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. * ' " * ' >>* CEVEN AGES OF WHEELS. A wicker carriage wc provide In which the baby hist may ride. With kilts, a yellow cart arrives,? A doubtful billy-goat he drives. In knickerbockers, down the pike He circuses upon his bike. The age of love and gasolene Demands -a sixty-horse machine. The years advance: he rides afar In his palatial private car. Old, feeble, if the hrtv he fair. His valet wheels him in his chair. Then one last trip he takes on wheels, His head no higher than ins heels. ?Frank Rcc Batchelder. in Puck. I nnMom uTTrtw ! ( UUUOVLflllVil. j C By Nellie K. Blisse t. / "If it's any consolation to either of 11s," Harley said, with a glance at the girl beside him, "I*hear we've behaved splendidly." The girl poked the gravel with the point of her parasol, and avoided his eye. "I wonder," she reflected, slowly, "whether you find it a consolation." "I'm wondering," he retorted, "whether you do.". "But what else." she questioned with a touch of contempt, "cculd we have . done?' It was Harley's turn to poke the gravel. "Well, the chief point in our favor," he explained, "seems to be that we didn't mope?in the middle of the season, with so many anxious hostesses depending upon the support of our brilliant and successful presence. We showed pluck. We didn't wear our mangled and bleeding hearts upon our sleeves, and retire into a corner to bewail our forsaken lot. Every one admits, with extraordinary generosity, that we had every right to do sc?but we didn't. No, we said?in effect? 'Hang the faithless pair! They're not worth our tears'?and society is grateful to us accordingly." He paused and looked at her wth interest. She continued to poke the gravel. ^ "After all," she answered, "moping wasn't much good, under the circumstances. They were married. And? supposing things hadn't gone so far as that?they didn't want us. They took their own way out of the difficulty without consulting us. I think it would have been better if they had given us a chance of .surrendering our< rights to them willingly, but that's a mere detail." She fell upon the gravel with renewed vigor. Harley watched her. "Would you," he said at last, "have surrendered your?rights?in such a spirit of self-sacrificing readiness?" "t nrocn'i- Archie T^ovell's jailer," she retorted, a little haughtily. "I was merely the girl he was engaged to." # "Exactly," he rejoined with warmth. " "That's what I told Angela Coventry? I mean, of course, Mrs. Lcvell. They might at least have given us the chance of being generous." "They chose," she said coldly, "to consider us their jailers. They chose to make a violent escape from our? our custody. They assumed bolts and bars. I always used to think elopments so romantic?in books. That was because I never considered the feelings of the people left behind. Now," she added, with a laugh, "I've "been left behind myself?I know what it feels like." v "It isn't," Harley suggested, "the most gratifying of sensations." "It isn't. And our only consolation," she declared with irony, "is to be told . that we've behaved splendidly?we haven't moped!" The 'gravel flew before the tip of her parasol, Harley looked thoughtfully at the ruin she was making. "It hasn't," he admitted presentely, "'been my only consolation. 1 had another consolation, too." "What was that?" she inquired with interest. "Well?if you want to know?it was the fact that you were taking it so pluckily. If it hadn't been for your example"?there was the ghost of = twinkle in his eye?"I almost think I should have been tempted to mope. Think of that!" "My example!" "Precisely. You carried it off so "well that I had to play up. We were f both in the same dilemma?we were both cast for the ignominous role of The Forsaken. And I imagined, naturally, that it would be worse for you." He cast a sharp glance at her. She looked fixedly at the gravel." "It was worse for you?naturally," he repeated, with emphasis. "I don't see exactly why." she said, in a low voice. "Go on." "And I felt myself responsible, too. in a way. I felt that if I had been able to hold Angela, you wouldn't have lost Archie. But I wasn't able. If she ever cared for me, I wasn't able to make her keep on caring. . . There was something wrong scknewhere, wasn't there?" He paused for an answer. She shook her head. "I don't believe," she said, with 'J "fVldt cho WAS hn If TJUUUf il LL auaucco, ... good enough for you?I never did." "That's odd," he said with a laugh, "because I've always doubted whether Archie was half good enough for you." "The point is," the girl said seriously, "not that a person's good enough for you, but that you want him ^or her. Isn't that it?" "The point is," he returned, "that? as you said just now?they didn't want I us." "But you wanted her," she persisted. | v He reflected for a moment. - : . . _%- - J " ?"- / ' ' : * ' ?-.V* "At any rate," he admitted cautiously, "I thought I did. 1 don't know whether I ought to ask, but you? you really did him the honor to want? him?" "I?oh, I thought I did, to^"~she answered, "if it comes to that." There was a brief silence. "I wonder," he remarked suddenly, "why we're not both heartbroken? We ought to be. you know. Hasn't it occurred to you as odd that we're not?" "Aren't we?" she said, with ntelmr elaborate indifference. "Personally, I'm not?not a bit. I was at first. For 24 hours I was aw fully hard hit. It isn't a nice trick to play a man, ycu know, to bolt with his best friend a fortnight before the wedding?" "It was. perhaps, better." she suggested, "than bolting a fortnight after the wedding." "You couldn't expect me." he protested. "to see it in that cold blooded and philosophical light. No. I don't mind admitting that at first I was awfully hard hit. Then I thought of vou." "Thanks." Her tone was dry.-"Did the thought of me (omfort you?" "Well?I?thought you'd be awfully hard hit, too," be explained rather lamely. "So I was at first," she admitted incautiously. There was a pause. She forgot to torture the gravel. "How long." he inquired delicately, "did it h\t?" "It?"? "The first agony," he said, with solemnity. A smile crept into her eyes. "About?about 24 hours?and half a minute," she confessed. "I told you." he said triumphantly, "that it was worse for you than it was for me!" "By half a minute," she retorted. "Then"? "Well?" he murmured. "Oh. then I remembered you. But That didn't," sne auaea nusui^, V.VUsole me in the least. It made me worse." "Worse!" "I had to be sorry for you, as well as,for myself. Don't you see?" Her tone was a shade impatient. He reflected for a moment or two. "If I'd known that," he said at last, "it would have made my recovery much more rapid. I should have felt it my duty," there was a touch of laughter in his tone?"to avoid giving you more cause for distress than you had already. I should have felt that 24 hours of despair were exactiy 23 hours and 59 minutes-too long. . . I suppose," he hinted, "that we must concede the other minute to blighted affection." "Wouldn't it be more truthful," she suggested, "if we conceded it to?pronriotv W "I shouldn't have dared to mention propriety," he replied gayly, "but I can't deny that I thought of it. . . After all, they didn't want us. Why in the world should we pay them the undeserved compliment of continuing, under such unpromising circumstances to want them?" "I shouldn't have been practical enough to put such an admirably sensible idea into words," she returned, smiling at the handle of her parasol, "but I must admit that it did eccur to me." "It would have helped me enormously," he declared, "if I could have supposed it possible that you might think like that." "It seems to me," she returned, not without an attempt at condemnation, "that you really weren't in need of any help. Your recovery was quite rapid' enough as it was. . . If it isn't the direst heresy to^say so, I'm beginning to wonder whether you?whether you ever cared for Angela at all." "If it isn't the most confounded impertinence on my part to hint at such a possibility," he confessed softly, "I'm nn rhp noint of asking myself whether we were?perhaps?not absolutely desolated by the fact that they didn't want us." # Her head drooped a little. There was laughter in her eyes. "It's quite too extraordinary," she said, "hut the possibility is in the act of occurring to me, too." He moved a shade nearer-to her on the garden seat, "There was something wrong somewhere," he reminded her. "What was it? We weren't able to hold them, you know. We didn't know the reason at the time, cr we should of course, have set the poor things free. We didn't realize, either of us, that we couldn't hold them because we ourselves cared for?well, say, other people." "Other people?" "Say you?and me," he suggested, vaguely. "I for you, and you for"? "But in that case," she said, with delightful severity, "we're a pair of hypocrites. We haven't behaved splendidly at all?and it's no credit to us that we didn't mope. We?we're horrid shams." He captured the parasol?and the I hand that held it. j "I can't permit you," he declared, "to abuse either of us. Don't say we were hypocrites. At the worst, we only j showed a natural talent for the ex1 trcmely useful art of?consolation!"? The Sketch. Fur Coats for Dogs. j "Fur coats for dogs have entirely { gone out of fashion," says the Daily ! Mail. It is, however, an exaggeration to say that, since the pronouncement, St. Bernards and Newfoundlands have been rushing to barbers' shops in the thousands. At the same time there is no doubt that many dogs who had almost stopped moulting have now resolved to keep it up.?Punch. Si m j FOfflDIIJl NATION. | History of tfee Early Bays of tiie Joisstofi Men B7 FREDERIC J. RASKIN. Hew many young Americans appreciate the full significance of the commemoration cf the settling of Jamestown, celebrated by the exposition at j Norfolk? The manner in which the I cornerstone of this great nation was j laid in the Virginia wilderness is one | of the most stirring tales in the long 5 - a- ? *? 3 ? Uao rH recoru 01 mans adventures, v/u the Susan Constant, the Godspeed and the Discovery, which were battered for sixteen weeks between wind and wave, were 105 soldiers of fortune, with not a woman or child among them. They were a turbulent, restless crowd, that alternately diced and prayed, and more than cnce threatened to throw good Master Hunt overboard because his petitions could not stop the storms that sorely harassed them. Fresh from the Continental wars, where they had seen kingdoms rise and fall at the whim of a leader, they grew suspicious of one of the number, Captain I John Smith, and had him imprison[ ed under the charge of planning to murder the other leaders and make himself king of Virginia. Had they not heard tales of him in London, as they sat over their tankards of ale at the Mermaid, or between acts when they went to Black Friars' Theatre to hear Master William Shakespeare in his own tragedies? Had they not heard how he left England an orphan youth, unknown and unloved, to become a soldier in Flanders, how he served with distinction under Sigismund Ba.thcri in the war against the Turks, how he travelled in Russia, Germany, France, Spain and Morocco, to return to England in 1604 a knight and a famous man at the, age of twenty-five? They felt they must needs fear so capable and powerful a man. When the sails of their storm tossed ship finally beat their way. between two sheltering arms of land one spring morning and passed a friendly place, where the winds and the waves were kind to them, they called the place Point Comfort, and it is still so named. One evening, some days later, they swung forty miles up a strange river and dropped anchor by a long flat island that lay mid-stream. A few adventurous souls sprang ashore to see the wonderland whose breath of spring flowers was wafted to them - ? J A tnrougn tne evening suauuws c.ju whose green trees they could see crowding close to the river bank. The men feasted their sea weary eyes on the gorgeous spring blossoms along the shore. The dogwood, honeysuckle and Judas trees were in bloom. It was "the Moon of Strawberries" and the hungry adventurers found the luscious wild fruit clustered thick on the river bank. Captain Smith, in a glow of joyous enthusiasm, exclaimed: "Heaven and earth have never agreed better in making a place for maa's habitation." The original landing place was about j fifteen hundred feet to the west of the present wharf and was swept away by the lapping waters of the river many years ago. The rest of the island lies today very much as it did then. According to Ralph Hamor, an eariy secretary of the colony, it was two and three-fourths miles long and from three hundred yards to one and onefourth miles wide. A neck of land at first connected it with the mainland, but this was washed away in the succeeding years and left "the island of James Citie" as we now see it. They were religious?these early settlers? and one of their first acts on landing was to stretch an old sailcloth on a tree and give thanks to God that they had at last reached this paradise of their dreams. The company included "fifty-four gentlemen, four carpenters and twelve laborers." | When they landed on the island, May I 13, 1607, few knew how to work, nor cared to, until Smith required that all who ate must earn <heir food. Government was at first a difficult matter, for King James, with ever a love of mystery, had put the names of the councillors in a sealed box, which was not to be opened until the new land was reached. All those named proved failures except Smith, and on the work of this man and the charity of the little Indian princess, Pocahontas, the cornerstone of this great nation may be safely said to have been built. A triangular fort was built to guard the approach over the neck of land from the mainland, and a palisade fifteen feet high protected the log cabins and church that made up the village. Over on the .opposite bank a glass factory was in operation as early as 1608. That same year a few more colonists came over, among them beJ ing Mrs. Forrest and her little four| teen-year-old maid, Annie Burrus. WoI ? />vi*rmo 1ir>inp\c; fn thf> bnmP men wcic 0? less, wifeless men, and immediately one John Laydon, proposed marriage to little Anne. The wedding in the old log church was the first Episcopal marriage service in the New World. The next year the first Episcopal baptismal service was said over little Virginia Laydon. John Rolfe adopted the idea of cultivating tobacco from the Indians, and sold his first crop in London for $2.50 a pound. Shortly afterward it became a form of currency in the colony, and before the century was out the women went trading, followed by a cart of green tobacco in charge of their servants. As the colony prospered better houses were built. A large church followed the first one, and when my Lord Delaware came over in 1C10 to take the governorship he came to church in jpreat state, attended by a red-coated y L I guard of honor, and sat on a velvet chair, with a velvet cushion to kneel upon. He had pews, pulpit and win- J dows of cedar, and every day fresh j flowers were placed on the altar. It was here that Pocahontas was married j to John Rolfe, a proceeding that caused King James some alarm, for as the heiress of King Powhatan she and her children might inherit the kingdom of Virginia, and so jeopardize the English King's interests there. Perhaps he was a far-seejng monarch, for among the Randolphs, descendants of Pocahontas, the new nation found good leaders in after years. One of this American princess' descendants is narry 01. ijeurgt; iui'kcj, yicisauviii, v*. the Jamestown exposition. In 1619 came those two great contradictory influences into America, the general assembly, b? which the people could be represented and introduction 01" negro slaves. In the same year, also, came the shipload of maidens, who were sent as wives for the settlers. The price of each was 120 pounds of tobacco, which was equivalent to $80. For awhile the good minister was kept busy with marriage' ceremonies, because the maids were honorable and attractive, and were quickly chosen. More girls came over after this, and the stern governor had to make a law that no maiden should be engaged to more than one suitor at a time. With the women came the love of home. The men were allowed so many acres of land for homesteading, and soon the colony spread out across the river into the forests and plains heyond. Times were so prosperous for awhile that it is said the town cowkeeper was "accoutred in fresh flaming silk." Dale's law required each man to labor from 6 to 10 in the morning, from 2 to 4 in the afternoon, and to attend church twice daily. But the early colonists had much trouble. All the while the king and the London Company complained because greater returns were not coming in from the new dominions. Once, while the crops wasted, the settlers mined a shipload of yellow sand and sent it to England, but they were doomed to disappointment, for it was worthless. In the spring of 1610 came the Starving Time. Of the five hundred that September had seen on the island, May found only sixty felt. Hunger and I fever had taken heavy toll, the Indians had given trouble and thirty of the colonists had stolen a ship and turned buccaneers. These left ate all the animals, and even the skins of the horses. The ship from England was 1 J.. ~ TT^-rrr +VlO\T VnOTXT iuiig uveiuuc. xiuvy wuiu * that it had gone ashore on the Bermudas and that the survivors were building other vessels from the wreck and still trying to reach them? When they had eaten their last ration the white sails of these two roughly made' ships showed in the Tiver, and the starving people crawFed to the landing to welcome them. But on board the Patience and the Deliverance there were only provisions enough to last fourteen days so it was agreed that they all leave for England by way of Newfoundland and the fishing fields. No one can tell whether these things be coincidence or Providence, but as the four ships with the disheartened colonists left the abandoned settlement and sailed down the river, they met the vessels of Lord de la Ware coming upstream and returning to "James Cittie" they disembarked and offered a service of thanksgiving in the little log church.!, And thus our nation was saved. The governors who came and went through the little town left varying imprints on history. There was the stern Dale, who thrust bodkins through the. tongues of the profane a':d set a poor devil to starve because he had stolen a small bowl of oatmeal. Captain John Smith stayed five years to plant the colony, and then at thirty - - ? 1 returned to .England, wnere ne nveu twenty-two years. Lord Delaware was a promoter of enterprises, and it was he who set up a viceroyal court in the wilderness. In 1676 Bacon and his people arose against the too great tyranny of the royal governor, foreshadowing the Revolution by one hundred years. It was Bacon who fired the town and destroyed almost all the buildings, including the church. After that the council met in the taverns for ten years until a new st?.ce house was built. After various vicissitudes the capital was moved to the Middle Plantation, or Williamsburg, and Jamestown went into decline. Decay fell upon the ruins of the village, and the settlers gradually drifted to the higher and healthier localities beyond the river banks. Today there is only the brick tower of the church, with its portholes, the graves of the dead, the foundations of a few old houses, and the old pear and mulberry trees to show where <*<?v>?o pnidiore fortune three OIi.Ul.ii ttHU mo suiuiv.u hundred years ago, amid much danger and loneliness, laid the cornerstone of the nation.?From the New York Tribune. Pitiful Sight. One of the most pitiful sights in London is the sale of thousands of birds of paradise, humming birds, parrots, owls, terns, kingfishers, finches, swallows, crown-pigeons, tanigers, cardinals, golden orioles and other bright tropical creatures besides hundreds of packages of the long, loose, waving "osprey" plumes taken from the backs of various species of small white herons and egrets. Last year, In London alone, to give only two conspicuous instances, the feathers of 150,000 herons and egrets were sold and over 40,000 birds of paradise.? New Haven Register. New Musician. | A big music store in Louisville, Kv., j burned. At one time a dozen streams ! were playing on the pianos.?Denver | Post ==^= JAPAN i I / I v TTC1 /%T?TIVT>C TTVrfT.lv 11 .Ci Wars and Humors of W; Peace and Plent Death of the Japanese , War Scare Announced. Washington, D. C.?Despite the attempts ef a few people to keep life I in the Japanese war scare, it is dead, i In fact, it never was very much alive. | Beyond furnishing employment to i space writers and acting as a political issue with wh-'ch to embarrass the : Ministry in Japan, it seems to have had no reason for being on earth at all. Now it fails to serve even these poor purposes and so is allowed to disappear. The mere fact that San Francisco asserted her undoubted right to regulate her own school affairs could not i by the wildest stretch of imagination - - j* iv ~ furnish a casus neni?except ior uie j newspaper and political purposes aforesaid. Neither could the irresponsible acts of a few hoodlums who j made mo*e or less nostile demonstraj tions against Asiatics?Chinese and I Japanese alike?as thc-y have done ! for years. Trivialities of this tort are matters for the police, not for ! war alarums. And it was thus that ! they were regarded by all sensible ; people, both in America.and Japan. The annual spring war scare having been overworked in Europe, it was necessarily shifted to the Pacific. There is not now, and never has j been, any serious danger of war between America and Japan. . . Chinese Rebels Slay Officials. > Victoria, B. C.?Further advices regarding the rebellion in South j China received by the steamer MontI eagle, state that Sun Yat Sen, who ! for years has been organizing an antidynastic movement in China, left ! Tokio for a few weeks before t-ie outj break, and is reported leading the I revolutionists near Swatow, having ; taken the field May 22 and opened ! operations by attacking the walled j city of Kwang Kong, which was easily captured and all officials were killed. Kaoping and Lin Ching suffered similar fates. The government i troops on the Island of Manwo were i attacked on May 27 and defeated, the j revolutionists then marching upon j Cha Chow, which also fell into their hands, and all of the officials were promptly killed. Thousands of ref1 ?fn fiwatnw where foreien UgCCO Utu V.V WMI.VV.. , w_ warships assembled to protect the city. The Jiji Shimpo, which prints dispatches from its own correspondent regarding the rebellion, states that with the well equipped and amply armed troops of modern China the j revolution must be crushed. 1 Guatemala Arms . Against Zelaya's frivasion. Guatemala City.?Guatemala is arming against the apprehended Nicaraguan attack by land and sea and heavy guns are being planted at the seaports of San Jose, Champerico and Puerto Barrios. Troops are ready to repel an attack from the Honduran frontier, where President Zelaya has massed battalions. Some of the official papers bitterly attack President Zelaya's bad faith, declaring that after agreeing a few weeks ago at Amapala to submit to the United States any difference with Salvador, now openly assists the Salvador insurgents and menaces Guatemala. President Zelaya's campaign against Guatemala will ' fail, but these continual attacks and menaces cause a heavy expense to the Guatemalan Government and visit hardships on a community whose business is paralyzed. Zelaya keeps the whole of Central America in a ferment, wherein Mexico's thi-eatening attitude toward Guatemala encourages him. Texas Saloons to Close. Texas' new liquor license law takes effect on July 11, and as it will require twenty days to get the new license every saloon in the State may have to close for that length of time. Wholesale Trade Erisk. Wholesale trade in fall and winter goods is brisk, large duplicate purchases because of the cold spring having depleted stocks in the hands of retailers. k J ESE JINGO. ~ | ?Cartoon from the Pittsburg Press. *. : SAM TO JUMP. ; W, n?K| ars Abroad; y in lis Land of Outs France Faces a Civil War Incited by Wine Growers. Paris, .France.?The Government 7; acted none too soon in determining , '4 to set the law in motion against the ? wine growing revolutionaries in the ^ South of France. A special correspondent of the v Petit Parisien, who visited the vil-' ; lages of Eeziers and Argelliers, found; *->9 preparations being made everywhere , for resistance. Old carts and E?ayyj^_* out of date carriages, with the. wheeSs~~"J^ removed, were used to form barri-'* cades. Spears we^ stuck into the ground and joined with wires and! brambles interwoven. Fire pumfes were in readiness to drench the sdl~ % diers. The women show even more keen-\ ness than the men. The correspond- ' eDt saw some cleaning sporting riflesand declaring that if any one wanted, to arrest Marcellin Albert he would" bite the dust first. J A late dispatch from Narbonne . J says the people commenced to erect J barricades there, but Ferroul ordered ; J their demolition. The people obeyed , Much activity is reported among j J the troops. Regiments are leaving; n the Midi and others are replacing 1 them. J mmaBO maj Recall Ambassador Aokl. Tokio, Japan'.?There are strong.. * indications that Ambassador Aoki - . 1 will be recalled. y There is an inclination to connect. the rumor of his reported coming recall with Premier Saionji's audience with the Mikado after the Cabinet " Council. The Daido Club, a new party com-; ^ prising representatives of the late1 Cabinet, adopted a resolution deplor-|>.^ ing the Government's dilatoriness and : negligence in th6 face of the San; Francisco incidents, and urging a} prompt solution of, the difficulty.: The resolution declares that "the tra- .. ditional friendship and co-operation ^ of Japan and the United States are . indispensable for the furtherance ot, , 3 civilization and peace in the Far East." V i Japan Fights Formosans. Victoria, B. C.?Advices from For- ) S mosa by the steamer Monteagle tell of brisk fighting between the Jap-; anese and Formosan natives. Thet " 'A Japanese have organized drives with| a daily extended line, gradually forc-! ; jv. ing back the natives, who hold three-1 fifths of Formosa and number 100,-; ; .." v 000. After months of guerilla war-!f m - * ? ?AomnViAf* ' _ _ "1 lare, in which uuuiciuu*? u>iuy?v4. workers were killed, the Japanese i *j troops were systematically driving-; % the natives into submission. The pro-1 ?-, gram is that each advance is made permanent by the construction of I Jj|g roads, etc.* To date 1378 square miles have been covered in this man-' j ner. The natives are fighting des- ^*3 perately. Russia Faces Revolution. | St. Petersburg, Russia.?It j rumored that Admiral Wiren has! .; vj asked the Minister of War to replace' the Brest Regiment, now at Sevasto-|?^ pol, by one whose loyalty is above- ^ suspicion.} It may be recalled that a; i portion of the Brest Regiment tern-' i rv^T-oriiv inJnpd the mutineers of the v fJVA_?? ? __ battleship Kniaz Potemkin during the former troubles. Dr. Dubrevin, president of the; Union of the Russian People, has tel-j J* egraphed the Czar thanking him! /<* for putting an end to the criminal1 Duma and assuring him that the/ : ^ members of the Union will not spare < their lives or property in defense of the monarch. ? / ^ v 3? Appleyard Declared Insolvent. j r * Arthur E. Appleyard, who made a* c ? sensational raid on United Gas Im- t 4 provement Company stock in Phila- . ) delphia, was declared insolvent by the Stock Exchange mere. ... .. . N- ; t?& Freight Rate War. Stockholders are on the eve of opening a war to prevent Western States from reducing freight rates, . \ thereby reducing by millions the in*' ' comes of corporations.