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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1901-02-22, Page 5Coe a Second /Donation. charming little story is told of an encounter between the Emperor Alex- ander. of Russia and a quick witted young girl. During the occupation of Paris the Emperor Alexander was present at the anniversary of one of the hospitals. Plates for contributions were passed by the patronesses of the institution to tbe visitors of the day, and a par- ticularly pretty girl presented .her plate for royalty's attention. The emperor dropped a handful of gold on the plate, saying to the young girl as be dM so, "This is for beautiful bright eyes." The pretty maid courtesied low and again presented her plate to the gen- erous donor. "What, more?" asked the emperor with a smile. "Yes, sire," was the reply, given with eyes demurely cast down and mouth well under control, "now I would like something for the poor." The second handful was even more liberal than the first, and the emperor evidently felt that his speech had been well met and matched, as he smiled after the pretty girl. who went her way rejoicing to the next visitor.- Youth's Companion. A Race For a Wife. In Lapland the crime which Is pun- ished most severely next to murder is the marrying of a girl against the ex- press wishes of her parents. When a suitor makes his appearance, he says nothing to the girl, nor does she often know who he is, but her par- ents inform her that her hand has been applied for. Then on a day appointed the girl, her parents and friends meet together and sit opposite to one an- other, so that they can view each otb- er's face and converse freely. When the feast is over, the company repair to an open space, where "the race for a wife" is to beirun. The usual distance is about a quarter of a mile, and the girl is placed a third of the distance in advance of the starting point. If she be fleet of root and does not care for her suitor, she can easily reach the goal first, and if she accom- plishes this he may never trouble her again. If, on the other baud, she wish- es to have him for a husband, she has only to lag in her flight and so allow him to overtake her. If she be particu- larly struck with him and would signi- fy to him that his love is returned, she can run a short distance, then stop and turn and invite him with open arms. Primitive Chronoiogy. The most primitive Method in chro- nology is that which enables man to orient himself In the world of time by associating particular lnnations with vicissitudes of weather, with seasonal aspects of vegetation and with the con- stantly changing sights and sounds of the animal world. In the calendar of the Cress, for example, we find such designations as "duck month," "frog moon," "leaf moon," "berries ripe month," "buffalo rutting moon," "leaves entirely changed," "leaves in the trees," "fish catching moon." "moon that strikes the earth cold." "coldest moon," "Ice thawing n;oou" and "eagles seen moon." So in the calendars of Central Amer- ica and btexico the months are named variously after the arrival of birds, the blossoming of flowers, the blowing of winds, the return of mosquitoes and the appearance of fishes. The Greeks constantly used the movements of birds to mark the seasons. The ar- rival of the swallow and kite was thus noted. I3esiod tells us how the' Tt Subscribe for THE ZURICH HERALD The ivory Queen. per Year. Imsanlemomearlargueasesrovem For Fine Job Printing til r Lti Get's there Every time finish in this great case—he, Herbert Darrent, the famous detective, the American Lecoq. Bahl Completely fooled by an Englishman who despised him so heartily that he had even left him a mocking letter admitting every- thing on the eve of his flight! "He's in New York by this time, possibly on his way to England. but 1'11 have him yet if the thing is possible!" Darrent cried. striking his knee in his vexation. Hurrying to the nearest tele- graph office, Darrent sent a carefnl,de- seription of Silas Gosnell to the chief of police of New York and then started for New York himself, firmly resolved to follow Gosnell to the ends of the earth if necessary Up to this point in the case he had been anything but a bloodhound of the law, although various people had re- ferred to him as such, but now the ap- pellation described him perfectly Dis- appointment, chagrin, wounded vanity, had given hint a feverish interest in the chase of the Newcombe murderer that he had not felt before. At Buffalo he was notified by the chief of detectives of New York that an Englishman exactly answering his tele- graphed description bad sailed a week before on the liner Strelesia. He learned nothing further upon his arrival in New fork and was about to sail'` for England—vas on the dock, in fact— when he heard a newsboy shouting "1ls;trs. extra! Terrible loss of... ilial Liner Strelesia sunk! Two hundred and fifty drowned!" "Total wreck of the Strelesia," he read, in glowing headlines. "Fearful loss of life." And then: "A. boat was picked np in mid-Atlantic by the Ma- jestic, having on board five of the crew of the missing steamship Strelesia, these being the only survivors of the ill fated vessel." Then followed some brief personal narratives and the list of passengers, among which was the name of Silas Gosnell The sea had avenged the murder of Josiah Marsden. Silas Gosnell had gone before a higher court, a greater Judge. It was useless to proceed further. Consequently Darrent returned to Chi- cago, where he found another note awaiting hint, another of Gosnell's mocking epistles: Dear if. Lecoq—Wily don't you have a look al Silas Cosnel!'s house by the river? "Well, there's one thing in favor of the poor wretch," Darrent soliloquized as he placed it with the others in his pocketbook—"he didn't intend to let an innocent man suffer for his crime." Little remains' to be told. Shortly after Darrent's return to Chicago the governor of Illinois pardoned Astray Marsden, and Astray soon found him- self the possessor of a snug fortune— the fortune that had been his uncle's. Not long thereafter there was a hap- py wedding at Norcombe, and one of the guests was Herbert Darrent, the American Lecoq, who had not long be- fore braided a hangman's noose for the bridegroom. But all this was forgotten. "Let bygones be bygones," said Astray Marsden as he heartily grasped the detective's hand. "I am glad you are so forgiving," was Mr. Darrent's reply, "and, while this case has been a great disappoint- ment to me professionally, I freely for- give you, Astray, for not being guilty of the murder of your uncle. We all Make mistakes, and thus far this case s my very- worst. In the future I shall e more suspicious of circumstantial vidence. Here's to the health of the happy pair! May long life and happi- ess be theirs]" TER END. e cry of the crane signaled the departure of winter, while the setting of the PIeiades gave notice to the plowmanwhen to begin his work. Sleeping and Waiting. "The ability to wake at a given hour by forming a resolution to do so before going to sleep," said a physician at after dinner discussion a few days age,. "involves a problem that scientists do not pretend to have definitely solved. Their theory, however, is cort::i::ly plausible. A great many arts of life, as we all know, are only halt' volun- tary. A man will begin whittling a stick and continue while his mind is engrossed upon something else. It Is the same with walking. In other words, the action is started by volition and then keeps on going, like an en- gine. "It is known also that the will per- sists to a certain extent In what we call unconsciousness, both from an:u's- thetics and during sleep. Iiow far that persistence extends is an open ques- tion, but it Is reasonable to 1lssnme that most of as can set an impulse on the principle that an nlartn clock is set. and the half voluntary inechanistn of the brain carries it along without further attention. I;ut, as 1 said he. fore, It Is only a theory. To tell the truth, our real knowledge of such things is startlingly slight."—:dew Or- leans Times -Democrat. Modern Cave Dwellers. Cave dwellers, or, to be exact, earth or rock dwellers. are not yet eetinet. A traveler who visited the prehistoric cave dwellings nenr Halberstadt, in the Harz mountains, found in 1 he near- by village of Lougensteiu ten eave's hewn in the rock and occupied by 110 persons. 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(Copyright, 1899, by Clinton Rosa,] The scandal mongers of the wheel are confined mostly to those who cannot or do not wheel Not so long ago women were likely to make mental faces at other women who rode, but as soon as they themselves were spinning along with a freedom they never had fancied they straightway wondered at all these allegations. And how indeed does a brisk turn under the sky and between the fields drive away cobwebby notions! In the old days a canter might do it, but a horse is a luxury, and, even if you can afford It, it is ever getting out of condition and to be fit must have a modicum of constant exercise. But now all go a -spinning, the horseman as well as the one time long distance walkers, the sinners and those who strive to re- gain this old world from the curse. Among these latter no one is better equipped for the ancient fight than the rector of St. Matthew in the Park, the Rev. Lemuel Springer, With body and mind attuned to a fine healthful- ness at 80, he believes strongly and preaches and acts his belief, and in these days, when clergymen sometimes forget that their duty is but to heal the heart's wounds and to preach the re- ward of simple honesty and cleanly liv- ing, it is a delight to sit of a morning in a pew of St. Matthew in the Park and listen to the direct and human re- ligion its athletic young rector ex- pounds. I myself remember him when ho was No. 3 on the varsity crew and a very great man. He still could pull that third oar as strongly, but the only sport his duties now permit him is wheeling, and if you go to the park of a morning you may see him going up and down hill and doubtless meditating those words for the soul cheer afforded by hie bits of sermonizing, put always in Eng- lish tersely strong. And yet he has had his troubles, his experiences, his questionings, his sin, his falsity, and if you will follow my story you will see how it all was due to the wheel that once he forgot himself. Of a May day the Rev. Lemuel was coasting down the long hill into the straggling village of Roundbnsh, West- chester. It was his day of outing, and now at noon he was hungry after a 20 miles' exhilarating spin, and the world had put its care away, and his blood was tingling, and his heart singing like the birds in the fields and the tree tops and through the windy, blue spaces of that sunny spring day sky. The old tavern at Roundbush, which bears on a creaking sign a distorted likeness of our first great president, after long years of desuetude again has found usefulness through the revival of the road, and flaunts a near placard, "Lunches For Bicyclers." Yet this afternoon Rev. Lemuel thought he had it quite to him- self, as the fat landlord pushed his shirt sleeves farther above his brawny elbows and said he guessed he could give his visitor "somethin that was fit eatin," And Lemnel—I will drop his title— thought the broiled chicken delicious and sauntered into the parlor, dark aft- er the sunshine, with its haircloth chairs and its colored prints of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "John Brown's Capture" and certain photo- graphs of prim, rural folk Now, usually Lemuel was most ob- serving. Yet he had been in that room fully five minutes before he noticed a figure stretched out on a couch—at the dark side, to be sere, so that it may not have been so strange that he had not seen her at first. Her face sank in "I need a clergyman," said she. ,d pillow, she seamed to be sobbing Lemuel at once made for the door, when he heard a sweet and strangol$ plaintive voice. "I'm such a fooll Oh, I beg your pardon!" she added, with such evident confusion that Lemuel turned about hastily to see what he held after the prettiest figure of a woman in a witch- ing bicycle costume, and what she was like I'll leave you to fancy, just fancy —that is, the very nicest girl of your acquaintance—and you will see her as Lemuel saw her much more easily than from any description of mine. "Oh!" she said, hastily rubbing her eyes. "I beg your pardon," said Lemuel. "It was my fault, " said she, looking him over demurely. "I forgot this was a public room." "I am sure it was mine," said Lem- uel hastily. It was all rather strange and sadden, and yet he decided at once she was a well bred young person. "Oh, 1 am glad!" she exclaimed, "I don't me* why, " he blurted out in astonishment. "Becanae you are Mr. Springer of St. Matthew in the Park" He bowed, remembering, with a bit of conceit, that a lot of people doubt- less know him whom he didn't know from Adani or Eve. "I need a clergyman," said she. Now, at thiel astounding statement 4 Lemuel stared his utter astonishment, Did she need spiritual advice? She looked a bit worldly. "That's rather a surprising state- ment," tate-ment," she added. "I don't know," said he hopelessly. "I mean," she said, m'I want an escort to Greenwich, and with a clergy- man there can be no question." "I don't know," said Lemuel again. "You must thinly me strange." He looked at her for a moment keenly and made a very worldly reply. "I think you delightful." "You will let me go with you, then R" "Why, of course, if you ask me, he said. And why in the world did he spy exactly that? him," ""I do, and we must be started before "Him? I don't understand," "I will explain later. We must be started now. We have no time." "Ohl No Lime?" "Can you oblige me, Mr. Springer?' And with those eyes on him he conld and did, and, having paid his reckon- ing, he was in the saddle, this graceful young person beside him, again and again looking over her shoulder. She kept up a brisk pace, neither saying a • word, although you may believe he was wondering at the impulse which had brongnt him to such sadden complai- sance. What if any of his parishioners should see him as he was now, tearing madly np and down hill with this un- deniably very pretty young woman and running madly from him? Who the deuce was "him?" --only, of coarse, Lemuel didn't say "who the deuce." "Oh, oh 1" she cried suddenly. "Ahl What's the matter?" said he slowly, "'If he should appear and attempt to speak to me, you must knock him down. " "That would be rather nnclerical, wouldn't it?" said Lemuel "You must," said she. "Oh, if I must," said he, looking at her and knowing he certainly would. The road forks a half mile farther with, at the point, a bit of wood and thicket. As you near the wood you have the stretch of the road to the left, and now as they came into that view Lem- nel's companion cried out: "Oh. I saw him 1" Who ?" ""No matter. We must hide. I don't believe he could have seen nae," she added quickly. And, dismounting, she dragged her wheel after her into the bushes. "Yon stay there," she called. "If he asks if you have seen me, you must say yon haven't," And she disappeared. "That would be a lie, wouldn't it?" "I have no patience with a man who can't lie when it's necessary,"'came back the answer. And all was still, save for the rural noises of the sunny May day, But at last about a turn came a wheeiman. He was young and well groomed bythe hand of Hanover street, London, W. Seeing Lemuel, he paused. "Have you passed a young lady, sir ?" "What sort of a young lady?" said Lemuel, avoiding the lie direct. "'heeling. " ""AWhalf dozen, I think, "said Lemuel truly, breathing a sigh of relief. For our young gentleman was in his saddle and tearing on. Five minutes passed. But presently a face appeared in a leafy frame—a laughing, tantalizing face—when she followed, dragging the wheel "He didn't see me." "Now, what does this mean?" Lem- uel asked rather angrily. "Is your patience worn out?" said she demurely. "Yes, I think it is. What's your name 1"" "`Angela. " "Angola what ?" "I am not going to tell you." "But you know mine." "Everybody does," said she, with gentle flattery. "Oh, I don't knowt But what does it meant" "Now, please don't be angry— please. " ngry--.please." And she added, "You've bee so good." "Have I?" said he. "Yes; I don't know what 1 should have done if yin hadn't appeared just then. You maks mo able to say if any ono should see me, `Why, I ant out with Mr. Springer, and ho is a clergy - :nazi' " "Oh, dear!" said Lemuel "Now. don't bother, please] We'd better be on the road." And she mounted. "Come on!" she cried. And when he was by her side she be• gun again: "'I'll explain. as I ought. There was a girl, and she thought aho loved a man." "'Yes, I have heard of girls like that." "But she didn't really." "Yes. I know." ""How do you Y" •'Hum l I have a parish." "So you have. Well, to go on, when she hears that man is engaged to an- other girl, she tries to `cut' the other girl 'out'—out of pique—not love for the man, you understated." "No, I don't." "Well, you are not so clever as I thought. But to return to this girl"— "Angela?" "Yes, she was Angela, if you will Angola encourages tho man" --- "The roan who just passed?" ""Tom we'll call him." "Yes, Angela encourages Tons, and: Tom cm"-.. "Do su:youcuthibsnk so?" she said, looking at him mischievously, "Yes, be did, 1 must be frank with you, a clergyman. And it goes on ---in a country house in Westchester in May. tint there's small chance in a house party, you know." "Yes, I know," said he. "Of course you know, because yon etre a young clergyman of a modish church. Now, to go on with the story, Angela agrees to meet Tom on the wheel. She wheels for a long time be -- fore the appointed hour. and, getting tired. stops. as yon know. and, beim, tired, her conscience pricks hat. " [To ,c e COIltinuecij