tumorous Jlcpartmrnt.
Presumptuous Tourists.?Rear Admiral
Melville was praising the turbine
engines that he had been studying in
Europe. Westminister Abbey in some
way thrust Itself into the conversation,
and the noted sailor, ceasing his technical
discussion of turbines, said:
"Westminister Abbey is a grand old
place for everything except prayer.
They say that a devout American visited
it one day, and after he had looked
at all the tombs and inscriptions,
he knelt on the stone pavement and
bowed "his head.
"A verger, frowning, tiptoed up to
him. %
*" 'You can't pray here," he said.
"The American rose in confusion.
"'Can't pray in the abbey?' he exclaimed.
" 'No,' said the verger, 'If I was to
allow It once we should have 'em praying
all over the place.'
''Near Kidderminster," continued Admiral
Melville, "there is an ancient
and picturesque church, the show
church of the country. It is only a
show church, though, public services
are no longer held in it. Well, one
day, struck with the impressive beauty
of the place, a tourist said to the
sexton:
" 'I suppose there are some people
who use this church for private prayer?'
"The sexton answered fiercely:
" 'I ketched two of 'em at it once.'"
Thf Wajr. Spirit.?Admiral Schley,
who has completed and will soon publish
his memoirs, served in the Orient
some 30 years ago.
"The Japanese." said Admiral Schley,
the other day, "fight in a way we can't
understand. All these eastern races,
;*or that matter, Tight differently from
net
"I remember the case of an Afreedee
that a British officer once told me
about. He said that in a certain campaign
against the Afreedees a number
of the natives themselves took sides
with the whites, fighting their own
people.
"The Afreedee in question was one
of these turncoats. He stood one
morning behind a rock, hopping about
with great activity, and firing shot after
shot at a figure dim in the distance.
"'Can't you hit that man?" said the
officer, drawing near.
" 'No, sar,' answered the Afreedee.
'I see him, but he dam hard to hit.
He is, sar, hardest man to hit I know.'
" 'Oh,' said the officer, 'you know
him, do you?'
" 'Oh, yes, sar. I know dam rascal
well.'
" 'Who is he?' the other asked.
"The Afreedee fired another shot at
the distant figure. Then he replied:
" 'Old dam rascal?he my father.'"
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A Practical Joke.?J. Adam Bede,
the Minnesota congressman, was talk
ing the other day about his boyhood.
"The best friend of my boyhood,"
said Mr. Bede, "was a lad of the name
of Horace Brown. Horace was a joker.
"He and I were out walking one
day when we met a friend who stuttered.
."j'jFIello, Joe,' said Horace. 'Where
are you going?'
" 'To the st-store,' Joe replied.
" 'What after?'
" 'After t-t-tacks.'
"Horace said good-by to Joe, and
then he hurried me around to the
store by another way. He entered the
place, and he said to the clerk:
" 'H-have y-you any t-acks?'
" 'Yes,' said the clerk, politely.
" 'Then s-s-sit on them,' said Horace.
and hastened out.
"He and I then hid behind a barrel,
and in a little while Joe appeared. Joe
sauntered into the store, and the clerk
went over to him.
"'H-have y-you got any t-tacks?'
said Joe.
" 'Well, of all the impudence I ever
heard of,' the clerk exclaimed, and he
took poor, innocent Joe by the back
of the neck and ran him out into the
street."
Nursing Gal/ore.?Dr. Anita Newcomb
McGee, who has taken a party
of American Red Cross nurses to Japan,
wrote recently to one of her
friends in Philadelphia that the medical
department of the Japanese army
was admirable, and that there was no
lack, but rather an abundance of
good nurses.
"They tell here," she said, "of a
Japanese soldier with a flesh wound
who lay one afternoon reading Herbert
Spencer in a field hospital. A nurse
approached him.
" 'Poor fellow, what can I do for
you?' she said.
" 'Nothing, thank you,' said the soldier.
" 'Can't I make you a cooling drink?'
" 'Thanks; no. I am not thirsty.'
" 'But I want to do something for
you. May I not bathe your forehead?'
"The soldier sighed. He put down
his book.
" 'Very well, madam,' he said. 'Go
ahead. But you will be the eighth
nurse to have bathed my forehead
since luncheon.'"
A Curious Letter.?John S. Sargent,
the noted painter, said last summer
In Philadelphia that the late Dr.
Evans, the American dentist of Paris,
had once shown him all his curios.
"Among these curios," said Mr. Sargent,
"there was a letter that amused
me greatly. Dr. Evans had received
the letter in his youth in America. It
was from a young farmer of Vermont,
who wanted a set of false teeth made
and sent to him. He wrote for the
teeth in some such way as this:
" 'My inouth is 3 inches acrost, g
inches threw the jaw. Some hummocky
on the edge. Shaped like a
hoss shew, toe forard. If you want
me to be more particular I'll have
to come thar.'"
Quiet Indeed.?At a meeting of the
Philadelphia Browning Society Hopkinson
Smith, the novelist, made use
of a novel and striking figure.
Mr. Smith, in his address, was describing
an audience that was profoundly
silent and attentive.
"So quiet it was," he said, "that one
might have heard the stealing of a
pocket handkerchief."
iHiscrllanrous iiradmg.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is of More
or Less Local Interest.
CHESTER.
Lantern, May 31: Mr. Robert Love,
accompanied by his friend, Mr. Hemphill
of Georgia, spent Thursdav night
in the city enroute from Davidson to
his home in McConnellsville According
to a special to the State, one
negro was mortally wounded and another
badly hurt while at work at
Neal's Shoals Saturday. In a blast
that had been made one stick of dynamite
had failed to go off and it was
struck and exploded by the picks
Mrs. Margaret Hall, who lives a few
miles in the country, went to Yorkville
Saturday to visit her daughter... .Miss
Ocey Corkill of this city, and Miss
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Rock Hill yesterday morning to attend
commencement at Winthrop
Mr. William Carter died Saturday,
May 28th, at Lockhart, where he had
lived for about seven years. He had
been in bad health for a year, but his
last Illness lasted only from Monday
until Saturday. He was a native of
this county and was in his 68th year.
His father was Sylvanus Carter and
his grandfather was John Carter, a
Revolutionary soldier. He himself
was a veteran of the war of secession.
He was a member of the Sixth regiment
until he was wounded at Seven
Pines. Afterward he joined the cavalry.
Barber's company, Hampton's legion.
He leaves a wife, three sons
and f.ve daughters. Mr. W. F. Carter
of Chalkville, is the only member of
the family now in Chester county.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, June 1: At the meeting of
voters who are taxpayers of Lancaster
school district held in the court
house Friday afternoon, Ernest Moore,
Esq., was elected chairman and W. C.
Hough, Esq., secretary. The meeting,
as usual, was very harmonious. The
levy was made 4j mills, the same as
last year, and the old board of trustees,
viz: W. T. Gregory, W. J. Cunningham,
C. T. Connors. Leroy Springs
and T. S. Carter, was unanimously reelected.
It was also voted unanimously
that Messrs. Bird and Porter be reimbursed
the actual money loss sustained
in the construction of the new graded
school building, the amount of such
loss to be paid by the board of trustees
after full investigation by them as to
the actual money loss sustained. This
amount, it is thought, will approximate
Si.000. The meeting then ad
joumed Rev. J. A. Baker of the
Haile gold mine section, died last Sunday
morning after a protracted Illness
of typhoid fever. He was about
30 years of age and leaves a widow
and three children. He was a son-inlaw
of Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Dabneyof
this place, and they went down Sunday
to attend the burial, which took
place at 10 a. m., yesterday at Buffalo
Baptist church, of which Mr. Baker
was pastor, with Masonic honors
At a meeting of the trustees elect of
the Lancaster school district held Saturday
afternoon, Col. Springs was
elected chairman of the board and
Major C. T. Connors secretary and
treasurer. Prof. A. R. Banks was reelected
superintendent, and a meeting
was called for June 10th to elect a
principal and six assistants, and also
a principal and two assistants for the
branch school at the cotton mill
The union meeting of the Moriah Bap
tist association held here Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, was well attended
and the discussions were very interesting.
Especial interest was manifested
in the discussion of Sunday
school work as a theme for renewed
study on Friday, the entire day being
devoted to this one question. Other
questions elicting considerable discussion
were: Efforts for early conversion
of children, and pastorates mope
conveniently arranged. A full delegation
from the various churches of the
association was in attendance and the
union was delighted by the presence
of Rev. J. W. Little of Wingate, N. C.,
and Rev. Dr. Hatcher of Atlanta, one
of the field secretaries of the American
Baptist Publication society. On
Sunday morning Rev. Dr. Hatcher
preached in the Baptist church: Rev.
Mr. Bozeman preached at night. At
the Methodist church Rev. Mr. Bozeman
preached in the morning and Rev.
Mr. Blackwell at night. Rev. R. J.
Blackmon filled the pulpit at the Second
Methodist church in the morning
and Rev. J. W. Little at night. The
next union meeting will be held with
Camp Creek church on the fifth Sunday
in July. Before adjournment, resolutions
of thanks for the hospitable
entertainment given the delegates by
the good people of Lancaster were
unanimously adopted.
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, May 31: "Is dis
de 'spensary?" asked a negro the other
day as he stood hesitatingly on the
corner and peered thirstily into the
door of the Gastonia Savings Bank.
The question tfas addressed to Rev.
* ** a ranliarl "Mrt*
iu. iu. uaitiiiviu, nuu *wf
you've struck the wrong town and the
wrong. man to get information about
whisky." "Well I didn't know, boss;
ail good towns ought to have 'em and
I thought dis town had one, too."
Jim Jones, a negro who works
at the Arlington mill, took on too
much booze Saturday night as a result
of which he was struck by southbound
passenger train No. 35 near the Southern's
water tank. He received a severe
scalp wound but was not otherwise
injured to any great extent. He
was taken to Torrenee's drug store
where Dr. Sloan, the railroad surgeon,
dressed his wounds. It is supposed
that the negro was either lying on the
track or endeavoring to cross and in
his drunken condition was unable to
get out of the way of the train
Mr. J. F. Pursley was in town yesterday
to see about some iron fencing
for enclosing the cemetery at Crowder's
Creek church. The ladies are
going to give the church house also a
general overhauling and cleaning up.
Begonia neighborhood has a
most excellent interdenominational
prayer meeting which is conducted
every Wednesday and Sunday evening
at one of the churches or at a private
home. Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians
largely compose the mem
bership. Mr. James Ford organized
the movement last November and It
has grown steadily till now the place
of meeting is always crowded. To
the efforts of Mr. Ford are largely due
the successful results attained. Formerly
a soldier in the United States
army and at one time a very worldly
man, Mr. Ford has by his deep piety
and great earnestness, won the love
and confidence of the entire neighborhood
The King's Mountain Cotton
Seed Oil company, of King's Mountain,
was granted a charter by the secretary
of state Thursday. The authorized
capital stock is $12,000, all of
which is paid in. G. F. Hambright, J.
S. Mauney, w. a. Mauney, ?i. w.
Hord, J. C. Bumgardner, G. W. Kendrick,
C. A. Watterson, J. B. Falls,
and J. A. Ware of King's Mountain;
J. B. Hambrlght of Grover; W. M.
Falkner of King's Creek; J. L. McGill
of Yorkvllle; and L. A. McGlll of
Clover, are the Incorporators The
C. & N.-W. is widening the gauge on
the C. & N. beyond Lenoir to Collettsvllle
and is grading the extension to
Cary's Flat thirty-five miles from Lenoir.
Two hundred hands are on the
work Gastonia Lodge No. 188 I.
O. O. F. at its regular meeting Thursday
night elected the following officers
for the ensuing six months: Noble
Grand W. L. Thompson; vice grand.
Moses Roman; recording secretary,
R. E. McFadden; financial secretary,
H. A. Johnston; treasurer, C. M. Nolen.
The meeting was well attended, there
being about sixty members present.
Among the visitors were Mr. M. H. D.
Cobb of Pelzer, S. C., and Mr. J. L.
Grice, both of whom made short talks
to the lodge. This Installation of new
officers will take place on Thursday
night, July 7th, at which time the appointive
offices will be filled. The
local lodge of this order is in a prosperous
condition, the membership now
numbering about 115.
TOO MUCH MEAT IS EATEN.
Hi? III? nf Mankind Are Due
to Use of Flesh Food.
The food question is one that has
appealed to mankind from the time
good mother Eve tried her dangerous
experiment with the forbidden apple.
Hers was the first assertion of appetite
which craved for that variety in
diet which her numerous and equally
venturesome descendants have strenuously
maintained is the real spice
of life. Ever since the primitive ate
what he could get until the present,
when his civilized brother gets all he
can eat and looks for new viands to
conquer, the cultivated instinct of selection
has been an evolutionary and
progressive one, contributing to the
"general gayety of nations." We have
perhaps gone to the extreme of indulgence,
like spoiled children, but the
habit is a little too firmly seated in the
saddle to be bucked unceremoniously
in mid air by some new and fanciful
theory of jerking the curb rein.
The scientists tell us we consume too
much food, and they are right so far
as they go, but we listen and smile and
eat on in spite of their chemical formulae,
their test tube methods and
their quantitative analyses of relative
food values. So, perhaps, it will always
be as long as man, the wilful
arbiter of his own destinies, insists
upon living to eat rather than eating
to live.
The real trouble, however, with all
projected reforms in feeding has been
their lack of practical application to
actual needs. There is apparently no
fnr tha rilQPllSSlnn Of
general principles of compromise between
the actual gourmand and the
earnest abstemious crank. Theories
are arbitrary on one side and facts are
equally stubborn on the other.
When the army squad had been fed
for weeks on the accurately estimated
food equivalent of certain approved
viands the victims craved an ordinary
indulgence in plain old fashioned corn
beef and cabbage. The limit had been
reached and simple nature made her
own cry in her own way. It was appetite
against chemical experiment and
healthy hunger against mathematical
estimates of abstract nutrient forces.
These manifestations of natural
craving are, after all. our real safeguards
against the purely scientific
methods such as have been applied to
the "poison boarders" and the "army
squad." We may interpret natural
laws, but science, with all its learning
and skill, cannot alter them.
In the face of such a conviction we
are now assured by high standing authority
that meat is virtually useless
for any of the nutrient purposes so
long claimed for it.
Aside from the pure theory of the
matter, we may in the end be forced
to believe that man was never made
for a mixed diet: that his stomach and
complicated intestinal apparatus are
merely an accidental survival of useless
organs, of which the insignificant
and troublesome appendix is the type.
Experience, however, against which
there is never much of an argument,
must prove its value against the mere
logic or arbitrary rules. The hungry
man with a juicy steak before him will
continue his hurtful habit of loading
his stomach with unnecessary fodder
in spite of all theories to the contrary.
His Instinctive need for just such
nourishment as he takes will answer
all other questions. He will not care
how much more he can lift, how much
faster he can run or how much more
fatigue he can endure, but will sim
ply satisfy his want for the time.
And, in spite of crank notions to the
contrary, is not this the proper and
rational way of solving the law of
demand and supply upon which our
very being is based? The craving for
certain varieties of food is as constant
as its gratification is imperative.
Each tissue makes its own demands
in its own way and signals appetite to
select and nutrition to apportion the
multiple supplies for bone, muscle and
blood.
Nutrition, energy and heat are mere
abstract terms in themselves, and their
proper interpretation can never be
safely intrusted to laboratory tests or
chemical formulae. Therefore let us
not be in too great a hurry to adopt
new views that are neither sound, rational
nor practical. In spite of the
manifesto we are led to believe that
the average man will still take to his
beef whenever he needs it and can get
It?and, pray, why not??New York
Herald.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
Casting Cold Metals?A Disease of
Poop Living?Rivers as Fences?
Radium In Meteorology?Perpetual
Motion at Last?Annual Rings of
Fishes?Food-Colored 8ilk?Linen
Photographs?Eddies?Turtle PathFinding.
In his studies of the effect of compression
on finely-divided metals, Prof.
Hof. of Witten, Westphalia, has taken
turnings of steel, copper, and bronze,
and placed half a pound of each in
turn in a steel cylinder of two inches
bore, gradually increasing the pressure
to 50 tons. With a pressure of ten
tons the structure of the turnings
could still be seen. The final pressure
of 50 tons, however, gave a perfectly
homogeneous block, and this could be
moulded so nicely as to be ready for
nickeling without further finishing.
Not least Important of the results is
the suggestion that turnings may be
compressed into many objects more
dense and satisfactory than ordinary
castings.
Leprosy has been Investigated by
Jonathan Hutchinson, the great English
pathologist, in all parts of the
globe where it prevails. He finds
nothing to justify the idea of contagion,
as attendants in leper hospitals
do not contract the disease, nothing
like an epidemic is ever known, and
even transmission from husband to
wife Is rare. He attributes the disease
to decayed or badly cured fish?not
to any excessive use of fish in good
condition.
Rivers seem to have played a considerable
part in limiting the distribution
of animals. A notable instance
of many noted by W. L. Distant, a
British zoologist, is that of the vlscacha,
a rabbit-like rodent of South
America which is abundant south of
the Uruguay, but is unknown to the
north, where the country seems quite
as well adapted to its habits.
Radium promises to fill a need of
the Paris municipal laboratory. Measurement
of the electricity of the air
has depended upon water, which gives
trouble by freezing in winter, but radium
offers a means of measurement
unaffected by cold.
The radium clock of Harrison Martindale,
English physicist, practically
gives perpetual motion through the
dissipation of negatively charged rays.
A small quantity of radium supported
in an exhausted glass vessel by a
quartz rod is placed in a small tube,
to the lower end of which is attached
an electroscope of two long strips of
silver. The activity of the radium
causes an electric current minus beta
rays to be transmitted to the silver
strips, which expand until they touch
the sides of the vessel, when earthed
conducting wires instantly discharge
them and they fall together. This is
repeated every two minutes, marking
time in beats of that duration, and
theoretically the action will continue
until exhaustion of the radium?in this
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A new theory Is that the age of fishes
of the cod family can be determined
from the periodic growths of scales.
Such growths are known to be annual
In the carp, and It is therefore probable
that the same is true for salt-water
fishes. The view is confirmed by observations
on various cods by Mr. J.
S. Thomson, a British biologist. Annual
rings seem to be traceable, giving the
ages, and it is proposed to test the
truth of the theory by returning labelled
fishes to the sea for future observation
after first recording the present
condition of their scales.
Experiments in coloring silk by feeding
dyes to the silkworms date back
sixty years or more. In the first trials
greenish-blue and rose-tinted cocoons
resulted from feeding indigo and madder,
and many other coloring matters
have been tried since?mostly with
unsatisfactory results. Late attempts
by C. de Labonnefon and others prove
that this method of coloring silk is
quite possible, perhaps even commercially
practicable, though not with all
colors or with all kinds of worms.
The Ambidextral Culture society of
England seeks to increase the ability
to use the left hand, but without aiming
to add to production in the arts
by the simultaneous use of both hands.
Considerable artistic advantages are
claimed for photolinol, the new photographic
material. This is linen which
has been saturated with sensitizing
solution, and on development It yields
a photographic image that shows on
both sides. The picture appears as if
woven into the material, the double
image giving a stereoscopic effect of
relief. By reflected light the more
clearly defined portion on the face of
the fabric forms the picture, but by
transmitted light the fainter image on
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that on the face. When colored, the
effect Is that of a solid oil painting by
reflected light and of a colored transparency
by transmitted light.
The great eddies, or cyclones, of the
atmosphere rotate with the hands of
a clock in the Southern Hemisphere
and in the opposite direction in the
Northern Hemisphere. Investigating
many small rapids of Central Europe,
Jean Brunhes has found a similar
tendency in the water eddies. Piles
and other obstructions usually form
eddies in pairs, that to the left turning
with the hands of the clock and that
to the right in the opposite way, but
natural and normal eddies seem to follow
the rule of revolving counterclockwise.
It is assumed that south
of the equator the turning is clockwise.
The mental ability of the turtle has
been put to test by Prof. R. M. Gerkes,
a German zoologist. A box was di
vided into four compartments by partitions
with openings that caused the
animal to describe a W in journeying
from one side of the box to its bed on
the opposite side. After three trials?
the first lasting 35 minutes?the turtle
found the nest by the most direct
course in about three minutes.
Sensory cells on different parts of
the snail's body are found by M.Yung,
of Paris, to perceive odors. These
cells are quite apart from the special
organs supposed to be the only sense
organs.
StiV Though the Dutch have been in
in the island of Sumatra, in the East
Indies, over 300 years they have not
yet subdued the natives of that small
patch of territory.
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Whoso cravenly flies mere discomfort
oftentimes runs Into danger. Johu
Hardy proved the fact when In an effort
to escape the bustle of preparations
for his aunt, MrB. Graham's big
party, he took a tempting wood path
and came all unawares upon two very
pretty girls. One stood, the moral and
pattern of impatience; the other, half
bent, was eagerly searching through
the grass and tangle of the patbside,
now parting its greenery with two slim
white bands, now letting the hands fall
at her side, while she stooped lower,
peering at some small, bare space.
'"I can't come, Betty!" he heard the
searcher say plaintively. "You know
the bracelet'^ my mascot Aunt Helen
said so when she gave it to me."
"A mighty poor mascot" Betty retorted.
"I'd throw it away rather than
wear it?rubbish thing. It's ten years
since you got it and we are Just the
same?poor as church mice, yet bound
to live up to the Morris name. Besides,
nothing but bad luck could bang about
that little old ugly cameo."
Hardy drew back embarrassed. Evidently
he was hearing things not
meant for stranger ears. He was on
the point of running away wnen a cry
of triumph, turning quickly to terror,
arrested him. Instantly he darted forward,
to see the mascot's owner upright
and rigid staring at a twig where
her bracelet bung just above the head
of a coiled and hissing snake.
"How ever shall I get It?" the girl
demanded, laying her band appeallngly
on bis arm, while Betty looked on
aghast. Hardy smiled down at her,
made a stroke or two with his stout
cane, flung away the writhing reptile,
then picked the bracelet out of Its
green ambush and held It toward Its
owner, saying easily: "There, Miss
Morris. Now I claim a reward. You
are to give me the first three waltzeE
tonight."
"Why? How do you know?" Millcent
Morris began, amazed.
Hardy looked at her with twinkling
eyes. "You forget there is a speaking
likeness of you over BUI Graham's
mantel at Yale," he said. "That reminds
me?Billy's my cousin?I'm John
Hardy, at your service?and Just now
seeking asylum from my natural 01
unnatural protectors."
"Then come home with us. Ask him,
Betty. Betty's head of the house,"
Milly returned promptly. Hardy looked
entreaty at Betty, who answered
It hospitably enough. Thus five minutes
later he' found himself walking
between the two Into an adorable old
cnrden and on to a big, white, silent
bouse, the very picture of restfulness.
"Yes. it is nice. 1 love it all?every
stick and stone and blade of grass,"
Mllly said when he exclaimed over th(
charm of everything. "Thafs the
trouble," she went on. "I want tc
live here always, and Billy says whet
we are married and settled down 11
will have to be over there. He oughl
to have Betty, not me. She llkee
things new and gorgeous and well
kept. If I had my fortune I wouldn't
change much here?only put sound
posts to the gates and plant orchards
and?yes, and have a brand new rose
garden that shouldn't put our old flow
ers out of countenance."
"Don't talk so, Mllly. Mr. Hardy
will think you're out of your head. Slit
does get a little that way when yoi
start ber on her fortune." Betty said
half severely, half apologetically, tht
last words of course to Hardy. E\>r t
minute he did not answer. He wa<
staring intently at the cameo in tht
recovered bracelet "Let me look al
that, please," be said, holding out hit
band for it "The carving Is peculiar
still I seem to have seen it before."
"No, you haven't," Milly said con
fidently, but handing over the bauble
"There is just one more like It anc
Aunt Helen had that Her ship wem
down with all on board. That's why 1
haven't got my fortune. It's some
where, all In gold and Jewels, but Juri
where nobody knows or can find out
I'm named for her daughter that died
The bracelets were carved for pool
Cousin Mllly. She made the desigi
herself. See, It's a star and a nev
moon, with a flower dropping down
To think of having everything yot
want and dying at twenty!"
"It is rather tragic," Hardy admit
ted. Then for five minutes he studlec
the cameo closely and at last gave li
back, with a face pale and preoocupled
D.!|n|n? /.nltantlu lio haltrod hrlirhtlT
ClUilayiU& ^auauu;, uw ?0 m
through half an hour. But once agaii
In the woodpath be sat down for f
sturdy wrestle with his own soul. H<
lived over again the day when the set
had cast up treasure at his feet H<
was alone?It was seven years back
after a phenomenal storm. He bac
stood at the very edge of the hungrj
breakers watching them rave and roai
when It swept tumbling in?the brasi
bound oaken chest, full of gold anc
hank notes and precious stones, unset
many uncut. There had been no name
no mark, anywhere. Only at the vers
bottom of all, wrapped in silk, a brace
Jet. a slender hoop of gold set with i
fanciful cameo. He had half smilec
over the pattern of it, even though h<
knew some heart tragedy lay back ol
it. He bad not told of his find?searcl
for owners of 3uch treasure trove seem
ed so hopeless. He had meant to asl
his uncle's advice and be governed bj
it. Then that veiy night came the dis
patch?the good uncle was dead anc
Hardy his sole heir. Altogether rat<
seemed bent on forcing him to ke?i
what he had found. He had kept it
accounting for bis change of estate Dy
a true story of Inheritance greater than
he bad had the right to esqpect
j Now he knew where the bulk of hla
fortune belonged. Often in mind he
had contemplated the contingency and
always had told himself there would
be nothing for it but cheerful surrender.
In actuaJlty it would be far
from cbeerifuL He^ad no vulgar greed
nor "worship of money, still It ^wOfi.ld'be
bard to get back Into the old ways of
spare living. Besides, If Mllly married
Billy Graham the fortune would
' be only an embarrassment. Billy was
safe to come Into a million. Why spoil
his pretty romance by making the girl
of his heart an heiress? Betty, blond
and stately and beautiful, would also
: doubtless find in her face her fortune.
Might not he himself? Hardy broke
off there, conscious of a sudden rising
In the region of the heart. Mllly! If
: only Mllly were free. But he could not
j think of supplanting Billy, even supposing
it lay in bis power. Sbonld
' be speak out, with the chance of maki
lng himself and those other two un.
happy ever after, or hold his peace
and enjoy the riches fickle Fate bad
provided? After all he did not really
know. The stonecutter might easily
have carved a hundred of the cameos.
Then, too, was It certain sweet Mllly
was the heir? There might be others
with a stronger claim of blood. If she
were in poverty, in privation even, he
conld not hesitate. But that could not
be poverty which had all the ease and
" delight of gentlewomanly existence, to
say nothing of Billy Graham and bis
prospects. Almost he persuaded him1
self to hurry back to the city, take out
the accusing graved stone and pound
1 it to powder. Suddenly, somewhere
high above bis head, a robin sang clear
and gay. The sound brought back to
him a country church?himself a rest
1 less little boy sitting at his mother's
' side and suddenly growing calm as toI
gether they got to their feet and repeated
in unison with the rest the
: Lord's Prayer.
"Lead us not into temptation, but de
liver us from evil." It rang in his eart
: like the voice of a friend. He had
' flung himself face down upon the mossj
turf. Instantly he was up and racing
back toward the Morris house fast at
his feet could go. There he burst ii
upon Milly and Betty, wild eyed and
1 white faced, but Joyous Indeed, and told
them everything, making no reservt
even over his temptation and bow h<
had been saved from it, and wonnd uj
with: "Now my soul is at peace. I car
i dance and be happy. Let things stanc
until tomorrow, please! It would b<
: cruel, almost inhuman, to spring a sen
sation such us this and eclipse Aum
1 Harriet's party."
1 "We would never, never do that'
1 Milly said joyousiy. "She hates m<
I enough ns it is because Billy likes me
1 She thinks, as I do. ne is quite wusiw
on me. Indeed she said to bltn wbei
' he told her we were engaged: 'Oh, yoi
idiot! Why didn't you take Betty?"'
' Billy asked himself that question be
fore the party was over. He got bona
1 an hour before the guests assembled
Betty was easily fur and away the stai
1 of them. Ail in fllmy white, witl
strands of dull red coral at her throa
' and twined in her golden hair, she wai
so ravishing It is small wonder Biily'i
? callow heart wavered. In the thin
** " * ? i- Kin hnoH on
WflltZ ue CapiLUlUltru, luai u?o ucuu. V.?
tlrely and was only saved from mak
I Ing himself a pretty spectacle by Bet
ty's superior poise. Betty was shrewd
' ly observant She had read Hardy'i
1 face like an open book while b<
: waltzed with Milly. So she managed 1
that the four of them should meet In t
' shrubby nook outside the dancing tent
' There things straightened themselves
> with hardly a word spoken. But nex
' day. with the great news of Mllly's for
> tune, the world heard that she had los
i a lover and gained a brother In Blllj
t Graham.
: ???
| A Brsottkd Brain.?Mrs. John J
. Logan, who has succeeded Miss Clar
| Barton in the Presidency of (he Red Cros
( was educated in Kentucky. In condemn
ing intemperance Mrs. Logan said recent
. !y;
"Alcohol vitiates the mind so that thede
r gradation it imposes on its victims hardl;
i seems like degradation to tbem. Th
! woes of these men are changed to bless
ings in their besotted brains.
J "For instance," said Mrs. Logan smil
L ing, "There used to live in Kentucky a
I old man called Fawcett Jones. Fawcet
, drank to excess, and be usod to declar
[ that whiskey was meat and drink to him
( But one hot summer night be drank s
. much that he fell into a puddle on tb
way home, and in this puddle he lay snor
. ing until dawn.
"A clergyman who had risen earl;
found him with his head in the mud am
his legs and body in the water and th
good man woke him up.
" 'Ah,' he said, 'so whiskey is meat an<
drink to you is it, Fawcett?'
"Fawcett rose to his feet and began t<
wring out bis clothes.
"It certainly is," he said, "and washinj
and lodging too, sir."
A Clever Divine.?"To the town o
Norridgewock, in Maine," said Rev
Mi not J. Savage, of New York, ";
strange minister once came to preach
He preached duly, and after the sermoi
was over he mingled with the congrega
tion, expecting that some one would in
vite him to dinner.
"One by one, however the congregatioi
departed offering the hungry minister n
hospitality, and be began to feel anxiou.'
Where was he to eat?
"As the last deacon was leaving th
church the minister rushed up to him an*
shook him warmly by the hand.
" 'I want you to come home and din
with iqe,' the minister said.
" 'Whv. where do you live?' said th
' deacon."
" 'About 30 miles from here.'
? "The deacon reddened. 'Oh, youcoim
r ajid dine with ine instead,' he said."
i '
1 Ancient Millionaires.?A writer ii
; a Jewish Magazine has been looking int
f the Agadie history of the Talmud, am
j believes that there were richer men be
. fore the Christian era than there are now
j We know that Croesus was rich, am
f that there were huge Roman fortune
. in the times of the Empire. The Tal
I mud stories go back further still
I The great corner in corn that Jo
) sepli managed was fabulously prontaoie
Tradition says that Joseph acting fo
Pharaoh, got his hands on pretty muci
I all the ready money there was in his day
and buried three enormous treasures, oik
i of which was found by Korah, whose for
i tune estimated according to the moden
standards of value, rated by the magazim
at three billion dollars. Solomon's stable
with its horses, chariots and horsemen, i
> said to have represented a sum the mod
1 eru equivalent of which would be threi
or four hundred millions, and he spent
two hundred and fifty millions on his
temple. Herod's temple cost more still.
In Jerusalem in Roman times there were
three Jews who between them felt able to
face an expenditure of a hundred millions
a year for twenty-one years. They offered
to feed the million inhabitants of Jerusib-m
for that length of time rather
than surrender the city. One of these
Jews, Nikodemon, gave his daughter a
dowry of 8425,000,000. There were other
Jews of whose enormous wealth the \
Agadic hi-tory makes record.?Harper's
Weekly.
Law Clerk of Treasury a Woman.
?The most remarkable post held by any
woman under the Ui.iied States Government
is occupied by Mis* Clara Graecen,
who is the'law clerk of the Treasury at
Washington. A mere girl, slight of figure,
with fluffy blonde hiir, one wbuld
never imagine that she could bean expert
writer of legal opinions for one of the executive
departments. Yet such is her business,
and she obtained her place purely
through merit and superior ability. It
pays $2,000 a year and is the only posh ion
of the kind under the Government that
was ever hel I by a woman.
Miss Graecen went to Washington from
Kaskaskia Mich., eigiit years ago.
Though still in her teens she was a pro,
ficient stenographer, and by pissing highest
in a competitive examination secured
employment in the Treasury Department.
( Bef>rel ?ng in the Tieasury she earn.pd
fnr h?r.ulf Mia rcniitniiiin n! the most ran
id shorthand writer in the department.
( Her eveningsshe spent in studying law,
and after a while some of the case-? that
_ came into the Comptroller's office were
i referred to her for action. Two yeagi ago
^ she was appointed to her present import,
ant place by Secretary of the Treasury
j Gage.?Philadelphia Press.
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