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Why Is a housefly, anyhow?
The merciful man is now very merciful
to his beast.
We know of some cats that never
lail to come back.
The Moros seem to be less dangerous
than ice cream cones.
There are 130,000 foreign waiters
In London, all with palms extended.
How aeronauts have cities at their ^
mercy in mimic warfare is becoming
amazing.
With a new record every day It
seems there is no limit to the powers
of an aeroplane.
The Chicago woman whose ear was
bitten off by her husband, probably
didn't feed him enough.
There is a very bad $2 bill in circulation.
Insist on getting your change
in twenties and fifties.
A Kansas judge rules that it is the
duty of pedestrians to dodge automobiles.
Also the necessity.
Few horses are wearing bonnets
this season, probably because bonnets
are absolutely out of style.
If you can't swim stay near the
shore. If you can swim be satisfied
to tell your friends about it
Two Philadelphians have lost their
lives running for trains. Such unusual
haste was sure to be fatal in Philadel- <
phla. J
Just bottle up your weather grouch
and strike a temperature average for
the year on the 31st day of next December.
It may soon be possible to telephone
to England from the United States.
Very well, but how about getting monf
ey that way?
Stlil there is an abiding of optimis- j
tic faith that it will prove easier to .
dodge an aeroplane than an automobile
or motorcycle.
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It would seem that more people are ^
giving their lives to the perfection of j
the aeroplane than to any former
scientific achievement. E
In twenty-seven years the Kimber- r
ley diamond mines have yielded $420,- *
000,000 worth of diamonds. Still our s
western cornfields do a lot better than s
r
that ^
The man who is earning his own llvlng
In these days, however mildly he E
may be going about it, is truly enough r
earning his bread by the sweat of his F
hrow. ?
'.timorous males who are frightened *
at the way women are invading men's
occupations should take heart at the
success some achieve in trimming j
hats. J
Going down to the sea in ships was
the ancient idea of peril. But it was '
common place safety beside going up I
In the air in the most modern style
of ships.
Ten or fifteen deaths among the
comparatively few aeronauts and avia- 1
tors in the last few months are not
only depleting their ranks but showing 1
up air flights as mighty dangerous *
pastiming. 1"
In printing the new passenger tick- 1
ets to be used on airship lines care c
should be taken to have it specified 2
A ^ vllo rrcic m a xr Via hoH I
xnai siuyuvci
when necessary without the signature c
of the conductor. s
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Counterfeit buttermilk is being sold *
In some of the drug stores in the east, *
and the health authorities say it is '
very dangerous. Will it never be pos- J
sible to get a good thing that the counterfeiters
can't counterfeit?
r
Farmers after experiment report
that the cows yteH their milk better *,
>vhen the phonograph is kept going in
the barn at milking time. This sreems
to oifer a grand scheme of relief in *
the form of moving all the phonographs
to all the cow larns.
The oil-burning torpedo boat, de- '
stroj'er Roe reached a speed of 31 ,
knots an hour in a test off the Dela- ,
vrare breakwater, although the con- '
tract requirement was only 2S knots, j
and is now acknowledged to be the ,
fastest exclusively oil-burning torpedo j
"heat destroyer in the United States
navy. The American shipbuilder has
the reputation of cultivating a margin (
of safety, anr] turning out boats which
exceed the maximum requirements of
contracts.
When the automobile collides with
the locomotive it is seldom that the
latter has to go to the renaif shop.
The work of a contributing editor
is sometimes made difficult by the
friends who insist on coming around
during office hours to tn!k politics and 1
tell hunting stories. 1
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Having all the news about the hot ;
spell that was fit to print, and some 1
that was not news, it seems that we 1
might have a litle cool1,, weather tor 1
variety in the news columns. (
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After planning, your Christmas shop- <
ping better figure on how sanely you
are going to spend the next fourth. <
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The prize cow at the Missouri agri- |
cultural college prrdiuos 110 pounds t
of milk a day. Hut with our cook or. i
the job, lhere wculc'r.'t bo a half ounce '
of cream in it. . i
If the anr. lysis of hcky-poky is correct
we arc unable to understand how !
the /lies that ft.it her uftcn the cones :
manage to stay so '-'-'g vithcut soeai*
iss to be
Bungling Diplomat
O ^ j;
IITASHIXGTON?Ignorance on the *
if part of amateur diplomats con:erning
the proper form of diplomatic
:orrespondence nearly precipitated a s
var scare In two nations not long
iince. It was announced that the em- t:
peror of Germany had deliberately F
iffronted the United States govern- 11
nent by employing affectionate terms |
n addressing President Madriz or L
Nicaragua, whom our government had a
efused to recognize. fl
"Great and Good Friend," is the
vay the kaiser's letter to Madriz was p
lommenced. This had sinister sig- o
lificance to the amateurs. Immedi- o
itely the newspapers were filled with 1<
stories that Germany had espoused the
lause of Madriz; that the Monroe li
loctrine had been thrown down and g
repudiated by the warlike kaiser;; r
ilso the emperor had been acting G
iueerly of late and undoubtedly was k
sent on making all the trouble he p
:ould for the United States. After a 11
ittle inquiry the war scare faded v
iway. b
"In all probability," said a state de- d
mrtment official, "the emperor never a
Bad Land Tide
A REPORT made to congress oy a i"1
commission appointed to examine P
and titles in the District of Columbia n
liscloses that many lots of land occu- d
>ied by modern business houses and s<
esidences in the national capital are n
till owned by the government, not- I
withstanding the present tenants be- c
ieve they have a clear title to the U
iroperty. n
This question of land titles in the a
lational capital is not a new one. Two r<
cars ago congress created a cornmis- f<
ion to study it. The commission con- tl
isted of the attorney general, the sec- g
etary of war, Senator Scott of West w
Virginia, Representative Bartholdt of li
,lissouri, and one of the district com- p
nissioners. The report reveals a hor- ti
ible land tangle, which the courts will
irobably never be able to straighten U
ut. The tangle is the outcome of the p
wild speculation in real estate that tl
ook place for a good many years after lc
he capital was laid out. rr
Private lands were acquired in o
Mow Planning a St
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RESTRICTIVE ><
LAWo> V* o &y
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3EER and elk preserves may play an 1*
Important part In reducing the
ligh cost of beef. According to gov- S
srnment experts who have made an g
nvestigation of the cost and methods n
>f raising venison, declare that the n
jame laws of the various states are g
>reventing deer and elk farming and h
lenying the country one of its chief tl
sources of cheap and good meat. Deer a
ind elk can be raised readily in near- a
y every state in the "Union. They are t<
'asily controlled and cheaply fed. V
rhe increase of elk under domestica- e
ion is fully equal to that of cattle, c
rney are hardier and more able to h
;tand exposure and the elk hide is T
nore valuable than that of the steer, e
Phe Virginia or whitetail deer, com- b
non in most parts of the United e
States, is not so hardy as the elk, but j a
vith proper care can be raised with h
profit. I l!
The state and the government, h
hrough its Yellowstone park officials, ti
lave co-operated with Individual c
anchmen in caring for the vast herds j is
)f elk in the Jackson's Hole region in I
A'yoming. It. is estimated that there j tl
tre 30,000 elk in the Yellowstone park ! c
cgion, constituting the only great i i!
lerd left. For two or three winters r;
hese elk have been fed, and have now f;
:ome to look upon the feeding as a I n
Government's Censui
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EX the present census the govern- ' ?
ment has made a great effort to ob- j jt
:ain, through special agents, full and 1,
luthentic data concerning the tribrt! n
eiations of the Indians, as a dccade
lence when the fourteenth census will j 1
je taken, it probably will be found ;t
hat those Indians who are now de- jlender.t
wards of the nation have be- cj
:ome full-fledged citizens, w
Tho inrii.-iii uonulation of the United <1
States decreased ir. the decade from "
LS90 to 1900, from 27::,r>07 to 2GG.760. i"
n 1SS0 the care of the Indians cost
:he national government $5.20G,103; a
n 1S>":? the cost had risen to $15,- T
i24,K.2. ni(.ic than three times as it
nuch. T!io total attendance of Inlinn
children in schools conducted by a
he government, or by missionary en- ?'
:erprise is 25,777. In these schor.ls 1>
!o effort is spared to teach the child b
some industry by which he may sup- i*
port himself when lie comes of age, w
It
:s Cause Trouble
new that the note in question was
ent It was a regular routine matter
i the German foreign office and foljwed
the stereotyped form.
Nations are excessively polite to
ne another in their interchange of
ommunications. Every letter that
oes out from the state department to
foreign government has this cerelonial
finish:
"Accept, excellency, the renewed asurance
of my highest consideration."
The cermonail letters of all counries
begin in about the same way.
'or instance, all of England's comlunications
begin:
"George V., by the Grace of God, of
tie United Kingdom of Great Britain
_.t l.l r?f tho
na ireianu, King, ucicuuu
aith, emperor of India, etc."
"Nicholas, by the Grace of God, emeror
autocrat of all the Russias, czar
f Casan, czar of Astracan, etc., lord
f Plescott and grand duke of Smosnski,
etc."
Germany's letters are very much
ike those of Russia, in that they bein
by announcing all the titles of the
uling potentate. "William II., by
tod's grace, emperor of Germany and
ing of Prussia," etc., is the way the
resent emperor addresses his cerelonial
letters. The emperor writes
rith a quill pen, and if one may judge
y his signature on file in the state
epartment, does not take much time
bout it.
angle Is Revealed
Washington, in the early days, by a
orv simnlA nrnoess. The territory
not exceeding" ten miles square was
ecled to the United States governieiic
by Mary and and Virginia and
laced under the authority of three
ommissioners, appointed by the presient.
They or any two of them were
equired, under the direction of the
resident, to survey and by proper
letes and bounds define and limit a
istrict of territory, and the territory
o defined war. established as a permaent
seat of the government of the
nited States. Power was given the
ommissioners to purchase or accept
md on the eastern side of the Potolac,
for the use of the United States,
nd the commissioners were further
?quired to provide suitable buildings
)r the accommodation of congress,
.le president and public officers of the
overnment of the United States. It
as to raise money to erect the pubc
buildings that the government
lanned to sell its land to private pares.
No sooner had the capital city been
lid out than land speculators apeared
on the scene, and as a result of
leir operations, it is asserted, muoh
tnd which belonged to the governlent
illegally passed to individual
wners.
ibstituie for Beef
latter of course, and State Game
harden Nowlin of Wyoming, who has
?/l tHo foorJincr ovnorimontc; QRV9 thnt
U lUV IVN-U.Ug, ?V -
ie last of the great elk herds is beaming
rapidly domesticated. Several
inchmen in the Rocky mountain coun y
have conducted private elk pre
erves for years. Outside of the priate
elk preserves there are few herds
:ft in the west.
narret Littlefield, who lives neaT
later, has several hundred elk on his
rent ranch. Every season he ships
lany carcasses of elk to the Denver
larket, besides supplying zoological
ardcns throughout the country. He
as found it profitable to raise elk for
ie market?so profitable that he
banuoned the cattle business years
go and has devoted himself entirely
3 the raising of venison. There are
ivo other elk preserves in northwestrn
Colorado. J. B. Dawson, a Routt
ounty pioneer, has several hundred
ead of elk on his ranch ne?.r Hayden.
'he Glen Beulah deer preserve is an
state of about 3.000 acres near Deeque,
Col., and here one finds sevral
hundred deer and elk roaming
bout. Henry Binning, of Cora, Wyo.,
as a large herd of elk under enclosre,
and in a report to the government
e shows how easily elk yield to capivity
when he states that the enIcsure
in which lie keeps the animals
s less than four feet high.
In nearly every state in the Union
ie killing of deer is forbidden exopting
in the fall and during a limed
period. If deer and elk are to be
p.ised for the market the venison
inner must be allowed to kill for the
larket, whenever the demand is there.
s of Indian Wards
nd the Indians are gradually learnig
to live by the swent of the brow
i;on the product ol' their own selfL'ppcctir.g
handiwork, rather than upn
the bounty of the government.
The Apache Indians employed on
bo Roosevelt reclamation project un
er the act of June 17, 1002, earned
2-1,000 hi ICOr1. and rendered eminentr
satisfactory service in regions
he re, en r.ccev.'iJ of the heat, a white
lan could nor. have labored. Sheep
erding has given profitable employment
to many hundreds of Navajos
nd Pueblos in the past year, and
'ima and Papago Indians, employed
s navvies on the Southern Pacific
ail way, earned many thousands of
ollars. The Sioux farmers have done
ell, though they are deficient in the
uality of persistent patience that
lakes the most successful sort of agicuitural
laborer.
Tiie Indians' worst foe at present.
.'.id"1 from whisky, is tiib< ronl-.jsis.
he investigation by the S!niii>;mi.i:i
istiiulion in li'00 showed il'uit iibout
r.e in lour of some 1,500 Indians exmined
were suffering irom what has
itherto b< r?.n Known as "the white
lague." Sanatorium camps Lave now
ecu established and the government
; exercising special cure over its
aids.
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CHAPTER III. 5
Continued.
Tormentilla strode along the highroad
with her arms swinging by her
side, her square, boyish shoulders
thrown back. She was not satisfied
yet with the way Audrey was yielding
to her influence. She was beginning
to find that it was not nearly as easy
to do good to people as she had at
first supposed. It was extraordinary,
wher you came to think of it. that
peop'.e should show such absurd reluctance
to being made gloriously
happy. And she felt that she had
come now to a deadlock. Nothing
more could be done until she had
made the acquaintance of Michael
Kenworthy. Then perhaps she would
be able to show him how easily he
could save his beautiful, unhappy Audrey
from his vegetarian rival People
were strangely wanting in imagination
sometimes.
She found Lise alone in her cool
green drawing-room, half asleep in a
corner of a big, luxurious Chesterfield.
She was really glad to see Tormentilla,
and made the girl sit down
beside her. It was refreshing to see I
this frank, healthy young face and
the clear eyes, and Lise dropped her
i S!?.' ? i. mnnnav onrl Oil/!
maiueruiiL, auiivj maiiuci ?uu vu%?
denly determined to make herself
agreeable.
They talked amiably of nothing for
some time until Tormentilla's passion
for getting to the horses got the better
of her.
"You're a friend of Audrey Cogwheel's,
aren't you?" said she abruptly.
,
Lise was silent for a minute, and
her eyes darkened.
"I used to be," she admitted.
"She's very sweet, isn't she?" Tormentilla's
tone was curiously at variance
with her words.
"Very sv/eet, indeed?oh, certainly
she's very sweet."
"It's a pity she's so unhappy, isn't
it?"
"Is she unhappy?" Lise asked coolly.
She crouched in the corner of the
sofa, and her little face looked just
like the face of a spoilt and sulky
child.
Torrnentilla stared at her. "She
tola me you Knew.
"How long had Audrey known you
when she opened her heart in this
way?" Lise asked with a harsh laugh.
"I'd seen her three times. It was
rather quick, but then she's not like
other girls, and her trouble is wearing
her out. She's told me so several
times."
"She would," said Lise softly. "Do
go on."
"And, then, perhaps I'm rather outspoken
myself," Tormentilla added
doubtfully.
Lise laughed a little.
"No!" she said. "Well, do you
know, I rather guessed that. Audrey'
told you about poor Michael, I suppose?"
"Yes. It is awful for them, isn't
It?"
Lise was silent.
"You know," Tormentilla said earnestly,
pushing back her hat and
ruffling up her hair to meet Lise's
eyes with a frankly troubled gaze, "I
want to help those two, tremendously."
Lise stared at her, still in amused
silence.
"I have a trouble of my own, you
see," the girl went on earnestly, "and
I'm most anxious to 'lrown it. I can't
tell you how extremely anxious I am
to drown it. And there can't be a better'way
of drowning a selfish sorrow,
can there, than by doing something to
ma lie some one eise uctpiij . nci
cheeks flushed; she seemed half
ashamed of the sentiment as she uttered
it.
"It's a popular idea," said Lise
wearily. "I don't know that it's
much good practically. You see, generally
things turn out so differently
from what you expect, especially the
things you do for other people. And
perhaps what they think they want
most isn't always what is most likely
to make them happy. There are such
a lot of points to consider before you
embark on an altruistic career. I
never got beyond the considering
point myself, and I'm not qualified to
advise the youthful enthusiast. But.
my dear girl"?her voice changed
with bewildering suddenness and became
caressing and soft; her face
lost its sulkiness, and her cynical
smile grew quite tender?"my dear
little girl, I am very sorry to hear
that you aren't happy. At seventeen
?or is it eighteen??the world ought
to be an enchanted garden, with a key
of pure gold hidden in a place where
you are quite sure to find it. By all
the laws of fairyland?"
"The world isn't fairyland, though,
Is it?" said Tormentilia in regretful
tones. "And I am nearly nineteen. I
didn't know what unhappiness was
till last year. Last year, you see?"
The simile fascinated her, and she
went on: "I found the garden and the
key too, and then?"
"Yes?" Use's voice was irresistible,
her changed face extraordinarily
sympathetic.
Tormentilia went on: "I lost it
again, I suppose. At least, a serpent
came into the paradise and?and?
and swallowed it."
"It's wonderful, isn't it." Lise murmured,
"how that serpent always
manages to find the way?"
iormenuim giaateu ui nci in nervous*
silence. She had never told any
one but Grcenie so far, and Groenlo
had 1 ever nuite understood, although
she hi:d of ionise been very kind and
sympathetic. Li:-:o v.*o:;M understand i
evcrythin.;. She knew that by her
so:"t dark eyes ar.d lovely voice.
"I hardly know you," she said
doubtfnllv.
"That i.sn't quite true." Lise didn't
attempt to ir.i-.e her hand or to touch
her. She had none of the usual
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tricks. She never asked for a confidence.
If people insisted upon confiding
in her, well and good; if not,
she was not going to try to make
them.
Perhaps it was because of this that
Tormentilla's love of reticence was
suddenly lost in those dark eyes.
"Last year," she said, "in town,
you know, there was a?a person who
was always coming to see my?my
relations. Not me, of course, because
I'm not out. I should have been this*
year if? I've three sisters out, you
see, and although two are engaged,
neither of them is married. And
Doreen's lovely?really lovely. She's
rather like Audrey Cogwheel, only always
pleased with herself. Every
one in the house thought the person
came to see her. No one found out
for a long time that the?that the
person was always losing the way
and finding the school-room instead,
and when they did find out there was
a tremendous row, because he was
+ o n i m nnrfo n t norenn nnr? it
had been decided by my?;my relations
that I was to be kept back till
Vic and Peggy and Dolly were settled.
So they packed me off to the country
with Greenie. And then the person
found out where I was, just as easily
as he had found the school-room, and
he used to motor over to see me, and
we?we got terribly fond of each
other. It's extraordinary how fond
you can get of a person, if you let
yourself go."
"Yes," said Lise. with her funny
little grimacing smile, "isn't it?"
"And we got engaged, of course,
but quite secretly, beeause it was so
much more fun, and we panted to en- j
joy it thoroughly before there was a
row. And then?Doreen?Dolly?"
Her voice broke into a little angry
sob.
"Well?"
"Dolly took matters into her own
hands. You see, she's always been so
much admired and petted that she
thought it was enough to be seen and
heard, to win anybody's undying affpptinn
"
"Did it put her on her mettle to
find out that it wasn't enough?" Lise
asked gravely.
"Well, Dolly's fiendishly clever
when she thinks anything's worth it,
and she began to study his tastes.
He's fond of outdoor things, you see,
and Dolly began to pretend she was,
too. She hardly ever rides, because
she is so nervous, and her hair comes
out of curl, and she doesn't care for
motoring, because of her complexion,
and she's afraid of getting fat. She
says outdoor women get so hard and
coarse-looking. But she deliberately
went in then for everything he admired
most. Ke only fell in love with
me because I was a good sport. He
always said so. I had no other?attractions."
Her voice broke with a
despairing little sob. Lise was watc^
ing her curiously. !
"And?and she's lovely to look W
?like porcelain: her eyes are blue,
deep sea blue, like Audrey's. She's
sweet, too, cloyingly sweet, like a
pink fondant, the kind you tninK
you'll like when you take it, and then
you wish you hadnTt. Ke did, but it .
was too late. He found himself engaged
to her before he quite grasped
it, and his engagement to me didn't
matter at all, you see, because no one
else knew of it. He's had so little experience.
It all came of an accidental
kiss when he was off his guard. He
was miserable directly he realized
what he'd let himself in for, and
rushed to tell me and throw himself
on my mercy. Of course I gave him
his freedom like a shot when he told
me, and I went away with Greenie to
Provence ail the winter, and this sum-'
mer I persuaded my?I persuaded my
mother to let her bring me here."
"I'm glad you came here," said Llse
kindly.
"Do you know," said Tornentilla
seriously, "that I couldn't bear to
look at Audrey at first, because she
reminded me so of Dolly. It was only
since I found out that she was unhappy
that I changed. It makes me love
people to find out that they are unhappy.
Dolly never was. She had
only to walk once round her bedroom
?it's perfectly lined with looking
glasses, you see?to be absolutely radiant
for the day. That's the worst of |
it. She doesn't care for him; she only
wants his money; and?"she stopped
suddenly?"his money to spend on
frills."
"He's rich, then, your Prince
Charming?" Lisc asked. Tormentilla
opened her eyes.
, "Why, he's the D?" She stopped
in confusion. "He's a rort of a millionaire."
she said feebly, "and to
know that the ugly?or, rather, the
lovely sister doesn't want him for
himself alone only makes it all the
harder for Cinderella, doesn't it? You
see. she only wants him, and not his
millions at all. Oh, you must admit
that it was rough on Cinderella."
CHAPTER IV.
The Browning Society had related
its brows and descended into the
common world again while it had
tea. Mrs. Cogwheel looked happier
so, and Audrey and Mr. Bromsgrove
waited upon the other guests with
baskets of cake and elegant sandwiches.
"I am always so hungry after
Browning," poor Miss Cotton said
eagerly. "It takes so ranch out of
you, don't you find, Mrs. Flanelle?"
"After that magnificent passage?
you know the one I mean, because I
could see a question trembling on
the tip of your tongue, after that?
I think it was the first longest in
the pcem?I forgot everything. I
could no more have told you what
I had for lunch than I could have
flown, Mrs. Cogwheel. Browning
does inspire so at these moments,
that I actually loathe the sight or
*
thought of mere food- Yes, I will
have another sconce, Audrey, mj
dear. No sugar, thank you, Mr
Bromsgrove. Mrs. Cogwheel, who
really is that girl with the interesting
Spanish name?"
"What I wonder," said Mrs. Hay
firmly, "is whether she is quite a nice
friend for our girls. Vera has taken
to her in the most surprising way.
She says she is so sincere."
"But Vera always was very- original,"
Mrs. Flanelle said pleasantly;
"such an uncommon girl, I always
cay, and so unconventional. She
ought to write. I always think she
ought to write."
"Sincere girls are generally disagreeable
girls, aren't they?" Mrs.
Cogwheel said mildl\\ "Not literally,
I mean, but if you've ever had a candid
friend, or what passes for one,
j'ou'll know what I mean. Of course,
sincerity in the abstract is a beautiful
thing, but one can be too outspoken,
don't you think? But I feel sure
Tormentilla is an' excellent friend
for Audrey. She is a relation of Sir
Diggoryllrouse, I believe, and Audrey
adores'ffer. don't you, darling?"
"Sh^is so sweet," said Audrey
softh? Quite by accidents she stood
whenFthe golden light from the colorecr
glass panes at the top of the
casement windows fell upon her hair,
and crowned her, as Mr. Bromsgrove
said afterwards to her mother, "like
an aureole." Her eyes, he remarked
at the same time, were blue stars in
her flower-like face. "And you
know, dearest," her mother added as
she repeated his remarks afterwards,
with her usual good-night kiss, "he
is not only a really good and pious
man, but intellectual as well, which is
so rare. And his taste is beyond all
?well, you heard him on Sordello,
and one need say no more. A man
who could see such things in that
great poem?things you and I could
never have dreamt possible for it to
hold, sacred, beautiful, hidden meanings?Audrey,
I ask you."
"Yes, indeed," said Audrey, raising
her flushed and lovely face from the
pillow. "And do go, dearest, won't
you? I am so sleepy."
J3ut at the Browning tea. she had
stood there in her childish, simple
way, ignorant, of course, of the vi
car s rapt gaze, wnne juise 111 iier |
usual corner had watched her narrowly.
"Tormentilla is so sympathetic,"
Audrey said, "And she has ideas
as well, which makes it all the more
wonderful. And she is so bright and
encouraging. She gives one new
heart with her courage." Here she
looked away out of the window and
sighed. "She almost makes one take
one's courage in one's own hands
and?" She stopped suddenly, met
Mr. Bromsgrove's eyes, and blushed
adorably.
"So breezy, isn't she?" Miss Cotton
murmured. "I always think she
is so extraordinarily breezy for a
young girl."
Mr. Bromsgrove put his cup away
and sat down heavily.
"May I ask." he said slowly, "what
you know of this breezy young lady's
family and?er?antecedents?"
"Oh, nothing whatever," Audrey
replied promptly. "But that makes
her all the more interesting, doesn't
It?"
"A touch of mystery gives a charm
to anything," Mrs. Flanelle said, as
she drew on her long gloves. "I
quite agree with you there. I always
say to cool: in the mornings, 'Cool:,
I leave it to you. Don't, don't, let
me ever guess at what we are to have
for lunch, for it spoils everything so.'
And when it so often turns out to ,
be chops. I think it is unreasonable
and sordid of my husband to be annoyed,
and I always tell him so.
What would life be if there were no
dark sccrets?"
Lise giggled, but her temper, too,
was rising.
"Much better worth living,
wouldn't it?" she said sharply.
"And she is a dear child; a simple,
unspoiled little school-girl. There
is nothing mysterious about her.
Miss Cotton has told us that her
aunt is a cousin of Sir Diggory
Grouse, and that Tormentilla is here
for change of air after a rather severe
auaciv 01 luuueuzu. one nv?s m
London."
Mr. Bromsgrove coughed.
"I should advise you to make,
careful inquiries about this young
lady before you allow your daughter
to become intimate with her," he
said, smiling in his courtly way at
Mrs. Cogwheel, and every one was
much impressed, and more curious j
than ever. j
To be Continued.
The Sour-Millc Fad.
Since Lady Bancroft was made
deathly sick by the sour-milk treat- j
ment Europe is beginning to realize |
what Tin said many moons ago?that
it is a fad, pure and simple. Furthermore,
there are many people who
cannot continuously take sour milk
without getting some irritation of the
stomach, even gastritis. That is
probably what ailed Lady Bancroft.
There was nothing wrong with the
milk, c::cept that her stomach could
not take care of it.?New York Press.
Libel on Shakespeare.
"In getting up a good live advertisement
the truth should always be
adhered to, even in the most immaterial
and unimportant points," said,
at an advertisement writers' banquet,
John C. Williamson, of Charleston.
"I will rcrcret all my life how", in
writing a medical advertisement, I
once declared Shakespeare to be the
author of the line:
" 'The sun cannot shine through a
torpid liver.' "?Washington Star.
Female Doctors.
At the annual meeting of the trustees
of the Manchester Royal Infirmary
it was decided by a large majority
that women should not be resident
physicians and surgeons. Bishop
Welldcn argued that women doctors
were not worth as much as men for
the treatment of all cases, and most J
patients disliked to be treated by
women physicians. There is no such
foolish prejudice here in New York.
?New Yorl: Press.
The railroads of this country pay
out $24,000,000 a year in freight
claims.
SOmlcoh^
KJM rfey WILBURD NLPBIT1
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The dusty road lay long: and still
To where It broke across the hill;
The weary breeze would come and lift
A puff of dust, and let It drift
Against the haggard clover bloom
That gave but shadows of perfume,
And on the grass that was as gray
As ever any dust that day.
/
The trees stood, thirsting, lank and lean.
With famine-yellow In their green. u . '
With leaves as shriveled as the hand^
Of some old man who scarce can stand
Because, of all the years he feels;
The wagons moved wth rattling wheels;
The bees with angry hums sailed by,
The birds chirped to the empty sky.
The twilight came without a breath
Of wind, and was as still as death;
And all the night the hot stars glowed
While crickets clacked a crackly ode;
The dawn woke white, and brought a
sense
Of the Sahara's heat Intense,
Ana tne tmn aogs iay rounaaouui
With their long, red tongues lolling oat.
Then suddenly a breeze laughed by
And tossed a haze against the sky,
And runnning. racing down the hill
Came raindrops, with a subtle thrill
As when some rippling dance-notes surge
Across the droning of a dirge.
And brook and river, hill and plain
Leaped up and sang: "The rain! The
rain!"
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The Tussock Moth.
The tussock moth is so called because
of Its color, it being a fashionable
shade of tussock.
It flutters about upon the scented
breeze, gaily laying an egg hither and
yon in the foliage. Then it retires
from circulation.
After a time the eggs hatch out. If
the moth had to sit on its eggs to
hatch them it could not efTect such a
complete distribution. One mosquito,
for instance, will lay SO,000 eggs in a
day, but most of them will produce
mosauitoes that immediately go to
some summer resort. The offspring of BE
the tussock moth is the tussock cater- flj
pillar, which is a slow traveler and a fg
vegetarian. It is what entomologists H
call a "beautiful specimen," but its 9K
beauty is not even skin deep. n|
The caterpillar locates In some town B
where the city council does no* see n
the need of gratifying the idle whims H
of nature lovers. One caterpillar is
assigned to each leaf of the vines and J9
trees that have been raised by hand. H
A few days later there is no necessity BK
of spraying the foliage, for It isn't WZ\
there. mjk
The tussock moth Is our leading si
anti-conservationist H
Maud Missed the Trip.
A charming young woman named Maud gH
Was planning a. trip far abraud. Id
She missed all that bother Bfl
For one day her father H|
In cornering wheat, dropped his waud. SM
In Bad Odor. [B
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"And so," grumbled the rich uncle, Mij
"they say ray money Is tainted." HH
"Yes, uncle," replied the diplomatic
nephew, "but I always ask them what Bn
they can expect of a fortune amassed mj
through a corner on limburger H
cheese." SB
She Knew. SB
"You are so proud of your new hat
and dress." growled the husband,\"that ffl
it is a wonder to rae you haven't left
the price marks on them'.' 9B
"What's the use?" gurgled the happy 33
wife. "Every woman I know has
priccd them and given they up in de- EH
spair." BH
To S"ve Time.
"They say the has been n nrried six SB
f?r cirrhr tinios." 1.? rl-.r> rri"imont >? rta 8^1
beauteous lady sweeps down the fig
dining hail with her latest husband.
"Yes," is the reply.- "You know Ejfi
she insists on using a!! the names Oi.' flfl
all her hus bands on her cards." IN
"Hyphenated, o: course."
"Certainly, an.l instead of a ntriod 99
after the !::st n i.k\ she uses a
hyphen, to the ccntinutiiion may be ?M
accomplished without char.so in punctuation."
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The editor cf tfce : :r.^n7.?r. / cpen3 KB
the letter from the st:b?o:lb?'T. H9|
"Dear Sir,'* the letters begins, "I
wish to co::ir,!i;i:c::: yen 0:1 ycur Junk KH
number." gfljfl
"Junk ntiv.be/?" ivutsea t!v editor. jj|
"He probably intended to write "June SBH
number.' However, he may kci be far H|
horn right. I snr.de T!i> vhru n.i..:'jcr 90
l'rom all the hoM-over nauuscriyt in HB
the place." HW
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