Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 9

THE OMAHA DA ILY BEE: SATURDAY JANUARY UNIONS 0N ROMANTIC LINES Katrimonial Hitches with Much Bpice from Btart te Finish, SLEEP CONQUERS A DEFIANT FATHER Bome Wet by Cha Jatl, and Twe Land Milllonnires —~Supply Materinl Undiminished. ee, Others Break The marriage of W. 1 Brickle pear Weldon fust. wan ome of the most romantic i the history of North Carclina. The wed- ding followed & night of waiting and watch- ing on the part of the groom. and was Sccomplished after slecp overcame & watchful and unwilling father. who locked his dsughter in & room nd stood guard over her, thresteming to shoot his pective son-in-law Mr. Grimmer, formerly of Richmond Va. bas been fighting against beavy odds 1o gain possession of his bride. The young Wwoman is the only dsughter of James B Brickle, a prominent resident of North Carline, lving sbout nine miles from Weldon. The bride’s mother scemed to favor the match, but Mr. Brickle too otrong dislike to the young man and @ered him cease attention to Brickle. Mr. Grimmer, favored by smiles of the young Iady, continued ouit, despite the warning father The night before train for Weldon, and A. Lawrence, laid’ plans young woman from her fathe #tood guard and finally locked b in a room Throughout the mnight he marchel up and down kee g careful watch, while the two young men nearly frose outside the house. At 8 o'clock in the morning Mr @ropped to sleep. His daughter and she and Mr. Grimmer were without delay and went at omce Creek, where they will live All in Twelve How The closing scene of @ romantic courtship was the marriage in Justice Wolff's court room in Chicago last Saturday afternoon of Bessie Dell, & young besuty of Monmouth, 1l mociety, and Manuie Wicks of 1441 Michigan avenue. The courtship lasted Just twelve hours. At 2 o'clock Saturfay morning, through a combination of odd circumstances, Mr. Wicks met Miss Deil He fell in Jove with her before be had known her five minutes. Saturday at noon he confessed his Jove and asked her to become his wife. Mise Dell blushingly consented. “Let's get married right away,’ suggested At first Miss Dell remonstrated, and in- sisted oh time to prepure a wedding trous- wenu “I'm retber bashful, and don't Jot of people throwing rice and causing us all kinds of embarrasement” Wicks sald. “I* we walt and our friends find out we're going to be married, they'll tease us, and then we'll have to have them Grimmer and Miss N. C., on the 18th pros- or of the Grimmer took the with his friend, B for stealing the Mr. Brickie dsughter a Brickle escaped married to Stony Wicks want at the wedding and muybe have our trunks | tied with white ribbons and have every- body grinning at us.” After an hour Mise Dell gave way to Wicks' persuasion. To the county building the couple went and secured u license. After the marrlage ceremony had been performed Justice Wolff extended his con- gratulations. “Known each other since childhood, suppose?™ he commented. The bride and her husband glunced at each other and both Vushed “No, not exactly,” the bridegroom said. “Only known each other since ® o'clock this morning.” the bride volunteered. Asked by the magistrate 10 tell him of the brief courtship, she said 1 camé In from my home at Mommouth 1o visit friends & few days ago and last evening | went to a party out on South Park avenue. It was 2 o'clock when the party broke up and my bostess introduced me to Mr. Wicks, and he volunteered to take me to my friend’s home. On the way 1o the elevated station he asked me all about myself and 1 thought he was rather inquisitive. We talked about ourselves until I got to my friend's home, and there be asked if 1 would meet him down town st noon today. Well, 1 consented, and be Bad the herve 1o tell we that he loved me and wanted 1o marry me. 1 thought he was very umice and he teased me until I agreed, and bere we are. We are going out west on & wedding trip In 3 day or two— Just as 8o0p as Mr. Wicks gets his business settled 80 he can g0 away. My, but wom't our friends be surprised!” Wicks confessed that he had admired Miss Dell at the purty and wes scheming for an introduction. He hinted that the bostess bad scted on his suggesiion in selecting him to sccompany the Monmouth &irl to her friend's home “I'll just #nd out all sbout Yride said. Break Jail and Elope. Fred Smith and Veda White, prisoners in the county juil st Peoria, Il the burs last Thursday night =nd made §00d their escape. They descended from 1 that,” the the third floor of the prison by means of & | rope made from the blankets on their beds. ASK YOUR GROCER FOR Walter Bakers BREAKFAST ' | horse stealing | secusation of a Sherift Potter | White woman Ilrvr»d to wisit in & large cell removed the ace | The prisomers were met outside the jail by Berl Updike, whe drove them to & rail- | rond station outside the city ‘vr d his wife and went wi Smith and the woman Mrs ‘-mh the pair escaped | Mre. Rufus W. Blake, the widow of the millionatre piano mepufacturer of Derby Comn., i¢ 500 to be married to Paul Scha- bert, & wealthy exporter and a member of & prominent famfily in Hamburg, Germany It is the epding of & romance that began when the bride-to-be was studying o Ham- | burg ten years ago. Although only a girl of 16, the daughter of Richard Mock, a restaurateur in West Forty-second street she received the srdent stiemtion of the | German suitor. But in girlish fashion she | rned to New York to make new friends. | Her marriage to Mr. Biake, a millionaire caused & sensution, for he was more than 60 years old, while she was littie more than 20. In the fall of 1801 he was shot through the head by & revolver in his own | hands The shooting was declared to be socidental. Last summer Mre. Blake went Burope and again met Herr Schabert His attentions were renewed and he soon followed her to America | Mre. Blake's fortune is estimated at al- | most $3.000,000, for her busband left ber | his entire estate | The women was jemser offense had confined Smith Smith'e wife, who wa bim, and one other woman th got & ease knife and screws which beld the bars in upder b the White third woman slept | | More of the Same. } president of | Willlam Tecumseh Seo Franklin (Ind.) college, and William Henry | Harrison McCOoy, the janitor of the insti- tution, were in the same gradusting class | of 1861, the present janitor proudly carry- | ng the honors of the class, while the presi- | dent went trailing In the intellectual dust A double golden wedding was celebrated at Rye, N. Y., the other day at the home of Postmaster Alcxander Harriott by Mr. | Harriott's aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. | Thomas Haviland Harriott. and Mr. and | Mre. William A. Burger, the postmaster's | |uncle and sunt. Twelve children, twenty- | three grandchildren and several great- grandchildren of the two couples attended and brought gifts of gold The wedding of Robert Judy and Mre Elizabeth Bradley of Maryville, Mo, re- cently was unigue in some ways. The groom, & widower of 74 winters, hae five children one boy and four girls. The bride, a widow of 72 summers, also has five children, four boys end ome girl. Mrs. Bradiey was a bosrding bouse keeper and eight months | dragged by before success crowned the wooing of the ardent lover and his blush- | ing sweetbeart promised to be his. Each is | weaithy and they have made a contract that | each shall retain his or her belongings and | that each shall provide one-half of the cost | of living. The marriage of Albert Edward Tower, & millionaire iron manutactarer of Pough- keepsie, N. Y., and Miss Mary Towne Bo- gerdus, formerly an operator in the local telephone evchange of that city, took place recently ut the modest bome of the bride's | parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Bogardus. Only members of the two families were present. Mr. Tower's first wife killed her son and then herself last spring in x fit of insanity. Mr. Tower's bride is a young woman of 22. |She is a graduste of the Poughkeepsie | High school and is pretty and accom- | plished. She has & sweet and cultivated | voice, which, it is said, first attracted Mr. | | Tower's attention when she answered his | telepbone calls at the local exchange. Sub- soguently she was employed by Mr. Tower { to attend to some of the details of bis large | business, doing the work at home. The en- | gagement was announced last summer. | iTALKED WITH A STRANGE MAN | | Woman Cashier on & Train Cleverly i Relieved of a Bundle of Money. nd Miss Emma Briggs, cashier for W. Siman | & Co. of Neenah, Wis, was robbed of | arafts, money orders and other papers | valued &t $2,000 on & Chicago & Northwest- ern train somewhere between Neenab and | | Oshkosh on the 12th inst. The theft was | so cleverly accomplished that the young woman @id not discover her loss until she | {had reached the bank in Oshkosh, where | she was to deposit the papers. Owing to the crowd the girl was unable to find & seat | for some time, but one of the two men | | ocerpring & seat rose, and when she ac- | | cepted the seat began talking to her. She | | 6ays that she tried to svold him, but the masher was insistent and kept her atten- | | tion engaged until Oshkosh was reached. | | When she reached the bank and locked for the papers she found that & bole had been | neatly cut iz the bottom of the chateluine and that all the money had been secured The young woman at once telephoned to | the railroad suthorities, but the thié! has not yet been apprebended. the first time 1 ever talked to a " she sald, “and You may be sure | il again.’ | AS THINGS HAPPEN A @eacon of one of the oldest ¢hurches in Oklaboma has recently been bounmced for selling his pestor a horse with a well developed spavin Mr. Cole and Miss Winters have just been married st Columbia, Mo. This combination | ought to be a particularly happy ope George Waterhouse, a veteran of the civil war, whe was mourned dead by his | Telatives of Middietown. Conn., sinee 1863 has just returned 1o his home. He w re- poried killed in bettle. He claims he lves &t presen: in Pennsylvania. | Burglars in ransacking the residence of Mrs. Adeluide Anderson, at Mimneapolis. carried off 400 pounds of anthracite coal in | sacks. They i@ not touch the jewelry and | pPlite. of which there was considersble | quar o be taken | Judge Adums of the United States circult court of St. Louis has pronounced the most unique wentence ever given in Missouri | upen Jobn Fickler of that city. Fickler was conyicted of holdigg up and robbing muil carrier. He was sentenced to ten vears each on two separste charges and | imprisonment st hard lsbor for robbing the registered mail Edward J. Bisebrenner of Rogers Oity Mich, wants & wife 5o badly that be bas decided to act as prize for & rafle. He has issued 1,000 tickets which will be sold af 25 cents each. The only condition which the wife-seeker imposes upon the female pur- chasers of his matrimonial tickets is that | she must be & respectable, healthy, up- encumbered Catholic between 40 and & years of age. The Southern railway has issued a ticket in Washingion for & continuous trip around the world. The ticket reads: Southern rail- way to New Orleans; Southern Pacific to Sun Francisco; Pacific Mail Steamship com- pany to Hong Kong. via Fort Said and Suex cansl 1o Naples, and thence o London, via Strait of Gibraltar; Londen to New York, via direct stoamship lve, thence to Wasb- inglon vis Pennsyivania railroad | | | | ty What Makes Ruby Lips. The pure, rich blood made by Dr. King' New Lite Pills. They promote bemuly. Give clear skin, rosy cheeks e For | sate vy Xehe & Co the | Smith de- | | to0 much money | with, 1 met Mr. |@e if T'd been perfectly sweet to him. | Smith, though: he'l {1ng ver to use Smith was swajting trial on a charge © 1 The Ubiquitou wyTight, 1968, by Jeanne ¢ Bditha Allyn burst into the brother-in-law lifted his eves book and indulgently looked her over. Her golf clubs rattied to the floor, and she flung ber cap and gloves after them You make quite & breese, Bditha, a very welcome one, but you break into my story What is it this time®” Dr. Kenworthy was Jeaming Iazily back in & big leatber chair Editha came petulantly scross the room and stood before him “Morris, 1 want you to look &t me—care fully. “Why, charmed, my dear. Such a lege is seldom granted me—you dou't in obe place Jong epough ' “I'm in earnest the in her gray eyes be sat up “Another victim® Want for his infatuation " “I'm always in earnest”” she went on ignoring his questions; “‘that's part of the trouble. Now look &t me." She wore a golf sult of white duck. and 2 scarlet tie. Her eyes shone dark hair clung in mofst rings about ber tanned oval fa The pose of her small sthletic figure was distinctly rebellious “Do 1 look like a man-hater?" “Ye powers! A beaut;. only 18, with an average of & victim & week, and she wants to know if she Jooks like & man-hater? “Well, 1 may not look but am a man-hater. 1 despise him! 1 wish he was n— x) ary. Her from his mpatient flash laughing me to acoount than And “Your hesitation i& more expreseive you intend. Did you mean Halifax who—" “You know well Peter J. Smith “My Peter J me. Precious, “Yes, yours you'd left him enough—y Smith. He doesu't f t0o,” he mused provokingly You imported him. 1 wish in New York. 1 will say that he's unigue, anywey. There's nobody like him—a fact that makes me thankful Editha flung berself on the couch “What! Hoen't he succumbed yet® What does the feliow mean? 1 must really speak to him—" Editha flushed as she inter- rupted him “You kuow I hate him. He's always in the way. He's spofled my afternoon. 1 was going golfing with—with Mr. De Kave and— 4 “Well, didn’t you® “No, that Smith—" “Glad of it, Editha. Young De Kave has and too little to do. “He isn't sanctimonious, aunyway," Editha retorted. “He wae to meet me at the links because I'd a lot of errands to do and couldn't have him call for me. To begin and snubbed him. But when I got on the cer, of course he had to give me his seat and stand up, and when the man next me got off he sat down by me. 1 hated to take the seat and 1 hated to talk with him, but I had to, for the place was full of our set and the girls are all simply wild over him. I can't see why. He took my clubs in that overbearing way of his. He mcted 1 was trying not to laugh st ome of his fmbecile stories, when 1 glanced up and saw Reg—Mr. De Kave. 1 don't know | when he got on. He looked black and got off without coming near me, and there 1 and her | Peter Smith down town | s Peter Smith experience shocks vou imte ctlearness vision Bditha with her head agninst kpee was Jooking with dream | myrisa lights in the @isiax Miss Allyn doctor. Sbe doesn My conversstion & be continued quietly | Mise Trent, on my | @iscussing my work research—especially must be ‘lovely perimented on my friends pught it would be ‘sweet' to be expérimented on “I think it's horrible—using one's frie that way'" Bditha fiashed out unecessar Peter Smith smiled 1 hardly think Miss Tres Giate danger.” be remarked, ri all sauntered towar Eate At he opened it be turned to About o'clock w | earty? “No," she Good night They all slept late was past Bditha ssuntered down an others st breakfast. She wo shirtwaist. Green wae the only could not wear. The doc bumorously “Ten oclock? W I will be ready ngly, looking at his wa not going in that tastidious 1 shall wear whe “since it's go! Smith. Johnuy spur of the be is kin It's Peter dey and And forever ping hie napkin agreed this morning t looking over tbe you, Edie dear him here till we laboratory.” Editha's soft lips tightened When Smith came for her with six other voung people she was still angry. Of course he walked with her; he drew her into conversation in spite of herself. Once t the links she was free o be silent. She | enjoyed driving the ball unconscionable dis- |tances with a vicious, swinging stroke. | Her gray eyes were dark with suppressed wrath. She avoided her partner us much and as politely as possible. While osten- sibly devoting himself to Alys Trent, Regi- nald De Kaye managed to meet Bditha's eves often with a eympathetic, longing {look. Smith quietly watched the fellow They had dinper at the club house and | went home after Editha had promptly vetoed a boating excursion for the evening. | Bmith went to the door with her Next morning he moved his belongings to | the doctor's and worked in the luboratory |till 2 o'clock in the afternoon | only for a hasty luncheon. Toward 4 o'clock he dressed and entered the drawing room | Baitha was trying to be civil, and mot her sister's s t the Tike . . ainper wunoy but 1 was doesp me ber her helpless sisted on scientifie science ever ex other side She though » menta Ebe asked if 1 | They | him. ng b ha be B too replied, *1 olor Bditha or glanced at ber tha be provok pe you're No. qu she Rawson got up on noment Like everybod, ng to throw Jeremiah Smith blazed s Jeremiah the else ther us todey finished the doc ts Ting give him garden. Sorry but 1 simply ha finish some work tor, slip- Rose room annoy have in the he | charmed mor charming, when Mrs. Maxon | and her daughter Maude called. They acted e if they had interrupted a lovers' tete-a- | tete Maude pointedly invited Smith to | ought her . and his fine reserve | party be he | nand. He hand | un, | Sm She | nee rale had b rainly ber hought feeling con her delight greater Kay s of ! mg De &b Kaye plents there the d marry one - He some day sence mude BEreed of go the o ntist to pair Peter Smith Editha forgot th who hadn't the of openly avoiding whom for her. fore delicately at the doc clatmed & word from ally seem to cultivate De Kaye's friend- De Kaye id Bditha he was trying put Smith off the track. He @id not tell that Emith had known him in New t was as hard man's privile chose, as behave that he never X conventic 10 her York ringe raise Kaye began to plead for an early why tior was & at Since her would dou even their over? Why no restall any a separate th They would go to i storm had blown would forget it in eix weeks would forgive them, especially saw how he loved her. As for nobody but her to care bu hetic and Editha prom- tless a great fuse engage = Pu over. Her when b H n stay the Society m hey he sighed 1t Wedn dren wae Saturday. They evening like running away avd Mrs. Kenworth st Arkwright's, a would be like u story Wednesday night with a high ‘white would slip two naughty trom school, for would be at & musicale few blocks away It happy ever after. was calm and starry, moon. Between § and 10 Editha, in ber traveling dress, stole out to the side gate She carried nothing. De Kaye told her to bring only her precious self. Involuntarily she glanced vp st Peter Smith's window. It was dark. With a sudden vague sinking of the heart, she wondered why she was not rapturously bappy. Reginald met hep with a tender greeting. He lJed her a few blocks to a side street and put ber into a earriage. Bditha could | herdly wait to be off; she wanted to have | it over with. De Kave jumped in after | ber, and they rattled ewiftly away over | the pavement | Suddenly De Kuye turned and clasped | ber in his arms. He kissed her again and | sgain. His restraint was quite gome. His | breath was heavy with wine, and she shrank a b day from him half frightened “What is it, darling?” he asked. “We'll SLOPPINE | get away safely—if that Smith doesn't | | manage to mppear, as he has &t everything %o far®™ He laughed, with his arm still around her. Editha seemed to be swakening from a | @ream. She was leaving ber home for a { man whose very touch made her shiver. | She had not known it would be like this was with that Smith. 1 had to play with bring Bditha to an informal lawn party | Her one impulse was to escape him all afternoon just for the looks of it Then be came home with me.” “He could hardly belp that, could he? Nor the meeting on the ca: “I suppose Dot she admitted slowly: “everything conspires against me. 1f T only knew he hated it as I do I wouldn't | care wo much, but he doesn't show & sign. 71 detest scientists; they are so unfeeling. Reginald asked Alys Trent to go in his new sutomobile tonight. “Well, 1 hope he'll let Alys alone.” “Why, 1 should like to know?" she de- manded. “Because she's silly, and 1 don't believe he's the real thing, if be does make such e splurge. Oh, if 1 could find anything tangible against him he shouwlds't cxll on you" Editha tossed ber head “I can't see what's the all right " matter with The doctor spoke banteringly. “That depends on what onme likes. He scts as if he owned me, and still he doesn't @o a thing 1 can lay my Bnger on. So I flare up &t him on genmeral vrinciples, and jose my @ignity. But the cvesture is only amused at my sttacks. Jt's all your fault Morris; if he wasn't your friend, and ever- lastingly here, people wouldn't think we were dying to be lefi together.” Just then Mrs. Kenworthy trailed softly into the room ip & cool, blue linen gown the Dext evening. It was embarrassing to have to perform an eternal duet, but they had to accept. on each cheek. When her sister and the doctor appeared a few minutes later she escaped to her room. till she heard the men go out for an after- dinper stroll. g But sbe could not escape fhie memory of Peter Smith's every word and gesturé. His | way of dominating everything aroused her | opposition. Besides, his name—ihat dread- ful name—aid not. cease to irritate her However, she was Teady at § to g0 to Maude's party with him. She wore ber new gown. She was sorry it was white, but it was very becoming, and then—well, T Kaye said he never saw any other girl who could really wear white She had pever cared particularly for De | Kaye, but now he began to imterest h He was handsome, with u strangely weary face. Besides, he was deeply in love with | her, which in itself is & point in a man's | tavor with & girl who 15 still too young to | realize her own power Partners for everything were chosen by | matched flowers, or matched mottoes, or | questions and smswers. The inevitable Smith was her vie-a-vie &t Wl Re- freshment time brought her of n cripson paper heart. Peter Smith came up to her with the other. His seeming | { Editha had & bright spot | She. staved there | [ “Oh, Reginald, take me back! Forgive me, but I dor’t want to be married like this! J—" “My dearest, you're just a little nervous. | Tomorrow vou'll be glac I dian’t mind you,” he laughed, kissing her again | She struggied to free herself, her fear turned to anger. “Reginald De Kaye, let | me B0 this ustant! No, I don't love you: |1 was mistaken. 1f you really loved me | you'd take me back before it's too lste! | Mr. Smith would take me back—stop—* A queer, deadening gravness seemed to be floating wround her. She wondered it she wae fainting. She never had fainted | A light flew past the carriage window. | There was & clash of metal on the pave- ment. The wheels ground and crushed over something. The carriage stopped with & jerk that threw her from her seat. The door was opened from the outside. Peter Smith lifted Ediths in his arms and set ber upon the curbing De Kaye jumped out and rushed towsrd bim, threatening and cursing. With & switt movement Smith 1aid dold of his collar |and dragged him out of Bditha's sight behind the carriage. She caught the older man's words, “ebduction” and “your past.” Then after & while, “You shall not speak to her again. No, not even to say goodby.’ | De Kave ended by ordering the driver to catch the 110 train; the carriage dashed She was a smaller, darker, sweeter edition | UPnconsciousness of the situation angered | off gown the street. of ber sister. “What have you been doing to Edie, Mor- ris? She looks wrought up.” She's been doing what she could to the peace of mind of my friend Peter,” the doctor drawied quietly. “He's only study- in bis mext peychological treatise, and she insists that he's in love with ber, and is 100 mean to show it s cross simply because ehe's trying so hard not to fall in love with him." Let her alone, Morris. Don't be so ab- surd! You must burry, Bdie, if you are going to get to Mrs. Vinton's in time for dinner. What are you going to wear” “White. For & wonder the ubiquitous Peter will not be present. 1 won't wear it where he is because be likes it. He doesn say 80, but 1 can tell” She lert the room and went upstaire. Mrs. Kenworthy leaned over agains: ber husband Morris,” she said Rose,” be mimicked. “What is it Mustn't 1 temse your sister® She love with Peter. No girl could help ing That's why Can't you see she is figh musta’t seem 1o see.” Well, I'll try to about De Kaye?' Ob, that's vothing' She only him occesiomally to get sway other man. 1l rouse her to say anything against him It was very hot for the middle of Sep tember, and afier dinner the doctor and his wife went out on the lawn. About 11 Bditha und & man eptered the gate Good evening. Isu't all this look at?” Peter Smith's gesture include Bditha her floeting whi @ress. Baitha st down at her eister's feet nd Bmith threw himse}f upon the grass near ber T'm slways lucky,” be ssid. “De Kaye was called from the city by a telegram and 1 was asked in his place. 1t was kind of Mrs Vinton. And such & drive as we had after dinner along the lake!" He picked up Mrs Kemworthy's fun “Jupanese, isn't it? 1 heve some trifies 1 got there. Interesting people, I find them." “Yes,” she lsughed, “I've & depraved taste for anything from Japap—but the Jupapese. 1 don't care for studying the buman snimal as you and Morris do." “You're happier than if you @id. We're always discovering unpleasant things for our pains. You said ‘bumsn nimal sbudder &t the Dumber of them ene meets They are mostly men” He lay st full length in the grass, his head supporied by one arm. The grave reserve of his fine eves and forehead balanced the sensitive- mess of his mouth His brown hair was stralght and close-cut. “You women are o far abead of us spirituslly,” he went on ‘that you do Dot see us as we are Uil some dear is be you must let ing ber it uione We be good. But what from the championship £00d tn ‘ve only been expostulating with her. | She | 4 | her. She doubted if he even knew that there was & situation. So they ate their | pink ice and white cake alome in & little iaptern-it room. Smith began chatting in his easy way about anything that came |up. Por the first time that evening she |felt at ease .und she est leaning back | with Sushed cheeks and shining eves. A rose-colored Japsnese lantern above her | swayed in the wind and lit up her white | Gress. Smith had turned in the corner of the seat till be half faced her. Editha was startled from her enjoyment of his quiet humor by the voice of De K who had come up and stood looking er ov Smith's head “Pardon me Mazon wants the library 1l take yo Miss Allyn will Jet me.” After an instant of hardly hesitation, Smith arose an word sbout reclaiming off toward the house De Kave turned to Bai cagerness last have you You are always with doing ™ At her swift he stooped quickly and “I've no right to call yo name he but 1 always with that man—obever me." It's ali— I'm lesve us together be his fauit It is his fault! you see how he brother-in-law What chance heve Mke that who saint? Heaven knows I'm Do you could love me ng aln euough 10 deserve was low mud ples and was lost. “You dor you®! They cannot force h makes you think trembied o in ‘Oh., Bditha, you don't know means 1o me; think about it t I'll come to the garden st 4 His ger nese, his eagerness, touched her | would not say that she loved him | would think sbout it. When § back they were both a Mitle ex be appeared to notice DOLBINE | The next duy Peter Smith saw Editha only st luncheon. She stayed upstairs 1 after 3 she went out inte the garden Kaye calied &t the bouse, taiked awhile with Mrs. Kepworthy, and, after carclessly inquiring for Miss Allyn, said be would geo out and talk with ber & bit As for Ediths. the young fellow's plesd ing & for his wery life swayed her girlish cmotions. He game the nell oy, and the Smith,” De Kaye show you a, “Mrs curios in awhile s some percey with a gracefu soon walked ha with 1 E k moment slone your denin hand Ve stur® of e by her vour said ar ot te blame rurpose!y b uses to it either tne advan E is purpose ng 1 against @ knows hew %o him chej for a But se you she hesitated, “but 1 vet what tomorrow She but sh t but De | : ame | Smith's bicycle lay wrecked on the pave- ment where the carriage wheels had crushed it He Jeft it where it was and helped Editha to ber feet. She was trembling 50 she could bardly stand end leaned on him beavily. The street was u quiet ome and the rescue so quick that they had attracted no attention. After a short walk mansged to get another carriage. Editha @id not speak, but ber eyes questioned him 1 kept you in sight from the moment you started. 1 didn't dare stop you till 1 was sure you had time to realize what you were doing. You not have come back with me.” Editha shuddered He pu she be- you will we th you ught znd and wes going Notb away you rose I She bis going 1y | His 5 rose ix band { “Bu | et 1 His U must pot face | ake gratitude gratitude woonlit turned o see roaching ghtly o { | They wile (hew | i sentimentaiis doc ang b Same out In the 1w b you! 1 bave the T headache diime for cverybody indy E but hat she | of their to- | | | | “It is mot,” he contended here & good hour yet missed. By the by, doctor, I think 1 may have to run back to New York tomorrow— will talk it over at breaktast. Good- night.” The doctor Jooked &t him curi- ously “Good-night,” he said, s his wite pulied st his arm. As be passed Editha he stopped | to murmur. “Ask him to stay, Bdie!" The girl's white figure was outlined against a background of tall crimson holly- {Jocks. Peter Smith stood looking down at her “Will you stay” ehe asked simply He lifted her hand and kissed the wh rose 1n it KITE SAVED HIM A Pat “we shall stay but you may be Me- SCOLDING te Account for a Delay in His Message. | Colonel Robert C. Clowry, president of { the Western Union Telegraph company, as is well kuown, rose from a very bumble position in the service of that corporation. But even when he was merely a messenger |boy be had some of the resourcefulness | that has marked his subsequent career. In | 1652 he was delivering messages received |8t the office mt Joliet, Il A farmer by | the name of Gravss had been hanging sround the telegraph office for several bours. He ssserted that & message Wwas | @ue him and that it was one of importance. After giving the company & vehement | tongue-lashing Grauss left the office, saving | that hemceforth he would use the post An bour later the message came. The | operator 161a Clowry to hasten its delivery to Grauss. Clowry realized that a scolding awaited him, and as be received no Wages for his work became dighesrtened Approaching the farmer's residenmce, Clowry saw & son of Grauss pathetically | become entangled in the telegraph wires. Clowry halted and this induced a teamster o do the same. Farm hands ceased work end soon & motley crowd had assembled to sec the entangling of & kite in the meshes ©f » great cerporation. Farmer Grause was lso aftracted. He was con- cerned, because he imagined that hie son's kite was interfering with the business of a powerful telegraph company. The crowd soom took this view, and ympathy for the ownmer of the kite gave way to comjecture as to” what the wrath of the Western Union Now & wise farm hand ventured a state- ment. He said that the tall of the kite, | hanging over the two wires, made a con- pection which csused all messages to stop right there, cross over to the other wire &nd return to the sender's office. Grauss | became troubled. By means of men, hay reck and ladder the kite was removed | quickly. Clowry saw his opportunity and dissp- peared. Twenty minutes later he handed Grause a message, which he sald had just errived The tarmer acknowledged its recelpt with s coin and & “thapk you,” his emile a sign that he was giving himsel! the credit for having removed an obstruction which bad been delaying bis message iSEWED UP A MAN'S HEART wld- | Remarkable Operat on a W | Be Suicide Performed in o they | By deftly | the heart of of 1216 Wright St. Louis, Dr. Loui superintendent of the his two nssistants. | berg, saved the rarily, at leas bemorrhuge the two rents in the | the bullet had made & portion of the left e¢ off sucoesst Spiker, after ® Bdward Spiker reet 15 years old Rassieur, assistant City hospital, and Dovle and We life, tempo. g the heart and closing whict Atter stopy sutures pericardium b jts entrance and Jung, also punctu with iik was Young ™ pariaking membere be be-Democr other a lus wer w nday espon ng wh be bullet g Ras wade Dr K ung, whi been vy su b biegd fre un siev was als " - red by | | his | greeied | bs watching the gyrations of a kite which had | would be | tehing up & bullet wound in | & would-be suicide, in | | The phyeiclans tied of a portion of the Jung with heavy silk ligatures and removed ahout one and one-half square inches of that part of the Jung that had been in- jured. The patient was then turned on his side let the blod flow from the chest and drains were put in the chest The whele bperation lasted abos minutes A similar operation was performed over year mgo by Superintendent Nietert St. Louie City bospital. In that the patient's heart was Dr. Nietert and his assistants b s silk sutures were thereby stopping the flow of The patient withetood the oper. stion successfully for two or three days, but finally died. The operation excited s great deal of discvseion in medical circles. |HOW UNCLE SAM PACKS SEEDS Forty Millions Will Be Dis- tributed by the Agricultural Department. B the however by a knife laid bure taken in the blood " it art m of the Telegraph Was Able | | Nearly “The work of aistributing 39,000,000 of soeds by the government hss begun.” said B. F. Brown, the inventor of the various machines used in the distribution, to & Washington Star reporter 1 have the | contract this year for the first time, ané {have 8dded pew machines and improved the old so that there will be practically a new plant. They are planting seed in the South and Pacific states, while the New Englanders re gathering their joe crop and comsequently we must govern our dis- tribution amccordingly We have divided | the country into six divisions for this pur- pose. By December 20 secds will have heen sent to Alabama, Arizona, California, Floride, Georgle, Hawail, Louisiana, Mis- sissippi, New Mexico, South Carolina an Texas. By December 31 Arkansas, Nortk Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington will be reached. The other states are reached in Jabuary, February and March. ldabo, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont ant Wyoming come last, and seeds to this, the sixth division, will be sent by March 21. Under the present system this work it let to the lowest bidder, and 1 have the contract this vear. The result of this rivalry is thai there is close competitior in wages, apd the wages puid are aboul the sume as those re.eived by folfers and counters of houses distributing -eiroulars ©f various kinds, about 54 a week. While this is net large, girls come from these houses to seck employment, nud while we will employ in aii W0 girls, we have over 200 applications on file, mot counting those employes of last year, many of whom want to come back. We will give them the preference, becuuse they were | tried last year and found satistactery, and besides bave had the experience. “We have seeds in stock to supply the first two sections of the country named | We bave printed envelopes and wrappers | for this work and this portion of it is com- | pleted and organized. Altogether we have | on hand sbout obe-third of the seed. We get our seed from all parts of the world | The best cabbages in the world are raised |in Long leland. California furnishes let- [tuce seed of such a superior guality that | recently arrangements were made by { which the world supply of lettuce seed | will come from that state. California fur- | nishes good omion seed, and California and | Michigan furnish our radish seed. This is !n progressive wtep as the result of some | experiments recently. Up to a short time lago a&ll our radish seed came from Burope.” At the building, 221 Thirteen &nd Ope- half street, used for the distribution of gov- ernment seeds, workmen are busy remodel- ing the plant. Another set of bins to hold the seed is being added, and there will be another row of machines to count and sack the seeds. The process i wo mccurate and s0o complete hat the les show every packnge of Jettuce seed to weigh 125th of & pound and every package of tomato sead 10 weligh Mk o But what is more remarksble, package after package of flower sewds going through the bins, chutes und ma s weigh exactly the same, the weight In the instance of ope flower being 1-10001 1 of pound, and in another ound. Starting st the top of he descend to the mall tagged and routed for rit almost all by nbou 200t sacked here is a row of small mackines just be bins with s from Gepariment from Ny it is nes, ench operated by one chines measure the Quan ds in the small sacks aud A chute hese bins on next floor ugh to 200,000 of selts out. to the Av ® uroes. ptic the hoid 8l gt use seck along slong place in N ake pick he sacks needed can be looks & Established 1823. | WILSON WHISKEY. That's All!