The Blyth Standard, 1907-12-26, Page 3The Rightful heir
"\When chunl l')re0stcr died," lie be-
gan again, ",nut left you that len thou-
sand (lettere, 1 vowed you should not
heve it, for I Cott :into it would give you
a stat in life and you would want to
merry- ]?11111111, T was bound she should
wed n. )!ch man, and ]. would not be
D thwarted, 'l'hen I made the discovery
01 you who were; and if your sentence
had been for life, 1 would not have lifted
my finger to barn it mitigated fu the
slightest degree. I seemed to gloat over
the fact flint Marion's sot, the son of
the (''011(111) whose high spirit had pre•
vcuted 111e from ranching the goal 1
sought, was thus disgraced, and, not
knowing tint she was dead, 1 thought 1
(mold imagine some of her sufferings 00
11e0,0unt of it.
"I do not wonder that you shudder,"
he sold, seeing a (wive' of pain run
over Eerl0's body at thio heartless
epee 01l;and f ern see nolo just hent such
fiendie11 Malice appears to others.' if I
had kndlen, however, that my marriage
with Marion hod been legal, you nay be
sure I should have adopted a very diffei'-
eat course. 1f, when from motives of
curiosity I opened that package belong.
ing to you, I had discovoi'ed those papers
in the ,cardboard poclzot, _nay ambition
and selfishness would have prempt0dnie
to court the favor of the heir of 1Vy
01!ffe, But i did not 1now',,1111 when
you told me, and refused to let meshare
your honors, my ire incensed tenfold
and I Vowed I would make you suffer
for it in some way."
E:tmlc?s faeo was very grave and pale
ns he listener!, and it seemed as if he wits
almost living over again the troubles he
had been through, to be reminded of,
them in this way.
There was only one way that I could
do this," Mr. Dalton said, with a troubled
glace at the white, set face by his side,
"aid that was through Pditho. You lov•
ed her; and she loved you, and I gloated
over the fact that through her I could
slake you miserable, though you stood
01 the very pinnacle of 101:000 I had
longed to climb, and oven though I sac-
rificed her in so doing"
Earle's lips twitched nervously at
this, and, had not the elan before him
been.belpless end dying,his indignation
must have burst forth at this startling
and fnhmnan statement.
XII.. Dalton noticed his emotion, and
his lips curled hi a:hitter senile.
"One is not often- allowed the privilege
of rending sueli a pageofheart-history
as 1 (1111 tuning for you today; one does
not often meet a father who could eher-
ish such `bitterness and antagonism -to-
ward his only Son. nnd so utterly devoid
of natural affection also for the child
whom he has reared from infancy; but
1 will make no 'half cotifessionn-I w'nnt
1.001 to know just how black ray record
leas been; and them d will snake what
restitution there is in my power.
"With all my other sins, I had a secret
that I had kept for more than twenty
years, and expected it would die with
me. 'I did not believe tiers was a soul
living who knew aught of it, or who
could ever discover it.
"But there was; justice was on my
track, and, like an avenging Nemesis,
pursued me with it relentless determina-
tion: I fled, I hid, I vowed I would not
he thwarted out of every scheme I had
formed; lint all to no purpose, and one
day 1 was brought face to face with n
foe, of whose existence I had no
dreamednntil only a abort time before.
`Toiled at every point, any last.weapon
wrested .from me, I lost all control of
myself, and in my anger and mortifica-
tion ruptured a blood vessel in the
hogs, and knew thatmy day's were
muttered,
"It was not a pleasant thing to know
that death had set his marl: upon me,
and fen' 0 while I tried to fight the eo -
victiet; but it was of no use, and then
1 1 eg;n to think; and ono los very dif-
ferent ideas regarding the end and nim
of nam, when `Death sits grinning his
horrible, ghostly smile upon hint,' than
when in the full vigor of life,
"Like two vivid pictures, your life and
mine arose up before me -my own, full'
rt pride, ambition and selfishness, with
no principle of truth or goodness in it,
amt ending in utter wreck:; yours, in the
Woe of smnuntain-lili( diffieuities, filled
with the beauty of high resolves, noble
' purposes. nnd unwavering rectitude and
enhtlity, not the least was the faint that
oven while smarting beneath the fieriest
000,1100 of your enemy, you dill not cease
to to genevoussethat ten thousand dol-
lars with all my arrogance and bravado,
has lain heavy on my conscience ever
sieve you umde it over to roe,
"1 nm nearly (10111', f could not rest -
could not die until 1 had told ,you all
this. 1 do not ask you to forgive m10;
the words Would seem but mockery to
you The parity of your life, standing
out in suet: hold relief against the black-
ness of aline, enraged me. if I could
have soon you 0ngry -if 1 0nuld really
have found a flaw in you -perhaps I
should not have altvoys been so bitter.
1 say it nhvm's nngerol me, until I was
olhgod to lie here mid think. Now it
shames me, and I would la, glad if I
(bold oneihilat0 from your memory the
shame of having had .such n father. I
c01mot make any aitonement for the, past
to either you or Editha. 1 can only wish
that yotn' future may be as full of hap-
liiness as you both deserve, and perhaps
1 may be sable to contribute a trifle to
it by being the first to tell you that
17ditluu is not 1sV child at all!"
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CILhPTER
Earle nearly bounded, from his seat at
this startling intelligence, and then, con•
trolling liiusolf for the sake of the sick
man, sank back Into his chair with a
low, suppressed cry, his face almost as
c,lorloos ,1s that of the dying man's upon
the pillow.
"L'ditlnit not your child!" lie said at
Iasi, in a strained; unnatural voice, his
hoot heating with great heavy throbs,
"No; not a drop of 111y blood flows in
hon tem '. Mr. Dalton panted,
His sh('0)t1 was 1111 gope,:'now that
ads story \vas told, and it was with dff'-
t'ieulty that he spoke at a11.
"
"Whose child is she, then?" Earle ask-
ed, trembling with eagerness, a glad
gleam leaping into his eyes 111 spirt ol.
lis• sad 0nr;bumlings and lois sy'mptth}
for the pouting form upon the lied
;llndaun Sylvester 110W cause to the b 11-
0£)10.
She liil Mitered so quietly a 161V Ino,
meets before that neither Eerie nor Ma
11111,1 101s 11001(1 of her puosence until
this moment.
'Ur. Dalton must rest noiv; he is
nearly exhansted ' she said, adding: - "I
11 semen im the nurse, and as lidithn is
still shaming, and 1'0u are doubtless 0(10-
000 to irate the mystery etplaiicd, 1
will finish the, story of Edith:: s parent,
age."
Earle instantly arose,. and a sudden
bought mode him glance at lips more
keenly than he had yet done; then, with
a look of sympathy at the panting ;suf-
fe'er, lie turned to follow ho), tiIr, Dal-
ton had seen that look, however, and it
stirred iris soul to its very depths.
Inc remelted out his wasted hand as if
to stat him. and said weakly, while his
features writhed iu pain:
"A good gather might have hotly proud -
to own you as his ems .1s it is, 1 can-
not 110011 ask you to take my hand."
I.nrle Wetted quickly and bent eye'
Liao, his mainly face softened to almost
womanly tenderness and beauty -riot
from the dawn of west filial affection;
that could not be, after all the bitter
past --but from idly and couipassiun toy
0 soul standing atom upon the brink of
eternity, with nothing to lean upon as ho
entered the dark valley of the shadow
of death, and no hope in the mysteioWi
future toward which he was hastening.
As his humanity Would letve prompt-
ed 11101 to reach out „his strong light
,hand to save either friend or foe in case
o£ danger, so his grand nature yearned
to lead tlffs.darkened mind htto the light
of hope..
`VVo will net talk of the past. any
lump'l he said, gently; "it is gone, and it.
is nun to dwell upon it. The future is
What we must. think of mow,"
"The future my future! What will
it be like, 1 wonder?" Scanner dalton
'asked, helplessly, and searching that
noble fere with painful earnestness, ae.
if he could tell him.
"The future means '11000011' to those
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who are ready for it," was "01.0 grave,
significant reply. •
'.Yes, yes; but to those whit'aro not
ready for it?" came breathlessly from
the blue lips of the sillieer. -
"Ail may be ready for it, it (10011
ilnrle answered m low, sweet' tones,
1'10.1seeing hot exerted Mr, Dalton ivaa
l e :owing, he added: "You must Feat
now --you 101(0 talked long, and are
weary. I will come to'you agafu when
yon Nave slept, and we will tall: more of
this."
"You will slay -you will not go away
until --eller--" the dying mon begun,
wildly, but finished' with agroan.
The thought of death..Woe 111 wish.
"l shall stay for the present -as long
as yo1 need mi Earle replied,, under-
standing mint, and pitying him 11acply.
A sigh of relief followed this 11881.11..
Juice. 1
In the hour of his weakness nnd need
he Owned, with a stui1gb feeling of cue•
fidenee, to the strobe, true nature which
he ir,ul once so scorned and. despised.
Hie eyes followed the manly form
wistfully as it quietly pnseed from the
room, then, with a weary sigh, he turned
01)1111 his !81051 uand slept. ,
Madam Sylvester led Earle back to the
room where she had' first met hint, and
motlotuug him to 0 chair, took one het -
self near him.
"1 koo0 you are anxious to see dDi.
tloa, she said; "but she. is not yet
awake. 1 peeped into her room on my
way to 1.1x. Dalton's, and the dear child
has not moved. since I looked in before.
She was nearly worn out this morning
101(111 she went to not. Now I will do
ase you say -leave this interesting story
for her to finish, 01' relieve your sus-
pense and tell you myself while she
sleeps," she added, with her chnrmiui
"Tell nue, by all means;" Earle said,
earnestly . "I cannot endue the sw0-
rime and 1 am utterly amazed by 31r.
Dalton's last sttacm ent to inc."
"1t is not to he wondered nt, and
your auazemeut• probably will not end
there.. Your query, when he told you
Mit he was not itis child, very naturally
was, `Whose is she, then? My lord, I ant
F.ditha's mother 1"
Earle looked the astonishment that lie
could not eNpreee, nnd .yet the shadow of
111 stl,1» cion of, this had crossed his mind
Aust before leaving Tyr. niton's thorn.
"I neve' Relieved anything would ever
again give 100 such ,joy as this knowledge
des:' liorle said, with n deep -drawn
deli of ,thankf0lness, and beginning to
reniize something 'of the joy ilea yet
might be in store for hint,
kditho, no longer regarded its n sister,
mield: now' be claimed as a wife. -
Madaunk
She smile Breath' admired
d,
fha handsome ,young -marquis, and her
heart wits very ,Ii;'ht to know of ,the
hi into irt f'.tter0 that'lny before her bcltn-
tiftl daughter:
''It Lives lilm olews000 to hear you say
that she said. . "And now, if you bare
patient, 1 will tell you my sad story,
;and all (eg,tndmg Edith's parentage, as
hone already related it to her."
"1 have patience, Earle said, smiling;
;and madam began:
"Nearly twenty-three y'ea's ago.1 met
with the saddest loss' that ever. falls to
the lot of woman -the loss of to love
that would have Irightened all. niy fu-
ture. life. Pram my early girlhood I
had had aur affection f1,' an own cousin,
and was in return beloved by him, As
w0 grew older that affection increased,
uotil at tae are of eighteein 1 was 'be-
trothed to him. Soon after he went to
sea; hoping en his return, to be able to
male me his wife. He had a sharo,10 n
trailing vessel, and, if, they made a elle-
eeSs1ul voyage, he hoped to realize" '11.
handsome sou, w1(1011) With what•lnc al-
ready had, would enable 111)11 to support
a wife, Three months _later canna the
hells of the loss of the vessel, and his
:rube was among- the list of those who
perished. Our engagement had been a
secret, and so it was only i11 secret that
I could mom'(', In the presence of oth-
ers, of course, I must appear no usual,
and so, to bide the grief that w'as burn-
ing my heart aches, I assumed a reck-
less gayety that deceived every one.
About this time a stt'nnge' appeared in
000 circle. ala was 110011hy, fascinat-
ing. ,and very handsome. ile appeared
attracted to my beauty, 01 toy friends
were pleased to terns 111y good looks,
and laid 010 much attention. 310 fam-
ily were pleased with Ilut, 1 liked him,
and when be offered me marriage I ac-
cepted him, thinking that perhaps, undo'
new exeitem0nt aid change of scene and
country. 1 might find some halm for my
wromded heart. We were married, and
spent several months in travellhig, and
then votaress, to my expectations my
husband preferred to remain indefinitely
in Pons nnd we set ftp - home of
our own in the suburbs of the city. Be-
fore
rfore the end of a fear a little child was
giver to 110--0 blue-eyed, golden -haired
, daughter, ,0110111 we both loved With al-
most. idolut:bus affection, and it seemed
ns if heaven had at last sent healing
to my sore apart, for I •became calmly
and g0ietlh' happy; any node grief hod
passer, and, though ran' 0001104 affec-
tion was in the ocean grave of my sailor
m yetlooked f1, '
lover I 1 11 wand to 0 future
t
of quiet happiness with the neer ties that
bound me to life.
"My baby'--Edithe the had named her
arms only three mouths of age. when
one dry, 1114 1ny luuh011d and i were
watching her 110 she lay cowing and
10nghfng in her cradle the door Behind
s lend n 1 entered the
u. opened and soma see 0t d tl
1.
0001 We both tuned and I saw a form
gaunt and trembling, a face pale and
vvested, but dea0rn than life to me. it
was lentis Pilleunrl my lost love
whom 1 Relieved lyieg cold in death at
the bottom of the seal.
"T. was young, impulsive and not yet
strong after tine birth of my child, and
tho shock was more than 1 could bear.
With one wild cry of joy, 1 sprang for-
ward and threw myself upon his bosomy
forgetting that I was already a wife
mid a mother, forgetful of my husband's
presceo-of everything save that Louis
ollserpappeCieCcege. ..440�� ���������iQ9 was alive mil hn11 returned. I murmured
Y , �ttwiu,,.itanuc"it�t fund, n(ild lyords of love nnd delight,
worda Which a wife hos no right to speak
save in the ear of her husband, 10)11
mins, sitting there, listened horror-
struck, and learned the whole. It was
only, when, eshansted with my joy, 1 lay
weeping on Louis' bosom that I
last aroused to a cmtsciousness of what
I had done, by my husband's stern 00'-
casm,
'What may he rho meaning of this
exceedingly affecting scene, allots me
to ask1' he said, hissing the words. be-
tween his teeth; nnd thea with a shriek
I realized our relative positions, and fell
fainting to the floor,
"I need not dwelt upon what followed,
"nnulnm said, with at sigh, "tt'hcn I
11(11110 to myself. Louis was g0no and my
husband, angry and wretched at discov-
ering how he • had been dtecei10)1. 10110
Very unreasonable, and poured forth Fuck
0 storm of jealous wrath upon me that
1 was nearly crushed. I ennfased every-
thing to hint then, 1. pleaded my sorrow
and vveal:nese, awl implored his forgive -
aces and mercy, but lie denounced me
as an unfaithful wife, at least nt heart,
and vowed that from that day 100 should
live as strangers, and i'0t, for 1,m' child's
saike, 0111'y outward propriety must be
eboeved. 1 Was more wretched than. I
caul 001)11ss, and very unwisely poured
forth my ttouhles into 'Letis' cm', Whin
110 came the next day and sought 1110
alone. i could not deny that the old love
was stronger than the new', uud the f11
tare looked like darkest gloom to ate ---
my husband's respect 01111 confi(llence
gone -my- lover returned to look veproaclt
upon me from sad Red 'hollow eyes, and
my eonseienee constantly upbraiding me
fon' having married a good and noble
man whet I had no ]heart to give thin1.
I felt like a 10100ke1 thing, and, always
morbidly sensitive, I was tenfold 01000
so the) in 111y Weakened, nervous state.
I do net pretend to exeose my sin-- I
ase only tell it just as it happened.
Louis, 0s wretched as myself, comforted
me with the old, tender words that he
used to speak ,and, bemoaning my sad
fate 111 being linked to such a cruel hos-
band, urged Ole to fl with him on 0
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new vessel that he was to command, and
The be happy in our own tvay.'lh vessel e.sel was
to sail in a fete days, and with passim -
ate eloquence he pictured the delight of
the free. beautiful, roving life we would
lend. 1 consented, mud one tiny,
whin My husband u'1s abvr'.l, fon.
o. few boo's, I took my baby uud fled.
Louis had gone 00 before me, and W05
to tucet me at the seaport torn from
(1l.ich the vessel Was to sail, Not be-
ing able to leave home until afterno11, 1
was obliged to stop over night at a small
tow(' about half any frau the port. 1
was more lonely than 1 can tell you, as
alone 1O0! unprotected I retired and lay
with my baby in my aims, thinking of
what I had done, 1 thought of 111y dead
mother nnd her early teachings -of the
words she used to love to repeat from
the stewed book, nnd the earnestness
with 1'10011 she used to impress'. their,
meaning upon 111e, noel the horror and
guilt of the step 1 was emitetnpinting
overwhelmed me, 11y baby awoke at
midnight mod would not be • emoted to
sleep ,)gain, so, lighting the candle, I
hay there and wltehcd her play, and
talk, and coo in her charming little wvy.
Every 11011 nnd then she would stop,
look around the room ars if she lately she
was in a strange 111000, and then glance.
up nt me with great serious eye; that
s,010151 to question my conduct and re•
preach nay rashness. 1 thought of my
]nreband, who, though he had been hasty
nnd somewhat, cruel k.1 his reproach0s,was
yet a good, true man. 1 pictured the
despair he would feel when he should
return and find his wife and child gone,
his house desolate, lois mtnle dishonored,
altd all the horrr of my rash act :rush-
ed with overwhelming force upon me.
1 threw myself upon my knees beside
t n c
c.,' ens
my bed and wept out nay 1 1 int
there, resolving tint early morning
should find me returning .like the pro -
.to my home. I acted upon that
resolve, first dispatching a note to Louis
telling him of my resolution, nnd em
treating hint not to 00010 to me 0gau1,
nor seek: to hold any communication
with me.
"I reached hone at 110011 the next day
but uty husband had :dreads, discovei-
ed toy flight, 1 suppose 1 might- h000
told Ilinu some story -that 1 had only
been to visit a friend in my loneliness, or
som0thiug of that kind, ,and he might
hove aecpt0d it; but 1 did not; 1 went
to him and confessed the whole, im-
ploring his per'do:, and swearing fidelity
for the future. 1 think if he could•hat'o
had time to think it over and consider
tate matter, he would have ,acted Miter-
ent.ly; but his heart was 1huu(10 too
0000 to beau more, and has naturally
fierce temper swept all (most before 11.
1Ie took my baby from my arms and
bade me 'go,' refusing to believe I had
not flown with Lottie instead of to him.
I.prayed lis to ]cave my child, 1(1y boon -
ti 01, blue-eyed, fait -haired l:dithe, but
he told me 1 was oto tat mother to rear
at child, nnd he refused 010 even the
comfort of a parting caress. Ile said
hard, cruet things to me lit that fit of
passion -words that broke my heart,
Seated toy brain and drove 1110 nearly
crazed 10001 the sight of every familiar
I .ver
saw him un never
'ver t n
face. 1 never t
heard aught of him for long, long' years,
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"Yon can ask those, 1(110 do
the baking, what they think of
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After 1. had recovered somiwh;u, from
'n shuck ofof wild grief I begs
the first 1 „ ( u
to reason with myscll,• 1 knee' I had
sinned deeply -4 had conumtl l t gent
wrong in 10(111ying one 111111 when my
heart was another's, ,even though 1 Lc-
lieveil'that ,other dead, mot 1 h'ul en -
yielding to Louis' persuasions and e00•
seining to fly with him. True, 1 had
repented before it was too hate to turn
I 1. bitter blot'
antic but it was n nit -n blow to mJ '
husband; 1t 0110 011 act of treachery, and
I could not Mame him for his first wild
outbreak. But 1 felt that it was cruel
in him to 104 so relentless when I had
confessed all; if ne had but been 11100-
cifnl if he could but have consented
to hive nor a place nt his hearth -stone
until he had tested nig sincerity, I feel
that 0 0onp1r0tn'ely happy life might
hen" eventually been ours. I wrote
to him (111104 Without nun -
her, begging him to let ),1e conic and
bo the faithful wife and mother 1 Inoue
1 was 0npable of being; but lar neve'
returned me one word in reply -never
told 010 nnght of my child, oyer whom
my heart has yearned as only a nuttle''o
heart can yearn fon her only darling.
(To be continued.)
due, it has gone. If it haen't ;cite, it's n
secret -one of the state seere.ts of the;
German Government, probably, Poeple
who have been seen standing .1(00111 anti
prying into What time their train goes
in a German station may be arrested,
At least they feel when they have asked
as if perhaps they ought to he.
To Start a Train
A volley of banging doors, Statins•
master pulling n bell by the tongue
three times. Ago -ahead whistle from
the 11,11(1pcter, A "going, sir!" rtee,sli
from thb engine. Indefinable 1)01tie..
'Pln'ee more bells singing in the. station,
"Gonel gone! gone!" Not that, the train
is really gone. All Minneapolis could
climb on afterward, but it's a kind of
more hopeful waiting along(. Gradually
you find that you are nearing the cul
of the station,
To Reach Your Hotel.
Don't take a cab to go to one across
the street, as I dol when 1 got off thole
steamer at 11--. I paid the porter t '"
ptrunk. to the carries 1,
nuuf:tocarry m ' J carries;
tout never will 1 forget the proud, royal, -
stately. stepping of those horses us they
swept me around to my destination .din
he ether curbstone, nor thestO li)ng1 1gith'
which before those bowing sbea110W-thll
waiters 1 paid my fare and my.tip "far =.
that fifteen -foot drive. 1 would have
given the world if they had laughed or
looked intelligent. It was quite as iunny.,
-- it seemed to me, as if t had' 001000:
sweeping up in a wheelbarrow, but it was
obvious flint they were not going to let
111e look amused if they could help it, or
intelligent, and s' of course I looked as
neatly as they 0111 as 1 could offhand,
and passed thins over. luckily it was
'talk and after dinner, and I went to
hod, ural the next morning tool: 1ny
In'ealc11st in n(y room. Vi'iat to do after
{bei or hoar In get out of that hotel,
tinea; across 11,1s mud smiling at them in
how to pot past all time waiters 111111
mora 1;titlunt lobbing intelligent, or cut -
spite of thole, was beyond 100 1 do
not know, to this day how I did it. -
Philadelphia Renard.
TRAVEL IN GERMANY.
They do not 01111 railroads 111 Germany.
They have such meditative calm en-
gines, nnbusiieas-like, mooning. phile-
sophienlly along like a nnive'sity pro-
fessor. Yon fay] asleep. • Ion almost
(1001011 ,you are in bed and being moved
armlet en castors. It's all .so rough and
bitchy and faithful and so full of trying
and hoping -0 penman railway train, It
sometimes 000115, says n.writ0r in the
)fount Toto Magazine, as if it must he
building the track as it goes along, ox -
emit that of course going so slow they
might build n better- one. A man in one
any 01' another'hertnihly gets tner0 time
for his money obit Germain railroad. than
he 0011 anylvlicre,else, And they never
have any acciileits or collisions. They
are practically impossible with these
slightly modified stationary engines.
The,v have such n momentum of not
going at all that any slight rush 011 the
brak0s removes all danger, but it is well
to take out a life insure Dee policy (say
for three months) in going from Nurem-
burg to Dresden, on count of the
restaurants. re
How to Make a Time -Table,
(For any distance under a hundred. mites)
fake twelve good .solid Loo's told dis-
tribute the time along the 'luny as well
las you can, but you must get that
twelve hours in in some way. Put in
too many 01nt10110 and any time lost by
having no 0keuse for stopping longer at
a station make up by laving the train
slow up tholglitltlly rnywiterc. Stop-
ping and thinking is the idea with 0
German train. Any field will do. It's
a train of thought. It's a reverie. You
must sit still and enteh its spirit.
How to Change Cars.
Spread out your lunch on both seats
in the compartment ,just as you enter a
station. Hove ,your mouth in the vel;,
act of oinking n delielons seinieirele in
a sandwich, end you' hand waiting with
it. spoonful of ,jelly. When the trent stops,
laugh at people running with too many
bundles, and presto! your guard is at the
door wildly gesticulating end heavily
Germanizing that unless you want to
finish oyer lunch in the switchyard you
better, rte, for your Bertin train is ,just
starting the seventh track off, to be
reached under and over and around.
Then, opening the mouth) of your satchel
and cramming down all you can of that
scattered lunch, With bags slung front
your shoulders, antler your elbows, in
your hands old danglitt)1 against your
legs, run, 1113.- dear fellow! run! looking
like a depot cloak room o1 a full gallop,
P.
tl11'0u h aisles of smiles, aid thank your
lucky stars as inn are bundl I into a
nnnp rtment with five amazed young
I anes ,het oma ur• tiler.. Of entree,
gnu Will not dare, With the five amazed
ymtng lades, to tale out your inter-
u�i
I r e. In 011 Ire there
aulttd scodl t t a
Von hue changed cats the next tim0
You tent to take e 0 bite out of a sand-
wich
andw ch nt Germany any m: k the contltetor. Ile
will mol know, hutartetuntd when your
,re thinking it over you will feel
brighter.
To Find Out About Trains and Routes.
Ask the statues on the way to the
station, the fruit women, the buys that
you meet on tine street, but don't (except
05 an (rnnsetncnt of course) ask a rail-
road offleinl. They never know. '.l'heee's
something 01.0111 it. No one has ever
foiud out what it is, but they don't 00010
to be. interested very much in railroads,
I1' you ask them what time n train is
Bed Clothes,
TM. nights are very chilly now, ',sere!'
ally if we sleep \kith the window's of our
rooms 01)111), as 1 bops we do. We 1)1011
t n be kept w'nrm, nnd, therefore, the, bed
clothes will have to be ,increased is
warmth, though not 11111011 in weight, as
to sleep under things which are too
heavy is bud, poedisposimg us to Joel
tiled and -heasy in the morning. Of
course, good blankets are the ideal bed
eueeying, but these are expensive, .and
soon run 11110 1(111011 11101103'. (In eider'
v1a need not in these days be ,a rely >'-
.,11-ive affair, and is light and vary
rw. You oma give any !lice for one,,
nut touch of this money is spent on the
tolling and it will he found that the.;
very N0-1 o,.es of silk and satinwear'"l
limo worot..1 gond and cheap substitute
may lit, 1110110 by putting several layers
oaf (soon eadtliug between two sltoety of
turkey red, or other kind' of cotton, and
then 11101111)' tacking this through.- here
and there. but not too often to matte it i
very flit nnly enough to keep the lay-
ers in 1,1000. Holes must be matte at -
frequent intervals right through ,Dad.
ding and corers for ventilation; and
these are to be lanttonholed round for
neahiss suite. Again, a still cheaper:.
substitut0 for blankets and 1eide'do n
may be made by tacking a layer or two
of bro111 paper, or 0('011 new'speper, be-
tw0en a cotton covering; but in this case
Ion, great care must lie taken to ensure
ventilation, 0s boll( cottoivool and pa-
per la•� p in the vapours arising tom the
baody, which is a very unwholesome
place, unl0ss they 11000 plenty of holes
i nthees I think these hints of eeon-
umy may be of 1140 to ninny this winter,
when household management is especial-
ly needed to make both ends meet with-
out maloe pressure; and where many
hods aro goingiday after day clothes en-
ough for them all are, a serious item of
espouse for things, alasl--oven with the
hes lman(1geuent-Will wear out: -\100'
garet.
Legend of the Rose.
The North American Indians of the
western coast have a tradition than rotes
5001'' created without thorns, says ilia
Circle. So tall and fair they grew that
all creatures were attracted by their
beauty and grace Animals that 11r0wee
upon grass and green herbage soon dis-
embed the tender sweetness of 1101
roses' abundant foliage, and then covey
rose tree holding its flower aloft but
attracted attention and drew d',Crnetion
to itself. Every part of the earth had
been given its glory of roses, but in every
place there were animals which sought
the bushes to devour them, nand the
tribes of roses were in danger of beton(
ing extinct. In their extremity they
held a council; for in that 100 -away
morning of the world pl;u1ts, Its well 08
animals, had power to speak. 'I'n iho
council u' the roses came, and ouch 'eta
a tale CO toll of suffering and +0;tr.r,
At length it wits decided to send fon' help
to the godanni of the tribes -the Hia-
wathaof theo West, Delegates Were
chosen f otu,,l ainong those who emre
maimed and oyo and
had suffered most.
Others also 50d� seh� Who we tall and
fair and g0RC1)i11 `isely
this ce nncil
discerned thatllionleit justice bo dcuied
the tribes, beauty might preeeil in their
79111 conference was to rg ar 1 wave.
At. its claS,, an 1umllry' 111 U a ns 10aa
given t0 evrry ansa and 11113 1
:rc the
tribes rf noses delneaed from h. it
In a State of Suspense.
not1,. ufav u I'1, tell the truth, I don't
know whether Int 011 .1ged to Phil or
.Toile-'fh0 idea!
111nmc last night at the concert,
while the t eheetr1 u,u playing a selec-
tion front 1V'ague(. he n'hictie ed some-
thing t0 me. I couldn't hear what it
33'09, of 0011s0 but I nodded, mal he's
been uiutsmlly o.ficetionate ever since.-
rhicag.1 Tribune,