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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1907-09-19, Page 740+0+Gi-+C'' +0+040+30+0NCI+ u+• ►Cr.04o4-e 0 THE SACRIFICE • 0 30E OR 0 pi00Ett140♦+04♦0♦4i+*+11+*t0+0+0e►oi-o+o+od•o+o♦o♦oO0+ FOR HER FAMILY'S SAKE. (:iIAt''I'I:R \'I.—(Coritinued). Sh a kid a long tithe to wait. Could tic Lave forg,'oIt a that she was waiting here? And Katie was by no uiearis ac- customed to await. What did she care i! he had promised a book to Lora? What did it rnennY Katie made up her mind to study this bock a little, before she gave it to Lora. She did not be- lieve in this seri (f thing. Lora was a by !► .;rite. She so often blushed when they mot the doctor in the walks, or when any one mentie►ned his name. Katie suddenly clamped her foot and clenched her list. Otho _could have ettaken lora for Sheer vexation, and yea she did not know for what. She wcuki go tiway, and yet she was held tack by the thought that she artist tined eel what it was about the book. Al lost he carte. The book was wrap- perl up in a newspaper. "Were you afraid?" he asked. "You ought to have bene in to coy mother'." "I um not airuid," she replied cross- ly. She snatched the book out of tns hand. "Is them anything else 1 can "No; Fraulein von Totten knows about i: But perhaps it may interest you to kr:o•w that I cannot give the lesson in literature next 'Thursday, because I am geeing away for a week," "Indeed! A pleasant journey!" She recant it to sound very indifferent, "It is not a journey of pleasure, he remarked, "1 am going to a philology arc chug, un Maniz. But we will go new. 1 will accompany you hnnie." "No. thank you," she replied, '1 should much prefer to go alone. Good- eve:iring." Katie fled through the garden, out irk the street, as if she feared pursuit. Net until she got into the •street that led into the town did site go more slowly; but Ilhc n the Look burned like fire in her blend. She stopped under a figs -lamp beside the bridge, and looked at the packet. -- - It was lied up with a string and fast- ened with a seat. ller mouth took on a cold, scornful expression, which snacle the young face took older by tunny years. Her fingers twitched as if they must break the seal, but she left it untouch(d. "It is shameful!" she murmured, hur- rying on with redoubled haste. She rushed noisily Into the door cf her father's house, and, as she heard Lera's voice in the kitchen, she stood the next Moment b::fore her sister, who was busy at the stove, getting ready l".r father's supper. "llere!" she exclaimed in a hearse franc, holding out The packet to Lora, "here is your book." "What 'boot:?" was the surprised in- quiry. "The lxeok from Dr. Schonberg. You needn't kok so surprised. Tuke it. 1 arc not anxious to staid here holding it to you." Lora took the saucepan, in which her tether's broth was cooking, from the fire, aria then took the packet. Katie stood with folded arras, watching her sister as she stood at the kitchen -table Lefore the little kerosene lamp, untied the string, and took a book out of the wrapper. As she opened it a slip r f puller fell to the floor, unobserved 1 y her. Katie did not stir. Lora shook her head. "A Greek lexicon- Katie, there must be some mistake." The young girl laughed aloud. "The explanation is lying at your feet, i.ere." she cried. "Probably, Schon' berg hadn't an idea that you would llnd it so hard to comprehend; other vise he would no doubt have written on the outside of the packet, 'A billet- ':ueux within.'" Lora stooped quickly and picked ;tp It nate; she read it, blushing deeply: "1 did not meet yout to -day, Lora, and 1 wrrnky1 to see you. 1 must talk with you about speaking to your father, for cannot bear this :-ort of thing any kelp r, Make up your mind, and cone te:•night, after dinner, to ray another. 1 have told her everything. t must say pod -bye to you for eight long days. have just fesmil a tette r which calls we to 5taniz. If yeu love nie, Lora. grant my requests' She remained standing, with drooping lead, and a► thoughtful expression 411 he: lovely face. Mould she manage 1 Ibis evening? Rut there was no clues' lion .`bout It—she trust speak to hits Ix fon he went nwny. She wanted to feel herself protected from Herr Beck - cab per!aistent attentions; at the worst Me Would ge secretly. heavy scabbing aw ised her. ' •k liy. Katie, why are you crying?" she nsked. "Oh, you!" gasped the young girl, silt' eyes sparkling with anger; "you -.-go; you are lu_er'iel: you have a clan- (te Mine keve-aiffnir; yell are deceiving tether and mother. You have thrown yeetn�(!t nw•a>y—s" beard calmly poured the troth into het lather's large cup, and when she Was reedy to leave the kitchen, she said gentle: "Game, Katie; father is wailing for his supper. 1 will ons ver you niter - ward." She ,�vent npstoirs with the steaming brotfi. end entered the old gentt mom's noel. ile was sitting in his arnt-chair t.y the stove, s is k!Jlg. as usual. "1 chr Hid think you hnd been grind - 1,.g: the meal," wee his greeting to itis (taeughter. "Punctuality has gone out tet fashie1n, Where is your mother?" "She is drwnstairs in the parlor, with :\ant Melitta;- Frau Ileelher has otely just gone." "\\hnt coo thou' old women want Anyway? 1 could hear that old Becher shrieeing all the way up here." 't "She wonted to iriqulre how 1 was After tits ball,.' replied Lura, shrugging r Issei'derse. •p I� ; mJ -r , usi.o deal Les n drinking his tooth, wired off his moustache and laughed. "An old cat, eh, Lora?" "Yes, papa." "And that pack have millions, and they don't even knew how to spend it decently. Arid we roust go hungry. There must be something wrong with ilic regulations up above, or else 4nat fellow Adalb'rt would be making shoes le the regiment, eh, lora? Or dee you like hila?" She stroked his unshaven cheek ten- derly. "Dear papa," she said. "Lora," called Frau von Totten. 'I'iie daught r hurried to the door. "Yes, maritime" 'Aunt Mclitta will stay to tea," was the answer; "toil a ftw eggs." She ran down the stairs in dismay. That was stupid of Aunt Melilla. "But soft, child, very soft," called out the old Fraulein, after her. When a kw minutes later, Lora car- ried the Ica into the little dining -room, etc found her mother, aunt, and sister already sitting there. Midi's place, text to her own, was vacant. The major always look his supleer in his e ein room. Fraulein Afelitta was exces- sA ely talkative, and she appealed con tieually to Lora. "I was just saying to your mother, Lora, that cite ought never to judge leo quickly. This Frau Bccher is real - t)• a charming; woman; a perfect lady, Lc schen." "She takes almost as much upon her- self as it she were one," remarked Katie. "Katie, 1 must beg that you will not be se) ready to give your very unripe opinions, said Aunt Melina reproving- ly and her curls shook all .over her head; "besides, 1 was not speaking to pie i s p _rte to Lora." "Lora tins no time to -day to think about Frau Becher," replied Katie, slicking an egg with her knife, "have ):_ii Lora?" "We have some secrets to talk over, le-and-by—about papa's birthday." "After tea, 1 hope," said her 'nether. "Yes, mamma." Lora cast a grateful glance at her sc ter, but, Katie looked through her its tLi uggh she did not exist. "Really, I have seldom -seen anything s tasteful as the Becher's furniture, began Aunt Melilla, again. "Only fancy, dear Marie," she continued, turn - nes to her sister-in-law, "the salon is fitted up wilt violet velvet, and in the leetidoir, udjuining, they have rnaizc- cclored satin, embroidered with flow- ers—a charming cff+ct. I shall decorate lily next doll's house like it; and more- over, Frau Becher declares that the upper rooms, which her son partly oc- cupies now, and which he will lit up entirely when he gets married, arc much hanel_soner•. The bride whom Ad -attest may choose will not find it t,ccessarr'y to bring more than her per - sena' wardrobe with her, fur everything els( is already there." "Except docent ideas," murtmmred Katie, fortunately so low that her aunt could not understand her, and had to task what the young lady said. "Oh, nothing," replied the latter; "1 was only talking to myself; it is a ha- bit i have." "Yes; and Adalbert Becher told me esterday, that he would not go any - v h._re but to Italy on his wedding-jeur- ncy. ile has often teen in 'the land v, here the golden orange glows;' 'Thi- ther, oh, thither—' Lora, how does it go? '1 would go, 0 my beloved, with tleee!' My roor dear Plover used to sing it so beautifully." Dora suddenly got up. "Will you excuse rhe, mamma?" "Yes, but snake haste; for papa wants lu play a rubber of whist. As auntie is here, we can easily manage it if you play too," "Mamma," stammered Lora. ',Go t:ow,quickly, child. You %now yreur father is so lrnpatienk" lora, followed by her sister, ran through Lhe dark hall into the little salon, which was opposite the dining - room. 11 was a very plain room, dimly lighted by the kerosene lamp, which— still unheard of extravaggnnce!— was kerning on the table before which the ladies had been bitting with Frau Becher. - 11 was all very poor and plain, and ye' there was an air about it that at- e aye wive ti visitor a stet ee of corii- krt. The walnut furniture, with its Wish worn elf, an old-fashioned mir- es, mir- r• i, In n !terribly ugly gold frame. over the eensole, between the muslin cur• - tains, with a clock in front of it which t,ad long since tensed to go; a large fkewered carpel, before the sofa; en the right anei left an arm -chair. an old ,enLL'ciidere t fire -sorer., r1 litt)e (eta!, gc-re, on which stood an alabaster vase, which here rind there showed marks rt repair, end a writing -table, a very use- le`v Wee of furniture, covered with little knick-knacks from Letter days, when the mistress epf the Boase was }..sang and l.eautiful. He r.' lora sank into n chair. "Katie," s'tt tried. "you roust help trier' "Neel" replied the i►eerverse girl. "But you don't know--" "And 1 don't want to know." "Katie," Lora went up to her with clasped hand,, "we have alwaya hien fend of each ot.lher--i love him so touch, Katie•—du help mei' The younger girl's ince grew pale as d -ea th. You cnnnot have such a foolish pre- judice. Katie, as that we are not suited tc one another because i happen to 1►e called lora von Tollen, and he Ernest Schonberg. Katie, he is such a tear, Rp►kndle1 fellow. and you like him, too--" "No f" gasped Katie. "1 must epeak to him this evening,' staid lora, taking another tone. "if yeti wall not help me. then 1 rnuist manage for myself. I only ask you to say no- thing.' "That is ref course," replied her sis- ter, with a curling lip. "l.c.ra, bora!" 'ennead a voice out- side, "your papa Ls waiting." "Kslte," implored tie young girl, "1 capitol get out -1 beg of you—DO one will miss you; run over to Frau I'astor Sctronberg's, and say 1 cannot court, much as 1 would like to " "In the name of all the devils!' thun- dered the major, at the head of the stairs, "what are you about? \\'ill you Outlier' Lora flew to the door. "1 ani corning, papa, this moment! Katie, for Hee- ven's sake go! Say 1 will be at tile Mahon toecorrew morrningr, at half - past seven. It is no matter if some one (leafs sec us. 1 beg of you to go, Katie, if you care for tris at all, and 1 will thank you all my life. Tell hint not tr: fret---" ler eyes w -c re full of tears. "Olt, yes," murmured Katie, and i.c,ra flew upstairs. Kat:a did really put n shawl round bee and stem tut of tl:e hi' use. Site k'iew she went.' not be missed; every one w hold think she was writing her exercise. 1t was a dark, st army night; the !ant'rii , which were swung across 'lie Meet, swayed in the wind. The young cir' walked very fust; though she diet riot realize it herself, she almost ran. Iter head seemed burning, and the Mole world seemed to be turning mound with her, she felt so oppressed and :so melancholy; and yet elle vas angry. She thought what n comfort it would 1•e if she could seize Lora by the arm, eyed shake her, and say to her very face: "You serpent—you hypocrite!" As she drew near to the Schonbrg's garden -gate, she began to walk more slowly; she felt about in the dark for the latch, for there was no lamp here, and she looked for the small ray t f lwht over the blinds of the Frau Pas- toris. It was all dark in his room up - Mair>. All at once she felt her hand seized, and the next moment. an 01111 was thrown ar)und her, and a kiss was pressed on her lips. "Lora, Lora, thank fled you have comer murmured a passionate void. Site wris quits overwhelmed by this, and for the moment site could not utter a word. Not -until he had kissed her forehead and her Mind, and repeated, "Lora, my Lora!" did she find strength '.o free herself from his arms, and Must. hint away. "It Is 1," she said hoarsely, "Katie— I.cra could not come." For a moment ho remained silent, Then "Katie?" sounded in her ear in a teen of vexation and disappointment. "i could not help it," she murmured, leginning to sob. "No, no; only you must excuse me, Fraulein Katie. I hope Lora confided en you. But won't you come in?" Itis vc ice now tomrneeed es cool anet coin. posed as if he were at his desk. At this moment the house -door open- ed; light streamed out into the dark- ness, and the small figure of the Frau Pustorin appeared like a silhouette in the frame of the doorway. "Is my little daughter there?" she asked in a low and pleasant tone. "No, mother; it is Fraulein Katie," "Will you not Coyne In?" the old lady asked, repealing her can's invitation. "No, 1 cannot; 1 will not," murmured !he girl, retreating. -"I only wanted to say that I.omra could not come; she had to play whist with papa and Aunt Melilla; but she will conte to the sta- tion if she can, or will write." "Was it really so absolutely impos- silele?" he inquired bitterly. She shrugged her shoulders. "Lara said so --but Lent is a coward.' she muttered passbonnlely; "if 1—it it had been me—good-night!" She disappeared suddenly in the Ii,arknes'. When he hurried after her to the gate, he could perceive no truce of her in the lonely, dimly -lighted et reel. "Let the little will-o'-the-wisp go; whet can happen to her in Wester- berg?" he murmured, and went back :n a rather angry mood. Lora ought to Love come. he thought; she ought to have found ways acid means. Why should she be se particular when it 'e- gnrded the happiness of two people? Was it not a rather petty trait? Ile stood before his mother with a pale fare. "Well, well," said the old lady com- fortingly. putting the cake`plate and the teacups carefully away, which had been taken out for it:e refreshment cf the expected guest. "'These are a lov- er's troubles, my hay. Don't fret; it wilt all conic right." kora sat at the whist-tr ble, with the surds in her hand, and listened to every frc.tstep that went by in the street. '(:unfound it, look what you arc about!' shouted the major, who was her partner. "1 played chits. The way you play is enough to drive one toad!" She looked al him absently. 'There conies Katie upstairs," Faid Fr milieu !Nelilta, as she trumped the trick. ''Thank you, Lora; we are sure to win now." "The devil arty play with you!" Ruin - tit red the old man, flinging his cards . n Cie table. "1 would rather have a .1umm- rn%." Lora got up hastily and wtnt to the (Icor. "Come here!" shouted the major; "-it down and pay attention. flow else will you ever learn " She r, turned obeclientlf end sot down at the table r►gnin, like a marble sta- tue. Now and then the major asked her a question: "Wel!, child, how would yeti manage that'1 flow woulct you piny?" She looked at hint with an axions g.nnce as her thoughts carne back from he r lover. "Papa. I have a bad headache," she Enid .in excu='. as the cuckoo-clocle struck ten, and the cards were shuf- fled again. "Go to bed, then, for all 1 care,' grumbled tho major, as he arranged ii:• cards. SW said "Good -night." end went quickly to her sister's room. Katie was silting on her lied; her cheeks burniel like. Lire, and her ryes looked fixedly e,! torn. "Katie." crud i.orn breathlessly, bak- ingl her sister's cold hand in hers. "did yet: sce Kinn? Whet dad he say? Was he angry?" Katie shook her head. "1 told him what you said, and what else had 1 to do?" she replied, turning away. "No, nothing else. 1 thank you, Ka - 1 e,' was Vie disnppouttccI reply. "But arse you 1117' she asked. as a slight Shiver passed over the Ir.auie at the young girl. "No, lel rhe alone." "Don't be se horrid, Katie. When a girl loves a pian, she (keen", think ut.out his family tree," Katie laughed shortly, but she did not reply. Lora made an attempt to stroke tier Jura., hut her sister thrust her away. "Let nie alone!" she rtl at- e!. `Go ed -night, Katie," said Lora. acrd went awAy. She had hardly .blot 'lie dor behind her when the belt w'as shut and site thetibht she his leu./• shonmto sobs. "Katie!" site called once, hut all was still. She went into her room and began to write a gutter to Ernest Schonlxrg: "Yes, Ernest, it is better that you sleeted ask my father's consent as soon as po sible, 1 nun so anxious chid afraid. As soon as you come back from At., conte to papa, and 1 w' ill prepare hire. I wish you a pleasant journey, but don't forget. "Your Korea," "In c: =e of an emergency," she mute mored. "if 1 cannot go to the station. Katie lust take it. Stro will have had her cry cut by that time, and will get reconciled to it, the foolish, proud child!" She ctayrd awake for a long time ye', and read, in Scheffel : "Tr(inpeter vote Sahkainen." The lamp lighted up her pure, beautiful face, which looked so happy al this moment, when she was dreaming over a charming poem. Then alae started up suddenly. The outer door 611111. "Rudd" she cried, and, like a heavy weight, the anxious reality settled dc,wn on her spirit. (lo be (:c nt.iucel.) WHAT S%IALL MIS11.t1'S WILL DO, Single Ton of Coal Put Into Wrong hunker Sunk a Strip. The foundering of that, "crackest" c f all the crack German liners, the Kaiser Wilhelm 11., in firemen Harbor the ether day, serves to show how easily vuinerablo are these modern marine n+onsters, given precisely the right con- ditions. The Kaiser Wilhelm could not have Leen sunk in open ocean by any storm n:• matter how tierce, and she was fire- proof utid practit ally unsinkable by collision. Yet, so slender is her beam, in the interests of the speed she is built for that a comparatively small weight ef Coal placed a little too much to ono side caused her to capsize. 'A very similar accident, it will be re- membered, happened to the Orient liner °relava at 'Tilbury, England, some few years back. And in 1899, again, the line new steamship Utica was sunk in New Yurk Harbor owing to a single Iran of coal being shot by mistake into time wrong bunker. Through a small valve being accident- ally left open the Iron Duke was once piled with water, $650,000 worth et damage being (done. A steel spar fal- ling from aloft pierced through and through the huge Esgmeranza as she was lying enipty in Canton Harbor, and sent her to the bottom. The breaking o: one link in a chain attached to tier steering -gear sent the Utopia drifting helplessly on Lop of the Anson's rain in Gibraltar Ilarbor during the night c.f March 1711i, 1891, with the result that she went to the bottom, and nearly six hundred of her passengers and crew were drowned. Then, of course, there is the typical case of the Royal George, the finest man-of-war in tiro Iit•itish Navy of that lime, which was lost In Portsmouth Harbor on August 2:111, 1872. While heeled over to repair a pipe, a sudden gust of wind \wished the sea into her pests, and down she went, with the resultant loss of some nine hundred valuable lives. --4—. WORK—_4— — W'ORK IIARD AND DON'T WORRY. gales for Living to he 106 Git•en by Mrs. Brown, Who is 105. Mrs. Johanna harper Brown, of Wen - caster, Mass., who celebrated her 105th birthday the other day, delivered a short lecture on the value of hard work kr prolonging one's days. The boys rind girls have too easy a lime, Mrs. Brown thinks. and depend too much ur►on their elders to clothe and feed them. Pienty of hard work is good medicine, according to Mrs. Brown, and she adds that if she had not worked hard all her life she would have been dead long ego. She thinks it better for a w'omnn k work hard than to waste her energy carrying a poodle dog. "A great fault of most women to -day ie that they worry too much," saki Mrs. Brown. "Werryingg Isn't going to help them at all and i always made a prafc- tice not to worry and fret. "Just take things tis they come, end take it easy. When we1men do that they will live to be as old as i aro." \ors. Brown Is also certain that the sande rule applied to man will lengthen !Us days. Mr's. Brown .was born in Montreal and went to Massachusetts eighty-four years ago, nakwg the trip overland by wagon and on horseback. She was of a family o! six Children rind the mother of eight. Iter hearing Ls perfect, she rends news- papers without glasses and daily climbs a flight of stairs unaided to visit neigh- bors In the house on L.nke street, whct'e she lives with her daughter. She believes in the old oreder of meals breakfast at 7, lunch at noon end sup- per at 6. At the birthday celebration thiel week there were ninety descendants of \ii 1trown present and five generations. "When she gave y'ou� c of cake. did you say "Thank you'?" "Yes. roll but it didn't do no good." "Dietn't ate, any geed?" "No; she didn't give me another piece 1" Ilowell—"A good ileal depend& on the ferrnetion of early habits." Dowell--- "! know it. \\'then 1 was a baby my wether paid a woman to wheel me Mout, and I have been pushed for 'non- ce ever Since." FAMOUS DEATH VALLEY IT IItS BEEN TIIF: SCENE OF MANY '1'R elsEDIES. Gradually Losing Its Terrors- Railroads Lntcrine Stories of Robbery and Bloodshed. The famous Deuth Valley of Colorado is lasing; its to: -rocs. Perhaps no other area of equal size in the world has been trio scene of so many tragedies and dastardly crimes. Now the bund of civilization is reclaiming this devii'e garden of the \\'est, 1t will be Death Valley in Marne only, or as a memory, in but a few more years. Formerly only desperate eharacters lived on the desert, Lut within the last f t, years they have been pruclicuity thinned out, and the advent of rail - reads and the consequent rush of min- ket, will complete the renovation. OLD DAYS OF CRIME. Tito desert characters are not so dangerous as they were even a few years ago. There aro several setlle- IatenIs of "Arabs" scattered throughout tito desert, one of these being not tar from the borax mines, where they are within easy reach of passing teams. There was another band that hibernat- ed near the Black Crater, in San Ber- nardino County, several miles east cf Johannesburg. Like the Orientals from whom they were named they left with - (.u' being allowed the formality of fold- ing their blankets. Al (.cake's Springs about forty miles from Johannesburg, was a "Robber Roost," the most noted and , dangerous spot on the desert. It was settled in the early days by crininaLs, principally from Los Angeles. Here they held up the first waggon train from Salt Lake beeincd to Southern California, killing several, burning the waggons after plundering them and taking the stock. '!'hese thieves, like pirates waiting for a treasure ship, waylaid and robbed the Lorax waggons after pay days, and kilted the teamsters if they resisted. alining prospectors who passed that way were never seen again. In addition to the ranch house of the robbers there was it saloon. BEGINNING OF GRAVEYARD. Now there is only a row of stones marking the lines of the walls. Near- ! y on a sloping mesa was an old In- d.an camping ground, where agate, jasper and eleiid on chippings are found. From a peak above, a figure resembling a n elepttant'r, head, carved by the leaned o; nature, sccrned to be looking down upon the desolate and once bloody scene. There was a pitched battle be- tween the outlaws and the Indians, but the red men were vanquished by the longer range arms of the paleface. ito the Valley of Death at Saratoga Serings, on the banks of the shallow Amuge)rsa !liver, are the ru:ns of two Rune grouses, one of which was a store and the other a saloon. This spot was settled in tLe early days—more than half a century ago—and the place did a lively business, as the road was spot - tee with teams. Nearby is a grave- yard. The place bore a bad name, end more than one teamster was killed rind robbed at this oasis. Local Iradi- 11on records a noted gun tight between n teamster and his "swnrnper," In which both were killed, and this was tete beginning of the graveyard. A "swamper" is a Helper who walks along and helps the 'teamster manage :he I:ne, pulls on the waggon brakes and also assists the teamster in swearing. TRAVELLING iNG 'ITI EPHONES. The Civil and Military Gazette re- ports that lord Kitchener has accept- ed for use in India a form of movable Ieiephene, which can be employed with great facility in the field. The cable weighs only seven pounds per mile, but is so well insulated that it can be slretehed across a stream of water without loss of current. it withstands a strain of 120 pounds. An apparatus it.r piecing and removing the cable, working automatically, rind capable of !sing attached to a saddle, is employ- ed. Recently in the Punjab a horse- man, proceeding at a gallop, placed the angle over a distance of two miles in seven minutes. To remove it 18 min- utes were require( FORTUNES TOLD FROM TEA -LEAVES After a tea-party or a picnic it adds to the general entertainment it the hos- tess can read her guests' fortunes in their _teacups. An old lady who has guilt up quite a reputation in this way has revealed to us hew she does it. "Is the first place,'! she says, "you must turn the cup up.side down above the sreuccr, end slowly revolve it three time. Then start your inspection. If there are any drops of tea adhering to the cup, it Ls a sign of tears to come. A long line of leaves means a journey. and if the line is broken, a sea voyage. A little square patch means a letter. A circle means a proposal of marriage-. and a short line means a visitor. Then there will be patches resembling ani- mals and objects, such as birels. etc. Ileving observed all these indicatiens. you start to w: ave your story. wing! your imagination freely, but keeping everything within the bounds of p os- sibrlity, horn your knowledge of your guest's character gnat circumstances.' "\\'lint do you call ye^ lir little dog?" "i tired tel call hien William until tee head fits, and now I call him Fitzw'il- lirilnr' BUY WATER BY POUNE moo MOO SOME REM.tltK %lilt: NA'I L'ilE FACT, SIMPLY TOLD. F:�er}thint1 1'ou rat Contains %lore o 14,s Maier, and lou Ila%(• to I'us for N. flow mash n pxxund el i 34)11 pay 1' nater? Net what you draw from the well, dear meduuu, but the water yo, 1.a) at Ilro market. Tull don't buy wit b al market, you say. Indeed, you ar. teistak'•n. You purchase it there ever' week itt considerable quantities, and th price yeiU pay fur it is well-nigh stog gyecei toga For instance, you go to market an. Luy a porterhouse cut that weighs (w' pounds. That is to say, when the but cheer puts it on his scutes, it looks a> though yeti were getting two pounds o steak. It never occurs to you to retire That the steal and bone contain setti tired through their tissues. no less that two tuurbler•tuts of plain, ordinuie \utter. HALF '1'111; STEAK IS \\ATEII. In other words, slightly more than half of the steak is water, which, at 2: cents a pound, is a good deal to pay Tot such a commodity. But, whatever you may choose to purchase, you are "tit against' -• the same fluid pruposilkni. You buy a six -pound leg of Mutton, anti the market rnau charges incidentally al the regular rata for three pints of water which 11 contains. If you pick out ti chicken for roasting that weighs two pounds and a half, it holds one pint of water. A ten -pound turkey contains two quarts. EVEN IN FISH. It Is much Ilio same way with fish. A six -pound shad contains just about 1 - quart quart of water; but the roe, taken by i1 - self, is less than one-third solid matter. it lobster is nearly one-third water. '1'hc average fish that lies, dresed, on the stall in the market is about. six-tentho water; and even a salt pod, which look, as if it were one o: the dryest things ire the world, holds a pint' of water for every two pounds of treat. Chestnuts are nearly one-third water. but Klock walnuts, English walnuts, and butternuts contain only one per cent., or less, of water, while pecans, hickory nt:ts, Brazil nuts, and almonds run from les' to 3 per cent. Peanuts aro 7, pci cent. water. \\'ATTR IN EGGS. Let its Suposo that you invest your good money in eggs. It is not likely 10 make you better satisfied if you knew That tlw dozen "strictly fresh" ones, for whist you pay thirty cents, contain nearly a pint of plain water. But milk is worse, being eighty-seven per cent. water; while even the butter, which !- comparatively .water -free, heads elle. 1, per cent. of the fluid. Crean cheese 1 - three -fourths water. A pound loaf of geed wheat bread. delivered by the baker at your door. cuntiiltts about two-thirds of a tunmblcr- kul of water. But, when it comes to fresh vegetables. the trouble becomes greatly aggravated. inasmuch as only a small percentage of Utero is solid substance. Tomatoes, for instance. are ninety-four per cent. wa- ter, spinaeh, ninety-two pet- call.; let - hoe. eighty-one per cent.; string beans, eighty-three per snt.; cucumbers. eighty -ono per cetil.,: shelled peas, seventy-six per cent.; cabbage. seventy- seven per cent.; sweet corn off the ooh, seventy-six per cent., and beets, seventy per cent. T\\'O-TII1IIDS \\*ATER. Potatoes and turnips are neat so hod, Idaey are only about two-thirds water. When fruits are considered, it 'wears that apples anti oranges have the sante pc rcentagee o1 water as potatoes, white pears run up to seventy-six per cent.. rind strawberries to eighty-ilve per cent.. It seems surprising that an apple and en orange of equal sire should hold just th_ same qunntfl.y of water. but it. tempt ld 10 remembered that the Milne are cotented in. rind there Is a lot of fibre in an orange. I'mbably, if you were risked 10 men- tion the most watery of fruits, you w•c 1ld 5ny, the watermelon. But the fret is that, ( ingg to the greet thickness of the rind, and to the quantity of fibre composing the pulp, the watermelon. taken as a whole, is relatively dry. being only a little more then one-third water. --.---..111 i)USK, ANI) lot'. DAY 1S DONE. Dusk, and the tiny is done, Hnrneweard 1 tern ; Bright as the selling sun Its tires do burn. Dusk and they shadows fold On the hill's breast ; Dark 'girinst the fleeting gold, in the far west. Dusk. and the waking stars Glimmer on high Like candle: newly 111 in the gray sky. Dusk, and 1 see your face, Solt lips apart ; \Visiting to line) your place, Neer to my heart. ----- Je .0- fare marriage a man promises to refuse his wife nothing. and after mar- riege that's 01,00 fall she gels. That hacking cough continues Because your system u exhausted and your powers of resistance weakened. Take Scott's Emulsion. It builds up and strengthens your entire system.' It contains Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites so � prepared that it is easy to take and easy to digest. ALL DRUGC.i$TS r 110s. AND $1.00 GUINEA ON ISLES OF NEW GUINEA 111:N FROM THE VERY ILA\EST OP Ill MA\ Sill:. Famous Characters of Southern Seas— Horrible Stormy of \Utiles' Treachery. At Matupi is preserved the last of the great New Guinean war carkeces, This is .,n immense and wendeerful structure, 70 icer in length, which, besides several hutndret naeives, could carry six and a half tons of cargo upon the deck adjoin• int; the canoe proper and the outrigger. either end is a quaintly carved wooden figure head 'or tail l) covered with cas..owary feathers, and the int - memo outrigger consists of a whole palin tree, hollow&) out anal sharpened faro and aft. It was at Matupt, too, that we meet two of the most famous ct►aru^- ters of the Southern Seas. The first of these was Bill the Groper, who has not left the waters of the archipelago since 11+81. HIS ROMANTIC STORY. Ile owns is small yawl of 30 tons and makes a living by trading between the various islands. Ilis crew of fifteen is drawn from the very lowest of human scorn, and het explained that he owes their unswerving allegiance to 111111 to the fact that not one amongst them trt.sts his felk, vs, There were Chinese, Javanese, Malaya natives, Ntadhus, "Canals, Tonquint e, and regrow—ns villainous a crowd as could be selected. Most of these aro divers. and hill the Groper said that pearl shell collecting was well worth while. Bill's story is sad and romantic. A member of a notable ensterti county family, he had had all the advantages of a public school and unlversil.y education; than came the inevitable girl. speedily followed by hated rival. We learned nothing of th ;cquel, and none could clear up to ori satisfaction the tragedy that followed but here has this man been for a quar- ter of a century, absolutely cut off from 11i; fellows, and sinking daily more an more to the brutal level of his ill-selecte associates. IIORRIBLY DISFIGURED. "Leonard of the ilermit Isles" is of different category. Ito is a Dane, sti in the early thirties, who at the age o 'f! went out to take charge of certain it lands. I lis story is told by himself. Ile. carries around the most disfigure face that a anon could bear; his foetus are hacked beyond belief, and yet he well and strong. tie told its how it h:i! pencil. llis companion and he were r pairing a email heat whi-ei they 11 beached upon one of the Exclhcqu Islands, and were bending over it to gelher to calk and chomp a leaky insid board. A crowd of natives were stand Mg around, looking on, as they th•et,ght peacefully enough. No sooner were Lott off their guard than a couple of th treacherous brutes clubbed therm on th head with a log of wood or sone hand weapon. On regaining consciousn Leonard could see lois friend, speared 1 death, lying upon the beach some Littl way off. His captors, immediately the observed he had come back to a know ledge of life. cornneneel a war Banc nr'eund him in a wide circle. As eac warrior passed he took a slashing bac ward sweep at the prostrate, help! man with such weapon as he posses. —spear, tomahawk or club ---and evert Wally left loan for dead. In this state young native woman found him, an with the help of two of his own !tenni Islanders, they nursed him back to lit IiE NAMED THE MINI:. An instance of the Determination Richard Seddon. No colonial statesman was more pra ed or more abused than was niche Seddon during his long term of 0111 as Premier of New 'Lenlnnd. Ile ha few personal antagonists. l'olitt askle, declares his biographer, the were few who did not like turn. !nstan es of his tender -heartedness, his over flowing good nature, even to those with whom he had had "differences," occur to every one who knew him. Among the many stories of his de! terminatken is one of the lime before he entered ,parliament. Ile had become well known, However, and was asked to name a new mine opened near Ku- mara. On the day set aside for the ceremony, Mr. Seddon was away from home, and at the time fixed for the departure et the townspeople kor the new ►nitre 1.e f.a,d riot returned. The party waited 'or 601110 time, but as Mr. Seddon did net return, it wens decided that another ggen- I le pian should perform the ceremony. They started on the twelve -mile trail to the mine. with pnrkhorses lo carry the hnrnpere. but tind not been gots• more than 11-,11 as hour when Mr. Sed• don Marto d Kerwirn, and was infeertn. ell of the drp,nrtare of the caravan. "\Vlv ie e ing to name the miner he risked. "Mr. Blank." he was told. This was too much for Mr. Scddoas hecauce the gentleman named was 6 fe moldable opponent of his in local af• fairs. \Vithoul %veiling a minute to l.1+Mearrrlcdset Homfe,r stunt+rl►ed i� t h, i out ohe mine it directhatclineet tl:rougit the heavy hush. lie hnd Fix mile's 10 goo, only half the ti'stance by !reek. and those who know the New Zeeland harsh will urlders'att•1 the di$licullies of thnt journey. "Del he get there first?" asked r n4 w'hee listened to the story. "Ile gels everywhere first.". re a,'i •d the story -teller. "Ile was writing top them when they arrived, with hi.•a clo'hos in rags end his body scratched all over, lett It was he who named the mine.•' "My work," remarked the bald held - ed dentist, "is so painless {hitt tr.y pati- ents soften fail risteep in the chair while 1 ern operating." "Hurn! 'Tint's teeth. Ing," rete►rtrd his rival. "My lentiente 'early all insist Hn having their p1Ct tures taken while 1 .m a! wtsr'.t, in order' tr1 csteti the exatt*ssion o[ erlt'lgibl 11$ tl,e it taus."