Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 25, 1906, Page 4

% Late News of the World By Wire Domestic--Foreign--Financial--Social--Political and Commercial %a ‘The Caserta Camellia Tree. In the days of its glory the palace at Caserta of the king of Naples had among its features a so called English garden, made In 1782 by order of Marle Caroline of Austria. It was bright with fowers and wonderful rare orlental plants and trees, so that it was re- nowned throughout the world, but the crown and glory of all consisted In a camellla tree, a plant then unknown His Visita to the Enrl. ' ‘There Is a well known English bishop ‘who writes a very bad hand. This bad band caused a sad error to happen ' some years ago. A young clergyman had written to the bishop to Inquire about a vacant curacy, and the reply that the young man got Informed him that the salary was small and the work difficult. But there was one mitigating circumstance. The incumbent, among In Europe. The seeds were collected | bis other dutles, would visit the earl as though fiakes of gold, and the queen ! every morning nnd‘ spend two hours used to give them and cuttings of this | g"e- '“")e fl““\wh‘w“ld have rejected camellla as presents to her friends, | the Post but for the dally visit to the These cuttings were most highlyprized, | and thus it has become a European flower, so much so that the exporta- tion of camellias is an extensive indus- try In central Italy, and In Germany there are vast flelds of them. In its palmy days the Caserta plant had elght | branches, the largest of which was twelve Inches in diameter, the whole ) being thirty feet high. This mother plant was in a flourishing condition up to a few years ago, but lately the gor- | earl. That attracted him. There would, no doubt, he told himself, be many fashionable dinners to which he would naturally be Invited. He would make many friends among the rich and powerful. These friends would be able to help him In his career. The earl, perhaps, had daughters. One of them —who knows?—stranger things had happened. And so the curate accepted the difficult and poorly paid curacy to discover on his first visit to the town that he had misvead the bishop’s letter geous garden has been allowed to fal! | Into decay, and with it the glorious camellia.—Pall Mall Gazette. Rewards of Literature. A very talented and well known writer—successful, too, in the popular estimation—tells me: “I know a man who spent fifteen years' leisure in get- ting the material for his best book and writing it over three times, then offer- ed It to almost every publisher In America, meeting with refusal by all, and finally sold it to a London pub- Usher for £30, had it republished In America some years afterward, got a few dollars before the publishers fail- ed and as his last royalty received just 2 cents, which was exactly 10 per cent of the last sum due him. I am the man, but I don’t publish the fact nor feel inclined to brag about it nor to complain, for that would be useless and would only cheapen my wares in the literary market. The book paid me, by accurate calculation, 331 cents a week for the fifteen years' work."— Papyrus. Birds Have Favorite Plants. Like man, birds have their favorite plants. It has been discovered that the goldfinch Is passionately fond of apple blossom. This may be because Its fa- vorite bullding site is in the lichen covered forks of apple trees, but apart from such attachment the bright little finch frequently spends hours tearing the petals into tiny fragments. Though the nightingale never builds in the thorn boughs, it loves to sing on may laden branches, often In the very mldst of the fragrant blossoms. It is some- what peculiar that most birds avold the cow parsnip, owing, no doubt, to the unpleasant greenish smell emitted by this umbelliferous plant. Small birds very often build in less secure places, but the parsnip, gigantic and strong as 1t s, Is left severely alone.—London Opinlon. . Three Kinds of Lightning. The Etruscans of old believed that there were three kinds of lightning— one incapable of doing any Injury, an- other more mischievous in its character and consequently only to be issued with the consent of a quorum of twelve gods, and a third carrying midehief in its train and for which a regular dé-} cree was required from the highest dl« vinitles in the Etruscan skies. Curl- ously enough, modern sclentific men agree with the view that there are three kinds of lightning, but their vari- etles difier from the Etruscans. The first Is known as forked lightning and runs in zigzag lines, the second as sheet ‘Mghtning, because It is seen in a body, and the third as globe lightning, as it sometimes runs in the shape of & ball. The latter varlety is rather slow in moving. and that his daily two hours’ visit was not to the earl, but to the jail. The Flelds of Peace. It was the Uelief of the anclent Egyptians, according to a recent writ- er, that everything, material and im- material, had its Immortal double. Out of this grew the Idea of a life in the future state of perfect happiness in the “flelds of peace.” For a long time the common people regarded these “flelds of peace” not as a celestial place, but as situated In the fertile and well watered regions of the Nile delta in the northwest of Egypt, where the blessed ever breathed the cool north wind. Here they lived an ideal form of their life upon earth. They plowed their fields and grew the grain which supplied them with the “bread which grew not stale and beer that mever became sour.” Here was situ- ated the duplicate of thelr earthly towns or villages. Portuguese Bullfights, At Portuguese bullfights not only are the polnts of the bulls' horns sawed off, but the stumps that remailn are carefully padded. The horses also are ridden with consummate skill, and ev- ery precaution Is taken to prevent the bull touching them. Banderillas are |- used by the men on foot and on horse back and are planted In the neck of the bull, which Irritates the bull, but cannot be described as torture. Just as much skill is shown as In a Spanish bullfight, and there may be just as beautiful a display of costumes, but there Is no killing either of the bull or of the horses. An Anctent Dog Story. A delightful dog story has been ex- bhumed from the misty past and is now preserved In the records of an old court at Southampton, England. It dates from 1587 and must be told in the quaint terminology of the period: “Item we present yt at the tyme of our sytting ther hath ben complaynt made of another dogg, betwene a masty & a mungerell, of Peter Quoyte's which bhath stronng quealyties by himselfe, which goying lose abrode doth many times offend the neyghbors & wyll fetch out of ther howses whole peces of meate, as loynes of mutton & veal | & such Iyke & a pasty of venison or a whole pownde of candells at a tyme, & wyll not spoyle yt by the way but carry yt whole to his masters howse, which being a profytable dogg for his mas- ter, yet becuuse he is offensyffe 10 | many yt is not sufferable, wherfor his master hath forfeyt for every tlme 3 shillings 4 pence [83 cents]. And be! ¥yt comaunded to kepe him tyed or to putt hitr away upo:®payn to forfeyte for every tyme he shal be found In the streets 3 shillines 4 nenca” A Wonderful Excape. Fleschi tried to assassinate King Louis Philippe of France in July, 18}5. The king was riding along the lines of the national guard in the Boulevard du Temple. There came a crash and a rush of bullets. Louls Philippe’s arm was grazed, his horse was shot In the neck, Marshal Mortier fell dead and about thirteen other people were killed and thirty wounded. Fleschl had taken the upper floors of a house several ‘weeks before and there rigged up an oaken frame four feet by three feet six inches, supported on four posts of oak and Itself supporting twenty-five gun barrels fixed in grooves at various angles so as to command an area of twenty-five feet In length and ten feet in height. When he fired the train of powder that let off his battery the king would have been killed if four barrels bad not burst and two missed fire. Ancient Locks. Locks were used In the time of the pharaohs, At Karnak the visitor Is shown the sculptured representation of & lock which is almost exactly like one kind of lock used in Egypt at the pres- ent day. Homer says that Penelope used a brass key to open her wardrobe, He adds that it was very crooked and bad an ivory handle. A Greek writer who lived In the last half of the twelfth century explains that such keys were undoubtedly very ancient, although still to be seen in Constantinople and elsewhere. Roman locks, like the Egyp- tlan, required a partial sliding of the key. They were, however, more Intri- cate, Darwin and Books. Of Darwin it Is affirmed that he seemed unaware of the difference In the value of books and would treat a Zaehnsdorf binding with the same scant courtesy that he excrcised to ward a penny pamphlet. Covers ap peared to him a useless weight and de cidedly in the way. and he often got rid of them by ripping them off. Some- times the book was borrowed. It is said that in the end his friends used to give him any book which he wished to borrow, for they knew that, if it were ever returned, its usefulness as a book would be at an end. Bloninis the Noxe. Medical experts are calling the at. tentlon of the public to the importance of performing the nose blowing opera- tlon in a scientific and hygienic manner. First one nostril and then the other should be blown without undue vio- lence. Doctors state that the two nasal passages should never be closed at the same time. If they are obstructed, as In the case of a cold, the back of the throat Is filled with compressed air, and this, together with the discharge and the microbes which it contains, may be driven through the eustachial tube into the middle ear and lead to serious results. A great authority on the subject used to forbid his patients to blow their noses when suffering from a cold. The course is hardly one Wwhich will commend itself to those in the habit of catching colds. The best advice would seem to be that when it is necessary to blow the nose the blowing should be done gently.—London Mail, Wisdom, Wisdom never opens her. doors to those who are not willing to pay the price of admission. There are no bar- galns at her counters, no short cuts to er goal. “Pay the price or leave the goods” is her motto.—Success Maga- zine. Wanted Action, Bobby—Mother, can I go out and How Emery Is Quarried. Emery comes from the lsland of Naxos, in the eastern Mediterranean, whence It has been exported for the | The beds ! last two centurles or more. are In the northeast of the Island, the deposit descending Into some of the neighboring Islands, the emery being found in lenticular masses, resting ou layers of schist In limestone, almost identical with Parian marble, the fin- est marble known, which comes from the Island of Paros, close by. There are about 300 men engaged In the trade, all of whom have to be married before they are admitted to the fra- ternity. The material is much too hard to be dug out or even blasted. Great fires are lighted round the blocks till the natural cracks expand with the heat, and levers are .then Inserted to pry them apart, Thig system is continued until the blocks are reduced In size to masses of a cubic foot or.less, and they are then i shipped as if they were coals. There are said to be 20,000,000 tons yet avail- able at Naxos. It is one of the hard est substances yet known, coming next | to the diamond, and among its crystal line forms known to the jewelers are the ruby and the sapphire. Drinking of Healths, The drinking of healths in~Wine or llquor or other kinds originated in Brit- ain at the time of the rule of the A Big Househela. The missionary was at once pale and yellow—pale, he explained, from an avoldance of the deadly Indlan sun, yellow from a disordered liver. “Nevertheless,” he said gayly, “India for me first, last and all the time. On the money you and your family are paying at this hotel do you know how you would llve in India?” He lighted a cigarette and resumed: “You would live in a beautiful house set In a lovely garden, with a list of servants that wguld include a khan- samah, or butler; a khitmutgar, or ta- ble servant; a chokra, or page; a mus- salchee, or light bearer; a mug, or cook; two syces, or grooms; a bheestee, or water carrler; a saniah, or house cooly; a molli, or gardener; a dhoble, or washerman; a durzee, or private tallor; an ayah, or nurse; a sirdah, os valet; a furrash bearer, or lamp man, three punkah coolies to work the fans: a 'durman, or lodge porter; a jamadar, or footman, and several chuprassies, or messengers. BETH’S BUTLER By Thomas Nesbit Capyright, 1006, by R. W. Caldwell put them off again.” band. “We have put them off twice. If I don’t land him pretty soon I can ‘whistle for the funds.” “But they know the servant question,” ant to look after things.” ‘were married,” he said gently. Japanese Art Symbols. If a Japanese artist wishes to de. scribe in color and design the anticl- pation of happiness he draws a picture which is a combination of an April evening, a moon, a nightingale and a plum tree or two. Victory is sym- bolized by the iris, grace and quiet- ness by the willow tree and the swal- of my career.” “I can help, can get up a splendid dinner.” mented Mrs. Martine. company around.” “Well, it’s some comfort that we can “Well,” said Mrs. Martine dis¢onso- lately, “I guess that we shall have to “But we can’t,” objected her hus- she pleaded, “and I simply can’t have them in the house with only one serv- “They have boarded ever since they “They have an apartment in the St. James the year round. They will simply think that it is an excuse, and I'll lose the chance of pulling off the -biggest deal Della,” broke in Beth, “I “But they’ve seen you in town,” la- “I could never trust Maggle in the dining room with | Danes, before Alfred the Great finally | low for symbols. Patriotism is some- succeeded in driving them from the| times indicated by a spray of cherry { land. Owing to the assassination of | blossoms. The almond flower is the Englishmen by the Danes, it became a | flower of #pring and symbolizes beauty. custom to enter into compacts for the | The dragen twines and writhes an mutual preservation of health and se- | artistic course through all Japanese curity. These compacts were usually | art, root and branch. His name is. pledged iz wine, and hence the custom | Tatsu, and when you see him pictured of drinking healths. as fighting with a tiger it is the symhol of religion fighting against power. A A Spelling Test. dragon floating about in the clouds The catch question has often been | means success in life. Tori, the cock, asked, “How many words in the Eng- | perched upon a drum, signifies good lish language end in dous?” The com: | government. Both the Greeks and the mon answer 18 four—hazardous, jeopar- | Japs use the butterfly to symbolize im- dous, tremendous and stupendous. As | mortality. a matter of fact, however, there are five, and the word often overlooked is hybridous, meaning mongrel or of mixed sort. . will be a credit to the house.” “But she can’t get a butler,” waifled his wife. “What's the use of a good dinner if it isn’t served right?” “Della, you're a chronic grumbler,” laughed Beth. “Let Jack stop in some- ‘where in town and get a man sent out. He knows a lot of good places and one of them will spare him a waiter.” Mrs. Martine brightened up. “Per- haps that will do,” she answered. “We will hope for the best anyway.” Martine kissed his wife and dashed for the train. It was the last of a series of happenings that had operated to hold off the dinner to the Prescotts. If Jack could get Mr. Prescott inter- ested in the flotation of his company it Both Suspicto; Baron Hubner went one evening to call upon President Thiers, who was then at the head of the French republic. The baron found the door of the house open and walked upstairs, In the dim light a man crept stealthily toward him. Knowing that the president went In fear of his life and, unwilling to die a martyr in a cause not his own. the baron hurriedly explained, “I am not M. Thiers.” “I know that you are not M. Thiers,” answered the mysteri- us stranger, “but 1 want to know who you are.” Before answering the baron Insisted upon knowing the identity of his companion. “Oh, I am M. Thiers’ butler,” was the answer. Hubner de- clared himself. “Ah,” said the butler with a sigh of relief, “I have your Betore and After. Bhe (cuitingly)—There is no douht about it--marriage does improve a man’s politeness. He (surprised) —How 80? She (blandly)—Well, you frequent- ly get up and offer me a chair now. Before we were married you neve gave me more than half a one, 2 ‘Where Metal Does Not Rust. Metal does not rust in Lake Titlcaca, South America. A chain, an anchor or any article of iron, if thrown in-this lake and allowed to remain for weecks or months, is as bright when taken up 88 when it came fresh from the foun-} dry. s name first on the list of visitors.” " Queer Names, Each had taken the other for an as There are some queer nooks and cor- | gassin, ners in the state of Maine, and many of the titles of the smaller towns and localities are worthy of special men- tlon. Near Otisfield Is Pugleyviile, | 18 a prosperous rubber factory run by while Hog valley Is a certain pictur | a long headed Scotchman. In order to esque retreat located near Raymond | obtain the sap from which the rubber Dog Corner, Hencoop cove, is a well | 18 made it is necessary to purcture the known place In Winthrop, while out on | bark of the trees. Laborers are scarce the Coon road strange things have | In that district, but there is an abun- sometimes happened. A mile long s | dance of tigers. There were not Pin Hole hill, the steepest ever, and | enough men to “tap” the trees, but the all the way up are little rests “to hang | Scotch proprietor hit on a brilliant the pins on,” people say. Over Poland | idea. He knew that tigers are fond of way is the hunger inspiring name of | valerian, so he gave orders that all the : Beeftown, while highly suggestive of | trees should be rubbed with this stuff. 'negligee was the old name of Sac- | The tigers came up and caressingly | carappa. One does not have to die to | scratched the bark in the most ap- pass through Purgatory, and some of | proved herringbone fashion, after the most prominent men in the state | which all that the coolles had to do have hailed from this sinful region. | was to walk around once a day and | Neither are the gates of Eden closed | eollect the rubber. ‘Worked the Tigers, Near Perak, in the Malay peninsula, ““IT'S NOT MONEY I'M LOOKING FOR,” HE EXPLAINED. have a good dinner, anyway,” declared Jack Martine, kissing his sister. “I know Beth can get us up a dinner that play with the Jones boy? Mother—No; to all mortals, but nowadays one jour- he doesn’t go to church! Bobby—Well, ' neys via an anclent toll bridge that can I go out and punch him in the nose leads the traveler stralght to this en- SOME OF THE ELEGTION RETURNS OF THE BELTRAMI COUNTY PRIMARIES, SEPTEMBER (8, 1906----NOT OFFICIAL v ors N ol HISdES i 4 g lgls) | | |y B leizlzlz] | 58 (23 .| Blolelel HE AR goaial(Be| (512151830 s HEHE HEERHEERE 23(21212 (812 SHEEEREEO R - e HEREED HeiEEEEES el AR EHHEH R ST Sudigo Dist, Court <82, 818\ (o[22 2|21% 2lE[EE2[2|E alald e elEZ 3N a8 3|8 |E2E|E udge Dist. Cou: o P o o e I o e e o = e i o e 5 R e e ot i e et == WeS MeCLENATAN 18291104430 15(30(25( 15 14]23) 12 39) 22| 7l 171553 |20 15/50| |14 16{16] 5| 106|113 121 {11111 2444 Congressman oth Dist HALVOR STEENERSON 3132 33 1453 16(22(23) 11{10figltal | (123 08 114]12 s HALDOR E. BOEN sl #9513 e et s Senate 61t Dist. 4 A. L. HANSON K31 71 [12] 6 1117121} 9117101 9[37) | 712| 7}10] 70 31 D. G LIGHTBURN 4. 18 |3 2 2%4f 21 11 2 115 | 4, 3f 2 o 24| 31 LUMAN C. SIMMON 1|4 2:| i 812/ of 1) 3 2'a)15| |5 9] 7|4 ) 56 Representative 61st Dist. LLIAM MeCUATG 10[...| 1] 0113 3| 8! 2| 7| 7lrolal1af 4 200 | gioalsal oja! 2]..[ |2l 718 2| 8| 7l10f..[13] |9 8l 9 of 82! 731 70 Tk ORI, 14{30]12{o8}25 16(2) 3(18) Of3130] 7100 "0| [2fiol slus|in) Alio] 1| 7| | [1935(31] T)1a) dlicloo| | Sjndisone] PR “""‘YFA“I"“?,'FOR 7|16)... 14613 14 1 411)15! 2) 2| 3| 1)28| | 4] 106(104, 91/ 72 JAMES L. GEORG .. |44 of 3| 1lo3 il JOHN WILMAN 10]21i3]21]25) 21 7) | (25 20a7[r0{2212nef52] [12]o0fa14] %0 o &' County Trsasurer " G PRENOT 2132 13{57(34]19]30f 5(21, 15/32(30(24| 141221 [21}46l2si24(10] 9 of (oo} 7| | |26 solos|ualesusfsofral [1sfarfrzina| | [rnalios 13— Register of Deeds i CHAS. D. FISK 6l 5l 1] 4l 4 2 6f 1] 5 1 4 5 3 4 4f 1 =19 41 1 12| 9| ol 19 J.0. HARRIS 1) 7| olssl0lid) of o6 6l2aliol 8113)16f [1350|15(14]16] 6|0 [1d] 6] | [1518l22]11{10'10] 5lsef | olus!iarol 97| 66| 67| 7ol 1. P RIDDELL 11(24] 6120(14] 5[20]..| 4] 9["9]12[10 6l16(13| 5| 5| 1..| (23 o[ 4] 1 9| 412,16) | 4] 7| 3] 2] 53] 69] 83| Gl SO, parL ryv— 18 19,01128115/ 6| 8{10) {5 | 17 o THOS, LE 2 1 5 5i25110( 5 8'14f74| | 7] 5115'15 HARRY GILLHAM 125 5| 3(4)..| 8 51 1| 1] HHEEREWE SR | (o805 T o JOHN C. LARSON 5| 21 21 09| 9] 1| 8. 21 3l 1).01ef 1]°2] g il..|'d 12| 20| dof M. E. THURSTON 2 MEFEEERE 14l 3 | [1095] 6|1 1[..| 2 3] | 7|2 5| 62 60| o) N Ly s211720 of25 12311301 711122 17]a6i31 2ol ift0l10] 3ol 5| | [17.2alssl10|ualszlrzleol B TUNKLE; 82117]26) f2512) 22 312 ahsloluhizhiziool isliginh 1 JOIIN F, GIBBONS 14 o{1o] 1| 1| 6(13("0)sof 5| 8| | 7jsr( 2 0f 5|.. || 7| 3| | [103%(1a] olui| 5 5om |37 8| S % o % B Judge of Probate Court M/A.CLARK 22| 4114] 3 5121141 ¢| 7| 4113 | 7:33110] 3| 5| 3] 9| [12] 5| 1215 3| 5( 3 9] 841} | 213 811 %, AM GROWELL 7| 2f 4| 2| 4| 1113{ 2| 1 8| 3l | 410 1ls0| 2/..| 1| i8] 1 il 31 6 1] {10]'s! 5/ 3 S5 T8 s ¥.J. DUNWOODY 1115(17| 215] 4[15(a1{14] 7)az| [12,18]s011{1] 7 s 2f | sl 27| 518 3 &lio 443 9| 20) 32) ) Clerk of Court 7 FRED W. RHODA. [20(31) ofsalasl2las 7li7i1312807] Bltoirs) |19'4niaolisiaf of 8 [o| 7| | f=onfos| of of 6snlesl 108] CHARLES F. SCHROEDER -] o1 3] o115) Of11}..| of 417 1211 612 | 5:41) 3| ejto] 1] 1) [7|.. 11)°7| 3) of 8 4 8] 50) County Surveyor = i M. D. STONER 19(28] 13144 |34(15(28) 6/21[14{8831(2015(25) (20 5528(19(23) §) ‘6| [26] 7| 17(31,20| 10{18{14]15/60)} County Supt. of Schools J.JUREGAN ~ ° 481 01 7l10f 2f1s{11(28lsf11] &) 9| 11'68l10|14 5| 6| o] |13 7] 112f 820 1/ 3 4,58 WM. B. STEWART 21371201271 5114| 9141126) 18] 8127|116 28132120l 4 123 1 42127181). "2/14 10/ Connty Coroner b E. H. MARCUM 17|29/ 13{ 2215(2( (17 562(16{21) 8] 8| |24 8] 2313110201816, 67] County Comm'r 1st Dist 3 i J. P.DUNCALF 1 A. L. GODBOUT [y LG, KINCH 1 I B, OLSON 18] WES WRIGHT i County Comm’r 3rd Dist, CHAS, E. SAXRUD 2 [+ | | 17| |18} 15 | 5| 14l F. 0. SIBLEY 27) |- NELS SORENSON Bl 1| f for not going to church?—Boston Post chanted land.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. | gmiled the girl when they were out on meant great things. If the dinner were delayed again there was danger that the whole thing might fall through. The only way to approach Prescott was through a dinner, and a home din- ner at that. The Prescotts bad lived in hotels all their lives because they were 80 seldom long in one place. Thelr permanent quarters in the fashionable hotel they regarded as home, but they were more often in London or Paris, or else up the Nile or some other queer place, and it was a saying that one argument after a home dinner was worth a hundred in an office where Sydney Prescott was con- cerned. It seemed a simple matter to Jack to borrow a waiter from the restaurant ‘where he lunched to take the place of the butler, who had left the day be- fore, but the head waiter shook his head. There were three big banquets that night. Every waiter in town had been engaged weeks before. Yet for all of that a quiet faced Eng- lishman presented himself at the Mar- tines’ that afternoon and went to work with a quiet skill that made Mrs. Mar- tine almost want to hug: him. To Beth he seemed like a godsend. All day long she had been struggling with the preparations for the dinner with such awkward help as a green servant could give. When Peters came Into the kitchen and quietly took pos- sesslon, it seemed as If the’sun had. .| suddenly burst from behind the clouds. The servant was set to work to clean the silver, and he took charge of everything, directing Beth with a quiet respectfulness that Inspired confi- dence, Long before the guests arrived things were all ready and Peters had retired to his room to get ready for the even- ing. Beth sat out on the back stoop to ‘| cool- her heated face and breathe a gigh of relief that things seemed to promise so well. Della ran out for a moment just be- Aromatic Petit Larceny. “I hope you notice how sweet I am,” the street again. “While the man was ‘wrapping up the toothbrush 1 was trying all the perfume on the counter. He looked at me awfully hard.” “I should think he would have had you arrested,” remarked her companion severely. ‘“What if everybody tried all the perfumes like that? How much would he have left to sell?’—New York Press, Like a Dog Watch, Mamma .had not noticed the clock striking during all of the afternoon and, thinking perhaps it had stopped, she asked little Rita to go into the hall and see if it was running. After a basty survey of the long pendulum swinging back and forth, Rita ran back and announced: “Why, no; mamma, it {sn’t running. It's standing still and wagging its tail.”—Harper’s Weekly. A Helptul Wite. “Ladles and gentlemen,” said the after dinner orator, “unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, and having been suddenly called upon without the slightest notice, I am—er—exceedingly —er”’— “Why, John,” said his wife from the other end of the table, “have you for- got the rest? You sald it all right this morning.’ Nature’s Methods. Nature s no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way-to her ends. As the general says to his soldiers, “If you. want a fort, bulld a fort,”” so nature makes every creature do its own work and get its living, be it planet, animal or tree—Emerson, Chance Accident. It 18 a mortifylng truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that :I.Iny'bf the most valuable discoveries ive been the result of chance rather Issed: than of contemplation and of accldent, ) d::lnl':e’:l ::‘::;:hsy;mr- :::r::“l’l&:. rather than of deslgn.—Colton. “I never saw n man take hold so. If it had been his own dinner he could not have been more interested. “He's a des : g 1t was a son of Erin who asked th‘ only nere for the day. I almost think I'd marry him to keep him in the fam- 11y There was a discreet cough, and the two women started apart. Peters had come downstairs again and was stand- ing by the dresser. With a last kiss Della ran off to welcome her guests, and presently Jack- came into the kitchen to see that all was well. “Don’t let thifigs fall down,” was his parting injunction to Beth. “If this trip to Burepe—unless some one else takes you there first.” A “Youwd better get readyd’ " write a check if you are thinking of Harvey,” she said spiritedly. “I wrote him yes- terday that I never wanted to see him again.” “He's an awfully good chap,” urged Jack, who seemed to find food for much laughter in her speech. “I'll bet you change your mind before long.” “Never!” she called after him as he turned back to his guests, and it was with a high head that she entered the kitchen. Even now she was not alto- gether sure that she was glad that she had sent that letter, but Harvey was so irritating. But this was no time to worry about Harvey, and she tarned to, her work. “Things look splendid, Peters,” she smiled as she entered the dining room and saw how perfectly the table was appointed.- “I think we shall have to get you to stay on with us.” “I think it could be done, ma’am,” was the respectful reply, “but my price is pretty high, ma’a; “We paid Hawkins sixty,” she said. “Have you Dbeen getting more than that?” “No, ma’am, but I should want more here.” “Possibly my brother might make it seventy-five,” she suggested. “If you think that will do I will speak to him before you go.” “It's not money I'm looking for,” he explained. “It's something else. You see, I'm a single man, ma’am.” “I don’t see what that has to do with it,” she said coldly, “unless you have fallen in love with Maggie. I be- lHeve she is engaged to a policeman in town.” “It was yourself, ma’am,” was the even response. “I heard you say as how you'd marry me to keep me here.” Beth went white with anger, and for a moment she wished impotently that she was a man that she might strike this fellow. She turned as if to call Jack, then she thought of the dinner and all that depended upon it and with an effort collected herself. “You forget yourself, Peters,” she said coldly. “You had better announce dinner.” Peters never stirred. “I'm not going to do anything unless you promise to marry me,” he said doggedly. “You know what this dinner means to your brother. Now you may take your choice.” She looked at the man curiously. He was not intoxicated, nor did he seem to be crazy, yet he stood there coolly mak- Ing a proposal of marriage to her. “Let me hear no more of this,” she said severely. “Either announce din- ner or get out of here.” “I’ll do neither,” he said determined- ly, “unless you say ‘Yes’ Won't you, dear?” he added, with a changed voice. Beth gave a little shriek. “Harvey!” she gasped. 3 “Precisely,” he agreed. “Jack told me his trouble, and I told him that I would come out. Prescott knows me, 80 I had to disguise myself, and I thought I'd pay you back for that letter to0.” “Are you going to spoil it all now?” she pleaded. “Not if you say ‘Yés.” “Announce dinner, please.” “On those terms?” “You brute!” said Beth, but some- how it did not sound as if she meant it, and Harvey kissed her before he ‘went to summon the guests. No Excursion Ticwod, Beenaway—Let me see! 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