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CE GRIMSHAW.
! happy love. The time had passed, and
ppy
s' with it had passed the flower.
s And now she no longer loved the
s, beautiful papaw tree. With the su-
r perst.itious tendency of a mind not;
d too well furnished, and cast m coffee
wavy scantly upon itself, she had come•+i
s. fear it. Her luck was in it; her:life
d, was in it. So long ,as it lived, Angus
d.! would love her, and no Ionger.
ni She did strange things ,in these
e,' lonely days when work—it might be
h —kept Angus hours after his -time in
the town hi
s rp, and callers, offended by
n her fierce objection • to' gossip -who
d was she that she should set' herself
zt up to be better -than "other ladies?"
s. —had ceased to call. She took wire
✓ netting, sixfeet high, and stayed it,
c about the long green, diamond -scaled
d trunk of the papaw tree. There
o were cows on Laulau that were al-
t lowed to roam horses, too; the
- horses were n toriously fond .of de -
e stroying paps...• She took no
y chances. The papaw was well 'in its
sixth year; seemingly it was an
o Enoch among papaws, for its twenty -
d foot stem was as stout as ever, and
o week by week, month by month, the
f load of green and yellow fruit grew
vv heavier.
w It was toward sundown, during the
f second week in February, that she
t noticed something wrong •.with .the
at birds in the' big old lemon tree. This
• lemon was wide and spreading, and
ad its inner branches formed a cave of
cool green foliage sheltered from
wind and sun. It was a favorite spot
- : with little yellow honey -eaters and
pigeons, and the ,bright green parra-
1 keets of the Laulaus. This evening
s there was quite a crowd of them, as
! usual,. in the lemon tree. But they
-I were not, as on' other evenings, sett-
ling down quietly to roost, with con-
- tented chucklings, 'finding' snug plac-
es on the branches, and., preening
themselves comfortably before sett-
' ling down. They had all huddled to-
ward the center of the tree, and were
crying ,in a Post, frightened, subdued
sort of way, like children who have
been left out in the dark and are
afraid of bogies.
Certainly the birds were afraid.
Jean Shiels, sitting on the veranda
with some of her endless household
PART III.
It had seemed to be in the natal
of things, also, that Mrs. Lng, lei
ured, toile ted, rejoicingly childles
with plenty of long afternoons on he
hands, should keep Angus amuse
after five o'clock. Lang was a h,
drinker, not often at. home. Mr
Lang told Angus what she suffers
and how little she was understoo
He thought she would miss him whe
Jean came home—because, of cours
Jean would expect him to stay wit
Ler.
But he was very glad to see Jen
back and he told her so. Jean live
on that for quite a long tints—+.iia
and his praise for her boiled pudding
Each pudding meant hours spent eve
the hot stove on a burning tropi
morning, because as every islan
housekeeper know; a. native t:.nn t
be trusted with a boiled pudding. Bu
she would have sat up with the pud
ding all niglet, . if.,necessa, .- If . sle
could hold him by ,the •prover'bial 5va
to a man's• heart=
She did not know how it had come t
that—holding him. Yet so it he.
come. She never acknowledged it t
• herself. But she kept the blind o
her bedroom down, where the windo
looked out -upon the beautiful papaw
tree. It hurt her too renn}i.
It happened now- to Jean, as •i
happened' to •inany in the islands; th
she became Very sick for home. Lau:
lau was still lovely, but wonder •h
gone from it long ago, and Jean had
not the artistic soul'that can live on
beauty, even after it has become conn
mon and familiar. Palm trees had
• long 'ceased to be amazing; cora
sher:es,,were . •.or(iinary; the flower
seemed . too glaring . anti 'too' heavily
scented;•'toe - picturesque brown na
tivesl whose blossomy wreaths and
flowing robes had seemed so charm
ing were only thieving, lazy creatures
possessed of manners and morals fit
to make a decent Ulster woman blush
As to mission work among thein, it
would have been coals to Newcastle
with a vengeance, for three different
churches, each. strongly opposed to
the other, had been "laboring" among
the Laulau islanders for at ' least
eighty years, converting them over
and over again.
So the days grew long in Laulau,
and even the children could not fill
her heart. She ached for all sorts of
silly things she could not have—
serge and flannel clothes, and boots,
and the. nip. of east winds on • the
cheek, and the glitter of puddles"
viewed along a real, cold blustery
road, • These eternal white muslins
and White shoes, these endless warns
winds, wet or dry; these • garden walks
of staring coral under palms that
rattled like shaken newspapers! She
was •.sick of it. She grew paler, with
the yellow paleness of the tropics.
The Laulau stores had remetlice ffor
paleness, and at last she fell. Pink
liquid powder made a wonderfuldif-
feresice, But Angus never noticed it
Now gossip began to filter. There
had been a quarrel between Angus
and Lang, the head engineer. It was
said .to be about a matter of under-
water strains, of the position of piles,
of heights and widths. But the wom-
en giggled unbelievingly when they
told each other so, and there were
whispers behind hands. Jean seem-
ed to herself to be holding her breath. y
She knew the whispers were untrue;
yet—
Of nights, when the children were
asleep she used to wander out alone
on the beach and stray up and down,
her feet tinkling among the broken
coral, her •eyes on the dim white line
where the reef made a song in the
Silence, and a trouble in the quiet+
seas. The reef -song has been a very
Lorelei to many in the islands, deaf-
ening them to the loudest call of the
ambitious, the aetivit:es of the north-
ern world, and drawing then resi,st-
'essly from the brief crowded days of
]tome to dream away life among the
lands "where it is always afternoon."
The shining of the intoon upon silver-
ed, tossing palms—what has it not
.meant to gipsy hearts? But Jean's
ewe% not the gipsy heart; to her the
song of the reef was just a noise
evade by the sea, and the moon
!epoxide, fronds eighty' feet above in
it were simply the big leaves of 11
big trees that people planted for t
Copra. The joy in color, light, heat, '
tropic emphasis and splendor, once
Viers, had been a mere flower of worn-
tnhood',s burgeoning -time born of
eat for sale everywhere, i
sewing in her hands, wondered why.
It looked liken a stormy • night, but
there had been stormy nights before
in Laulau and the birds had not
troubled themselves much.• The is-
lands ' were well'•::north towe-ard ••the
equator, almost, though not quite,
out of the hurricane belt. She sup-
posed that it must be a snake that
• was troubling the parrakeets and
honeyeaters in the lemon. There
againl. How the creatures were sob-
bing! It was uncanny. And the
sun had gone down behind a wall of
cloud, black and scarlet as her child-
ish fancies of the skies of Judgment
Day.
I "A red sky at night is the shep-
herd's delight," she quoted to herself.
E But somehow the shepherd did not
seem to fit in. The sun was down; a
little light still remained. There was
some wind getting up, a biggish wind
with a nasty cry in if. Jean noticed,
in the uncertain light, that the under-
sides of all the leaves kept- turning
up, showing specter -white in the
dusk. She did not remember having
seen that before.
Something at her heart was troubl-
ing her. She could not for a moment
think what, She -watched the hud-
dling, crying birds and the oddly dis-
turbed leaves for a moment without
emotion. Then suddenly the uneasi-
ness lying dormant .in her mind leap-
ed awake fall -natured and seized her
with a tiger spring,
"Angus! The beaeonl" she cried.
It was on this afternoon that Angus
and another man, well skilled in un-
derwater work, were to have gone
out to the far reef nearly five miles
away to repair the beacon that stood
on it. They bad intended to work
'light failed altogether, as there
was seldom chance of a suitable tide.
No launches were available; so, as
the weather' seemed fair, they had
taken out a small old whaleboat with
a very small crew. *If bad weather
were indeed coming—and Jean now
had no doubt of it at all, for did not
the birds know and were not they
warning her? —then Angus had
the young husband of the bride who
had come up last steamer were in
deadly pend.
Jean called the native girl, told her
to look after the children and ran
amid a bombardment of flying cocoa-
ifiiMr rd e
nuts to the head engineer's house.
Lang, a little drunk, but genial, came
out to meet her. Yes, undoubtedly
bad weather was conning, ,had almost
come --as a flying piece .of roof,from
a cottage went down the street: with
iron clangor. Yes, Shiels and young
Jamieson had gone out to the reef,
He had sent the harbor launch out
after them; not the slightest doubt
that they would be back again in half
an hour. Mrs, Shiels 'could go home
and snake herself easy. Then he went
back into the house, poured out a
stiff whisky and tossed it down leis
throat.
"Damn it, Rosy," he said to his
wife, "it's going to be hard on me if
I have to do Shiels's and Jamiesoan's
work as well as my own until they
sendanotheru
out couple of men. Shut
that door or we'll have the roof blown
off."
Mrs. Lang sprang from her couch
with a ery,
"God, Frank, you don't think there's
danger?
Won't
the launch h get
them?"
"I told McNeill to take her out, but
he's a fool if he obeys"me," said Lang,
fastening shutter after shutter with
hands that were swift and able, de�
spite the whisky he had been taking
all afternoon. •
"No use losing the Skylark and
McNeill in addition to everything
else. I put the message so he'd un-
derstand it wasn't—"
"You murderer!" shrieked his wife,
falling on the 'lounge again, with her
handkerchief to her eyes. '
"Oh, that's it, is ,it ?" Lang's eyes
were ugly. ,P
"It's not, It's not," sobbed Mrs.
Lang, And. you know it's not."
"Not so far," sneered Lang. "Well
I reckon the hurricane's going' to
straighten things out."
It did.
Jean passed the night' in hell.
When morning came and women be-
gan coming in through the awful welt-
er of wrecked houses, fallen trees and
torn -up roads, to fatten on their fav-
ite dish of gossip and see "how the
widow took it," she endured for a
little while, staring seaward, so near-
ly mad that she hardly understood
what they were saying. They told
her that young Mrs. Jamieson was in
"screeching and kicking hysterics,
and had been all night." They told
her that the bank had had its roof
taken off, and the hotel and the
church bad been virtually wrecked,
but that most of the private houses,
be°ng low and protected, had escaped.
"It wasn't a bad hurricane," they
saidB.
"ad enough for you, poor dear,"
consoled one. "Let me get you a cup
of tea, Try if you can't cry;
it would do you good. I know what
it is."
"Ah, she does. D,idn't she lose her
first when the Waratah went down?
And never so much as a funeral!"
"Yes, it was the funeral I missed
moat of all. It seems to settlethings
down so, and reconcile you. Poor
dear, you won't have one either." •
Jean woke at last to the fact '`rliat
these vultures of gossip were really
there—not a crazed fancy, like so
many of that awful night, 'but a fact
—and that they were 'tearing at her
sorrow with their crooked beaks.
She rose to her feet. She looked
amazingly tall; she seemed to have
grown thin ,in the night.
"Get out," she said.
They went—to tell the next gossip
that . Mrs. Shiels was out of her ,
mind, and that some one ought to
take away the children. But no one
else dared to call.
In a few days Jean raised her head
from the ground, whither it had been
!beaten by the storm that wrecked her
life. She could see and think now.
The steamer was leaving in a day or
two more. It would be best to have
the things auctioned at once and, go
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On the day the boat oaine in She
saw the papaw; consciously for the
first time since the night of the'hurri-
cane, Being sheltered by the house
it had survived, Jean laughed an un -
mirthful laugh as she looked at it,
She unfastened the netting, pulled
away the stakes and with a big kitch-
en knife shore through the sappy
trunk in three blows.
"I'll not leave that behind to nock
me," she said.
The tree fell prone, splitting
bursting, rather—as it struck the
ground. Jean stood staring at it.
"Rotted through," she said. "It
would have fallen in another month
or so.",
She'was conscious o• i
of driving away
some unspoken thought as if with
blows,
Then she picked a flower from the
fallen crown of blooms and put it
away in her bag. The steamer was
whistling below, the children crying
to be off. She closed the gate, with
one last glance at the beautiful fal-
len tree.
"You and 1," she said .to herself,
wiping her red eyes under her veil;
"you and I have' bad bur clay."
(The End.)
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Is masculine beauty or the luck of it.
a factor Of: any. weight whats.os.ver _in
Alm influence which a man may exert.
upon the heart'of'ti Woman? We are
in the habit of thinking so, and can
cite as illustrations a few famous in=
stances of notably handsome men who
seemed to draw the hearts of women
as the sun affects the flowers—say
Lord Byron—but history also affords
many examples to offset these. Not
only plain, but actually hideous men
have been famous Don Titans and "lady
killers," easily outstripping handsome,
noble and wealthy rivals.
John Wilkes, the famous English
champion of popular liberties, was a
dissolute
roue, 4d
ugly
that child-
ren
hiI .ren
ran shrieking at sight of him in•
the streets, yet such was the spell lie
cast over women that ladies of beauty
and fashion vied with each other for
his notice. "Give pie a quarter of an
hour's start and I will win any lady's
hand against the handsomest man in
England," he used to boast, and' the
boast was not an idle one, for there
were few beauties, even the most high-
ly placed, • whose hand he could not
have had for the asking. He married
one of the most lovely heiresses of
his time, a lady who refused more than
one coronet to be his wife.
The great Lord Chancellor Broug-
ham was repellently ugly and without
grace of s eech Or nnannei•, and, con-
scious of his defects, tried to shun
ladies' society. Nevertheless, the most
ovely and .aristocratic ladies of the
and fairly mobbed the ugly lawyer,
and a smile from, him was happiness
and pride to any one of them.
Jean Paul Ararat, one of the leading
and most infamous figures . of the
French Revolution, was described by
contemporary as "beyond any ques-
ion the ugliest man in the whole of
l+ranee—and not merely ugly, but
ositively repulsive in person, habits
nd manners." And yet, in his early
ears, he was the most popular physi-
ian in Paris, not because of supposed
rofessional skill, but on account of
is attractiveness to women, the moat
vealthy and beautiful women of
ranee daily crowding his consults -
ion roosts, pushing, almost fighting, to
et a' word or perhaps a smile from
im. That he turned a cold shoulder
o their allurements seemed only to
aflameh '
t sir ardor, and at one time
e contemplated flight, so embarrae-
ng became their attentions. Even
lien he contracted a loathsome skin
isease while hiding in the sewers of
aris, fair- women continued to adore
im.
Poisoning by Arsenic.
The poisonous na`ure of arsenic Iias .
een known from 'the earliest period
history, and doubtless the enh-
ance was a favorite with profession-
poisoners in remote times, as we
ow it was among the Romans and
roughout the Middle Ages, Even
-day cases of criminal poisoning by
sent are not uncommon, and acci-
ntal poisoning, either acute or
ronie, occurs occasionally. Al-
ough now arsenic is never used as
preservative or as a coloring agent
articles of food or drink, except in
untries where the laws in this re-
ect are lax, and there probably very
ldom, it is used freely as rat poison
d in the form of. Paris green as • an
secticide.
At one itme, there were many cases
arsenic poisoning among., school
ildren in Europe, which were caused
crayons and ink colored with arse -
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antaining arsenic often gave rise to
ronie arsenic poisesting, which is
e of the industrial diseases that are
w being done away with by instruct -
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ntive measures.
n acute poisoning the first symp-
us are a metallic taste in the mouth -
d a burning and itching in the..• •
oat, followed . by pain in the abdo-
n, beginning in the upper part and
sing downward. Soon the patient
s nausea and with it violent vomit -
and purging. The abdomen is dis-
ded, and the victim suffers extreme
rot and a violent headache with diz-
ess: The skin becomes cold, the
s are sunken, the voice is hearse,
d death occurs at tl.e end of from
een 'to thirty hours,
be symptoms of chronic poisoning
pre on very gradually. Stomach
bowel troubles are the first signs.
e sufferer exudes from the skin and
he breath a foul garlicky odor• The
oat is dry, the voice is husky, the
s are bloodshot and smart, and
er Symptoms resembling those of q
d are common. The skin becomes
ly and of a dirty dark color, and
re often is troublesome itching,
ritis, marked by tingling, pain and
stripes paralysis of tate hands and
, is present in many cases.
o treat acute poisoning, give ntillr,
water or thin flour paste until
rated iron •or magnesia antidotes
be prepared, To treat ehroniii
oiling, remove the cause.
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