The Dickinson press., 1895-09-28

COutluu0S SWeGC uuuer any kluU OF u
name; but is it true that the change Of
its name wouldn't hurt, at least the
reputation Of its odor?
AT all events, for whatever reason,
Miss II was not determined person,
and her qualifying name was applied
to many of or declarations and opin-
ions. Her yes" and mo" were al
ways given with the rising infection
as If she wasn't quite sure, or as IL
she feared 10 offend by being too posi-
tive.
She was lovable girl, however. One
Of the soft, yielding sort that would
be burned at the stake sooner than
really and actually give up q principle,
while her square-jawed, heavy framed
sister would be found crying, begging
and renouncing at the executiOner's
feet.
Pink cheeks, blue eyes, childishness
and fear Of all things; these go smil-
ingly to death which makes the iron
nerved quail.
You can imagine her saying at the
gallows stairs:
"Well, good-by, dear. l mustn't
keep the hangman waiting for his sup
per-"
Rulers of the world are these.
Ballots? They are too sure of their
present power to want a change.
They do not need ballots, nor any
human invention, to complete their
rule of mankind whom they have civ.
ilized and subdued.
Men who would not bow before the
pageant of the king, yet submit with
out a murmur and bend in reverence
before this uncrowned queen.
II, was coming back from journey.
She had been up the line hundred
miles to visit an aunt.
There was doubt about her going
alone. Egotistical men think that they
should follow their own w0menkind
around them to protect them: hut the
girls and women know that they are
better taken care of when they are
confided to the public.
There il, no doubt, something alb
surd in the constant hat doffing of the
men tO the women, who respond with
the smile mechanical; but hat lifting
and smiling are episodes in the civili-
ZatiOn which has made 1t safe FOX
woman to travel without male at
tendant, from one ocean to the other.
The little woman was thoroughly en-
joying her trip.
The woman ON the front seat was
complaining to her companions:
'"The wind blew all the time I was
there; and l couldn't go out a Bit"
If thought to herself-and it amused
her: ''Think of the wind being SO
rude: and why couldn't she 60 out,
wonder?"
The whi1r of the wheels and the rat
tie of the train drowned the next few
paragraphs of the complaint.
The man behind her filed in the gap
SO "dash dashed hot" Ifs face was
turned from the man, SO that her smile
need not fade. ..E
smile born of quaint and humorous
thought; the light from the crucible
Within the brain wherein fancy was
mixing and refining.
1t was pleasant to look at; young
man sitting in full view of 1t thought
1t most enchanting.
He was a grave young man, clad In
ministerial black. His color told of
midnight electricity and the lines and
shape of his face were convincing
proofs that the late lights shone not
bibulously to him. At glance you
would not, perhaps, have been favora-
bly, impressed with the young man.
He improved, however, upon ac-
quafntance. So many young men, and
old ones, too, for that matter, may be
likened unto the cup which hOldeth
but pint and is quickly drained.
After you have known one Of them for
six days, you can make table where
in will be set down what the subject
will do during every other six days of
his harmless life.
Ashleigh Ellinger was a student of
backs. He was going to get the the
ory Of medicine as nearly perfect in
his mind as he could before he began
to learn the real science from his pa
tients. He had lived in lily ventilated
rooms q great deal, and had given up
all serious care except of the one
thing upon which his mind was bent.
1t was admitted that he had studied
too hard. His close friend-a doctor
Of some discoveries and many patients
told him that he must take q
rest, and ne was now In pursuit Of the
recommended relaxation.
Eunger was conscientious. That
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the things he appeared to do; he did
not lie to himself.
He did not control his actions with
arguments based on sophistry, per
suading himself that he was doine
that which he was not doing. He wal
} honestly taking the prescription az
given by his friend, the physician.
The combination Of which all hu
manity are parts, had made his des
tination, for week or SO at least, the
town Of Parkersburg, which was thu
home Of Miss Iphegenia Spencer thu
young lady whose smile young Eiling
er was now admiring.
I He might be said to be staring at
her; but when she turned her head, at
IL to look in his direction, he jerked
his gaze away and looked violently ou1
Of the window. She might have seer
his blushes II she had looked CLOSELY
ut him. She would have been very in
dignant II she had known that he wal
watching her; the smiles were not fol
llim; and she would have resented hii
impudence at appropriating them.
He wondered where she was going
He wondered many things concerning
her, some Of which he solved to hii
own satisfaction.
She was wonderfully bright girl