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Old Blazer's Her
By DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY.
CHAPTER XXII.
For an tuitant this annoying intelH
tence seemed to paralyze mind and body,
and if Mary lind not already had a hand
upon the atalr rail aha would hare fall
en at the shock. She turned ghostly
white, and her heart began to beat furi
ously. She could not have told If she
were glad, or aorry, or resentful.
In a little while thla extreme agitation
subsided, and, standing with one foot on
the lowest step of the staircase, with the
inald staring round-eyed and frightened
et her white face, she listened and heard
St he deep breath of the returned prodigal
rising and falling in a regular cadence.
pThe room In which he slept was on the
f round floor. The door was ajar, and a
t aint gleam of light came from a single
8' as Jet, which was lowered ss far that In
aylight it might have been Invisible,
i Mary moved softly to the door, trem
bling from head to foot Three, steps
carried her across the narrow little ball,
'and then she paused with a hand upon
the doorpost of the room. The maid,
open-mouthed and open-eyed, waited for
What might happen. The mistress enter
ed the room noiselessly, and peered
through the dusk at the sleeping figure
In the armchair. Hackett was lying
?roadcast with his feet wide apart, aud
lis arms hanging loosely over the arms
of the chair. His head had lurched for
ward. Even In that poor light there was
no, mistaking him.
' Yet when she had looked a while she
,wta impelled to turn the gas a little
lilgher. In the clearer light the returned
prodigal lay at a marked disadvontage.
The feet seemed to be cast forward in
ostentation of the gapiug boots and the
ifrayed edges of the trousers. All his
jraiment was wrinkled, and seedy, aud
disreputable. His shirt cuffs were crum
pled and dirty, his cheek bore a week's
black stubble, his nose hod taken a tinge
of red.
) His wife absorbed all these details of
tils aspect, and stood wondering that she
should care so little and feel so undis
turbed. She did not know as yet that
the shock of his return had dulled all
power and feeling, and she stood and
noted every shabby sign of social fail
ure and moral degradation as if they
-were all pointed in a picture and had no
personal interest for her.
She sat down in a chair opposite to
'him, regarding him fixedly, going over
and over again, one by one, the signs of
qualor and decay, and little by little
the thought grew up in her mind that
she was bound to this man for his life or
hers. The first apprehension of this fact
arose clearly enough. It vq& not that
the knowledge of it seemed incomplete;
but at first she lacked the power to care
about it Then slowly it grew more and
more definite, because more and more
horrible, and at last it overwhelmed ner,
so that she rose in physical protest
against it She turned the gas light to
che full, and went anew over every sign
before her. Hackett changed his pos
ture, winking and muttering at the light,
and she started behind the table instinc
tively to place some barrier between her
self and him; but he settled back again
in a mere second or two, and breathed
more stertorously than before. V
Aud now that she was awake to the
terror of the position she set her wits
to work to find out what she might best
do for the moment. There was no crea
ture to whom she might run for advice
or assistance, and she was thrown en
tirely upon her own resources. But she
managed in a while to grasp the position
pretty thoroughly. Above all other
things, It was evident that no pity, com
punction or affection had brought this
rascally husband home again.
He bad come in search of spoil, and
In that respect she was quite defenceless
against him. In the flush of her dread
of him' and her abhorrence of him, she
would willingly have surrendered every
thing in her possession to be rid of him
.once ani for all.
So she slipped to her bedroom aud
searched her desk to see what she had
there. Finding some bills and gold, she
packed the money in a sheet of note pa
per, and then wrote a hasty note.
"Take this, and make yourself respec
table. When you want more write to
me. Do not try to see me, for I would
rather die than speak to you."
She enclosed this and the money in an
envelope, and, descending ts the kitchen,
gave it into the hands of the maid.
"You must sit up," she said, "until
Sir. Hackett awakes, and then give him
this. If he asks for me, never mind
that. Give him this when he awakes."
Then she fled to her room and locked
herself in, and barricaded the door, and
lay in wait for what might happen.
Footsteps and voices passed, and distant,
unimportant sounds shook her with dread
a score of times. Once a rap ot her
door, following on t.j faiut sound of
stealthy footsteps on the stair, so made
her tremble that she could find no voice
to answer. The knock was repented
timidly, and Mary whispered:
"What is it?"
"I've brought you a cup of tea,
ma'am," the maid whispered back In a
voice as frightened as her own.
"Take it awny," said her mistress.
"Don't come again until Mr. Hackett has
gone away."
The maid retired, and in the solitude
and silence of her kitchen found things
eo dismal and oppressive that she was
forced at length to wrap a shawl about
her head and steal into the roadway.
Drawing the front door gently after her.
and nursing the p.;tn intended for Mr.
Hackett in her huud, she went to the
gate and Hood shivering behind It, find
ing some comfort in the sight and sound
of passers by, Amongst them was Ned
Bin ne, and it was more timidity than dis
cretion which prevented her from call
ing upon him and requesting his protec
tion. Hut when on hour hud gone by
aud the maid's nose was blue with cold,
and her hands so chilled that the could
no longer feel her own fingers, or the
note she carried, she recognized a passing
figuro in the dusk and hailed it
"That you, Hepzibah '"
"What's the matter?" Hepzibah de
manded, pausing and peering at ber.
Who is It 7"
"Me," said the maid, beginning to
whimper a little. "I wish you'd come
In and sit wi' me a bit. I'm afraid to
be by myself, and I'm that cold 1 don't
know wKat to do a-standing here."
"Where's the missis?" Uepxibah Me
ant do ed.
"ller's locked herself In," answered
the maid, with a dreadful enjoyment of
the situation. "The matter's come some
again, and he's asleep downstairs, and
Iter's afraid et klss,
"Will Hackett back again?'' cried
Hepzibah., "It's pretty plain to see
what's brought him back. lie's got news
somehow as his wife has got money. Has
her seen him yet?"
"Her's seen him," said the maid, "but
he ain't seen her. He was asleep when
the missis came home."
Hejizihnh opened the gate with great
cautiousness and, preceded by the maid,
entered the house silently and stealthily.
In the kitchen she drew forth a whis
pered history of the manner of Mr.
Hackett's arrival. The maid, it seems,
had heard a loud and bullying noise of
knocking at the front door, and going
in haste to answer it, had but Just es
caped from being staggered over by the
new arrival, who, after glaring at her
for a minute without apparent recogni
tion, had felt his way into the front room,
fallen immediately into an armchair and
gone to sleep there. Then the narrator
of these things produced the note with
which her mistress had entrusted her.
"I'm to sit up till he wakens," she
snid; "and then I've got to give him
this. But I'm afeared to go anigh him."
"I ain't," said Hepzibah. "You Just
run down to Mrs. Blane's and tell her
I shall stop and sleep at mother's to
night, with my compliments, and then
run on to mother's and tell her to sit up
for me. I'll Bee this job through, any
way."
So the small servant, happy to escope,
got out by the back way and ran swift
ly on her errand. She had scarce been
gone a quarter of an hour when Hepzi
bah, seated there in listening wrath,
beard a movement and a series of mutter
ing, und marching bolt upright into the
front room confronted Hackett. He was
rubbing his eyes with both hands and
yawning when she first set eyes on him,
but a second later he threw his hands
aloft and stretched himself. The sudden
sight of Hepzibah glaring stonily at him
from the doorway froze him in that atti
tude for a moment, but he recovered
himself almost immediately.
"Hillo!" he said, "what are you do
ing here?";
"I'm told to give you this from Mrs.
Hackett," said Hepzibah, throwing the
envelope ou the table. It dropped heav
ily there, and a muffled jingle arose from
it.
"Oh!" said Hackett, staring angrily
back at her as he made a step toward
the table. Hepzibah folded her arms
and regarded him uncompromisingly. He
became a little restless under her gaze,
and to escape it took the envelope and
opened it When h had read the note
he opened the package within it and
counted its contents from one hand into
the other.
"Where is Mrs. Hackett?" he asked,
transferring the money to his pocket
"How should I know?" asked Hepzi
bah in turn. "What do you want with
Mrs. Hackett? . You've got what you
came for." .
Will, finding no immediate answer to
this direct attack, tried his wrathful
stare again, but finding himself looked
down, swaggered round on his heel and
began to look for his hat. It lay beside
the chair he had lately occupied, and
having found it, he stood brushing it
with his arm, 'shivering sharply twice or
thrice.
"Tell her I'll see her to-morrow," he
said, fixing his bat upon his head, and
avoiding Hepzibah's gaze.
"Not I," said Hepzibnh. "If you've
got any messages give 'em yourself."
tOt course this vras very discourteous
and impudent; but Will was n little out
of sorts and Indisposed to combat.
"Let me get by," he said, advancing
toward her.
"Glad and willin'," returned Hepzibnh,
making room for him; "and rare and
pleased I should be to see the last of
you."
Even this Mr. Hackett declined to re
sent, not caring to provoke just then any
fuller expression "of Hepzibah's senti
ments concerning him. As well as his
cold, cramped limbs and shuffling boots
would allow him, he swaggered to the
front door, and throwing it wide open
and closing it with a bang, marched from
the house, and for that night disappeared.
He turned up again next morning in a
brand new suit of clothes, with linen,
boots, hat, gloves and neckcloth, nil new
and fine, and mode a call upon the so
licitor who had acted for Johu Howarth.
CHAPTER XXIII.
The returned wanderer was, of course,
a great deal incensed by the note his
wife had left for him, and it began to
be clear to his own intelligence that be
fore he had read that heartless greeting
he had been inspired by the teuderest
and most husbandly sentiments. After
that, however, he was going to stand no
nonsense. She had declured war, aud it
eased Will's conscience to be able to re
gard her as an acknowledged and open
enemy. He was able to swagger in upon
the solicitor und lay claim to his wife's
belongings without any too pressing sen
timent of self-disdain. At bottom he
knew that lie was acting like a black
guard, buta he was not forced to admit
as much himself.
Ho put up at the hotel, and his open
arrival there excited a good deal of at
tention and comment. People for the
most part gave him the cold slioul-l. r.
and there was not a soul who met him
with that enthusiasm of friendship which
he felt to be due to a popular traveler
on his return to his native place. There
were some who were willing to lie fnc:i 1
ly, but they were not the people he want
ed, and altogether he was less hupp;:
than ho had hoped to be. In respect of
mere money he hud never been so well of:'
in nil liis life. Howarth had died
"warm," us the current phrase about lii'u
went, and Will had before him the pros
pect of an undisturbed nibble at thai con
siderable hoard while it should last. The
wife was defenseless against him, nud as
a last protest the possibilities of con
science what had he married ber for
but her money?
The averages get wonderfully good
are taken of them always, and by way
of balance in this instance, if Will Hack
ett undervalued Mary, his wife, Ned
Rhine overvalued her almost cutiiigh for
full counterpoise. For by this time there
had never been so patient and so angelic
a sufferer since the world begun. So
meek, so deft'iuelei' yet so courageous,
she seemed to Ned's eyes, that he wor
shiped her. His own stalwart limbs nud
rude health defied disaster aud seemed
somewhat to merit it, if only for the sake
of a rough-and tumble with the world
and fate; but she, so delirate, lender and
pallid, should surely have beeu sheltered
from all imaginable ills, and hart been
called to confront nothing that was
harsh, comfortless or unfriendly. And
thus, as was natural for a man In love,
though it could only be absurd for any
but a lover, the Infant school was the
scene. of n most valorous slow tragedy,
and the native instinct t hold body and
soul together became an enterprise purely
anirelic.
The paxlon which deified the girl oat
iianlly enough demoniied the scoundrel
who was her husband. To look at him
fairly. Will was no more than despica
ble, V lit I'.lnne was not in a position to
assume a purely critical attitude. To him
the selfish rascal stood mountainous, phe
nomenal, hideously deformed. Blane had
carried a dull, slow despair so long that
he had begun to think of himself as a
man of a dull nature; but now that It be
gan to be noised abroad that Hackett
was back again and squandering hll
wife's substanre he began to hate with a
heat and Intensity which sometimes ter
rifled him. The fierce loathing and re
volt he sometimes felt at the bare exist
ence of this poor and commonplace per
sonage grown phenomenal would stab at
him as If with the sudden anguish of a
red-hot knife, and he would sicken and
whirl with the intensity of his own hat
red. Resolutely hour by hour and day by
day he had to fight against himself lest
he should seek the man and lay upon
him hands that could be nothing less
than murderous. Rut to do the villain a
damage would be to rob himself of his
own right to despise him. And beyond
that, he had no right to Interfere. He
kept, In the very midst of his maduesf,
self-possession enough to know that he
could not quarrel with the husband with
out throwing an undeserved stigma upon
the wife. What were Mary and he to
each other? What could they ever be?
If the current of his love had flowed ia
a smooth channel it would certainly nev
er have run dry, for there was a peren
nial spring of loyalty within the man,
but the obstacles It encountered dammed
it and held it in until it gathered strength
and volume enough to go dashing and
spraying in these wild cataracts of pas
sion. (To be continued.)
UcE OF APPLES.
Fioi
ncial and Dietetic Value
of a
Growing American Crop,
One medical writer says:
"The more mellow apples one eats
the better, provided they be taken at
meal time. It la best of all to eat fruit
before meals, arid freely as you like."
This will prevent loading the system
with a heavy weight of less digestible
foods. Senator Vest says that If a man
wishes to live long and be able to keep
up bla work he must eat not less than
one apple with every noon lunch; we
are not sure but he said alf a dozen.
The no-breakfast fad tells us that we
must not only go without the morning
meal, but that we must live much more
largely upon fruit Some of Its disci
ples insist that the apple may be taken
iu the place of the ordinary breakfast.
John Wesley once referred to apple
dumplings as an illustration of the
alarming advance of luxuries Iu Eng
land. Charles Lamb quotes a friend
who says thnt "a man cannot have a
pure mind who refuses apple dumy
pllnga," and Dr. Johnson speaks of a
clergyman of his acquaintance who
brought his family up almost alto
gether on this Anglo-Saxon combina
tion. We have recollections of dum
plings which might accord with the
opinion of Lamb, and then we have
recollections of other dumplings -which
might have been the origin of Calvin-1
Ism. It must be borne in mind that
the ideal apple is one that Is fit to be
eaten raw; yet the glorloua old Spltzen- j
burg is only fit for the cook In whose
hands It becomes the very perfection t
of pie apples. The nineteenth century
went out with a marvelous evolution
of new sorts of fruits of all kinds; but
there was nothing In tbe list to exceed
the delicious Juices of the Northern
Spy, the Macintosh Red, tbe Shannon
or the Stuart's Golden.
There is nothing in the world to ex
ceed the beauty of the apple blossom;
while the air Is laden with an exquisite
perfume that bas charmed a hundred
generations has added to the poesy,
the love and the comfort of Greek, of
Roman and of Briton. But if there be
anything more beautiful than the apple
In blossom It Is the snnie tree loaded
down with crimson and golden fruit
Then It la that the apple touches hu
man nature and wakens in the house
keeper the highest conceptions of the
science aud the fine art of dietetics.
Independent.
And She Hail Never Head Homer!
They were a patty of people from
"up state," and nothing In the big
city Interested them so much as the
great ships at the docks. Tbey hnd
lieen wandering Joyfully over the ck
of n four-master just about to clear
with coal for an Eustern port, and
after a while one of the women found
u n open hatch.
"Come here:" she called excitedly
to ber nearest companion, with the air
of one who hnd made a discovery.
"Ixiok! look! Just think! She's holler!"
Negotiating a Loan.
A Ftory Is told by Household Words
of a shopkeeper who declined to bo
workid Into the development of certain
family fortunes.
He was a dry goods merchant in a
small town In Buckinghamshire. As
ho was Mantling one day lit the door a
small girl t'linie tip and suld:
M'l as:, sir, I'm Maggie Quayle, and
mt; ' r nays will you ive her change
fur J;;:lf a crown? She will seJitl the
half crown on Monday."
"t'a:i't tb It," lvpliid the sh:plupcr.
Wlui t l ine?
"ll::'e Is an Item," said (ho man at
the copy tl"sU. "nbuut a young fellow
'.hat broke into a Boston man's hotiso
and eloped with h!s daughter. (Jive uie
u bend fur it."
'Head It, 'Work of nn Iceberglar!' "
sakl the iiljjht editor. Chicago Trib
une. The Only Way I'nuaitile.
Gruff My wife Insisted upon in at
tending her tea this afternoon and I
tell you I Just sluiply hud to swear
under in y breath.
Huff Why, bow was that?
Gruff What else could I do? Ti rre
were ladies present. Philadelphia
Tress.
Getiuina Article,
Slmklns Ad i you leuily consider
ber a great vocalist do you
Tlmklns Sure thing. Why, ale caa
actually ting "Hou.., Sweet Home
so that nobody can tell what It U
without looking at tbe program
VICE PRESIDENTS WHO IIAVI BECOME PRESIDENTS
JOHN TTT.KH.
Anbnew johnso.n.
Inasmuch as tbe presidential campaign of 11KM is drawing near, with.
President Roosevelt mentioned as tbe probable candidate of the Republican
party, it Is of interest to note that his nomination would mark the exorcising
of the seeming "hoodoo" that has In tbe past militated against those of, our
chief executives who became President by the death of the elected bead of
the nation. Prior to President Roosevelt there have been four Vice Presi
dents elevated to the presidential chair by the demise of Its incumbents, the
four being John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Chester A.
Arthur.
Mr. Tyler was elected Vice President In 1840 on the celebrated "Tippe
canoe and Tyler too" ticket and became President within' little more than
a month after the inauguration of General William Henry Harrison, who
died 4n April. 1841.
The Whigs again came into power with the elections of 1848. General
Zacbary Taylor, of Indian and Mexican war fame, being elected Vice Presi
dent In July, ISTiO, President Taylor died, and Vice President Fillmore
was at once sworn into office, forming a new cabinet, with Daniel Webster
as Secretary of 8tate, ' '
The third accidental President was Andrew Johnson, .who attained the
presidency in 1805 when the assassin's bullet killed Abraham Lincoln. Presi
dent Johnson's tenure of office waa marked by a succession of disputes be
tween tbe Chief Executive and Congress, the apex of dissension being
reached when he was impeached for the removal from qfflee of Secretary of
War Stanton, etc. Tbe break between the President and Congress hinged
on the method to be followed in reconstructing the American Union.
Chester A. Arthur, who in 1880 was elected Vlre President on the Re
publican ticket headed by James A. Garfield, took the oath of offlee as Presi
dent of the United States Sept 20, 1881, tile day after Mr. Garfield died at
Elberon, N. J., victim of Gulteau's pistol. Mr. Arthur's administration was
not marked by any event of momentous Importance, but was characterized by
bis opposition to extravagance In appropriations, his views ou this matter
leading him to veto the river and harbor bills of 1882.
RUSSIAN TROOPS AT MUKDEN.
One of the chief causes of the Russo-Japanese war waa the refusal of
the Czar's Governmeut to withdraw the Muscovite soldiery from Manchu
ria and especially from Mukden, the capital of that province. Instead of
taking these troops away, however, more have been constantly shipped In
and added to the forces already present. At one time Russia did makea
bluff at withdrawal, It Is true, but eyewitnesses reported that the armies
which marched out a day or two later marched In at another gate. At fre
quent intervals a few Slav regiments sally forth from tbelr quarters In Muk
den and parade through the streets to overawe the natives. Our illustration
shows one of these processions and also gives a graphic idea of the appear
ance of Ivan In uniform. ;
A TRANSPORTATION EXPERT.
William Barclay FareoiiH, of the Pan
uma Cum in button.
The most distinguished engineer on
the Panama Commission Is William
Barclay Tarsons. He won bis spurs in
railroad work in
China for a syndi
cate of which the
late Senator Oulvln
8. Briee was the
bead, but Is best
known as the de
signer of tbe sub
way in New York
city for tbe Rapid
Transit Commis
sion, of which he
VII, B. PAHSO.NH. II a B lor Bti.
years been the chief engineer. His
work in connection with the transpor
tation problem in New York to-duy
tbe most difficult and complicated
transportation problem In the world
has been marked by a high order of
ability and zeal. He may not have
shown much originality, but it was
not a field in which pioneering was
desired. He is now recognized as one
of the foremost transportation experts
In the world, as is witnessed by the
fact that he has been chosen an nil
visory member of the royal (English!
commission which Is to Investigate nud
report upon the passenger traffic prob
lem of London. Mr. Parsons is young
and energetic, and on the Isthmus will
find a Held for original and construct
ive work of n higher and mure interest
lug type tlinii be bas a yet bad to th ai
with.
A Tlirillinu Ucn ue.
Ail amusing story Is told of an old
sen mini on one of the I'nlteil States
cruisers In the North Atlantic siiiad
rou. He was not a person of wide nf
feclloiis. but ho bud u warm place In
bis heart for n young ensign who butl
I been kind to bliu in many little ways.
I One day a landsman fell from the
' rigging to the water, und as he could
not swim be would have been drowned
but for a young officer who sprang Iu
1 after him and held hlin up till assist
ance came.
Later the young officer received a
complimentary letter from the Kecre-
turj of the Navy. Every one rejoiced
but the old seauinn; ho coveted the let
ter for bla ensign.
'That's a nice thing to have, a letter
like that" he said, a few day liter.
"You ought to have one."
"I don't quite aee how I ran get
one," laughed the ensign.
"Well, see here." said the old nan.
sri-j.fe'.aaJ
MIM.ARD FIM.MOntC
CHKSTF.R A. ABTUl'R.
eagerly. "To-morrow night I'll be In
the main chains, fussing with some
thing or other, and I might fall In, and
you could Jump after me."
"That would be very good of you,"
said the ensign, gravely, "but you ace
I in not a good swimmer by any
means."
"Ho! That's no matter," said the
old senmnn. "I'll bold you up 'till tbe
h.ont comes."
Philadelphia's Potato Patch.
An adaptation of the Plngree potato
patch Itlea Is said to have met with
success In Philadelphia. It Is in
charge or tne "superintendent of va
cant lot fanning." His annual report
shows that the utilization of vacant
lots by partly disabled and decrepit
or by otherwise idle people has
brought good returns. Over 3,(K0 peo
ple, including 140 orphan children,
were given employment on these va
cant lots Inst year and brought a re
turn of yiJOO on each quarter-acre
garden at n nominal expense of $3,41(10,
each tlollur Invested in instruction,
tools and seeds yielding a return cf
from $." to $7. The usual obstacle in
the'wny of success of this sch"int i.nt
been to find people who were willlir;
to make use of the opportunities of
fered.
'I'll Very Latent News.
"Your wife," begun the reporter
"and the luaii with whom she eloped
have Just been caught III New York
win ru rhcy lost their money uiitl wen
stranded just us they were starting foi
Europe. We thought you'd want ti
hear the news, mid "
"That isn't the news," replied the
man. 'The news is that I've soul
the:u entiiiuii money to see them
through." Philadelphia Press.
liy-l'ro Iticlt r An m lis.
'iho blood of slaughtered tinlinnls . i.
ir-eel for tl.e production of albumen
the bones for knife handles, totithbnil
bandies, chessmen, etc.; the horns to;
combs, backs of brushes, large but
tons, etc.; the hoofs for but tons, orna
incuts, and fertilizers. Neatsfoot oil
extracted from the feet, has a high
commercial value. The fat Is used fui
glycerin anil buttcrltie.
During; a trovers' JuarreL
He (wishing to make it up again
after the quarrel) Good morning.
She (freczlngly) You're mistaken,
sir. I think.
. He Oh, I beg your pardon. I mis
took you for your mother. Alley Blo-
THE OLD HOME.
Tws enly a hntnble cottage,
Not far from the village street
ut the coo! green mrndow Inclosed It,
And the flowers brought fragrance
sweet.
The birds in the roof's old thatches.
The winds In the tall elm tr--.
The pathway that led to the woodlands.
Made the happiest home for me.
Then, no world lieyond the meadows,
lusturned my beautiful dream;
My playmates were birds sod flowers,
And we used to sing to the stream.
Rut now the green meadows have wid
ened,
Far, far to the rolling sea.
And I sail away on its bosom
From the home of my infaucy.
O lands of crimson and purple!
O white-Jeweled cities afarl
Ye throb on the restless ocean,
Ye daxrle like Orient star;
Rut, olit for the home of my childhood,
And my world of meadow and tree;
For the quiet calm of those old, oltl
days
Has forever gone from me. .
David and Jonathan
Hi
T was remarked by their aespect
ive nurses yiat nothing was more
touching than the devotion of the
baby, David Smith, to the baby, Jona
than Brown. If David possessed a
enko or a new toy, It wns his great
delight to lay it at Jonathan's feet
Jonathan accepted these attentions.
though with some haughtiness and did
not return them. 1 Ho once gave David
a button, but after thluklng the mat
ter over for about a week, decided to
ask for it back again and got it
As boys at a private school, David a
devotion to Jonathan continued. Da
vid was the more studious of the two
and was able to assist Jonathan in his
work.
At their public school David icontln-
ued his friendly care for Jonathan.
He would take without a murmur pun
ishments that, should have properly
come to Jonathan: Ho lent Jonathan
money. ' He exhorted Jonathan not to
smoke cigarettes because, as he very
Just.y observed, It was not right I
am not certain that Jonathan was any
more grateful now than ho had been
In the days of tueir babyhood, but he
hnd at any rate now learned the pro
priety of expressing the .gratitude
which he did not feel.
"You are a good-chap, David," be
said," "You've got me out of no end
of a lot of messes."
The two young men went up to Ox
ford to the, same collcce. David had
a scholarship, Jonathan had none. Da
vid habitually Hixike of Jonathan as a
remarkably brilliant man until other
people as nearly as posslbto believed
it. David lent blra a little, more
money, David took htm back to his
rooms, thereby avoiding catastrophe at
a time when, owing to much wine,
Jonathan's legs hud refused their of
fice and be bad expressed a wish to
call on the master to Invite him to
take part in the California game of
"draw poker." There la not the least
doubt "that Jonathan owed much to
Duvid, and the natural result was that
David was more attached to Jonathan
than Jonathan was to David.
Then , a tragedy happened. Jona
than Browd announced that In the
beautiful words of tbe Morning Post
a marriage bad been arranged and
would shortly take place between him
self and Miss Bertha Friece. Now,
Mies Bertha Frlese waa the third
daughter of a local tobacconist " She
waa large and plump and comely, and
would have sooner flirted with an arch
bishop than not have flirted at all.
In rage anddespalr and an express
train Jonathan's papa and mamma
hurried off to Oxford. At any cost
lls terrible mesalliance must be pre
vented. For three days Jonathan's
pupa bellowed as If be had been a bull
of Bashan. He bellowed at Mr.
Frieze, who was sulky, and at Bertha,
who was distinctly Impertinent, and
at bin son, who was very superior,
and said 'that bis father was doing
Just exactly what he had expected.
and ir would make no difference. His
mother wept and pleaded, and it was
all of no use. At tbe end of three days
she said to ber husband, "I shall go
around and see that very nice young
man. David Duvid Smith -who waa
always such a friend of Jonathan's."
She saw Duvid. ' She reminded him
of all that be had done for Jonathan
In the past, nud assured him that Jon
athan was not ungrateful. The time
had now come when David bad
chance to render a service far greater.
She and ber husband bad done what
they could, but neither persuasions nor
threats nor the most liberal promises
to old FrleBo and hla daughter, Bertha,
had been, of any effect Could Mr.
Smith help them? Could be do any
thing to save bis friend from a life
time of misery? "Mrs. Brown," said
Smith, "you may depend upon me. I
will do my best If tho thing can be
done it aball be done." He then went
out to buy two ounces of Lata kin at
Frieze's Uttlo shop. ,
It took a good deal of effort, and
much flattery and many presents. Rut
imvltl was a better-looking man than
Jonathan nud hnd more money. The
time arrived at last when nil Oxford
i-.nt'iv that Bertha rley.e had deliber
ately thrown over Jonathan Brown
ni:d engaged herself to David Smith.
Jonathan's father and mother were
o.t ruinely grateful to Duvid. Joiiu
.l:an went to look for David with a
revolver, und luckily tlltl not Und him,
After bis llrst burst of fury lie con
t tiled himself with a sarcastic letter,
i j which ho told David that their ae-
limlntanci' was at an end. Years have
a wonderfully softening effect, and If
Jonathan meets Duvhl In the street
now he Is perfectly civil. But Jona
than never goes to David's house 1
cause, as be very properly points out,
David's wife Is a quite Impossible
woman. Barry Pain, In the Spln-re.
IN A DEPARTMENT STORE.
Important I'urt Killed by the Adver
tising Meu and liuyarm
The man who writes tbe dally ad
vertisement for a big r.tore commands
a big salary ten or fifteen thousand
dollars. He must be original, resource
ful, and witty a man of ideas, alert
to aee and use opportunities. The qual
Ity of his work tells day by day, for
the effects of a cleverly written adver
tisement show immediately In the In-j
creased sales In particular depart-
hicnta. Every night the reports of
gross sales in the three-score depart
ments, as compared with the corre
sponding days In the prevolus week'
and the previous year, indicate wheth- ,
er the day's advertising appropriation
has been well spent Every day the
"buyers" give the advertisement writer
a draft of the next day's particular of'
ferlnga a clearance sale of winter
overcoats, a shipment of Parisian dress
fabrics, bargains In new novels, or ft
cut-price sale of canned goods. These
the advertisement writer welds Into
one big display announcement, which,'
when it has been approved by the gen
eral manager, becomes the law and
gospel of the next day's business!
Copies of It are posted on all the floors
and are put Into the hands of all the
salespeople. Every salesman and sales
woman in a department must learn,
the first thing in the morning, the spe-
clal prices at which wares are offered
iu the day's advertising. The day's
advertisement is the Baedeker for both
shoppers and salespeople.
The massing of three-score or more .
varied shops under one roof demands
an efficient staff of department heads,'
or "buyers." The worth of a buyer la
measured by the amount of net profit
he can show at the end of the yeah '
He must be on the alert to seize op
portunities for acquiring desirable
stocks at low prices the bankruptcy)
of a manufacturer or a big merchant;
is one of thees opportunities; he must
be able to forecast the future tastcs
and demands of the shopping army's
he must know when to plunge, buying,!
ten, twenty, or thirty thousand dollarsfi
worth of goods in a single oruer; nei
must know when to push and when to
mark down certain stocks, and all the
time be must keep his weather eye on
the doings of buyers In rival stores. v
If he carries a line of foreign goods,
he makes a yearly trip abroad to buy
directly from the makers, whether IC
, . T I I . 1 A
iftr urimuu ko us, wci uinu ioy, or
Persian rugs. The toy buyer gi
to the Continent In January, to ord
bis next Christmas stock. Tbe su
ees.jful buyer Is master of his .depart
ment and he usually commands a high
salary", sometimes as high as twen
or thirty thousand dollars a year, al
theugh four-flgure salaries are the rule,
Every night, at the close of businesi
the salespeople give the amounts o:
their total sales' to their buyers, wh
In turn, foot up their department to-;
tals. The buyers then report to thf;
general manager,- who compares thai
day's sales with the business the year
before. Marked . variations are roadej
the subject' Of inquiry. Every night.
when the general manager leaves the
store, he knows to a cent the day's re4
celpts, how they compare with the pre-J
vlous year, and, if they vary from thf
normal, tbe reason therefor. SuccesC
CAB DRIVER FOR 50 YEARS.
Duke of Wellington and King; Kdwa.it
Were His Customers,
Thomas Bond, who Is 81 years ojt
age, Is probably the best known cab
man in London, not only among his
fellows, but among the cab-hlrlng pnbJ
He,. and now, when' he has fallen n
evil days, he has given an example of
unselfishness which It would be dlffl
cult to surpass.
In August last being then 80 years
of age, and still driving, he headed th
poll for s pension of 20 a year grant''
ed by the Cab Drivers' Benevolent
sociation, , dut. wnen tne result was
announced, be said; "Tbe next man
on tbe list wants It more than L Lei
him have It. I snail oe a Die to anvaj
for a year or two longer." j
But soon the old man was laid w
with pleurisy and pneumonia. Fop
months be has been 'able to earn noti)-i
luj:. lie Is now slowly recovering;
and, with true British pluck, hopes!
to be soon on his box again.
Tbe strong probability, however, Id
that Bond's cab-driving days are ove
Bond took out his first license pi
March, 1840, as an omnibus driver, b
lug then 17 years old. He started cab
driving in 1848, so that he has beerl
dilvlng a cab in the streets of London
for 50 years, and during the whole of
that time he has used the St Clement
Danes rank In tbe Strand.
Il bis time Bond has driven many
world famous men. The great Duke .
of Wellington was a fairly regular ens
tomer. "Very liberal he was, too," add
ed Mr. Bond In recounting hi expert
ences on Saturday. The king, when '
Prince of Wales, often patronised him
aa did the late Duke of Edinburgh.-!
London Dally Mall.
Had Dog-and-Cat Time.
A man leading a aman dog by a
long chain created quite a sensation
on Penn square, near Broad street sta
tion, recently, says the Philadelphia
Itecord, when there was an encounter
with a strange cat The dog barked,
at tbe cat and tbe cat immediately,
sprang at the dog s ueaa. me dog
started to run around In a circle and
succeeded in dragging its chain around
bis master aud a strange woman.
The chain caught round the woman's'
feet, and she fell forward against tha
man,' who swore violently. The wom
an screnmed, tho dog howled and tbe
cut sput viciously. Several bystanders
butl to grasp the dog's chain and hold
It firmly, while the cat was chiised
uwny by a couple of boys.
,'Tbeu the woman w ho bad beeu trip
ped told what she thought of a man
who was pulled about by a dog on a
chain, but all tbe argument was out
of tbe man and be slunk away, after
giving the dog a kick that was regis.
'tored by a cunlne yell.
Preliminary to Matrimony. . '
Maud Surely you wouldn't wish all
men to be bachelors?
Maine Oh. not permanently, of
course, but Just long enough to get Into
the habit of sewing on their buttons
nud doing their own mending. Phlla.
delphla Press.
Insanity Among Animals.
Darwin asserted that there la insan
ity among animals, just as there la
among human Ih?Iuits.
Ca'l It I'nlojo e Now
A wheelbarrow with ball bearings
has been put ou the market by an Ohio
firm.