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Cement Talk No. 2
Portland Cement does
not come from Portland,
Maine, or Portland, Ore
gon, and it was not first
made at either of these
places. It is called Portland
because it was given this name
by the Englishman v'ho first
made it. He called it Portland
because he thought it resembled cer
tain natural deposits on the Isle of Port
land in Enuland. Portland Cement is
the fine powder produced by pulver
izing the clinker resulting from the
burning together of various materials of prop
er chemical composition. In the case of
Univtrtal Portland Cement, these raw mater
ials are blast furnace slag and pure limestone.
There are many brands of Portland Cement
on the market, produced by different manu
facturers. Umverialit one of the best known
and highest grade Portland Cements. You
can always tell it by the name Universal And
the blue trade mark printed on each sack.
Forty million sacjwtof Universatire made and
used yearly in this country. If you have any
concrete work to do, you will make no mistake
by using Universal Portland Cement. Universal
Isforsalebyrepresentativedcalerseverywhere
UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CEMENT CO. '
CUICAGO-PITTSnURG
Hoj-lkwoilcrQ Oltice, MiaatapolU
ANNUAL OUTPUT 10.000.000 BARRELS
MISUNDERSTOOD HER.
Mrs. Rceder (making a call) And
does your husband interest himself
In books?
Mrs. Neuriche No. Hiram keeps
three bookkeepers.
' Avoid Disputation.
The disputatious person never makes
a good friend. In friendship, men
look for peace and concord and some
measuro of content. There are
enough battles to fight outside, enough
jarring and Jostling in the street,
enough disputing in tho market place,
enough discord In tho workaday
world, without having to look for con
tention in tho realm of the inner life
also. Thoro, If anywhere, wo ask for
an end of strife. Friendship is tho
sanctuary of tho heart, and the peace
of the sanctuary should brood over it
Its chief glory is that tho dust and
nolso of contest aro excluded. Hugh
Black.
Of Short Duration.
"Pllmply Is afraid to ask old Mr.
Plunkor for his daughter's hand."
"Why, Pllmply told me yesterday ha
stood in with the old gentleman."
"Oh, that was only for a few min
utes in the vestibule of an office build
ing during a shower."
Why, Wllllel
Sunday School Teacher Yes, Wil
lie, the Lord loves every living crea
ture. Willie I'll bet he was never stung
by a wasp! Puck.
An Experiment.
Nurse What is the matter?
Johnny Tho baby is a fake; 1
throw him on tho floor, and he didn't
bounce a bit.
Firmness Is femlnlno and obBtinacy
is mascullno so says a woman.
' GET POWER.
' The Supply Comes From Food.
If wo got power from food why not
strive to get all tho power we can.
That is only possible by uso of skil
fully selected food that exactly fits
the requirements of tho body.
Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a
poor Are Is not a good steam producer.
"From not knowing how to select
the right food to fit my needs, I suf
fered grievously for a long time from
stomach troubles," writes a lady from
a littlo town in Missouri.
"It Beemed as if I would never be
able to find out the sort of food that
was best for mo hardly anything that
I could ent would stay on my stomach.
Every nttempt gave mo heartburn and
filled my stomach with gas. I got
thinner and thinner until I literally
became a living skeleton, and In time
was compelled to keep to my bed.
A few months ago I was persuaded
to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such
good effect from the very beginning
that I have kept up its use ever since.
I was surprised at tho ease with which
I digested It. It proved to be Jut
what I needed.
"All my unploasant symptoms, the
heartburn, tho Inflated feeling which
gavo mo so much pain disappeared.
My weight gradually Increased from
98 to 11G pounds, my llguro rounded
out, my strength camo back, and I am
now nblo to do my housowork and en
joy it. Grape-Nutc food did it." Namo
given by Po3tum Co., Dattle Creak.
Mich.
A ten days trial will show anyone
somo facts about food.
Read tho little book, "Tho Road to
Wellvllle," in pkgs. "There's a reason."
Eier rend the above letter? A new
one nppenra from time to time. Tney
re srenulne, true, and full of hnm&a
- Utcrcat.
THE SILVER
By BERNARD MEER
(Copyright, 1010 by
T was all so now and
beautiful that ho found
himself talking with un
constrained and imper
sonal interest to tho
head nurso and to two cr
thrco of tho cadet nursos In tho hos
pital about tho operation they woro
going to perform upon him that very
day.
Tho nurses in their neat littlo uni
forms of bluo and white strlpos, tho
hoad nurso in her spotless all-white,
the resident doctor In his shining
white trousers and Jacket', tho plainly
dressed women who visited tho hos
pital, and to whom, in splto of their
simple attlio and manners, everybody
seemed to pay such respect and at
tention, and tho superintendent of
tho hospital himself, who had come
up to see Dill threo or four times tho
day boforo, while Dill was "resting
up" for tho operation, were all so
nlco and kind to him that ho almost
forgot it, and probably would havo
forgotten it altogether were it not
for tho fact that ho missed his regu
lar breakfast.
Over at tho old homesteud in Con
necticut Dill hud always imagined that
a hospital in tho big city was a dark
and dismal den in which a man was
Hung in a wet blanket on tho floor
and let stay there until ho
died from hunger. True, Dill was
only nineteen and still had the world
before him; and tho experience you
are likely to get in nineteen years of
tyoung and care-freo llfo on a Connec
ticut homestead farm is scarcely tho
kind of thing that makes you im
pervious to tho strong impressions
that stream in upon you when you
come to the city and plunge into tho
intricate, mazes of an ultra-modern
civilization.
Dut tho most wonderful thing about
all this business was tho electro-magnetic
personality of Crlngcr.
Crlnger was a surgeon for whom
all sorts of hideout long words, con
cealing in tho perfectly inscrutable
depths of their Greek derivations tbo
most awful things imaginable, were
the food of his body and tho breath
of 'his soul.
To know Crlngcr Intimately and
well was to be convinced that ynr
life was incomplete and a failure had
you not been internally mutilated
and preferably by the hand of Crlnger
himself. And when Dill camo to see
him that time about that little trouble
in his left upper jaw, Crlnger had so
thoroughly hypnotized him that Dill
wont to the hospital In tho same state
of mind with which ho was wont to
look -forward to a Fourth of July cele
bration. "It's a pity, too!" tho head nurso
said to Crlnger. "He's such a hand
somo dear hoy, and so simple and
trusting. And he's so big for his
ago!"
She was pinning a towel about
Crlngcr's head as a precaution against
posslblo infection of tho patient while
Crlnger would be over him at the
operation.
"What do you mean?" grunted tho
surgeon severely.
"Why, it'll disfigure him wretchedly,
won't it?"
"Disfigure him? I should say not!"
"Dut you can hardly remove a
person's upper Jaw without disfiguring
a person, can you?"
"Al-ha!" drawled Crlnger, as if he
had been suddenly enlightened. "I
see how it i3 with you! You havo
never heard of such a thing as a sil
ver Jaw! Never mind, now! Don't
you try to let on anything to the doc
tor! A silver jaw is one of the little
rrlcks of tho trado that you happened
to miss in tho course of your wonder
ful experience. Don't you know that
wo Just fit them out with a silver
Jaw In tho place of tho old one. and
that they're Just as good as ever?
Yes, bettor than ever. I bellevo that
I'd sooner havo a good silver jaw
than tho one I've got. And as for this
resection that I'm going to do why,
It's nothing; nothing at all. I've done
it ten times. No more to it thun
there is to drinking a cup of coffee
before you get up out of bed in tho
morning. Aro they ready? Then
bring him up."
As they brought Dill up ho could
near Crlnger laughing with one of his
assistants laughing and chatting as
If hospitals and other gloomy thlng3
of tho kind had no exlstenco whatever.
But Cringer's strong hypnotic Influ
ence was not quite sufficient to pro
7ont Dill from feeling a little norvcus
is they gavo him an eighth of a grain
of morphine and placed t. pneumatic
pillow under his head to let him rest
a littlo beforo the anesthesia, And
Hill was never so surprised In the
entire nineteen years of h'l life as
ho was when Crlnger lifted him up to
a sitting posture and asked him how
ho felt.
Was It over already? Ho know they
liad been doing something villainous
to his face, and he was woefully drunk
from the mixture of ether and chlojo
form they had used In putting him to
i)Bep Vi ho certainly thought it
TAKING A LOOK BACKWARD
Picture of Life Upon Our Atlantic
Shoro as It Was Two Centurlea
Ago.
Brush nway tho fog of a couple of
centuries, and tako a look at this, our
natlvo land, as It then nppenrcd. Here
upon tho Atlantic shore, tbo scream of
tho panthor arose on the midnight
air with tho savage war whoop, and
tho palo-faced pilgrim trembled for
the saMy of his defenseless home.
wf ja jw
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Joseph B, Buwlcn)
waB funny If it wob over already. Ho
had been di valuing that ho waa one
of tho heroes In tho hattlo of Dunkor
Hill fighting with a black giraffe who
was reciting Lincoln's speech about
government for. of and by tho people
to tho audienco at tho high school
commencement exorcises In tho old
smoko house at homo.
Dy no means hnd it been a Fourth
of July celebration nt loast of tho
sane kind and ho was glad It was
over. And yet ho Imagined ho would
do it again, so Jolly and kind wcro all
tho good peoplo at tho hospital in tho
days that followed whilo ho was rap
idly recovering from tho operation
and from tho shock.
Dill went homo and In duo course
of time they supplied him with a sil
ver jaw which took tho place of the
one that Crlnger had taken out a
silver Jaw so neatly and artfully mado
and fitted that Dill himself to say
nothing of his mother would never
havo known tho difference.
Now, I will not be sure that it was
tho possession of this perfect silver
Juw tlml caused Dill to feel that ho
was a littlo better thnn the other
young fellows In tho neighborhood;
nor is it possible in tho present un
certain state of human knowledge to
assert with posltlvencss that tho mcro
possession of a silver jaw, however
perfect, Is nn extraordinary warrant
for prefiguring ourselves tho favor
ites of capricious chance.
Dut apart from the merit's of such a
question, It will bo desirable to noto
that Dill was soon busy preparing
himself for tho practise of law, with
tho ultimate object of becoming pres
ident of tho United States, or In any
event a United States senator tho
particular stato ho purposed to repre
sent not being specified In tho con
tract,. To bo perfectly fair to Bill and to
ourselves, I must admit that ho was
a trifle crude; crude, I mean, In his
notions about tho ultlmato constitution
of human society; which means In tho
concrete tho peculiar opinion of
their own importance entertained, as
a general rulo, by the rich. Llkewlso
ho was preternaturally slow so slow
as to be virtually motionless in his
ability to distinguish, by surface indi
cations, the essential difference be
tween tho very best peoplo tho blue
points and cherry stones of tho human
race and the oysters that come to
us in bulk by the barrel. And if you
supply this broad conception of Dill
with a rank tendency to speak out
his mind but you will see how ho
carried It with Angelique Van Loo.
Now although Dill had managed to
push himself through Yale, and to
squeeze himself through tho law
school, and to edge himself Into the
privilege of practising law at tho bar
of New York, he was poorer nt tho
end of it than he had been at tho be
ginning. His silver jaw did not com
pensate him for tho want of a golden
mouth, and ho was beginning his jour
ney to the Whlto Houso in tho capac
ity of a grubstaked hanger-on in tho
office of a lawyer who needed for his
own use the clients that sifted clown
to him from the upper world or that
floated up to him from tho under.
Dill was about to make up his mind
ono day that ho would return to his
father's houso in Connecticut when
the mystic and magic spell that lay in
the sliver jaw flung htm up nt the feet
of Angeliquo Van Loo, as she stood
on tho edge of tho sidewalk, her hands
clasped upon her breast, her face
transfigured with terror, and her eye3
fixed on somo indetormlnato point in
space.
As Dill approached her she turned
and seized him by the lapels of his
coat. He felt with a strange emo
tion the forco of her neatly gloved
littlo hands drawing him toward her,
ad he was astounded by tho look of
distress and horror in her eyes, and
by her frantic appeal.
"Oh savo her! Save her, won't you?
Please savo her! I know I shall dlo
if you don't!"
Ho gazed around in the general di
rection of tho upper storic3 of tho
houses nnd then looked down Into
tho face of his mysterious besoechor.
"You fool!" she cried. "Why do you
look around you llko that? Will you
save her this mlnuto or will you not?
Do you wish mo to go mad?"
Agttlu did Bill tnn In the clicum
vallate avenuo nnd again look down
upon his petitioner. Ho was a shrowd
young man with a smattering of tho
law, and ho therefore refused to bo
drawn Into a careless expression of a
wish that madness should solzo upan
anyone. But while ho was craftily
thinking of all these things sho re
laxed her grip upon his coat.
"Won't you plenso savo her?" she
begged, half coaxlngly, half sad.
"Savo WHO?" asked Dill, tho on
tiro stnicturo of his four ears of
English collapsing at a stroke
She was looking at him by this time
with nn Impatient yet forbearing con-
desconslon, which seemed to say that
ono must put up with tho lack of In-
, tclllgenco and wnnt of tact ono finds
Ho planted his beans In fear and gath
ered them In troublo; his chickens
and his children were plundered by the
too, nnd llfo itself was In danger of
leaking out from between tho logs of
lila but, oven if It wns fortified with
threo muskets, a Bpunky wlfo, and a
Jug of whisky. Yea, my friends, this
was then a wild, gloomy and desolato
placo. Whoro tho Indlaj squaw
hung her young pnppooso upon tho
bough and left it to squall at tho
huHh-aby of tho blast, tho Anglo-Saxon
mother now rocks tbo cradle ot her
In porsons of n certain kind. Her
browa wero lifted with tho barest per
ccpllblo touch of scorn nt the mlx-up
In Hill's grnvntnnr, but theso wero
things that wcro wholly unobsorvod
by tho lawyer.
"Who? Antolnotto. Don't you sco
her?"
She polntod to tho street, nnd there
In thn very mlddlo of it sat a black
Italian toy terrior complacontly wink
ing at its mistress from Ha highest
plnnaclo of danger. So small It was
that Its size, In an analysis of Us gen
eral properties and characters, would
bo a totally negligible quantity.
With tho vehicles that wero clatlorlng
or humming ou olthor side of it, at tho
imminent rink of Rnufllng It out of ex
istence it formed tho antithesis of
tho helplessly littlo in tho center of
tho pitilessly great.
If was hardly tho work of a mlnuto
for Dill to cut through tho btrenm of
automobiles nnd horses, to mnko a
handful of Antoinette, and to return
tho toy to tho hand' of tho lady.
"Thank you1 sho said with a, smile
of relief. "It' was very good of you!
Poor littlo thing!"
Sho gavo him hor hand and looked
into his eyes.
What a nlco littlo maid, thought
Dill, now that ho had a chanco to
study her In what was undoubtedly
hor normat stato of mind. In splto
of tho hat, tho -volume of which
seemed to havo been determined in In
verso ratio to that of tho terrior, sho
was unquestionably ono of tho neatest
little matd3 ho had over seen. To
Dill's philosophical eyes sho looked
llko a girl who was young enough to
bo in tho last year of tho high school
and old enough to bo out of It Sho
wns Just the kind of a girl ho would
havo fancied for a companion, had ho
over given any particular thought to
tho subject in n serious way. Thcro
was nothing extravagant about her
If you allowed for tho Blzo of tho hat.
And oven in tho matter of the hat it
pelf, It occurred to Dill for the first
time that perhaps these largo lints,
that to him had looked llko Inverted
wash-tubs, and had filled him with dis
gust' for tho suplno Insanity of men
In general and of women in particu
lar, had been originally designed for
girls of a certain natural get-up like
this ono, for example. And then
thcro was another phase of her that
looked good to Dill and It was a
phaso that had been markedly absent
from most of tho girls that had both
ered him up to tho present. Sho was
without question tho most senslblo
girl ho had over met. Sho could look
at you and talk to you Just as If sho
were a man; nothing of the giggling
or squeaking order about this one;
nono of that fool grinning you 6eo in
tho caso of the regular girls you pick
up horo and there in the stray mo
ments of a busy and thoughtful life.
Ho fancied that he would wait for
awhile beforo roturnlng to his father's
roof, and ho grinned like an lnano
lout.
"That's a nice littlo dog, Isn't it?"
"Yes, it is a very nice littlo dog.
Do you llvo In New York?"
"Yes. In tho law. With Sklnnlm,
S.klnnor & Sklnncm. Yale, nineteen
six. Phi Belft Kflppa."
"What Is Phi Bota Kappa?"
"Don't you know what Phi Deta
Kappa is? It's the scholarship frat.
They glvo you keys. Llko thU one."
"Tho key of knowledge, I presume.
How pretty!"
" 'Tisn't so awfully pretty, but It's
pretty hard to got. Havo you ever
been to a college?"
No, sho had never been to college.
Not a doubt about It, sho was a
simple littlo maid. She had never
oven heard of Phi Deta Kappa. Ho
had a fancy he would llko to tell her
about Phi Beta Kappa and tho rost
of it.
"Wouldn't you like to hoar about
tho fraternities thoy havo in tho uni
versity?" "Have you time to tell mo about
thom7"
"Time? Why, yes. I'd just as soon
tell you about them as not. You real
ly ought to know about tho collego
fraternities. People will bellevo that
you never had any education at all If
you happen not to know about that."
"If they do," said the girl, "thoy
will happen to bo perfectly right."
They were walking up tho avenue
nnd It seemed to Dill that she wan
looking straight ahead to a degreo
that was altogother unnecessary. Nor
did she seem at all awaro that Dill was
making himself dizzy with tho sight
of her. Suddenly oho stopped and
faced him.
"Aro you on your way to your of
fice?" she asked him undor tho caves
of tho hat.
"Tho office? Why, no. The offico
Is nway down town."
She looked at him with evident
hesitation; with a deep questioning
in hor eyes; and then glanced up at
tho four-story brown stone houso bo
foro them.
"This Is my homo," sho said. "Won't
you come in?"
And that was tho way ho mot her.
It was certainly Btrango, thought
Dill, that a big lubber like himself
could win without trying a trump of
a girl such ua Angelique Van Loo.
Win her without oven making a light
for it. Thero was nothing fidgety or
foolish about hor; not a single thing.
And thoro was nothing fidgety or
foolish about either of hor aunts,
either. Solid, senslblo women, all of
them. Thoy seemed to bo boarding
In that big houso on tho avenuo, al
though thoy had never told him so In
so mnny words. Thoy had spoken
about him with great freedom, but
they seldom talked of themBolves or
their own affairs. Thoy woro cer
taluly good, plain, senslblo women;
Just the kind of women that would
mako a good wlfo for a man who had
I to mako his way In the world by his
dollcato babo on tho carpet of peace,
and in tho gay parlor of fashion. Tho
wild has been changed to a blooming
garden and Its limits aro expending
with tho mighty genius ot Liberty.
Lorenzo Dow, Jr.
Some Qreat English Writers.
Wordsworth, the brooding northern
sun; Byron, tho lighting flash by
night; Sholloy, certain offocts of
moonlights; Keats, tbe poet ot beauty
untouched by other Influences; Brown
own brains and onorgy. Dut ho won
dered why It wns that thoy never
flccmed to have nny company but him
self, nnd why It wns that her aunts
seemed to bo so Infernally careful of
her. Thoro was something mysterious
about tho whole outfit when a fol
low took tlmo to think It over of nn
evening with his plpo. And thinking
it over, with nnd without tho pipe,
hnd been Bill's solo occupation for a
mnttor of thrco months, during which,
tho moro ho thought of it, tho stran
ger it Beemed to grow.
Dill nnd the nunts had talked about
every phase of tho caso so far na
Dill himself was concerned. Ques
tioned by tho aunts nicely, gently, In
thn most simple nnd straight-forward
way in tho world, but soul-searching
and practical, when ho camo to think
of It. Dill had been turned inside out
and studied In nil his tissues with
tho microscope. At ono or another
tlmo ho had told thorn when ho camo
to think of It everything of lmpor
tnnco that had happened since tho
day of his birth. They would dis
cuss him those aunta of here boforo
his very faco, as if ho woro not there
nt all, with nods of npproval to each
othor whenever thoy wero specially
pleased with any of Llll's various ac
complishments or virtues. They
socmed to bo particularly gratified
when he gavo them an account of his
family tree, nodding with oxlra vigor,
as much ns to say that thero was no
need of going into that subject any
farther. Yes. yes. Good old Connec
ticut family farmers, you know, but
with excellent connections, and not
undistinguished In history. When
they discussed htm In that strango
way Dill seemed to fcol rather queer,
and yet ho could not bring himself to
chnllongo it. They did It In such n
nlco littlo way that Dill even at times
Imagined for a mlnuto that ho was not
tho party undor flro nt all; that ho
himself was one of tho aunts, and
that tho mnn they wcro talking nhout
was somo fellow In New Jersey. But
thero wns yet a thing that Bill hnd
not given up to them; a thing that,
ono way or another, ho could not
bring himself to dlscloso, it was alto
gether such a dellcato and personal
matter with himself.
No doubt ho would havo told them
long ago about tho sliver Jaw had ho
not feared that tho disclosure would
provo a Bhock to Angelique. And yet
his consclcnco would not let him res;
whilo tho Jaw remained a secret.
Was it right for a man with a sil
ver Jaw to marry the finest girl in
tho world without telling her that that
left upper maxillary of his was made
of sllvor Instead of bono? If she too
him with tho understanding that his
jaw was of tho usual manufacture,
would not tho contract be void, ac
cording to tho law of contract as he
found It expoundod In the books?
It was Indeed a knotty problem; al
together too knotty for Bill's as yet
undeveloped legal penetration, and ho
decided In tho depths of his woe to
seek out Doctor Crlnger and get his
ndvlco on tho question. Doctors aro
alwayB good counsel, thought Hill,
especially when thoy have cut threo
or four pieces out of a man's anatomy
uud have set him up again as good as
new.
When Dili had told him tho story,
bolng careful to omit tho lady's uame,
Crlnger becamo thoughtful a mo
ment. "Has aho got nny money?"
"No," said Dill. "She lives in a
big boarding houso on tho avenue."
"Then," announced Crlngcr, with
prompt decision, "your course is clear.
I assumo that you aro looking for a
wife and not for a bank-book. In
which case, up and tell hor that you
havo a sllvor Jaw. If sho cares a
straw for you she won't let a little
dotnll llko that interfere for a min
ute with the business. She will go
to you llko a horso to his oats. If aim
balks you can bo certain that she
doesn't care as much for you as she
cares for a baby cat. And in that
caso, my boy, you'll bo hotter off with
out hor. Tako my own case, for in
stance. When I was courting but
como back, Dill, and let mo know how
sho takes it, will you?"
Dill went away no better than ho
had como. To him, Crlngcr's advlco
had small comfort In II. If sho did
not caro enough of him to take him
with the sllvor Jaw as boots in the
bargain, ho hnd no dsslro to be in
formed of tho fact. Ho was anything
but hankering for proof positive that
,sho was not tho square littlo, nice
'littlo girl ho thought her. And be
sides all that, tho business had run
along so smoothly and so faut that it
would bo a shame to spoil It now.
Hang tho sllverJaw, anyway!
Dut ns Cringer's advlco worked it
self slowly Into tho texture of his
mind, ho began to tako anothor view
of tho question. It was posslblo, after
nil, tJRt Crlnger was right. It was
just posslblo that she had been fool
ing with I ' :i all this long tlmo, put
ting on those nl"o little ways of hers,
looking sideways with her eyes, and
nil that sort of business, and protond
lng to sigh llko that aa they wero
holding hands when tho nunts let
them alone for a mlnuto. When ho
camo to think of It, ho novor did havo
much faith In womon, anyway. They
w?ro all a had lot, not worth a man's
whilo bothering with, after all I If
ho thought sho was fooling him 1
Yes. Ho would follow Crlngcr's nd
vlco and put It up to her.
But It wns not such an easy thing
to do when Dill tried It that vory aft
ernoon. She looked n littlo frightened
when ho began to stutter and splutter
about "a secret In his life that ho felt
ho ought to confess," nnd whon ho
said that ho had been tho subject of
a surgical operation, sho distinctly
drew away from him and stared at
him with positive alarm. Dut when
ho plumped it out and told her tbnt
ing, the aentury'B volco of energy and
soul analysis as Tennyson of beauty
and world-contemplation; Stovonson,
the story toller In an ago of fact; Shaw
and Chesterton, nllko In wit and para
dox; Shaw a colitrlfugul force, repre
sents extreme Individualism ot Protes
tantism; Chesterton, contrlfugal, tra
ditionalism of Catholicism; but Shaw
would obtain his end through legis
lated Socialism; Chesterton his
through free play of Individual. Dr.
L. W. Miles In a "Syllabus ot Nine
teenth Century EngltBh Literature."
tho result of tho operation was tho
stiver jaw ho nt that momont was us
ing, Angeliquo Vnn l-oo roso from
where sho sat and looked nt him with
immeasurable contempt.
"You 1" sho exclaimed. "You! How
daro ou tell mo that) I loatho you!
I halo Jou!"
Had ho been a honored toad or a
Gila monster sho could not havo re
garded him with a superior horror;
and then, recovering herself, sho left
him nlono, tho victim of her lncom
prchonslblo scorn.
Now this wns a posture of things
that BUI had not been prepared for.
Had a volumo of tho revised statutes
suddenly exploded whilo ho wns read
ing at it, ho could not havo boon
moro em prised. Ho had fgured on a
thousand possibilities but he hnd
never oven thought of this; and he
wns sitting thoro with open mouth,
staring nt tho doorway through which
sho hnd disappeared; n mnn that wna
wholly undono. Sho had cortainly
mado n good job of it whilo sho was
Ho turned with positive rollof ns
her aunts camo into tho room, appar
ently in groat excltomont. They, at
least, wcro solid nnd ncnslblo Tomcn
nnd would llston to his story with rea
sonnblo politeness. But Bill sccmod
to bo unfortunate in this expectation
also. Tho ladles seemed to havo be
come ns frigid an they woro hospit
able before. Frigid, nnd decidedly
fidgety. . . . A silver Jawl Oh, dear,
no. It was Impossible! even to think
of mnrrlago when ono hnan silver Jnw!
Thoy hoped his good senso would tell
htm that any expectations In that di
rection would be tho height of the ri
diculous. Would ho mind if tho ac
quaintance wore considered directly nt
nn end? Of course his own appreciation
of propriety would directly inform
him that it would bo unkind of him
to nddrcBS himself further to' Miss
Van Loo, should ho chanco to meet
her away fiom her homo. In flno,
they would send James to usher him
out.
James was n short species of varlet
with nn English accent, whom Bill
particularly despised; and with tho
nnturnl instinct of his breed ho meta
phorically kicked tho young limb of
tho law out of tho door and into tho
street.
And then there followed with BUI
a period of depression such na is
onuuuii with heroic youtha when the
fluent current of their loves is stopped
by a pie-wagon or other prosaic and
material obstaclo that refuses to bo
budged by vain Incantation. For four
weeks ho wandered nbout in the rain
and shine, by day and night, through
the busy thoi oughfarcs, among men,
who wero happy in their Ignoranco of
AngeliquoB Van Loo nnd other dis
turbing factors In business. Ho
strayed among the ships In tho East
river, and at times thought of ap
prenticing himself to a Malay pirate
could bo conveniently find ono. And
then he thought of Crlnger. Crlnger
had requested him to return and ad
vise with him on tho result of the ex
periment, but Bill had forgotten all
about it. Now that ho recalled it, ho
decided that he would go back to
Crlngcr and confess. He had to talk
to somebody or Jump from tbo bridge,
and Crlnger wns tho man.
The surgeon listened gravoly to tho
wholo story this tlmo with intensi
fied Interest. ""
"What is hor namo 7" bo asked,
when Dill hnd finished. "Who Is this
miraculous Juliet of tho Capulets?"
"Her namo is Angeliquo Vnn Loo,"
said BUI from tho lowest depths.
Crlnger glanced at him quickly us
If ho were trying to mako out wheth
er BUI wero suffering from homicidal
manta or wbb afflicted only with a
mild and harmless form of dementia.
"You're sure? Aro you euro that
that ia her name?"
"Why, of course" answered BUI
impatiently. "Sho lives in a big houso
on tho avenuo with her two old aunts.
Of course It's her name. Why
shouldn't it bo?"
Crlnger gave a long whistle.
"BUI," he Bnld, "you are certainly
the delight nnd tho wonder of tho
world I Angelique Van Loo! Great
Scott!"
Ho took a turn around tbo room and
came back to his visitor.
"Great Scott!"
He blow his breath through his
pursed up lips as if bo wcro exces
sively warm and onco again exclaimed:
"Great Scott!"
And then he looked at Bill with a
face of wonder, as if BUI had
been a llvo pongo that bad been sud
denly picked up In Africa and mirac
ulously thrust beforo him.
"Don't you know who Angeliquo
Van Loo is, BUI? Do you mean to tell
mo that you never beard of her?"
"No," replied BUI, taking nlarm at
Crlngcr's queer reception of the sim
ple statement of Angollque'a namo.
"Why, BUI, Angelique Van Loo is
one of tho most notablo young women
in tbo world. Sho is tho sole in
heritor of tho Van Loo millions mil
lions enough to set you up in tho rail
road business if you could got her.
But that isn't all," snld Crlngor.
"There's a great deal moro to it than
that. You bot thcro is!"
"What is it?" asked Bill eagerly.
"There's something mysterious about
them, whatovor it is, Nover saw a
soul there but myself. Novor oven
had dinner with thorn. Dut I don't
care a cent about tho millions, and
sho herself didn't seem to care about
them either. Said sho was willing to
go and llvo on tho farm with mo in
Connecticut. Aunts said they'd conifi
nlong with ub. Just doted on tbe
simplo llfo nnd all that, don't you
know."
Crlngor was puzzling hlmsolf with
a question, and after a bit of reflec
tion apparently decided ho would keep
his own hnnds out of It Just then.
"Talking Buncombe."
In historic Buncombo county, N. O.,
was originated tbo phraso "talking
Buncombe,'" for in tkls mountainous
covntry 'year- ago Col, Edward Bun
combe founded his famous hall and
pjaced tho words, "To Buncombe Hall,
Welcome All," over his doorway. The
expression, "I am talking for un
combo," meaning Buncombo county,
becamo current hereabouts by horns
folks, but unregonerate strangers have
used it to Blgnlfy political blarney
or exaggerated praise,
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He took naother turn around tfijp,
room, again came up to BUI, and agalftV
surveyed him with absent-minded'
speculation. This tlmo bo said it 1ob$!
drnwn out and laden with subsiding1
surprise:
"Great Scott!" '
Thoro wns ovldontly littlo help to M
had from Crlngor. To Bill's mind
Crlngor was laboring undor an attack
of mental aberration from which
there could issuo no word of comfort
or hopo. Ho took his hat and went
awny, leaving Crlnger in a stato ot
stupid Inaction. Ho resumed his
wandorlng llfo for a period ot two
dnys, eating nothing and sleeping
hardly nt all. On tho third aftornooa
bla hunger tompted him to a meal,
nnd tho meal restored his courage,
and tho courago eventuated in a plan.
Ho would return to tho homo of
Angeliquo Vnn Loo and would toll
hor what ho thought of her! He
would toll hor ho was glad, sho had
rejected him. Ho would toll her ho
despised her millions and her aunts.
Ho would W! br lt ho womM wRt
until ho would sco her face to face
for tho formulation of the entire mos
sngo. Ho could sco her so clearly In?
his imagination that bo closely
watched tho door ot tho restaurant oa
tho chanco sho would enter there.
It was odd, too, that ho nover one
thought ot James; and when James
opened tho door for him, and cams
out a littlo way into tho outer hall,
nnd stood beforo BUI with a. oneer oat
his fat red face, the angry passions of
Bill began to rise. But his toIco waa
gentlo and calm as he spoko.
"Don't look at mo that way, Shorty,
I don't llko it!"
Tho open hand of BUI camo down!
on tho vnrlet's shoulder with rare and
wondorful power, so that ono fat woll
fed body chook with tho Bhock of it.
"Not that way, Shorty (slap), I don't
llko it (Blnp). I don't llko (slap) to
bo looked at (slap) that way. Shorty;
(slap). Do you hear what I say,
(slap) Shorty? Now go and tell them.
Shorty, that I'm horo."
Tho varlet was standing up to the!
punishment of his shoulder like a!
wooden horso in a gymnasium,
and ho did not observe that
the two guardians of Angeliquo
Vnn Loo wcro behind him In the halt.
Thoy now camo forward to Bill in
warm and smiling welcome.
"Oh, Wllllnm, it's you, Isn't It? So
fortunate you called this afternoon I '
Tho dear fussy ladles, one to tho
foro and tho other to the aft ot hist,
dragged him and pushed him into the
big front room, and piled him into a
chair.
One of them was telling him that
sho had told Angelique that sho would
nover bellevo ho could bo such
heartless fellow as that! Surely
even if it were a fact, it would be aa
unheard of and monstrous thing for
a man to be guilty of such a cruet
and unkind trick, especially whon it
was known to everybody, and tho
poor dear girl was almost insane from
grief and shamo.
The other one was telling him that
of course they had practised a littlo
deceit upon him in allowing him to re
main In Ignorance of Angellque's
wealth, and position, but thoy had
done it with the best Intentions tit
the world, as It was perfectly obvious
that William, being such a simple big
fellow, had really never suspected
uny thing of the -kind, and probably;
would never have suspected until
long afterwards, but at the same tlmo
sho had said to her sister that wo aro
sure to weave a fatal web when first
we practise to tell fibs to people, but
everything was all right now, wasn't
It, or nt least sho hoped it was.
And then tho pair ot them joined
voIccb, and said it aU over again',
thoroughly revised and with the In
troduction of considerable new mat
ter, which Bill was at a total loss to
understand. Of course they had not
suspected that he had a sllvor Jaw,
too, and that was the reason why;
Angeliquo had thought him so very,
contemptible for speaking of it. But
thoy had planned to tell him all about
it tbe very day that he and Angeliquo
had quarreled. You know, poor child,
she had mado up her mind never to
marry, and it was so fortunate that
Doctor Crlnger had called and ex
plained to thorn the whole strango
story! Providential, wasn't it, that
thoy had consulted Crlnger about
Angeliquo within the very week of
tho operation on William himself?
BUI was still in tho fog. He looked
from ono of tho aunts to the' other, as
if thoy had been speaking a particu
larly difficult dialect of Chtneso, tho
meaning ot which, while intensely in
teresting to themselves, no doubt, was
of no Importance whatever to the
world at large. And whon thoy had
thoroughly winded themselves with
talk, they had time to tako noto ot
Bill's peculiar condition.
Tho big stupid! Couldn't he com
prehend that Angelique herself had a
Bllver Jaw llko his own? And that
sho had nover dreamed that Bill was
similarly equipped? And that sho
had imagined ho was basely hinting;
nt the cruel gossip that had malicious
ly whispered that if it were not. for
her millions sho would nover find &
lover who would lovo her and so oa
with the rest ot It.
Aha! thought Bill. That waa the
secret that Crlnger had kept from
him, was it? Why, to bo sure! And
finally, when It was mado as clear to
him as it possibly could be, and when
Bill, in his anxiety as to whether a
sllvor Jaw could Interfere with tho
health and happiness of a certain
high-strung and sensltlvo girl, bad
gone to Crlnger for his professional
opinion, Crlnger had snapped bis
fingers In disdain and had given his
characteristic reply.
"Thcro'B nothing to it, I tell yon.
Nothing at all. I'd bo willing to mako
an exchango with her myself."
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As (Shakespeare Would Have Said It.
Swat tho fly, we pray you, as wo de
nounced hfm to you, rlpplngly vita
tho hand; but if you muff hlm.as
many ot swatters do, we had as lief
tho town crier bashed tho files. Nor
dq we not saw the air too much
your hand thus; but use all gontlyt
for in tho very torrent, tempest and
(as we may say) the whirlwind ot
passloa, you must acquire nnd beget
a 'temperance, that may give H
smoothness. ... Be not too tarns
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