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About Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1901)
etty , or he I By J. II. CONNBLLY. C WrlMl'tiHw ' rl l tl. Illnlurt Jl < ' cr'n 8 < ifl , [ All Mplif * retnrreil J CHAPTER VL-lConlitiucd. ) | It wns hardly dny nl nil. d " certidn- ' ly WHN uot n good iliij. MfJht. of Ihe ( l1" | dlnnry sort , was not due for n good hidf i lour yol , but M mj nitfht hnd already set In. Tin' nlr HUH full of niveous brightness , from I lie white , ley erytais thnt lillc.l II. I.ichl could f > t I'cuetnite ' It iiioro tlmn n few y"ds in any dirce- tlon Ktcmllb , Init there were momentary Kllmpe.s afforded , tliroutili UIP wildly whlrlhiK mass of snow Makes , of objects tnr away , that , so s-et-n , 1""mcd tip in rxnKRcrated proportions with it weird ef fect of obvious unreality. The wind WIIH fioltnt and umeasiiiK , blowing , UK null- era .sn.r , "from all quarters at once , " and tlio dry , idiarp snow , dashed and swept by it In vast billow * and nwirK stung like needle polalp , the thin , while fare of tlio little colporteur. A myriad of mi- neon hands Deemed clutching hi * " 'I" ' , flnpphiK cloak and striving to clniK it from his should'-rn. Stumbling , sliding , shielding hN eyes s well as he could and groaning beneath the weight of Ids load , which seemed ti > prow heavier at every inniuent , lie hhuf- fled aloiiK down the nlopc into the valley , now and then glancing furtively hack over his shoulder , Until he had left the little grove of maples well behind him , the air above and around WIIK full of tones , as if from a ireat ; aeollan harp ; but Jn the open valley , oppressive stlll- noBH , broken only by an occasional } an- jry scream of the wind blub overhead , , surrounded him. "A queer-looking little DH { . that , " re marked big Constable Sim Mulveil , when .the door closed behind the book vender ; "nnd not overly well fixed to be out In an nll-tarnatlon storm like this. " "lie Is unfortunate. " "Yes ; and BO are we. It's eonsumedly unfortunate that this consumed snowfall ahould come on the first night u the ipellln' school this season. " "Oh , the young folks will liot mind It or , perhaps 1 should rattier HIIJ , ' they will like it , since it will brine sleigh ridiiiR , which they esteem a plenum c. " "Well , I Riiess we'd better be get ! In' ready for "em. I brunt ; along a lot of cnmlles , and I suppose the old eaudle- ttlcfi.s we used last winter have got to tie fetched down from the loft. " "No ; J had them taken down and clean ed yesterday. They arc piled behind my desk. " "Good ! I'll put them up. GUCCH you're right. Haecoon Creek gals will turn out wel ) , no matter whether there's a snow itorm or not , and we want to get the place bright and cheerful , so'a they'll want to come again. " The little colporteur had struggled on until the mighty wall of the Devil's Hack- bone stood squarely up before him , bleak and black , seeming vast and Inaccessible. Its head was far up In the very home of the tempest ; Its front covered with a n-ritlHng , twisting , quivering miiKS of anus , the leafless branches of the trees , that threatened and fought with the storm. The highway ho was on .ran along ; the , creek to a little bridge half a aillc farther down stream' , across which lay the road that ascended the acclivity t its end. lOaeh moment , as he trudged steadily toward the bridge , he glanced up at the frowning mountain. More and more repellent , even aggressive , It seem ed , lie grew afraid of It. At length he turned suddenly and ran down a cross end that took him directly away from it , tohhing as he went : ' 4'No ! No ! I can't do ill , Not to save ( tny life ! Not even for thole , silken I' . ' / ' ' CHAPTER VII. -Rider township claimed to hold the or thographic championship of Washington County. Three successive winters it bud , in a series of spelling matches , held toward the close of the school seasons , defeated each of the adjoining townships , oud none of thohe more distant ventured to contest its proudly vaunted claim to nupremacy. Such amiable distinction had sot been lightly won , and thai it had been pained was due almost wholly to the per- Extent determination and educational ability of Mr. 1'arsons. Each winter , al most as soon as he opened school , , he TOOK tne preliminary steps lit tne annual campaign. To begin with , ho held tWo' erJthrce general spelling contest * , to bring out the best orthographic talent of the community , from which he made up his class for special training. Maintaining landing in that class involved really hard work , for it was held only by merit. One by one its weaker members were weeded out until only those remained who lad a just confidence In themselves and iu one another. Had not the master , single-handed , the flrst winter he was here , defeated the scjghborlng townships ! Kver since then It ) had been "ruled out" from active par ticipation in the matches , It being gen erally conceded that he was "jin the ame as a dictionary. " Kvcry trluky lit tle word , made dllllcult by the Inclusion of letters that had no reasonable busi ness In It , was known to him ; with every contorted polysyllable horror that no or dinary man could be expected to remem ber , he was upon terms of untramineled intimacy ; with every absurd word , spell- fd one way and pronounced another , he vrts familiar. The dictionary might , per- Inps , know more about thy mere mean ings of words , but for their real use , that of being spelled , "It could give him no points. Very bright and cheerful the old school loif-e Interior was that stormy night , when people began to arrive. A rude tnudelabruni , made from a discarded fcugsy wheel , pendent In the center of the room , supported a dozen1 , candles ; other cumllos , on the schoolmaster's dc.sk , tanking the dictionary which was dis played for style rather than use nnd long the walls , made the place almost brilliant. Desks weie piled out of the -n-ay and benches arranged In a double row on three sides of a central hollow qnare , as If for n dance. The stove glow- Ad red , and the blf pot of water upon It steamed like a sap ltd tie In migar-mak- Ing time. All these arrangements were the worl : < \ ( Indiiutrions Slim on Mnlveil , till1 constable , lie never knew clearlj the line at wlilch his ollU-lul responsibilities ended , and , being determined to do his whole duly , was always ready for liny sen-lee that the public Interest seemed to him to demand. "Karly candle-light" being the under stood hour for comuu'iircnunt of the pro ceedings and 111' ' participants being prompt notwithstanding the storm , which only seemed to stimulate the hearty humor of a ! ! the big school room was soon filled b.a . hustling , mildl ) ex cited throng of friendh and neighbors. Whether itva due to the elevating in fluence of a study of orlhography or to the mnlllr.\lng effect of the presence of so many pretty girls may not be with cer tainty averred , but tli" fact is bejond dh- pute that at the spelllm ; school niivting-i not even remembrance of that old grudge between the Camerons and the Mulveils ventured to tdinw it" ugly head. And this was really siirpiising , since at thexe earlier stages In I he work of selec tion and training , two thirds of those present would be in lighting humor be fore the evening was over. Mr. Par sons had a way of lining keen sarcasms is pins to fasten In the mediories of his 'lass ' remembrance of the words they failed on , and , while his biting speeches ertalnly had that effect , they stirred up n his victims Impulses of rage llnjt were iflen hard , to repress. The girls come- lines coitfil scarcely keep from crjlng , nit if they had wept , Mr. I'aisons would not have minded It in the least. Sever ity wa , from his point of view , a neces sary means to the end in which all had i common interest , and , after his verbal ash had ceased Htlnglng , even the vic tims conceded that he was right. Old folks and young , married and sin gle , maids and haclicior-t , all took the floor , spelled as long as they could with out error , and one by one went down In the struggle for survival of the orthographically - graphically fittest. lOven the most en thusiastic advocate of spelling matches as an Improving sort of amusement could hardly have conscientiously pronounced the exercise altogether free from a flavor of monotony. Old Cyrus laii ( .ey made a welcome variation , when he was Igno mlnlously thrown by "psilophyton , " and talked back , avowing his convictions that the word was wrongly spelled in the dic tionary and that it was an estray from some outlandish foreign langinigi1 , which had no place properly in an English dic tionary , anyway. Under cover of the general hilarity over that episode , John Cameron , finding the gradual reduction of the class had brought him and Hetty Mulveil side bj side , seized the opportunity to whisper to her : "May J take you home to-night ? " With such a thrill of gladness in her heart as made it hard for her to loot ; un conscious and whimper low , she answered : "Ves. " Only ono word , and uttered In a tone not lender than a gentle sigh , but it pro loused Itself in waves of delicious mu. ic in John's brain and dulled his tense of meaner sound * and thinj3 , so that he was promptly floored by a word that he knew as well as his own name , and had to sit down. lint he didn't mind the tem porary defeat. lie was certain of being one of the elect , anyway. Parsons knew ho could be depended upon in a t-orlons cmc.rgunoy. P.ut he did \\lsli the school master would i t look so confoundedly knojvlng as If nV understood how that word came to be missed. Hufus Goldie , who had come to grief early In the game , having had more than an hour of nothing else to do than sit still and look at the girls , had made up his mind that Hetty Mnlveil was the , ( lower of tlio collection and that he would escort her home. It made him smile to think how cunningly he would maneuver to secure her company In advanceof , , oih- ors less Ingenious , who mightl'Jin.ve tlll < same Idea. Quietly he slipped out , wliu'n ' he saw that the exercises were drawing to a close , got his borrowed horse and cutter ready , returned and siopd.waltlng. The Instant the class was dismissed , he stopped quickly up to Hetty and , with what he deemed his tno t fascinating combination smirk and bow , proffered the customary formal Invitation : "May I have the pleasure of escorting you , Miss MulvellV" "Thanks , " she replied , coolly. "My ar rangements are already made. " Already ! Kufus was not simply sur prised ; he was astonished. The possibil ity that his attentions mi ht not be wel comed , even eagerly , had not occurred to him ; and his egotlr > m suffered a rude shock. A couple of girls , who had heard both proposition and declination , giggled mischievously , and he knew that his hav ing "got the mitten" would be a popu lar theme for heartless merriment at his expense. Worse yet. other girls , not wishing to have It said they would ac cept whatJIetty Mulveil rejected , would also "give him the mitten" if he made ad vances to them. Confused and red with anger , he btood aslde , sullenly determin ed to what her " " see "arrangements" were. In a minute more , he was satisfied bit terly. John Cameron , having unblanketed hl < horse and seen that the robes In the cut ter were all right , returned to the school room , with his big driving coat on and VIH ) ! fur cap in' his hand. Exultant happi ness Jighled up his handsome face , mid he walked straight 'to Hetty , seeming to be conscious of nobody else , us if she had been alone among trees , Instead of surrounded by other young persons. And Hetty , mcettiiR him with a smile , resign ed herself to his assistance and care , lie helped to put on her heavy cloak ; aided In wrapping about her head the great , tleecywhltc comforter , that was to keep her shapely ears from freezing ; buttoned her cloves and tied the strings of the red woolen mitts that covered them. Then he put her hand on his urn and led her on I to ( lie fllrlgh , where he lucked her In \vartnlj mnntu ' , HIP roliM. Unfit * ( 'iridie watched the { irocccdinir * , mid , hirtfiphonVnHjr sppnklnjf , xmi-died the lei-ili of his mill. To hnvg been "cut out" by any other man would have been bud enoiuh , but that Joiin Cniiieron should he bH Hiiccessfnl livni xecincd to him an OHpccIul aggravation by malignant fate. UolltiiK the subject sniuml in Ids mind It noon begun to assume n Ktr.ingi' form and color. lie actually tmcucdid In making himself believe tiiat he was in love with Hetty Mnlveil. He was not really * < > , his fueling was wounded van ity , not jealousy ; nevertheless the hallu cination took an ineradicable hold upon i him and , by persistent cherishing , i vein- ually achieved a very strong simulation of reality , niilllelc.it , In his estimation , to justify the inteiisllicd hate with which he regarded John C.imcroti. i Mut there w.i.s no acii false analysis .of ImpuKiM In I he mind of the big urn- ; stable , Islmeon Mnlveil. He was really j and thoroughly in love with his pretty i cousin Hetty , and had only been restrain- j t oil by baslifillness from plainly selling forth that fact to her long ago. Being at least a doxcn jear.s her senior , he had made tljc mltlake of ( no long continuing to look upon her as a child. During at leas ! a jear past he had been saying to himself'very erroneously Hint which be had been quite correct In , two or three years before : "She Is ton young to mniry jet , and It would only scare her to say nnj thing nliont II ; but , when the time comes , I'll be I here. " Well , the time hud come and he was not theie ; a fact that he was Instantly and painfully conscious of when he met John and Hetty together coming out of the school house door. What he saw in their laces and attitudes in that moment made him know that he had waited too long. Perhaps , for aught he then knew , only a day ; but that was enough for all the mischief po-isilde to his cherished opes. And that very evening his cam- , aign was to have opened ! lie had form- ilnted what seemed to him an excellent 1 , ' ihtn for winning her by gradual ap- roache.s , commencing by taking her mine in bis sleigh from that first spelling chool of the season , and thenceforth , by weight of established precedent , contin- ling to do PO all winter. P.y the time spriyg should come , ho would have won ier. After the first step , all would be asy. And now the first step had been aken by John Cameron ! The rccollec- ion of that name added fuel to the lire of iIs Jealous wrath. That a Cameron should come poaching on the Mulviil preserves , capturing the fairest Muheil n the valley , was unendurable. Simeon was in a lit mood for almost any dospei- ute deed when ho thiew himself into his lxh alone and lashed his horse into a gallop to be all the sooner away from the oiind of voices and the sight of people. Little knew or cured John and Hetty of the evil passions they lelt behind them as they sped swiftly away , to the merry jingle of the sleigh bells and the conli- ilential " 'ah , 'sh" of the crisp , fresh- fallen snow. John could drive well with its right hand , which was fortunate , since his left was needed to hold Hetty securely in the cutter ; and she nestled lose up to him as 1C afraid she might fall out. 'I've always rather lilted spelling schools. " sajd he , when they were well miller way , "but I've a better opinion of them now than ever. " "Why. 1' hardly thought we did so well to-night as at the beginning last year , " she replied , demurely. "I'm not thinking about that. So far as spelling is. concerned , I wouldn't care if the dictionary was kicked over the moon. This In what I'm crowing about , this right now. " "Why ? Are you so fond'of sleighing , Mr. CameronV" "Sleighing ! YPS , 1 guess so , when I've got the dearest , sweetest , best girl In the world tucked in alongside me. " "Oil ! Don't squeeze me so ! You're strong as a bear , John. " "Did I hurt you , Hetty ? I'm real sorry. Indeed , I am. I didn't mean to. It seems as if I' was bound to be danger ous to you every lime 1 come near you. Kirst , I shoot iou. You don't know how sorry I've been about that or how I've thought over It ever shite. " "Don't do so any more. You were not to blame , and it didn't amount to any thing at all. " "And you're mire you haven't got any hard feelings against me for It ? " "Why , of course I have not. What an absurd idea ! " "Will you prove it ? " "Prove it ? Why , how ? " "Ily paying toll without a fight at the little bridge over the run that we are just coming to. " "I don't see what good It would do for me to fight with such a big , strong man as yon are. " Oh , Hetty , one look out of yonr eyes has more power than all my strength ! " "How you do go on , John ! " "Yes ; we go on together ou the bridge , now. " She did not fight of course not. Had she not already reenirnired the uselcfs- ness of attempting to do so ? And their lips met frankly in a long , ardent kiss , the sweet sacrifice Love lays upon tlio altar of Custom , under the pretty , time- honored excuse of "paying toll. " ( To be continued. ) of Most of the Hrltlbh regiments luivo their owu newspapers , published oneo u month. The news consists chlclly of matters pertaining to the olllcoru ntiil men of thu regiment and their families , but the papers also devote regular columns to sporting news , liu- mor. poetry or other departments. AH contributions are from members of the regiment. These papers are much in favor among the olllrcrs and soldiers , ami many of them are very well ed- Ueil. llitlnnco ol" Trade. "Eggs hnvo gouo awny ii | > . " said the comedian. "Ill such case , " said the- eminent re pertory artist , IJanies Tormer , "me- thlnks wo can well reducetlio price of admission and attract tlio hoi polloL What say you ? " Indianapolis Press. Saturday A It Is noted that more society wed dings take place In London ou the Sat urday than oa ouy other day lu th week. i . ARE WOMEN INFERIOR TO MEN ? x-7JDJINO ( by tliu amount of Buffer- /-Ji in. , ' nnil 111 health one finds among - ' highly ulvillxuU women , ouo would Kiippiw tlmt they wore naturally weak er than nu'ii , hut If onu loolw further nlield ono inevitably comes lo tlio con clusion that their physical Inferlotlty Is tin1 result not of Hex , but of some- Ih'itig wrong In their manner of life. j Among the savages the strength and endurance of woman seem to equal those of man , and , as a gem-nil rule , her lord nnd master allows her tlio privilege of dolni ? the hardest work and bearing the heaviest burdens. A Mex ican woman tllin lite ground , attends to the household , looks after the children and when migrating to another place trudges off with a load of goods and chattels on her shoulders and the younger members of her family perehc-d on the top of all. ' In Germany women work beside their husbands on the farms and apparently are as capable of doing so. In Austria one sees woi : n employed as masons , laborers and In carrying brinks and mortar. In Kranco ono constantly sees women digging trenches , carting seaweed for manure and doing all the heaviest work of an agricultural laborer. Prom those facts It hcems that when woman Is physically man's inferior the fault lies In her method of life , which Komehow causes physical degeneration. There seems to bo no real reason why a healthy woman should have less pow er of endurance than a man of thu K.iuie slx.e and development. Perhaps "women's weakness" might more justly be termed "women's fol lies , " for It seems an undoubted fact that medical men would have com paratively little to do were It not for the Injury that women foolishly or Ignorantly - norantly Inflict upon themselves and which tlio doctors are culled In to re pair. Dlntaticci Other Kiitivmi Fiirinci'i. When the people who live near Ilav- cnsville , Kas. , want to show visitors what a model Kansas farm looks like they send thorn out to the "Watts place. " The Watts farm was untllled and Idle prairie land belonging to t h e government until a few years ns ° - when Mls9 Ut8Slo Watts tool. up a claim of 100 MISS WATTS. acres and settled down , all by herself , to make the des sert blossom. She has succeeded so well that the male farmers of the county are often glad to come to her for advice and encouragement Miss Watts was horn on a Kansas farm near English llldge. She was one of a large family of children who , as they grew up , started out to make a living for themselves In the world. Miss IScss looked the field over when It came her turn to paddle her own canoe and de cided that she preferred agriculture to teaching school or any of the other oc cupations in vt Inch women more com- j monly engage. She declares that a large blmre of her success as a farmer Is duo to the fact that she bad a good education before she started and was therefore able to meet and solve prac tical problems In an Intelligent way. One Glrl'i iSON..1 Venture. A Philadelphia girl with more ingen uity than financial resources has gone Into business as a traveling window dro.ssor. Her stock In trade consists of a neat little box containing pins , tacks and a tiny hammer. She began by going to a few shops and asking them to test her powers for a trifling sum. Her taste made the experiment a success In every case , and now she has a well-paying business. Her trade lies among the small shops on uptown streets , and even extends to the stores of suburban towns within a radius of twenty miles. llolnir Well for Herself. Australian women are proud of the first woman medical practitioner and master of surgery In that continent. She la Mrs. Paul 11 o 1 k e , formerly Miss liraco Fairly Uoblnson. Mrs. Holke has charge of the women's de partment of the Sydney Henevoleut Hospital , Is a mu- M - . I.OI.KK. Blclan , linguist and student of Oriental ism. She completed with honor one of the most dllllcult medical courses In the world that at tlio Sydney University. Wives Wnutuil In Klon ItUu. Ono of the mast fruitful fields of money-making In the world Is now un. tilled , according to two Alaskan mine- owners now In Chicago. In the Cape Nome and Klondike gold districts , where millions in yellow metal are un earthed every month , where other millIons - ! Ions are made by shrewd speculators I and dealers In necessaries for the inln- j era , where the per capita wealth Is i greater than in any other part of the ' globe and women are as scarce as green trees in n desert , no matrimonial bu reau has over been organised. "If I were not engaged In other pur suits up there I think I should start a marrlngeagency , " said W. Scott Ueebe , of Teller City , a city one year old with 0,01)0 population , ninety miles up the coust from Cape Nome "The.ro ore hundreds of prosperous miners , mak ing thousands yearly , lu many cases monthly , and who don't leave the dis trict because they have too much to dote to look after their Interests. Every nice , well-behavod woman who goes up there has dozens of offers of marriage from rich men. The men would be will ing to pay large commissions for wives of a good sort , and would maintain their spouses In. regal luxury , too. " A I'ortniif < Y iin Ouclc * . For nine years Miss Frances Eller. Wheeler was a stenographer In New York flty. She was successful and made and saved peveral thousand dollars. Hefore goIng - Ing Into business her father had been well-to-do , and II was financial re. verses which made It necessary for hei to ire to work. At the end of her nine MI--S wit.i'.i.KH. successful years the family again met with reverses , and Miss Wheeler was compelled to stavl over again , with practically no capital. Hy this time her hands bud been badly Injured by excessive work on the typewriter - writer , and accordingly she looked around for some other field of endeav or. Her brother bad left a couple ol swarms of bees on a little place of three acres running down to the river at Chax.y , N. Y. .Sh determined to un dertake the ' making and selling of honey , nnd she started in at once , with absolutely no experience. The next year she began to raise ducks for the market. By hard worl : and In spite of many drawbacks she has made a his success of her little farm , and Is now In a fair way to acquire a comfort. ] bio fortune. Each season she sells ii.OUO ducks , hatched In Incubators , to say ; nothing of the many pounds of honey for which she finds a ready market. I'lip l-'nvorltc Girl. She Is the girl who is not "loo bright and too good" to be able to 11 ml Joy and pleasure all over the world. She Is the girl who appreciates the fact that she cannot always huva the first choice of everything In the world , says Woman's Life. She Is the girl who Is not aggrcsslvo and does not liud joy in Inciting aggres slve people. She is the girl who has tact enough not to say the very thing that will cause the skeleton in her friend's closet to rattle Ills bones. She IB the girl who , whether it la warm or cold , clear or stormy , finds no fault with the weather. Siie Is the girl who , when you Invite her to any place , compliments you by looking her best. She is the Irl who uiakea this world a pleasant place because she Is sc pleasant herself. And , by the by , when you come tc think of it , Isn't she the girl who makes you feel she likes you , and therefore you like her ? Women Are Wcnrimi Women have now added suspenders to their wardrobe. The poor men will have nothing left after awhile. Now i York women are wearing pedestrian i suits , with skirts that run up lu q point behind and that are finished with suspenders. All the pelf and rainy- day skirls have these suspenders at tached , and some of the long skirt i have them , too. Dip smelts or lish of any sort In lemon juice when you wish to keep tha tlesh white. For sandwiches try baking the bread in one-pound baking powder cans. This will prodnce dainty discs. A few slices of orange added to a cream of tomato soup Just before sen- ing will , it is said , Improve Its lliivor. The water In which meats are cookec should be allowed to cool , In order tha * the grease may ho removed for the drippings. A dainty tig tilling for cake Is made I by chopping one-half pound of figs , adding u cup of boiling water and one teaspoonful of lemon juice. Dates bluffed with mnrshmallows offer another form of the stuffed date relish tlmt Is a pleasant variation of the nuts oftcnest used. A half of a marshmnllow stuffs u date. In making butters of various kind * for sandwiches , llrst rub the butter tea a cream , then blend with It the llavor wanted.Cavalr , anchovy , sardine , cheese , lobster , parsley , chives , cress , chutney , chill nnd horseradish are all used. A German cook will add a tablespoonful - spoonful , or more , of sour cream to a meat gravy , greatly to Its improve ment. It changes the color of a too dark gravy to a rich golden hue. Im proves the taste and nets as a slight thickening. In making stuffed eggs , each egg should he cut in two , the- yolk removed , highly seasoned and returned to thy white , or the yolk can be used for sauce or some other purpose , and the whlto filled w'Ui ' a mixture of wcll-seasoned tomatoes and rice. UNDERGROUND NEW YORK. In Hie Nenr I'litiirc One May Pimp Kit tlte'.v Jlelow Level of tlio Street. Owing to the rapid transit tunnel In New York City , undeiwound stores urn A apt to become a feature. The city has extended some distance toward the sky : i many Instances , and now It appears o bo bent on going In the opposite ill * vet Ion. Subterranean arcades are be- ug planned by real estate speculuforH , aid they expect to make a big profit 'ruin the enterprise. In Lunifiicro square , where the built ) f realty manipulation has taken placu ccently , a combination of wealthy tgpnts who were lee late to secure sur- 'ace space have contracted for the irlvilege of building structures under ground , on n level with and adjoining the new rapid transit station. The ar- ndo Idea has spread rapidly along the ullro tunnel line. Downtown U haa liken the shape of plans to erect K'Oths and stores underground , con- lectlng with mercantile and ofllce mlldlngs. The advantage of under ground construction has given an add- (1 ( value to property all along the route. According to one enthusiastic n'oinotor , the arcades will be much more elaborate than anything ever at- inptipd In London or Paris. Instead of mere kiosks , where books , papers and lowers can.he bought , It Is proposed to rent store space to merchants In all tranches of trade , so that one so In- lined can shop entirely below the evvl of the street. ACTINU IS NOT ALL PLAY. The play world Is not all play. Dur- ; IK the past few months a number ol the disciples of Thespls have been com pelled to leave the stage to recover from the effects of Its exacting de mands. Miss Annie Russell grew faint during n performance of "A Royal Family" at. Chicago several nights ago , and Gertrude Berkeley Is aiso a vlctiiu of overwork in the Windy City. It was during a performance of "Darkest Itnssln" In Kansas City that Miss Ber keley first faltered In her lines , and then became hysterical. Later in the evening she showed decided signs ol mental derangement. IlcrmUs In Ijzrijo Towns. A newspaper the other day recorded an anecdote about a prominent West ern physician on his lirst visit bore. His dinner companion asked him Avbat Intcrestod him most In the streets of the city , and the physician replied the fact that so many persons were en countered who were talking to them- selves. He could not explain the phe nomenon to his own satisfaction , and ventured the opinion that It was be cause people were so busy and carried O their cares about with them. At least he could think of no other reason. Pos sibly It Is hecauce a great city is such a solitary place for many , and solitude , of course , promotes self-communing. Many a person heie is more truly a hermit , cut olT by Inclination or clrcum- Btanoe from his fellows , than some re cluses who live an ostentatious life ol Isolation. They pass their fellows on the street mutually unknown. Many per sons have no friends ; some have no de sire to make any ; others , probably with a gregarious Instinct , are too dittldent to push an acquaintance. So they talk to themselves as men In n desert learn to talk to themselves. In 11 smaller place acquaintances would jolt a mail out of the habit of talking to himsell on the streets , but here nobody cares. New York Commercial Advertiser. Menial l 'Die stupidity of servants Is a trial to the most even-tempered mistress , but It sometimes serves to amuse the other members of the household. There was a girl who belonged to the familial category of "children and fools. " "If anyone should call this afternoon , Mary , nay that I tun not well , " said a unstress to a newly engaged servant "I'm afraid I ate a little too much ol that rich pudding for dinner , nnd It , 01 something else , has brought on a se vere headache. I am going to lit down. " A few moments later the mistress , from her room at the head of the stairs , heard Mary say to two aristocratic In dies who called for the flrst time : "Yes'm , Mrs. B Is nt home , bill she. ate BO much pudding for dlnnei she had to go to bed. " London King. A ItnnmrknhU ) Bequest. There are some curious documonti filed In the county olllces in St. Joseph Mich. Perhaps the most curious of all is the will of n prominent Nlles town ship farmer , who went to claim his fu ture reward some years before tin Civil War. The remarkable part about the will is a passage leaving 50 centi to his daughter's husband "to buy i rope to hong his d - self with. " It Is proper tlmt the violet should b\ modest ; the violet doesn't have to K < out and hustle for a living.