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Q_t QTOlOiOiQlOlOfOIOlOlO 1 l%r ~ v c * ?| Road to G o o * ?J* 'Dora Oi* ~j? Ai;l?i<>.' of v co.-:;ic}>' ci* ?r,>r,t,r;.',.7i.;.w.<v;./ n. urr.y p > * ? V* ><* ' o i o i oToTbTcfc i c i o! o i cT: o7 CHAPTER XII. 13 "It's Messed to forgive." sai AYulrey softly. She stood in the nii< die cf Lise's pretty room in her fo: get-me-noi dress and forgst-nie-iu hat, and a little bunch of forgec-iui nofs at her waist. Lise scowled at her. There is n other word for her expression, an she would not even take her ha:u Tormentilla wr.s humped up on t!: window-seat in her ok! blue dress, picture of s-illen despair. An Audrey tr.e enlprit, who should i:av been so deeply ashameJ, si cod an rebutted them with a sweet and lo\ ing frieiidliJit-Fs they little deservee A spray of forget-me-nots fell fro; her bolt. and she pic-kcri it up asai: "Mycsoiis." she said sofily. "That its other name. He told me. It's hi favorite flower." "He? Who?" "Mr. Brnnisgrove." Audre Hushed a little. "We're engaged. "What?" "What?" "Yes," said Audrey timply: "si:vr that day. I shall always remc.ubs it. It's qr.ile a romance." Lis? sav down suddenly, and Toi mem ilia snId something which no on heard. "^Von't :*cu wish rte happiness? Audrey allied wistfully. "Eivn f; tier's given in quite kindly, ar d v.h<. I confessed he said that ho won! have forgiven m?? if we had e!o'?.\ and have thanked his God that he' been spared ihe expc-::~e o; a v.eddi::: But what a sordid ending that woul have been! He didn't mean it. J was only his fun." "Audrey! You told him that yo had been going to elope with -slisl aei?" Audrey opened her blue eyes. "Oh, not with Michael." she sai slowly. -That would c.ily have mad things so involved, wouldn't it? An 1 couldn't sleep till I had confrssc th? truth to mother and father." ' "They think tint you had arrange to elope with Mr. BromsgroveV "Oh, no?not exactly that eithej I didn't go into details at ail. but. said I should n-=var e:;pe?t to be ha? pily married if I deceived them. An mother said that all was wf'M ma ended well. a~;d she'd always felt sur that be would become a bishop i time. A bishop's wife has such power for good, hasn't she? And li is so strong. 1 always felt tlie urc: of some one real'y strong to ier.n or and Michael was rather a broken rer ?even though he is such a dea; That's w>at mother said. And eve father said. 'Thank Cod you've chose: a man this time,' although moihe wasn't nearly as harsh as thai 'Dearest,' I said. "Mr. Bromsgrcve i ti perfect rcok of silent strength.' An mother said that silence w;:s a grcu gift. I thought that was so true.'' But Lise had hidden her free i her hands, and Audrey's blue eye wander.1#! to the garden outride. "1 think perhaps." she said, "thr even if he'd bren the othrr, it is a for the Le^l that we didn't fly tc geiher." "Who?what c?n you *mer.r.?" Tor mentilla asked helplessly. "T-Tn nnrl T " s-n'ri AlldrpV slir')^ "You st-e, dearest cliild, cie can o:il have one wedding, and?" "You can have more if you l'l;r>, crlf:d Tormcntilla disgustedly. "if yc vre^n't particular J's to t'.ie m an \ou us?J to get rid of Miclic-l!" "How dreadful yo;sr thought someumcs are," Audrey mumr-m-d ) her inuoccnt way. "0::e can cnl have cne wedding dress, and o". "Voice that breathed o'er Eden.' It so beautiful, 1 always th'nk, and do like to have a choral wedding don't you?" "Never tried it," Tonnentilla sai gruffly.' "And then, fo."' Audrey mm mired, wiih her blue eyes stii! 011 tli blue sky, "one would miss all one wedding nresents. Mav I sit dowi Lise?" Iler voice ac last began t lake a reproachful tone. "Oh, please sit down. j.is" ruvne away and crossed to the window i the other corner of the room. "What I wan.. i;> know." Torrve: tilla cried sharply, "is why you didu tell us before'.'" Audrey sighed. "I wanted to," she said: "I oT'e felt that it would be oniy kind. P.i I let m ba guided by someone wii ! knew Peso. 1 bowed to the maste mind." TormenlillP started. A dim su picion lying iiorr.jr.nt in her own mis strengthened itself considerably. "He thought," Audrey continue that this was ihc best way. 1] said that a lesson must be taush He said he was obliged io bo cruel i be kin-.l. And I thought, ihat w: such a beautiful thougii." "Are you mad. Audrey?" Li' asked the question without turnii: round. "Oh, no?only perhaps a lillle i; spired." "Docs it ever occur to you tb??t yr have treatedMichacl in the mo ' shameful way?" "Oh, no, n vc:\ IL was very wror of him, you sec. to s;ig'.:e:-:i such thing. And I hope jie \vIiI set ov. i it in time. I sometimes think it quite possible. And on:; doesn i often marry one's first love, M Eromsgrove says, lie is so ".vise." "Very," said Line. "And then." said Audrey grave! "constancy isn't a virtue; it's only folly, isn't ir?" : Lise laughed. She admitted 1 Tormentilla afterwards that Audrt had been too much for her. "Vr thought she was romantic." svi" ka: ""and 1 thought she was mercenar If she had heel', romantic, she'd hai married Michael. If she'd been me cenary, ;he'd have married Xigs OlOIOlOlOlOlOIO'MOIOlOtOlO ? - - \a? P THE. |fj2 R? retna Green |l? # *o .he:r Deal\\n, ? *)o "The J;.'!?/ Uiit;;." Lie 5 fY:( < O'TVir /T rw-rrr\ ^/^|? c TcTo. o i d i o roi'o io. oTb'Cioi o | What on canh is she?" And TormenIjj' tilla said she didn't know. j_ J Eut Audrey had not yet finished, i aivl she trailed across the room, a jt! drooping, lovely crcatnre, with pa; theric eyes and appealing hands. "You wouldn't judge me harshiy _ ! if voa knew my real moiives," she \1 I j said sad I j. 1 I "What in heaven's nrme are your (1! motives?" Lise cried with interest. a ; from the other side of the room. ,j Audrey sighed. e "Only love," she snif, "and pity." (j Tormentilla gasped. "lie has had a hard life," the girl j went on. "a hard life. 'Trouble,' he n says, 'has hardened him,' and I am to 2 be the softening influence of his s future." :s ( No one made any remark. What : ind.ped could they sav? "He consults me." Audrey said, "on v everything. And T him. We have been in perfect sympathy ever since 1 told him of my great trouble." Still they were speechless. e "He tolls me everything," she went ,r or, "and this morning he showed me j his black list." ! Tormentilla routed herself from e 1 her bewildered stupor. "His what?" she cried.. ' *'H:S black lis:," Audrey repeated ..'with dignity. ;1 j "Do you mind telling me exactly ,1 what yea mean : ' ; | "Xot at all," Audrey repeater! with simple pride. "Lord Malinder had : very high opinion of him, you see. ;I and he entrusted him with a secret [t n;i??:on when he gave him the living. ; of finding fraud and misuse of auu thoriry, and a lot. of other things that ! forret. He has a natural gift for I finding out weak places in people and | things, and all the time he has been j here he h?,s been looking out and dis, covering things, till he has made out . quite a long list. His 'black list.' he j playfully calls it. and I think it is . surh a good rnme. don't you?" j ! "Very." said Tomentilla grimly. "I never heard a more suitable?r-et , name. Co on." I "it is a mc:-t infe-csting list." said Audrey, "and there were p!1 sorts of pco;?Ie on it that, you'd never have ' dreamt of associating with hidden ' crime." i a | I can r;ui-.e believe It. Tormen:i 11 ilia's voice was almost sardonic. a , "Please don't stop.' ,j j 'Tor in?tEnce. the~e was that nice i i Mr. Grime?, the haliff, who has al.} ways such a pic-?.-ant smile when 1 . ! meet him ridjiicr about on his fat grey ,. ' horse. He used to give rie rides on n : it when I was a II?;t!e crirl, and I quite r: lik?d liim, but you never know, do I you?" j s | ' No," pcid Tormerjtllla. "Who \ eiss?" .t I "Oh, so mmy -popie! The hcadI keeper. Mr.' Groves. 1 thought he n was such a dear. and he always let s inn trespass when I wanted ferns and j primroses and thirzs for my botany .t. c'sss at school. And one of the un!! der-kee-ser?. and several oT the seri vauts at MpHn'-.r House, and quite | a number of fanners, and one or two - nc the trades'-po-^e o,-<?n. All of j thpni Lord Mal-n'er's tenants." j "Was lort all?" y ! "Oh, no." An drey oast a quid: little side glance at bar. and stooped to " arrange a fo'd of the forget-me-not <i rown. "n-,it I have such a bad mem: cry. l")o you know that the siiht of that V'cr made r.-e feel quit? sad?" ~ 1 "'r 'li'i fii-i ; Vm-nipr-Tilln ( -. le ]. n I "Yes. wouldn't it >on?" y "No. it wouldn't have made me o fad. \i wcul.l have made me?but "s ?0 on." , Ij "1 didn't lib* it." snid Audrey, j, mcetius the ?;? ;'* eyes frankly. "I confess tlv.it I diiu't like it. And I d sa;:l -*o frankly." | "That was noble r." yowl" Tormsn ? tllin eric J sarcasi "oa! !?*. n i "Oh. no." said Audrey modestly. s "I wiis Quite o :e:i with him. 'Not lt one of lis." 1 said, 'is entirely without 0 fault." and he c.uif.e s:i>v it. Me is so broad-niintlcd. you sue. si^'l lie ad 1 miticd it at once. If he did make one n e:;ce; tinn. he naturally would be blind to my faults .iust now. wouldn't he?" i. "Very l'i:eiy," sa'cl Tormentilla, *t drr." inu a dee;i breath, i "Ve?," Audrey proceeded. "We i mi^at have been the came ourselves, n T said, if we had lived amongst their ;t temptatious." r\ "W'n "' Tnrmontilln rripft i- ly. "A thousand times worse." I "And .so." Audrey finished, "I per? sunned him to burn it."' :d "To vvhst?" "To burn it". Why not?' '"No!" TormeniilJa stared at her [e ' n"'i from lier seat with amazed i. c>e~. to | "Ve-." At: drey smiled her prettiis' ost smile up into the girl's fare. ; " 'Lei us turn it together,' I sn:'d, >e t 'hi memory of yester.iny,' nod we did. i.H; \\"e made a little celebration of it. j He callel it a lit;!? celebration? ;i- with a fusee, and it took a Ions time. j but it is raihev a beautiful idea, isn't hi ir, t:. cement o.n' happy bond with 11 st ac t ef forgiveness? We mean to jro j rr. as we have begun, .".nu to help each 4...1 U _ 1. ? .,1, ..11 ..1 '.'A , '1t* >11 \ .s jic* Mir.n ?i i<! : low ?I1 thc?e people's sins to find ?r j them out. without his hein." is 'i'ormeutiiln groped for her hat. 't j rr-.t ;; "half-!:!in?lo:! look of bewilderr. i me'.it at the silent I.ise, r.nd went heme. She could bear no more. She has often wondered since how y,! she got through all the hours of that a dreadful d^y, and remembers with a shudder still how she wandered to drearily about the house and garden jy for hours and hours aud found 110 >u comfort anywhere. cl. There was nothing loft for her and y. 1 Gi i onie but to pack up. extort per,*e n;:'--:on from her parents, and go off 1- to Avi_non again. (1. J liever since she had taken the \ I name of Tcrmentilla had she so richly deserved it as she did new. "A torment to myself and every one else!" she cried, but in spite of that she knew it wasn't fair. Si:* had done her very liest io make tv.-o apparently brcker.-lieartert lovers happy l>y every means in her power, and they had I themselves overthrown her scheme. How was she to know (hat they no longer loved? Even Michael had crone chcerfnlly off to his now post, of whi'-'i he w?s n-we underservinsr, and vvh'ch was totally unfitted to fill, and although be had returned John Edward's check, with the exception of twenty pounds which he I had already melted, and honed to re; turn to him almost immediately, be had behaved throughout in the most disappointing way. You don't exnect a jilted lover on the bridal day' to remark with cheerful philosophy that perhaps it's all j for the best, and hadn't they better all try to put it out of their minds j and order lunch? j John Edward hru' explained it all by savins th.it he'd known the man v.-p.3 mad from the first moment he set eyes on him, but Tormentilla found no comfort in that. Neither Audrey nor Michael looked upon her as a benefactress, or anything but a meddlesome little sir!. Then Lise?TJse. whom she really ; liked and admired tremendously? what had she done for her? In a foolish attempt to smooth matters between her and her husband, she j had only made them far worse, and been the cause of a most tremendous row; perhaps widened the rift in their already cracked lute forever. Lise didn't seem to bear malice, it j was true, but Tormentilla didn't sun r.ofe thinas would over be quite the i same a'.rain. In which s^e was undoubtedly correct. And then, when ' she pot in that afternoon she had found a liUle round-hand letter on | pink, jriir-edsed paner, with a Gr??ni nnsfmr.rk on the latter, which | had seemed the last straw, and made j ]ter wart to take Minnie by the shoul| ders and shake her. j "Dear Miss Tormilia: "This is to hone it finds you as well J as it leaves me at present, and please j Miss 1 wish you hadn't never pot me ! this n'ace. The work is too heavy, | ar.d there's no pleasing some people, and William has changed something cruel since we came here. He is walking out with another young woman celled Ruth Heap, and when I I ask him yesterday why he has j changed so cruel, he said it was on i account o7 her smiling face, and he j preferred smiles to tears any day of I the week. "Please M:ss Tormilia, I should like to come back to Malinder scon. i'There was a young man in the garI den as was a true f iend to me before i 1 walked out with William. "Yours respectfully, "Minnie." Tormentilla could have laughed ov^r this letter, if it hadn't sent her into such a red-hot raecc. She stood at the window for afew minutes with wet eyes and an aching heqrt, then turned desperately to gaze at the pa'e-faced, red-eyed creat! ure with unt'dy hair and a shabby ! ?.V.? ctifod of Vior fvnin tho | ui cao nicj onu tu ui/ iivi. n wi?* v?.v ! looking-glass. The old blue pinafore drevses had grown horribly shabby, ' and she wondered what her mother and sisters would say if they knew .how she still clung to garments they i had always condemned. She looked ! at herself steadily for a long time, j and at last the doleful apparition j filled her with disgust, and she pulled j herself together with a little shake. | "You aren't pretty," she said fiercely, "but you needn't be a coward. AS'liIte-faced thing!" Even as she srared at the woe-begone, looking-glass Tormentilla, a I little pink color crcpt into its pale I cheeks. "He fell in love with you because, you vere such a good sport. Do the sprrting. then!" ! The color in its checks changed from pink to reJ. To be Continued. riant Ruins Island. Strength is not a thing usually . connected with maidenhair fern, yet j if its roots have not sufficient room ! they will break the pot in w'aich the plant grows. Blades of grass? will force the curbstones between which j they spring up out ol' their place, and ' in a single night a crop of small mushrooms have lifted a large stone. ; Ir.dee:! plants have heon known to | break the h?rde3t rocks. The island of Aldabr?., to the r.orthj weft vof Madagascar, is becoming j smaller and smaller through the ac' tlon of the mangroves that grow I along the foot o:' the cliffs. They eat their way into the rock in all direcj tions, and into the gaps thus formed the waves force their way. Tn time J they will .probably reduce the island to picccf.?London Globe. Mother Calls Wrong Caller. A young man had been calling now and then on a young lady, when one night, as he sat in the parlor waiting j for her to come down, her mother j entered the room instead, and asi ed j him in a very grave, stein way what his intentions were, says the Philadelphia Ledger. He turned very red and was about to stannner some incoherent reply, when suddenly the young lady called i down from the head of the stairss: "3'anima, mamma, that is not the one." ?1 fiTo For a Fox Skin, A fine silver 1'oc skin. nearly Mark, j was brought io l?:!montcn. Alberta, February S. ranking as too flnest skin | shown there in some yea:-;?. Ir was j purchased by a dealer for $107o.? ' Fur News. Tn the United States of Colombia 51 in gold is worth $102 o? the r.a? tional paper currency. The Colombian export duty on cows has been reduced from SG12 currency ($b* gold) to $102 ($1 gold). On the largest tobacco farm in tha world, a 25.00P-r.cre affair, near Amsterdam, Ga., is grown about a third of all the Sumatra tobacco used for cigar wrappers in the United States. THAT STRANGE , - ? TAXOMVMYTmNG^ I ! SOME FACTS CONCERNING TARIFF AND THE HOME. ! As an Object Lesson, Here Is How the | Poor Washwoman Is Called on to "Dig Up" to Enrich the Big Trusts. When the wrinkled, chapped laun| dress finishes the week's wash and de livers it Saturday night she has rei reived during her week's labor the j following blessings from the Payne! Aldrich tariff: J On her soap she has been tariff! taxed 20 per cent. ?.V. t/xU enftn On tDe wrapper iu wmtu i comes, 25 per cent. On (he ammonia that helps to keep ! the flannels soft, 25 per cent. The washing soda is tariff-taxed j one-quarter of a penny a pound. Tho starch is tariff-taxed 1cents ! a pcund and the borax two-cents a j pound. , j The bluing is protected with a 30 j per ccnt. tariff. She wrings them out on a wringer j the metal castings of which are tariffj taxed one 'cent a pound, and {he j wooden frame 35 per cent., and the | rubber rollers 35 per cent. j The washboard itself is tariff-taxed 35 per cent, and th^ ribbed zinc 1%. j cents a pound. i She dumps the damp clothes into a | wicker clothes-basket that is tarifftaxedl-35 per cent. I Merrily she trips up on the roof ! and hangs them on the clothes-line? ' clothes-line tariff-taxed 45 per cent.? with clothes-pins tariff-taxed 35 per cent. j If instead she balances herself on the fire escape the rope is taxed the j same and the pulley is also taxed 45 ; per cent. A wooden frame dryer is i taxed 35 per cent. j She gathers them in the tarllT-taxed I basket and irons them with irons tariff taxed 8-10 of a penny on a ] pound. She heats the irons on a tariff-taxed stove; keeps her coal in a scuttle tarj iff taxed 45 per cent. If she uses ' charcoal it is taxed 20 per cent., or i coke 20 per cent. Even the matches j are tariff taxed one-half penny a dozen boxes. "Many a mickle make3 a muckle"?motto of match trust. On the tub over which she bends and scrubs there is a tariff tax of 35 per cent. The bench or chairs it rests on are taxed 35 per cent, and the paper pail beside them Is tariff taxed 35 per cent. The big boiler in which the clothes are? boiled is tariff taxed not less than | 45 per cent. I | If she has been able to save up and i ; pet a mangle, the metal castings for i | it are tariff taxed one penny a pound, ' I the wooden rollers 35 per cent., and ' the framework 35 per cent. Nothing i is too small and no one too poor to be ; overlooked.?New York World. Tariff Board Futile. j The tariff board is going to investigate the cost of making wood pulp | and paper. A special committee of the houso investigated this subject ' two years ago, under the reliable i supervision of Mann of Chicago as j chairman. If the enactors of tariffs j could not make the verdict of the j committee precided over by one of i their own number, what probability i is there that it will heed the finding | of the tariff board? Roosevelt Champion Straddler. "Don't flinch" is one of the colonel's I favorite shibboleths. He counsels the , beloved people to stand fast always o-'d to put up a bold front against j j any effort on the part of undesirable j persons to check the march of hon- j esfy. Out in Iowa they seem to think i that he didn't boss his job at Sara-j j toga quite up to the Osawatomie i standard. They are reactionaries and j poltroons of course. What has Kan- ! sas to do with the effete east? They j S must be fed according to their appe| tites. j The Old Moralities. Why does thr> legislative graft com' mil tee make such a fuss about the payment of a few thousand dollars by the Lyons Heet Sugar Refining company to Senator lohn Raines and Assemblyman Hurnett as a mark of its "appreciation" of the services of those two legislators, both of whom are now dead, in procuring the passage of bills for the payment of bounty to the sugar company? Raines and I Huvnett merMy applied the old Republican moralities to new beet sugar con- > ditions.?New York Sun. APPARITION! ; i THE PROGRESSIVE DEMAND Mr. Roosevelt Does Not Seem to Realize What the New Spirit of the Country Is. The fact, surprising as it may seem, is that Mr. Roosevelt does not realize the depth and the strength of the public sentime'nt which he himself has helped so much to arouse. His homiiles have been a potent factor In fixing the attention of the people upon the political, economic and social abuses which prevail in the country. While he was president, he understood the people pretty well, but when he was in Africa, he got out of touch with them. Since his return he has not fully caught the new spirit of the country. He has no Idea of the extent of the progressive movement. Hp fines nnt realize that the fight now in progress is a fight to the death. Tories and progressives look very much alike to him. Thus he promises to help Senator Lodge in Massachusetts and Senator Beveridge in Indiana. He asks for support of tory congressmen in South Dakota, and he says a good word for Miles Poindexter in the state of Washington. He laborSj under the delusion that the crucial contest which is now being waged within the ranks of the Republican party can be settled on the basis of compromise. Any man who knows the situation understands that this is' impossible. The Republican party' must be wholly redeemed or it will be wholly destroyed. There is no room in the party ror many of the' men with whom Mr. Roosevelt is willing to work or for some of the; men whom he has commended to the1 support of the people. In Jts leadership the progressive' movement demands grim, unyielding determination and constructive ability of a high order. Colonel Roosevelt does not possess these qualities. He talks fiercely and he acts tamely. His inconsistencies and his willingness to accept compromise rather than defeat make him an unsuitable leader. The people themselves are wiser and firmer than he. The pro gressive movement is their movement and they will not brook compromise. They are going to fight it out to the end. As leaders they require men who are strong enough, courageous enough and persevering enough to di- . rect a war rather than men who are content to appear on the skirmish line now and then and to spend the rest of their time in preaching against the enemy or in singing songs across the lines.?Milwaukee Journal. Not Entirely Disinterested. The tariff law as it was signed by the president has resulted in a general revision downward, and no amount of special pleading, no misstatement of facts, and no suppression of the material fact will ever make it appear otherwise.?Representative Pa: ne. The Hon. Sereno Ellsha Payne would be an unnatural godfather if he did not praise the bantling. No Real "Protection." This country produces its own coal, and exports many times more than it imports. The duties on breadstuffs may retard the free flow of grain over the Canadian border, and may some times affect local prices temporarily, but in all food products we are an exporting nation, and prices are determined in the markets of the world. NothiDg is really "protected" by these sentimental duties. Friend of Monopolists. It is of common knowledge and it has been for more than a .generation an open scandal that the protected interests have paid the Republican party in campaign contributions for enacting the tariff schedules they desired. The Republicans have not only taken this money, but they have insisted on having it. In 1890 the representatives of the protected interests in congress gave votes to pass the silver coinage bill in exchange for votes of the silver men for the McKinlcy tariff. Explanation Not Forthcoming. It seems never to have occurred to Mr. Roosevelt that the glaring dls- ! crepancy between his Saratoga platform and his Sioux Falls speech required explanation until he was sharply called to account by his friends in the west. His subsequent utterances have not mended matters. The only possible conclusion is that when he was at Sioux Falls he felt that he was among downward revisers, when he was at Saratoga he felt that he was speaking to standpatters. - 1,1 MBOHBBBBBDDaiMHHMBHBMi A.I4 &I4 mAjm ikLl fetM >lI? >!? ivic a&jm alj aOj |? a TIT T*T 'j|Lt **? TJr *JF Tj.? ~ His Firs By DONAL Copyright, 19:0, by Assoc Mr. Paul Franklin "has passed his 1 5xamination and become a member of 1 the bar. Not that he intended to hang < jut a shingle and become a practicing lawyer, but more to oblige the good ' Did aunt who had brought him up and ] sent him through college and had oft- < 2n said: i "You will have the estate to man- < age during my life, and when I am 1 gone you will have to manage it for i yourself. One should be a lawyer to io these things." 1 Within a week after Paul had neen j granted a legal right to add "Attor-- < ney at Law" after his name, the old 1 lawyer of the estate, in turning the I papers over to the young man, said: "There is one matter I wish to call ' pour particular attention to. The i estate owns Lake Placid. I stocked i It with choice fish several years ago ' and put up many signs of "No Tres- ( pass." Those sign3 have been gen- ] erally respected, but last summer one i particular person, having a camp a j short distance away, persisted in fishing in spite of all protesta. I have just received word that the same per- i son is back there for the summer and ( is fishing again. Our man there thinks an example ought to be made. He says that when he made protest this person told him to go to grass." i "A very nervy person," remarked the young lawyer. "Truly so. I think you should write to the agent there to take out a warrant, make an arrest and bring the case to trial.. You can go up there and appear for yourself and Ifjli "If I Had Known?" V make It your first case. f The justice Ib bound to find a verdict for you and Impose a smart fine, and that will deter other campers from trespassing." lfT /litn'f TTTonf +/\ era f ronilt Q tl rtTl A UUU b "ttUW vu of being arbitrary and mean," said Paul. "But people must respect the law," put in the aunt as sh<* came into the discussion. "If the laws can't be enforced what will become of us? People have no more right to catch my fish than to catch my chickens. It Is my desire, Paul, that you take up this case. Those people who come out from the city to camp for the summer are a very reckless lot. They don't pay the slightest attention to signs. What they need is a good scare. Lake Placid wa's three miles from the manor house, on another piece of lund. It was a favorite place for summer camping, and there were no restrictions except as to the fishing. It had been stocked with carp as a fad of the aunt. Word was dispatched to the man who acted as watchdog, and in two or three days subsequently he reported that a summons had been issued for the guilty and defiant party, and he named the date when the trial was to come off before the justice of the peace in the village. Mr. Attorney Franklin urew a mental picture of a bearded ruffian with a political pull who was setting country law at defiance and denuding Lake Placid of its carp in spite of all signs and protests, and he at once looked up the law . trespass and made himself familiar with it. When he had learned all about it, he invented a plea to the jury. Of course, the defendant would call for one. He went out to the orchard and repeated his plea over and over again. It was strong. It was logical. The Jury must not look at the value of the carp, but at the principle of the thing, "Paul, that will be one of the greatest pleas of the decade! The jury BIBLE TRANSL< * Proper Names of Holy Writ Look Queer When Put Into the Hottentot Language. Some of the difficulties In Bible translation are of a curious nature, being concerned solely with the form of the proper names of individuals, places, etc., occurring in the Old and and the New Testament. In translating the New Testament into the Nam a or Hottentot language of South Africa. the very name of Jesus creates a difficulty from which no escape is possible save by strict conformity with the grammatical and morphological peculiarities of this somewhat primitive form of human speech. The device, so commonly resorted to by Biblical translators, of simple transplanting the Latin Jesus and Chrisrus (or Greek Christos) will not avail here. For in the Hottentot tongues is a suffix indicating the female, and Jesus, or Christus, would really signify thrnj the principal figure in the New Testa-1 BHBUMfl1 ' ' ' ' ' h" ^ it Case ' >1 D ALLEN :iated Literary Press ' nust convict the ruffian without y eaving the box. You must save- a ^ :opy for your Ohildren to read." Mr. Paul Franklin drove over to the .. VJjj ?illage at the hour named In the papers. All the campers had turned Jut for the trial, as well as all the> dlers of the village. His honor was 3n his dignity. The defendant had etained a lawyer. There was to be' i mighty legal battle. : "We ought to apply for three or 'our warrants," said the watchdog, as< Paul arrived. "The same person waa jut fishing again this morning, andJ ., when I yelled at her she run her ;ongue out at me!" , Paul did not catch the "her" and 'she." It was the black-bearded ruf9an he was thinking of. Und^r sum- -J mons, and yet fishing for more carp! There must be no letup until the loors of the county jail closed behind 's L * T A ? ? *- ^ 1 Kin AO OA mm. u was xpr raui iu suxtc u? to court and spectators. He had %' feeling of trepidation as he arose, but it passed as soon as he heard his own voice. He didn't see the black-bearded ruffian among the crowd, but o? course he was there. There were men, the lawyer told the court, who respected the law, and there were others who deemeil themselves superior to it This was a case* . V, where a man, coming from a city notorious for its graft and "pulls," wa? deliberately and defiantly trampling the law under foot He would bring forward witnesses to prove that tbo i can had not only seen the signs of J "No trespass," but had deliberately -;ll and defiantly'?" y Here there was some tittering and ' giggling in the room, and his honor ' rapped for order. '.'Yes, this man?this ruffian, who had been accustomed to trample on V| the law-?" -.4 More giggling and applause. "You should keep to the case," kind/ ;;; ly advised the court "Thanks. There were the signs oft " ' " )' 'no trespass,' &nd yet this man?:?" / -,<3 "TOKof 'monl" oclroH the nnnnnlnflr . " """ counsel, while * many spectators laughed. ? % "The guilty party, sir," replied Paul' with all proper austerity. "But let me explain that there'to no man under summons," said hla honor. "Can you be thinkin" of another case?" - t fSKfa IHiere was more laughter, and poor Paul realized that something had happened to the machinery to stop the boat "It's a woman!" whispered a man *. ? behind him. "It's a girl," whispered another. ; "It's. that stavlng-looking girl In ' front of you," whispered a third. "Your honor, I was led to believe that a ruffian had been trampling on the law," said Paul, as he looked around In a helpless way. "No. The summons was for Miss Katherine Lacy, and she's here In court. I haven't heard anything of a ruffian." "But?but " persisted Paul, as ' he saw the defendant at last and not- ' ' ed the fact that she was one of the ' if best looking girls he. had even seen. "My client pleads not guilty," said. the opposing counsel. "She will ad-- J mit being on the lake in a boat at various times, and of fishing for fish, but i she denies catching any. She also -/.i denies that she is a ruffian. If my , learned brother on the other side wishes to go ahead with the case?- " "But how can I?" asked Paul In a helpless way. "I prepared to prosecute a black-bearded ruffian who was. trampling the law under foot, but here I find "A young lady who hasn't been trampling," finished his honor. 'T . . :,% think It would be well'for the complainant and defendant to walk over to that window together and see If some amicable understanding cannot be arrived at" Miss Lacy rose up with mischief In her eyes and walked, and the-blush-,, ing young attorney could do no less than follow her. There wasn't much, conversation after reaching the windown. He said: "My dear Miss Lacy I beg your pardon a thousand times over." "Don't mention it". I "If I had known " "But you didn't" "But you may catch every fish ia. the lake." "Thanks." .{.5 All that was left was to withdraw the case and take the raillery in good part. Of course, the young limb of the law found his way over to the camp, and of course he was hospitably received and before the camping season was over?well, the "ruffian'* and the lawyer were engaged to be married. AT ION SNAGS. ment story was a woman, a view that would certainly antagonize completely modern Christian theological doc nine, nit- iiuuuiiiut sumx wdicd indicates the maie is b, and, therefore, Jesub and Christub are the forms which rhose names must take in order to be thoroughly exact and grammatical. And in line with Christub and Jesub must aluo be Paulub, Moseb, Amob, Jtitiab. Thomab, Zabbeub and manv other Biblical names. Only Ahab, Job, Beelzebub. Jacob, Moab and a few others would pass muster in the form best known to us. And Itahab, at whose house the spies of Joshua lodged, would f:nd her name changed into Rahas, while the more famous Sennacherib could retain his with impunity.?Harper's. "That pretty woman over there Is. the widow of one o? the celebrated team of Brace Brothers." "Which brother?" "The dead fne." -tik * < \