HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1926-03-04, Page 6I3A PAUL TOAILINSO.N
PART 11.
"Aftor twenty minutes or se, the
&tory finished, I aainitered Into toe,
Smoker, My. acquaintances WCI:e seat-
ed at the far end of the cut, playing
three -handed Iiridra r drew up a
chair .and at down to watch them.
The little chap sti:1 .wore his wistful
smile, and he graded me with, it as I
joined Them, The, big fellow . flashed
his white teeth pleasantly tit me. His
friend gave me a sharp look‘from be-
hind his big speetacies, and merely
"My red-haired friena,wa PlaYing
tlic dummy, and 031C2 again I was at-.
tracted by his hands as he reached
across the table for the carcis. Really
thay were the hands of an Artiet---a
female 'artist at that ---with long, tap,
.ering fingers, extfaordinarily white,
Tliev seemed to have apersonality oe
their own, as definitelyas if they Wa,
individuals instead of merely hands.
-"The hand 'was finiehed, and any
.red-haired friend.was set two tricks,
"'Too bad!' said the big
'Doubled, too!'
" 'How's the game going'?" I asked.
"Oer, friend hey e is net havieg
• much luck, so f art said the big fellow.
'Hari had pretty poor cards.'
• "The little sandy -haired chap sinned
• • his wistful smile, but offered no com-
ment. He was starting to shuffle one
of the decks, and Once more his extra -
ordinate/ hands caught my attention.
• Really,' they Were extraordinary
hands." .
•
"So you've atready said," Cosze re-
marked -crisply. t
"Sit -Alia hissed 'Roberts. "Let him
•,go on with his story."
"The big fellow," continued Copley,
"asked me if I didn't went to make
forth. Evidently he hadn't quite be-
lievedeny statement about not play-
- Mgt I repeated it, however.
"'Oh, I forgot,' was all he said, and
he didn't try again. .
"Well, I watched the game for half
an hour, and then went back to ray
• magazine. I had watched as .etoeely
as. I could, but I couldn't for the life
of me see anything that looked sus-
picious. ' Still, the little Ted -haired
chap was losing -.steadily, and I felt
morally certain that he was being
fleeced. Ile, seemed unconcereed about
It, . for the tiestful smase played . un-
interreptedly about his mouth, and the
• expression on his face betrayed not
the slightest anxiety. I couldn't make
him out, atthough for a loag time I
ignored ley magazine and sat watch-
ing the Itendscape and thinking about
Mm. I couldn't snake the other two
out, either, although I had to adtrat
to myeelf that if they were Ord
sharps they certiinbr ranked near the
top of -their profession.
"Fittally I gave the whole thing up.
• I it sorry for the little rad-haixed
chap; but, after Ina I had tried th
Warn him, and if he wanted to throw
lais money 'away it really wit none of
my bueinese I dismissed all three of
my luneh aquaintances from my Mind
and starterlto read another story. I'd
read about a paragraph when the -little
red-haired ehap appeared ia the door-
way of the car. He caught my eye as
ha Was passing my chair.
"'Game over?' I asked him,
"NM' he said, 'Pm going to get
tome cigars out of my bag'
." 'How are you malang out?' I in-
• quired—rathet an impertinent ques-
tion, I thought afterward.
"'Not too well,' he replied, hie *1st-
fu1 angle brightenieg for a fleeting
• instant. }Ie putaine of those tapering
- white hands on the "lack of my hair,
and leaned over me. 'They've got nie
for s95 so far,' he told me In a low
*voice. •,
"'And you're ping back?' I ex-
' claimed.
"'Yes, I think 1 wilia he fetid; '
"For the •seeond tines X had at idea
that there was something sinister
about the look in that dye with the
civet; but his .smile was so diearzeirig
that I _forgot it ahnost instantly, and
my fee:big of pity for him refarned.
"'Don't do HI' I urged him, as
"earnestly as 1 email 'You must knew
• what they are by thisaame, and what'll
the use of giving theta any more a.
your hard -weed money?'
allis smile Widened a trifle,
"'What makes you thielt head -
earned?' ae asked.
"I aell; n littte foolish, ,
.01...know nothing about it, of
course,' I said; but hi any event I
can't see the point In -letting a couple
of strangers cheat You out of IL' s
""Phe hick May change,' he said,
'Luck la I exclaimed. 'Luck hasn't
any -part hi that game!'
. t" 'Well,' he said, P11 se:e You later,'
' tend passed on, evidently unwilling to
discuss it any more. -
• "When -1W liaised me on his way
That delicious
• flavor of fresh
mint,gives a new
thrill to evety bite.
Wiigley's is good
ancl good for you.
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bock le the smelter—he d d net stop
this time—the back of his head his
narrow slionlidais, and oven his way
of walking, ail combined to give the
impression of some o»e who had been
the uncle,: dog ail Ills life. I did my
110t to Teel sorry for him but, try
a..S I might, I couldn't help myself,
Copley paused. Ile picked up his
• ciaariblt did not relight it,
Is that all of your story?' inquired
Coxe,in a rather critical tone.
"That's all ---except the last chap-
ter," replied Copeley. „"Do you want
to hear the end of it?"
"Sure!" said Roberts, before any
ono else bould speak, '
"Well," resumed Copley, "a few
minutes later the train was imthe te».-
minal, and I -Was olio of the crowd
surging toward the exits, when the
little sandy -haired. chap came .up be-
" Whdre do you go from here?' he
asked, _
" I replied. 'East 63rd St.'
"'Taxi?' -
"'Yes,' I said.'
"'Can I ride part way with you?
That'seny direction.'
"'Yes, indeed,' I said.
"To tell the truth I was 'delighted,
because I wee curieue to hear details
of the game. We got a cab, and pres-
ently were threading our way uptown
through the traffic.
"'How much motley did you lose
filially?' I asked, as soon as we were
comfortably settled. -
",'Hundred and eighty-two,' he re-
plied" cahnly.
"Awl' I eald. 'That's a darned
,
shame. I hope you had it to lese?'
"I had an even $200 on me," he said
"'Eighteen won't go very far in
New York, I laughed, trying to make
things cheerful. 'Can I loan you any?'
"He didn't reply ateonces. He took
a package of cigarettes from his pock-
ete extracted one, lighted.% and look-
ed out- of the window for a moment.
Then, suddenly, he tuened toward me,
For the •first time I noticed that his
smile was absent..
"Listenl' he exclaimed. 'You've
beat awful nice to me. You tried to
keep me away from them two, and
just now you offered to loan me some
money. 1 want to tell you something.'
!"Go ahead!' I Mad.
a 'You've been awful nice to mea
he repeated, 'and Pm going to tell you
something.' He didn't waste any tirae
about it, either, and his voice was
hard and tense'. 'My Mother eras the
finest woman that aver lived,' he said,
but my father was e crook—a plain
crook. There was uothing he wouldn't
do. Well, I'm like both of them, only
not at the same time. Sometimes Iat
an honest citizen, and solnetimes Ian
a crook. There seems to be two peo-
pte inside of me, fighting all the time,
and sometimes one is on top and some-
time- .s the other. I'm a kind of Dr.
Jekyll and Aar. Hyde, I guess.'
"That eel:a:lilted the evil look, I
thaught," said Copley to his four
friends. "It also explained why I had
been puzzled about hint, and unable to
"This noon,' the little seedy -haired
chap continuedal was au honest diti-
seri No, before the afternoon_ is
over, I'm is meek.'
"Believe me" said COpley, "1
sheuldn't have ?seen surprieed to have
the muzzle of a gun jabbed into my
ribs at any Moment, and to be told to
hand °vett what valuabtes I had on
me. X rapidly regretted any sympathy
I had wasted on this curious young
man sitting beside me. He had step-
ped talking /or a moment, and was
puffing his cigarette and peering out
at the street signs, I decided that the
gun was not to make its appearance
fie yet, and thought it a proper tinae
to ask a question.
"If you're is crook,' I demanded
eomeWhAt nervously, 'why did you let
these two eard-sharpehs -ham you so
eaSily?" ' ••
"Ile turned and aimed me again, The
wistful smile Was on his lips once
mete,
•
'otisten1' he said, and thrust his
hand into the inside breast pocket of
his coat. He drew forth a large brown
leather wallet and held it up for my
thspection. 'See that?' he asked. 'That
belongs to the big guy with the white
teeth. It hao my handled and eighty-.
two in it, and I don't knoer how much
more, because I heven't had a chance
to look.' 5
"Well, sir, you could have floored
me with a wisp of straw," said Cop-
ley., "Then the humor' of it struck
arm, and I began to laugh. I would
have given a good deal to seethe big
fellow With his white teeth when he
discovered what had happened to him.
I womdeied what sort of is snarl 'the
teeth would beeorne. -
"The little red-haired chap laughed
too.
"'Not bad, eh?", he said; 'and how
about this?' Ho drew a black wallet
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• Lamps of Other Days.
The time whee inertia euriostte, and
courage first enabled him to investi-
gate the pheuomena of lire was cer-
tainly net less tben 35,000 Years ago.
It probably happened in Vrope dur-
ing the Gleeful Age.
One of the earliest inetbods waft be
twirling a pointea stick fu a.toje M
dry wood, leading to the hearth fire.
Tills, was followed' by tile s3sell lamp—
a shell filled with animal fats or fish
oil, with grass or moss as the wick,
'Mee oldest brooze lump known, was
found in Cyprise, and es probably 4,000
Years old. It Homer's Odyssey the
use ot three braziere, in the Pelee° to
give ligbt is metalonetl—a method
made pezeible by tat fact that roofs
were oonvitonly epee In these daYs-
Coming to more recent times, the
cresset, a species, ef cage filled 'trail
old rope, mitered with Daub, waa lis
Candles were fleet intraduced by the
Phoelolans about 1,000 rears B.C., af-
ter whith they bemire(' the regular in-
door illuminant About 400 B.C.
et:Males in all the chief countries of
Europe -were disp1ace:1 isai oil lamps of
cley and bronze and did net return to
commen use for a thoupand leers.
The first friction match (the Wolfer)
waemet invented until 1327, andm box
of lifty cost half a crown. The intro-
duction of the Swedish safety match
dates to -a -boat nay Years, ago. '
Music and Hearing.
That music develops the sense of
hearing Is twitevidentaltut that it maw
help to train an individeal for a higher
proficieney in his work In emits other
clireetlet seemsto be a new aspect dis-
ausesd by aa ereiteet heart anti lung
eve:feast, who says:
"Wg judge by percussion, lapping on
'the hand anti' by listening to the heart
or lung ftetion, either with the oar Ori
With the stetho.scope. 1 really believe
that you develop a. sense 00 accurate;
pitch by listening to nate% think
that it has helped to trails. ear- 11
4,ivire'disc`overod that ftiosa' of My 6401.1
dents who havo-the incat acute: hear -
ng are theee who hare had Sinn 2 1111131 -
al traininv or are . aecuatoatel to -
melee music, hie stedents show the
Etat of their musical stadiea in their
madical mark. As they develeb a
epee or barred pitch from their
pti4,1e, they becomemore accurate in
heir medical annlystiv. ae'oreen I find'
aster to train than men. It is, not ;
hal all women ars -bent -wee perteet
Itole hut 'bat they ma molts easily '
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out of his overcoat potket. 'The guy
with the alg glasses,' he announced.'
Copley looked around the table at n
his. friends.
' c
, "That all?" esked Coxe. t,
"Almost," said Copley, "Just then.
the little chap loaned fortvarcl end tap-
ped the glass, signaling the drivel' to
Stop.
" 'Ve street ' ho said,
"Ile gathered up his bag, and, as
the taxi drew up tosthe curlaehe open-
ed,the door and stepped out. Ile thrust
his hand into his trousers pocket, but
I protested.
•"'Let me'' I exelitimed, still laugh-
ing. 'It's heen worth it.'
"Ito looked at me with his queer,
wistful smile.
"'All right,' he said; 'but take this,
"He tossed something upon the rear
seat, slammed the door, and was gone.
My hand touched something hard: I
picked It up -and looked at it. IC was
to treating. They ars More .sensitive
, •
Sot the Piteilt Feed.
MEN AND WOMEN OF TODAY
Over-Etbrate
,
Lather" of itie Itousa at Com,
10, S. r= T, P.',9'aolinor, was recent-
ly 'asked by a ne.Vt.,litirrtvesi colleague
whether IT wastrue that when lie' ftrat
cattle ':to,London he Secured a job on
a daily. newspaper, got l'sacical" after
11 1v11011'a Lrial, arttl'foilad. titinsatt in
Fleet Street with only a,shilling In his
pocket.
'1'. sin.iled that whimsical sintle of
his.
"No, air" 11+3,-1'CP:tea. f'11 is -untrue.
11 1000 only mine:Pence." '
His First Speech.
The other day r beard this new story
of 'Douglas l5alrbanlca '
Ite made hls first stage appearance,
when a school -boy, in a local presen-
tation of'ShakesPeare, bing allowd 10
go "on" as one of ,the friends In a
funeral procession. His lino was;
"Steed, aside and lot the coffin pass,"
For dohs pe,foretand isa reeitetl th,e
line, In order to be word-perfect.Whsn
the big night came and, he got his cue,
fle 'stain/llama: "Stand aside tied let
the pareon coughla
Such Is Fame.
An warming story is going the
rountls-of the Lawton ()tubsconeeruieg
tile Prima laisister,
wile travelling In hIn the Seuth of
'France' some time ago be tem: a masa
tvith ethom helmet beet at Oambridge,
The Premier introduced himself as
"Baldwia."
"Daldwhir ealaavii ? Let Inc sed;"
the other 'pondered. Then suddenly
lile face lit up.
'Oh, yea,,. of courso, I remember yea
11010. Stanley ,Balawin, wase't it? We
used te call' you eteniey ofie you
know, becanse yeu.'were so energetic,
And 111 liet you liav-e got-tih,"
Then, • seeing a 'Somewhat sue
prated look on •the face of the Primo
allnistei•, be added. interrogativey:
"But telt me—you don't mind my
asking, do you?—what ere you -doing
-now?"
Not.What He Meant,
Although Mrs. lviargatet Wintoing-
ham is no longer an, m.r.,
fered defeat at the lest General Elec-
tion, hez• game will go down in history
as having been the first English -born
wen= to sit in, the House of 'Come
In her early days he was a school
teaches', and a tory she .16 fend of tell-
ing concemie .a' certain -inspector, who
was an enthuoiastic tetnperenee advo-
One day he ealne to take a clefts ie.
singing. The children were geeing,
"Little drops of wester, little grates of
stand," but the afternoon wae,taltry,
and they ettowed a lack of entlittsiesm
In their vocal efferte.
"Came notv," made- the inspector.
"Try it again. Nees/ thee 'Little drops
of water' --and for goodness sake put
sense spirit Into it."
'Pleasure and Trouble.
Pleasure and trouble, 'Phis curious
Man is apt to encounter moet finy-
where,
And strangely enough, though it's
truth 1 tell, _ '
Neither Ts easy to handle well.
Th0i1g)1 0119 is bitter awl oae is sweet,
13:147 iz:uga:ng(w:lis fc'e to 11149t.
•
Trodble Is vulgar and coarse and
r
Roaring with bluster and bold with
bluff; ' ,
Sometimes cruel and sometimes germ
Giving ream nothing but what heal
•
earn, • , ,
But he who will battle him faee to !see
Shall cones from the struggle with add-
ed grace.
Pletteuszilless d
eubtle, with smirks an
And false sweet thrilling and ceunt-
leas wiles,:
rt steals man's tenses or makes him
proud .
And sets him strutting before the
Mowd,
Trouble is bitter, but pleasure can
And does work haeoc with masa is
man.
It's hard to be brave in the face of
'cue,
13101 ita: harder to- stand when year
aides are fair.
Witit your feet on elle ground end your
senses cool,
Refusing, thoftgh tempted, to play the
'Proublfea'saLa t•a*
rant,but pleasure lays
Ito pitfalls for nen in a thousand ways,
•,
—Edger A. Guest,
Testing Precious Stones.
With inereased facilitim for faking
diamonds and other precious stones,
tbe amino in Imitation goods in this
lino of business is increasing to an
alarming extent, end diamond mer-
chants and Jewellers noteadttail have
perforce to devote a lot of time, Aral
Often expense, to the detection of the
freed's.-
1.1nteu once a jeweller suspects the
g•enuineeess of a stone, he subJects it
to veelous and sometimes very; severe
tests. When a stone, for instance, is
placeta in clear water, and starts to
lose its brilliance, it Is inunediatelY
disearded as being emulous. Another
test is to place a drop of water on the
gena, rt the globule breakar on being
touched with the point of a pencil, the
stone is an imitation,
Sometimes a blaek dot is made on a
piece of white paper, and the precious
stone held in trout of it, If the dot
appears blurred, the diamond Is faked,
Another determining feeler is the
hardness of a stone. As is well known
a diamond is cafe of the hardest known
subotances, and may be illed without
being scratched. An imitation din-
-mond, on the other band, will crack
and probably break up under the
weight of the file.
He Was Mange() Learn.
Repeated complainte had been made
to Mr. A, eaperintendeut ,of the Wiliam
agency at 8, that is cereals Indian its
in" the habit of beating his wife .outs-
rage-oussly. arr. A had remoustratea
with. the Indian' es vain. Filially, after
a particuluely severe bora:Jag, ho sum-
inonea the Italian to his office. Mrs,
A happened to -be presopt:
"John;" said Mr. .ese "if I beat my
-wife they'd' pet me over there on that
rook pile." He pointed to the -Valls
of the state penitentiary, vialble.
through the office windows, "They
wouldn't stand ft," he Went on, traing
to imprees the Indian; "they'd lock Me
up.
Tee Indite glanced at tho penitena
tiary walls; gyre, and forbidding, then
at Mr. A. The ke. looked at Mei. A.
"Sae pretty nice lade," he teal Mr,
A, earnestly "I -Io' you make' her
" '
.. • •
Whales, Dolphins arid
Porpoises.
These, like -the Sirilltia, are enifrefi
acquatio, and with fetv exceptiens live
in salt water only, ----They aro charao-
tertzed by the absence of hair and. hind
limbs, 'though fe Some species mull-
inents of the lettar are found beneath
(Ito skin, indthaang that the wfialos
have descende,51 ;from land animals
with two pairs of limbs, '
The toethiessi ar baleen whales, are
valuable both for oil and whalebone,
The tersest species, Ihe st1lphar-bot-
rtg,g11:0--"am—t .you Flu 10/9 WI191.9 of the Pacific, attains a
P. 9" length' of ninely-five feet • '
The 11! J Grocer.- o--corrr---witht volt Tant --,----
• lid£e le very much ilk, a gam_ of
- , , it for?" -
The world that mOinnis Ilia fic,,gian neegio--ni 101 tee cards: a good deal dee-eta§ oh geed
Cardinal has paid no hoed to the ex- (irocer--"Aw w511 feefl her, p,aying; and, 'good playing depends on
lilaiter'S birthday. 4omeili1»r5ett'ort1t that!" a good deal.
t,
Have Courage.
Courage is 'a gem of the first wage,
Its afteociatIon is with the brave and
noble, rto contrast is the coward and•
his meanness. It is the virtue that
makes the ditferenee between a true
hmiasuprienvidwegnees.livieg belotv the line of
Courage mecum something aims than
bravdry. laraeery belongs to the bat-
tlefield; but courage moves in quiet
places aad grows, like the ferns, ratt-
er in the shade. It takes grit to aa
eouregteue. It le -more telling than
thrilling.
Courage may be aeon in various
phasess. Some are courageous from
their earliest day -a, and they must al-
ways go on following. their inclination
en this matter whether -in games or
serious exploits. Others are fearful
,and hesitatIng aud And it difficult to
summon up strength to do Anything
out of the. ordinary run of things.
There is physical courage wIlich dam
the things of renown, and there ie
moral courage, as eta a fellow holds
to an unpopular opinion In order to
maintain What lie feats to be right.
The derivation of the word "emu,
age" Jo interesting. It is from the
French word "coearh meaning the
heart It conies to stand for that
quality of mind which meets danger
with firmness. To give another mean
ing, the W00(1 stands, for putting one's
heart into a thing. It worke out thus
—the taking up a casuist with vigoreas
though the very lite delsonfled upon ha
being secured.
Courage is a vitiate that Item' turns
Its bacle, but turns allege round, It
rarely finds fault with its surround-
ings 'or implemeuts. Bather 11 deter-
mines that, in whatever sehere it may
be, it must make the beet of thinge
It seeks to improve the passing hour.
It will watch through trying periods
with pereisteneY.
So many people Magill° they can-
not be suchis tholes who face big "s-
ettee courageously. But ail nusy do it
and show is brave front. It is said that
no power that assaults man can eon-
tiuue for long if the mat faces, it. Now
courage is this facing of dlfactatieo
with dignity.
We aoinetinses bear people say
somethiug like "Oh, Ws. all very
well, but If you had to live as I have
aed ID work where 1 da, and be Me
posed as I fun, yron would say lege
about courage, It would take the.heart
out 06 you,', Perb.aps--but if it clid
there would be eourage, for cour-
age is having heart.
You can athieve over all your OD-
.
pogitions if yen yeah Evereanan is
"mabha sstoeuri..o.! foattueeraVut3h e ciraihnealonnolyf
thlug it: don't blame whether if eon
Laugh your troubles away. Just be -
mese you live, make up your Wind to
overtop all your opposition. It will in-
volve leech weary labor aed watching,
but it will bring you the prize. Life
neyer fiowe evenly for long. The very
tanutuce cotnes ham the struggle,So,
Moe 11 115 the otrength of courage,
There is, a poreistence- courage. I
One ma), pat is Victory Whe is unable -
to maintain it, Only as the habit of I
courage is cultleated will the gain bat
gat•nered.. A man is untrue to himself
iyllo thinks ho canhot with Alwaes ac:
cept what is, work for the better, and
Mast what may be.
The trouble with many Is that thee
have no ambition. The life -loves are
absent and they never deveh4. Ate
oolalualitasVonsw i'ilelanPriazatl)latra* hwellaida,11 hu da no
person peed fear for bis future if he
ffieee every Morning, whether dull or
pleasant, with a determination that, he
sw5101111071 be eeoiled, but rattier whi
A Poeni.Worth Knowing.
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Gunpowder, Ineitst upon SALA A,
COMPANIONS IN TREES
I vas told the other day a pleasant. that their simpie conetanty and friend-
liness baa made the atmoeehme and
mm5111119 In walelt we Moved.
I sheuld, however, fled it hard to cut
clown beech trees of all trees, for after
many affairs of the heart ,vilth trees,
my affections haye settledalinalla on
them as the pride of our English mod-,
taxies_ 'With what stateliness; they
spring hem the ground, shoe; noble
their' ohade, how exquisite the green
of their leave' in Berlin, how rich the
gold of auftune, what 4 glowing carpet
they serried foa us. in winter! le I go
to Epping',Forest it is to see the grand
patriarchs of the tribe 'who are geth-
mod together In solemn conolave le
Monk's WCiocitl, and if I place Plinking-
hamshire high among the counties, it
le because there you will And a more
aburalant wealth of beeches then any-
where else in the land,
But I am no narrow sectarian about
trees. If I pot the beech aria, I wor-
ship at inany shrine, When I go to
Chenies it is to pay ray devotions to
the Duke of 13etitord's oaks; and ea-
Doefally ,the aforesaid Queen Eliza-
beth's oak, whin. still zeroes -the
greensward with acorns, theugh in its
ancient trunk, hollowed by the cen-
turies, you ceuld seat e tolerably large
teaparty. And who woald go to Shore
witheat a visit to those stalwart Span-
ish cheeteuts that are the glory or the
Duke of Nortirambeilaud's park? 11
Is worth a journey to Salisbury, not -
merely to se the scathe and Stone-
henge, but to make the acquaintance
of those magnificent cedars in Wilton
Park. %There is an elm at Muneham
that I go to see mach as go to see a .
veriereble relattive, and there is is wou-
derful eew-tree in the churchyard of
Tidworth in Surrey that is better
worth a pilgrimage than inanY
cathedral.—Erom "Many isaarows." bY
Alpha of the Plough,
faet about Sir Henry Campbell -Bare
rientant which will .endear him still
more to eome and make him toppeer,
pethaps, absurd to others,. When. he
went from London to his estate of
Bel-
mont in Scotland, it was labs practice
to walk round his park and take off
hat hat to the trees he loved most. If
Sir Henry had been glen to irony, it
.might he zitesposfed that the gesture
'vas intended az a compliment en the'
c,oropany he had left behind at West,
infester. "The mere see of meg," he
'might have meant, adapting Pascal's
famous :phrase, "the better I like
trees." But I do not fancy there was
any enger with raen in his -greeting.
He seauted hit favorite trees in the
Flptrit in which Xeriese when passing
with his army through Lydia, decor-
ated With golden ornaments a plane
tree of extraordinary beauty, and left
a warrior from the Immortal Band to
be he special guard, as you raity road
in Herodotus, He saluted them ba.
083196 he loved thena, and no otie who
has the spirit ofathe woadlande in him
will think the action -odd or even Sanaa
ful. It has never occurred to me to go
about the woods taking off my hat lo
the kings of the forest, but that onlY
ahosve. that I have lees imagination Rd
less chivalry than he had. • —
It is not possible to live much, among
trees saithout experiencing a subtle
sense of comradeship with them. Our
intimacy limy not go ,so far as that of
Cities Winterbeturn, in The Woodland -
era, who could tell what sort of trees
he was passing In the dark by the
sound of the wind ha the brandies—
but without that erudition it can
create an affection almost pentonal,
not unlike that we feet for them quiet
companions of whom we have not
thought much, perhaps, mall find
Who's Who in Musical
History.
Beethovon-1770-1827.
Born In Bonn, Beethoven grew
Just the same as I or you;
But his great and glorious name
alafergotten became in the history ct
fame, '
He was but is tiny boy,
Caring net for game or Wei
Ain' his father, harsh, thee sae.
Made lam practice all the day.
When at 13 years, one night,
Three sonatas he did wrtte,
Full of lovely is:enamel%
Showing bis poetio. bent.
Fimee his Weeper, aud self-willed,
But with truth lee heart tvas filled;
And lie loved the trees and flowers,
Owing them his happiest hours.
Old he grew, anti deaf at length,
And las mask played with strength,
Music, to his eoul so dear,
Fell unheeded on hie ear,
Though a great renowu he won
For the vendors he hail done,
Yet he livid, when older grown,
In his dus.ty room alone,
To his nephew, Carl, he gave
All the money he could save;
Yet the boy, with heart or atone,
Left hint there te die alone.
Strange his figure, as you see
On. the page of history. -
Yet a truer, grander man
On that page we ne'er shell seam
ISo did old Beetle:face die
Just ma you must do, or I.
tut his grand and glorious' name
elnforgotten became in the alstory of
fame,
"I Love Ali That Thou Latest,'
Stelley wee possessed of the opirit
of revolt, and eves out of erne with his
age, ' But he was a rare spirit, and his
-poetry 1,§ one of Plc supreme treasures
of our literati:tie
I love. all that thew lovest,
Spirit of Delight! a ,
The tresh.Eerfh in new ecavet dressed
And the starry night; ,- •
Autumnevening, iand the morn,"
When the golden "nista. Re bore. ,
I love ogee, and all the 'forms
Of the radiant frost;
I love ,wavesi meat -rivets, and steeple,
JD'vrYilling" almost • • a
Which le Nature's, and may be
Untainted by man's misery.
I love Love -0)01411 11 baP wthga/
And like light eedt floe;
And above all otber thingse
--Spirit, I love thee.
Thou are love and.litel '
Mahe oath more mi' heert thy home!
Willing to Pay the price.
A somewhat ehabby man waudered
Into is very smart restaurant, says The
Taller, and ordered an elaborate lunch.
At first the 'waiter was (ethane; about
serving hem but the customera obvi-
ous ease In hie turrounithige and his
excellent choice of dishes reassured
him. At last, when the bill was pre -
sealed he Asked courteously for elle
manager, who appeared preeently. •
"00.0d day," said the ems:tomer airily.
"Do you recolleet that a few mouthe.
ago a man came here and had no jolly
good meal without paying for It?" •
"I do," anewerea the manager grim-
ly.
"And (le ion remember what you did
to blear pursued the other.
"l'es sir" Mid the manager fierce-
ly, "I kicked him out of the place."
"Well, then," said the customer, ris-
ing leisstrely and turning his beak to
athgenin2"
oft1cial, "de you mind obliging me
A Meal in a Monument.
.
1',iost visitoro 10 Windsor Great Para,
in London, have seen the equestrisai
statue of George 1.11., welch stands at
the far end of the aroaa Walk.'
It is a huge statue -and when it was
'ereeted in 1023 the hors's body was
first set or, thoo Ito head axed, and
lastly the figure of the king :,9,99 seat
-
ea upou hie eteml, aust before the
head was fixed one of the addeiala at
the castle, arid six friends, had dinner
inside the body of the, horse. After all
parts of the statue hell been elesed up
and hermiticallY sesame they remelt-
bered that as sbort 'ladder and been left
ineide. That ladder is still there,
es,
Ceba's Rend Peogram.
Cuba is planning to conetruct a 'high-
way setetem to extend the entire length
of ths faiamd trete Mato del 11ia
through Havana to Santiago, a ars.
•dance of about o00 meet.
Loweil slam mite,
Youthful desert explorer, 'alma aa
ventures constitute an epic. AL IS lie
edited is paper 10 Colorado. At 22 ht
inetructed in two eollegest Eventually
he reachea Egypt and Allenby, Arabia
and LaeTence. He was that fleet to
make an airplane flight over the des -
ere
From Egg to Adult.
Very remarkable transforraations
eur among the tunphibiens. Most of
them in the adult ete.te are air breath-
ers, but with few exceptions the larva
are mottle. The common toad,
thouett a lover of the dryeet soil,
habitually repairs to the quiet pool In
late spriug to depoisit its five thousami ,
oggS in. a gelatinous string, hem
titmice issue in is week the well-
known black tadpoles, leglese, and in
fact with no semblance to their warty
mother.
They breathe by meant of gilts, to
which tlwre le is small opanlng on tit
lefthand side of the neck. In is month,
or aro hind legs appear and the trout
ones break through the sklu as the
tail bogies to be absorbed,
Meanwhile, lungs bane developea
within tied tbe youag, au inch or less
in length, are ready forlite on tend.
Distributing Money at
Isr IVIarriages.
every part of Scotland the tear -
liege ceremony is performed at the
residence of the bride. About the time
it is expected the young couple are to
start en their marriage Jaunt, tal the
boystand girls of the neighborhood ae-
,semble in front of the house, and
amulet themeelviet by Culling eUt, "Beti
money, Hell money, shabby waddle,'
saabby waddle,' canna spare a bate,
bee."
Thette ,thoute are Aimee than re-
dotibled wizen the door Is *pones to let
the bride anti bridegroom out, who
are accoln anted
moat of the tempauy, Mel its the peels -
Mg and shoving of the crowd wonld
be v,ery inconvenient, some one of the
party at this movement showers10
quantity of ooppeie arid small silver
among them, thereby drawing their
attention away from the "young folks,"
who, under cover of this "divereloti,"
are diriven off.
Valley of Egypt.
The Nile bas a fall of six inches( to
ono thonsand The overflow
commences 10 .20108 every year and
continued until/ Auguot, attalaing 5.0
elovation 066100 twenty.tour to twen-
ty -els: Met above low-water mark, sand
heir -lee threugh the "Valley of Eisele".
in a turbulent bode twelve ranee wide.