Ifruil niiirtl.
"Last time 1 hf-mi about Kit Skin
oierhorn she wa rnso"d to a young nsa
lir wet at a k'ihi'Io resort. How long
did til" (nHg',ll1l'TU Ip St V"
'Thri dny, 1 Mii-ve. Th"n the young
won lr;in la insist on their marrying."
"Writ?"
"Well, it was near the end of the sea
on. ar.i! sh- nmrrirrl him"
"nfe l.noniili.
"I hope'. driver, you will not rm
way with me !"
"Bless ycr. no, uii'in' I've got a,
wife dud six kll .it li'iina already!"
I.oiidon (! n .
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courage and hiavory. They are pusillani
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Chicago Tribune.
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Fighting Kurmosan Tribe.
Several weeks ugo ten communities
of the Nan Ow aboriginal tribe In the
Clran province of Formosa proposed
to the government to submit, says the
South China Post. Upon this the gov
rninut Rave them 'the following Items
ot conditions under which the govern
ment ,was disposed to admit their sub
mission: 1. The aborlglnea concerned should
hand over to the government those
:.u"s which had been cut off the bodies
Of tho other tribes whom they killed
and are keeping in their houses, ac
cording to their habits.
, 2., Their arms' and ammunition
should all be surrendered to tho gov
ernment' .
Tho aborigines agree to the former
condition, but many of them objected
to the latter, and thereupon they gave
up the Idea of submission. Since then
they are again offering resistance
against the government troops, appear
ing here nnd there in the vicinity of
the Alyu line (a guard line establish
ed by the government against the un
ubjugnted aborigines), but the gov
ernment troops having finished the con-
niiui-uuu vi uicir guarunouses, tele
phone lines and wire entanglements,
and thus almost attnined their ohwt
re now chiefly paying attention' to
their guard service, attaching less im
portance itotbdrsulmibislon.
' Thera la a lighthouse to every 14 miles
f const In Eiij;'.uiid, to every 31 tuilra iu
Ireland and to every miles iu Scotland.
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All rights rmervAd.
CHAPTER VII.
It was on the fifth day out that a fog
drifting In from the Great P.;inks slnn
op with the Majestic, bringing the great
ship down to half speed, l'or forty-eight
hours ahe strained slowly abend over a
great, glutinous, lonely ocun. walled in
by shrouds of mint, her foe horn sounding
drearily and Incessantly. It was not a
hopeful prospect, and yet
"I,- bclicvo tho fog Is changing Its
eonrse," predicted the Prince del Pino,
late on the second day of darkness. "I
would lay a w.ia;er that within twenty
four hours we sight your Sandy Hook."
lie and Annette Itancroft were kitting
amidships, about eight bells of the after
noon, In a rosy angle of the deck, well
screened from the steady drip, drip, drip
cf the mist, which nevertheless lay heavy
on everything, touching the blond hair of
the girl with chill lingers nnd lining her
steamer cap with little shining drops.
"Your Highness doesn't speak with
much enthusiasm," she now commented,
in answer to her companion's speech.
"From your tone," she hesitifted slightly,
"one wouldn't suppose that you were es
pecially anxious to hnve Jour prophecy
fulfilled."
"Perhaps I am not," agreed the man
beside her. He was sitting a little for
ward in his chair, elbows on knees, gaz
ing fixedly into tho blankness. "Perhaps
I am not In such a desperate hurry to
reach New York." He smiled, an Intro
spective, half smile. "Perhaps I enjoy
this drifting existence we are leading, shut
Up' In thla fog-country. Who knows?"
Narrowing his eyes he stared in front
of him. "What a mysterious thing it is,
this brume I Notling to he seen bofore us
or behind. Somewhat the way It Is in
this life, Miss Bancroft, and yet" he
lifted his eyebrows with a faint shrug of
the shoulders "when a man loses his
what yon call bearings in the exceeding
mistiness and swerves from the straight
Course, he Is called hard names and cast
Into prison. It appear a trillo unjust,
does It nott"
"T-a-s," agreed Annette. She was also
leaning forward, her hands clasped,
watching him with a puzzled, wondering
faze.
"les," she repeated slowly, "it does
sound cruel, unjust, and yet" she hesi
tated "so much dependsdoesn't it? on
bow far your mariner has strayed or on
what your man has done. Of course,
yon're not referring to actual crime." Her
volca dropped impressively.
Putting up his monocle, Ludovic Sarto
scrutinized the little gray-coated figure
ao near him.
It was an unusual state of things that
bad thrown those two together: as a rule,
during the past five days the Prince -del
Pino bad fallen to Mrs. Warfuj-'s share.
"Crime?" he repeated; "criminal?
peats I What horrible words!" This with
a twist of the thin lips, concealing a half
smile. "What do you know, indeed, about
crime, Miss Bancroft 3 Can a jeune
demoiselle like yourself comprehend the
swirling currents" his tones deepened
and roughened "the irresistible' Impulses
that may turn an honest man at any mo
ment Into a criminal a thief, for In
stance?" Behind his monocle "his eyes glittered
expressively. How inevitably, all against
bis will, his thoughts harked back to the
one subject on his mind !
Fortunately, Annette found nothing
suspicious in the conversation's drift.
"A thief!" she repeated, absently.
"That reminds me of Sarto. Do you
know" she spoke with a certain w'ist
fulness "I've so often thought that that
poor fellow had great possibilities, with
bis cleverness and and attractions "
"Ah!" ejaculated the man beside her,
as she did not finish her sentence.
Pulling out a cigar, he lit it very de
liberately, speaking between wrilTs. "It
is astonishing to me that you should have
found out all that. Creatures of Sarlo'a
class" his mouth curved cynically "nre
not, as a rule, supposed to possess any
personality individuality even, to say
nothing of attractions."
For a moment Annette stared nt him,
wondering, as she had a hundred times
during the past five days, what tnnnner
of man this extraordinary pr'nee really
was.
"Ah! Your Highness doesn't really
mean that," she said impulsively;'' "I'm
sure you found out, during those two
years he was with you, that Sarto wasn't
an ordinary chauffeur. Isn't It incredible
to you that any one of his education, his
refinement, should have had the Instincts
of a common thief? Isn't it unaccount
able?" "Yes, I suppose It is," agreed the oth
er, "to you perhaps If you had ever
known anything about the man and his
past you might understand a little."
lit had dropped his monocle whe
speakitig, nnd, free from Its glassy screen,
bis eyes gleamed out , with their queer
dumb wistfuliiesa unconcealed. '
For the moment the Prince del Pino
svaa off hie guard.
"OhP exclaimed Annette Bancroft. She
fas leaning forward and looking at him
with a certain eagerness.
"You ars so like hlio!" she cried invol
untarily, "so astonishingly like him at
tlmesl"
With fingers that twitched ever so
lightly, the man beside bur replaced his
eyt-glass.
"Who?" he asked quietly, knowing full
well whom she meant.
Annette was vividly crimson.
"I oughtn't to have mentioned it," she
apologhed hesitatingly, biting her lip with
annoyance. "There is a certain resem
blance we've all noticed it between
Your nighncss nnd that chauffeur Just
a trick of expression, I auppose. of
course you know it !"
"Oh! yes. I am quite aware of the
likeness, snta I.mlovic Sarto. "In fact,
we have been taken for each other more
than once."
He got up with a resolute sliuhf of the
shoulders and stood frowning ahead of
him; then, without looking nt her. "I
wonder If you huve ever heard anything
of Sarto's parentage, Miss Bancroft V" he
asked, with some hesitation. "It might
explain blm mure or less."
And, before she could answer, he went
on, in Bn odd, constrained tone, leaving
his English mechanically for the easier
trench "His mother was a French girl
of good family, his father a gondolier it
was a eiietian romance, you see. She
ran off, married him, and of course was
never forgiven. Well, you can imagine
the sequent- the misery for her. Lmhv
vie whs ilieir omy child iis mother -'
lie stopped short.
Auueite looked up quickly. "I see.1
she ii t, alo la I-Veneh. That's where
the edui'aliov jnl rtliueuieut cams in."
By
l-dlth Morgan Wlllett
"Yes, he had every advantage," snil
the man, looking oter the rail: "she did
what she could, find (hen she died poor
woman! urioits, was it not?" he spoke
a little huskily-"that, in spite of her
training, the vagabond streak in the fel
low was so strong."
Annette followed his thought. "Yes."
she said slowly. "I think I understand.
It was the son of the gondolier who stole
those jewels."
'There whs a moment's silenee while
they both stared nijend of them, and then
the girl rose abruptly.
"I think I'll eo in now," she said;
"won't Your Highness pilot me back to
the iidiiu door? I really can't see my
hand before my face in this fog."
But, looking down at the small' figure
beside him, Sarto saw. with an inexplica
ble thrill, (lint it was uot the fug alone
that was blinding Annette's eyes.
When he had helped her In, he found
his way out ORin'n on deck anil dropped
into the nearest chair with a gesture of
weariness. The telling of that, story had
been a necessity a momentary relief to
his feelings, but the after effects were
undoubtedly depressing
Viewed 'from his present standpoint,
I.ndovic Snrto's career mada pretty poor
showing, and the man had merged him
self so completely in his new role thnt he
was able to view the chauffeur nnd his
shortcomings with the detached, tempo
rarily impersonal feeling that a contem
plative snake niiiiht experience towards
his discarded winter skin ! In his bor
rowed Identity Karto was at his best, with
all the attractive qualities, hidden in the
chauffeur, turned brilliantly to the light,
a far more agreeable personage, the mock
Prince del Pino, than the saturnine, dys
peptic invalid, who might be at that in
stant dying in a Liverpool hospital. Per
haps he was tflrendy dead! ,
A sudden light leaped into the chauf
feur's eyes and then went out.
What possible difference could it make
to him whether Hodcrigo del Pino lived
or died? Whatever happened, when the
Majestic touched its pier Ludovic Sarto
must return to his own again, with the
events of the last five days only an epi
sode. His mind went back slowly, reviewing
tlbit ses life with an odd mixture of en
joyment, pride, bitterness and jealousy.
Yes. jealousy! At times the chaulTeur,
who had always had the world to light,
the odds against him. was conscious of
an acute, unreasoning jealousy of his own
present triumphs. They were so easily
won, so palpably unjust! All doors weie
open to him naturally now. Everything
possible, his opinions received with defer
ence, his wit with appreciation, his at
tentions
Here he smiled a tight, rifrictisly co
vert smile.
Mrs. Waring had been very charming to
the Prince del Pino, her most brilliant.
seductive self. Still with the same lei,:e
smile the man, whom she hnd once humil
iated to the dust, reviewed a dnxen m.ist
agreeable lete-a-tetes, word for word, his
eyes pleaming somberly in the dark, his
lean cheek burnt to a dull red.
Ah ! But there were moments indeed
when the chauffeur enjoyed the prince's
triumphs. ;
Through the dimness of the fog lumin
ous SK)U gleamed now, intensifying the
gloom. ' ,
The steamer was lighting up. From
far away came the first liraien uotrs of
the band.
Listening absently. Sarto lost sight for
the moment of Gussie'a meteoric charms.
In the dark expanse of his mind a faint
light now became visible, a .small, fixed
star.
Yes. Aiiuctte Bancroft had not chang
ed. With a strange warmth at his heart
that was more than gratitude, he saw her
again, standing nt the cabin do-jr, her lips
trembling, her eyes misty with pity for
the chauffeur who had played so false;
and to his sensitive, envious nature, the
tears she had slied for Ludovic Sarto out
weighed a hundred-fold all the smiles lav
ished on the Prince del Pino.
After nil, the tgo clamors insistently
in every one of us. hi spite of his lapses.
this man had an unquenchable loyalty to
wards himselfthe snake a fondness for
its owu skin.
For some minutes the time slipped by.
punctuated by an occasional ringing of
bells, and lost to the present the chauf
feur s;it steeped in memories introspec
tive, while the fog drew its curtain sliel
teringly about him nnd the even plashing
of the screw chimed in with his mood.
l'lie sound of voices aroused him from
his brown study.
It had grown very dark, the fog hiding
the electric bulbs a few feet off. And
lit first, his senses smothered bv the noise
of the waves, Sarto was only dimly aware
that a man ami a woman were talkiu"
not six feel uway from him, their tones
coming llnough the wall of fog that ren
dered them umnutiily invisible.
The next instant he leaned forward in
sudden eagerness, his breath half-caught,
for lie had discovered who they wore,
those two, almost at his elbow, lenniii"
over the rail.
"No, I'm not going iu yet," a familiar
voice clipped tho darkness; "let's stand
here and look out a moment. This fog
fascinates me. It's like being up in the
clouds, or under Niagara Falls, or in
one's own tool little grave, isn't it?"
Her companion grunted. "Is it?" he
asked, in matter-of-fact tones; "I'm sure
I don't know. Seems to me beastly wet;
that about all. IaxiK here, Gussie, 1
want to ask you something."
"Do your" (iussie's voice was not pre
cisely encouraging. "Well, what do you
want to know? whntV the mutter?"
Buist cleared his throat portentously.
There was an instant's silence, broken
only by the subdued trampling of the
surf, and nil almost inaudible movement
as some one not eight feet away leaned
back ngiinst the cabin wall, with ears
alert, as he composed himself shamelessly
to listen.
"It would be a great relief" the F.ng
lihhman spoke nt last with a certuin hiu
derous formality "I should be very
much obliged if you would kindly let me
know just where you and I stand at this
present moment?"
"Certainly. At this present moment"
(iusNie was most obligingly prompt
"let mi) see on the deck of the Majestic,
I should say, facing due uorth I don't
know exactly what the latitude and longi
tude are, but I can easily find out if you
Munt to know."
A loud, exasperate sigh came out of
the fog.
"Would you mind being serious for one
moment'.'" -Inquired 4 resolutely patient
voice. "This Is the first five uiiuuMs I
bar had alms with you In a mr
days. Perhaps you can spare me an W
slant I know it's a great deal to ask
from Del l'ino's society."
He paused, waiting for her to contra
diet him, for some time; however, tliera
was silence, emphasized by the impatient
tapping of a small boot.
"I knew It," cams pettishly at length.
"Now you're going to be a horrid, cross
man and spoil the whole evening. You're
in one of your impossible moods. Oh,
dear, and I thought we were going to
huve such a nice time together out her
in this fog by ourselves."
There was a wonderfully natural catck
in the voice, calculated to soothe the aver
age masculine wrnth, but Gerald's was
beyond such sedatives.
"Yes, you can always be nice enough
when you want to," he growled; 'ipt
there nre limits to a man's endurance,
don't yon know? "I've stood this sort of
trentment long enough. Gar I you must
hunk 1 am a duller not to see through
your grime all this time. How long has
!t been going on?" He gave an express
ive snort. "First of all, there wjs that
rotten sport on the Riviera. I wss play
ed against him pretty successfully for
two weeks not quite as blind as a bnt, let
me tell you I Then that donkey of a
Swede down nt Monte Cnrlo I thought
he was the limit, but you didn't stop
there " . ,
His tone sonibered. "I've stood a lot,
Gussie; but when you slatted to make a
fool of your own chaulTeur! Pah! The
fellow's head was completely turned be
fore you were through with him. Well."
he gave a cumbrous sigh, "I thought
there'd be a little peace when he was
shipped, but no! You must needs take
up with' this precious prince!"
"Well !" Gussle's voice slid imperturb
nbly from the darkness. "What nbout
him, I'd like to know? I own I've had
rather hopeless material to manage from
time to time" her tones were suspicious
ly dry "but surely you can't object to
the prince; he's been a most agreeable
addition to our party."
"Has he? Yes, I' thought so! That
settles it."
Gerald seemed lo be talking to him
self. "Just a minute, Gussie," he asked, with
ominous quietness. "D'you rememhpr what
you said to me just before we left Havre,
five days ago?"
"Five days ago is it only five days
ago?" Mrs. Waring wondered irrelevant
ly. "It Reems a great deal longer."
"D'you remember what you promised
that day?" Buist's tone was a trifle
louder.
"Promised !" Gussie repeated the word
blankly. "My dear boy, did I really prom
ise anything? Surely you wouldn't con
sider a few vague words binding. I'm
sure I don't rememhpr what I said."
"Pity I didn't take it down in black
and white. One would think a person's
word amounted to something. Good heav
ens "
And Buist stopped short, politeness nnd
chivalry townrds the weaker vessel forbid
ding the utterance of his sentiments at
that moment.
(To be continued.)
THE CUCKOO'S HABITS. 5
It is will known that the cuckoo lays
her eggs In the nests of other birds.
Now conies tho German naturalist, Kon
rati F'uss, who breuks n lance In de
fense of the cuckoo's character, or
rather, gives the reasons for the bird's
nt range habit. Owing to the unusually
large stomach of this bird, lie Buys, sue
lias not room In the rest of her body
to develop more than ouo egg nt n
time, tit a wcek'u Interval between
each. If she laid her eggs with such
Ions pauses between In ouo family nest
there would result a confusion of
hutched, hatching nnd embryo progeny
which would menti disaster to nil.;
She could not herself attend to morn
than one nest at a time. Consequently,
sho Is. forced to exact niatcrnal care
for her'eggs from other birds.
She is careful to choose the nest of
a worni-inid-lusoct-entlng bird prefer
ably one In whose menu .caterpillars
often nppenr, the hairier and bigger
the better, for the hungry bl stomachs
of the young cuckoos.
Nature seems to do everything in her
power to encourage the cuckoo lit licr
.ippnrcutly shlftlcHS, lazy ways. Shu
Iiuh no nntural gift for ncst-bulldlng,
but lays her eggw on the ground, soi.cs)
them lti her bill nnd drops tlietu by
stealth into Borne tiiistisiiecting ncish
Imr'a lii'St.r
Oddly enough, nltliougli the cuckoo la
four times as largo as the skylark, her
eg-s nre as small us those of the lark,
and p'iss unnoticed among the eggs of
ninny varieties of small birds.
The young cuckoo, till about ten days
old the age nt which It begins to
crawd legitimate progeny out of the
nest has n natural depression In its
back which acts tis n convenient kind
of ladle for turning the luckless lledg
linM out into th cold world. The
mic1;oo, being so much larger than the
other birds, fillsi the nest with Its own
bulk, and is "forced to adopt these
il rustle measures. This net of self
preservation accomplished, tho cuckoo's
back assumes the comely symmetry of
later life.
The adopted parent docs not seem to
notice or resent this behavior In the
least, but coddles and tends the Inter
loper until It hns reached the nge of
discretion, and pnj'8 no further utteu
tlon to her discarded young. The
cuckoo's migration Is also arranged for
at n much earlier date than others of
the feat lured world au engagement
which she could not keep if domestic
cares detained her.
Poetry, sentiment, scandal, supersti
tion since history licgan the cuckoo
has tieen a favorite subject of nil these.
She Is the herald of- spring, of storms ;
she will foretell your length of days
she Imvoiiicji n hawk in the winter In
order to add to her wisdom.
"t'uekis), cuckoo, denr, how many
years till I marry?" U eagerly asked
by peasant maidens In tho spring,-and
the answering; "Coo, coo! Coo, cool" as
eagerly counted and implicitly believed.
The earliest English song extant,
written In (he thirteenth century, is a
Joyous welcome of the first cuckoo-call
In the spring. It begins, "Sumer la
leuiuen In," or. na a sjsdl it, 'Sum
nier Is p-eomlng in."
, Bowers In what way doea Bmlth
tuka a mean advantage of his wife?
Powers Whll she is saying her pray
ers be hidea Ids nioucj-.
BANK BURGLARS. '
f rmetismrn tint Sl.io.ooo In Thla
Cnnntrr Hnrlnar I he Past Vnr.
The accompanying map, prepared as
part of (he annual report of Plnkerton's
Agcqey to the American Bankers' As
sociation, during Its recent convention
In Denver, gives n accurate record In
its black discs of the itunrWr of b-ink
roblicrles in the United Slates In the
year ended Aug. SI, 1008.
What the yegginan Is to a metropoli
tan ncighborhiKsl the outlaws and pro
fessional thieves are to the vast regions
of (he Middle and Far West. Thnt they
should find a centre of activity In the
Mississippi Valley Is in itself a curious
fact. Their absence from the F.ast and
glimpses Into the lives of lawbreakers
past nnd present nre also afforded by
the map nnd the report of which it
Is n part.
During the year there were 8!) bur
glaries of bntiks In the United States.
The loot was worth $Ym.W, or nn
average of $l,- for each robbery. The
largest loss was ?l!.i.ioo, stolen from
the Farmers and Manufacturers' Bank
of Bock Illll, Mo. The, $((..") stolen (Tom
the Stale Bank of Hewitt. Minn., repre
enred the smallest profit of the law
breakers. Some or the largest bnnk
thefts were $7.7!0. In Adair, III.; $f5,lCM1.
In Hanover. S. D. ; $f!.ftl. lu Church's
Ferry. N. I). ; jpc.Otifj. ' Quennino, Kan. ;
$5,ni:o. In Mounds, Okla.; $t.2tiO, In Car
ney, Okla. ; $4.(XK), In New Franklin.
Mo.; $f,,.HO, In Huron, Kan., and $5,100,
!n Stephen, Minn.
In addition (here were ten hold-up.
robberies in tho year, the outlaws es
caping with $i'.'".()'7.43 In loot. The
largest was in Texoln. Okla., $.-,,000
being stolen. Others of the more seri
ous losses were $.'l,t!-(. stolen In Aldrlch,
Mo.; $.1..T17. In Chautauqua, Kan.;
$2,700, Iu Granite Falls, Mo.; $2,501,
In Tyron, Kan., and $2,200. in Clinton,
111.
Kvcn a cursory glance nt the lists
MAP SHOWING BANK KOBBEHIFS FOB THIO PAST YHAK.
brings out one of the curious facts In
connection w.ith the bank roblK-rles.
They were nil committed In small
towns, even the names of which nre
unfamiliar to the nverage American.
No city of any size figures Iu the rec
ords. t "Big bank roblicrles In cities are a
thing of the past." remarked a detect
ive, referring to these figures. "For one
thing, the bnnks In the great cities have
more money nt stake. They must make
their vaults impregnable. A bank In
New York. Philadelphia or Chicago, for
hiBtunce, did not keep more than $2."0.
000 In cash and securities la Its vaults
ten or tlfteeu years ago. Now the great
banks frequently carry from $.",000,000
to $10,000,000. With such sums, no
walls cftn be too thick, no vaults too
strong.
With the exception of $1,220 taken
from a hunk In Truxton. N. Y.. on Dec.
RO Inst, none of the burglaries was com
mitted east of the Allegheny Mountains.
None of the ten hold-up robberies In
hunks occurred nearer New York than
Granite Falls, N. C, on the south and
Clinton, 111., to the wesjt ward.
West Stamping Ground.,
A fllunee at the discs 011 the may In
Sieates the center of the burglaries. The
report shows that the largest number
r bank burglaries In nny one State was
2. In Minnesota. Then came Oklahoma,
with 8. Missouri and Kansas, with C.
mid North Dakota and South Dakota,
tach with 4. Of the hold up robberies,
there were two each In Kansas and
rikliihomu, and one each In Colorado,
Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska nnd North
Carolina. When asked why the bur
glaries and hold-ups were thus confined
to a comparatively snml! section of the
country the detective replied :
v "The Middle West is u stamping
ground for thieves, because, for cue
thing, the distances are so long and the
nreas so vast that It Is dillicult for the
poIht and sheriffs to give effective ser
vice. Twenty-live miles of comparatively
osn country between even small towns
gives the thieves many chances to es
cape." POINT IN TYPEWRITING.
. - -
Vli ill Somr Work thu Period anil
( oiiiniua Show So lllaeU and Dreu.
"When In anything typewritten you
see the periods and commas punched
black nnd deep," said an experienced
tyH'vrllor to a New York Sun man.
"you may know that the work was
done by it licgiiincr or by one who had,
not yet done sulliclent work to have
acquired a perfect touch.
"The reason for tho deep punching of
the punctuation points Is very simple.
Naturally ciiough the Ix'xluncr at type
writing plays upon all the keys with
equal force, but as the types attached
10 the keys present unequal amounts
of printing surface It follows that equal
force applied to all (he keys results In
more or less uutspial printing on the
pa 1st.
'For Instance, a certain amount of
force appiied to the B key might pro
duce of that typo a fair Impression on
the paper, but the same force applied
to a period might drive (hat, a mere
Hilut, clean through tlhc paper. In
fact. It is not unusual for beginners 011
the typewriter to punch holes In the
pupcr with their is'rLids.
"But as the learner progresses In her
11 rl she couic to' rcall.e that anno
tyS'B must lie toin IhnI more lightly
than t'thers and gradually her terlds
oocmiie less black and iloc, and with
further practice she conies liistlin-tlve-ly,
automatically, p grade her touch
nil the letters nnd signs null! at last
she Is able (o produce typewriting thnt.
M nothing less than artistic In effect,
true nnd uniform and beautiful.
"it Is something fine to sec, tbo g'wxl
work of the Intelligent, seimlflre nnd
truly competent typewriter,"
TOOK UP HUSBAND'S BUSINESS.
Sneers l 1VMuwr Who Huns HlnrV
smllh, Carrlaice and Wasnn Shop.
Mrs. C. I Orrlck Is the name of a
woman who owns one of the largest
blacksmith, carriage and wagon shops
In the city, says the Denver Post. ' In
llie midst of glowing forges, paint pots
and liuini'crlcNS wagons, she was found.
Although small nnd slight In figure, she
has a determination In her gray eyes
that command: instant respect, and her
tnnss of ellver-threaibit hair gives one
Hie Impression thnt she has endured
much In the last few your.
"Tell about myself and nil this
these wheels and wagons? Why, there
is nothing so very Interesting about
them. Is there? This factory Is dirty
and grimy ami n tpiecr place for n
woman to sis-ml her life, bnt It means
everything to inc. Seven years ago I
had a kind, good hushirnd. two dear
little babies nnd 11 lovely home. Within
nine days my liusliiuid was dead, my
house nnd everything I owned gone, and
I was left with a heavy mortgage nnt
with only a little Insurance money.
"You see, (his Is the way It happened.
My husband was (he kind of n man who
docs everything to make his family hap
py, but who never said anything nbout
his work or how much we had, We had
a beautiful lionip and I never thought
of the business. I hardly knew a horse
shoe frviin a wngou wheel ; Iu fact, when
ho was suddenly taken 111, nnd only
lived nine days, and after we were
settling things, I found that both our
home and the shop were heavily mort
gaged. "The shock was dreadful for n time,
but I saw that I had to net quickly nnd
decided to let the house go and try to
save the factory.. I took the little in
surance money left me and started rfcht
In. At the time my husband died he
had just biH'ti given the contract to
make thirty-Qye sprinkling wagons for
the city, and. with positively no knowl
edge nt all of such things, I had to see
that It was fulfilled.
"Well, I don't know just how I man
aged lo do it, but I did. and now I keep
nbout fifteen men working for me. We
have the contracts from all the express
companies, and In the spring have al
most more than we can do.
"This experience has shown me nne
great thing a man should do. however,
and that is that he never should keep
his affairs from his wire. Although at
the time he thinks he is being thought
ful by keipliiK his business affairs from
her. he is in reality doing the worst
thing he could possibly do. for If some
thing should happen and his wife was
left ns I was, she would not know what
to do. Wotnan was made to be a com
panion to mail, and he should consider
her us such, and not as a child."
i
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION )
There is room for n school of lyfer
natlonal education. Bet the youth of
the "dark" countries, such ns Russia,
lie sent to the enlightened ones for a
time, nnd then let them return home to
use their knowledge. A writer in the
Independent Illustrates this principle
under the caption, "Liberty to Keep the
Laws."
"Here Is a place where you can't go,
anyway."
'But I do not want to go there, so I
am Iu no danger of the penalty."
The first shaker was a Kussliin lad.
who was surprised that the Capitol, the
White House, public buildings of all
kinds In Washington,' were open to the
world, without even the formality of
asking permission. The second speaker
was the American friend who was
showing him round the city, and the
forblddeti spot which they at last had
reached was the grass In a park, with
the sign. "Trespass forbidden, under
penalty of the law."
"But your President can go there."
"Oh. no." was the reply, 'lie would
not want to walk there nnd sjsiil the
grass, and he would not break the law.
anyway."
"What!" said the boy. "Does your
President h.ivv to obey the InwV" lie
gasped in surprise at such a thought.
"By all means replied his cicerone.
"The President must obey the laws, of
course."
"lie must?" cried the hoy. "That Is
queer. Our Czar and grand dukes never
have to obey tln law."
At the close of the day (he lad was
taken into the f onurcssiouul Library,
where scores of men were bemliuz over
magazines under pleasant evening lights.
He caught (be arm of his friend ns
though he saw a ghost. "See! u sol
dier, a soldier! nnd he has no gun!
and he Is leading! You could uot see
that In my country." -
Wide Awake.
1-'iiildlc Yon know Stocks, don't you?
Doctor Yes. Indeed. He is now a
patient of mine.
Fuddle Pretty wide-awake man,
isn't he?
K.H tor I should uy so. I am treat
ing bltn for Insotimht. Loudon Tit
Blta. .
Ininiorlallt) .
Immortality is nothing but n continu
nlloii of ths life. It is not future, but
Irtvnei.t.-: Itov. F. W. llinnltt. Presby
terian, Danville, Ky.
Krrplnic looiitc.
While the man li of time is Inexor
able, one need not grow old in spirit,
assorting that age neiil not rolt one of
interest In life. oV. Joseph L. Garvin,
Scientist, Seattle.
Spoking-.
Somehow or other the conscious seek
ing of a good thing, it kept up too long
and too constantly. Interfere with tho
chance of obtaining It. Dr. A. Twilling
Hadlcy, Presbyterian, New Haven,
Conn.
llriinlrrmrntM nt llcllKln.
Religion requires first 11 person who
Is right and righteous In his soul, and
then an outward life or goodness oud
service in harmony with that right
state within.-Rev. John W. Bowlett,
Unitarian, Atlanta.
Wnninn's Aire.
mis is 1 ne best ng" lor Women the
world has ever known. Never were
there so many opportunities given them
as now. and never were there no many
avenues of opimrtunity ofpen to them.
Rev. W. W. Bustard. Baptist, Boston.
All Nceilx Sniiiillcri.
Mmi (Iocs not live bv bread 11 lone I
God has given to each phase ol" life Its
iii"cd, and 110 lower nature in us can
supply the needs of the one-above it,
though it may lnllucnco it more or less.
Rev. Sidney II. Cox. ' Lvimcellcal
Church. Brooklyn.
Ilihlu ersnn Crime.
It has lMen found by statistics gath
ered in (lie Juvenile courts and reform
atories that In iiliuosl every case of
wrong doing (lie culprits have no
knowledge of thefBible and its teach
ings. Rev. Frrtnk L. Onoilspeed, Pres
byterian. Springfield.
Kt-lf-lleiiinl.
The bare fruit fulness of any life
conies by its self-denials. There Is 110
good done and 110 profit made without
labor nnd pain ; It Is by surrenders nnd
giving that one becomes. of value to
society and to the kingdom af Christ
Rev. Dr. Leete, Methodist I)(H8copa
iian, Detroit. ,
Illlnilness of Sin.
Why will people persist m thinking
that Christ came into the world to con
demn them? 'Tis the blindness of sin.
He is the sinner's truest I'ricsi. God
sent not His son into the world to con
demn the world; but that (he world
I'.hould be saved through Him. Rev. R.
M. Utile. Presbyterian. Pittuhurg.
Obeying (odM Word.
What we need to-day above "popu
larity" or kingly patronage or loud mu
sic or rich pageantry Is simple ols'dl
eiicc to God's word, if this gets to be
a mere detail that may be lot sight of
In the' general fuss, so much the worse,
for all concerned. Rev. A. AIrd Moffat,
('ongrogatlonallst, Newark.
Clennalntc lh World.
There are many scholarly and
thoughtful inep, who nre ns far from
being pessimists ns a doliciiw peach
Is from being a sour grape, wlie think
It would take something as cleansing,
lis the flood described In Geneeis to pur
ify our country, to say nothing of the!
rest of the world. -r-Rev. Frederick E.
Hopkins, Cougrcgatiouatirtt, Chicago.
Catechism.
The little child that is familiar with
his catechism Is really mere enlighten
ed on truths that should come home to
every rational mind than the inest pro
found philosophers of pagan antiquity,
or even than many so-called philoso
phers of our times. ,T. Cardinal Gib
bons, Roman Catholic. Baltimore.
Materia! Prosperity lnsnfUclent.
Mere material prosperity has never
boon sillliclent to secure stability of
government. Moral courage, honesty,
liberal education, and a healthy sense
of religion are ot greater importance
In our national life than big crops.
large bnnk deposits, enormous factories.
or 'extensive railways. Rev. John G.
Scott, Episcopalian, Hot Springs, Va.
, Tho Kami's Horn.
The shol'ar's tones, while not quite so
beautiful and harmonious as the trum
pets of war, have a far different lesson
to convey. At the sound of the note
from the Ram's horn nil Israel Is lis
tening to (lie same and is stirred to the
vry depths, slid rally to the (lag of
their faith, pledging themselves a new
loyalty to their God. Rev. M. S. Levy,
Hebrew, San Francisco.
The lllhle.
The Bible is not only up to date, but
ahead of date. It has ant("ipated every
sclentille discovery of any consequence;
and little is taught in science to-day
that may not lo found outlined in the
Bible. The order of c reation. for exam
ple. Is now round by science to be Iden
tical with the method revealed lu this
holiest of books. Rev. Hugh K. Walk
er, Presbyterian. Ios Angeles.
The llevll.
The production of "The Devi!" def el
ms the coursciict-s and gros.sucss of th&
story. Yet. despite its coarse staging,
the play must siig'.'est to all who thitilt
ut all the many uulsi-s in which evil
limy present Itself. It Is greatly to be
dcploi't-il that tills study iu evil, which
inlj-lit prove a ivarul.ig to ninny ;i
thought fill man ami woman, should le
developed in its worst hit-lead of Its
best phases. Rev. A. Eugene Bartlett,
''lliirch f the Redeemer. Chicago.
1 1 i-l :I i t: tlm llnrclsr Out.
"John." s-'ie wlilsjiercd. "there's
burglar In 1 lie drawing room. He has
just kiiiH-knl a'.Mii st the piano and hll
several keys at once."
"I'll pi down," 'aid he.
"i h, J !'ii, don't do anything rash!"
"R-uh! Why, I'm going to help hltn,
Vou don't suppose he can remove (ha.
piano from the liou--- without assist
mice !" Lm-iliiii vino: e.
A girl lintel f -il awfully toueaoms
when she lin -s u i..a:i whom all her
gM friends like.