The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 24, 1905, Image 3
>!ake or
* Break
By Harriet Prescott Spoflford
Copyright. 1903, by Hornet PreacoK Stefan)
IP the mediaeval days were full of
demons with which one reckoned,
today has many of them concentrated
In a single aspect?the demon
of unrest. It possessed Charlie
Harding in his shop In the village, the
mills, the depot, the meeting house, being
hard by, and all the gossip of the
burg about Ills counter. And the world
outside grew tempting.
But It was thought that a rich And of
sliver had been made In the neighborhood,
and at once the |price of every
old pasture that even the sheep themselves
would have disdained to crop
had gone soaring out of sight, nnd the
staid old parish that had followed the
way of Its forbears for UUO years and
over i?ad gone wild over lt3 potentiality
of riches.
Of course Cnptulu Harding?a train
Imnd captain of militia was lie?bud
not been in the center of all the talk
without finding opportunity for bonding
find buying and selling land, pud
be hud, as be pbrnsed It, melted down
n good pocket piece through the various
transactions. In the swinging of
fate's pendulum, however. It was presently
found that the silver was not of
n paying sort, and the boom in land exploded
like a bubble. Hut it left Churlie
Harding full of eagerness and tbe
wild spirit of adventure In money making.
"Why nlu't you contented where you
be?" asked bis wife's grandfather.
"There's alters ben silver here seuce
aforo you was born. Wby shoult^ it
make soch a difference to ye all on n
sudden now? Trouble Is ye have to
put It in to get It out. Costs morc'n
It coihes to. There's folks 1 know has
sliver spoons made of it more'u 200
years ago. But, bless ye, (hem spoons
cost inore'u gold. There's gold too.
Didn't yc know It? That Californy
feller panned some gravel out, I hcerd
say, an' got what lie called n color.
But long's spring pano out in the grass
an* yarhs I do' know's 1 keer for the
other color. As long as the blood root
conies, an' the tnarshmaller, an' the
Io: g loaf of the dock that makes a
uiost lieallu' salve, an' burdockd for
blisters, au' crarabrlos to draw out
eaucero, other folks may have their
silver. I5f you an' (.'race wants sil
vcr. Jest keep to work. An' the sooner
yo git tli's silver maggot out'u ycr
brain the letter it'll he for jou. You
got a grow in* business, you're pop'lar,
rn* It ain't ino.v'n n nillo'a walk mornill's
over l > your store when you cant
u;e> yc;* wheel. My king: Here's spring
for sure! Here's a niournln' bride!"
And. all excitement, tiro old naturalist
forgot his stick, hurrying and halting
uu<l slipping nii l stuaiblhig. but making
sure of the beautiful butterfly.
Captain Harding looked after liim and
wondered how a reasonable being could
bo contented with such a life?110 better.
he thought, than a mole's.
(Jrnce Harding, through some unknown
freak of descent, had developed
a great deal more worldly ambition
than any others of her family. She had
Insisted ou going to school when lior
sister Louisa preferred staying at home
and drudging with her mother, and she
had rend novels and taken a fashion
paper, nnd on her nianMage she had
gone to housekeeping in an old weather
beaten farmhouse only as a preliminary
to something altogether liner. It
? was a pretty place, under a green hill,
with great sycamores and a brook
whose banks were lined with blue forgetmenots.
They had built a little
piaszn where they could sit at night
looking down over the marshes, mysterious
in shadow, enchanting In sunlight.
and 011 some days ho rode over
4/% t!?/? ofnun rn life liiff whool. nu whio'i
he loomed a giant figure against the
f.k.v?it was before the days of (he safety?and
on some days he walked, and
the store thrived gently, and Grace had
her flower hods and her row of sweet
pens and went to meeting In her myrtle
green silk gown, with pink roses in her
bonnet?looked upon by Louisa In her
brown delnine as very mueh the fine
lady.
Life then was flowing on serenely,
with now and then a tea party at the
village and every day a visit with her
mother and with Louisa, who was now
married herself and living at the top
of the hill, when one night her husband
oame home and threw down his
hat In a temper. "Well, I'm sick of
this!" he cried. "I've ben doin' some
little outside the store, you know. But
now the boom's gone up, and there's
nothin' more In land round here. I've
turned over quite a few properties,
though, and made my penny every
time. But this is the end of It. Ilow'd
you like to go to Colorado?"
"Colorado!"
"Yea. I'm like trie wild beast that s
tasted blood. Say, I could Just shut the
store as It stands?I took p'r'aps mos'
a dollar today?turn the key an' put it
In my pocket an' git out there in the
thick of things, an' if I didn't stake
out claims an' strike pay dirt I'd put
out what was worth floatln*. An' I've
an idee I could make my Innings. I
learned a lot fum them fellers that wna
here lookln' over the lay of the land. I
see 'em tryln' out the silver buttons"?
"You saw," sakl Grace calmly.
"I s^w them. An' now I've a little
suthln' to the good suppose we Just
J turn the two keys an' try It. The worst
we can do Is to come back again."
Wpr And they did. Captain Harding with
|P a fierce but gay determination, and his
wife with a beating heart and a flustered
face, but with a sort of eager curl{
oslty.
I "It's jest tomfoolery," said her mothm
:4 -
I f or. with a weary sigh, as she twisted
her sparse nnd hRy color??d hair out of
the way.' "Why nlu't they satlstlod
with things as they are?the store an'
the place an* all? I don't b'lleve Charlie
Harding 'U ever giow up?Cap'n Harding'.
What's he cnp'u of exceptln' It's
Grace V
I "Grace Is cap'n, then," said Lcr
grandfather.
"I can't tell where Grace got her am*
> bit ions sperrlt," said her mother.
. "Oh, I do' know," said her husband.
"I was nios' crazy to go to sea, fast
v'y'ge. But one goo.l wreck cured uie,
an' p'r'aps 'twill tbciu."
"Yes," said the old grandfather,
laughing half to himself. "1 guess he'll
be glad to git back on to the land
ag'in."
"I wouldn't wonder If it all turned
out for the best," said Louisa, who had
come down from the hill with her sewing.
But Captain Harding had u > doubts
on the subject. "First thing, so:uc
clothes," said lie. "I've heard s.iy
there's uothiu' succeeds like sue?v.;<.
! an' so you've gutter look successful.
, An' I'll say one thing?if there's anybody
that'll he :v credit to tine clothes
it's my wife!"
And yet, as his wife walked through
the corridors of the Fifth Avenue hotel,
after returning from the far west, a
little awed by the velvet earnet s th<
satin curtains, tlio gilding. the mirrors,
the splendor of the other woineu,
sho was < juseiouH of .something about
herself Uot as it should he. Her bus
hand was all well enough, u bluff and
ready man of business in a business
suit. But either she had on too much
or she didn't know how to put it on,
She felt she was unlike tnose grandes
dames who talked and laughed and
moved at ease. Iler hands troubled
her and made her uncomfortable; her
hair lacked the touch. But still sho
! knew it was only n matter of time;
: she would catch on. Charlie, anyway,
; looked at her with admiring eyes when
he had any time to look at her at all,
She was more lonesome than at first. !
for her husband had become entirely j
absorbed in Ills schemes.
Meantime she was seeing the world.
It went by her in the beginning like a
panorama; it almost made her dizzy.
Yet, although at last she was a part
of it and as eager In the rush as any.
she was never quite at home iu It.
Captain Harding hud indeed had
some measure of the luck ho had hoped
for, and ho was floating the shares
of the Nimble Dollar mine in a way
that made his wife hold her breath
when ho reported his successes to her.
He had been on the ground, ho had
seen the mine, lie knew what he was
talking about, he was not anxious for
too large a price, and he came out of
the transaction with a small fortune.
"Now," he said, "if I did what my
folks nud your folks would approve
of I should lay this down to grass?
' * thnt uiimun lnu-ical?UIRI go llOine and
build a house with bow .winders nud
a French roof and bo the rich niau of
the region."
"Ye3," said Grace,
"But you believe lu me, dou't you 7"
asked he anxiously.
"Yes." said Grace.
"You'd like to seo me one of the millionaires?
I've as good a right to big
money as the best of 'em. and I'm goln'
In for It. I'm goin' Into Wall street In
?aruestP' And Captain Harding had a
sense of assured success which made
him the happiest, best natured and
busiest man alive. "'Taln't luck," he
said to his wife. "It's a long head. I'd
look pretty hid In' such a knack of business
in the corner store, wouldn't I?
And as for you, I'm proud of you every
day!"
But Mrs. Harding was not proud of
herself. She would not let her husband
know It, but sbo felt herself wholly
unequal to meet the women of soelety^'
with whom her husband's affairs
brought her Into some association, Invited
now and then to their houses, to
their opera boxes?women who had acquaintance
with each other, with foreign
life, who knew what to do and
how to do It and who without the least
111 feeling often overlooked and ignored
her and made her feel herself out of It.
She sent home boxe3 of gowns and oih- ;
er things to Louisa and her mother (of
which in their private talks they said
they would have preferred her own
things to make over for themselves,
without dreaming how unsuitable they
would be), and she sent grandma a
gray silk wrapper in whose ruffles and 1
lace she would look like a little old i
flower, as Grace pleased herself by
thinking, and she sent her grandfather
a fur coat and a wonderful meerschaum
pipe. She had a feeling that
such things were, as her husband
phrased it, so much to the good. Now
and then she sent her father a littlo
money, but she did not have much
money. Captain Harding needed all
his ready money, but she had generous
credit?and hills. "Pile It on!" said
her husband. "One must look successful
In order to be successful, you
know!" |
They still lived at the hotel, where
they had what seemed to her royal
rooms, although she never grew used |
to them, and, although entertaining
there those who accepted their Invitations,
she always had a sensation that
one day those people would find her out
I fnr o fpmi/1
|?v? " ?*""" I
She laughed sometimes when she saw
i i herself in the glass, with her bare
1 rhoulders and Jewels, her satin and
i ' lace and marabou, with a kind of
mockery. But she never let her husband
know that this was not what her
Boul longed for, that she was afraid of
i the other women or that she felt all
their own new way of life to be of very
: , uncertain tenure.
Sho did not have so much chance as
i once to let him know her state of mind,
i He was occupied from morning till
night; he was writing and telegraphing
. . and seeing people and down In the lob'
by talking with men till midnight, the
hotel lobby being a minor Wall street.
Tilings seemed to her to be In such a I |OQj,
whirl tlmt sometimes she wondered If ^rju
she were not dreaming. She wrote yyn
home, but she said very little of her- I tj10,
self and her life. She described imper- Spjc
soiiul things, like pictures and shops. ?in>
"Louisa," said her mother once. "It's r^,0
borne in on me some ways that tJrnce
ain't happy. She's got the desire of her nmj
heart, she's out In the world seeln' ..^
things, but she ain't happy."
^ wllU
W n? 1* *
%l'd In oh prcllu." l^i1
don't make out tlie pielur'. Louisa, (jlu
you'll never learn that child to walk talkl
if you carry him so. And it's bad for Wrs
your back to carry such a burden." StuL
"That's what mothers' backs are ?.j?
liuulu ffti" " 1 t iniButua nu.i -- j^'on
kissing her mother. Kisses were rare coiul
among them, but In those duys Louisa (jom
felt as If she must bo Grace and her- mhn
self too. hdto
Whether she was sorry or glad, the *-i]
days went by with Grace, and In tlfelr Mrs.
course she began to understand through keen
the little she saw of her husband that 0the
they were critical days. "It's make or i0et
break," he said to her once. And as Wei
she saw his preoccupation and his celie
anxiety day after day and the breath- will!
less way In which lie lived she felt end
breathless herself. She scanned the i "V
market report3 and specials; she listen- ton,
ed ns she could to the talk of stocks of it
and points and margins, yet she could j "II
make out but little, and It was all very I silvt
harnsslug. She thought she had under- i Com
stood at last that everything depended j feat!
on an arrangement called a deal, which, ) a se
if it could be brought about, meant of r
wealth beyond dreams for all concern- i wha
ed, and, If it couldn't, meant ruin, llut that
it was going to be brought about; It
couldn't fall; women couldn't understand
business of this sort; she must II'
possess her soul in patience. And she of t
tried to do as she was told. But she Veis
know now that her husband had every- Is e<
thing staked on one throw. She leaned to
over him in his snatches of sleep, mut- snia
tering and tossing In Ills dreams, and stan
as she smoothed the lock lightly from are
is forehead she felt she would take all goes
the anxiety from him if she could give iier
him either success or peace of mind. gern
lie had grown white and gaunt of late, wea
eating nothing, waking before light, sit- sue!
ting lost In thought, starting at slight root
sounds with all his nerves o ? edge, hur- tliei:
ryiug as he walked as if ho pursued ters
something flying from him. i the
lie was very much later for dinner nr??
one day than over before. Early in tho The
afternoon a telegram had come and had retu
been brought up to her. Telegrams gem
usually went to the downtown desk wif<
She waited, expecting her husband, n two
long while, and then, as ho did not Eng
come, she opened it. She said it might .
be from home, ltut she was conscious j
that that was not tho reason she open- !
ed it. *
It was n very simple message and in
very terse language. "Gone up." Hut
she knew in nil instant what it meant,
and she summoned all her forces about .
her. I '
Hor husband came in after awhllo
rntlier more boisterous than commonly.
"Do you know where my old silver
watch is?" ho asked wbllo making his
toilet. 4.j
"Why. to be sure; In the upper draw- (1].0]
or In my dressing case."
"With the two keys," he laughed.
"You're a sentimental woman. I sup- ,
pose you have some fancy or other o{ t
about those keys. You're all ready for j |m
the dinner and look like a princess.
Toggery's becomln' to you. You like
It."
"I don't know," she said. "I used to verf
like my old pink ginghams." ,.j
"So did I!" he exclaimed. "Tiresome j.or
work, this going out to dinner business.
I'll he ready in no time. Which is It
tonight? Harder work than when I
went tralnln* '1th the mllltla."
It was several times in the course of
that evening that Captain Harding ^
$
WIT
"That's because she hasn't any ba- ||c,Vl
by," sahl Louisa, dancing her boy 0:1 ()f t
her Knee and then letting him pull her tj10
curls all about her face. "I'm sure 1
don't know what we done before this ^
little person came." ?>
"I'd like to see your baby." (irace jR.r
had written her sister. "Some tlnie? ^ ^
just for a look?I may drop in upon e^rf
you when you least expect it."
"I wish't I could drop in oil her," said
lier mother.
"You wouldn't know her," said Lou- ^nd
isa. "I wouldn't wonder but you'd tj10r
think It was the queen or the presl- ^ejj(
dent's wife or suthln'." ?CW(
"I guess 1 should know my own j)aV(
child," said her mother, "if she was fVQS
ever so tine. I'm glad she ain't ever wj..,
sent for Tommy the way she said she ??'[
was goin' to. I wouldn't want to stand 800,
in his life, hut somehow I feel's though ..-j
grandfather was better for him than jj,0
Captain Harding. I wish't she'd tell
what she's doin' and where she g>e<. 1
, 'I I iiilaLii ?"i
/1
Is 'Adv?wft!kv foei.
Led nt his wife with a smile of
uiph in spite of circumstances,
h what nu air she carried It ofT, he
ight. How she became wealth and
mlor! And yet the girl in the pinlc
;bam dress had been as pretty,
truth was thut for the first time in
career Graco felt sure of herself
on her own ground.
Veil," he said to her when they
e again in their rooms. "I don't bee
any of those men felt as proud
heir wives as I did of you. This is
sort of life you were meuut for. j
too bad?I'm sorry. Bat now brace
I've something to tel! ^\>u."
Co, you haven't," she said, laughing,
great blue eyes blazing, it seemed
im Joyously. And she drew the telun
from under a book,
ly George!" he cried, gazing at her
1 fresh admiring pride. "You beat
record! That's what 1 call sand! i
1 you knew It all the time! Well. '
e it is. I ain't no match for these ?
>rs. By selling my watch and your
els and furs we'll get out whole and
2 enough to buy a little stock of |
h goods for the store. And?and? ^
t do you say?"
'liat we can't start an hour too
t!" she cried.
hen we'll go back and just open up 1
store and dust it out as if not bin'
happened, as if we'd been out to ]
the world and had seen it and was \
died and was back again to the old ,
id with some new notions," ho said ,
ly. "Sowed our wild oats, so to ^
md I'll give you raised biscuits and '
{hunts for your breakfast. And I'll
my chickens and have my plants. '
have a Jack rose. Why, Charlie,
1 be real happy yet!" '
'ou better believe! And with this '
ofT my shoulders! It'll be nuts to
r grandfather, though." t
le'll like to liear you talk, lle'll be '
lie store early and late. And some 1
said (trace, one glad smile 1
iking after another across her face. 1
bring my sewing down to the 1
u and visit with you myself. And I
y day I'll see father anil the rest of '
i at the old place. Ami I'll have so 1
h to tell mother and I.ouisa that 1
'11 think I'm making it up. And 1
Isu's baby?oh, Charlie, It will he 1
too sweet for anything! 1 shall '
as if I'd been born over again!" I
nd if we find a silver mine in the 1
: yard we'll hoard it up," said he.
t'nli?(cii SccnriticM. I
don't see why Mr. btubbs wasn't
ug to lend Willie l'orter the $200
iceded to got that business oppor- 1
ly in Nnshway," said Mrs. Comp- (
to her husband on her return from 1
sewing circle. "Everybody was '
lug about it this afternoon, and
Porter feels real hard to Mr. 1
?l)S." *
oiks have lent money to Willie *
ti uns unu never seen tue,
i* .o' their money again," said Mr. ^
ptou, "and Mr. Stubbs made his t
ey by hard work and saving. Ile'd f
to lose a mite of it."
[o woul 'x't lose a mite of it," said t
Compter ludignanlly. "Willie's f
l unfortunate, but so have some 3
rs now and again. Do you recol- i
your fancy squash Investment? 3
I, anyway, this tiuie Willie had exnt
security- to offer, and he was <
ng to paj* back 2 per cent at the (
too." T
Hint security?" asked Mr. (Jump- (
not deiguing to refer to the rate
lterest offered. 1
[0 offered Mr. Stubbs two dozen (
:r teaspoons and a ladle," said Mrs. ,
pton Impressively, "besides a
licr boa and a seal plush coat and .
wing machine that runs the easiest .
my in this town. I don't know ,
t he could have wauied more thuu .
, I'm sure." .
African IIoMi>ttallty.
jspltality may lie considered as one
he characteristics of not only the |
i. but of the whole African race. It
msldered the duty of every citizen s
entertain strangers without the *
Host compensation. Places of rest
id always open, and when these
found occupied by strangers a man
1 and tells his wife, who will send (
servants with water for the stran- s
to wash their feet, for, as they '
r 110 shoes, they naturally need
1 an accommodation. Afterward 1
us and cloth wrappers are given
n, food is brought from oil qu;\ror
they are invited tu eat with !
people. They continue to lie ho
hied for even If they stay months,
ir- garments are also washed and
irued to them. On leaving they
?rally mnke u small gift to the
} of the host, though not more than
or three coin nuts or two or threo
;lisb pennies,?CenturyFills
the Bill.
Ie claims to have found a suLstifor
gold."
Hupposo he wouldn't part with his
ot for anything."
,'es; he doesn't care who knows It."
las he told you?"
lure." x '
Vkat Is It?"
3reenbacks."
Their Best Friend.
do is the father of thirtecu chll1."
tnd he still has to work?"
res."
I'hat Is base ingratitude on the part
he shoe dealers. They should retire
on an old age pension."
No Wonder.
Vhat Is the secret of Brown's unlml
popularity?"
Ie doesn't know a single remedy
colds."
Proved His Standing.
hear he has become oue of the
citizens of the southwest."
'es, he is luvited to all the lynchu"
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I HAIR &
UENTI
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J Crown, Brid^vwork and R
J Office over Mutual Dry Go
DR. J. M. WALLACE.
| WALLACE &
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leg Crown and Bridge Work
w3 A Specialty. Phone 117.
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A w ire s Revenge
[Original. 1 ^
1
During the latter part of the eighteenth
century two young men, Jean .
Dcsmoulius ami Alphonse Cateret, both
living in Dijon, France, were bosom WO(
friends, (.'ateret proposed marriage to not
a young girl, Louise I'lanoon, but liis tur
suit was rejected. Louise secretly ing
loved his friend Desnioulins, and in the we
course of time Dcsmoulius married her.
He was so devoted to Cateret that Lou- "ol
Ise thought it best not to tell him that
Alphonse had once sought her hand,
mid since Alphonse never told him he j
was in Ignorance of the fact.
roc
Ten years passed. Cateret had gone j-)e
to i'aris to live soon after his friend's
marriage, the Desnioulinses following
later. Both men became leaders in the
revolution which was sweeping over
Prance like a cyclone. One evening
Desnioulins came across the Seine by 1 N
he bridge directly opposite the corps tiot
egislatif and walked toward the Place :
le la Concorde, or Place de la ItovolU- C
don. as it was thou called. At the otli
?amc time Cateret turned into the
dace from the opposite direction. The
two men met at that point where the
guillotine was set up and where it had
lone a great work that very day. Night
was falling, and the Place was deserted
except for the friends. They stapled
directly under the Instrument of
loath and began to talk.
"Alphonse," said Jean, "this revolu- .
ion Is like a tongue of llnme which at /
me moment sweeps In one direction. \
lie next in another. The favorite of (
oday is the condemned of tomorrow. \
"You are right, Jean. Do you know '
that if either of us has an enemy that tox
Mioiny can scud the man he hates to ^r's
he guillotine." ,
?l citra't n," tcplkA Ji>nn. ' ? I I
vere smgre rrae jim, r , __, T
he danger so much, hut I consider iny Tuu
'amily." ^ !'
Cateret stood for awhile lost in
bought, then said: "I have an idea. ^
?uppose we make an agreement. If
*ou are the victim, 1 will pay your
wife 50,000 francs; If I am the victim,
rou pay my mother the same amount."
After some discussion Dcsmoullus ^
onsented. and the friends went to
\VG1
?ateret's house, where the contract
vns drawn up in duplicate, duly e\e- .
ruled, and each party to it took a copy. | ?
Ten days after this agreement I)osnoulins
was arrested under an necusaion
of having corresponded with the
oyalists across the border. lie had j
received a letter from a fugitive, but ^u>
10 one knew of it except his friend (lu,
rateret, to whom he had shown it.
[tut there was nothing in this, for the j(
etter, bearing a foreign mark, must j j)it,
lave been opened in the postoffice. I j)C1|
Louise Desmoulins was frantic at the
lunger that threatened her husband, j
\s soon as she became quieted she set tjl0
ler wits to work to discover who the Ktfl
secret eneiuy could be. At a confer- jnv
;nce she had with her husband in jail
10 told her that Cateret knew of the
etter he had received from abroad.
Louise, remembering that Cateret had
>nre sought her hand in marriage, was
seized with a suspicion which she tinaly
confessed to her husband.
"Nonsense!" said Jean. "There can
he nothing in that, since, at my death
Alplionse must pay you liO.OOO francs."
And ho told her of their agreement.
She was hut half convinced.
Jean Desmoulins died on the scaffold
l>esidc which the agreement had been
made. Ilis wife shut herself up. After
i few weeks she received ouo visitor,
I.A1. ..1.1 1 4 1..1
>i< i IIUOUUIIII .1 I'll) llll/IIW, .VIJMlOllSf
L'ateret, llim she saw constantly and
but a few months after her husband's
2xecution promised him that she would
be his wife. Meanwhile she frequented
the courts and places wherein she
might learn the name of her husband's
iccuser. After awhile she became
known as the widow who was hunting
for one to send to the guillotine. One
lay she received a visit from one of
the leaders of the revolution, who said
to her:
"I know who informed on your husband.
is in luy way, and 1 wish to
get rid or him. I will tell you who he ,,
Is on condition that you trump up an ,
accusation against him, leaving me out '
of the matter. You will not believe me ,,
without proof. That proof I will furnish."
1
"It is proof alone that 1 wish, i
know the man."
"IIow do you know him V"
"By the instinct of u woman." as
"lie Is"?
"Alphonse Cateret."
"You are right."
The visitor the next day met the
widow in a building whore records
were kept and, being in authority, took ;(>r
her to a room whore no other man In
France except the keeper con id go. He
took down a vo.ume which < attained a ^
record of more villainy than any vol- 1
tune lu the wori^l and, consulting au
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ox, turned to ttio nnme of Jean Dmtiling.
There was the charge and
name of the accuser, Alpbonse Caet.
Louise looked nt it apparently
hout emotion; iter guide closed the
>k, and they withdrew.
'he friends of Louise Desmoullns
re shocked a few mouths after her
(hand's death to leurn that she was
marry Aiphonse L'ateret and the
tiding day was set. Catcret, who did
know what moment the tide might
n against him. was secretlv nrenar
to leave Frauce with his bride. A
ek before the wedding was to coiue
the revolutionary committee got
d of his intendeu (light, he was nrted,
and on the very day he was to
re been married he died on the gullno
in the I'lace de la Revolution,
u the book in which his case was
orded appeared the name of Louise
smoulins, informer.
P.LSS1E CHAS^ HAIGHT.
PERT PARAGRAPHS,
ot every French cook took the
able to be born in France.
cuius is the ability to work the
er fellow.
SkJil IgenuinTT
r?lics
vCA
pole
/ V A V IMADf tVrAH
/ f 07 I f\ i |r*p?.oRea
L xvotild really be a calamity to discr
the north pole. So many searchfor
it would be thrown out of a
lie man with three corns on each
t lll.ftlMS Itir VPS U tvt ? M V ? .0.. W
3 has it llgured that the country is
ug to the bowwows.
ou't be discouraged if you find the
ret girl graduate of n month or so
i In the kitchen. A couple of sens
there will not hurt her.
: Is hardly to be wondered at if the
ither prophet is without honor in
own eonntrv.
ow that the world Is once more at
ee let us hope that it will he a long
e between wars.
idian summer was not Invented by
Indians, though possibly they were
ones who saw It first.
t is doubtless a great relief to a
am 1st to he discovered, for the susiso
must be something awful.
ho simple life does not appear to
so who through force of circumnces
must lead it as the greatest
ention of modern times.
Nonsense Soojjn
Salil the river to th*? forest,
"I would go away somewhere
Ami would like ihe same to borrow
If yea have a trunk to spare."
Paid the forest: "At your scrvlec
Are my trunks, I oft have said.
When you go upon your journey
May 1 He upon your bed?"
Said the river: "I nn.\ sorry-.
But my springs are out of whack.
I allow to get some new ones
Just as sow* ms I come back.
As it V*. you're welcome to it,
And I think 'twould he a lark
When the lobsters try to bite you
If you'd scare them with your barlt.'*
Said the river, "I must trnvel
As boeomcs my wealth arid rank.
Ami should 1 run out of money
I can draw upon my bank."
Said the forest: "That is proper;
You mart take the trip first class.
If my leaves are In the humor,
They will rustle you a pass."
Said the liver: "That is lovely.
It Is nice to travel free.
For my incul.s and small expenses
I can lire my current. See?"
Ami his mouth began to water,
Thinking on what he would get,
So he started on his Journey,
And I hear he's going yet.
Only One Luxury.
Ho is carrying heavy life Insur e."
For the hcnctit *>f his family?"
No; lie isn't married. He can't sup- *
t a wife ami keep up the premiums."
Keeping it Up.
lie takes his wife to the thenter just
lie did lief ore they were married."
Considerate of him."
Yes, hut he courted her in the coun,
where there were no thentera."
mitntlon may he the slncerest flaty,
hut we like tlio straight kind the
it.
i man never forgets his wedding day
mi though he might not be able to
I you the date of It.
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