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r if' fcii ?-j -C'i . ftl .. . m JM The Mood Of a Maid. By CECILY ALLEN. ('opyrlidited. 10i. l.itcrai.v lv Associated ! Tin; tcirl loaned fun. -ird sifter sc-.n-nlng llio road In both directions uud touched the chauffeur's iinn. The great crimson oar came to n panting, dolil orate standstill. The rlt-1 did not wait for the chauf four to help her, bill sprang lightly to the road and vanished Into the wood land 0:1 the right. The chauffeur turn ed the car as If his thoughts were con-' cent rat cd on the necessity of making the smallest possible turn In time of safety, in order to be prepared In time of t mergonoy. And then the i;oat crim son car shot back In the direction from whence it had ootfie. Safely screened by the u- lerbrm h. the gitl found a clearing lu the wood land and sat down on a moss grown log. Deftly she unwound the swath lugs of chiffon from her hit. baring a face deli-ate and sensitive rs the anemones opening 11 1 her feet. She drew off her gloves and felt of the velvety moss 011 the old log. then stooped to gather flowers. Dually, with the blossoms forgotten In her lap, she l.eaned forward, her elbows on her knees, her chin propped In the pulins of her hands, watching the woodland life around her. Chipmunks and so-iirrols scampered along the edge of tfio clearing. Where the sun shone upon a tangle of fern and jack In the pulpit hvo robins perched pertly on dry twigs and dis paused, the (roubles of May moing On v. Vvqm the ehdov 3 of the veil bevoml cauic'tho pu.rsh-'ont hammering or a woodpecker. 13evond the screen of under! ni-h mi tomobiles ami smart turnouts spun on ir-vnrd the race track. here the world .... - of f.r don was foregathering passed, and then at the distant wall of 1 1 o.-ulliir siren whistle the girl sprang to her feet, dropped her lapful of flow ors and ran to the rouHide. Ktaring down upon her was a oWm son car, twin of the one which had diopped her so unceremoniously an hour earlier. Hut the resemblance stopped with the car. The chauffeur in the llrst car had worn a spick span uniform in tan color from the tips of his highly polish ed boots to the crown of his heavy red cup. The man In this car wore a dis reputable looking storm coat of ling llsh cloth, a shabby visor cap and a pair of goggles which had certainly soon more prosperous days. lie was scorching along at a tine pace. Hut the girl calmly stepped to the edge of the road and waved n de taining hand n bare hand at that. The machine slowed down, and the man made preparations to descend, as hecame one hailed by a maiden in dis tress. Hut again the girl raised a de taining hand. "My car met with an accident. I thought perhaps-1 am very anxious to roach Dalton this afternoon. Perhaps vim were i-'olnir that way. Would you give me a lift?" She looked up eagerly into his star tled race. Then the man coughed dis creetly, swallowed a smile and sprang from the machine. I was-or thought I was-golng to the races, hut I am sure it will be much more pleasant at er was It Dal ton you said?" The man's accent was KnglNh. The admiration in ids eyes was the sort that knows no nationality. The girl Unshed beneath it and sprang Into the car before the astonished man could assist her. For a few minutes the car ran on lu silence. Then (ho girl spoke abruptly. "Lot us take this crossroad. Then a mile farther we will strike the old Dalton turnpike. There wo will not meet" "I understand," he Interrupted grave ly. And the great car swerved lnt the crossroad, running through 11 stretch of woodland. Again the girl seemed plunged in thought. Hut at last the man tcuinrk cd a lilt lamely: "Perfect day, Isn't it?" The girl looked up at him shyly. Her eyes were soft and luminous. "Oh. I have had the most beautiful hour there In the woods. I've never seen anything' half so wonderful as those little creatures doing Just as they pleased. .lust as soon as the birds tired of one tree or bush or fern they Hew off to another. They did not mind me nor each other. Just think of being Jlke that till your life!" The man looked at her curiously, as if she were a now specimen of the genus feminine and entirely worthy of deep study. "It is all so different from what I've been used to. I wako up knowing that Marie will be right there ovltli my chocolate. And then will cotno cards and mall and (lowers and Aunt Mar garet. Of course Aunt Margaret Is a dear, but ten years of doing things right under Aunt Margaret's eyes aro very tiresome. Don't you think so?" -a man quite dlffcieiit the men I have ever 1 am (pute sure It must Ih a terrible bore." re; Pod the man gravely "And 1 hen ieiiig the same people every w here you g and being quite iiro that .vou will see no 010 that Am t Margaret has not soon tlrst " The man bit his lip at this naive con fos;lon "Ho you know." said the girl, waxing c(i'!iii'ei!tlal as the e-ir lazed along over the tree hung mad. "Do always dreamed of having a man come to my loseuo .lust like thls-a man I had never known ,'roni any of met" She paused, and the man at her side studied her with grave eyes. "Now. there was P.esslo Stewart she married .lack C'oghlan. They'd gone to kindeigarten and dancing school together. And then she'd gone to all his college proms' ami the same cotillons. Why. It was Just like marry ing some one who had lived In your own family nlwav . "Anil now they're bored to death with each other. '1 hey had a honey moon tit Monte Carlo, where they had been the year before on the Kordou Jones yacht, and they came back to the same old round ol teas and dinners and dances. There was r.o romance In that." The man shook his head. "Hut Harriet, one of our parlor maids, lnnrricd a miner way out west. She met him by answering an adver tisement in a matihuoiilal paper. He came east after her, and she wrote Marie that they were awfully happy. lie had never beaten her once." The man liung back his head and The Fairy Godmother. By JEROME SPRAGUE. Copyrighted 1W. bv Ass .Id 1 ll( r;ir I 'less laughtfM, and the girl laughed with hhn. Then suddenly she clutched his sleeve. "You've passed the Dalton turnpike, and I must be at Stoneywold for lunch." "Wo are not golag to Dalton." said the man calmly. "I've been out this way before. Just two miles beyond we will cross the state line." "Hut whj ? Oh, I must go on to Stonoywol'dV' The man Ig'iorod the ronintU. ftAnd" across the st-tie line, T under- 0 world stand, there is no need ot a ueene. ifliom' Hir said the girl very softly, and the great car stopped beneath the arch of frehly leaved trees. o Hunt: aside his heavy driving g'.ovos and too!; the delicate, sensitive face of the girl between his two bauds "Will you, dearest?" Her eyes stopped dancing and turned wondrous tender. "Oh. 1 hoped you'd understand, but I did not dream" "Will you. dearest?" persisted the man. She lowered her long lashes over the eyes into which lie tried so hard to pane. Later she murmured from the shelter of his arms; "But I want to tell vou the (ruth, Lester. I never loved you till Just this minute. And I had made up my mind lhat If you did noi understand I would just" He threw on the power. "Let us get across the Hue quick be fore you change your mind again." Iliram Manning. Justice of the peace in the -th district, plucked at his beard and regarded the couple doubt fully. "I'd like f oblige you. but this ain't no Gretna Green, an' well. I don't mind telllu' you that the girl looks un der age." "Hut 1 am not." protested the girl. "1 am twenty." "Not castln" 110 reflections, ina'nm. but I'd like some proof" The girl and the man looked at each other; then the girl's troubled glance trnvded to the table, and a smile L- ..iicncd her race. "Isn't that proof enough that my family are willing?" She held the paper toward the jus tice with the face of a girl peering straight from the printed page. The Justice looked from the picture to the girl, and Ills race alternately Hushed and paled. "Gosh all hemlocks, you're Hanker Clatlln's girl, and he he's" "Yes," said the girl, her eyes dune Ing. "He Is Lord Graniaton. Hut. In deed, lie's very nice In spite of the fact," she added as Justice of the Peace Manning continued to stare in credulously at the? man's slim Ilgtire in its disreputable motoring apparel. "You wait a lilt. I'll be right back," said the Justice, with sudden accession of spirit, and ho started for the door. The girl and man sprang aftpr hhn. "You are not going to telephone to town to those wretched reporters. Please, please, let us be tnnrrlod quite alone, with just some of your family for witnesses." cried the girl. "Yes." added the man nervously. "We've just run away from all that sort of thing -pillle, don't you know. Please let us get away quietly. Don't telephone, I bog of you." "Telephone nothlif," exclaimed the .tustlco heartily. "I'm Just goln' to put tii my Sunday suit. Never expect to mnrry a millionaire's girl and n lord again In my time." Hubbies didn't care whether It was appropriate or not; she wanted It. and she was saving up her money to get It. 1-2 very morning when she went to the store she found the girls talking of their 'umiiior hats. "What kind ate you g.dng to have?" they would ask her. and Hubbies would laugh-the gay bubbling laugh that had given her her nlckname-and would say, "Walt and see, girls; wait and see." "Oh, pillle!" one of them said 011 a certain Juno morning. "I don't believe you're going to get a hat." "Walt and see; wait nr.d see." said Hub'i'os provoklngly. And then after the store was closed she went annual the corner and looked at the hat with the white feather. The price was In plain sight -$10. P.ubbhs turned $1 a week. Out of that she paid her aunt .VJ.-'O fir beard. Fifty cent'! went for ear fare, and the rest sin. had for herself. Since last summer "-he had managed to sine $!..".(), and the other tlfty would add the complete amount necessary to buy the hat with the white Teat her. S'. decided to tell Alice Forbes about It. Alice was at (he ribbon counter, while Hubbies sold nolions. Their ac quaintance rose from the fact that they walked home In the same direc tion. "I'll have to wear It with all my old blue suit." Hubbies said as she went along. "Hut I don't care. I've made myself a white net waist, and it's awfully becoming." "Ton dojl'iis Is n lot Tor a hat," Alice wild quietly. Hut Hubbies laughed, with her head (lung up and her bright eyes shining "Oh, what's the use of living." she paid, "if a girl can't have something pretty now; and thou?" Alice iiedd'eiT. tVr bl A Thackeray Slip. Thackeray asked Lowell to point out candidly any error of Queen Anno English In the novel "Henry Ksinond." Lowell asked If people used at that time the phrase "different to." "Hang It all!" oiled Thackeray. "No, of course they didn't." lite eyes were wb tftil. "That's what I think." she raid. "Now. there's a remnant of rib-1 Lou tit my counter. It's white, with 1 bun. lies of pink roses on It. 11 would make a lovely girdle, and I could buy I a while dross for 15 cents a yard and a little wreath of pink roses In the mil linery department, and then I could be bridesmaid for Millie Drake." "Does she want you to bo?" Rubbles nsked, with interest. 1 "Yes," Alice said. "Jlnimle Hryan Is ' to be best man." "Oh!" Hubbies was silent for a mo ment. Then she asked, "Don't you think you can afford the dress?" "No," Alice said ( iletly, "1 can't. And I told Millie hi'-t night to ask you, Bubbles. 1 knew .vou wouldn't mind being asked second, because I'm her oldest friend. I lai I the piece of (low ered ribbon away this morning, so that if you wanted It you could have it. "Yon could make a white net skirt to your new waist. It would be awfully pretty with the pink roses." Hut Hubbies was looking at her curi ously. "Don't you mind." she asked"! mean not being bridesmaid?" "Yes, I do." Alice said, and Hubbies snw that her eyes wore full of tears. "Hut I have (0 give all of my money to mother now (hat father Is sick and can't work." "Well, it's a hard old world," Hub bies remarked as they reached the cor ner where they separated. "If I decide to take the ribbon, Alice, I'll let you know in the morning." At the next corner Hubbies mot Jim into Hryan. ".Ilinmle." she said, with iter gray eyes challenging him "Jinunle. nro you going to lie best man at Millie's wedding?" "Sure." answered Jinunle "cutaway, white flower in my coat and all the rest of the agony." "And me to walk up the nlslo with you?" said Hubbies. Jimiule looked at her in surprise. "I thought Alice was going was go ing to do it," he said. "Alice can't get the clothes," Hub bies Informed ldni, "and if I wasn't a tiolflsh pig I'd get them for her, but 1 want a white feather in my summer hat." Jinunle hesitated. "Look here, Hub bies." he said ti little awkwardly, "ain't there some way you could make Alice think you wore getting her dress and let me pay for it? I'd like to do It." Hubbies caught her breath quickly. "Why. Jluiinlor she said. Jliuinle flushed. "She has an awful hard time," he said. "Yes, she does." Hubbies agreed ab stractedly. She was a little white, but I she still smiled at Jlnimle. I "So you don't want me to bo brides- nuild with you?" she (eased, still with a funny catch In her breath. 1 "Aw, Hubbies," no stammered, "you know I think you're nbout the nicest thing ever" "Hut you'd rather have Alice walk tip the aisle with you," was her quiet reminder. Jtl wouldn't," ho "lirit I'm sorry for Aluo.' "Of (dirso." Hubbies ngiccil, and then she went on to plan. "I could get her the thing and tol! her Ihe money had eomo to mo uiu-'.poctedly " "1 am arrald that wouldn't do." was Jlur.ulo's worried 1 espouse "She'd feel as If she had lo pay It back. Yon jet the things and send them to hoi and don't have any mink on the box. and she'll never hi. iw where the. iaii'0 from." '"". I can't get the things we talked about." Hubbies f.r.hl, "or idle would know light away. Do you care how much you pei.d. .nuiuiic?" "No," he told her with the leekless lies of th skilled labour who on ins his $.' 11 dav; "10. I don't." "Then I'll get a loto dtoss of pink mull wllii a w loath of silver ro,os She'll look like a dieam, Jlnimle." "I hepo she will." ,l'i mill It said, and Hilbbles sighed. "Goodhy. Jinunle," she said as she came to the tenement where she lived on the third floor. lie looked at her anxiously. "You're not cut up about not being bildesmald. are you?" he asked. She shook her hoed. "No," she an swered bravely. "Well, .vou'io pretty nice, Hubbies," he said heartily, and then he went oil his way. When Hubble'' reached home she took tit her hoarded store of money. Willi what she would add on her next pay day she would have .? I'), and she could buy the hat with the white feather. She fingered (he money for a mo ment, and then she dropped her head on her arm with a sob. for Hubbies had wanted that hat to wear to church on Sunday morning when she sang In the choir with Jimiuio Hryan It had been Tor Jlmn.Ie's admiration that she had craved the pretty hat. And. after all, It was Alice that Jlmuile eared for. Two davs later Alice came to hoi counter breathlessly. "Oh, Hubbies," she said, "such a wonderful thing has happened!" "What?" asked Hubbies Innocently. And then Alice told her ol the won derful gown and the dainty mccssorios tint had come the night boi.io In a big box. "I can't liuogine wlr sent them." ' "It iiiu-l have bc-n a f..Iry gnl- mother," said Hubbies demurely. 1 "And now I ea'i be Millie's brides maid," caroled Alice when she had exhausted till her conjectures as to the giver. "You won't mind, will you, Hubbies?" "No," said Hubbies steadily. And as she sold needles and plus and hooks and tyes and whalebones and a hundred ami one other things that day she told herself that she did not care. Why should she want to walk beside Jinunle Hr.uin when he preferred to have Alice? She passed the window with the hat with the white feather that night with out a glance, and on Sunday she wore a plain little black sailor with a cheap red rose, nod she looked prettier than ever In Jt. "Alice thinks you're a fairy god mother," dio told Jinunle after serv ice. "Say, did she like It?" he demanded. "Of course she did," sail Hubbies "Who wouldn't?'' Hut Jlnimle did not answer Imme diately, lie stood looking down at her 10T.1; iioro. r.niiDies Aim m xtiv ytr,nr ow of the (lowering almond bo htf'at out his arms. And Hubbies, having wept :t !fttte weep of Joy on his broad shoulder. ?t ii) and wiped her eyes. "Ain't 1 jd.sri lr didn't spend all my money for UaV. feather. Jlmnilo?" she naltl. "I'll jrev Ihe white net skirt and wear the j'; but rlbbon"- "A'ul a diamond ring," InforrnntotX! Jimiuio "A diamond ring! What for'' rfv inauded Hubbies. "Heeause we're engaged," said Jim' ndo raptutously. Economy Begins nt Home. "I hear you're teaching your son ( play draw poker. Do you think tfviir w Iso?" "Certainly, lie's bound to loiirn from-i some one. If he learns from ttw ft; keeps the money in (ho family." Krc York- Life. Three Queer Things. The curious things which occur to the world on a given day would u--doubt If collected excite the woudor oC" the most incredulous. Yet In 11 slttk newspaper there was recentlj found an account of a woman who nad guilty of so infamous a proeoodlnc; .'js piing lo sloop at a shop while tin. a -sistanl was in the act of showing tire some diess stuffs, accompanying ilu oNlilbiiniu with the usual olotptciiw of thc.se Individuals. The second related the aeufouoss two trumps who conceived the Idea 'if going to a fancy dress ball lu theii -ordinary attire. As may be imaglui!.. they devoted the best part of thc.u 1 1 m o to a serious Inroad on thv nr sources of the supper room, itmcb. li. the amusement of the whole patty who naturally thought they weic guests who had been Invited to tf entertainment and who, having ucidir thi'iuselvea up with exceptional skillful- their assumed parts, were earning-.-out the idea of the characters- ttrry represented for the purpose of the je.i. The third story was that of at :ifi seiitmlnded young woman who war. plajlng with a pair of scissors ami' proceeded to trim off lie;- oyobrovrsk quite unconscious of what shy vnisx doing. Pearson's Weekly. "Say, little girl," he said presently "vou look mighty nice lu that hat. ' "It cost just Sl.fiS," Hubbies Inform ed lit 111 glibly, "marked down from $'J." "I don't care what It cost," .llininie stated. "You look mighty nice." Hubbies couldn't resist saying, "Hut not half as nice as Alice will In lhat pink robe." "Hubbies, 1 believe you're jealous, Hashed .1 Inutile unexpectedly. Hubbies' cheeks (lamed. "Why, Jim iule Hr.xan!" she faltered. "Look hero." Jinunle demanded, "did you think I was In love with Alice?" Fuder his keen scrutiny Hubbies was forced to admit, "I couldn't very well help it, could I?" "1 was afraid you would." Jinunle said, "that day when I planned to get her the things, but 1 had promised. Oh, look here, Hubbies, you come out to the park with me. and I'll tell you about It." And all the way to the park Hub bios' heart sang, nipl she seemed to walk on air. and she was glad that she hadn't bought the hat with the white feather. She was glad she hadn't been extravagant, for Jlmnilo seemed to like her Just as well In the black sailor with the red rose. In Hie paik the beds were full of Jonquils and tulips and hyacinths and crocuses, and under the (lowering alm ond tree Jlmuile and Hubbies sat down to talk. "You see," Jlmnilo explained, "there's Hob Travel's, ami he's In tho navy, and he's away on a three years' cruise, and he made me promise that I'd look after Alice they've been In love with each other since they wore kids -and when Alice's rather got sick I tried to help, but they wouldn't let 1110, and It seemed as If getting her the dress would be what Hob would want 1110 to do, and now he's going to get homo In time for the wedding, and I told Millie she'd liavo to have him for best mini.' "Oh!" cried Hubbies, aglow with happiness. "And (lion I (old her how much I Hiniiirlif st I'rtii ntiil clwi vnti44j nu it lin declared stoutb', ... 41" ....,;.. ' ..., rtl. ,..,, t iy. wjv " 1-uunis t'iiiiji mm vjii, vivii, Denton sncl Dar'.cn. In the "Thirty Years In the I'liKcd? States Senate," by Thomas Hart P-jn (on, MI-soiuTs famous Fulled Statu senator, there Is scant mention of Wotfc ton's colleague from Missouri, Davidr Hartou. The only place in which hfc name occurs Is where Senator Hen ton gives the roll call or the senate, ami' Harlon's name of course is therein contained. Ponton undertook to pun ish Hartou by ignoring him and thus relegate the llrst United States senn tor from Missouri to oblivion. Hrto had brought about Kenton's election to the somite. Harton was (lrs( unitied by the legislature, and. there was u loop contention as to tile second Henutor hhip. Finally Harton's friendship fw Kenton brought about Kenton's elec tion, latter the two quarreled over the appointment of an Indian agent lit tiw ftir west and drifted further and fur ther apart. Finally the relations be twceii the two senators bcuut Mich. that they scarcely spoke to wiv an other when they met. Kansas Ctt;-,. Star. . M.r Misfires of Young lder Air usually has no weight, but when placed lu a barometer It is found to weigh about fifteen pounds u square-. Inch. If a small hole wore bored in the toe or a barometer tube, the mercury would shoot up In a column thirty fool . high. A right angle is PO degrees F." Hydrogen Is colorless, odorless aud Insolvent. A cuckoo Is a llilng that turns frci. ji butterfly Into a moth. Horsepower Is the distance bore- can carry one pouuu 01 wim-i hour. The earth revolves on its own axfcr :i(ir times In twenty-four hours. This rapid motion through space causes Us sides to perspire, forming dew. fin vcrsily Correspondent. ., 1. .V. nd Lords.""" - 1 ocnaio sou uurua. - "k The Hrltish house of lords is a sur vival of the ancient aristocracy of th kingdom, which for a long time was, supremo in all national matters. Yhc-r. the -democratic sentiment won a pktct . for Itself In the shape of the house of commons the natural and tipparciitf.' indestructible conservatism of the Krlt ish people held 011 (o (he House of lords as u cheek upon the commons- and rr, perpetual reminder of the ancient insti tution. The sonate of the United States was the result of the compromise struck between (ho Nationalists arult States' nights parties In (he conventtcuv that formed the constitution. Sonw . were for merging the representative In a slnglo body, whllo others insisted , upon the second chamber ((he st-witu) , as a recognition of the polltlcnl equality x of (he states. . . . An Inspiration, Little Willie-Say, pa, what Is an In spiration? P11--A11 inspiration, my son,. Is the sudden recollection of some en. who will probably stand for a touefc. r, ICausas City Newshook.