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■’ ' ■ ■- 1 She captured my heart when I met her. By her form s rythmic, willowy sw iv. Though her nose would perhaps have been better I Were it not so pronounced retrosse. But really, on closer Inspection. When that imp Cupid's eye dazzled mine. ’Twas a different kind of projection. And appeared to have grown aquiline. Alas! though, since I have been jilted. With a frivolous laugh and a shrug. Her r.ose toward the clouds more is tilted. And appeals quite decidedly jug. —Peter Johnson in New York Herald. (Copyright. 1905. by Daily Story Pub. Co.! Christine hummed softly to herself as she mixed the flour and butter to a pie-crust thickness. The soft, sum mer breeze came through the win dow, loosening the rippling locks of her squirrel-colored hair. Her peach like cheeks were flushed, and her blue eyes were dancing in the felicitation of her meditations. “And Rob comes home to-day!” she mused. “I wonder if four years have charged him much—three years at an eastern college and one year abroad can do so much for a man. And what have four years done for me except to make me twenty instead of six teen?” She sighed as she thought of her few advantages, and plunged her hands anew into the soft, white, cling ing dough. “And there is such a difference in our conditions of life and those of the Thornleys,” she continued in her rem iniscence, picturing the big stone house on the hill with its sweep of lawn, driveways, and its retinue of servants. “Our little home will seem so crude to him, though he used to stay here more than he did at his own home, but of course he was only a boy then, and wouldn't notice things as now after his four years in a world of fashionable folks. I wonder if he’ll be blase and bored? No!” she con cluded. contradicting the thought. “Rob could not change from the frank, impetuous, boyish fellow he always was. And I will see him to-night at the fete at his house,” and she smiled happily, thinking of the shimmering, white dress she was to wear. Christine ever combined comfort with cooking. She did her baking, or made her preparations for baking, rot in the heated kitchen, but in a little room that opened into a latticed porch. All conveniences, materials and utensils were in eacy reach. tinued. ignoring the interruption, “and not so jesting as yours. He combs his hair differently—” “ 'Pon my word! you must have ob served Rob very closely, and you must have kept his lineaments in your mem ory remarkably, well.” The pink flush that crept over Chris tine’s face was most delicious and fascinating to watch. “Why, you see. he was over here every day since I can remember up to four years ago, and since then he has sent me pictures of himself at frequent intervals, but why didn't he come down with you?” / . Came up to him, smiling. “Why, we only arrived a couple of hours ago, and his mother wanted him to superintend the decorations for ; to-night, so he suggested that I come down and see if you would not mis j take me for him—but oh, is that the way you do it?” he asked as she fitted the dough to the tins and trim med off the .superfluous edges. “Didn't you ever see a pie made be : Tore?” “Not in years. What are you going to put in it?” "Cherries.” "My favorite pie! May I stay to luncheon?” “These are for dinner to-night.” “Ana I can’t come down then,” he said in such aggrieved tones, that Christine laughed and went to one of the shelves and took down a little patty-pan. “I’ll make you a little pie all for your own, and you can take it home with you.” “Really?” he asked in delighted tones, watching her prepare it. She put it with the larger ones in the oven and then began the making of a salad dressing. When the pie was pronounced “done,” he ruefully declared that he must depart. “They told me they needed my help and I was not to stay but a minute. That reminds me, Rob said to ask you to save him the first and last waltzes.” “Tell him I will.” “If you give him two, I think you might be as generous with me. Will you give me two?” “I will give you one ” she replied demurely. “And will you come early to-night?” he asked eagerly. “Yes, I am anxious to see Rob.” Throughout the day her thoughts were as much with the handsome cousin as with her old schoolfellow. When Mr. and Mrs. Thornley and their son Rob stood in receiving at titude in the doorway that night, one of the late arrivals was Christine, a slender, graceful girl in white. Rob felt himself invaded by a thrill as she came up to him, smiling. “Christine, will you forgive the joke? I was piqued at your not rec ognizing me. and so I said I was John Stanley, who, by the way, is not here. And to think that you were so easily misled!” “Rob, you silly! John Stanley and I met but a month ago, when I was visiting his aunt.” “And you knew all the time! Chris tine, I wouldn’t have thought it of you! Anyway, I get the waltzes you saved for me and the one you prom ised John Stanley. She transferred the dough from the mixing bowl to the board, and had just begun to roll it into flatness when there was a knock at the open door behind her. She turned and saw a good-looking. well-groomed young man regarding her with admiring, mischievous eyes. They continued looking at each other in siler.ee for a few seconds and then he said: “Aren't you Christine Wcndon?” “Yes,” she replied, “but I do not recall—” “What! Have you forgotten me— your old friend Rob Thornley!” he ex claimed reproachfully. She smiled inured ’lously. ‘You are not Rob Thornley, though I admit there is a s»rone resemblance. You tnu"* b? r -elhtive.” “You are right, Miss ^'rrdon. I am John Stan’e”, Rob's cousin. We are frequeni’y mistaken for each other even by th** people who know us well. He suggested that I come down and cee if you would be deceived.” “I am glad to meet you. Mr. Stan ley,” she said, “and I am sorry that I cannot r.bandon my pie at the present stage ot its existence. If you will please go through the house to the sitting-room, or around the house to the porch, I will join you as soon as 1 can.” “But T prefer to stay here.” he re plied. pleadingly. — “I rang the bell, and no one responded, *o 1 investigat ed the kitchen precincts, as you see. Can’t I stay and watch you make pies? We shouldn't be formal, you know, as long as I ain a cousin of Rob’s, and ho and you such friends." “Very well. Will you please get a chair from the kitchen?” “No. i like this one,” he replied, seating "himself on the broad sill of the window, and watching her deftly “thin the crust." He thought that she was very cool and dainty-looking Does It Pay? The nervous man had just met his friend, who for some months past had been in retirement for his health. “I have sometimes thought It might be a good thing for a man to go away for awhile,” he said, “and to get cured perhaps of habits that were gaining too strong a hold on him. I changed my opinion on the second part of that proposition, however, after I had an evening with a friend of mine who had just come back from a (bourse of treat ment. | “We were together In a cafe for an hour or more. During all that time he would, of course, not take a drink. Such a thing never occurred to him. But he would take some coffee. I think I had two highballs while we talked. I know he had seven pots of black coffee. There didn't seem to be much doubt that he had gotten over one habit. He had acquired an other, however, that made it seem a stand-off whether he had gained by change ’* . : j*.' ' J ■ 6rK---Jp£' ... • — -• il—-■r.wj,l: " '' ■ T “And Rob comes home to-day!” In the blue ruffled Gretchen apron, ■with the sleeves rolled up to her dim pled elbows. He liked, too, the per fect little air of unconcern she showed at the intrusion of a stranger. “What made you so sure I was not Rob?” he asked curiously. She reflected a moment. “I just felt it," she replied, “when you just spoke, and then though the resemblance is there, there is a dif ference." “Where? Features, expression—” “Well, Rob is more serious look ing—" “Then you think me flippant!” in a piqued tone. HIGH SPEED OH RAILWAYS. Hundred Miles an Hour Must Be Made on Separate Tracks., A study of the net results of the German experiments on the Berlin Zossen railway with trains electrically propelled at high velocity appears to have led thoughtful railway men to the conclusion that any attempts to force train acceleration on steam rail roads would be destructive of rolling stock and permanent way and inci lentally of passengers and train crews. As pointed out in the paper of Dr. Frederick Schultz before the Interna tional Railway Congress, the best type of modern railway equipment can be operated safely at speeds of more than 100 miles an hour, provided a clear way can be assured. ‘ This is exactly the difficulty which it would not seem possible to over come in a railroad operated for a mixed traffic. At a speed of 100 miles an hour, unless the weather is quite clear track signals cannot be distin guished clearly enough to be read with certainty. This means that a railroad devoted to very high speeds would need to be divided into long blocks, and before a train entered upon a block its conductor must know that the road is clear. Such blocks would need to be ap proximately a hundred miles long, which means the surrender of every other kind of traffic which now keeps out of the way of fast trains by tak ing sidings or otherwise temporarily withdrawing itself from the track which belongs to the “flyer.” As a matter of fact this would mean separ ate tracks for high-speed trains, over or under the other tracks, with abso lutely no grade crossings and no points or switches by which slower moving trains could have access to such tracks. Anything like a coinci dent movement of freight and passen ger traffic would be impossible.—New York Times. ANTS THAT EAT ROCKS. Peculiar Appetite Cause of Much Pe cuniary Loss. The engineers in charge of a tele graph line at Hongkong were sur prised recently by the discovery that about seven miles of their cable, though it was well protected and laid underground in a concrete trough, had been severely damaged. For the greater part of the length oval holes had been bored quite through the cas ing down to the copper wire itself. It was agreed that insects must have been the authors of the mischief, though what kind of insects was not obvious. It might be possible to find one which enjoys perforating lead. But these insects seemed to have drilled the holes, not in order to make a passage, but by way of making a meal! They had taken a dinner of six courses, consisting first of tarred rope, then of lead, then of twisted rope, then of tape, then of hemp fiber, and lastly of india rubber. The cop per strand had been too much for them. Portions of the damaged cable were sent to the Natural History Museum with a hope that some opinion might be given, and the oracle replied that there could be little doubt that the damage was caused by white ants. Specimens of their peculiar forms of appetite and industry are kept in the museum, which show not only that they will lead, but will also bore through hard sandstone rock. Hi# Dream. What might be termed “a mean trick” was played on a Kansas City young man at the race track the other day. One night he had a dream in which he saw himself wearing a red carnation and playing the races. In the dream he was winning big rolls of money. Yesterday morning he told one of his friends about the dream and said he intended to wear a red carnation and play the races. In the meantime his friend told half a dozen of the young man’s acquaintances about the dream, and they all wore red carnations to Elm Ridge. Before the first race one of the conspirators met the young man who had had the dream. “Say, Joe,” he said, “I had a dream last night that that if I w'ore a red car nation out here to-day I’d win. Now I’m not superstitious—” The young man swallowed the bait. “You did?” he said in amazement. “Well, Tom, we’ll clean these book makers up.” As they started for the betting ring five other carnations came in sight. “Say, Joe,” yelled their wearers in chorus, “I had a dream—” But the yoting man had fled Into the crowd.—Kansas City Times. A New Field. "Ah!” exclaimed the'Senior Member of the Law Firm of Sharke & Sharke, "Things are coming our Way! Here’s a brand new and wonderfully lucra tive Field for Litigation opening up for Us.” “What Is it?” asked the Junior Part ner with great Excitement. “Scientists have discovered that the 1 Vermiform Appendix is a highly nec I essary Portion of the Human Body, after All. Now, we have only to seek out those Persons who have had their Appendices taken out on the Doctor’s Representation of Superfluity and start a long Series of profitable Dam age Suits.”—Baltimore American. La Be!le Inconnue. What wonder that I turned with ardent face To contemplate such grace? Or that in spite of me I fondly loved. So gazing, unieproved? Sure all the gentleness of heaven’s blue Was there concentered true! What maiden slimness, delicacy fair! What a patrician air! What pure return of glances, unashamed. As from a soul unblamed! WThat Innocence, what beauty and what trust In humankind unjust! I would not pluck thee, unknown little flower. Live out thine utmost hour! To-morrow with my lady IM1 return Thy name and rank to learn! —New Orleans Timea-DemocraL Difference of Opinion. "Shout halleluia an the highway— if you feel like it,” says a Georgia exchange; and the Billville Banner makes this comment: "You just try it—and If the town marshal don’t haul you in and give you thirty days, you may say that we don’t know what we’re a-talklng about!”—Atlanta Constitution. pm bb Fred Gilbert of Spirit Lake, Iowa, made the phenomenal score of 199 out of a possible 200 in the third day’s shoot of the Dubuque Gun club. The Marylebone (Eng.) Cricket club has arranged for its amateur cricket ers this year to go to the United States and Canada. The team will sail early in July. Tiie American Freebooters’ polo team will compete for the Gordon Ben nett international polo cup at Paris, not with the French team, but with the All Continental team. Charley Fox’s Go Between, backed heavily at 8 to 5. had things all his own way in the Brookdale handicap, winning by live lengths from Dolly Spanker. Buttling got third money. Carl Vandegrift has been elected captain of the Illinois baseball team for 1906. Vandegrift played third base and made an excellent record this seasor. Rothgeb will be the only player missing next year. Charles C. Burnes died at Evans ville, Ind.. June 13, aged 80 years. He was formerly one of the best-known horsemen in the country, owning sev eral valuable stables. He was at one time manager of Tattersalls, in Phila delphia. The crew of the Vesper Boat club of Philadelphia arrived at Plymouth. Eng.. June 17. They were in the best of health and spirits and confident of taking back the grand challenge cup for which they are to compete at the Henley regatta. The world’s competition five mile motor record has been broken by E. B. Heagren of Salt Lake on the Green wood track. The time was 3:59 3-5, which is 23 4-5 seconds faster than Heagren’s former world’s record, made in Salt Lake City June, 1904. The Cornell football schedule is an nounced. Among the games arranged are: Oct. 21, Western university of Pennsylvania at Ithaca; Nov. 4, Swarthmore at Ithaca; Nov. 11, Prince ton at Princeton; Nov. 18, Columbia at Ithaca; Nov. 30, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Paris newspapers assert that during the race for the Grand Prix de Paris on Sunday Edmond Blare’s colt, Val d’Or, was hit heavily on the head by one of the jockey's. Val d'Or’s fail ure to win the race is ascribed to this. M. Blanc has complained to the stew ards of the Jockey club Tommy Mowatt of Chicago and Kid offered by Sir Howard Vincent, hon orary colonel of the British organiza tion. The American team is composed of eight men, under the command of Capt. Robert McLean of K company. For twenty rounds Jack O’Keefe and Jimmy Gardner fought fast and clev erly and at the end of that time neith er had gained a perceptible advantage and the bout was declared a draw. Both men were on their feet at the end of the fight, both were strong, and neither was knocked down during the entire contest. The decision of Ref eree Willard Ben was cheered by 3, 000 persons present, although some declared O'Keefe was lucky to get a draw. Morris Levy has decided to put on the Britt-Sullivan bout for July. This is a much better proposition than put ting the champion up against Eddie Hanlon. Not much is known about Sullivan, except that sports in the east think he has a show with Britt. In such case, if the San Francisco boy has an easy time, it will help strengthen the respect for California athletes. On the statements of the showing Sullivan made with Nelson, Britt should take the easterner into camp. Texas’ state fair. Sept. 30-Oct. 15, at Dallas, will have speed purses ag gregating $30,000, with a good share of the money for harness horses. Hen ry Exall. George King and William M. C. Hill, the committee appointed by President Maneold, have decided to have five installment purses of $1, 00 each, and will soon announce the classes and list of open purses A racing boom is on in Texas, which will last well into the winter months, pnd northern horses will find the Lone Star state a profitable field The match between the American and French polo teams for the Inter national cup resulted in a victory for France by 6 goals to 4. The match took place at Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne and was attended by many prominent members of society. The American team was composed of Craig Wadsworth, trank Mackay, Robert CoHier and J. Insley Blair. The irternational polo cup was first offered by James Gordon Bennett two years ago. but as there were no Amer ican entries it has never been com peted for until the present match. A new world’s record in the twelve pound hammer throw was the feature JOC/t OTVZ2ZZ. Among the high-priced riders on the American turf to-day Jockey O'Neill holds a prominent place. His latest victory is with Beldame, which won the biggest turf event in the country when she came in first in the suburb an handicap at Sheepshead bay last week. O’Neill also rode three other winners that day besides the one In the big classic. Sayers of Milwaukee fought eight fast rounds at Green Bay. Wis., June 14, to a draw. It was a contest between a clever boxer and a rushing fighter, and, while Sayers landed oftener, his cleverness was ofTset by the aggress iveness of the Chicago man. At San Francisco June 18 Jack Clancy, welterweight champion of England, was defeated by George Pe terson of that city, who made his de but as a professional. When the af fair was over Referee Roche awarded his decision to Peterson. The victor showed championship form, although he failed to land a knockout. The South Bend Polo association, ! which holds a franchise in the Nation al Polo league, has accepted plans for a coliseum which will cost $25,000, which will have a seating capacity of 2,000. The building will be erected immediately and will be completed by Sept. 15. The league is composed of South Bend, Grand Rapids, Kala mazoo, Jackson, Saginaw and Flint. James R. Keene’s 3-year-old. Syson by, son of the English sire Melton, carrying 126 pounds, won the $20,000 Tidal stakes at Sheepshead Bay June 17, running the mile and a quarter in 2:05 and doing it in such easy style that it was apparent he could easily have equaled if not beaten the track record of 2:04 3-5 held by McChesney had he been let down. Capt. Sir Ernest Cochrane. Bart., has offered a cup of the value of $500 for competition between picked foot ball teams representing Great Brit ain, Ireland. Canada and the United States. Sir Ernest suggests that the matches be played under the English association rules or under a com bination of the rules governing foot ball in the United States and Great Britain. Rollo Heikes of Dayton won the championship of Ohio and the L. C. Smith trophy at the state tournament of the Ohio Trap Shooters’ association. Heikes was compelled to break fifty straight to win. Hulshizer and Orr of Newark, Ohio, took the Sportmans’ review trophy in the twomen team shoot. Crosby, the Illinois expert, ac complished the feat of smashing 158 targets in succession, missing the sec ond bird. The rifle team from the Seventh reg iq$cnt National guard , New York, w%ich will meet a team representing th© Queen’s Westminster volunteers t* a ocanpetitive match at Bisley, England, July 6 and 7, have sailed from New York. The prize is a trophy — — w w ’ w -1 ^ o of the twenty-fourth annual handicap games of the Pullman Athletic club held at Chicago June 18. Ed Parry, the giant hammer thrower of the Uni versity of Chicago, made the new mark with a throw of 186 feet 6 inches. The performance of the big maroon is the more remarkable when it is considered he used but one arm in throwing the weight. The new mark surpasses by five inches that of John De Witt of Princeton, which has stood as a world’s record for Several years. The Fitzsimmons-Schreck fight, scheduled to take place at Salt Lake City on July 3 is ofT. Fitzsimmons declared the local club failed to post its forfeit money. Efforts were made to induce Fitzsimmons to wait for the money, but he gave the club one hour to deliver the goods. The club could not reach him. Fitz declares the club deceived him. He says he is in the game for the money there is in it, and not for a reputation. He express ed his willingness to go alone into a room with Schreck with five ounce gloves and fight it out for $5,000, the man leaving the room to be referee. After many months of discussion and agitation in favor of radical changes in the college game of foot ball, the rulemakers met last week and decided to double the penalty for coaching from the side lines, and to eliminate some of the chances of “stealing the ball” and of piling up on a player by directing the referee to blow his whistle as soon as the for ward motion of the ball has been stopped. Perhaps the rulemakers real ized that association football may dis place the college game entirely in so short a time that it was not wrorth while to make radical departures in the rules of the latter sport.—Chicago Tribune. The big Kaiser Wilhelm II when she sailed out of the harbor at New York last week carried the four American lawn tennis champions who are to play in England next month for the Davis cup, emblematic of the interna tional championship of the worW. The tfeam which carries the hopes of all American players is composed of the first four players in last season’s rank ing—Holcombe Ward, national cham pion in both singles and doubles; William J. Clothier of Philadelphia, twice runner-up at Newport; William A. Larned, twice champion of Ameri ca in singles, and Beals C. Wright, Ward’s partner, and one of the nation* al champions in doubles. > The Chunchuses in Dalny When the correspondertts with the Japanese army first w'ent to the front In the siege of Port Arthur they were given quarters in Dalny, w'hich city had been evacuated by the Russians and thoroughly plundered by the Chinese before the arrival of the Jap anese forces. How the Chinese rob bers found their opportunity for plun dering, Frederic Villiers tells, as fol lows: “When the position at Nanshan fell the town was practically uncov ered and the Russian citizens were compelled to fly to Port Arthur. But the mayor informed the people that they had quite four and twenty hours in which to prepare for the flight, as it would be impossible for the enemy to arrive before that time. “Unfortunately on the very evening of the taking of Nanshan an adventur ous Jap Sergeant pressed forward alone to Dalny and, arriving late at night, went from house to house in the Chinese quarter, spreading the news that a big force would be in ear ly in the morning, and insisted on the celestials flying the Japanese flag over their houses, which was done. When daylight came the Russians saw. to their dismay, that there were many rising suns, and all but one dawning In the wrong direction. Thinking ha: the Japanese had entered the town, there was a terrible panic. “They immediately packed up and rushed away for protection o great fortress. On seeing this mo\ ment on the part of the Muscovites, the chunchuses, who were secreted in the town and in the outlying villages hurried into the city and commenced firing and looting the Russian quart* r. These men had been for weeks await ing this possible event: now their time had come and judging by the number of bottles lying empty in the cour yard of the hotel they must have had a very good time indeed. “For the thirty odd hours they were pillaging they made the hotel their headquarters. They ripped up all the beds, sofas and chairs in their search for hiddeq treasure and left nothing behind them but bare iron bedsteads and foul matting, on which they hai slept off the effects of their dissipa tion. We unfortunate correspondin'5 had to camp out in the empty room Trials of Prodigy’s Mother This is one of the great seasons of lavish upon her and vaguely feels that the infant prodigy—a phenomenon be- it is hard lines that she should : • a coming more plentiful every year. But wunderkind. On the other Land, if I behind the triumphs of the infant prod- SU£rsest taking her \io!in L igy there Is sometimes a pathetic little fhJ1tk" an,d is naush'>\ I cannot t r.n , .. , . . . „ ish her, lest the neighbor- sh i d family history, as witness the follow- ,hlnk „ are beating ber ,0 make h„r ing account of her life and that of her practice. The child knows thi*. ar. ! child given by Mme. Annie \ ivanti, cries whenever she wants any?';, ng the mother of Vivien Chartes, whose she ought not to have; and her" violin playing is sending London mad. tion is utterly ruined by the am itit I find the account in the Pall Mall of horrid things we allow hrr to ea: Magazine for June. I transcribe it rather than that she should scr-am as a wonderful little human docu- for them. ment: “ ’Of course, there are moments of “‘Nobody,’ says the mother, ‘would thrilling happiness that com; • n-.;'? believe how difficult it is to be the for much anxiety and worry, mother of a wunderkind. Everything “‘It is a great joy to see Vivien s*ep I do is wrong; everything the child out on the platform, where a tho -:-ai I does is “for effect”; everything we say people look at her and love l. *r f .r is utterly untrue. If Vivien runs up the music that she makes Wh* : *' to me and kisses me, I hear it mur- applause rises round her like a s? mured that she is trained to do so. her smile meets mine, and my h* art So I tell her never to do it again. Im- beats loud with happin- -s ar ? -» mediately people remark how cold I thought that that little girls belong - am to the child. No, I am not at all to me! happy. The dear child herself is “ ‘But does she really belong to spoilt by the compassion that visitors me?’ ”—M. A. P. Dancing' Horses in Battle I — 1 ", ....-7—i- .. 1 - .. ' " There is an ancient Roman lamp among the treasures of the Louvre in Paris and on this lamp is a picture of a horse that is being taught to stand on his hind legs. The Roman horse trainer is using a formidable looking whip. The dancing horse fig ures in that medley of antique learn ing. the “Deipnosophists. or Banquet of the Learned,” of Athenaeus. Athen aeus tells that the Sybarites “had car ried their luxury to such a pitch that they had taught even their horses to dance at their feasts to the music of the flute.” But disaster came of this effeminate horse training. For the Crotonians. being at war with the Sy barites and knowing the air to which the Sybarite horses were accustomed to dance, played the same melody on the battlefield “and as soon as the horses heard them playing on the flute they not only began to dance, but ran over to the army of the Cro tonians, carrying their riders with them.” Dancing cavalry horses appear again, in greater detail, in the ‘ An nals of Charon of Lampsacus ' li • wise quoted by Athenaeus. Char >n says that the general of the army of a people named Bisatae lived, as a boy. in slavery among the Cardians; th*-re he learned that the Cardian horses were taught to dance at feasts to the music of the flute, standing on their hind feet and dancing with their fore J feet in time to the airs which they ha ! | been taught. So when war broke < it J the general of the Bisatae secured a Cardian female flute player, who in structed his own musicians. When the flute players of the gen eral of the Bisatae were sufficiently trained in the music of the Card ans he gave battle, ordering them to play the airs which they had learned and which the horses of the Cardians knew. “And when the horses heard the flute they stood up on their hind feet and took to dancing. But the main strength of the Cardians was in their cavalry and so they were conquered." Rascal Kisse Two Columbia students cut classes the other day and went out for a lark. As they turned into Broadway from 116th street they looked around for something in the way of excitement. “Say, Kid,” said the taller of the two as an open car stopped in front of them, “you don't dare kiss that girl in the Alice-blue hat.” The “kid” sized up the pretty girl at the end of the seat and turned to his friend. “What do you bet?” “Bet you two bucks.” The “kid” gave a hurried glance about for an insurance against the minions of the law, sprinted after the car, which meantime had started, and swung on to the step beside the girl. A resounding smack rose above the buzz of the car. Before even the girl could realize what had happened he had d Pretty Girl dropped off. Then the girl screamed and the conductor hurried forward to her seat to learn what had happened. She was so excited that the car trav eled two blocks before she could ex plain. The conductor, agitated possi bly by her screams, pulled the bell and stopped the car. “I wonder what I ought to do?"' he asked of a stout, dignified citizen who sat in a rear seat. “Pull that bell and let us go along,” said the dignified person. The girl, who had stopped scream ing and taken refuge in tears, turned indignantly. “Oh, you heartless man.” she said. “Good Lord, woman, do you want to tie up the whole system because a young rascal kissed you?” he asked. She did not answer and the car went on.—New York Press. Wondrous Road to Nap-Land Little one. my little one. Come and take a ride. Day is done and play is done, Toys are put aside. Come up here to Nap-land, We’ll away to Nap-land. Through the silence, soft and deep. Of the soothing realm of sleep. Sitting snugly here, my knee Changes as by magic. See. 'Tis an airy, fairy sledge. Which a team of reindeer draws. Just like Santa Claus. Warmly in the laprobes curled, We will go O’er the snow. Far away and over the edge Of the Vision-World. Stars, like eyes, are winking bright 3’er the fields of shining white Stretching out across the night. Here our silver roadway gleams Onward to a city fair. Where are castles reared In air. With a beauty rich and rare. Only seen in dreams. Speed away and speed away In our fairy, magic sleigh. ' While the bells they sing a v>rv As they ting-m-ling along. s Keeping time In their chime. With a sort of elfin ring To the melody and swing Of the music sweet and deep Wafted through the halls of‘sleep Little one. my little ctv Nestle here vour head Soon in fancy we will run In our magit sled from this cozy I^p-land Far away to Nap-land ^Tis a country passing fair. Still and marvelous And already you are there. vN hen I lay you—thus— Little one. my little one In your little bed. ~JaiTessArthUr Ed**rton* »n New Torle Armageddon in the East? Julius Chambers, whose “Walks and Talks” letters appear in several Amer ican papers, recently made the inter esting suggestion that the now famous battle of Mukden be seriously taken as the Scripture fulfilment among na tions—the battle of Armageddon. After explaining that the writer in Scripture placed the battle in the plain of Esdraelon, not because it was nec essarily fought there, but to bring the idea home to the people, he says: “Seriously, why shouldn’t tl%? be the last battle in the history of man kind? Japan never will have to fight China to control her hundreds of mil lions of people. She can dominate China w-ithout drawing the sword or “V"* * su"-'( ">e western nation, "ill allow her to do so pranor will light Germany again; kus'sta'hal ^ had enough of war for i w, ,ha* * year,, the conqnost ot India has , come to her an Iridescent dretm-^T use the phrase of John jd to there are no more white man rica for England to conquer p “ Af' will not be able to get* n*??™**7 the pugilists sav w-.f **!h! on-’ m Norway and Sweden canncfaW ??ain* luxury of going lo States do not want a war J*6 1 “Ue'i something of the kin i i' havin® had Md 1S65 ,„d 1 .!? bM,rw“ Where, then, ia the oea™^ "** Current Literature. to arise7 -