The Clinton News Record, 1912-05-09, Page 39tk, (912
IKISH HAMLET
jBWxixIuUp-
ShakesPeare and Sleigbt'ef'
hand Tricks and Conde
The fololwiivg is. a literal, popy of a
scin;iolls "PlaYabill, issued in the .Year
, 11.793 by the manager, of the 'Theatre
a:IR0Yar, Kilkenny:
t "KakennY 'Theatre •Royal, by
!Majesty's company of comedians: On
,I,Saturday, May 14, 1793, wi11 ,be per-.
:Termed by emarnaad of eeveral re-'
speotable persons in this learned me-
itropolM, for, the :benefit of Mr. Kearns,
the tragedy .of 'Hamlet!' originally
•,written and composed by the oele-
itrated Den Heys, of ,Limereek, and
ainsartea I1 Shakeapeare!s works.
ialanalet by Mr. Kearns (being hie
„ leiret appearance im that cheracter),
who between -the acM, will perform
v s b
,se erail soh) on the .paterat ae,pipe.s,
'which •play, two tunes r.tt the, same
. 'dame. (aphelia by Mrs. Prior, who will
'introduce several favourite • airs in
• ;character, particulaely :The Lass of
,.Richmond Hill' and 'We'll all be Un-
0haP4,Y Together,' from the Rev. Mr.
184.bden's aOddities,' The parts of the
• King and Queen, by the direction of
e Reverend Father:O'Callaghan, will
be omitted, as too immoral for any
Polonius, the comical petit -
eaian, by a young gentleman, being his
nt appearance in public. The Ghost,
Gravedigger, mid Laertes, by Mr.
'Simpson, the great London ,comedian.
:late characters to be dressed in
Mom.= shapes. To which will be
'added an interlude, in which will be
•.initrotluced several sleight-of-hand
ierieks, by the celebrated earveyor,
'lieut. The whole to conclude with
:the farce of `Mahe -met the Impostor!'
;Maihomet by Mr. feetirns. 'Rickets to
;be had of arr. Kearns, at the sign of
•!the Goat's Beard; in Castle Street.
The melee of the tiekets, as usual,
will be taken (if required) in candles,
.1tacon, butter, •cheese, soap, etc., as
Kearns wishes, ih :every parti-
cular to accommodate the public. No
'Person shall be admitted into the
'boxes without shoes or stockings."
THE PANAMA CANAL
'Net Modern In Its Conception —
First Projected As Par Back As ,
11/111 and at Various Times
Since that Date.
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ec-ord
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Copyright by-Tuellehiers'.-Preas Ltd. •
"KI Delgedoe eo, 'ha. had ,
'il4ettedethleed — 'teka' a tiger, a small
Carepeche tiger, . • of ' tioeth-easteen
lgaxlae. the lumber' and ehloil,
lean:Me, the robber and entre ,
tions, ana' little villitges thet were
sprliikl0d throtigh(ilit: the' wide, veal
expanse. of juugle, he vita 'known aad
hatia, and feared; this eniirtal • that
•seemed. eepernathral, so.great was his.
•.peoweese-e l'he 'Terrible One
Never liefore' had the diatriet been
.vieited. by a. tiger whose -methods, were',
so ,peoulter, 00 ificaPlicable, 50 phe-
nomenal, for 'always was bis' prey
'• the sante .— e steer, a bull, .a coW—
never' anything emallet, never, the
favourite flesh of . his kincl, a youag
e041. One day lie 'would,' kill at a
teirtain place, and the. nextday he
would be heard from some forty or
fifty inilee distant. • '
14eYwoed swore that he woold nava ,
that beast --- alive, and got buay,
']'hen • hewent to work; at the
watering' holes, the tiger's ownlittle
intricate paths, around the cettle cor-
rals, he set steel traps, 'cunningly
placed and hidden by ltis niaater hand.
But all 10 no tOall.'
The Panama Canal, although it. is
.orie of the most g,igantle enterprises
of modern times Is by no means
modern in conceptions. It was
'projected as far hack .as 1550, and
under various auspites and at various
itinies since. I do mot refer to the
narbicular route of the'present cenal,
but to the scheme of making a water-
way acrosa theisthmus, between
• North and South. America. The desire
to find a. short route to India and to
the "far Cethay' was father to the
thought,that then existed, That
thought as hi the mind of the An-
tdenM, and is almost prehistorie in
ITS origin. It wits the guiding stair of
Coluenbus in his several voyages and
,keiseeleaweeheund world was merely in -
(Mental to a ceiscoreey to which it
barred the way for the time being
.and it was the guiding star of many
a navigator since hie. day, In Its
guests the Panama Canal in many
respe,ots resembles the Suez Canal,
The two were twins' In the Saint
Sinionian theory of unifying mid de-
veloping the world and they are to-
day strangely related In the broad
scheme of universal commerce.
Suez Lett Way
'The success 'of the Suez waterway
gave the first real stimulus to a
Panama Canal project, which, as I
have already stated at various times
and la h variety of ways, had been
under ceneideratioa by various per-
sons and governments from. 1550
down. In 1878, Lieut.\ Wyse of the
Frenck artily got 11 concession from
the -Colombian government, under
which, in a modified form, the canal
Is being built at the present time and
it was held by him until 1888. De
Lesseps, whose, first success had
given him great prestige undertook
ite construction and prolected it as
a sea level canal, 48 miles long, aeia,
feet deep and 75 feet wide and esti-
mated by him in 1880 to cost 658,000,-
000 frame. The concession Included
it monopoly of the Panama railway.
The first. flotation wee a failnre, but
the second was a huge success.
French small savings pouring into In
streams. In 1887, the management
had reached a degree of corruption
unknown in the history of the world,
unlees tt be the climax •rea,ched by
Law's schemes in France a century
or so before. Machinery to the value
01 150,000,000 fcs bad been brought to
the scene of operations and sheres
to the extent of 1,276,682,867 francs
• had been sold: 70,000,000 cubic yards
of excevation..had been made and
• stock of the Pantima Railway Com-
• p:thy to the extent of over 98,000,000
frames had been paid for. In 1889
the 'eompahy became bankrttpt.
TOLSTO.Y. RL'INCARNATED ,
A Tolstoy land comes front Spassk,
in the, pnovieice Kazah. Spassk is
dletrict peopled ;mealy by Greek Or-
• thodox Ruseians and partly by Moslem
Tatars, The Orthotloa are visually in
an ecstatic mbod, and are given to
forming sects. They founded a Tol- ;spoke as 11,10 a human 0005"Bach,
• stoyan sect, with much the samac, boy, I tell yu there's traps there,
tepets as those at thc Tolstoyarts
the Caucasus, The local pe.asant corn- The tiger moved his oyes and gazed
By and bye he located the nnimal's
lair, a smelt 11610 in the bee° .of a
rocky cliff with a couple ot fuzzy
little (rubs around in front.
Trap alter trap of many kinds were
fixed In vain end at length Heywood
packed a nionth's food and eatabliabed
himself in a bollow giant mahogany
close by the water hole. Early
morning of the sixth day his (tees,
caught a huge black -gray boar wad-
dling slowly, majestically along, and
Heywood knew that a jungle tragedy'
was at hand; And he saw some-
thing he never could torgee
From .an intricate tangle of dense
vine work a -form shot out — a long,
thin,serpentIne, tawny form — front
paws outstretched, tail rigidly poised,
and the cruel, sardonic mouth open.
For twenty feet it passed through the
air like a well -hurled dart, and the*.
the tiger landed on the enerny7s hack.
As the tiger struck the boar, the
bristles that ran along (bit back -bone
under the. short, woolly hair, rose 1.1 trembled no more thee she. Bat she
a formidable mane; the thick. lips gave her consent graciously enough
curled up and showed all of the two and began to thrust busy fingers in -
long. dangerous tusks and sharpened to the intricacies of a"second trous-
teeth. It roared angrily, heaved Itself seau.
UO on Its short massive hind lege. Daily she waited for the nnnounce-
and with all its force flung Itself rnent of the future place 01 residence.
backward. AL the same instant, the That it would he far away she did
not doubt—in the home town of the
tiger withdrew his two hiud claws
ia:om his opponent's haunches; took a bridegroom to be. There seetned a
firmer grip with his fore claws; sank fatality ebout It. Other girls mar -
his punishing teeth and Jaws into the tied and lived near home; other boys
back of the boar's neck, and with* dia tite same. But her boys had
marvellous rapidity, 'coupled *with all taken their wires' homes for their
his strength, he whirled his body own; her girl haAl followed in the
' beaten path her husband had trod
around in a circle.
Again the boar rose up; tin' tiger before her,
crouched, the grey beast Jumped for- "Gertrude'll do the same," she
ward, hoping to crush the other be- thought. "I wish she could have
and !ancled someone who lived near
neath his hoofs, but the black
yellow bunch of steely muscles sprang Then I eould have been 'content to
to meet him, and they atrack with 'give her up. Now she'll go away
,terrible Impetus. There was the like the others, and I'll seldom see
ignashlog of teeth on teetb, a fire- her—perbaps never. I'm getting old.
But there's no one to care. Childrea
work display of swinging feet. each
rtre different from what they used to
'one trying to rip the other open.
Following on some severe and be. There used to be home., gather -
bloody 'tackling on both sides, in ings in my day. They'd come home
course of which the tiger had his from the ends of the earth. But the
throat silt, the big boar beeanue an- boys have never coine—not even foe
tagonised and goaded to such a state Thanksgiving. I've nerer seen my
that he was rendered alinost crazy. our grandchildren. doubt if they've
His foaming, lips screwed up in a ever heard my name. I suppose I'm
snarl; hie blazing eyes almost cloeed, selfish, but—"
TIM OLD 110NE. .
(By ,Teffery
(taanyright..b;.Publiettere'' Press,lad)
• eles.,..Clutthana had Tea ,e. elle trees
Arerhing'at 'it with. painstaking,
"'ere heleistitOthlgr' 'erneroleeringe
With 'weary' hands evotking often
tehep 'tier levet!' eyes rebelled; .:She"
had sewed' hope and 'fhar, ,love and
faith in every stitch.. ehe Set. , The
finished.. troneepau :had. been .a ,thing
ot' beauty. .Nowa she thoUght
10 her-
Selt alga, 'it 'looked as .11: erte'
ether one' would have 'tar he begue
•Fereene.:01 IceontPlIShment and Pet•s
of Royalty Who Were Not Only• '
Stull Bu Brave ElMigh to •,1
• Hold ,Thelr
'One of' the most, Celebrated 'dwells
of past times„was jeffery Hudson,
who ,was born Oahman, Ratawd-,,
Shire, England, in 1619.,','At 8 ,Years'
et "agee.when the' lduke' of Bucking-,
• ham' took hiineunder his protection,
he was only eighteen inches high;
befere summer. There was no mise 'Which he did not exceed until he,,
taking the meaning of two, three, reached the agel'of 39, when he elmaug
sometimes four, Visits 'a .weelt, Tbere lep be 3 feet' 9 inches, which he never,.
vould be no oblectlim and Gertrude' .exeeeded. Soon attet the marriage
Was One and ':twenty,' ef Charles I lie was presented to the
• "Quite old, enough,", tee mother queen, bY whom he was kept for thel
.mused, "I had been, married three amusement red the wart' once being'
years,. when 1 was' her age. But -1 • served up as a venison Pie. ' When
while she (NMI Want 'to leave me the pie was opened out steped Jeffery ;
se soom I've lost all my boys. No -y, in all the dignity of his eighteen
the girls are going, 'Pretty soon-, Inches', 'arid 'made a courtly obeisance
there'll be no one lett lbut baby., to the astonlehed,end delighted queen ,
Thank beaven, no one can. take her, who In response to the little mates
Ear years." . '• , • appeal to be taken into her service,
promptly granted the ,request.
-Yet it was far from a, cloudless,
In a deal that he fought, hie antag-
time to her, One by one her three,
boys had marrleare settling so far, °nit at feast took the affair as a
away that visiting wee out of the gicrobunsdo
ajorim'eedanodnlya"wrietheaTeda sot:lair tilewh
auestion. Then 'had come the wreneh
eneriged the little, man that a real
of parting with her oldest girl. She'
encouirter with pistols was arranged,
felt it to be hard, even while she ac-
tesulting In the David killing the
knowledged it to be natural, Noey
there came to her a premonition of Goliath. Hudson died at the age of
63 While irx prison for his alleged
the desolaticm *Web would descend
on the ola houee when C•ertrude was connection evith the popish plot.
gone. The poor old house. Onee
' A Polish Dwarf
the ,capecity of. its rambling settee Another' noteble dwarf was Joseph
had been sorely taxed. Soon it would Borulwaskl, the Pole, of whose debut
be all too large. She knew how Ione- an interesting tale is told. As a boy.
lk it would be when only baby and of 15, when he was just one inch
herself were left, and baby, aWay higher than a two foot rule, Borul-
school most of the time., She did waski was presented to the Empress
not look ahead to the .time when Mania Theresa, who was so charmed
Baby, a baby no lemur, -would leave by hie good looks and grace that she
the old home, tem If the thought seated him on her lap and gave him a
ever occurred to her it Was banished ee, h arty kiss. To the queen's question
by the comforting one, "Maybe as to what he considered the most in -
die before then." terasting sight in , Vienna, the dwarf
As well prepared as she had been, replied: "What I now behold, so little
as carefully as she had schooled her- a man on the lap of so great a ladY.",
self, when the expected happened it This speed' rendered the little fellow
eatne as a blow. The boyish lover a great favorite.
He 'became a special favoiete of
Stanielaus II, Who took him to Eng-,
land and introduced him to George:
III, and for more them halt a century
Borulwaski made his home at the
English court.
This dwarf, who at Ills tallest was
a yard and three inches, had a sister
'whose head just 'reached ,her big
brother's shoulders. Borulwaski was
not only a bandeome and courtly man
but a scholar of repute. He lived in
five reigns and was laid to rest in
Dunham in 1837, side by side with
the Falstaffian Stephen Kemble.
Phlletas
Among other dwarfs of interest was
Philetas, who acted as tutor to Ptol-
emy Philadelphus, and who was said
to be so light as well as short that he
cerrled weights in his pocket to pre-
vent being blown away. Then there
were Coropas, and Andromede, two
tine' handmaidens of Sulia,niece of Au-
gustus, each of whom was but 28
inches hig,h. Rechebourg, Who died in
Parts in 1858, was just one inch under
two feet. Chevalier Desseasan, who
flouriehed at the commencement of
the reign of George liI, was known
as the "vain dwarf" and attraeted to
himself to little attention. Alboni,
the first king of the Lombards had a
dv,etrf as prime minister, to wit,
Berthold, vetto has been described as
the wittiest and the ugliest of dimi-
nutive humanity. George Rornonde,
nicknamed the "eccentric mimic," had
the Jewish race boldly inscribed on.
his face and in stature never exceed-,
ed 3 feet 6 inebes. ;
and Ince some Imee, awkward onon- Tears fell fast on the dainty work
.
ster, he bounded wildly forwavd, .ehe held. They often fell as the
grunting and bellowing his rage. But days went on—abet-set always whert
as he came on the elusive tiger side the sewed alone. She choked them
etepped, and hist as the boar struck heck when Gertrede worked beside
the ground, lie sprang .atul Lwitted her. Ana Geri rude never gueseed
Isis Ihnbs about the hairy body. The that the eyes bent down aci persist -
boar toppled over and for a moment ently, even when she talked, were
lay kicking on his back. too dim Lo bear inspection,
The Terrible One had been waiting One night . her sweetheart ilearly
for this moment, Every muscle in blundered out the secret. if secret It
his body seemed tingling and twitch- were. Ile had been talking of his
ing; his cruel, long mouth Wan open home, of his father's , wound mar -
wide, and his eyes glinted' red and riage.
green. Like a fearfully powerful eI never could get ou with my
piston -roe his serpentine teem shot stepmother," he said, "tholigh site's
forth. He struck- the boar squarely a good womau in a way. I wouldn't
and pinned him down to earth. Deep live near her for anything. She'd
—deep lie buried his teeth in the gory find a black speck in a bank of snow.
threat and swayed his body from elde I'm glad we're going to live--"
to aide. And theu sounded a muffled
And shortly afterward the mother
ehrie.k of satisfied longing; 'once. more
excused herself and left them
the tiger threw his body free Erom hnd
to talk evitlicitit restraint. She went
his opponent, and another life had .
up to her room and lay quietly on
gone out. the bed. 'Tam room ;teemed very
Heywood in Ills bollow tree trunk, peaceful ahd etill. Prom down:0litre
Telexed his tenseecieeped fingers and came the jarriug notes from Baby's
Tirmly compressed lips, It was the practising Nagel's. Rut they fell
greatest, bravest eattle he had ever 'like bairn on the mother's Wart. She
still had Baby --her own fen' years
And now, with eyes of respectful and years, Sbe hugged the thought
homage. he watched the tiger, stand-
ing silent, trill:nailing,. a bit with weak- to her heart.. Presently there came
•a soft Mead the door, She did aot
hess from his loss of blood, red fluid tpeak, but it openea entitimisly.
ertpaltig frora hie mouth and sides,
"Are yo11 asleep, mother?" said
.and the gasbes on his neek and belly:
(teetrude's voice.
Heywood waw iiiin wale painfully
and seftiv forward in the direction of Site waited a moment, inteneing te,
the watering hole ea he trap sur- feign, sleep. ehe had never failed in
.,41/4,
rounded water, For ea.. 'rection of a nil her life, even ween they were
becond the maw dellWera. ed, then his tiny. troablesome thinge, to answer
heart floW to lila throat 'and be when elleY called. Even ' in her
dreams she had lienrd their volees:
stepped forth, hie mind made lap.
"Back," he yelled, pointing hie arra at she bad never been too tired or
the tiger, "I don't want yu now -- sleepy to resnourle She would not
ho -- yu can live. Ytere the grandest begin now. "No," she' answered, "no,
thiog I ever seen,. Back!" . Gerteude." ,
The Wealtenedebattered tiger moved 'Gertrude sat down on the lied be -
not an ince. He raieecl his stooping side her. 'Alfred made me come
head and stared haughtily, scornfully, hp," ehe said, "Be Wouldn't wale
at the num.' , though it just spoils everything. But,
Heywood's heart went out. At that • mother, he hail an idea you were
moment he loved hlm as be would hurt. Isn't it ridiculous, and Just
bave loved a brother -of whom he was like a man? But, enyway,' he insist-
vaetly proud. lie walked fortvard and ed that I should tell you where we're
going to
tomloitvheL.'e haste' voice Inter-
rupted. "You rn1u‘s,iill'it; bioutlarorcIe your want to know.
e°'n'Yfiodtrrea°1;e"tet," Gertrude observed,
complacently. "Not a bit. It's Al-
fred, and' be vows you.shall know. It
spoils the nicest 'surprise. Alfred is
. going to „go info buelness--guese
where And We're going to live—
guesa She plarsecl".' The mother. did not
zpetsk
"Here, here, here. Right in the
eld Meese with you. 1 -thought you'd
be kind ot lonely_ T thought yoe'd
miesary began the usual peree6ution.
The soot retorted hy predieting that
Tolstoy reptile a.rrive to save them en
April, 1913. The leader:3 were 'im-
prisoned for 'inducing others to leave
the Christian religion,' altho they hal
enecificatly adhe.red to Cbriatianity, back to yu're mate ran' eoung and let
Tbe other pommies were so incensed 'era fix yu up, Yu'r,e game -- the.
with this that they actuably did ab- gamest .thing I ever :teen, en' by
jure Christianity. l'hey, became Me- ,God,. I ain't agoire to hunt. yu."
hammedans, sold their land, and join- • Once again the ,proud, feerlees head
ed Tartar village in vicinity-, wee raised with kingly grace, the
They actually grafted. Toistoyism on. hrazen„ cunning eyes seemed to pieetie
to Mohammedanism; and the Tartare, the man through, and slowly, ,grace- •
auvre tolerant than Mee leussien stat, fully, arrogantlY; VI Delgado Tereible
nee -opted. the innoiation, azd wele• --the ' Master killer of the bosh --t
canted the apostates kaith joa." strode off through the thick, Mack
'stonily at the spring, ale seemed to
understand. Heywoed spreng to with-
in five feet of the animal. Ile stretch-
ed hi $ arra at the brazen faee end
broke out excitedly, "I tell yu, • boy,
there's traps there .• Get back get
OLD NIOK'Dr,cotrwriNG
Le..-,Throgmortela ,
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•' 51 eiets the fair time, and Je$5
Batlerton wee. for the fair. 'I'M going
to get a sweetheart,' She says, 'I
caret do wiintin' a sweetheart no
More., ,tired o' Ofe, I be,' she
says, ewantin' a sweetheart.' .
'e'lierlte ears her mother, 'you
don't get aesweetheart jug with say-
ing that, When the right man Comes,
,"But Jess Was short-tempered then. ,
'I tell 'e I'm going to get husband
saetift,heoayfasirle—ss. It's Old Nick hlutao
Jess went to the fair, but no one
requested her cempany to see apples
or cheese, or fat lady or thin gentle,
man, or any of the lucrative abor-
tions, And to go and look at a
double -headed boy all alone is hardly
what 'one could call amusing,
So Jess left the 'flare of naphtha
• lamps behind and started homeward,
but when a youth appeared from a
side road and asked her it he might
keep her company on the WitY she
did not fling herself ,at hem She
dreev erect and said:
"I don't know. you, Where do you
come from? I don't ramd your face.
Where do yea live?"
"I come," said he, "Nem Walking
up and down in the earth."
At the gate: Can I see you some
other night?" asked the youth.
Jess looked in his face freely — the
face that she had been seeing so
much in pale profile -- and something
prompted her then to say "No," So
she said "Yes" with a sigh in her,
ivloeaicret. and a sickening leap at her
"And did you meet your boy at the
fair?" the mother asked. "I'm glad
you didn't come back with Old Nick
as you spoke of," said the mother,
laughing to cover any sign. Of anxiety
and watchfulness.
:fest Babbicombe had got a lover;
she went out walking with him once
a eveek to begin with. Later she
went twice a week, for het boy waited
for her after evening church, as well
as once in mid -week, and they strayed
through the lanes, and sat on the
baafir,i..almrtisdh.t,yi,adarele'ehe whisper of leaves in
the trees. -
often enough met friends when
But curiously, though Jess had
"walking out" with her boy, no one
ever mentioned him to her, 'and that
was a strange circumstance, for in
our part of the world it is usual to
say pleasant things to lovers, and
comments, and crave them when they
the lovers, indeed, rather like such
are not offered.
warmth. They kissed and clung a
tnoment, and then turned to walk;
but she caught him about the neck,
and, said she: "Oh, I love you napre
every time I see you. But I grow
Jess noticed this lack at length.
Jess's boy met her with great
you afraid?"
"Tell me,' said, "tell me—are
you time to me—in the name of
heaven?" she added with intensity. '
"Don't say that!" he cried.
"Why not?" she said. "Why ctoet
eou answer me? Why should you fear
the name of—" Butle writhed from
Iter. 0
"I am true to you," he said, a,nd
then be composed 'himself and, said
he, in a hard voice: "I swear it!"
And lee kissed her on the cheek
But it chanced that the vicar had
beea passing as Jess spoke to her
lover so, and he went on his way
with a heavy heart, and next day be
made a point of calling at the Debbi-
corabes' farm, managing to see Jess
alone at her work, He spoke to her
like a father—for she had no father
—and asked her aboUt the young
man.
And the vicar was so kied that she
told him all. And be questioned more
and found out how she had said that
she woeld get a sweetheart were it
Old Nick himself at the fair. So the
vicar stood thinking some time, -na
then forma a scheme and laid it
before Jess very eolernnly. And ns
they schemed, so they acted.
Next time The boy" came up the
lane, Jess welcomed him and took him
indoers and gnve him the pleasure,
dear to the male heart when it it lit
love, of seeing his sweetheart laying
table for tea, poking up the fire, pre-
paring the kettle.
Then there came a knock. on the
door and the vicar entered.
"Young man," said the' vicar, "I
am glad I happe.n to meet you here
to -night, for I have seen you with
my young friend ;fess, and wished to
meet yon."
The young man frowned.
"I am no enemy to Youth'v leve,"
said the vicar, "and I am glad to se,e
you here as a friend."
"Thank you, sir," said "the boy."
"Jess has just been and promised me
her hand, mid it's like we'll :.e neat -
Ing your kind services soon."
"I shall be pleased to unite etny
happy pair in holy wedlock." said the
Vicar, "and," he added, staring hard,
"to blest. you in the name of the
Father and of—"
"The boy" blanched and squirmed
In his chair as with a seizure.
And the eesolute vicar concluded
NOT THE usum, eraLtx
Outside it was a dark and stormy.
oight. The wind blew — as it always
does on snob occasions -- in fitful
gusts. Suddenly a stranger appeared
at the door. He pressed the button
fearlessly. He wes tail and hand-
some, but his face — as usual — was
weather-beaten.
The door opened, and the maid
thrust her head out.
ONLY A. *VAGABOND
Dy Jean 'Signed,
'Copyright' by Publiettors' Press Ltd,.
The court-erier rose, with; seeming
eegret in his ,cletneanoutv and cialle4
'a miid One of voice "Antoine Sean,
'dome 'forward!"
At that name S, hig felloW, wrapped
from, heed to feet in spite of the
hot .weather — in a trailing cloak of ,
indefilmble colour,' a garment which,
must have been worn' for many a
year, pulled himself together and.
,,your limner said Lilo presiding
Judge, a wea,rY voice, '
. '
•
"Antoine Jean."
"Your profession?"
"Independent gentleman,"
Well now, Antoine Jean, have you
anyttiing to say in your own behalf?"
' "Nothing .whatever to you, ae a
Judge; but to thee, my -old chum,
Boucahrd, I'll tell everything."
Thoee few words .uttered, by the
vagabond. suddenly brought back a
new life to the whole court -room.
The two aeeociate judges sat bolt up-
right with indignant flaishes in their
eyes yet heavy' from sleep.
"Boucherd, Bouchard, don't you re-
member my nickname, Rabelais?"
"Two montbs' imprisonment,"
The jailor was smoking his pipe,
OS he enjoyed the eresh air in front
of the prison door.
"Who are you?"
"Is this the Spriggs's house?"
"Well, I am Mrs. Spriaaes's long-.
lost son. I have been away from
home for twenty years; during tide
time have circled the globe. Break
the news gently to mother, please."
"Mrs. Spriggs Is not .in,"
"Where is ehe?"
"Attending a inothers' awn sewing
meeting, She won't be borne for two
or three hours,"
"But perchance my father----"
"Ile is upstairs repairing hie clothes
end has 1,cft ordere not to be dis-
turbed, even lf you came."
"Even if I mime? Why, tbey dirdn't
know I was coming."
"Tbey have been prepared for it in..
cas.e you did."
"My sister Ellen?"
-sbe i.s rolling cigarettes for a
bridge -party, and won't be finished
for an hour. After that she dictates
to her secretaty,'
'Wty 'btotlier William — Where is the blessing lp the orthodox chureh
her' way, Which ILO evil spirit can 'with -
"Of to the counarY for a holiday." •staud. . .
"Ilifay I come at and warm my- And on• that "the boy" gave a Cry
"Perrin," said M. lionchard, "1
wish to examine this man at my own
house. Pleage bring him yourself at
five o'clock."
Perrin bowed, somewhat, surprised
at this complete derogation from ail
the ordinary visages of the prison.
At five °Wm& the jailor brought
the prisoner as desired.
"So you recognised me at last!"
said the prisoner in itle' gentle Vele%
and without lowering his eYdii before
the sorrowful gaze of theaudge, who
brought il. chair and made. the vaga-
bond alt close beside him, while he
tried to reaa in that mysterious face
the secret of so cotnplete a downfall,
and tried to find underneath that
%watched mask the eeatures of his old
friend. "Yes; iCe I myself, sure
enough!" the vagabond answered.
"And to think," exclaimed M. Bou-
chard, "that I was obliged to ser.-
• teuce you — you, my poor Chribert,
whoMI always 'knew as such a good
fellow, so gentle, so sensitive -- all,
too much so, no doubt," the Judge
added, with a penetrating look. "What
a continual, cruel irony is life! Bou-
chard judging Chabert! R.abelais! Alt,
my poor .fellow." .
The magistrate, looking searching-
ly into Chabert's eyes, asked him sad-
ly, and in a very low tone: --"Was it
a woman?"
"To be sure!" exclaimed the vaga-
bond. "When a man falls as I have
done, ,it is because he has leaned
upon a woman's arm, and that are
has been suddenly wit-Mr:tam from
him. A love -match," he continued, i felt his
1 er Roosevelt labored, and finely Mike
"without, money is bound to come to heels becoming light. Theo
grief. I adored my wife, but I could they pointed skyward. There was
not sepport ber decently, and she one awtul moment of inacertaintY, and
was unfaithful to me. When this Mike came down on the other side,
will both shoulders planted squarely
happens, some men kill themselves, on tbe mat.
Others take to drink. Still other bury "How's that?" Teddy excleimed
themselves In some kind of work. As
for me. I suffered far less. than these, joyfully,
for I becaine insaim. Taking nothing "Well," said Mike, as he rose to his
feet and shook himself, "if you
with me, and withoute looking baele, weren't governor of the state l'il sae
1 trainee clover the highways and over it was a ceased mean trick. Only --
the footpaths In ram and sunshine antud you --never tell It to anybody."
thinking of nothing, seeing nothing. Teddy promised.
and only stopping at night when my ' He never take
swollen and bleeding feet would carry But the time came when Mike brok5.
me no further. Bow far I tramped the silence and .admitted that he had
over those highways! My.hat was full once met defeat at the hands of s
of holes, alid my clothes could not man who occupied the 1Vhite llouse.
have been at all creditable to me,
for two policemen who saw me setting The Beginning of Things.
on the opposite side of it ditch mo -
Watches were being made at the
Boned me to come to,thern. The next
leant of sanity had made me conceal Wall paper, with Macy colorea
of the sixteenth century.
morning Antoine Jea.n — for a rem- beginning ' c
my true name — was conimitted for figures, began to be used in 1062. ' The
two months, art was developed thereafter largtly
of a complete change in rae- whole by the French.
Used by the anc enGreeks, •
W. g i t but were
"What shall I say? Those two
leo lin a•nd falconry were Prae-
months must have been the beginning
carried to greater perfection to
physical and moral being. In the
And about a -het, do you suppose? The Egyptians carried the art Y4:
edieval England.
solitude of tbe prison my reason In
Colored glee:: CfbInft froeu Egyp
came back to me, and T meditated.
she had brought me, my three years great perfection apparently e.•eee.
Tux og.
Tut'! ..:1 were dug in 1113 fee —••
About my file's unfaithfulness end
is, ory b
begina. to tell of R.
crime? No, about the happiness which n
her! Her perfidy and my despair had day Ce' _
Turf or peat bogs are used ,.. nee
.of earthly paradise while I lived with
f fuel, especialey in le. a. 'd.
disappeared; my thought did not rest where Liao abound.
upon them for a moment. net is Buck eat began to be eultivated
were over, 1 took my staff and wallet lo ife-...'eeee in 1597. It had been.
the happiuess ,which I owe te my
prison life. When my two moglis bre - . into Europe frotn Asia one
like any self-respecting theme — and •• -0
butteeein years before. 1 a pun_
'Ph first cologne was ,cal e ,) .
I contioned my tour of France. It gazer water, from thedeeeurrnotmry soof it:
has taken me ten years to ftnd yen. invention. It was ma iri
Alter two months I shall continue my of wine destined upon rosemary.
journey." '
The maid 'shook her bead. '
"Sorry. sir, but my orders are po-
sitive. Both Mr, and Mrs. Spriggs have
notitied en" that if their long -lost
child turned up .st any time, to tell
him that they have so reany engage-
ments that ehey couldn't see him for
an indefinite time. You miget, how-
ever drop in agein en a couple of
Years." •
"llis Find Offer"
Dr. W .Wiley, the' food expert,
wits talking at a 11.1.nel-teen in Washing-
ton about a fetid adulterator. "His
firs.t offer," said Dr Wiley, 'sounded,
on th: latee of it, fair to the public,
but it wae. in reality as tmeeir as the
' ofter of the divorcee. A wife, after
the divorce, said to her husband: I
-am lo loite YOU the baby half
hardly human and rose to hie feet.
Said he wildly, his face transformed
beyond all resemblance to that et the
farm help he had been a moment be-
fore: "A blight 00 3100!" And then
he eointed to among the candles.
"I give till that candle burns out,
and there" he said, "I shall snatch
awa,y this maiden for ever."
The vicar stepped to the candle,
snuffed it out, arid put it in Ms coat'
pocket, keeping a hand on it there,
and then, raleing hie other hand, he
'11,fiRAPPLE
Cell 110oecrell, Fe -President of ,11. Si
Duce !Netted Trick ea rro
, ;Wrestler Who l'irns Teaching '
PriVatelY•
Durijs (-1 daYs Col.,Reosevelt, 'WAR
governor 'of New York,' Mike Dwyer,
had a gymnaslurn ill 'Albany, teaching
the .efelmaii hew. to be strong and.
11 was notIong before Roosevelt
oicled that he needed a little condi-
tioning hiinself, and he according ar-
ranged, with Dwyer to go through.;
some private stunts. _
Day atter' dray, the future Preeidentl
and Mike went to it, teeth the colonel'al
circumference melting; ender the ex-.
"Row Mike—now, honestly. howl
do you think I'm getting. along?" thel
governor inquired, after the training: -
lied extended over several weeks.
"Plae!'' Mike exclaimed in
professional glee, "If you weren't'
alien a prominent man,' I'd like to
match you with aome of' the ambi-
tious."
"Really?" 'Roosevelt. in witat
it touch of snapicion in his voice.
Mike insisted that it was even so—
and the nieu went to it again withl
renewed earn .
Now, Teddy, bad a private bunch'
back in his brain somewhere that be.
had been nursing for a long three, but'
he took no partnere on his secret. He
had taken to grappling like te duck bte
limeid stream, and he glorified in
in it.
It was never part and parcel of the
colonel's make-up to merely practice..
Whenever he went into anything it
was whole-so/fled, and so it was with
his labors on the mat,
Mike coached him in hold after hold
lock atter leek. First it had 'melt
"bully good exercise," and now the
craving for knowledge included the
acquisi,tion of the actual works.
One day, when the political leader:
and trainer had stripped for actioa,
Mike fancied that he detected an ex-
ceptionably bright glint in Teddy're
eyes, but he attributed it to putsiag
blood and physical fitness.
"Now,' the celonel, "let us
suppose we were matey, truly oppoe
Rents and there was a ceowd right
around us cheering us on. What would
you do first?"
They went to it roughing it to and
fro over the canvas, the trainer for-
getting that he was manhandling the
governor—or trying to.
Then with an especially dexteroue
move Roosevelt went back of Dwyer
and gipped uM ample arme into
fuel Nelson.
Mike was against it-
lais pupil had slipped one over on
him and was „going tct take,a fall,
'rhe harder Dwyer worked the hard -
Get thee hence, Satan!"
And the plough -boy, or whoever
he was, rose and slouched from the
place. And Jess was lett without,her
And years after, when the maeons
were repairing the old chuacli ther
WIlOS found ' a .hollowed Atone in. e - wall,
inahleil' 11 I.hua to so '151 05 I eonid ' of .11e time.' 'Geod.!' said- be, rubbing an hol Ow eves a deed box
with tbett, ,old' elca,r's aiarne. oe it, aed nany, Then Chabert sal , free na
like It. Alother, 1 wouldu t ever get
1
' inteett e'y le may ' ha ,e hii ' nights ''' in the e box was a stum.p of himself nd turning away --"Now,
let beer IL You'll let us may home bis rianda, '41endid.' 'Yes,' elle re-
face and grasping both bands, ex- • Taking No Chances
claimed • pasaionately ,-- "ely dear Before he -was well 'known, Wendell.
'rhe judge, looking him full in the
Chabert, I want to save you?" Phillips, the distingutehed abolition -
"From yourself, and in spite of 1st, went to Charleston, and put up
at an hotel. ' Ile had breakfast served..
judge, firmly. As to Um imprison- in a patheeic way theta be regarded,
in his room and \vas waited upon by
a slave. Mr. Phillips sled the op-
ll'o save me? From what?"
permit you to endure it. I can ar- por,tunity to represent to the negro
yoursele, i fl( must be se," said the
raage the matter. And, little.by little, him as a man and brothel., and, more-
ment for two months, 1 shall not
I want to see Jean Antoine disappear, than that, that he himeelt was ea
"Begin my life over again', Oh, no!" ebolitioniste The aegro, however,
exclaimed the vagabond, as he rose seemed more anxious about his break -
fest than he was about hls positiou
mid Chabert come to the front."
hands in his own, he said—"My poor in the social scale or the conditiou
13ouchard, you are kind and good, and of his soul, and einally Mr. Phillipa
from leis seat: Time, taking the judge's became discouraged anti told him to
you love me; yet my cruelest erxeray go away, saying that 110 COldd not
than yon have done. 1 am spealtIng bear to be waited on by a slave, 'Yen
to yon now with all my former cold negro; "I is 'bilged to stay here 'muse
must 'souse me, massa," said the
could not propese anything worse
Settee, and I tell you that no place , A Tale of Leiters
Vra 'sponallele for de silverware."
but the prison is gentle and pitiful ' Which letters are the hardest work -
to me., There only I Can really live ers? The bees (B's).
again, without thought of the present', Which are the most extensive let -
and would kill nie forever! Why, can't te • 9 Th s • (C'e)
without care for theefuture. And you
a thing tvhich does nbt e.ount, at all, which letters are the tnost, fond oe
Would snatch this dream from me,
and which I no longer regard? What comfort?Tbe 'Ease (P.M).
you see that my body is a mere rag, Which letters have the most to saY
does it matter that this worn-ont body f.,.4-°:„the,7,1„71ves? The I's,
slmuld appear before sen`eneed, dose Jays (35). the noisiest 'letters: The
call in the jailor who erbught me here ' l's l ''
,1:Vhi‘ch, \are the longest letters. The
pised, branded! 'Vey dear old friend,
and let ,me go!" 'Which are -the poorest letters? The
“st be it!" said eel. Bouchard in a Owe,' (0'").
sad tope. And the judge arid the WIdell letters are the ereateste
vagabond embraced each tither frater- ,bores? The Tea.se (T'e).
' Whiolt are the most eeneible let-
ters? The' Wise (Y's). _ 4 6
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