A EFFERENT MAN
By SARA HOLT.
Morton's two Hhort VlHltH to
New York with I ??;r parents hud shown
her only (tit* Now York of hotels ami
department store*. When she went
thero uione^ to HluUy noeial service hIim
discovered muny phases of lif** of
which Mho know nothing,
One night Hho Hat far Into the night
rending u book called "(J reed unct
(bind," This hook hud been the mean*
of enuslnjf |nany changes In the fac
buy management where girls hud heen <
overwork oil In bad ftjr and unsafe sur
roundings. It inmlo I^?-t 1 1 ?* feel (lint
nlie lulist do something to help glliu
whose dully work held them In i< vise
stronger limn the social customs of
Mnrvliville hiid h< Id her so Mho begun
to Ntiel) ! heir |>t ohleinH. She went to
lectures ii 1 1 < I even to eourt Menus to
hem trial*.
W illi lite eii ( tnjslu-iin of u now win
>erl, .she enleied Into the question
1 1 1 ? i.inri* /??'ii I Hum Judgment. One
f I iii i' ?< 'i when mi open meeting In
Union > ijini re w as over, she sal still
after ti.e croud scattered anil looked
u t * i ? 1 1 1 lier.
On a heiK-lt near her Hat a young
nui ii ho had seen at nearly all such
meetings alio had attended. Ho wan
always In the crowd, hut nppareniy not
of It, and Htio had wuno to think of
him iim "the different man." Ho was
perhaps thirty, with dark eyes and
hair.
I>eop (ii speculation about "the dif
ferent man," l?ettlo did not notice that
auotlier Hurt of man had aat down on
the. same honch with her. Ah who
turned her eyen from tint Mlowly de- j
parting flguro of "the different man"
she met tiie confidently familiar wmllo
of the man who had sat down beHlde
her. Ue wan a fut and florid blond,
dressed in a loud Hult of brown tweed.
"Never mind, girlie," lie Hald, with a
leering Hinile. "lie's gone, but I'm
here, and wouldn't it be a fulr bargain
to take me In his place?"
I.ettlo turned pale and, with her
chin in the air, quickly arose without
taking any apparent notice of the
speaker. She h tar tod away In a fast
walk and was surprised to see that
"the different man" had turned aiul
wan wulklug toward her. She failed
to ?oe that a wobbly beginner on roller
skates was close behind her, and the
next moment her feel were kuooket!
from under her and she landed on top
of a frightened llLtle girl.
When Lottie was unco more on Iter
feet she started forward and almost
humped Into "the different man." Sho
was holding her right wrist as If in
pain and Iho whiteness of her face
arrested the eyes of Iho man.
"I'm afruld you're Hurt," ho began/1
his dark fuce glowing with * confused
"Won t you let ]?| t?t gf-lCCfc
As Lettle looked Into his klpd eyea |
she <11(1 the very thing she didn't wmit
to do- she let the tearii that hud been
burning her eye* roll down her now
crimson cheeks.
'Thank you." who said simply.
'There's it drug store right over here
where you run have this properly ban?
duged." said the man, iih lie exuinlued
the Injured wrist.
An they oinergod from the drug Mtore
h little lu tor, it seemed quite nulurul
for them to contluue walking to
get her.
"I>ld you get on overdone of 'local
color' this time?" the inuu's gray eyes
were laughing a little now.
"'Local color'? I don't uuderMtaud."
"Why 1 thought ? " the man heal*
tated nod looked puzzled. "You may
think 1 wan presuming to think about
you at all. hut I've supposed that you
w?nt to sll these queer meetings to
gel 'local color' for your Mtorles, an I
do."
"Oh, ho that's what you do? I've
wondered and wondered who you
were!" This unconscious admission
made the man smile, and he drt-w a
curd from Ills pocket.
"I'll tell you what we'd better do I"
lie smiled usseiit to her enthuHluHtlc of
fer, and she continued: "You give mo
your card and I'll give you mine, hut
we won't look at the names until we
gel home !"
A few moments later they were In a
taxlcab and helng whirled ulong to
ward - Let tle'u lodging.
"Suppose we look at our cards
now 1" Lettlo ? became suddenly
piquant.
'Miss Lot it la Pembroke Morton,"
read the man Impressively. "What a
big name for a mnnll girl."
"Never mind, ?ir ; now I shall see
how big a name you have I" She drew
his card fnnn her purse, cleared her
throat affectedly, and turned her head
critically to one Hide, but when who
pronounced the name. It was an ex
clamation. "John Wood Thompson.
()h-h-hl Not really the author of
'Greed and Grind'?" She looked
straight Into his eyes as she asked
for this confirmation of her discovery,
and the man nodded alHrinatlvcly.
"How perfectly splendid ! Why, It's
you who have achieved such wonder
ful things to help people!" ?
John was thinking that one thing
more must be .achieved to help him
self before the world would be right
again, but he feared it was much too
soon to mention It. Just then the
taxlcab stopped at Let tie's number and
the conventional good-hy laid to be
said, but their acquaintance contin
ued afterward and culminated In what
John termed his really great achieve
ment ? " t wlnnlnu of a wonderful
wife."
? ("V.nv-lf I ; :y|{5 bv flip Module Ncwiinq.
PO*ER OF THE HUMORIST
Tt# <*Men?ry of CffVirnfeiRecitrft#
Headers of History Memory of
Other Satirist*.
?The British u re not the only people
who this yciir inuy celebrate the ter
centenary of u great writer. Madrid Is
erecting a monument to the author of
"I>on Quixote/' Cervuutes wan more
than a man of letters; he was more
than a grout humorist ; ho was an
epoch. Blaster of ridicule, he laughed !
the defunct age of chivalry out of ex- ,
lsteuce.
j People often forget the social func
tion of the humorist, a New York
Tribune writer mutes. He restores
Hunity. lit* chars the atmosphere of
extravagance ami hutnbug. Borgson
says that laughter itas "survival vulue"
as a corrective of woclui uhuses. Cer
tainly Home of the world's moat ef
fective reformers have been Its mas
ters of ridicule and satire. There are
humorists, like Murk Twain, In whose
luughler there I* no sting, and there
have Jteen hitler satirists, like Jona
than &vlft and I, a ttochefoucuuld, who
have simply mocked the "all too hu
iniitiness'' of mankind at Its noblest.
But In almost every age there hus
been some hold nonconformist spirit
whose laughter In the face of some
traditional scarecrow has ended the
ty runny of a truth which hud out
lived its usefulness and become u lie.
KOTjipf hood in the days of Chaucer
had still its noble aspects, but knight
hood after Cervantes wrote "Don
Quixote" could never quite escupe n
touch of the burlesque. Therefore, tneu
turned to less antiquated and more
real avenues of human service.
Similarly, the laughter of Aristo
phanes wrought confusion among the
undent Greek sophists. Luclan's mock
ery corrected much of the sentlmental
Ism of the effete Oreco-Koman so
ciety. The sound laughter of Eras j
mus, the humanist, spread the . Influ
ence of the Renaissance In northern
Europe. Butler's "Hudlbras" helped
correct the extravagances of early
English purltanism Voltulre laughed
the last remnants of medievalism out
of the eighteenth-century France and
cleared (he ground for modern democ- ,
racy. Cnrlyle's "Sartor Resartus" j
made nineteenth century romanticism :
ridiculous. The sly humor of Thack
eray brought common sense Into early
Vlctorlunism, and the sardonic spirit
of Bernard Shaw In these times hus
left little 1ft modern commercial so
ciety unchallenged.
May the Cervantes monument stand
as a reminder to moderns that there
have been reformers with a sense- of
humor ! I
Their Fear Not Realized.
The great fear of those whose act
here In Philadelphia 140 years ago
made this a nation was that the state
wnuirt not remain a nation, n writer lu
the Philadelphia Public Lodger say*.
History ha n proved Id their caee the
IHiilty ox the epigram :
?The thin* you fear will fet y<m.wv
What they feared never happened.
We are a young country, but a very old
government, an governmenta go.
Cull the roll of the nation* and you
will see that a majority of them are
bahleH beside the United Htatea. Ju*
pan'n present Imperial regimen Is not
hnlf a century old.
'I*he house of llohenzollerii Is fairly
ancient, hut the German empire Is not
yet fifty and the French republic Is no
older.
Austria and Hungary were yoked
together long after Franklin told the
signers of the declaration of Independ
ence they, must all hang together or be
hanged separately..
Italy's kingdom Is not half so old as
the United States. Portugal's republic
is a thing too young to vote, and the
Chinese republic has not yet been
weaned.
All the score of Central and South
American republics are much younger
than is this greatest of world repub
lics.
Nearly half the human race has now
copied that lesson which was an
nounced by the Lib' rty bell.
Bluffed the New Conductor.
He stood at the corner waiting for
a car. Several curs had stopped to let
him get on hut he made no move to
get aboard.
Finally one stopped and a man got
off.
"Did you pay your fare to the end of
the line?" Inquired the waiting man.
"Yes," said the man who got off.
"Can I have your seat?" ho asked.
"Sure, It's the In?' one on the right
hand side, cross. seat." I
The man cltfmbcrcd aboard and hur
ried to the seat Just left vacant. I
"Fare please," said the conductor
shortly afterwards. i
"Fare nothing," responded the man. I
"I just took the other fellow's place
who got off and he said he paid to
the end of the line and said that I
could have his seat."
The Response evidently was a stun
ner for the new conductor and he was
so surprised he passed up the fare.
New Life Preserver.
A novel life preserver has been de- I
vised to supplement the ordinary cork
Jacket in rough water. I*y its use the
Ijerson in distrtyss is able to breathe,
even when tho waves sweep over his
head. The appliance adds to the cork
jacket a light metal chamber which
floats high, a spout leading from it
r I. fiing two or .three feet above the
water level. A tube leads from this
chamber to u face m.isk, through which
the wearer of the jacket breathes.
lOven if the water sweeps over his
head the spout of the air chamber is j
still clear and the air supply unim
paired.
There are various brands of this much
article. The vain person finds it in display,
praved person finds it in dissipation. But the
good common sense finds it in the solid comfort
good cheer of himself and his family. Chief i
this cheer is
A Tempting Christmas
When you ?0 to'" prepare it Come to Us for
ings. * For i^tance
Mince Meat All kinds of- Nuts and
Raisins and Currants Celery, Cranberries
Sauces of all Kinds Everything You Can Use
It Will be a Fine Christmas dinner if you use
A Commcn Cause o* Failure.
"What happened to Flivver? IK
was always full of ambition and Just
a Lull t to accomplish groat things, but
somehow be bus failed to achieve any
thing In particular."
"Oh. ho hitched hlj wagon to a star
and forgot to fasten the rear end I
gate."? Kansas City Star.
All Dopen^jn
"What shall 1 charge for Uxing up
whiskers?"
"All deiJends," answered the boss bar
ber. "Some I give a bit of a clip for
nothing. Others you want to charge
the same rates a laundry gets for laeo
curtains." ? Louisville Courier-Journal.
Why It Worried Him.
"What are you looking so glum about,
old man?"
"Somebody stole Dawson's umbrella." .
"But why should that worry you?"
"It was stolen from me." j
No Strange Exporiments.
"Did you have a homily when youi
minister came to dinner, Mrs. Jlmps?"
"Dear me. no, mem. I don't never
try them strange dishes."? Baltimore
American.
Seek to learn what is best rather
than to learn much. j
Strange CotaeMew*
About twenty-live yean uq
attending ecu rt as a wltt**, In
lotte, Sheriff Hunter heard tie
John P. Hunter called and
ly answered, only to find to wTt,
sternatlon that the man called fori
another of that name, one J*
Hunter, of Derlta, Meckeobwg _
a justice of the peace. The sberiui
the Mecklenburg man metonUMl
and had a photograph taken togeftl
which many visitors at the shefl
otllee will recall having seen. At 9
time, the sheriff, as well as 8m
Hunter, had a long beard and tbt]
was a marked similarity toeachofl
In their appearance. . '?;%
The acquaintance made by
of this singular coincidence soooiM
ed Into a friendship, wtlch has grid
and strengthened with the yeanii
the popular Lancaster officer has \
an his guest this week, Squire Join
Hunter, his ?pn, L. P. Hunter and I
brother, T. M. Hunter, all of DeH
Mecklenburg county, N. 0. *
"Sheriff Hunter and his friends hi
both been officers of the peace fori
ny ypflrs .The AJfoklonburg iua* *
held office for 32 years and John,
Hunter of Lancaster county for
years.? Lancaster News.
Beverly Bryan, five years old, di
from l>eiug rpn over by a South
railway train Monday at Oo/nail
Both tans ^ tart irwte mangla
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CARD CASES
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