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It was a pretty scenb -The trees had
the abundance of verdant foliage that
belongs to happy June the grass
seemed more than usually rich Tnd
green and the wild flowers more
jau isfer before there was a rural
bridge over a deep rushing stream
that fed a mill dam some distauce be
yond and roses clambered over the
broken rails of the bridge and twined
their wild tendrils about an old tree
near by against which was a rustic
seat On the rustic seat was another
rose a very sweet and fresh and lovely
rose in white muslin with a Marie An
toinette fichu across her breast and
knotted at the waist and a wide leg
horn hat on her head that shaded her
eyes so cleverly that no beholder could
guess that tears were rising there from
time to time and dropping on the white
mull kerchief And this had happened
so often that the rose might very well
be said to be washed in dew
Her name was Kate and she was
very angry with herself because the
tears would fall despite all the indig
nant things she was saying to herself
in the effort to stop their flow till at
last she started to her feet in a dread
ful pet and began to walk up and down
crushing the wild flowers under her
feet But that could not continue for
she was a Tery sweet little woman and
could not even hurt a flower without
regretting it and presently she bent
her graceful figure and pulled the wild
anemones and the few late violets and
having readied the rustic seat she
added a rose or two and sat down
Its a perfectly lovely morning she
murmured and pinned the flowers
among the folds of the mull kerchief
I wonder where she has taken the
child because
-She stopped and looked anxiously
about till she saw in the distance the
maid and the little boy rambling ambng
the trees and apparently absorbed in
gathering wild flowers and chasing but
terflies and the music of the childs
langhter was borne to her on the soft
perfumed summer breeze It was a
heavenly sounda sound to gladden
any mothers heart but Kate Selden
sighed and drew from her belt a closely-crumpled
piece of paper which she
liad thrust there in fierce impatience
and as she looked at it the tears which
had not retreated very fai again rose
to her eyes
Oh Im just a dreadful fool she
thought a silly silly little simpleton
And Im glad he is late for T wouldnt
have him know for anything in this
world that I cared enough to cry
And smoothing out the crumpled
paper she began to read the jvritten
words once more though she already
knejv them by heart
If you will see me on Wednesday we
can talk the matterover I have spoken
with my lawyer and he has consulted
with yours and a separation can be ar
ranged without any public scandal ax
least I hope so I would call at the
house but I know your mother hates
me worse than ever now and it would
only cause a scene So if you will
come to the old rustic seat close by the
bridge you know where we used to
meet in the old happy days ah Kate
if you would only let me tell you every
thing you would find that T am not so
very much to blame but I wont speak
of that Because of course I know you
to leave me and I will make no
defense Yes you shall keep the boy
though I believe the law wonld give
him to me if I chose to fight for my
BEGAN TO BEAD THE WBITTEX WOKDS
right But I dont care to call it my
right no in that I yield to you entire
ly I believe a child belongs to his
mother first and before all others
Therefore I give him to you -without
asking what the law might say about
it But I do ask that you will let me
see him as often as I may wish for T
Jove him dear yes though you may
not believe it Kate I love him next to
his mother who is still the dearest on
earth to me There I didnt mean to
saj thatbut It Is writtenahd let it
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and we can arrange all the business de
tails tluHay srs wiirdo the rest
And by this time the tears were brim
ming over but she wip d tliom softly
away and instead of crushing the
paper as before she folled it vc j
smoothly and slipped it inside her cor
sage where she could tee it rise and
fall beneath the hurried beating of her
heart
Im glad hes late she repeated
Im very glad hes late Ad tiien sne
looked at her watch and found It was
not quite 1030 O he isnt late after
all I must have been very early I will
go and find Annette and the child
And as she rose there was the crack
ling of a twig under a hasty footstep
and Kate Selden stood face to face with
her husband He was very pale and
his lips looked pallid and drawn with
the effort to keep from trembling She
COURAGE MAAM COUBAGE
had flushed deeply when their eyes
met but now the color ebbed away
from her girlish lace and she said con
fusedly
I am so glad I mean not to keep
3ou waiting You see I am here
first
You are very good he said but
you are always good You got my
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O yes or I wouldnt have known
you were coming here She moved
backward a step and was very glad to
drop into the old rustic seat It Is
very generous of you Sidney to agree
to everything and particularly about
baby
It is all I can do now to try and
please you he answered weakly and
the perspiration was like dew on his
brow He took off his hat and stam
mered something about its being aw
fully hot
Yes perhaps you have walked fast
it is very warm and you look tired
Wont 3Tou sit down She moved a
little further away to make room for
him and he dropped into the place be
side her
We used to say there was just room
enough for two he added with a smile
and she turned her head away per
haps to pluck a rose for she
snapped one off short and then threw
it aw iy
Am I to see baby to-day-he asked
after a few minutes of awkward sl
lence I havent seen him you know
since
Oh yes she answered hurriedly
and looking about there they are he
and Annette yonder In the woods they
are coming this way oh Sidney
she cried suddenly turning toward
him how could you I can never
never forgive you
I could never dare to ask you
They were almost the very words of
Pauline and Claude She remembered
in a moment that it had been the first
play Sidney had taken her to see after
they had married and how often they
had laughed at that pair of lovers
each dying to forgive and be forgiven
and neither daring to say the right
word She used to think she could
never be so foolish as that and now
it was getting very awkward for this
was a far more serious matter and she
knew that she could -never never for
give What woman could
And then she heard the laughter and
shouts of little Sidney who had just
caught sight of his father and was now
running wildly to welcome him It was
a fortunate Interruption to a scene that
was nearlng a painful climax and she
was very glad to take a step or two
towards the laughing boy who was
already flying across the bridge fol
lowed by his nurse then there was a
crash a shriek the side of the bridge
was gaping outward the maid stood
wringing her hands the golden curls
that had floated a moment above the
running waters were gone
It was so sudden so inexplicable that
the frantic mother could not realize at
first what had happened When she
did the air resounded with her agon
ized cries and it was the nurse girl
who was the first to see that Sidney
had already reached his child Justin
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whispered while she supported tier
mistress See he is safe His father
has him look look The darling has
his arms about the masters neckanj
hes huggin an kissing of him just as
If nothing had happened at all
The girl assisted her mistress back to
the little rustic seat and when the
father and child bad reached the young
mother little Sidney was already
laughing with delight and as he put
one dripping arm about her neck he
drew her close till her face touched her
husbands face
Kate whispered Sidney Kate
may I beg forgiveness now
O Sidney I have been so proud
and heartless I was jealous and vain
and and selfish and unfair I
wouldnt listen to you and all the time
I knew you never cared for that
woman Can you forgive me too
Just give me a chance thats all
and then two pairs of arhis met and
clasped each other cloge abput the con
quering hero who secnleatVfiud him
self quite suddenly an object
importance
It then occurred to Annette that Mas
ter Sidney would have a dreadful cold
unless his dripping garments were
changed immediately so she carried
him off in pursuit of dry clothing
Popular Monthly
- I ROOSTER
Gamecock that Makes Deadly War
Upon Rodenta
William Gray a farmer living near
here lias a game cock that makes war
upon rats Rats had for a long time
been destroying eggs and even killing
ijowls in Grays hennery The other
day the farmer bought a game cock for
stock purposes On the second day
ftter Ids purchases Mr Gray saw the
rooster with a rat in biiL It had
nabbed the rat by the back of the neok
in such a way that it was powerless for
either offense or defense
After reaching the yard the rooster
swung the rat forcibly against the
frozen ground until it was stunned and
then tossed it into the air As it came
down the looster gave it a vicious dig
with its spure that started the blood
Before the rat could recover itself it
was tossed into the air again and again
the spurs did bloody work Soon the
rat was dead
The rooster has since killed at least a
dozen rats Mr Grays son who has
kept watch to see how it is done says
that the rooster watches by a hole and
nabs tlic rats by the neck as thej come
out It seems to delight in killing
them and after it has disposed of one
struts about and crows lustily as if to
call attention to itself as the only rat
killing rooster in Sou thorn New York
Middletown N Y special New York
World
The Kaisers Stenographer
It is not generally known that under
the present Emperor a new office has
been created that of personal stenogra
pher to his majesty William I but
rarely delivered a speech and when he
did the text was alwajs decided on be
forehand in consultation with Prince
Bismarck and the monarch either
learned the speech by heart or read it
from a manuscript He knew that he
possessed no gift of language and had
no confidence in his ability to improvise
In public William II soon after he
came to the throne gave orders that a
stenographer should always be present
during his speeches whether at home
or on travel This duty is fulfilled in
Germany by one of the official stenogra
phers of the reichstag who took down
the speeches of the Emperor and Prince
Henry at Kiel The Emperor himself
supervised the shorthand writers tran
script before it was transmitted to
Wolfs telegram bureau the German
Reuter The speeches of the Emperor
sent over the official wire are therefore
ipsissima verba A different shorthand
writer accompanies the Emperor
abroad where the speeches are for the
most part delivered in a foreign lan
guage and could not therefore - bo
noted down by a German stenogra
pher Pall Mall Gazette vg
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What She Wpairt
The famous woman1 Aanie S Peck
who has been noted as haying scaled
the Matterhora and broke the record
on Mount Orizaba going 8600 feet into
the clouds wore flannel undergar
ments a waist of serge a woolen
sweater knickerbockers and leggings
of sage green duck canvas which she
made herself She wore the heaviest
kind of winter boots and a shoemaker
in Switzerland put an extra piece of
heavy leather over the tvhble lower
part of the shoes toes and heels and
then nearly covered them with nails
In many of her trips she hasfewonrf ur
topped gloves but for the Matterliorn
she wore woolen mittens A substan
tial canvas hat tied on with ribbon
and veil as well as smoked glasses
complete her outfit Sheraltes the pre
caution to put cold cream on herlace
before facing the severe weather
The Cook Got Even
A coolc here who quarreled with the
owner of the restaurant got even in this
way After making the soup he im
proved it by the introduction of several
foreign ingredients such as a quantity
of sand half a cupful of red pepper a
pound of tacks a bunch of kindling
wood chopped fine and a couple of old
kid gloves a la noodles The feeders
sat down as usual last evening but as
soon as they sampled the soup they
rose up again en masse and almost
mobbed the whole shooting match Ac
cording to the evidence produced at the
preliminary hearing a more fearful
brew than this soup was never con
cocted even by Macbeths weird sis
ters The cook is now in the consomme
New York correspondent Pittsburg
Dispatch
We know a man who has enough in
diistry and ability in his lineto make
a conspicuous success if
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BRILLIANT SPANISH OFFICER
Captain Don Imis Cadarso of the
Eeina Cristina Killed at Jlaaila
Capt Don Iuis Cadarso who com
manded the cruiser Reina Cristina and
was killed at Manila was one of the
most brilliant officers in the Spanish
navy The following description of his
personality is given by the London
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In appearance he resembled rather
an Englishman than a Spaniard His
hair was fair and his eyes blue and
piercing which gave one the impres
sion of restless energy His activity
was proverbial He had been in com-
CAPT DOX LUIS CAKDARSO
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inand of the Reina Cristina for the
past three years and his ship was a
model of order and of efficiency his
officers and grew practicing frequent
ly Still he found time for reading a
great deal and for writing much His
signature was well known in papers
and reviews He wrote chiefly on na
val and colonial matters A few years
ago when governor of the Caroline isl
ands he wrote to the Madrid paper
El Imparcial some letters which great
ly displeased the Minister of Marine
and which caused his recall Capt Ca
darsos worth was however so well
appreciated that he was soon appoint
ed to another post During the Phil
ippine rising a little more than a year
ago Capt Cadarso was constant en
gaged in supporting from the si -
operations of the Spanish army oa
land The work was hard vet everv
evening he would sit and write two
columns descriptive of the doings of
the squadron during the day for the
editor of the leading Manila paper El
Commercio who was his friend Capt
Cadarso who was about 50 years old
leaves a large family
SHOT BY A NEPHEW
Prince Fuad Wounded in an Affray
Resulting from a Family Quarrel
Prince Ahmed Fuad who was shot
by his nephew Prince Safeddin in
Cairo recently is the youngest son Qf
the Khedive Ismail and uncle of the
present Khedive A sister of Prince
PBUfCE AHMED FUAD
Safeddin is the wife of Prince Fuad
Prince Fuad was at the Khedivial Club
when Prince Safeddin came in with a
revolver in his hand Before be could
be seized by the servants he managed
to fire three shots at Prince Fuad who
fell badly wounded The affray was
the outcome of a family quarreL
Evaporation of Bananas
The American consul at Nicaragua re
ports that experiments are being made
there to develop an Industry of evapor
ating bananas and that a trial shlp
ment has been made to this country
If successfully established this indus
try will be of the utmost importance
to many Central American states The
men engaged In the experiment accord
ing to consular reports have no practi
cal knowledge of the business of dry
ing the fruit Dut If it was taken up by
men experienced In the manufacture of
machinery and appliances adapted to
the evaporation of fruits a modifica
tion to suit this case could easily be de
vised and there would be an immense
demand for such machines immediate
ly At present there are millions of
bananas yearly thrown away or allow
ed to rot on the ground because they
are too small or too ripe for shipment
to the United States
Primitive House Lighting
The first and most natural way of
lighting the houses of the colonists was
found in the fat pitch pine which
says the Chautauquan was plentiful
everywhere but as soon as domestic
animals increased candles were made
and the manufacture of the winter sup
ply became the special autumnal duty
of the thrifty housewife Great ket
tles were hung over the kitchen fire
and filled with hot water and melted
tallow At the cooler end of the kitchen
two long poles were placed from chair
back to chair back Across these poles
like the rounds of a ladder were placed
shorter sticks called candle rods To
each candle rod were tied about a
dozen straight candle wicks The
wicks were dipped again and again In
regular order in the melted tallow
the succession of dippings giving each
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candle time to cool Each grew slowly
In size till all were finished Deer suet
was used as well as beef tallow and
mutton tallow Wax candles were
made by pressing bits of half raelted
wax around a wick
PURCHASING ARMY OFFICES
The System that Prevailed in Great
Britain Up to 1871
Last among the survivals in conflict
with the spirit of the age may be noted
promotion by purchase inutile army
which retarded indefinitely the ad
vancement of efficient officers and con
spired to drop all the honors of the
service into the laps of wealthy indi
viduals of no special talent who could
afford to pay for them which only
came to an end in 1871 Under the sys
tem merit and fitness went for nothing
and so difficult was it for a man with
out money to get on In the British
army that a good officer without the
wherewithal to purchase a company
might remain a lieutenant for twenty
years to be soured in all probability
by seeing brother officers of less stand
ing raised above him by the power ol
money again and again and even then
only obtain his captaincy by some unlooked-for
augmentation in the estab
lishment Strangely enough in th
navy brains nud bard work were giver
scope to carve out advancement at th
same time that in the sister service
promotion had to be bought and tha
at a price frequently double the officia
value of the post
While traffic in commissions was
largely affected by the district in
which the particular regiment was
likely to be quartered for some years
ensuing the price was almost invaria
bly GO per cent or more above the nom
inal value of commissions as given in
the Army List which tariff in 1SGJ
gave the price of commission as lieu
tenant colonel in the Life Guards 01
Horse Guards at 72o0 in the Fool
Guards at 4800 and in cavalry and in
fantry of the line 400 while a majoi
in the two former corps had to fork
out 5350 for his coniruission in com
parison with 8200 exacted for the
same position in the line regiments
Captaincies cost 3500 in the Life
Guards and Horse Guards 2050 in
the Foot Guards and 1S00 in the cav
alry and infantry cf the line jind lieu
tenancies might 1e purchased for 1
785 in the Life Guards 1000 in the
Horse Guards 1200 in the Foot
Guards and the trifle of 700 in the
less considered cavalry and infantry
of the line Gentlemans Magazine
Stock Raisiij and Beets
In all countries where the sugar beet
is made a specialty much considera
tion is given the value of the beets as
cattle food that is the residuum af
ter the sugar is extracted By feeding
stock in connection with the growing
of the beets for sale to the factory car
rying home the pulp for stock food the
farmers opportunities from the grow
ing r45 ranged fixperi
meattj r i k - uint ouo vr that the
yields of beets range from ten to fif
teei tons per acre and the average
amotintof sugar to exceed 12 per cent
The farms -will have to contend with
wet and dry selibCr and his profits
will be more some years than during
others but it is believed that farmers
have neglected the beet as an import
ant food for cattle independently of
its use as a source for procuring sugar
not that the beet is as valuable as
grain but bp ause farmers will find a
larger increase in production from
cattle by reason of the feeding of suc
culent food and although there is
some preparation required for all
kinds of roots before feeding them to
stock such labor is unnecessary when
the beet pulp from the factories is
used the combination of the pulp with
grain giving better results than when
beets or grain are fed separately
Philadelphia Record
More Days to Come
In Spain the people take no note of
time not even from its loss Every
thing is to be done manana to morrow
A wealthy Englishman who had long
lived in Spain had a lawsuit He
pleaded his cause in person and know
ing the customs of the country won
his case The victory cost him three
days of trouble and expense so that
when the judge congratulated him on
his success he replied
Yes thats all right but it has cost
me three days and time is money I
am a busy man and these three days
are lost forever
Oh you English answered the
judge you are always saying that
time is money How are you to get
your three days back I will tell you
Take them out of next week surely
there are plenty more days to come
Feeding Oatmeal to Chicken3
Theoretically and judging by analy
sis oats and oatmeal ought to be the
best feed for hens or their chickens
But whole oats have too much chaff to
be profitably fed to hens Their crop i3
limited in size and the chaff of the oat
besides being itself innutKltious is soft
and interferes with crushing the grain
The same objections apply to feeding
oatmeal either dry or wet to young
chicks Even if fed without the chaff
the oatmeal is liable to compact in the
chicks gizzard We believe that meal
for chicks should always be cooked
and the harder the cakes made from it
the better Crush these cakes into
small bits and fowl will eat them greed
ily
English Stamps
Postage stamps may be reproduced
once more in England in stamp al
bums and catalogues by a recent or
der of the British Board of Internal
Revenue They must be printed in
black and not be like enough to the
originals to cause deception
Cbaritv never begins at home while
J hcuse cleaning is going on
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AMERICAN SO L IN COREA
Why the Legation Buildings in Seoul
Bclonjc to Uncle Sam
Just outside the new palace of the
Corean king adjoining the royal in
cisure and right in tha center of the
foreign- settlement of Seoul stands the
American legation comprising a num
ber of picturesque one story structures
snrrounded by three acres of garden
This property is one of three owned by
the United States occupied as legations
in foreign countries the others being In
Japan and Siam The latter was a gift
of the king while that in Tokio was
purchased a year ago The acquisition
of the Corean property came about
through the peculiarities of the land
system of the Hermit Kingdom which
confronted Gen Foote the first Ameri
can minister fourteen years ago He
found that the law did not allow any
one to possess more houses than one
could occupy that landlords were whol
ly unknown and therefore no houses
were for rent
There was nothing left for him to do
but to purchase a residence for himself
and there being little demand for real
estate he got the old fashioned native
dwelling or group of houses together
with three acres of land for little more
than he expected to pay annually for
rent His purchase was however un
inhabitable for any but Coreaus and
he- was compelled to spend a good deal
of money In improvements an example
which has been followed his succes
sors until the walls of several of the
houses which were once plaster are
now brick the paper windows are
finally glazed and the United States
compound enjoj s the distinction ofibe
ing the most artistic substantial anu
comfortable of all the foreign legations
in Seoul with gardens that are one of
the sights of the town - rz L
The ministers residence covers a
large area being all on one floor and is
built around a central court In sum
mer it is a desirable home but in win
ter many stoves and tons of coal are
required to make it comfortable The
office building is hundreds of years old
but it has been practically made over
preserving the characteristic architec
ture Its interior and that of the resi
dence are considered unsurpassed
from an artistic point of view in all
Corea New York Tribune
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A French surgeon at Smyrna
ng to procure a stork and ijmo great
difficulty in doing so on account of the
extreme veneration in which these
birds are held by the Turks stole all the
eggs out of a nest and replaced them
with those of a hen In course of time
the young crekens madex their appear
ance much to the astonishment of the
old stork coirnle Soon after the male
stork went away and was not seen for
two or three dajW when he returned
with an immense cripwd of his compan
ions who all assembletTih tlfe pTaTTG
formed a circle taking no notice of the
numerous spectators which so unsusual
an occurrence had collected Mrs Stork
was then enticed forward into the
midst of the circle
and after some con
sultation the whole flock fell upon her
and tore her to pieces after which they
immediately dispersed and the nest was
abandoned
A pair of martens having built in a
corner of a window one of which from
a remarkable white feather in one of its
wings was known to be the same bird
which had built there the year before
had no sooner finished their nest than
a strange swallow conceived the plan of
taking possession of the property and
once or twice actually succeeded in
driving the owners out For a week
there was constant battling At length
the two rightful owners were observed
to be very busily engaged in lessening
the entrance into the nest which in a
short time was so reduced it was
wlth difficulty that they could force
themselves into it singly When they
had accomplished their object one or
other of them always remained within
with Its bill sticking out ready to re
ceive any sudden attack The enemy
persevered for a week but at length
finding Its prospects hopeless left the
pair to enjoy the fruits of their fore
thought
All in Due Time
It was Mark Twain if I remember
rightly who pointed out the ingrati
tude and inconsistency of the human
race in neglecting during- all these
years to put up a memorial toVdajn
to whom under Providence the whole
race practically owes its existence
while erecting monumenrs to so anahy
worthies of later date whos ef vices
x posterity are comparativelyflnsig
irificant We are gettingoiT in- that
direction however King Alfred is to
have a commemoration and ti take it
for granted a statue Hengist and
Horsa will no doubt have their turn
next There is hope for Adam yet
Everything comes to him who waits
Truth
Englands Oldest Actress
Englands oldest living actress is
Mary Anne Keeley who is now in her
ninety third year When she was 90
Queen Victoria invited her to visit
Buckingham palace and on being asked
afterward if she felt nervous at the
first encounter she replied Nerv
ous Certainly not Her majesty re
ceived me like the great lady she is and
put me at my ease at once Kansas
City Journal
The Eye Knows Age
The eye is the first feature to show
the annroach of old asre in mn lit-
fading of the color at the circumference
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