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A Secret
By WIMFRED BLACK.
She's secretly merried, and she writes
n a poor, llttU tear-stained letter tell
ing me all about It and asking what iho
ought to do.
"Hv keeps telling me I mustn't tell,"
ays the letter,
"and t h en he
makes m wait
and wait, and I
don't know what
to do. ,
"I know people
talk about me. I'd
talk about any girl
that acted the way
I do, but he says
If 1 tell he'll run
away . an! never
see me again.
"I think he's
afraid of his
mother. Ilt's her
only son and she.
thinks nobody Is
good enough for him. lrt
never approve of me, but I
i;
hi i mil
ahe
out
now, and what shall I do?
Do, little sister? There's Just on thing
to'qo, and dj this very day! Stop every
one you know, In the very streets. If you
have to take them by the coat to do It,
and tell th-m, the foolish, honest, awk
ward truth.
Tell them you are married, tell It as if
you thousht, of course, they had known
It all along, and then If there's any
doubt aout It-the least lingering
particle o doubt-prove It, and be done
with. all this folly, of secret and subter
fuge. . !.''
Says he'll run away and never see you
again If you tell, does he? Tell quick and
let him run; the farther the better. What
do you want with' such a man as that,
anyhow?
How In the world did you ever hap
pen to consent to a secret masrlage In
the first Place? Thought It was romantic
and mysterious, didn't you?
Well, It Is mysterious enough In ths
name of all that's fair an'd square and
honest and tmafrald, but romantic? Ask
the first polite court attache you meet
what he thinks about It, and he'll tell
vou there's very little romance In most
of the secret marriages that come to his
notice.
Secretly married! What a story of
uu deceit, small fibs and mean sub
terfuges the very phrase tells! If I
raiiMn't be oroud of the man 1 married
and the fact that I was married to him.
The Manicure Lady
to a pretty party tost night.
-I waa
George," said the manicure laay.
have never saw such a good crowd In all
the time that I have been attending them
society functions. There waa a long time,
George, that I was thinking of cutting
out them party calls and them teas,
ete, but toe way I was treated last night
makes me fee! that there Is a lot of
good left In the world. There wasn't a
lot of talk about aigrettes and how many
thousand dollars ths latest Paris beauty
bad spent for a single frock, or how
many diamond heels some girl could go
clicking along Broadway with. It was
Just one of them little home affairs,
twhera everything went on the even
baritone of Its way, or whatever It was
that the poet said.
-Brother Wilfred was the only die
cordant feature In what would otherwise
have been a perfect evening. The poor
kid has gone to batty lately about
.L.,,. talk ahout anything
pwuy '
else, and when I heard that one of the
yaung ladles present waa a girl poetress.
I began to fear for the worst Me and
surter Mayme done our best to keep Wil
fred away from the poetress. but I
guess water on the brain seeks Its own
level because, sure enough, the liret
thing we knew there was Wilfred and
Mlas Imogene Isinglass over In a coeey
corner talking about Walt Whitman and
Elisabeth Barrett Poe and George oor-
don Longfellow, and a lot of other poets
of trhicu I have never heard of. I don't
think any of the rest of us folks would
h eared how long they stayed there.
bat most of us was young couples, and
that waa the only eosey corner in the
slaca that had any palms near It, so It
seemed more like a Rockefeller monopoly
than a ooetry talk.
ybe rest of the company was fidgety
only because they wanted one of them
ue-a-teeta tor themselves, but I v
struck With a greater and more deadly
fear. I was afraid that Wilfred would
becia the eld renting game. and. sure
enough, after be had given a few hurt lin
gering looks Into the eyes of the tody
poet, the kind of looks that some of them
csllese boy gives to me when they are
having their sails did, up springs my
dear brother, leading Miss Imogene
Marriage
I would stay an old maid to the end of
my days.
Afraid of his mother, la he? Well. If
he tried to make me compromise jny
good name with his secret business very
much longer there'd be some one else
that he'd be afraid of, let me tell you
and he'd have reason to afraid of me,
too.
No, It Isn't )uat for yourself you must
think; you must think of him, too. Tou're
a wife now. and you must have discov
ered by this time that the woman must
set the standard of a man's behavior In
these things.
If It were not for the fact that some
woman la watching, there would be very
few heroea In thla world at all. Many
live up to what the women they love ex
pect of them. Expect thla young husband
of yours to be a man, and ten chances
to one he'll be a man.
Let him be a sneaking coward for even
little while, and the first thing you
know you'll put the brand on him and
he'll be a coward all of bis life.
Afraid of his mother? Nonsense! His
mother will doubtless wonder why he
Insulted her with deceit; but she won't
eat him up for It. at that. If he won't
tell her himself, you do It Qo stralg&t
to her; go with your bead up and yottr
eyas sweet ana innocent ana un-uiaa.
Walk tight Into the room where ane is
and tell her the whole story. Ten chances
to one you'll be In her arms before
you've half begun It
Stent, maybe; but she's human, too.
or there wouldn't be any son at all. She
Isn't Mrs. Methuselab-desd to all hu
man feeling Just because ahe's forty and
over.
Maybe ahe cried herself this very morn
ing thinking of same silly quarrel she
had with the husband ahe loved when
he was your age,' the man who has
been dead for year but not forgotten
for one single moment
Maybe she will wonder why on earth
he ever married you. Every mother on
earth does that, no matter who her son
marries; but before yon know It you'll
realise that ahe's something mors than
his mother that ahe'a a woman, too; Just
a plain, loving, foolish, sorry woman like
you, and then the trouble will be all
over.
I hope she'll take that son of hers over
h. luui aive him a good spanking
before the thing Is done with for good
and all. Ha deserves one.
"N
by the hands and taking ths center of the
stage he says: 'Idlea and gents, i want
to have you all cease your festivities
long enough to hear Miss Isinglass recite
A Winter In Vermont'
Wh dlda't somebody give him the
hook?" asked the practical Head Barber,
Thev didn't have the heart," said the
Manicure Lady. "They Just looked tne
Door boob In the eyes once, ana tnen
they knew that be la struck with De
mentia pletrtna. so they took for the
nearest nit and say nothing. Then up
geta thla Mlsa Isinglass, and band It to
ua like this:
r . i hIhim tm VarTnAflt.
Neath the anowflakre Res the earth.
Every stream and every torn
Is fross lor ail lis worm.
Winter is an awful thing!
Think of all the summer dust
Burled by the snow that' king
"She baa an awful crust herself." salt
the Head Barber.
Aatearapbs.
The autograph I prise the most.
Is not a statesman's name.
Nor yet a nero'e signature. ,
Nor poeta crowned with fame.
Nor kings' nor queen's, nor great di
vine's.
Philosopher's nor aagsv.
Nor wise physician's noted for
The learning of the ages.
It Is a common cognomen
And known . to very few.
But with what unexcelled delight
Its flourishes I view!
I love Its ornate capitals
Which curly-cues bedeck:
Tis my employer's autograph
Upon my weekly check.
Women will aspslant men as wireless
operators on the steamships m the North
Faflflc If the plans' of R. H. Armstrong.
manager of a wireless tdepragh company
that has contracts with many liners, are
followed. Mr. Armstrong, who I
men are not always satisfactory, has en
gaged Miss Maaet Kelso and Mlas
Through for hia first women operator-
end turned them over to Chief Operat -C.
B. Cooper for Instructions. The youag
women win a tauetit ta renei.
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whirl carrying matter from below out
ward."
The friction of their motion gives rise
to electrical charges, which produce the
effect of currents of electricity, and cre
ate tremendous fields, which Professor
Hal has found to be characteristic of
aun spots
In this way they react upon the earth,
causing widespread magnetic storms,
which produce magnificent displays of
the. aurora borealls. or northern lights,
and sometimes make Jets of flame leap
from telegraphlo Instruments and Inter,
nipt the working of telegraph lines and
ocean cables, all over the world.
Pun spots might also be likened to tor
nadoes. In which there Is a similar trum
Mi.ihirjs whirl or funnel throtlKh which
1 heavy objects such ss fragments of
houses, barns an! trees, and sometimes
oilman beings are aurked up toward the
clouds that gyrate round the broadened
top of the funnel. But while a great tor.
nado on the earth has a path only i
few yards wide, the solar tornsdoes sn
thousands of miles wide and probably
thousands of miles deep.
If the earth were caught in one of these
gigantic whirls on the un It would he
spun about like a boat In the Niagara
eddies. But It would not last long, for
the Intense heat would quickly dissolve
the solid rocks Into ftwy liquid and
I tspor.
It is a curious fact that our tornadoes
Sometimes occur in groups as do sun
spots. A doxen tornadoes will occasion
tal'y bieak out simultaneously, a hundred
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Fables of the
By DOROTHY DIX.
One, wnon a Ane there were two
youths who were rival suitors for the
heart and pocket book of a youag wiald
who, bestriea being beautiful and good,
owned stacks of gilt-edged trust orrtlfi
catea and had
much masuma salt,
ed down In govern.
ment bonds.
The first youth
aa one of those
admirable creatures
who are always,
touted aa the real
thing by elderly fe
males, and who
furnish working
model of Industry
and correct hablta
He did Sunday
school stunts with
great assiduity, and
as a spieler for the
T. M. C. A. he waa
the boss wind Jam.
The second youth wu - artist
who had devoted himself t painting
things a bright vermilion hue and whose
industry had exhausted Itself In lowing
a record-breaking wild oat crop.
When the mald'i friends observed these
two youths thsr made a wild scramble
to net their money down on the No. I
miles or more apart. Yet the resemblanoe
between tornadoes and sun spots can
only be superficial.
Ons of the moot fearful things connec
ted with tornadoes la the awful roar that
accompanies their passages. But a sua
spot must create a noise on ths sun thou
sands of times greater than that of ths
mightiest tornado and If the atmosphere
extended from the earth to the aun there
can be little doubt 'that we should be
able to hear the roar of sun spots But
there Is a gap of space more than ninety
million miles across between the earth
and ths sub and that gap Is filled with
nothing except the ether, which, although
It bean I he waves of light and electri
city, cannot carry sound waves Conse
quently the uproar of ths sun spots Is
Inaudible on the earth. Many years ago
Edison made soma experiments Intended
to render the howling of sun spots
audible by means of a glgantle mega-
phonle telephone, actuated by the elec
tric wavea from the sun. But the effort
did not succeed. Perhaps some day a
similar attempt may be successful, and
It It should be the ears of man would be
greeted with sound such as wars never
dreamed of. To listen to the raging of the
tormented sun. ninety-three million mile
away, would be an experience surpass
ing all other achlavmenta of human In
genuity. The cause of the sun spots remains
unknown. They are probably due to some
sctlon going on within the body of the
sun. The sun consists of substances re
sembling those of which the earth is
formed such as Iron, calcium, silicon
and other element out of which our
rocks are mads, but. owing to the In
tense heat, thess substances Instead of
bring solid are In the state of hot glow
ing vapors. The Immense slsa of the aun
-atgoni miles In diameter eaunea these
vapors snd gases of which It consists to
be subjected to enormous pressure, and
titanic explosions occur from within,
hooting vast masses of glowing matter
to a heights of tens, and sometimes
hundreds of thousands of miles.
Sun spots appear In cycles, or periods.
averaging about eleven years from one
maximum to the next. The latest sun
spot maximum occurred In I'M. aii-1 we
are now at a mlittm-jm stage in the
period, although the aun la seldom en
tirely free from spots for seven! months
la succession.
One of the great problems of astron
omy Is to determine the exact effect of
sun spots upon the earth. It is evident
thst when the sun Is much epottej there
must be some reduction In i e amount
of heat received from It, hicause the dark
spots are cooler than the surrounding
surface, and. In fact many observations
have led to the conclusion that the earth's
temperature le perceptibly lower at a
sua spot maximum (that is when there
are many and large spots than at
minimum.
But the difference of temperature Is
larger than the mere darkening caused
by the spots would account for. an 1 It
la thought that ths presence of '.he toots
causes some change In the sun a radia
tion of heat over and above tli.it due to
the re'attve coolness of th spots.
Then, Independently perhaps of the
spots, there are changes of the vun a
radiation In periods of several days, or
of several months, which cause a fluctua
tion of temperature amounting to from
I to N per cent of tne whole. It la mini-
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Wise Dame
entry In ths matrimonial stakea before '
the books closed.
'We ovine.' they said, "that this le tea ,
easy, for No. I Is too heavily handicapped i
by hi record to win. No female would
be fool enough to let a good thing like ,
No. I get by her. As a maurimonlai prep- -:
oaltlon he la a cinch."
Being a discreet young woman whs was ,
onto her business, the maid dealt out
large chunk of solid encouragement ta '
both of her suitors wMIs she played for
time.
"Beauteous creature." tried Na. L as
ha knelt at a reapeetabvs eVatanew from
her. "be mine. In me yoa will find a u
husband who la an unabridged edition of
all the virtues, and one in whom yon can v
alwaya look up. I apprehend that ths
female character Is weak and flighty.
but I will assist you to correct your
fault, and In tune you will bseeme wor
thy of even me. Marry me and we will
give a double team exhibition of the i
higher life that cannot fall ta attract at-
tentlon and get reading nollose la the
paper." t
'Alas," aried No. I as be got a oouhl '
nelson around the maiden's lissome ,
waist sad snuggled her pompsdour dew a e
Into his oollar, "I am In no way worthy j
of such aa angel, for I bars spent my
daya butting Into fun instead of rooting :
for ths true, the beautiful and ths good. "
but since I have known you I am ,
everts ad ores tare. It I soukt but hold your - -little
hand In mine I should never yearn -
to finger a full house, or thirst for a ,
oocktali mars. I only need yeur Influeno
ta lead me away from the otnder path..',
to ins elevated road."
Thess words greatly affected ths ina.'d. '
"I perceive," aha said, "that No. 1 Is
full of noble Impulses and that nobody ,
but me understands him and I appro -bend
mat it Is my sacred duty t use my !:
Influence ovsr him for good.". .'
Thereupon she constituted herself an '
amateur reformation society and Keeley
cure for him. and her guardian angel ,".
who was watching ths proceedings, threw '
up hi hands and resigned hi Job on '
the spot, for b saw her finish.
Now It chanced that while the maiden
was still trying to work ths faith mrs "
on No. I he appeared In her presence
carrying ths remnants of a load that ,-.
should have been sent by freight, ab.
serving which No. 1 arose and swatted
him and threw htm out "
"Do not fear, sweet creature," he ex
claimed ta ths maiden. "1 ant bsrs to.
protect you," and with that he struck -an
attitude and waited for her to throw
bouquet at him as her preserver. But
nary a flower did she pass across ths -footlights.
"Brute! Coward 1" she biased, "thus
would you beat your helpless wife, and -:
1 cannot be thankful enough that I oav
found you out In tlm to savs myaslf
from ths awful fata of marrying vou."
and with that she manned the ambulance
and went to the assistance of No. S.
snd when she had nursed him well ibe t
married him, and he spent the balance of
his life In opening real wine.
Moral: What' the use?
ratal aUadaees.
Asilataat Postmaster Hanaura, accord- :t
Ing to ths story bs tells, was standing in
front of ths Denver postoffics the other .
evening, when he wal approached by a
tall Individual whs waa laboring heavily u
under the influence of dining not wisely
but too well. He lurched rn Hanntna'a
direction and. making a brave effort to
put the brake on, said: .
Pleesh -411 me wnerea the Mien
s-s-sh-statkm Ish?
"I directed him." said Mr. B annum, 7
and wound up my remarks by saying:
It's only about tea minutes walk from
re.' ' '
The stranger straightened ap after a ",'
desperate effort and. bet wean hiccoughs,
exclaimed:
" Tor yo or for met "Denver Times. ;
feet that such changes mast bars n.r
effect upon the cllmstes of the eartn, r
They, together with the sun snots, are i
also, probably. Indications that toe sun .
Is slowly dying out as sr-at center of
light snd heat In other words the sun a
la a variable star, and the fate of the '
earth Is directly dependent upon hr ..
Astronomers find in the sky many ot'.ier
variable stars, some many times greater
than the sun. snd hundreds of thsa are J
farther advanced toward extinction tmin
the sua to. How long the sua will last "
we do not know, but It Is beusve-I that
It will continue to shine for fr-xa i.fM.o
to M.C,0O years-so was ars not per- -.
snnally concerned with its e pone-echini---end.
But It humanity continue to exist "
on the earth ths time will come when ths
failure of ths sun will bs ths greatest -and
most fatal fact confronting taa de
scendants of Adam.'