HIS NEIGHBOR S BEES.
i 'One it the hives was t-tipi'fcd over
' i.mmht." sobbed Mrs. IVinv .;.; "and
j I'm Mire he did it "
It was a blill, frosty evening in; - It wis the win 1. mamma." ,
October, with the moon just old; -Vo w ind ever did that, l ied I. Uut
enough to east a ruddy light on the 1 1 it u; again. I will never, never j
leaf earpeted path, and the ancient ' saerilice my apiary to Lis absurd pre. I
stone wall, all broidered over with . j utlics. 1
lichens and moss. The air was instinct j "Iiear mamma, it y.m would only j
with sweet &romat!c scents, ami one ; .ave tlte hives moved to i he other side I
red light bumea use a ueacon :iar in f ,j,e gradVn:" pleaded M-li caress
the cottage window on the uiiL
Look!" said Fleda Fenwick. -Mamma
has lighted the lamp! Its high
time we were home."
'And you haven't said yes!" mourn
fully uttered Jack Trevelyn.
"And don't mean to say ye?.
. unharpy j WHAT MS. JOIINMK BID.
ingly.
-And sacrifice a .piestimi of pnn.
.dole' Xever!" declared the widow.
j Mrs. Fenwick, ordinarily the most
I amiable oi women, was amused on
this subject to an obstancy which
i could only be characterized as vindie-
meuii. it has made ir.;
and--"
The Mm- eve, the fairing vol. "WliM-vcr you da. don't
,....!! i!,.. ..hi wnuViiiaii a( IuM. ! IIO, fom had said, when
hdi don't I .t make you unhappy . fa-t Mrs. Johnnie de
anv lon-'cr. mv dear,'' said he, reaching oi running "P 1
over the piciii-t ti-nce to shake bauds ; a
with the irtvttv Mn-.-ia! pleader. "Iiamr r.
the bt-trs ; i i'ter all. v.liiit difference express
does it make whi.-h 8'U- t the fwu-e j lint ii sooner l.:.d loin fa
they're oa ? - y-s fie ihe Utile scliooi j j anuie tnau Mrs J- hi u- ' '
I'm blessed, it 1 no lc-tin t t,n- f
Mk- the
kirel her
tov,:i. -Us
iullv du.-;ty and there j!
uiv ci'iwd
l:'t-l.
is
thiol; ,
Wait ! r !
'her. are vou :
niuiifh to go
Jack seated h mself on the stone wall j tjve IHj jr. i;zra Mingden was ten
just where the bars had been taken ftimes as b;ul as liis neiylibcr.
down, lie was a handsome, sun ,..-,,.,,. - ., ,.-...... .
burned fellow, with sparkling, black
1 he said to his nephew.
-he
keens
eyes, and a rich dark complexion as if. , an..ov me. I hate
in his far back ancestry there had been h;u ; me Kv(?ry ,lme j
,;u"'. UI , 1- ""'- Wa!k there I get stung."
leaned against the bars the moon turn- you flomwl
ing tier tair nair to goiu. aim lingering
like blue sparks in the deeps of her
laughing eyes. If ever opposites ex
isted in nature, they existed there and
thea
"I've a great mind to go away to
sea," said Jack, slowly and vengefully.
"Do," saucily retorted i lean.
"And never come back again 1"
"Oh, Jack !"
"The idea," he cried, raising both
hands as if to invoke the fair moon
hers If by way of audience, ' of a girl
refusing to be married simply because
she hasn't got some p irticular sort of
a wedding gown to stand up in."
"If I can't be married like other gills.
I won't be married at sib," declared
Fleda, compressing her rosy lips.
"1 he idea of keeping a man waiting
for that!" groaned Jack.
"It won't be long." coaxed Fleda.
"Butlook here, Fleda, why can't we
go quietly to church and be married
any day, and get the gown afterward,
pleaded Jack.
"But, Jack, it wouldn't bs the same
thing at all. A girl gets married but
once in her life, and she wants to look
decent then."
"My own darling, you would look an
angel in anything."
"'ow, quit that, Jack!'' laughed
Felda. "That is what my school chil
dren call 'taffy.'
"I hate your school children," said
Jack venomously. I hate your school
I despise the trustees, and I should like
to see the building burn down. Then
you would have to come to nie."
'Ao. 1 shouldn't," averred Fleda. "I
should ake in millinery and dressmnk.
ing until I had earned enough for the
white silk dress. I never would Oh
Jack! "Who's that.
"A tramp! I'll soon settle him with
my blackthorn!" cried Trevelyn, spring
ing up.
"J.O, don't," whispered Fleda, shrink
close to him; "it's Mingden. lie's 011
his own premises;these woods belong
to him. It's we that are tresspassers:
"Wait! Stand still until he has gone by
He's very near sighted and he will
never see us!"
"And who," breathed Jack, as a
stout, elderly person trotted slowly
across the patch of moonlight arid
vanished behind the stiff laurel hedge,
"is llr. Mingden?"
"Dont you know? Our neighbor.
The new gentleman who has bought
Smoke hall."
"The old cove who is always quarrel
ing with you?"
"Yes; the man who hates bees so in
tolerably, and wants mamma to take
away all those lovely hives, down by
the south fence. He says he can't take
his constitutional in peace because he's
always afraid of being st 11
"Why doin,t he take it somewhere
e'se, then?"
"That's the very question," said
Fleda.
"Mingden, eh? I believe he must be
Harry Mingden's uncle it's not such a
very common name," said Jack, reflect
ively. "And Harry's my college chum
and 1 am going to ask him to be my
best man at the wedding.
"Oh, Jack! I hope he isn't as dis
agreeable as his uncle!' cried Fleda.
"He's a trump."
"Besides, I don't believe his uncle
will let him come," added the girl.
"Not let him come ? "Why shouldn't
he?"
"Because he hates me so."
"On account of the bees?"
It's regular Montague and Capulet
business, is it, eh ?"
"Bather so, I'm afraid," sighed
Fleda.
"But, I say, Fleda," cried the young
man, "this complicates matters, i
promised to go and see Harry Mingdon
when I was down here."
"Go and see him, then, but don't
mention the name of Fenwick for
your life.
"Indeed I shall. Isn't it the name of
all others in which I take the most
pride?"
"Ob, Jack, you will only make more
trouble! It'll be worse than the bees.
Promise me Jack, or I'll never, never
peak to you again."
And Jack bad to promisd, after some
unwilling fashion.
Mn. Fenwick, a pretty, faded little
widow, was full charged with indigna.
tioo when Fleda returned from Iter
itrool in the woods.
"Mamma, wht. t. tb matter v said
irandish
your cane about so," reasoned Harry.
"It's sure to enrage Vm."
''I don't brandish it on the woman's
side of the fence. If her abominable
buzzing insects persist in trespassing
in my garden am I not bound to pro
tect, myself 'i" sputtered Mr. Migden.
'Can't you walk somewhere else?"
Can't she put her bees somewhere
else ?'
"But, uncle, all this seems su.-li a
trivial affair."
'Trivial, indeed! If you'd been stung
on vour nose and vour ear and your
eye lids and everywhere else, would
you call it trivial? I never eat honev
and have always considered bees to be
an absurdly overated sectioc oi en
tomology. What business have her
bees to be devouring all my l'.owers?
How would she like it herself'''
Harry Mingden smiled to see the de
gree of fury to which the old gentle
man was gradually working himself
up. He was already in Jack Trevelyn's
confidence, and thus, to a certain ex
tent, enjoyed the unusual opportunity
of seeing both sides of the question.
"Look here, sir?" said he; "did you
ever hear of the doctrine of similar
similibus euranUir?"'
h?"taid Mr. Mingden.
"Why don't you set up a colony of
beehives yourself? If her bees rille
your llowers let yours go a foraging in"
to her garden. Let her see, as you sug
gest, how she would like it herself
Put a row of hives as close to your
side of the fence as you can
get it. If they fight, let'em light.
Bees are an uncommonly war
like race, I'm told. Jt they agree
what's to prevent 'em from bringing
half the honey into your hives?"
'By Jove, said Mr. Mingden, start
ing to his feet. "I never thought of
that. I'll do it! I wonder where the
duce they sell bees. There isn't a mo
ment to be lost."
"1 think i know of a place wherc'I
can buy half a dozed hives," said
Harry.
v -
"The gentleman wants to buy some
bees." said Fleda. "Dear mamma, do
sell yours; we can easily get all the
honey we want"
' But I've kept bees all my life," said
Mrs. 1 enwick, piteously.
"Yes, but they're such a care, mam
ma, now that you are 110 longer young,
and you are hardly able to look after
them in swarming time, and she (dared
not allude to the trouble they were
making in neighborly relations, but
glided swiftly 011 to the next vantage
point; "it will l,e just exactly the
money 1 w nt t j linish the sum for my
wedding dress."
Mrs. Fenwick's face softened; he
kissed Fleda's carmine cheek, w ith a
deep sigh.
'Tor your sake, then, darling," said
she. "But I wouldut for the world
have Mr. Mingden tl.ink that I would
concede a single inch to "
'T don't know that it is any of Mr-
Mingden's business," said " Fleda
quietly. '
The next day 'Mr. Mingden trotled
down to look at his new possessions.
"Too bad that Harry had a chance to
see how the bee hives looked in their
place," soliloquized lie. "A capital
idea, that of his, Wmila similibus cur
antur,' ha, ha, ha! "Well, 1 guess it wil1
be pretty much that! I wonder what
the old lady will say when she sees the
opposition apiary! Won't she be furi
ous! 11a, ha, ha!"
He adjusted his spectacles as lie
hastened down toward the sunny
south walk which heretofore had been
the battle ground. There was a row of
square white hives on his side of ths
fence but lo! and behold! the bench
that had extended on the other side
was vacant and deserted!
"Why"' he exclaimed, coining to an
abrupt standstill, "What has she done
with her bees?"
"Sold'em all to you, sir," said Jacob,
the gardner. "And a fine lot they bo!
And not an unreasonable price neither.
Mr. Harry looked arter that hlsself."
"I hope you'll be very kind to them,
sir!" uttered a soft, pleading little
voice, and Fleda Fenwick's golden
head appeared just above the pickets
of the fence. "And I never knew till
just now who bought thorn."
"Humph!" said Mr. Mingden.
"But, I hope, after this," kindly
added Fleda, "that we shall never have
';us- 111 secret
' the Moil
is healed at
(knitting her
id young
M'l that is
ih n't wish 1 was vviuir
to school to you 111 st
I'iiiia ra:i buck to
gk-e,
"I til, beliee,''.-!it:
tague and Capulet -Vui
last! And 1 do bel.ein
blonde brow-i that Jack t
Mingden all about liu bees
the solution of the m-ter."
But that evening tiiere came a pres
ent of white grapes from the Mingd.-n
grct oS.iiiiv.'i to Mrs. Fenwick, with the
old geiiilt -man's card.
'ilc must have been very much
pi avl to get the let--," thought the
old lady. 'ifl had only know n he
liked bees 1 should have thought very
j differently of him. All this shows lmfr
I slow we should be to believe servants'
j gossip and neighborhood tattle. If I
had known lie w;n the purchaser 1
should have declined to negotiate; but
perhaps, everything has happened for
the be.-t."
Jack Trevelyn thought so when he
stood up in the village church a f .t
night from thai time beside a fair
vision iii tiiitter ng white silk and a
veil that was like crystalized frostwork.
And the strangest part of all was that
Mr. Mingden was there to eive the
br de away.
'T take all the credit to myself." lui
chievoiKy whispeied Harry .Mingden
the "best man." "But I'm afraid it is
easier to set machinery in motion than
stop it afterwards! And it's just pos
sible that I may have an aiiiit-in-law
yet."
'Stranger things have happened,'
said the bridegroom.
The Origin ol die Mali .
Crime-stained as it is today, aim
ghastly with murder every step of its
tortuous secret career, the "Malia"
sprang into being from an inspiration
of patriotism; but ils very birth was
heralded by a libation of blood.
t he '.Maim society is over six hun
dred years old, having its original at
the revolt of Palermo, which took
place during an Ki'ster c remouial in
in the suburbs of that city in the year
liS2. A beautiful young girl and" her
bethrothed, in accordance with quaint
and primitive customs of that people
approached the Church of the Holy
Chost to he united in marriage at its
altar; and wh.ie (lie lover sought the
venerable padre in the little 10 mi at
the rear of the building, h;s bride
paused upon its threshold.
As she stood, expectant graceful as
a faun, fuir as a dream, her innocent
heart throbbing with its new bnrn hap.'
piness-a drunken sergent of the
French garrison, Hruet by name, strode
up behind her and threw his arm about
Ikt waist. With a cry of horror the
poor child fore herself from ins pollut
ing grasp and turned lo fly, but the
heel of her dainly slipper caught in the
coping of the stone pavement and she
fell, striking her head against a sharp
projection of the church cornice.
At the instant the returning lover's
eyes fell upon his beautiful fiancee
lying lifeless, her white brow gaping
with its cruel wound, her Jong tresses
dabbled with her blood. With the sav
age fury of a wild beast he threw him
self upon Brtttt, bore him lo the earth,
and drove his stiletto to the wreUh's
heart, crying, "Morle alia Crania!"
"Death to the French 1 ' There was s.
moment, a pause of silence, and then
that maddened cry became the roar of
infuriated thousands. It swelled and
deepened; it took more solemn mean
ing became nationalized and then
burst forth, "Morte alia Francia Italia
ancla!" licath to the French is Italy's
cry!" For' seventy-two hours anned
1 i 1. ....I... . , .
0.11ms, neaueu ny me lather and be
trothed of the hapless girl, hunted the
haled French, and their search w as as
the quest of the tiger and blood-hound,
But retribution ivas to come after
this carnival of blood, and in dread of
of the French nation these unhappy
people formed themselves into secret
organizations with the password and
name of the society made up of the in
itial letters of the wo-ds which coin
pose that fateful death cry, thus f.iru,
ing .Malia." Ils object vas resistance
to oppression, and at the lapse of years
added to its power and inlhience p
stretched forth its hands against fie
rich and mighty in behalf of the poor
and the downtrodden. Today it is but
uie. uioeous cioaic of tho creeping ih,,,,
and the assassin of the night,.
1 .-dy, J'"!rV.r
l1-
! 1 ,1-1 :.!iii i
1 un.l nhi-n i!:iv an Id.
! ei- '.i r !,' a 1 1 1 li
! i.e. I to v::y it lb!"
hi-r own p:u iifiilai v.-a
i i;;;-t jit it' !y, M s
tit.- K'.!' !oi;d, a:.
lilili U ' cS t,i:i.' ?d.C V, ,1
that !!. bad fow
In: it w;ii hot and it
1 n-v were craw l.m a
1 I !
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it.t
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loiiniiif i:.J ;'
I w'A'hU hie
tit
ai.
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Uiilali tUt. lie t" m
i lliarnl li. : Uom1 la UiM M ,.).. iilM.W.
i Iti.it .istitcl;.'.l.-zt I lo'-'Hi"."
i -ieavinahtr Uiih'Hit auord ofci.o -it.y.
Put knows I'..,',Isi: om-. Only
I V. .s.."
1 m- m', Daisy, you mu-n't think
1111- itol- rem nt l-r askina alt Hese
iiiietioisi:.v dear. U
j niel t 10:1 at the ''also!!!" j
' "Weil, no -not xac'iy He's so busy '
f .me ! tl.iy 1-1 hii. 1
l.;ll why he '' t '!''-s j
He -.aid in hii let r Ih it he j
, a 'iiehi to a lady Ir.eud of lii-v '
1 11. 1 et me a! I'ei ty and !ak
of ii etd! !. '..:..."
An-! Ic'iv 1 did -ii say y.m
i, .1 a Jack ?'
':il l.n' h T lr 1 I a,' no. "1
about v.
N - ted
I l'.r..'l
j uimi-r the will jlrJ
. i. ! H o.mI, and v. ; .
j forhtii" nith uhn-:- t(i
sorrow id tier wid .Aij,
Mi.'S Harrii t M.. .
hi;y chosen to wm 1
i. ,. I I'- f r . . , I
I. in n 1.111 , 1 ui 111-ae 1 t.
lain :' I ij opening of t
I f f w years hjo
I ho wife of
U..;
1! tb,-,
ll.e 1.'
1 1
Mi
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pace
n-g
i.-ar
ind ti. en- weie someroiign i"oK
rloii.eis on lioai.l. ; 1 i i weih "I.
.iier ail Tom know w l.at
. was lab.ihg t.loiit oi-cas.oiiahy.
At the l.ir end oi the car a youi.g
...iiiiaii wa-i sithijg. M.e lo.'K.'il
,Miug that iii m.gltt a!!in-.-.l have
,'iilei her a ciiihi in .'piti-oi ihe laid
liiat I.erpreUy l.iowu hair i.as iwistwl
ii. 011 the ti.j) of l.i r head in a a;ii
.iii'tatloli of the late.it la-luon. And
;he, to Mrs. ,iohiii::ei most atr'':ii:;
fact that 1 er cheeks Ht covered wi h
rogue.
Mrs. Johnnie gathered her belonging
iogeti.er and set out to take
j)- sstssiou 1,1' the Mat i!s' in iiont of
liie yoiiiig gul saying sotto voice to
... ;-c;i u.iiilili'hile:
"it's really the inc.-,! ridiculous sig'.it
I ever saw. The child intisl be crai'V.
t it were oulv an M won. an of ti.v
:-t"Mrs. Johnme v.
ctbiiig la r-eil an id
die (.nly owned to being twenty -eight
11 1 '
'-he's '
charj-
"i Hi
l ave i
'1 he
bin: I, -' a
d n ii on 1
do.i n tw ic
he's w 1,1'--Mrs.
Jo
!y .'-poll t h
yiil leads
you l.uow
l.iill? W01
ii.'i.l t.'.l.e your
d. he-? Why ho
year lor y-ui and
-taiid? Jle'il u;,i
il la 's re.illv in e
II- .
lie.
V id 'er I h
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hi.hie la; 1 la r 1 i d
oiiiig g;:i'sarai''
tluii!;, lov d -ar I ai',
dim will -ti.ugh 1"
li la't it be w Imt ti wa
r into ) our
i-k Ji'.'k ti
Ml IV
line
aii.e
ami
Vi d
Iciiuer-
b"
. that
h ;i::
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a
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I'.eii wd ho;
lor j oa !ti-i
I'ileat."
;it:el
IO
' Why-
she iiiisvler
that i lioii,'h
aid I b
J. "H-
' 1 lo'. e
doe-
p h.
love
l.lllli
t!..'
i v.a.t.l'g'r
hie. 1 Il't
id 1 1 a:-! h.iu
ana- i v i-u-
cut ii'elv, .'lilll ht
1-n't that ( liou.di '"
Mrs. Johnnie i.. not ;ii.MU-r if a
lhoiiieiit. li-r hps wi ic pics-e d !;:di'!y
logi-th'-r, lor. to I'll Hi-- traiii. Mm
Johnnie w.ih iiii.kitig up l.er iniicl to
adopt a tii sperale ha-a-un-. I hi'- (.'r
.-rt tih!y ii--1 he'"
.lohiiilie bea'.i
pro .-eded to .lo
I'llher I'olitl of .a,! mil nt jih'll. v, H
i v.o.iuin aPiiough j ha a set lie. And Mi
to reane that it s!u
- H it were only i n old woman of my ;
age n iv,, Ihcie might l.e mn- exiaisf. j
tint for a child like thai, wjij, the'
complexion of a jeiich, why why it's
p rlectly pieposteious!" i
Mrs. Johiiiiit- settled herdf com fort-1
ably ill ll.e seat imuI then, half tu i.ingi
M'latitiiad the oi;hggirlat hey ;
.. l uie. he coukl do so without nub- J
!, !tr lb j.it'1 was gazing out of the ,
window, and her thoughts ss-hii d to be!
iaiiii'.ay. "ils a sweet lit tie fiu-e "
bought Mis. Johnnie, "aiid 1 don't
c ie il it is painleJ: it's innocent and
l i' ust 1 u i. il(-r caess lit s her iilioiiiinai-ly
lail the has a gionous jiair of eyes,
"lie's a positive aiiiiomaiy. I'm going lo
ndnaiiiee myyi-if."
ihe jjil turned her head just at that
iiiohiciit, nijd as their yes met both ol
ih. m smiled, and ea.di p:eceiied forthu
lirst time that the, other wore the little
.ilver Maltese cross ot the King's
Daughters, They needed no introduc
tion after that. Mis. Johnnie moved
into the seal w ith her, and they were
sjoii the I e.-t of lia'hds. It (lid not
take Mrs Johnnie very long to gain the
paidicuiius of Ik rsdory. She had never
ueen to the city before, she said: indeed
except for some little exclusion now
and then, she had never left her home,
which was in a little village on the
c just of Long Island. Hie was so glad
to have some, one to talk to, lur of
course she w.as feeling a bit lonely.
J'hen she told Mrs. Johnnie that her
iiiiiru) was Daisy-Daisy Hope -and
that she was an orphan with just one
si-der. Her name was Sophie, ami she
was married now. Thev had sihvav
l.oi duty by flu Lit ic jh I ii ci ii.-
bound to coiiie. The tra il w,.s ju-t
slowing up for a n.om.-iit at ahille
wayside si ilioii.
"Well, my near, i hope sin.-, rely thai
yon will I'm. I it i (hough," she s,;id.
Then, fpiiiiging up suddenly, she
giip.-d the carpetbag and her ortli be
lolsging. "Ibiiry up, ii, y e'aild!" she exciaiihed,
giving the girlalitllo push. "Here's
where uecli itige cars, .ri know. Come
along!"
"But 1 thought, thi-; train'
"Now, my dc i", that's just whal yoii
mustn't do. Don't think, but lo low
my instructions."
Before ihegir! had reaii.ed what sh"
iv as doing Mrs. Johnnie had bunded
her out on to the station platform 'I be
train moved slowly ou.'. Mrs. lui.hiuc
watched it disappear w ith a sigh ol re
lief, end then sho turned to the hewii.
uered girl and spoke, to her Very g'Hily.
i.et us walii over to tho hille hole), .arc ai
Daisy. We shall have to w ait then-1 y;,.
i--r.
M.ldel.il has a liaoi-r 1 1 3
i - ..-I,
ilcr.pHoils; ) ,Ifl,
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i oi t-i, .ui. i "i im,,
S lieriiiaii." Thtf ;,d ,,;
I'inii.eiit felS-j- count .-,
raller.
Ihitbtl Hiernui'iS
ii cmo.rs of her disi i: ,
'aid to gAe markcl , , ,
aiy ab.lity. vhc in., ,
on several nuiira
hi," an Arali ami , , .
i he ciiiiii oj givat.
ri'-it nsihiiities Hie.
All li e mi mi l i
in Miliv iii it-,
in ither, itnd thr-aitorueys-a!
1 iw.
the family h a
branch of U gal
liiuther is il I 'ml.- I
iiiHiioner. M.-i (
hei .. if to t ic- y
winch is a'pi'..j',i
n ilne of I'lt i.
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!.ii ,.l eiiitot's ohiy
IS ill'Ollt ,11 V i ;'
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p ill, 1111' bhi 'k i ye
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A Wyoming man who has invent!
gated says prairie uogs obtain Wilter
or drinking by digging wells. F,i
has one with a concealed opening,
says he knows of several of these well"
fromht'fytotwo hundred feet dee,
each havmg a circular ,tnirwa. , ,':
mg down to tho water.
any; more .trouble as
tina'l Comr.iii,
A man can usually tell f; own f,t(.
by going out and lookimr nt. ti, ...... .
in never nave on the crave of n r- r "auj
ueightors, Iear7o.:AtlLnrn;lWl10
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been the very best of friends-she and
soplne until Dan llacketttmr.t- along.
.W.vadavs. she added with a sigh,
-cphie had eyes for no one but Dan.
"But 1 shan't mind it so much now "
suddenly brightening- up
that I'm going ((J JM; nwr.
ried too."
'Married!'" exclaimed Mrs, Johnnie
in astonishment. "Vou don't mean to
icil me so; When is it coining off, and
what's his name?"'
"Yes; we're going to be married right
away-Jack and me. This isn't very
much of a trousseau, is it?" she added,
with an expressive gesture toward her
o d bah; :! carpetbag and two paper
parcels. "But jiK-k said Unit wonhloa '
i i. uitr. ne coiii iv i .I ..
t,. . ,c"ji'ddue.
"""". "e ioiu me miiis ietter
Honouring anyihing along; my com,.
ui (iresics would never do for New
Voik, he said. So I've left Uu-m all at
home there, hinging up in iy doset
hllexcciit my new p,k one 1 got at
caster, lis so pretty I couldn't bear
to leave that behind. I guess it will do
for the mornings, now and then.
"But wasn't it awfully g00d of Jack
inoiigu. tie sent me sliis dress to wear
m uie way up, and this diamond "
I'ointihg t(J a huge brooch that Rri-iJ,i
atherthroal, but which Mrs Johnnie's
eyes pronounced to bo very bad pa-te
"And there was a box of coii,.v!..
salve he sent me too. I've put some of
-oi.ji,, 10 mease him, but 1 can't say
tJiat I liko it very much. Itilchosso
feels horrid. I.'o all ladies paint J
Uiivork?'
half aii hour, l'erhaj.s we can
room there, for 1 want to ban
talk v.ilh you."
In speaking of it afU-nvcrd Mrs
Johnnie always deciaie 1 that t a Imt tin
walk from the Hla'iou t a the hul.-l w ,h
by far the saddest pint of ail that day's
ordeal, il v,ns th.-n that the magmlu de
of the work ,H,t. had to do dawned upon
her for the IIhI iim
lie I ore t!u-y two sihhiM b-- standif.g
on that jdatform again, Jack, the young
girl's idol imit be s!,atii-!ed and tiuou n
from its pi dental. To Mis. Johimie
fell the (ask of di-playihg hi,,, j ,;.s
true cohus and though it was a tr-k
which she shrank instinctively from in
perspective when ih,. time came
Iving: Alf'oKsi) , 1 1 in
1 Wouut T bow I.;; .
who are aware of :. e ; .
the late Kin u Mf i..-., ..;'
died six ji-ai s nun. ,
ilW.'.illiJg his li.i.ll il.'.;.
tomb w hn'b lias b- en
eorp.-e, ciollK-d only ,n a;.
h. ei.t. '! h- dead b.i g !
roi k in :i! h ;i rum. n. g ,'
a ( aw in ii, the i-iil' of i
on th'i siope of v. hie, i :
Ivi'lliial is built, I h-reS
int.) I. is body has a;hi,,,'
iii!,ar pi,,pei;i(s . a ,
i, ii'y will the giro'. iv ' t-:-r
i:s iii la- oi that v t ,,
uial, r the great liou.y e;
church, where onh the -:,
i-h kin."? and ot t:.i! iu'jI
.ii a to lie.
bodies, no in ; t
j Isabella's fill her, r n. i
j table lor t iveiify and ' t
I bid'oie th'.y were i,i h t
traiHit rrcj to Hie a i t. i
this wiard cavern n U
i.iihie which is a I h.iij
vaults colttilililli li.e ho.ll
f nits and tho iiiiai' is N
colder.
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A ( 'lillV -llt ion:
fue of the simple-', ll 'l
liianii'-rs would neesn to Ic
should uncover hi.s l.e-id
his dinner with lus t i::.
pretty certain that the hr
of Kugl-'UiJ two cwilori'ti
iidv wore their bai i dur.
.Johnnie was not found wanting. M
never told any one -not tv. u Tm
tne piirtiiuiliiis of what m-f tired in tiiat
HUJO room but when the train
. ! einony. nor in it bin mi
... 1 why the praolici.. e ,n r.
i i-iiy laiiioas l ), :u . r.
be-1 h.iihiial i r
XewVork came rushing along half a,,'!!"!''"'1' n'" r,'il'1. 11,i,1,f
loMiri-iii.r (i i . . . I''!, "Home to lei. fa'
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from ;
si'inajihore was hois'cej I
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to
i-l I'M lllfo 1 ,,A ill .!, .. .1 1,1-
. . ! VUIU III Hit J,' , l V) '
as a signal to stop ami fieluo women mv hat at winner ai i -iltu.,f
stepped silcnliy on boa.d. v. ml in mv neck."
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i a i.oiu i, jari noon t i
Both of them had tear stained f;
out uitre wiis no rogue on the
gins tace now, her hair hu
down her back and she
y.'iniir
g' simiily
wore
her i ' cepl at (lltllier
pretty pink Ores . That nieh, ' ilfl l J "T . '1'hiit
My .(minim- reached her own
after unit? a Imv c(tn!.-H
. -n . ... -ju, ill.
1'oin was told p,st
Mrs. Joha,,,,.
At another time Mrs. Johnnie would
liiiva burst out laughing, but just at
present matters were taking to mtIou,
iurs. .nniiie win) beginning to
wonder very much.
"But when IT6 YOtl t f tiA linn..: j .
lcnrr she asked hastily. "Vou haven't
answered my question vef Aiwl ..a....
Birl liuntr her I.ph.1
Johnnie could see her l,liii.A.
fpiteof therognv
ot the particulars as
thought fit.
V hen hhe had (inishedhe was Mi.-ut
for a moment or two, w hile he exliann.
cd his stock or authemas up;i Jack
Then, turning his atiendon lo th,!
wonianiu thecasclieexchiimed "Wep
of ail the little fools''
But Mrs. John, .it- intctruMed l.o
suddeiilv.
"Don't call her that, dear." she added
.e kiS3ed J,;,,, J)W ,i;ui,
"Kl that I took , the 12:10."- a,m
Davies in ew York I.vcning m,.
v oi ri'mf-r. .Ifl (1 1,1 !. .Jh ,r TV,
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in his younger days he nt'i'
hat ou befoie thoiii on-fr I -t"ll.
lb' I Z
ibei'or t ..i-l;iiM..i,r kit Willi If
honie 'Mi iliinng the scs:ioH II i
;::-(. r Jiinl tac same .i;i(iio ii'l
ill' lov, I, iiieetili;s la .-i t
liianv
prew ncu or
j th.-refote simply a i
J :n i! is w ith a ti'oi.
are held, so long
Ihe
c.'iir
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l! i'H W
,1 jm
, ti ev il
.Min-.!i',of'(lu' .ncl.
Ii'ot.i.in
Mloli
tood for
Itlid nie
AVlici, a Man f Thiiiy.
All men who employ HH-mU jn
work know how their speed fall, off
wi i increasing age. lnce h,Mi
Hhdrawn from tha track shortly after
7 ."e nrriveu at the full possej
" '"ii 1Urce; tney (iro bl(;
competitions l,,,,,,,,,.
cap.d,le for many years yet of doing
iK'elient Irott inr wn-i,.,, i.... .,
cannot run in trials ofnuecd. '
creaks after he hits pawed thirtv v,-, -.
the profe.Hinna'i couri 1 , '
Mill In 'lunis, running ov.r , 11
alliances ill m, nu-n.lim u,v'r ''TgO
obliged to ret m'SK
with graTe Heart aLtl'if i
Scinuce MoaU.it; . 1 m"Hr
mod l.l.i ngeahie ami H
;( affair-!, il.irp' i s I"
w
l iie iiiirrots of tb'' i.riH)
mans went ibiu dihs "f "' d
pousheii and iisuiil.y iin H
baiullts tho'.igii sotiH'tniifS
Mel upiight o'l st'tmis. -pc
Silver wn (ist'd, and Ihe lirs-
Roli'l t-ihcr is said to liuvel'jj
by I'laxitdiS ill the tiU'fQ
( H'Siir. r-iibncqm idly sil 3
took ti t- plat e of hi a-s or t:lC
aliiio.t ."liogother, tlimigufclMt
i nd vui gold vieie also
'Looking Kins-i s" of t''li'1.i
ployed eurywbeie up bti,! .
leiiiury. Washington Mar. tsl
P.mii..l a Five IhiW'fi
A man who ponses-ed a
bid, and wanted lo blow'1
bit upon a novel plan b'e Wi
by which to save and sp1"
Him bill was given to him W
Mai be wiis dcteruiinw' l'-
Wilh il V Ui.r a li-lietll? 1''
bilutill bo evolved the brill'11!
of i awiiUig the note. He H
to bin iinrl.. rnhu-il H i 01 Oil
1 1 1 ill it accotding tohintm'l
Jurther I tinda came in he'J
original note. riilladelptu A