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July 2211d, 1915
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THE WINGHAM TIMES
a
Peg 0' My Heart
BY J. HARTLEY MANNERS
Copyright, 1915, by Dodd. Mead 6, Compesuy
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CHAPTER XVIII.
Peg's New Surroundings.
' EG'S little heart was craving for
P
some' show of kindness. If she
were going to stay there she
would make thehest of It. She
ewould makttsOme friendly advances to
'them. She held her baud out to Mrs.
Chichester.
"Pro sure I'm very grateful to you
for takin' me to live with ye here.
'An' me father will be too, But, ye tlee,
sit's all so strange to me here, an' Fm
eo far away -an' I miss me father so
much."
Mei Chichester, ignoring the outs
• stretched band, stopped her peremp-
torily:
"Go with him!" And she pointed up
' the stairs, on the first hunting of which
stood the portly Jarvis waiting to con-
sduct Peg out of tbe family's sight
Pep dropped a little courtesy to Mrs.
Chichester, smiled at Ethel. looked
loftily at Alaric, then ran up the stairs,
.and, following the footman's index fn -
.ger pointing the way, she disappeared
-troro Mrs. Chichester's unhappy gaze.
The three looked at each other.
"Awful!" said Marie.
"Terrible!" agreed Mrs. Chichester.
"One thing is absolutely necessary,"
Mrs. Chichester went on to say -"she
, roust be kept away from every one for
the present."
"I should say sol" cried Alaric ener-
sgetically. Suddenly he ejaculated:
"Good Lord! Jerry -he mustn't see
-1er)
--.
se
. 1
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Peg Followed Jarvis Up .the Stairs.
:tier. He'd lent' his head off at the
idea of no. having a relation tike her.
probobly 1.1)1) 1D to 1111101."
"Then She must remain lu her room
until ne's gone," said Mrs. •Chlretester
(determinedly. "1"11 go into town now
,and order eume thiegs for ber and see
.0 leen tutors. She lutist be taught and
• at once."
"Why put up with this aunoyance at
;all?" asked Ethel.
Mrs. Chlehester put her arm around
althet as ,he soul:
"Out' thousatel pounds a year. that is
the reason."
"Wait o minute, nutter," put in Mar-
ie, "and 1,11 go with you as tar as the
station road mei see If I can head Jer-
ry off, Ilis trate Is almost due if it's
:Had A Lame Back
FOR A LOG TIME.
'Sometimes Codd Hardly
Turn in Bed.
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When the back gets so bad and aches
'like a "toothache" you may rest assured
• that the kidneys are affected in some way.
On the first sign of a backache, Doan's
Kidney Pills should be taken, and if this
is done immediately you will save your-
• self many years of suffering from serious
kidney trouble.
Mr. J. W. Vraser, Truro, writes:
' "I have had a tante back for a long time.
Sontetimes 1 could hardly turn over in
bed, but after taking six boxes of Dcan's
Kidney Pills I find that my back is as
.strong as ever. 1 can't praise them
lenough,i,
Doan's Kidney Pills are I50c. per box,
boxes for $1.25; at all dealers or mailed
• direct on receipt of price by The T.
Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.
When ordering direct saccifY ''Doan's,"
punctual?'
He was genuinely concerned that his
old churn should not meet that impossi-
ble little red headed Irish heathen
whom an unkind fate had dropped
down in their midst.
At the hall door Mrs. Chiehester told
Jarvis that her niece was not to leave
her room without permission.
As Mrs. Chichester and Alaric pass.
ed out they little dreamed that the same
relentless fate was planning, still fur-
ther humiliations for the unfortunate
family and through the new and un-
welcome addition to it.
Peg was shown by the maid, Ben-
nett, into a charming old world room
overlooking the rose garden. Every-
thing about it was in the most ex-
quisite taste. The furniture was of
white and gold, the vases of Sevres, a
few admirable prints on the walls and
roses everywhere.
Left to her reflections, poor Peg
found herself wondering how people
with so much that was beautiful
around them could live and act as the
Chichester family apparently did. They
seemed to borrow nothing from their
once illustrious and prosperous dead.
They were, it would appear, only con-
cerned with a particularly near pres-
ent
The splendor of the house awed -the
narrowness of the people irritated ber.
What an unequal condition of things
where such people were endowed with
so much of the world's goods while her
father had to struggle all his life for
the bare necessaries!
Very much comforted by the reflec-
tion and having exhausted all the cu-
rious things in the little mauve room,
she determined to see the rest of the
house. 139rst she changed to another
dress.
At the top of the stairs she met the
maid Bennett '
"Mrs. Chichester left word that you
were not to leave your room without
permission. I was just going to tell
you," said Bennett.
All Peg's independent Irish blood
flared up. What would she be doing
shut up in a little white and gold
room all day? She answered the maid
excitedly:
"Tell Mrs. Chester I am not goin' to
do anything of the kind. As long as I
stay in this house I'll see every bit of
it!" and she swept past the maid down
the stairs into the same room for the
third time.
"You'll only get .me into trouble,"
cried the maid.
"No, I won't. I wouldn't get you
into trouble for the wurrld. rn get
all the trouble, an' I'll get it now."
Peg ran across, opened the door con-
necting with the hall and called out:
"Aunt! Cousins! Aunt! Come here;1
want to tell ye about meseLf I"
"They've all gone out," said the maid
quickly.
"Then what• are ye makin' such a
fuss about? You go out too."
She watched the disappointed Ben-
nett leave the room and then began a
tour of inspection. She bad never seen
so many strange things outside of a
museum.
Fierce men in armor glared at her
out of massive frames; old gentlemen
In poWdered wigs smiled pleasantly at
her; haughty ladieg in breath bereav-
-
fikuY o reg. "Ire" looked -down at ber
in sererise, She was intent on her
PraYers,
4eelloi" cried Oa& young man.
"Frightened, eb?"
Peg looked up and saw bim staring
down at her with a smile on his lips.
Inside his coat was her precious little
deg, trembling with fear. The terrier
barked loudly when he saw his mis-
tress. Peg sprang up and elutched Mi-
chael away from tbe strange;' Just as
another blinding flash played around
the. mom, followed by, a deafening re-
port.
Peg ran across to the door, shout-
ing: "Shut it out! Shut it out!" She
stood there trembling, covering her
eyes with one hand; with the other
she held on to the overjoyed Michael,
wbo was whining with glee at seeing
her again.
The amazed and amused young man
closed the windows and the curtains.
"Don't come near the dog, sir! Don't
game near it!" She opened a door end
toad it Jed into a little reception
room. She fastened Michael with a
piece of string to a chub' in the roont
and came back to look again at the
stranger, who had evidently rescued
her dog from the storm. ae was a
tall, bronzed, athletic looking, broad
shouldered young man of about twen-
ty-six, with a pleasant, genial, mag-
netic manner and a playful humor
lurking in his eyes.
As Peg looked him all over she found
that he was smiling down at her.
"Does the dog belong to you?" he
queried.
"What were you doin' with him?"
she asked in reply.
"I found-1Am barking at a very high
spirited mare."
"Mare?" cried Peg. "Where?"
• "Tied to the stable door,"
"The stable door? Is tbat where
they put Michael?" Once again the
lightning flashed vividly.
Peg shivered.
The stranger reassured ber.
"Don't be frightened. It's only a
summer storm."
"Summer or winter, they shrivel me
up," gasped Peg. She looked at the
voting man and said in an awestruck
voice:
'They say if ye look at the sky when
the lightnin' comes ye can see the king-
dom of heaven. An' the sight of it
blinds some and kills others-accordin'
to the state of grace ye're
"You're a Catholic?" said the stran-
ger.
"What else would I be?" asked Peg
it: surprise.
Again the lightning lit the room. Peg
closed her eyes again and shivered.
"Doesn't it seem he Is angry with
us for our sins?" she cried.
'With me perhaps -not with you,"
answered the stranger.
"What do ye mane by that?" asked
Peg.
"You don't know what sin is." re-
plied the young man.
'An' wbo may you be to talk to me
like that?" demanded Peg.
"My name Is jerry," be said.
"Jerry?" And Peg loOked itt him cu-
riously.
"Yes. What is yours?'
"Pegl" And there was a sullen note
of fixed determination in her tone.
"Peg, eh?" And the stranger smiled.
She nodded and looked at him eurn
ously. What a strange name he bad -
Terry! She had never heard such a
name before associated with such a
distinguished looking man.
"Terry, did ye say?"
"Just plain Jerry," he answered
cheerfully. "And you're Peg."
She nodded again, with a quick little
smile. "Just plain Peg."
"I don't agree,with you," said the
young man. "Ithink you are very
charming."
After a pause be went on, "Who are
you?"'
"I'm ree aunt's niece," replied Peg,
looking at him furtively.
Jerry laughed again.
"And who is ydur aunt?"
"Mrs, Chl-ster."
"Whom?"
Poor ,,Peg tried again gt the absurd
tongue tying name.
tug coiffures stared superciliously right
through her. She felt most uncom-
fortable in such strange company.
On the piano she found a perfectly
carved bronze statuette of Cupid. She
gave a little elfish cry of delight, took
the statuette in her arms and kissed it
"Cupid, me darling. Faith, it's you
that causes all the mischief In the
wurrld, ye divil yel" she cried.
All her depression vanished. She
was like a child again. She sat down
at the piano and played the simple re-
frain and sang in her little girlish
tremulous voice one of her father's
favorite songs, her eyes on Cupid:
"Ob, the days are gone when beauty
bright
My hearths charm wovet
Wben nay dream of Hf 0, from morn till
night,
Was love, still navel
New hope may bloom
And days may tome
Of milder, Calmer beam.
But there's flotillas halt so sweet in life
As love's young dreamt
No, there's nothing half so sweet in lite
As love's young dream,"
As she let the last bars die away
and gave Cupid a little caress and was
about to commence the next verse a
vivid flash of lightning played around
the room, followed almost immediate-
ly by a crash of thender.
Peg cowered down into a deep chair.
All the laughter died from her trice
and the joy in her heart She made
the sign of the croas, kraelt delft and
prayed.
Into tne room thrsnigh the Windetv
came a yoUng man, his coatcollar turn.
ed up, rain pouring from his hat. hi -
Side his Oat Was a terrified looking
dog. The Man came well into the rebuts
taming down the cellar of his coat and•
Shaking the moisture trete: bis clothes
wher: be Auddeagy .stiW the leatteing,
•
SUFFERED FROM
Catarrh Of The Stomach
FOR ,s YEARS,
Milburn's Laxa-Liver PWs
Cured Her.
"My aunt is Mrs. Chi -sister."
"Mr$. Chichester?" asked Jerry in
surprise,
"That's it," said Peg.
"How extraordinary!"
"-Isnl it? le ssollkle't .expect a One
•••••••••11.51.,
Mrs. .Sgnes Gallant, Reserve Mines,
N.S„ writes; "I take great pleasure in
writing you. 1 have been a great sufferer,
for eight years, front catarrh of the
stomaeh and tried several, so called,
catarrh remedies without relief until
a friend of mine advised me to try Mil -
burn's Laxa-Iiiver Pills, which 1 did, and
four vials completely cured me."
Be sure and get IVIilburn's Laxa-Liver
Pills when you ask for them as there are
a number of imitations on the market.
The price is 25c. per vial, 5 vials for
$1.00, at all dealers or mailed direct on
receipt of price by The T, Milburn Co.,
Limited, Toronto, Ont,
ladirlike ber to have u niece tike me,
would ye?"
"That isn't what I meant." corrected
Jerry.
"Yes, It Is wbat ye meant. Don't
tell untruths with the storm ragin'
outside," replied Peg.
"I was thinking that 1 don't retiree'.
ber Alarie ever telling me that he had
such a charming cousin."
"Ob, do you know Alaric?" asked
Peg,with a quick smile.
"Very well," auswered ;terry.
Peg's smile developed into a long
laugh. •
"And why that laugh?" queried
3 erry.
"I'd like me father to see Alarie. I'd
like him just to see Alarie for oue min -
nit. Be's sich a conceited person."
"I admire your delightful accent," re-
plied Jerry.
"Accent is it?" And Peg looked at
him in astonishment "Sure, I've no
accent. I just speak naturally. It's
you have the accent to my way of
Whir:int"
"Really?" asked the amused Jerry.
Peg imitated the young man's well
bred, polished tone:
"Wall ye bawn theah?"
Jerry laughed immoderately. Who
was this extraordinary little person?
was the one thought that was in his
mind.
ireentraie, Uifb, Slfd've 'ban Die
Pleat -that we bave."
She only stepped to take breath be-
fore on she went again:
'There have been times when we've
been most starvire, but me rather nev-
er lost his Pluelt or his spirits. Nayther
1114 I. When thnes have been the
hardest Fve never heard a word of
complaint from me father nor Wit a
frown on his face. An' I'M sick for
the sight of him, An' I'M Mire he is
for Me --far biz 'Peg o' My Dealt,' as
he always calls me."
She uncovered her eyes as the tears
trickled down through ber lingers.
"Dou't do that," he said softly as be
felt the moisture start into his own
Dyes.
"I don't often ery," she said. "Me
father never made me do it. 1 never
raw him cry but twiee itt his life -
nue( when we made a little money an'
(ve had a mess said for me inother's
foul an' we bad tbe most beautiful
candles on Our Lady's altar. De crlei
:lien. he did. An' when I left him to
come here on the slalp-an' then only
0 the last tninnit."
Ino moment she went on again:
"1 cried trteself to sleep that night. I
did, An' many a night, too, on teat
steamer.
"Ate I wish I hadu't come -that I
do. B's missin' me.every tniunit-tue
I'm missile him. Ait' I'M nut gotta' to
be happy here aytber.
"1 don't want to be a lady. .axe tbey
won't retake me one, ayther, it 1 ear
beip it. 'Ye cae't make a silk purse
out of a sow's ear,' that's what rue
father always said. An' that's .w bar
1 am. I'm a aow's ear."
She stopped.
"I'm afraid I cannot agree with
vou."
She looked up at htm and said 10-
ilfTereutly;
"That's what I am, I'm a sow's
sear."
"When the strangeness wears off
rou'll be very happy. You're among
friends."
Peg shook her bead and said bitter.
"No. I'm not. They may be rote
tions, but they're not me friends."
Be turned to Peg and said:
"When they really get to know you,
Miss O'Connell. they will be just as
proud of you as your father it -aa -1
would be."
Peg looked at bim In whimsical as-
tonishment: "You'd be? Why sbould
you be prourl'of me?"
"I'd be more than proud It you'd look
on me as your frieud."
"A friend is It?" crted Peg warily.
"Sure 1 dou't know who. you are at all,"
and she drew away from blm. Stttm
was on her guard. Peg tuude few
friends. Why this man ealling him-
self by the outlandish name of Jerry
should walk to out of nowhere and of-
fer her his friendship and expect her
to jump at It puzzled her. Who
was be?
"Wine are ye at all?" she asked.
"No one M particular," answered
Jerry between gasps.
"I can see that." said Peg cundidly.
mean what do ye do?'
"Everything a little and nothing
really well." Jerry replied. "I was
soldier for awfille; then 1 took a splash
at doctoring, read law, eivil engineered
in South .4..merica for a year; now
.farming."
"Farmingr asked Peg incredulously.
"Yes. l'In a farmer,"
Peg laughed as she looked at the well
cut clothes, the languid manner and
easy poise.
"It must be !nighty hard on the land
and cattle to have you termite them,"
she sal&
'It is," mid he, too. laughed again.
She started up the staircase leading
to the mauve room.
Jerry called after her anxiously:
"No. no, Miss O'Couneill Don't go
like that"
~I must" said Peg from the top of
the stairs. "What will I get here but
to be laughed at an' jeered at by a 30:
of people that are nut tit to even look
at me father? Wbo are they, I'd like
to know, that I mustn't :speak les name
In their presence?'
Snddenly sbe raised Der hand above
ber bead, and in the manner and tone
of a public speaker she' astounded Jer•
ry with the following ontburst:
"An' that's wbat the Irish are dein;
all over the wurrld. They're driven
ont of 'their own conntry by the Eng.
lists an' become wandlierers 00 the
face of the earth, an' nothby they
ever earn 21 snake up to them for the
separation from their homes an' their
lured ones!" She finished the perora.
tion un a high note and with a toreed
manner such to she had frequentlY
beard on the platform.
She stalled at the astonished Jerry
and asked him:
"DO ye know what that is?"
"I haven't the least Idea." he an
swore(' truthfuity,
"tlutt's old of one of the fathe'r's
speeelies. Be father makes grand
speeches. LLC makes them to the cause
of Ireland."
.si:th.„ roily! In the eause of Ire
land. eh?" said Jerry.
"Yes. He's been struggltn' nit his
life to make Ireland free, to get her
home rule. ye knoW. But the English
are so ignerant. Thee think they Itoow
more than me father. If they'd do
what me father tells them sure ttietVd
he no more throuble In Ireland at alt."
"Ilcallyr said Jerry (mite interest -
"Not a bit of theonble. 1 Wist: Inc
father was here to explain It to ye.
Ile could tell ye the whole thing in a
couple of hours. I Wish he Were here
now jest to give yoti an eratnple Ot
what line epeakini really is. Do you
like speeches?"
"Very tntichs- sometime/0 replied
Jerry guardedly.
"Me father is wendherful on a plat.
tn:IX with feUt o' mop), it in front of
CHAPTER XIX.
Peg and Jerry.
pEG went haphazardly around the
room examining everything, sit-
ting in various kinds of chairs,
on the sofa, smelling the flow-
ers, and wherever she went Jerry fol-
lowed her at a little distance.
"Are you going to stay here?"
"Mebbe I will and mebbe I won't,"
"Did your aunt send for you?"
"No, me 000]e -me Uncle Nat."
"Nathaniel Kingsnorth!" cried Jerry
" In amazement.
Peg nodded.
"Sleepin' in his grave, poor man."
"Why, then, you're Miss Margaret
O'Connell?"
"I am. How did you know that?"
"I was with your uncle when he
died,"
"Were ye?" .
"He told me all about you."
"Did he? Well, I wish the poor Mine
'ud ha' lived. An' I wish he'd 'a'
thought o' us sooner -he with all his
money an' me father with none an' me
bis sister's only child."
"What does your father do?"
Peg took a deep breath and answer-
ed eagerly. She was on the one sub-
ject about whicb she could talkfreely
-all she needed was a good listener.
This strange man, unlike her aunts
seemed to be the very person to talk
to on the one really vital subject to
Peg. She said breathlessly:
"Sure me father can do anything at
all -except make Money. An' when
he does make it he can't kape it. He
doesn't like it enough. Nayther do 1.
We've never had very much to like,
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THE CENTAUR cot.' PANY, NEW YORE "'V.
S-Sso, . •
tiers iioldheretif. I've -seed bim
take two or three hundred people who
didn't know they bad a mievance in
the wprrld-the poor cratures-they
were just contented to go on betn'
ground down an' trampled on are they
not knowire a thing about it -I've seen
me father take that crowd an' in five
minutes afther he bad started spakire
to them ye wouldn't know they were
the same people. They were all shout -
in' at once, an' they bad tnurther in
their eye, an' it was blood they were
afther. They wanted to reform sorne-
thin'-they weren't sure what -but they,
wanted to do it, an' at the cost of life,
hie father could have led them any-
where. It's a wonderful power be was.
Do ye like bearin' about me father?"
„she asked Jerry suddenly, in case she
was tiring him.
Jerry hastened to assure her that he
was really most interested.
"Well, so Jong as yer not tired ro
tell ye some more. Ye know I went
alt through Ireland when 1 was a child
with me father in a cart. An' the po-
lice an' the constabulary nsed to fol-
low ns about. They were very fright-
ened of me father, they were. They
were grand days for me. Ye're
mobbe?" she asked bim suddenly.
"I am," said Jerry. Be almost felt
inclined to apologize.
"Well, sure that's not you fault Ye
couldn't help it. No one should hold
that against ye. We can't all be born
hish."
"I'm glad you look at it so broad
mindedly," said Jerry.
Site stood restlessly a moment, her
hands beating each other alternately.
"I get so lonesome for me father,"
she said.
Suddenly, with a tone of definite re-
solve in ber voice, site started to the
stairs, calling over her sboulder:
'I'm gain' back to tarn now. Good
byl"
Jerry followed ber. pleading Insist.
ettly:
"Wait! Please wait:"
She stopped and looked at him:
"Give us one mouth's trial -one
month!" he urged, "It will be very
little out of your life, an' I promise
you your father wilt not stiffer through
it except In losing you for that oue
little month. Will yen? .Inst n montn?"
, He spoke so earnestly and seemed
so sincerely pained and so really von
cerned at her going that sbe eatue
down a few steps and looked at Min
Irresolutely.
"Why do you want me to ettlYr She
asked him,
"Because -because your late uncle
was my frieed. It was Itis last wish
to do something for you. WIll you
Just a Month?"
She struggled with the desire to go
away from all that was so foreign and
distasteful to her. Then Ohs looked at
Jerry and realized, with something akin
to a feeling of pleasUre, that he traa
pleading with her to stay and doing it
in such a way as to suggest that It
mattered to him. She had to admit to
bersett that she rather liked the look
of hint, ?Te seemed honest, even
though he were English. After all, to
run away no* mrotad look cowardly.
tier father Would be ashamed of her.
This stuchnp family would laugh at
tier. InetaxitIy she roads to her mind.
litle would stay. Taming to Jertr,
she' said:
"All right, then. I'll stay -a month.
But not any more than a month,
though.*
w.
"Not Meets you wish It.
"1 won't wish it -I omits* re that
One month flb�enongbjutbaboUs,,M
"1 arn glad you're going to stay."
"Well, that's a totatott, anywir.
‘e ODA .11 bo pleased at my stark:"
(To lin CONTINUED.)
BARRIE'S LITTLE JOKE. '
He Was a Failure as a Presiding Officer
and He Knew it.
Tere is only one recorded Instance
of Sir .1. M. Barrie's acting as chain.
man of a public meeting. In the Cen-
tury Magazine Mr. John D. Williams
told the story to the American
It was on the occasion of a Burns cele-
bration.
Barrie took the chair as presiding of-
ficer and then kept to it !triply -
Throughout the entire proceedings he
did not utter a single word, but re-
mained as if glued to the horribly 'con-
spicuous chair. loathing bis predica-
naent. but inwardly amused at the ex-
pressions on the faces of all about him,
which made dismally clear the fact
that he was a failure as a presiding of-
ficerh,
w
en tbe meeting was almost halt
finished Barrie took advantage of a
talkative group in front oe him and
quietly stole away before any one had
a chance to miss him. But the next
week a well known Saturday review
printed a satirical article called "Mr.
Barrie In the Chair." The thing wast
limply withering in its ironical account
of the dumb presiding (Meer who
eventually Bed, leaving a meeting to
preside over itself. The greatest re-
gret was naturally expressed by those
who had pepuaded Barrie to come
the Burns celebration, and among his
friends tremendous indignation was
felt and vented. But some day they
will know, if they have not already'
found out. that the article was written
by Barrie himself!
MEASURING THE STARS.
What is Meant by Firat and Second
Magnitude, and So On.
The classification of the stars into
orders of magnitude, depending on
their at:parent brightness, was under-
taken a little hastily, with the result
that many stars have been found
which are brighter than stars of the
trst magnitude. Aldebaran is a typical
star of the first magnitude, but Sirius
is much brighter. Consequently the
system of classification has to be ex-
tended.
A star of the first magnitude is 2.5
times as bright as a star of the second
magnitnde; a star of the second Mag-
nitude is 2.5 times as bright as a star
of the third magnitude. and so on.
Stars which are 2.5 times as bright as
a star of the first mageitilde are called
stars of 0 magnitude. while stnrs 2.3
dines blighter still are said to be of
100 -1 MAgilitM,10. and 80 on
Professor Ceraski has ninth. meneure
meets to determine the magnitude of
the sun. reckoned In this way lly
adoptiug different method,: of 11.tnINI.re.
ments bo reaches eery 11,•,‘,„0„.,0 re.
sults, and it appears that oe, seri is a
star of the -36.3 01,101' of i(.. .11e.
which means til:lt 31 tt'llt!..1 • ..,,;.•11
fight as 8110.000.0n0 or e1(11.e (11 1.15- (.,•er
magnitude.
At the distal -is 4.r 0 I icy 47(01 (( lir
light years -i. 7`1:',111 .t (I ;.:,5 ,ts
present clistenve -11 «oltia .,
the first tnewitithio. so 111.13. 400,it;(-0 1
as a star, It iN :1i1V4 111 • l•
nary, -Pi itsbur :13 I .at': Tina
Prernotein
"And what." (..eke.1 the ,elte,
ehieftain. lii hIs kindest to( • ((..14
your business before pm eel., (ale
tared by my meil?"
"I was a eewspal;er man," alriv.el ea
the capt;ve,
"An editor?"
"No; nuerly n enbeditor."
"Cheer up. young man: Shortly' aft-
er my chef hag finished his perusal of
the cookery hook you will he tallow Itt
chef."-elanalou Answer.