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0 a Fairy.
ciaarTnn. XV. --(Continued).
The prineipal ballet did not come on
until ten. and. for LilIth's sake 1regret-
ted this. ..e1 half -past nine I had to
mutat her arm to remind her ot the
flight of time, and I found her flushed
an1 radiant, with 'shining eyes and
Parted lips, aitzing rapturously upon te
gentleman in spangles, who was balan
ehig three Plates. a boX of eigare, a be
tle, and a Walking -stick on the end .0
his ebbe.
"Isn't he wonderful?" she whispered
1, my, J3ut Lijitb, dear, you MUse
wine away now. It's half -past nine.
She shot a half -frightened glance at
me.
"It's all right," he murmured. "The
—the last train's gone, yea knOW."
I started from my seat.
"You told me, Yott assured me again
and again, that there was a. ten o'cloele
train to Bristol on Thursdays."
"I said so—but there isn't, Pleaiee
don't be ewes. You can't think hove
Intieh 1 wanted. to stay."
"Then you told me a deliberate false-
hood?"
I suppose I looked. very severe, for
he grew extremely vele, and laid her
hand almidly on my arm.
"Pleeece don't be angry," she wide-
pered. "I am enjoying myself so much.
and 1 did So want a holiday, You see,
1 am not a little girl any mare, to be
always at school. And—and I did so
'want to be a tittle longer With you!"
The last argument told, as I suppose
she guessed It would. She was watch-
ing my face, and I suppose she saw
some, cbange in it. for she withdrew her
fingers from my arm, and said quite
emyously:
'And nOW we can wait for the ballet,
can't we? I wouldn't miss it for the
eVbat was to he done with such a
girl?
As ehe herself hail said, she -was no
longer n child, nor could she be scolded
and punished as one She was a Young
woman, and as 1 realized this, glancing'
at her, the treniendous responsibility I
lead undertaken with regard to her came
upon me for the first time in its full
force and. meaning. '
In a quixotic impulse I had under-
taken the guardianship of this young
creature, of whose early training. as-
sociations, and family characteristics
knew hardly anything that was not
wholly bad. Her beauty, her innocence,
and her helplessness had appeaSed to
me irresistibly, and the course I had
taken toward her eeemed the only pos-
sible one. And yet what good had I
done her? ailith quoted menu French
with a very fair accent, and. her English,
though slipshod, was passable: But
alert nom these details, and some ex-
travagant tastes she appeared somehow
to have developed, she was just the
same fascinating little vagrant who
had danced before me in the sunset
light at the "Rose and Crown" rather
more than it year ago. '
It seemed absurd to keep her at
school; and yet what in the world. was
I to do with her when she came out?
Her disingenuousness on the subJect of
the time of the train was truly start-
ling; but, try as I might, I could not
be very greatly shocked by it. It was
of no use expecting conventional notions
of decorum from this lade Bohemian.
She wanted to be happy, and she grasp-
ed at the chance even if it involved a
considerable amount of 'ebbing. She
could very well pass the night at Mrs.
Jackson's, and on the following day I
a -mild myself see her into the Bristol
train, Still, 1 felt it due to my position
as guardian. to remonstrate with bar
over her alarniing disregard of veracity,
and presently I observed coldly:
"I presume you were also telling a
falsehood when you said you had sent
a telegram to Mrs, Morland?"
Lflitli noddecL
"1 said it to prevent you from send-
ing another." she answered simply. "But
please don't speak so coldly to me. I've
had rather—rather a. hard time of it
laisie, ancl noe, I m enJOling myself so
much, it seems too bad to spoil it by
being cold and nasty to me. Presently
you will be married, and Lady Margaret
wont let you see me any more. So you
may as well be nice to me now."
"I hope 1 shall see you again, and
very often."
"You haven't been very anxious about
it up to now, have you? And 1 was so
miserable when I first got to Morland
House! I spent all my time for the first
two- months looking out of the window
for yaj. hoping you'd come."
MY heart emote me at her words.
"I was away," I said quickly, "paint-
ing. out of England---"
"Oh, I know all about it," she said,
interruptieg me. "You were in the
Ynebt that rieh young lady you are
acing to marry gave you. And you
have named it after her. Still, she
might have let you coine and sem me
just t firSt, It would have made a
great clifferenee to me."
eouid not say one word to defend
rriveelf againsa her soft -v cl
re-
proa'hes, I dared not tell her how
often and hew passionately 1 had long-
.
04 th see her, or how constantly her
linage had danced between me and my
work, flitting like some newly risen Ve-
nue leetv..een my vision and the waves
I tried to paha Luckily, Lilith's
thenalits eeldorn remained long ab-
serlad with'one subject, and very soon
thc- male' colored ballet enchained' her
ulierle. to the exclusion of all retnern-
1-,l'anf't., of my eine of omission. and I
wee a -ft to watch the exquisite curves
of hrr profile as, with chin thrust a lit-
tle ferwarri, she drank in the moving
tieteres befere her.
When it wee all over, she was 0/18 of
tba last reluctantly to leave her seat.
"Cih, deer! • I wish it was going to
begin an over again!" she sighed, as 7
drew her band through my arm and
made any way through the crowd in
search of a hansom cab. "That is the
%/cast at nice things—they Pass so
(meetly one has hardly time to know
one ie enjoyieg them"
A philosopher already at seventeen!
Whe. Lilith, you are beginning early!"
-Is It heing a. philosopher to think
haPPY things last too short a time!
Well. anyhow, 1 have had a lovely clay,
thanks to you. dear Mr. Hervey. And
now WS are going to have another hart -
wen. arid I do love hansoms! 1 would
like la live in them. You can't think
how sleepy I am, though. 1 shall never 1
keep awake until we reach 13atterseete"
spoke truly enough. Before we ,
had been drivf the equare her L
IlVarl til'ACTedrcgain, hen she took her t
go right off be bed. So, as I had a room
reader. I Peet Wt Up with her ana
Straightened lit 0. leit, And 'Good -Malta
Mrs,. J14410011, she eayee; ethd have you
laelted Up for the ;light? 'Not Me,
Mies,' I says, 'for ney husbandbeing oz
eight -duty on the railweer, lets Imeelt
in at flye in the /morning,' Then L went
te bed, sir, but My room was next to
here, arid, before X got ofe to Sleep,
thOlIght I Ocia SO11 of creaking'
on the etaire, 1ealled ont arid got' no
answer. ',ellen 1 put my head ont oe the
Windeee,
ad saw eernebody on the side-
walk before our Itealeie hail a ciab alid
JUMP in ama drive away verY fteet, in-
deeci, It was too dar‘eor me te eeeeWlio
j it Wee, but I got a St/et or Preeelitineellt,
and, I slips somethiag on and knocks at
My young latly's bedroom door. Th,ere
WaS no answer, an it was locked', and
the key take4 out, or course, elle might
haVe beeti inside and cueleep, so 1 called
her mule tbrcMgle the keyhole agaip and
again, but there was no notiee taken,
arid dourastairs I went to the hell, when,
What attould 1 and, but the front doer
left ajar, and the scraper stuck between
to keep a open, That put my blood pp
a bit, sir, I must say, for across the
way they'd had borglars in this very
road only a month ago. So 1 Just Olenve
out my candle and, gets behind, the door'
and waits. AndIat close on one oielook
hears a eel rattling down the etreet,
and stopping eueldenly a little way ute
The comes hurrying footsteps, and ine"
lady sneaks up the stepS, lifts out the
scraper, tied—Ends herSelf in_ mg ,arres,'
'Yee, sir; there she was, this heautte,
fu l Miss Lilith Saxon, with her hat, pee
but no gloves, and ail trightereed
could be when I caught her so nicely.
"Who is it?she says, all of ,a pant. 'lt's
me' Mrs. Jackson, your landlady,' t seecee.'
'Nice goings-on, 1. inuet say, for a young
lady to go oft alone at tevelta; o'oloole'at
night in a cab,' '1 only 'went to Paci-
dington Station after my luggage,' ea,ys.
she, 'A. very likely story,' says 1.
shall see what Mr. Hervey will thiak et,
it when I tell him to-moreemee 'Mee,
Hervey!' she cries out. 'Oh, you 'weuld-
n't tell him!' And there in the hall she
almost went down on her knees to me
to beg and pray nee apt to let you know.
And it was 'Good Mrs. Jaelcsone and
'Dear Mrs. Jackson,' and goodness knOWs
what she wasn't going' to do for ine if
only I'd help ,her to deceive You. Ancl
she empties her pocket and, pulls out a
few shillings, and presses them upon
rte, for the children,' as she says, and
she'd give me any amount more the next
day if l'd promise not to tell you. But
I let her money fall to the floor, and,
says I, 'I know my duty,' 1 says, 'and
I'm -going to doeit. And now up you go
to your room, miss, and you give me the
key and I locks you in. And if you was
the Queen of England I wouldn't have
you ins my house another night.' And
then she creeps up -stairs before me, cry-
ing and sobbing, but very quiet and obe-
dient; and she goes to her room, and
locks the door, and opens it at eight
o'clock this morning. And I'm sure, 'sir,
after this that you'll understand when
I say that not even for you could I
lodge the young person another night,
I'd do a great deal for y011, Mr. Hervey,
a very great deal; but I've got a young
family growing up, and all of them old
enough to take notice, and tny Anna
Maria turned ten and---"
(To be continued.)
DR. ALEX. GRAHAM BELL.
and myself? .Ance would. not Madge,
onee mauled to me, simedily discoVer
that my love was given wholly tie an-
other woman? What haPpiness eould
come of saeli it union?
At the moment where the question
flashed across my braln we Were being
drIN'en down Northumberland Avenue,
past the area,t, new hotels, 'Opposite
- one of these our driver came to an un-
expected standstill, owing to the sud-
den drawlug up of another haasom be-
fore the portico. Within tlie 'vehicle
• were three young men in evening drese,
talking and laughing pretty loud y. Ow
cab was stopped so suddenly and so
near the other that the lights Of the
latter flashed full upon our faces-141-
Ith's and mine—and, to my intense ali-
ne:wane°, I perceived that one of the
three men in the other conveyance had
recognized me and ' was laughingly
Pointing me out to his companions,
The man was Charles Brookton, as ade
mirer of eladge's 'betweeu wham' and
myself there existed it strong, cltslike
whieli was, Perhaps, partly the result of
Jealousy, but chiefly that of antagonis-
tic tastes and characters. Brookton
was witty, eynical and dissipated. He
was in ehronie need of money; but I
really belie he Was nearly as much in
love with Madge as with her money.
And now he had eerteinly seen Me, and
would record the feet to Madge; had
seen ine, too, „In it hansom cab with .
girl's fair lmael resat* on raY ehoUldele
The cabs parted company. The mis-
chief was done now. There was 110
1111dOing it, and things Would be in no
way improved by waking Lilith. So I
Waited until our hansom drew up be-
fore the door ot Mrs., Jackson's house
in Battersea., tend then I gently stroked
Lilith's hair t I
"Latta, dear, wake uP! We are at
Mrs. Jackson's house."
At the sound of iny voice she moved
her head yawned, and, still half asleep,
stretched one artre up so that ' it lay
across my neck. But this was one point
beyond my guardianly self-control.
Snatching her hand to my lips, I kissed
it passionately, and pressed. my face for
on brief second against her soft, flush-
ed cheek.
In an instant she had started up, ful-
ly awake, and laughing rather nervous -
"Why, 1 declare I have been right -
off!" he exclaimed "I do hope I didn't
are you? You will take me out to -mor-
row, too, wea't you; before I am packed
back to Bristol? Good night, dear Mr.
Hervey. I've. had a most lovely day."
So I drove home to my lonely studio,
letting myself in with my latch -key, for
Wrenshaw did not expect ma, and had
gone to bed. And I drew out the deep
armchair into which Lilith had curled
herself when she first visited the stu-
dio, and took from my desk, Nicholas
Wray's sleitah of her and Saladin the
cat asleep in it. •
Far into the night I sat and thought
of her, with throbbing brain, and burn-
ing eyes, until, so strong was the fancy
and, so great my longing for her, I could
almost see her grey -blue eyes shining
at me from the dark corners of the
room, and feel the air shaken by her
rustling skirts as she danced between
me and the waning lamplight.. At last,
to exorcise her witchlike presence, I rose
from my chair, stretched myself, drew
from my pocket aladge's unopen letter,
and tried to forget ',Rah's laughing
lips in reading the chronicle of Madge'S
fashionable conquests.
Very, very far away my future wife
seemed. to Me in those cold hours be-
fore the dawa as I vainly tried to trace
on paper the features oe that other one
—the girl I loved. And farther still
some few hours later, when after a few
hours' fitful sleep and troubled dreams,
I got up, dressed, and ascended agaia
to my studio. .to and Lilith in posses-
sion, petting Saladin, and teasing Wren-
shaw, who, will a sternly disapproving
face, was laying the breakfast table.
"I tell you. you must really lay for
two." she was 'saying. as I paused Just
outside the door, "Mr. Hervey has in-
vited inc to breakfast, and, as it's nine
o'clock, m hungae. And It's no good
your frowning at rne now. for I'm grown
up, and don't mind it bit!"
I entered at that moment, and the
man turn ea to appeal to me.
"Shall I lay for one or two, sir?"
"Two," 1 answered curtly.
"What did 1 tell you?" Lilith asked.
him, itt triumph, as. with a backward
look of extreme disgust, Wrenshaw left
the room,
Then 'she came to rne, and held out.
her small right hand in greeting, laugh-
ing and blushing a little.
"You see, I am much better behaved
than 1 used to be," she said proudly, "I
don't call your serva.at 'Mr. Wrenshaw,'
and I don't hug youle
"You may do the latter if you wish
to."
"But I don't. I know better now," •
If 'you knew very much better', me'
dear child, e-ou would have waited at
Mrs..' Jackson's for xne to fetch you.
Young, ladies do not come unchaperoned
to artists studios. I, dont wonder
Wrensheav was ...surprised." . -
\Nile, you, are my chaperon!" she
exclaimed, with 'wide-open ayes "And
I'm not a young lady. I'm only a lit-
tle nmrsh-bred gipsy at the best." '
Just at this point there came a loud
single knock at the front door, whereat
Lilith turned first red and then pale.
"It's that odious Mrs. Jackson," she
murmured apprehensivelY.
And, sure enough, aVrenshaw's tar)
a few seconcls .later heralded his ap-
nearance With the news that his sister,
Mrs. Jackson, from 13attersea, humbly
begged a moment's private conversation,
as she 'had something- most particular
to tell me.
CHAPTER XVI.
At, soon as Wrenshaev had left the
room to inrorxr; his sister that 1 would
see her in the hall below, Lilith epran
from her seat, which faced xnine at the
breakfast -table, and anproached me in
el'fdent excitenient.
"Don't believe it word she says!" she
whispered. '1 can't bear that Mrs.
7ackson. She's a regular old cat. She
bates me and suspects me, and wenches
me just because I am pretty. Promise
you won't listen to„her tales about me."
"I must see her now that I have pro -
'Why ethould you?' Send her about her
>usrness. She's only come to try and
make mischief."
"You forget that her brother has
men in my eerviee, and that of my fa. -
her before me, for over thirty yeara
line15 her yellow head
against' the bark of the cab.
"It's rather uncomfortable," she Pre-
seetly murmured sleepily. "1 wonder
if you'd be very mete offended if / reef-
ed niy head on your shoulder? I should
be much more emnfortable."
Should have been rather more or
lese than a man if 1 had reelet I r
ucih
n dnpeat. slipped my arm abdut her t
, a tired child, she nestled her head down
P51511 my shoulder, and in a very few
seconds. was fast asleep.
Tlenceth Lilith's soft cheek my heart "
was heating' loud and fast. 7 suppose t
no man can see for the. first time un- r
moved the head of the tvorrian he 10,100
resting on his breast. Lilith's absolute c
trust arid confidence in me annealed to ,s
all that was best in roe. while at the 1,
E0700 time it eoulti not fail to sting my I
vanity to note the way in which. she ,
ignored my love, and treatod me as
though T were eighty instead of eight- 1
arirl-twenir,
rim' head, as It &armed forts -aro more.
hen ay. 011160 a Paper trithin my breast. is,:
Peci,rt rustIe. Tt was 7,tarlge'S 1'1';
opened letter and thin reminder of nav
fianec reel exegetical eyed to vemete In roc
o rn, :.; orop qitrtli hie and unjust itn-
straiw't brie,
vhv 13(.1 ataaaa take her terural
el c env 01hor of Lia, sweaantirea
am: taati: t,itor.1 she was stir -',1
snd iravn me in NM( (t to pluek
fife: little wilt !lager? ray
re eta, elarigee erbile with every Mire a
T i,41 NI, flhOUTC1 not 3
. 'a( plane e epee1 werma egaieet ell e
tea, rztld Lilltit 4
can t treat a relative of his badly," .
"Well, then, if you will listen," she
pleaded, clasping her hands round my
arm, "promise me at least that you
won't believe a, word $110 Says, Y01/
don't kllOW. what awful stories she
makes up ahout people."
"I promise at least to tell you every
word that paesee between us Mril.
rind -with another deep sigh like I
would."
'Very reluetantly she witiulrero her de-.
aining clasp, and at my la.st view of
el' she was standing disconsolately in
he middle of the room, with a look of
ear in her oyes.
1 own that my mind misgave me as T
lesecnded the stairs to where Airs. .:tack -
on. a soIld, tidily dressed, motherly
oohing sert of woman, was seated wait -
rig for Inc on a choir in the hall.
She r6So at my approach. She was a,
itile red in the face. and very deter-
nined-looking, but civil and collected
70r1/0101`.
"I sheuldn't br doir.p; my Clay,
he began. "ititlAWing SIT(.1 resueotIng
.our family tie 1 do, If I didn't report
6 you ,,,,,firtf, happened last night . ,Tt
gocs against me to sec Money and kind-
less wasted on worthlees atul ;ingrate-
oponle.„sirt arid T. think it only right
'Ott clot/hi know th.'. truth."
The Mood rushed to my face but 7
;rpt my tainper, and asked ''-er eoldlv
A ('1' 1111.50 herself.
"Ties abota the young peteeti y011 iort
t my bonee at half -pest eleveil List
eight, eir," "he ;emcee:elect asked hPr
e fritn,ei hIll e, any supper, and she SaYs
he was too tired to. anything but Lo
hat content you? Let me go now, dear,
muet see the woman. since I said I
Invented the Telephone at the Age
of Twenty-five.
Forty years agoon the porch of
an unpretentious little hou,se in
Brantford, two Scotchuten sat talk-
ing. One was a middle-aged man,
known to his neighbors as an ale-
elltionist, deeply interested in
helping deaf mutes •communicate
with e-ach other. The other was a
thoughtful looking young 'fellow of
25, professor of Vocal Physiology
--whatever that was, in Boston
University. Neighbors passing hp
and down the street heard snatches
Of their conversation, and passed
on wondering what all this talk
about "armatures," and "current
interrupters," „ and '`induction
coils," meant.
The 'young man was explaining a
new inventiomhe had been working
on, a multiple telegraph instru-
ment, which could send a number
of messages over a single wire. It
worked on the principle of an elec-
tric buzzer, with springs ,that al-
ternate/y made and broke a cirouit,
The way in which these springs vi-
brated at the sending end was re-
produced at the receiving end. '
Only, and this was the important
feature, the single wire would
carry the six different kinds of
waves from the six different vibrat-
ing springs, without blending
them. Each receiving spring had
to be "tuned" t&take the message
from the corresponding sending
spring. "I can produce musieal
sound; father;" declared the
young man in conclusion.
"How'?" said the older man, puf-
fing- thoughtfully at bis- pipe.
'What about the voice "
eThe young man considered for a
few minutes, then looked up with
shining eyes.
It the an vibrations of the voice
could set up electrical vibrations
—" he began.
"YOu'd have it," declared the
other positively.
Again the young man relapsed
into silence, and again, looked up
eagerly.
"Perhaps," he said, "with a
membrane I might."
„ The Inspired illoment.
That, as nearly as can be deter-
mined, was themoment that the
telephone was invented. The Mid-
dle-aged man was Alexander 1VIel-
ville Bell, -famous elecutionist, and
the young man, his son, was Alex-
ander Graham Bell,
"Brantford was my thinking
plaee," said Dr. Graham Bell, nob
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1011g, ikgo, discussing the invention
of tholelephorie, "There 1 woul4
go and spend my summer holidays
and leek over the line of expea-
meats that had been made in Bos-
ton, and OW for the futnre. And
in the suminei,‘ of 1874, during my
visit to ni„y father's house in Brant-
ford, discusaing with my father
the experiments I had made in Bos-
ton, relative to the •reprodnOtioh of
masical sounds by electricity for
the purpose of multiple telegraphy,
the thought of the membrane tele-
phone Was elaborated. It was
praotkally the same instrument'
Phat was shown in 'the patent, It
was a theoretical conception ef a
magneto telephone, a very daring
'conception, if .1 may be allowed to
,say so that the vibration of the
vaice might create electrical ina-
Pil.laeS and produce an= audible re-
sult at the other end, As a theo-
retical Dian I saw a speaking tele-
phone, that theoretically we had
the means of transmitting and re-
producing ,speech in distant
Dr. Bell went back to Boston
with his idea "fermenting in his
head. He kept on or a time work-
ing at his 'harmonic telegranh. Be
was ,assisted by a yOung Boston me-
chanician, Thomas A. W. Wateon.
On the afternoon of June 2, 1875,
Watson and Bell were "tuning -up"
one of the spring instruments.
Watson was plucking away at, the -
transmitter spring, making it buzz,
or, rather, whine, while Bell was
adjusting the transmitter ;spring
so that it would give awhine of ex-
aetly the same pitch as the other.
Suddenly the spring of "Watson's
instrument stuck. He kept pluck-
ing at it without avail. He bent
over to examine it. The make and
break points were fused. There
was no interruption of iVhe current.
The circuit was unbroken. Yet the
receiving spring continued to vi-
brate. The steel vibrating over
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
the niagnate was making the steel
over the other magnet vibrate. The
eleetrical waves were setting up
sound waves.
'The First Telephone- '
• I
Bell rushed over to Wabson's in-
-strumeiat with a shout. "What
did you do then? Don't change
anything. Let me See." A few
days before he had remarked: "If
I could mak-e a current of electri-
city vary in intensity, preeisely as
the air varies in intensity during
the production of a sound, I should
be able to transmit ipeeah tele-
graphically." That was exactly
what had just happened. The steel
spring, vibrating across, the poles
of the magnet, was generating a
current of electricity that varied
in intensity precisely as the an was
varying in intensity within hearing
distance of the spring. The sound
was being electrically transmitted,
the telephone was possible. The
first crude telephone was in oPer-
.
ation..
Bell and Watson immediately set
to work to construct an instrument
suitable or transmitting the hu-
man veiCe. To get the delicate vi-
brations of speech they arranged
a membrane of gold -beater's skin
over the springs of the instruments
to work in the same way as the ba-
dman ear -dram acts by passing"vi-
brations.
Dr. Bell describes the first con-
versation over the 'phone on July
1, 1875, as follows : "We bad only
one membrane telephone, and the
receiver was One of the old tuned
reed receivers, It was heldtipto
the ear. You crammed the arma-
ture' against the ear to dampen its
vibi ations. was listening at that
armature, while Watson was down
in the basement of Charles Wil
-
Hams, Jr.'s building ,at 109 Court
street, shouting into the end of a
telephone, and then we changed
places. I may say that I heard' no
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MANY STUDENT SUICIDES.
Schoolboys of _ Berlin, Germany
End Their Lives.
The raceab examinations at th
German schools, were agai-ri, aa eael
year, accompanied -with nielieerau,
inatances of boy e killing themselves
either through fear that they wouk
not pass or because of mortificatio
at failure.
On a, single day three suicides o
students, all less than 18.3rears old
were reported, and the body of one
who had drowned himself some day
earlier was 'recovered. These in
stances were in Greater Berlin
alone.
One of the boys threw himaelfiin
front of a train because he had not
been promoted to a J-ligher class.
A suicide by drowning was that of
a. 17-year-o1d boy who was shortly
to try the ex.amination entitling him
to discharge his military dutthe.s with
one year's service. According to
his teachers there was no doubt that
he would have passed, as he was
unusually capable and intelligent.
The fixed bureauoratic seheme of
life for the average German while
not explaining such suicides, 'throws
some light on the youths' actions.
13'ailure to be graduated from school
Ls a serious tibIng
To beeeme, a "Beamter," that is,
a public officia.1, is the goal of a
great percentage of young Ger-
mans, for the official enjoys many
privilegea not granted to' the non-
official German. He -has a. certain
tenure, a retiring pension, and
other materia.1 advantages, and en-
joys especial protection under the
law of insults it being a much
graver crime insults,
inenit all official
than a private citizen.
But for those who have failed in
their school *oak there is no chance
to become state officials.
Even in Private Life' they find it
almost, irapossible to secure respon-
1
n.
slide positions with mercantile
firms'and they are, of course, de-
barrcd from ente,ring the learned
Professions. It is nob altogether
strange, that the German youth is
disposed to -take a grave view of
his failure.
It is not only students' in the
schools who kill themselves before
or after examinations. A‘.man of
22, who had been staialying legal
procedure, reached the point where ..
he ,was to take his examination for
advacceraeat to court clerk. no
repeatedly told his friends that he
was sure he shoudd not pass the
examinations.
The night bekoae the examination
he threw himself from the window
of his third story room and was
crushed to death.
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A farmer was having trouble with
his horse. It would start, walk
twenty yards or so, then stop for
a few Seconds and start again'i:o
,repeat the performance. A,f ter
watching this exhibition for some
time a friend overtook the farmer, .
during one of the horses's long
waits. "What's =the matter? Is ib
lame?" he asked. "Not as I know
ot." replied the farmer crossly.
"Than what's wrong with it?"
he's so afeard Pll say
'Whoa,!' and he won't hear me,"
replied the farmer, "he stops every
now and then to listen I"'
Mother Looks the Part.
"liow pale and worried your mo-
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"No, ma'am, but pa's got the
grip.''
"And is she afraid that he won't
get well?"
"Oh, no, but whenever pa's sick
he worries her so that she always
looks as though she had w.hat "was
ailing him."
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