The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 23, 1905, Page 11

ae Os, | > | made a prodigious leap, and had we t a trifle would have landed on top of us. But we shot} from under him, .and as he descend- less swift ed one great paw swept over the seatback and wiped off half of the leather covering. God, those claws nd their power. we would be do The automot in front was now almost tipon us, Fhe deep-toned born | sounded a warning. At that Instant Another jump and » for. [ deeided cn a new course. We; were approaching a road crossing. | Taking the handle firmly I swerv sharp across the track, just grazing It mattered not that the runabout|I was going to say ‘precious head! the big car in front, and darted dow» Was second hand, and purchased at guction, though at a ridiculously low price. It mattered nof that I had but nine-horse power while Fred Wlison, in his fine new touring car, had for- ty. I was as happy as a king, for my new possession set aside, to some ex- tent, at least, Fred’s advantage over me in the attack upon Miss Stead- man’s heart, He had been taking her riding on the Beach Drive, and I had ground my teeth with futile jextousy, until along came my wonderful op-! portunity. I bought the machine,) though it was really beyond my} . means. I simply couldn't help = it. When a man is in love, you know, he is all kinds of a fool. And didn't my breast swell ‘with ride when I whirled up to Alice’s jouse that evening, the second after) my purchase, to take her in the) moonlight along that magnificent five-mile stretch of perfect road? I! had made up my mind to tell her | that night all that had been in my heart for so many apprehensive hours—that I loved her, that I wanted her for my very own—in fact, that she was the only girl in all the world for me, Oh, it is glorious to sit by the girl ou love and spin through the night in a silent, smooth-running machine. I drank in the full joy of it. A dozen times | wes on the point of speak- ing. I had been practicing steadily at the steering, endeavoring to be able to manage the machine with one hand, in order to have the other free for Alice's waist. I pietured it) all out—how, she would listen in silence, then look at me with sparkling eyes and let her pretty head fall on my shoulder; and how I would then put my arm around her, very tenderly, and draw her close and kiss her, but my mouth became suddenly dry and my heart made violent leaps. I was stage struck-Jove-frightened. I had a sort. of buck-ague. I took wourage and found my tongue. “Alice.” 1 said gently, placing my dis- engaged hand on her own, “I want to tell you something that has—that has beem—has been on my mind for—.” | I think she understood what was coming, but I got no further, dog. A sudden terror shot through me. The machine swerved sharply, and I was compelled to use both hands to steady it. I turned up the speed_a trifle, and then Instinctively | looked behind. A glance was enough. | The bulk had moved out into the road and was directly behind What could it be? A dog! A—| my heart sank. I thought of the! chorus of unusual howls and roars heard shortly before. I looked back again, There was no doubt about it. behind us, loping easily with tail switching in grace, came a huge male lion, I recognized the great shaggy head. It hatl escaped from the Zoo, and was_probably mad with ‘fright from the attempts of the keepers to capture it. A little faster, and faster, I did not want to full speed at once, derstand, Probably we away from the pursuer, and run into town without her Knowlng the risk, | But as I turned my head a few hun- urds further T saw that my s of no avail, The lion was just as close as before, bounding like a glant cat, as easily and as quietly as ‘a phantom, But you can not keep a secret from turn) on could — slip But it did not turn out that way at HE HAD MADE AI all. It seldom does turn out just as you ptan it: “We will go clear to the end of the) Beach Drive,” 1 said, as we slipped | away down Main street and turned) into the Boulevard. ‘Then we will | come back by the Wood Road, skirt-} ing the Zoo and ending up at — AL phonse’s for a little supper. How will you like that?’ And she smiled] up at me so appreciatively that I) felt perfectly sure, for full half a} minute, that she was just as much in} love with me as I with her. It was so open on the Drive there was such a stream of ay biles and carriages that 1 deferred, speaking to her of my secfet, It} would be better in the seclusion of} the Wood Road. So we talked gen- erally, and looked out over the water at the vessels in the Sound, and ad- mired the beauty of the glorious} moonlight on the dancing waves. Then, at ‘the end of the beautiful path along the water we turned ab- ruptly and entered the quiet and se- clusion of the. great pine woods. The road was rather narrow here, and wound intricately through the forest for several miles emerging upon a broad plaza at the front en- trance to the Zoo, This road was not much frequented at night, and I felt that I would have ample opportunity ® woman, Alice turned her eyes to ~ ae g *RODIGIOUS LEAP. the rear, then with a piercing shriek | threw both arms arennd——me—andt clutched me in a most delicious em-| brace, though 1 would willingly have foregone the ¢ on. “Yes, my de I said quietly, “I know all about it. I think we can run away from him, though.” 1 touched the speed Jever again. This; was the jast We were at our Timit, with a good two miles ahead of us before any possibility of help. The machine y how running stead- ily, with & straight road for half g j mile, and I let my left arm steal around Alice's waist and held her in| a protecting clasp. I thought no more about love and soft declara- tions. I knew only that here was the sweetest girl in the world. in im-| minént danger of being torn to! shreds by a ferocious lion, and that only a miracle, including steady hand and head on my part, would given even a ghost of a chance, I stole another glance - behind. Not twenty yards. separated us from that relentiess, blood-thirsty, powerful an- imal. Alice had sunk in a heap on my lap. I leaned forward, hoping to weduce the wind pressure and-add to our speed, and prayed to heaven for succor, * ie On and on we went. What if we should burst a tire or blow out a cylinder? The thought was _heart- to express myself. I trembled in- » wardly. The time was very near. I must speak soon, : It was very quiet in the woods. At intervals we could~hear distantly the Paying and howling of the animals in the Zoo. Ocasionaly an ele- rending, Even at our speed the lion was gaining. .He was only ten yards behind. We had increased his speed with mine, making twenty feet at a leap. The uncanny part of it was that he did not make a sound, except now and then a low grumb- phant. trumpeted, or a jaguar screamed. We were used to these sounds, but Alice was just a little frightened when there came a_per- fect babel of sounds from the enclo- _ Sure. She drew closer to me, ann relying on my took my hand from the bar and slip- ied not take. the Jiberty - a bracing her. She looked up at me In some alarm. “Suppose one of those Serrible beasts should get out and on eet ee , with: ling growl, as though resenting the trouble he was put to in obtaining a supper. ( ; Far ahead I saw three lights set in the shape of a triangle. The top light was-brilliant and threw its rays directly into my eyes, Thank God, an automobile, approaching from the opposite direction. I opened my mouth. and made ready to shout. But what good would that be. The other machine: would go whizzing by, and we would be no better off than be fore. Then I flinched and almost fell into the road, for right in the air hind me appeared s “We gleaming had us, | still a rittte | Alice might un-| the side rowd. But I had lated, or my hand was unstead next moment we crashed bushes at the side of the n came to a short siop in the a dense clump of lat I crouched and awaited the de. of the lion { could feel Lim in air behind me. L waited with a prayer on my lips, Instead I heard confusion out on the Wood Road. There were loud misealer The In the! voices. The machine was at a stop, | S"rprised to learn that darkness, at the roadside, a bugeNor I could sce the lights through the | Ye@rs, until not mai z black bulk loomed, like an enormous trees, Alice was in a dead faint, and | (tere has been a deadlock seeing that I could not help ber at! that moment and that the beast bad disappeared [ jumped out aud ran to the roadside. There stood Fred Wil- son's big touring car, with the front smashed in; there stood Fred and his three companions; and there, in the middle of the road, lay the lion, My Plan was successful. Following us closely he had no time to dodge tlie heavy car, He met ‘it head on, There could be only one result. My runabout was not hurt, and af-} ter a time, with Alice beside me, re- j covered, though tremulous, we rode | slowly home The supper” was }abandoned. But in the quict of Al ice’s dainty park pursuers or intruc my interrupted with both arms | dear face very close with no fear of T went on with y. And later, dl hey, to” nile, Planned our honeymovn — iilibiccinnnnte Delightful—For the Guests. There were many visitors that merat his suburban how subordinate clerk drawing % monthly stipend of a hundred dollar but of course the guests were not ¢ hizant of the extent nor did that question appear to enter their minds wnd her we tle w to do every }thing in make Tife in tu country endu to hi w! hated house-keeping unc of circumstances, especially country, while the breath of fresh : and communion with nature ow proving his salvation. fre daily brain work, ly rent funds were supplie So he in every way, times, changing his torn its, (but uot his hest been his wont when he r at ever ) returning company and thereby — neglecting wovk on his phy et ¢ ct itse there were many extr penses. A drive now id the servant hire, the g ae cost of the table, the buteh hich the cur sts Ww Meome up his room at eails necessary or ex- . OXt 1 milk 1, the bill for fuel stage been of man with a larg and the nll of which would and as the cooler days and eve of autumn arrived they said, “But in- deed, we surely must return to the city, We have staid) months where we expected to remain weeks.” And so they gave their host a for- and a perfunctory » While they kissed and eim- 1 the hostess and to her said:, ver have we been more cbar- y entertained; you have done ey- ' ng in your power to make this a summer long to be remembered.” And the poor clerk returned to his de and work, the house resumed its normal condition, bnt a h pay day Jrolled around he added his debi d his credits nly to find that ¢ a hundred doll; persistently remain- ing on the wrong side of the ledger. Whether it is ample compensation for him to he: ionally mé@ts one of his summer friends, of ‘the charming hos shown by his wife.” is known only to himself, Doubtless so, since husband and wife are one, -_-—-—_— Uncomfortable W. D. Tlowells, ‘a F With the aid of the two « which I lighted I discovered the in the wall near the head of the bed and on examining it ¢losely I perce that there was a fire in it. The gr. would have held quite a doub ful of coal if carefully put or which seemed to be tlickeri had yet the weary ene: the warmth of the chy himney, and I stood shiveri temperature of a subterrar ) geon. The place instantly gave evi- dence of being haunted, and the testi- mony of my nerves on this point was corroborated by the spectral play of the firelight on the ceiling when I blew out my candles, In the middle of the night I woke to the sense of something creep- ing with.a rustling noise over the fluor. | I rejected the hypothesis of my bed | curtain falling into place, though I re- membered putting it back that I might have light to read myself drowsy. I knew at once that it was a ghost walking the night there, and walking hard: Suddenly it ceased, and I knew why. It had been frozen out. ee Has Many Diseases. In Bellevue Hospital,-in New York, there is @ man who should be the ob- ject of everyone’s sympathy. His name ig Job Keeley and his occupation is that of a painter. A short time ago he fell from a low scaffold and sus: | tained such injuries as necessitated his being taken to the hospital for treat: ment. There the surgeon found that he | had a slight fracture of the base of the skull. After a further examination it was found that he had tuberculosis of the lungs complicated with bronchitis His occupation as a painter had given him painter’s colic. He is not a young man and his age had hardened his ar teries — arteriosclerosis — also “old man’s eyes”—presbyopia—the opposite of nearsightedness; he also has water on the brain and his skin is puffed up by air which has escaped under it. t. oreo ‘The oldest applejack distillery in the h Motels. to draw all ber up the United States is at Warwick, N. J. The worm still tn use was brought fro the Revolutionary war. him very disheartening re] passed by and the guests made no} sign of departure, But gill things must come to an end, QUEER DANISH SITUATION. European and Diplomatic Gossip. The late Lord Sta ley, Eu lutely far y. of tertained = abso- tic hatred towards everything Americah. Some few years ago the American Society in London was hoiding its annual dinner on Independence Day, and in- vited Lord Stanley to the feast. His reply, typical of his dislike of every- American, w “Lord Stanley presents his cony retary of the Americ: cau not conceive why been asked to a bar an unatoned rebelliot Countess Raben Levetzan the Danish Minister for Fe fairs, is American bo ther, wife of the I Berlin, By the bye so been said about the personal popu larity of King Christian of Denmark, that most people will probably — be for twenty many years ago, between the na Alder- much has the veteran monarch and tional legislature, The Liberals h | continuously held q majority in the eboosing the other ot he they for yochil funds, business ver Volkething hen iG COFFEE Postum is a sure rebuilder and wi coffee and use Postum instead, health, for the aches an ‘ You may THINK you know, but you don't until after the trial. “There’s a DOES Make the trial yourself—leave off Coffee 10 days and use HURT OSTUM FOOD COFFEE in its place, 1 ails } Remember 4 You Cas you gret a ta That's the only way to find out. evin to leave, ones Riba te « ‘ i ; " 4 b WEGEYe J ie oe SAFETY REIN Fog itter that mancy | 7 VT \ } ; nh INDEPENDENTLY OF THE DRIVING REINS. 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