Loup city Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
The Importance of Rats.
With the exception of the famous
Piper, nobody has yet found a success
ful method of getting rid of rats.
. Ways and means we have all seen ad
vertised in the street cars and news
papers, and yet other methods we
have now and then heard pleasantly
carrated in the course of polite con
versation. But these deal with the rat
•s an individual—with our personal
rat, so to speak; and invention has
yet to find the way of annihilating en
tire communities. For such a solution
. of the “rat problem!’ the department
it- of agriculture has recently stated that
it would liberally reward the inventor.
The rat, individually, is a nuisance;
the rat, collectively, an actual drain
upon the legitimate profits of Ameri
can agriculture. Reduced to probable
figures this yearly tax, levied and suc
cessfully collected by a countless
army of rodents, reaches a surprising
total. Board and lodging for ofce rat
for one year is estimated at 50 cents;
and it may be fairly enough assumed
that the farms of the country support
at least one rat for every cow. horse,
pig, or other useful kind of live stock.
If this is true, even allowing that one
half of the sustenance of the rats is
waste matter, the boatd bill counts up
in cereals to something over $50,000,
000. In France the loss yearly sus
tained through their existence is offi
cially placed at $40,000,000, which indi
cates pretty clearly that the figures
roughly estimated by our own investi
gators are far below the actual. Who
ever can find a way to destroy the
pest in large numbers will therefore
not only earn the rewards of tlm de
partment of agriculture, but will con
fer a blessing upon practically every
living agriculturist. Nor, adds the
Boston Budget, need he be debarred
by sentimental reasons. The rats now
living on the country without giving
anything in return for it are aH de
scended from stowaways who came
over without paying any attention
whatever to the immigration laws.
One of the Yale professors has been
making a study of the occupations of
Yale graduates by classes. He finds,
among other things, that a constantly
lessening number are entering the
ministry, and a steadily increasing
number are studying law. The law
now claims more than twice as many
as any other profession. Next to it
eomes finance. Less than one-twelfth
of the graduates enter the ministry,
In spite pf the fact that one of the
purposes for which Yale was founded
was “to train godly young men for the
Christian ministry.” But, side by side
with these facts, it is also noted that
charitable ''and philanthropic work—
the giving both of money and of serv
ice—is yearly claiming a larger share
of the interest of educated men and
women. Perhaps that is where the
“godly young men” of to-day are
going.
A bill was recently presented in the
Italian chamber,of deputies providing
for a $200,000 lottery, with the pro
ceeds of which it is proposed to carry
•ut excavations at the site of the Ro
man amphitheater at Benevento, the
town founded, according to tradition,
by Diomedes. and possessing Trajan’s
triumphal arch, which resembles the
arch of Titus in Rome, and is the
finest and best preserved of all the
Roman structures. The amphitheater
at Benevento is lying almost intact
under a number of old houses occupied
by poor people. Benevento is the
capital of a province of that name, and
Is situated 34 miles northeast of Na
ples. In the Middle Ages it was the
seat of a Lombard duchy, and in 1806
it was given by Napoleon I. to Talley
rand, who took the title of prince of
Benevento.
What is Preaching?
One of the most notable utterances
from the Unitarian brethren comes
from the Rev. Dr. Thomas Slicer, says
Boston Herald, who deplores the habit
of some of his brethren of the cloth in
^treating of economics, politics and
civics in their pulpits, instead of
preaching the gospel. In Dr. Slicer’s
opinion, this isn't preaching at all. It
'is lecturing, instead. A great mapy
’churchgoers will agree with this view.
There may be special occasions when
sermons on texts from Holy Writ may
appropriately yield to some temporary
exigency, but as a rule religion, pure
and simple, is the preacher’s best
theme and most acceptable to his con
gregation.
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On a trip through Iceland the trav
eler sees thousands of mountains cov-'
ered with eternal snow, outrivaling
the Alps in grandeur; great geysers
and innumerable hot wells; waterfalls,
*> one of which—the Gtillfoss—is second
only to Niagara ih size and beauty;
erystal streams and lashing rivers;
lava beds of fantastic figures, covered
with moss that glistens in the sun
like hoar frost, and, as a crowning
glory, the' atmosphere is so brilliant
that objects over 50 miles distant ap
pear close at hand.
Now that the new heir to the Span
ish throne has been regularly enrolled
In a Spanish regiment his nurse ought
to have an easy time with him. Sol
diers don’t cry in the night and make
sleepy people get up and walk the
floor with them.
^
Kuroki distributed several hundred
dollars in “tips” before he left Chica
go. He probably did it as a mark of
his esteem for the bellboys and porters
who were able to call him by niune
without waiting to be introduced.
At the National Capital
' Gossip of People and Events
Gathered in Washington
“RUBBER” LECTURES JAR
NOTABLES OF CAPITAL
WASHINGTON.—Official Washing
ton—that is, the top layer of it
—is up in arms against the lectures
of the ‘ Seeing Washington" automo
biles. It is all very well to be presi
dent, or an ambassador, or a cabinet
officer, and there are times when it is
not unpleasant to feel that the eyes of
the multitude are centered upon one;
but to be pointed out to rubberneck
visitors as an object of interest is a
little disquieting to one's sense of dig
nity.
For instance: 'There upon your
left, ladies and gentlemen,” says the
lecturer, “you see the Hon. William
Howard Taft, secretary of wai«—the
large ger^eman walking rapidly with
the folio under his arm. Mr. Taft
always walks. He is accounted! one of
the handsomest men in Washington
and one of the biggest in more ways
than I care to mention, and he has
been chosen by President Roosevelt
‘to be his successor.”
This is unpleasant enough to a
' oddest and retiring personality, but
when a little girl on the sightseeing
iwagon calls out in a shrill voice: “Oh,
.mamma, he walks just like Uncle
;Tom,” the blow is almost too hard to
bear. If 40 pairs of eyes are fastened
ion your legs and 40 minds are mak
ing notes of Uncle Tom's pedestrian
mannerisms, it is no wonder that your
feet seem to be tangled and your knee
joints refuse to bend.
Or suppose you were George Bruce
Cortplyou and were pointed out as a
man who wore his hair pompadour, or
William Loeb, Jr., and heard it an
nounced that you weren't as serious
as you looked; or if you were an am
bassador and were standing on the
front stoop of your embassy, looking
up and down the street for your dog,
and heard a man telling about you
through a megaphone, wouldn't it jar
you? Since he became famous, even
Pete, the White House bull terrier,
has cut and run whenever a sight-see
ing automobile hove in view.
However, these are but mere inci
dents or illustrations. The thing that
has brought the top-notch officials to
bay is that some of the rubberneck
lecturers have taken to pointing out
members of the families of prominent
men when they go abroad in car
riages.
Officials say that the lecturers know
the carriages by the coachmen, but
are frequently mistaken as to the
identity of the occupants. It is veity
annoying and embarrassing, they as
sert, and sofnething will have to be
done to stop it.
MONEY
ORDER5|Jg <
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POSTOFFICE EXTENDS THE
MONEY ORDER SERVICE
OF the 64,000 postoffices in the
country at any one of which reg
istry business may be transacted only
3S.000 (inclusive of 4,000 stations) are
authorized to do a money order busi
ness. While doubting the feasibility
of extending money order facilities to
all postoffices, Postmaster General
Meyer, to meet as far as practicable
the needs of the business public and
promote its convenience in the trans
mission of money through the mails
recently issued a sweeping order,
which said in part:
“Recognizing the fact that there is
a demand on the part of the public
for this extension, the department ex
pects to be aided in carrying out its
policy in this respect by the earnest
cooperation of its employes and of
postmasters and all others connected
in any way with the postal service.
“It msst be understood that the de
partm>nt will not brook interference
on the part of its officers or employes
with the policy above outlined, and it
is enjoined upon all connected with
the service to use every effort to pro- i
mote the use of postal money orders
for remittances by mail. Failure on
the part of any postmaster or post
office employe to adhere to the re
quirements of this order will endang
er the official position of the delin
quent.”
Postmaster General Meyer will rec
ommend to the next congress that
legislation be enacted providing for
the introduction of postal notes for
sums not exceeding $2.50, or perhaps
$5.00, which may be issued without
the filing of a written application
or the sending of an advice, and be
obtainable, not only at all money or
der post offices, but at many of the
smaller post offices, where it may not
be feasible to issue money orders.
WAR ON WOOD BEETLES
STARTED BY GOVERNMENT
FOR centuries, ami in -many lan
guages, has the “powder post”
wood beetle been discussed and plan
ned against. Many government ex
perts of many countries have studied
this pest of seasoned woods, but little
progress has been accomplished to
wards its destruction. Our own gov
ernment is now taking a hand in in
vestigating the “powder post” beetle.
The beetle attacks seasoned wood
only, especially the white or sap por
tion, and S9 alarming has become the
ravages that makers of furniture and
vehicles are at great annual loss ow
ing to the silent ami steady boring
and bedding in the dry material. Hick
ory, oak and ash are the woods gener
ally most affected. These beetles are
silent fii’es tearing down the fences,
and barns and homes of men. They
feast in the polished furniture in the
parlor, and gnaw at the coffins in the
undertakers’ warehouses. They eat
away the chair that we rest in to-day
and the piano sounding forth the
sweetest melodies is *in the death
grapple of the “powder post” beetles.
The treatment for the pest, so far as
studied out, consists in destroying by
fire. A piece of lumber may be affect
in one end only. Saw that end off
and burn it is the cure. The beetle
has been killed in valuable pieces of
lumber by putting the material in a
close room and subjecting the lum
ber to as hot a steam bath as possi
ble. Other means of destruction con
sist in kilning the lumber and giving
it as much dry heat as possible.
FORESTRY CHIEF TURNS
DEAF EAR TO SOCIETY
ONE of the interesting young bache
lors of the present day now very
much in the public eye is Gifford Pin
chot. chief of the bureau of forestry,
department of agriculture, now on a
pilgrimage in the weSi., instructing all
who will come to hear on the wis
dom of the administration’s land poli
cy. Mr. Pinchot, the “G. P.” of ‘the
department, to whom all important
questions pertaining to the public do
main are referred, the intimate per
sonal friend of the chief executive
and member of the White House ten
nis board, is one of those rare spirits
in love with his profession who works
for love and glory rather than pub
lic applause and the coin of the realm.
On accepting his position in the de
partment at a salary of $2,000 a year,
he built himself a $200,000 house on
the most fashionable block of Rhode
Island avenue, where he gives one
large reception each Beason, in honor
eft the agricultural forestry conven
tion. The rest of the season his
mother, Mrs. James W. Pinchot, of
New York, entertains the smart and
the great at a succession of dinners
and receptions unsur]iassed by any
hostess in Washington
When he built this home Gifford
Pinchot was engaged to be married,
his fiancee, like himself, being young,
earnest, wealthy and of New 'York
Four Hundred. The death of his
sweetheart under most pathetic cir
cumstances turned young Pinchot to
his profession with redoubled fervor,
and since then he ban j turned a deaf
but polite ear to society and the al
luring attention which would natural
ly be bestowed upon the most eligi
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ble American bachelor in Washing
ton. The independent fortune mak
ing a 1200,000 house possible on a
$2,000 salary is a part of this young
man’s inheritance from his maternal
grandfather, Eno, the founder and
once famous proprietor of the Fifth
Avenue hotel.
Panama Canal Tolls.
It will be some time before the ques
tion of tolls for passing through the
Panama canal will become one of cur
rent interest. It is impossible, how
ever, not to see that making the Suez
canal free would have a very Impor
tant bearing upon the management of
that across Panama. That waterway
is meant for the benefit of our com
merce and that of the world, and it is
equitable that the parties benefited
should contribute to the expense of
construction and management. It is
not intended as a money-maker for the
government, but, on the other hand,
it is not intended as a subsidy to in
ternational trade. The rates ought
to be reasonable, but that is very dif
ferent from saying that there should
be no charges at„all. Nevertheless, if
the Suez canal were to be made free
to British trade it would fumiBh a
precedent for making the Panama
canal free to American tradfe, and oth
er governments would then be asked
to do the like for their subjects that
use the canal.
Advanced.
Benevolent Old. Party—Well, well,
but you are a little fellow to he play
ing In the afreet Can you talk yet?
The Little Fellow—Naw, but I kin
swear.—Puck.
HERE’S ONE ON THE "ROOKEY."
Gets Sentry Call Twisted When Das
zlsd by Commander.
A drummer sometimes gets his or
ders twisted, but never quite so badly
as the "npokey” I saw down at Chick
amauga when the troops were being
mustered in for the Spanish-American
war, says a traveling man in the St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
This, boy, fresh from St. Louis, was
on the way to the front and proud of
it. He had his first assignment to
guard duty and he had been carefully
instructed as to calling "Who goes
there?”
The officer in command of the di
vision was a dignified martinet. The
"rookey” had never seen him. About
midnight the general came home from
a reception in town. He was all fixed
up in his dress togs and he was the
swellest thing the new guard ever
saw. As the general passed his post
the boy gazed at him open-mouthed.
Just in time he remembered he was
expected to say something. So he
gasped:
“There goes who?”
INSURANCE INVESTMENTS.
How One Company’s Assets Are Dis
tributed in the South and West.
In connection with its withdrawal
from Texas, along with many other
companies, rather than to submit to
the new law which requires that 75%
of the reserves on Texas policies shall
be invested in securities of that state,
which securities shall be deposited in
the state and subjected to heavy taxa
tion, in addition to the large tax now
imposed on life insurance premiums,
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
has made public the distribution of its
assets, at the end of the second year
of the new management. The Equit
able now has 110,958,000 invested in
Texas, which is twice as much as the
new law requires, but the manage
ment decided that to submit to the
additional taxation would be an injus
tice to its policyholders in other
states, which impose no such penalty
on the thrift of their citizens.
The Equitable’s report shows that
more than 37% of its total reserves
are now invested in the southern and
western states, while only 35% of its
total insurance is carried in these
states. Its investments are distributed
as follows: Ala., $3,099,000; Ariz.,
$974,000; Ark., $4,038,000; Cal., $5,
142,000; Col., $5,222,000; Fla., $4,924,
000; Ga„ $4,048,000; Idaho, $5,197,000;
ill., $12,617,000; Ind. Ter., $443,000;
lnd., $6,836,000; Iowa, $3,690,000; Kan
sas. $11,637,000; Ky„ $2,631,000; La.,
$3,054,000; Md„ $2,207,000; Mich., $6,
009,000; Minn., $2,065,000; Miss., $767,
000; Mo., $8,197,000; Mont., $1,890,000;
Neb., $7,526,000; Nev., $640,000; New
Mex., $1,376,000; N. C., $1,649,000; N.
D„ $677,000; Ohio, $11,634,000; Okla.,
$1,006,000; Ore., $1,158,000; S. C.,
$975,000; S. D„ $1,305,000; Tenn., $1,
909,000; Utah, $2,134,000; Va„ $6,592,
000; Wash., $1,202,000; W. Va„ $5,523,
000; Wis., $2,342,000; Wyo., $3,367,000.
BATHING IN THE DEAD 8EA.
By No Means a Pleasure, According
to One Traveler.
"No sooner has one plunged into
the water than one is whipped ofl
one’s feet and goes bobbing helplessly
about like a wretched cork,” says Rev.
Haskett Smith of bathing in the Dead
sea. “In the effort to regain one’s
footing and to get back to shore, one’s
feet and shins are barked by the
jaggetf stones and pebbles, and when
at length one does emerge from its
treacherous bosom, with the lower
limbs bleeding and torn, one becomes
aware of a horrible tingling and burn
ing sensation in eyes, ears, nostrils,
mouth and almost every pore of the
skin, from the brine and bitumen
which have penetrated everywhere.
"Unless great care is taken the
bather in the Dead sea is liable to an
eruption, which breaks out all over
his body, and which is commonly
known as the ‘Dead sea rash.’ The
best antidote to this is to hurry across
as quickly as possible to the river Jor
dan and take a second plunge therein.
The soft and muddy waters of that
sacred but dirty stream will effectual
ly remove the salt that has incrusted
the body.”
Riddle.
“What is the difference between a
chauffeur and a surgeon?” asked the
every ready joker.
"Give it up,” answered the man who
was bored.
“The chauffeur runs people down
and the surgeon cuts them up.”
Hastily boarding a passing street
car, he made a safe getaway.—De
troit Free Press.
COFFEE COMPLEXION.
Many Ladies Have Poor Complexions
from Coffee.
“Coffee caused dark colored blotches
on my face and body. I had been
drinking it for a long while and these
blotches gradually appeared, until
finally they # became permanent and
were about as dark as coffee itself.
“I formerly had as fine a complex
ion as one could ask for.
“When I became convinced that cof
fee was the cause of my trouble, I
changed and took to using Postum
Food Coffee, and as I made it fcell, ac
cording to directions, I liked it very
much, and have since that time used
it in place of coffee.
“I am thankful to say I am not ner
vous any more, as I was when I was
drinking coffee, and my complexion is
now as fair and good as it was years
ago. It is very plain that coffee caused
the trouble.”
Most bad complexions are caused
by some disturbance of the stomach
and coffee is the greatest disturber of
digestion known. Almost any woman
can have a fair complexion if she will
leave off coffee and use Postum Food
Coffee and nutritious, healthy food in
proper quantity. Postum furnishes
certain elements from the natural
grains from thq field that Nature uses
to rebuild the nervous system and
when that is in good condition, one
can depend upon a good complexion
as well as a good healthy body.
“There's a Reason.” Read, “The Road
to Well vine,” in pkgs.
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WON BYACAMERA
By Catherine S. Long
• (Copyright, by Jos
Hepburn lighted his ruby lamp
and sat down before his developing
tray. He was an enthusiastic student
of photography.
“This settles it,” he declared with
emphasis, as he removed the last
plate from the box. “I sha'n't buy any
more supplies of Sanford when I get
back to the city. There's a limit to
the demands that can be made upon
friendship. Here I've been buying
plates of him ever since I begin to
take pictures, and what have I got to
show for whole dozens of them but
just such crazy things as these? I’m
afraid Sanford will never be a busi
ness success.”
He shook his head dubiously, as he
placed the twelfth plate in the hypo.
Photography is a capricious mis
tress, and has a fashion of springing
surprises upon her devotees. Hepburn
was soon aware that there was some
thing about this plate quite different
from any that he had ever tried to
develop. Slowly the image appeared,
but there was a clearness about it,
coupled with the evolution of unfa
miliar outlines, that puzzled him.
There Was the picture of the mill
pond, clear, yet soft, a negative such
as he had often dreamed of making.
But back of this picture was another.
It was—oh, strange and entrancing
sight!—that of the most beautiful
woman that he had ever seen. Hep
burn stared hard. Hepburn almost
trembled as he carefully washed the
plate, and set it on the rack to dry.
After breakfast next morning he
sauntered out as usual with his
camera. He had no appreciation
whatever of the scenes through which
he wandered, when, turning a bend in
the path, he came quite unexpectedly
upon a scene of such wild and roman
Towing the Senseless Woman to the
Shore.
tic beauty that it at once appealed to
his carefully-fostered artistic and pho
tographic sense. The little stream, j
he;*.; running swift and deep, crept I
into a sheltered cove, over which the j
foli*ge drooped in long and graceful !
festoons, and its slender current was 1
spanned by an old moss-grown log.
“Beautiful!” murmured Hepburn,
looking about him critically. "Why,
this is just such an arrangement as
I've been looking for ever since I j
studied ‘Pictorial Effect in Photog- !
raphy.”
Even as he spoke a woman emerged
from the forest and began to cwss
the mossy log. She hesitated before
she had taken many steps, and re
mained standing in what was an un
conscious, but what would seem a wre
meditatedly beautiful pdse.
Hepburn could have shouted with
delight “Perfect!” he exclaimed.
“Now if I can only get it before she
moves farther. Absolutely perfect!”
While he was preparing to take her
picture a blood-curdling scream smote
his ears. Turning quickly, he was
horrified to observe that the support
for the wedge had disappeared, and
instantly he surmised that the girl
had fallen into the water.
Hepburn did not hesitate, but sprang
forthwith into the stream. The girl
once more arose to the surface and
promptly wound herself about him, to
tally incapacitating him as to the use
of all his members.
“Let go!” he yelled, “or you’ll sink
us both!” But the girl continued to
twijje and clutch. Then Hepburn did
a cruel and ungallant thing, which
only the exigencies of the occasion
could excuse. He grappled with the
girl. Partially disengaging his left
hand, he attempted to thrust her away
from him in order to get a hold upon
her untrammeled by her grasp, but
he only succeeded in dealing her a
terrific blow in the face with his el
bow. The woman of the double nega
tive, stunneiTinto unconsciousness, re
laxed her hold, and with a gasping
sigh went down again. After that it
was easy. Hepburn was not ei prac
tised swimmer, but he had no difficul
ty in towing the senseless woman to
the shore only a few strokes away.
Arrived there, he lifted her carefully
up the bank and laid her on the
grass. Then he regarded the still
white form ruefully. The water
streamed from her clinging draperies,
mingled with the blood which had be
gun to run down her face.
Soon the girl opened her eyes. She
fixed item meditatively upon him for
a moment, then 3he sat up. She looked
<at her streaming skirts, and put her
hand to her bruised face, over which
a shad oi annoyance flitted!
“You hit me,” she declared resent
fully
“I know it,” acknowledged Hepburn
dolefully. “I can’t tell you how sorry
I am. But it seemed to be the only
way. You hung on so we would have
both drowned in four feet of water if
f hadn't. You could have stood on
your feet there if you had tried. It
was very stupid of you not to. But it
is awful do think that I should have
struck you. You—you of all per
sons!”
“Me, of all persons,"
of the double negative,
say such a thing as that?
know you from Adam.’
ii'%
cried the girl
“Why do you
I don’t
eph B. Bowles.)
“Because, because,’’ said Hepburn
wildly, “I love you, I love you! T
have loved you ever since I saw your
picture last night, but it seems to me
now as if I had always loved you.”
The girl arose from the grass with
an expression of profound disgust
upon her features. “Well, of all in
comprehensible things!” she ex
claimed. “You are certainly the most
impudent man I ever saw. How’ dare
you say such a thing to me? What do
you mean?”
"1 mean,” said Hepburn desperate
ly, “that I don’t care what things you
say to me now, if only some time you
will marry me.”
The girl of the double negative
spoke never a word, but with tight
shut lips gathered her skirts in both
hands and began to walk rjapidly
away;
For over a week he saw nothing of
Miss Carrington. That young lady re
mained in her room nursing a nose,
formerly of classic proportions, and
an eye which resembled a boiled
gooseberry, sunk deep in the brilliant
and varied hues of a summer sunset.
Her indisposition did not, however,
prevent her from inspecting “that hor
rid man” from behind her curtains,
and secretly commenting upon the
facts that he was certainly very good
looking, and that he took sly peeps at
her window as he passed.
If she had expected a repetition of
Mr. Hepburn's former frenzied con
duct "when she again appeared in the
corridors of the hotel she was disap-'
pointed. At first he seemed not to
even see her. Then after they were
introduced by a mutual friend, he
treated her with the grave courtesy
which a happy instinct told him would
be most pleasing to a young lady with
a high regard for the conventionali
ties, of polite society.
It was only towards the close of the
season, and when preparations were
oeing made by her family to return to
the city that, piqued hr his indiffer
ence, she began to unbend a little.
They met often, then oftener, then
walked together. They discovered
that they had many points of interest
in common, although photography was
not one of them.
“You see,” explained Miss Carring
ton, “my brother takes pictures, and
6ne crank of that kind is enough in a
family.”
One warm September evening they
walked upon the almost deserted pi
azza of the hotel in the moonlight, and
it seemed to Hepburn that the hour
was ripe at last. Ardently, but this
time with dignity and decorum, he
told her again of his love. Memories
of that other proposal must, however,
have returned to the lady’s mind, for
sne drew herself up haughtily and
said:
“I am surprised and sorry, Mr. Hep
burn, that you should so have misun-"
derstood my sentiments toward you.
I esteem and respect you, but I do
not love you. I cannot marry you, but
I will be a sist—” Miss Carrington
paused and blushed. It was the regu
lation formula which she had tendered
to more than one callow youth, but it
was too obvious a chestnut to offer to
a man of Mr. Hepburn’s character
and experience. To her utter amaze
ment, he seemed to entertain no sen
sation of chagrin or disappointment.
Instead, he drew her only half-resist
ing form into his arms, and for the
second time in their short acquaint
ance pressed a kiss upon her brow.
Again she intimated angrily, as she
had once before done: “You are cer
tainly the most presumptuous man I
ever heard of! Don't you understand
me? I said no!”
Hepburn's face beamed with joy
and satisfaction. “My sweetest girl,”
he said, gayly, repeating the oscula
tion, “I hear you. But don’t you re
member that you learned long ago
when you were in school that a double
negative is always equal to an affirm
ative? Thi3 is the second time you’ve
turned me down. What other con
elusion can I draw?”
That evening, when the happy man
was again alone in his room, he found
in close proximtiy to the fateful piece
of glass a letter placed there by the
bell-boy, and bearing a special deliv
erv stamp. It read as follows:
“Dear Hepburn—Did you taka away
with the rest of the stuff you bought
of me last summer an opened box ol
4x5 dry plates? If so, for heaven’s
sake, return them at once. I hops
you haven’t monkeyed with and
spoiled them. They were left here
by a young fellow—Billy Carrington—
to be developed, and he is rending the
earth because they can’t be found
Wire if you have them. Yours,
“SANFORD.”
Hepburn smiled, with some concern
on his features, however. “What a
careless fellow Sanford .is,” he said;
“I always insisted that he would never
make a business success. Still,” he
admitted, without a shadow of reluc
tance, “he does keep pretty good
plates.”
To Preserve Hood's Birthplace.
A meeting convened by the Leyton
Ratepayers’ association, held at Ley
tonstone, has decided to appeal for
funds with which to secure Lake
House estate. Lake House, in which
the poet Hood was born and lived
till early manhood, stands on the
confines of Wanstead Flats, near Ley
tenstone.
The house and estate have recently
been acquired for building purposes,
but local feeling is strongly against
the project, it being felt that the
house should be preserved for the
sake of its associations, while the
grounds would make charming pleas
ure gardens.—London Daily News.
Overheard at the Circus.
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be married?”
“Oh, are they? I suppose she’ll'be
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now."—Chicago Record-Herald.
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