The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-06-07
CUPID'S ARROWS.

Once upon a time there lived at
Simla very pretty girl, the daughter
of a poor but honest district and ses-
sions judge. She was good girl, but
could not help knowing her power and
using it. Her mamma was very anx.
ious about her daughters future, as
all good mammas should be.
When a man Is commissioner and
bachelor aud has the right of wear
ing open-work, jam-tart Jewels in gold
and enamel on his clothes, and of 90.
ing through door before every one
except member of council, Lieu
tenant-Governor or Niceroy, he is
worth marrying AT least, that is
what ladies say. There was a Com
missioner at Sim'a in those days who
was and wore and did all | have said.
He was a plain-an ugly man-tlc
ugliest man in Asia, with two excep-
tions. His was face to dream about
aud try to carve on pipe-hcad after
wards. His name was Saggot-Barr-
Saggott-Anthony. Barr-Saggott, and
six letters to follow. Departmentally
he was one of the hest men the Gov
ernment of India owned; socially he
was like a blandishing gorilla.
When he turned his attentions to
Miss Beighton l believe that Mrs.
Beighton wcpt with delight at the
reward Providence had sent her IN her
old age.
Mr.. Beighton held his tongue. He
was an easy-going man.
Now, a Commissioner is very rich.
His pay is beyond the dreams of
avarice-is so enormous that he c,n
afford to save and scrape in way
that would almost discredit a member
of council. Most Commissioners arc
moan, but Barr-Saggott was an ex-
coption. He entertained royalty, he
horsed himself well, he gave dances,
he was power in the land and he be-
haved as such.
Consider that everything 1 am
writing of took place in an almost
prehistoric era in the history of
British India. Some folk NAV re-
member the years before lawn tennis
was born wien we all played croquet.
There were seasons before that, If
you will believe me, when even
croquct had not been invented, and
archery, which was revived In Eng.
land in 1874, was as great pest as
lawn tennis is now. People talked
learnedly about "holding" and
"loosing," "stelcs," .'reflexed bows"
"ffty-six-pound bows" "blacked" or
"self-yew bows" as we talk about
"rallies," "volleys," "smashes," "re-
turns" and "sixteen- ounce rackets."
Miss Beighton shot divinely over
ladies' distance-sixty yards, that is
aud was acknowledged the best lady
archer In Slmla. Men called her
"Diana, of Tara -Devi.n
Barr-Saggott paid her great atten.
tion. and, as ! have said, the heart of
her mother was uplifted in conse-
quence. Kitty Beighton took matters
more calmly. 1t was pleasant to be
singled out by a Commissioner with
letters after his name and to fill the
hearts Of other girls with bad feelings.
But there was no denying the fact that
Barr-Saggott was phenomeually ugly,
and all his attempts to adorn himself
only made him more grotesque.
He was not christened "The Langurn
which means gray ape-for nothing.
It was pleasant. Kitty thought, to
have him at her feet, but It was better
to escape from him and ride with the
grsceless Cubbon--the man in
drsgoon regiment at Umballa-thc boy
with handsome face aud NO pros.
poets. Kitty liked Cubbon more than
little. He never pretended for
moment that hc was anything less
than head over heels iu love with her.
for be was an houest boy. So Kitty
asd now aud again from the stately