The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-05-04

but unlike medicine shaking before taking
ism the best rule with girls Well. 50
long then had expected. Of course.
to bring YOU home with me tonight and
indeed | need You. There 4 Miss En-
dicott visiting Nellie She's from the
East where the wise people come from,
You know: and is the best neither grind
stone my sister could have selected. Be
tween them. m apt 10 be crushed on the
neither grindstone mean. for she pretty
and might be charming Most girls man
nerS nowadays resemble the flexible corsets
they wear. But as for Miss kndicott-
well. III bet that Catherine dc Medici
never sported such rock bound tarthin
yale. Her name is Theodore. and she
looks circumtieX accent en every syllable.
Now. Dora. or Dodo, on Thee are all
sweet and winsome.
If she would only look one of these |
would return unutterable things What
a privilege. she exclaimed the other day
when she heard Of my place in the court.
Don You enjoy looking over the lawyers
briefs ? Aud when said Yes. way
over she turned her pretty shoulders and
said she had put away play on words with
other childish things. | sc a volume OF
Cotton Mather sermons with me now,
and after dinner IN going to put on
frunt-a Boston front So. IN your on
sons. be my troubles remembered, and
Ned Thomson sauntered away, As he
stopped In his own office To be assured that
there was nothing tn do he murnured with
fraterual malice I'm tell Nellie that
Clarence isu coming over any more and
that he Is going 10 have 4 clerk wonder
which Bit Of news win exa~perate her the
more.
tine morniug. week later Clarence
Hamilton had jus; settled down 10 his task
of pacing and gazing with that resolution
which complete conception Of duty gives
when an extraordinary event occurred
stranger entered the office The new
crlner was slight short young man. well
euyelopej in > long ulster I'll. hair was
black aud tight curling his complexion
swarthy with faint line ot penciling on
the upper hp Over cne exc was green
patch. warranted tn disigure Antimous.
vet the stranger wore It with jaunty air
~, displeasing Indeed there WAS very
distinct personality about him which at
once attracted Clarence the more 50 since
t depended on some elusive resemblance.
The Youth presented letter and then
,ougheI--an evidence, by the way. Uot
lecepsiye. far his voice when he sInke
showed the huskiue-, ot heavy cold.
clarence r,,ad the missiye The unex
yretej hail happened aud vet ig should
have been expected. OlI MIR Thomson.
that >hreWd politician. had at once acted
oa the hint of q possible place The
Iearcr. Cyril Gagcr. was appointed tenn
Iorary clerk subject 10 the further action
( ar the boar,i. The further action 81 the
Seven SlceperS ~ if tha, could mean
ANYTHING more than changing sides and
-ler,ing the ~,uuder Meanwhile Mr.
Cynl Gage might reasonably rount on he
;ng settled for life
Clareucc motiouel tins most needless
assistant 10 chair May ask your
Z qualifications he began Such clear
sweet Voice asserted it, nature BY new aud
again brcaking through the eoniound husk
+ iu,-s. sounding a chord from same dear
iorsptteu refrain
Speaking generally. said Cynl, i
understand bookkeeping both single and
double entry can take down and transeribe
in shor, hand read and write French
I German and Italian, my Duteh, fear. j,
little rusty. but IN brush it up. pre-
,ume large part of our work mus, deal
with the old Dutch record- In particu
lar--well, u endeavor So j" any task yen
nisy designate
Take the~e papers, then, aud tile
then. directed Clarence. desperately aud
he handed over an uld roll which be had
. bug since devoted to throwing at pe,ldlerS,
Z Then he turned To- the window and glanced
over Al the distant hills. moEv distant, more
indiStiuct than usual through the thick
Z half congealcd moisture in the air \ ine
T ,ri,k old Thomson had played him Why.
the Ciyil Service Commiss:an couldn have
done worse with the Normal Syhooi grad
Z uate AZ the head Of IL list What should
he do He didn propose 10 play sind
I bad to any such iutelluetual monstrosi,y.
Brush up hi, Dutch indeed He d teach
the vuungster To walk Spanish before he
was through with him. What should be
do ? Clarence was not trained To rapid
thinking. but now Necessity spurred him.
However brash this Cyril Gagef might be
in hi, statement of qualifications at heart
he must be- lazy, all bays were. especially
these with black, tight curling hair
Very well. then. The only thing 10 pre-
( vent his becoming immured in a chair was
10 give him day Of such eXacting, un-
oeising toll a, specimen a. would drive
I the ant Ia a slu.gard and iransmute busy
bee into a drone. Could he set the ex-
ample and keep the pace Certainly he
could. - radical change might scare
his melancholy at least temporarily away.
Look alive, there shouted Clarence
suddenly we We got a whole day work
before rs. young man
Young Eager glanced up with fright
ened expression 4 Sc just finished,
I he siammered
( oh thought Clarence He 5
I lightning up tree, isn' he What next
/ Well. anything for a diversement, be-
To suggest. he continued aloud and with
I strained politeness, that you take of
your ulster You Il be quite warm enough
without it before the day is oven.
Clarence watched his clerk curiously as
he reluctantly drew off the coat, and then
rapidly sunk into the chair behind the
great desk. One would think had told
him to sit in his nightshirt he muttered.
What next Al, the very thing
In one corner of the room stood Il stack
Of bulky. leather bound tones, long since
SCI there as piece de resistance against
/ the somnolent atmosphere
Il see the porter has fetched up some
of the records, remarked the willy Clar-
ence. Just copy the names out of them,
will YOU. Gager? | shall be engaged with
some original suggestions as TO the rights
of collateral descendants of the Tories. \
little monograph it viii be of about thou
sand folios.
An of these names queried Cyril.