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THEIR REAL WEDDING By F. A. MITCHEL *? ? John Humes, foreman at an ironworks. had an assistant. Peter Itucker I'eter was as necessary to the works as the engine that supplied the motive power, and he worked as steadily us the flywheel whieh turned just so many revolutions every day in the week, flumes often told the superin teudent that he could get on without any one under him except Pucker I'eter was thirty-live years old and unmarried. Humes took him home to supper with him one evening, and there he saw for the tirst time Ilurnes daughter, Madge, sixteen years old Pucker was looked upon by the girl as a friend of her father and of an other generation. Hut while Pucker was talking shop with Humes he had an eye for Madge, and he wished he could knock ten or (ifteeu years off his ni'H sn flint clwt u-nul.1 !/"?! In a different li^rlit. When lie left the Burnes home Mrs. Burnes said to her husband: "Did you see the looks he gave Madge?" "No. What d'ye mean?" "I mean that lie's a chance for the lass to get n good husband." "Tuab, mother! She's only a child, and when she comes a year or two older she'll be thinkin' o' some laddie with a sproutiu' beard." "She's thinkin' o' one o' that kind now. There's a younker that comes to deliver goods from the store that's caught her eye." The result of this interview was that Ruclier was asked again to supper, and when the menl was over Burnes had a headache and must go to bed and his wife must nurse him. That left Madge to entertain Rucker, which she did with a poor grace, for she was thinking of the grocer boy. Bob Decker, with whom she had an engagement for the same evening. Rucker divined this to be encourage ment on the part of Madge's parents, and since M.ulge kept her feelings to herself his heart leaped for joy. With u.uvu oiuuiuuufi nir usivuu uunies n he would object to his trying to win his little girl for n wife, nnd Bunies assented. But It was Mrs. Burnes who won Madge for tho wooer, though he thought he had done it himself. The mother held a picture of comfort with Itucker and one of poverty with Decker should she marry him, for his salary was but $15 a week, with 110 prospects. So on the day Madge was seventeen she gave her hand to the sturdy mechanic, while her heart remained with the grocer's delivery boy. Rucker did not expect much demonstration of affection from his wife. lie calculated on her growing dependent upon him nnd thus drifting into that affection which follows later in life between married couples. But he noticed that she had none of the elasticity. the spirits that should be in one on the threshold of life. This seemed to go from bad to worse, and one day he said to her: "Tell me, little one, what troubles you. No matter what it is. I will make it right if it is possible." Her only reply was tears. Rucker spoke so kindly to her. urging her to cast her burden upon him. she trusted him so implicitly, that at last she told him that she loved Bob Decker, but could not have married him because ho was poor. She had therefore yielded to her mother's persuasion that she should marry Rucker. Had the ironworker been struck by one of tlie sledges used Iu the works he could not have been more completely knocked out. But the soul of a strong man will stand up when his body will go down. Not a twinge did he permit his young wife to see. It was some time before ho spoke again; then he said: "I didn't know I was standing in the wajr of your happiness, little one, or I would not have done so. But 1 am In honor bound to undo what 1 have done. I will see that you secure a legal parting with me, and not only that, but to make amends for the wrong I have done you 1 will make it safe for you to marry the man you love. I have a bit saved and will give it to you that you may not want." There was a strange look in the young wife's eyes when she lifted them to her husband. But she snid nothing. There was going on within her something that she did not recog nize. The young man to whom she was to be given came up before her. He was a very ordinary youth, whom she had sot up In her mind to worship But somehow she could not conceive of his doing anything like this. The man whom thus far she had looked upon as standing between this young lover and herself now suddenly loomed up as something grand, something noble In a twinkling it was revealed to her that to exchange him for the other would break her heart. Words could never undo the words she hud spoken. Fortunate is woman that she has something stronger than n'linlti ivlil. ..I.O.I. ... . .. ...V.I ...... II IU gA|)IO? IILTSl'll ami which seldom falls with man Tears came again. "Don't cry. little ??ne. It will soon be all right. It can be undone and you will yet be happy." lie reached for her hand to soothe her. She throw her arms around his neck. "You may go tonight," ho said, "and I promise you that within a year you shall be living contentedly"? "I don't want to go!" she sobbed. That was their real wedding. The former one had heen a sham. WAGNER'S TWO WIVES. On* Helped Him to Attain Succeee, the Othvr to Retain It. In the case of Wagner we And female Influence exerting strong power In some of his compositions. The uncomplaining devotion of his first wife can scarcely be exaggerated. During the Paris days of poverty she trudged about seeking and obtaining loans for her husband (a Wagnerian loan was practically a gift*, she took in lodgers in their humble apartments, she blacked the boots of husband and lodger. She sewed and washed ami drudged only to be set aside when the days of prosperity came and when she object ed to her husband seeking Inspiration from the wives of other men. Such inspiration lie found in Mathilde We sendouck. who was the chief factor in bringing forth "Tristan uud Isolde." Hut the reader should imagine two distinct Wagners, almost u real Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?Wagner the I.It tie and Wagner the Great. The latter it was who never forsook his highest ideal in art, who worked a quarter or n century upon n great music drama, "The King of the Nilte lungs," without t lie hope of ever see ing it given, and wrote to n friend, "If I live to complete it I shall have lived gloriously, and if I die before it is finished I shall have died for something beautiful." The second wife of Wagner was Cosima, the daughter of Liszt. Cosimn Wagner was a helpmate Indeed for her imperative and very erratic husband. She was his secretary. She stood as the buffer between him and troublesome visitors. She was the diplomat who smoothed out many a trouble that was caused by Wagner's impolitic and irritating ways, and. next to himself. Wagner loved her as well as anything on earth.?Louis C. Elsou in Mother's Magazine. TORRICELLI'S VACUUM. Experiment That Led to the Invention of the Barometer. The barometer was invented by Torrieelli. a pupil of Galilei, in 1G43. In attempting to pump water from a very deep well near Florence he found that in spite of all his efl'orts the liquid would not rise higher in the pump stock than thirty-two feet. This set the young scientist to thinking, and as he could not account for the phenomenon in any other way be was not slow in attributing it to atmospheric pressure. He argued that water would rise in n vacuum only to such n height as would render the downward pressure or weight" of the column of water just equal to the atmospheric pressure and. further, that should a heavier fluid be used the height of the column could be much reduced. To prove this be selected a glass tube four feet long and after sealing one end filled it with mercury and then inverted it in a basin containing a quantity of the same peculiar liquid. The column in the tube quickly fell to a height of nearly thirty inches above the mercury in the basin, leaving in the top of the tube a vacuum which is the most perfect that has ever been obtained and which is to this day called the Torrleelll vacuum in honor of its discoverer. The name of the instrument means "weight or pressure measure." and its fundamental principles cannot be better illustrated than by the above described experiment. Jeems Henry Was Conjured. "Mars John." excitedly exclaimed Aunt Tildy as she pantingly rushed into a lire engine house, "please, suh. phonograph to de car cleaners' semporluuj an" notify Dan'l to emergrate horn#* (lin Pfon 11 r 1.- ovo Tnnmo 11 sho' done bin conjured! Dr. Cutter done already distracted two blood vultures from liis 'pendercitls, an' I lef him now prezaminatin' de chile's antebellum fur de gcrmaus ob de neuroplumonin, which ef he's disinfected wid doy gotter 'noculate him wid the ice coldlated quarantimes. But I b'lieves it's conjuration."?Richmond Times-Dispatch. Test of the Elect. Let me ask you a question. Did you ever on a freezing winter day stand precariously in one slippery washbasin while you sponged your shivering self with about a quart of water from nnollter china howl? If you think you would have persisted in this morning after morning in an unheated bedroom through zero weather I salute you. You belong to the elect.?Atlantic Monthly. Flow of Solid Metals. Metals flow into each other just as gases and liquids mix. though more slowly. If a cube of lead is placed on one of gold, the surfaces of contact being kept smooth and clean, and left for a month a small quantity of gold will be found to bave penetrated the lend. Getting Solid. . "You certainly is n fine cook, ma'pm," . said the trnmp nt the back door after being fed. "Oh. I didn't cook that food you ate," said tlie lady. "I keep n maid." "Well, ma'am, it's Just as good as if | you did."?Yonkers Statesman. A Backslider. First Modern (Jirl ? I can't quite , make up my inind about Dollle. There " is something queer about her. Second Modern (Jirl?I'll tell you what it is. * She has an effeminate streak.?Life. Monster Trout. Rainbow trout grow to such a large 1 size in Australia, especially in New ' South Wales, that it is illegal to take a { fish under ten inches in length. 1 What Ambition Can Do By M. QUAD Copyright, 1916. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. K ==* Q. Hope Jones advanced to the desk m the platform and said: "My dear friends. I reached this own of Cucumber Hill early In the lay and have had several hours to ook over the landscape and converse ivlth your most eminent citizens. You inve a site here to be proud of., and rour sawmill is equipped with one of lie iinest steam whistles 1 ever heard. "your nogs look rat and contented is they walk up and down the aveiucs. Such cows as I have encountered are of a kindly disposition, and the ilarnis of war seem not to have disurbed you. "There nre only seven persons present at my lecture, but probably the neasles and the whooping cough kept lie others in the house. 1 have deliv;rcd lectures where the audience numjercd only one person, but I spoke with the emphasis, philosophy and ogle that I use where the audience lumbers a thousand. I shall do so tollght. You shall have the worth of rour money and perhaps double the ralue. 1 am going to tell you what imbition can do. "Take the case of Socrates. He has icen dead some time, but he did not clck about dying when his time bad :ome. and history has left us a good eeord of his ambitious doings, lie tegan life as a corner grocer, and in those days every grocer had to give sixteen ounces to the pound. "Seeing after a year or two that there was no show in the grocery business for an honest man. Old Sue ates decided on a change. He closed jp his shop and went to school to [earn to be a statesman and an orator. Such was his ambition to get there that in two weeks he knew more than ;he schoolmaster. It wasn't two nonths after the change occurred that le made a Fourth of July speech ;hat knocked nil the older orators galey west, lie used his big words in lust the right places and he slung his grammar around with the utmost liberality. From thence on he began to elbow his way upward. Those who lad reached the top rung of the ladler tried their best to keep him down, jut failed in their designs. The time :amc when Socrutcs almost had the ntlucnce of a king. "Having got all the honors that . eould be showered upon one man and laving accumulated about u billion lollnrs, he peacefully passed away. "But, my friends, we need not go lack so far to cite our cases. Take :hat of Napoleon, lie was born of lumblo parents. He lived In a garret, aot biscuit and clover honey werellW 'or him. Nothing but ambition saved ilin from becoming a tin peddler or a larker for a summer show. He had imbition. and he won. He chopped ;ord wood for 20 cents a day until he lad saved money enough to take him .hrough a military school. When :hrough with this school he took comnand of the army of France, and the way he did lam the rest of Europe was a caution. For forty years or nore he kept things going. Between Sis wars there was hardly time for Sim to go fishing. He licked the en>my in most of his battles, and when le didn't lick 'em they could not catch up to lick him. "Ambition made Napoleon the greatest general of the world, and the greatest general finally became an emperor ind made the whole world afraid of line In truth ho hoonmo n littlo tr?r? imhitious. He started out to give Europe a last dressing down, and at the battle of Waterloo he got the Ircssing down himself. Be ambitious, but don't expect to hold four aces In jvery hand. "And there was John nancock, first :o sign the Declaration of lndepend?nce. What did he amount to before le signed? Nobody took off his hat to dm. His name was never put up for in office. He could not have gone to he alderman of his ward and got a lidewalk repaired. It was said of him :bnt lnf was a very quiet man. but he lid not know a tater bug from a jeetle. "All of a sudden, however. Mr. Hanrock felt ambition stirring in his jreast. He got up and took his hat off is peg and said to his wife: "'Hannah. I think 1 will go over to he old statehouse and sign the Decaratlon of Independence. Something ells me I ought to do it.' "And she replied: . "'Yes. John, you had better go over ind write your name as large as you ran. It will bluff the British if It loesn't do anything else.' "And who was John Hancock half in hour after he had signed? Why, he men of Washington were whooping 'or him and carrying him about on heir shoulders, and, you take my word 'or it, next day he could have had anyhing in the gift of the town. He shot igni up line a green bay tree, and to enow John Hancock was something hat every man in the land could be iroud of. He died respected and loved >y nil. "My friends, there is nothing to com >are with ambition. It beats the skyicrnper elevator in hoisting u man up. rhorope never breaks and lets the cage 'all. If the ambitious boy or tnan is lrlvlng oxen today he may he riding n his own gilded railroad car five rears from now. If you are not an imhitious man don't delay In making a itnrt. If you have not the feeling Max it to come to you. and when it ;omes give It a warm welcome and prepare to he hoisted Into greatness." I A C REPl Is An Anv When the g upon good chan leading factors i establishment. We feel thai been building u] for 20 years w< sterling worth. We do not 5 price, but do sel cash prices. We are toda U1C UCIICIJLI U1 Ul before the pres< selling staple go< ing below who] body could ask : There is ; wish to impre Our Grocei of all kinds ar< lous cleanlines and best meth goods. Our furthe H almost endless We can suppb daintiest mors bundle of hay Man and Beast / UNION ( V For 20 Years Un Phones 100 or 80 jOO ITAT1 Asset Busine ;ood reputation icter, you hav< lecessary in a ] t for 20 year; p a good reput e have tried 1 >ell "cheap" foe 1 reliable goods iy giving our ar immense stc mt high price; ods at retail pi lesale prices to for a fairer deal another idea ss upon you: ries and Food e handled wit] ss. 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