The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 11, 1903, Image 4
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THE VOIUNTE
By SAM WA
The gret big church wiiz crowded lull of
broadcloth ail* uv silk,
An* satius rich as cream thct grows on our
ol' brindle's milk;
Shincd boots, biletl shirts, stiff dickeys ao J
?tove-pipe hats were there,
An' doods ith trouserloons so tight thtv
couldn't kneel in prayer.
The elder in his pulpit high, said, as he
slowly riz:
"Our organist is kep' to hum, laid up 'ith
roomatis,
An' as we nev no substitoot, as Brother
Moore ain't here,
Will some 'an in the congregation be so
kind's to volunteer?"
R??*>
An' then a red-nosed, drunken tramp, of
low-toned, rowdy style,
Give an' ioterduct'rv hiccup, an' then staggered
up the aisle!
Then thro' the holy atmosphere there crcp'
a sense or sin,
An' thro' thet air er sanctity the odor uv
?p- . oI> ?n"Haaa/n^
J> r> 'nil Imc foofli
JLUKZLl J.J\. Ll X 441 ILL iua J , U(C (rwvvti
all sot on edge:
"This man purfaues the house of Godi
Why, this is sakerlege!"
The tramp didn't hear a word lie said, but
douched 'ith stumblin' feet.
An' sprawled an' staggered up the steps,
an' gained the organ seat.
lie then went pawin' thro* the keys, an
soon there riz a strain
Thet seemed to jest bulge out the heart,
an' 'lectrify the brain;
An' tr.en lie slapped down on the thing
'ith hands and 'head an' kneesHe
sLmdashed his hull body down kerflop
upon the keys.
t: BY THE GF
TEIRIOUS
OU liud better come to the
4 rr ? ball." said the Colonel,
3 V 8 Kith a bluff, benevolent
p air. "I am a steward ami
can introduce you to all the
pretty women.. As a stranger, it will
start you at once in the best set with
vwu lifilri fmnhlo in fluwiwr w.ir.
What;"
The Colonel was unmarried, and did
not even own nieces. Gerald Upcott
had made his acquaintance originally
' at Homburg, where he passed as tlie
young-elderly bean to his own great
satisfaction and the high gratification
of a circle of well-preserved ladies
who played bridge, drank the waters
and gossiped about everybody with
equal fervor. The friendship had
ripened in London, and Gerald had
visited tiie Colonel's comfortable C~t,
Mover was there a man more patently
a bachelor without encumbrances.
Gerald Upcott could not suspect any
latent design beneath the festive suggestion
about tho ball.
An iniportart point, however, which
Gerald did not know, was that Lady
Calthorp was one of the Colonel's dear,
well-preserved friends. She had recently
been obliged, after putting it off
i_; A. >
as iong*as possioie. 10 nrmg vui u>.t
second daughter. The eldest had been
married off almost immediately, and,
as there was a considerable difference
between the two girls. Lady Calthorp
haji got out of the ways of chaperonage,
and did not take kindly to that
stony path again after the long interval
of peace. If only Milly could be
married off at once, how nice it would
be! So delightful, you know, to feel
that the dear girl was comfortably
settled,. and such a relief to be no
longer obliged to drag her about to
balls. The Colonel was Lady Calthorp's
sworn ally, and was therefore
bound to Introduce to Milly all the
? "eligible*' men whom he could catch
hold of.Gerald
Upcott was a highly "eligible"
man. Do you see the idea"?
? The Colonel was distinctly pleased
with what he deemed his own success.
In this mood he was quite ready to
commit the folly of introducing the
eligible man to any pretty face that
might especially take his fancy. Lady
Calthorp would not have done that.
She would have prodded him off in
dexterous and perfectly natural manner.
"Who is that lady over there?" Gerald
said, "after a brief inspection. "The
one with the large tiara and the dark
hair?standing near that block of icetalking
to the man with the heavy
mustache?"
"She's Lady Felton. The Danesfields
brought her over with them. I
have Just been introduced. A charm.
v. ing woman. But the fun of the thing
15. that she is a dowager. Look at her.
Does she look like a dowager? I believe
that the old man was about forty
years older than she was. Naturally
she drops the dowager and calls herself
Louisa Lady Felton."
A sparkle of animation showed In
.Gerald's face. "Louisa Lady Felton!
This is interesting," he said.
The Colonel growled under his mustache.
It took some little time to
effect the introduction. It was, how1
"ever, eventually accomplished, and
"'- -"Gerald TJpcott danced with Louisa
Lady Felton. The intervals are usually
long at Winterton?no doubt with
some good, that is matrimonial, object.
After the dance the couple adjourned
- to the long conservatory, where seats
\ ^were judiciously arranged in pairs.
Gerald TJpcott could talk brilliantly
when he chose, and he amused Lady
^' Felton. This, no doubt, is why she
\ conceded a second dance. His original
\dea had been to let an acquaintance
xaturetgradually and naturally. "When
beard she was staying four miles
views developed on different
sat Second dance. They
on the ^jbducd light, gazing down
wall, wit* curve 0f the great seaI
will f?Sr]o\viiig points of fire,
win interest^ a story that I think
Obscurity Of tK crHH Hprnld. The
companion secir.^Qce prevented Ms
prcssion which sh% significant cx"Once
upon a time?& on his face,
fairy tale, and yon nee; a grown-up
as real unless you like-H regard it
time there was a mm. upon a
woman " "md a
"Is this fairy-tale or real?" in.
the lady, suddenly. %
"Both. The man. it seemed, was .
love. lie was a big man, with a bi
mustache, tall, strong and absolutel
straight. He fell in love, as such
man would-over head and ears?lik
a plunge in the mysterious lake, an
all the world could hear the splas
and see the circles.
"What was the girl like?"
"He told me that she was beautiful
He rhapsodized about flowers o
heaven, angels come down on earth
and stars hanging somewhere midway
The girl encouraged him in every way
from what he told me as we smokec
cigarettes in the face of the lake
If half he said was true, she showed
her love in a hundred different ways.
There was no impediment. He was
ER ORGANIST.
LTElt FOSS.
The organ roared, the music flood went
sweeping high an' dry,
It swelled into the rafters, an' bulged out
into the sky:
The ol' church shook an' staggered, an'
seemed to reel an' swav.
An' the elder shouted '"Glory!" an' I
yelled out "Hooray!"
An' then he tried a tender strain thet
melted in our ears,
Thet brought up blessed memories an'
drenched 'cm down 'ith tears;
An' we dreamed uv oF-time kitchens, 'ith
Taby on the mat,
Uv home an' luv an' buby days, an' mother,
an' all that!
An' then he struck a streak uv hope?a
song front souls forgiven?
Thet burst from prison-bars uv sin, au'
stormed the gates uv heaven;
The mornin' stars they sung together?no
soul was left alone?
We felt the universe wuz safe, an' God wuz
on His throne!
An* i Uon i n-oil in* <'f?crviir rm* dark
ness come coram.
An* loner black crape hung on the doors uv
alt the homes uv men;
Xo law no light, no joy, no hope, no songs
uv glad delight?
An' 'then the tramp he staggered down an*
reeled into the night!
But we knew he'd tot* his story, though he
never spoke a word,
An' it w"z the saddest story tbot our ears
lied ever heard;
He bed to!' his own life history, an' no
eye wuz dry thct day,
Wen the elder rose an' simply said: "2?Iy j
brethren, let us pray."
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?EAT MVS- I
3 LAKE. |
www?? ggp?pagga?gar..
rich a ad "would be a great chief?what
we might call a lord? one day. I
said to liim again and again ia primitive
language, 'Go in, and win.' lie
said, 'Not yet. I am net sure. I think
she loves nv?. and yet I can hardly
believe it. k seems so great a thing.
And if she refused me I should kill
myself.' Then one day this man came
to me with a face as white as yonder
electric globe, and eyes that glittered
like the central light within. It was
all over, he said. She had had a second
string all the while?a great chief j
whom I will call the Sultan of Ool.
because it was uot his name. She had
told him herself that she was engaged
to the Sultan of Ool, and the man was
raging mad. There were scenes, dreadful
scenes. The lake was dangerously
near?and he "was killed?killed in an
absolutely mad enterprise, which
meant certain death to him and safety
to his command "
Louisa Felton turned on him suddenly,
her face full of emotion. "Wh *
was this man's name?'' she said, and
her voice thrilled.
".Tack Marslimnn."
There was a silence between 1h?m.
Neither could sec the other's face very
well. "Why did you tell m? this horrible
thing?" cried Louisa Felton, with
sudden passion.
"Oh, it is an experience?far away
from us?in the unknown and beauti1
ir.lnri.dn TJ^ci/l/NO l*nv A ^*A*l
iqi in.iuu^. i?t siucc? uaii; iivv .?vu,
too, had your previous states? May
you not have met that divinely beautiful
girl. Coating perchance in n ca.no-?
on the great lake, bedecked "with flowers
and comraded by melody?and .she
confided in you?"
"What should she confide in me?"
"Why she preferred the Sultan of
Ool?three times her age?to that other,
whom I believe she really loved."
There was another silence. Then
suddenly the lady spoke, and her voice
was charged with intensity of feeling
"You have done a bold and dangerous
thing, and one which you might
regret if you had come to the wrong j
woman. As it happens, you have
come .to the right one. I will tell you.
It matters nothing now. What he told
you was nntrue. I never refused him,
for the good reason that ho never proposed
to me. I did not tell him that I
was engaged to Lord "
"The Sultan of Ool," interjected Gerald,
gently.
"Because I was not engaged to him.
and the engagement did not occur until
after Jack had gone away in that
wonderful fashion."
"Yet lie threw nwav his life simply
because be thought it true when the
engagement was announced."
"I can't help that," she cried. "The*
fact is that be was a veiv cd?l man,
and be behaved very cruelly and unkindly.
lie made love to me in every
way that a man could without actually
saying it. fee made me love him, and
he led me on to believe that he intended
to propose; and then, when all
the plqce was talking about us, he
suddenly Quarreled with me about a
trifle, went straight out of the ball
room, left the place the next day, and
never came back or gave a sign."
"What was the Quarrel about?"
"Absolutely nothing. But just think
of the dreadful position that I was
in?left the laughing-stock of the place,
the subject of every unkind tongue.
It was then that my dear old friend,
Lord Felton, came to me, and asked
me to marry hijn. He told me most
delicately that he had always loved
me, and that he knew that I could
not love him, but that he asked me to
be his wife in order that lie might have
the right to protect me. Well, he
knew all, of course; but I told him all,
and then I gladly accepted the refuge
he offered. The dearest, kindest soul!
There never was an unkind word between
us to the day of his death."
"But would you mind endeavoring
to recall what the quarrel was about?"
"I tell you It . was the merest
pretext. He came up to me, as I
thought, to ask me for a dance. Instead
of that he said to me suddenly
and very oddly, 'Are you engaged to
Lord Felton?' I said, 'Yes, for ' "
"There!" cried Gerald. "You did tell
him, after all."
"But, of course, I meant for a dance."
expostulated the lady in amazement.
"Lord Felton always had a square
with me for old friendship's sake, and
I had just given it to him. Jack must
ghave seen us talking. If he had come
v h.a minute earlier he would have
q jjed me give Lord Felton his square,
e tion \n0 business to ask such a quesd
right "t#11' aiKl h? certainly no
h square da.off ia a fury becaus^of a
was merelv ^ an man. No, it
text" * cruel, heartless preI.
"But don't you ? . , ~ ,,
f in despair at the p^' crif . '
. revelation opened 1>^S ^
. pendant of suffering V"?- *!*
. signed, "he told me
I that you were engagt-t T , !'?'!
. ton? You now telf m^C, wTa,?or
I you may have meant by did
say you were engaged to Lord' l>e?L.
' " seems to me perfectly dreadful that
/
T
po small an error should have wrecked
two lives."
"Yes, dreadful Indeed," she began; |
but at that moment the music struck j
up in the ball room. Lady Felton literally
sprang up. "Now, Mr. Upcott," !
she cried joyously, "you must kindly
take 1110 in as quickly as possible."
("i era Id Upcott stared at her in frank j
amazement. This change of manner
was perfectly inexplicable. It did not
altogether fit In with the theory of a |
wrecked life. Even in the dim light ,
he could see that her exquisite lip? 1
were curved in a happy smile which '
made her look lovelier than ever.
'Tome, Mr. Upcott," she cried, im- ,
patiently. "You are not going to be ,
so ungallant as to allow me to go Id j
by myself?" And she moved a step
forward.
With a quick apology, Gerald sprang (
up and escorted her to the ball-room. ;
Immediately they were approached by j
the tall, dark man with the heavy j
mustache, with whom she had boon
talking before.
"I came as quickly as I could." she
whispered, but Upcott's quick ears |
caught the words. I
The next minute the pair whirled j
off in the waltz. Gerald had a glimpse j
*? 1
of her face cs tiirv cam.? roumi. :mu ,
if over n woman looked perfectly
harpy it was Louise. Lady Feltcn.
Somewhat mystified, Ceroid made
ills way round to the Colonel. Thpy
stood and looked awhile at the dancers.
"Handsome woman, that Lady Felton."
quoth the Colonel, as her face
came round in the whirl. "I hear, by
the bye." he added?not. perhaps, with- !
out some slight spice of malice?"that j
she is encased lo be married?very des- |
porn to love affair."
"Is the man here?" inquired Gerald, j
with the most imperturbable visage. j
"Yes. I believe so," replied the Colonel.
annoyed at the apparent iil-sruOerss
of his shaft.
"Then I expect it is the man she is
dancing with now," returned the other,
with the memory of that radiant face
on him. "What do you say to a little
supper. Colonel?"
It is. of course, impossible for a man
like Gerald Upeott to feel foolish.?
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
LAWS FOR MAD DOGS.
Uritl3?t R;.1uo3* Ilydroplnbb Casss by
legislating Against Canines.
It is still. We believe, an open question
among people who don't know any- j
thing about it whether there is such a j
tiling as rabies among human beings, i
Put we are bound to say no doctor "has
any doubts 011 that score. Ilesides. it :
is useless to discuss the question since j
human beings who have been bitten by
mad dogs do die of something extremely
horrible, whether it is an actual fatal
toxica tion or a form of acute mania
induced i;y fear. We speak of this
matter with some seriousness because
cf the alarming number of cases of by- ;
cirophobia reported in the papers In the |
last year. The blame must rest on lo- !
c-al health and police authorities who ,
do not insist upon the passage of laws ;
that would prevent the infection of nni- j
mals with rabies, or, if the laws exist, i
fail to enforce them. Whatever the
disease may he. hydrophobia has been :
stamped out In Norway, Sweden. Hoi- j
land, Switzerland and Denmark.
In Great Britain a rigid quarantine i
against imported dogs and sharp laws I
0:1 muzzling reduced the number of fatal
cases from 123 in 1SS0 to three in |
1S02. Some such action is needed in j
this country. Every real lover of dogs {
?for we reverse the old cynical saying
and nut it that "the more one knows of ;
dogs the more he thinks of men"?every !
real lover of clogs should ho in favor of !
(regulation that, while aiming at the 1
protection of the human community. ;
j also saves the brute creation from disi
ease. As for the people who "don't be- j
licve there is such a thing as rabies," j
and the folks who have more sympathy '
for dogs than for men, we shall not at- |
tempt to convince them. The present
situation is. as a pnysiciau mis sjihi.
''precisely the same us if a centre of
smallpox were allowed to exist," be- j
cause a few persons did not believe in {
vaccination.?Collier's Weekly..
TcIIott a Shield Against Mosqnltog. ' I
Wear yellow if you would be free !
from the malaria-breeding mosquito. |
This startling discovery emanates from
the War Department at Washington.
When the khaki uniform was adopted
for the use of the army in summer
and in tropical countries the authorities
were not aware they were on the verge
of solving a problem interesting to ;
soldiers and civilians alike. It was
not long, however, before it was found
that the anopheles mosquito, which
hv its bite, avoided the
v..iuoso .
men In yellow uniforms and swarmed
about those attired in the old blue
fabrics.
Tills led to investigation, and after
a series of experiments, conducted
at intervals for a period extending
over six months. It was found the anopheles
would not light upon a yellow
substance. A man wearing tbiii yellow
cotton gloves was not touched
b? the insects, while others with blue,
black and white gloves were bitten
repeatedly.?New York Press.
Nature's Weather GIhssc*.
Many anxious faces will to-day be
"turned skyward-in search of portents
for the week-end weather. Let holiday-makers
regard nature's weather
glasses.*
When a cat sneezes it means rain.
Distant sounds, such as bells and railway
whistles, are usually distinct just
before rain; and window blind cords
become taut, and salt and black current
lozenges moist.
Rain may also be expected when
dogs grow restless nud drowsy; asses
hang, down their ears and rub themselves
against walls; sheep become
frisky and bleat terribly at night; the
pigs are disturbed and run about,, and
* ? -1 *-! ?rare?r?era
cocks crow cany anu nay uau niu3?
excessively.?London Express.
Street Dust.
There can be no doubt that the filling
the air with clouds of fine street dust
is in more ways than one injurious to
the health. This dust cloud is-especially
harmful to persons with delicate
throats and lungs, and it must be no
inconsiderable factor in aggravating
the nil-prevalent catarrhal affections
with which so many people are aflficted.
Communities which permit this
disgrace lack something of complete
enlightenment and progress! veness.
There ougl^t to be genius to devise a
remedy, and there ought to be public
spirit and intelligence to carry it into
operation.?New Bedford Standard.
Tlie Vicions Device.
The vicar of Barton - 011 - Humber,
England, bas adopted a device to
shame certain members of the congregation
who placed old and battered
coins in the collection bags. These
coins he hung up in the church, with
the request that the donors should replace
them with good money. This
lias now been done in one case, but
four others await like repentance cu
rtUe part of the givers.
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with headaches and dizzy spells
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May, 1902, after using Donn's Kidney
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signs of the disorder, and I have hecome
convinced of the fact that the.
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I should advise every sufferer to take
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Good Roads Information.
People of the Southern States whc
desire information on tho modern
science of road building can obtain it
free of charge by applying to the office
of public road inquiries, which is
a division of the United States department
of agriculture at Washington.
There are in use today many inventions
and powerful machines that
make road building easier and less expensive
than it has ever been before.
Portable stone crushers, graders,
ditchers, stone spreaders, wagon loaders
and combination machines that
will save labor in striking ways arc
doing good work in various parts of
the country. It is to the interest
of those intending to build roads to
find out all about these machines.
There is a general awakening in regard
the improvement of good roads,
especially as it is understood that the
extension of rural free delivery is con
ditional on the success of this movement.
The Department of Agricultlre
is anxious to extend all the aid in its
power. The people are entitled to such
aid and should avail themselves of it.
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The doctor's wife went to the. door.
The doctor's wife and the woman next
door were net on friendly terms, but
the tramp cfldn-t know that.
"De lady next dbor* tie's'nfd.'"gave
me a piece of her homemade pie, a' I
t'ought"? .v."I'm
sorry," interrupted the doctor's
wife, "but the doctor isn't at home just
now. However, there's a physician in
the next block, and if you hurry he
may be able to give you relief before
much harm is done."?Chicago Post.
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j "I WON'T, I WILL, I DID."
I I know a little lad?
; With his mother and his dad,
I He lives within a rosc-embowercd
! haunt,
! And this little lad at times
Makes the queerest little rhymes,
Singing frowningly,
"I won't, I won't, I won't."
But again his eyes of blue
| Glisten as he locks at you,
' And ho tries your empty heart wi.'i
love to fill,
' As he laughs in rosy glee,
I Your surprise and joy to see,
When he merry shouts,
; "1 will I will, I will."
! But I like this rogue the best,
j When the sun is in the v-r-t.
i Anri to hrvfi 'nrk the tired little kid.
And ha holds himself awake,
The glorious news to break,
As sleepily he sinrs,
"I did, I did, I did "
?"Washington Star.
A LITTLE ITOr^E'S HIDE.
"Whoa, Buck! When, Blight!" called
out Stephen Hairis, pioneer; and the
I glossy red oxen halted in the forest
opening. "This shall be out dinner
camp today, boys," said he. "See what
I a fine spot!"
J The pair of stalwart lads, with rifles '
j on their shoulders, who had been walki
ing all the forenoon beside the big
: covered wagon, thought it was truly a
fine spot, and began to make camp for
j dinner, unyoking the oxen and turning j
{ them out to graze, kindling a fire with
j dry twigs and mess and fetching water
j from the clear brook that rippled by.
Meanwhile children of all ages brgan
j to climb down from the wagon. There
j were ten of them, fine healthy children.
! The youngest, Martha, was a little yd;
low-haired girl of three, the pet and
j pride of them ail. They were overjeyj
ed at the prospect of running about
| and stretching their cramped limbs,
j and the forest echoed to their joyful
j voices. Last alighted the mother, a :
! brisk, cheerful woman, under whose i
' good management a dinner was seen <
; ready. Every day the camp dinner was j
like a picnic to this fa^ly who had
; been thirty days on their way from j
! Connecticut to "the Ohio," where they
j hoped to find a fine farm and a good
j home.
The wagon, which had been their
! traveling house for a month, was well
| fitted up for comfort. The seats were
: built along the sides, and so contrived
j as to hook back at night. Then the
I bedding, tightly rolled up by day, was
j spread out cn the wagon bottom. The
cooking utensils were hung up on the
j .sides, and a rcomy box nailed at th "?
! end held the other useful articles. All
j of the cups, plates, and spcons were of
j- bright unbreakable tin. Under the
j wagon swung the large copper kettle,
| the most important of all things in the
| households of those early times.
After dinner the bright tin dishes
were washed in the brook, and the fire
very carefully "put out." But the trav?1
?? -"11 linger fho troee en
exers sini uiigcicu uuud cuv w ^?
' restful and lovely seemed the cool
! green spot. At length Mr. Harris said
that the sun was fast travelling westward,
and that they must be doing the
same.
So the oxen were yoked up, and in
! great spirits the pioneers scrambled to
} their places in the wagon, and the oxen
| started on at a good pace; and they
, had gone a mile or two before the
j fearful discovery was mai'e that little
! Martha was missing! It seems impos*
sible that they sholuld not have known
at once that she was not with them;
| but so it was,?not one of them had
j missed her!
j The patient oxen were turned about,
and as fast as possible the distracted
family travelled back to the dinner
camp, Mr. Harris and the big brothers
: calling, as they went, the name of the
darling child.
The camp was finally reached; but
| little Martha was not there, and no
trace of her could be found.
The forest had seemed so peaceful an
j hour before, but now it was filled with
1 terrors. What wild animals might not
' lurk in the thickets! The very brook
j seemed to murmur of dangers,?quick
s?b4s and treacnorous water-holes.
"fiaby! 0 baby!" called Mrs. Harris,
suddenly, tweaking Into a sharp cry;
and this time, in the anxious waiting
pause of silence, a shrill little voice
from right under the wagon piped out,
j "Here I i9!" and over the rim of the
grgat copper kettle popped Martha's
golden head. Scrambling out, "headover-heels,"
she rushed into her mother's
arms, as fresh and rosy from her
sound after-dinner nap as though she
j had been rocked in the downiest cradle
in the land.
There was praise and thanksgiving,
there was laughter and tears, and the
forest echoed to the glad shouts of the
boys, who could not otherwise express
the joy and relief of their hearts. Then
they climbed into the big wagon again,
i and this time each one made sure that
J little Martha was not missing,
i 'In after years the energy and thrift
' I of the Harris family brought them
great prosperity. Broad acres and fruitful
orchards and a beautiful home became
theirs, but their most prized possession
was the big copper kettle in
mtlo nirw-nppr Martha took her
VVUl^U liiuv _
afterdinner ride.?Anna E. Treat, in
Little Folks.
A FUNNY MISTAKE.
Grandpa sat by the table, his razor
in his hand and his looking-glass popped
up in front of him. Little Polly
i was watching him, half afraid, but
I wholly fascinated by the sharp, shining
blade.
"Grandpa," she said at last, "where
are you going when you are through
shaving?"
"I'm going to marry Mrs. Jaynor,"
answered grandpa, with a frown on his
face, for he was hurried. He never
thought that Polly might not understand.
He was a justice of the peace
and often married people. He had been
hindered in getting ready, and now he
rushed so fast to get off that he never
looked at Polly's face. Half an hour
i after grandma came in from the kitchen
with a dear little cake.
"Here, Polly," she said, but Polly
was not there.
. i "Polly, Polly," she called, but no lit,
tie feet came running. She looked in
. J the parlor and the bedroom and up
| stairs. No Polly.
I "Where can she be?" she asked In
i
alarm. "She could not have gcno out
of doors this cold day. I believe seme
one has kidnapped her."
"Nonsense!" said Uncle Ned, but he,
too, joined in the search. Upstairs and
downstairs they went again in vain. At
last grandma heard a muffled sobbing
under the stairs. She threw open the
low door of the "cubby hole." There
was poor Polly huddled up In a miserable
little heap and crying as if her
heart Vould break.
"Why, Polly, what is it?" cried
grandma, her alarm of one kind yieldin
gto another.
"I?don't?want?grandpa?to?to?
marry?Mrs.?Jaynor," sobbed Polly.
"I want him to stay here and be my
grandpa."
Uncle Ned laughed. But grandma
glanced at the little tear-stained face
and did not laugh. She took Polly in
hc-r lap in the big rocking chair and
explained all about it, how grandpa
only performed the service that married
Mrs. Jaynor to Mr. Brown, and
how he would come home again as soon
as the ceremony was through. So Polly
dried her tears and ate her rake, but
she never felt quite comfortable afterward
when Mrs. Brown was near.?
Chicago Record-Herald.
LIFE OF THE WHALERS.
We have raised a race of men who
have gone down to the sea in ships on
the most hazardous of enterprises. No
men have hourly for a lifetime taken
such disastrous chances as our whalemen,
and their voyages have been frennpntlv
crowded with moving acci
"X * ? ?
dents, hair-breadth escapes and distressful
strokes. And we go to these
men, like Desdeincna, "with a greedyear
to devour up their discourse." The
records of the thrilling voyages of our
whalemen arc kept in log books, and in
the hundreds of volumes stored in old
sail lefts. How many of us have pored
over them to have our nerves played
upon after the manner of the fictionists,
but it is not there. And we seek
out the roan whose ship is struck and
sunk by a whale in midocean, and who
takes to the bc&ts and .reaches land
after weeks of buffeting, and the men
whoso ships are crushed in the ice, and
their story is as prosaic as the story
of the man who goes to the day's work
in an electric car. We are thrilled by
the beat journey of Dr. Kane, of a
tramp in the Arctic by Nansen. Last
week a man arrived here who had
made a boat journney in Hudson Bay
as remarkable as that of Dr. Kane, and
he had nothing to say excepting that it
was four weeks and five days from the
time he left his ship in a whaleboat
witht two comrades until he reached
' a fur station. In answer to persistent
questioning a reporter dragged from
him that it was "hard work," and a
shipmate spoke up for the adventurer
aDd explained to a reporter* that there
I was not a minute of those five weeks,
I nicht or day. when the little beat was
ret menaced by the floating ice which
piled up about them, on occasions as
high as the church steeples. And
against Nansen's performance can we
produce a whaleman who put a half
dozen pieces of hard bread in his pocket
and, in midwinter, left his ship in
the Arctic, in latitude 75 or thereabouts,
and walked 1,500 miles back to
civilization. And, to save him, he
couldn't understand why the reporters
wanted to talk with him. Hence it is
our habit to say, often in the spirit of
criticism or at least regret, that our
whaleman is not "imaginative."?New
Bedford Mercury.
KRUGER'S FIRST LION.
Mr. Kruger tells this story of his
"first lion" in his memoirs. A rumor
had reached his father that their herds
had been attacked on the banks of the
Rhenoster River, in what is now
Orange River Colony. The lion, it
seems, sighted the party that went out
in search of him' before they were quite
face to face with him, and came on
them with a rush.
"The three adults with whom I had
come," says Mr. Kruger, "my father,
my uncle, and my brother, quickly tied
the horses together and turned them
round with their heads in the opposite
direction from which the lion was
bearing down upon us. This is the
regular procedure at a lion hunt, for if
the horses catch sight of a lion there is
pi ways a danger that they may get
lightened ana Doit.
"My father placed us. I was told to
sit behind, or from the lion's point of
view, in front of the horses, with my
rifle covering him. His last bound
brought him close to me; then he
couched, with the intention, it seemed
to me, of jumping right over me on to
the horses.
"And as he rose I fired. And so fortunate
was my aim that I killed him
outright?and he nearly killed me in
his turn, for he almost crushed me as
ho fell."
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A recently returned traveler who was
received by Emperor Menelik cf Abyssinia
describes his majesty as seated in
a small state chair, with gayly colored
carpet at his feet. He wore white
trousers, brown checked socks and
very large patent leather shoes without
lacings. A long flowing coat of
yellow striped green silk enveloped his
body, and over this was a black satin,
gold embroidered burnous, with a pink
lined hood. His head was bound with
fine white muslin, above which towered
a broad brimmed straw hat, overlaid
with gold leaf and trimmed with
sapphires and rubies. In h's left car
sparkled a rose cut diamond stud. A
red silk umbrella, heavily embroidered
?nri frin?*pd with eold nrotetcted the
royal head from the rays of the sun.
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Dr. Hubert Jansen, the editor of the
Trilingual Technical Dictionary which
is being published by the Society of
German Engineers, has sent out a
batch of circulars relating to the publication.
The object is to bring out
a thoroughly comprehensive vocabulary
of technical terms in German,
English and French. Mathematical,
physical and chemical words are to be
included, as if not now of technical
importance they may become so at
any time. Special effort is to be
made to include all "trade'' expressions
used in particular industries,
local dialetical terms and even workmen's
"slang" names for machines,
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general use. In order to make the
dictionary as complete as possible,
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men, institutions or works. The publishers
will supply note books for" jotting
down technical expressions (with
or without their foreign equivalent)
to anyone who is willing to collaborate
and these will be collected some
time next year, and collated by the
editor. The editors also ask that circulars,
price lists, etc., may be sent to
them, as these are a fruitful source of
technical expressions.
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