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Still he was dissatis ed, even unhappy. The cause of his uneasiness and de ression was revealed only by the ann(Nn which it was removed. He vas lying stretched out on the couch, taring from the window, his head ach ng, his heart full of a longing that nows .t one solace. Anguish had one out in the grounds afte.- assuring imself that his charge was asleep. so here was no one in the room when he wakened from a sickening dream to lhudder tlone over its memory. IIe urned on his side and curiously felt :he bandages about his head. Iow onely those bandages made him feel, way off there in Graustark: The door to his room opened softly, ut he did not turn, thinking it was Anguish-always Anguish-and not the ne he most desired to "IHer royal highness," announced a naid, and then: "'May I come in?" asked a voice that ent to his troubled soul like a cool 1g draft to the fevered throat. Ile :urned toward her instantly, all the ir ittion. all the uneasiness. all the oneliness, vanishing like mist before -he sun. Behind her was a lady in vaiting. -I "I cannot deny the request of a prin ess," he responded. smiling gayly. He ield forth his hand toward her, half I 'earing she would not take it. The Princess Yetive came straight to is couch and laid her hand in his. He Irew it to his lips and then released it ingeringly. She stood before him, >oking down with an anxiety in her es that would have repaid him had eath been there to claim his next )reath. "Are you better?" she asked, with ier pretty accent "I have been so 4oubled about you." I thought you- had forgotten me," he aid. with childish petulance. "Forgotten you:" she cried, quick to resent the imputation. "Iet me tell rou. then, what I have been doing vhile forgetting. I have sent to the egengetz for your luggage and your riend's. You will find it much more ~omfortable here. You are to make bis house your home as long as you ire in Edelweiss. That is how I have been forgetting." - "Forgive me!" he cried, his eyes ~leaming. "I have been so lonely that imagined all sorts of things. But, our highness, you must not expect us : remain here after I am able to leave. rhat would be imposing" "I will not allow you to say it!" she bjected decisively. "You are the guest f honor in Graustark. Have you not ~reserved its ruler? Was it an impo ~ition to risk your life to save one in hom you had but passing interest, even though she were a poor princess? No, my American, this castle is yours n all rejoicing, for had you not come ithin its doors today would have round it in mournful terror. Besides, .r. Anguish has said he will stay a rear if we insist." "That's like Harry," laughed Lorry. 'But I am afraid you are glorifying vo rattle brained chaps who should e in a home for imbeciles instead of .n the castle their audacity might have lighted. Our rashness was only sur assed by our phenomenal good luck. y chance it turned out well. There rere ten thousand chances of ignomin ous failure. IHad we failed would we are geen guests of honor? No: We vould have been stoned from Grau stark. You don't know how thin the: hread was that held your fate. It akes me shudder to think of the crime ur act might have been. Ah, had I Lut known you were the princess, no hances should have been taken," he said fervently. :'And a romance spoiled," she laugh "So you are a princess-a real prin ess," he went on, as if he had not beard her. "I knew it. Something! told me you were not an ordinary wo man" "Oh, but I am a very ordinary wo man," she remonstrated. "You do not; now how easy it is to be a princess nd a mere woman at the same time. Ihave a heart, a head; I breathe and eat and drink and sleep and love. Is it not that way with other women ?" "You breathe and eat and drink and sleep and love in a different world, hough, your highness." "Ach, my little maid, Therese, sleeps as soundly, eats as heartily and loves as warmly as I. so a fig for your judg "You may breathe the same air, but would you love the same man that your maid might love?" "Is a man the only excuse for love?" she asked. "If so, then I must say that Ibreathe and eat and drink and sleep and that is all." "Pardon me. but some day you will find that love is a man. and"-here he aaughed-"you will neither breathe nor eat nor sleep exe-pt with him in your heart. ~Even a princess is not proof aginst a man." "Is a man p~roof against a princess?" she asked as she leaned against the casement. "It depends on the-'-he paused-"the princess. I should say." "Alas! There is one more fresh re sponsibility acquired. It seems to me that everything depends on the prin cess." she said merrily. ~Not entirely," he said quickly. "'A great deal-a very great deal-depends on circumstances. For instance, when you were M1iss Guggenslocker it wuudnt have been necessary for the an to be a prince, you kne-w." "ut I was 31iss Guggenslocker be cause a man was unnecessary," she said, so gravely that he smiled. "I was Y4 ~4. Ay...-+ R McCUTCHEON woInanly than to be a 'freak, as should have been bad every man, wom an and child looked upon me as a prin eess. I did not travel through your land for the purpose of exhibiting my self. but to learn and unlearn." "I remember it cost you a certain colin to lenti one thing." he observed. "It Was money Iwell spent, as subse quent ev'ents have proved. I shall ver re;:ret the spending of that half gavvo. Was it not the means of bring ing you to Edelweiss" "Well, it was largely responsible, but [ nm inclined to believe that a certain :lesre on my part would have found a Way without the assistance of the coin. You don't know how persistent an American can be." "Would you have persisted had you nown I was a princess?' she asked. "Well, I can hardly teil about that, but you must remember I didn't know who or what you were." "Would you have conic to Graustark had you known I was its princess?" "I'll admit I came because you were iss Guggenslocker." "A mere woman." "I will not consent to the word 'mere.' What would you think of a man who came half way across the arth for the sake of a mere woman?" "I should say lie had a great deal of curiosity." she responded coolly. "And not much sense. There is but one woman a man would do so much for. and she could not be a mere wom an in his eyes." Lorry's face was white and his eyes gleamed as he hurled this bold conclusion at her. "Especially when he learns that she is a princesse" said she, her voire so cold and repellent that his eyes closed involuntarily, as if an unexpected hor ror had come before them. "You must not tell me that you came to see me." "But I did conic to see you, and not her royal highness the Princess Yetive of Graustark. I1ow was I to know?" ha cried impulsively. "But you art no longer ignorant," she said, looking from the window. "I thought you said you were a mere woman!" "I am, and that is the trouble!" she said, slowly turning her eyes back to him. Then she abruptly sank to the window seat near his head. "That is the trouble, I say. A woman is a wo man although she be a princess. Don't you understand why you must not say such things to me?" "Because you are a princess," he said bitterly. "No; because I am a woman. As a woman I want to hear them; as aprin ess I cannot. Now,. have I made you understand? HaveI been bold enough?" Her face was burning. "You-you don't mean that you"- he haf whispered, drawing himself to ward her, his face glowing. "Ach! What have I said?" "You have said enough to drive me mad with desire for more," he cried, seizing her hand, which she withdrew instantly, rising to her feet. "I have only said that I wanted to hear you say you had come to see me. Is not that something for a woman's vanity to value? I am sorry you have presumed to misunderstand me." -She was cold again, but he was not to be baffled. "Then be a woman and forget that you are a princess until I tell you why I came," he cried. "I cannot - I mean I wili not listen to you," she said, glancing about help lessly, yet standing still within the danger circle. I came because I have thought of you and dreamed of you since the day you sailed from New York. Can I ever forget that day!" "Please do not recall"-- she began, blushing and turning to the window. "The kiss you threw to me?. WVere you a princess then?" She did not an swer, and he paused for a moment, a thought striking him which at first he did not dare to'oice. Then he blurted it out: "If you do not want to hear me say these things, why do you stand there" "Oh!" she faltered. "Don't leave me now. I want to say what I came over here to say, and then you can go back to your throne and your royal reserve, and I can go back to the land from which you drew me. I came because I love you. Is not that enough to drag a man to the end of the world? I came to marry you if I could, for you were MIiss Guggenslocker to me. Then you were wvithin my reach, but not now! I can only lorc a prin cess" IHe stopped because she had, dropped to the couch beside him, her serious face turned appealingly to his,1 her fingers clasping his hands fiercely. "I forbid you -to continue-I forbid you! Do you hear? I, too, have thought and dreamed of you, and I have prayed that you miglit come. But you must not tell me that you love me -you shall not:" I only3 want to kuow that you love me," he whispered. "Do you think I can tell you the truth?' she cried. "I do not love you." Uefore he had fairly grasped the imn portance of the contradictory sentences she left his side and stood in the win dow, her breast heaving and her face laming. "Then I am to believe you do," he groaned after a moment. "1 find a princess and lose a woman!" I did not intend that you should have said what you have, or that I should have tok'. you what I have. I kne"' you loved me or you would not have come to me," she said softly. "Yu would have been s;elfishi enough to enjoy that knowledge without giv ing ioy in return. I see. WVhat else could you have done? A princess: Oh, I would to God you were 311ss Guggen sloker, the woman I sou;;ht!"~ "Amen to that:" she said. "Can 1 trust you never to renew this subject? We have ech learned what had better been left unknown. You understand my position. Surely you will be good enough to look upon me c ver afterward as a princess and forget that I have been a woman unwvittingly. I ask you, for you~r sake and may own, to re frain from a r.-newai of this unhappy ubjet. You can see how hopeless it s for both of us. I have said much to you that I trust you will cherish as omng from a woman who could not have ihelped herself and who has given to you the power to undo her with a single word. I know you will always be the brave, true man my heart has told me you are. You will let the be glniner he the end" " '7i7i; ipieaiclais so earnest, so noble, that honor swelled in his heart and came from his lips in this promise: "You may trust me, your highness. Your secret is worth a thousandfold more than mine. It is sacred with me. The joy of my life has ended, but the happiness of knowing the truth will nzever die. I shall remember that you love me-yes. I know you do-and I shall never forget to love you. I will not promise that I shall never speak of it agnl to you. As I lie here there conws to me a courage I did not know I could feel." "No. no.' she cried vehemently. "Forgive me: You can at least let me say that as long as I live I may "I forbid you to continue." cherish and encourage the little hope that all is not dead. Your highness, let me say that my family never knows when it is defeated, either in love or in war.* "The walls which surround the .eart of a princess are black and grim, im penetrable when she -defends it, my boasting American," she said, smiling sadly. "Yet some prince of the realm will batter down the wall and win at a single blow that which a mere man could not conquer in ten lifetimes. Such is the world." "The prince may batter down and seize, but he can never conquer. But enough of this! I am the Princess of Graustark. you are my friend, Grenfall Lorry. and there is only a dear friend ship between us," she cried, resuming her merry humor so easily that he started with surprise and not a little displeasure. "And a th.one," he added, smiling. however. "And a promise," she reminded him. "From which I trust I may some day be released," said he, sinking back, af flicted with a discouragement and a de termination of equal power. He could see hope and hopelessness ahead. "By death!" "No; by life! It may be sooner than you think!" "You are forgetting your promise al ready." "Your highness' pardon," he begged. They laughed, but their hearts were sad, this luckless American and hap less sovereign who would if she could be a woman. "It is now 3 o'clock-the hour when you were to have called to see me," she said, again sitting unconcernedly before him in the window seat. She was not afraid -of him. She -was a princess. "I misunderstood you, your highness. remembered the engagement, but it seems I was mistaken as to the time. I came at 3 in the morning." "And found me at homer' "In an impregnable castle, with~ ogres all about" CHAPTER XII.L A wAR AND ITs CoNSEQUENCES. L ORRY was removed to anothex room before dinner, as she had promised. , . After they had dined the twc strangers were left alone for several hours. Anguish regaled his friend with an enthusiastic dissertation or the charms of the Countess Dagmar, lady in waiting to the princess. In conclusion he said glowingly, his cigar having been out for half an hour 0r more because his energy had beer spent in another direction: "You haven't seen much of her, Lor ry, but I tell you she is rare. And she's not betrothed to any of these con founded counts or dukes either. They all adore her, but she's not committed.' "How do you know all this?" de manded Lorry, who but half heard through-his dreams. "Asked her, of course. How in thun der do you suppose?" "And you've known her but a day: Well, you are progressive!" "Oh, perfectly natural conversation, you know," explained Anguish comn posedly. "She began it by asking me if I were inarried, and I said I wasn't even engaged. Then I asked her if she were married. You see, from the title you can't tell whether a countess is married or single. She said she wasn't and I promptly and very properly er pressed my amazement. By Jove, sh( has a will and a mind of her own, thai young woman has! She's not going tc marry until she finds a mnan of th< right sort, which is refreshing. I likt to hear a girl talk like that, especiall3 a pretty girl who can deal in princes counts and all kinds of nobility wher it comes to a matrimonial trade. By Jove, l'm sorry for the princess. though!' "Scrry for the princess? Why?" ask ed the other, alert at once. "Oh. just because it's not in her pow er to be so independent. The countesn says she -cries every night whlen sh< thinks of what the poor girl has to con tend with." "Tell me about it." "I dont knowv anything to tell. I'n not interestedl in the pri 2ss, and] didn't have the nerve to as: many ques tions. I do know, however, that she il goig to have an unpleasant matrimo nial alliance forced upon her in somi "That is usual" "That's what I gather from th< ountess. Maybe you can pump th< countess and get all you want to knot in conetion1 with the matter. It's pr-tty serious state of affairs, I shouli say, or she wouldn't be weeping througl sympathy." Lorry recalled a part of the after noon's sweetly dangerous conversation and the perspiration stood cold and damp onl his browv. There was a rap at the door, and An guish hastened to open it. A servan1 pr-snted Count Ilalfont's complimenti and begged leave to call. "Shall wve see the old boy ?" aske( IHarry. "Yes, yes," responded the other. Th<~ servant understood the sign made by Anguish and disappeared. '"Diplomat ic call, I suspect." "He is the prime minister, I under. stand. Ah, good evening, your excel Tnfecount iiaa emniiu' tie room and was advancing toward the couch, tall, easy and the personification of cor diality. "I could not retire until I had satis fied myself as to Mr. Lorry's condition and his comfort," said be in his broken English. He seated himself near the couch and bent sharp, anxious eyes on the recumbent figure. "Oh, he's all right!" volunteered An guish readily. -Be able to go into battle again tomorrow." "That is the way with you aggressive Americans, I am told. They never give up until they are dead," said the count courteously. "Your head is better?" "It does not pain we as it did, and I'm sure I'll be able to get out tomor row. Thank you vcry much for your interest," said Lorry. "May I inquire, after the health of the Countess Hal font? The excitement of last night has not had an unpleasant effect, I hope." "She is with the princess, and both are quite well. Since our war, gentle men, Graustark women have nothing t'o acquire in the way df courage and endurance. You, of course, know noth ing of the horrors of that war." "But we would b thankful for the story of it, your excellency. War is a hobby of mine. I read every war scare that gets into print," said Anguish eagerly. "We of Graustark at present have every reason to recall the last war and bitterly to lament its ending. The war occurred just fifteen years ago-but will the recital tire you, Mr. Lorry? 1 came to spend a few moments socially and not to go into history. At any other time I shall be" "It will please and not tire me. I am deeply interested. Pray, go on," Lorry hastened to say, for he was in terested more than the count suspect ed. "Fifteen years ago Prince Ganlook of this principality, the father of our princess, became incensed over the dep redations of the Axphain soldiers who patrolled our border on the north. He demanded restitution for tie devasta tion they had created, but was refused. Graustark is a province comprising some S00 square miles of the best land in this part of the world. Our neigh bor is smaller in area and population. Our army was better equipped, but not so hardy. For several months the fight ing in the north was in our favor, but the result was that our forces were finally driven back to Edelweiss, hack ed and battered by the fierce thousands that came over the border. The nation was staggered by the shock, for such an outcome-had not been considered possible. We had been too confident. Our soldiers were sick and worn by six months of hard fighting, and the men of Edelweiss-the merchants, the laborers and the nobility itself-flew to arms in defense of the city. For over a month we fought, hundreds of our best and bravest citizens going down to death. They at last began a bombard ment of the city. Today you can see the marks on nearly every house in Edelweiss. Hundreds of graves in the valley to the south attest the terrors of that siege. The castle was stormed, and Prince Ganlook, with many of the chief men of the land, met death. The prince was killed in front of the castle gates, from which he had sallied in a last brave attempt to beat of the con querors. A bronze statue now marks the spot on which he fell. The prin cess, his wife, was my sister, and as I held the portfolio of finance it was through me that the city surrendered, bringing the siege to an end. Fifteen years ago this autumn-the 20th of No vember, to be explicit-the treaty of peace was signed in Sofia. Wze were compelled to cede a portion d'. territory in the far northeast, vaktable for its mines. Indemnity was agreed upon by the peace commissioners, araounting to 20,000,000) garvos, or nearly $30,000,000 in your money. In fifteen years tills money was to be paid, with interest. On the 20th of November, this year, the people of Graustark must pay 25, 000,000 gavvos. The time -is at hand, and that is why we recall the war sq vividly. It means the bankrup'tcy of the nation, gentlemen." Neither of his listeners spoke for some moments. TLhen Lorry broke the sience. "You mean that the money cannot be raised?" he' rsked. "It is not in our treasury. Our peo pe have been taxed so sorely in re building their -homes and in recu1er ating from the eileet of that dreadful Invasion that they have been unable to pay the levies. You must remem ber that we are a small nation and of limited resources. Your nation could secure $30.000,000) in one hour for the mere asking. To us it is like a death blow. I am not betraying a state se cret in telling you of the sore straits in which 'wie are'placed. for every man in the nation has been made cognizant of the true conditions. We are all fac ing it together." ~There was something so quietly he roic in his manner that both men felt pity. Anguish, looking at the military 'figure, asked: "You fought through the war, your excelleney'S" "I resigned as minister', sir, to go to the front I was in the first battle and I was in the last," he said simply. "And the princess-the present ruler, I mean-was a mere child at that time. When did she succeed to the throne?' asked Lorry.. "Oh, the great. world does not re member our little history' Within a year after the death of Prince Gan look his wife, nmy sister, passed away, dying of a broken heart. IlIer daugh ter, their only ehild, was, according to our custom, crowned at ce. She has reigned for fourteen years, and .wisely since assuing full power. For three years she has been ruler die facto. She has been frugal and has don~fe all in her power to meet the shadow that 4s descending." "And what is the altern:ative in case the indemnity is not paid?" asked Lorry breathlessly, for Le saw some thing brighmt in the approaching calam "The cession of all that part of Grau tark lying north of Edelweiss, includ ing fourteen towns, all of our mines and our most productive farming and grazing lands. In that event Grau stark wvill be no larger t-han one of the ood sized f'armns in your western coun try. There will be nothing left for her m ryal highness to rule save a tract so small that the w~or'd prlincipa'lity' will be a travesty and a fest-this city and wemti\e miles to the south, a strip about 350 miles long. Think of it! Twe~vnty-five by 150 miles, and yet call ed a principality' Once the proudest and most prosperous state in the cast, consid'ring its size, reduced to that! Ach, gentlemien-gentlemen, I cannot think of it without tearing out a heart string and suffering such pains as mor tal man has never endured. I lived in Graustark's days of wealth, power and supremacy. God has condemned me to ive in the days of her dependency, weakness and poverty. Let us talk no more of this unpleasant subject." "Willingly, your excellency, since it s.-++ disaseu to n you 'hope, however. You 'wm Permit-mme to-sk-how muh you are short of the am-ount," said Lorry considerately, yet curiously. "Our minister of finance, Gaspon, will be able to produce 1~.000,000 gay vos at the stated time, far from enough. This amount has been sucked from the people from excessive levy and has been boarded for the dreaded day. Try as we wvould, it has been impossi ble to raise the full amount. The veo ple have been bled and have responded nobly, sacrificing everything to meet the treaty terms honorably, but the strain has been too great. Our army has cost us large sums. We have strengthened our defenses and could, should we go to war, defeat Axphain. But.we have our treaty to honor. We could not take up arms to save our selves from that honest bond. "Our levies have barely brought the amount necessary to iaintain an army large enough to inspire respect among those who are ready to leap upon us the instant we show the least sign of distress. There are about us powers that have held aloof from war with us simply because we have awed them with our show of force. It has beel our safeguard, and there is not a citi A zen of Graustark who Obieets to the manner in which state affairs are con ducted. They know that our army is an economy at any price. Until last spring we were confident that we could raise the full amount due Axphain, but the people in the rural districts were -unable to meet the levies on account of the panic that came at a most unfortu nate time. That is why we were hur rying home from your country, Mr. Lorry. Gaspon had cabled the princess that affairs were in a hopeless condi tion, begging her to come home and do what she could in a final appeal to the people, knowing the love they had for her. She came and has seen these loy al subjects offer their lives for her and for Graustark, but utterly unable to give what they have not-money. She -asked them if she should disband the army, and there was a negative wail from one end of the land to the other. Then the army agreed to serve on half pay until all was tided over. Public officers are giving their services free, and many of our wealthy people have advanced loans on bonds, worthless as they may seem, and still we have not the required amount." "Cannot the loan be extended a few years?" asked Lorry, angry with the ruler in the north, taking the woes of Graustark as much to heart as if they were his own. "Not one day! Not in London, Paris nor Berlin." Lorry lay back and allowed Anguish to lead the conversation Into other channels. The count remained for half an hour, saying as he left that the princess and his wife had expressed a desire to be remembered to their guests. "Her royal highness spent the even ing with the ministers of finance and war, and her poor head, I doubt not, Is racking from the effects of the consul tation. These are weighty matters for a girl to have on her hands," solemnly stated the count, pausing for aa in stant at the door of the apartment After he bad closed it the Americans looked long and thoughtfully at each other, each feeling a respect- for the grim old gentleman that they had Lv er felt far man before. [To BE CONTINUED:] WOMEN'S HATS. Me.n, Says .a Mininer, Are Keen Jlud'gesi of Becoming Effects. 'Don't think for a minute that men know nothing about women'.t hate'' said a milliner. "I don't refer to men who can describe feminine frills with the iluency of a floorwalker. I mean the average specimen, who doesn't know the difference between a toque and a Gainsborough. They are keen judges of effects-better 'thain their wiver'. Men often come in here -with their wvives. The Wroman begins to try on all the hats in the shop. The man grows nervous. While madam will pirouette before the mirror and view the creation from every side before passing judgment the man gives his opinion without a bit of hesitation. "'Take it off!' he will say. -You look like a Sioux brave with hip' war bon net onl' "He doesn't know why he disap p~oves. He couldli't describe the trim ming if he tried, but he does know that it doesn't suit his wife. Without wait ing a second he gives his decision, ana his wife is almost in tears as she sees him turn down some of the prettiest models. But he doesn't care how they look in the window or on the head of Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Brown. He wants something that is becoming to his wife. "At Inst she tries on the hat he wants. Ie knows it even before she has had a chance to glance at herself in the mirror. And I would say that his judgment usually coincides with ours."-Newa York Press. Driving Twelve Hlorses. Here is an arithmetical problem for you: If it is great fun to drive one horse, how much fun is it to drive twelve horses? It is quite a natural answer to say twelve times as muca fun, but If you were to ask me I should say divide one by twelve, and you will have a more correct answer. Think of it-twelve horses to manage at once! That is a sight I saw a~few days ago, however, in the crowded streets of New York. The driver showed such superb horsemanship that people in the streets stopped to admire his dex terity. The horses were drawing im mense steel girders to be used in erect ing a skyseraper. Twvo men went ahead of this cavalcade to warn the cars to stop at convenient placgs for passing and to clear the street generally. Es pecially where a cor'ner was turned was there maneh admiration expressed for the driver's skill. There he sat, as calm anid cool as if driving an old nag down a country lane instead of twelve sturdy horses down New York's busi est thoroughfare, Broadway. -New York Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch. Greek and Bulgar. "The struggle for racial supremacy between the Slav and Ilellene," says a writer on Macedonia, "a struggle as old as the hills, is here identified with and imbittered by the religious strife which rages between the followers of the Bulgarian exarch and those of the Greek patriarch - the schismatic and the orthodox parties. This animosity pervades and poisons all the relations of life, private no less than public. A Greek will on no account speak to or shake hands with a Bulgar. Nor will a Bulgar patronize a shop kept by a Greek. The antipathy between the two nationialities amounts almost to physical repugnance. It far exceeds any feeling or enmity that either of them may entertain toward the Turk, who has ground them both to the dust during five centuries of the most un mitigated oppression imaginable." A ruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. "KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT" People Who Say Little and Drink Less "Get There- Oftenest. "Help me to catch him, rister," said the small boy as he dashed by in pant ing pursuit of his juvenile enemy. "Keep your mouth shut, and you'll catch him," advised the man, and the boy understood in an instant and, un derstanding, closed his moiuh and ran on, easily running down the object of his pursuit, who had been running open mouthed and was soon doubled up with a stitch in his side. There is a good deal in keeping your mouth shut. There are more people in the world who never open a mouth without putting a foot in it than you have any idea of. You may be a fool, but if you keep your mouth shut who's to know it? Generally you can size up the fellows who'll get there, are getting there or have got there by the way their lower jaw hangs. You may occasionally medt a wise man wandering around with his mouth open, but not asa usual thing. It's ihbat people say and drink chief ly that cause them to appear befo're the police magistrate. If they had kept their mouths shut, they would not have said it or drunk It. More fool ish fish are caught with hooks in the mouth than through the tail. The fel low who goes around with his mouth open may catch a few flies in the aperture, but he isn't likely to catch anything very valuable that way. It's the fellow who sets his teeth and -con sequently shuts his mouth who gets there.-Toronto Star. The Cipher. It has not been definitely established that zero was in use any earlier than 400 A. D. About .this time it was used in India, and several centuries later the Arabs began to employ It. Through the Arabs its use became- known to Europeans during the twelfth century. It was not generally adopted in Europe until several centuries later, notwith standing its great advantages. For a considerable time there were two par ties among the European educators. One party, known as the algorists, fa vored the adoption of the Uindoo sys tem of notation (falsely called Arabic), with its position values, while the oth er, known as the abacists, favored the Roman notation, without zero or posi tion value. The general adoption of the Hindoo system was greatly facilitated by the facts that it was explained in most of the calendars for more-than a century, beginning with 1300, and that the .nedi-val universities frequently of ftxed courses devoted to the use of this notation.-G. A. Miller in Science. The Artist and the Woman-. Every actress is sensitively alive to the pleasure of a warm reception-that being the technical term for the ap plause with which the audience greets the first appearance of an artist before any word has been spoken. Generally speaking, it signifies a courteous greet ing corresponding to a lifted hat and pleasant salutation. But on occasions when the actress is a special favorite t.e reception, enthusiastic and long continued, becomes a demonstration which is inartistic *and destructive of the illusion of the play, since it drags the actress out of her part and in her bowing, curtseying and smiling she be mes Miss Jones or Miss Morris re turmi'a thanks to the public. A wom an would at be human who did not enjoy to the last drop of her blood just such a gr'.eting, even though her ar tistic sense condemned it.-McClure's. A,'.mls Are Sensitive. "The fact that a horse is sensitive to ridicule," said a student of the biolog ical department of the University of Pennsylvania, "may easily be demon strated. Take, for instance, the case of ahorse that is eating out of a nosebag. If you stand in front of such a horse, attract his attention, and then, with loud laughter, mock his way of feed ing, he will stop, with a look of em barrassment and shame, and he will not resume his meal until you are gone away. '-Dogs also object to being laughed at Make fun of them and they will cease whatever they are doing. It is only when they are in a fight that they will remain impervious to the shafts of mockery."-PhiladelPhiaI Post The Human Body. A pupil in~ a village school. who had been requested to write an essay on the human body handed in the follow ing: "The human body consists of the head, thorax, abdomen and legs. The headcontains the brains, In case there are any. The thorax contains the heart and -lungs; also the liver and lights. The abdomen contains the bowels, of wVhich there are five-a, e, I, o, u and sometimes w and y, The legs'extend from the abdomen to the floor and have hinges at the top and middle to enable a fellow to sit when standing or to stand when sitting." * Worth 3lore. Customer (in art gallery)-Tenl dol lars is a high price for that picture. It's nothing but a man smoking -a pipe. Dealer-Yes, but look at that pipe, my dear sir. It's genuine meerschauml, beautifully, colored and extra large size. You couldnt buy that pipe alone for less than $15.-Chicago Tribune. Iow Manudie Gets Experienced. irene-Is Maud really going to marry that sappy youth? Enid-Mercy, no! She is only en gaged to him. You see, poor, dear Maud lias never been engaged before, and she thinks she ought to practice a little before entering into it seriously. -New Yorker. The genuine attar of roses, like the best olive oil, will freeze, affording proof of its purity. The Only One. An American tourist *ho called on R~obert Burns' widow,. .Tean Armour, a few years after his death had the au dcity to ask her, "Can you show me tny relics of the poet?" "Sir," an swered the old lady, with majestic dig nity, "I am the only relict of Robert Burns!" Plain Talk. The Miserly Traveler-Be careful with th'at trunk, you vagabond! I wouldn't have it fall for 10 shillings. The Porter-I doubt not, but a shil ling in time might save nine.-Londonl IExpress. Precisely That. Braggsby-I tell you I'm overwork ing. I am turning out an awful lot of Iwork just now. Nocker-That's just exactly the word your employer used in describing your present wor-k.-Baltimore American. Jealousy. INell-He isn't very handsome, but his face lights up well. Belle-Is he so lantern jawed as all + ha+'?.Phadelnhia Record. THE ESKIMO DOG. Alive, He Works For His Master, and Dead, He Feeds Him. Of the Eskimo dog I could write a book. In all probability descended from the wolf, he is the Eskimo's one doniestic animal, but is of as much value to him as all the domesticated animals of more favored races put to gether. He drags him and his family and their chattels from place to place, hauls to his door the meat of seal or walrus, leads him with unerring scent to the tiny orifice in the snow which indicates the breathing hole of a seal, rrags him for miles in pursuit of the bear and finally brings the huge brute to bay, rounds up the musk oxen till his master can come up for the kill, and then perchance in the darkness of some long winter night, when the hand of hunger grips the settlement relent lessly, he yields up his life to feed his master and his family and his coat to keep them warm. Though mixed now with other strains, so that black and reddish and spotted dogs are to be seen as well as the pure blooded grays and whites, this animal still retains to a large degree the strength, endurance and fierce lust for blood when in pursuit, of game that characterized its wild ancestors. Com bined with these traits are an intelli gence and faithfulness that make many of these animals the peer of any of their more favored brothers -in more genial climates.-Leslie's Monthly. Clever Reasoning. 'Rather an original lesson in political economy was that once taught by the Tapanese nobleman, Awoto,- and thus translated by -Sir Edwin Arnold in "Seas-and, Lands:" One evening as he was going to the palace to take his turn in keeping the night watch he let ten cash drop out of his tinder case into 'the stream and then'bought fifty cash worth of torches to search for the lost coin. His friends laughed at him for spending so much in order to recover so little, and he re plied, with a frown: "Sirs, you are foolish and ignorant of economics. Had I not sought for these ten cash they Would have been lost forever-sunk in the bottom of the Namerigawa. The fifty cash which I have expended on torches will remain in the hands of the tradesmen. Wheth er he has them or I is no matter, but not a single one of the sixty has been lost, and that is a clear gain to the. - country." The Oriole and-e Bee. Birds, their heads bein ma1, are usually regarded as stupid, ut an amateur naturalist pointed out th th er day a proof that the Baltimore orio at least is very intelligent. "Take the oriole's habitat in the summer," he said, "and all around it you will find the decapitated bodies of bees. The oriole is fond of honey, and he has dis covered somehow that the bee carries honey in a sac. Accordingly he rushes down on the insect, snips off its head, removes its viscera and then swallows the honey that is now laid bare. This shows intelligepce on the oriole'g part, but I have not yet described the thing which shows the bird's reasoning pow er most strongly. It is only the sting less male,. white headed bees that-the oriole slays. The stinging bees he*2'Z2 leaves alone wisely." -Philadelphia Record. Wml Power and the Thumb. Would be hypnotizers should avoid -t trying conclusions with persons pos sessing longer jointed thumbs tpan theirown, for iftherelsanly truth in palmistry the strength of one's will depends upon the formation of the thumb-the will power of its owner be ing great or little according to the length or want of length of its upper joint. How the thumbs of the Roman holi day makers- were >formed mattesed - nothing to the defeated gladiator whose fate hung upon their being bent forward or backward-a method of de creing life or death to which perhaps we owe a man at another's mercy be ing said to. be under his thumb.-Cham bers' Journal. -The Pancake Bell. In the tower of St Mary's church, Morley, Yorkshire, England, bangs an ancient bell bearing the date 1169. Every Shrove Tuesday morning It is rung for one hour, and the custom has been followed for &4nturies, although its origin is quite unknown. The peo pl of the locality believe that it has some connection with the baking of pancakes on the day -befor'e Lent. Hence its name, the "pancake bell." On the last occasion of the ringing scores of people went into the belfry to take a pull at the rope in order that they might claim some share in the traditional usage. Realistic. Brown-Did you hear about that real istic fruit picture that Thompson paint ed? He had it out in his garden and the birds actually came down and pick ed at the fruit. Jones-Oh, that's nothingl I know a man who painted a bottle of ginger beer so realistically that the cork came out -London King. His New Horse. "Seen Ezry's new horse?" asked one citizen of another. "I have," was the reply. "Well, what does it look like?' asked the questioner impatiently. "Well, he looks," said the other man slowly, "as if Ezry had taken him for an old debt."-Boston Christian Regis Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve got along very well until the lady took advice outside of her own yard. Adam, of course, was henpeced or he would have slain the niake very promptly.-Schoolmaaster. Perfect Work Assured. Fuddy-Come, now, what would you propose to bring about an ideal state of things? -- Duddy-Nothing easier, my friend. I'd just put everybody at work upon somebody else's job. and then of course every kind of work would be done per fectly.-Botonl Transcript Light Work. "My brother Jakey's got a new job." "Where's he working?" "Down to the electric light plant." "Picking currents off the wires?" "Yes. How did you guess? He says he likes the job. It's such light work." -Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. To Avoid Confusion. The Stranger-And so you are named George Washington. the same as our distinguished president? The Colored Porter-Yaas, suh; but I has a differunt birfday, suh.-Brooklyn Some people are like a river. TheT only way they can attract attention is .by gong on a rnmpage.-tchisonl