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tumorous fjrpattment.
A Bit of Surprise.
Into the office of a Philadelphia
doctor, according to the Philadelphia
Ledger, came a tired man. one morning
this week, who wished treatment.
The physician put on his eyeglasses,
looked at the man's tongue,
felt his pulse, sounded his chest, and
said: "Same old story, my friend.
Man cannot live without fresh air:
no use trying. I could make myself
a corpse, as you are doing by degrees,
if I sat down in my office and didn't
stir.
"You must have fresh air; you must
take long walks, and brace up by
"* ? ?.? nn? nf ilnnrs Now. I could
oiaj nifs v/uv vk ?w>,. w. .? _
make a drug store out of you and you
would think I was a smart man, but
my advice to you is to walk, walk,
walk."
"But, Doctor?" interrupted the
man.
"That's right: argue the question.
That's my reward. Of course, you
know all about my business. Now,
will you take my advice? Take long
walks every day?several times a day,
and get your blood Into circulation."
"But my business?" said the patient.
"Of course, your business prevents
it: everybody says that. Just change
your business so you will have to walk
more. By the way, what is your business?"
* * * ' ?
"I'm a lener earner, iuccm; .
the patient.
Kept the Secret.?A well-known
uptown man, a lover of fine horseflesh,
saw a fine buggy horse which he
thought he wanted. He located the owner
and asked the price. "One hundred
dollars," was the reply. After looking
the animal over and trying her
speed he concluded it was a good
trade and wrote out a check for the
amount. The next day he found that
the mare was blind, but this did not
hinder her speed or detract from her
general appearance. He drove the animal
for several weeks and succeeded
in attracting the attention of another
lover of horses, who made a proposal
to buy.
"Well," said the owner, "I gave
$100 for her, but I'll let you have her
for $125 if you want to buy."
After looking her over and taking
a short ride behind her the man decided
to buy. He paid over the
money and took the mare. When the
animal was unharnessed the first
thing she did was to run against a
post: then, by way of emphasizing
the fact that she was blind she fell
over a barrel. The next day the buyer
came back with blood in his eye.
fVkof maro VOll sold
Oity, y\J u ivuvn wuww >??*. V ^ ? ?
me?" he began. "Well, she's stone
blind."
"I know it," replied her past owner,
with an easy air.
"Well, you didn't say anything to
me about it." said the purchaser, his
face red with anger.
"Well, I'll tell you," replied the
other; "that fellow who sold her to
me didn't tell me about it, and I just
concluded that he didn't want it
known."?Philadelphia Public Ledger.
How to Catch Rabbits.?When off
duty Prof. Richards of Yale enjoys
a joke, and his pupils often come
to him when they have heard a new
Uq qHHc fn the fnn sometimes
with a witticism of his own. Such
was the case when one of the students
perpetrated the following antiquity:
"Professor, wouldn't you like a good
receipt for catching rabbits?"
"Wh.v. yes." replied the professor.
"What is it?" J
"Well, you crouch down behind a
thick stone wall and make a noise
like a turnip," answered the youth.
Quick as a flash came the reply:
"Oh, a better way than that would
be for you to go and sit quietly in a
bed of cabbage heads and look natural."
A Good Story.?One of the best stories
told of the late Sir Andrew Clark
is the following:
At a dinner party one nigfiht he noticed
that the lady sitting next to him
at the table passed a dish to which he
helped himself plentifully.
He asked if she did not like it, as it
was excellent. She replied:
"Oh, yes, I like it, but my physician
forbids me to eat it."
"Stuff and nonsense." said Sir Andrew,
"it could not hurt any one. Who
is your physician?"
To which the lady, whom the medical
magnate had forgotten, answered, with
a demur twinkle in her eye:
"Sir Andrew Clark."
Insufficient.?A couple of charming
young country girls, sisters, anticipating
a week's pleasure at the seashore,
sent the following letter to the
editor of the woman's department of
one of the city dailies:
"We are two sisters, and, never having
been at the shore, are a little in
doubt about our bathing costume.
Would a costume of this description
be all right: Black Mohair waist with
white trimmings and short sleeves and
skirt of, the same material coming just
below the knee?"
The answer was: "Very pretty?but
have two."
.t. '"Did you ever engage in an automobile
race?"
"Yes. once."
"How did you come out?"
"On crutches, two months later."?
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
iv" She?I trust. Jack, our marriage
will not be against your father's will.
JUCK?1 rn SUie, l nope noi, 11 nuuiu
be mighty hard for us if he should
change it.?Town and Country.
X*-r Martha?Well, how was the missionary
meeting?
Mary?Oh. I never tasted such good
sherbet and angel cake in all"my days.
?Detroit Free Press.
W Hobson?How is your brother doing
at college?
Dobson?Fine. He's singing first
tenor and playing second base.?Indianapolis
Journal.
gtwllaneouiS Reading.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is of More
or Lass Local Interest.
CHESTER.
Lantern, August 25: Mr. Arthur
Cornwell suffered a second stroke of
paralysis on yesterday at his father's
home at Cornwell, his right side being
paralyzed. A phone message this
morning from Cornwell stated that all
hopes for his recovery have been
dispaired of. He has been unwell for
some time On August 9th the
colored folks of Gethsemane church
were holding a revival. Some disturbance
was aroused and several of
the congregation produced knives, and
one man received a gash across the
forehead. William Gaston and James
Boyd were soon placed in jail for
causing the disturbance. On Saturday
the preliminary hearing was held
before Judge J. J. McLure. The prisoners
were remanded to Jail. They
were able to give bond for their appearance
at the next term of court.
There are others charged with the
same offense, but who have not been
arrested Mayor W. H. Hardin
and Senator P. L. Hardin of Bascomville,
left Saturday afternoon for
Baltimore, where the latter will again
undergo treatment. It will be remembered
that Senator Hardin underwent
a course of treatment in Baltimore
several months ago. This summer
he spent two weeks at the springs,
returning home about two weeks ago.
Since his return, he has not been so
well, and he felt that it. was necessary
to return to the hospital. His
many friends will regret to learn that
it was necessary for him to return to
Baltimore, but it is sincerely hoped
that his condition may be greatly
benefitted thereby The meeting
at Pleasant Grove Presbyterian church
closed on Sabbath. Rev. J. K. Hall,
who did the preaching through the
week, returned to McConnellsville Saturday
morning: The many friends
of Mr. W. B. Lynn, formerly of this
county, but now of Rock Hill, who has
been lying for some time with typhoid
fever, will be glad to know that he is
improving As mentioned in last
issue, the Hazelwood Rifles are to
have a picnic at Cornwell on Sept. j
3d. They invite their friends and the
public generally and ask that they
bring "the well filled baskets" to help
feed the visiting soldier boys. Co. I,
Capt. Mills, Chester; Co. L, Capt.
Moore, Yorkville; Co. H, Capt. Boyce,
Rock Hill; and perhaps Co. N, Capt.
Spratt, Fort Mill, will be guests of Co.
G (Hazelwood Rifles) on that day.
Maj. J. H. Marion will command the
battalion. Gen. Jno. D. Frost and
Col. J. C. Boyd are also expected to
be present. It is seldom that the people
here about have an opportunity to
witness a battalion drill and the Haz- J
elwood Rifles hope that they will
avail themselves of this opportunity.
The troops will use the new magazine
rifle Rev. and Mrs. J. E.
Edwards and two children, of Simpsonville,
are spending a few days
with his parents, Captain and Mrs. W.
H. Edwards on Church street. Mr.
Edwards preached at the Baptist
church Sabbath morning.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, August 26: Mr. E. D. Tillman
has been appointed carrier on
Rural Free Delivery route No. 1 from
this place vice Mr. H. E. Coffey, the
last appointee, resigned Police
man J. t\ Aficuson leu yesieruuy
an operation for appendicitis. He
was accompanied by his brother, Mr.
J. N. Addison, and his physician, Dr.
Thomas J. Strait. The operation will
probably be performed at the hospital
in Rock Hill, though Mr. Addison
had not fully decided as to whether
he would have it performed there or
would go on to Baltimore up to the
time of leaving Lancaster yesterday.
Mr. Addison has suffered considerably
for the past few months and an
operation Is deemed necessary
Fort Lawn is arranging for a big
educational rally on the 28th instant,
and will be glad to have as many
from this county attend as can go.
Governor Heyward, Senators Tillman
and Latimer, Congressman Finley, Hon.
M. L. Smith and Hon. Geo. Johnstone
have all been Invited and are expected
to speak. Wofford college will have a
representative and State Superintendent
of Education O. B. Martin will
conduct the meeting. Mr. C. L. Dunlap,
clerk of the school board at Fort
Lawn, writes us that they will have a
big basket picnic on the occasion and
that they hope to see Lancaster county
well represented Mr. D. O. Porter of
Damas, Ark., is here on a visit to his
kinsman, Mr. J. J. Cherry. He is merchandising
and has large farming interests
in Arkansas. This is his first
visit to South Carolina since he moved
to Arkansas from our sister town of
Fort Lawn thirty-five years ago
Rev. J. M. White the "Bishop of Unity,"
got a pounding last Friday, one, how
ever, wnicn ne anu ma lumuy a^'^eiated
very highly. The members of
his congregation at Unity and friends
and neighbors gathered at his home
that day replenishing his larder with
abundance of provisions, etc., and even
causing his horse to neigh in gratitude
for the corn and provender they put in
the barn.
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, August 26: The local
shifting crew is now under Conductor
B. M. Ormand who formerly ran
a through freight. Capt. Lloyd Sifford,
who formerly had charge of the
local shifting crew, is now running a
through freight between Spencer and
Greenville Mr. E. W. Carson, Mr.
S. W. Bradley and their neighbors
along the stream have just completed
the good work of opening the channel
of Crowder's creek from Mr. Carson's
bottoms down to the line of Mr.
Jim Falls. They removed all obstructing
rafts and cleaned off the
hanks in munv ulaees so that water
would have a freer course and a better
chance to keep the channel clear.
Mr. Carson expressed the hope that
the neighbors from Mr. Falls down
would continue the work. He believes
it will add to the health of the community
to keep the creek as clean and
open as possible Mr. Ross Ctinton,
of Yorkville, was in the city on
business yesterday Four gener
ations of the Kincaid family gathered
at the old homestead, one mile from
Pleasant Ridge, Saturday for the annual
reunion. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kincaid,
aged 75 and 77 years respectively,
were surrounded by children, grand
children and great-grandchildren, there
being about eighty in all. The living
children number six as follows:
Messrs. John, Max, Forrest, Emmet,
and Mrs. Jane Huffstetler and Mrs.
Dora Grlssom. A sumptuous outdoor
feast was spread and old and young
alike enjoyed a day of unalloyed
1 ^ * J
pleasure . x\ev. a. u. rvinvpanicn,
who has had charge of Jones Seminary
at All Healing for the past three
years, will move his family to Due
West, S. C., the middle of September,
where they will reside in the future.
Mr. Kirkpatrick's daughter, Mrs. W.
K. Douglass, has a position in the
faculty of the Due West Female College
Has anybody gone ahead
of a 70-pound melon yet? Mr. C. H.
Parham, who lives near Begonia, reports
that he cut and enjoyed a melon
having that weight at his home
Sunday. He raised it from seed out
of a melon he bought last year from
Mr. i. M. Sloan, the big Belmont melon
grower.
WHITE LEADERS OF SAVAGES.
One of Them now Aiding the Mad
Mullah In Africa.
In nearly every war between savage
tribes and civilized powers today the
savages are assisted by white men
who have become traitors to civilization.
Such renegades are scattered
through all the remote corners of the
earth. The British troops campaigning
in Somaliland are learning to their
cost that the Mad Mullah is assisted
by a white man familiar with the art
of modern warfare. His name is Karl
Inger. He was an officer in the Austrian
army until a year or two ago.
An English officer, Capt. Thorp, of
the Yorkshire Light infantry, who
knew him at Budapest, speaks of him
as an exceptionally brilliant soldier,
with a natural gift for tactics and for
commanding men. Inger used to speak
bitterly against the English and was
fond of expressing sympathy with native
races in their struggles with civilization.
He would rail by the hour
against the treatment of the Indians
in the United States, of the Kaffirs in
South Africa and of the Hindus in India.
He disappeared from Budapest
shortly before the outbreak in Somaliland,
and his acquaintances were not
surprised to hear that he was fighting
as a lieutenant of the Mad Mullah.
Native spies reported that he adopted
the Mohammedan religion in Cairo and
was taken to the Mullah's camp
through Italian Somaliland by some
Arab pilgrims whom he met in Cairo
on their return from Mecca. It is asserted
that he had much to do with
stirring up the recent war and persuading
the Mad Mullah to defy the
British.
Curiously enough his old acqauintance,
Capt. Thorp, has been "seconded"
from his regiment and attached to
the Somaliland field force as a special
service officer. Thus they may meet
face to face in battle. In that case one
or the other is likely to go under, for
Oant. Thorn, in common with the oth
er officers of the British force, has
vowed to risk the utmost peril to slay
this traitor to civilization, who is held
responsible for the cutting up of Col.
Swayne's expedition some months ago.
It is said that Lord Lansdowne, the
British foreign minister, confidentially
asked the Austrian government whether
it was true that Inger had Joined
the Mullah. The Austrian government
replied that there was reason to believe
he had, and added a hope that
if he was caught, he would receive no
mercy.
Inger appears to be gifted with the
qualities that impress the savage mind,
lie is skillful in planning ambushes and
stratagems, and is especially valuable
to the Mullah because, knowing the effects
of rifle and Maxim fire, he prevents
the Somalis fron* madly facing
it and being mowed down like corn,
as the dervishes were at Omdurman.
He takes care that they shall fight
the British troops in the jungle under
conditions which make the superior
arms of the latter Ineffective. British
officers say that the trouble in Somaliland
would have been over long ago
but for Karl Inger.
If he were caught by native troops
uncontrolled by an officer he would
probably die by slow torture. A Zanzibari
spy who has penetrated to the
Mullah's camp asserts that Inger has
made up his mind to shoot himself
ratner man De capiureu.
Another renegade from civilization,
and one of the most notorious, is Osman
Digna, the De Wet of the Soudan.
He was the right-hand man of the
Mahdi and afterward of the Khalifa.
Ever since 1882 he has been a thorn
in the side of the British.
For many years he was supposed to
be an Arab chieftain, but Slatin Pasha
found that he is a white man, born of
Scottish parents in Cairo. It is said
that he was in the employment of the
government of Egypt in his youth, but
was cashiered for theft and blackmail
on the complaints of some European
merchants in Cairo.
Burning for revenge, he went south
and joined the Mahdi immediately the
latter raised the standard of revolt
against Egypt in 188^ He soon became
known as the best general of the
dervishes, inflicting defeat after defeat
on the British and Egyptian
troops, massacring whole armies, capturing
cities and devastating many
hundreds of miles of country.
He took no prisoners, spared no neutrals.
Wherever his swift cavalry and
camel corps went they left a trail of
desolation behind them.
Mnnv efforts were made to caDture
or kill Osmun Digna, but all without
success. A former captive in the camp
of the Khalifa says that an Abyssinian
whom he had injured stabbed Osman
violently over the heart.
The knife broke in two, but Osman
was uninjured. Naturally the ignorant
Dervishes thought he was invulnerable.
The simple explanation is
that he wore a coat of very fine chain
armor under his burnouse.
A British officer recently told how
he fought in hand-to-hand combat
with Osman when the dervishes broke
the British square at Tel-el-Kebir.
"I got a thrust with my sword right
home on his chest," said the officer,
"and it should have gone through him,
but his confounded chain armor turned
the point of the weapon. A rush
of the derVishes then swept us apart.
"I remember him as a very tall and
powerful man, with a most ferocious
expression. He fought like a madman.
His skin is tanned brown by the
sun, but he looks like a white man,
and I noticed that his eyes are light
blue."
When the nower of the Khalifa was
utterly broken at Omdurman In 1898,
Osman Digna escaped the slaughter,
riding off the field with a small body
of picked horsemen before the battle
was over. Lord Kitchener was bitterly
disappointed, and.sent expedition
after expedition In pursuit of him.
Most of his comrades, including the
Khalifa, were captured and slain, but
Osman always escaped.
He is now dwelling with the Mabas,
a Mohammedan Negro race, who are
the ruling tribe in the Kingdom of
Wadai. Natives assert that soon after
Osman found refuge there he conspired
with Abu Said, a son of the former
king of Wadai, to assassinate the
reigning king. The conspiracy was
successful.
Abu ?nid now rules over Wadai, with
Osman as his prime minister. They
are supported by hordes of the finest
and most fanatical native fighting men
in Africa, including the remnants of
the Khalifa's forces.
The English and French authorities
in the Soudan expect that Wadai will
give them serious trouble in the near
future, now that Osman is there, xney
fear it will be the centre of another
outbreak as formidable as the Mahdi's.
By an Anglo-French agreement made
In March, 1899, Wadai was assigned
to France. But in Africa it is one
thing to assert authority and another
thing to enforce it.
Osman told the natives of the agreement,
and they became indignant and
resolved to fight the unbelievers. But
Osman restrained them. He has learned
by experience the power of a civilized
army, and he does not mean to
fight one again until he has a reasonable
hope of success.
The new sultan of Wadai has accepted
Turkish suzerainty, and in return
the sultan of Turkey has refused
to recognize the Anglo-French agreement
of 1899 and is lending his influence
in support of the plots of Osman.
Those who know the roan declare that
Osman, inspired by his indomitable
hatred of his own race, will never rest
until he has stirred up another war
and drenched Central Africa in blood.
The Dark Continent is full of these
romantic stories of traitors to civilization.
One of the strangest is that
of Capt. Voulet.
He was a French military officer in
the employment of the governor gen
eral of French West Africa- He had
command of a column of native troops
In 1899 and was ordered to march toward
Lake Tchad and explore the vast
stretch of new territory which had just
been assigned to France by the AngloFrench
agreement. 4fc-was an important
mission, and Capt. Voulet might
have made a name for himself and become
a second Major Marchand.
But he had more ambitious dreams.
He was fired by the example of Rabah,
"the black Napoleon," who, starting
in life as a slave of Zebhr Pasha,
became the greatest conquerer and
monarch in Africa, and was, at that
very moment, successfully fighting the
French.
"Let us," he said to his subordinate,
Capt. Chanolne, "become kings in our
own right. This country Deiongs iu
the men who can take it.
"Let us carve out an empire for ourselves.
We have a small army who
will follow us in everything without
asking the reason why."
Chanoine agreed. They immediately
threw off their allegiance to France
and attacked village after village, tribe
after tribe, with their column of troops.
Some French non-commissioned officers
who objected to this treachery
were promptly murdered. Natives
were massacred by hundreds and thousands,
until the two renegades established
a reign of terror over a wide
area of the country.
News of these strange doings soon
reached the French colonial office, and
a small expedition, under Lieutenant
f'ninnpl Flohh and Lieutenant Meuhier
was dispatched to find out the truth.
Klobb overtook Voulet ~at Sinder, in
Damangar, half way between the Niger
and Lake Tchad.
He asked for a parley, bu^ Voulet refused
to aliow him to approach, threatening
to fire on his party. Klobb advanced.
shouting that he had come In
peace and would not fire. Voulet received
him with a volley.
Klobb and most of his escort fell
dead. Meunier, severely wounded, was
borne away into the jungle by the
survivors and escaped to tell the story
to the authorities.
Voulet and Chanoine were outlawed
and a strong expedition sent against
them. Before it could reach them they
were shot by some of their men whom
they had brutally flogged.
The natives who had been under
their command gave themselves up to
the authorities. So ended Capt. Voulet's
dream of becoming an African
emperor.
Renegade whites fought for the
Ashantis against the British during
Sir Francis Scott's expedition in 1895,
and also when Sir Frederick and Lady
Hodgson were besieged in Kumassi in
1900.
On the latter occasion a white, who
was believed to be an Englishman, was
frequently seen trying to induce the
Ashantis to assault the entrenchments
of Kumassi. The British officers risked
their lives over and over again attempting
to slay him, but without success.
Renegade whites have often fought
against the British flag in the little
wars on the northwestern frontier in
India. An officer who was dismissed
in disgrace from the Indian army for
having told falsehoods in an official
report is known now to be living with
a Pathan tribe. He is believed to have
frequently fought against his former
comrades.
A former officer of the Russian army
named Leontieff is in the service of
the Negus of Abyssinia. Opinions are
divided as to whether he is simply a
renegade white, as he appears to be on
the surface, or a secret agent of the
czar.
During the Philippine campaigns
several American deserters fought in
the ranks of the Filipinos. Some were
killed in battle and two or three were
captured and hanged.?New York Sun.
She ?torj! Seller.
THEIR UST DAY
[Copyright, 1903, by T. C. McClure.]
"But I may write?"
Gordon watched the bright face anxiously.
She turned her shining eyes to him.
"You missed it. utter all," sue said
resentfully. "That last wave completely
covered the giant's shoe. It was
just like getting u great, cool drink
when one Is very thirsty to see It."
He gave a discouraged shrug.
"What wus it you asked ine? I could
.not help it?about the rock, you know.
We had waited so long to see the tide
reach It."
"Can I write to you?"
He turned to her eagerly, his late disappointment
forgotten, one hand closing
over hers. Miss Barrington withdrew
the perceptibly tanned member.
"You can,' she said suggestively.
"But may I?"
"I think not."
"Why?"
"Because?oh, because I should have
to answer."
"And would that be such a task?"
Nan Harrington's eyes twinkled between
narrowed lids.
">!? Cr.nlnn vnn ilnn't knnw what
?>ll VIVIUVili J VU UV1? % MMW ..
you nre trying to bring upon yourself."
she said gayiy.
"Let me be the judge of that."
"Oh, spare me any more expert opinions
on the matter. My family decided
that point long ago. I once wrote to
Jack while he was at Harvard. His
answer came to mother: 'Nan's latest
effusion to hand. I gather that some
one Is dead, but whether one of the
family. Jim's fox terrier, your pug or
her canury I'm blest If I know.' And
It was none of them!'' she added, Inwardly
convulsed at the recollection.
Gordon, watching the sparkling face,
could only laugh with her.
"I think you should feel distinctly
flattered." she said presently.
"Why?"
"Don't you see how I value your good
opinion ?"
He looked off over the sea with
oi'uo Vnn'a cnzp followed his
gJlSiruAj wj vm *?WM M 0
and her face sobered suddenly.
"I wonder where we shall be a week
from today at this time," she said
speculatively.
"The Houghtons have asked me to
Join their party in the White mountains."
he volunteered, "but?It doesn't
matter about me. Where shall you
be?"
She had given him one quick look.
A pleased smile lifted the corners of
her mouth as she leaned back against
their own particular rock.
"I?I scarcely know yet."
"You need not be afraid to tell me.
I shall not worry you," he said quietly.
Nan rose.
"Let us get down close to the water?
for the last time," she said slowly.
Gordon followed her in silence while
she climbed a riuge or roca wmcu rttu
out luto the ocean and ended In a
large table-like slab, worn smooth by
the storms of many winters.
ky and sea were a bewilderment of
opal tints, with one fleecy, rose colored
cloud near the horizon. The half a
dozen sails In sight were touched into
pale pink by the setting sun.
The girl's eyes swept it all. Then she
stretched out her arms to the beautiful
scene.
"Goodby," she whispered, and the
eyes which Gordon could not see grew
wet.
"Don't!"
His hand had closed over her arm
with an intensity which hurt. To him
these summer weeks had been as the
birth of all things.
She turned to him, but backed from
oha ooir in hla pvps Then a shud
derlng breath broke from her. Her
feet bad slipped on the smooth rock.
Wide, piteous eyes sought Gordon's as
she felt herself sliding down the glasslike
surface, where there was no bold,
toward the ten foot depth of water,
with its dreaded undertow.
The one glimpse he had of them
went through Gordon like a physical
hurt ere he threw himself, face downward,
on the rock with both arms
dung out. His hands touched her
shoulders and fastened on them like
a vise. There was a breathless moment
when It seemed as If her weight
must drag him over. Then, lightly
as she would have lifted a pebble, his
splendid arms drew her up beside
him.
"Were you terribly frightened?" His
voice vibrated with tenderness.
The girl shivered and swayed against
him. Gordon picked her up and carried
her to the cliff path above.
"I have not thanked you," she said
then, but her eyes did not meet his.
"I am sorry you thought it necessary."
He walked beside her to the door
of the pretty summer villa and stood
with uncovered head. His heart died
within him as he took the hand she
silently held out and watched her
white, troubled face. It was goodby
then, after all.
He bad reached the end of the path
when her voice came to him:
"Mr. Gordon!"
He turned.
"I think I do know, after all, where
I shall be a week from today."
Gordon came a step nearer.
"I have decided"?she paused deliberately
and the look which she sent
straight into Gordon's eyes went to
Ma head like wine?"within the last
half hour to accept the Houghtons'
Invitation to visit them next week in
the White mountains."
He took the steps at a bound, but she
had escaped him.
"Au re voir!" she called from half
way up the staircase.
And the tender face which looked
down held the promise of all that made
life worth while for Gordon.
M. LOUISE CUMMINGS.
tS" The oldest ship in the world, the
mail schooner Vigilant, running into
St. Croix, French West Indies, although
now under the French flag, was
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tir The little green apple is the small
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AO Af)in?&l Story Por
Little FolKs
The Adjutant Bird
Did you ever see an adjutant bird?
Well, it Is a peculiar looking bird that
has been given Its name on account of
Its military appearance.
I,shall tell you a story of the adjutant
bird. He felt so much like a soldier
that he began to think that all
the birds should become soldiers and
go to the bird store and release the
birds that were in captivity. Well, he
paid a visit to all of bis friends and
urged them to join in this scheme, but
none of them was in favor of it.
"It is of no use to try any such plan
as that." they said to him. "We will
BUCKLED ON HIB SWOBD AND STARTED
OFF.
all be caught or killed. We cannot do
any good by making any such attempt
as you propose."
He talked and talked to them, but
they would not believe that the idea
was a good one.
"Well, then, I know what I will do,"
he cried boldly. "I will go alone and
release all the birds that are kept in
cages in the bird store and at private
homes."
So he put on his uniform and buckled
on his sword and started off, feeling
that he was a very mighty fellow indeed.
Now there isn't very much more to
my story except this: As soon as the
bird store man saw him coming he got
out a big net and threw it over the
adjutant bird's head. Then he took
off the bird's sword and pretty uniform
and put him in a cage with his other
birds. And not long after that the adjutant
bird was sold to a lady, who
hung him up in her parlor to show her
friends what a fine creature he was.
Moral.?Don't try to do too much by
yourself.?Detroit Journal.
*</" The first prune tree was planted
In California in 1870 by a Frenchman,
who bought the tree to this country
from France. The first orchard?of ten
acres?began to yield In 1875.
An average stick of wood when
green contains 33 per cent of water
nntt lnspq 22 npr ppnt of It Jn spflsonlne.
during which process Its strength Is
nearly doubled.
itsT Probationer?Are the symptoms of
convalescence the same In both sexes?
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