The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1903 Page: 2 of 10
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THE VINK ON TIIE SPOUT.
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An
heart oi tlx
and iroo
hand* are
."he is wrinkled and razgtd %ud -red.
Her eh Jren tiax*- left her. I ki.v
To h#iit the battle of hfe <>ri'f t^ain -
^ She rought ••for them ! ri* ag<>
H- mothcr-lovf will not die mil.
So *b< • rootta aii old tune, ail In#' long
ternoon.
T<> '.he i me on the old water apout.
Ins nff.tin, saw
iloiUff.
Wie ram« nearer t
til** harm 'he
hiui. touched
It
oe the worn 'lottq t neeo tier,
y \w I ut world doenit t*ie
For the old V>r.< \ ,-.i? v h.w eye- :
dim
Wi.voire a* thin a. her hair
It iij-*'• I* ti,.- world h- ■,potter.
And vet I havif. t ,« doubr
Owl planted that need toi He **w I
wm need
1 >r the ne on tie- old w^ r *j > it!
—(mnuiiati Conimerr il Trihui
arm.
AU« li-
on id.
For :
waited j
words .
"Heav<
h- cried.
i "mi.iiii
j heaven's
' All the
v .- * Library building i* i much safer end
more dignified past i toe for the wealthy
than automobile racing.
rot: used
me
n
Iienr h'* looked at he
tliotiffh he would cbok* t
lii- throat, vet failed to
Richard Henry Stoddard left ait es-
• • valued at Xjtifm. Opinion* differ as
to whether thi* represent* a proeper-
oiis • ureer for a poet.
11 fo
1 nn
1
you still!'*
id." she whispered. "I neci
forgii'ue** more and your-
while I
It i> a mistake for a billionaire to
i llovv his picture to be promiscuously
published. He always looks depress-
wliv
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THE DISCOVERY.
(P *¥* \ ■ ll/lli
••ii her al
H i
hi* heart contained ;i 11 the
idolizing woraliip of which
he wan peculiarly • apabh
%k#XW*8t He would have 'I • •!.-.red
that h<* hail ji**ven felt (
very hopi-ful of gaining her. knowing
lii loo well) but ii«- bad denlred to dol
ho wiih an intensity which had often j
burnt up hi* fear* for the time ;it any j
rate, ho that he had lived whole day* j
in blissful < onteuiplation of the jm j
probable, hail gone whole m out lis with I
eyes shut to the lue\italile. th«- faM |
approaching. TIiuh the news of her
engagement . / her employer foiiud
him almost unprepared, after all. and 1
for a tiii)> those who eared for him
watched him anxiously since it Hceuie • |
50 likely that the blow wan greafi 1
•haii In '*ouhl Iwai
, They wi're friends Mieiiaei Richard
nid tire man for whom In- worked tit
man six married, and they had ! • ■••n
fin ell toother in her 1 < -111 |>a u- > There
Were those who said she laid chosen
the employer rather than the employed
Jtlst Iieeause he was the iicbei' man
just because an assured position :i
tim Ijoiim app .iled to all that was
strongest in hci but thai her heart,
what there wan 01 it, would have led
her to a dlfTerent tdiolce. if she hail
allowed her heart anil not her head
to dietiite to her. She had the pretty,
childish ways that so often drape a
1.11 lure inherently selfish and Ii w as
notable that those who knew her best
us a rule, judged her most severely
Mut Michael was not iiuong her de
tractors lie made his trust iu hen v. 11
conditional on Ids wholly trusting the
woman he loved to do no wrong, ami.
by a sublime disregard of common
sense, he kept his faith in heaven. « on
Jointly with his faith in M.* 11 \ iu spit*
of all the bitternesg of spirit la passnl
through. Some wondered how he did
It. and others why be thought it a
necessary thing to do, for men hnvt
loved the faulty tenderly and well, and
hi ax on's seal is sei upon such toler
a lice. Vet it helped liini riulcniuhl.v
it strengthened hiui. For *0 it was
said again, in Ids nature was this one
vironl> of Idealism, needing au outlet
all I he more, perhaps, because the rest
of the man was sternly set iu an Iron
mold; because, except that he turned
involuntarily asidi;, as it were, to Iov<
Mary, love was hardly allowed for in
his plan of lift .
„\Vork was his passion the idol to
which he offered ever willing siicri
lice, and when lie al last lost hope
of Mary it became his all He worked
now unremittingly, to tire himself, to
woo forget fulness, as well as for sheer
love of hi'rd labor. It was nothing to
him that his unceasing energy was c\
ponded on his rival's business, tluil his
life was given to help a man to further
riches who had already robbed liiin of
his one ewi lamb, lie had to work,
not w ltli any definite - ml iu view, but
for work's sake and beenuse there
was nothing else left to him to do.
And quite iu the ordinal v course of
things, his alert, inventive brain hit
on :t means of superseding the lui dness
to which he was devoting iiluis i ho
entirely.
He was always striving to do things
or to i;et them done, in the best pos
slide minim 1. Incidentally, with the
least expense, the smallest waste of
labor in the shortest time, but, befor
and beyond all things, lie had Set ex
eelleiie.* a*- his goal. Marx's husband
was ti manufacturer ol the bands used
In machinery Mm \ - old lover, w hib
giving his thoughts as undivldedlv a-
the memory of net' would lei him. and
nil iiih time to (he turning out ot these
bands in the greatest perleeliou and
number was suddenly n iestc | by au
Idea w lili Ii made llicii us. no longer
necessary.
It wa .1 simple and clever invention
ho obviously bcttei ehiaper and nior< 1
expedient than the old fashioned band-
that II seemed wonderful to iK ills ■
enveier tlial no Oil' hird thought of ii ;
bci'ore Jle tested il in hi- usual tlior j
ouvrligoing fashion milking ibsolul<l>
sure lie was not mistaken in hi> own
csiim.ile of the important 1 ot tie j
change lie was about to bring 11 llm
making of machinery, and then h< set
as 1 nergetieally to work to turn hi-'
111 \ entlou to n(<-ounl II wa- nothing
to liiin that in doing so io must ^w«.
aside a prosperous business, must In
evilably ruin Mary's husband, the ver\
inaii lie had been helping on to wealth
lie would be giving a loueli ol f I ti I > 11
of completeness, to th method iii '
which the world - work is aeeoni I
plishid. lie hoped to do still more
for it before he was done, but here
was .it least something definite h be j
irlu wilh. Since in might not have
Mary a wife to cherish and pioteet
lie had ex ti mled his protection ovei the
great, whirling world of inaehiucrv.
He promiseil himself the pleasure 01 1
setting thousands of machines going
In au easier, more nearl.\ perfect man
ner as a lover promises hiniHelf t«.
perfect his lady's charms with rope
of pearls
\N hen his employer and former friend
came to him, rciuonitratiug, agitating
| I - found him utterly immovable.
Mary*# husband offered him the largest
-11111 at his command for the suppres-
-ion of the discovery; but money was
| nothing to him. Ids discovery was
1 everything, and he was not to lie
bribed, lie was offered a partnership
in the business and Its eotiri manage*
meni (that. Imbed, lie iiad already , ex-
cept in ackiiowiedgmeiit) in return for
Iris silence alone but, although he had
liked the work well enough while he
believed if served good ends, was in
dispensable. In had no interest what-
ever in It as a mere menus of liveli-
hood.
Then, as a last resource. Mary's hus-
band tried taunts. Michael bad done
this thing out of spite; had deliberately
planned to ruin his rival and his lost
love, ami the devil had helped him in
the execution of his foul design! This
mov d him most, but he knew it to bi-
as false as it was ingenious, find lie
only momentarily wavered under i?s
sting. So, having vainly spent his last
word. Mary's husband left him The
man was facing ruin, and if he left
with curses on his lips he was not
without excuse.
For he was not clever: was pos-
sessed of something less than the aver-
age aptitude for business. He had in-
herited all he possessed, and he had no
practical knowledge of the work. He
had always depended on Michael, and,
now that Michael had failed him. he
was utterly at sea a* to what to do
next. The discoverer knew* that, of
course, but he was not prepared to set
the w elfare of one man before tin* wel-
fare of thousands of machines that
was all it meant to him. all he thought
of it. His manner of mind was one
somewhat rare in our Western world,
lie rated the value of the individual's
life ho low that lie was obliged to leave
out of 1 mint altogether the individual's
comfort, lie looked to the prosperity
of nations a prospect never conduc-
ive to scntitticnt. Vet. as has been
shown lie had the one weak spot in
his armor, •only .Mary's husband had
singularly failed to reach it
Thus Mary was forced to conic to
him herself; il was simply because she
was Mary tiiat her coming was lightly
touched wilh the theatrical, the bi-
zarre. She was wearing a long, loose
cloak, ami sin paused to lling it oil
before she spoke, standing before liiin
iu a trailing black dress, her beautiful
bare net k Innocent of ornament, her
blue eyes full of pleading, her bare
white arms ex tended imploringly.
"Michael, you cannot mean it -you
cannot!" she said.
"Why not MaryV" lie asked He. at
any rate remembered that they ad
dressed each other by tluir (Christian
names for the first time
We should b< penniless. Michael,
Frank and I! What could Frank do?
What has he ever done'/ You cannot
mean to leave us penniless. What will
your riches be worth to you w In n you
think of our poverty V'
I am not considering the making of
money at all." he said, but she did not
appear to heed lii 111
"You have full control of the busi-
ness now; as partner, you might make
It anything. You have such a bead
for it understano ii all mo. I believe
\oii would be a richer man like that
than by following up your discov-
ery
"Nh. very likely!" he interrupted.
' 'Then \\ 11 y do \ <• 11 w ant to ruin us
with no gain to yourself'.'"
Hut a gain to the working of ma-
cliincry is an immense gain to me." lie
explained with painful ineffectual
Tb n
! truer'
I It s true I kH'.h it! Ku? oh. you
will never forgive me I thought * >11
would a nays lie poor though I !o\- !
you. I did not understand you. did
not see whni you w« ic capable of. and
II couldn't fa<e potertj tben -I-I can
not now!"
I "How you have spoilt iny life!" hi
' said.
j "And needlessly!" she cried. "Oh
' but you have your rev- nge to band!"
A sudden tempest of grief izej 3.
! "Take it! Take it! Perhaps, after al'.
I shall feil better then The fat years
have be u hard enough to live
through
"I shall not take it." he said. "What
you wreck 1*1 our lives for. that, nt
! a t \ou shall have. I will not soil
my hands with a mean revenge. The
world w ill nevir be the better for nn
discovery. I will giv
you best—you insrly Hk«* other peopl<
Mary
The Lehaudy airship has surpassed
I he re« ord established by Santos Du-
mont. Airship racing may yet find
recognition as a standard form of
sport. It is scarcely as hazardous as
automobile racing.
OLD-M FAVORITE.
the unconquerable soul
The rhythmic traction of the tongue,
which is used in treating the appar-
ently drowned, has been successfully
applied to a man suffering from as
pbyxia due to an electric shock. The
patii ut was an operator at ilie electric
statlou in Limoges, France. He fell
ou a cable and 1M.000 volts passed
through his body. The machinery was
stopped aud the man given up for dead,
when the chief engineer ordered rhyth-
mic traction of the tongue to be tried,
it tii you -to After twenty minutes the man recuv
""'I' " 1V." " "T1, "V" "" ••ouKfiuusnoKK.nnU ut last accounts
again quickly. "Marv. I thought vou . ,
I..MIV,In* .Tied, "i |,avc loved ron l'hy8'c'lHnK ll"ll"vod ^
all this time just ls-cause f thought to save his life.
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cover? to-night. You are not perfect ' •<! Albaps (Yt.) Mesaeoger ob*
and your weakness has the largest serves that it is evident enough that
claim of all on my heart. I give up i great
my ambition to your weakness, dear "
He sank into a chair. ' Now go," he j
said: '"for <Joil's sake, go!"
And "with one swift look at him.
K> Willimii lirnril llfnlrj.
Oui t •: ie iu<t 1. 11' ■ 111
iilai k 1* the pit from pole 10 jiole
I thank whatever g !- raav Ik?
For my unconquerable *>ui
In tht iell clutch ,r cir-. umsUnce
I liave not winced or erwd a o'ld,
I nder the luudsi'onings . hae
Mv head is biootiv bu' unbowed
li.Aond tin- [•' . • a r .';i «r •! ir.ir-j
L001111 but th" horroi <if the shade.
And > •' the menace •>( -lie yean \
Fmd- md II find me unafraid.
It rtn U*rs not how -trut the gate.
How e!';trg .*d with pumxhn rt^ tiie
•eroll.
I a.n the master of inv fate:
i mi tlie captain of mv soul.
_ I
/\nother
International
0PISODE.
el rich without."
ness,
' Vou could
persisted
' I am falrl* certain to acipilre riches
anyhow.' he saitl I have a mania for
work that i* sun to bring them in its
train but I lime no personal predilec
tioii that way I have no particular
use for motley as as you see." lie
looked loiuitl his bare * comfortless
room. Iici e\og follow ing his The room
spoke surti'ieiitly for hlmsilf and for
him.
She turned from her survey impa
tlenlly "I cannot understand!" she
exclaimed "It seems such madness
so trivial! N mat bine worked one
way is as good as a machine worked
an oilier sn long as il works."
" They'd work much better my way."
lie -aid. smiling faintly, "and at much
less expense."
' Then yon do care for money V"
Vot spending, but saving it.*'
"Hut what for.- Who forVM
Well, tin world at large. I suppose,"
'And w« ran starvi Vnir friends
• an starvi' While you save for a
world that does not want it. that won't
feel It. Wt can starve"'
She saw Ids face whiten saw liiin
wince.
"You shan't do that. Mary."
"Oh." she cried, "you will give us !n
charity with one hand what you have
stolen from us with the other!. That is
worthy of you, good of you Indeed!"
Hut although she se?med carried
away, she was still watching him
eagerly, and she saw his look burden
part, probably the greater part
ot thoughtful people in the State no
I longer believe in capital punishment.
Let us, then, pass a law that the mur-
derer fehall be imprisoned for life, and
then take away from anybody and
everybody the power to set him free
again unless he is actually proven in
uoceut by the court. It is childish to
continue the argument that we cannot
abolish, capital punishment because
somebody will pardon the murderer
sentenced to life imprisonment, when
we have the means right iu our own
hands to take away tin- power to
with drooping head, with all her pretty
airs forgotten, Mary went. I^ Parry
Truscott. iu The Sketch.
A lilt of I'nnlorn i no*.
•'When Max o'Kell came to Montreal
some years ago." said a man from that
city to a Iictroit Journal contributor,
• we fixed up a little Joke on him. We
had noticed how gracefully he could
unite a caustic criticism with a compli-
ment. a faculty that enabled hint to say
the sharpest things without offending
the people he was criticising We were
going to put the faculty to a test. grant those pardons.
"We had liiin luuch with us, and —
ti,were at ti,, table betide Mm*.If Harper'* Weekly Mm Dwe Ltob
an lliiglishman, a Scotchman, an Irish
man and • French-Canadian. When ; 1 leKldent the New v"lk ('"-v *«ler-
we cot our niii'st t>H' IiIk gunrd we ill- ot' Women's Clubs, -;,.vs that
uiundcd an honest opinion of the differ 'women wear exquisite gown- to-day
cut races we represented. As the opin tu he admired by womeu far more than
ion had to bo given iu the presence of .. w
Ul, . . . to attract the attention ot men. Mrs.
all four, the situation for liiin was a
rather delicate one. Hut it never, ' '* 011 ijolieves that club life is a highly
seemed to trouble him, and he gave his j important and ? uccessful agent in the
opinion without a moment's hesita character development of women. She
tion.
" 'The Scotehinaii,' he said, and he
clenchcd his !-iglit hand tightly and
pretended to try and force it open with
Ills left. 'The Kiiglishman ' and he
went through the same performance,
ojicnlng the band at the end after an
apparent struggle. 'The Irishman— '
and he held out Ids hand wide open,
with the palm upward-. "The French-
man ' and he made a motion with
both hands as if he were emptying
them on the table.
"There was not a word of explana-
tion. but we all understood thoroughly,
and had a hearty laugh. Max O'ltell
had maintained his reputation.''
does not approve the masculine notion
that club life scatters a woman's devo-
tion to her home. "(Jood women," she
-ays, "never forsake the deep-rooted
ideals of their home duties, and the ex-
change of ideas in their dubs refreshes
and inspires them to think beneath the
surface of things." She believes that
women's vanities, which "used to be dU
rooted for the admiration of men, are
now* encouraged for tlieir own niutuaj
gratification."
Tim Food Fifth of FIoHiIh.
The mullet is the food tish of Florida.
The natives live on mullet: the big fish
nil eat mullet; mullet are shipped to
Cuba aud the North; they are pickled
ami they are dried; they are taken by
dozens in hand nets, and by tens of
thousands iu seines; if one proposes to
catch other llsli. he first catches mullet
for bait; if lie wishes to shoot bear or
coons, lie first baits them with mullet;
if he is going for Spanish mackerel or
blue tisli he catches a few mullet for
lunch while lie is fishing. The self-re*
spccting tarpon turns up his nose at
the hook that is not baited with mul
let. I "ut il recent years the shallow
waters of the west coast were alive
with mullet Countless thousands
could lie seen with their back tins out
of water, as they apparently fed upon
the salt grass. Hundreds were in the
air at once as they indulged iu their
perfunctory series of three jumps. A
skiff drawn across a small creek to bar
the passage of a school of mullet was
tilled to the gunwales with tisli that
failed to clear it a- the school leaped
over it. It used to be impossible 10 tell
a "llsh story" about mullet Country
I.Ite in America.
Aliout Itiril*' X«■*!•.
Iu the selection of a nesting site the
bird's tlrst consideration is rifely for
her eggs and young. To secure tills,
many birds, like the field sparrow,
red winged bl.Vkblrd. blue winged
warbler, bobolink and meadow lark,
hide their nests; others, like some of
the eagles and hawks, nest in tall trees
and other inaccessible plat - where
their homes are safe without being hid-
den. Many sea birds seek safety by
laying their eggs on desolait islands in
tii m ean There is no did to the va
riety of nest architecture. Some birds,
like ti c whippoorwill, make i ( nest,
but la
thai
The Kuoxville Journal says
Americanism means freedom for every
man and woman, freedom of thought
ami of action, freedom to everyone to
go iu the pursuit of bappines and of
life, in one's own way. so long as one
violates 110 law. lie who would throw
a stumbling block in the way of the:
poorest and humblest, that will Inter-
fere with the enjoyment of his life,
lacks something of being a good Amer-
ican. A large majority of the people
of this country must earn their lire «1
with their hands and with the sweat of
their faces; it belongs to such Indi-
vidual man to say for himself at what
he shall work, for whom he shall work
and how much time he shall work,
provided lie does not do something
that is forbidden by law. The man
who would undertake to deprive him
of this privilege* 111 any respect is not a
. ood American.
Profes- r John F . Smith, Professor
of lOntoinology at Rutgers College,
writes in Harper's Weekly of the hab-
its of mosquitoes and the means that
should be taken to exterminate them.
a forgotten bucket of water iu one's
collar will serve to develop thousands,
or ovj'ii a tin can in which water re-
mains continuously for more than a
wee!; may scrw as a source of supply;
and pools ol stagnant water are pro-
lific breeding place- "To make any
campaign entirely eT'ective," says Pro-
fessor .'inith. "all breeding places must
lie dealt with; and for this purpose
there is 110 more effective destructive
agency than kerosene* oil of a low*
grade." The surface of the water
should be coaled with the oil. and if
the applications are repeated at short
their eggs on tile bare ground.
'The woodcock uses a few !• vis or a
little grass o'i tin ground in a wood or '
swamp, but the true perching birds. I
whose yoimt! are liutoliml In ■, helpless intl%mils th . method is absolutely effec-
condition, use tirmly made nests, where ,, . , . * A
, , • . , , | tlvc. A better remedy, howeven*. is to
tlieir little ones will be He until they I
are old enough to fly. The cow bird j ''reeding places altogether
makes no nest het-eif. but lays her by grading the depressions that fill
eggs in the well made nest- of other with the rains. "Water barrels and Jm-
Mr'^ T1"' , lin ! pei'fectlv closed cisterns may he kent
get her. and form little villages, w hile
most bird, of prey are Miliary. Won, 1 "-v ®itac,n*
au's Houie Companiou. ' little tish ol almost auy species.''
******* IITTY UVWI.I \S had a
* D *
* hs *
** a greater fortune in her
face, for >die was as pretty
as a spring beauty, and though she
was perverse and pouty when she
wanted to be she was ordinarily as
sweet as a violet
Betty lived ia the -uminer time at
Lowland Gleu. not many miles re
moved from Fort Sherman. :i big gar-
rison with enough young offici rs on
duty to till the ranks of a company had
they been forcct! to drop the -wold
and shoulder the Krug-.Forgeii*eii.
Betty loved the military what girl
doesn't?—and if the truth be told Bet
ty's heart was set on marrying into the
soldieryr but she had made up her mind
secretly- that she couldn't think of look
ing at anything less than a colonel, ami
when she thought of it she sighed, for
the colonels in I'ncle Sam's regulars
were all so dreadfully old. and Betty
w as only nineteen, mind you
There was young Roy I.an.vard sta-
tioned at Fort Sherman. He was
mighty good looking. Betty admitted
this to herself, and it wouldn't be a bit
hard to love him. but Roy was only a
captain, and nothing bat a colonel
would do. Captain Lanyard, to get
into the middle of things at once, was
just as desperately iu love with Betty
as a young soldier Just old enough to
know his own mind can be. He didn't
cure a rap about Hetty's bank account:
in fact, he never gave it a thought. It
was just pretty Betty herself that he
wanted, but be didn't dare say se.
Now Betty bad another falling, not
uncommon among American girls not
obi euough t< thoroughly understand
that Yankee husbands are the best in
the world, ami that was a firm belief
that the Ideal condition in married life
would be that which would come from
a husband who was a combination of
Englishman and English army officer.
"The colonels ore younger over there."
said Betty to herself, "and they are all
of aristocratic family, and. oh. well.
Englishmen are just too lovely for
anything."
The summer colony at Lowland fJlen
was unsually large that season. There
were bunches eif swell doings, as the
slangy Vale cousin of Betty would put
It. The army officers from Fort Sher-
man were much in evidence, and one
young captain iu particular was very
milch in evidence in the vicinity of
Miss Hetty Kawlins. Betty saw rhe
evidence clearly, and how* she did wish
that the President would retire some
few hundreds of superior officers so
that Hoy Lanyard could tack the ab-
breviation "Col." to the front part of
his name.
One day there was excitement at
Lowland Glen. Mrs. Calumet had in-
vited two Englishmen, one of them an
army officer, to spend the month with
them at their summer home. The news
reached Betty the morning after tin
arrival of the Calumet's two guests.
Twenty young women had told her
about it. Let the girls alone for
spreading news of this kind. "And
Betty," said one of her informants,
"one of the Englishmen is a colonel iu
His Majesty's service, and young and
good looking at that."
ftelty's heart gave a thump. "At
last." she murmured to herself.
The next afternoon Betty met tin
Englishman at tlie Dexter Country
Club. Her heart fluttered a little as
the younger of the two men the other
was old and out of the running -was
introduced to her. Colonel Reginald
Southeote was his name. It fairly
rang of aristocracy and militarism.
Betty knew that he was a simon-pure
Englishman all right enough because
of bis name, his accent and his clothes
- Which didn't fit.
For the next week Colonel Reginald
Southeote was Betty Uawlin's shadow.
Captain Roy Lanyard looked on and
was miserable. Hetty gave him two
dances and about three words during
the entire week.
"No show for one of I'ncle Sam's
poor artillerymen when there's one of
King Edward's men with a draw! and
a monocle about," sighed poor Captain
Roy.
Colonel Reginald Southeote was not
long in finding out that Hetty Rawlins
had a pot of money and that she
adored the military. Betty asked him
one day what his regiment was. and
he replied promptly: "I am the colonel
of the Royal Yorickslilre Regiment."
he said.
Hetty had heard tales about English-
men pretending to be what they were
not, but the colonel looked honest
enough, and the girl was half ashamed
of herself when she wen! to a library
in the city and took down a British
military gazette from the shelf and
i,.: .1 for Roy I Yorickslilre Regimen'.
>h- f. und it right, and the name of
| Ke.unld Southeote set down as the
Colouel thereof.
From that time Betty was very cor-
dial to the colonel. She turned the con-
versation occasionally on the Boer war.
expecting to hear some deeds of daring
modestly told, but the colonel wa-
stringely silent on the subject o^field
service, and Hetty put it down to a
brave man's reticence when it came to
speaking of Ids own acts on the field
of battle. Betty might not have liked
it had she known that when she wa*
looking up the colonel's regiment he
was making inquiries in certain flnan
< ial circles about the extent of lier
j bank account. The report seemed to
please him. and he proceeded to make
bay while the sun shone,*and i was a
particularly cloud lens month at Low-
land den
Betty knew with a girl's Intuition
that an offer was not far away. She
felt a pang, however, every time she
saw Captain Lanyard and saw how
miserably he looked, though lie tried to
put a brave face on the matter. If the
I ruth be fold. Hetty cried a little iu the
! privacy of her room when she look l
i nr. tlie glorious old llag floating In tin*
' sunshine at the flagstaff peak iu the
1 fort beyond, and sighed and sighed
again.
tine day Lawyer Coke, who looked
after Welty Rawlins' estate, heard
from a close friend that a certain Eng
lishman had been inquiring about Bet-
ty financial standing. "Fortune hunt
er. if not a fraud." said old Coke to
himself, and tin a. as luck would have
It. lie happened to pick up a copy of
the Broad Arrow, the journal of the
united services of Great Britain. Law-
yer Coke looked at it His eyes fell on
a paragraph and he chuckled. He
folded the paper up. put it in his pock
ot and took the first train for Lowland
< Hen. He marked the paragraph in
the paper, and put it where he knew
Betty would be siuv to pick it up. and
from the nature ot' the publication he
knew she would be* sure to read it from
start to* finish.
Hi tty Rawlins felt that the hour was
coming when she would have to an-
swer a question put to her by Colonel
Reginald Southeote. She was thinking
of this when she picked up the Broad
Arrow . She knew what the paper was,
for she had heard of it. She read it
eagerly. The date of the paper was
three months back. The marked para-
graph caught her eye. She read this
"General Powell-Baden inspected the
Iioyal Vorickshire Regiment last
Thursday, tr was the first training
day of this- militia organization for a
year. The men were In poor trim, and
Colonel Reginald Southeote, who has
seen no foreign service and very little
at home, had hard work to give com
mauds and to sit his horse properly.
'Tlie regiment will need overhauling to
bring it up to even militia standards."
The paper dropped from Hetty's Ang-
ers. "Militiaman; never saw a day s
real service, couldn't sit on his horse "
and then Betty gasped. Her thoughts
turned to another paragraph that she
read in an American journal. It told
bow one Captain Roy Lanyard hael re-
ceived the Congressional medal of hon-
or for personal gallantry hi the saving
of the life of a comrade under fierce*
fire in the Philippine Islands.
Betty knew that night at the ball at
the hotel that Colonel Reginald South-
eote was seeking her out, but she
avoided him. Captain Roy Lanyard
met her and she smiled ou him, and
there was a look in her eyes that maib
the young soldier's heart leap. "Won't
you go for a walk with me?" he said.
"Yes," she answered softly.
As they passed down the hotel steps
the moonlight fell full upon them, and
Lawyer Coke, w ho was standing on the
veranda, smiled, and. being a bit er.' a
wag. be turned to a friend who had
been watching the course of events for
a month past and said:
"Alas, poor Yorb kshire!" Edward
It. Clark, in Chicago Record Herald
Inroad* of tli« Sett.
The facts of the inroads of the sea
upon the British lsle s, which are re-
cited In Revue Scieiitifique, are of in-
terest to all coast-dwellers. Between
Riiible and lice the' walls of a castle
that only fifty years ago stood sou
yards from the sea are now washed
by the waves. Near Land's End a
whole region of 227 square miles has
disappeared with more than a hundred
towns aud villages. Since the time of
Edward I. the area of the Dutchy of
Cornwall has been reduced by OOO.Oon
hectars. At Selsea. Sussex, ships now
east anchor along a line that is called
"the park." History tells us that here
where deep water now is, there was
formerly a park for deer. At Bexhill-
oii-Sea a submerged forest is visible at
low tide. In Suffolk and Yorkshire
many towns have been overwhelmed
in comparatively recent times. Four
hundred houses were carried away iu
a single year at Dunwlch. In l.'13'.l
Henry IV. disembarked at tlie port of
Ravensburgh, but since 15:18 Ravens
burgh is no more. The thirty-three
yea.'s from 1 Si57 to 1000 were marked
by the reduction of the area of Great
Britain from 50,904.200 to 50,782.05".
acres. In a third of a century the loss
has been 1S2.207 acres.
The Young Doctor's Mintnke.
When the old doctor went off on
his vacation he left his practice In
charge of his son, who had but few
patients of his own. On his return the
old man found the young doctor quite
unhappy. Inquiries revealed the fact
that business was very bad; there was
nothing doing.
"But, surely!" exclaimed the asron-
Islied old doctor, "you must still have
that cranky rich fossil around the cor-
ner to look after!"
"No; I cured him three days after
you left home."
"What! ^ ou fool! Why. i sent you
through college on that case!"—New
York Press.
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