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OtOIOlOIOIOIOIOtOlOIOlQ I o 1 < O.y TH Road to Gn ^ 2: ' o ? By Do rot he Cj> dj Author of "UeorgiCf'' " 27 -jt^v Cw/rirjl;t. ;r>\ h;i J. 71. LIPPIXr07 2;v* ??'?<> * <* ?< o i o i o i"o*i o i o"i o rdtsti o i o i o i o i < CHAPTER VIII. ID ] Continued. "You said you were employed in pood works. Can't I help? Ujrj't let any one else help you. I can't bear it " j His ruddy, beaming facs disarmed her; his jolly, pleased, boyish voice grave her confidence and raised her spfi its to a feverish pitch. ] "That voung man was a perfect!, stranger lo me ten minutrs before . you came," s-he said obscurely, "and . I am interested in a scheme?a ( scheme that concerns him. I wonder . if yon could help him? He wants . he'p badly." "How?" His face showed his deep ( distrust of anything connected with h jming mai.. ; "He has ne\tr bad a chanc?. Tien wants some one to take him "Can't he g^t a policeman to do it: Why doesn't he break a shop- 1 window or smash a lamp?" j She gigpled with a quick access h of cheerfulness. I "You're as witty as ever!" she said. She looked at him doubtfully. "If I thought you would be useful, it might ? perhaps be justifiable to go with ! i you." < "I'm sure to be useful. Try me." : <^The end sometimes justifies the j 1 - - .1 n loot I 1 means,'' sne raurmureu mm . effort to deaden that stupid little j voice and stop it throwing cold water _ ] on this entrancing suggestion. Pie laughed triumphantly. ; "Jump in, Sandy. I've got a coat' i of Dolly's that she left in the car yes- 1 te^day. You'll be as warm as toast. ] Don't waste the shining hours." ( Tornientilla sprang in with a de- { 1 fiant air, and scrambled into the : white coat. She found a veil in the 1 pocket, and tied it over her hat. < "Let's see how fast she'll go!" she i cried. "She's a Rosinante, isn't she, ' this one? As soon as we're out of j ! the town we'll give her her head, 1 won't we? You'll be pulled up, but1 < you can always pay afterwards." "Oh, yes, one can always pay af terwards," said he cheerfully. "By 1 Jove! it is good to be alive to-day." ' l When Use bad once made up hor j mind to help Tormentilla with her daring plot for the happiness of the ? two lovers, she felt it rather a relief ( than otherwise. Michael was a kind, j affectionate boy. She had found him j useful and companionable, and since j he had given up wailing over his lost ( love, he hadn't bored her at all. Eut; ( she could not conceal from herself1, that the aspect of the case was now : changing rapidly, and her experience . led her to foresee discomfort for herself, and displeasre for Jack. Her , sympatuy and patience for the love- j lorn youth were going to be ill-re- . warded if she wasn't very careful, ' and she didn't want to annoy Jack. . So she set her wits to work as to , wajApnd means of helping the en- j thusiastic Tormentilla, and came to , the conclusion that the best thing ' she could do was to speak kindly and , firmly to the young man Michael. So she wrote a little note in her scrawl- , ing. untidy hand asking him to come ] and see her at home when both | Nigel and Jack had a committee meeting which they were bound to at- , tend, and spent the half hour before , he was due leoparding, as Jack called ( it, up and down her pretty drawing- j room. Against the deep, soft, mossy ] green of the carpets and curtains, ] Lise looked, as Michael told her when he came in, exactly like a nymph cr a 1 dryad or something in a wood. |; "I am rather like something In an wood," she admitted with a laugh,' ; as she held out her hand. "I'm a j young woman in a dilemma, and 11 want to talk to you, Michael, very ; seriously indeed." Michael's face fell. "i do wish you w'ouldn't," said lie,', "not to-day, anyhow." | j "To-day," said Lise firmly, clasping her hands round her knee and watch-1 ing him intently. He set his teeth. "Lcok here, Mrs. Standring," he. \ said desperately, "I'd rather you'd \ talk about something else, I would really. It is?well?painful, you see, ; horribly painful, to have the past j raked up just now. I want to try ] to forgot what I have suffered. I can sometimes, especially when I'm j with vou, lay it aside and be almost ?almost cheerful." ! "I see; Audrey, then, is the dread- ] ful memory?" she asked maliciously. ; "You are laughing at me. I meant i that last terrible interview with her fa:her, of course, and the way he insulted me; but it isn't like you to Inn f?V> nf m a "\T**c Cf o 11 rl rin? " ' lau^u at iuv, *uio. otanui "I sometimes think it would have ; been better if I'd always laughed at : you," Use remarked coolly. "It might have spurred yqu on." "But I don't understand you." Indeed he didn't, and the look of pained ; surprise on his face deepened. "I might have encouraged you to ; behave like a man." Her tone, cold, cutting, indifferent, stung him. The contrast betweeu this new cruelty and her old kindness unrl cvmnnthv cppmprl almnst mnre> than he could bear. He didn't speak, ; but gazed at her with amazed horror. i "I don't believe in wrapping up my words," she went on, "or in breaking things gently or in any kind cf diplomacy in a case like this, i To put it simply, I think it's time : you gave up behaving like a coward, ; and did something. Don't you?" She smiled at him suddenly as she asked the question, and her smile | left him more bewildered than her extraordinary remarks. "For two years, or say a year and . a half, you have been wringing your' aioioioioioi'oioioioioioio n??;2 E ill stna Green ?2 ? * jo cj D en kin, :te tc 7J isJt in'j lilnj," He. ?;q '-i _ l"> 0 r ro.vp.-i a a;: rtfii* rwnvT. ^*53To, o i oToToTo i o i o i o 161 o, o hands and moaning at fate, ycu and Audrey, and doing abosolutely nothing at all to further your wishes. Haven't you?" She smiled again. "What could we have done?" Michael asked in a low voice. "What couldn't you have done?'' Lise smiled coolly. "It isn't fair," the poor boy cried hotly?"it isn't fair of you to say such things. You've never spoken to me like this before. If you felt so? so strongly about it, why did yon go jn listening to me. and sympathizing all the time, and agreeing?yes, igreeing. Mrs. Standrins:?that Fate svas against us, and nothing could be lone?" '/I haven't the slightest idea," said Use calmly. "I supnose I never thought it over seriously. I just said what you wanted me to say, because [ didn't like to see you so wretched. rhe real issue didn't seem to matter, if I could manage to cheer you up * J ?- - * ? - i'.. for the moment, ana mm 5 me &unu truth." It was. "For the first time," she pursued ?oftly, "I've thought the matter over calmly in all its bearings, and I'm ji'ite convinced that the best thing i*ou can do now is to lose no more Lime, but?" She stopped and laughed. "What?" His tone was full of sullen apprehension. "Arm yourself cap-a-pie, mount ronr gallant gray, pick the girl up, *nd ride off with her. One word at ier side, and one voice in her ear? [ forgot the exact words, but the end )f it was 'They'll have fleet steeds lhat foliow,' and so they would if i*ou borrowed our new touring car, wouldn't they? But you've heard Df young Lochinvar before, and I leedn't enter into any more explana? - * ? XI 1J :ions. Do as tney aia m me soiueii routh of the world, and carry off your bride. Take the first turning to Sretna Green and?" "You must be mad!" said poor Michael. "And what do you all mean ay throwing the detestable habits of the abominable past in my face like :his? The world is past its golden routh now, and grown sensible, and t'm glad of it." "Not at all," said Lise composedly. 'You love Audrey ? passionately, deeply, unswervingly. You often told me so. She loves you?devotedly, in the same unquestionable way. She's often told me that. She's told .Hiite a number of people that. Run with her like a brave knight ol Did. Don't stand any nonsense from mercenary parents or vegetarian Yii-als." "You talk like a hook." The disgust in his tone made her laugh al him, but his manner of receiving hei idvice showed her that she had changed her tone with him only just in tliuie. sne nan ceen pjaying wim fire. Of course she had suspected it Tor some time, and even if it was only a slow smouldering, at best a feeble flickering flame, it was quite time il was put out with a little cold water And exposed to Audrey's winning ways?oh, he would soon return tc his allegiance. She was giving the best possible advice. "Even to buy chain armor and a pliant gray," Michael remarked slowly, "one requires crowns ? 01 iucats or whatever you use to buj the silly things with. You know that [ haven't the money for such?such manliness." "Work!" safd J.ice unfeelingly. 'Get something to do, and stick to it rt's time you earned your own lining instead of dreaming all day about j-our wrongs. Ch, I've no patience svith you!" Michael rose in dignified displeasure. "I've noticed that," he said sadly, "and perhar,s I'd better go. I don't (vonder that I've exhausted your patience. Mrs. Standring. You've been very good to mo, and I won't trespass on your kindness any longer. But"?his voice broke a little? "that you should speak to me like this! That you should tell me to gc to work!" "It's time pome one told you." Lise spoke hastily and cruelly, but at the sight of the tears standing in his eyes, she softened a little to him, Perhaps she had been rather toe fierce. "Sit down again, Michael," she ?aid more gently. "I know I'm a rmoftr r\l A >?ir?cr V\ii + T rcollv H l~\ WQTll you to listen to me. My dear boy 3on't?now, clon't go off in a rage with your best friend." Ke sat down again. "I've noticed," said he gloomily "that people always call themselves your best friend when they want tc say something especially unkind. Eul go on?don't spare me; my back's broad enough." "Quite," Lise admitted, with ar admiring glance. He really was z finely built young fellow, and verj good at games. "You see." said she quietly, "] want you to marry Audrey." He drew a deep breath. "You want me to marry?Audrey! You! My God! what a terrible worlc it is!" "On the contrary," said Lise, witl a little nervous laugh, "it's a verj lovely world. Look at the sun or those sweet peas over there. an< listen to that cock thrush in tin copper bcech. And pray, whj shpuldn't 1 want you to marry th( girl you love?" Michael said nothing. What in deed could he say, except perhaps in his breath a private word concern ing the thrush or the sweet peas? "Marriage," said Lise gravely, "ii a blessed state. Some one in th< Bible or somewhere else said it, sc it must be true. I want you to be a9 1 happy?I want all my friends to be I as happy as?" x "Well?" he asked gloomily. . "As I am." Lisc spoke lightly. "My good boy. don't look so glum. You can borrow tne money for the desperate first step, and then throw yourrelf gracefully on the mercy of the hard-hearted parent. Cr. rather, let Audrey do that. She'll manage it better. Dr. Cogwheel is very rich c im'e'-d, I believe. His profession? but there, you know as well as I do that it's only a pleasant hobby to him, *| and that his assistants do all the r ; work. He doesn't spend a sixth part \ i of his income?Jack says he's sure ] be doesn't. And he adores Audrey. Even if he didn't, do you suppose her *' mother would let her want? Not she. It only wants one bold sten. and your ti hn-ipir.ess is insured for life." t Michael burled his face in his hands, so his joy at the prospect was j. hidden from Lise. "Cheer up," she said, "for, you j see, as well as having Audrey with | you for ever and ever, which was ^ once vour only dream of happiness? f 11 you've often paid so?your future j" : I will be assured: and you must admit, ^ my dear boy, that your present pros1J pects are, to put it as mildly as pes1 sible, precarious." He looked up fiercely. "I'm not a fortune-hunter!" he , cried. "Believe anything else of me, ^ but don't believe that. Money is ^ 1 nothing to me?nothing." ^ "But Audrey is. You'd have her into the bargain to make up for the ? injury to your pride involved in the spending of her money." Her light tone ecasperated him: made him desperate; and he rose and laid his hand on the back of his chair with a white face. c "I'm going to tell you the truth," ? he said, and Lise too grew pale at | 1 the sight of his changed manner. She had gone too far. She had been r + cnnrnfni half in fnn all the | tttVtiC.00, ow* M*U.f ... J time. Instead of helping Tormentilla, e she had hindered her; or, rather, she r would have hindered her if she didn't , quickly undo her work. And besides . that, if she once let Michael say what he was going to say? ' Michael," she said slowly, raising i her black eyes to his with an implor- ^ ing sadness, which bewildered him even more than her unkindness had ^ done, "I'm afraid I hare not been quite frank with you. I have a self- ^ ish reason for what I ask. Don't you see that it might be very good for me ( if you married Audrey?" t i "Good! For you? Good for you, j ! Mrs. Sandring:?" "Yes. Good for me." f She looked at him steadily. f "I should like to be able to tell ' r i my husband that you were married." g she said gravely. It had suddenly ^ occurred to her that she couldn't do ^ better than treat him with perfect honesty and sincerity. ( But Michael's face changed. He z ! colored a little, and his moody eyes T , lit up. j I Lise went on, carefully 'choosing ^ i. her words. j l "My husband does not approve of r ! your friendship with me," she said. r i "He does not believe in your love for Audrey. He says you have got over f it. He says that you don't come here j . to get my sympathy, but because ? ; you?" She stopped suddenly. , I He came and sat down in the other { ; corner of the window-seat. L "What?what can you mean?" he ; asked eagerly. - A "He sayq you come to see me.'* ] Lise stopped again, half-frightened, f ; for even now she might only have ; let loose the fiood-gates. I "Is he?he isn't jealous of me, Mrs. , , Sandring?" His awed tone allayed | , the anger his words would have j aroused. t "Jealous! Oh, no! Jack's never j [ jealous. He is so absolutely sure , of my love, you see. It is his perfect j - confidence and trust in me that makes , ; our home such a happy one. Abso- J , lute certainty of a person's unswerving affection always makes a home happy, Michael, remember that. But I he says it is cruel of me to allow you . to come so often. He says it isn't < fair to you." < , "Cruel? Not fair? How?" His ] I face fell at her words, and Lise saw .' that she was going the right way to } work at last. ] To be Continued. Chinese Schools. ; L Schools are being established in < . every part of the Chinese empire and i are being put in charge of educated i . Chinese who have studied in Japan, , Europe and the Un ted States, says a , I consular report. Popular education I is a strong feature of the new move> ment in China for the general better- 1 . ! ment of the country and its people, LI all tending toward a limited mon- < I archy in place of the centuries old ] ,' autocracy. i I y It Hail Fallen. 1 i "The New York women are very t handsome," said the visitor from the j , West, "bat some of them seem to be i a little deformed, don't they? Look," and he po' ited out a woman whose uplifted skirt discovered an ankle a , little disfigured, true, by what aps peared to be a wen, or something. > "Sh-h-h!" explained the New ( t Yorker softly. ''Her powder puff has 5 fallen down, is all."?New York 1 Press. i i Waiting to Find Out. j Cincinnati Tourist (who, for the first time, has just entered a res[ taurant in Paris)?"Have you ordered?" St. Louis Tourist (who has reached ! the table some minutes before, and I who looks up from a French bill of ! fare)?"Yes." . I fMnoinnati Tourist?"What did you r order?" i St. Louis Tourist (impatiently)? , I "How do I know?"?Chicago News. \ A Harlemite fond of figures has ; been keeping tab, and says that New York women in a line to buy tickets - or postage stamps consume two and 3 one-fourth as much time as men. There are three times as many ? Buddhists, Brahinans, Mohammedans ; and pagans in the world as there are > | Christians. ^OL^outhTAROUNT' 'ream of the News Gathered From All Sections of the Commonweal!! For Our Many Readers. Those Rales on Coal. Considerable interest among Sonthrn cotton manufacturers centers bout the fi.-rht being waaeil 'oy South Carolina cotton manufacturers for a eduction in freight rates from the "irginia and Tennessee coal fields, 'iie mills allege that the rates eliargd by the Southern railway are exessive. nd injurious to their basiless. They have carried their case o tihe inter-state commerce cotr.mision. The rates for intsance, to Sparanburg are $1.80 per ton, and the rtills ask a reduction of $1.55. In heir complaint they al.ege that there ras an agreement between t'he Souhern and tbe now C. C. & 0., and hat since the construction of the atter read there has been no reducion, whereas there should have been. The Southern railway has just filed nswer to the complaint. Its answer tikes up 25 typewritten pages. It der lies flatly that there is any umlertanding whatsoever betweon it and lie C. C. & 0., and also states that he two roads do not do a competiive business, one hauling coal fr-om me territory while the other 'liauls rom a different region. The Southern also states that the ates it Charges are not unreasonable, and siiuply warrant a reasoii,ble profit. The Greenville board of trade, the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturrs' Association, and other organizaions -have joined in the protest for keaper rates on coal. It will be reaembered that the coal-buying com-nit tee of the association met recntly and refused to buy coal until a eduction in rates is granted. How the cases will be finally settled s a question of general interest. The Greatest State Fair. It is expected that the State fair his year will be one of the most sucessful in the history of the associaion. Never before has there been o mueh interest 'in agriculture and his feature of the fair will receive special attention in the matter of ixhibits and prizes. The State fair rill be held on October 31, November 2, 3 and 4. There will be prizes aggregating nany thousands of dollars in the 'allowing departments: Field crr>p, Manufacturers, races, horses, cuttle, rheeD, hog, bench show, poultry, lousenold, needle and fancy -work, ruit and floral and fine arts. Upon request Clemson college has :onsented to aid the fair society in naking the field crop department epresentative of the agricultural resources of the State and all farmers ire urged to lend aid by' sending n their exhibits to make the departnent one of the very best and most it tractive at the fair. J. N. Harper, director of the Clem;on experiment station, together with lie associate professors, has been soliciting exhibits during the year trnl will exert their energies in arranging the exhibits in a systematic md educational manner. Young Men Suffer Tor Crime. At Anderson Charlie Hall and Ben IC _TH l_ ? i_T_ LIl ? t ?i... victiireaixi, uucn wime, -twenty uuu hirty years old, respectively, were sentenced to five years in the peni:entiary, being convicted of assault ind batterv of a high and aggravated nature. These two men attempted to blow up with dynamite the resilience of R. M. Webb, near Williamston. A dog caught the dynamite ;tick and was blown to pieces. The louse and occupants were thus saved, iltihoujjh the house was greatly shaken. Will Col. Watson Accept? The position that has been offered Commissioner E. J. Watson, carries i salary of nearly $6,000. He will jromote the trade interests of the United States in the Far East. He las given no intimation as to whether ae will accept the appointment. If he should accept the position with the federal srovernment he would not leave the State before January is the reports for his department will have to be made up for the general assembly. Maybe $100,000 for Horry Roads. The people of Horry county are tryng to secure a bond issue of $100,000 x . i/t. _ l:~i tor me improvement oi me mgunaj! )f that county. There is a measure pending before the general assembly to order an election on the question. Tt Ls expected that this measure will fie -passed at the next session of the legislature. Recently there was organized a pood roads and drainage Ipague in that county with several of the most influential citizens as ofScers. Chemical Laboratory in Columbia. The department of agriculture has severed its connection with Clemson college in respect to the analytical work for the feed stuffs department. Commissioner Watson has shown that there is no ill feeling between his department and the agricultural school and states that the change was made so as to facilitate the work of the chemist. A new laboratory has been purchased and will be installed in the old State dispensary building in Columbia. Spartanburg Rolling in Wealth. Spartanburg is one of the richest counties in the State. The report as to taxation shows that there has been an increaes of over $1,000,000 in ' - -1? 1 the vaiue in n*ui csuuf. The value of real estate for tlie county, as returned this year, is r0.2fl."i,4.'59, as compared with $S.172.170.. The value of the real estate outside of towns and cities was $5,-102.254; 1009. $4,(5(58,445. Value of real estate in cities and towns, $4,131.185; 1909. $3,503,725. New ; Of ' i Problem Was t a Wizard Quickly Toid New York Commission Just How Electric Current Wires Could Be Placed Underground. When New York city, hack in the late eighties, passed an ordinance forbidding the stringing of telegraph and telephone wires overhead and ordering the miles of wires already overhead to be placed underground a commission was appointed to take charge of the work of burying them. A member of this commission was the late Jacob Hess, at one time very prominent as a Republican organization leader in New York, and one of the errmn nf v?rv pnArzetii voune men who were trained in politics by Chester A. Arthur when he was a power in New York city politics. "The most impressive evidence I ever had of Edison's genius I received when I was a member of what I believe was the first authoritative body to deal with the problem of laying a city's wires underground," said Mr. Hess to me a few years before his death. "And, by the way, our work as a commission was closely followed by municipal authorities throughout the United States and also by some of the leading municipal experts of Europe. "Well, when we started out we knew that it wouldn't do just to place the wires in trenches and let it go at that; anybody knows that wires so placed would not work and would soon be destroyed. So we had authority to spend money to make experiments in order to get at least one satisfactory system of burying the wires, and to enter into contracts with inventors of satisfactory systems. One of our first moves, therefore, was to advertise our needs. "You can't imagine the number of Inventions that were brought to our attention?they simply were legion, as the saying is. Most of them were worthless on their face, and we were asked by their Inventors all sorts of prices, ranging from a few dollars away up into the thousands. One of the best of the Inventions, as we thought, was so expensive - that Its cost alone made Its use prohibitive. "One day, after we had been struggling with the problem for weeks, and were as far away from solving it apparently as when we first tackled it, It was suggested that we call on Thomas A. Edison and ask him to invent something that we could use, or, at least, give us a suggestion that we could have worked out. We wrote him, and he Invited us to visit him at his laboratory in New Jersey. Why Blaine L j Proprietor of Portland Advertiser Would Not Raise His Salary, So He Quit and Turned to Politics. This story of how a refusal to raise James G. Blaine's salary practically opened up a political career before him was told me by two competent authorities, an editor of Blaine's old paper, the Portland (Me.) Advertiser, during the Maine state campaign of 1878, and, some years later, by Hannibal Hamblin, Lincoln's second vicepresident and later senator from the state of Maine. > "Senator Hamblin," I a^ked one day, having recalled the story told me by the Portland editor, "did you ever hear that Blaine's career might have been entirely different had he been granted the raise in salary that he desired when he was editor of the Portland Advertiser in 1857?" , "Oh, yes, I know about that story, and I know it to be true," responded the senator, "and I am certain that Blaine's career would at least have been greatly delayed?to say nothing of being different?had he remained as editor of that paper. ? "Mr. Blaine," continued his senatorial colleague?both were in that august body at the time?"was one of the associate editors of the Kennebec Journal for two or three years after he first went to Maine to live. His work in that position was so notice able that the owner of tne jforuana | Advertiser secured him as that paper's editor. The salary was twelve hundred dollars a year. "As the end of the first year of Mr. Blaine's service with the Advertiser approached, he and its proprietor had several conferences about re-engagement. Mr. Blaine thought that he ought to receive fifteen hundred dolWhat Stood In the Way. In a police court the other day, a case was being tried, where the charge was for a technical assault, and it came out In the course of the evidence that the parties were neighbors, and had been on the best of terms for . many years. "It's a great pity," said the magis- ' trate, "that such old friends and neigh- . bors as you seem to have been should ' appear here in such a way. Surely this is a case which might be settled out of court." "It can't be done!" said the plaintiff moodily. "I thought of that myself; but the beggar won't flght." Judged by His Company. Yes, sir," said old DeScadds, "I j judge a man by the company he keeps." "Thank you," rejoined young Wouldbee. ( Thank me!" exclaimed the old man. "Why should you thank me?" "Excuse me," said the young man, "but I thought you had in mind the fact that I have bsen keeping company with your daughter for nearly a year." News yestei <Z>y2l.?/ 7.asy tor Edison "Presenting ourselves before him at the appointed time, we found him wearing an old linen duster and a much battered straw hat. As wo stated the object of our call a queer little emile passed over his features. Finally, he said: 'I suppose you have had all sorts of Inventions offered to you?' "We nodded acquiescence. " 'Well,' he said, 'chuck 'em all out Most of them are no good, and, besides, you don't need any invention.' "We looked surprised and Edison was clearly amused, at our astonishment. Then he proceeded to elucidate. 'All you have to do, gentlemen, is to Insulate your wires, ' draw them through the cheapest thing on earth, lead pipes, run your pipes through j uuouucia vi &aiicue3 uuuci Liic outset, and you've got the whole thing done.' "Tnere he was telling us in that simple, off-hand way how to do the thing we had spent the best part of a year puzzling over; for none of us doubted that he had solved the problem, and afterward the experiments which we conducted proved conclusively that he had. "Before we left Edison we asked him what his bill was for the advice he had given us. " 'Not a cent,' he replied. *Do you Weed and the 1 * One in Dublin Did Him a Favor Because the Other Was His Fa- j vorite Walter In New York. In one of the chats I had with Thurlow Weed when that great political figure of ante-bellum and wartimes was living in the peaceful retirement of old age, he told me the story of the brothers McCarthy. "On the first excursion that I made to Europe," said Mr. Weed, "I went with my daughter Harriet, and In our party were Archbishop Hughes of New York, a warm personal friend of mine, and Archbishop John Baptist Purchell of Cincinnati, both, at that time, being bishops only. The captain of the steamship on which we crossed learned that we were going to Ireland as soon as we had landed, so, doubtless out of respect for the two dignitaries of the Catholic church, he volunteered to save us the trip to Liverpool by putting us ashore in Ireland In one of the ship's boats. We gladly accepted the invitation, were rowed ashore off Queenstown and so reached eft Journalism (. lars a year, and b? was willing to bind himself for a number of years to the Advertiser if l^e could get the desired raise of three hundred dollars a year. The proprietor admitted that Mr. Blaine was perfectly justified in. asking the increase In salary, because he waa worth it; but, added th^ owner, frankly, he could not afford to pay so much money. In those days, you know?back- in the late fifties?fifteen hundred dollars was a large sum of money, down In Maine. "Well, Blaine thought the situation over for some time, and finally came to the conclusion that he was worth fifteen hundred dollars a year, if he was, worth a cent, and that he did not propose to hold down his editorial position for less than what he was worth. So, parting in a most friendly spirit with his employer, Mr. Blaine returned to Augusta whither he had gone to Portland, and he had not been there long when he was nominated and elected a member of the legislature. He was four years a member of that body, and for two years he was | Its speaker, and that before he had finished his thirty-second year. In j that body he discovered wherein his real ability lay; and so, I say, had he [ not returned to Augusta when he did, ( and all because he could not get the raise In salary that he wanted, his great political career would undoubtedly have been considerably delayed, and maybe?who can tell??he might have become a great newspaper editor instead of a great statesman^ I have always believed that Mr. Blaine cherished at one time a strong secret ambition to become the editor of a great newspaper, and had he remained in Portland with the Advertiser a Boston or a New York newspaper might ha^ve tempted Him tnitner in umer (Copyright, lfllO, by E. J. Edwards.) Wanted In Tbe enthusiastic literary gentleman at Allways-on-the-Go, said London Answers, had consented to deliver a lecture in the village club on Burns. For weeks beforehand the hoardings and the boardings shouted announcements, and when the appointed night arrived the hall was full to overflowing. He began with "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "Tam o' Shanter," and "The Jolly Beggars," and was proceeding with "John Anderson," when there UiUlll' ttU iuiviiuinivu hwuj laic ua^rv. ui the hall. ""What is It, ray man?" Inquired the lecturer. "HI, when are you goin" ter give us a few "ints?" came the reply. "Hints?" repeated the puzzled gentleman. "Yus, 'ints!" growled out the man. "I paid threepence ter come in, 'cos you was supposed to know all about burns, an' there yer i stands, spout in' poitry like a parrot, j while my missus, who's unset a sauce- ! pan of boilin' water on 'er foot, is ' , 2DAY ^(fiuar-c/^ . suppose I'd stick you for so simple a thing as that' ' 3 "And yet," concluded Mr. Hess, "the plan that Edison gave us off-hand and free gratis for nothing Is the one now universally employed when wires an to be placed underground." (Copyright, 1310, by E. J. Edwards.) , V, Showing Himself Up. _j/ "Unk" Russell, the local prize flghter, Is very fond of playing baseball' and when the Athletics are at hornet he often goes out In the morning to practise with them. Apropos of this practise of "nnkV*; Eddie Collins tells the following story** "Unk came to Shlbe park earljr Jul ; a the season and made himself known! ' to us with the request that lr it werw possible he would like to have a littlepractise with us, as It would aid In his training. "I told him we would be glad tot ,~1: have him get in the game, and toHt him to get in left field. He looked] . around helplessly for a moment ofj two, and then, coming close to me^ said, almost in a whisper: "'Say, which is left field? I never played on this diamond.'"?PhiladeljH phia Times. > A Good Actor. 1 see you have an actor employedi on the farm." "Yes, I put him on. He's a dam.' good actor, too. I thought he warn h working the first year he was here." rwo McCarthys \ W-0 Dublin just in time to secure good| seats at an address delivered by Dan^ iel O'Connell, the great Irish libera* tor. "Ah, that was oratory! I have heart! / $ all o( our great American speaKers,j from William Wirt, who prosecuted'.- --y! Aaron Burr, down to Roscoe Conkllng^ but I never heard by them such orah>tory as that which fell from O'Coari nell's lips. Then it was that I under-' stood for the first time what th?f source of O'Connell's power over tha people of Ireland was. "After the meeting was over I said) to the two bishop": 'I will go to thet /"' ' 38 newspaper office and wait there until! I can get copies of the paper with the) speech in it, so that I can send them] . v to the United States by the steamajf) which sails tomorrow.' "Arriving at the newspaper, office, I[ . heard the presses clanging, but I could! see no light in the editorial rooms, r rapped at several doors, and at lasq .7: a porter came io oa of them. ' "'I am anxious tc y>* a few copies of the paper,' I said, 'and I don't find anyone about the building who can! i give them to me.' '"Faith, then, you'll have to wait till the morning,' was the porter's answer. . '' .J " 'But I can't wait,' I protested. Hi I get the papers now, I can-address] them and they will catch the earlyf morning mall for Queens town and sal. get to the United States several days) earlier than they could In any othert way. "The porter pricked up his ears. UaJ you come from the United States oB America?'he asked. > ' : " 'Yes, and with me are two bishopaf of the .Catholic church, and we havoj heard O'Connell speak tonight' i " 'Sure, then, if you're from Amert-l ca,'?of course, the porter spoke withj a delightfully broad brogue?'you wiUl know my brother.' v , ' . ^ " 'Very doubtful,' I replied. 'Amerl-; ca is a big country. What Is your/ brother's name?' ' " 'It's McCarthy, sir.' "'What does he do?' , , /(\ " 'He's a waiter in an inn, sir/ " What's the name of the inn?' "'It's the Astor Inn, on the Broads way street in New York city, sir.' "'What!' I said. 'Your brother.. McCarthy, is a waiter in the Astor House?' " 'Sure,' he replied. , " 'Then,' said I, 'I have to tell youi that your brother stood behind mr chair attending to my wants daring the last meal I took in the United States before. I sailed. He's my friend, McCarthy, the waiter, Is.' 1 "The porter was overjoyed, while II was amazed, to think that In all thai vast number of immigrants in the Uni tea states ms orotner snouia nappem to be my favorite waiter In the Astor House. Then the porter ran to thai press room and returned with an aruii ful of papers, and I got them off b7! mall. And when I returned homo F had his brother appointed to a good paying clerkship in the New York customs house." (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwarcla.) -I J uux _n nr r_n_rjLrLrm n ru- .nnnnr } if or motion waltin' ter 'ear whether she'd best souse it wi' oil or shake the flont dredger over it!" The Danger of Corner#. In no way is the old proverb "Familiarity breeds contempt" more trua than as regards corners. The motorist who has safely rounded a bend In the road with which he Is very familiar a thousand times is apt to think that the thousand-and-flrst experience will be as the others have been, free from danger, and that there will be no obstruction, mechanical or animal, just out of view. But sooner or later the unexpected happens, and nothing but great skill and the alertest promptitude will avert a bad accident. And v. bile it is true that in every instance and at all times a motorist on the road is dependent not only on his own actions, but on the actions of others, this is especially true of cornfcra. Mil