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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1902-01-03, Page 3opped siding votes, eyes, 'But It with." ch ten - over a ual!sm lest of r what in for should be ser - happen, the ex - would would moke," fah vol- e him- th the evening eep wa- at difil- giment. expres- Is pre- , '"The to say ' asked cause," her fel- tltey'd took n Cum - free and hese er e of the er, "It's ges and ouldn't replied s, you'd You bet Social - u d two 't yer?' L "Be- ers- for erinten- goods him to efficien t ursuits. e lesson conclu- room "Now Slow - raised re is a artha? little sled a d then how cls in ure in mself. rty of ndel, e. As fond ucted rious hard rt of look - him er?" his ed a all re - hen th a e day Ven - most friend newer photo- uite as made a lady out, sug- enomenal entiments. des, "I owe lely to cold gasped the at do you oung," con - millionaire, d mutton, and that I resolved o put It on one y life. Yes, ma - as at the root of ntiments had noth- us Parrot. t the half of t he n a quarter as ise as as a wonder.bird," I "Forest and Cream." Paris, where lived Iglish lady, who pent en apartments be een her parrot._ Coc was t constant companion, .selior and friend. He w of conversation, and y and apt things that I but no one who saw at his devotions of a is likely to forget it. eing unnble to attend p'1, rend the service In oud, with Coco for con - tone ever exceeded the Ing -drawn 'Amens,' nor ever of his 'Good Lord, he litany, and when it able sinners,' he rolled nodded his old head in e been unkind to smile rformanee, for Coen'' end, moreov, ound rnr'fort in t.,• l,..l : ,iiia y noel,, I}v• frel)m-'rn Writ•y I , icily: A frlr•nr1 r •npa to gay who also ow u.^l I% k turned ,upon the rival visitor instanced, In powors, w tntrioate re had been taught to Ad the sentence several t A. parrot's nasal voice. ehr,wed evidence Of 1. He sidled hand over back of the sofa ort sat, puffing out his ' is breath till all of end. Something e wan straining •r rose to g•., es ed t} e he a Lost in the Desert:. • THE helplessness that a man Male when he is lost is one of the most terrible parts of his experience. Perhaps this 1s at its worst when it ie not he but the guide who is at fault. The late G. W. Steevens, the war corre- spondent, had a terrible experience of the kind in the Egyptian desert, "We had been journeying all day, hoping to reach the rkonastery at night. I began to feel sleepy and to droop in the back. I swung my leg over the pommel, and settled myself to ride astraddle. Then I decided to sit side-saddle on the off -side for an hour, then change end ease the strain again. o i rode, looking steadily at the great yellow blotch ahead of me. "But now the sun was dipping down again under our hat -brims. It was past four. It would be dark at half -peat five; if we had not sighted our monas- tery then, we were helpless. "The eagerness with which the guide raced up each new eminence, the strained hopefulness of his stare, the plow disappointment you could read in the relaxed limbs, the fresh hope re- newed, but each time fainter, with which he dashed for the next prospect —he was at fault. To my eye one ridge, one dip, one hill was exactly like every other. We had been riding ten hours and must have come fifty miles; our monastery was only forty-five. We had missed it and it wan all but dark. "A nikht in the cutting wind of the deeert, a night without tent. water, fire or fodder was,,the very beet we had to look forward to. The worst -but just then up panted Said. " 'Have you seen, Seed?' " 'Effendim, I have sen; I saw from the hill back yonder. Come and see for yourselves.' "And he led us back tto the brow of the bluff, and there, surely, yes, there gleamed something white. The monas- tery, hurrah! It can't be four miles off. We will walk; the camels canfollow. So up got the patient camels and\off we strode, five miles an hour, over sand as hard and crisp as the early morning snow'. The blazing crimson and orange of the sunset blinded our eyes to the white blob of the monastery. But faster and faster we walked. Nov crimson and orange blazed no more; it was really dark now; we had come live miles and had not arrived. Are you sure you saw, Said? Quite sre r Effendlm,' replied Said, 'I thought I saw something white.' - "Nothing in sight w ite now. The guide was 'thrown out utterly; and there we were, fifty-flve roil s from home, camels done up, and miles oamel boys. starving; thirsty and wa- terless ourselves; with possibly two days' food and certainly not two days' water; lost, clean lost In the Libyan Desert." That night their sleep was broken by fears. At early dawn they were up and searching. Mr. Steevene continues: "Then the sun comes up, and the desert is yellow again; and now what sound is that? Yes, a yell from Said. Surely he has seen. On to the sample and briskly westward. - " 'Have you seen, Said?" " 'No, but behold—a camel track, and I know this place.' " The Inventor. 34 SMALL man with blear eyes and shaking hands took the Beat opposite me. I wine not surprised to hear hint call for absinthe. "You are sitting at the table with an unrecognized genius," he said. with- out looking at me. "Bo are your" I retorted. I wee then a struggling art student in Pada. "You laugh," he said, "but It is true. Your voles is sympathetic, e',nd I wilt tell you.' "Thanks," I said, "You are an artist, and have, un- doubtedly, remarked the natural affin- ity of colors. White, for instaoe, is supposed to contain all colors." He had hit on my favorite subjeot for discussion, and I leaned back pre- pared to listen. "Have you observed," he asked ear- nestly, "that people with blue eyes have yellow hair?" "The Irish," I answereda"have black hair and blue eyes. It's a beentiful combination." "Yes; that's my point. I cern change the color of the eyes." "What!" "You 'mix paints! You get green from yellow and blue! You make a oolor darker or lighter! You make black with red and purple! I do the same with eyes! A year ago 'I dia- oovered an injection for the retina of the eye that would change Its color. Suppose you have light gray eyes. I lnjeot such a colored fluid as will make them black, blue—any color!" I looked at his eyes. They were a catfish green. "My own eyes," he continued, "I tried to change to green as an•adver- tisement. It was before I had per- fected my invention, and—I lost my sight. Tell me, are my eyes green?" I became conscious that he had been gazing directly past me and had not looked at me once. . "You are blind?" I said. - -Entirely," he answered indifferently. "But what matters It? I have per- fected my invention. Had I a. paltry flve-franc piece I could make all the women in the' world beautiful. Women are the power of the world. Ah, France, ma chore pntrie, then shouldst thou rule the nations of the earth again ! " I handed hint a five -franc piece. "Your story 1s worth it," I remarked, whether It be true or not." lie supped the money into hie p et and turned to go. '•1.'s a loan," he said, ,,.her his shoulder; "you shall hear from Mo." That evening I lounged in the Art Students' Club In a haze of smoke. 1 bad found frienele. P ba000 makers man oonfldentta , and I told them enc' story while they puffed on their pips, In silence. Then each spoke in turn. "I gave him five franca when I first arrived," said Rand. "lucre l I fir" i•Yt him tem." said Uont- Donnerwetterf and I ware itbil fifty," pried Becker. "But is he really bland?* "NO," egid Mand; "you were Mt ht. tM. di Chs "Matropollten." ' elfThid is worse thin a strata ad* 1t pre threa,M'' "A oantipode with th4I''. t,t 1ned'—Radion "Christian, Herald." Malt 10 THE CLINTO i NEW Ei - A Woman's Plea For Man's. Rights. HE papers had a story the oth- er day that the President had refused promotion to an army officer because he had jilted his fiancee. Whether this 113 true or not, it's interesting. The President is a etlivalrous Mart, and whatever he did really do about the officer's promotion, we may be sure that he condemned him for his ungallant behavior to the lady. Most men would condemn him. To go back on your best girl --especially when the wedding - cards are printed . and the trouseeau ready—is an offence few men would condone. Singularly enough, women— who are the sufferers by it -rare very lenient to this infirmity of purpose. I have'ofrten heard girls say, writes Josephine Bonner in the "Argonaut," that they would rather be jilted' than married to a man who had lost his at - !eaten for them, and I think they told the truth. When Pope said every wo- man was at heart a rake be expressed his idea in coarpe, eighteenth century English. What he meant to saiy was that every woman is at heart a seiitl- mentalist, However fate and fortune may make ,heti marry, she ham her lit- tle dream of marrying for love. Pre- supposing that she Is a "nice girl," she would rather be left like Arladne than go on into the dark and unex- plored places of matrimony with a man who no longer cared for her. I am in- clined to think her respect for the man would not suffer much—might possibly increase—if he had ,the temeri- ty to rise up and tell her he filed- made a mistake and did not love her. Wo- men have been doing this themselves since Pandora opened the box, and no- body blamed them. It was a lady's privilege to change her mind, and that settled it. Maybe we are beginning to feel that the privilege Is a little one- sided, and that down -trodden man ought now and then to have a holiday when he, too, can have caprices and not know whether he loves Polly or Sally best. There is. another point In his savor which the men who condemn him do not consider—the courage it takes. It takes nerve to bead a cavalry charge In battle, to stand up In a duel, to enter a burning building, but it is nothing to the nerve it must take to look a loving woman in the eye and tell her you font care for her. Men have not been loing this for centuries as women have, ed they do not really understand the 11 horror of it. I have no doubt many eve gone so far as the front door, or vin t'it' itit-rack in the ..all, fully In- ..-l;nh to break their fetters; then, 4.1 .e s• .:.:.1 of a foot on the stairs, a frnu of skirts, have felt their ,•our- ., ,zing ;way, rend decided a life- "ig a I:. wr., ", t'.er than derisive. staggering blow. whether they were heroes. ^ne often is eon- a..- i.,:;s. Men, I think, cent.: women would ':t ':owed, and in theft t ' ::e contemptuous. -: situation would t: e man acted '7.. t ::vnty years. Any- . • ale fora .eoment; time : -a .be real thing. It would .pr one ..' those noble, foolish actions, like the charge of the Lig:rt P,rigttde, whioh would be pitiful If they were not grand—to spend a lifetime living such a futile lie. It would be so little worth while, so little' gala, for such a large expenditure of suffering. Whereas, if the man were not of the mould of h.ross, let his wife see he had married her under protest, and that she bored him to death—what would be the gain then? Even if she ted riot a grain of pride, the woman could hardly be hap-, py with such begrudged attentlone and ungrateful companionship. As for the. loan, be would brood on his wrongs and bemoan hie one moment of unselfish - nem, till a bear with a sore he r.Y w Id be an amiable companion compareeto him. In the general distribution of new twentieth century privileges, I don't see why the right to change the rnlad In matters sentimental, should riot be now and then extended to the male • of the species. A Query. It the farmer who tills Makes his living by tillage, Does the doctor who pills Make his living by pillage? -Philadelphia " Reaped." The Origin of a Name. DR. GEORGE DAVIDSON of the University of California has been wondering for four -years past how Cape Nome got its name. Geogra- phy 1s his special field, and it Is hie professional concern to know the wherefore of geographical names. But "Nome" beat him. Ile set to work to trace it back to its origin, and the earliest appearance he could find for 1t was in a British Ad- miralty chart of 18511. That led him to surmise that the cape was named by • officers of the English Srlga.tes "Her- ald" and "Plover" during an erfpedition in search of Sir John Franklin. So he wrote to the Admiralty Ofifee in Lon- don to enquire if there were any "Nomes" on the list of men who sailed In those vessels. The reply, recently communicated by -Dr. Davidson to the "National Geographic Magazine," was that when the chart in• question Was first made, aboard -the "Herald," at- tention was called to this point by the mark (?Name). The chart was sent home in, a hurry, and the draughtsman who inked it made the mark read "C. Name." But he did not, make his ''a" distinctly, and the Admiralty hydro-. grapher made It "C. Nome." And bo Capp Nome the point has been ever since, and is likely to remain 00 until it gets rich enough to supporta board of aldermen. Thpn its name 'will be clanged, for that Is one of the mis- chiefs that aldermen can be trulfted to • RECOMMENDED BY PHYSICIANS. Pond's Extract Over fifty years a household remedy for Burns, Sprains, Wounds, 13ruised Coughs, Golds and ai.l. accidents 1ia ," Me to 000ur in every home. _.•_.__, CAUTIONy-There Is oay one Pond's Extract, Be sure you get the genuine, sold only In sealed bottles In, hilt v tippers. ill. of Port *Miami era he bed gone to' CA icf tioly M. P. iiTo prove to you that Dr. P I es tbaso'e Ointmentisacertain and ubeoluto cure for oath and' every form of itching,, ' bleeding and protruding pileet the manufacturers have guaranteed it. Lo tea- tinloniale in the dally press and ask yourneigh- bors wbabthoy think of it. 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