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poet to the contrary not
withstanding there are occa
sions when it might have been
are joyful words Most men upon
meeting again in after years their first
loves realize this and offer up payers
of thauksigiving
It was so with Hurlburt
In the early days of the Pacific coast
Hurlburt was stationed at San Diego
It was a picturesque little town Its
streets were not much more than cow
paths and its houses were mostly of
the good old pattern adobes one story
high and built around a patio In such
a house as this lived Manuela Lopez
and in one of the cow path streets
Hurlburt first met her It was upon a
Sunday Hurlburt had just come from
inspection and was on his way to din
ner with friends in town He still
wore his regimentals and was a very
gorgeous sight Indeed He was also
tall and yellow haired and blue eyed
quite the figure to strike the fancy of
a pretty little Mexican girl who was
coming home from mass
She had read no books that could
have told her that it was the accepted
thing to do she had probably never
given such subjects a moments
thought but when the mind of a child
becomes the mind of a woman it is
at one bound not by slow degrees In
spiration struck full upon Manuelas
brain and she dropped her rosary
From which it may be inferred that
the love of the fathers and the wisdom
of ages has taught woman nothing new
in affairs of the heart The impulse of
the intrigante and of the child of na
ture are the same
Hurlburt of course was close to
Manuela when the rosary dropped He
returned it to her If she had not been
with a servant he might have spoken
You can count upon any one but the
typical Anglo Saxon You expect men
of Latin and Slav races to make fools
of themselves But the Anglo Saxon
as such a thoroughly logical reason
able clear headed person that the bot
tom of your universe drops out when
lie deviates from the path of common
sense And when he does it is never
a mere digression He goes a flaming
comet whirling through space and
carrying all your stellar system of
plans and beliefs before him The last
thing any one would have expected of
a big quiet rational youth such as
was Hurlburt was that he should wax
romantic over a street meeting with
an immature ruse to attract his atten
tion Nevertheless that same day i
ter luncheon he said to his host as
they sat smoking under the ramada
Who lives in the house on the next
street where the two mocking bird j
cages hang on the wall
You must be more explicit his host
said there are a number of houses
on the next street and one and all have
mocking birds
Yes said Hurlburt but there is a
hedge of red and white geranium in
front of it
I saw you meet her the civilian
told him her name is Lopez Manu
ela I think
Hurlburt became very red When
your phlegmatic man grows embar
rassed he is badly embarrassed It was
some time before he regained speech
and came floundering out of the sea of
silence When he did he changed the
subject
Not that he abandoned the cause
Far frour it It took him two weeks
but he got himself introduced to Senor
Lopez and had then taken to call upon
him The senor was a well educated
man and the most hospitable of his
hospitable race He made Hurlburt
free of the house at once and showed
him everything it contained save only
Manuela
You must come again often he
said as they parted Hurlburt replied
that he would and went again in three
days Neither did he see his lady of the
rosary upon this occasion He address
ed himself to Senora Lopez who was
handsome and well preserved
You have a daughter have you not
senora
Senora Lopez understood only just so
much English as she chose She did not
choose to understand this She turned
her soft eyes upon her husband and
he answered for her
We have a daughter he said but
she is very young
Hurlburt understood that he had of
fended a semi oriental prejudice
It having thus been made obvious to
him that Manuela would not be pro
duced by her parents he went to an
early mass at the church met her and
introduced himself It chanced that
she was alone
May I walk home with you senor
ita he said I have the pleasure of
knowing your father
Yes sir said Manuela
It was but a few hundred yards to
her home but he made the most of his
time Manuela answered him in mono
syllables and raised her eyes but twice
Hurlburts infatuation was complete
Senor Lopez was angry He was very
- civil to the officer but he sent the girl
to her room at once
I met the senorita at mass Hurl
burt explained
Are you then a Catholic inquired
the Mexican
No said Hurlburt and determined
to pursue the policy that sages who
know nothing of mankind tell us is in
variably the best I went to the
church on purpose to meet your daugh
ter I saw her on the street the other
day he refrained in a moment of di
plomacy from speaking of the dropped
beads and I admired her very much
Tbat Is wiiy I came to call upon you
I thought I would see her openly under
her own roof As I did not I encoun
tered her elsewhere Now said Hurl
burt leaning back in an easy pose that
did not meet with the punctilious Mexi
cans approval I should like to ask
you to be allowed to pay my court to
your daughter
Senor Lopez made no objection to
the officers suit but he did object
to his fashion of advancing it He in
cased himself in perversity
My daughter sir is too young
He rose to his feet by way of sug
gesting that Hurlburt would do well
to take his leave Hurlburt rose too
but not to go
May I ask her age senor
She is sixteen years old
You have told me that you married
the senora when she was but fifteen
That was in the old times We do
not do so any more
But I will be willing to wait for a
year if Senorita Manuela will love
me
Sir we will talk no more concern
ing this My daughter is too young to
be married and I do not wish to give
her to an American which was not
in the least true Up to then it had
been his plan to do so but his obstinacy
was roused
The result was one that any one
most of all a Mexican should have fore
seen Hurlburt embarked upon an in
trigue He sent notes to Manuela and
got them from her in return The notes
led to meetings by night The meet
ings led to infatuation Warm South
ern nights and a soft eyed soft voiced
girl can work mischief within the mind
of a man And a tall blonde officer
saying the first words of love she has
ever heard can turn the head of any
woman
The clandestine interviews continued
for several months Then Hurlburt
made one last attempt at frankness He
went to Senor Lopez again and renew
ed his request to be permitted to pay
his daughter court The senor had con
ceived an unreasonable and great dis
like for him and refused
Whereupon Hurlburt arranged anoth
er meeting with Manuela He began to
realize that they were both running ter
rible risks Senor Lopez was quite
equal to killing one of them if they
should be discovered But he did not
suggest that to Manuela Instead he
asked Do you love me chiquita
Yes yes Must I tell you so al
ways
Do you love me enough to leave
your home for me
I do not understand The gentle
eyes looked into his perplexed
Will you marry me
I would but how can I she said
My father will not consent to it
Do you love me enough to run away
from your father to disobey him and
go over to Mexico across the border
with me We can be married there
and then come back
Hurlburt was an impassive unemo
tional man but his nerves were upon
a fearful tension as he waited for the
answer of an irresponsible child She
appeared to consider and ended by
agreeing Hurlburt was beside him
self with happiness
A week later they went across the
line and were married They returned
immediately and had an interview
with Senor Lopez The Mexican was
enraged Hurlburt having obtained
what he wanted was not inclined to be
conciliatory but Manuela and her
mother patched up a peace Manuela
behaved beautifully and Hurlburt was
more enamored than ever He took her
back to his home and for three days
dreamed of a lifetime of bliss Then
Manuela decided that she had had
enough of living on honeycomb and
that she had tired of scented time
With no explanations and no reason
save that she wanted to go she went
Her father charmed with Hurlburts
discomfiture refused to make her re
turn to him and guarded her closely
Hurlburt begged for one final inter
view and it was granted He was a
sorry sight pale and haggard and self
abasing But Manuela was unmoved
She stood meekly before him her fold
ed hands holding a rose her father and
mother on either side of her She was
not in the least uuhappy and no grief
had marred her prettiness
Manuela said Hurlburt have you
not changed your mind Will you not
come home with me
SS shook her head No she said
Why not Was I not kind to you
Did I not love you
Yes you were very kind But I like
better to be with my father
It was useless to threaten implore
or reason Manuela was gently stub
born She would never go back to him
she did not like Americans
When Hurlburt finally went away he
decided that his heart wras broken He
thought of suicide He could never
bear up under the disgrace and it was
not so great as his wretchedness This
frame of mind lasted for a year then
he became resentful then he obtained
a divorce then he was ordered East
and it was ten years before he returned
to the coast He had with him his wife
a woman of his own people very
charming very well suited to him in
every way She knew the story of his
first marriage and she knew that
whatever he might say to the contrary
he still regretted deep down in his heart
the sweet soft Mexican wife of his
youth of his season of dear beliefs and
illusions The knowledge was the one
grief of her life It threw a shadow of
sadness over her eyes But she kept
it to herself and for this unfemlnlne
virtue the gods in due time rewarded
her
They went one day by ambulance
from Wilmington where Hurlburt was
stationed to Los Angeles One of their
mules got lame and they had to spend
the night at a roadside ranch A crowd
of dirty Mexican children played
around the adobe several yet dirtier
men lounged about the door a fat bej
shawled woman waddled across the
yard a yet more untidy one welcomed
them
Her greasy face was still rather pret
ty and young but she was thick and
heavy and stupid When she looked
full at Hurlburt she gave a little cry
that was more of a grunt
Come In I will tell my husband
she said and shuffled away with her
bare feet
Hurlburt turned to his wife gravely
I am sorry to have brought you here
he said but it Is all we can do unless
you prefer to sleep in the ambulance
to night That woman was my wife
So I suppose V she said She laid
her delicate hand on his arm Dont
let it trouble you dear I do not mind
she smiled into his eyes and the shad
ow was forever gone from her own
San Francisco Argonaut
INVENTOR OF LEAD PIPE
The Interesting Life of Robert Seydell
of Milton
There was born in Milton Pa in
1809 a man of wonderful genius it is
said His name was Robert Seydell
and he died in 1847 Mr Seydell was a
coppersmith and was almost continu
ously working out some device connect
ed with the machinery in his factory
To him it is related by some of the
oldest citizens of this place belongs the
discovery of the process of making
lead pipe and like many other inven
tors the Idea of making the same was
stolen from him and further developed
to its present form of manufacture
It was in the latter part of the thir
ties that the idea suggested itself to
him and the following is the way he
wrought it out He first took a slug
or casting of lead placing it on a man
del or rod of steel about sixteen feet
long and one inch in diameter the
mandel was highly polished and upon
this he drew or rolled out the lead to
the full strength of the rod thus giv
ing him an inch bore and the material
was rolled it is said to a one fourth
inch making a total diameter of one
and one half inches for the pipe After
completing several sections of the
length o fthe mandel he soldered them
together making the pipe of whatever
length he desired
He put it to practical use by fasten
ing it to pump heads and also running
it from springs to connect watering
troughs and spring houses in the coun
try round about here Being greatly
pleased with his discovery and receiv
ing the most flattering of comments
from his friends and neighbors in this
section he concluded to make his in
vention more widely known and hence
made a visit to Philadelphia taking his
device with him
At the Franklin Institute in that city
he gave his first exhibition to quite a
number of inventors artisans and me
chanics As it is now related all
who witnessed it were more than de
lighted and so expressed themselves in
his immediate presence
It was not long that he was allowed
to remain in a condition of supreme
happiness over his invention for a
short time after he made a disclosure of
his discovery and while yet in Phila
delphia he found out that by the very
persons to whom he had given an ex
hibition of the process of making lead
pipe his Idea had been used and im
proved upon Philadelpha Press
A Convenient Custom
In Holland bills are often paid
through the medium of the post office
It enables a man living say in Rotter
dam to get a small bill collected in any
provincial town without the often ex
pensive and tedious interference of a
bnnker or agent For that purpose he
hands his bill to the nearest postoffice
It is sent to the place where the money
is to be collected After the collection
a draft is forwarded to the payeu by
the office where he deposited the bill
duly receipted on payment of a small
commission which is payable in ad
vance London Evening News
The Ajre of Monuments
Promoter What shall we give the
next benefit for
Assistant Lets announce it for a
contingent fund to secure the erection
of a monument to the next citizen
whom the public think merits monu
mental distinction Philadelphia North
American
Anticipating
Mudkins What would you say sir if
I should tell you that I love your
daughter
Mr Cashburn Not a word sir not
a word Your audacity would simply
hold me spellbound Philadelphia
North American
There are three times as many mus
cles in the tail of the cat as there are
In the human hands and wrists
Wheelmen toil anl they also spin
yarns
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A FUNNY OLD TOWN
Some of the Many Amusing Features
of Key West
Key West is one of the oldest and
funniest towns in the United States
It is made up of innumerable little
wooden houses without chimneys but
crowded in irregular groups Many of
the houses have wooden shutters in
place of glass windows On most of
the streets there are no sidewalks but
people stumble over the jagged edges
of coral rock The natives who wear
shoes ride in carriages There are a
great number of public vehicles and
one can be hailed at any corner and en
gaged for 10 cents Some of these car
riages are quite respectable in appear
ance They are generally double-seated
affairs which have been discarded
in the North The horses are wrecks
and they show by thir appearance
that fodder is dear and that they are
not half fed One of the sounds of
Key West is the whacking of the horses
which draw the carriages and the
mules which move the street cars from
place to place The street cars look as
if they had been dug up from the neigh
borhood of the pyramids Ropes are
used for reins and the only substantial
tiling about the whole outfit is the great
rawhide whip with which the street
car driver labors Incessantly The peo
ple as a rule are opposed to excessive
exertion but they make an exception
in the case of labor with a whip
The town has one struggling newspa
per which is worthy of a better sup
port The climate of which much has
been written Is too good to be wasted
and there are traditions against exces
sive mental effort by either the makers
or the readers of newspapers Hun
dreds of dogs cats roosters goats and
razorbacks run at large through the
streets and the three former combine
to make the night hideous In the ear
ly evening the sound of negro meetings
and jubilations predominates Then
the cats begin where the shouters leave
FRENCH POLITENESS
Use of Old Time Courtesy Brought Pro
motion for a Frenchman
In France at the present day the
great majority of the people are ardent
republicans in opinion but they are
also great admirers of the sort of cour
tesy which is associated with the an
cieii regimethe old time gentility
There lately died in that country a
certain Monsieur Daunassans who
was a fine representative in his man
ners and opinions of the old school
His elaborate courtesy was of the ele
gant palavering antique sort ana It
kept his head above water in times
when other old school fellow went to
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iJatoaakBritftwwfllitiJIg1 immwhiWiiiw
It was not many years ago tbatJIon
sieur Daunassans was prefect of a de
partment and stationed at an impor
tant provincial town Just at that time
a very radical ministry came Into pow
eran ultra republican government
which announced its intention to turn
all conservative and reactionist func
tionaries out of office The Minister of
the Interior was a particularly violent
radical with no bowels of compassion
for any who were suspected of mon
archical opinions
One of the first functionaries selected
for sacrifice was Monsieur Daunas
sans It happened however that his
conservative opinions were not so
strenuously held as to incline him
against holding office under a radical
administration When he was sum
moned to Paris for dismissal he went
to the cabinet of the minister with his
hat in his hand and his most complais
ant expression on his face
You are represented to me sir said
the minister as hostile to our repub
lican institutions
Monsieur Daunassans bowed very
low in the most graceful style of the
ancient gentility
I think monsieur le ministre he
began that I may possibly prove my
self worthy of your excellencys con
fidence If I may be permitted to en
ter into certain details it will be I
fancy within my power to demon
strate to your excellency
It was the first time that the new
minister had ever been called your
excellency He was a man who had
sprung from the common people and
the phrase coming from a man who
seemed to know how to use it was
very pleasant to his ears His manner
softened perceptibly Daunassans went
on with a long and flattering speech
in which he had very little to say about
his own politics but In which the
words your excellency occurred a
great many times
After about three quarters of an houi
he came out of the ministers cabinet
KEY WEST FLORIDA
off Later the dogs sneaking and
SUle UJrUU itliU U1U1B UUIUKIUUS LllUll
any other species take up the refrain
There is a strange mixture of races at
Key West but the negroes are the most
patriotic class They alone celebrate
Fourth of July and other national holi
days While the town has its enlight
ened and respectable people it also has
its shoddy class whose ignorance of
the rest of the world carries them to
grotesque extremes in their efforts to
proclaim their greatness Even in its
schools Key West is peculiar The
schoolhouses are built like cigar fac
tories and each has mounted upon the
roof the bell of an old locomotive
When the school bells are ringing it is
easy to close your eyes and imagine
yourself in one of the great railroad de
pots of the North The classes are
large the teachers have a constant
struggle with the climate so the schol
ars have time to make pea shooters
and other instruments of torture for
the unsuspecting visitor who falls into
their ambush
If the teachers have a hard time the
clergy have a worse one The churches
are much abused institutions with a
large patronage and a meagre support
The theaters are seldom open and are
even more grudgingly supported than
the churches The decorations have
been likened to a cockney on a holiday
and the galleries amuse themselves be
tween the acts by shouting fire to
startle strangers who do not know the
joke
Men that smoke presume that cigars
are manufactured in Key West but
there is another source of income of
scarcely less importance Any unfor
tunate ship that ventures into port is
considered legitimate prey and it is a
bold man that dares to protest against
the confiscation of his property When
a ship is seen approaching the reefs
the greatest excitement prevails and
orue people even fall on their knees to
petition for her speedy destruction
If a vessel strikes she is immediately
surrounded by a crowd of wreckers
who cling to her like flies to a molasses
barrel After there has been a wreck
storekeepers have money in their pock
ets and do not care whether you buy
of them or not The proprietor of a shop
will stretch himself yawn and finally
saunter over toward his customer to
find what is wanted
He had been indeed removed from his
prefecture but lie had been promoted
to a better onel The ministers radical
friends were furious They went to
htm and said
What You have- promoted this
man Why he is the most abominable
of reactionists V
W well answered the minister as
if recalled to himself perhaps hes a
reactionist but I tell you hes a mighty
well bred man
All of which goes to show what the
French have already found out to theii
sorrow that it is hard to make a re
public without republicans Youtha
Companion
Turkish Girls
Turkish girls of the better class in th
cities after they are too old to attend
the primary schools are largely edu
cated at home by governesses many ol
whom come from England and France
but unfortunately do not always rep
resent the highest culture of these na
tions so that the real love of study is
not as a rule developed under theii
Influence Turkish women have a great
aptitude for foreign languages and
those met on the steamers of the Bos
phorus often speak French and it is
not unusual for them to speak German
and English also
It is a well known fact that many
Turkish women are engaged in trade
some even carrying on an extensive
business involving frequent journeys
to Egypt and othrr places which pre
supposes the ability to read and write
as well as some knowledge of arith
metic Moreover conversation with
the Mussulman woman in the capital
reveals some progress at the present
time in independence of thought and
while social conditions have unavoida
bly arrested the development of Turk
ish women as a class forces are slowly
but surely working among them thar
will result in their final emancipation
Artificial Silk
Artificial silk is now an article ol
trade and as it is advisable for buyers
to be acquainted with the means of de
tecting It the following from the Dec
orator and Furnisher is worthy of note
The most effective tesc is combus
tion While natural silk burns slowly
and turns up like horn at The same time
omitting a characteristic odor artificial
silk burns rapidly when once ignited
and swells like burned cotton Some
times the two kinds of silk are mixed
in the same article Mention is made
in an Austrian paper of a fabric al
leged to be of English make the warp
of which consisted of natural silk weft
of artificial The origin of the latter
could not be detected by the eye even
by the most expert connoisseur Upin
the combustion test being applied how
ever the material burned with extreme
alacrity
When people listen attentively to a
story of a mans wrongs it indicates
that they are wondering what the oth
er side of the story sounds like
The king can do no wrong if the oth
er fellow holds all tae ace
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JtiSSrsicgrm
ABOtfT THE PRINCE OP WALES
Personalities Culled from the Nevr
Book of His Iife
He is five feet six inches high and
weighs 180 pounds
He has light gray eyes a gray bearr
a brown complexion and a bald head
His nands and feet are small and
neat
He is fifty seven years old and has
four grandchildren
His favorite wine is champagne of
1889 and his favorite liquor a cognac
forty years old
He is fond of all kinds of people es
pecially if they have money
He is a first class judge of horses and
dogs and he thinks he knows some
thing about actresses
He Is said to be one of the best shots
in England
He sets the fashions in clothes for
the whole world
He loves to labor for the working
man
He is a D C L of Oxford an LL T
of Cambridge and a barrister
He has thirteen university degrees
He has laid seventy three large and
important foundation stones
He opened part of the Suez Canal
He has made more speeches than any
other man in the world but mostly
short ones
He owns the deepest mine in Eng
land
He was the first Christian to dine
with the Sultan of Turkey
He never allows a typewriter in his
house
He spends 5000 a year for tele
grams
He only allows two knives and forks
to each guest at his table
He is a colonel eight times over
He has one private secretary two as
sistant secretaries and a staff of clerks
to assist them
He receives 200 letters a day and an
swers most of them
Every minute of his timer in London
is spent according to schedule
He has every order of knEghthood in
Europe
His uniforms are worth 73y0OO
He is a field marshal and an admiral
He is the chief horse owner dog
owner and yachtsman in England
He goes to church every Sunday
morning
He never goes to the races Sun
day
He started life with an income of
550000 a year
He says he has no debts
He loves to travel incognito in Paris
He buys hundreds of theater- tickets
without using them
His favorite vehicle In London Is a
hansom cab yet his stables cost T5
000 a year
He thinks his nephew the- Gfennan
emperor is too sensational
He has friends in every natiom and
speaks German French Italian- and
Russian
His life was never attempted by an
assassin
He was obliged once to pawn his
watch- New York Journal
He Very
M Lucky at cards unlucky at love
I dont believe it Ive been refused
three tfcaea Yonkera Statesman
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Xo 3Iap oi the United States
The school children of the Bermu
das know nothing of American his
tory says a New York woman who
has just returned from Hamilton
One day I stopped and talked with a
bright little colored boy on the street
The Bermuda negro you know fe su
perior In intelligence to the Southern
negro of this country He has- neither
the thick lips nor the flat nose- of our
American negro His superiority Is ac
counted for by the fact that he- has in
his veins the blood of the Indians cap
tured in King Philips war and taken
as slaves to the Bermudas
Do you go to school I asked the
boy
Yesm
Who owns these islands
England
Who rules England
Queen Victoria
Where are the United States
South of Canada
And do you know who is president
of the United States
Yesm George Washington - s
When I had visited one of the little f
schools at Hamilton I dixl not wonder
that Washington was- the only Ameri
can president the boy YkvI heard of On
the walls were maps of every import
ant country in the world bat our own
and I found that the- teachers said as
little of the United States as they
could New York Sun
Men Havent AH the Privileges
She There is a great deal of unfair
ness in this world Women are barred
out of society for things that men may
do with impunity
He That may be true but on the
other hand men would be barred out
of society if they did some things that
women do with impunity every day
She Id like to have you name just
one of them
He Well kissing other peoples
wives and daughters and sweethearts
for instance-
Vagaries of a Bullet
A sepoy of the thirty sixth Sikhs
r
when retiring from the Saran Sr pass
jaid he felt something iit his rifle but
peeing no mark when he camo to cleani
his rifle he found a bullet hajO actually
entered the muzzle and penetrated
about nine inches down tie barrel a
seemingly impossible thin but f o aH
thai true It was kicky says a cor
respondent of the Times of India that
he had no occasion to use bis rifle
again on his way home or it would of
course have burstc Glasgaw Weekte
Mail
Lncky in Both
She Youre lucky at cards
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