Exeter Advocate, 1901-2-21, Page 6---eettesesees
I -ROM THE -1-13EE TOAD.
,
saoluded, aolitare on setae .underaousta
Or cradled in a, leaf ndd glimmering light,
Like Puck thou crouchest, haply watching how
The SiONY tfstoL1 conies bulginnidony waits,
Is:rout:I; loosening" Ione, orhow, against the
ahrht,
alowweran 'gathers silver to endow •
'tho daritriqs$ "'with, or how the dew, conspires
To hang at dusk with lamps of chilly area
titach blade that Shrivels now. •
Art trumpeter et Dwertiand, does thY horn
reforia the anemes and goblins of the hour
When they way gambol. :IL naW Lind thorn,
Straddling each winking. bed and twinkling,
flower
O r hellcinger oEltland, whose tall tower
The litiodendron, is, from whence is borne
The elite tuusio of thy bell 3 deep bass
To summon fairies to their starlit maze,
To $11.1t1C1011 them or warn ?
--Madison Cawein in Atlantic.
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Gas 'louse Maflit
G
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EtOW 11:10 Got on to
the Football Team
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0 By BARRINGTON KIDD. o
cestoe•oe.o.s.o.s.o.s.o osecet.0.,:eoesoseo.s.o
"Did I ever tell you," asked tee um
dergraduate, "about the time Carl Mae
fit got on the tootball teal's° by samking
a cigarette?"
"No," said Storrow, "yoe didn't, and
you needn't tell us, eitber, unless' its n
good story."
The undergraduate chuckled. "Ob,
It s a good story all right enough, but
I ought to have a picture of old Gas
House to go with it."
"A picture of old who?"
"Old Gas House Mara. That's what
they used to call him on account of bis
size. He played center rush after he
broke training."
"I don't see how he ever could have
made a football man," said Storrow.
"That's exactly wbat Bill Connors
told him," continued the undergradu-
ate. "I remember the first afternoon
we got Carl to come out to the field and
play on the scrub side, He moved
around something like a road roller. He
must have been upto 280 pounds. Con-
nors, the trainer, threw up both hands
and swore. 'Blessed day,' he shouted,
itait of thing on each a•trivial occasion
as the class regatta, and the upper
elassmen cause out of their rooms auel
discouraged us. ,
1"\Yalt for a 'college vietory,' they
said, esefave you burn your tnoneyt
"P11 tell you what we'll do, i- sug-
gested Davie Peterson. -Let's go down
to the shore and celebrate, The atmoe,
phere in this neighborhood is too un-
sympathetic.'
: '"I'his seemed like a good idea, The
shore was the local,Conet, Island, about
two miles out of town. We piled our
fireworks into a 'ramshackle hack. and
started. Of course we didn't ride in-
side ourselves. -1Nre bunched up beside
the driver and all over the top and
burned red .fire and yelled. It was la
fine sight.
"At the corner or Alaple street seam
one spotted old ,•Cari standing under a
-street lamp and gazing at us wistfully.
'We whooped tind‘pelled up.
" 'Come on, Gas House'. called Peter-
son, 'Get in the game.'
Carl shook his head resolutely. 'Can't
break training,' he said., 'Can't spell
my chanees for the team.'
,"Everybody shouted at him.
. not?' said L. 'It won't hurt
your chalices any
Now, that was anmean thing to
say, because it was true. Carl, on ae.
count of hie '‘Veight, wa$ out of the
running for the eleven, and every one
knew it except. himself. So we laughed weeee since see had a fad, and was
and Told him to get inside. 'wondering What \-SOVild COMO next. If
" `No one's ever going to see you you al'e going to visit the north pole
there,' said Peterson. '''‘ye won't give watt, a jot of hot water bags essaiewa
you awaYe around your body to keep your temper
-
"Well, the outcome of' this was that attire at summer heat, let's hear about
Carl opened the door nnd got in among
the fireworks. I suppose from that "Being as you are a woman and be
-
minute he began to despair of being 11 ;
nag its every woman is about half idiot.
foothalrelayer. It Was almost pathetic
_cnn ovetlook your sarcasre. .Your
that he had hung on so long in the face why of encouraging a:husbaud to seek
of so much ridicule. - for fame is to belittle every plan he
"Ou we drove, singing', smoking, oaaaanntoe. !lad conunitee had a wife
drinking bottled beer and Inaking like you this American continent would
noise to our hearts' coutent. The big- have continued to be a paradise for
SelEiNTIFIC BOWSEP bo sent out; U Will viten to start ti the OJEAR HEART, VVHERE 'MAST THOU the reporter of a Sunday paper -to
spring,' • , WANDER
THa OLD MAN MAKES A VERY IN-
,
TERESTING EXPERIMENT.
"But it will end in a row."
"It will end in the discovery of the
north pole and make the name of Bow -
eel. better known than that of Colum..,
fle WhOught He Rad 'Made Remark,- ru
1.41s. You just keep quiet and let me
n this thing."
able DischverY That NV°41a 'lett) 'kle pet on Isis hat and overcoat and
Illicploreres to rind 9tte Noith F010,
it did not take him five minutes to find
"t Cirennist"e" 3X4(le Rim a couple of tramps who.were sloshing,
Chaps° ISis11iud. about between his laouse and tee col.-
.
(Copyright, 1000, by C. D. Lewis.] ner. 'When he explained what he
"Do you know," began M. Bowser wanted and his .willingness to pay,
after dinner the °tilr vemine__•iee se they both cheerfully acconmamed hinte
know what prevents mea from reach. As they stood with their backs to the ,
nig the north pole?" range in tbe kitchen and hungrily eyed
".`Several thiugs," replied Airs. Bow.
ser, who, being the only one pi'esent,
took it that the' query was ttddressed
to hen ,
"Yes, several things,, but principally
because of the cold. Ilut for the awful
temperature around,the pole men could
easily overconie the otler ,clitliculties.
When tbe thermometer register's 100
degrees below zero, the lifeblood of tee
strongest man congeals. Fle must ei-
1.ne remains of dinner he took their
temperature and pronounced it normal
and then escorted them to the back
yard. Tliare were snow Isanite against'
the fence and he selected positions and
sat them down. It was a keen, cold
night, one made to order for such an
experiment
"Now, then," said Mr. Bowser as all
was ready. "I take it that you feel
cold 37
"W -e d -o!" replied the men in .ceorue
thee retreat or dle."DAV 11N THE'LIFE OF 4 women not to marry," she went on,
Well, what of it?" sbe asked. • , •j with.a treniendous effort to pull'herself
Dear heart, where hast.thou wandered?
What happier regions stay
Thy lingering feet, whose coming changed
.winter into May?
Now all o,ur slopes are burgeoned
In summer's lavish mood,
And deep within the grove the thrush
Has belled the solitiMe.
The laurels set the hillside
With many a spectral light;
Seen through the dus'ir; Ailey stand like
nymphs,
Expectantly in flight.
,
IOtitsornqwliere thou dost
Though highi
wthin the twilight sky
Gleams cold our trysting star.
The brooks we loved still murmur,
Though now through dells of gloom;
The very hills have lost with thee
Their natiety of bloom.
Still each leaf whispers of'thee;
On every path once trod
By thy dear feet thy spirit yet
Speaks from remembering sod.
—L. Frank Tool er in Century.Stagasine.
syliein she had given an appointment,
"1 .wish to get out Ideas on a vital
topic," stated this self possessed young'
W01111111. "Do YOU 'think that marriage
luterferes with a woman's professional
career?. Your opinion as a physician.
will be most' valuable. I have state-
naellts from a woman lawyer, a woman
prearther, an editor and an actress, and
of course I must get the theory of a
h I " s
Dr. Jane leaned back la her cealr and
regarded this seeker of light thought -
telly. "Yes," she said, meth just tbe
sl3spicion of a sigh: "I do not see how a •
ssemtan can be a good wife and mother
dud yet attend faithfully to the dutitia
and demands of a pthfessiop. It is tor;
much for the delicate organization of a
woman." • ,
"So you would Advise professional
women not to merry?" asked the' young
scribe, peticil poised over tee pad on
her knee.
"Yee," said DreJamiclreamilY. How
Lan "away, that -girl reporter loolsed and
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through their chattering teeth.
"That is splendid. I. estimate that
"What of ,It1" he repeated, 'with a there is a difference of at least 40 de. -A WOMAN PHYSICIAN t
_et:settler, "ancl--yet—I question--wheth-
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chucele. "If -3'ou overcame the cold, greeS between your temperature and oil.efe er — love— and —marriage—are — not—
you discover the pole, don't you?" that of the weather. Yon will now • Be; Edith SeisiOne Tupper. ' ,; • .
/ btst tot worcun after all."
"And you have found a wily of over. each of You take a lozenge in your a And then .Dr. ,lane -quietly fainted
,
corning the cold. I, seIPPose. It is two mouth and let it slowly diSSIOlVe, Ill ................."....4"...1.4"..64.")...V away.
two minutes your blood ought to be Dr. 'Jane Stuart ran over her morn- The girl reporter rose to tbe occasion.
the same temperature as the weather.! free's mail With a mingled frown and- She rang the bell violently andshelped
the doctor on the Collett,
a
:ornritise‘andlIceolliedisreett
tvioens Olfpelsrr°lu
eo'ple,itivitll
a. the maid lay,
- loosened her gown), put smelling salttions to
dinner, fi• under her nose and shook her. Still
,
terh trom cranks and a message feem a
tvonmil reporter asking ;toy an • inter -
gest laugh, went up when Gas Llouse woodelmelts. Expecting nothing but
asked for a bottle of beer and a toga- ridicule and ara.easan reply,1 wee
rette. It meant the end of his athiceic be
owVel', aa Sti you question 01.tln-0.
asidrations. Suppose that a man going out with a
"Suddenly tl3ere was a gentle sizzliug
sound ineide the Lack. •
" 'Hey, there,' shouted elaffit, some
of teiS darned' truck is afire?. Ouch,
'an office building!' Carl turned red, now, Peterson, whoa up!'
. but sailed in. And then Inc voiee was drowned by
"Well, they made a monkey out of the finest series of explesions you eves
him. Every time the ball was snapped heard. Rockets, firecrackers and mines
they pushed lain down and climbed all went off together. We dropped from
tee roof just as the 1.101'S('S g01
over him, and then the play went on
10 or 20 yards beyond, aud old Carl and jumped into a run and couldn't be
held. You never heard such all uproar
would come lumbering up just in sea -
in your life, and elatiit was thrashing
sou to get the same treatment on the
around in the middle of it and bellow -
next signal.
"But after awhile the coaches began ing like mad.
" 'Jump, Carle screamed Peterson.
to notice that every time Maffit went I
'Opeu the door and jump, you old
down four or five other men went down
fool!'
with him, aud the fellows who happen -
The words were hardly out of his
•ed to be underneath were rather disin-
mouth wisest there was a crash, the
terested the next few scrimmages.
horses galloped faster, and Carl's
'And they observed that Carl, although
massive legs dropped' to the terouncl be
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he was being used as a punching bag
tween the four wheels. Helmet Iwo
-
and everybody was laughing at .him,
ken througb the floor and Was run -
never lost heart but puffed and grinned
ning for clear life. 'fliere was nothing
and went at it as if he was having the
time of his life. else for him to do.
"We -weren't so- worried that we
"Between the halves Jack Perkins, •
In five yea -ought ,to imagine that rob- i
Ins are singing and daisies blooming
around you."
As-elr. Bowser waen't experimenting
oh himself he discreetly retired to the
warni atmosphere of the kitchen and
took his stand at a window. He bad,
scarcely begun :his observations when
e m
'
onof tbe traps rolled over and be-
gan to kick like a horse tangled rip in
bus harness, while the other sprang to
his feet and spat and spluttered and
coughed and crammed his mouth full
of snow. -
"What are yon fellows up to!" sbout.
edBit BOWSer as he rushed out
11 ey gave hitu no heed. Tbey seen)
„ e
enese es.
'see'
etnesei ;en
et/ -tese's-
laugh, for it WaS funny and -
who WAS coaching the center men, took couldn't
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WHAT THIS IDEA CseelE T').
no mistake. It was nearly a qufirter of . temperature of 20 degrees below z-erc,
Carl one side and gave him a few
a mile before the driver could sae- the i raises the temperature of hie body 36
points about keeping his feet Now,
horses down and we could disentangle 1 or 40 degrees."
Carl's feet looked like dry goods boaes
- Carl from the remains of the carriage. "That would offset the cold." replied'
and moved about as easily. He didn't
He WaS a spectacle. We puslied him ere's. Bowser.
know where to planr them, that WaS
up under an electric ligbt in front of a '''Your head Is not filled with sawdust
all. Well, when the two teams lined
saloon and make an invsestigarion, The , after all. 1.'es, it wou.d work that we v.
-up again the varsity had the ball, and
perspiration was -streaming off him, and don't you see my plan? To meet
the first signal was for Brant to go
be was singed and torn and frightemtd, the cold of the north pole we Meatier
through tbe center. The famous half
and his face was White as a sheet. keep on raisieg the temperature. If s
back tucked the ball in the pit of his
" `By Jove,' said Peterson, you look the simplest thing- in the world. and
stomach and dashed forward with his 1
as if you'd been pulled througb a knot yet nobody seems to bare thouebt of it.
familiar cannon shot rush seraight for i
his hole. But the hole was missing. hole!
" 'Never had such a start in my life,'
Mrs. Bowser, consider the north pole
as discovered. Consider it discovered
at was ere . gasped elaMt, but I'm not hurt a bit. by Mr. Bowser." .
ed back, and Gas House fell over on Whew,' He stepped back and bowed before
him. When they got up, Brant looked
`I'll bet you lost ten pounds.' I said. her. and the cat came out from uncler
white. and Connors took bins out of
the practice. Carl was awfully scared "Gas House blinked, rubbed his chin the leen-ge and squinted at both and
atul then stalked solemnly into the sa- wondered weether it was a question of
and began to be afraid he'd hurt some loon There was a weighing inacline in .5.-oteitice or monsetrape:
body else, so he was worse than use I
• the corner. He put a nickel in the slot 'Yea, Din hew ere you goine to raise
with trembling' fingers, stared 'at tee the temperature of the hotly a's hundred
less for the rest of tbe afternoon.
degrees or more?" queried Mrs. Bow-
xt y P g ,
smiling, and they had some more fun figures and then waved both aims over
bis head.
with him. But once in awhile a coach Great mac[
would take pity on him and give him I " '- • a . r
erel, he crie • I ve
made a beginning!'
a Little tip, and Gas House would 1 "Tben he caught a trolley back to
scratch his head and grin his thanks.
town, and`we saw no more of him until
By and by It was remarked that the
'Just as easy as lifting up your foot.
Do you see these lozeng,es? They con-
tain no less than giX different redhot
ingredients. including cayenne pepper.
'Two of' them are warranted eo make
scrub was stiffeaing on center D V
- la- S' "But when we did gee hint be was the blood fairly boil and cause the
temperature around the .pole to seem
like an Atietst day In Anictric I
shall at once consult the goverument
. - •
guardsTise scrub disap- p - • •
playing football again, and Rill Con -
pointed candidates for tbe varsity.
nors was radiant 'He's comingdowne
They knew they bad no cbance to get
tile trainer whispered to me. -He'a
on the team a.nel had been playing list -
coming down Mire. Off six pounds to-
lessly until Mallit came out.
day. We've made a'. beginning. Good
" `Look -a -here,' he said to them bash -
bard training will do most euaytbing if
fully, 'I hate this clang game as much
you 'keep at IV'
as you do, but now we're out here we Well sir care,
. „ weight began to go
miebt as well get to them- They. ain't
e . eft teem the night he smoked that Mee-
se much.' .
rette in filo hack. When he played (ten -
"The husky scrub trio certainly did
ter against Princeton and ran around
`get to 'erni in great shape., After"a, the field like a 2-yeareoldn I told Bill
fortnight Carl, instead of being, a joke,, Connors that be was a fintaexample of
. ,
the value of tobacco in training Ile
didn't understand me. Conners ef- a
good trainer, but there are some tricks
about taking off' vvelgbt tivbich he
doesn't know"—New York Herald.
began to be a serious proposition. The
•
two big gua.rds would boost himaancl
Warr, the little scrub quarter, vvonld
pusb him and pinch him In the legs -to
make him mad, and old Gas House
would snort and lurch through the vet-
eran varsity center like an ex. break-
ing through a snowdrift. He was slow,
but he was almighty sure,
"But this slowness was a fatal fault
as far as getting on the team was con-
cerned. We had been licked the year
before because our line had been over-
weight, and the coaches were determin-
ed that it Shouldn't happen again. Bill
Connors cotddn't take a pound$ofie Carl
to save his life. 'The big fellow would
get on the scales' after every practice
with a confident look, only to be disap-
pointed at seein,g that he hadn't lost at)
ounce, 'If We could only make a be-
ginning!' Bill would say deSperately,
So Mout kept on, hoping against hope
rind training faithfully until a certain
eventful night
"It happened after the fall boat race's.
Our class Crow had won for the firSt
time In its hietery, and a few of us
Started oot to hove a celebration, . Aft-
er aupper we bought a let of fireworks
rind stfirted In under the tnistalten
trn-
pr that ive owned the campne,
lent the pollee wouldn't stand for that
Grenne Spirts; ois Paver.
iSometimes it.hateleps that yeti get a
grease spot on a letter or the page of a
valuable book, and,you are at once fill,
ed with a sense of the hopeleesness of
ever removing the ugly and irritating
blemish, says Herne Chat Here Is a
remedy for the evil that has been tried
with eticeese:
Heat an Iron and hold it as near ae
possible be the stain without discolor-
ing the paper, when the grease or wax
will disappear. Upon any traces that
are left put pewdered calcined magne-
sia for a time. Bone well Calcined and
powdered is an excellent absorbent of
grease; also plaster of purls, For ex-
tracting spots of resinous' nature uee
cologne, turpentine or benzine,
BOWSER EXPLAYN5 HIS IDEA.
Knout sendiug out an expedition. The
gaivernment providea the ship, and
Bowser's lozeuges do the rest."
"But yen) na ven't tried them yeti"
"No, but 1 ant about do so. I
weeder 'it' Mu" cook vvouldn't eat one
and then it on a snow bank in the
nack yard and see how it worked?"
"Of course she wouldn't"
"Well, there are others. I'll find 'a
aouple of trarnpS who'll sit, out: all
eight for a, quarter apiece. 111 run a
pair of them in at ;meta and get the
A Wonder. 4,1periment 1111(1.!,..r Way,°
Gr.adabollt—That Mrs.. Hardhead "You'd—you'd better wait!" Fine fal-
next doer doesn't' seem. to have many tered as he started for the door.
frienele. "Why wait?" he asked. "It'e a cold
Floetess (wearily)—No; I wonder boVf witb StIOW and tratnps at hand
elle manegee it —Stray Stories- for ettperlment. Il' 80 expedition IS te
Dr. Jane lay looking like a white lily
broken by a rude hand.
"I'm going to call a doctor," said the
,
' ., reporter smidenty and thereupon rush -
Dr. .lane was a personage. She was
eel out of the hottse.
physical director of a tremendously
sitiatt wotnan's athletic club. She had Now, as fate Nvould have it, Dr. Jobe
was at that moment alighting frotn, hi
a chair in a W011iallacrossthe way.
.'s college. She pos- s
sessed a large practice. She had writ- "Ara
, carriage
ten several pamphlets on gernsa, bacte
ua, and . other unPleasant shrill VOICe.as a highly excited young
microbes e
-things. Aloreovel, she was a charming w°, I1,1a n grasPed his "rn.
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her circle. "Then yen had better hurry if yoe
1 Y
But she was fri htfull o erworked -
m supposed to he," said Dr. John
woman sociall sought and popular M
quizzically.
wis e say( 1 1 e o a ci ow mac
Sometimes the exquisite machinery of tioner across ,the way," stated the giri.
her nerves got awry, and then Dr. Jane'What!" shoute.d Dr. John in a terri-
wisher] she could. steal away from- ev- '
ble voice.
erything and rest. She was living con- 4Come gum --.- r. Jane ethart. I in
stantly at high pressure and was a typ-
viev- was too much for her." And tbe
Dr. Jaue answered such donnnunica- reniater rushed back seemingly on the
tions as were of moment, accepted an verge oe frenzy.
arraid she's dying. I guess my Inter -
teal woman of the new school.
Invitation to dine at a stnart house, * *
gave the newspaper woman an all-
pointment for 5:30 thatafternoon and She stood by until Dr. John revived
then set forth on her round of morning Jane. She a:1w the blue eyes slowly
callsopen and look up with .an expressima
As she came down the steps of her °L. 'wonder el -hanging to doubt and them
honici she bowed to her fellow practi- to something dee. She saw the big,
tiouer, Dr. .1ohn '1'reaclwell, who lived handsome Dr, John take the little,
biaa murmur, "'My darling'!"
fragile Dr. Jane in Ins arms and beard
just across the street and was about
entering his carriage.
Dr. John uncovered and swept her a Then she cleared out.
magnificent salutation. i eel the hall, being a highly emotional
Dr. Jane blushed. • • 1 young person, she seized the. maid by
She. would have been fitrions with the bands and proceeded to do a dance
any one who dared to tell tier that her of itston ish Mg steps.
face grew rosy. She would not 'havet .Looksss l'h° n wethilng--tra-la-la!"
admitted so feminine a weakness. Still she. sang. "Should a professional wo.
she blushed. , , Wan marry? -`Pra-la-ta: .Give up hei
Now, the cause of that blush was career? Tra-la-la! Leve and 'marriage
rK1 -to be acrobats let loose, and tbey this: Dr. John was in love with Dr. best for a 11'0Mall after all—tra-lalal.
%vent through more a_ntics than as if Jane and had frankly told her so and The door into the doctor's office
they had picked up a dozen hot horse- asked her to marry him. But the offer opened, and Dr, Jane., still weak e ad.
Ives. It •was five minutes before el- had been accompanied by a condition.. whl-t°' tottered out.
slier of theuecould speak, aad then one Dr. Jane must abandon tier practice. "Don't quote . me," she said appeal- .
mgly - •
rooted Pis mouth with an icicle hang- "1 do not want my wife running about
iug to the clothesline and stuttered: and killing herself •with work, as you
"B -b -boss, what s -s -sort of a g -g -game are doing. Moreover, I want a com-
Is this'?" , panion, not a fellow practitioner."
"Yes, what Sort of a g -g -game?" add- ,Now, Dr. Jane was in love with Dr.
ed the otber as a snowball melted in John, but she refused, to abandon her '
Lis mouth. ' career and told him so. e
"It's no game at all. It's an expert- They had a fine quarrel, and Dr. Jane
meat,' as 1 told you. What hava you,
done.with those lozenges?"
"Ses-seit 'em out durn ye!"
"yes: I) spit 'ern out!"
But you mustn't dolt. These are to
raise the temperature of your bload.un-
tit it affects the temperature of the at-
mosphere. If' you'd kept sucking the
told Dr. John she hated him, which
was not polite. • Moreover, it was not
true, and be knew it
Just now these two .inedical 'experts
. were treating each other with that ex-
aggerated courtesy welch' warring lov-
ers always affect.
"Horrid man!" said Dr. Jane to her-
inzetiges, you'd have been perspiring, by self. "He can keep a carriage, while 1
this time. Sit down and try it again." have to trudge around 'on foist. 'How
"Bile", said the 61'st as lie continuer] handsome he looks! I should like to
ki—to kill him—odious -wretch!
"Dear, Spunky little woman," thought
Dr. John. "She. looks completely fag-
ged. She 1e killing, herself by Inches,
but she won't give In, obstinate minx!
Oh. these women and their careers!"
. Dr. John drove away in his brand
new carriage, his dusky coachman
grinning at his side. Dr. .lane walked'
a block and hailed a passing car.
She rang the bell of a liaticisome up
towu Louse fired was promptly shown
up stairs. The room she entered was
darkened. On a luxurious Alvan, amid
a forest of silken pillows. lay a slim
woman in a 'ravishilig negligee. She
had once been a great beauty, but her
fnce, with its haggard, 'expression,
dreven Hiles and faded, lackluster eyes,
told a story of misery.
"Oh, ,cloctor!" she moaned as Dr.
Jane went to her side and gently took
her hand, -"Oh, I am ,suffering soj Ob,
won't you, give ,me just ,a
half a grain, I beg you, only half a
grain?"
The pootacreature's v,o1Ce rose almost
to a shriek. "My husband is so cruel!"
she sobbed. "The sctrvants are all in
his pay. 1 can't get any sleep. Oh, I
am almost crazy!"
She wept, she wrting her diamond
_
laden hands. she grew more and More
hysterical, `
When an hour later Dr. ,Ianc" emerg-
ed from the.bouse, she showed in her
vvhite face the tretnendous strain she
had midergone In controlling and con-
soling this wretched victim of mor-
pliMe.
Dr....Iane had a busy afternoou and
some trying caseS. It had been a ter-
tific strain, and she looked whiterthan.
evP1 as, she re-entered her ilOITT,
she sat down at her desk to cot-yet/tithe
pi olifs of her article. on -.Meath In 'the
1'11M:cloth" her head swain,
"Inn 16)MM:etl out" she said. "I be-
lieve i'0 go AMU for a few days."
The hell rang, and a 8martly gosaned
young ismalan wait ehown et, It Waa
to eat snow and draw in- long -breath's
or the frosty airdoes it look like al
rold blooded attempt to learn up the vi
.ta Is of two respectable gents'?"
"It do, Sara ;-it do."
"Aud by burnin up our vitals tette
ewny our appetites?"
"That's tee game
•"11. W, a S playing any game, would
t promise you a quarter apiece?" aested
elle Bowser.
"It's illst solemn opinyup that ye
"That's our solemn opinynn."
, Mr. Bowser was about to protest and
Merease his cash offers when the two,.
gentlemen with burned vitals fell upon
ein.s., The three went down together,
,and Mrs., Bowser, looking from a •back
and tbe cook and cat, looking
from a beets door,could see nothing
for the net two minutes for the cloud '
of snow in the air. Thep the two
tramps deM,clieclthemselves from the
eirepe and climbed the yard fence, and
the household went out to look, for eel.;
Bowser., There were thousands of
traces of him at hand, but it took three
minutes to discover his actual 'presence
and, dig it out. from under the snow.
He bad beer, sulitittiell and. I:jetted and
choked, but life had .not departed, He
goon rallied and at up, and 'after being
itelped fa his feet he made his woozy
wey to the ItItchen and thence up
stairs. He dld not ask what had hap-
pened, and Mrs. Bowser ,gave him a
rest of 15 minutes on the lounge before
she said: '
"I suppose the government ought to
Pc notified at onceand if on depit
feel well I can do It Myself."
1 Itef 11 y
An y g art o owed b a g,ritt,ag
of his teeth, and- it was ten Inn -lutes
before she observed:
"I've told the cook to tmat some
witch lifteel.to wash orf the blood. Do
you,Wish 12 i, 1e111 e1 1itai.e.?"
But Mr. Itowseir liart grown weary of
north pole and fallen asleep.
itt Qu).
. „
No I won't" respond the frisk
young person. And let me say Heti
now that you are the most sensible pro.
feesional woman I've struck. For
whae is a career corneared to the love
oe sech a superb fellow as that? Doe.
tor, I congratulateyou."
And then Mr. Jane blushed again.
Americanizing Met Lle0,,,
A. City ef Mexico con.e.sponclent ot
the Boston Herald writes: "It is odd to
encounter brisk. birsinesslike, energetic
young Alexlcana talking Amzirican col-,
lege etang. They do thee and they
know our social customs and like thetn.-
TheY all speak with pleasure of the 1lb-
erty of the American girt and would
like to change some customs here.
Time is a sure modifier, ,1111(1 already
me finds many Moro -Spanish customt
dropping into desnetude. -
"Young women in this Capital g‘
about alone to a much greater extent
than was tbe case a few years ago.
There is a 'Peeceptible fetninine revolt
against tbe old restrictions. Many
youngwomen are employed in shops
1111d public offices. This Is a novelty in
a Latin-American country.' I met a
wakdng
down gthewetroet,andheta:i inc sIte
omantheothser'dd
was studying typewriting :tad short-
thollnedarandinagPt.efidertoowSn"1.111visintig.witli-Ilear ivniee.17-
tier was a elle blending of the Latin
grace and the A.merican Independ-
ence.'
. Have No Sense of Voice.
". The -African native has no real sense
of the value of money _and if he Is in., eee.e.--t
the mood for NVOI'lii Will toil as readily,
for £3 rig 3 shillings, but if be tins once
been paid a cei.tain spin for 'labor he
will never work f(tr less. but will soon-
, • , .
er starve. and a very 12111051115insience -
Is given of it.ria.tIve who woeld not eoll •
somafolvls. for 18 pence eaet because'
Pc ..1)ael heard tliat a friend had been
paid 2‘tsbillIngs. fie a-allted 180 miles
te try :and "get tile higher price, and,
still being ;)nly, ofTere(1 1,8 pence. tramp-
ed home again with 'the birds,—LOticlon
Graphic.
, .
inenroved tlie t'ili bortnnitY. .
The Emprees .lialisen - had Ione en.
treated Napoleon 111 :0 confer upon
.1tosa Bontieut- tlie cross of the leogion
ef'l-Iconit Ile had reftiSed beeatise 1Ie
dirt not ‘vish to found a ire,cedent tor
t)estowg it tu)ori a weinart, Beillg
. ,
eallet1 across lite lh)rderintir Sf)aitn.Na-
peleolt maile Finge.nie 'regent in Iiis ab-
semee, tirel ;snot. anti, 10 1112 wit, took
AtIrantage Of lifir ,atithorit,y 49
11
the innior upon the great FIrtigt, Napo-
,
leen laughed on heating ,hiS Nt'iftl'11 C011-
Cefision, but the net stood. .
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