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TJ1E NORFOLK NBWS : FKIIUY , MAY 21 ! , \ AT THE I ' CURTAIN'S i I FALL | I By HOMER LYNDE | / , lOOi , I fCoju/rfoM S. McClurr. CimrxniM § "Anything on for tonight , Stanley ? " "Not that I know of , Kirch , " answer- cd Harvey Stanley , looking up from IIH ! Hutnple casoH. lie roprm'iitcd lU'inls & Co. In tholr MontbuaKtern territory. " .JiiKt got In last night and haven't had time to Bee anybody yet. " "Well , " exclaimed Kirch , lighting n fresh cigar , "I'd like yonr help , then , for a few hours. There's n gang In from the west , fresh from a meeting of the Implement Dealers' association , uml we've got to entertain them to night. I've orders to do the thing np right ; no limit on the expense account. " "Sure , " mumbled Stanley without re moving his blue pencil from his mouth. "Meet yon at thu I'alac6 hoteJ at din ner. What show ? " "The Alcazar. Pre'lticst btmth of cho rus girls In town , and , If the men want It , we'll get a few of them for the sup per afterward. " "All right , " replied Stanley absently , checking up his order list. The overture was on when Harvey Stanley stood In the rear of n box gass ing past the guests of r.pinls & Co , at the brilliant house. A popular musical comedy with a star of national reputa tion had called out a representative house women in silks , laces , Jewels ami Dowers and men In the smartest of evening suits. It was a goodly world , and Stanley was glad to be in It once more. The dull , small town life hi which he had moved for three months , the primitive country Inns , the vapid crossroads conversation all these fad ed like an ugly dream. He was In his clement once more , and he glanced , , ivlth a sense of pity , at the western merchants who made up their party. They wore the rough business suits In . which they had traveled. That was one reason why Stanley stood well In the background. lie was in evening dress , and the contrast The curtain rose to n blare of music , and thirty comely young women pi Jl rouetted through the opening number. Music , jokes , the flutter of draperies , the twinkle of high heels , and the cur tain was clown on the first act. As the applause died away one of the western men said to Birch : "Where do these managers get all the pretty girls ? " "From every part of the Union. It's funny , but precious few of them are city girls. They drift Into town , some times deliberately looking for stage , work , but oftcner with higher ideals , and they are forced to It for bread and ibuttcr. There's many n little tragedy In their lives too. Sometimes they i follow city fellows whom they've met In their home town and who have filled their silly brains with nonsense about city life. And Instead of love's para- disc they find despair. " Again the curtain rose and the pag eant moved before their eyes. Sud denly Kirch whistled softly and touch ed Stanley's arm. "Lean forward a bit , Stanley , and catch n glimpse of that little girl on the end of the second row. Isn't she a peach ? Look nt those velvet eyes and those shoulders. Heavens , It's n shame to smear a face like that with makeup. She's new at the business , too , for she's watching her neighbors and the leader and has no time for chappies. But she'll get over that In time. " The comedian danced out In front of the girls. A ripple of laughter drowned Birch's next words , and he did not turn to hear Stanley's answer. The latter had taken one long look nt the girl and then had sunk back in his chair. He was not looking at the stage now. Instead he was standing in an old orchard , all gnarled trees and flut v. tering pink white petals. And it was quiet , so quiet that he could hear the happy sigh the girl gave as their lips parted , could feel the pulse In the slen der arm clasped about his neck. And the love light in her velvet eyes ! The petals falling tenderly on her soft brown hair ! He had meant to go back , but the firm had changed hia route. He had . written to her , was it twice or three times ? And that last letter of hers ? A hot flush swept over him. He had never opened It because well , what was the use ? He was never going back to Leydenvllle. Lightly tripping , gayly skipping. The line of girls swung perilously near the box , but she of the velvet eyes ( was watching a blondlncd young wo man directly in front of her. Oh , If she slipped on that square turn. And in the back of the box a white faced young man seemed to hear over and over again : "And Instead of love's paradise they find despair. " The curtain fell for the last time. The orchestra burst into an inspiring march. Birch was chatting jovially iwlth his firm's guests. "The manager of the house is n per sonal friend of mine , and I've asked him to bring a half dozen of the girls over to supper. You'll flnd them rather a Jolly lot. " The westerners accepted the sugges tion with good natured raillery. It .would be something to tell with gusto when they reached home , this supper iwlth a group of pretty singers. One man Jerked on his coat .with the re mark : "You're nil right , Birch , but don't leave out that little peach on the end of the second row. She's got the eyes nil right. " Stanley started as if stung. He grlp- ' pcd the back of a chair and spoke to Birch harshly : | . "If it'B JuHt the Bame , Birch , let me off the rcM of the owning , I'm n bit dotio up. 1'erhapH It's grip , but I think I'd hotter get around to the rooms. " lie took hasty leave of the bor party and hurried out Into the cold night air. Hotly and brain seemed on flro. Around the corner he dashed and straight up to the stage entrance. A doorkeeper held him back. Stanley thrust n bill into the man's hand. "I must see1 Miss Aldon. " She prob ably had not thought to take a stage name , he decided hastily and correctly. "She's a cousin of mine , and I've n mes sage of Importance. She must not leave the theater without my Btolng her. " He stood In the shadows of the wlngn , Kirch's cynical wortln and the western er's light Jest intermingling in his tired brnln. Presently the chorus girls trooped from their big dressing room , She was almost the last to leave , and she sprang aside nervously as he rested his hand on her arm. "Mnr'nn. ' don't you remember me ? " "Harvey ! Harvey ! " Oh , the Joy of It and back of It the pathos ! The doorkeeper heard It and nulled grimly. Ho knew the excuse had been a lie all the while , but then he had the tip. They were on the street now , a nice , dark , dismal street. "Oli , Harvey , why didn't you answer my letter ? " "I never got It. " He Hod deliberate ly. He would perjure his very soul now to make her happy , to undo the wrong he had done her. And how great had that wrong boon ! Through what had she passed In the last six months ! He was afraid to learn. "Oh. doarost. It has been so hard , " she murmured , her small hand grip ping his sloovo. "Hut every one said It was the only thing I could do. They can always make room for pretty girls in the chorus , you know. Ktit If I had known , If I could only tell you what it 1ms been" lie stopped short and took her hands almost roughly. "Don't don't say another word. I never want to hear about it It does not matter , now that I have found you. Tomorrow you will leave them do you understand , tomorrow contract or no contract. We will bo married. It's going to be love's para dise after all. " "Love's paradise ! " she murmured questionlngly. Hut he did not answer , only held her closer to him as they walked farther and farther away from the gleam of the street lights , the glit ter of the restaurants and the shouts of the cabbies. "Tad" Lincoln. "Tad" Lincoln has long been number ed among the historic boys of America. He was the complete embodiment of animal spirits , n warm hearted , fresh faced youngster , a boisterous , rollick ing and absolutely real boy , whose pranks and companionship did much to relieve the tremendous strain his father suffered under while in the White House. "Thousands who never saw the home apartments of that gloomy building , " writes Noah Krooks , "knew the tricky sprite that brightened the weary years which Lincoln passed in Washington. Ills father took great interest in every thing that concerned 'Tad , ' and when the long day's work was done and the little chap had related to the president all that had moved him or had taken up his attention during the daylight hours and had finally fallen asleep un der a drowsy cross examination the weary father would turn once more to his desk and work on into the night Then , shouldering the sleeping child , the man for whom millions of good men and women nightly prayed took his way through the silent corridors and passageways to his boy's bedcham ber. " This grateful glimpse of the man who bore the sorrows of the nation In his own heart could 111 be spared from any account of Lincoln's life in the White House. "Tad" Lincoln did not long sur vive his father. Ills death occurred In July , 1871. Success. , , Iltn FIriil Dre Snlt. He was a very youthful looking man and wore n natty opera hat and a lengthy raglan which caused him to be the cynosure of all eyes in the Arch Etreet trolley car. It was probably the first time that he had ever worn a dress suit , and as he walked into the car his painful embarrassment was no ticeable. Many smiles flitted across the passengers' features , and the young fellow noticed each one and blushed deeply. But more trouble was in otore. At Seventeenth street two red faced serv ant girls boarded the car. They crowd ed into a seat and began to talk volu bly. bly."Yis "Yis , " said one , "th * mlsthress give me a ould wrapper , an' sh" She paused here as her wandering eye rested on the conspicuous young man in the corner. "Say , Ellen , " she said loudly and with a giggle , "how would you like that for a feller ? " The young man left the car hurried ly before it had reached the street where he wished to alight. Philadel phia Telegraph. Ilovr to I.le When Sleeping. The correct posture for sloop is to lie on the right side , with the limbs stretch ed out to their full length and the arms either straight down by the body or in any comfortable position provided they are not raised above the head. The mouth should bo closed , and all the muscles of the body should be relaxed. The lungs work with greater deliber ation during the hours of sleep , and if the arms arc raised above tbe head nt this time and for any period the ac tion of the heart drives the blood away from the arms and sends it to the head , frequently making one very restless when it does not prevent Bleep entirely. 'HAVE WOMEN INTUITION ? Olio Writer Sit > n Tliry llnvti Never Nlunvii It Iti l.llrrnliirr. Literature Is the Hunt expression of human thought. If women can lay claim to a special faculty of Intuition , why do they not niunlfont It In their writings ? Intuition , If It menus uny- thing , means thu faculty that gets down to the geriu of actions and char acteristics ami focuses external traits Into n central verity recognisable to the general public. Now , there are more female writers than male. No woman poet has ever written mi In evitable line , a line that ( lashes spon taneously out of the unknown and casts an Illuminating light upon thu abyss. Woman has added practically nothing to our stock of familiar quotations. Take down your Kartlett or your an thology , and you may be surprised to flnd that from Mrs. Drowning to Mrs. Meyncll women have never coined a phrase which has parsed Into the com- moil currency of speech. Mrs. Drown ing has Indeed written fine lines , but nothing of hers can be said to Jiavc be come a household word. Nor has any woman novelist created nny character that Is generally recog nized as typical. George Eliot has come closest with her Tito Mclema and Mrs. I'oysor. You would appeal only to the educated few If you de scribed a person as a Tito or a I'oysor. Dut call a man a Don Quixote , a Mlcawber , a Dogberry , a FalstafT , a Colonel Newcome , a Dlllll , a I'arson Adams or Hob Acres , call a woman a Mrs. Malaprop , a Dccky Sharp , a Den- trice , a Diana Vernon , a Meg Merrllles , and even the Illiterate will mentally classify the Individual as you wish him or her to be classified. "Ah , but , " you say , "In real life wo men are the true Intuitions. They size up n man or a woman at a glance. They are never mistaken when they trust to their Instincts. " I can only testify to my own experi ence. I have not found that women's snap Judgments of character are Im bued with any special verity. They form likes or dislikes quicker than a man does because they are quicker on the trigger of conjecture. They can only be one of two things , right or wrong. If time proves that they are right , as they must be In 50 per cent of cases , the right guess Is remembered and treasured up by the slower minded man as an extraordinary Instance of Intuition. The wrong guess Is forgot- ton.-WillIam S. Walsh In Era. To Snvc Temp fro nnil Colliirn. "You button your collar the wrong way , " said the salesman as ho was selling neckwear to a customer. "How is that ? " "You have buttoned the right side last. Now , when you go to take It oft you will have to tug at the end of the collar and crumple It , because you can't get a proper hold of It , but If you had the left end on top you could get It off easily , then loosen the collar be hind , and the right end could be easily detached. That's why men have so much trouble taking off well laundered collars. Remember to" fasten the right side first and then the left , and you will save your collars and your tem per. " "I never supposed there was a right and n wrong way of putting on col lars. " "Try both ways and you will see. " New York Times. A troiiomlcnl Solution * . Though 300 years have elapsed since the death of Tycho Drahe , it appears that wo arc In many lines almost as far from the ultimate goal as when he began the great work of exploring the skies before the days of Kepler , when all Europe was slumbering in Intellec tual darkness. The science of the stars Indeed has been refined and perfected In an unparalleled degree and Infinitely extended In all directions , but with the bounds of darkness pushed back step by step the goal Is not and never will be In sight An infinity of objects and causes and an endless variety of phe nomena are yet to be explored , and the work of tbe mind is rather a process of development to the perfect under standing of tbe universe than the solu- tlon of a simple mathematical problem. -Atlantic Monthly. She Got a Thrifty nnibnnd. Mrs. Smith I reckon our Jane ban got a first rate husband. Mrs. Brown- Well , you ought to be thankful. Mrs. Smith I hope I am , Gusty. Of course he Isn't much to look at , and he ain't oversmart , but there's one thing , and that Is he's saving. Why , the very first day after tbe marriage he told Jane she'd better let him take tbe engagement ring back and get tbe mon cy returned. DC said there was no longer nny use for her to wear It now that she was married. Boston Tran script. Out of Place. Grocer What have you been doing In the cellar BO long ? Grocer's Apprentice 1 have been cleaning out the sirup measure. It was BO choked that It ' ' up didn't hold more'n half a quart Grocer Oh , that's what you've been doing ? Well , you take your bat and go home and tell your father to put you Into the tract distributing business. You ain't fitted for the grocery trade. London Answers. The Appropriate. Vehicle. "She seems to be a stickler for doing everything appropriately. " "I should say BO. She always does her marketing In n basket phaeton. " Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Gossip is unfair. It Is more persistent about a man under suspicion than It Is about a man well known to be tough. Atchlson Globe.- .IKVII'H Hotntilcal Uitnlrni , "The one great sight In Kultonr.orfT and the mont famous thing In Java art ) the botanical gardens , the Uncut In the world , " nays a correspondent of thu Kaunas City Star. "The gardens were Blurted In 1817 by the celebrated botanist llelnwardt and are still being coiiHtantly enlarged mul Improved. Trees , ferns , blinilw , plants and ( lowers have been gathered together from all over thu world and arranged with marvelous Kklll and taste. Every plant , treu and vine In the garden Is plainly labeled. There are great laboratories and workshops , though no hothoiiHOH aru needed. It Is , In fact , a combination of thu work of nature and of man carried to a point of perfection beyond which thu Imagi nation falls to carry one. Thu magnif icent trees , the wonderful vines , thu superb palms , the graceful fernu , thu Ulant water llowcru , the beautiful ( low ering shrubs and the curious orchids arouse an ever Increasing Interest , and for one whole morning we wandered about from one scene of beauty to an other until at last we emerged by a grand avenue of canary trees covered with giant creepers , some specimens of one variety bearing 11,000 blossoms at one time , and returned regretfully to our hotel. " Tinllolp lie Wnntril. Tim and Clancy were walking through the wilds of New Jersey , bound for New York , when Tim spied a wildcat crouched In the branches of a tree near the road. Clutching his compan ion by the arm and pointing excitedly to the beast , he wild : "Clancy , do yez see ( hot folne Mal tese cat ? OI've a'frlnd on Vasey street as wud give $10 fur ut. Stand yez un der now , an' OI'll go up an * shake her dune. All yez'll have to do IH to howld her. " Clancy did as he was told , and Tim went up and shook and shook till the cat did absolutely tumble. Clancy grabbed her. When there came a mo ment's lull In the cyclone of fur and Clancy and dust and grass , the won dering Tim , looking on from above , called down : "Shall 01 come dune , Clancy , an' help howld her ? " "Come dune ! Come dune ! " gasped Clancy. "Come dune an * help let her gol" New York Tlmen. TlH-y Dlilii'l liirferc. . Governor Deb Taylor of TenncRsoo had a heart as lender as a woman , and the way he pardoned out convicts was something awful , lie was walled upon by a committee of the legislature , who very llatly and In no uncertain way told him that thin "wholesale pardonIng - Ing must stop. " "Ciov'ner Dob" looked at the commit tee , ( aimed a bell , asked for his pardon clerk and when he came said : " .Make out pardons for every man In the penitentiary. " The clerk bowed and withdrew. Then the governor looked at the committee , who were staring as If they thought ho was going mad. "Gentlemen , " he said finally , "I am governor of Tennessee , and If this com- . mlttee or any other ever again seeks to Interfere with my constitutional right j to pardon I'll sign every one of those pardons which the clerk Is making out. j Good morning. " Denver Times. The IloiiNr Wnn SliuUjr. When John Qulncy Adams was eighty years of age , he met In the streets of Boston an old friend , who shoc'c his trembling hand and said , "Good morn ing , and how Is John Quincy Adams to day ? " "Thank you , " was the cx-prcsldent's answer. "John Qulncy Adams himself Is well , sir ; quite well , I thank you. Dut the houHC In which he lives at pres ent is becoming dilapidated. It is tot tering upon its foundation. Time and the seasons have nearly destroyed It Its roof Is pretty well worn out. Its walls are much shattered , and It trem bles with every wind. The old tene ment Is becoming almost uninhabita ble , and I think John Qulncy Adams will have to move out of it soon. Dut he himself Is quite well , sir ; quite well. " With that the venerable sixth presi dent of the United States moved on with the aid of his staff. Two Strontf Iteanonn. A certain Scotch minister In n west highland parish has never yet been known to permit a stranger to occupy bis pulpit. Lately , however , an Edin burgh divinity student was spending n few days In the parish , and on the Sat urday he called at the manse and asked the minister to be allowed to preach the following day. "My dear young man , " said the min ister , laying n hand gently on the young man's shoulder , "gin I hit ye preach the morn and ye gle a better sermon than me my fowk wad never again be satisfied wl' my preaching , and gin ye're nae a better preacher than me ye're no' worth listening tae. " IIlii Open K > - < . A man the other day went to a Dos- ton dentist to have a tooth extracted and decided to take gas. The doctor administered the hypnotic , and the man soon appeared to bo under its In fluence , but lie continued to keep one eye open. This worried the doctor , and he gave the man more gas. Still the eye re mained open. "Shut that eye , " said the doctor finally , losing patience. "Can't , " said the man In n drowsy voice ; "It's glass. " To Color The natural color of mahogany when It Is too light may bo deepened by applying n mixture composed of n half gallon of water , four ounces of madder and two ounces of fustic. Doll and apply while hot. While It Is wet streak the grain with black. This will give new mahogany quite the coloring of old. Mnillnl Avi' , , niiil > li > ii , Mnn , I4TTON PAINT C'O , , iiH m I would nimwrr til * lulu iiirrj- Vim lir wlirlimi nir > tMK < < Mill i lion I Ilk * jour " 1'nHuir. 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