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UNMBSKING By Pi.OVO WHITE. [Copyright, 19oj, by Dotty Story Publishing Cotnpany.] It was, then, to bo a marriage of con venience. The Girl resented it from the uttermost depths of her nature. "I have been a siave for all these years,’’ she cried, ‘ with no word of love from parent or kindred. I have been faithful and obedient, and now that I am through, I must marry n man whom I never saw, with never « chance to know whether there Is any body else whom I prefer to marry, it is wrong and cruel and I hate it—yes, 1 hate It, and I hate you wiio are con spiring to cheat me out of a chance to be happy.” "But. Myrtle, dear, have we not all done all we could for you and are we not trying to arrange it so you will make a happy marriage?” asked her aunt in aggrieved voice. “Oh, yes, you are all wrapped up in my happiness.” replied the girl sar castically. “I can see that. If I un derstand the situation correctly my father left ample means for my educa tion and maintenance—yes, and a goodly dower on top of it all. I have not questioned your stewardship of tb money and 1 will not unless you try to make me miserable. Then I will fight—so I will.” But you never have seen air. Mon tague,” replied her aunt, trying with the tact for which she was famous, to smooth over this threatened breach. "Why make your decision until you see him. He is a3 handsome as a pic ture, of one of the very best families, has plenty of money, nnd is the son of your father's dearest friend.” “All that is what makes me hate him so cordially." cxc'aimed the girl. "You all seem not to he able to under stand that a girl mny have ideals and desires wholly Independent of the friendships and alliances of the gen eration before.” Then she continued, passionately. "You have shut me up In a convent all my life. I know noth ing of the world, its joys, excitements and sorrows. And now you propose t<> order all my life to come without giv ing me the tiniest bit of a chance to choose for myself.” “Why, child, we are acting for your good only,” answered her aunt, gently. ”Wha_ experience have you had that would fit you to make a choice that would affect all your future?" “And why not?” asked the Girl scornfully. “You have used the au tuority given you in my father’s will to keep me shut up in a convent all my life until I know nothing of the real things of the world. And now that I am barely out of prison you want to select a husband for me and settle my life for all time. I tell you It Is not fair and I will not stand it." "But Tillson Montague Is esteemed the handsomest young man of the younger set. and Is distinctly eligible, of good habits, old family, ample for tune. and a great favorite in society.” “Why, you little ingrate,” contin ued Aunt Eleanor, with Indignation. “After all the thought given this mat ter In order to find the very best man suitable for you—to act in that way. It is scandalous—” and Aunt Eleanor sought refuge in tears. Before anything could happen the bell rang and Mr. Tillson Montague was announced. Aunt Eleanor rallied at once, and said hurriedly: “Now don’t, for pity’s sake, do any thing rash that, will drive him away. At least wait until you have a chance to become acquainted with him. And so presently they swept into the parlor to greet Mr. Tillson Mon tague, designed by the decree of Myr tle’s aunt and Montague's mother to become the husband of the young heiress. Myrtle was silenced hut not convinc ed—far from It, was demonstrated “You are conspiring to cheat me out of a chance to he happy." when, after the introduction had been duly accomplished, she led him sweet ly to the conservatory, and having gotten him Into a corner opened up the entire situation. “I guess you are a very nice man— everybody tells me so," she said, “but I do not love you a little bit, and never could. I would hate you for the fact that I don’t believe you could help yourself in this pickle. Now let's be good friends, but marry whom we please." The young man emerged at once from his apparent lassitude. "By Jove, you're a brick!” he ex claimed cordially. "Hanged if I want to be disinherited or anything of that sort—but hanged if I want to marry a girl I never have seen. By jove—i beg your pardon, you know, but I mean—that is, 1 mean—that is | don’t mean-” “I understand,” she Interrupted, merrily. "Ami I guess we understand ecch other all right. We will be good friends, but they can’t make us marry, can they?” “Never,” he replied. fervently. “Why. hang it all. I want my fling first, don’t you know.” “And I, too,” she replied. “And I need it more than you because I hav; spent all my life in a convent." And so they parted. Now it happened that Myrtle was a full blooded little creature, with all the spirit that her full, ripe lips and clear, red cheeks indicated. And all her life she had been shut up la a convent with no vent for her ardent young animal spiritsexcoptingthrough the medium of her imagination—fed only by surreptitious reading of smug “I do not love you a little bit.” gled novels. But that was sufficient to people the young mind with knights and lovers and champions galore. And it came to pass that the great Masquerade Ball of the Sons of the Seventh Daughters was held soon after Myrtle came home. It was to be a swell affair, and Myrtle was crazy to go. But Aunt Eleanor was horrified and vetoed the bare suggestion. Then the spirit of the dead father arose in the daughter and Myrtle re solved to go whether or no. And she did. It took plenty of scheming and—alas, some lying, but she went that day to spend a couple of days witu a girl friend, and arranged with her so she could slip in upon her return. Of course it was a very naughty and a very dangerous thing ror a girl to do—and especially a young girl just out of a convent, but only such a one would have the nerve to attempt it. She appeared as a lady of the Eliza bethan period, and was one of the striking figures of the ball. No soon er had she appeared than a Knight of the Crusades approached her and paid violent court. He was a most persist ent knight and was not to be satisfied with one dance, but haunted the Eliza bethan Lady most ardently. And he was good to look upon and most de voted and princely In his manner, and Myrtle's blood ran through her veins as it never had before. This, forsooth, was life. Marry Tilison Montague? Never. She would find a knight of her own who would choose her for her own charms, and not because mamma3 and aunts and dead people had willed it—and she went whirling off on an other delicious waltz with Sir Knight. All too quick it came to an end —as all things do, even a girl's first ball. And when the time for unmask ing came he was standing before her. begging for the next dance. "Ah, my Lady, I am at last to see your race, ne exciaimeu. “No. no." she replied hastily, “really 1 cannot unmask. Please take me to the dressing room.” He offered his arm. expostulating all the time that it was his privilege to see the face of the lady who had permitted him to be her knight all the evening, and who had become the mis tress of his heart. But she was ob durate and they started toward the dressing room. Alas, for the honesty of man—he guided her, not to the dressing-room at all. but to a cosy corner, far from the throng drunk with the excitement and surprises of the unmasking. ' Fair Lady.” said he, “T am but hu man. I am inad with the intoxication of your presence. If I do not see your face. if you escape mo now I will spend all my life in a fruitless search for you. You are the one wo man in the world for me and I can not let you escape." “Oh. please do not. ’ she cried, throwing up her hands to protect her mask from his threatening hands. “You must know that I have no right to be here; 1 am promised to another.” “And so am I,” he responded trium phantly. "and that’s why we are both here—to escape a bondage we hate. Ah. this is a dispensation of provi dence. I will protect you from any at tempt to force an unwilling lover upon you—any lover but me—If you will let me, dear.” And with a bold move be torr, off both masks. There were two quick gasps of surprise, for there, face to face stood Myrtle Vernon and Tillson Montague. The girl was the first to recover. ”A comedy of errors.’ she exclaimed, shrieking with laughter, not unmlxed, however, with vexation. He gazed at her a moment with open mouth and staring eyes. Then a warm flush came ox\,r his features and he said: I “Yes, a comedy of errors—but all I have said goes If you will have It so Can T be your Knight forever and ever—despite the fool plans of mam mas and aunts?" She leaned forward and he gathered her in his arms "Not 'A Comedy of Errors,’ he exrlaimed triumphantly, "tut ‘All’s Well that Ends Well.’” CLAIM SOME WONDERFUL CURES The Sun Hath ami fresh Air for Con sumptives. At a sanitarium for the treatment of tuberculosis established near Ply mouth, Maas., the patients live in lit tle shacks, about twelve feet square, of which three sides are constructed of wood, the fourth side consisting of a screen, which is pulled down only in rainy weather. The main features of the open-air treatment is the sun bath. On the top of the sanitarium proper, which was once a colonial residence, a large open space has been arranged having a glass roof and fitted with cots and lattice work. Here the patients are compelled to lie naked for a certain length of time every day, turning their bodies about so that they may receive on each part the direct rays of the sun. The whole cuticle of each patient is soon as tanned as are the neck and arm3 of a summer yachtsman. Follow ing the sun bath, the patient is made to undergo a needle bath, the tempera ture of which is regulated by the op erator, ending with a sluicing down with colil water at a forced high pres sure. A rubdown comes next, leaving the whole skin in a glow, and then the patient is dressed and sent outdoors. Very little medicine is given, the bill of fare is liberal and the patients are permitted to eat almost anything they fancy. A large vegetable garden is connected with the sanitarium. Pa tients are not allowed to visit one an other in their rooms, and the rule against expectoration is rigidly en forced. This institution is not intend ed for advanced cases, but merely for incipient ones, which the managers declare can be treated In such a man ner as to put new vigor into the pa tient and send him home with re newed interest in life. AMUSING EXCUSES FOR CHILDREN Jase Kicked by A Cow aud Henry Is Treated to a Funeral. Teachers who require written excus es for tardiness from parents of pu pils sometimes receive very amusing notes. Here are i few specimens from a number received some time ago: “Dear Sir, please excuse James for lateness. I kneaded him after break fast.” A second note reads: ‘‘Please forgive Billy for being tardy. I was mending his coat.” The third excuse goes more into details: “Mister sir.my Jason had to be late to-day. It is his bizness to milk our cow. She kicked Jase In the back to-day when he wasn't looking or thinking of her actin’: so he thot his back was broke, but it ain’t. But it is black and blue, and the pane kept him late. We would get rid of the cow if we could. This is the fourth time she kicked Jase, but never kicked him late before. So ex cuse him for me. A girl absent for half a day brought the following excuse: “Miss teecher— My dotter’s absents yesterday was un avoidable. Her shoes had to be half soled, and she had a sore-throte. Her konstitusliun is delicate and if she is absent any more you can know that it is on account of unavodabel sick ness or something else.” A boy ab sent for half a day laid the following explanation on the master’s desk: desk: “Dear sir. please excuse Henry. He went to grandpapa’s funeral with me this forenoon. 1 have.been prom ising him for several weeks that l.e might if he was good, and he has been very good, so I kept my word.” Story of Wine Dog. Sir Walter Scott tells of one of his dogs that one day furiously attacked the baker and was with great difficulty called off. But as the dog observed tke baker conjing every day to leave bread for the family, he began to re gard l'.im in a more favorable light, and in time the dog and the baker be came great friends. One day Sir Walter was telling somebody how the dog had attacked the baker, and as soon as he began the story the dog skulked into the corner of the room, turned his face to the wall, hung down his ears and lowered his tail and displayed every sign of being heartily ashamed of himself. But when he came to the end of his story, and said, “But Tray didn’t bite the baker,” the dog turned around, jumped and frisked about, and was evidently quite restored to his own good opinion. To try the dog, Scott repeated the story in a different tone of voice in the midst of the con versation. but it was always the same. Directly he began the clog crept into the corner, but when he caaie to “But Tray didn't bite the baker,” he always capered back in triumph. Emigrants front Ireland. The capacity of Ireland for sending out emigrants has been one of the marvels of the world. During 1901 the Island sent out 39,870 emigrants, or 9 In every 1,000 of population, of whom 80.5 per cent were between the ages of 15 and 35. Even this large total is some 7,000 smaller than that of 1900. A l arge Contract. Little Howard Green, on returning from his first visit to Sunday school, said to his mother: "Mamma, does God watch me all the time?” "Yes, my son," she answered. “Well," said Howard, "then what Is he doing with the other people wliile he 13 watching me?" THOUGHTS THAT ARE FATAL Unreasoning Fear ot Disease One of the Evils of the Present Day. How many people realize the bane- I fill, often fatal. Influence of unhealthy thoughts? How many know that ordinary un reasoning fear of disease may he as deadly as an inoculation of poisonous germs? Yet this is an established fact. Physicians are coming more and more | to recognize the power of the mind j over the body, and almost every prac titioner will admit that a large part of his work is the use of mental sug gestion in overcoming morbid bodily conditions. Every one has noted the influence of a cheery personality in the sick room. One physician by his sunny confidence and cleverly turned assurances will seem actually to impart new strength and tone to the diseased body. An other physician with a solemn, gloomy countenance and demeanor suggestive of an undertaker will strangely de press and retard the patient. And the same is true of one's own thoughts. In fact, it is hardly too much to say that every thought lias its effect on the condition of the body. Imagination can give one almost any disease on the calendar. It is said that there is the germ of fatal thought in ninety-nine persons out of every hundred, nnd that the cul tivation of optimism and philosophy is practically a universal r.® ssity. There have occurred scorei of dozens of cases where healthy persons have thought themselves into having tu mors and cancers—cases which admit of no doubt whatever that the diseases resulted from constant morbid fear. We should have fewer cases of cancer if some great doctors could assure the world that it is not a hereditary dis ease; but morbid-minded persons on hearing that there is cancer in their families, generally do the very worst thing they can do under the circum stances—they conceive an awful dread that they will be afflicted with it. They dwell upon the fear constantly; and every trifling ailment which troubles them is at first taken for the premonitory symptoms of cancer. The morbid condition of mind produces a morbid condition of body, and if the disease does happen to lie in the sys tem it receives every encouragement to develop. A melancholy thought that fixes itself upon one's mind needs as much "doctoring" as physical disease; it needs to lie eradicated from the mind, or it will have just the same result as a neglected disease would have. FIRST ENGLISH DAILY Example of Wonderful Advance in Journalism in Two Hundred Years. The first English daily paper was is sued two hundred years ago last month. It was the Dally Courant. which was published next door to the King's Arms Tavern at rieethrldge, London, on the thoroughfare that is still the headquarters of English jour nalism. There were no cable messages or telegraph reports for the Courant. In coming ships did not report 400 miles off the coast by wireless telegraphy. There was no organized news service, covering the whole civilized world and furnishing the most iutimate details of the world’s news on the day that it occurred. Such a thing as a foreign corre spondent had never been thought of. and the modern perfecting press, with its output of many thousands of many-paged newspapers an hour, was as undreamed of as Marconi's span ning of the Atlantic with his tele graphic ether vibrations. Instead, the Courant consisted of but a single sheet of the size of a halt sheet of foolscap or deed paper, and was printed only on one side. There was no editorial comment and no ad vertisements. The sole source cf foreign news was the Continental pa pers. principally those of Paris, and credit W3S always given to the paper, “for an assurance that we will not, under pretense of having private in telligence, impose any addition of feigned circumstances to an action." The most modern thing about the Courant was its effort at accuracy. At that time various weekly papers were In existence, but their news was of no untenable a character that the jour nals became a byword for inaccuracy. The Courant scorned these methods and the evils of subsidized comment, and. in Its clean character as well as In Its very existence, opened a new era in new3 dissemination. The porprietor of the Courant was one E. Mallet, and it w'as he that first showed the practicability of his own excellent conception of a clean news paper. Samuel Buckley bought the Courant on April 23, 1702, and added advertisements, consisting chiefly of announcements of new books, such as “A Modest Inquiry Concerning the Opinion of Guardian Angels.” Time and tide wait for no man—and a woman is always behind time. REAL TREASURE CAVE Underground Chamber with Walls of Gold and Covered with Sparkling Crystals. k A remarkable cave has been discov ered at the Abbey mine, near Kendall. Fergus county, Mont. The cave is about 130 feet long, part of it being at an angle of 43 degrees and part per pendicular to the formation. Another unusual feature is that it la found in an immense ore body. The main chamber of the cave pre rents a beautiful appearance, portions of the wall being decorated with masses of crystallized lime and sili ca. while from the lofty roof hang in numerable scintillating stalactites. On the floor of tiie care are hundreds of tons of cyanide gold ore, as rich as any found in the mine proper, averag ing about $2o a ton, and one side of the cave is formed by the foot wall of tfce ore body. The miners were drifting to con nect witn the main ore body, and at the end of the shift one evening last week set off the final blasts for the day. Returning the next morning, they discovered that the drift had been connected with a large cave, and preparations were at once made to explore it. Thousands of crystal pendants, some as white as alabaster, others with a golden tint, seemed to be try ing to outsparkle one another in the candle light. The walls, in places, glistened with their beautiful deco rations. From this beautiful crystal palace the explorers proceeded to the low er chamber. Three ladders were lashed together and lowered Into the hole, but it was found that they were too short by at least forty feet. The chamber is about eighteen feet square, and its walls perpendicular, as though squared by expert marble cutters. Its color is that of the na tive rock, a lime formation. It is a characteristic of this care that the brilliant white crystal deco rations have gold ore as a back ground, which serves to enhance their beauty. In picking off specimens the soft ore comes with them, and, as a rule, the crystallization is but a thin covering to the ore. The shortest way to honesty is around expediency. j BOY’S IDEA OF HIS SWEETHEART ! An Dainty * Compliment On© Coaid Detire* A young matron who lives in a Washington apartment house with her little daughter is viewing with grea: interest a courtship going on unde1* her very eyes. The daughter, Naorni, is the most engaging, dignified and dutiful little girl of 11 ever seen in that part of the city across the creek So she has been taken by her mother to call upon a great many older per sons. and has made the acquaintance of numerous boys of fifteen or there abouts. Not long ago one of these boys came to see his friend's mother very formally and aut and talked w;th her until the tensity of a formal call nearly burst his jacket. Then he arose and with a polite bow asked for a portrait of the little girl. The matron demurred, of course. “Well,’ said the young suitor, “if you will give me a good picture of Naomi I will give you back a pictur I have already. It isn’t a good one at all. But I'll give it buck to you for a better one." The mother ivas greatly mystified. She decided after awhile that the boy has photographed her little girl on the g]y. and in order to find out she ;ent him word that she would make the exchange. Next day there came to her door a tong box with a note on the outside. ‘ I am greatly privileged to send you Naomi’s picture," read the note. ‘‘It isn’t half as pretty as it ought to be." The young matron opened the box curiously, says the Washington Star, and looked at its contents a long time without saying a word. It held a sin gle American beauty rose. Senator !I»nna'» WUh. A friend who was lunching with Senator Hanna recently said to him: ‘‘Senator, you have abundant wealth, a happy home and have been highly honored by your fellow-citizens, but don't you at times wish for something more?” "Ye3, I have a wish similar to one expressed by an ancient Roman." said Hanna. ‘‘I wish that I might eat what I please and make some Demo j > rat digest it.” it is the demands, not the promises, that make men of us; the responsi bilities. not the enjoyments, that raise us to the stature of men and women. -P. T. Forsyth. Heavy Betting Thia Year. ^ A well known New York betting mnn. who keens track of every bet of consequence, said the other day that at least $2,000,000 lias beeu wagered on the election in that city. Mont of this has heen bet on the general re sult, but more bets upon results in states have been made than usual. Of this fully $1,000,000 has been put up in Wall street alone. There Is less Bryan money in sight at present than at anyr time during the last four months. TIIF REST KE8PI.TS IN STARCH I NO can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oss more for eame money—no cooking required. “Foreign Cow Dairy. A notice board has just been erected on shore near to the naval anchorage at Woosung China, with the following information: "We open at Woosung, on the south of the Telegraph Com pany, for sale the Foreign Milk, the taste are sweet, the Milk are pure, the Price are just. We have not put any water in it. If examine out won t pay single cash. If you want to buy it you will know the Foreign Cow Chop. No. 1 Milk, Yi Pingshan Dairy." Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red (Toss Hall Blue Burge 2 02. package. ."> cent's. A bird in the hand is permissible— if you. have no knife and fork. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spokpn of a* a cough euro.—J. W. OHiuF.n, 222 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis. Mum., Jan. fi, DUO. The Greatest Organ. The man who Is putting n°w pipes in ttie organ of the Mormon Taber- -y^ narle at Salt Lake City, Utah, was told that many oid Salt leakers were weeping over the fact that the organ was being remodeled, and replied: “They will weep that they did weep when once they bear the new instru ment." He claims that it will b<> the greatest instrument in America when the present work is completed. All SutTfriri From IlhriiinntlRtn should try MATT J JOHNSON'S 5081 Guarantor goes with It. Try it. If a man is a wit he says things; il' he is a humorist he writes them. Mrs. Winslow'* Soothing Hyrtip. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces In flammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. £>c a bottle. When a woman argues the very best she can do is to convince herself. Concentrated Common Sense — Using Hamlin's Wizard Oil. It drives away ail pain instantly. The mornings seem to be getting up earlier of late. S'JO A WKI-.K AND F.XFFNSKH to men with rig to introduce our Poultry goods. Send alp. Juvelle Mfg Lo .ltept U.PaisoUs.Kan. Sweetening one's coffee is the first stirring event of the day. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. The example of today will rank as a precedent tomorrow. BU M SCK STA KCH should be In eve~v household, none so good, besides 4 oz more tor 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. History in Stage Pictures. ^ The beautiful play of "Nathan Hale," rendered with the sfkill and per fection of detail which characterize its presentation here, offers an op portunity such as is rarely afforded in stage pictures for bringing to the at tention of school children, as well as to ordinary theater goers, salient events of Revolutionary history. The story of the "patriot spy” Is calculated to inspire the youthful listener with pride and love of country, entertain ing him absorbingly meanwhile. Nsw York's Heavy i axpayere. Frederick W. Vanderbilt heads the list of New York's wealthy men as sessed for personal property. His as sessment is a round $2.G00,000, which, at the prevailing rate of .0231 on the dollar, would make his next tax hill 54G.200. Those assessed for Jl.OuO.OOO are William K. Vanderbilt, Alice CL Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Still, these figures are not particularly illuminating as showing how much the persons thus taxed are worth. Some parents use their children to hang old clothes on. Interesting if True—But it Isn’t A recent statement by an English admiral that a spirit made in Switzer land from the European mountain ash, or rowan berry, has the power to destroy the memory, and that jelly made from the same fruit has a sim- w ilar effect, suggests an origin for the ^ old stiperstitition that the rowan tree has the power to scare evil spirits. Hut liquors and preserves were long ago made from the red rowan berry, and in some parts of the world the fruit is dried and ground into flour for bread. No Chinee for niin. "Now that we are engaged." said the fair young thing, “I will tell you that I do not fear mice.” That is nice,” said the prospective groom. “And," continued the fiancee, "I can drive nails without hitting my thumb, and I know how to U30 a paper cut ter without ruining a book; and I can add a row of figures without making a separate sum for each consecutive figure; and I can build a fire; and I can teil when a picture is huug straight on the wall." Here the man drew himself up with much dignity and sorrow and cried: "Then I cannot marry you, alas!** "Why?” gasped the girl. "What prospect is there for my ever* being able to demonstrate the supe riority of man over woman if I marry a woman who possesses such traits of character as you?” Few persons are as easily fooled by others as they are by themselves. ^ The man who loves his wife’s re lations is as blessed as he Is scarce.