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Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19

81 am very glad you came to me,
Henry" she began tremously. Eleanor
told me all last night, and she is very
sorry. But you must remember, my
dear boy, that young girls like to as
sert their power, and that young men
are ever impatient"
She peered anxiously at the young
man, but he was sitting with his face
in the shadow, and she could tell
nothing from his attitude.
Eleanor is sorry" she went on anx.
iously. 81 have shown her my own
folly and she will profit by my ex'
perience."
Were you sorry?" Miss Littleton
started. She had never realized how
like his fathers was his voice.
Eyes" she said quietly. 81 shall be
sorry until the day of my death"
And would you forgive him and
take him back?"
Miss Littleton thrilled at the tense
ness of the voice. She laughed feebly.
81 don't think your father wants me,
Henry" she said. 81 am old now and
not as good-lookirg as l was twenty
years ago. but"
Then Carter did a very strange
thing. He caught her in his arms
and covered the still attractive face
with kisses. Ten minutes later, when
the period of sensible speech had
been arrived at, Miss Littleton be-
thought herself of the younger gener'
alton.
"They are all right" declared Col
Carter cheerfully. when l arrived
last night and found that history had
been repeating itself l gave the boy
some good advice about happy endings
to romances. They made it up in the
postoffce this morning, and came or
here to add the last chapter to my
own romance"
mot the last, Henry" she protested
LET us say the first."-E. w. Sar
gent in Boston Globe.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
Test Of Quality.

Miss Nina Gage, a trained nurse,
and Leroy Leach, the famous rifle
shot, were married in New Orleans
the other day, after a peculiarly ro-
mantle courtship.
They had known each other only a
few weeks, but under circumstances
that enabled them to know each 9th
err well, for he was sick and she
nursed him.
The man who can win a woman's
love when he is sick and at his worst
must be worthy of her. And the wom-
an who can allay a sick mans pain
and lead his narrowed mind from his
little selishnesses and petulencies
out into the sunshine of love is wor-
thy Of the best man ever born.
To some unthinking ones this court.
ship may seem a commonplace one.
There is no dash about it.. 1t is not
a brilliant scene set in the glamour OF
adventure or rivalry and attended by
the glitter Of ballroom or by clank
of sword or by fervid speech that
sounds high to heaven.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
one on Senator overman.

Senator Overman was recently in
North Carolina to act as attorney for
defendants in a murder trial. He
climbed into a bootblack's chair in
Salisbury one day. The negro boy
was rather bright and the senator en-
gagged him in conversation.
who is the governor of this slater"
asked the senator.
Il doan' no, boss" was the reply,
for which the senator chided the boot
black. Gov. Charlie Aycock is very
popular in the old North state. and
Democrats think everybody ought to
know his name.
The polishing of the senator's shoes
proceeded, and the negro lad seemed
to be ina mental abstraction. But he
soon broke the silence.
Boss" he inquired, "who am the
gubehnor Of Mississippi"
The senator had to admit that he
could not Washington
Post.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19

A change in the hum of conversa-
tion in the parlor brought Little Miss
Littleton back to the present. The
boys voice rose in injured protest:
EIesnor's was cold with taunt. There
was a moment Of pregnant silence, the
shutting of door and Miss Littleton
was already at the doorway to receive
upon her shoulder the fearful face OF
the child in whom her hopes were
wrapped.
Slowly. patiently she drew from
the sobbing figure the story OF the
quarrel It was all very childish; the
tale of a girlish assumption Of do
minion, a boys assertion of mans
superiority OF Independence. Miss
Littleton's heart bled afresh as she
realized how very like her own wal
this tale Of a sweetheart's quarrel, I'm
important except for the possibilities
] Cor eVilit might poSsesH-
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
mIItIe 3Ns
11,2p!Ie!!o;NS.'
E.IES4RGENT
E.HS4RGST

Little Miss Littleton eyed with APP
proval the two youthful figures hurry
ing up the village street. Eleanor.
her niece, reminded her so strongly of
that other Eleanor. She could almost
imagine that she was again in the old
southern homestead, and that this girl
was the sister whom she had loved so
well.
The lad by her side also awoke ten.
der memories, for he was very like
Col. Carter, when that doughty war
rlor had come counting pretty Mary
Littleton full twenty years ago.
1t was the colonel who had given
her the nickname which had stuck to
her because of its appropriateness.
He had meant to give her yet an
other name, his own, but Mary Little
ton was a true southerner, and she
could not forbear teasing a nOrtherner
even though she loved him-and in
fit of pettishness he had flung him
self out of the great wide hall one
afternoon and had written from the
hotel a hurried note explaining that
Telegram was summoning him to his
mothers death bed.
He intended to come back, nv. there
had been an involved estate TO settle,
and almost before he knew it a year
had slipped by and he had found at
traction in a girl in his own native
town.
When he went back the Littletons
had gone north, he was told. Miss
Eleanor had married a northern man,
and had taken her sister with her.
1t has been quite by accident that
the younger Eleanor had met the son
of her auDts old lover at the seaside
the summer before. His mother was
dead, his father travelling abroad, and
he had accepted an invitation to spend
holiday with the Merrimans, who
lived not half mile from the little
cottage Miss Littleton made truly a
home for Eleanor.
They had been skating, and as the
pair came up the thy walk, their
cheeks rosy and their eyes bright
from the exercise, little Miss Little
ton sighed and murmured a prayer
that this romance might not be like
that other one which lay shrouded in
her memory.
Eleanor came into the sitting room
to brush a kiss across her aunt's
cheek and pass loving hand over the
hair still brown and heavy. She made
a hurried toilet before the sitting room
glass and hurried back to the parlor,
where the sound of their voices floated
back, making music far sweeter to
Miss Littleton's ears than the half
audible notes of the piano, whose keys
Eleanor was lovingly touching.
The dusk grew deep in the sitting
room, the wood fire, Miss Littleton's
one extravaganza, Pickering in the alb,
surd little open CRATE so threw fan
tastic figures upon the wall patches OF
light and shade that peopled the room
as with a merry crowd of dream PEG,
ple-companions, perhaps, to those her
thoughts called back from the misty
memories Of years gone by.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19

stately orb of night break above the
oceans rim and blend its white light
with the pink afterglow of sunset.
Bathed in her flood, they turned their
horses homeward, riding through a
Swallowed and shimmering fairyland
The gnarlcd and wind-wrenched ap-
pie trees were etched in lines of weird
beauty against the sky. The rugged
stone walls were softened, and faded
away into dreamy perspectives.
In the years which followed, how the
scenes and incidents of that summer
came back to John Burt! Under many
skies he recalled the happy hours
spent with Jessie Garden. Again he
drifted with her in a boat, floating at
will Of breeze and tide, her hand trail.
ing in the water, and the murmur of
her voice in his ears. Again they
walked down the wooded path, while
the black Of the night stood like wall
in front Of them, and Jessie clutched
at his arm when an owl sounded his
solemn cry.
Jessie was going to Vassar, and
John had passed the examination
which admitted him to Harvard He
found that he could study much better
under the shade of the Bishop trees
than in any other spot, and Jessie
held the textbooks while he recited
The weeks glided by like a dream.
One day in autumn he stood by her
side on the station platform in Hing
ham. AS the train rumbled in, some
thing rose to his throat and q film
stole over his eyes.
"Good-by, joint"
"Good-by, Jessie!"
The train glided out from the sta
ton; a little hand fiuttered a lace
handkerchief from a window; a sun
burned pair waved in reply. Jessie
had gone back to Boston.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
Advlsers Of the czarn.

The great czars Of Russia, somebody
said, when they want a man, go out
into the street and find one. It is
another way of saying that the czar's
ministers spring from nowhere. It is
almost true. Russia has had an en-
press who began life as a peasant and
marE5ed Swedish dragon, and 1t was
an Armenian who all but destroyed
the autocracy of the czars and set
Russia among the progressive nations.
Sergius De White, descendant Of a
Dutchman, started at a wayside rail-
way station on a career which has
brought him almost at the head of the
state. So, too, with the man who to-
day holds the key Of all the mysteries
OF the great Russian war machine.
Alexel NichOlaieyitch Kuropatiin be-
gan life rs a sublieutenant.Lo London
Answers.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
Good Outlook for United States.

Admiral Bowles. who retired from
the construction department of the
navy to take general charge of the
shipbuilding plant near Quincy, Mass.
and must be conceded to know some
thing about the business he has been
in for twenty-five years, at a meeting
Of the Master Builders and Traders
association Of Quincy, expressed his
belief that the United States will be
building the ships Of the world in the
near future.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19

this no-account Jones. 1t takes a pow
erful long time ter clean a cistern out
proper. Bill an Gus is down stairs
waitin' fer ye. Let's play 'em one
game, an then ye can go home an
pull the old woman up"
"As said before, it's always dark
down in Jones' basement, an none on
EN- took Iany account on what was
goin on. You know how It rained
yesterday mornin'? II started in tew
pour long about nine o'clock" Sam
paused to laugh. when old man
Shaw came out err Jones basement,
the cutters was full of water an the
rain was comm down in sheets. For
three hours 1t had been rainin' cats
an dogs!
"Old man Shaw was plumb scared
ter death. He ran all the way home.
Every time he looked at a gutter-spOut
he nearly tainted away. He come tew
his place an ran round the back way.
He looked down the hole an saw moth
in but water.
"'Sallie! Sallien he hollered.
ne Olu NOulhu "do blhuhlu Ou
top the bottom of the pail, uD agin
the wall. The water was up tew her
chin, but she was mad all over, an she
hadn't lost her voice.
"'Yeve come at last, Bill Shaw,
have YEP she said. You haul me
outer here quicker'n scat, an when l
gets up I'll scratch yer eyes out! Ye
done this on purpose! Ye HAIL me
out, an I'll fix ye fer this days work!
THE old man lowered a rope, an
after a hard tussle hauled her up.
The neighbors say she mopped him all
over the yard, an say it saryed him
right"
Sam related several other incidents
in the career of the Shaws, and Jessie
laughed until the tears ran down her
cheeks. They bid Sam good-day, and
watched him until he disappeared with
the famous trotter in a cloud of dust.
After supper they waited for the ris-
ing of the full moon. They saw the
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
MAlps WIG usE MoNocLEe.
Chamberlain Said to be Responsible
for a New London Fad.

for a New London rad.
Yet another complication has been
added to the trials Of the nervous
society man. Inspection from dow
ager duchess through pair OF iorg-
nettes has been hitherto the most de-
pressing ordeal an "at home" could
provide, but now there is the maid
with the monocle.
A Bond street tradesman told rep
resentative yesterday that hundreds
Of young society girls are buying
these fascinating articles OF attire.
In some cases they are being worn
by those with some weakness of the
eyes who would formerly have sought
help from pince-nez; but for the most
part the fair purchasers have no such
excuse. They regard the monocles as
an added charm.
A number of ingenious devices have
been added to the mOnocle in order to
enable It's new admirers to wear II
easily. A wide gold mount is one Of
the best Of these, as 1t prevents the
long lashes of a girls eyes from push
ing the glass and thus causing it to
fall.
The sympathy of the ladies of this
country for Garibaldi inclined them to
wear the blouse. The ever-recurring
interest in Napoleon has been the
cause of innumerable changes in dress
and is held by experts in sartorial
matters to be the influence that has
recently sent every girl into a three.
cornered hat.
Now comes the late colonial secre.
tary's monocle. Perhaps Admiral To-
go may be the subject of a delicate
tribute of this kind shortly.-London
Mirror.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19

Then while the fre burned low Miss
Littleton told of her own trouble that
the girl might profit by her own bitter
experience. Then, when the ear.marl-
ed face was upturned to hers with the
earnest promise of amendment, she
kissed the wistful mouth and let her
90.
II was a sleepless night for Miss
LlttletOn as we'll as for Eleanor, and
the morning found the elder woman
tired-eyed and unrefreshed. Her niece's
grief was so like her own that 1t tore
open scars Miss Littleton had sup.
posed were long healed over.
After the morning meal the girl
started for the postoffice. and little
Miss Littleton proceeded to the kitch-
en- to give the new servant some in
struction In cooking.
When the door bell rang Miss Little
ton gave a cry as she surveyed her
tiouT-covered arms and sent the maid
to answer the bell while she removed
the traces of her occupation.
The maid was back long before the
task was completed, and her brief an
nouncement that 1t was Mr.. Carter set
Miss Littleton's heart in a flutter Of
gladness. She was glad the boy had
come to her. Nervous and fiustered
she FASTENED to the parlor.
The room with its heavy curtains
and dark-toned furnishings seemed
like a cave after the sunny kitchen,
and she could barely make out Car.
ter's figure as he rose at her entrance.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
LIFE,s TAvERN.

In this old Tavern there are rooms -
dear
That would linger here.
love these corners and familiar hooks
Where have sat with people and with
books.
The very imperfections and the scars
About the walls and ceiling and the floor,
The sagging Of the windows and the
door.
The dinginess that mars
The hearth and chimney. and the wood
laid bare
There on the old black chair.
The dear dilapidation OF the place
Smiles I'm my face,
And I am loath TO go.
Here from the window is a glimpse Of
sea,
Enough for me;
And every evening, through the window
bars.
Peer In the friendly stars.
And yet / know
That some day must go, and close the
door.
And see the House no more.
Mary Burt Messer. in the Atlantic.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
CHAPTER sIx-cOntinued.


isn't II good TO be an Americana
Johns Just then a full.rigged ship,
making from Boston Harbor, spread
her sails and stood out past them.
Jessie looked at her as LOheugrin
might have looked at the swan. and
whispered:
Wasn't It Longfellow who stood
here and felt with us:
MY soul IL full Of longing
For the secret Of the sea:
And the heart OF the great ocean
Sends thrilling pulse through mef
Yes, Jessie, not only Lengfellow,
but Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and
Claiming dreamed here" said John.
But, Jessie, poetry makes poor feeding.
I'm hungry"
80 am !" laughed Jessie. Come
on, I'll race you TO the inn!' and
she sprang TO her saddle before John
could assist her.
Picking their way carefully down
the steep hill, they reached thP hard
roadbed. Then Jessie spoke to her
horse and dashed ahead. She was
good rider, and, though It was close
race, John gallantly conceded defeat
In the dining-room were many guests
from Boston and they united to make
a merry party. It was three o'clock
when they started again for Nantas.
ket The FIVE miles they covered at a
canter.
As John helped Jessie from her
horse at Nantasket some one touched
him on the shoulder. John turned.
"Haou de We dew, John?" exclaimed
a strange figure of a man, standing
there all grins. 81 swan, I'm glad ter
see ye up an round agin! Haou de
ye dew, John? Haou air YEP
"All right, SAM" said John shaking
hands.
Sam was the country sport of Rocky
Woods, with a fame extending to Co
hasset and not wholly unknown in
bingham. 1t was Saturday, and Sam
was in gala attire. He was tall and
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
Ansd Pedestrlan seeks RIvaIa.

A place in the history of pedestri-
anism will be made for the recent Jog
Of the veteran walker, DR., Deighton
over the classical road between the
two extremes of the British kingdom.
Lands End and John o. Greats. At
the age Of 81 he has covered the dis
lance of over 1000 miles in twenty
four days and four hours, an average
speed Of nearly two miles an hour, or
forty-two miles day DR.. Deighton
intends to visit the United States and
challenge any man OF his years TO
walk across the continent from the
Atlantic % TIE Pacific.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
%R4CV AZ Y DIN o0z7I9 R4OU AIP XZ9'

awkward. His large, good-natured
mouth, wide open, displayed rows of
white teeth; his small blue eyes twin
killed. shrewdly, and his ears STOOD clear
of mass of red hair.
John glanced at Jessie and the
laughter in her eyes was a sufficient
hint.
Miss Garden, let me present Mr..
Rounds, a schoolmate and neighbor."
Sam doffed his cap with a sweeping
bow.
Delighted ter meet ye, Miss Car
den" he exclaimed, with a sincerity
which did not belle his words. He ex-
tended huge hand. Have often seen
ye ridin' by and heerd all erbout that
air runerway. l swan, that was a
mighty ticlilish shave fer ye, Miss
Garden. Tell We what let's do! Let's
have some sody water an ice cream.
Hts my treat to-day! Sold boss this
lmornin' an made forty-two dollars
clean profit on him. I'm great on
hosses, Miss Garden. John, here, runs
ter books an studyin' an all that. But,
as ] say, my strong holt is bosses.
They say we all has our little weak,
nesses-present company, of course
expected. Let's go an git that sody
an ice cream" And Sam led the
way to a pavilion and, impressively or.
dered the suggested refreshments.
Jessie engaged Sam in conversation
laughing merrily at his odd remarks
and stories. He pointed to an old
farmer who drove past in a rickety
wagon.
"There goes old man Shaw" said
Sam. 'He lives down the road from
cur house, an he's a great character
Yesterday mornin' Mrs. Shaw told the
old man the cistern orter be cleaned
out. II hadn't rained fer so long that
ehe water was all gone, and she lowed
be was a good chance tew clean it out
Old man Shaw lowed she was right
but said his rheumatics was so all
ared bad It wouldn't dew fer him tew
- down intew no damp place like a
cistern: so he lowered the old woman
an sent her down pail of water an
some soap an a scrubbin brush.
"11i go down tew the postoffice
an see II thare's a letter. an then
come back and pull ye out he hollered
down the openin'. She said, All right,
an went tew work. Old man Shaw
went teW the postoflice, asked fer a
letter. an OF course, thare warn't none
He started back, an was just passin
the cobbler's place, when. he met
Jones.
Whare ye goin'?' he asked old man
shaw.
The old woman's eieanin' the els
tern. an I've got teW 30 home an haul
her out says Shaw.
she aint got u done yet sayl
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
CHAPTER SEVEN.
Arthur Morris.


When Randolph Morris had amassed
a couple of millions in New York bank.
ing and stock manipulation, he decided
to establish a New England country
place in keeping with his wealth and
station. He selected a site near Hing
ham, overlooking Massachusetts, bay,
with distant view of the ocean. For
years wOrkmen were busy with the
great stone mansion. Terraces, YER
dant in turf. gave beauty to the sur
rounding rocks now softened with
vines. Stables, Conservatives, and
lodges lent new distinction to the land
scape.
The eldest OF the Morris children
was Arthur. the heir TO the bulk VI the
Morris fortunes. His age was TWEEN.
ty-four, aud his experience In certain
matters that OF q. man OF forty. He
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
Nll!s5 2: &
AZ Il Happens.

"Why do you rentT asked the old
man. Houses can be bought on easy
terms. Why don't you buy one?"
Because" replied the wise young
man. i've had three friends who
tried It. In each case they gave me
a plying smile as they took posses
sion Of their own homes. In each case
was informed that the only way to
live was to quit paying rent. In each
case / saw the fortunate fellow neg
lecting his business in the spring in
an effort to get his taxes reduced; and
in each case an inquiry as to what
they were doing n few years later
brought the reply, Trying to sell my
house. II it's just the same to you,
I'll continue to rent little while
longer"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
rhe Laraest MAJ In the World.

The largest map in the world is
now hanging on the wall of Secretary
Cortelyou's ONCE, in tho department
of commerce and labor at Washing
ton, It is over eight feet wide and
sixteen feet long. The purpose Of
the map is to show everything that is
of interest to the American manufac-
turer, SO that he can be better pre-
pared to do business with foreign
countries.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
Booming Business.

THAT lobbyist seems to have a good
deal of money to spend" remarked the
first councilman,
YES" replied the other, hes work.
ing for an ordinance to allow automo
biles unlimited speed"
"Ah! in the interest of the auto
club?"
mo, the undertaken trust."-Phila
delphia Ledger.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
What They Have Done.

'Is there anything at all in flying
machines up to date?"
Certainly"
How do you make it out?"
There's been a lot of money put
into them, hasn't there?'
"Of course"
well, you haven't heard of any Of
it being taken out, have you? It's
still there"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
An Expensive Name.

"Darringer, what's become of your
friend? haven't seen you with him
for over a week."
81 cut him! His name is Hava
drink, and every time / called him
that he said, 4 don't care if do
He was too expensive"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
Perfectly Clear.

Tommy-Ma, what's a stepmother?
Tommy's Mama-Why, If | should
die and father should marry again,
the lady would be a stepmother.
Tommy-O, see. You'd step down
and out and she'd step in.-Indian.
0polis Sentinel.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
A New Definition.

"You don't think the man was IN
toxicated?"
mo, SIR
"Why?"
Because he could keep his feet by
leaning against a wall without try.
ing to get a grip on the bricks with
his fingers"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
After the Tins.

"How attentive your walters are to
that ostrich" remarked the lion to the
cashier of the Jungle restaurant Il
never saw monkeys 80 polite before"
YES" remarked the beautiful tig-
ress. who acted as cashier, they were
reading in the Jungle News this morn
ing that ostrich tips are very valu.
able"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
Gettlnu Even,

Patlence-You say they quarreled?
Patrice-Yes, and she returned all
his gifts. And what do you suppose
he did?
Cant guess"
"Sent her half dozen boxes Of face
powder, with note explaining that
he thought he had taken at least that
much home on his coat since he knew
her"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19

Stranger-So you went to school
with Rudolph skipllng, Ell? l sup
pose you know he is now a famous
writer?
Uncle Fletch--Sho! Why, him an
me used Their same copybook, an
know my writip' d beat his'n all
boiler.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19

The lady-How is It, my poor man,
that your life is 80 full Of regrets?
Gritty George used to be an edi-
tor, mum.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
rhe Messane 81 the ROC.

Long / doubted: then I chose
You, the daintiest flower that grows
You shall be my envoy, Rose,
Nesting Ia her golden hair,
You must whisper, 'fFriend beWarol
I shall fade, + TOO. am falr."
--PAil Nan Gasetaa
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-05-19
Her Misfortune.

shes such big grill"
Eyes. Isn't It too badP She never
win be able to talk OF love In a cot
tage without making people laugh"