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6 the Governor rode past my
A grandmothers house on the
spring morning when he left the
Stale forever he -wore his uniform and
carried the sword with which he after
wards led the charge at San Jacinto
He was a tall man broad shouldered
and well knit with a certain graceful
stateliness which though he had it by
nature he had not left uncultivated It
Was held iu those days to be a mark of
the person of quality and from the
time when as a boy of 10 he had lain
on the puncheon floor of his fathers
cabin spelling out Popes Iliad by th
tight of a pine knot the Governor had
always felt himself a person of quality
My grandmother was on the porch as
he passed and he bowed low to her
reremoniously doffing his hat as he al
ways did to ladies It was the last time
she ever saw him and though she had
been his wannest friend he kept his
awn counsel with her as with every
tie else
To the day of his death he never ex
plained himself Sir he would say
In response to every attempt to draw
him out let us speak of something
else And the bow with which he said
It was conclusive When he had just
reached the summit of what had been
his ambition when he was Governor
of what was then the pivotal State of
the Union with the Presidency as a
possibility for him and the United
States Senate for life a certainty why
it ws that he chose to dress himself
ii his uniform and ride out into the
wilderness beyond the 3 isissippi
never to return his biographers have
not been able to explain except in
rague generalities How my grand
mother knew the story I cannot say
further than that she was the friend
aot only of the Governor himself but
of Virginia Frazer and of John Endi
eott the Governors private secretary
who made the trouble between them
It is true my dear said my grand
mother to me that Endicott was a
Yankee and an impecunious school
teacher but he was a Harvard grad
uate and a gentleman The Endicotts
are an excellent family almost as good
jis our own or as Virginias And the
Governor you know though one of the
best bred men I ever saw lacked the
great advantage of descent from well
bred people
Those who conclude from this that
my grandmother was something of a
Tory will uot be wholly mistaken but
If they had known the charming old
lady as well as I they would forgive her
as easily as I do even though which
Is not likely they are as radical in
their politics as I am thought to be by
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some
The Governors honeymoon was bare
ly over when he left the State The
fact of his resignation which he had
addressed in due form to the presiding
officer of the Senate was not generally
known until he was 300 miles away
sitting in a Cherokee cabin smoking
an Indian pipe as silent and impassive
as any other savage of those around
him For that was undoubtedly his i
idea at the time to renounce civilization
forever and live a barbarian among
barbarians
Mrs Frazer Virginias mother was a
famous match maker and one of tlie
Governors staunchest partisans If
ite was born in a cabin she said to
my grandfather a few days before the
wedding he has more brains than any
other man in the State I expect to see
aim President yet
With visions of Virginia in the White
House and herself as the power behind
the throne she was correspondingly
elated on the night of the wedding It
Is no part of my purpose to attempt to
describe her feelings when the catas
trophe came and she found herself
face to face with the climax of one o
those tragedies which compel silence
In all who are incapable of resigna
tion
When Endicott first met Virginia
Frazer he was not more than 25 very
iiaudsome and with an unassuming
self possession which made amends for
his lack of the ceremonious courtesy
habitual to the society into which he
was thrown There had been a marked
attraction between him and Virginia
from their first acquaintance and nmc
who did not know her mother expected
it to be a match But Virginia before
any one knew of her engagement to the
Governor lud begun to hold Endicott
at arms length and after the climax
there was never the slightest scandal
connecting her name with his
She was not more than 20 at the time
of her marriage Six weeks later when
she stood before the fireplace of her
siJ ting room as the Governor entered
at U oclock at night she wore the
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muslin whose contrasting whiteness
had so heightened her bruntte beauty
on the day after her marriage The
Governor had just come frm a con
ference of his political friends and was
flushed and hopeful His wife did not
move as he entered the room Her
face was half averted when with his
usual impressive gallantry he took off
his hat at the door and crossed the
room to kiss her hand no had taken it
in his and his lips had almost touched
it when she hastily almost violently
withdrew it Slipping past him she
stood in the center of the room facing
him as he turned not understanding
her at all and thinking that she had
begun to develop an unaccustomed
playfulness
She did not leave him long in error
Do not toucii me she said in a voice
which though It trembled with excite
ment showed the decisiveness of long
premeditation Do not touch me I
cannot bear it
The Governor stood motionless with
the puzzled look of one whose intellect
is overcome She might have pitied
him and receded had she been capable
either of seeing or understanding but
she had become a mere automaton
governed by long suppressed emotion
I cannot bear it she repeated I
do not love you I have never loved
you I have tried to learn I cannot
I have tried to become a true and duti
ful wife to you I cannot I have tried
to forget the only man I ever loved I
cannot There must be an end of it all
and it must come now
Virginia said the Governor help
lessly
Virginia
Do not stop me she went on with
increasing rapidity I am not insane
though I am near it I am a good wom
an sir At leaser I have nothing with
which to reproach myself except the
shame of having allowed them to make
you believe I love you It was all my
mothers fault and yours Why did
you follow me Why did she force me
on you when I did not love you when
I never can love you when I have
ceased to wish to love you
She paused a moment for breath The
Governor did not move He had leaned
his elbow on the mantel and now with
his hand supporting his chin he stood
looking at her blankly
I will not be stopped she said
catching her breath with a sob I will
tell you everything everjthing the
whole miserable truth that is killing
mo I love John Endicott I have never
loved anyone else I never will He
does not know it and he never can
know it unless you tell him Now you
know what a wretch I am and you
know what you have done to make me
so
As she stopped she drew herself up
and threw back her long black hair
which had escaped from her comb and
fallen around her face As yet the
Governors mind had assimilated hard
ly anything of what she had said It
had come upon him a supreme calamity
at the climax of his good fortune He
seemed to himself to have died sud
denly and to be striving to wake to
consciousness in another world The
one idea which shaped itself clearly in
the chaos of his brain was tht his wife
had never been so splendidly beautiful
as now when she stood with head
thrown back and flashing eyes lifted
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IT WAS THE rVST TI3E SHE SAW HIM
above herself by the stress of such an
effort as no one person ever makes
twice in a lifetime as very few ever
make at all At moment later over
come by the inevitable reaction she
had rushed -sobbing from the room
leaving the Governor still standing at
the mantel immovable as he had stood
since she began
He had made no attempt to follow
her She had gone only a few minutes
when he stood upright threw back his
shoulders walked twice up and down
the room and then took his seat before
a writing desk drawn close to a win
dow overlooking the river Settling
down in the chair with his elbows on
its arms and his hands locked across
his breast he looked steadily out of
the window motionless as the clock
on the mantel struck the hours one
after another until the small square
window panes began to grow luminous
with the dawn Then he rose and un
locking a drawer in the lower part of
his desk took out a mahogany box
with silver mounted corners and a
heavy silver plate in the center c the
lid He unlocked it deliberately and
taking from it a pair of the long blue
steel dueling pistols of the period
tried the lc i of both and then look-
ing at them said aloud
They are the ones Benton gave me
The same sir I had the misfortune to
be obliged to use in my difficulty with
my much respected friend Gen Jack
son
Before he had concluded his uncon
scious mimicry of Bentons
speech he recognized the fact that
he had caught the solemn pomp of that
statesmans carefully modulated peri
ods The incongruity of the idea grew
upon him and as he turned one of the
pistols over and over in his hand he
almost smiled at the u er lack of log
ical sequence in his own mental
processes Simultaneously he seemed
to have reached a conclusion for he
replaced the pistols and locked the case
No he said I will not do it He is
a good boy and it is not his fault nor
hers either She is as good a woman as
ever lived and I am a fool
He spoke now with the decisiveness
he had shown at Horseshoe Bend
where as everyone knows Gen Jack
son had called him the bravest man in
the army He was almost cheerful as
he rose and left the house walking
towards the bluffs as was his morning
habit with the light swinging step he
had learned on the trail with the Che
rokee friends of his boyhood He did
THE GOVERNOK DID XOT MOVE
not return until 11 oclock and going
straight to his office he found John
Endicott his secretary waiting for him
with a formidable bundle of papers
Use your own judgment my boy on
all that will not keep until to morrow
I am busy to day with work that an
not wait
He passed into his inner rooms as he
said this and began sorting the papers
in his private pigeonholes Endicott
could hear him tearing them but if he
wondered he asked no questions and
the Governor kept up his work long
after his usual dinner hour When he
went home he found what he had ex
pected His wife had gone to her
mother and he never saw her again
It is said he wrote her a most affec
tionate letter but if he did nothing he
said in it changed the course of his life
or hois Nonsense His heart did not
break said my grandmother Why
all the world heard of him at San Ja
cinto A brave mans heart never
breaks while be has work to do
Terhaps she was right At any rate
there was no tremor in the Governors
voice as he spoke to her that morning
riding with his horses head turned to
ward the old Cherokee trail that led
across the Mississippi through Arkan
sas to the Indian Territory
Good morning Mrs Tupton he
said as he bowed to my grandmother
It is a beautiful day and your roses
are almost beautiful enough to bo
worthy of you Utica Globe
Drugs Do Not Strengthen
There is no drug yet discovered so
far as we know unless it be alcohol
which distinctly adds force to the body
when it is taken All of the so called
strengthening remedies which ena
ble a man to accomplish more work
when he is under their influence do so
uot by adding units of force to his body
but by utilizing those units of force
which ho has already obtained and
stored away as reserve force by the di
gestion of his food Kola coca excess
ive quantities of coffee aud tea and
similar substances while they tem
porarily cause nervous work to sefni
light do so only by adding to the units
of force which a man ought to spend in
his daily life those units which he
should most sacredly preserve as his
reserve fund The condition of the in
dividual who when tired and exhaust
ed uses these remedies with the obJ
ject of accomplishing more work than
his fatigued system could otherwise en
dure is similar to that of a banker
who under the pressure of financial
difficulties draws upon his capital and
reserve fuuds to supplement the use
of those moneys which he can properly
employ in carrying on his business
The result in both instances is the
same In a greater or less time the
banker or the patient as the case may
be finds that his reserve fund has dis
appeared and that he is a pecuniary or
nervous bankrupt Therapeutic Ga
zette
Tlic Reason
Bessie Is your friend Longhair go
ing out to play football -
Barbara What made you think so
Why hes headed that way Yonk
ers Statesman
When a girl- thinks she is awfully
sweet she finds it difficult to keep the
opinion to herself
EOR LITTLE FOLKS
A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN
TEREST TO THEM
Something that Will Interest the Ju
venile Members of Every Household
Quaint Actions and Bright Snyinpjs
of Many Cute and Cunning Children
Donnas Skirt Dance
Out on the lawn sit father and mother
Four-year-old Donna Kate loe neigh
bor Kruniin
And grandma who asks Now will woe
Donna give us
A diince while papa iraily siims tuniily
turn
Yes oh yes ganma dear incl up she j
stands blushing
Iler lavender muslin twixl finger and
thumb
Serious watchful patiently waiting
For none but papa must sing Huniity
turn
Tnmity turn sots the tan slippers flying
Around and around the waving locks
come
Fallen leaves rustle and Bravo is
shouted
To the musical beat of turn
But a dry old stick all doubled and
twisted
Lies right in her path close crouching
and dumb
Till her steps hasten on to a quick quick
er quickest
Toc tumity tumty ti teump tee turn
Then it springs Theres a whir of locks
lace and muslin
Embroidery and shoes there shes up
rather glum
But again circling smoothly and steadily
onward
To papas cheerful Ha girlie tee
tumty turn
Toora loora tce tuin so it now must be
ended
With spirit and never a tear in her eyes
That done her lips quiver while showing
hex bruises
As she leans on papa and oh how she
cries
Detroit Free Press
Awfully Conceited
The Indianapolis Journal reports a
scrap of dialogue between two boys
Some people would say that their ideas
and logic were both rather character
istic of their sex
Tommy I wouldnt be as stuck up as
girls is for anything
Jimmy Me neither They thinks
thoy are just as good as boys
Boy Who Knows How to Whittle
Heres a Chicago boy who knows how
to use a jackknife IDs name is George
Richardson and the cut will show you
what he has done
Out of a straight
pine stick about
one inch thick one
inch wide and two
inches long he
whittled the cage
with the round ball
inside of it This
ball is loose and
can be readily roll
ed about but it is
too large to be tak
en from its prison
The work is smoothly and neatly done
ind George says he used nothing but a
jackknife although it must have been
lifficult to whittle out the inside of the
age by this means Wheres the boy
vho can show a better job of whit
ding
Samaritans Among Birds
Once upon a time a pair of robins
bliilt their nest on a fence and a pair of
jatbirds American thrushes that are
so called because their cry is like the
mewing of a cat in a brush close by
Baby birds appeared in each nest about
the same time and all went well for a
few days when one morning the par
ent catbirds were both missing proba
bly slain Their young would have
starved but for the robins Whenever
the robins lit on the rail with a worm
or other food the catbirds set up a
hungry squeak and so the kind birds of
the redbreast determined to feed the
stranger fledglings as well as their own
Both families were successfully reared
the catbirds being so strong and lively
that they looked as if they had been
brought up by their own parents
Where Neddie Found Him
Where was Baby Neddie looked un
der all the sofas and Lawrence even
peeped into the big tin cake box You
see Baby had only one little tooth in
his head but that one was such a sweet
tooth And he had twice been known
to creep out into the pantry into the
cake box But he wasnt there this
time He didnt seem to be anywhere
and mamma began to get alarmed
Get the dinner bell Ned she said
and ring it out the back door for papa
And Lawrence are you sure you hunt
ed in all the closets Theres the linen
closet you know and Bridgets closet
I looked in em all Lawrence said
despondently He isnt anywhere I
guess hes de solved Hes sweet
enough to
Papa came in and hunted too Out
doors and in they hunted getting more
frightened all the time Then Neddie
found him He laughed till the two
anxious tears just crossing over the
bridge of his nose lost their balance and
tumbled down hill
I said Neddie found Baby but really
and truly It was onlyTiis little soft
shamois shoes he found and part of two
little black stockinged legs in them
The rest of Baby was out of sight
Papas tall square scrap basket in the
library was over on its side and Baby
had crawled in and gone to sleep How
mamma laughed when he was found
Youths Companion
A Boys Kabbit Snatc
Oue of the most effective rabbit
snares for Is known as
xlnagowaerais abijMii
the bait trttch up It is very simply
made and if there are any rabbits iu
the neighborhood where it is set up it
will certainly catch them As you will
see in the picture the snare consists of
a pen made of small sticks about a foot
high and having an opening on one
side about six inches across In the
picture some of the sticks an shown
cut off short in order to reveal the in
terior of the pen Over the doorway a
stout twig is arched
Two sticks about ten inches long are
whittled to a point at one end and cut
square at the other One of them is
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baited with a sweet apple and bal
anced upright at the further side of the
pen The point of the other stick is
carefully balanced at the point of the
upright the other end being placed just
under the arch where it is held fast by
the noose wire This noose wire is fas
tened to a springy sapling
When the rabbit sees the apple he
pops through the noose but the mo
ment he touches the bait down fall the
two sticks up goes the sapling and he
is caught in the noose
Daily Mails by Birds
Out on the Pacific coast there hasj
been established what is probably the
most novel postal service in the world
says the New York Herald It is not
under Government control and Uncle
Sam has nothing to do with the ap
pointment of the operators
This line is between Santa CatalinN
Island lying twenty miles out to sea
and Los Angeles Cal and the post
men are trim saucy little carrier pig
eons whose feathered coats oddly
enough are precisely the bluish gray
shade of the regulation postmans uni
form Every day during the three
summer months and sometimes twice
a day these tiny messengers fly from
the island across the ocean channel and
over the land fifty miles air line to
their loft in Los Angeles bearing be
neath their wings not only dispatches
to private persons but a daily budget
of news for the city press
The owners and originators of what
is now known as the Catalina Carrier
Pigeon Service are two bright Los An
geles boys the Zahn brothers Cata
lina Island is one of the most popular
summer resorts on the Pacific coast
therefore it came to pass that every
summer several thousand people found
themselves literally at sea practical
ly cut off from the outside world A
steamer lands at Avalon the principal
resort on the island once each day ar
riving at G oclock p m and returning
to the mainland at 7 oclock the follow
ing morning All communication with
the outside world was therefore cut
off for twenty four hours at a time
At first the only thought was to send
private messages but it soon occurred
to the editor of one of the enterprising
city dailies to have the daily corre
spondence from the island transmitted
by the pigeon line The experiment
was therefore tried
Private vs Public Opinion
An Englishman who was traveling
at the time Senor Canovas was killed
writes to the London Standard his ob
servations of the manner in which men
really spoke of the assassination Ev
ery paper devoted columns to denounc
ing the deed commenting on the politi
cal results and to unanimously singing
the praises of the dead premier Ac
cording to the Liberal and Conserva
tive papers alike his efforts for Spain
has been colossal and had he lived he
would speedily have ended or mended
the difficulties in Cuba the Philippines
and at home He was an ideal man
politically and socially and was to be
the saviour of his country During the
last few days in Seville and Madrid
I have heard the opinion of many
classes of the community and ninety
per cent of the people here state open
ly In the cafe in the streets at the
table dhote and in the clubs that far
from being surprised they wonder that
Canovas was not murdered ten years
ago Tliey speak of him as a cold
hearted despot opposed to all meas
ures for the improvement of the people
the prime cause of the wasted millions
in Cuba and the murderer of the thou
sands who have died there from fam
ine disease and at the hands of the
insurgents They lay at his door the
innumerable tax abuses which lately
have increased considerably
Descriptive at Least
A baby in St Louis has the original
name of Cyclonia It was given to her
the Chicago Times Herald explains
because she was born during the de
structive storm which visited St Louis
in the spring of 1896 But for this ex
planation it might have been supposed
that her name indicated simply that
her father and mother were completely
carried away with her
Entertaining comply is nothing but
vanity The professional visitors have
a way of praising everything offered
them and those who entertain break
their necks for the cheap compliments
Twenty five dollars for wedding cards
is apparently too much brides have
almost stopped using thero because
they do not bring 25 worth of
ents
TRUMPET CALLS
Hams Horn Sounds a Warninr Note
to the Unredeemed
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PREJUDICE of is
Fog is the gos
sips sunshine
Covetousness la
cussedness nick
named
Knowledge wifl
grow until the
last scholar is
dead
If only good
men could marry
the world would be full of old maids
Mother is the little childs Bible
Slow promises make the best time
Opinions never change the weather
A fools company is not hard to find
Honesty has never found a substitute
He that is always calm is always
brave
He is very unfortunate that has ne
trouble
Gold loses its shine when it Is gottes
by guilt
Nature is the supernatural partially
unveiled
The best safe for your money is a pru
dent wife
A giant among giants is not aware of
his own size J
The ass might sing better if he didnt
pitch his tune so high
The man robs others who does not
make the best of himself
Nothing can happen without bringing
good to those who love God
Everybody says Go up higher to
the man who is getting there
1 Call a little man great and other Kt
tle people will throw up their hats
Whenever an ass brays he probably
thinks he has enlightened the worli
To get the good out of the years we
must learn how to live each hour wefl
The devil cannot be less merciful to
men than they have been to each other
If you talk to a mule about voice cul
ture take care to keep away from his
heels
A shallow man may always sec tiie
face of a fool by looking into a deep
well
We may stand on the highest hill if
Ave arc only willing to take steps
enough
The man who travels the same road
every day soon ceases to admire the
scenery
Time and Silence
As time is the greatest o pbysiciaas
so silence is the greatest of arbiters
Time and silence succeed oftentimes
where all other agencies and influences
fail The truth is omnipotent and
needs no props In the end only the
right will prevail and all men shall
see it Suffering is the only avenue to
the highest and divinest experiences
He was made perfect through suffer
ing and if we would reign with Him
we must also suffer with Him Suf
fering is Heavens brightest angel in
idisguise If we suffer as Christians
let us rejoice and be glad for great is
our reAvard not in the far off life to
come only but here on earth also It
Ave are right with God and our cause is
just Ave have nothing to fear however
we may suffer but in the end we shall
say It was Aveli it was well AH
things come to those who know how to
AA ait and silence is golden when we
know that He guides our steps He
doerh all things well aud He shall bring
forth thy righteousness as the light and
thy judgment vindication as the noon
day Ho shall it be well with thee so
suffer on if it bo thy lot
The German Woman
In Germany to day no woman can
control property she cannot even con
trol her own actions whatever of val
ue she has acquired in any Avay be
longs to her father her husband or her
son and the Iiav requires her to obey
their orders Japan is the only other
country on earth that pretends to bo
civilized Avhere the rights of women
arc so restricted When a woman
marries in Germany all her property
passes into the ownership of her hus
band forever He has the legal right
to use or dispose of it in any manner
he chooses regardless of her wishes or
protests If they are divorced the
property remains Avilh him When sho
assents to the marriage vow she for
feits independence and confers upn
him absolute jurisdiction over her
mind body and estate He can compel
her to Avork or do anything else that is
lawful for women to do and she has
no relief or protection except in publie
opinion Some of the American heir
esses Avho haAe married German bar
ons have learned of this law tt thehr
sorrow and others Avho may hare ax
opportunity to assist in supportiag tie
German army and restoring ancestral
estates should look into the matter
very carefully before they appoint tho
Avedding day Chicago Record
Mutual Interest
So that young man wants to Marry
you said Mabls father
Yes was the reply
Do you know what his salary is
No But its an awfully strange co
incidence
What do you mean
Herbert asked metthe very same
question about you Washington
Star
Much Named War God
China has a war god with 3060
uames
Every man has troubles of his oath
but owing to the demands for sympa
thy made Tjy other people not every
man has a thance to get around to
ithem
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