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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-10-19, Page 7A NATURAL ERROR. But This Time It 15::. 'lade by the Wroni, Ma.... "I had been Oecul - a certain room in this house for nc>esa• a year,. said a drummer who lives as one of the hotels, "but the other day they gave me the apartment adjoining, which is a tribe larger. Last night I came in rather late and very nzueii preoccupied and when I opened the door was startled to find a strange man, with his feet on the bureau, read- ing a paper. It dashed across my mind instantly that I bad gone to my old room by force of habit, and I offered my apologies as gracefully as I could. °•'I occupied this room for a long time,' I said, 'and it comes natural to ane to walk right ln, I'm very sorry I disturbed you.' "`nkat should certainly have been satisfactory, but the fellow jumped up with aface as black as thunder. •`'Hold on a bit,' he said. 'It strikes me that's a pretty thin ea ease,' " "What de you mean, sir?' said 1, getting mad myself, " "I mean I don't believe you're straight,' he replied, stepping between nae and the door, 'I've heard of these kind of tricks before, and I think I'll just Investigate sou,' "It's pretty rough to be taken for a sneak thief in one's owe hotel, and I lost my head completely. "'I'll slap your Saws!' I cried and made a pass at hits, hut be jumped 'back and rang„tho bell. Then he Squar- ed quared off a la Jeffries. "'Come on; he said, cool as you please. `The police will be here la Si minute, and you leave no time to lose.' "I was just about to sail in wheu 1 happenedto notice for the first thee it. lot of my toilet articles on the bureau,. I glared around, and there was all my luggage in the corner. By Jovel I was in my owl, roam after alai It was the other fellow wbo had made the mis- take. "The situation was so absurd that I roared with laughter, and my late an- tagonist put down his hands and look- ed puzzled. I made a brief explana- tion, pointed to the number an the door, and he was the most chagrined individual in 10 states. ".Ile really belouged across the hall and had mistaken a figure 6 in the door number for an 8. As be took his de- parture be remarked that be was the biggest fool on the henmtspbere and said that he would ]lite to engage a good healthy mule to Welt him around the parish for a few days." ---New Or- leans Times -Democrat, Enthralling Eyes. A penny novelette is never complete without the heroine inflicting grave torture on her eyes. In the course of one "complete story" this is what she did: "She threw her eyes up to the ceiling. Then she dropped them on the floor. Again she raised them and again she lowered them." "She made her eyes flash fire." "Her eyes burned." "Her eyes froze," "Her eyes glowered like burning coals." "She cast her eyes to his chest, then dropped them to the fender." "His eyes crossed hers and greedily devoured them." But at last ber eyes had their re- venge, for we read, "Her eyes betray- ed her." -Tit -Bits. A Good Scheme. Hicks -Funny thing happened to Melville the other evening. He found out when he had pulled the door to after coming through it that he had left his keys in the bouse. Wicks -And so he was forced to re- main out all night? That was too bad. Hicks -Yes, but be bore up under it with fortitude. He thinks he will try it again some other night. -Boston Transcript. Plenty of Them. Romantic Tourist -1 suppose yon have no interesting old ruins in this neighborhood? Villager -No ruins? Great Scott, mis- ter! I can show you more'n two dozen buildin's in this county that used to be creameries in the old days 'fore the trusts. At First Sight. "Do you believe in love at first elgbt?" she asked. "That's the only way it's possible," answered the old bachelor. "Second eight would utterly destroy it." -Cha cage t"-Chi- cago Post. A Mistake. Hooter -I hear that the Columbia has struck a rock. Rooter -No; it's only a Sham -rock. She'll sail around that all right. - Washington Post. Trouble Ahead. • Spoiled In Transit. "I wonder," said Clzolly as they drove along the boulevard, "why that thing in front of us is called a T cart?" "Perhaps," suggested Miss. Flyppe, "it is because it is just ahead of 'i7.'" Which struck Coolly as being so clever that he undertook to reproduce. it at the club that evening. "I-awsked her," he proceeded, after giving the preliminaries, "why that thing its front of us was called a T cart, and she said it was because It was just ahead of me. Baw, Jove, though, I cawn't make it sound the way It did when she got it off, don't you,. know," What Worried Him. Beggar Woman-•--Tlata cough bothe me so. Pianist-4Bothers you? It bothers me more because you cough an octave too high,-Fliegende Blatter, eases- _as "Dar's all right, kid, lafi'. But de day'il come when youse knows de pangs of unrequited love."—New York journal. A ,Sudden Aranence. "1 have returned," As be spoke we handsome and bronz- ed stranger brandished In tike face of the girl he loved a Gladstone bag stuff- ed with bonds, "When you refused me because I was poor," he said, "you little knew what I was capable of, The first question on her lips after she had properly thrown herself in hi■ arms was to inpaire bow be got It, "For the Last three weeks." be said exultingly, "I have been head wattee In a summer hotel," Couldn't Spring Tbat: on Them. "Now, children," said the visitor who was addressing the Sunday school, "let me give you a simple Illustration of what faith Is. You see my watch ebain, You would not have the slightest best, tation, now, in asking nae what time It is, because you have faith that I have a watch." "Not unless we see the works," re- plied the children as one boy.-Cllicago Tribune, • Ilia Heart All fright. "You are all right," said the doctor after be had gone through with the regulation tlnimplug and listening with his patient. "Not a trace of heart dis- ease, Fifteen dollars, please." The patient drew a long breath and remarked "1 am sure now I have no heart disease. If I had, I should have dropped dead when you mentioned your fee," -Boston Commercial Bulle- tin. It Seemed 1Tselens. "I'm a good deal interested in the new planet they are preparing to study," remarked the man who finds relaxation from business In astrono- my. "A new planet!" echoed the trust magnate reproacbfully. "What was the use! We don't own all the earth yet!" Something Noteworthy, "What has be ever done to make the world remember him? Nothing -ab- solutely nothing. He has never" - "Hold on, now. You're getting ahead of the subject. He's made enough money to keep his heirs fighting and his name in the newspapers for years after he is gone." -Chicago Times -Her- ald. A Successful. Show. First Circus Man -How do you man- age to fill your show with only six per- formers? Second Circus Man -1 carry 12 bill posters. -New York Weekly. Getting His 1llea01nre. "Is that newcomer a naturalized Englishman?" inquired the earl. "No," answered the duke. "He's merely an unnaturalized American." - Washington Star. Pro Bono "I've a scheme to car manners." "What is it?" "haven chaperon cago i.,•cord. Publico. improve our street on each car." -Ohl - Our Honorary Titles. "Why do you use 'Hon.' in address- ing a letter to him?" "He was once a delegate to a coun- ty convention." -Chicago Post. When Willie Had the Measles. When I had the measles, year ago, Ma she said, "Now, Willie, dear, you know You've got the measles, so you must be good An stay indoors as all sick children should." Gee, I was good The fellers used to call An yell for me, but I wouldn't go at all, Because I had the measles. Jes' broke out As speckled as a turkey egg, about. An ma, she fed me on ras'berry Jam, 'At we only have for company, an Sam- Sam, he's my brother—didn't git none. Cake An chicken pie an all good things she'd bake. But bread an butter an bacon, like Sam had, I didn't, 'cause my appetite was bad. Oh, nothin was too good for me, you know, When I bad the measles, year ago. An sometimes, when ma said I could, I took The great big tam'ly Bible down to look pictures—Moses in the r Atto ushee ea' .i little baby y in a basket—yes, yes, An David choppin up the gi-unt. Then There was old Daniel in the lions' den, With growling lions, crouchin in the dark, Ten times as many as at Lincoln park. When'I had the measles, year ago, Gee,.I lived high! An one, day Sam, d'ye know, $e blubbered some 'cause he'd had 'em once, An I felt sorry. Pa says he's a dunce,. But I guess not, for thinkin of the jam All locked up tight. t quite agree with Sam— Worst thing 'bout havin, measles is that when You've had 'ern once you never can again. ALlrr¢e ilei re& Cro- AN AUTUMNAL REVERIE. By Ninon Waterman. UST an humble, plain -faced woman, Middle-aged and somewhat gray; True and wholesome -like and human,, — Kind. o' grave and kind o' gay. Makes me fhleece early autumn, Grapes a-purplin' on the vine, Where the first faint frost has caught 'em, Caught and kissed 'em into wine. Deep -voiced boys now call her "rnother,'' Baby boys that 's grown to be, By some magic trick or other, In a year as tall as she : Girls that yesterday was clingin' To her skirts, 1 've seen o' late With the neighbor boys a-swingin.' At the rose -wreathed garden gate. While across her brow Time's finger Writes the plainer tales o' truth In her heart there still must linger s All the flowery dreams of youth. Fields are sweet with bloomy clover, Life is crowned with blissful joys Love's pure gold she 's coinin' aver In her happy girls and boys. Seems as though the cup Fate brings us is a sort o' bitter-sweet, Kind o' soothes an' kind o' stings us,— Mirth and melancholy meet. Grief comes hushin' all our laughter, Fairest skies are clouded o'er, But the sunshine Toners after, Always brighter than before. Spring may fade and Summer vanish, Autumn yield to Winter's sway, Yet the years can never banish Beauty Love has crowned with May. In the chimney -corner, cozy, Dreamin' in the firelight's glow, 1 shall see her cheeks blush, rosy, As I saw thein long ago. •q' t ca Z * ° ' gr°' ` °,15'►m°Agt Oat Sialaad fps r4y Foa !AMU* tier Inge Customs. In. Siberia a, bride, on entering her husband's house, must be prepared to show her skill in. cooking. She is ex- pected to give a dinner prepared with her own hands, as a test of the ethics. - tion she has received. If she pleases her guests it is taken not only as a proof that she is well qualified for her new position, but that her family is a worthy one, since her parents have trained their daughter so successfully. There is another land where thrift is expected of the young folks. In. Holland, a girl is bound to ask her fu- ture husband if he can afford to pay the wedding fees. In Norway, however, things are not quite so promising. The Norwegians are always trying to put the best foot foremost, and they do it in reference to marriage as well as in reference to other matters. It is said that a young man once went out to seek a wife, and came to a farm house where there was more wit than money. The only thing of which the farmer could boast was one new sleeve to his coat. This must be made the most of. "Pray take a seat," he said, hospit- ably. "But this room is shockingly dusty," and so saying, he went about wiping tables and benches with his new sleeve, while he carefully kept the old one behind him. His wife possessed one new shoe, and one only, but she made the most of it by pushing the furniture in place with it, and keeping the other hidden beneath her skirts. "It is very un- tidy here," she said. "Everything is out of place." Then they called to the daughter to Dome and put things to rights. But the only new thing she possessed was a cap. So she kept putting her head in at the door, and nodding and nodd- ing. "For my part," she said, "I can't be everywhere at once." Thus they all tried to make the young man believe the household was well-to-do. One cannot but think that the meth- ods of Siberia and Holland are most likely to lead to happiness in the end. ,.. Forests or tearless Trees. Forests of leafless trees are to be found in some parts of Australia. The trees, known as the "Leafless Ac- acia," have no leaf, and their respira- tion is carried on through a little stem which, for this purpose, appar- ently acts the same as a leaf. In this species, in consequence of the intense heatg and drought of Australia where re •. en- tirely abound, blade the , the leaf ceases to be developed, and the leaf stock becomes vertically flattened into what botanists term a' `phyllode, " which performs the same negative functions as the leaf, but presents only an edge to direct sunshine and light; and is thereby protected from excessive evaporation. There are also forests of another leafless tree in "'BECAUSE YOU -,UE ME." Because you love n:e I have found- New joys that were not mine before, new stars that lightened up my sSFy With glories growing snore and more. Because you love ate I can rise To heights of fame and realrua of power; Because you love me I may learn The highest use of every hour, Because you, I ve me 1 e41,1 c Dose To look through your dear eyes and set Beyond the beauty of the now Par onward to eternity. Becausge you love me 1 can wait With perfect patience well possessed; Because you love me all my life is circled with unquestioned rest; Iles, esen We and even death 14 all ungaestioned and all blest. —B. II. 1). in Pall Mall Magazine. y>yt:�r��rk �sS�,x�xt►»Kt!Kxltsr�3l I MOT FOR PUBL1CT1ON. Yak An . nthoz- ,!",.;eta an. Inslwivation !i' Froud an ar expected Source, "What a life:" repeated the man to hlmseif'wth almost a writhe. "Making brieks without straw all the year if round. I wish -there, I wish to God I'd never Iearned bow to write:" And yet it hail paid him stn solid coin, so far, One of his minor dreams was realized; the window of his writing room overlooked a suburban roadway along whieb jarring wbeefs seldoae rattled; he had got away from the s w whir and dronef the town, wherehis nerves had been at a tension all day long. He could eonipose in peace, And yet he sat with the bitter, idle stare, elittehing a dry pen. The fluor behind creaked; a woman glided in on tiptoe, "Don't start -it's only I," she whispered. "Don't start He threw down the pen without turning. "It's all starts - or the strata of expecting these. I'm Mak of it, I tell you --sick of it all," "What is the matter?" She bad paus- ed half way, with hands together. "Can't you write?" "'Write: I've nothing to write. I'm drained dry, And I promised a tragic; story" -with a belt sneer -"for that Soeiety Sun, Tragic! What's the time?" "It must be nearly f." "'$ix? Dark in another hour. Arise; now. I've clone nothing. And you—you never attempt to help use, by so meet t as a word:" Never help you?" she echoed; and repeated, it to herself. "I never help Win! But when have you asked sueli a thing? What good would be my ideas:" "t)h, not sough. Women seldom have real ideas, They're flitting Superficiali- ties. :till" --- A long silence. The door creaked again, but he knew she had only closed it and was stillhovering behind hint. Ile was somewhat surprised, but would not turn, vaguely conscious of the sneer's hollowness. Then - "I never help you," she repeated calmly. "Would you like .me to try? Perhaps something has just come into my mini. It is silly, maybe, as I tell It; but you, my busband, might make it clever and iuteresting. You say your stories are always twaddle as you first set them down," "Do I? Well, what Is it?" he said. staring across at the opposite roofs, "This situation Is novel. Go on. Never mind as long as there is anything at all in it." "There Is there Is a woman's heart In it, I think," she whispered. "Is that any good?" "our be said. Her voice had tailed off as if she had a real idea, but was afraid of the sneer. "Well, there usual- ly is; that's one of the component parts of the average story. Even humor is the brighter for tragedy lurking in the background, you know. Anything in the heart? That's the point. Yes; anything in this heart?" Another silence. "Couldn't I tell you just as it came to me, then?" she said. "I'm not clever enough to know. It's more of a sketch, perhaps. I -I imagin- ed two lovers, very dear lovers. They got married, and there was a beautiful world before them, with such peace at the end, if they knew! Make the man an artist. He lived for his art. The girl -the girl was only just a girl; she lived for the man. She hung on his every word, you might say; she prayed for his success when he was never there to hear, thought for him in ways that he would never know and checked her singing and moved softly so that he should never be disturbed at his work. You're not writing. Is it so silly?" "Go on," he whispered. "There - there's nothing to write yet." "That went on for years. The man, deeper and deeper in his work, never saw that his wife was changing, that the light had gone out of her eyes. He forgot all he had meant to be -for- got after a time even to kiss her, and the girl -she could never bring herself to remind him -eh? She still lived ouly for him, but he never cared what she wore, never thought that her work might be hard in its little way, and that there are some women for whoni years of such silence and loneliness spells death -or worse. She was al- ways crying at first and never dared to tell him why if he did not see for him- self and kept out of his way so that his mind should not be spoiled for work. And he -say that he thought it was something else and spoke harsh- ly and sneered and at Last got so that he lived in a world of his oti'n and wouldn't open" his door when -when lie knew that her heart was bursting i oM out- side, longing for one kind word again. Or -or -something like that. Could you begin anything with that?" No answer. She could not see, but the man's outward' stare was as if it would never again relax. She went on a little faster, her voice taking a thrill -just as though his silence, im- plied that there might be real dramatic possibilities in her small inspiration. "A think my husband could -yes! The Australia, the Casuarina or beef -wood, a tree with rigid, drooping branch - lets something like our "horsetails," their woodthe color of beef (whence their name), and as good as English oak, Leafless forests are also mot with in Florida, here are large tracts of country solely covered with dead pines that have been destroyed by the larvae of the sphinx. In the dry, arid districts of Mexico an immense area of country is covered with a species of mimosa trees (also of the acacia tribe) which bears nothing but thorns and blossom; no leaves ever appear, all growth and Progress taking place through the thorns, which are shed. at certain seasons and replaced by new ones. Spurgeon and the Student. Mr. Spurgeon used to tell a good story about ono of his divinity stu- dents. It was his custom, in order to test the powers of the young men for speaking, to give them as they were about to ascend the pulpit a text to discourse about on their own plan and in their own words. This, of course, was not before the audience, but simply among themselves to prac- tice. On the occasion referred to he gave to a young man who as yet had not tried the ordeal the simple word "Zacchaeus." The young man, tremb- ling from head to foot, said: "I will divide my subject into three parts. First, we read that Zacchaeus as small of stature, and I never felt smaller than at the present moment ; second, we read that Zacchaeus climb- ed a tree, which reminds me of my ascent into this pulpit; third, we read that Zacchaeus made haste to come down, which accordingly I will do." Whether this man ever became a great preacher or not, we are told not, but he certainly showed that he pos- sessed ready wit. A (Queer Payment, A Yorkshire clergyman married a couple in his church recently, and after he had pronounced them man and wife the groomtook him to one side and asked what the damage was. The parson told him that there was no fixed amount. He might give whatever he chose: "Parson" said he, "I've got five greyhound pups at home, for which I am asking a sovereign apiece, and I'll let you have one for half a sov." Of course the clergyman declined so ridiculous a fee, as he had no use for a greyhound pup. When he got home he must have found his wife bettor than expected, , ofthe ups, for he sent the parson one pups, accompanied with a letter saying that he was so happy with Maria that he would give him a clog for nothing. A Seasoned Politician. "You say he is a seasoned .polit!- elan?" "Yes, but he is so crooked that I think he, must have been warned in the seasoning," world is used to seeing the man growl indifferent and the woman cold and pale; but you—you might take the trag- edy as It is within the four walls and make it live and throb .ln there. You, might put it that at first the man's mistake was in always straining for- ward to his goal, forgetting that the happiest time is now --forgetting how, When he looks at last he will not find tt ' just the same laughing' girl as he mar- ried. arried. Often he left her, we will say.. he wanted cheerful faces and relax* tion after his work, and the wife war only like a ghost creeping about thy. house. And so at last, for her the only alternative to a broken heart was & heart hardened to stone. And, oh, she' had so ieved hint -had SO determined always to look her brightest and best for him,! That might have gone on till the end, as it often does; but there cape a blow -one blow more than sher could bear. We'll suppose --we'll sup- pose that one day the wife, somehow' or other, heard him talking to a friend - The friend Was quiet; be had asked; `What's the matter with—with her? Alt the romance gone that you used to tali( about? Make it malice it that she held her breath for the answer, even then—, even then; that even then she was hungering to put her arms all around him, and telt bila. oh, no, It was not goiae! And supposing atm heard leaser say:'Her: Pooh, take no notice of her ---always the same. Wish to God some- times I'd never married -what with the Menses and the miserieg at homes Can't make her out-u.ot like other woe men. Given it up long ago, Don't you ever marry, old ;maul' And supposime the wife stood and cried to God to taker her on the spot, and that God did not aaztimver, azzd that at last -at last, wbea, something seemed as If it would snap in her brand-'-stie crept into her bus... band's study and took out the pistol be keptdesku that in his and put to i her forehead, and -and almost pulled. the trigger, Wouldn't a paper Accept a story lake that?" Stili uo answer. The Ulan had crane ed still farther forward, his bands gripe ping the desk, his face gray in the dusk, lois stare widened. It ,looked --it somehow looked as if he feared for his :life to look around, In fear of a hand welting for his throat. It was not hie wife talking, It was tragedy that had come creeping into the room, as it sometimes did wizen lie wrote late, and something stood and breathed behind catch shoulder. The voice cane again, as from a lona way off, "Yes! Say she paused the moment,. and that saved bee, She looked at hie work and thought of his long struggles and the mind that always strained aft- er something in life that is never to bei found. But the thought had come into her head, and it staid and stand, and more than once, when he had passed her with hardly a word or look—no, my God, she could not bear it! God, forgive her, she caunot bear it!" The indescribable sob and a swift rush. .A. hand bad plucked open the drawer at the man's side, and some- thing bright flashed out. rust in time he realized something and swayed up, with a hoarse cry; "Winnie! No, nol" and faced the picture tbat was to eat into his memory for all time. The dead silence, the stare with which the wide eyes In her worn, white face seemed to search his soul wildly for a flicker of the truth! Then her hand dropped, and her face began to twitch piteously. His arms were out—and the heart beat there yet. "Winnie!" he had whispered -such a whisper. "Don't, don't! Come back to me! Come back to me!" And for those two Time put back the hands of his clock. But the story. That was not for publication. -London Star. Killing Off Thistles. A correspondent of the Michigasl Farmer writes as follows about killing off Canada thistles: The writer's method, which has been very successful, is as follows: The Job is let out to a boy (or boys), and the terms of the contract are "no kill, no pay." The result is the boy gets hie: pay. On my farm the thistles grow ta. patches, and I pay so much per patch, according to size. The work is begun In the spring. Each week for two or three weeks the boys cut them with & hoe about two inches below the surface of the ground. Once in two weeks, for about three times and after this about once & month, this job is done during the bal- ance of the season. By fall the thistle. are smothered out. The leaves of a plant are its lungs.. You can kill an oak tree by picking off. its lea yes and buns for one season. I plan to kill thistles in a field devoted to cultivated crops. After the second, or third cutting very few plants will: appear. By a little attention to the boy he will attend to the thistles and at the same time earn a little cash. I have tried salt, which kills the thistle, but is expensive and don't help the boy. Row Postal Cards Are Often Wasted. "Women often send messages to their dressmaker or to dry goods shops on postal cards," says The Ladies' Home Journal, "attaching a bit of cloth, rib- bon or lace as samples. This makes the card 'unmailable,' SO It is always: - sent to the dead letter office and hr variably destroyed. Tien -presumably men -not infrequently paste a clever joke or a telling political fragment - upon a postal and send it to a friend at leastt s art it. But it never arra v ver. Nothing may be attached to a postal card, nor may one word be written up- on the address side except the address itself." Glad to Conreat. She --What did papa say? He—I asked his consent to our seer riaga by telephone, and he replied, "1` don't' know who jou are bit it's, alk *ht. "—Boston Traveled