put on:; the fin which seemed to be flickering so feeb had yet the weary energy to draw a the warmth of the chamber up tt chimney, and I stood shivering in ti temerature of a subterranean dun gon. The place instantly gave ev dence of being haunted, and the test mony of my nerves on this point wt corroborated by the spectral pla~y of tl: firelight on the ceiling when I blew ot my candles. In the middle of the nigi I woke to the sense of something creel ing with a rustling noise over the fio I rejiected the hypothesis of my be curtain falling into place, though I ri membred putting it back that I migi have light to read myself drowsy. knew at once that it was a ghot walking the night thor?. and walkin hrd. Suddenly it ceased, and I kne' why. It had been frozen out. Has Manly Discases. In Bellevue Hospital, in New Yori there is a man who should be the o: iect of everyone's sympathy. His nan: is Job Keeley and his occupation: that of a painter. A short time ajs he fell from a low scaffold and su: taed such injuries as necessitated hi being taken to the hospital for trea met. There the surgeon found that l: had a slight fracture of the base of th skull. After a further examination: vas found that he had tuberculosis the lungs complicated with hronchi:i: His occupation as a painter had give him painter's colic, Hie is not a youn man and his age had hardened huis a teries - arteriosclerosis - also "ol man's eyes"-rresb:'onia-the opposit o nearsightedness: he also has watt on the brain ad his skin is puffed u by air which has escaped under it. The oldest an~pir-jac-k dis tr~y in Enited States is an. War'wihk, N. .T. T worm still in use was brotrn! fror QUEER DANISH SITUATION. t European and Diplomatic Gossip. The late Lord Stanley. of Alder jey, England. entertained abso lutely fantastic hatred towards everything American. Some few years ago the American Society 'in London wIs holding- its annual t dinner on Independence Day, 4nd in vited Lo:-d Slal-y to the feast. ITIs reply, typical of his dislike of very thing Amierican, was: "Lord S:anmly i'esents his coiplimcnfs to tihl see r(,talrv of the Amierican Society. but can not conceive why he should have Mbeen asked to a b;iuluet to cekbrate an unatoned rebellion." Countess niah'en Levctznn. wife of f the Dlinish Minister for Foreign Af fairs, is Americn horn. as is her io ther, wife of the Danish Ministe'r at Berlin. By the bye so much has been said about the personal poim Slarity of King Christian of Denmark, iat rmot peopiO will prohal~y he Cuirprised to learn that for twenty years, until not many years ago, r- is been 1 betweecl he veteran monarch and the na t ional legislature. The Liherals ha continuously held a majority in the t s P' KING CHISTIAN OF DlENMA.RE. aFolkething. the Danish House of at Commlons. but the King has imsisted eon choosing his cabinet ministers ir from the other party, the Conserva e. tives. -e The representatives of the r- minority have conducted the routine business of the governmen'?t. but e whenever thoy have had to alsk the tFolkething for special funds, that -body, which controls the othecial d purse. ha~s thwarted them. The royal e rsidncein Copenhagen, the old Is palace of Christiansborg, was de T stroyed by fire in 1884, and -the feel )f ing between the Crown and thse legIs C- lature had been so bitter that money : had never been appropriated to re - store it. For almost twenty years teKin Christian lived in comparative le ly siall and shabby quarters at the d Amailihorg pah:ce until finally the akln ..standing dispute was ended by o thie i\ng's recognition of the major ity party. It marv not hae surpricig that the expaitriated William Waldorf Astor ' should claim for the first Amutrican s se-nd infercni :ally, of course. for himself-an aneig-nt arid distin guished lineage. The distinguished e atr to whom his descent is raced i.s I 'on l'io d'As or: a Spanish grandee of the eleventh cen tury. who settled in France, where his successors-a 10,g line of sig neurs arnd marquises-changed their name to Astorg. At the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. .Jean .Jacalues sd'.Astorg. who was a Hluguenot fled iseaross the Rhine; .Tohann .Tacob As stor. the Waldorf butcher, was his s grandson. This information will.. no d ioubt, he of interest to American a ntiquarians. It is well known that .Tohn .Tacob Astor came to this coun r an af lmost penniless immigrant. r haihlin from the village of Waldorf nin Baden. His descendant of today ~speaks of h'i nas i "peasant." but as a matter of fact he was the son of the villaze hutcher, and began his ecareer by- working in his father's e hop- a fart which it is not recorded thath ever sought to conceal. Kin Leopold of Belgium has con ferred upon Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, vice-pres.dent and acting president of the Woman's Auxiliary Congress 5 of the Worls C'olumtbian Exposition. e the orde-7 of the Knighthood of Leo 1, pold. It is believed that Mrs. Hien d rotun is the only woman in this :country who has received this deco-, - ration. She was at one time national -presidenit of the Federation of Wo-' y man's Clubs, and is prominent in so 11 ciety. She is thie wife of Charles e Hlenrotin, Belgian Consul in Chicago. e The Order of Leopold was founded .in 15-32 b~y Leopold I; there are five [ classes. L. In seireting a wife. Serge de Witte s the great Russian statesman. ehose e a .Towess. one of the race which has tbeen treated so cruelly in his coun ttry. Mrae. de Witte was formerly :the wife of a subordinate official, but she secured a divorce and has been very happy in her second marriage, in spite of the fact that she has never been reeived at court. She also has tbeen ignored by the leading society women of St. Petersburg. notwith tstaniding~ the high positions her hus band has held. - . Van Calava. TE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. (Frem the Au:0:nobile Adivocate.) T'nder the spreadinr chestnut trees the eThe smtalrdymni he, with vast sand fertile lands. No raore his brawny back he bends be 0 nieatl the horse's weight: iNo m'ore his ringing sledge he swings in S eian':strength elate. No more his face is covered o'er with lazing forge's smut. r No- beated withG his honest sweat, i e charnels there to cut. 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