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— UNGERS AND THUMBS They Got Grossed With a Gouty Hand in Giving a Secret Grip. > By ELIZABETH BENTON. "So you’re t'ue young man* that j thinks he can act as my secretary, | ,hey?" inquired Mr. Fagan, swinging round in his swivel chair and staring at Blake under a pair of bushy gray eyebrows. “Nine and twenty I’ve turned down today, but if you think j you can manage—shake hands!’’ The transition from sternness to Buavity was entirely disconcerting to the young college man. It was hi3 first application for a position, and the j salary as secretary to the owner of the big chemical works was fifty dol lars a week. Blake had flown at high game for a youngster of twenty five. t He gave Mr. Fagan his hand and felt a peculiar pressure of the fingers, which his own leaped to meet. Then: "I left college last year, sir,’’ he ' began. "I can—” “Tut. tut. young man!" replied the ' eccentric. "Consider yourself en gaged. It warms my heart to meet you. No, no explanations. I don’t -want to know what you are or what you can do. I’m a judge of men and j —we re both Irishmen, ain't we?” “Indeed we are,” said Blake enthusi nstically. And so he went to work and proved highly efficient. In fact, before the month was out Fagan had become so attached to him that he was constantly requesting his pres- ; ence at his splendid home on the j outskirits of the manufacturing town. Blake had two troubles about this time. One was his inability to dis cover how it could be that a man of ; Fagan's apparent limited education bad gone through college. The other was Fagan's daughter, Muriel. It was a case of love at first sight with both the young people. When Blake held ! Miss Muriel's little hand in his and looked into her eyes he knew that he had met his destiny. But how could a fifty-dcllar a week man, with an uncertain future, aspire to the hand of the daughter of Pitt ston's wealthiest citizen? If he had know-n it, Fagan could have been taken by storm during those first two or three weeks. A self-made man. he admired the young collegian im mensely and had secretly considered him in the light of Muriel's suitor. But Blake did not know that Fagan's education had been derived from read ing the newspapers he sold in front of the chemical works, before these became his own property. And, as a supppsed college man who had de liberately cultivated rough ways and coarse langauge, Blake looked upon his employer with something of awe. It was about two months after his introduction to the manufacturer's house that he found himself seated be side miss Muriel upon the piazza, it was a moonlight night; the view was superb; the noises of the city sounded far away and remote; and Fagan was snoring in his library. The combina tion proved Irresistible. And besides, that hand that hung near his was the prettiest hand that he had ever wanted to take in his. He took it, and, seeing that no dramatic outburst of anger followed, he drew the girl to him and kissed her. , For, after all, that is the way in which it is always done. "Muriel, dearest," he said, "do you know I have loved you ever since I set eyes on you?-' Muriel blushed so divinely that there was nothing to do but repeat the episode. And when he felt her OT,-n soft lips on his he knew that his love was returned in full. "But I don t know what your father will say," he said, with the timid fear of lovers. “If he discharges me— will you wait. Muriel?-’ • For ever,” she whispered. “Be sides. I can w in over papa. \Vh2t is a papa?” If only she had noticed that his tie was green! But it looked blue in the night; to see its proper color one would have to stand under the electric light. And be had gone straight to Muriel when he found her in the gar den. So it happened that when he stood before his employer and< stammered out his story, in the way young men approach wealthy old gentlemen, Fagan s eyes fixed themselves upon Blakes s shirt-front and narrowed to needle lines. May I ask you why you are wear ing a green tie on this day of all days. Mr. Blake?” he demanded, with omin ous calm. "Why,” said Blake, hesitating, “you see, today is the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, a day abhorrent to all good Irishmen, and—” Blake's great grandfather had been hanged for treason in the days of Robert Emmet. /Fagan leaped out of his chair with the agility of a tiger. "Scoundrel! Scum of Limerick!” he jelled. “Tc toult a good Belfast man by flaunting the green flag!” He shook his fist under his secretary's nose. "1 killed a man for less in my young days,” he shouted. ‘‘Out of my house. You're fired. I'll have your pay sent you—1—” “Come, papa, what is all this about?” interposed Muriel's soothing voice. She had come in softly behind her lover to lend him aid if necessary. She had not anticipated such violence. "He's wearing of the green—and on this day. of all days!” stormed her father. "Molly, 1 wouldn't have minded so much if it hadn’t been for the deceit of the man. But he let me think all along he was a good Orange man. and now he comes and taunts me to my face, presuming upon his claim to love you. Kick him out for me, Molly, my foot's got the gout in it." “Father, dear—for my sake listen,” pleaded Muriel. "I am sure that Ar thur—Mr. Blake can explain every thing. Father,” she pleaded, "We love each other. Think how you and Mother got married, when you were earning nine dollars a week in a ship ping office—you've often told me so.” “But he's a damned rebel, Molly, and—and the infernal impudence of it!” "Tell him it's all a mistake, Ar thur,” pleaded Muriel. "It ain’t a mistake, it’s just treachery," roared her father. "Nine and twenty good men, fine men, I turned down that morning till he gave me the grip—” "What grip?” demanded Blake. "The grip of the- United Orange men's Brotherhood,” roared the old man. "Didn't I wink at you, and didn't I see it in your face that we understood each other, and didn't I say that was enough between friends and—” "The grip I gave you,” answered Blake, "was that of the Alpha Omega Mu fraternity. I had been told it helped a man to get a position by giv ing it. 1 thought you were a college man.” Old Fagan stared at him in stupid wonder. Then: "Give me that grip again," he said, and Blake, all against the fraternity rules, delivered it. “My fault,” he acknowledged. "You got your thumb crossed in the wrong place. It must have been my gouty had made me imagine— Well, young fellow, maybe I'll let you keep your job.” "And how about Miss Fagan?” in quired the other. "Muriel? My daughter! I'll see you—I—er—now don't cry, Molly, dear. I guess she goes with the job.” (Copyright. 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) COSTLY ARTICLE OF RAIMENT Many Reasons Why Astrachan Capes May Only Be in the Wardrobe of the Wealthy. In making a cloak or cape of fine quality the center of the saddle only is used and a very large number of such stripe, perfectly matched in curl and degree of blackness, are stitched together to make a complete garment. The rest of the skins, the legs, sides and other inferior parts, are used for less important purposes, such as lin ings for gloves, shoes and other ar ticles. In classing the various skins the jet-black ones are considered the best. The gray ones are also used in theix natural color, but the favrn colored skins are generally dyed black and used in Persia, though now a large number of dyed skins are also pre pared for export. Prices are so high that even inferior skins fetch good sums from the dealers. Resides the first cost of the skins ?s they come from the lambs’ backs, seven# other items go to increase the cost to the wearer. There are, for instance, the expenses of preparing the pelts for transport and the mule freight from Shiraz to Resht, some 60 to TO days' journey by caravan, a very heavy item. The continually in creasing taxes levied by the Persian government for permission to export the skins must not be forgotten in calculation. Every now and then the wily Persian government puts an em bargo on skins, the ostensible reason being the ever-increasing price of meat for food, but this is only an ex cuse, the real object being to squeeze as much money as possible out of the dealers, for bribery plays a very large part in the astrachan trade.—Christian Herald. Kilted by Light. Those who have studied the strange inhabitants of the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky say that the cele brated blind fish from that cavern, when placed in illuminated aquaria, seek out the darkest places, and it is believed that light is directly fatal to ♦hem. for they soon die if kept iy a brightly lighted tank. The avoidance of light seems to be a general char acteristic of the sightless creatures dwelling in the great cave. An au thority tells of seeing an eyeless spi der trying to avoid the light and ani malcules from the water of the cav ern hiding under s grain of sand on the stage of a microscope. It is thought that the light in these cases is in some manner perceived through the sense of touch.—Harper's Week ly Speaking of Kissing— ' The Arabians shake hands 6ix or eight times. Once is not enough. Should, however, they be persons of distinction, they embrace and kiss one another several times and also kiss their own hands. In Turkey the greet ing is to place the hand upon the breast, and bow, which is both grace ful and appropriate. In Burmah. when a man meets a woman, he puts his nose and mouth close to her cheek and draws a long breath, as if inhal ing a delicious perfume, but, strange to say, he does not kiss her cheek. A man iB greeted in exactly the same way. Writes Phrases That Live. Mies Agnes Repplier is said to use the English language in her essays better than most women who write. A writer on the subject says that she always sizes up the situation in an un forgettable phrase and quotes in illus tration the sentence from one of her essays: "Lovers are odious*things at best." OUR $5000,000 COCKROACH E.VPICKARD ®».v iTTiimru rnnngrii'm inn! i^5ga;ss&^ceats&^.^C!aas&ggftyi«>p»«OT>QM6aK>»^^ Ci/CAXACra. wdz ~ *tf!' ~1,l lir Colon. C. Z.—If you wish to hear "language," just say "Cucaracha" to one of the engineers engaged in build ing the central division of the Panama canal. Cucaracha in Spanish means a cockroach. In the Canal Zone it means the greatest of the numerous slides that have made the completion of the Culebra cut so different and so expensive. Why that slide was named the cockroach I could not discover. Certainly even the Panamanian cock roach is not so large, and he moves much more swiftly. Before the first French company quit operations in 1S89 the Cucaracha began to slide, and it first gave the ; Americans trouble in 1905, the second year of their work on the canal. Be tween then and July 1, 1912, nearly 3,000,000 cubic yards of material was j rethoved from the canal because of ! it. The slide had broken nearly 1,900 ! feet from the axis of the canal, and covered an area of 47 acres. Last fall | the engineers were congratulating themselves on having the cockroach 1 stopped, but in January it started moving again,-and nearly covered the bottom of the cut. "What is going to be the cost of that slide to the United States?” I ! asked Colonel Goethals as we stood at the edge of the Culebra cut and look- 1 ed across the chasm to where the ' steam shovels and hundreds of men were laboring to remove the vast j mass of earth and rock. "Well," the chief engineer replied."our estimate is that by the time it is all cleared up it will have required the expenditure of about $5,009,000 more i than the cut would have cost if the j slide had not occurred. It is still mov- ' ing. and has broken so far back that : „.. Giant Steam Shovel. now we are shoveling the crest away from the canal in order to relieve the pressure from above. Before the move ment in January began the excavation in the cut at that point had been carried to within J5 feet of the canal bottom. Digging out that 15 feet of I material removed the support of the Cucaracha. and down it came. If we could have turned in the water and taken out the 15 feet with dredges, I think the pressure of the water would have done much to prevent the slide.”. "What of the future?” I asked. “Is there any danger of slides occurring after the canal is opened?-' i "Absolutely none, I believe,” he an j swered. “When the excavating and | dynamiting have ceased and the wa ter is in, it will be quite safe. We have the slides and breaks mapped 1 out as far back as there is any indi i cation of their extending, and are forking back to those lines. It is merely a matter of persistency and pa tience.” "When will the water be let into the cut?” In October,” replied Colonel Goe thaJs. "But there will be no celebra tion over the event. That one in Jan uary, 1915, is giving us enough worry, and we don't forget the premature and | ridiculous celebration by Ferdinand de Lesseps many years ago. We will just i turn the water in—that's all. Then we j can complete the excavation there j with suction dredges, which will do j the work cheaply and rapidly.” "And when will boats be passing j through the canal?” "That I cannot say, but the sooner i the better, for the operating crew6 ! must be properly trained before that j January celebration. I wouldn't have i an accident occur for anything. If we cannot have commercial vessels going through before then, I shall ask the government to send naval vessels through, so the operating forces can get the experience. Anyhow, I want to see the canal opened to commerce as soon as possible, for It is revenue I am after.” Another day I stood with Col. D. D. Galllard, the engineer of the central division, outside his office in Empire, and watched his army laboring In the cut, the completion of which has been his biggest task and greatest. glory. Right at our feet a big area had sunk down 70 feet in a night, and If there had not been warnings of the break a wing of the colonel’s office building would have gone down with It. “We had just time to remove that wlhg,” said he, “and my office force is rather nervous now, for there are three big cracks un,der the main build ing. 1 expect it, too, will have to be torn down very soon. "These slides used to make us rath er despondent, for it seemed as if they never would stop, but the progress we are making this year has cheered up the operating forces again, and we can see the end of the task. The slide and the break are quite differ ent. In the formef the earth slides at an angle down a sloping face oi rock, and in the latter the mass sinks straight down and at the bottom . bulges out into the channel. Along | both sides of the cut you can see nu merous small slides and breaks. Those \ are in pockets in the rock wall. and. ! annoying as they are. they only need j cleaning out. The Cucaraeha started ; as a slide and now it is both a slide ! am! a break. "Incidentally, that cut 'should be a : great place for geologists. I have j found In it every kind of rock except j granite, and many interesting fossiis j and petrification have been discover- ; ed there. In one stratum through . w hich we cut there were found a great number of teeth of prehistoric varie ties of sharks.’’ "What is your opinion concerning the date when the canal will be ready for commerce?" I asked. "If I had my say,” said the colonel emphatically, "not a commercial ves sel would be allowed in the canal un til it is absolutely complete down to the smallest detail. In some of the many safety devices were not in op eration and an accident should result, the canal would get a black eye from .which it might not recover for a long time. Officially, the time for the com pletion of the canal is still January 1. 1915. It may be done before that date, but in March of this year there was still about $50,000,000 worth of work ahead of us. \\e who have been digging the canal and are still here in positions oi responsibility—1 mean the members of the Isthmian canai commission— are rather fearful concerning that part of the Adamson bill wbicb permits the president to dissolve the commis sion whenever in his judgment the cana! is near enough to completion. We feel that it would be extremely unjust not to allow us to remain on the job' until after the grand formal opening in January. 1915. It would be much like permitting a boy to com plete his university course, and then taking him home before he receives his diploma.” And then Colonel Gaillard said some things about Mr. Taft's efforts to put into effect that clause last January, which must have made the ex-presi dent's ears tingle a bit. “The Culebra cut is like a three-ring circus. I don't know which way to look," said one visitor to the zone. It-is indeed a scene of wonderful ac tivity. Giant steam shovels are scat tered through it, scooping up enor mous masses of rock and earth; on half a dozen tracks on as many dif ferent levels snorting and puffing loco motives are swiftly drawing loaded or empty dirt trains; along the ledges are batteries of steam and com pressed air drills, making holes for dynamite; suddenly there is a toot tooting of a steam whistle, a hundred men scurry to shelter, and a dynamite blast fills the air with sound and dirt and rocks. These blasts during work hours are known as "dobie shots," and are fired for the-purpose of breaking up boulders too big for the shovels to handle, and to remove small masses of earth. Though small blasts, they are decidedly noisy ones. The larger ones, which loosen great areas of ma terial for the shovels, are fired only when most of the workmen are out of the cut. between 11 and 1 o'clock and after 5. The amount of dynamite used on the canal is extraordinary. For sev eral years the annual average has t.-sn about 6,000,000 pounds. Put in another wav. one pound of dynamite nas been used to every 2% cubic yards of material blasted. When the drill holes have been loaded, they are con nected in parallel and fired by means of a current from an electric plant. Colonel Gaillard. when he took charge of the central division, found a differ ent system of firing in use in which a considerable proportion of the charges failed to explode. He changed that, and at the seme time instituted other reforms in the manner of han dling dynamite. One result was a marked decrease in the number of ac cidents from premature .'.xplosions. Watching the steam shovels is a fa vorite occupation of visitors who ven ture down into the Culebra cut.- They seem almost human, and do a vast amount of work. Their dippers hold five cubic yards of material, weigh ing on an average a little more than thfte tons. This spoil is emptied into cars of several kinds. Flat cars with one high side are unloaded b? plows that are drawn the length of the train by cables upon a winding drum. The others are dump cars, the largest of which are operated by compressed air from the locomotive. The trains haul the spoil from the cut to dumping grounds, which on an average are about 12 miles distant. Some 18,000, 000 cubic yards of this material was used as filling for the long breakwa ter at the Pacific entrance. " "*’«■ ■ ■" Records are fragile things: you can't lower one without breaking it. SAW COMING STAR IN CALVE At Hayman First to Recognize Sing er’s Great Powers, and Henry E. Abbey Did the Rest. Several years ago A1 Hayman, who was in London, met the late Henry E. Abbey, who was then our greatest impressairo. Mr. Abbey was present ing opera at the Metropolitan and was searching Europe for new singers. As they sat over their coffee after a com fortable dinner in their club Mr. Hay man described the trip he had just taken through provincial France. "And, by the way,” said he, "I heard a most remarkable young woman sing Carmen at some little out-of-tlie-way place." Searching through his pockets he finally came upon her name in his note book and gave it to Abbey, who seized his hat and called a cab. "Where are you going?” said Hayman. “I'm going to Paris immediately and find where she is and go to hear her,” replied the impulsive Abbey. He found her in a dingy little opera house in a small provincial town and heard her sing Carmen. That night he had her signature to a contract, and that is how New York came to hear and acclaim the great Calve before ever ; Paris had heard of her. Appliances for Measuring Time. Mechanical appliances for ineasur- j ing time were in use from the earliest f ages and clocks of one kind or an other were made in Europe before the i discovery of America. Brass wheel clocks with weights, standing six feet high, such as are now called grandfather clocks, were common in i England and Germany long before the ; revolutionary war. The first cloekma : ker iti the Cnited States was Eli Ter ry, who made his first clock with wooden wheels in 1792, and afteiNvard made a great many, ar.d they were good timekeepers. In 1SG7 he con tracted to deliver 4,000 wooden wheel movements to a certain firm, and it took him three years to fill the order. Seth Thomas, once a well known Yan kee clockmaker, learned his trade with Eli Terry. Brass wheel clocks were first made in the Cnited States in 1837. Never judge a railway by the cigars sold on its trains. The Clocks We Wear. The three marks on the back of a glove and the clocks on the stocking are due practically to the same cir cunistance. The glove marks corre spond to the fourchette pieces be tween the fingers, and in other days these pieces were continued along the back of the hand, braid being used to conceal the seams. A somewhat sim ilar origin is assigned to the orna mental clock on the stockings. In the days when stockings were made of cloth, the seams occurred where the clocks do now, the ornamentation then being used to conceal the seams. The useless little bow in the leather band lining a man's hat is the survival of the time when a hat was made by tak ing a piece of leather, boring two 'holes through it and drawing it up with a piece of string.—Harper's Weekly. First Newspaper. The Aeta Diurna (Acts of the Day), instituted by Julius Caesar, comes about as near being the first newspa per as anything we can find. There was an official editor, and the gazette was exhibited daily in public. It was eftpied by scribes, who sold it to their customers. 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