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0?0*0*0*0*0*00o0*0*0*0*0*c t |\ICKEY'S s S V ATONEMENT ? ? By SARAII B. KENNEDY O O o ? O Cupi/riyht, luoJ, bii T. C. McClurc O 0*0*0*0*0*0*00?0o0*c?0*0*0 Miss Delnnoy, who had boon to Washington and scow several theatrical "stars," might tilt her nose as she pleased, but the fact remained that the entertainment given by the "Smithvlllo Thespians" was a success. Miss l>olaney said the performative was lacking in "artistic finish." hut Kinilhvillc went and paid its money without regret and laughed as it had not laughed in years. True, the intention of the Thespians j was not to make people laugh, for iu their self adulation they had essayed a tragedy. Hut from tragedv to com edy was an easy step with Dickey Halt in tlic cast. Something was always sure to happen to Dickey. That which hefcll him iliis particular night seemed trivial in its nature, hut was far reaching In its consequences, lie cpiito forgot that afternoon to purchase a pair of long hose to wear with the knee breeches of the colonial costume ill Which lie was to enact the heavy villain and at the last moment bribed the maid from the girls' dressing room to surreptitiously borrow a pair for him. These he donned so hurriedly that he failed to notice the owner's name worked in bright silk just below the knee. Hut there were opera glasses in the lions-.', atul soon the audience knew what he did not. The applause accorded hint was as unexpected as it was gratifying, and he looked compassionately at John Moore, the "leading man." who thought to reap all the honors. Hut in the most thrilling scene of the second act, where his villainy was denounced, there came an awful moment. "You are a penniless impostor!" stormed John, giving the lines as they were. "Why, the very shoes in which you stand are not your own!" And then before Dickey could make his grandiloquently scornful reply a small hoy in the front row rose and cried excitedly: "And neither is the stockings his, for they've got my sister Belle's name on 'em !'* After that a permanent return to pompous tragedy was impossible. Even John Moore's imposing voice and Jessie Dane's well simulated tears failed to keep the spectators in awe. Dickey's stockings were the "stars of the good lie couqmnie," and every time he appeared ho was greeted with shouts and applause. Though the delighted audience went out into the niglrt regretting no penny spent for tickets, behind the scenes Dickey had the whole troupe about his oars. Ihit the only criticism that hurt hint was Jessie Lane's. With Jessie ho had lout,' believed himself in love, and it hurt him when she said: "You quite spoiled most of my part, and you made my poor little sister Belle more miserable than I can tell you." The next night he called upon her to make ids peace and found John Moore in the parlor ahead of him. "Oh, I have quite forgiven you," laughed Jessie, "but Belle lias vowed j "vengeance against you, and if you arc ' wise you will go out yonder on the ! porch and pacify her. You used to bo ! quite a hero in her eyes." So Dickey left John with Jessie and went miserably out to where Belle, ! aged sixteen, swung in a hammock and pouted, lie had known and petted iter j in days gone by, and lie thought soon to smooth her milled plumage. Instead he found her obdurate and full of reproaches. However, he must pacify Jessie's 'sister. So Dickey spent the evening l>y the hammock. The next time he came it was tiie same. John Kfi f- wtlti .tcs<ii? mill lie uMia Imnwliml to the porch ami I telle. That young lady had framed an elaborate programme of reparation for the humiliation to which she had been subjected, lie must bring her bonbons and llowera and sing to her in the summer moonlight to his mandolin. Dickey undertook those tilings in a spirit of pcnl- ' teneo and martyrdom. Night after night, lie sat on the porch and strove to be amiable while mentally lie was fuming against John. He sometimes wondered why nice girls like Jessie had to have small sisters. During the second week of his enforced reparation he made a discovery. Ilelle had lengthened her dresses and twisted her braids info a knot on top 'of her small head, and with those personal changes there had come also a touch of eo'pulr.v to her manner that I Southern R.a THIS GREAT RAILWAY RUNS GREAT COUN i CONVENIENTLY UNITING ALL THE I OF THE SOUTH. I W.A.TURK. S. H. Passenger Traffic Manager. General Washington, D. C. W. II. TAYLOE, Ass'i Gon'l Pass. Age * L t --/fOr * ? made lier the most de'ightful c mpau ion. !li- found lie was fretting less over John's advantages, but now and tlr-n tlie old jealous thoughts would t come. "Ar> you not almost placated?" be I asked laughingly one night. Itol!e answered with spirit: "Do you think six boxes of chocolate and three bouquets would atone for all that laughter in the dross circle and those catcalls from the gallery. No, indeed!" Dickey acknowledged that she was right and went on playing the agreeable. and as he was as much philosopher as martyr he set himself to get all fie pleasure possible out of his new role. It was really surprising how quickly time passed in Hello's presence. ! As r-he swung in the hammock with ; her It ngthcucd skirts front'rouing about ! her she made him tell her all about j his hopes in his profession and never doubted but that he would a< !.i< ve his ambitions. Sometimes she talked of Jessie and wished, with a languishing glance into Dickey's eyes, that she were like her sister, "it would lie so lovely to have a man like Dickey in love with her." lie. looking close to lit;*1 the coveted likeness, discovered she was very much more beautiful than Jessie and wondered that he had never known it before. After six weeks of this sort of thing Belle sighed prettily and said she supposed lie had spent quite enough time and money on her to salvo her hurt and tlmf 1... I....I I...1I 1 ?- .. in in- 11.in ui'iiri ii-MUUC IliS nilClltions to Jessie. Of course she would miss him, she added with drooping lids, but she trusted slit* was no usurer to claim more than her debt, Dickey went away witji an odd sense of something lost tugging at liis heart. 'J'he next evening he came, intending to go into the parlor and begin his rivalry with John, hut somehow the lonely little figure in the hammock drew him aside, and he spent the evening as lie had spent the preceding ones?in the moonlight. "Condi>y," he said at parting. "Tomorrow 1 really must break into John's game and recover my lost ground." She sighed and then laughed so quickly that lhckcy could scarcely separate the two. lie stood confused for a moment, and when he recovered himself he found that lie was still holding her hand and that she was watching him sliyly. lie went away With his brain in a whirl. In his efforts to sooth her feelings had he made the child love him? Far into the night he sat smoking and thinking, and in the morning the queer feeling was still in his breast, and ltlackstone lay open but unread before him all day. In the afternoon as lie left liis ollice there was a commotion at the nearest street corner, and a runaway horse dashed into view, dragging a dogcart in which sat two girls, Jessie and Hello. TUt; quick turn about the corner Rent the cart careening on one wheel, and almost as Dickey recognized the occupants they were spilled in the dust. With a cry Dickey rushed forward and passing one prostrate form, caught the other in liis nrninwiHi wnnla nf cs>1!r>i. tons endearment. But the figure drew resolutely away. "This is not Jessie. This is"? lint Dickey only held her the closer "Not Jessie, but the phi I love, the only phi I ever really loved! Let John take care of Jessie. Are you hurt, dear?" There was a contented siph against his shoulder. "I haven't any pain now, not even in my heart, which lias often ached at your indifference." "John and Jessie are to be married in the winter," she told him later. "I'm plad of it. We'll dance at theii wedding," ho laughed. "But, dear, I'm only a poor young lawyer, and"? "And I'm ages too young to marry, so I'll wait a whole year for you, and if you give up smoking and send mi only one box of chocolates a week you can save no end of money." And so it was arranged, and when Miss Delaney next spoke of the lack ol artistic finish to that theatrical per forniance Dickey stoutly declared tin "finish was the llncst on earth" auc held to his point. Planning Revenge. "When I prow up I am going to lick that cross old teacher." "I am going to do something cruder than that. 1 am going to marry her If she is still single." Always Full Cost. You cannot buy experience At any bargain rate; n i? no\"i r on mo counter "Marked ilown to 98." Knew His Friend. "Have .voti a good landlord?" "Well, ho Is good 1o lilinwlf." lILWAY we run the 'i through a best vesti3est sections Bill F TRAINS . and have the best dining nt, Atlanta, g*. car service ^ M 4 Miss Bda. M. Snyder, J TreaMirer of tiio ] it Broolilji! Kail End Art Club. j {( i " If women would pay more attention to jc ! ihcir health we would have more happy ; wives, mothers and daughters, and if they j would observe results they would find j j , that the doctors' prescriptions do not 01 j perform the many cures they are given di I credit for. >v ? In consulting with my druggist he ad- ot vised McElrec's Wine of Cardui and Thed- H r, ford's Dlack-Draught, and so I took it and fl jt hive every reason to thank him for a new I life opened up to tr.c with restored health, | ? ana it only toox three months to cure me." 111 1 Wino of Cardui isaregulatd^f the p menstrual functions and is a most astonishing tonic for women. It cures j scanty, suppressed, toofreipient, irrcg- ^ ulurnml painful menstruation, falling [ of the womb, whites and flooding. It > is helpful when approaching womon[ hood, during pregnancy, atter childbirth and ia change of life. It fre- j . niiently brings a dear baby to homes : that have been barren for years. All ; druggists have ?1.00 bottles of Wine ^ of Cardui. til I >. ? t *r Humor and Philosophy lH Dy DUNCAN M. SN1TII Hi In 5? ji . Copyright, ICO I, by Duncan M. Smith. tc PERT PARAGRAPHS. ni Whore there is smoke there is ant to he n man about the house. fli l'ools are not always such fools as j, they look. Sometimes they are worse. t-f ? T Anxiety is almost always squint i-( eyed. 1? ? e: When you have nothing else, have patience. \.\ ? tl Twins are an excellent treatise on pi domestic economy. si ? tl Sometimes a man is a bachelor ho- R cause he cannot get his own consent to p marry, but generally it is the girl's that n Is lacking. .c, ? ti \ Children cannot understand why their parents are so contrary. ' I ? A politician changes with every wind, and a statesman does not. That is why we have more politicians than statesmen. 1 If yon think it takes sixteen ounces ' to make a pound, get a pair of scales atul weigh your sugar. j ^ rl i Tlie wild waves are saying that the n fellow is a chump who rides over them , at this season of the year. a I , Ymi rnnnnt nlwtivu *nmej ***!*?% o 1\aw ?. ?... .VW ??v " "Ul? ? . wants when lie is polite, but you know I that lie wants something. Three miles of telephone wire between n man and the fellow he .'s talking to often makes a brave man of a coward. p ? ir , It is pleasant to associate with a p] good worker unless you are the one he- in lng worked. n< . ? s What you are saying about others behind their hacks is al>out what they are saying about you, or approximately so. 01 n Where Is He Hiding! Whcro Is tlio man who come six months ' ngo Longed for old winter to come with Its snow, J Wanted the temperature set for awhile Down below zero for more than a mile; "Wished for n snow bank and longed to be there , Burled In whiteness clear up to his hair? Where Is he now when the cold Is on hand? Having the time of his life as he planned? He was quite certain way back In July $ Ho would enjoy It IBB9I P inowny0 the >< I Shoveling snow, / -dlPtQi 8 that was where ??_5VE* C$1 0- cl, ho wouldn't WilliS^/^XT&Smmr ~~ K" wronK. . ' - / <^TJl Dut would enjoy f-Ui *ii fffinM 'or al* ?' a li ?'J/ MSyfoe n month yY ere tho stove he would seek. Where la he now? Busy shoveling snow? Working away like tho man with tho hoe? Where is he? Woll, I don't have to explain. ) You know tho fellows who always complain; Wanting it cold when the weather is hot, Thinking an Iceberg would just touch the n spot. ;"t Whero la be now that the winter Is " prime? Wading In snow banks to have a nice ' tlm it H No; ho is hugging tho stovo, I'm afraid, V Longing for ninety degrees In the shade. if... j J St The Enrly "I,oco Motive." From the diary of Thomas Creevey, rho lived iu England during the early art of last century, the following is noted: "Lady Wilton scut over ycstcrny from Knowsley to say that the ( h'o motive machine was to be upon the aihvay at such a plnee at 12 o'clock ur the Knowsley party to ride in if ; (toy liked and Inviting this house to e of the party. So. of course, we were t vur post in three carriages and some orscinen at the hour appointed. I had <o satisfaction, for I can't call it n leasure, of taking a trip of live mile? 1 it, which we did in just a quarter < f an hour?that is, twenty miles an < our. As accuracy upon this subjeel 1 as my great object, I held my watch * i my hand at starting and all the 1 me, and as it had a second hand 1 4 new I could not be deceived, and 11 1 > turned out there was not the differ- ' ice of a second between the coachee 1 I'niHliK'IrtV mid mvtsiilf Tint" nlieorve. 1 uring those livo miles the machine iih occasionally made to pnt itself 1 it or go It, anil then we went at the 1 lie of twenty-three miles an hour nnd ( ist with the same case as to motion f absence of friction as the other nor ' :il pace, ltut the quickest motion ia r mo frightful. It is really llying, and ( is impossible to divest yourself of 1 io notion of instant deuth to all upon ( e least accident happening." * The W'eluli Tongue. The author of "Yorkshire Folk Talk" ' lis an amusing story of an English * shop's struggles to master the Welsh 1 ngue. He had been appointed to the f Ylsli see of St. David and on taking ( his abode in Wales engaged a native * "clsh scholar to give him instruction 1 the language. The pronunciation and 1 specially the 11 bothered the bishop, 1 ul the Welshman was almost at his > its' end to explain the lingual process ' r which the formidable sound was to 1 i uttered. 1 At last a bright thought struck him, 1 Hi, being very obsequious in manner, thus addressed the bishop: "Your * rdsliip must please put your episcopal ' eigne to the roof of your apostolic 1 outh and then hiss like a goose." Water CnuneN Flreo. That water can cause lire may at 1 rst seem a little unlikely, but this is ' ist what happened on the western 1 last of Ireland only a few years ago. 1 he rocjis which the great Atlantic 1 tilers had for centuries been slowly 1 caking down and piercing with great ' ivcrns contained great masses of ^ y rites and alum in their depths. At st the persistent water penetrated to icse. and combustion immediately took lace, producing heat fierce enough to t the whole cliff on fire. For weeks ' le rocks burned like a volcano, nnd rent clouds of smoke and vapor rose ; igh in the air. When at last the fire led out masses of lava nnd clay burn- i 1 to brick were found in every dlreeon. There Is a Cause. We kindly take to good advice { Prom gentlemen who liavo the price. The same advice we're apt to flout Just let a poor man hand it out. The reason Is not far to seek? 1 Perhaps no later than next week We may desire to make a touch; The poor man could not help us much. ( Gauged His Speed. "Our frlcml .Tonka didn't got elected t congress." "No, but bo also ran." "From what I saw of Hie returns, I lought it looked more like a slow a lk." Why She Doubted. , "The fortune teller says I shall marry \ cli." ] "That lets me out, because I haven't ] cent besides my salary." \ "I never did believe in fortune tellers, ] nyway." 1 1 They Pail Us. We figure out how we may shirk I Our task and make a hit. Ah, If our schomes would only work, Then straightway wo would quit. ' m ? # lie Cheerful. ] You And yourself refreshed by the ' resence of cheerful noonle? win not I lake earnest efforts to confer that ] leasure on others? You will find that alf the battle is gained if you will , ever allow yourself to say anything i Iconiy. (iettlnar Itnck ut Him. "Pin afraid," said the actor when a nhhagc came within an inch of his ose, "that somebody in the audience as lost his bead,"?Iioston Transcript. Don't Have an ing Di We are reo? supplies, and h Don't pay 25c p by parties who - will be put in. will guarantee Bailey Lumbi -*??rDR. I. M m.DEN1 CJrown and Bridge V*Tork a Specialty. SOLAR HEAT WAVES. ri:c Sun nml <I?e Hot Stove Pour Ont tlie Sr. tuc lvind of lOnerjyy. Po far as I know no reasons at all for loubting the high temperature of the :entral body of the solar system have )ver been found. There are in general hreo distinct ways in which heat can >e transferred from one body to anither?conduction, cfmveetlon and radlUion. The first two are dependent jpon the i>rcscucc of matter. The latter will take place across a perfect rncuuiu. We may receive heat from n stove by ill three methods. If wo place our Sands upon it we receive heat by conlnctlon; if we hold them above it thoy ire warmed by convection, the heat beng brought to them by the rising cur ont of hot atr; if now we staud In front if the stove we still feel Its warmth, :he sensation In this case being pro.luccd by the heat waves which It uni*. xiiL-au nnvrs ?re similar to xne dectric waves useil In wireless tclegra>hy, differing from them only ln^tlielr cngtli. They bear the same relation to hem as the ripples on a mill pond boor :o the Atlantic rollers. With the instruments at our disposal at the present time we can measure the length of hose waves as accurately as we can measure the length of a table with a 'ootrule. and *vc can prove that they ivlll pass through a vacuum, a plate of ;lass or a tank full of liquid air wlth>ut losing their nbtlity to warm our lands. Wo find, however, that If we >ass this radiant heat through certain nibstances? water vapor, for instance -its Intensity is diminished owing to !hc fact that some of the waves hnve jecn absorbed. It Is possible to deferable the exact length of the waves of lent which have been removed by nbjovptlon in the vapor, and If we test :he radiation which conies to us from the sun we find that waves of this same length are absent, the water vawr in the earth's atmosphere baring refused to transmit them. This fnct. taken alone, is pretty good evidence that the sun and the hot stove are louring out the same kind of energy.? *. W. Wood in Harper's Weekly. CHINESE PROVERBS. A vain woman Is to be feared, for she will sacrifice all for her pride. A woman without children has not yet the most precious of her jewels. A haughty woman stumbles, for she cannot see what may be in her way. A woman desirous of being seen by men Is not trustworthy. Fear her glance. Respect always a silent woman. Great is the wisdom of the woman that holdeth her tongue. Trust not the woman that thlnketh more of herself than another. Mercy Will not dwell In her linnrt A mother not spoken well of by her children Is an enemy of the state. She Bhould not live within the kingdom's wall. A woman that respects herself Is more beautiful than a single star; more beautiful than many stars at night. The Table* Turned. A story is told of a high Indian officer who was In the habit of soundly thrashing his servants when they dls- | pleased him. One day he ordered his I ill ansa umh to go to n summer house in ' the compound and wait for him there, presently turning up with a heavy tiorsewhlp. lie then addressed the offender : "Now, you scoundrel, I've got you in a place where no one can hear, and I'll lust thrash you within an inch of your life!" The servant, though a man of powerful physique, squirmed, native-like. "Sail, you sure no one can hear?" "Yes, you scoundrel; I've brought you liere on purpose!" "Then, sah, I think I thrash youP' And he did It so thoroughly that his master wus not visible for a week. " The pump, which once the milkman's friend Was Ly the wise regarded, To keep up with the modern trend By him has been discarded. To aid the gentle, patient cow He makes use of the hydrant now. IT PAnnnn+iAUfi M Jf UUilllGUllUild IU me Until Yon ? living a large stoofa ave employed an ex >r foot for having oom will be gone, when We are in the busine all work. sr and Manufi Office Bank Building Union. 8. O Hnlalngr Slavea For Market. "No slaves. uo slaves," says the Atlas Moofunpnticntly, "and lu the town they are slow to raise them." I want an explanation of this strange complaint "wuni ao you menu wueu you say *~ thoy are slow to raise tliem?" I ask. "In Marrakesli, now," he explains, "dealers buy the healthiest slaves they can And and raise as many children as is possible. Then so soon as the children arc old enough to sell they are ?old, and when the mothers grow ohl snd have no more children they, too, are sold, but they do not fetch much then." The infamy underlying this statement takes all words from me, but my informant sees nothing startling In the case and continues gravely v ? ? mm "From six years old they. n??-?old to bo companions, and from twelve they go to the harems. Trices are good, too * high Indeed; $54 I must have paid this afternoon to purchase one, and when Mulal Mohammed reigned the price would have been $20, perhaps less^ and for that one would have bought fat slaves. Where there is one caravan now there were ten of old times."-? From "The Slave Market at Biarrakesh," in Harper's. A Good Reason, "They say that history repeats Itself." "Terlinps it does things over so the historians will get tliem correct." Not In the Name. By any other name a roae 1^. Would Just as sweetly smell; 80 would a kIuo works, I suppose. Or butter that they sell For Al. first class, country mads When It is hardly second grade. Pleasure Came Later. "He Is so cheerful that he can extract pleasure out of a toothache." "How does he do it?" "By having it stopped." . . PERT PARAGRAPHS. One of the disagreeable things about a misfortune is that it is sure to develop the lt-mlght-bave-been-worop consoler. Dishes that are washed by machine look It ^ v r V Economy with somepeopla ll | con* serration of dollars In order that some unusual extravagance may be Indulged In. \ Some wives raise the dust because their husbands can't When a slioe Is worn out we throw It away; when a Joke Is worn out it's with us to stay. Experience is a good schoolmaster, but there are people on whom even he can't make an impression. A fool and his money sometimes have a jovial parting. A man never hugs a delusion bard enough to choke it to death. If wealth does not bring happiness, it puts up a pretty good imitation. The best thing to do with a secret Is to forget it. * . __ s A woman's Idea of a hero Is exemplified in a six footer with a curled mustache. If Justice were not blind she would see some sights that would sear her eyeballs. The scarcer butter becomes, the stronger it goes. A diplomatic person is one who saya what you don't want him to say in such a way that you can't tell whether he said it or not. As soon as a tune becomes popular it is unpopular. ade or Plumb-1 iee Us. I : of plumbing | pert plumber* 1 sections made I the plumbing 1 =1h acturing Co. | a