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A SISTER'S By CEORCE MANVILLC FENN M CHAPTER I. "Then you're a villain!" "Nonseuse. Mary: be reasonable." "Iteasouable, Captain Armstrong? m reasonable, and I am telling you truth. You are a villain!" "Why, you foolish girl, what did you "That you would be an officer and a gentleman. Once more, is it true that you are goiug to be married to that lady V Well, you see " "Answer me, sir." "Oh, well, then. I suppose I am." "Then I repeat it, James Armstrong, you are a villain!" "What nonsense, you fierce-looking handsome termagant' We have bad out little pleasant chats, and now we'll say good-by pleasantly. I can't help it, I have to marry; so you go and do the same, my dear, and I'll buy you a handsome wed ding dress." "You cowardly, cold-blooded villain'.' "Come, come, my good girl; no more strong words, please. Why, what did you expect "' "That you were wooing me to be your wife." "A captain in the king's navy marry the daughter of an old wrecker, the sis ter of as utter a smuggling scoundrel as can be found about this port to Dart mouth!" "When a girl gives- her heart to the man who comes to her all soft words and miles, do you think she remembers what he is? It is enough for her that she loves him, and she believes all he says. Oh, James, dear James! forgive me for all I've said." "There, that's enough. You knew as well aa I did that there was nothing se rious meant, so now let's bring this meet ing to an end." "To an endr "Yes; you had no business to come here. But, aa you have come, there are five guineas, Mary, to buy finery; and let's hake bands and say good-by." Captain Armstrong, a handsome man With a rather cruel-looking, thin-lipped mouth, took five golden pieces from bin great, flapped, salt-box-pocketed waist coat, gave the flowing curls of his wig a shake, and held out the money to the dark, black-eyed woman standing before him with her sun-browned cheeks slight ly flushed, her full, red lips quivering, and a look of fierce passion distorting her handsome gypsy countenance. As he spoke he dropped the golden coins one by one into the woman's band, smiled, glanced quickly at a door behind him, and caught her in his arms. "There, one more kisg from those ripe, red lips, and then " Aa sharp a back-handed blow across the face as ever man received from an angry woman, and then, as the recipient invol untarily started back, Mary Dell flung the golden pieces at him, so that one (truck him in the chest and the others flew tinkling across the room. "Curse you!" cried the captain, in a low, savage voice, "this is too much. Leave this bouse, and if yon ever dare to come here again " "Dare!" cried the woman, as fiercely. "I dare anything. I've not been a sailor's child for nothing. And so yon think that woman's love is to be bought and sold for a few paltry guineas. Look here, James Armstrong, I wouldn't marry you bow if you prayed me to be your wife wife to such a cruel, mean coward! I would sooner leap overboard gome night and die in the deepest part of the har bor." "Leave this house, you vixen." "Not at your bidding, captain," cried the girl, scornfully. "Captain! Why, the commonest Bailor in the king's ships would shame to behave to a woman as yon have behaved to me. But I warn you," she continued, as in her excitement her luxuriant, glossy hair escaped from its comb and fell rippling down in masses "I warn you, that if you go to church with that lady, I'll never forgive you, but have such a revenge as shall make you rue the day that you were born." "Silence, woman; I've borne enoug'i' Leave this house!" "When I have told you all I think nd feel, James Armstrong." "Leave my house!" cried the captain for the third time, furiously; and, glanc ing through the window as he spoke, he changed color at the sight of a gray haired gentleman approaching with a tall, graceful woman upon his arm. "Ah!" cried Mary Dell, aa she read bis excitement aright; "so that is the wom an! Then I'll stop and meet her face to face, and tell her what a contempti ble creature she is going to wed." "Curse you, leave this house!" cried the captain, in a savage whisper; and, catch ing bis visitor roughly by the shoulder, he tried to pull her toward the door; but the girl resisted, and in the struggle a chair was overturned with a crash, the loor was flung open, and a bluff, manly Voice exclaimed: "Why. halloo; what's the matter now?" "What's that to your cried the cap tain, angrily, aa he desisted from his ef forts, and the girl stood disheveled and panting, her eyes flashing vindictively, and a look of gratified malice crossing her face, as she saw the confusion and annoyance displayed by her ei -lover. "What is it to me? Why, I thought there was trouble on, and I came to elp." "To intrude where yon were not want ed, you mean. Now, go," snarled the captain. "No, don't go," cried the girl, spitefully. "I want you to protect me, sir, from (his man, this gentleman, who professed to lore me, and whs, now that he It going to be married, treats me aa you sec." "It's a lie, woman T cried the eaptala. who noted that the couple whoa coming had made him lower his voice had now passed after looking up at the window, ad who now turned again nerosiy epoa tho woman. "No. It isn't lie, Jem." Mid the new to r. "I've teen you on the beeoh with lor nviny n time, and thought what ttsxftgnofd yon wort." "Lieut. Arewtroag, I am rear tstr." triad the enntain. "How rrcfJi to aw Khe that! t, yea W l. v aetata nr tat rrri4r 3 VENGEANCE ly, "but my cousin Jem. Put me In ar rest, will you? Very well, my fine fel low; you're captain, I'm lieutenant, and I must obey; but if you do, next time we re ashore I'll thrash you within aa inch of your life as sure as my name's Humphrey. Hang it. I'll do it now." lie-took a quick stop forwardt but- tae captain darted behind the table, and Mary caught the young man's arm. "No, no, sir," she said in a deep voice "don't get yourself into trouble for me. It's very true and gallant of you, sir, to take the part of a poor girl, but I can fight my own battle against such a cow ard as that Look at him, with his pale face and white lips, and tell me how I could ever have loved such a creature "Woman " "Yes, woman now," cried the girl. "A month ago no word was too sweet and tender for me. There, I'm going, James Armstrong, and I wish you joy of your rich wife the pale, thin creature I aw go by; don't think you are done with me. or that this is to be forgotten. As for you, sir," she continued, holding out her hand, which ber defender took, and smiled down frankly in the handsome, dark face before him, "I shan't forget this." "No," said Captain Armstrong, with a sneer. "Lose one lover, pick up another." Mary Dell did not loose the band she had seized, but darted a bitterly con temptuous look upon her late lover, which made him grind bis teeth as she turned from him again to the lieutenant. "Was I not right, sir, to say he is a coward? I am only a poor-class girl, but I am a woman, and I can feel. Thank you, sir; good-by, and if we ever meet again, think that I shall always be grate ful for what you have said." At that minute there were voices heard without, and the captain started and looked nervously at the door. "I'm going, James Armstrong," said (he irl, "and I might go like this; but for my own sake, not yours, I'll not." She gave ber head a sidewise jerk which brought her magniticent black hair over her left shoulder, and then with a few rapid turns of her bands she twisted it into a coil and secured it at the back of her head. Then turning to go, Humphrey took a step after ber; but she looked at him with i sharp, suspicious gaze. 'He told you to see me off the place.' she said, quickly. 'No." cried Humphrey; "it was my own idea." 'Let me go alone," said the girl. "I want to think there is some one belong ing to him who is not base. Good-by, sir! Perhaps we may meet again." Meet again!" snarled the captain, as the girl passed through the doorway. Yes, I'll warrant me you will, and con sole yourself with your new lover." 'Look here,. Jem," cried the lieuten ant, hotly; "officer or no officer, recollect that we're alone now, and that you sre insulting me as well as that poor girl. Now, then, you say another word like that, and hang me if I don't nearly break your neck." "You insolent " Captain Armstrong did not finish his sentence, for there was a something in the frank, handsome, manly face of his cousin that meant mischief, and he threw himself into a chair with an angry snarl, such as might be given by a dog who wanted to attack, but did not dare. CHAPTER II. "What's she a-doing of now?" "Blubbering." "Why, that's what you said yesterday. She ar'n't been a-blubbering ever since?" "Yes, she have, Bart; and the day afore, and the day afore that She's done nothing else." "I hates to see a woman cry," said the first speaker, as he seated himself on the edge of a three-legged table in the low ceiled cottage of old Dell, the smuggler a roughly built place at the head of one of the lonely coves on the South Devon coast The place was rough, for it had been built at different times of wreck wood which had come ashore; but the dwelling was picturesque outside, and quaint, nautical, and deliciously clean within, where Abel Dell, Mary's twin brother, a short, dark young fellow, sin gularly like his sister, sat upon an old sea chest fashioning a netting needle with a big clasp knife, and his brow was also covered with the lines of trouble. He was a good-looking, sun-browned little fellow; and as be sat there In his big fisher boots, thrust down nearly to the ankle, and a scarlet worsted cap up on bis black, crisp curls, bis canvas pet ticoat and blue shirt made him a study of which a modern artist would have been glad; but In the early days of King George the First gentlemen of the pal ette and brush did not tarn the inhabit ants into models, so Abel Dell had not been transferred to canvaa, and went on carving his hard-wood needle without looking up at the man called Bart, There was not much lost, for Barthol omew Wrigley, at the age of 30 wreck er, smuggler, fisherman, sea-dog, any thing by turn waa about as ugly an athletic specimen of humanity as ever afeDned- Nature and his m-tttori hmti been very unkind to him in the war oi features, and accidents by flood and light had marred what required no disfigure ment, a fall of a apar having knocked bis nose sidewise and broken the bridge, Wvbile a chop from a sword in a aniug- I - i - m I. j i i, i gang anray nan given mm a omuea up per lip. In addition be alwaya wore the appearance of being ashamed of his height, and went about with a slouch that was by no means an attraction to the usher girls of the place. "Ay! If the old man had bora alive" " 'Stead o' drowned off Plymouth Hoo," growled Bart. "In the big storm." continued Abet "Polly would hart had to twab thorn eyes of horn." "Ay! And If the old nun had boon alive, that sas poor -dandy captain, with hit boots and awkord, would hart had to sheer off. Abet, lad." " 'Stond v cesnlag Jerry -weak lug abowt nor when ho waa at sea, oh, Bart 1" "Them's tmt weree," growled tha hag. Vast. Cant ed him Intently, with his hands deep in his pockets. "It's all off, ar'n't it, mate?" said Bart, at last. "Ay, it's all off," said Abel; and there was another pause. "Think tbere'd be any chance for a man now? S'pose not," with a sigh. "You see, I'm such a hugly one, Abel, lad." "You are, Bart. There's no denying it, mate; you are." "Ay! A reg'lar right-down hugly one. But I thought as pVhaps as her heart were soft and sore, she might feel a little tort a man whose heart also was very soft and sore." "Try her, then, mate. I'll go and tell her you're here." "Nay, nay, don't do that, man." whis pered Jhs. big fellow,, hoarse!?, "I Jurat ent ask her again. It'll have to come from her this time." "Not it. Ask her. Bart. She likes you." "Ay, she likes me, bless her, and she's alius got a kind word for a fellow as wishes a 'most as be was ber dog.' "What's the good o' that, lad? 'Better be her man." "Ay, of course; but if you can't be her man, why not be her dog? She would pat your head and pull your ears; but 1 alius feels as if she'd never pat my head or pull my ears, Abel, lad; you see, I'm such a hugly one. Blubbering, eh?" "Does nothing else. She don't let me see it; but I know. She don't sleep of a night, and she looks wild and queer, as Sanderson's lass did who drowned her self. I wish I bad hold of him. I'd like to break his neck." Bart put on his cap quickly, glanced toward the inner room, where there was a sound as of someone singing mourn fully, and then in a quick, low whisper: "Why not, lad?" said be; "why not.' "Break his neck, Bart?" The big fellow nodded. "Will you join in and risk it?" "Won't ir "Then we will." said Abel. "Curse him, he's most broke her heart." 'Cause she loves him," growled Bart, thoughtfully. Yes, a silly, soft thing. She might have known." "Then we mustn't break bis neck, Abel, lad." said Bart, shaking bis bead. Then, as if a bright thought had suddenly (lash ed across his brain: "Look here. We'll wait for him, and then I ar'n't afeard of his sword we'll make him marry her." "Jou don't want him to marry her. said Abel, staring, and utilizing the time by strapping bis knife on his boot. 'Nay, I don't; but she da, poor lass," said Bart, with a sigh, "and If I can do what she wants, I will as long as I live." Ah! you always was fond of her. Bart." said Abel, slowly. "Ay, I always was, and always shall be, my lad. But look here," whispered Bart, leaning toward his companion "if he says he won't marry her, and goes and marries that fine madame will you do it?" I'll do anything you'll do, mate," said Abel, in a low voice. ' i'hen we'll make him, my lad." "Hist!" whispered Abel, as the inner door opened, and Mary entered the room, looking haggard and wild, to gaze sharply from one to the other, as if she suspect ed that they bad been making her the subject of their conversation. "How do, Mary?" said Bart, in a con sciously awkward fashion. Ah, Bart!" she said, coldly, as she gated full in his eyes till he dropped his own and moved toward the door. I'm just going to take a look at my beat, Abel, lad," he said. "Coming down the shore?" Abel nodded, and Bart shuffled out of the doorway, uttering a sigh of relief as soon as he was in the open air, and tak ing off bin flat fur cap, he wiped the drops of perspiration from his brow. "She's too much for me, somehow," he muttered, ss be sauntered down toward the shore. "I alius thought as being In love with a gel would be very nice, but it ar'n't She's too much for me." What were you and Bart Wrigley talking about?" said Mary Dell, as soon as she was alone with ber brother. You," said Abel, going on scraping bis netting needle. What about me?" All sorts o' things." What do you mean?" What do I mean? Why, you know. About your being a fool about the fine captain and his new sweetheart. Why, you might ha k no wed, Mary." "Look here, Abel, cried Mary, catch ing bim by the wrist, and dragging at it so that be started to bis feet, and they stood race to race, the stunted brother and the well-grown girl wonderfully equal in sixe, snd extremely alike in physique and air, "if you dare to talk to me again like that, we shall quarrel. "Well, let's quarrel, then." "What!" cried Mary, starting, for this was a new phase in ber brother's char acter. "I say, let's qusrrel, then," cried Abel, folding his arms. "Do you thiak I've been blind? Why, It has nearly broken poor old Bart's heart" "Abel!" "I don't care, Polly, I will apeak now. You don't like Bart," I do. lie is a good, true fellow as ever stepped, but " Yes, I know. It aren't nat'ral for you to like him as he likes you; but you're been a fool. Polly, to listen to that fine Jack-a-dandy, snd curse him; I'll half kill bim next time wt meetT Mary tried to apeak, hut har emotion choked ber. "You you don't know what you are saying," she psnted at last "Perhaps not," he said, la a low, mat tering way; "but 1 haow what I'm golag to do." "Dor she cried, reoortrlag herself, and making aa effort to regaia bar old as cendency over her brother. "I forblj yoa to do anything. You shall not inter fere." "Very well," stid the young man, with smile; and at hit sister gained strength he seemed to bo subdued. "Nothing, I tay. Any qaarral I may hart with Captain Armstroag U my af fair, and I can flght my own battle. Do yon hear?" "Tea, I bear," said Abol, going toward the door. "Ton understand I forbid It. Yon aha II not even speak to him." "Tea, I understand." said Abel, rock lag tat netting needle late hit socket, aad tkmotlag km kaltt lata Its sheath; and then, before Mary eooid call ay sam- ta apeak agaia, tat young eat of the -turn aad har- ert, stood gazing after him thoughtfully for a few minutes. Then turning and tak ! ing the seat her brother bad vacated, a - desolate look of misery came oer her handsome face, which dropped slowly into I her hands, and she sat there weeping si lently as she thought of the wedding that was to take place ti text day. (To be continued. I DANGER IN FLOWERS. Tulip and Poppies Among Those to Be Avoided. Beware how you handle lovely flow era, or inhale their arouia. Queer Dame Nature has provided a bidden sting In some of the blossoms that bloom In the spring. There fs a particular veriety of gar den flower known as obeouela. If the fluger of the gardener Is pricked by the plant there Is sure to follow a sl'yht Itching of the hands that is a prelim luary to the breaking out of an almost Incurable skiu disease. The Irritation of the cuticle generally dies away In the fall and apparently baa been got rid of by winter. But In the spring it in variably shows Itself again and. In gome cases. It baa resisted every effort to eliminate It from the system. Be cause of the risk In touching the plant, the gardener who knows his business Invariably handles It with gloves on, Tulli8 are another flower In which there Is a hidden danger. If the odor of the tulip Is inhaled for a time It pro duces lightheadedness, which Is follow ed by a feeling of deep depression. The poppy, on account of the great quantity of opium It contains, has the effect of making any one who passes through a field of tbi'se flowers feel very drowsy. In Asia Miuor. where they are grown In great quantities. It Is risky for ono unaccustomed to the odor to pass through the neighborhood. Two deaths among tourists were traced directly to visits paid to a poppy plantation. All flowers grown from bulbs should be banished from the rooms of a sick or Invalid person. It would be as much an act of kindness to present a sick person with a dose of morphine as to send a patient a bunch of lilies of the valley, tuberoses or hyacinths. The only place for these flowers Is the death cha ruber. Be careful, too, how you pluck to pieces such blossoms as begonias, rho dodendrons or peonies. If there Is a slight scratch on the fingers that handle tbee flowers carelessly. It Is probable that festering w ill follow, with a possi ble loss of the finger nails. How Savage Make Fire. It Is rather dlllk-ult for us to Imagine people who know nothing about fire, and, as a matter of fact, there are no people now on the face of the earth, n matter bow barbarous, who do not know how to make fire. We make It easily enough by striking a match, but years ago our ancestors were compelled to resort to flint teel and tinder. The forest-dwelling peoples of the further East have an odd Instrument for making fire. Near the coast every man carries a bit of crockery In the box of bamboo slung at his waist a chip off a plate and a handful of dry fungus. Holding the tinder under his thumb upon the fragment of earthen ware, he s'riks the side of the bo sharply, and the tinder takes fire. But this method can only be used by tribes which have such communication with the foreigner as supplies them with European goods. The Inland peo ple use a more singular process. Tbey carry a short cylinder of lead, hollowed roughly to a cup-like form at one end which fits a joint of bamboo. Placing this cylinder In the palm of the left hand, they fill the cup with tinder ad just the bamboo over It strike sharply, remove the covering as quickly and the Under la alight Thanks to the Pop. Smart Young Man Good morning Mr. Bullion. Mr. Bullion (Irascible old gent Cm- ahl -good morn remarkable dog yot hare with you. Ya-as; Siberian bloodhound". Terr! bly aarage; takes this ox chain to bold bim. If any one should look cross at me this dog would tear him to piece. Yes, Indeed! I'm going to have bin? killed. Tc j dangerous, you know." "I should say so!" "Ya as; must do It In the Interest ol humanity, you know. By the way, Mr Bullion, your daughter has accepted me, and I hare called to ask your con tent" Be got it London Answers. Bala?arlan Peaaanta. If he "lappem. to be pure bred from the orlglna Samoyede stock, the peaa ant la a heavily built fellow with a Kalmuk none. Hit language bat be come Slavic, which mean a language In which "beefsteak" Is "mplphteklk" and "omelet souffle" la "omlet cuphle," The Bulgarian l' a peasant or a soldier; be knows no other trade, Aa a farmer the ttreeo are all In all to him, food and clothing and companionship. Ht II vet In a hovel, doaa not understand wby b should be taxed, and make hit women slave In the Held. He I called closo- flsted, cburllab and suspicious, but hat some of tba virtues that often go with those qualities. Irresponsible. "Who la the responsible man In thli finnf naked tbt brusque visitor. "I don't know who the responsible party la," ana wared the aad, cynical office boy "bat I la tU a who It alwaya to blame." It keep many a poor wife busy keep rag bar husband Indoors, and It keep many a eoor nua boay keeping hit wlft la bassets. It as far to keep tba ordinary waif fraaa tmt aw (mis It la la ket-s fcMfiventiori The electric automobile can be stop Ted and started without any annoying jrel im ina ries, and Is far simpler to jperate than any other type of horse less vehicle. The most effective arrangement for prolonging the life of electric arc lamps xmsists of a chamber, or cylindrical body, around the pencil ends, which prevents the access of air. At the scientific ballooning conference in Berlin, Alexander Insisted that iiu unmanned balloon could be sent fifty miles and returned to starting point, iteered only by Hertzian waves. United States Consul Hughes at Co burg reports that the Gorman navy and ionic manufacturers are using a new fuel called "masut" an oily product from German brown coal. The coast defense vessels are fitted fur the use of this oil, and some battleships and cruisers are arranged so that they can use both coal and musut. Masut Is said to have one-fourth greater beat-producing power than coal, and Is easier to handle, as It Is necessary only to open a valve lu order to till the furnace. Pure blue light is the new consump tion cure with which 0. Kaiser la ex perimenting In Germany. The rays from an arc lamp concentrated through a lens containing methylene blue de stroyed tubercle bacilli In about thirty minutes, and, as the printing of a pho tographic positive proved the passage of the rays through the human body, It was shown to be possible to reach the bacilli lu the lungs, and to kill them all with blue light, in two advanced cases of the disease great Improvement re sulted In six days. Sir Howard Grubb, the celebrated Irish telescope-maker, has Invented a new form of telescopic sight for use with a rifle. Neither fore nor back sight is employed with this contrivance, but the shooter, lu taking aim, looks through a small lens which, by an optical device, throws an Image of a bright little cross In front of the gun and in line with the barrel. This Image serves as a fore sight, and by simply holding the center of the cross upon the object aimed at, the marksman takes his aim. The In vention la shown at the Glasgow exhi bition. Alligators, according to the late Prof. Cope, beloug to a much more modern genus than that of their cousins, the crocodiles. No undoubtedly extinct spe cies of alligator has ever been discov ered by geologists, but those animals are fast being exterminated at the present day on account of the value of their bides. Align tors are found lu China, as well as In North America; the crocodile exists In Africa, southern Asia and northern Australia. The crocodile dif fers from the alligator In preferring salt water to fresh, and being more vicious in its disposition. Nearly every shop in Japan for the sale of foreign goods Is furnished with a sign In a foreign language. No muiter whether the language is Intelligible, If It U only In foreign characters that Is enough. Many of these signs are a study: "The all countries boot and shoe small or fine wares." "Old Curious.'' "Horseshoe maker Instruct by French horse leech." "Cut hair shop." "If you want sell watch, I will buy. If you want buy watch 1 will sell. Yes, sir, we will, all will. Conic at my shop. Watch maker." "Hatter native country." "Au tomatic of Naum-u Marina." "The lions,' build for the manufacture of all and best kinds of hats and caps." THE BUTTERFLY EXPERIMENT. Get a bottle with a wide opening and close It with a cork in which a glass funnel la inserted. Close all crevices with shellac Fill the bottle half-way with water. In which you drop the two powders belonging to a seldllts powder. Tbe carbonic acid gas generated tries to escape through the funnel But by placing two or three small balls made of cork In tbe funnel, the gas can es cape only a little at a time, as one or tbt other of tbe little balls will keep tbe opening of tbe funnel closed, until tbe pressure of tbe gas becomes strong enough to force the ball up. In aucb a way a part of the ga-s escapes, tbe pres sure it relieved, and another closes up the funnel opening. This will keep on until all the gas is exhausted. This experlnment can be mado more effective by painting tbt balia lo differ ent colon. Or you make butterfly wlnga of tissue paper, which yoa can color and fasten to the balls, aa shown la tha Uluttraton. Fme from Headache. Headache rarely aasaU tha Bedouin Arab. They are nnarly all small oat era, and alx or aeven datea soaked la melted butter with a very small quan tity of coarse flour or three or four tablespoon Tula of boiled ilea terra a whole day. Wbaa a sua disappear It Bust eat bias gmt sates la amoat to read Is bjbT tova that fete family It PAGAN RITES IN SCOTIA, Many Fcottlsb Custom that Orll anted in baperstitloa. Nearly' all travelers in central Afrlct have referred to the curious customi prevalent among all pagan native trlbei of driving quantities of nails into sa cred trees and other objects that havi been adjudged worthy of veneration, and this not lu malice, but as a religion! rite, the nails In question being Intend ed as votive offerings. Exactly the sam thing may be witnessed to-day at tb sacred well of St. Maebruba, In Loci Maree, Rossshlre, where Is an ancient oak tree studded with countless nalli of all sizes, the offerings of Invalid phV jfr'.ms. who came to . worship and .b. cured, says a writer in Stray Stories. Pennies and half-pennies also are ti be seen In enormous quantities drlvei edgewise in the tough bark, and I friend of tbe writer's who visited tbt spot some little time back discovered In a cleft high up In the trunk what h took to be a shilling. On being extract ed, however. It proved to be countee felt. Probably the donor, finding that he could get no value for his coin li the naturul world, concluded he might as well try, as a lust resort, what effeo it might have on tbe spiritual. Of course, the poor cottars and otb ers who flock to St Maebruba will their nails and their pence do not for I moment admit that tbey are asslstlni at a pagan ceremony. But they moe undoubtedly are. Well worship has al ways occupied an Important place 1 paganism, and the sacred oak, btefor which each pilgrim must thrice knee ere humbly presenting his offering what la it but an obvious survival ot the sacred groves of Druldlcal times? THE ri!N OF CAMPING OUT. More and more popular Is camp llfi becoming each year, says Country Lift In America. With those who go Lnti the deep woods In quest of big gam and fish the camp life Is, after all, tht real attraction, and not the mere da sire to kill. But where one can main these trips there are thousands wh cannot For these there are peacefu rivers, wood-girt lakes and ponds an beautiful spots on the shores of OU Neptune available for quite as charm Ing a two-weeks' outing beneath can vas. In making up a camping party choose you such congenial spirits ai shall be foresrworn to philosophies optimism. And let there be a wag among them who, catching the humor of every sit uation, puts to flight all thought ol discomfort. A level site near a sptini with plenty of shade, a pleasant sbee of water with good fishing, pine bought for a bed and driftwood for a fire and who would trade his life for I king's patrimony? How delicious tin futh flavored with the pungent tmok of the fire! How rarely satisfying thi simple bill of fare, and bow few, afta all, are the needs of this life! Youn is the Joy and happy freedom of tn gypsy and vagabond. You have be come a species of civilized barbarian and It Is good. SuuKhlne or shower what matters It? You take what comes and give thanks, and If you an of the right sort some of the beaut; of each la absorbed into your ver nature. Long days, lazy days, but hap py days, ore the days In camp. Ilaj and mishap will don the jester's ca and bells and parade through meoiorj many a time during the after months BANKRUPTS IN tlVERY. Cnrloua Laws Once Enforced in La aland and Scotland. At one time England and Scotland bankrupts were com pell led to wear I distinctive dress. This was a result of enactments pasxed at various times In Scotland from the year 1000 to 1088 The Edinburgh Court of Sessions sped fled the dress to be of parti-color, ono half yellow and the other brown, soin thing after the style of the dress now worn in English prisons by the worst class of prisoners, those who have at tempted to escape or been guilty a murderous assaults on officers. Tb enactment also provided that the bank rupt should be exhibited publicly la th market place of hit town for a perlo of two hours and then sent away, ooa demned to wear the dreaa until tacl time aa be had paid his debts or eom one else bad done It for bim. Although this waa a period of mm which can only be described aa feaw cloua, this law waa aucb an outragi on public sentiment that la 1088 It wu to far repealed that the wearing of tb dreaa waa only compulsory la anas In which fraud bad been proved, ot cuiioutly enough, If the bankrupt bat been convicted of amuggllng. Ttu same practice was legal, but not gen erally In force In England down to tbt year 1830. The Idea waa, of ooaraa, to warn persona who might have glvtf credit that the bankrupt waa not ablt to pay, but popular sentiment toon tao ognlxed that It waa wholly unfair U oipote excessive penaltlea oa a mai who might have become bankrupt through no fault of hla own, and, ai usual, when the law became aaotrax) to public feeling It ceased to be op era live. Higher than a King. "I bare played card enough to bo come fairly familiar with wblat aiangi aid ont American financier, "bat I 'ton't quite tee wby yoa refer to si ct at a Plerpont Morgan. " "Because," replied tbe other, -If bigger than a king." Loadoa , Aeoordlng to atstlatlca, est of aast 1.000 people is tore tlxtaea bieiax topeJaaaly laaaae. Tbe ether til aj 4 tlatr to fan ft Mat a4Optofc sly tif iBttUy t at - i .