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ER ELAS SEER EE EE KE REREAS ER EEE Ji. cee eee eee ee ee eee See ~ “THE GREAIES) LIAR Defoe, the author of “Robinson Crusoe,” holds a high place mong the saints of the nursery calendar, but In a review In the Forum of Defoe’s voluminous works Prof. W. P. Trent is pained to confess that Defoe was a great liar, a spy, an intriguer, a tortuous Secret-service man, a government tnformer, and a bad lot generally. Yet Prof. Trent, besides vindicating Defoe's genius as the first , &reat realist, has some charitable and extenuating things to say of “the greatest Har that ever lived.” Now, to be the greatest lar that ever lived fs @ distinction not to be sneezed at. Lying ts a field well filled. The competition is In- tense, It requires rare abilities to be a really great lar; only one thing requires greater, and that is to tell the exact truth An iMustrious Ist might be made up of great lars and Its head, perhaps, should be placed the world's historians. Defoe may have been a very bad man, but “Robinson Crusoe” Is very good. When we have the pearl shall we complain that it comes from a diseased oyster? His tale has opened many & youthfal mind to the suntight of life Tt has taught many a mature mind the great truth that the real essentials of comfortable living are few, and not the least of these is human companionship. His tale lifts us out of the blinding and confusing environment of every day and enables us to see ourselves with only the prime things, when the soul is not stifled and the human heart is close to the great heart of nature. There is no way of estimating the good that Is done in the world by a good book. It may be a lle—so ls Pilgrim's Progrese—but it iw nevertheless truer to the real principles of right Hving and right longing than our own lives are. Defoe was a creature of his own times, but his work is immortal, His vices were those of his environment; his genius was his own. Yooter (Continued from Continued | i CHAPTER 3 THIS The quis yew, your high- ness," answered | Messidor, or, ae I} suppose | should call him, the Mar. quis de Sevrin I understand, | air,’ said the | prince to me in hie severest [n= deed iat adi etiatiniia lla siedaatbedaieeta cetuRahalalel-' DERS THAT HURT : * * BY FRANCES GILBREATH- -INGERSOLL. * * eet rare seerrenrrempe 625.5 If there is any class of people tifat I detest, it is those who are always stepping on my corns. Not the physical ones, for I can apply « plaster or a “cure” an Soon get over it. But I mean those mental ones that sting and ran- kle and hurt long after the one who inflicted the pain has forgotten Bll about it. Of course, if I had protuberances all over me, I should expect ‘Some one to run op against them, but those injuries are only skin deep asa rule. I cannot say whether these things hurt other folks. I can only tell where the shoe pinches me. The people I detest are those who consider It a duty to down,” to correct me; to “take the starch out of mo” specially pleased with myself. When I was very young | spoke of some one who was “so humbly"—daddy always said “hambly” for “homely”—and missy cor- rected me with a supercitious smile that made me tingle all over. Nears after I came across “O, rare Ben Johnson, in his humbly old clothes,” by an author above petty critics. And to this day I feel a vindictive desire to stick out my tongue and say, “There, smarty!” T can feel yet the tingle, when my pronunciation of a word was corrected In public with “In Boston we pronounce it #0.” And because I know how it hurts, when I lean over my neigh- bor’s fence—dear old lady whonever had any “book larnin,’” out knows more about some things than all of us put together—I ask her how she plants her glady-oly bulbs, and tell her how I keep pussiey out of my garden. And [hear she thinks that for a “writer n” that I have “uncommon good sense.” “When I gave my first “paper” to an audience, years ago, a wom- ‘an for whom I had felt a great admiration requested me in « very Qudible whisper to “cut it short” as few people “cared to listen to an unknown speaker,” and the “audience were anxious to hear Mr. B~ from Boston.” I read my paper, choking back the tears heroically. But how the sunshine came back when “Mr. B—" from his great height spoke such words of kindly praise for what i had read that my heart swelled with the longing to “do and dare’ more worthily. But what hurts worst is, when [ am worked up to a “glorious pitch” of enthusiasm, to have some officious female remark, “Ex cuse me, but your hat is on one Side”—a person who takes the su shine out of the sky, the laughter from our heart, the song from the Up and the joy of living from life. “Faithtul are the wounds of a friend,” and only a self-concelted fool resents them; while no one but “the other fool” inflicts the re- verse. How much more life means when we help some other to climb where our feet have trodden successfully, or put a noble desire into another's empty Ife? And what a glorious world {t would be ff each one of us would attend to our own affairs and tet other folks manage theirs to suit their individual tastes. 1 am thankful for two thimep at least: That poor human nature fs not all cut out from the same pattern, but has infinite variations; and, most of all, that no one else need limp because MY shoes do not fit ME. We Dress You Well for $1 aWeek Eastern Outfitting Co. (nc.) 22-424 PIKE STREET, COR, FIFTH SEATTLE’S RELIABLY OREDIT HOUSK.” “take me when I am tones, “that you deny all acqualat- | ance with my friend here “Pardon, your highness, only} with the Marquis de Sevringen; Monsieur Carne Messidor I know | to my cost.” “Carne Mesaidor!” repeated the} prince, puzzled. Your highness’ friend” (I taid a nasty emphasis on the word) “ev dently possesses several names. Y highness has listened to by | grave charge made against m this Frenchman—” Your highness,” Interrupted the | marquis, very rudely to my think is it necessary to bandy words with this re pber, Is it not rather a} matter for your courts of law? I make the charge that this} man has stolen from my} person ten thousand pounds. From | hind that curtain I perceived him HE STOOD AT MY MERCY, M i { offer to Milord Eveston some of the very notes which he this morning abstracted from my pocket; no doubt the remainedr are still at his rooms. I implore your highness assistance to save my 1 Should not this man be placed custody?” “Can you asked the prim tation, “Undoubtedly.” The matter commenced to wear for me a very black appearanc and this I was not slow to realize. Of course | knew this French mar- quis to be an agent of Napoleon and no Bourbon at all. But he ovident- ly had acquired the friendship of the prince by some devilish means, and he had been clever enough to discount any charge I might prefer verty in swear to the notes?” with some hessi- against him by striking first and aecusing me of robbery, I com- menced actually to admire the man, but, as will no doubt be surmised, my admiration was largely mixed with other emotions. It was not long before | had resolved upon my course, and the gambler’s spirit within me loudly acclaimed the 4 termination to risk all on a sing shuffie of the cards, Slowly drawing the notes from my pocket I made a low bow to the prince. “This Frenchman, your royal highness,” I observed with a fine assumption of scorn, “declares that I have robbed him and states that be can identify the notes. Now this bundle of notes represents my worldly wealth, your highness will discover, exactly nine hundred | | pounds.” Here I handed the bundle | to the prince, who recetved them in| | astonishment 1 proceeded with} | another low reference “As an! Englishman. ut royal highness, | and a loyal ject, I place myself unre ily In your hands, Ifthe Frenchman will identify those Cop yright | to be readily perceived,” | finitely THE SEATTLE STA “A Sword Mislaid” ESDAY, MAY y, 1905. BY AMBROGE PRATT, by the KR. FF. Fenne Compan: — notes by the only certain means possible, and correctly stato thelr numbers, thelr numbers,” (I re peated) “to your royal highness, then I spread out my hands and shrugged my shoulders. Tho marquis perceptibly changed | color, “J am not a banker to keep| the number of notes, but” (he snapped this out viciously) “my notes ere all marked on the back with @ blue croas. I was equal te thin emergency The way your royal highness ts holding the notes allows this fact 1 observed with a gesture of contempt T al ways mark my potes for luck.” This was common prac tee among gamblers, « see that the prince, and fn fact the whole audience, was wavering be tween us 1 ineantly made a has ard, the risk to me of which was in more deadly than my other lucky shot, but I saw one chanc for it waa reasonable to sup that this raseal who had tried to} bribe me to betray my country must have origtnally been supplied with Freach gold, and maybap re cently, In which case he would not dare to carry the matter further. There ix a simple way of settling | this dispute, your royal Bighnena,” 1 remarked with splendid nonch ance. “Your friend” (with a #n doubtless obtained his notes, if be evor possensed any, from some pers | son or other, or from @ bank. fa / either case the numbers must ar cantly obtninable.” ood!” cried the prince, relieved. “What say you enough Y POINT AT HIS THROAT. quis?” But the Frenchman waa biting his ps with rage. “Ab!” he hissed, “long before I/ can obtain the numbers the rest of | the money will be gone.” “Will your royal highness deign to accompany me to my poor rooms and allow this mad Frenchman to| search for himself? I asked politely. | ‘Sang de Dieu,” granted out the marquis; “then you have dispgged of your stolen goods already It was exactly what I requ . this speech I stepped back two paces the climax Your royal highness and gefifte men,” I cried in clear, ringing | voice, “I call you to witness how long | have submitted, in deference to your royal highness’ presence, to this man’s infernal insults. “He has come forward and greta {tously made a diabolical charge against me. Shielded by the pro- tection gf my prince, this mah, «| Frenchman, and in my humble) opinion a dastardly traitor to God | and man, has dared to traducq an to deliv- 4 I could | | kilt i assurance of destiny I marked the| my me 4 Kranp and he stood my point at his throat, hin life min | to take or give, His face, pallid before, was livid a8 a ghont, but I marked another emotion In him now. Fear—crave fonr! Me could not speak for fe and hie teeth rattled like castanet 2 gently pricked his throat; he fel k step by step, I followed him Stil brought up by the wall he wa constrained to pause, The silence one in that room was ailence The Kind You Have aes earns has borne the al }® charnel house—intense, ghastly tur r Chas, H. Fletcher, and h nm made unée | full of horrid mystery, [ was the} personal supervision for ove Allow ne Ys god in the machine, | broke the| 0 decelve you this. Gounterfeits, ‘Tmitationg 2M allonce «+ Just-as-good" are _ Expertments, and endanger te | Undre mon I com health of Ohildr = » against Experiment, | manded } Ry yin w hyphae id py Ae |p oa or die. pov” s wer OCastoria is a harmless substitute for Ca tor O11 And now a word in apology for my| An I said these words a gleam of | KOFIG. rege alm Boothing Syrups. It brutality, It soomed to me:abso-| craven hope crept into his blood-| fontaine melther Opium, Morphine no lutely necessary that I must kill| shot eyes, His teeth wtill ehatter pop ng ell lala spam ie destroys Worm, | this Frenchman, im the first piace, | ing, he drew off his shirt, and| Qolie. It relie thihie Trouble larrhoon aod Wing it was a duty I felt that I owed my | there, manifest to all, the coward . ett Hay - ‘the Poun oY mec country to clip bis oapacity for| stood reveated, for from neck to atin situ ‘wenier aes ‘ea a | working public ill, In the second, | brisket he wore an undershirt of ps Chitdron’ ip Panncon— Tee Mother's Iricnd. his money was undoubtedly in my | chain steel Impenetrable by sword | possession, and only after his death | or dagger could I feel perfectly at ease in| I stood over him, believe me, 6 in Ol aye Wa § Ol spending it, for he was evidently a| magnificent in my seorn, “This. creature of infinite resource and | your royal highness,” I said, “is the ; daring, and he had reason enough | creature who would assail the hon Bears the Signature of to work hard for my downfall, Had| or of an Knglishman, I will not I merely slapped hia face he might | defame by hi path a sword by have refased to fight me and his re-| which a» yet has only drunk eal | fusat have b upheld by the| lant blood” others while my innocence or guilt] Then with a gesture of disdain I remained in doubt. It therefore | sent my rapler rattling back into ¢ ro became needful to adopt a course | its scabbard sufficiently provoking to force even| The marquis caught up his In Use For Over 30 Years, a pig to fight | clothes and hurried to the door Tam bound to confess the French-| There he paused an instant and man bore himself gallantly enough he wiped bis face with a dainty lace | mouchotr, which he presently threw, with magnificent disdain, Into the Diaging fire. His cheeks had grown & queer finh-white color pallor of a three-day by Saint John and fiercer fronted the corpse, but, his eyes were hotter than live coals prince with horrible composure and forced out words be | tween clenched teoth by sheer phy | sical effort Your highness,” he muttered in & whisper so low but none but my ears heard, “has been good enough | oO accept certain gifts from m | pricked up my ears at this a recognized the cause of the | prince’s complaisance to the mar- quis. “I beg one favor in return Name it,” muttered the prince. “That your royal highness will condescend to witness a fencing iike to the | He} stared at yet gave mé, hungrily, hungrily, utterance to no that glance haunted me. It was the look of a lost soul who gazes on the objective cause of its damnation. | It was the glance of a demon full of | venom and most poisonous ill-will | When the door closed 1 stared | blankly at the panels, half regret ting the Impulse which had made | j me spare a life But a heavy hand on my shoulder aroused me to the present, and Prince George's uncouth but merry voles rang in my ear, Fore Gad! Franks, I wouldn't | like to stand afore your sword. | man. Well, we've done a good | morning's work between us; you've bowled out a blackguard off a long score indeed. Well, what say, shall we lunch together?” | There ensued the marvelous spec match whieh I have the honor to | tacle of the first gentleman of Eng Propose should take place immedi-| land walking arm-in-arm down ately between myself and this—” | Plecadilly with “that devil Franks (his face went suddenly purple) j Every face we met in our march “this gentleman.” | Went yellow with curiosity, Men © prinee turned red with vexa- | stopped, stared and rubbed their dia, ond pavbion ahamen eyes. Il wentto his assistance. You! Truly, to more than me the world see your highness,” I cried gayly, | emed jurning topsy-turvy. we each fancy our own style of awe #wordmansbip, and the only meth- CHAPTER IIL. od open to find the master is a HIGH TREASON, match, with buttons on the folls id course. “Or qui Everybody acclaimed this propos al, and the prince, though much against bis will, presently agreed, | only strenuously insisting that the | buttons should be firmly placed the mar-| granted | In two minutes we were ready | and the swords crosse4. Then a! strange thing happened. The mar- | quis’ foot tripped and he fell to the ground. Aw if euch idents were infectious I fol ed suit, and when We arose cach of our blades had glittering points The buttons are offt Stop!" ¢ried the prince, angrily I stared at my blade, at his. “Your highness is-aurely mistak- | en,” I ventured humbly Surely,” echoed the marq The prince pealed to the oth era, “the fotls are ba he eried One and all a him of his mistake, and presently, with a soul comforting ¢ he sank back in his chair and shaded bis eyes an | the marquis eur his hand. “The devil take you all!” he growled. For the first time tm my life paraded before a sympathetic au Gience. Though no word fn my favor had been spoken I felt it in my bones, and I knew that every man there ardently desired mo to! beat the Frenchman. The feeling gave m ditional strength, confi dence and composure. Hitherto had invariably fought fn the pres ence of those who would have wel comed my defeat with thankful hearts, and the knowledge of that disposition had ever nerved me to display of perfect skill was at my best. I my opponent But now I determined to and witn all the spot on his shirt front blade should enter to heart. The marquis where my wearch was a fine ex ] ponent of one style of fence and one style only—that of the Italian school In that 1 admit h hear perfect. But I had mas all sche and styles, and very soon he perceived that his life was at my mercy I paid him many compliments as we proceeded, but he never relaxed from a fixed, dog-like grin. His blade once slipped past my head, only a swerve saved me, I pierced the le of his left ear by way of Englishman’s dearest honor; I have defied him to prove his words; he has answered with fresh abuse. Your royal highness, I crave your pardon, but Tam, after all, only flesh and blood; there fs a limit to | my self control, and that boundary has been sed.” With a ewift movement I ady ed and deliber ately spat in the enchman’s face It appeared to me that for the moment I had actually-—1, that devil Franks'—achieved a certain popularity. No doubt ft was largety due to my artfol accentuation of the opposing nationalities, but nevertheless a distinct hum of ap proval greeted my action. Lord Francis Eveston went so far as to | clap bis hands, Even the prince gave vent to a geod-humored oath | fort | dington & recklosangas frreconcilable with a | his} The main point was that I was quite rich man. Ten thousand pounds! 1 doubt if Devenac him- if could have placed hie hand on such a sum without considerable ef. I paid for the lunch. It cost me just 38 shillings, for the prince ordered one quart of old port and then another, but every mouthful made him more good natured and “ more friendly disposed towards me | nation of the government against | so I did not regret the prospect of | Which he was striving placed us on | this expenditure gaged fighting the king and Ad to try and wring from them a position in the army at least equal to that of the duke of York, considering it far below his royal dignity to longer remain a paltry He was then en- In the days of William Pitt What made people throw a fit Blethen's Blatter. DON'T WANT ‘EM. Pray don’t To the send the Igorrotes ay of Biscay, ‘own thelr trouble by Just filin’ ‘em with whiskey, Or even @ Let ‘em come to Ballar t Mere are dogs in plenty, They could capture_every night, At least eighteen or twenty. , do | Dor every kind and size, From the shaggy fellow, To the cur bedecked with mange, And ragged coat of yellow, Dogs that bt k from night till morn. Which prevents our sleeping, | Making us s0 nervous that We always feel like weeping. WEEPING WILL A WORD FROM JOSH WISE. Nature gen'rally evens things up by makin’ th’ big fellers return. His blade passed between my left arm and my body; in ex- good natured an’ giv- change I cut his lower lip in two. One thing, however, I could not fail in’ th’ bad tempers t’ to notice in his fence. He left his breast entirely unprotected, Sus- th’ little fellers. pecting a ruse I feinted in such a |} manner as to lead him to expect a —— fatai thrust. He actually courted} “I suppose, now that Miss Chick- the disaster, for throwing up his | ington has made such a hit on the sword he made no counter thrust, | stage, she'll take her time in get- I was confounded with surprise, for | ting married.” no tyro could have been so foolish.| “Oh, yes, naturally, You know I reasoned as I played with him,! the motto of the stage folk: Marry and presently hazarded a guess. To | at leisure, divorce in haste.” make sure I forced a smart rally, | . and in the midst of ft pricked at his| “Why, how lovely all your trees heart. My blade grated on steel! and shrubbery look this spring.” armor, and without doubt, had I| “Yes, Henry has been so busy at| thrast hard enough I should have | the office that he didn’t have time been left with a broken and useless | to do any prunning or trimming sword. Thereafter he fought like | this year.” a fiend incarnate, and only my skill | and activity saved me from several| ‘Tho statistician of the Chicago} vicious thrusts, but at last, with a| board of health figures that if the | swift lunge and turn of wrist, I| present rate of increase in average sent his blade spinning from his longevity continues in that city un- word, | For long afterwards the memory of | I've paid} » STAR DUST Oe HERE 1S A REAL BARGAIN W ——ON Our High-Grade Clean-Cut La best Mowers manufactured at th every Mower is guaranteed to gi 12-inch, reg. $4.50; special ..... 14-inch, reg. $5.00; special .. 16-inch, reg. $5.60; special | | Both Phones 1158. Jeolonel of dragoons. I had never | | mixed in polities but I was conver-| nt with the ordinary affairs ot | day, and the army was a sore; | point with me. Five times during | the present campaign I had at- } | tempted to obtain a commission for | active service in Spain, but my ap-| | plications had been contemptuously | | disregarded. I had been each time referred to the fact that after that} jaffair at Goa at the end of Welles lley’s campaign in India (through | which I had fought with honor) I had been dismissed tne service tn | dtagrace for the paltry matter of | shooting Lord Melville's brother-in- law, in defiance of the edict for-- bidding duels. It will be readily | perceived therefore, that political | influence I had none, for the excuse | was (trifling, and Melville was then lon the eve of being impeached for | malversation of state funds, yet he was able to veto my ambitions. I was all the more ready on that ac- }eoust to sympathize with the prince, and my comprehensive dam- | th the most amicable terms. I fancy I could have gained his influence fn | my favor, and was actually on the | polnt of asking it, when an un- toward accident occurred. (To be Continued.) til 2045, the average age at death will be 112 years, The figures may seem startling, but there is nothing in them that should cause the pres- ent residents of Chicago any alarm. They have nothng to fear. A Bloomington, IIL, man found a girl's address in a box of candy, wrote to her, and they were mar- ried. This should be a warning to women whose husbands buy candy for them, BALLARD IS IT. Rat-a-tat-tat. Oh, dear, what is that? An agent, inspector, Assessor, collector? Rub-a-dub-dub, My, what a hubbub. “Here's madam's letter.” That sounded much better. It requires not a little possexsion of wit To know free delivery just makes Ballard “It.” | “SALT RISIN' BREAD.” Backward, turn backward, Oh, time, in your flight, Make me a child again, Just for tonight. 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